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McARTOR, JAMES O., farmer, post office, Gambier, was born in Knox county, Harrison township, June 20, 1848; is a son of Jonathan and Minerva McArtor, by whom he was educated. When he arrived at the age of twenty-one years he rented the home place of his father, farming it on the shares, and has continued to do so until the present time. On the twelfth of November, 1868, he married Elizabeth Gaumer, daughter of Peter and Susannah Gaumer, born in Union township, Knox county, September 5, 1848. Their marriage resulted in three children: Lulu B., born December 17, 1869; Robert F., June 5, 1873; Russell B., August 8, 1874; all of whom are living. In 1878 Mr. McArtor was elected justice of the peace of Harrison township, and is performing his official duties acceptably.

McBRIDE, ROBERT D., carpenter, Liberty township, post office, Bangs, was born to Adamsville, Muskingum county, Ohio, March 22, 1841. About 1848 his parents moved to Gilead, Ohio. His father was a carpenter, and Robert learned the trade with him. At the breaking out of the war he enlisted in company C, Fifteenth regiment of three months men, served his time, and again enlisted in company C, Fifteenth regiment, for three years. He participated in the battles of Shiloh and Stone River. He was taken prisoner at the latter place, and was confined for four months in Castle Thunder and Libby prison. He was exchanged, and a few months afterwards joined his regiment, and participated in the battles of Chickamauga, Mission Ridge, and siege of Knoxville. He veteranized January, 1864, and was on the Atlanta campaign. He was under Thomas, at Nashville and Franklin, Tennessee, besides numerous skirmishes. He was also in Texas with his regiment. He was discharged December 24, 1865.

After his return home he engaged in farming and working at his trade. He was elected constable of Liberty in the spring of 1880. He was married to Miss Ann L. Roby December 19, 1867. They have four children.

MCCAMMENT, JOHN S., farmer, was born in Brooke county, Virginia, October 14, 1818, and with his father removed to Jackson township, Knox county, Ohio, April, 1819, and has resided there ever since. He was married to Sarah Hammell, January 2, 1840; who was born in Butler township, February 8, 1821. They have had five children: Andrew Jackson, born July 10, 1842; Margaret Jane, July 27, 1844; Caroline MeNulty, October 4, 1846; John H., May 13, 1849; Emily Rebecca, November 21, 1857; Emily R. died March 4, 1959. Mr. McCamment has been justice of the peace ever since 1855. He has served three years as commissioner of Knox county, and three years as infirmary director.

MCCAMMENT, SAMUEL, farmer, is a native of Jackson township, and was born November 1, 1822. He was married October 17, 1844, to Mary E. Blount, who was born in Dresden, Muskingum county, Ohio, March 29, 1825. They have had eleven children, viz: Maria, born August 6, 1845; James A., March 29, 1847, Benjamin F., November 27, 1848; Martha A., July 23, 1851; Thomas J., October 13, 1852; Alonzo C., August 14, 1855; William A., March 13, 1857; Mary L., October 2, 1858; Sylva T., November 3, 1860; Samuel R., June 1, 1863; Nancy Ellen, June 23, 1866. Thomas Jefferson died February 8, 1857; Alonzo C., September 2, 1858; Maria, March 1, 1863.

James A. was married to Miss Angeline Bell, October 17, 1868; Martha A. was married to Samuel Davidson, August 17, 1872; Benjamin F. was married to Accious Hall, September, 1873; Sylva Jane was married to Jacob Holbrook, November 9, 1880. Mrs. McCammet died July 21, 1879.

Mr. McCammet enlisted as a private in the Sixth company Ohio volunteer sharpshooters, on the fith day of October, 1862; at the organization of the company was appointed first corporal, was afterwards promoted to third sergeant, then orderly sergeant, first lieutenant, and subsequently became captain of the company.

McCAMMENT, JAMES M., was born April 22, 1832, in Jackson township, this county, and was married to Miss Almira Giffen, March 26, 1854. Mrs. McCamment was born February 19, 1836. They have had two children; Leonora, born January 26. 1855; and Rebecca, born October 3, 1854

Mr. McCamment removed to Butler township in 1864. He has served eight years as justice of the peace for Butler township. During the late civil war he was a member (if company K, One Hundred and Ninety-fifth Ohio volunteer infantry.

MCCAMMENT, BENJAMIN F., Jackson township, farmer, is a native of Jackson township, and was born November 27, 1848. September 12, 1874, he was married to Accious Hall. They have had three children-Olla Bell, born June 28, 1875; Adda Jane, September 3, 1878; Edmund Garfield, November 2, 1880.

McCAY, DAVID, Hilliar township, farmer, was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania. February 22, 1824. He was reared to work on a farm. In 1843 he went to Indiana, but not liking the country he returned to Ohio the following year, and settled near where he now resides, where he had been engaged in farming.

Mr. McCay is social in his habits, and has the respect of the community. He is industrious and honest. He was married to Miss Mary Rinehart, who died in 1872..

Mrs. Sarah Rinehart, nee Ewart, was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, June 22, 1809. Her mother died in Pennsylvania. Her father came to Ohio some years after with two of his daughters, and settled in Delaware county, where he died at a ripe old age. Sarah was married to Lewis Rinehart, February 22, 1852. They moved on the farm now owned by the heirs of Henry B. Wright, where Mr. Rinehart died September 4, 1855. Shortly after his death Mrs. Rinehart moved to Rich Hill, where she still resides, respected by all who know her.

McCLELLAN, JOHN A., Pike township, farmer; post office, North Liberty, born in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, in 1821, and was married to Sarah A. Miles. They had five children-Mary Rosella (deceased); Willie D.; Hattie Bell (deeeased); Charlie W., and James H.

Mrs. Sarah A. McClellan died in 1870. He afterward married Ellen Gilmore, who was born in this township and county.

McCLELLAND, WILLIAM, Mt. Vernon, attorney at law, was born in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, December 22, 1815. He was the second child of James and Jane McClelland nee Craig. He spent his youth until the age of twenty-three at home on the farm. He attended the schools of the county.

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About 1839 he went to Millersburgh, Ohio, and read law with the Hon. William R Sapp, of that place. In the spring of 1844 he came to Mt. Vernon and opened an office to connection with William R. Sapp and Martin Welker, under the name of Sapp, Welker & McClelland-Sapp and Welker residing in Millersburgh, Ohio. Mr. Welker is now district judge of the United States district court at Cleveland. He was also of the law firm of McClelland & Sapp (W. F.) Hon. W. F. Sapp is now a member of Congress, representing the Council Bluff, Iowa, district. Mr. McClelland is now senior member of the firm of McClelland & Culbertson. Mr. McClelland is principally engaged in the settlement of estates, of which he has a large number. He was elected county commissioner in 1856, and held that office for thirteen years. He also held the office of city solicitor for some fifteen or eighteen years.

MCCLUCKION, NEWTON, Middlebury township, miller, post office, Levering, born in Northumberland county, Pennsylvania, January 3, 1834, came to Ohio in 1836 with his parents and was married January 19, 1854, to Sarah Cook, who was born in Morrow county, March 16, 1832. They have three children-Ira, born November 15, 1856; Miriam, May 3, 1860, died March 11, 1862; Eva, June 25, 1864. Mr. McCluckion came to Waterford in 1844, and has been engaged in Owl Creek mills five years. He is a good practical miller, and is doing custom work. He formerly learned the shoe trade, and worked at it some thirty-five years. Newton McCluckion was a member of company C, One Hundred and Thirty-sixth regiment Ohio volunteer infantry; served out his time of enlistment, and received an honorable discharge.

MCCLUCKION, HARMON S., Middlebury township, farmer, post office, Levering, born in Knox county (now Morrow), May 19, 1836, and was married July 8, 1860, to Betsy A. Wait, who was born in Knox county, May 6, 1845. They have one daughter, Jennie May, who was born April 26, 1866. Mr. McCluckion has always been a citizen of this county, or near the line in Morrow county since his birth. He is one of the enterprising men of this township.

MCCLURG, GEORGE, Brown township, farmer, post office, Democracy; son of Robert and Nancy McClurg, born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, September 24, 1824; was brought by his parents to Knox county, Ohio, when a boy about thirteen years old; they locating in the Jelloway valley, Brown township, where he was reared to manhood. He then learned the tanning business with W. H. Robinson, of Wooster, Ohio. After finishing his trade he made a trip to Indiana, where he worked at his trade for two years. In 1853 he crossed the plains to California, where he remained until the year 1858. From thence he went to Texas and spent the winter; and in the spring of 1839 he returned to Ohio. After being at home about one year he made a purchase of a tannery in Amity, Knox county, which he operated until 1862.

On the sixth of June, 1861, he married Frances J. Marshal, daughter of E. W. Marshal, born in Connecticut August 13, 1837. He then enlisted in the Ninety-sixth Ohio volunteer infantry August 9, 1862; promoted to corporal October 25, 1862; was in the battles of Chickasaw Bluffs and Fort Hindman; promoted to sergeant May 1, 1863; received his commission as second lieutenant May 15, 1863; was in the battles of Vicksburgh, Jackson, Grand Coteau, and Sabine Cross Roads; mustered as first lieutenant June 14, 1864; came home on furlough June 15, 1864; returned August 31, 1864; was in the battles of Forts Gaines and Morgan, and mustered out with the regiment July 7, 1865, and returned home.

After being home a short time he made a trip with his wife to Connecticut, New York city; western New York, Canada, and Michigan. He then engaged to farming and has continued at it to the present time. In August, 1866, he purchased a farm of one hundred and eight acres, known as the Parish farm, where he then moved and now resides. In 1872 he purchased eighty acres more adjoining him on the east, making in all one hundred and eighty-eight acres.

By their marriage they have become the parents of five children: Albertie, born August 29, 1862; Julia, October 10, 1866; Albert E., August 1, 1871; Addison H., May 10, 1873; Effa I, February 8, 1875.

MCCONNEL, J. S., of the firm of McConnell & Co., Mt. Vernon. This firm began business April 1, 1880. Mr. McConnell is a native of Kenton, Hardin county, Ohio. His first business engagement was with James Horn & Co., Pittsburgh, as salesman, with whom he remained two years. He then entered the employ of T. C. Jenkins & Brother, as traveling salesman. In this he continued three years. He then became a partner in the firm of McCandlass, Son & Co., wholesale grocers, and remained in the firth over two years, when his health failed. As his time and attention were devoted to the business of the firm they closed it out, he not being able to attend to it. After his health had improved some he engaged with the firm of R. R. Wallace & Co., of Pittsburgh, as traveling salesman, where he served about two years, during which time he married Miss May Mills, daughter of Milton L. Mills, esq., of Mt. Vernon He then came to this city and engaged in the paper and rags, pelts and fur business, which he still carries on, having taken in partnership, April 1, 1880, Mr. James Rankin. In addition to their regular business, the firm make a specialty of shipping apples during the apple season. The business has increased to about four times what it was during the first year. The firm is now doing a business of about fifty thousand dollars for the present year, and have a fair prospect of a rapidly increasing trafic in all the different departments of their business. The firm is connected with a large exporting house in furs. Mr Rankin at present is not a member of the firm.

McCONNELL, THOMAS, J., Morris township, farmer post office, Fredericktown, was born in Belmont county, Ohio January 17, 1818, moved to Holmes county in 1833, remained there till 1867, and then removed to Worthington township, Richland county, resided there for some time, and came to Knox county in 1869. He was married in 1848 to Ellen D. Hawkins, who was born in Stark county in 1832. They have the following children: Mary Ellen, born in 1849; Eliza H., in 1851; Sarah M., in 1853; William F., in 1855; Samuel J., in 1857; .Thomas L., in 1863. Mary Ellen was married in October, 1868, to R. W. Black. They reside in Mansfield, Ohio, and have the following children: Howard M., born November 16, 1870; Myrtie L., November 11, 1872; Vernie I., January 2, 1875; Maudie Belle, April 13, 1877.

Mr. Thomas McConnell enlisted in the late war, and was a member of company B, Sixteenth regulars, Ohio volunteer infantry. He remained in the service ten months, was wounded and taken prisoner at Vicksburgh. His time expired before he was exchanged. After being exchanged he received an honorable discharge August 3, 1863.

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Mr. McConnell is a farmer by occupation and is one of the active and energetic men of this township.

McCREARY, .A. C., Middlebury township, blacksmith, post office, Levering, born in Waterford, March 22, 1848, and was married to Rhoda E. Martin, who was born December 5, 1848, in Middlebury township. They have the following children: Charlie A., born May 2, 1872; Clam, May 2, 1875; Louis Warden, December 25, 1876. Mr. McCreary learned the blacksmith trade in Waterford, and is now located one mile and a half southwest of Waterford.

McCUEN, ROBERT S., farmer, son of James and Margaret McCuen, was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, December 14, 1835. He was brought to this county by his parents in 1848, who settled in Clay township, near Martinsburgh, where they passed the remainder of their days. James McCuen, father of Robert, deceased in 1859, aged seventy-three years. Margaret, mother of Robert, deceased February 6, 1860, aged sixty-three years.

Robert McCuen was reared on a farm, and has made farming his principal vocation. January 27, 1869, he married Miss Lydia Sutherland. They settled in pleasant township, this county, on the farm where he now resides. Their union resulted in one child, Pearl E. Mrs. McCuen died December 10, 1871.

He was then united in marriage, November 8, 1877, with Jennie Chapman. One daughter, Lulu C., was born to them.

McDONALD, JOHN, Middlebury township, farmer, post office, Fredericktown, born in Bedford county, Pennsylvania, in 1807; came to Jefferson county, Ohio, in 1828; remained there five years; then came to Knox county, and was married in 1834 to Mary Zinc, who was born in Bedford county, Pennsylvania. They had two children-Hannah and Joseph.

Mrs. Mary McDonald died in 1844. Mr. McDonald afterwards married Hannah Fidler, who was born in Knox county. Their children are: William, Louisa, Alexander, Louis, Sarah, Ellen, Mary, and Melvin.

Joseph McDonald was in the late war, in the One Hundred and Twenty-first regiment, Ohio volunteer infantry, and was engaged about three years. Mr. McDonald has been engaged at the cooper trade and farming, and is a prominent citizen of this township.

McDOWELL, DANIEL, was born July 9, 1809, in Franklin county, Pennsylvania; and when seven years of age his mother came to Ohio and located in Mt. Vernon, where they have resided ever since. His father died about the year 1815,

Our subject is one of a family of five sons. The two oldest, William and John, remained in Pennsylvania.

Daniel was educated in the school in Mt. Vernon, carried on in those days by subscription, after which he learned the trade of cabinetmaker with Daniel McFarland, his uncle, for whom he worked for some time, and then formed a partnership with him, which continued several years. Their shops were the second established in the city. He has remained in the business ever since.

In connection with his business he has devoted a portion of his time to the fine arts, and has produced some paintings that show fine natural abilities. At present he devotes most of his time to painting.

Mr. McDowell in his youthful days was fond of athletic sports, and was noted as being one of the swiftest runners in the county. He is now seventy-two years of age, and physically much younger; can see to read and write nearly as well as he ever could. He was married December 26, 1833, to Patience Elliott, daughter of W. Elliott, of Mt. Vernon, by whom he had a family of six children, four sons and two daughters, four of whom are living.

McELROY, C., Union township, farmer, post office, Millwood, born in Orange county, New York, May 5, 1818. His father came to Knox county, Ohio, and settled on the farm where his son, C. McElroy, now lives. He built a log cabin and reared his children on this little spot of ground. He was one of General Washington's soldiers, and had two horses shot from under him in the army, but escaped all serious injuries himself.

C. McElroy was married to Mary Baughman in 1838. His wife died in February, 1864, leaving twelve children, as follows: Henry, Charles, Alexander, Rachel, Robert, Mary, Philip Ebenezer, Lida, William, Elihas, and Christine.

His next marriage was to Mary Thomas. They had the following children born to them: Olive, Eveline. Wellington, Celina, and an infant.

McELROY, C. A., post office, Rossville, farmer, was born March 4, 1846, in Union township. He lived here until his twenty-second year. He went to a number of places, and in 1870 returned to the old farm, where he still remains. In the same. year he was married. He had two children, both of whom died

McELROY, JOHN, deceased, Monroe township, son of John and Mary McElroy, was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, on the fifteenth of December, 1804, was educated at Bethany college, Brooke county, West Virginia, and followed teaching school as his vocation during the winter months for several years, while unmarried, but farming was his principal vocation through life.

May 24, 1827, he married Miss Mary Cassil, of Washington county, Pennsylvania, born July 24, 1808, and daughter of John and Nancy Cassil. They settled on a farm in their native county, and remained about four years. In 1831 they moved to Brooke county, West Virginia, and remained until 1836, when they emigrated to Knox county, Ohio, and located in Howard township, on the farm now owned by their son James, and remained until the fall of 1837, when they moved on an adjoining farm in Monroe township, now owned by their son John. On this farm they lived until the fall of 1860, when they moved back on their farm in Howard township, and erected the present frame residence in whieh he passed the remainder of his days, dying September 5, 1879. His companion survives him, living on the home farm with hex son James in Howard township. He filed the office of county commissioner for two terms in Knox county. They reared a family of seven children: Tabitha, Nancy J., John, James, Mary E., Margaret E. and Juliette V.-all now living, married, and have families. John and James McElroy served in the war of 1861.

McELROY, CHARLES, post office Gann, was born in Union township, September 6, 1849, and lived at home until he was twenty-one years of age, after which he worked at different places until March 4, 1874. He was married to Elizabeth Hess and settled in Gann, where he lives at present. He has one child, Henry, born August 12, 1878. His busniess since his marriage has been carpentering, which he has made a success.

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McFADDEN, HENRY (deceased), was born near Chambersburgh, Pennsylvania, March 14, 1804. He emigrated to Hagerstown, Maryland, where he married Miss Hannah Stinemetz in 1826, who was born in 1807, daughter of John Stinemetz. They remained at her father's a short time, and in October, 1827, they, with her parents, moved to Knox county, Ohio, making the entire journey in a two-horse wagon, and located in Mt. Vernon, where he and his family lived about six years, then moved on a farm in Wayne township, remained there about twenty years, and then removed to Clinton township, near Mt. Vernon, where he deceased Match 27, 1861. As expressed by a writer at the time of his death, " he was a good citizen, an obliging neighbor, an affectionate husband, a kind father, and a good Christian." His companion survived until May 9, 1869.

They reared a family of seven children, viz: William, John, Rebecca, Henry, Samuel, Mary Ann, and Lannis A.

MCFARLAND, J. H.,. was born in Mt. Vernon May 1, 1821, was educated in the public schools, and learned the cabinet maker's trade, also painting, with his father, who was one of the pioneers in the business in Knox county. He remained with his father until 1852, when he was elected county treasurer, in which office he served two terms, and then went into the hardware trade, which he continued in about five years and then sold the store back to Mr. Kelly, the man of whom he bought. He then worked on his farm for about three years, when he established the firm of McFarland & Son, and dealt in hardware, but sold the business to J . M. Byers.

He was married to Miss Cordelia L. Hyde in March, 1848, and has had a family of six children, only two of whom are living.

MCFARLAND, ROBERT, farmer, Morgan township, was born in county Tyrone, Ireland, February 20, 1821. His parents emigrated to the United States in 1831, and settled in Coshocton county, Ohio, where the father died, and the mother died in Indiana. They had a family of eight children, viz Margaret, deceased; Armar, of Muskingum county, a minister; Patrick and James, deceased; Joseph and Charles in Lake county, Indiana; Mathew, in Coshocton county, Ohio; Robert, the subject of this notice, was reared on a farm and has always followed farming as his occupation. In 1842 he came to Morgan township and settled on the farm on which be now resides. He is one of the neat farmers of Morgan township, and his farm and surroundings show marks of good judgment.

Mr. McFarland is a member of the Reformed Presbyterian church. He was twice married. In 1847 he married Elizabeth Jane Wallace. His second wife was Miss Jane Watterson, whom he married in 1878. She was a native of Wheeling, West Virginia.

McFARLAND, IRA M., farmer, born in Clinton township, December 25, 1827. His father and paternal grandfather came from Scotland, and moved to Washington county, New York, in 1784.

In 1786 James McFarland, the father of Ira M., was born. In 1814 he settled near Mt. Vernon. In 1818 he married May Irvine, a native of Washington county, Pennsylvania, whose parents came to Ohio in 1807. James McFarland died in 1856. His wife still survives and is, perhaps, the oldest living resident of Knox county. They had a family of nine children, three of whom are living, viz: Ira M., John A., a banker in Boone, Iowa, and Mary, wife of R. L. Winston. The deceased are: Hannah C. Johnson, Margaret, an infant; William W., and Thomas.

The subject of this notice was reared on a farm and attended the common schools, and having obtained sufficient education, he taught school a number of terms. During the war he recruited for the Forty-third and Sixty-fifth regiments Ohio volunteer infantry, and was with the Forty-third regiment about six months. He enlisted in the One Hundred and Forty-second regiment Ohio National guard, and was quartermaster for the same.

In 1858 he married Margaret Guy. They had a family of two children, viz : Mary A. and Guy Wallace. His wife died in 1866. In 1871 he married Miss Copper. They had one child (Charles Johnson). Mr. McFarland is a good farmer, owning near four hundred acres of excellent land, and is an excellent citizen.

McGIBENY, JAMES, Mt. Vernon. James McGibeny, the son of David McGibeny, was born near Trenton, New Jersey, January 18, 1788. His parents dying while he was quite young, he was thrown upon his own resources. Without patrimony, except a sound body and an indomitable will, by dint of industry and frugality, and by the wise use of the fragments of time at his command, he so improved upon the elementary education acquired at the neighborhood schools, that he developed into the noble character the sequel shows him to be. He engaged in the carpenter business. At an early age he was united in marriage to Miss Mary Newell, and in 1814 emigrated to Mt. Vernon. Here, by energy, industry and frugality that characterized his earlier years, he soon acquired a competence. As a citizen, he was public spirited, and liberal in all laudable enterprises tending to the up building of the then village of Mt. Vernon, for which his fellow citizens showed their appreciation by placing him in various positions of public trusts, such as county commissioner, justice of the peace, postmaster, associate judge, etc. But his indomitable energy and public spirit show most conspicuously in his character as a Christian. Judge McGibeny had a well rounded symmetrical character. In 1814, when the subject of this sketch came to Mt. Vernon, Christians of all denominations had a common preaching place, in the court house, no church edifice having been erected in the village. Sometime prior to this, about 1810, the Presbyterians put up a frame meeting house in Clinton, one and one-half miles north of Mt. Vernon, which place had been an unsuccessful candidate for county seat. When the county seat was established in Mt. Vernon, the business and population naturally drifted thitherward, and the church building at Clinton gradually went into dilapidation, and the society determined to build a house of worship in Mt. Version. Here the sterling qualities of James

McGibeny, as an energetic and safe business man, and a skillful and wise leader in a difficult enterprise, shone conspicuously. He took upon himself the superintendence of the entire construction of the building, from the making of the first brick to the driving of the last nail.

The subscription list for the building of that church would be a decided marvel at the present day. Anything and everything was put down, but the one thing most needed-cash. With that motley subscription, McGibeny furnished a comfortable house of worship, in which the church grew and flourished for many years. In the course of events, when the Master saw that the time had come for a new colony to go out, the old hive was shaken up a little, and the progressives, of whom McGibeny

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was a leader, became restive under the old regime, and yearned for new measures and more aggressive work than would be tolerated in the old hive. The result was a "swarm;" the radicals forming a new colony, which was the nucleus of the present Congregational church, while the conservatives remained to build up the old society.

Here again McGibeny's business tact was put to the test in furnishing a house of worship for the new colony, and was found adequate to the emergency. Here in this new organization judge McGibeny found full scope for the free exercise of his active and energetic mind in Christian and philanthropic enterprise.

As to the family: An only child-a son-named John N., was born, who survived his parents, to inherit the homestead, a valuable farm, one mile northeast of Mt. Vernon, who enjoyed his patrimony for a few years, and then passed away, leaving his inheritance to his familv. On the twelfth day of March, 1868, James McGibeny was gathered to his fathers, full of years and good works.

McGINLEY, JAMES, farmer, Pike township, post office, Democracy, born January 26, 1846, and was married December 29, 1867, to Elizabeth Braddock, who was born in Morris township this county. October 30, 1846. They have three children, Kitty Estella, born June 1, 1869; Walter, July 24, 1871, and Ella Pearl, August 21, 1879.

His father, Robert McGinley (deceased), was born in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, in 1806, and was married in 1830, to Eva Lindsey, who was born in Bedford county, Pennsylvania, in 1806. They had ten children, Isaiah, born September 27, 1828; John, July 8, 1831; Mary J., September 8, 1832; William, July 26, 1834; Michael, April 10, 1836; Nancy Ann, January 28, 1838; David, March 22, 1840; Sarah, July 13, 1841; Wilson S., August 24, 1843, and James, January 16, 1846. The following have deceased, Mr. Robert McGinley, August 23, 1871, at his home in Pike township; David, December 4, 1853; Nancy Ann, June 17, 1863, in Porter county, Indiana.

Isaiah and John reside in Porter county, Indiana; William in Jefferson county, Nebraska; Mary J. married to William Davis, now living near Cincinnati.. Mr. Robert McGinley came to Knox county when about eighteen years of age. Mrs. McGinley still resides on the old homestead.

McGINLEY, MICHAEL, Pike township, farmer, post office, Democracy, born in Pike township, in 1836, and was married in 1861 to Clitha Jane Parrish, who was born in Pike township, Knox county, in 1841. They have three children, viz: Florence B., born in 1862; Wilson C., in 1863; George B., in 1860.

McGREW, ALEXANDER, Berlin township, retired, post office, Shaler's Mills, was born in Adams county, Pennsylvania, in 1806, came to Harrison county with his parents when a child, and was married in Richland county to Elizabeth Cobean, who was born in Harrison county. They had four children, namely: James, John F., William, and N. J.

Mrs. Elizabeth McGrew died in 1853. He married L. A. Ball, who was born in Morris township in 1819. They have one son, viz: L. L., who was born in 1860.

Mr. McGrew moved to Knox county in 1835, located on the farm now known as the Burson farm. In 1866 he came to Berlin, bought the McIntire farm, and was elected justice of the peace of Morris township. Four sons of the family were in the army, viz: James, William, John F., and N. J.

McGREW, JOHN, F., Berlin township, farmer, post office, Shafer's Mills, was born in Morris township in 1836, married in 1866 to Susan McIntire, who was born in Holmes county in 1845. They had the following family, namely: Mary E., Oscar Fred (deceased), Milo M., Martha H. (deceased), Lima A. (deceased), and James E.

Mr. McGrew was a soldier in the late war, a member of company A, Fifty-sixth regiment Ohio volunteer infantry. Captain Banning. He was in the following engagements: Port Gibson, Fourteen Mile Creek, Champion Hills, Siege of Vicksburgh, Siege of Jackson, Mansfield, La., Monatt's Ferry, Alexandria, Snaggy Point, May 5, 1864, where he was taken prisoner; tests released June 17, 1864, and was honorably discharged.

Oscar Freddie McGrew came to his death through a sad accident, which occurred January 16, 1881, at his father's barn, while engaged in playing in company with other children. He jumped through a mow hole, a distance of twenty feet, struck a sill, fractured the skull, above the left eye, and died January 24, 1881. Freddie was highly esteemed by all his schoolmates and neighbors.

McGREW, N. J., Fredericktown, dentist, was born in Morris township in 1847, and was married in 1871 to Melinda J. Moose, who was born in Belmont county, Ohio, in 1849. They have two children-John A., born June, 1873, and Lizzie L., in December, 1878.

Mr. McGrew studied dentistry with Dr. W. F. Semple, of Mt. Vernon, and received a certificate from the State board of examiners, testifying to his ability.

McILVAINE, RIGHT REV., BISHOP. The residence of Bishop McIlvaine in Knox county, commenced in 1832, and continued many years, and it is probable that he attracted to himself during those years, as much public attention as any man that ever lived within the limits of the county.

Charles Pettit McIlvaine was born in Burlington, New Jersey, January 18, 1798. He was a son of Joseph McIlvaine, a distinguished lawyer, judge and statesman of New Jersey, who died in 1826, while one of the United States senators from that State. His son, the subject of this sketch had excellent educational opportunities afforded him, and was graduated at Princeton college in 1816, at the early age of eighteen years, and some months. He was ordained a deacon in the Protestant Episcopal church, July 4, 1820, by Bishop White, and having labored in Christ church, Georgetown, District of Columbia, he received, two years later, priests orders from Bishop Kemp of Maryland. He officiated as professor of Ethics and History in the United States Military academy at West Point, New York, from 1825 to 1827, meanwhile also serving as chaplain in that institution. From 1827 to 1832 he was rector of St. Anne's church in Brooklyn. New York, serving also during those five years of his Brooklyn ministry, as Congressional chaplain, having been elected twice to that position. In 1831 he was appointed professor of the Evidences of Revealed Religion and Sacred Antiquities in the university of the city of New York.

In 1832 Rev. C. P. McIlvaine was chosen bishop of the diocese of Ohio, as successor of Bishop Chase, resigned, and was consecrated bishop of Ohio, October 31, 1832. Bishop Mcllvaine was a large contributor to theological literature. His " Lectures on the Evidences of Christianity," delivered in the New York university in 1831, were published by request of the council of that institution, and have gone through about thirty editions. He was the only bishop of the diocese of Ohio

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from 1832 to 1859, when Rev. G. T. Bedell, D. D. was elected and consecrated an assistant bishop of the diocese. Bishop McIlvaine continued to exercise episcopal functions until his death in 1873. embracing a period of forty-one years. He also discharged the duties of president of Kenyon college from 1832 to 1840 ; and for many years served as president of the theological seminary of the diocese of Ohio. He was also a large contributor to the various religious periodicals, and a voluminous writer, having written many pamphlets and books, some of which were widely circulated and popular.

Among the earlier works given to the public by Bishop McIlvaine were the "Lectures on the Evidences of Christianity," delivered in the university of New York in 1831, and first published soon after they were delivered, comprising a volume of more than four hundred pages.

His justification by Faith appeared in 1840. His Oxford Divinity compared with that of the Romish and Anglican Churches, was first published in 1841. In the same year he gave to the public in pamphlet form, his sermon preached at the ordination held at St. Paul's church, Chillicothe, on Sunday, September 12, 1841. It was published by request of the clerical and lay members of the convention. Soon after his appeal on behalf of Kenyon college, appeared in a small pamphlet. His respectful address to the Protestant Episcopalians of the city of Cincinnati also appeared in pamphlet form about this time.

In 1843 and at previous dates he published pamphlets with the following titles: An Earnest Word in Behalf of the Church Institutions at Gambier, Ohio; Respectful Address to all who would Promote the Progress of Learning and Religion in the Western States; The Christian's Duty in the Present Crisis; The Chief Danger of the Church in these Times-a charge-to the Clergy of the Diocese of Ohio; Baccalaureate Discourse to the Senior Class of Kenyon college, and others on various topics.

In 1854 Bishop McIlvaine published a volume of sermons entitled "The Truth and the Life." He also compiled, soon after, two volumes of select family and parish sermons. His next publication which appeared in 1857, was a large pamphlet entitled "Correspondence between the Right Rev. C. P. McIlvaine, D. D., D. C. L., and the Rev. James A. Bolles, D. D., Rector of Trinity Church, Cleveland, with an Explanatory Pastoral Letter to the Members of the Parish of Trinitv Church, Cleveland." "Bishop Mcllvaine's Address to the Convention of the Diocese of Ohio, in Newark, June 3, 1858," was a pamphlet publication, as was also his "Sermon at the Consecration of Calvary Church, Clifton, Ohio, May 5, 1868."

Bishop McIlvaine received the honorary degree of D.C.L. from the University of Oxford in 1853, and in 1858 that of L.L.D from the University of Cambridge; and it is safe to say that those honors have been seldom more worthily conferred.

During the great Rebellion Bishop McIlvaine acted the part of a pure patriot, and exerted a highly favorable influence. He was an active member of the Sanitary and Christian commissions, and at the request, and by appointment of President Lincoln, he visited England, as a special commissioner to explain to the clergy and people of that country the position of the Federal Union on the question at issue. This was a labor of love with the patriotic bishop. He entered with alacrity and spirit upon the discharge of the duties devolved upon him by the commission he had promptly accepted, and no reasonable, intelligent man doubts but great good was the result. The faithful, devoted bishop performed with fidelity and efficiency an honored patriot's duties.

Bishop McIlvaine was a man of marked ability. His scholastic attainments, his many elegant accomplishments, his superior intellectual endowments, and his force and dramatic power as an orator, no less than his highly cultivated ministerial manner, his rhetorical style as a public speaker, especially in his earlier career; his forcible methods in the presentation of scripture truths; his philosophical mode of dealing with the high themes of religion,-immortality, and the life to come; his able, eloquent, and convincing arguments in support of the truths of revelation; his acumen and profoundness as a logician, as displayed by the thoroughness of his investigations of the subjects he presented; his clearness of views, and soundness of argument, all tended to make his pulpit efforts not only instructive and edifying, but exceedingly attractive and popular.

Bishop Mcllvaine, as may be supposed from the foregoing paragraph, was a gentleman of pleasant, elegant, stately, dignified manners, in and out of the pulpit, and held a high rank as a divine, not only in his own denomination, but also with other Christian churches generally. Being best known among those of his own sect, his influence naturally would be greatest in the Protestant Episcopal church. And it is probably not too much to say that, for many years,-Bishop McIlvaine exerted a wider influence among Episcopalians, not only in Ohio, but throughout the United States, than any other man; and that influence was always for good. He probably left his impress upon the Episcopalians of the United States to an extent beyond that of any other one bishop during the past generation. But Bishop McIlvaine had not only a national reputation, but was probably also better known in Europe, and especially in England, than any other American prelate. Certain it is that President Lincoln thought that he was able to exert a wider, better, greater influence over the English mind, and especially the English clergy and laity, than any other bishop, cleryman, or layman then resident in the United States.

Bishop Mcllvaine, during the closing years of his life, lived in or near Cincinnati, where he died, in 1873, at the ripe age of seventy-five years.

McINTIRE, SAMUEL A., farmer and dealer to stock, Berlin township, post office, Shaler's Mills, was born in Holmes county, Ohio, in 1825, and was married to Mary Nixon, who was born in the same county in 1828. They had three children: Sarah E., William A., and Cornelius. Mrs. Mary McIntire died in 1873. .

He afterwards married Mary Kelser, who was born in Holmes county in 1838. They have two children, Margaret Ann and Dorothy Ellen.

Mr. McIntire came to Knox county in 1857, and purchased the Johnson farm. He is engaged in buying, selling, and shipping stock, making a specialty of short-horned cattle. He has had extensive experience, has good judgment, and stands at the head of the enterprising men of Berlin.

McINTIRE, JOHN, Morris township, farmer, post office, Fredericktown ; was born in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, in 1813; came to Ohio with his parents when quite young, and was married in 1837 to Mary Riley, who was born in Holmes county in 1818. They had eleven children: Martha Jane, born in 1838; Alfred R., in 1840; Cornelius, in 1842; Susan in 1845; Winfield S., in 1847; Elmer Y., in 1849; Minerva, in 1851; Joseph H., in 1853; Agnes, January 28, 1856; John Mitchell, in 1858, and Luella, in 1869. The following have deceased: :Martha Jane, Cornelius, Joseph H., Winfield S., and Agnes.

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The following are married: Susan married John McGrew, Alfred R. married Helen Richards, Minerva married John Braddock, Elmer Y., married Alice Brown, and lives in Morrow county.

Mr. McIntire has resided on his present farm twenty-seven years. Through his industry and frugality he has secured a considerable property, and is now enjoying the fruits of his labors.

McINTIRE, ALFRED R., Mt. Vernon, lawyer, was born in Holmes county, Ohio, July 14, 1840. He is of Scotch-Irish lineage. His father was of Scotch descent and his mother of Irish. He attended school at Fredericktown, and in his early years taught school three winters. When about twenty years of age he entered the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, where he graduated in 1865. In August, 1862, he enlisted in company A, Ninety-sixth Ohio volunteer infantry, and was discharged in February, 1863, on account of physical disability. He also served as first lieutenant of company H, One Hundred and Forty-second regiment Ohio National guards, during the summer of 1864. He began studying law with judge R. C. Hurd, April 1, 1867, and was admitted to the bar June, 1869. Immediately after his admission he formed a law co-partnership with his preceptor, which partnership continued until the death of Judge Hurd. He continued his practice of law alone until 1875 when he associated with him Mr. D. B. Kirk, which partnership still continues. Mr. McIntire has been a member of the city board of education for many years. In the fall of 1879 he was a candidate for State senator in the district composed of the counties of Wayne. Holmes, Knox and Morrow, all Democratic counties with the exception of Morrow. Mr. McIntire made a remarkable run under the circumstances, coming within about forty votes of carrying Knox county. He was married to Miss Helen Richards, of Fredericktown, by whom he had two sons.

McINTIRE. WILLIAM A., Berlin township, farmer, post office, Fredericktown; was born in Holmes county, Ohio, in 1846, came to this county in 1861, and was married in 1868 to Achsah Kimmel, who was born in Carroll county, Ohio, in 1848. They have three children, viz: James E., born in 1868, Belle, in 1874, and Lola in 1880. Daniel Kimmel, father of Mrs. McIntire, was born in Pennsylvania in 1807, was married to Lavina Swarringer, who was born in Ohio in 1812. They had ten children, viz: Catharine, John, Matilda, Elizabeth J., Noah W., Thomas J., Richard M., William J., Wesley (deceased), and Achsah. Mr. Kimmel died in this township in 1877. Mrs. Kimmel died in Bellville in 1876. The Kimmel family have all left this county except Mrs. McIntire, who occupies the home place.

McINTIRE, GEORGE, farmer, Berlin township, post office, Fredericktown; born in Holmes county, Ohio, in 1852; went to Knox county in 1861, and was married in 1874 to Alice M. Adams, who was born in this township in 1856. They have three children: Sabra, born in 1875; Jesse, to 1877; and J. A., in 1878. Mr. McIntire is identified with the farming interests of this township.

McKAY, R. S., stone-mason, Pleasant township, a native of Scotland; born in Aberdeen October 31, 1813. His young days were spent around his native town. In 1836 he emigrated to England, where he married Miss Emma Hursh, who was born in Manchester, England, in 1825. In 1848 they emigrated to America, and located in Springfield, Ohio, where they remained until 1853, when they moved to Knox county, Ohio, and located in Jefferson township. There they lived until 1859, when he purchased and moved on the property where they are now living in Pleasant township, near Mt. Vernon. They have four children: William W., Erich, Anna, and Clara. He was engaged in the building of the Cleveland, Columbus & Mt. Vernon railroad, doing all the masonry along the road from Millersburgh, Holmes county, to Bang's station, Knox county, Ohio.

McKEE, R. B., farmer, Union township, post office, Rossvine, was born April 18, 1820, in Brown township, Knox county. He was the first white male child born in Brown township. His mother died in 1864, and his father in 1874.

Mr. McKee manied Clarinda Mix in 1839 and settled on the old farm. His wife died in 1857 and left four children.

In 1858 he married Matilda Caster. They lived on the old farm for about twelve years, then moved to Howard township; remained eighteen months, then went to Berlin township, Knox county; remained three years, and then came to their present farm. He had six children: Mary Ellen, Squire, Scott, Amanda, John, William, and Irus, who died in her eighth year.

R. B. McKee was compelled to take his schooling near home, and his graduation at the plow handles.

He still retains some. of the sayings of John Blair, the justice of the peace, which are as follows:

"That feeling heart I yet retain,

It lies within my breast,

And through coming life I shall remain

A friend to those distressed.

"Though many friends I used to have,

My foes have turned to be,

When I am silent in the grave,

Will doubtless think of me.

"The man that led them through the vale,,

Wherein they were distressed,

That hostile foe I did assail;

By whom they were distressed.

"The scenes of sorrow passed away;

All tribulation is o'er,

The shade of night is turned to day,

They need a friend no more.

"These lines are from my hand and pen,

And you may thus conclude,

They will remind malignant men

Of their ingratitude.

" I challenge all malicious men,

And thus conclude my song,

To fairly state the place, and where,

I shall have done them wrong."

McKEE, C. H., farmer, Union township, post office. Rossville, was born January 26, 1862. His mother died when he was small, and he was given to G. D. Barr, whose farm joined his father's. He worked for Mr. Barr until he was twenty-one years of age. He was then married to Miss Priscilla Firenlaugh, April 10, 1873, and settled on a portion of the old Barr farm, where he still lives. He has two children: Harry, born July 6, 1874, and Jennie, November 19, 1878. His wife was born April 24, 1851, in Union township.

McKENLEY, MARTIN, mechanic, Howard township, post office, Howard; was born in Ireland in 1826. His father came to America in July, 1830. He drove a hack in the city of

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New York for three years, when the panic came and he was thrown out of employment. He then went to Philadelphia, remained there awhile, and then went to Pittsburgh. He worked there at railroading for about nine years, and had his left leg broken twice during his work on the railroad.

In 1849 he came to Knox county, and. settled in Jefferson township, on a new farm. Shortly after this he went to work on the Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati & Indianapolis railroad and worked there about five years.

In 1854 he was married to Miss Maggie Meggs, and kept a boarding-house for the train hands on the Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati & Indianapolis railroad at different points. along the line, until in 1865, when he came back to Jefferson township, and settled on a farm. He remained there until 1876, when he came to Howard township, and bought a farm, which he now owns, besides a portion of the old homestead. His father and mother died in 1876. He had seven children, four are deceased and three are living: John, who lives in Michigan; Joseph, in Columbus, Ohio, and Maggie, who is at home.

McKENLEY, S. W., Howard township, mechanic, post office, Howard. He was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, March 1, 1844. In 1864 he went to Cincinnati, and spent two and a half years there, learning the carpenter trade, which he still follows. In 1868 he was married to Miss Mary Jones, in Mt. Vernon, where he settled and carried on business until 1875, when he moved to Jefferson township, and remained two years, then moved to Howard, where he has remained until the present time. His wife was born December 22, 1848. They have had three children, as follows: Maggie, Belle, and John. The latter died in 1871.

McKENNA, J. B., was born January 3, 1824, in Ireland, and was educated at Wooster college, Oxford. After leaving school he started to learn the trade of wood carving, but had an occasional job in stone and marble, and preferring that kind of work he turned his attention to it exclusively. He worked for Forcyth & Bro., of London, England; Lane & Lewis, of Birmingham; and in the fine art works under Berger, the London architect. After this he traveled through the principal cities of Europe, doing some work. He came to America in 1867, and followed his trade in different places, for three years when he came to Mt. Vernon, where he has since been engaged in his business, doing all kinds of marble, granite, and stone carving and cutting. He did the work on the Curtis house, Raymond block, and about all the large blocks that have been erected since 1870, he also designed and erected the soldier's monument on the public square, Mt. Vernon.

MCKIBBEN, JAMES B., Pleasant township, farmer, son of Matthew McKibben, who was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, in 1803. He came to Harrison county, Ohio, in 1810, married Jane Eagleson, October 11, 1832, and came to Pleasant township in 1835. He purchased one hundred acres of woodland, which he cleared, and on his farm he reared a family of nine children, of whom James B. was the eighth.

James B. was married September 23, 1869, to Mary Ann Warman, and has at this time four children: Jennie O., Charles E., Margery E., and John M. Mr. McKibben now occupies the old homestead, and is engaged in the propagation of fine stock. His stock consists of thoroughbred Merino sheep and short horn Durham cattle, and is among the finest in the county.

McLAIN, CHARLES S., Morgan township, justice of the peace and farmer, post office, Hunt's Station. He was born in Green county, Pennsylvania, June 28, 1813. His father, John F., was born October 18, 1791, in the same county, and remained there until 1829, when he came to Knox county, where he died. He was a business man and farmer, and a citizen of influence. He married Phoebe Swan, June 3, 1812; she was born March 17, 1792, and died in 1856.

They had a family of eight children, four of each sex, vie: Charles S., Abijah S., Ann, Permelia (deceased), Henry, Samuel (deceased when young), Mary A. (deceased), Cassandra, and William H.

The subject of this sketch was reared on a farm, and had the advantages of the common schools. In 1836 he went into his father's store and subsequently purchased it. He remained in business until 1843, when he sold out and returned to his farm, where he has since resided. In 1849 he was elected justice of the peace, which office he has held almost continuously. He has also held almost all the township offices. He is a man of much force of character, and well and favorably known. He is well informed upon topics of general interest. He was twice married; he married Ruth Berryhill June 16, 1835, and had nine children; the living are: Samuel B., Fulton county, Ohio; Hattie, at home; William E., Colorado; Frances, Bloomington, Illinois; Charles A., Henry H., and Ruth B., in Morgan township. Mary A. and Laura are deceased.

Mrs. McLain died in 1857. In 1868 he married Mrs. Rebecca Coffin; who died in 1872. Mr.. McLain is one of the most systematic and intelligent farmers of Morgan township. His farm is a model of neatness and thrift.

McLARNAN, GEORGE M., farmer, was born August 28, 1829, in Butler township. He was married to Miss Normandy Campbell, March 30, 1854. She was born November 27, 1830. They have had six children: Augusta Olivia, born September 9, 1855; John Thomas, born September 20, 1859; Daniel Campbell, born January 17, 1863; James Clarence, born January 23, 1866, and two died in infancy.

McLAUGHLIN, MARTIN, Pike township, farmer, post office, North Liberty, was born in Columbiana county, Ohio, in 1845; came to Knox county in 1873; located in Pike township, and was married in 1874 to Lavina Scoles, who was born in this township in 1837. They reside on a farm in this township.

McMAHON, JOSEPH, Wayne township, farmer, post office. Fredericktown, born in College township, July 29, 1845, and was married in 1867 to Eliza Jolly, who was born in Knox county in 1847. They have the following children: Harry, born in October, 1868; Fannie, in December, 1870; Josie, October, 1873; Helen, June, 1876; Alice, October, 1879.

Mr. McMahon is a farmer, and is fully identified with this county, and is one of its active men. He was engaged in the late war, a member of company C, Thirty-second regiment, Ohio volunteer infantry, and was in the service a year, and received an honorable discharge.

McMAHON, ERASTUS, Wayne township, blacksmith, post office, Mt. Vernon, born in this county in 1845; and was married in 1871 to Amanda Jenkins, who was born in Knox county in 1852. They have one son-Harry N. who was born May to, 1878.

Mr. McMahon learned the blacksmith trade in Gambier,

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Ohio, and is now engaged doing custom work in Green Valley, in this county, and is a first-class mechanic.

MCMILLEN, DAVID, farmer, post office, Butler, Richland county, Ohio. He was born in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, in 1805. In 1830 he was married to Rachel Williams, who was born in the same county in 1807. They had five children: Jesse was born in 1836; Lavena, in 1838; Isaiah, in 1840; James A., in 1842; and Marion, in 1844. The deceased members are: Mrs. Rachel McMillen died in 1880; Isaiah died in Knox county; Lavena died in Wayne county in 1844. They located in Wayne township in 1830.

He settled in Knox county in 1849. He owns a good farm with all the modern improvements. His father, Alexander McMillen was born in 1779, in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, and was married to Christina Yearian, who was born in the same county. They had five children: Christena, Mary, Esther, Alexander, and David. Mrs. McMillen died in Pennsylvania; A Leander McMillen died in Berlin township in 1864.

Jesse McMillen was married to Louisa Yarger, who was born in Ashland county, Ohio, in 1840. They have three children: Georgia .Vice, born May 12, 1876; Bertha Celia, October 10, 1877, and David Franklin, January 9. 1879.

Mr. McMillen is a plasterer by trade, and assisted in plastering the court house in Mansfield. James McMillen was a soldier in the late war, and was a member of the Ohio National guards.

McMILLEN, JOSEPH, deceased, Jefferson township, a native of Pennsylvania, born in 1785. He moved to Belmont county, Ohio, where, to 1809, he married Miss Mary Perry. About 1815 he, with his wife and three children, moved to Union township, Knox county, where he lived a number of years, making farming his vocation. In 1817 Ephriam bought eighty acres of land in Jefferson township. he had nine children, as follows: Hamilton, Ephraim, Ellen, John, Silas, Jane, Robert and Margaret, twins, and Mary. They are all dead except Ellen, who married Thomas Harris. and now lives in Monroe township, Knox county.

McMILLEN, SILAS, deceased, Jefferson township, third son of Joseph McMillen was born in Jefferson township, Knox county, Ohio, July 15, 1818. His father was one of the pioneer settlers of Jefferson township, and entered the farm now owned by the heirs of Silas McMillen, where he made improvements and passed his remaining days. He reared a family of six children, viz: Hamilton, John, Silas, Ellen, Margaret, and Jane, all married and have families except Margaret, who was married but had no children. Only-two of the above named children are now living: Hamilton and Ellen.

Mr. McMillen married Elizabeth Hicks, October 17, 1852. She was born in England August 3, 1834, emigrated to America in 1835 with her parents, Andrew and Mariah Hicks, who settled in Jefferson township, Knox county, Ohio, on the McMillen farm, where his wife and children are now living. They reared a family of four children, viz: Alice M., Lorn H., Howard R., and George S., who died September 21, 1879.

McNABB, JOHN, Fredericktown, landlord, was born March 5, 1824, in Coshocton, Ohio, was marred in 1849 to Susan Adams, who was born in Bedford county, Pennsylvania, November 4, 1829. They have nine children: Theodius, Joseph, Laura, William, Dora, Florda, Edgar, Georgia, and James.

Mr. McNabb came to Howard, in this county, in 1879, and engaged in-the hotel business. In 1880 he took charge of the Commercial house in Fredericktown, and is at present doing a successful and profitable business.

McNAMARA, FRANCIS, Jefferson township, farmer, post office, Danville, was born in county Clare, Ireland, in 1798. In 1850 he emigrated to America, locating in Rochester, New York, where he remained about one year, then moved to Holidaysburgh, Pennsylvania, where he and three of his brothers took a contract on a railroad, which they completed in about two years. In 1838 he went to Uniontown, Pennsylvania, and took a contract for building several miles of the National road. His last contract was near West Alexandria, Washington county, Pennsylvania, where he married Miss Christina Weber in 1835,

Mrs. McNamara was born in Germany in 1812. They settled in Brownsville, Fayette county, Pennsylvania, remaining until in 1840, when they came to Knox county, Ohio, and located in Jefferson township, on the farm where they are now living.

Since his settlement in Jefferson township he has made clearing, farming and stock raising, his vocation. They have had a family of nine children, viz: William, John G., Margaret A., Mary, Francis K., Barbara, Bridget, Matthew, and George G. Barbara and Bridget are dead.

Mr. McNamara is living now at the age of eighty-two years, enjoying good health.

McNARE, ISAIAH, Fredericktown, cabinet-maker, was born in Somerset county, Pennsylvania, in 1826, and came to Knox county, Ohio, in 1847. In 1852 he was married to Mary Sergeant, who was born in Knox county in 1833. They had four children, viz: Ida, Anna, Chancey H., and Mary Blanche.

Mrs. Mary McNare died in Fredericktown in 1867. Mr. McNare was afterwards married to Mary E. Reed, who was born in Virginia. They have had three children-Frederick N., Rosa, and Nellie.

Mr. McNare learned the cabinet business when a young man, and is now engaged with Hill & Hagerty in the manufacture of furniture. He is an excellent mechanic, and has resided in this place since 1847.

McWILLIAMS, CHARLES ELLIOTT (deceased), was born July 4, 1836, in Clay township, and always resided here. Was marred to Angeline C. Marriott, June 12, 1856, by John Stevenson, esq. They had seven children-Samuel W. (deceased); born March 28, 1857; Hugh M., June 20, 1858; Franklin B., May 22, 1860; Laura Bell, December 4, 1861; John R. (deceased), March 29, 1864; Mary A., June 16, 1866; Lilian E., July 17, 1868.

Mr. McWilliams was a farmer and stock dealer during his lifetime. He was a member and elder of the Presbyterian church of Martinsburgh at the time of his death, and was a much respected citizen. He died July 10, 1875.

MCWILLIAMS, JOHN, farmer, a native of Ohio county, Virginia, was born January 31, 1797, removed to Belmont county, Ohio, in 1802, and to Knox county in 1818. He was married September 11, 1817, to Lydia Ferguson. They had nine children. viz: James, William, Mary Ann, Hugh. Phebe, John, George S., Sarah Jane, and Charles. All are dead but William, Phebe, and George S.

Mr. McWilliams was treasurer of Clay township several

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years. Mr. and Mrs. McWilliams were members of the Presbyterian church for many years, he being deacon forty-one years. He resided on his farm one mile east of Martinsburgh fifty-eight years. He now resides in the village.

MAGERS, NATHAN, North Sandusky street. Mr. Magers is a native of Montgomery county, Maryland, where he was born August 19, 1793, and when about thirteen years old came with his brother-in-law and located in this county, on land adjoining the present town of Gambier, in the year 1806. He commenced life here by assisting the pioneer settlers in clearing up land and in making rails, which he followed about fourteen years. On September 1, 1812, he went out to guard the frontier, where he witnessed many exciting scenes of that eventful war. He assisted in the taking of the Greentown Indians, and took an active part in the trying events that took place in this and Richland counties. In 1813 he went out to Sandusky, where he served twenty-one days, and in the fall of the same year he was called to Delaware, where he was a short time. He has witnessed all the changes this county has undergone, from the wild and unbroken forest populated by wild and hostile tribes of Indians, ferocious panthers, wolves, and bears, with deer as plentiful as the sheep of to-day, to its present state of civilization, densely populated with a refined and educated Christian people, where on every hand the eye is greeted with highly cultivated farms, teeming with their crops and stocks, beautiful towns and villages, extensive manufactories and business emporiums, interspersed with churches of all denominations and institutions of learning of all kinds.

In the year 1820. he commenced farming, which he followed about seven years. He then engaged in the hotel business at Danville and Millwood, which he followed about two years, after which he engaged in the milling business, running a sawmill and grist-mill, during which, in consequence of bailing certain parties, he lost all he had earned up to that time, so that he was obliged to commence life anew. He then came to Mt. Vernon and engaged in the brick business, which he followed, in connection with farming, for about ten years.

He was married in the year 1820 to Keziah Barkus, by whom he had five children, one of whom is living Calvin.

Mrs. Magers died in 1854, and he married his second wife, Mrs. Mary Berk (Bell), who was born in 1792, and came to Ohio when quite young, consequently she is one of the early pioneers of the State, and has passed through hardships that would be incredible to the women of to-day. We give space to one incident. In those days they had to manufacture all their wearing apparel from the raw material-first spin, then weave, then cut and make it up for wear. She had no place to put up her loom, her brothers were out in the War of 1812, and she, feeling that all depended on her, shouldered her axe and went to the woods and cut logs for a cabin to weave in. When she had them ready she called in some of the nearest neighbors to raise the building, after which she completed it and set up her loom to make cloth for the family. Such was the indomitable energy of some of the pioneer mothers of our county and State.

MAGERS, CALVIN, city marshal of Mt. Vernon, is a son of Nathan Magers, one of the earliest pioneers of the county. He was born in this county --------, and when about eight years old his parents came to Mt. Vernon, where he received his education. He was engaged in various ways until 1863, when he was elected to the office of city marshal, which position he has filled, with the exception of two and a half years, until the present. He was appointed and served as United States deputy marshal in the Northern district for five years, after which he was appointed to the same office in the Southern district in 1880, and in which office he still remains. The above facts are sufficient evidence of his faithfulness and abilities as an officer.

MAGERS, ELIAS, Monroe township, deceased, was born in Maryland in 1806, and while yet an infant was brought to Ohio with his parents, who died when he was ten years old, after which Elias made his home among strangers. He was married to Mary Lybarger, who was born in Pennsylvania. They had six children, viz.: Susannah, Lewis (deceased), Lyman, Martha J., Lucinda E., and Nathan A. Mrs. Mary Magers died in 1854. Mr. Magers married Christina Scoles, who was born in Pike township in 1830. They had one daughter, Clara I., who is living with her mother. Mr. Magers has been identified with this county since 1810. He was reared a Catholic, but when he reached maturity joined the Methodist Episcopal church. He was a very prominent and consistent member of the Pike church.

MAGERS, LYMAN, Mt. Vernon, farmer, was born in Howard township in 1837, married to Louisa H. Lambert, daughter of Rev. Daniel Lambert, of this county. She was born in Utica, Licking county, in 1835. They had six children, viz.: William S., Romyne A., Daniel M., Alice A., Blanche E., and Mary E. Miss Alice A. departed this life November 17, 1880, having assurances of a blessed immortality. Mr. Magers is one of the official members of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Pike township. He was a soldier in the late war-a member of the Ohio National guard-served out the time of his enlistment and was honorably discharged.

MAGILL, S. W., Howard township, mechanic, post office, Howard, was born in Pittsburgh, April, 13, 1836. He enlisted in the late war, in 1861, in company A, Fourth Ohio volunteer infantry for three months, then re-enlisted for three years; served one and one-half years, and was transferred at Harper's Ferry to battery C, Fourth volunteer artillery. He served till the close of the war; was in nineteen different battles, and only received two slight wounds. February 22, 1865, he was married to Miss Emily Rawly. She was born in Union county, Ohio, September 28, 1843. Then he lived in Mt. Vernon for a time, then in Millwood, in Mt. Holly, and then moved to Howard, where he has since remained, working at his trade and farming. He had eight children-Litta, born August 18, 1866; Lettice, April 18, 1868; Charles, July 27, 1870; Samuel, September 6, 1872; Frank, June 11, 1874; Curtis, July 9, 1876 Emily, April 12, 1878; Mary, April 16, 1880. Lettice died January 9, 1875, aged seven years, seven months and two days.

MAGILL, ALEXANDER, farmer, Milford township, was born in Huntingdon county, Pennsylvania, March 14, 1824. About nine years after his parents removed to Washington county, Pennsylvania, where they remained until 1838, when they moved to Monroe county, Ohio, where they settled. They had nine children, five sons and four daughters.

At about nineteen years of age he learned the tanning trade, which he followed for about ten years. In 1855 he came to Knox county, and resided in Harrison and Monroe townships until 1879, when he purchased in Milford township and moved there. His parents are both dead. He married Miss Elizabeth Willoughby, April 23, 1846, who was born February 8, 1827, in

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Danville. They had one child, who died in infancy, but have an adopted son (Theodore Magill). Mr. Magill is a good citizen and also a good farmer. The father of Mrs. Magill (Henry Willoughby) lives with her. He was born in Oxfordshire, near Oxford, England, October 3. 1790. He spent ten years of his life in the English army, three years in marine service, and seven years with the land forces, and passed through many exciting scenes. He was in the English campaign in Spain, and has been in all parts of the world. In 1812 he served against the United States. He was discharged from the Thirty-seventh English regiment, January 21, 1816, and the same month came to the United States. His regiment was in Canada. In 1819 he came to Knox county and has resided here ever since. He helped to build Kenyon college, and was well known over the county. He was three times married and by one of his wives (Mariah Furness) he had eleven children, seven of whom are living.

MAHAFFEY, C. M., Pike township, physician, post office, North Liberty, born in Mt. Vernon, Knox county, in 1854, and was educated in the Mt. Vernon public schools; studied medicine with Dr. J. C. Gordon, of Mt. Vernon, and attended lectures at the Cleveland Medical college. He engaged in the practice of medicine in Brownsville in company with Dr. Hyatt, and continued about eighteen months. From there he went to Mt. Vernon, remained there some time, and came to North Liberty in 1879.

The doctor has established quite an extensive practice; is meeting with good success, and is now classed with one of the leading physicians of this county.

Mr. Mahaffey was married in 1877 to Ida A. Corey, who was born in Trumbull county, Ohio, in 1856. They had one infant daughter, deceased.

MANN, CLAYTON J., Middlebury township, carpenter, post office, Fredericktown, born in Morrow county in 1854, and was married in 1875 to Lurella Caywood, who was born in this township in 1856. They have one son-Earl Mann, born in 1877.

Mr. Mann is engaged at the carpenter trade, and is a practical and skillful workman.

MARPLE, HIRAM B., Fredericktown, painter, was born in 1830 in Virginia, and came to Ohio in 1841. He was married to Sarah Phipps, who was born in Morrow county in 1834 They have the following children: Lura, born in 1857; Elroy, deceased; Frank, in 1839; Lincoln, in 1860; McClellan, in 1862; Maca, in 1866; Mary, in 1857; Will, in 1869; Gertrude, in 1871; Annias C., in 1873; Birdie, deceased; Ivanna, in 1877.

Mr. Marple has been a citizen of Fredericktown for about twenty-seven years. He was a soldier in the late war, and a member of the Ohio National guards; served out the time of his enlistment, and received an honorable discharge.

MARRIOTT, MRS. JUDI ANN, Hilliar township, was born in Licking county May 21, 1823. She was the third child of Abraham and Margaret Plumner, who died in Licking county.

The subject of this notice was married to Elisha Marriott in 1845; and about three years after moved to Hilliar township, and settled on the farm on which Mrs. Marriott still resides, and where Mr. Marriott died in June, 1879. They had a family of nine children, six daughters and three sons, seven of whom are living, viz: Mary, married to Harvey Hupp; Jerusha, married to Richard A. Hall; Margaret, Plumner, Jonathan, Ellen, and Lydia.

Mrs. Marriott is a lady well and favorably known in the community.

MARSH, EBER, deceased, Monroe township, a native of Vermont, born on the twenty-seventh day of February, 1801, was a carpenter by trade, and followed carpentering as his vocation through life. In 1826 he married Miss Sophia Jackson, of Vermont, born June 17, 1807. They settled in Franklin county, New York, and remained about eleven years. In 1837, they emigrated to Knox county, located in Mt. Vernon, and remained two years. They then moved to Monroe township, and located on H. H. Young's farm, where they lived about two years, during which time he erected the residence now occupied by his widow and son, Eber P. Marsh, into which they moved in March, 1841. This served him as an abode until he deceased January 17, 1876. His companion is still living on the home farm, where she has resided since 1841. The farm is now owned by their son, Eber P. Marsh.

They reared a family of eight children, viz: Eber P., Louisa S., Lewis J., Eri C., Mary C., Hollis L., Sarah J., and Orlinda O. All are living except Eri C. and Hollis L., who were killed in the war of 1861. Ed C. enlisted in the Second Wisconsin regiment, and was killed in the battle of the Wilderness on the fifth day of May, 1864. He was a veteran at the time of his death. Hollis L. enlisted in the Sixty-fifth Ohio volunteer infantry, and was wounded at the battle of Stone River, which caused his death in a few days. Eber P. and Lewis J., each served about four months in the same war.

MARSH, A. M., RICHARD BLACKMORE, superintendent public schools, Mt. Vernon, was born August 2, 1835. His father, Moses Marsh, was born in the city of Boston, in 1800, and his mother, Hannah Blackmore Marsh, in Truro, Nova Scotia, in 1820. The subject of this sketch was named for a distant ancestor, Sir Richard Blackmore, a distinguished physician, and a poet of some reputation, who lived in the latter part of the seventeenth century. His early life was spent in New England, from which he removed to Gambier, Ohio, in the winter of 1856, and entered the Kenyon grammar school, then under the charge of Professor H. D. Lathrop. He was poor and friendless, and had a wife and one child dependent upon him for support, which rendered his struggle for an education difficult. His design was to study for the ministry of the Protestant Episcopal church. His vacations and half holidays were spent in building fences, putting in glass, and painting for the college. Parts of his fences are yet standing in Gambier. When he had acquired sufficient education to teach, his spare time was employed in assisting students who had to make extra exertion to overtake classes in branches in which they were found deficient.

Mr. Marsh was a good student, intelligent and industrious to a remarkable extent. In 1861 he was appointed tutor in Kenyon grammar school, at a salary of five hundred dollars per year. His success as a teacher and disciplinarian was so marked that he was advised by the bishop and faculty of Kenyon college to devote his life to teaching, and to relinquish his intention of entering the ministry.

In 1862, Professor Lathrop resigning, he was appointed principal of Kenyon grammar school, and became a member of the faculty of Kenyon college. The school at this time was small in numbers, the last year having only seventeen students, but

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three of whom expected to return. By energy and popularity he succeeded in building up the school to nearly a hundred in number. Notwithstanding his arduous labors and incessant teaching, he continued his college studies and graduated with his class in 1863. He continued as head teacher of the grammar school, kept up the reputation and numbers, and had for years been making a salary of two thousand two hundred dollars, but at the close of the school year, 1867, not being satisfied with the appointment of J. Kent Stone to the presidency of the college, and foreseeing a struggle between the High and the Low church party, in which the former, with whom he had no sympathy, was likely to gain the ascendency, he accepted an invitation to superintend the schools of Mt. Vernon at a salary of one thousand five hundred dollars and house rent, which position, at the same salary, he has continued to hold.

In 1866 he received the degree of A. M. in course from Kenyon college. In 1879 he received a life certificate from the State board of examiners.

Mr. Marsh is an ardent and enthusiastic mason, and was for many years master of Mount Zion lodge, high priest of Clinton chapter, and is at present eminent commander of Clinton commandery Knight Templars. He has devoted some time to the special study of elocution, and has lectured at institutes and normal schools in many counties of the State, and has spent a large part of the Sabbaths of the year in preaching for no pecuniary consideration.

Testimonials from distinguished educators, and from the press of the State, amply manifest the high esteem in which Professor Marsh is held both as an educator and as an elocutionist. A few of these testimonials will suffice:

Professor J. J. Burns, superintendent public schools, speaking of the teachers' institute, held at Barnesville, Ohio, in August, 1874, says

" The institute just closed was most successful in number and enthusiasm, and in the interest aroused in the good cause among the citizens. These good results are largely due to the earnest and efficient services of R. B. Marsh, Mt. Vernon, Ohio, who, in public and private, has continually labored to sow that seed which must bear fruit in many school-rooms of the county. Professor Marsh's public readings were admirable; fully satisfying the large expectations of his very large audience."

Professor John Ogden, associate principal Ohio Central normal school, Worthington, Ohio, says:

"It was my pleasure to be associated, as co-laborer, with Professor R. B. Marsh, superintendent of public instruction, Mt. Vernon, Ohio, during the recent session of the Stark county teachers' institute, the largest, perhaps, ever held in the State; and it has seldom been my fortune to meet a more earnest and able lecturer. His special subject is elocution, for which he has a rare gift. His evening entertainments, in which he renders some of the most difficult and entertaining pieces, are inimitable. I recommend him to all teachers' institutes and literary associations."

The fifth resolution of the Belmont county teachers' institute reads as follows:

"That a vote of thanks be tendered to Professor Marsh for the masterly manner in which he conducted the elocutionary and reading department, for those ennobling impressions which will not only benefit teachers in life, but go with them through eternity."

The Canton Repository: "The institute was very fortunate in securing three such splendid lecturers as Professors Harvey, Ogden and Marsh. Each in his way is without a superior. This evening Professor Marsh will deliver a lecture on elocution, with recitations, in the Opera House. He has more power and ability in this line than any man we know in Ohio. It will be a rare treat.

"November 6th-One of the best houses that ever assembled in Canton greeted Professor Marsh at the Opera House on Thursday evening last. 'He is thoroughly educated and drilled on the subject of elocution. His voice has great compass and power, and his ability to give it the proper tones for deep feeling or for gay humor, is perfect. In serious, sympathetic pieces he drew tears from many eyes, while in humorous pieces he often convulsed the house with laughter . . . . . Professor Marsh has made many friends by his visit to Canton, who will be happy to greet him at future meetings of our teachers' institute."

The following is from Colonel D. F. DeWolf and signed also by Hon. Thomas W. Harvey: "Having worked in a teachers' institute with Professor R. B. Marsh, I take great pleasure in saying that his course of lessons in elocution and reading has been highly entertaining and instructive-indeed, one of the most useful and pleasant courses oat this subject that I have ever witnessed in an institute."

Similar tributes might be quoted from the public press at Barnesville, Mansfield, Nit. Gilead, Marysville, Circleville, Coshocton, Marietta, New Philadelphia, Tiffin, and at other cities in the State, but the few quoted will suffice to show the high esteem in which the Professor is held throughout the State.

HARING, JACOB, retired, post office, Fredericktown; was born in Sussex county, New Jersey, in 1800, came to Knox county in 1832, first locating in Fredericktown and engaged in the mercantile business about sixteen years. In 1848 he purchased a farm in Berlin township and has since been a resident here, engaged in farming and dealing in and raising stock. He was elected a member of the Legislature in 1854, which place he filled with credit. He was married in 1833 to Harriet Headley, who was born in Morris county, New Jersey, in 1808. they had ten children, viz: William L., Sarah E., Joseph H., John C., Theodore P., Mary H. (deceased), Ella H., Ann A., Jacob E., and L. W. Mr. Haring is now one of the oldest living settlers of this county. In 1880 he drove the horses to the reaper during the entire harvest.

MARTIN, JACOB, deceased, born in Huntingdon county, Pennsylvania. in 1782, and was brought to Knox county, Ohio, by his parents, George and Sarah Martin, in 1811, who located in Mt. Vernon where his father deceased in 1812; Jacob Martin married Miss Ann Adams about 1813, born in Winchester, Virginia. about the year 1800. They settled in Mt. Vernon, where he died in July, 1870, aged seventy-eight years. His companion is still surviving him at the age of eighty years, and is living in Mt. Vernon where they first settled. He was a cabinet-maker and joiner by trade, and carried on the business in Mt. Vernon for many years. They reared a family of eleven children, viz: George R., Sarah A., Samuel S., John M., Jacob, Benjamin F., Ellen, Joseph, Martha, Albert, and Clara, four of whom died, viz: Sarah A., Jacob, Benjamin F., and Joseph.

MARTIN, GEORGE R.; oldest son of the aforesaid Jacob Martin, was born in Mt, Vernon, Knox county, Ohio, November 22, 1821. He learned the cabinet-makers' and joiners' trade with his father, and followed that business as his princi-

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pal vocation until 1853, when he engaged in the saw-mill business, which he has followed in. connection with farming as his avocation. In 1844 he married Miss Agnes Shipley. They settled in Mt. Vernon and remained there until 1856 when they moved to their present location, on the Granville road a short distance from Mt. Vernon. They have reared a family of eight children, four sons and four daughters. His oldest son, Milton P. Martin, served nineteen months in the Third Ohio volunteer cavalry in the war of 1861.

MARTIN, JAMES, Middlebury township, retired, post office, Fredericktown, born in Huntingdon county, Pennsylvania, in 1793, came to Ohio, this county, in 1811, and was married in 1819 to Luhamar Warden, who was born in Chamber-burgh, Franklin county, Pennsylvania, in 1798. They had three children-Henry P., born in 1822; William S., in 1825; and Mary, the eldest, born in 1820.

Mrs. Martin died in this township in 1864, at the age of sixty-four years.

Mr. Martin is the oldest resident yet living in this vicinity. He was a cabinet-maker and worked at that business for some years, but has been a farmer for many years in this township.

It affords much pleasure to Mr. Martin to relate reminiscences of pioneer times.

MARTIN & PARK, coal and feed dealers, foot of Main street, Mt. Vernon.- (The firm consists of J. R. P. Martin and D. M. Park).

Mr. Martin was born in this city, May 31, 1842. He was educated in our common schools. His first business engagement was made in 1857, with the late Adam Weaver, as salesman in his hardware store at Mt. Vernon. Here he continued five years. He then enlisted in company .A, Ninety-sixth Ohio volunteer infantry, in which he served three years, and was honorably discharged, July, 1865: He returned to Mt. Vernon, remained at home but a short time only, and then went to Jackson, Tennessee, and engaged in the hardware business, which he conducted for five years with success. His next move was to Frogmore, Louisiana, where he engaged in a general store business, in which he remained three years. He then returned to Mt. Vernon, and went into the hardware store of J. H. McFarland, where he continued three years, and then with C. A. Bopes for one year. For some time after this last clerkship he engaged in a variety of businesses. About a year since he purchased the grain and feed store of J. H. McFarland & Co., and the firm of Martin S Park was formed. They carry a full stock of coal, ice, feed, etc., and average in winter, coal to the amount of one thousand six-hundred dollars per month, and of feed, lime and cement about one thousand dollars. The firm is doing a business of about twenty thousand dollars per annum.

MARTS, JOHN C., Berlin town, farmer, post office, Fredericktown, born in Berlin township, in this county, in 1842, and was married in 1867, to Malinda Adams, who was born in Berlin township in this county in 1842. They had three children: Aida M., born in 1868 ; George Sherman, deceased, and Madison Lloyd, deceased. Mr. John Marts was a soldier in the late war, a member of company G., One Hundred and Twenty-first regiment Ohio volunteer infantry, and was in the following engagements- battle of Champion Hills, Chattanooga, Buzzard's Roost, Kennesaw Mountain, Peach Tree Creek, Jonesborough, Atlanta to Savannah, and from there to South Carolina. He was wounded, April 10, 1865, near Goldsborough, in the left knee with a piece of shell, which has crippled him for life. He was in the service more than three years, was honorably discharged, and is receiving a pension.

MASTELLER, JACOB S., Wayne township, farmer, post office, Fredericktown, born in Columbia county, Pennsylvania; came to Ohio in the fall of 1841; settled near Mount Vernon and remained there till 1865 ; then came to Wayne township. He was married in 1850, to Sarah Stillery. They had the following children, of whom three are living: Charles F., Minnie B., and Rebecca E. Mrs. Mastellar died in 1869. Mr. Mastellar's second marriage was to Sarah Cassell, who was born in Maryland in 1831.

MATHENY, JAMES W., Pike township, farmer, post office, Democracy, born in Brown township in this county, September 7, 1853. He is engaged in farming in this county, and is an active and enterprising young man.

MATHEWS, JOSEPH B., Hilliar township, farmer, was born in Knox county, March 11, 1824. He is the son of Henry and Mary Mathews, nee Harris. His father was born in Maryland, and moved to Hilliar township in 1811. Hewas a soldier of the War of 1812, and during the latter part of his life drew a pension. When he first came to Knox county, he worked for James Houck and in consideration of his work, he got fifty acres of land, on which he now resides. This was about 1818, or perhaps a few years earlier. There were ten children in the family, five of whom are still living, viz: Joseph B., the subject of this notice, John W., Isaac, Sarah A., married to Allen Moore, and Caroline M., married to Almind Perfect. Mrs. Mathews died in 1858, and Mr. Mathews in 1872. Thus passed away two of Knox county's first-class pioneers. The subject of this notice was twice married. His first wife was Miranda J. Kempton, to whom he was married December 25, 1855. They lead three children, two living. His first wife died September, 1861. His second wife was Jane A. Jones. They have four children, two sons and two daughters. Mr. Mathews is social and pleasant. He has the esteem of his neighbors. Mrs. Mathews died recently.

MAVIS, LINAS, Brown township, farmer, post office, Democracy, son of Samuel and Elizabeth Mavis, born in Coshocton county, January 2, 1845; was brought by his parents when a child to Knox county, his father locating in Howard township, where they remained about seven years. His father then purchased a farm in what is now known as the Jelloway valley, Brown township, where he lived until he arrived at the age of eighteen years, when he enlisted in the Sixty-fifth Ohio volunteer infantry, in company A, under Captain Cassil, Colonel Harker being the commander of the regiment in which he served three years, during which time he was engaged in a number of battles, among them being Franklin, Tennessee, Pittsburgh Landing, Corinth, Mississippi, Stone River (where he received a wound in the shoulder), Chickamauga, Mission Ridge, Knoxville, Tennessee, and Buzzard Roost, where he received the second wound, and was then sent back to Murfreesborough, Tennessee, where he remained until his time expired; and he received his discharge and was mustered out at Columbus, Ohio. He returned home and went to farming for his father, at which he continued up to February 27, 1867, when he married Sarah J. Norick, a daughter of Jacob and Emily Norick, born in Harrison county, Ohio, June 10, 1846. After his marriage he moved to another township, but soon moved back to Brown, and then to Hilliar township, and again to Brown, locating on the old home farm,

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where he now resides. Their marriage resulted in six children -Franklin C., Della B., Alverda, Burley M., Samuel, and Ora, all of whom are living.

MEAD, ALFRED, Hilliar township, brick and the manufacturer, Centreburgh, Ohio, was born in Newark, New Jersey, May 27, 1845, and is the fifth child of Alfred and Hellen Mead, nee Collins, who came to Ohio about 1848. They settled in Jersey township, Licking county, Ohio, where they now reside. Alfred spent his youth on the farm. He enlisted October 27, 1861, in company H, Seventy-sixth Ohio volunteer infantry, for three years. He participated in the battles of Fort Donelson, Shiloh, siege of Corinth, Chickasaw Bayou, Arkansas Post, Jackson, siege of Vicksburgh, siege of Jackson, Lookout Mountain, Mission Ridge, Ringgold, Resaca. He was then appointed third sergeant of the company, and afterward participated in the battles of Dallas, siege of Kennesaw Mountain, Atlanta, Ezra Chapel, siege of Atlanta, Jonesborough, Lovejoy Station, where he was wounded with a musket ball. He also participated in the sieges of Savannah, Columbia, and Bentonville, North Carolina, besides eleven skirmishes. He veteranized at Woodville, Alabama. He served his country for three years and nine months, never failing in the performance of his duty. After his return home from the army he learned the carpenter trade and followed it for about eight years, working in Iowa for some time, and spent some time in the lumber business in Indiana. In the fall of 1875 he opened a brick and the kiln in Centreburgh. Mr. Mead started in life without the aid of any one, but assisted his parents in life and also succeeded in making for himself a comfortable home,. establishing a growing trade. Mr. Mead is highly esteemed by the community, is social and pleasant in his manners, is a good citizen, was a good soldier, and has the confidence of all who know him. He was married to Miss Nichols, of Licking county, November 28, 1867.

MEELICK, GREENBURY, farmer, post office, New Castle, was born in Jackson township, Knox county, Ohio, on the eighth day of October, 1818. He has been thrice married, and is the father of two children, viz: Lorenzo, born January 3, 1847; Mary Imus, February 6, 1849. His present wife was Mrs. Esther McCrea, widow of Walter McCrea, who had five children, viz: Walter, born January 10, 1852; Robert O., July 23, 1855, and who died December 14, 1862; Leora A., born November 26, 1857, and died November 25, 1862; Era Esther, born November 1, 1859, and died September 17, 1863; Joseph M., born November 5. 1862, and died December 5, 1862.

MEGINNIS JOHN, mechanic, Howard township, post office, Howard. He was born April 4, 1812, in Franklin county, Pennsylvania, came to this county in 1834, and pursued the business of stone and brick laying, In 1841 he was married to Rachel Lybarger, settled in Howard township, and ha; remained there ever since. They have five children: Catharine, Maoza, Emeline, Mary, and Henry.

Catharine married John Roberts and moved to Delaware county, Ohio.. Maoza married Alexander Newton and settled in Howard township. Mr. Meginnis has built a large number of stone and brick structures. His son, William, is at present with him.

MELICK, the family of, Jackson township. David Melick, one of the pioneers of Jackson township, was born in Pennsylvania November 2, 1784, and was married to Hannah Haskins about the year 1805. She was born July 4, 1789. He emigrated to Jackson township in the year 1810. His son, William Melick, was born in Pennsylvania December 1, 1806. He was married November 6, 1828, to Ermina Cooper, who was born June 12, 1809, and who died June 13, 1835. She bore him three children, viz: Daniel, born October 22, 1829; Nancy, born November 30, 1831; Hannah, born November 11, 1833.

He was married the second time to Sarah Beattie, of Butler township, who was born October 12, 1808. Eight children were the fruit of this union, viz: Abraham D., born May 23, 1837; Margaret, February 26, 1839; Jane E., October 12, 1840; Harriet, April 12, 1842; Timothy, December 22, 1843; Christina, September 28, 1845; Hosmer E., June 22, 1847; William, T., July 26, 1850.

Mary married Jonathan Bishop, December 1, 1853; Christian, Nancy Anderson March 29, 1854; Delilah, Jonathan Miller June 10, 1854; Sarah, William Fleming April 16, 1857; Minerva Jane, William Fleming November 18, 1858; Sarah died February 21, 1858; Delilah died June 8, 1859; William, sr., died December 8, 1872.

MELICK, A. D., farmer, Jackson township, was born May 23, 1837. in Jackson township; was married to Minerva. Jane Schooler November 18, 1858. She was born January 29, 1838. They have had six children, viz: Sarah, born December 8, 1859; Allison H., November 13, 1861; Robert E., October 30, 1863; William T., February 1, 1866; Rebecca E., June 24, 1868; Reuben E., January 4, 1872; Alvin V., August 18, 1876. Allison H. died December 12, 1864. Sarah was married to Albert F. Hall July 3, 1880.

MELTON, ROBERT, teamster, Fredericktown, was born in Knox county in 1849, and was married in 1878 to Sarah Frasier, who was born in Muskingum county, Ohio. They have one daughter, Sanora May, who was born in March, 1879.

Mr. Robert Melton has always been identified with this county, and is now engaged in working for the firm of W. Tuttle & Co.

MENDENHALL, E. I., was born in Chester county, Pennsylvania, April 21, 1840, but when about seven years of age his parents came to Mt. Vernon, where he attended school. He was then sent back to Pennsylvania, and attended an academy two years at Kennett square; then returned to Mt. Vernon and entered the law office of General G. W . Morgan, where he remained until he was admitted to the bar, when he opened an office and devoted his time to his profession, in which he has succeeded. After practicing for three years he formed a partnership with Joseph Watson. which continued for two years, then Mr. Watson went to Columbus, and since, Mr. Mendenhall has been alone, having a good practice, and is a highly respected member of the Knox county bar.

MEREDETH, BENJAMIN, deceased, Union township, was born in Coshocton county, Ohio, in 1810. He married Delila Welket, daughter of John and Elizabeth Welket, in 1832. They settled in Union township, remained a few years, then purchased and moved on a farm in Howard township, where they spent the remainder of their days. He died July 4, 1847. and Mrs. Meredith died July the seventeenth, 1855. They reared a family of seven children: Elizabeth J., Margaret M., Sarah E., Mary S., Leander W., Lucinda F., and John S. Elizabeth J. and John S. are dead.

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ary 4, 1843. He married Martha J. Dillon, daughter of Thomas and Eliza Dillon, in 1864. They settled in Union township; at present they are living in Rosstown. They have four children; two sons and two daughters.

MERRIEN, ANDREW B.. deceased, Morris township, was born in Chester township, Morrow county, Ohio, in 1826, and married in 1850 Margaret L. Rush, who was born in Morris township in 1829. They have the following children: Anna M., born in 1850; John A.; in 1853; Sarah J., in 1856; Joe Bell, in 1859; Oakley M., in 1861; Jacob, in 1868; Ada B., in 1873; Frederick, in 1875.

Anna M. was married to Ira D. Haggerty; they reside in Fredericktown. John A. married Mertice J. Lyon. Sarah J. married Charles W. Wise.

Mr. Merrien died it Morris township in 1876. He was engaged in the lumber trade near Fredericktown, and was among the active men of the county. In his death the community and family met with a great loss. Mrs. 'Margaret Merrien still resides in this township.

MERRIN, JOHN C., post office, Fredericktown, teacher, Morris township. Ohio, born in Fredericktown. Knox county, Ohio, February 6, 1840; lived there until the fall of 1848, when his father, the Hon. Jacob Merrin, moved to his beautiful farm in Berlin township. Lived with his father until 1879: was married to Miss Zona Ravenscroft, of Henry county, Ohio, June 18, 1879; lived in Fredericktown during the winter of 1879-80, then moved to Morris township, where he now resides. Studied law under his brother, Joseph H. Merrin, one of the leading lawyers of 'Mansfield (now deceased, and after a rigid examination by the supreme court of Ohio, was admitted to practice law in 1863.

Served in the Union army a short time; was taken dangerously sick at Bermuda Hundred; was removed to the hospital at Fort Schuyler, a few miles above New York city, where he was honorably discharged on account of sickness.

The field of education had far greater charms for him than the practice of law. He has been intimately connected with the educational interests of the ungraded schools of Knox county for many years, probably more so than any other educator in Knox county. Has been president of the teachers' institute of Knox county many years. At the present time he fills that honorable position, He is recognized as one of the leading spirits in the interests of upgraded schools. His life has been devoted, heart and soul, to their progress and prosperity.

He taught his first term in Berlin township, when a mere boy of seventeen, where the township house now stands, and where he had been a pupil for many years. In this place he taught four consecutive terms. Teaching has been his profession ever since. He was appointed county school examiner in January, 1877, to fill a vacancy occasioned by the resignation of Isaac Lefever, jr.; was reappointed in 1877, and again appointed in September, 1880. He is the most experienced member of the present board, and is one of the most efficient examiners Knox county ever had. He has labored hard and successfully to advance the standard of qualification of teachers as fast as wisdom and prudence dictated. He is to-day one of the live educators and unfaltering friends of common schools.

MERRIEN, JOHN M., Morris township, farmer, post office. Fredericktown, was born December 5, 1853, and was married October 3, 1878, to Mertice Lyon, who was born December 31, 1853, in Wayne township. They have one daughter, Myrta Grace, who was born December 21, 1879.

MERRIMAN, CHARLES AUSTIN, Mt. Vernon, attorney at law, was born near Chesterville, Morrow county, Ohio, January 20, 1851. He is the oldest child of James H. and Emily Merriman, nee Carey, daughter of Frederick Carey, one of the old settlers of Knox county. He spent his youth on the farm. He worked during the summer and taught school in the winter. While teaching he read law. He attended law school at Michigan State university, during the winters of 1873-4 and 1875-6, graduating, taking the degree of LL. D. He was admitted to the bar in Michigan in the year 1876, and the same year was admitted in Ohio. He spent eighteen months in the office of H. H. Greer, esq., in order to get a knowledge of the practice, and on the ninth day of November, 1877, he opened an office of his own, and has been practicing with a steady increase of business. He was married to Miss Emma Clegern, October 17, 1878. They have one child, Bessie L.

MERRIMAN, B., Waldo, Hilliar township, physician and surgeon, Centreburgh, Ohio, is one of the rising young doctors of Knox county. He was born in Bloomfield township, Morrow county. March 20, 1854. His father was a farmer, and it was on the farm that the doctor spent his youth, holding the plow during the summer and going to school in the winter. He taught for several terms. When about twenty-one years of' age he began reading medicine with Dr. F. R. Larimore, of Mt. Vernon, with whom he read for some time. He finished his course of reading with the well known physicians, Drs. Russell and McMillin, of Mt. Vernon, Ohio. His first course of lectures he attended at Columbus Medical college, and his succeeding courses were at the Long Island college, Brooklyn, New York, where he graduated in July, 1878. He was a close student, and had the advantages of first-class preceptors, which, coupled with his collegiate medical education. gave him such knowledge of his profession as to enable him to take a high rank with the public and his professional brethren. He first began his practice in Marengo, Morrow county, where he remained for about one year.

The town of Centreburgh opening up a wider field for practice, he came therein the fall of 1879, and has a growing practice. He is a man of reserved manners, but readily makes friends by his constancy rather than by familiarity. He was married to Miss Eva M. Bird, of Liberty township, July 25, 1878. They have one child.

MERYHEW, JOHN A., Wayne township, farmer, post office, Mt. Vernon, born in Mt. Vernon in 1848, and was married in 1874 to Ida Bell Homer, who was born in Mt. Vernon in 1858. They have the following children: Jessie M., born in 1875; Frank H., in 1877; and Laura M., in 1879. Mr. Meyhew is a farmer by occupation.

MESSENGER, DAVID, deceased, was born near the city of Hartford, Connecticut, September 20, 1790. His parents removed from Connecticut previous to the War of 1812, and were among the earliest settlers of Granville. When the War of 1812 was declared, he enlisted in Captain Spencer's company of volunteers, recruited in Licking county. They marched from Granville to Urbana, and from there to Fort Meigs, having to cut their way through the then unbroken wilderness of Northwestern Ohio. From there they went to Detroit, and were among the troops commanded by General Hull, when he surrendered

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to the British at Fort Malden. After remaining a prisoner of war for a few weeks, he was paroled and returned to his home at Granville. Some time prior to 1825, he went to Utica and engaged in the dry goods trade. August 24, 1825, he was married to Mrs. Martha Silliman, then a young widow lady, of Mt. Vernon, she having two little daughters, one of whom is Mrs. Wareing, of Utica, the other, Mrs. Kelsey, of Mt. Vernon. Mrs. Messenger died at the advanced age of eighty-four years, on the twenty-ninth of September last. Mr. and Mrs. Messenger had three sons: S. B. Messenger, a dentist of Newark; Captain H. C. Messenger, of Jackson, Ohio, who died in the army during the rebellion; and G. B. Messenger, of this city. David Messenger was, perhaps, the oldest Mason in this part of the country, having been n, Mason in Centre Star Lodge, No. 11, Granville, in 1812, receiving his degrees up to and including the master mason degree there during that year. He had not been engaged in active business for many years previous to his death, which occurred at his home on Friday January 14, 1881, at the advanced age of ninety years and nearly four months. He died of old age, having no disease, and confined to his bed only a few days. Since the death of his wife, with whom he had lived happily for more than fifty-five years, he has been only waiting and anxious to go.

METHEANY, ISRAEL, retired, Pike township, post office, Democracy, born in Preston county, Virginia, in 1816, and was married in 1840 to Rebecca Dewitt, who w^s born in this township. They hid eight children: Daniel, Simeon, Mary A., Harvey, Rebecca E., Aaron, William, and Emma. Daniel, Aaron, and Simeon have died. He came to Ohio with his parents in 1820, located in Jefferson township, this county, in 1858, and carne to Pike township where he has since resided.

His father, Israel Metheany, was born in Virginia; in 1789 he was married to Rebecca Conner. They had twelve children. Mr. and Mrs. Metheany died in this county. They were among the earlier settlers.

METZGER, JOSEPH, Milford township, farmer and stock grower. Mr. Metzger was born in Cambria county, Pennsylvania. June 18, 1819. In 1823 he was brought to Ohio by his parents, who located in Perry counts, where they passed the remainder of their days. In 1842, Joseph Metzger married Miss Mary .A. Becktoll, of Muskingum county, Ohio, born July 24, 1823. They settled in Muskingum county, remained about two years, then moved to Morgan county, Ohio, and remained one year. In 1845 they moved to this county and located on the farm in Pleasant township now owned by Thomas Hillier, where they remained about two years, and in 1847 they moved to Mt. Vernon, remained until the fall of 1850, then moved on the farm in Monroe township where they are now living. Their union resulted in five children, three sons and two daughters. One of the daughters has deceased. His companion died July 12, 1851, leaving five small children to his care. He remained a widower about five years, then January 4, 1856, married Mrs. Rachel Houck, nee Walker, born September 2, 1832, daughter of Isaac Walker. They have a family of six children; five sons and one-daughter.

MEYERS, MAX, Mt. Vernon, was born November 17, 1843, in Berlin, Prussia, and came to .America in 1865. He stopped in New York, Cincinnati and Columbus until 1872, when he carte to Mt. Vernon, and commenced business as a dealer in glassware, manufacturing of tinware, etc., in which he is still engaged. He has several wagons on the road. and does a business of from four thousand to five thousand dollars per year. He married Sarah Shaw, by whom he has had a family of five children, two of whom only are living.

MILLER, JAMES, deceased, Miller township, was born in Dummerston, Vermont, December 16, 1783, and died September 30, 1844. Miller township was named in honor of this respected pioneer. The family tradition in regard to the circumstances connected with the naming of the township disagrees somewhat with the account given by Mr. Gates in his history of the township.

Mr. Miller invited his neighbors, who then embraced the whole township, to a raising of the first frame barn built in the township. In those days it was customary for the people to tun out for miles around, and assist each other when a cabin or a barn was built. Upon this occasion all the voters of the township happened to be present. It was about the time of the organization of the township. or when the old name-Sycamore had been dropped, and the inhabitants were casting about for anew name. Mr. Miller entertained his guests very generously at the feast after the raising. Apple toddy and whiskey flowed freely, and when the company was feeling very fine, the question of naming the township came up, and the party unanimously resolved to name it in honor of their generous host. The honor was conferred as much too in consideration of the high esteem and respect in which Mr. Miller was held by all who knew him. He was a gentleman of education, and was looked up to for counsel and advice by the settlers for many years.

Mr. Miller emigrated from Windham county, Vermont, with his wife and four children in 1814, and was six Weeks making the journey. The story of his emigration is but a repetition of that of other pioneers who left the barren hills of New England and turned toward the virgin soil of the great west.

Mrs. Millers family-the Warners-had proceeded them several years and settled on the Licking, near Zanesville. They had written letters glowing with praises of Ohio's rich soil and mild climate. It was a great journey to make and had to to accomplished in wagons over mountains and valleys and across great rivers.

Ohio was then far west, the great unknown, sometimes called the "new world." When Mr. Miller reached the Hudson, near Newbury, a rare vision presented itself. The broad expanse of water at that point, the rock bound shores covered with autumnal tinted foliage, excited the wonder of the children. Madison, then a boy of five, exclaimed: "Oh, mother, is this the new world?"

The route across the Susquehanna and over the Alleghanies to Wheeling presented rare natural attractions. Near Zanesville Mrs. Warner, the mother of Mrs. Miller, was on her death bed, awaiting the arrival of her children, praying she might live to see their faces again, but when the emigrants reached Cambridge word came to the sorrowing daughter that the mother had expired. Mr. Miller left his family with the Warners during the winter of 1814-15 until, he had located his land and prepared a shelter in Knox county, where he removed them in January, 1815.

What a task presented itself to those early pioneers! A square mile of solid timber to remove before it could be tickled by the plow and made to bring forth fruit! A man of less energy and will would have quailed at the prospect.

Mr. Miller had purchased of the Government a section of land in the northwest corner of the township at two dollars per acre.

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and received his deed direct from President Madison, which deed is now preserved by Dana Miller; his youngest son. The land was part of a reservation of Congress lands, as distinguished from so called military land, which latter embraced most of this part of the State.

Mr. Miller was not fully satisfied with the title of the military tract, hence sought an original grant from the United States. As stated before, this land was covered by a dense forest. Game was abundant. The boys could shoot deer near their cabin any day. The woods were alive with turkeys. Wolves made the night hideous by their howling, and bears were frequently met with, nor had the red man entirely forsaken these hunting grounds, now encroached upon by fast spreading civilization. One day while the family were at breakfast, with the cabin door open, a powerful savage stepped stealthily in and presented to the affrighted mother and children a spectacle which was truly new, novel, and appalling. He was armed with rifle and tomahawk, and plumed with feathers and beads. Mr. Miller preserved his coolness and arose from the table, addressing the Indian kindly found by signs he had been hunting in the neighborhood and desired something to eat. He was accordingly accommodated with a morsel at a side table, when he grunted thanks and departed.

Mr. Miller performed a vast amount of labor in clearing his farm, and in a few years his boys rendered valuable assistance. The pioneer boys were given axes at an early age, and soon learned to use them effectively. The land, meanwhile, began to produce corn and wheat, but there was no market. Mr. Miller often hauled wheat so far as the lake, and afterwards to Zanesville and Newark, and sold it as low as thirty-seven cents per bushel. For many years produce would not bring money; the merchants only offering store goods. Hides were the only exception; they brought cash. The taxes must be paid in cash, and Mr. Miller considered himself fortunate, in wintering cattle, when enough died to enable him to pay his taxes.

Mr. Miller was of small stature but possessed of wonderful energy. He arose early and stirred up the whole household before the sun that the work might be executed always in season. His industry lasted until the day of his death. He was at that time finishing the brick house where his son now resides, and, conscious of his approaching end, he was careful to attend to every detail, even to paying the laborers each day all wages due. and giving directions for the coming day. He died of a disease of the tongue, which had affected his speech for several years, and was buried in the family cemetery near his residence.

James Miller was educated at Williams college, and during the War of 1812 was a member of the company of Captain Hayes, the father of President Hayes. He was married near Wordsborough, Vermont, in March, 1806, to Sarah Warner, who was born in Newfane, Vermont, April 1, 1788, the eldest daughter of Daniel Warner, jr., of Newfane, son of Daniel Warner, sr., supposed to have been from Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, and whose ancestors emigrated from England at an early day. Both the Warners emigrated to Ohio about the year 1807. Sarah Warner's mother was the daughter of the Hon. Luke Knowlton, a distinguished citizen of Vermont during the Revolution, and was a descendant of Thomas Knowlton, of Ipswitch, who lived about 1660 to 1700. Sarah Warner, at the time of her marriage, was an accomplished and educated young lady of rare personal beauty, and seemingly too tender to endure the hardships of pioneer life, but she lived to see the primeval forest on her husband's land replaced by smiling and fruitful fields. Besides, she reared a family of eleven children, all grown to manhood and womanhood. She died November 26, 1858, lamented by all who knew her, and leaving memories of a character for sweetness and gentleness that will stand as a shining example for all time. A brother and sister of Mrs. Miller survive her, and now reside at Newark, Ohio, viz: Luke K. Warner and Mrs. E. S. Woods.

The descendants of James and Sarah Miller numbered eighty, of which seventy are now living. They had eleven children: James Warner, the eldest, born in Vermont, July 8, 1807, married Mary G. Bryant, and had ten children and twenty-nine grandchildren. He was a prominent merchant in Mt. Vernon for forty years, and now resides in Newark, Ohio.

Madison, born in Vermont September 12, 1809, died February 25, 1868; married, first, Sarah M. Hill, second, Mrs. Kate Bliss, and third, Mrs. Mary Daily. He had four children: two died young, and two are now living.

Volney, born in Vermont October 13, 1811, married Phebe Beebe, and had two children and two grandchildren. They live in Missouri.

Henry H., born in Vermont October 1, 1813, died in Mt. Vernon October 6, 1862.

Mary M., born in Miller township, November 18, 1816, died November 30, 1846. She married Platt G. Beardslee, and had four children. One died young, Charles was killed in the battle of Atlanta, July 22, 1864, Emily and Mary married and had six . children.

Rosanna W., born in Miller township, January 1, 1819, married Charles Sanford, and now resides in Belmont, Illinois.

John F., born in Miller township, May 22, 1821, married Mary C. Sherwood, and had two sons. They now reside in Newark.

Harriet M., born in Miller township, May 5, 1824, married James H. Knox, and had four children, two now living. They reside in Indianola. Iowa.

Sarah Warner, born November 10, 1830, in Miller township, married Samuel Sanderson, and had two children. They now reside in Mt. Vernon.

Dana, born in Miller township, April 5, 1833, married Belle A. Ewalt, and had six children. They reside at the old homestead in Miller township.

Lucinda A., born in Miller township, May 12, 1838, and died in Bement, Illinois, May 17, 1872. She married, first, William Ellis, and had one daughter; second, to Robert Fisher.

The genealogy of James Miller's family is thus narrated: His family has ancient and honorable lineage, dating back over two hundred years in America, and ante-dating from its emigration to America into traditional genealogy another century in Scotland.

The Millers, of Scotland, were of Saxon origin, and followed the leadership of Edwin, who conquered the Picts and founded Edinburgh, A. D. 449. The history of the family is rather obscure, until about the year 1600, when the country was distracted by civil war, assuming a religious character between Catholicism and Protestantism. The Millers took sides with the Protestants, and later with the Presbyterians or Covenanters, when persecuted by James the First, in his efforts to establish Episcopacy. The laws against Presbyterianism were so arbitrary that it led to great disorder and opposition by the inhabitants, and many personal encounters passed between the liberty-loving Scots and the minions of the king, in the enforcement of obnoxious laws. The name of James Miller is found

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twice recorded in a list of those who paid fines for transgressing the laws in the city of Edinburgh, and is recorded in this quaint style:

"The compt of mony resauit in fra sick persones as hes transgrest aganest the statutis and ordenances of the guid toun; the namis of the persones that pay it, and the soun that evrie man pay it, and the occatione whair foir they pay it, begining at Mychelmas, 1608 yiers, till Mychelmas the yier of God, 1609 yiers, the time of thair offices of baill yiers, as follows: James Miller, for being found be the gaird, at twelve hours at even, with one sword drawin at James Harvie, L4. James Miller, for the bluid wyte of Patryk Chalmers, L9 18d.

The oppression of the covenanters led many to seek the shores of America, where they could worship God without restraint, and one senior Miller and his son James (who are the direct progenitors of this family in America), emigrated from Edinburgh about the year 1660. They settled in Charlestown near Boston, and joined the established Presbyterian church at that place.

We find recorded in the Genealogical dictionary of the first settlers of New England: " James Miller, the Scotsman, Charlestown, admitted to First church, December 17, 1676, and made freeman May 23, 1677, and died July 14. 1690. His wife Mary joined church August 5, 1677, being baptized that day with her eight children: James, Mary, Robert, job, Abraham, Isaac, Mercy and Jane. The record of his father's death August 1, 1688, calls him ' Sen,' an aged Scotsman above seventy."

Isaac Miller, the son of James, removed to Concord, Massachusetts, and afterwards to Worcester about the year 1718. His son Isaac, born in Concord May 7, 1708, married in Worcester, one Sarah Crosby, and reared a large family. In 1770, the year of the Boston massacre, he removed to Dummerston, Vermont, which town he surveyed and settled. John, the son of Isaac, jr., was born in Worcester December 20, 1756, and. lived and died a farmer in Dummerston. His son James who was born in Dummerston December 16, 1783, emigrated to Ohio in 1814, and settled in Knox county, in what is now Miller township, named to his honor.

The genealogical order of the six generations as far as authenticated will then stand as follows: First, Sen. Miller, born in Edinburgh, Scotland, about 1613; second, James Miller, born in Edinburgh, Scotland, about 1640; third, Isaac Miller, born in Charlestown, Massachusetts, about 1670; fourth, Isaac Miller, jr., born in Concord, Massachusetts, 1708; Fifth, John Miller, born in Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1756; sixth, James Miller, born in Dummerston, Vermont, in 1783.

In order to present the history of this family more in detail we must return to the Scotch ancestors.

Many of the Scotch Millers attained eminence in literature and in science. The ancestors of Hugh Miller, the great geologist, were a seafaring race. Among the great writers were John Miller, of Lanarkshire, professor of law in the university of Glasgow; James Miller of Ayr, physician and chemist, and editor of the fourth edition of the Encyclopedia Britianca ; James Miller, professor of surgery in the university of Edinburgh; Thomas Miller, of Glenlee, baron and lord justice clerk of court sessions.

The ancient Coat of arms of this family, adopted by the various Scotch branches, bears a similarity in the chief points of the field; the only variations appearing in minor objects in the divisions according to the fancy of the bearer, or as conferred by heraldic law. The chief points, as borne by all the scotch families, are: first, the solo, of the shield (white); second, the Moline cross, which represents the figure of the iron that supports the upper mill stone; third, the wavy bar in the base, and last, the mullet, or rowel of a spur. A description of the arms borne by the American branch of the family, as near as can be authenticated, and as expressed in heraldic terms, is as follows: Argent. a cross moline, azure. In chief, second, bordure of three cinquefoils, gules, lozenge between two mullets; sinister chief lozenge between two mullets. In fessee, hand with first and second fingers extended, two arms with hands clasped, moline cross, sable, between four hearts; in base wavy band of vert : crest, lion rampant with moline cross, sable, between paws; motto, Optima Caelo, Unione Augetur.

A very complete record has been preserved of the family of Isaac Miller, jr., the grandson and great-grandson of the Scottish emigrants. He was a staunch Republican in the troublesome times preceding the outbreak of the Revolution. Being a surveyor by profession, he became useful in the settlement of the then new country north of Massachusetts, but his enterprise met with disaster through the machinations of the tools of the king, who had set a mark on all Republicans.

In 1763, he, with others, were granted a township of land in New Hampshire, which they settled and paid for, but by a subterfuge, the British court then in session in Worcester, re-granted it to General Bellows, a Tory. He moved his family in 1770 to Dummerston, Vermont, which town he surveyed and settled. Isaac Miller, jr., had twelve children. Vespatian was a soldier in the old French war, and afterwards followed the sea. Hosea was a farmer. Rosanna married Major Joseph Negus, of Petersham. Among her descendants are Mrs. General R. B. Marcy, Mrs. General George B. McClellan, and Mrs. Major M'. B. Russell, of the United States army. Sarah married Silas Wheeler, of Petersham. Joseph was a soldier of the war of the Revolution, and served seven years with distinction, being promoted to the rank of major, and merited the friendship and confidence of General Washington. Isaac was a captain in the Revolution, and was badly wounded early in the war near Boston. Marshall was a farmer and left many descendants.

John, the father of the subject of this sketch, was a Revolutionary soldier, and subsequently became very prominent as a citizen of Vermont. Catharine married a Mr: Knapp and reared a large fainily. William, the youngest, was a soldier in the latter part of the Revolution and rose to the rank of Major.

John Miller, who was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, De-

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cember 20, 1736, had eight children: Lewis, James, Levi, Sally, Polly, Rosanna, Susan, and John B. Rosanna and Susan are still living in Vermont, the former eighty-six and the latter eighty-four years of age.

MILLER, MARGARET Mrs. post office. Howard, was born in Northampton county, Pennsylvania, November 29, 1793. Site moved to Somerset county, Pennsylvania, in 1795, and remained there fourteen years. She came to Howard township in 1810, and lived with tier father until 1814, when she was married to Andrew Miller, and settled on her present farm. Mr. Miller was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, in 1783. He was one of the old veterans of 1812, and was in the Second platoon. He was one of the twelve who were detailed to kill James Burde. Mr. Miller belonged to Captain Sanderson's company, Twenty-seventh regiment United States infantry, and received at, honorable discharge. He was enrolled on the pension roll of the Columbus agency. Mr. Miller lived on the farm until his death.

MILLER, JAMES, deceased. He was a native of Pennsylvania, and was married to Martha Zerick, who was born in Maryland in 1793. They had one daughter, Zarada, who was born in Knox county and married in 1861 to Adam Kime, who was born in Stark county.

Daniel Zerick located in Clinton township in 1806, when there was one house in Mt. Vernon (so says Mrs. Miller). Mr. Daniel Zerick died in this county in 1851; his wife Martha died in 1836, Mr. James Miller died in Indiana about 1845.

MILLER, JOHN W., Jefferson township, farmer and mechanic; born in Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, May 14, 1815; was brought to Ohio by his parents when a child, his father locating in Columbiana county; where he was reared and received a common school education. At the age of seventeen years he contracted with his brother to learn him the carpenter trade, and served apprenticeship of three years. He worked at his trade about eighteen years, he then worked one season for Christian Pherenbaugh at the plastering business, and since that time has conducted said business on his own responsibility, making it his principal vocation. In the winter of 1838 he came to Knox county, locating in Jefferson township near Greersville, and there commenced to work at his trades. May 13, 1847, he married Miss Sarah Burtnett, daughter of John Burtnett, born in Coshocton county May 14, 1826. After his marriage he purchased eighty acres of land in Jefferson township northwest of Greersville two and a half miles, where he then moved and now resides: Mr. Miller has held the offices of trustee and assessor. Mr. and Mrs. Miller are the parents of five children, viz: Cinderella L., born June 27, 1850; John B., August 18, 1855; Effie A., April 13, 1861; Mira J.. April 28, 1866. Four are living and one died in infancy.

MILLER, ISAAC (deceased), Wayne township, born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, in 1817, and was married in 1868 to Sarah Fuller, who was born in Knox county, Ohio, in 1838. They have two children: William Eugene, born in 1870, and Daniel Oscar, in 1871. Mr. Miller died in 1872, in Green Valley, Wayne township, this county. Mrs. Sarah Miller, with the family, is still residing here, and is educating her children liberally.

MILLER, MRS. MARY J., Miller township, was born in Miller township in 1822. She is the daughter of Emer Harris, a pioneer of Miller township, and a native of Providence, Rhode Island. She was twice married. Her first husband was Dorton Daily. They had four children, viz: Sarah H., married to William R. Rowland, of Mi. Liberty; Carrie A., deceased, who was married to John Haves; Wildmina, died when about a year old, and Dorton L. Mr. Daily died, and she then married Madison Miller, son of James Miller, a pioneer. They had a son named Charles. Mr. Miller has deceased.

MILLER, JOSEPH M., farmer, Middlebury township, post office, Fredericktown,. was born in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, in 1826, came to Ohio in 1830, and was married in 1848 to Terry Cecill, who was born in Harrison county, Ohio, in December, 1827. They have the following family: Ann Maria, born February 1, 1849; John Benjamin, October 31, 1850; Margaret Jane, February 27, 1853; Jacob, July 8, 1855; George, January 21, 1859; Francis, January 31, 1861, and David, July 16, 1864. The following have deceased: Jacob died September 13, 1856, and Ann Maria March 14, 1860.

John Benjamin was married to Elmyra Denman, now of Chesterville, Ohio. Mr. Joseph Miller located in Middlebury township in 1869. He owns a well improved farm with good buildings.

MILLER, DANA, Miller township, farmer, was born in Miller township, April 5, 1833, and is the son of James Miller, a pioneer of this township.

The subject of this notice (Dana Miller) was reared on the old homestead, and attended the common schools and two years at an academy. He was a member of company C, One hundred and Forty-second regiment Ohio National guard. ----is a close and thoughtful observer, and is well and ------- known in the community in which he lives for his integrity, generosity, intelligence and kindness of heart.

He was married to Miss Isabella A. Ewalt, daughter of Samuel Ewalt, of Clinton township, December 29, 1858. They had six children, viz- Mary Warner, born December 27, 1866; Lizzie E., born March 24, 1870; Frank K., born November 16, 1871; Clara, born January 27, 1877; Fannie G., born November 28, 1878. The oldest (a son) died in infancy.

MILLER, WILLIAM A., Middlebury township, laborer, post office, Fredericktown, born in Missouri, August 3, 1844, and was married January 2, 1866, to Eliza Stoughteagle, who was born in Knox county, in April, 1836. They had the following children. Charles R., born May 7, 1869; Mary Alice, November 16, 1870; and Sadie Delta. July 12, 1876. Four of their children died.

William A. Miller enlisted in the war December 3, 1863, in the One Hundred and Second regiment Ohio volunteer infantry. After the regiment was discharged he was transferred to the One Hundred and Eighty-ninth regiment Ohio volunteer infantry. He was engaged in the service till the war closed.

He resided in Morrow county nine years, then came to Middlebury township, and has since remained there.

MILLER, THOMAS, Fredericktown, barber, was born in Bourbon county, Kentucky, in 1852; came to Ohio in 1866, and located in Fredericktown April 10, 1877. He was married in 1875 to Elsie Swartz who was born in Licking county, Ohio. They have two children, viz.: Myrtie May, born October 27, 1877; Robert Lee, born January 1, 1880.

Mr. Miller is the leading barber of Fredericktown. He is an energetic man, and a good mechanic.

MINTEER. MILTON P., Fredericktown, traveling agent

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was born in Knox county, June 26, 1836, and was married May 18, 1860, to Eliza Rankin, who was born in Licking county, July 5, 1834. The have two sons. James I., was born in Illinois, February 18, 1862; John Gay, born in Fredericktown. December 22, 1868.

Mr. Minteer is engaged in traveling for a large Cincinnati carriage and buggy manufactory.

MISER, PETER, who was born in the province of Hamberg, Holland, came to New Netherlands, now New York, in 1623 with Cornelius J. May, afterwards lieutenant governor of New Netherlands. He returned to Holland in 1634, and in 1637 again came to New Netherlands, where he remained until the French and Indian war commenced, when he removed to the province of Pennsylvania. There his son, John Conrad Miser, was born.

John Conrad settled on Tulpahocken creek, now in Lebanon county, who also had a son born there November 2, 1696, who was named Conrad.

At the urgent solicitation of Quagnant, a chief of the Mohawk nation, he went with him to his country to acquire a knowledge of the Mohawk language. Having mastered the language he returned home, and was occasionally employed as an interpreter. In 1729 he married and settled in Tulpahocken valley, and located a half mile cast of the present site of Wolmesdorf, Berks county, Pennsylvania.

Conrad Miser, as occasion demanded, acted in various capacities, both public and private. Governor Gordon, in 1731, appointed him interpreter. Soon afterwards Governor Thomas appointed him justice of the peace. Governor Morris commissioned him as colonel of a regiment of volunteers for Berks county. He spent more than a quarter of a century in the service of his country. He closed his eventful life July 13, 1760.

Conrad Miser had a son, Henry, born November 6, 1758, on Tulpahocken creek, who was grandfather of Dr. Thomas B. Miser, of Martinsburgh, Knox county, Ohio. At the age of six months his father removed to Northumberland county, Pennsylvania, and settled on Mahantango creek, where he was reared. He was married to Margaret Drucker Miller in 1794, but came to Ohio before his marriage to see the country. He returned to Pennsylvania and afterwards removed to Ohio in 1802 and settled on sections thirty-two and thirty-three, township three and range ten of the Northwest Territory, now Jefferson county. He laid out Salem or Annapolis in Jefferson county. He had six sons and three daughters, viz.: John, Henry, Mary, Samuel, Barbara, David, George, .Margaret, and William.

William was born April 5, 1815, in Annapolis, Jefferson county, on the farm his father settled on when he first came to Ohio; was married to lane McDowell January 1, 1837. They had sever. children, viz.: Thomas B., Robert H., George A., Mary M., Margaret I., William J., John S., and Dilla J

T. B. Miser was born in Annapolis, Jefferson county, Ohio, on the seventh day of February, 1839; received the first rudiments of his education at district schools, and afterwards went to Carrollton academy, at Carrollton, Ohio, remaining about two years, when he went to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, attending a select school for young men, where he completed his education. He then commenced the study of medicine with Drs. Hammond and Montgomery, of Annapolis, Ohio, and was with them about two years, when Dr. Hammond removing to Steubenville, went with him, still pursuing his studies for about two years longer. He attended lectures one term at the Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery, afterwards graduating at Louisville Medical university.

He also received a diploma from the Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery. And. graduating Louisville he went to Missouri and practiced his profession. The war breaking out he was conscripted in the rebel army and was assigned to the Fifteenth regiment, Confederate States of America, George Law, colonel commanding. After serving two or three months he succeeded in making his escape to the northern States, went into the service of the Union as acting assistant surgeon, United States army, Magazine hospital, Louisville, Kentucky. He remained there during the fall and winter, and then came home and located in Martinsburgh, Knox county, Ohio, July 13, 1863, where he was about a year, practicing in partnership with Dr. D. H. Ralston, when he was appointed assistant surgeon Twenty-ninth regiment Ohio volunteer infantry; after serving six months was promoted to surgeon of the regiment. He went with Sherman on his "March to the Sea," and was appointed brigade surgeon at Savannah, Georgia. He remained until the close of the war, when he was appointed surgeon in charge of hospital at Camp Cleveland, Ohio, since that time has practiced medicine in Martinsburgh.

He was married December 13, 1866, to Sue McWilliams, of Martinsburgh, who was born January 1, 1836, and who died July 14, 1878. They had two sons, viz: George, born March 30, 1872, and Harry B., born December 5, 1875, and who died May 17, 1879.

MISHEY, J. K. P., Pike township, merchant, post office, North Liberty, born in Knox county, in 1847, and was married in 1868, to Aminda M. Crunkilton, who was born in Wayne county, Ohio, in 1849. They have three children: Clara Etta, in 1870; Sherman Scott, in 1875; Frank Herd, in 1877.

Mr. Mishey engaged in the mercantile business in North Liberty, in 1867, and is still in business there. He is a practical business man, has a stock of goods consisting of dry goods, boots, shoes, groceries, and drugs, and constantly keeps a fresh supply on hand direct from manufacturers.

MISHEY. A. W., Pike township, merchant, post office, North Liberty, born in Pike township, this county, in 1854, and was married in 1877, to Alvina Spayde, who was born in Washington township, Richland county, in 1859. Mr. Mishey received a very liberal education and engaged in teaching for some time. In 1879 he located in North Liberty, and engaged in mercantile business, making a specialty of hardware and groceries, keeping constantly on hand a good supply to meet the: demand. He is the postmaster of North Liberty, the post office being in his store room. Mr. Mishey is a young man of good business ability; has the confidence of this community, and by his honesty and uprightness has gained the high esteem of all. He is a worthy member of the Evangelical church, and has a bright future before him. Mr. Mishey is one of the leading men in this township.

MITCHEL, WILLIAM, JR.- His father, William Mitchel, sr., was a native of Sussex county, New Jersey, and ryas married to Phebe Southard in 1789. In 1796 or 1797 they located about twenty-five miles from Pittsburgh, on. the Monogahela river, where they resided until 1808 when they came to Ohio and located one and one-half mile; southwest of Fredericktown, where, with the assistance of his family he cleared up a farm, and also engaged in making brick. He had a family of eleven

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children, viz.: Jacob, born September 21, 1790; Nathaniel, May 6, 1792; Abigail, May 5, 1794; Mary, August 15, 1796; Hannah, October 8, 1798; Naomi, December 26, 1800; Sarah, January 7, 1803; John, May 19, 1806; Margaret, May 25, 1808, William, jr., July 13, 1811; and Silas, April 20, 1814. Of this large family all lived to maturity and all except one were married and had families, and were all members of the church. Only five survive, viz.: Hannah, Naomi, Margaret, William, jr., and Silas. William, jr., the tenth member of this family, received such an education as the days of his childhood afforded, after which he learned the axe trade with his brother-in-law, J. L. Young, which he followed closely for twenty-five years, and has worked at it occasionally, since. In 1839 he went to Logan county, Illinois, where he followed his trade, together with farming, for seven years. In 1846 he went to Morrow county where he lived five years; then moved to Knox county, where he has since reside,. He was married May 23, 1833, to Miss Lucy, daughter of Anson Brown. of this county. They have had a family of seven children, three of whom are living, viz.: L. V. Mitchel, R. C. Mitchel, and Luella Mitchel.

MITCHELL, ALMON, Milford township, farmer, was born in Licking county, March 30, 1816. His parents, Sylvanus and Betsey Mitchell, nee Knox, were natives of Massachusetts, and came with the Granville colony to Licking county, Ohio, in 1805, where they lived until 1822, when they moved to Milford township, one mile west of Lock, where they lived and died. They lead ten children, six sons and four daughters. Three only of this family are now living, viz: Albert, Almon, and Olive. The latter married Daniel Patterson, who resides in Pulaski county, Indiana. Those who are dead are Orrin (who was a Methodis minister), Cornelius, James, Lawrence, Spencer, Fannie (married to Joseph Morey), Lucina (married to Emer Hawkins), and Mary (married to S. Mead).

The subject of this notice was reared on a farm, and during the winter months attended the schools of those days and assisted on the farm. In October, in 1837, he married Miss Margaret Hawkins, a native of Milford township, who was born May 2, 1818. She is the daughter of Harris Hawkins, a pioneer of Knox county, of whom mention is made among the pioneers of Milford township. After Mr. Mitchell was married he remained on his father's farm about four years, when, in 1842, he moved to leis present farm, which he had previously purchased. When he moved on his farm the cabin stood near the site of his present house. Mr. Mitchell had the usual experience of early settlers. He persevered, however, and as a reward of his efforts he has added considerable to his first purchase, until he is one of the substantial farmers of Milford township.

They have fourteen children, seven sons and seven daughters: Harris, deceased when young; Emer H., who lives in Piatt county, Illinois; Charles Lewis; :Vice Amanda, who married Monroe Crego; Betsey Clarinda (deceased), who married Dempsey Conaway; Stephen ?filbert; Harriet Weltha, who married Thomas Wade; Torrence; Maria; Isabella; Willie H.; Laura Lucina, who married Emer Harris; Dana A., and Mary O.

Mr. Mitchell commenced life comparatively poor, but is now one of the leading men of the county.

MITCHELL, A. T., of the firm of C. Mitchell, planing mill, Sandusky street, Mt. Vernon, was born in Richland county, Ohio, near Ontario, June 19, 1828, where he resided up to 1845. He then came to this county, and resided with his uncle, Mr. Thomas Mitchell, four miles west of Mt. Vernon, and worked on the farm for five years. He then went to carpentering and wagon making, which he followed for twelve years. He then moved to Morrow county, and purchased a steam saw- and grist-mill which he ran about two years. In 1864 he came to the city, and engaged in the grocery business, which he continued about four years. He then went to Sparta, Morrow county, and opened a general store under the firm of Mitchell & Robinson. He remained in Sparta only about six months, when he went to Mt. Vernon. He again went into the grocery business. This continued about one year. He then entered into business with Mr. Kelly, and did business under the name of Mitchell & Kelly, which continued about one year. May 1, 1877, he purchased the planing-mill of Clements & Reed. Recently, he disposed of the planing-mill, and at present is engaged in running a saw-mill.

MOODY, WILLIAM, Miller township, retired, farmer and minister of the Disciple church, was born in Licking county, Ohio, December 8, 1813. His father, William Moody, was an only son of James Moody who died in Newfoundland.

William Moody, sr., married Mary Stadden, who was born in Northumberland county, Pennsylvania, in 1771, and there married. They emigrated to Licking county, Ohio, about 1805, and located in Madison township, on the Bowling Green, four miles east of the town of Newark in 1807, where they resided until the death of William Moody, which occurred August 28, 1828, in the fifty-seventh year of his age. The subject of this sketch at that time was fifteen years of age. He continued to live with his mother and younger sister until March 24. 1835, when he married Miss Laura A. Wells, daughter of Osmond Wells, of Hanover township, Licking county, Ohio. She was born February 11, 1817.

Selling his interest in the homestead, he moved in 1837, to Richland county, Ohio, where he remained until 1852, when he sold and purchased one and a half miles west of Millwood, on Owl creek. Here his mother died in 1855, having lived with him since 1851. She was aged eighty - four.

Mr. Moody continued to reside here until 1865, being engaged farming during the week, and the ministry on the Sabbath. He then sold his farm, and gave his attention entirely to the ministry, and by the blessings of the Lord many were added to the churches where he labored. In 1874 his health failed so as to prohibit active duties in the ministry. He still resides on the small farm in Miller township, which he purchased in 1865. He is esteemed by all who know him for his many Christian virtues. He is the only survivor of nine children. There were born to this couple eleven children-five are dead, and six are living. The living are: John, a physician at Centreburgh, Ohio; Elisha, farmer, Delaware county; Mrs. Emma Hunt and Mr's. Laura Jewel in Delaware county, Ohio; Mrs. Mary Johnson in Miller township, and Mrs. Rachel Barker in Missouri. They had twenty-four grandchildren. all but three of whom are living.

MOODY, JOHN REED, Hilliar township, physician and surgeon, was born in Mansfield, Ohio, November 22, 1839. His father, who is now a minister in the Disciple church, came to Knox county and settled on a farm. It was here where John spent his youth. When about seventeen years of age he entered the grammar school at Kenyon college, with a view of taking a full collegiate course. He got on well with his studies and had entered the sophomore class, when the call for volunteers was made in 1861. He enlisted in company A, Fourth

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Ohio, for three months. He served the three months, and shortly after his return home he went to New York and enlisted in the Fifty-ninth regiment. He was appointed hospital steward for the regiment. The regiment belonged to the Army of the Potomac, and was through the different campaigns, until after the battle of Antietam, when it veteranized. His term of enlistment hating expired in the Fifty-ninth New York, he came home and in a few days enlisted in company A, Ninety-sixth Ohio volunteer infantry. He was in all the fights with his regiment from Haine's Bluff, in the rear of Vicksburgh, until the surrender of Mobile, Alabama. He served his country faithfully and honesty for over four years, receiving two wounds as the price of his patriotism. On his return home he concluded to read medicine with Dr. George W. Barnes, of Mt. Vernon, Ohio. After his course of reading he went to the Western Homoeopathic college at Cleveland, and graduated there in the spring of 1866 After leaving college he practiced one year in Newark, Ohio, and one year in Somerset, Ohio. The faculty of the college recognizing his ability appointed him demonstrator of anatomy, which position he held for seven years, to the satisfaction of the management of the college. His health not being good he resigned his appointment, and opened an office in the city, where he remained ten years, doing a large business. His practice being arduous and confining in the city, he concluded to relinquish it there and go where he could have more out-door work. He accordingly came to Centreburgh in 1877, where again he has been successful in building up a good practice. He was married to Endorah A. Brown. January, 1876.

MOORE, FRANK R., attorney, Mt. Vernon, was born in Richland county April 16, 1852. His parents were natives of Maine, emigrating from their native State to Richland county, Ohio, and in 1857 they came to Mt. Vernon, where they yet reside.

The subject of this sketch attended the public schools, and while so doing was twice appointed to the United States Military academy at West Point, New York, from his congressional district, but on account of the objections of his parents he did not go. He graduated at the Mt. Vernon schools in June, 1871. He learned and worked at the carpenter trade, and upon the surveying of the Columbus and Mt. Vernon railroad he was a member of the engineer corps, as assistant. He read law with Cooper, Porter & Mitchell, and was admitted to practice at the June term of 1875. After the dissolution of the firm Mr. Moore continued with Colonel Cooper until the fall of 1878, when he was elected to the office of prosecuting attorney, and again in 1880, running some three hundred ahead of his ticket. In politics he is a Democrat. He was for several years a member of the county board of school examiners. He was joined in marriage November 6, 1880, to Miss Blanche Struble, daughter of Daniel Struble, of Fredericktown, Ohio.

MOORE, A: C., baker and confectioner, East Gambier, between Main and Gay streets, Mt. Vernon. Mr. Moore was born in Harrison county, Ohio, February 28, 1836. When quite young his parents removed to Holmes county, where he remained until he reached the age of twenty-one years, during which time he attended school, worked on a farm, and served an apprenticeship at cabinet-making with J. Taylor at Millersburgh. He worked at his trade at Loudonville for a short time, when he commenced the manufacture of Dulcimers, which he continued for four years. In 1861 he engaged in the baking business in Ashland county, and served an apprenticeship of two and one-half years, after which he went to Fredericktown and run a bakery for three and one-half years. He then commenced with Sargent & McKnear, cabinet-makers, and worked four years. He then came to Mt. Vernon and opened his present bakery in the old George bakery stand, East Gambier street, in which he still continues. He uses about one hundred and twenty-five barrels of flour per year, and does a business of about twelve hundred dollars per annum.

MOORE, D. M., merchant tailor, Woodward block, Vine street, Mt. Vernon. This firm was established March 1, 1880, and is a branch of the firm of D. M. Moore, of Newark, Ohio. The business here is conducted be J. C. Hartley, who is also cutter. They carry a large stock of goods.

Mr. Hartley is a native of Alliance, Ohio, and was born June, 1851. His first business engagement was with Hugh Bleakley, grocer, as salesman, where he served two years. He then engaged in tailoring, in which he has since been engaged, and has had seventeen years experience in the business.

MONTGOMERY, DAVID CARTER, attorney at law, president of Eagle Mutual Fire Insurance company and treasurer of the Ohio Mutual Aid association, of Mt. Vernon, was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, January 25, 1816. His father, David Montgomery, with his wife and family, came to Ohio in April, 1823, and settled in Knox county. His father was twice married. His first wife's maiden name was Hannah McDowell, by whom he had six children, two of whom are now living. Upon the death of his . wife he was married to Hannah Coleman, nee Carter, by whom he had one son and two daughters. Of these three children, two are living, viz: Mrs. Isaac Irwin, of Knox county, and the subject of this sketch. His father, by unfortunate flour and whiskey speculations on the lower Mississippi, lost his mills and farm on Ten Mile, Pennsylvania, and remained in very humble circumstances during his after life. He followed teaching principally while in Pennsylvania and on coming to Ohio he continued in that avocation. In the fail of 1838, the father was elected recorder (being seventy years of age, March, 1838), and was reelected at the expiration of his first and second terms, thus serving the people in that capacity for nine years. David's early life was spent on a farm. At the age of twenty-two he began to help his father in the recorder's office, and remained with him two years. He was deputy sheriff under William Beam, and also under Absalom Thrift, with the two over six years. In October, 1846, he was elected sheriff, and in October, 1848, he was reelected, thus serving two terms. While in the different offices of the county, he read law. He paid attention, to farming about four years. He removed on the farm in November, 1853. In 1854 he rented the farm and returned to Mt. Vernon, and through advice of friends he reviewed his law studies. In the fall of 1856 he was put on the ticket for sheriff, but was defeated on account of Know Nothingism. :afterwards he was nominated for probate judge, and was defeated on account of political Know Nothingism. Mr. Montgomery was admitted to the bar in 1858, and has since been engaged in its practice. He was married to Miss Jane Pratt, January 7, 1845. They have had four children-all died in infancy. He was twice placed on the Prohibition ticket for supreme judge. He was appointed provost marshal in 1862, and served until all apprehension of resistance and revolt against the draft of that year had passed away, when he resigned.

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MORGAN, REUBEN H.-attorney at law, has been a resident of Martinsburgh about four years. He was bout in Muskingum county, Ohio, June 25, 1844. Mr. Morgan was probate judge of Muskingum county, and at the present time is justice of the peace, township clerk, and mayor of Martinsburgh; was married May 10, 1871, to Miss Angie Harris; has three children: Minnie V., Edith E. and Frankie; is a leading local Republican politician and member of the county central committee.

MORELAND, WILLIAM, Milford township, farmer, was born in Jefferson county, Ohio, November 19, 1819. His father, Bazaleel Moreland, was born in Charles county, Maryland, February 25, 1782. The Moreland family are of English origin, and came to America in the early part of the last century, and settled in Maryland. There is now a numerous family living in Hampshire county, Virginia, and a number reside in the Western States. Bazaleel Moreland went from his native county in Maryland to Hampshire county, Virginia, when he was about twenty-one years of age, and there married Margaret Fahs, born November 6, 1785, a native of that county, and by descent German. They remained in Hampshire county, Virginia, after their marriage about ten years. About 1816 they emigrated to Jefferson county, Ohio, and settled near Smithfield, remaining there some time and then moved to Harrison county and in the spring of 1829, moved to Licking county, eight miles north of Newark, in Newton township. where they remained until 1848, when they came to Knox county, settling in Milford township, on the farm, where their son William now resides. Here they both died: Mr. Moreland, September 19, 1857; and Mrs. Moreland, September 11, 1864. They had a family of twelve children, viz: Elizabeth, wife of Joseph Evans, resides near Canton, Illinois; Anne, deceased, married Reese Jones; Mary, deceased, married Peter Evans, died in Illinois; Margaret, widow of Alban Warthen, resides in Pataskala, Ohio; Philip, deceased; Martha, widow of Burdett Warthen, resides in St. Louisville, Licking county; William the subject of this notice; Rebecca, wife of Felix Donnelly, resides in Remmington, Indiana; Lettice, (deceased,) wife of William Donnelly; Richard in Milford township; Katharine, wife of Robert Horton, in Newton township, Licking county, Ohio; George W., farmer, near Utica, Licking county. The subject of this notice remained at home until 1843, with his parents. He remained in Licking county until 1856, when he came to Milford township, where he has since resided. He was married to Miss Nancy Samson November 2, 1843. She was born May 27, 1824, in Licking county, Ohio, was the daughter of Daniel Samson. They had a family of nine children: first child died in infancy; Alban W., born February 25, 1848, farmer, resides in Milford township; Daniel H., born June 2, 1850, farmer in Milford township; Eliza, born July 16, 1852, wife of George W. Myers, Milford township; Rosa, born August, 1854, wife of Albert Vance, resides in Utica; Eugene, born August 26, 1856, lives at home; Matilda, born December 13, 1858, died October 7, 1862; Bert, born May 20, 1864, died July 10, 1877; Caroline, born March 12, 1867. Mr. Moreland has held several of the offices of the township, being clerk four years; assessor one year, and was elected land appraiser in 1880, He is a faithful member of the Disciple church. In politics he is a democrat; is a leading citizen of the township, and is much esteemed by the community for his many Christian virtures. He is an unpretentious, well informed man.

MOREY, MRS. RHODA, Milford township. born in Virginia, December 1, 1809; she is the daughter of William and Betsy Daily, nee Kilngore, natives of Virginia, who were born, reared and married there, and in the spring of 1810 emigrated to Granville, Licking county, where they remained for about six years, and in 1816 moved to Dry Creek, near the Columbus road, in Liberty township, settling to the timber, where they lived and died. These highly esteemed people had a family of fourteen children, four of whom died in infancy: Daniel, deceased; Rhoda, the subject of this notice; Dorton, deceased; Serrepta, deceased, married Hezekiah Clements, and had a family of children; Betsy, wife of Daniel Vance, of Miller township; Polly Ann, wife of Emor B. Harris, and now resides near Red Oak, Iowa; Decorum, living in Westerville, Ohio; Decatur, in Red Oak, Iowa; Dennis, who resides on the old homestead in Liberty township; Diskin, deceased.

The subject of this notice was married to Nathan Lamson, in 1824, who was born in New Milford, Connecticut, and came with his father. Judson Lamson, a pioneer of Milford township, to Ohio. They had three children: Betsy R., widow of William C. McKenney; George J., a resident of Brandon and of whom mention is made in the biographies of Miller township; and Lawrence H., deceased.

Mr. Lamson was a farmer and very worthy gentleman, who died in 1838. Mrs. Lamson married Joseph Morey, who was born near Rutland, Vermont, December 19, 1799, died April 9, 1880. He came to Granville, Ohio, in 1813. He was one of Milford's best citizens, and was much esteemed. By this marriage there were two children born: Rose T. and Corwin. Mrs. Morey is spending the evening of her life on the homestead, where she has resided for forty-five years. She is much respected by all who know her, for her many Christian virtues.

MOREY, WILLIAM, farmer, Miller township, was born in Licking county. Ohio, September 13, 1826. About a year after his parents, David and Harriet C. Morey, nee Reynolds, moved to Clinton township on a farm three miles south of Mt. Vernon, on the Utica road. Here they lived and died. She had a family of eleven children. The subject of this sketch was reared on a farm and attended the district schools. From sixteen to twenty-one years he was at Cincinnati, where he learned the baking and confectionery business. He worked for a few years in Ohio and Illinois; the remainder of his time he has spent on the farm, except three months, when he was a member of company C, One Hundred and Forty-second regiment, Ohio National guards. He was married to Miss Elizabeth Ann Myers, daughter of John Myers, of Milford township, January, 1856. They had seven children, six of whom are living, viz: Marion S., Aldon D., Halleck J. (deceased), Carrie O., Dora D., Ida May, and Eddie Chase.

MORRISON, THOMAS (deceased), Berlin township, was born in Columbia county, Pennsylvania, and married Isabelle McReynolds, who was born in the same county. They had four children, viz: Isabelle, Eliza, John, and Hugh M. They emigrated to Mt. Vernon in 1821, moved to Berlin township in 1825 on their farm. The parents died at home, Hugh M. owns the home farm at present.

MORRISON, W. D., farther and blacksmith, Berlin township, post office, Fredericktown, was born in Columbia county, Pennsylvania, in 1827, came to Ohio in 1844, and married Isabelle Morrison, who was born in this township in 1826. They have seven children. viz : Mary, Eliza, Martha, Josephine,.Anna Bell, Geraldine, Emma A., Thomas W. and Lilla E, Mr.

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Morrison learned the blacksmith trade in Fredericktown and worked at it thirty years.

MORTON, JOHN W. (deceased), son of Joseph and Margaret Morton, was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, November 29, 1817. His father died in 1823. In 1826 his mother, with her children-one son and three daughters-emigrated to Knox county, Ohio, and located on a farm in Clinton township, now owned by Mrs. Margaret Morton's heirs.

Mr. Morton married Miss Martha Chambers in 1848, who was born in Miller township, Knox county, Ohio, November 25, 1826, daughter of Benjamin and Rachel Chambers. They settled on the old home farm with his mother, remained about seventeen years, and, in 1866, he purchased and moved on the farm where his widow and daughter are now living in Clinton township, adjoining the home farm on the north, and known as a part of the old Johnson farm.

They reared a family of four children: Amanda, Mary J., Joseph B., and Rachel A.-all living.

MOUNT, CHARLES J. (deceased), Fredericktown, was born in New Jersey in 1825, and came to Knox county when he was quite young. He was married in 1850 to Phehe D. Boberts, who was born in Knox county in 1824. They have the following family, viz : Sylvia W., born in 1852; Ella J., in 1855; Charles B., in 1857; Martha R., in 1860; and Elliot, in 1862.

Mt. Charles Mount was a carpenter by trade, and worked at this trade in Fredericktown. He w as a soldier in the late wara member of the Twentieth regiment, Ohio volunteer infantry. He enlisted in November, 1861, and received an honorable discharge in August, 1862. He died in September, 1863, from effects of disease contracted in the army.

His widow and children are living in Fredericktown.

MOWRY, JACOB, Union township, farmer, post office, Rossville, was born in Jefferson township in August, 1847, and remained at home until 1875, when he came to Union township. He married Catharine Armstrong in 1874 and not long after bought the farm on which he now lives. He has two children Minnie Viola and Alpha Alice.

MOXLEY, GREENBURG W., Liberty township, deceased, was born in Maryland. November 30, 1830. He came to Liberty township when he was about four years old, was reared on a farm and followed farming all his life. He was a straight forward, upright man, industrious in his business and a good farmer, kind husband and affectionate father.

August 29, 1860, he was united in marriage to Miss M. Hyatt, who was born September 25, 1835. They had two children, viz; Morris R. and Elizabeth. He died January 21, 1880.

MUCK, AARON, Middlebury township, laborer, post office, Fredericktown, born in Washington county, Maryland, in 1823, came to Miller township in 1837, and was married in 1851, to Catharine Shafer, who was born in Franklin county in 1830. and had the following children: Mary E., born September 14, 1852; John W., April 27, 1854; Louisa C., February 17, 1856; Nancy N., December 13, 1857: Emma J., February 8, 1860; Lillie A., July 6, 1865; Franklin D., July 21, 1867; Rosa B., October 9, 1869. The following are deceased: Franklin D., died January 5, 1869; Mrs. Catherine Muck died January 21, 1878, in this county.

Mr. Aaron Muck was a soldier in the Mexican war, and also in the late war, a member of company F, One Hundred and Twenty-fifth regiment Ohio volunteer infantry. He entered the service October 4, 1862, and was discharged in May, 1863,

MUENSCHER, D.D., REV. JOSEPH, was born in Providence, Rhode Island, December 21, 1798. He prepared for college at Phillips' academy, Andover, Massachusetts, and graduated from Brown university in 1821. He then entered the Theological seminary at Andover, where he remained one and one-half years, and on March 7, 1824, he was ordained deacon, and on March 13, 1825. was ordained priest of the Protestant Episcopal church. He was rector of Christ's church, (South Leicester, now Rochdale),. Massachusetts, from 1824 to 1827; and of St. John's church, Northampton, from 1827 to 1831; of Trinity church, Saco, Maine, from 1831 to 1833, after which he came to Ohio and was chosen professor of sacred literature, in the Theological seminary at Gambier, where he remained from 1833 to 1841, when he reigned and accepted a call from St. Paul's church, Mt. Vernon, but continued as instructor in Hebrew in the seminary from 1841 to 1843. He was rector of St. Paul's church from 1841 to 1855, when he resigned, and has remained without any particular charge, but officiates occasionally. He is the author of several very popular and instructive works, one of which consists of notes explanatory of the Proverbs of Solomon, another being A Manuel of Biblical Interpretations; and a work on the orthography and pronunciation of the English language; also The Church Choir, .being a collection of sacred music, which has been extensively used in the Episcopal church. He has also contributed articles to the Theological periodicals and other religious publications. He was. the founder of the "Society for the relief of widows and orphans of deceased clergymen of the Protestant Episcopal church of Ohio." and has been its secretary most of the time to the present. He was married to Miss Ruth Washburn, a sister of the late Hon. Emory Washburn, ex-governor of Massachusetts, and daughter of Joseph and Ruth Washburn. of Leicester, Massachusetts. They have had a family of seven children, viz: Joseph W., Eliza C., Emory W., Sophia, Charles H., Robert P.. and Sarah. Joseph W. graduated at Kenyon college and read law at Cambridge, and entered upon the practice of his profession at Sandusky, Ohio, where he died July 30, 1849. Eliza C. Terry died in Mt. Vernon, March 23, 1866. Emory W. graduated at Kenyon college and engaged in civil engineering at Grand Rapids, Michigan. Charles H. engaged in the mercantile business in Sandusky, Ohio, and Mrs. Sarah Young resides in Butler, 'Montgomery county, Illinois.

In 1849 the degree of D.D. was conferred on Rev. Mr. Muenscher, by Kenyon college, and the same in 1852 by his Alma Mater.

MURPHY, BENJAMIN, deceased, was born in Morgan county, Virginia, on the twenty-sixth day of April, 1783, and brought up in Fayette county, Pennsylvania. May 2, 1805, he married Miss Joannah Lewis, born in New Jersey, April 5, 1786. They settled on a farm in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, inhere they lived until the fall of 1823, when they moved to Knox county, Ohio, and located in Mt. Vernon, where he remained several years, and then purchased and moved on a farm near Fredericktown, same county. They lived on this farm a few years and then moved back to Mt. Vernon, where his wife deceased in 1862. He died at the home of -his son, Elias, two miles west of Mt. Vernon, January 18, 1867, aged eighty-four years. They reared a family of seven children, viz: Israel, born in Pennsylvania, March 18, 1806; Elias, in Pennsylvania, Au-

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gust 3, 1808; Mary, in Pennsylvania, March 14, 1811; Oliver P., in Pennsylvania. January 1, 1816; Martha J., in Pennsylvania, March 21, 1819; Lewis S., in Pennsylvania, November 1, 1821; Eliza, in Ohio, July 5, 1824. All are now deceased except Elias, Mary, and Eliza.. Two of Mrs. Murphy's brothers, John and Thomas Lewis, served in the War of 1812. Benjamin Murphy was drafted in the same war, but owing to circumstances he could not leave home, and his brother, Barrick, went into the army in his place, served the time out and returned home.

MURPHY, ELIAS, farmer, second son of Benjamin and Joannah Murphy, was born in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, .August 3, 1808. He came with his parents to Knox county, Ohio, in 1823. On the twenty-ninth day of May, 1834, he married Miss Margaret Newell, who was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, on the first day of August, 1812, and was brought to Knox county, Ohio, by her parents, James and Polley Newell, in 1819. Shortly after his marriage to Miss Newell he purchased and moved on the farm where they are now living, to Clinton township, two miles west of Mt. Vernon. He has made farming and stock raising his vocation. Their union resulted in eight children: two sons and six daughters. One son and one daughter are deceased. His son, Lewis M., served in the war of 1861.

Newel, James, deceased, was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, May 20, 1782. He married Miss Polley Fleming July 2, 1811, born in Pennsylvania July 17, 1792. They settled in Washington county, Pennsylvania, where they remained eight years, and in 1819, emigrated to Knox county, Ohio; located in Clinton township on a farm now owned by Joseph Meyrs, two and one-half miles west of Mt. Vernon, where they passed the remainder of their days. He died December 7, 1848. His companion survived him until April 15, 1850.

They reared a family of seven children: Margaret, born in Pennsylvania August 1, 1812; Samuel, born in Pennsylvania June 10, 1814; Sarah, born in Pennsylvania July 14, 1816; Jane, born in Pennsylvania September 20, 1818; Eliza A., born in Ohio December 25, 1821; Hugh, born in Ohio December 25, 1824, James S., April 4, 1828. Two of the number are now deceased-Sarah and James S.

MURPHEY, WILLIAM, Hilliar township, farmer, was born in Guernsey county, Ohio, March 31, 1818. His father was a native of Pennsylvania, and his mother a Virginian by birth. His name was James Murphey, and his wife's maiden name was Mary Ann Paschal. They were married in Guernsey county, Ohio, and came to Hilliar township in June, 1830, and settled immediately west of where Centreburgh now stands, where he owned four hundred acres of land. They had a family of ten children, the subject of our sketch being the fifth child. They were among the early settlers of Hilliar township.

Mr. Murphey spent his youth at home with his parents on the farm, until he was about twenty-two years of age. He lived in Illinois, Iowa, and Missouri about seven years, and the rest of his life has been spent in Hilliar township. He is an excellent farmer, and has the esteem of the public. He was married to Miss Julia Ann Smith in 1846. They had five children, two of whom are living-Alva M. and Ida J.

MURPHY, M. M., was born January 9, 1840, in Cleveland, Ohio, where he was reared and educated at the public schools, and remained until 1858. After leaving school he learned boat-building, at which he worked three years; he then followed sailing for about two years, and at the opening of the war he enlisted in company F, Forty-third Ohio volunteer infantry, and served two years and one month, when he was discharged on account of disabilities and returned home.

During his term of service he came to Mt. Vernon and was married to Miss Lizzie Crandall in May, 1862. After his discharge he moved to Columbus and resided there until 1864, when he again enlisted in company A, One Hundred and Seventy-sixth Ohio volunteer infantry, and was made orderly sergeant.

In January, 1865, he was commissioned second lieutenant, and in March was commissioned first lieutenant, and was mustered out and discharged in July, 1865, but was immediately commissioned second lieutenant of company A, Seventeenth United States Colored infantry; and in the following December was promoted first lieutenant, in which capacity he served until 1866, when the regiment was mustered out and discharged. He was given the honor of brevet captain for meritorious service, commission to date from 1865. After his discharge he returned to Mt. Vernon and went into business. He was appointed deputy sheriff under Sheriff Steel, and was continued under his successor. He has been secretary of the board of health since 1868, but is now engaged at his trade as house finisher.

Mrs. Murphy was born in October, 1838. Since 1868 she has been ministering to the comfort and happiness of the community by keeping elegant ice cream parlors; furnishing to the public ice cream of all flavors desired, by wholesale as well as retail; also lemonade and wedding cakes, as well as all other kinds of cake.

MYERS, GEORGE, farmer, Milford township, was born near Woodstock, Virginia, in the year 1813. About 1820 his parents Frederick and Mary Myers, nee Riffy, with their family came to Licking county and remained one year, and then moved to Milford township, having traded a five-horse team and wagon for one hundred acres of land, which was unimproved. They had twelve children, six of each sex, six of whom are living. They (the parents lived and died on this farm.

The subject of this notice spent his young days on the farm he now resides upon and has followed farming all his life. He is a pioneer in every sense of the word. He came here when but few families lived in the township. Here he passed the years of his young manhood, and here is spending his old age. He married Miss Catharine Gripp June 1, 1838, who was born in Bennington township, Licking county, June 1, 1816. The young couple began house-keeping in this township, and here reared their family.

Mrs. Myers died March 18, 1880, aged nearly sixty-four years. They had eleven children, ten of whom grew up and nine are yet living, viz: Ezra Lewis, William W., Henry John, Torrence, George M., Winfield Scott, Frederick, Oscar. Harrison and Ida V. have deceased.

Mr. Myers is one of Milford's best citizens, and of its most substantial farmers. After the death of his father he purchased the old home farm on which he now resides.

His father, Frederick Myers, served in the War of 1812, in Virginia. He was of the light horse cavalry.

MYERS, DAVID, Brown township, farmer, post office, Jelloway, and son of Abraham and Elizabeth Myers, born in Dauphin county, Pennsylvania, May 3, 1815, was brought to

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Ohio when a child by his parents, his father locating in Steubenville, Jefferson county, where be remained until 1826, when he removed with his family to Knox county, locating near Danville, where he remained a few years. His father then moved to Pike township, where David Myers, the subject of this sketch, was reared to manhood.

July 28, 1836, he married Miss Catharine Pinkley, daughter of David Pinkley, born in Richland county, April 28, 1817. After his marriage he rented a farm in Richland county, which he occupied about three years. He then moved back to Knox county, where he has since remained. About 1855-56 he purchased a farm of fifty acres one mile and a half south of Jelloway, in Brown township, where be then moved. By their union they became the parents of nine children; Sarah E., Joseph, who served three years in the late Rebellion, in the Sixty-fifth Ohio volunteer infantry, in company A, under Captain Cassil; :Margaret A., James, who died in the army in December, 1863, he being a member of the Ninety-sixth Ohio volunteer infantry in company B, Leonard being his captain; William, Armanda, Masey, David M. and Mary. January 1, 1857, his companion died at the age of forty years.

In 1867 he married Libby Bailey, widow of William Bailey, born in Danville, Knox county in 1825. About five years after this marriage he bought a farm of one hundred and four acres southwest of Jelloway, where he then moved, and has ever since lived.

MYERS, JOHN, treasurer of Knox county, is a resident of Mt. Vernon. He was born in Bedford county, Pennsylvania, December 6, 1830. His parents came to Knox county in 1836, and engaged in farming. The subject of this sketch followed farming for a few years, and then engaged in the grocery business. From the grocery he entered the dry goods store of William Hendrick, where he remained for one year, and then returned to farming.

Mr. Myers was elected county recorder in 1871, and reelected in 1874. At the October election in 1879 he was elected county treasurer, which office he now holds. He was married to Miss Lorretta J. Armstrong, eldest daughter of the late Colonel John Armstrong, September 22, 1858, by whom he has had three children, only one of whom is now living.

MYERS, JOHN W., Milford township, farmer, is a native of Milford township, was born February 21, 1837, son of Frederic Myers, of whom mention is made in this volume, in the biography of George W. Myers.

The subject of this sketch was reared on a farm and has always followed it as his vocation. He started in life poor, but has secured a competency by industry and frugality. He is an excellent farmer, and his farm shows careful attention, and is an estimable citizen.

He married Miss Mary Jane Fadely, September 11, 1859, daughter of Levi Fadely. They have one child named Alonzo, born July 23, 1860.

MYERS, WILLIAM W., Milford township, wagonmaker and repairer of all kinds of farming implements, Lock post office, was born in Milford township, March 13, 1841. He is the son of George and Catharine Myers. He was on his father's farm until twenty years of age. He then went to the carpenter trade, learned it, then took up the trade, which he is now following. He is a natural mechanic and can manufacture almost anything which can be made in the way of sleighs, sleigh runners, in fact he can construct anything of the vehicle kind. He has had twenty years' experience in wood work, and with his natural ability he is one of the best workmen in the county.

He was married to Miss Julia Niebel, daughter of Joseph Niebel, April 14 1864. They had three children: James Lewis, born January 8, 1865, died October 3, 1877; Ella Elma, July 19, 1868; Aremenia, January 25, 1872, died April 9, 1875.

MORGAN, GENERAL GEORGE W. The paternal and maternal ancestors of the subject of this sketch were Celts. His great-grandfather, Evan Morgan, emigrated to the United States from Wales, and established himself at Prospect, a country seat near Princeton, New Jersey.

Prior to the war of the Revolution, George Morgan, son of . Evan, became a member of the firm of Baynton, Wharton & Morgan, one of the largest commercial houses in Philadelphia, and in 1764 he married Mary Baynton, daughter of the senior member of the firm. Her mother's maiden name was Chevalier, and her parents were both of French extraction.

Early in April, 1776, about foul months prior to the declaration of independence, the Continental Congress appointed George Morgan Indian agent, with instructions to negotiate certain treaties with the Indians.

His appointment reads as follows, and is in possession of General George W. Morgan:

To All Whom It May Concern:

Know ye; That the delegates of the Colonies of New Hampshire; Massachusetts Bay; Rhode Island; Connecticut; New York; New Jersey; Pennsylvania; Delaware; Maryland; Virginia; North Carolina; South Carolina; and Georgia, in Congress assembled; reposing especial confidence in George Morgan Esquire, have nominated and appointed him, the said George Morgan, Esquire, Agent under their Commissioners for Indian Affairs in the middle department.

By order of Congress,

JOHN HANCOCK,

Attest: President.

CHs. THOMSON, Secy.

The annals of Heckewelder and Hildreth, and Taylor in his I history of Ohio, speak of the important services rendered by George Morgan in his negotiations with the various tribes of Indians, whom he never deceived.

Among other treaties, he negotiated one with the Delawares, whose confidence he enjoyed to an almost unlimited extent. As an evidence of their regard, they conferred upon him the title of Tamerind-the Truth Teller-after the great Delaware chief who had borne that name.

During the Revolution, George Morgan acquired the rank of colonel, and became deputy commissary general.

That war was not an exception to wars generally, so far as the rivalship and ambition of leaders were concerned. They clashed then, as they have since, and will always continue to do. Certain generals aspired to chief leadership, and sought to supplant Washington. Prominent among those aspirants were Gates and Lee. General Conway belonged to their faction, which was opposed with bitterness by General Cadwalader. A duel was the result. Cadwalader challenged Conway, and according to the usages of the times, Colonel George Morgan, although a friend of Washington, acted as Conway's second, or, as the French term it, his witness. They fought with pistols. The choice of ground, and the first shot, by lot fell to Conway, The day was gusty, and probably to this fact Cadwalader owed his life. A gust swept across Conway's line of fire, and his ball

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whistled harmlessly near Cadwalader's head. The wind still blew in sudden puffs. Cadwalader raised his-arm to fire, but feeling the force of the wind, let it fall again, without touching the trigger.

Conway exclaimed: " General, why do you not fire?"

"I will do so, sir, when the wind falls."

Conway faced full to the front, and said: " You shall have a fair mark, sir."

The wind lulled, and with the utmost deliberation, Cadwalader fired, and Conway staggered and was caught in Morgan's arms. The ball struck him squarely in the mouth, barely missed the spinal column, and was caught in his hair, which. according to the custom of that day, was worn long, and tied in a clump or club behind.

Conway cleared his mouth of blood, and said: "General you are not only a very good shot, but a very cool one."

The ball is still in possession of Colonel James B. Morgan, a grandson of Conway's second.

In this connection, the following correspondence, literally copied from the original letter, is not without interest:.

" MOUNT VERNON, August 20, 1786.

Sir:-You will see by the enclosed letter from the Marquis de la Fayette to me, that the Empress of Russia is desirous of obtaining some authentic documents, respecting the language of the natives of this country for the purpose of compiling an universal Dictionary.

As I have thought no person was more in condition to accomplish that essential service, for the republic of letters than yourself, I have taken the liberty of transmitting a specimen of the vocabulary to you, together with a request that you will do me the favor of paying as early and accurate attention to the completion of the matter, as your avocations will admit.

Persuaded that a gentleman of your taste for science in general, and particularly of your capacity for acquiring the information in question, will enter upon the task with pleasure, I make no apology for troubling you with it, nor do I think it necessary to add anything farther, than that it may be expedient to extend the vocabulary as far as with the aid of your friends, you conveniently can, and that the greatest possible precision and exactitude will be indispensable, in committing the Indian words to paper by a just orthography.

With sentiments of esteem and regard

I have the honor to be Sir

Yr. most obed't H'ble Sr.

G. WASHINGTON."

COLONEL GEORGE MORGAN,

of Prospect,

near Princeton.

" PARIS, February the 10th.

The enclosed, my dear General, is a vocabulary which the empress of Russia Has requested me to Have filled up with Indian names, as she has ordered an universal dictionary to be made of all languages. It would greatly oblige her to collect the words she sends translated into the several idioms of the nations on the banks of the Oyho (Ohio). Presly Nevil and Morgan of Fort Pitt, General Mullenberg in Fayette county, and our other friends could undertake it for us, and be very attentive in accuracy. I beg your pardon my dear General, for the trouble I give you, but Have been particularly applied to, and cannot dispense with paying great attention to the business. This goes with so long an epistle of mine that I shall only present you here with my best love and wishes, and am my dear General, your respectful and tender friend

LAFAYETTE."

Some years after the recognition of American Independence, Colonel George Morgan purchased a farm, long known as Morganza, near Canonsburgh, in western Pennsylvania. It was from that place President Jefferson received his first intelligence of Burr's conspiracy.

In his life of Aaron Burr, Parton says: "It so chanced that one of Burr's first visits, on his western tour had consequences of the utmost importance.

" It was to the house of Colonel Morgan, a name of renown in the west, a valiant old campaigner who. lived with his two stalwart sons near the little town of Canonsburgh, Pennsylvania. that this fatal visit was made. Civilities had passed between Morgan and Burr in former years, and that old patriot had conceived for Burr a very warm friendship, which his misfortunes and peculiarities strengthened. As his custom was, Colonel Burr gave notice of his coming, and the old gentleman bursting with hospitality sent forth his two sons to meet the expected guests. Colonel Burr rode with one of the sons and Colonel De Peister with the other. Burr's conversation surprised the young gentlemen among other things he said the Union could not last long; a separation of the States must ensue in four or five years., He made minute inquiries respecting the militia and arms of the country, and of the character of the officers. One of Morgan's s workmen chanced to pass, and Burr said he wished he had ten thousand such men."

These and other facts too numerous to mention here, were communicated to President Jefferson, and led to the arrest and trial of Burr.

Colonel George Morgan and his sons, John and Thomas, were witnesses on behalf of the Government at Burr's trial; and it was at Richmond, where the trial took place, that Thomas Morgan and Katherine Duane. the future parents of George W. Morgan, first met. Miss Duane was daughter of Colonel William Duane, editor of the Aurora, the recognized organ of Thomas Jefferson. His father, John Duane, married Anastatia Sarsfield, a collateral relative of General Patrick Sarsfield, who commanded the Irish troops at the famous battle of Limerick. John Duane and wife emigrated from Ireland to the United States in the first half of the Eighteenth century, and settled near Lake Champlain in the State of New York. Their son William was born in 1760, and after the death of his father, in 1771, his mother returned to Ireland, where he received a classical education, and greatly excelled as a linguist. Anastatia Duane was a devout Catholic, and became forever estranged from her son because he married Katherine Corcoran, a Presbyterian.

In 1784 William Duane went to Calcutta, in India, and established a journal called The World, one side of which was printed in English and the other in Hindoostan. The paper acquired great influence, and Duane amassed a considerable fortune in a few years. He dreamed of an Anglo-Indian empire; and the governor general became uneasy at the influence of The World. One fine morning when a ship was about to sail for England Duane was invited to breakfast with that officer, and was entertained with every semblance of hospitality. The breakfast over, in marched a guard of soldiers, who arrested Duane and conveyed him on board the English ship. His large property was confiscated by the governor general,

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and on his arrival in England he in vain sought for redress. He soon became the editor of The Advertiser, the organ of the pronounced liberals who followed the lead of John Horne Tooke. In consequence of the boldness of his articles he was arrested for libel; and in 1795 he returned to the United States, and became the associate editor with Bache of The Aurora, and soon became the sole editor and proprietor. That journal led the opposition to the administration of John Adams, and upon the action of the Senate, Duane was indicted and tried for libel under the sedition laws. He was heavily fined, but the fines were afterwards remitted by President Jefferson.

Duane was commissioned Lieutenant Colonel in a regiment of rifles in the army of the United States, and held that. rank in the War of 1812. He was the author of a number of scientific and literary works, among which was a work on tactics, which for many years was recognized as authority. His son, William J. Duane, was Secretary of the Treasury under Andrew Jackson, with whom he had a rupture. Duane refused to remove the public deposits from the United States bank, on the. Around that the bank was entitled to hold them until the expiration of its charter. As a compromise, Jackson tendered him the mission to Russia, which he declined. He was then removed, and Roger B. Taney was appointed his successor.

George W. Morgan was born at Washington, Pennsylvania, September 20, 1820. The course of his education was irregular. He was for four years in what was then known as the English department connected with Washington college, and was in the grammar school before enrolling as a private soldier in the army of the Republic of Texas.

He early evinced a fondness for history, and read with avidity the Lives of Plutarch, Rollins' Ancient History, and the separate lives of the great military captains. After his return from Texas he entered Washington college, and was in that institution about eighteen months, when he was sent to the military academy, where he remained two years.

On the sixth day of September, 1836, Captain Thomas J. Morgan organized a company of volunteers for service in the Republic of Texas, then menaced with a second invasion by Mexico, and George enrolled his name as a volunteer in his brother's company. Not long after the arrival of the company in Texas, George was promoted to be first sergeant, and entered with zeal on the discharge of his duties.

The army of Texas was then in Camp Independence, on the La Bacca, under the command of Brigadier General Felix Huston, late a lawyer of Natchez, Mississippi. He was a man of eloquence, courage, and energy, and by instinct a soldier. His army was well drilled, but not well disciplined. As a commander, Huston was after the style of Wallenstein, and governed his soldiers by his personal magnetism; and they would have followed him wherever he chose to lead. During the intervals of drill he would make passionate harangues to his troops; recite the tragedy of the Alamo, and the butchery of Fannin and his five hundred comrades at Goliad. Then would follow a glowing description of Mexico; a thrilling narrative of the conquest by Ferdinand Cortez; and he promised to lead his soldiers to the halls of the Montezumas, if the President and Congress would allow him to do so. Sam Houston was then President, and Congress was in session at Columbia, the capital of the State. Albert Sidney Johnston, who afterwards fell at Shiloh, was the adjutant general of Texas. He was a graduate of the United States military academy, and was recognized by all who knew him as possessing many elements of greatness. With a kindly heart, he was grave, dignified, and reserved, but without the magnetism that was one of the chief characteristics of Sam Houston.

Major Gray, Captain T. J. Morgan, and probably other officers, informed the President through the adjutant general, of the demoralized condition of the army.

Felix Huston was brigadier general in command of the army in the field, while the rank of Sidney Johnston was colonel. Congress authorized the President to commission a first brigadier general, a grade till then unknown, and the commission was 'bestowed on Johnston.

In the meantime Sam Houston visited the camp on the La Bacca. He was a man of majestic presence; six feet four inches in height, and nobly developed in person. He was alike great as a statesman and as a soldier. Having called upon General Huston, he visited the hospital, cheered the sick, and here and there recognized an old comrade of San Jacinto. The next day he reviewed the army; caused it to be formed in double column closed in mass, and addressed the troops in deep and solemn tones, as a father might speak to his erring children.

When Felix Huston harangued the army, as he often did, the cheers of the soldiers could be heard far away over the prairies. But when Sam Houston spoke, there was au impressive silence. He briefly reviewed the struggle of Texas for independence. The most dangerous enemies of Texas, he said, were not in Mexico, but in the United States. Texans had no cause to fear those who would meet them in the field, with arms in their hands; but real danger to Texas was to be apprehended from the charges of those who represented the Texans as a lawless banditti. He appealed to the soldiers to aid him in making Texas respected by the nations; and that could only be done by every citizen and soldier yielding cordial obedience to the laws.

When he closed his address not a cheer went up, but the spell in which Felix Huston had held the army was broken.

A few days after President Houston had returned to Columbia, while Felix Huston was maneuvering his troops on the prairie, several horsemen were seen to approach along the trail leafing towards the capital. It was Sidney Johnston and his staff.

At a glance, Felix Huston comprehended the situation; and advanced to meet the man, by whom he had been over slaughted. Their saturations were courteous and dignified. Huston invited Johnston and his staff to sup with him, and the invitation was accepted. These two men were of opposite types in everything, but courage. In aspect, Johnston was bronzed and stern. His hair was was thick and nearly black; his forehead, broad and high; his brows, heavy and projecting; his eves, dark brown, and serious in their expression. No one ever met Sidney Johnston, who did not feel he was in the presence of a remarkable man.

Felix Huston was the taller, but not the heavier man. His complexion was fair; his eyes, in one of which was a slight cast, were grey-blue; and his hair, light brown. He possessed more magnetism than Johnston, but was not so great man. Huston had a dash of recklessness in his composition, and the faults which belonged to his temperament; but was as generous, as he was brave.

While thus, the rival chieftains, greeted each other, the eye of every soldier was bent upon them; and as they parted, young Sergeant Morgan, turned to his brother and said: Tom,

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those men will fight! "Tut, tut," the captain answered, "there is nothing to fight about."

The supper passed off pleasantly; but scarcely had Johnston reached his quarters, when Major Ross of Huston's staff, delivered him a cartel from his chief. The correspondence, the author has never seen, and what he narrates of the duet, is legendary; but believed to be true.

I his note, Huston said there was no man in Texas, under whom he would be more proud to serve, than General Johnston, for whom he entertained great respect as an officer, and gentleman. But the President, with authority of Congress, had promoted a junior officer over him. That as he could not demand satisfaction of them all, he requested the honor of a meeting with their representative; and that Major Ross was authorized to make the necessary arrangements. Johnston promptly replied, reciprocating the courteous sentiments expressed by Huston, named sun-rise the next morning, as the time, and the west bank of the La Bacca as the place of meeting; and designated Colonel Moorehouse as his friend.

While this was going on, Dr. Ezra Reed, lately deceased at Terre Haute, called at the quarters-half tent, half house-of Captain Morgan, to borrow from the assistant surgeon, who messed there, a pocket case of surgical instruments, to amputate the crushed finger of a poor fellow, as Reed said, who had been accidentally injured. Sergeant Morgan exclaimed: "And so it requires pocket instruments to amputate a finger, does it?" The captain still discredited the idea of a duel. The next morning, its young Morgan was calling the roll of his company at reveille, two pistol shots were heard from the direction of the rived and the sergeant, without finishing the roll call, ordered: " Break ranks! march ! " and exclaimed: " Boys, Johnston and Huston are fighting," and broke for the river, on the opposite bank of which, but out of view, the duel was taking place.

There was but one brace of dueling pistols in camp; they belonged to Huston, and of necessity were used. The spring of one of the locks was weak; Huston called attention to the fact, and chose that pistol for himself. Johnston had never pulled a hair trigger, while Huston was a crack shot. To equalize the chances it was arranged, at Huston's suggestion, that the elbow of the pistol arm should be kept against the hip, and that the forearm alone should be raised to fire. At the first shot Johnston's ball cut a twig, which fell at Huston's feet. He took it up, and said: ".A capital shot, General." Johnston passed a finger through a bullet hole in the lapel of his coat, and replied: Not so good as yours, General." Huston missed at the second shot, and the ball of Johnston entered the ground a few feet from him, on the line of fire. At the third shot Johnston missed his aim, and Huston's pistol snapped. He sat down at the root of a tree, and braced the spring by inserting a small splint of wood. While doing so, he noticed that Moorehouse, Johnston's second, was about to load with a defective ball when Huston called out, " Here, Colonel, is a good ball. The flaw in that one would catch the wind," and Johnston's pistol was loaded with the perfect ball taken from Huston's pocket. At the fourth shot Johnston fell. The ball entered the hip on the right side, and was extracted from the left by a simple incision of the skin. The wound was painful, and not free from danger. When Johnston fell, he promptly raised himself on his elbow, and said: "Gentlemen, I call upon you all to bear witness that this affair has been conducted honorably."

The combatants now repose in death. Huston died, long since, in the south; and Johnston fell at Shiloh. His friends believe, that had he not fallen, the fate of that day had been different.

In February, 1837, Sergeant Morgan was promoted to a second lieutenancy of artillery, in the regular army, and was ordered to report to the commandant of the post on Galveston island.

In an army, and especially in such an army, inaction breeds discontent, and discontent is the parent of mutiny. Nearly even State in the Union was represented, and every man had gone to avenge Fannin, and Travis, and Crockett, and Bowie. Every man wished to aid in transferring the lone star of Texas, to our National banner, but the Mexicans threatened and made demonstrations, but did not seek those whom they denounced as invaders. The fare of the army was rough; for long months at a time the soldiers lived on beef, coffee, and tobacco, without bread or vegetables. But if the fare was rough, the clothing was worse, for the treasure of Texas was empty, and the soldiers received no pay. And for all this, never, in the world's history, did any country do so much for her soldiers as Texas has done. Those who enlisted for the war, on their discharge, received a warrant for one thousand two hundred and eighty acres of land. One-third of a century after Texas was annexed to the Union, every surviving veteran of the Texan revolution was given a pension of one thousand dollars; and, several years ago, an additional land grant of six hundred and forty acres was made to ever indigent veteran who had served in that revolution; and the fifteenth of March, 1881, by act of the Texas legislature, another grant of one thousand two hundred and eighty acres was made to every surviving veteran, or to his widow.

Nevertheless, a mutinous epidemic broke out in. the camp of the main army in 1837, and spread to every post in Texas midst a terrific midnight storm. Colonel Teal was shot dead in his tent. Who fired the shot has never been known.

Shortly afterward a mutiny broke out at Camp Johnston, on the Navadad. The leaders were arrested. and put in irons. The guard was doubled, and Captain Thomas J. Morgan was captain of the guard. During the night, a large body of armed men assembled in front of the guard tent and demanded the release of the prisoners. The guard was under arms ready to obey orders. Captain Morgan stepped to the front and briefly addressed the mutineers. He spoke to them in a kindly manner, but with firmness. He appealed to them to return to their duty, and told them they could only reach the prisoners over the dead bodies of the guard. His firmness and presence of mind restored discipline, and as a recognition of his services he was commissioned major; by which title he was known until the hour of his death.

The post at Velasco next suffered. Lieutenant Sprowl joined the mutineers, and was shot and instantly killed by Captain Snell, commandant of the post.

At that time there were two companies at Galveston, under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Lynch, and the disease of mutiny next attacked them. The entire want of pay, for Texas had no money; the want of proper food-the soldiers having lived on fresh fish for three weeks; the want of clothing; and, more than all, the want of an active and glorious campaign, were the combined causes which demoralized the army.

Lieutenant Berth had been a sergeant in the army of the United States, and in that service would have been efficient as an adjutant-he was the adjutant of the post of Galveston. He

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was as cold and precise as a machine, and the soldiers detested him. He received an anonymous warning not to sleep in his quarters; and that very night a shell exploded under his bed and blew it to pieces, while Berth lay concealed in the grass near by. The next day he fled from the island.

Adam Clendennin, Morgan's captain, was very unpopular. He was young, haughty and brave. A note was sent to him, demanding that he should leave the island. He treated it with contempt. The next night, while Clendennin and Morgan were in their quarters, built of sand sod, matted together by the roots of grass, Herculano, a Mexican servant, came running in, pale and trembling, and exclaimed: "The soldiers! the soldiers!"

Seizing their swords, they rushed out, and saw three soldiers loading a cannon pointed at their sand sod building, and not over fifteen paces from it. They rushed toward the gun; the would-be assassins sunk in the tall prairie grass and disappeared. The gun was spiked, and left in its position. On the next morning, while Clendennin and Morgan were at breakfast, the crack of a musket was heard, and a ball crashed through the slats of the window in front of the table at which they were seated. A prompt, but fruitless search was made. They returned to breakfast, and consulted as to what was best to be done. Clendennin determined to ask for orders to proceed to Houston, to report the condition of affairs at the war office. He had made but a step from the door, when the report of a musket was heard, and a ball whistled close to his head. He took the first boat for Houston.

First Lieutenant Beaumont had resigned, and Morgan was left in command of the company. A committee of three, composed of First Lieutenant Agnew, a half-breed Indian, named Smith, and another, called on Morgan to assure him that he had nothing to fear if he did not interfere. He replied that it was their place to obey orders, not to give them; that he was in command of the company by the authority of his commission, and would do his duty. The military forms of roll call, parade, and guard mounting were continued, but the mutineers were in frequent consultation. That day and night passed off quietly, but towards morning Morgan was awakened by Ordinance Sergeant Keoph, who told him that Smith was ringleader of the mutiny; that he was trying to persuade the men to kill the remaining officers, seize a brig, then lying in the bay, and put to sea. That on the coming midnight a general consultation was to be held in the street formed by the huts occupied by Morgan's company. Ten of Morgan's men, and Sergeant Grover remained true, but feigned to sympathize with the mutineers. By prearrangement they were detailed for guard duty, on the following day, and by the roster it fell to Morgan's lot to be officer of the day.

The new guard was mounted; the day passed off with unusual quiet, and at night Morgan had the faithful Herculano conceal himself in the grass to watch any movement on part of the mutineers. Toward midnight he crept to Morgan's quarters and told him they were assembling, but without arms. The Mexican was sent with written orders to Sergeant Grover to meet Morgan with his ten men in rear of his company's quarters. The tall grass concealed their approach. Their arms were loaded with buck shot. Grover was charged to look to Smith. The guard noiselessly filed between the huts, faced to the mutineers with their backs to a hut. The surprise was complete. Morgan had cautioned the guard not to fire unless he gave the word. He commanded, - Make ready!" The half-breed stepped

forward and commenced to draw a heavy blunderbuss pistol but was instantly struck over the head and knocked senseless by the butt of Grovels musket. Morgan then told the men that only seven of them were guilty, and, calling their names, ordered them to step to the front, or be fired upon. They came forward and were ironed, marched to the guardhouse, and the remainder of the command were dismissed to their quarters, with the injunction to return to their duty. The suddenness of the . surprise, the fall of Smith, the sense of guilt, and the chance of being regarded as innocent, demoralized those who were on the verge of desperate mutiny.

In the meantime Clendennin was not idle. He rallied a large body of officers who had just been furloughed, and armed to the teeth, and reenforced by a party of citizens who were keen for a fray, took a steamer and reached Galveston on the night following the arrest of the ringleaders. It was well they came. Toward morning a large body of mutineers by their numbers overawed the guard and liberated the prisoners. By this time Clendennin's reinforcement had landed, and the mutineers quietly retired to their quarters. On the beach near Lynch's quarters were two heavy guns which he had turned towards the barracks of the two companies, and they were ordered to parade. The order was obeyed, and the ringleaders were again returned to the guardhouse.

Ten minutes afterwards, Colonel Lynch, by Surgeon Sheppard, sent a challenge to Clendennin. It had been reported to Lynch that Clendennin had uttered some serious reflections against him at Houston. The challenge was peremptory, and was instantly accepted, the duel to take place immediately after the adjournment of the court martial, which was at once to assemble to try the mutineers. Lynch was the president; Morgan, as junior officer, the judge-advocate; and Clendennin was a member of the court.

The court immediately assembled. The accused were jointly tried, and found guilty. But the court considered all the circumstances of mitigation, and was lenient in its sentence. All pay, and one thousand two hundred and eighty acres of bounty land here forfeited, and the mutineers were dishonorably discharged, and sent from the island, with a warning not to return.

Lynch and Clendennin proceeded from the court to the beach, and while Morgan was writing the report of the proceedings of the court, the report of the pistol of the combatants was heard. The principals, at the word, wheeled and fired. Clendennin was struck in the side, but the ball, striking a button, glanced, and the wound was slight.

Morgan was immediately promoted to the first lieutenancy, made vacant by the resignation of Beaumont, and on the reorganization of the army, under President Lamar, he was made captain in the First regiment of regular infantry, commanded by Colonel Bruleson, and at eighteen years of age commanded the post at Galveston.

Peace was never ratified between Texas and Mexico, and a quasi war continued until the conclusion of the treaty of peace between the United States and Mexico, in 1848.

Morgan enlisted in the service of Texas September 6, 1836, and resigned his commission of captain on September 6, 1839.

In June, 1843. Captain Morgan, as he was then known, came to Mt. Vernon. He had but fifty cents in his pocket, and there were only three persons in Knox county whom he had ever met-Caleb J. McNulty, A. Banning Norton, and Dr. A. C. Scott. He was young, strong, full of hope, and ready to work. He entered the law office of the Hon. John K. Miller

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as a law student, and became the partner of his preceptor as soon as he was admitted to the bar. But the following spring the war with Mexico broke out, and he abandoned the law office, to become the captain of "The Young Guard," which organized in Mt. Vernon. He had been in Ohio only three years, when at Cincinnati he was elected colonel of the Second Ohio, by the unanimous voice of his company officers.

As is generally the case, every one seemed to believe that the war would be of short duration; and the volunteers were enlisted to serve for a single year. They could have been as readily enlisted for the war. During that year Colonel Morgan served in the army, commanded by General Zachary Taylor. For some months he was stationed at Camargo, which enabled him, with the efficient assistance of Lieutenant Colonel Irwin and Major William Wall, to bring his regiment to a high state of drill and discipline. Not the discipline of regulars, for the very nature of the volunteer service renders that impracticable. Nay, more, it requires years to establish such discipline, under favorable circumstances, but when once established an army acts with the certainty of a machine, and it is superior to a machine because action is guided by reason. But there are advantages is the volunteer system. There is more individuality; and the road to promotion and glory is open to every soldier in the ranks ; which is the inspiration of success.

Morgan's regiment was well disciplined; and in the rapidity of its evolutions, and in steadiness of courage, it was the equal of any regular regiment. On the twenty-sixth of February, 1847, with a batallion of his regiment, he fought and repulsed General Urea and a force of lancers ten times Morgan's strength. The march and fight was in a square, and Morgan's men displayed the coolness and steadiness of veterans. Had they been less steady or less cool, not a man would have been left to tell the story of slaughter and defeat. Taylor devoted a special report to that series of actions, and that report secured the promotion of Morgan to the senior colonelcy of the eight additional infantry regiments in the regular army; and he was the only officer in that war who commanded a separate volunteer and regular regiment.

After the final repulse of Urea, Morgan left his command with Lieutenant Colonel Irwin, and proceeded to the citadel of Monterey. Meeting Adjutant Riddle, whom he knew, but by whom he was not recognized, he said: "Adjutant. I wish to see Colonel Ormsby. " "The colonel is not in the fort; if you have any message I will deliver it to him on his return." "I wish to see the colonel personally." "Who are you? Are you an orderly from Colonel Morgan?" Morgan straightened himself and replied: "I am Colonel Morgan, sir." At this unexpected reply Riddle and the officers with him gave a hearty laugh; but seeing that Morgan was offended at once with courteous hospitality invited him to his quarters, placed a lunch and bottle of bourbon on the table, and invited him to partake of them. Exhausted and hungry Morgan relished the lunch, after which Riddle handed him a small mirror, when Morgan gazed and scarcely recognized himself. He was begrimmed with powder smoke and dust; his hair was mattered and unkempt; his shirt was soiled and black, and he wore no badge of an officer on his person. He now laughed as heartily as the Kentuckians had done, and said: Now, gentlemen, I understand you."

When Morgan reached Agua Nueva he was cordially received by Taylor, who congratulated him on his victory over Urea. As "Old Zac," as the soldiers loved to call him, was about to leave for Walnut Springs, he ordered Morgan. to report to Brigadier General John E. Wool, who was to remain in command of the main body of the army, to be established on the field of Buena Vista.

Morgan's regiment was without tents, and nearly without camp equipage of any kind. During the two days' rest at Saltillo the men had to go into quarters, and as they were exhausted they were relieved from duty, but conducted themselves remarkably well. However, the military governor of that place, feeling that he might be superseded in command, reported to Wool that the soldiers of Morgan were behaving badly. When, therefore, in obedience to orders, Morgan reported to General Wool, he was received coldly. He said that he had been informed that Morgan's troops had been carousing at Saltillo, and asked " What have you to say to that sir?"

"General," replied Morgan. "I have great respect for you as my commanding officer, but you have not a better disciplined regiment in your command than mine. The report made to you, by whomsoever made, is not true."

" It comes from a good officer, sir," replied Wool.

"Then I have a right to his name."

"No, the report is official. and it will be well if you will give your officers to understand that they are under an officer who will not tolerate abuses."

Morgan received written orders to go into camp at "The Narrows," immediately in front of the Buena Vista, and to thoroughly police the ground which was still littered with the bodies of mules, horses, and some unburied Mexicans. He was informed that the day after the morrow the whole army would go into camp at Buena Vista, and received written orders not to allow any officer or soldier to pass "The Narrows," in advance of the column without a written pass from Wool's headquarters. This order was intended for the volunteers; as it turned out, it caught the regulars.

It is nineteen miles from the Aqua Nueva to the Narrows. At dawn the next morning, with a few wagons laden with tarpaulins and poles, instead of tents, eight companies of the Second Ohio, under Morgan - two having been left with Wool at the pass of the Rinconada-took the lines of march for the Narrows. Arrived there, Morgan told his men what had taken place between himself and Wool; that they were sent to police that ground, as a punishment for an offence they had not committed. Although they had just marched nineteen miles, he told them to redeem their reputation by a thorough police of the ground upon which they were to camp before sun-down. The men sprang cheerfully to work; every vestige of the battle, save the blood stains on the rocks, was removed; and the sinks were all dug and arranged before sunset.

The army of Wool was to come down the next morning. The officer of the day and the officers of the guard were instructed not to allow any officer or soldier to pass the Narrows in advance of the army, without a written pass from General Wool. About nine in the morning Colonel Churchill, inspector general of the army, a veteran of merit, and a rigid disciplinarian, with two or three other officers, reached the Narrows, on their way to lay out Wool's camp. They were halted by the guard, and their passes demanded. In vain they replied they had been sent forward by General Wool. The guard refused to allow them to pass, but an officer of the guard offered to conduct them to Morgan's quarters. He saw them coming, and suppressing the smile which sought to assert itself, met the veteran colonel with grave courtesy and requested him to alight. The inspector general declined; said he was under orders from

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General Wool to layout his camp. Morgan regretted to detain him; but he, too, was acting under orders, which it was his duty to enforce. The officers were again invited to alight, and this time the invitation was accepted. Cigars were offered; declined by the veteran, but smoked by his juniors.

In about an hour, Wool arrived. He, too, was halted by the guard, who did not recognize him; his pass was demanded, and he was escorted to Morgan's tent. The old martinet had a keen sense of humor, and failed to repress a smile, on seeing the veteran and rigid Churchill held as a prisoner. Raising his cap, Morgan advanced to receive his general, when Wool said.

What does all this mean, colonel?" "These gentlemen, general, sought to go through my lines without a written pass from your headquarters, and I have arrested them and await further orders." "Well, colonel, let them proceed. You enforce orders rather strictly." "\o exceptions were made, in the order, general, and it is my habit to obey orders as I receive them." "Well, well, we will let it pass. Your camp is nicely policed, but you must have sinks dug." "That, sir, was done on yesterday." " I will look at them," he said. The boys had worked like heroes, and Wool said with an approving smile, "That's very well, sir, very well. Good morning colonel." The heart of the old chieftain was won, and ever afterwards, he called the Ohio troops his regulars.

As the expiration of the term of service of the Ohio troops drew nigh, Colonel Morgan expressed a desire to reorganize his regiment. General Wool gave him a letter to General Taylor, requesting the commanding general to give Morgan a letter to the President, advising that authority might be given Morgan to reorganize his regiment.

On presenting to General Taylor Wool's letter, after reading it, Taylor turned to Major Bliss, his chief of staff, and said, "Major, give Colonel Morgan his commission as colonel of the Fifteenth infantry." The surprise of Morgan was complete, as he had received no intimation of the good fortune which awaited him.

Early in June, 1847, Colonel Morgan reached Vera Cruz to take command of his new regiment, which was composed of five companies enlisted in Ohio, three in Michigan, one in Wisconsin, and one in Iowa. The lieutenant colonel, Howard, had served twenty years as an officer of the regular army; Major Woods was promoted from a captaincy in the Sixth infantry, and Major Mills was a man of fine intelligence, great personal courage and ambition. he was killed at the very gates of the City of Mexico.

Thornton Broadhead, who was colonel of the First Michigan cavalry in the late civil war, and who died an heroic death at the second battle of Bull Run, was the adjutant of the Fifteenth infantry; and one of the color-bearers of that regiment, Morgan met at Chickasaw as lieutenant colonel of an Iowa regiment.

The yellow fever was raging at Vera Cruz; hundreds perished, but the marvel is that any one escaped its pestilential atmosphere.

Just as the Fifteenth was about to take up the line of march for the interior, Lieutenant McCleary, of Hamilton, Ohio, who was the regimental quartermaster, rode up to Colonel Morgan and said: "Colonel, I will join you to-night. or in the morning. 1 mitst look to my vouchers." His hand was hot and dry, and before morning he was dead.

During the next day's march eight men out of two thousand died of sunstroke. A halt of two days was made at San Juan to let the troops recuperate. From thence to Puebla the column was annoyed along the line by a rattling fire from Juarez's men, but not of sufficient consequence to narrate.

Of all the lands beneath the sun none is so grand, or so beautiful as Mexico. It has its pest spots, but one forgets them while contemplating the grandeur of her mountains, the magnificence of her table lands. and the luxuriant beauty of her groves of the orange, the lime, the fig, the pomegranate, and the mango. And of the cities of the world among the most beautiful are Puebla and Mexico.

The deeds of Scott outshone those of Cortez. The Spaniard attacked the Aztecs with firearms, while they had none. Cortez had cavalry, but the Aztec regarded a mounted soldier as a god. But when Scott came he met not the Aztec but the Aztec's conqueror.

Vera Cruz is defended by what is regarded as one of the most powerful fortresses in the world; but Scott captured the walled city, thus defended, with a loss of only thirty men.

Then came Cerro Gordo; its rugged crests piercing the clouds. the impassable ravine which flanked the road, making destruc tion inevitable to those who might be driven over the precipice. The place seemed impregnable-against an ordinary army it was so. But there was Scott and Worth, and Persifer Smith, and Shields and Harney, and Duncan and Hunt, and scores of other heroes; and Cerro Gordo added one more leaf to the chaplet which crowned Scott's brow.

Pueblo became a school of training for Scott's whole army. And such rivalry, such emulation to excel, has been seldorn seen. The old army did not love the new; and while the new regiments acccepted the old ones as models they aspired to excel them.

There was a striking contrast between Scott and Taylor. Each merits a place on the roll of renowned captains. Scott was lofty in statue and in character. He gloried in the pomp and pa panolpy of war. In Mexico he never appeared on the street without epaulets, and sword, and sash. and coat buttoned to the chin.

As for Taylor, he was never so uncomfortable as when in full uniform. Scott's ten thousand men at Puebla formed a splendid army. It was in the very heart of a country witli nine million inhabitants, whose capital it proposed to capture. The army was composed of the divisions of Twiggs, Quitman, Worth, and Pillow, the whole four only equal in numbers to the division of Morgan while he held Cumberland Gap. The four division, advanced from Puebla on the seventh, eighth. ninth, and tenth of August, 1847 the order already named. On the twelfth and thirteenth a reconnoissance was inade of the hill, El Penon, which commanded the main route to the city. and which was armed by three tiers of heavy guns, the base of the hill being enveloped in water. On the thirteenth a rcconnoissance was also made on Mexicalcingo, which was five miles from the city. Both places were regarded as impracticable.

Our array was in position about Lake Chalco, with its head towards El Penon. The order of advance was inverted. Worth, Pillow, Quitman, and Twiggs marched, in the order named, southward around Lake Chalco, and thus the city was turned,

When Twiggs withdrew to follow the column he' was attacked, but the skirmish was light, and without any result. On the eighteenth, Captain Seth Thornton, the same who was wrecked on the coast of Florida during the Indian war, and who was captured with Hardy at the opening of our war with Mexico, was sent forward from San Augustin to aid a reconnaissance

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He was fired upon by a masked battery, and cut nearly in two. He was the first man killed in the valley of Mexico. By reputation he was known to the whole arms, and the news of his death created a greater shock than the fall of an hundred persons would have done under other circumstances. Three young officers were standing on the road on which Thornton had advanced a few minutes before, when an officer came dashing up, his brow knit, and his face pale. In reply to "what's the word?" answered, as he galloped on. "Seth Thornton is cut in two by a nine-pound shot!"

The next morning, August 19th, the divisions of Twiggs and Pillow Were sent forward to attack the enemy at Contreras, whose right was defended by a work mounting twenty-seven guns.

In his report, Scott says:

"From an eminence I observed the church and hamlet of Contreras, on the road leading up from the capital through the entrenched camp to Magdalena, and seeing the stream of reenforcements advancing by that road from the city, I ordered (through Major General Pillow) Colonel Morgan with his regiment, the Fifteenth, till then held in reserve by Pillow, to move forward and occupy Contreras (or Ausaldal, being persuaded, if occupied, it would arrest the reenforcements and ultimately decide the battle. A few minutes liter Brigadier General Shields, with his volunteer brigade, came up from San Augustine; I directed Shields to follow and sustain Morgan. These corps reached Contreras, and found Cadwalader in position, observing the formidable movement from the capitol, and much needing the timely reenforcement."

The position occupied, and the movement made by Morgan was one of the operations which led to the famous court of inquiry which resulted from the charges preferred by Scott against Pillow, Worth, and Duncan.

In his report Pillow says: "About this time Brigadier General Cadwalader's command had also crossed the plain, when some five thousand or six thousand troops of the enemy were observed moving rapidly from the direction of the capital to the field of action. Colonel Morgan, with his large and fine regiment which I had caused to be detached from the rear of Pierce's brigade, was now ordered to the support of Cadwalader, by direction of the general-in-chief, who had now arrived upon the field."

This portion of the enemy's forces moved steadily forward until a conflict seemed inevitable, when Colonel Morgan's regiment. having reached this part of the field, presented a front so formidable as to induce the enemy to change his purpose, and draw off to the right and-rear of his former position.

The advance of Morgan was in a diagonal line from near the hill of observation, where Scott and Pillow had established themselves, across the pedrigal (volcanic slag) which extended to Contreras. The pedrigal was broken by abrupt chasms and nearly as sharp as glass. Ea route Morgan met Lieutenant Beauregard, of the engineers (confederate general in the civil war), returning from having conducted Cadwalader's brigade to its position. Beauregard returned and conducted Morgan to the right of Cadwalader. The moment Morgan formed, he advanced in line to the crest of a slope in front and halted. The enemy's column also halted; sent forth an engineer officer to make a reconnoissance. He approached so near that his retreat was cut off, and he was captured, when the enem changed direction to the right; and the fight which seemed imminent was postponed.

The night soon closed in. It was black and tempestuous; and the rain poured down in torrents. .after midnight, the brigades of Persifer Smith, Shields, Cadwalader, and Morgan's regiment, passed between the right of the enemy's line, and the fort of Contreras, which was stormed by Riley's brigade at dawn. The fighting, from the firing of the first to the last gun, occupied about seventeen minutes.

The enemy's loss was seven hundred killed, eight hundred and thirteen prisoners, the wounded included; twenty-seven cannon and a number of standards; while Scott's loss Was only sixty.

The enemy fell back to the rivulet of Cherubusco, where another battle was fought on that afternoon, August 20, 1847. In his report Scott says, "The Ninth, Twelfth, and Fifteenth regiments under Colonel Ransom, Captain Wood, and Colonel Morgan, of Pierce's brigade; and the New York and the South Carolina volunteers. under Colonels Burnett and Butler; together with the mountain howitzer, under Lieutenant Reno, of the ordinance corps, all. shated in the glory of this action, our fifth victory in the same day. Several changes in command occurred on this field. Thus: Colonel Morgan being severely wounded, the command of the Fifteenth infantry devolved on Lieutenant Colonel Howard; Colonel Burnett receiving a like wound, the command of the New York volunteers fell to Lieutenant Colonel Baxter; and on the fall of the lamented Colonel P. M. Butler, earlier, badly wounded but continuing to lead nobly in the hottest of the battle, the command of the South Carolina volunteers devolved, first on Lieutenant Colonel Dickenson, who being severely wounded, as before at Vera Cruz, the regiment was ultimately tinder the command of Major Gladden."

In his report, Pillow says:

" I cannot distinguish between the conduct of the commanders of regiments in my division. They all acted a distinguished part, as did their field and company officers; though the circumstances of battle caused Ransom's, Morgan's, and Trousdale's. regiments, and the Twelfth infantry, under command of Lieutenant Colonel Bonham, on the nineteenth and twentieth, to be most actively engaged. In this last engagement, the gallant Colonel Morgan was wounded severely, when

the command of the Fifteenth regiment devolved on Lieutenant Colonel Howard."

In reviewing the operations of that glorious day, Scott thus gives the results: "The army has in a single day, in many battles, as often defeated thirty-two thousand men; made about three thousand prisoners, including eight generals (two of them ex-presidents), and two hundred and five officers, killed or wounded four; thousand of all ranks, besides entire corps dispersed and dissolved; captured thirty-seven pieces of ordnance, with a large number of small arms, and a full supply of ammunition. Our loss amounts to one thousand and fifty-three killed and wounded."

"For gallant and meritorious conduct in the battles of Contreas and Cherubusco," Colonel Morgan was brevetted brigadier general in the regular army of the United States. He was then twenty-seven years of age. On his return to Ohio, at the conclusion of the war, he was welcomed back with every demonstration of regard. A banquet was tendered him at the capital of the State, and a superb sword, with gold mounting, was presented to him by citizens of the State, and the citizens of Knox county, gave him a splendid brace of holster revolvers with silver handles. He resumed the practice, of the

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law, and was elected prosecuting attorney; as his practice rapidly increased, he declined being a candidate for a second term, and formed a partnership with James G. Chapman, under the style of Morgan & Chapman.

In 1853 President Pierce tendered General Margan a mission in Europe, which he declined. Two years afterwards, his health broke down, and he was offered and accepted the consulate at Marseilles in the south of France.

In every respect, except as to salary, Marseilles is an agreeable consulate. The place is thoroughly cosmopolitan, and probably at no other post in the world, can the flags and costumes of so many different nationalities be seen. And the general style is as much Oriental as European. From Marseilles, General Morgan was promoted to the post of minister to Portugal; a position at one time held by John Quincy Adams, and afterwards by James B. Clay.

Both as consul and as minister, General Morgan gave full satisfaction to his Gavernment. He was yet in Europe when the first battle of Bull Run was fought, and returned to the United States in the fall of 1861.

Civil war was a new experience in the United States. The angry flow of words at length culminated in the clash of arms. Reason had been fruitlessly exhausted, and force was the final, and only resource left.

The people of the North were divided into three classes.

The first was revolutionary-bent upon the destruction of slavery, even at the cost of the Union. To this class belonged Phillips, Garrison, Chase, and others.

The second desired to preserve the Union, with or without slavery; and at the head of this class stood President Lincoln.

Those who composed the third class, were in favor of preserving the Union at any cost of men and money, but were not only opposed to making slavery an object of the war, but were opposed to arming the slaves, on the ground that the ballot would inevitably follow the use of the bayonet, and that the colored people were not prepared for the elective franchise. To this class belonged George W. Morgan, the subject of this sketch.

In December, 1861, General Morgan was consulted by Secretary Chase as to the policy of invading Texas, and as to his willingness to assume the command of a column to occupy that State. He replied in writing, and recommended the invasion. Among other reasons he gave the following:

"The occupation of Texas would prevent supplies of beef and corn from being sent into Louisiana, and the importation of munitions of war, and the exportation of cotton, by way of the Rio Grande. If the invasion were conducted in a spirit of magnanimity it would consolidate the Union men in Texas, and thereby weaken the rebellion."

About a week after the plan had been submitted to Secretary Chase, he received a note requesting General Morgan to call at his residence that evening. When he called he was met at the door by Mr. Chase, who congratulated him on the approval of his views as to the invasion of Texas. The Secretary told him that his fortune was in his own hands. He then asked Morgan what he thought of the propriety of organizing colored regiments in Texas. He replied that to do so would consolidate the south and divide the north; that the policy would be bad as a matter of strategy.

Other interviews were had without result, and General Morgan returned to Ohio. Shortly afterward he received the following letter:

TREASURY DEPARTMENT, January 16, 1862.

My Dear General:

I have learned recently that General Butler was authorized to raise troops for Texas, with the expectation of commanding the expedition, before your name was mentioned for the post by me.

" It would gratify me beyond measure if you would consent to join him as a brigadier general. I should then be confident of success. I am sure you can have the post, if you say the word.

"Yours truly,. S. P. CHASE.

"General G. W. Morgan."

The civil war occupied a vast area, upon whose surface several campaigns were being conducted at the same time, but hundreds of miles apart.

Among the military points regarded as of importance was Cumberland Gap. Mr. Lincoln had, in 1861, suggested the propriety of building a railroad, connecting Lexington, Kentucky, with that place. East Tennessee once in the possession of a large Union army, the evacuation of Virginia would become inevitable. But a mountain wildnerness lay between the two places, and the gap itself was regarded as impregnable, if properly supplied with military stores.

In April, 1862, General Morgan was assigned to the command of the Seventh division of the army of the Ohio, composed of four brigades of infantry, embracing fourteen regiments, one battalion of cavalry, and four batteries of artillery. The brigades were commanded by Brigadier Generals Carter, Spears, Baird, and Colonel de Courcy.

During several months Carter had been in position at Cum berland Ford with a force inadequate for active operations against that stronghold.

When Morgan assumed command he found many of the troops threatened with scurvy. The roads had been impassable, and Carter's brigade had been living on short rations of salt provisions, and wholly without fresh meat. By telegraph Morgan ordered cattle to be driven up from the blue grass region twice a week. As there was no forage they were at once slaughtered, and fresh beef was supplied to the troops. The companies forming the different regiments were supplied with arms of different calibres, and there was but one battery, and it was composed of only four guns. A redistribution of arms was ordered; new arms were brought forward, and each regiment was supplied guns of the same calibre.

Two reconnaissances one secret, one armed-were made, and Morgan became satisfied that Cumberland Gap could not be taken by an attack in front.

Several times the enemy sent spies into his lines, and instead of shooting them Morgan utilized them to his own purposes. One of them pretended to be a zealous Union man, dined with Morgan, who afforded him an opportunity of overhearing a conversation carried on in an adjoining tent in regard to his plans. The spy learned that a column of fifty thousand men was shortly to be concentrated at Cumberland ford, when the Gap was at once to be attacked in front, and turned by heavy columns by way of Rogers and Big Creek Gaps. This fable was carried to Knoxville, and laughed at. A heavily laden wagon had never gone over Rogers Gap, and the defiles leading to the gap at Big creek were heavily blockaded for eighteen miles.

In the meantime, Morgan sent Spears with his brigade to clear the blockades; with orders to fall back on the approach of an enemy, and to return to the blockade when he retired. The enemy did advance in force to cut off Spears; but warned in

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time, he fell back, and again resumed the work, after the enemy had recrossed the mountain.

Brigadier General Carter L. Stephenson, with five thousand men, held Cumberland Gap; Lieutenant General E. Kirby Smith, a vigilant and able officer, with a force of ten thousand men, was at Knoxville, while two brigades in Powell's Valley, watched Big Creek Gap, and another force held Chattanooga.

When his plans were completed Morgan, by telegraph, requested Buell to cause a demonstration to be made against Chattanooga in order to cause Smith's army in the field to go to the relief of that place. Morgan then occupied a narrow defile at the Moss house, where the Deer Creek road debouches, and threw up a work there in order to becloud the enemy at the gap as to his plans. When ready to move he seized every suspected person between the Moss house and the gap, and each day sent a brigade over the Deer Creek road, until at length the whole division had gone forward. The crossing at what is miscalled Rogers' gap, was full of difficulty. The guns were dragged up the mountain side by the aid of block and tackle, and by this means a battery, composed of six twentypounder Parrott guns, was carried across the mountains. At the foot of the mountain on the south side the enemy had a cavalry post. The pickets heard the heavy thud of the artillery wagons, and spread the alarm, after having captured one or two stragglers belonging to (organ's column. The Knoxville Whig announced that east Tennessee was invaded by fifty thousand Yankees, and as Morgan kept his army concealed in the dense forest until it was fully concentrated, the very stiilness of his command gave his movement an air of mystery, which was greatly in his favor. His division was concentrated on the afternoon of the sixteenth of June, and at 1 o'clock on the morning of the eighteenth he advanced. in two columns, by parallel roads, to attack the gap.

The men had their cooked breakfasts in their haversacks, and their canteens filled with coffee. At daylight they halted for breakfast. A force of the enemy was known to have been on the night previous, about three miles in advance of the breakfast halt. Morgan had not slept during the previous night, and went into a house by the road side, to snatch a few moments sleep. He was soon awakened by Colonel de Courcy, who came in with a farmer who reported that the enemy was evacuating the confederate stronghold. The march was renewed, and the footprints of the confederates on their retreat were still fresh when the Union troops took possession of the place.

The occupation of this stronghold was more glorious than gaining a battle. It was a victory achieved without the loss of a life, and was fully appreciated by the Secretary of War, by the general commanding the army, to which the Seventh division belonged, and by the country. The following telegrams and general order, speak for themselves:

" WASHINGTON, June 22, 1862. Brigadier General Morgan:

This department has been highly gratified with your successful operations against Cumberland Gap, and commend the gallant conduct and labors of your officers and troops, to whom you will express the thanks of the President and of this department.

It is out of the power of this department to supply you at present with any cavalry for offensive operations, and as your force can for some time be advantageously employed defensively in its present position, I trust you will not need it. With thanks for your diligence and activity, I remain, yours truly,

EDWIN M. STANTON, Secretary of War."

"HEADQUARTERS,

ARMY OF THE OHIO. IN CAMP,

HUNTSVILLE, ALABAMA, July 11, 1862.

General Order, No. 27.

The general commanding the army of the Ohio, takes pleasure in announcing the success of an arduous campaign by the Seventh division, Brigadier General Morgan, commanding, by which the enemy's fortified position at Cumberland Gap was turned, and his force compelled to retreat as our troops advanced to the attack.

The general thanks Brigadier General Morgan and the troops of the Seventh division, for the ability displayed in their operations against this important stronghold, and for the energy, cheerfulness, and fortitude which they exhibited in their struggles with difficulties of the most formidable magnitude for an army.

By command of Major General Buell,

JAMES B. FRY,

Colonel and chief of staff."

Morgan intended to advance on Knoxville, and established an arsenal at the Gap, containing a large supply of ammunition and four thousand extra stand of arms.

The following dispatch was sent to General Buell, and the Secretary of War:

"CUMBERLAND GAP, June 22, 1862.

I might as well be without eyes as without cavalry. The enemy is said to have taken up a strong position in the Clinch mountains, in the direction of Morristown, but not on the route I would advance, if authorized to go forward; but this place would be threatened by the enemy's position were I to pursue another route. One strong brigade with six heavy guns, and five hundred cavalry to act as scouts and foragers should be left here; and I should be strengthened by two brigades of infantry, one battery of artillery, and two regiments of cavalry. With such a force I could sweep East Tennessee of every rebel soldier. My effective force is now about seven thousand five hundred men of all arms.

GEORGE W. MORGAN,

Brigadier general commanding." Every energy was at once directed to strengthen Cumberland Gap. Lieutenant W. P. Craighill (now colonel of engineers) had charge of the work of fortification, and Captain Patterson, of the volunteer engineers, was engaged in the construction of a storehouse capable of containing six months supplies for twenty thousand men.

The whole question of holding that rugged fortress was one of supplies. This fact was well understood by the Union and the Confederate authorities. As has been already said, in 1861, Mr. Lincoln recommended the construction of a railroad from Lexington to that place.

The Hon. John Forsyth, of Alabama, a man of distinguished ability, and at one time a volunteer aid on the staff of Bragg, in his Memoranda of Facts bearing on the Kentucky Campaign, Says. "The strongholds of Cumberland Gap would have defied our combined armies in a direct assault."

On the thirtieth of June, 1862, Morgan telegraphed to Assistant Quartermaster General Swords, at Cincinnati: " We are in want of everything. We are destitute of forage."

On the twentieth of July, Engineer Craighill telegraphed to Brigadier General Totten, chief of the department of engineers: "The country in our rear is exhausted. That in our front soon will be."

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On the twenty-third of July Morgan telegraphed to the Secretary of War and General Buell: " My supplies are very short." On the eighth of August he telegraphed to Captain Brown in charge of the base of supplies at Lexington, Kentucky: "Twenty-five thousand of the enemy are between this place and Knoxville, and the enemy's troops 'are constantly arriving by way of Dalton. The safety of this place depends upon the supplies you can rush forward. Not a second is to be lost. Give us supplies and we will hold this place, regardless of the enemy's force." On the tenth of August Morgan telegraphed to Buell and Stanton "I have about three weeks' supplies.".

On the night of August 16, 1862, the army of Stephenson, variously estimated at from fourteen to twenty-five thousand men, went into position about four miles west of Cumberland Gap, and a few days previously the army of Kirby Smith entered Kentucky by way of Rogers and Big Creek Gaps. Smith established his headquarters at Barbourville and sent two divisions under McKown to summon Morgan to surrender. He replied: " Present my compliments to General.Smith, and say, that if he wants this post he must come and take it."

Thousands of brave soldiers have been sacrificed to gratify the vanity of their commander. Smith was too wise a general and too true a man to uselessly throw away the lives of his men. He knew Cumberland Gap and the wilderness country which surrounds it. Morgan was hemmed in on every side, and he regarded his surrender as inevitable; and it was so reported to the Government at Richmond.

On the sixteenth of August Morgan telegraphed to the Secretary of War, and to Buell: "Kirby Smith cannot possibly remain three weeks in my immediate rear, while I can hold this place five weeks with my present command." He did hold the Gap four weeks and five days from that time. But Bragg and Smith remained in Kentucky until the middle of October. General in Chief Halleck telegraphed as follows. The telegram was sent to Lexington, and thence to Morgan by private courier:

"WASHINGTON CITY, twenty-second August, 1862.

GENERAL MORGAN, Cumberland Gap: Hold on firmly. You will soon be reenforced. Don't yield an inch. Fight the enemy whenever he appears, and I will see that you are very- soon supported with other troops. Try to open communications with General Buell; if you cannot do this. telegraph to General Wright at Cincinnati.

H. W. HALLECK.

General in chief."

Morgan did not ask for men, but rations to feed an army, strong enough to hold the gap against all the armies which environed him. Instead of wanting men, he sent men to aid in the defence of Lexington. The following note was also sent Morgan from Lexington, Kentucky:

"HEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES FORCES.

LEXINGTON, August 23, 1862.

GENERAL: Your despatches reached me safely. Their spirit makes me your servant forever. If your officers and regiments are similarly inspired the great gap will be ours as long as the hiils last. I will make a strong effort to relieve you. My brigades are already cu route in your direction. For reasons, I may nave to come slowly, but I will come.

Respectfully,

LEWIS WALLACE,

Major General.

To: General G. W. Morgan."

The promises of Halleck and Wallace were not, and could not be, made good. On the nineteenth of August the Union troops were driven back at Big Hill, and on the thirtieth of that month they were routed by an overwhelming force at Richmond, Kentucky. Lexington was abandoned, and in a few days more not a single soldier, wearing the Union uniform, was to be found between the Ohio river and Cumberland Gap.

During the thirty-three days that Cumberland Gap was invested, Morgan's troops were on less than half-rations; bread and other articles having been utterly exhausted. While thus threatened he made five assaults upon the out-posts of the enemy, took over five hundred prisoners, and killed or wounded one hundred and eighty men, against a loss of under forty on the Union side.

In order to save his artillery, cavalry, and wagon horses from starvation, and at the same time reinforce the Union column organizing at Lexington, Morgan mounted four hundred of Colonel Garrard's regiment, under the command of that officer, and sent him, and the batallion of cavalry, under Lieutenant Colonel Munday, to report to the commanding officer at Lexington.

One Tennessee batallion of Morgan's command fought at Big Hill, and three batallions at Richmond.

Smith withdrew from Cumberland Ford on September 1st, and Morgan sent the brigade of Colonel de Courcy to Manchester, in the hope of obtaining flour; but it was with difficulty that sufficient supplies could be got for his own brigades.

Colonel de Courcy wrote to General Morgan that he had received intelligence, which he regarded as reliabie, that a large force of the enemy was about to attack him, in which case he might be compelled to retire towards Boonville. 'To guard against the risk of having his command cut up in detail, on the morning of the seventeenth of September, Morgan dispatched Captain Joline with the following order to Colonel de Courcy:

"HEADQUARTERS, CUMBERLAND GAP,

SEPTEMBER 17, 1862.

Colonel.--.a courier arrived here this morning at two o'clock with information that the enemy, was beyond Lexington. The information you have received is entirely false, and I am satisfied no force is approaching you.

"You will in no event advance toward Boonville ; but in case you are threatened by a superior force, you will retreat to this place by way of Flat Lick, sending me a courier in advance.

"This order is imperative and relieves you from all responsibility. If threatened by as enemy not superior to your own force, fight him.

To COLONEL J. F. DE COURCY, G. W. MORGAN,

Com'd'g 4th Brigade Brig. Gen'l. Com'd'g 7th

7th Division. Division, Army of the Ohio.

The most painful position a commander can be placed in, is to he compelled to abandon a position he has captured by strategy or by battle. Such was Morgan's position. Without the loss of a life, by combined tactics and strategy, he had forced the enemy to abandon one of the strongest positions on the continent. He was now destitute of supplies; not a Union soldier was within two hundred miles, and he was engirdled by the armies of Stephenson, Bragg, Smith, and Humphrey Marshall; with the ubiquitous John Morgan, ready to pounce upon his flanks, front or rear at any moment.

The enemy would not attack; and starvation threatened the very existence of Morgan's army.

A council of war, composed of the division and brigade com-

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manders, unanimously decided that the place must be evacuated, and the following order was issued:

"HEADQUARTERS, 7TH DIVISION ARMY OF THE OHIO.

CUMBERLAND GAP, September 17, 1862.

SOLDIERS - YOU will be glad to learn that you are to be liberated from the duty of a garrison, to enter upon an active campaign. Three months ago the enemy who lies hidden in the woods before, fled from this stronghold on your approach. Supposing that you would be equally frightened by the approach of a foe, more than one month ago, he besieged, and proclaimed to the world that you were already prisoners. What has been the result? You sent Garrard and Munday to aid our friends, menaced by aft overwhelming force, and yet the enemy dared not attack volt. Afterwards you sent a brigade sixty miles away to procure supplies, and still the enemy slumbered on his arms. You have made five successful attacks upon his out-posts: captured Barbourville and London; made five hundred prisoners; and killed or wounded one hundred and eighty of the enemy, with but a tritfing loss oft your part. But you cannot longer wait to coax the enemy to unfurl his colors. A more glorious field awaits you, and in crushing the enemy on the soil of Kentucky, you will give freedom to Tennessee.

I know well, soldiers, that you trill be patient under difficulties, and heroic in clanger-that you will prove yourselves to be worthy of the great army of the Union.

GEORGE W. MORGAN,

Brig. Gen'l Comd'g."

With a piece of red chalk Morgan had already marked his line of retreat on the map, by way of Flat Lick, Manchester, Proctor, Hazle Green, West Liberty, and Grayson to the Ohio river. Major Lyons, Morgan's topographical engineer, had been the State geologist of Kentucky, and was familiar with every foot of the route thus marked.

"Major," said Morgan, "follow that red line and tell me what kind of a country it runs through. ' " It is a hellniferous country, sir; but by abandoning your artillery, wagons and mules, your infantry might get through. You can judge of the country by the names of its streams. Here is file Little Devil; there is the Big Devil, and yonder is Hell-for-certain creek; during the rainy season they are torrents; now they are all dry."

Morgan adhered to his plan and did not deviate from it by a mile on the march of two hundred and nineteen miles to file Ohio.

On the afternoon of the night of the retreat. a confederate flag approached the gap. It seemed like :t reconnoissance under a 'lag of truce. Morgan sent out Colonel Gallup, Fourteenth Kentucky, to receive it. He took along a box of cigars and some liquor, with instructions to beguile and amuse the enemy as long its possible. By mischance the quartermaster's buildings were fired, and the smoke curled over Poor Valley ridge, which masks a view of file gap from the south, and beyond which the representatives of the stars and bars and the stars and stripes were coquetting with each other.

"What is the meaning of that smoke?" asked a confederate. "Oh, replied Gallup. "the boys are burning brush on file mountains."

The confederates returned to their lines while the work of preparation went on. On the previous night a large wagon train was sent north tinder the escort of the Thirty-third Indiana and Wetmore's battery, and during the entire night of the seventeenth, the troops defiled through the gap. Toward day light Gallup fired the great store-house on the mountain, those to the valley, and fired the immense magazine and arsenal. The explosion was heard at Cumberland Ford, fourteen miles away. By daylight the head of the column reached. Flat Lick, twenty miles from the gap. That night the army rendezvoused at Manchester, where deCourcy was already in position. Here . Morgan halted one day to organize for the struggle before him. Just before the column resumed the line of march on the morning of the nineteenth, the cavalry of Stephenson made a dash at Morgan's train, but were promptly repulsed by the Sixth Tennessee, under Colonel Cooper.

Proctor, on the Kentucky river, was an important strategic point. and had it been occupied by a proper force, what the result would have been cannot now be known. It is situated on the high and abrupt banks of the river, and the crossing might have been rendered doubtful. General John H. Morgan had been there on the previous night, but after destroying the large flouring-mill; and a large quantity of flour, he fell back upon Irvine. The moment General George W. Morgan reached Proctor he pushed a brigade across the river, with a battery, and took possession of the opposite bank. This done, the I point of greatest danger was passed.

At Proctor there are diverging roads, one leading towards Irvine: two others, one of them almost impassable, towards Hazle Green; one running along a narrow ridge,, and the other along the North fork of the Kentucky. The former toad was almost destitute of water, and the little that was to be found was in holes away down eighty or one hundred feet amid the cliffs. The North fork was seldom travelled, and in many places had been washed away by the winter and spring freshets. Baird and Carter, the latter in front, were directed to proceed by that route, with the wagon train; and the credit of saving it from being abandoned or destroyed was mainly due to General Baird. and the indefatigable Captain Patterson.

With the brigades of Spears and de Courcy, Morgan advanced along the ridge to Hazle Green. where he halted one day, to let the brigades of Carter and Baird come up. Two confederate officers were captured at that place. From them Morgan learned that two divisions of Kirby Smith were at Mount Sterling, oft the main road between Lexington and Pound Gap, and that Humphrey Marshall was expected there. During the day, Carter came up, and as it was important to occupy West Liberty, in order to cut off communication between Pound Gap and Lexington, the next morning Morgan pushed forward with file brigades of Spears, de Courcy, and Carter, with the intention of awaiting Baird at West Liberty.

Between Proctor and Hazle Green John Morgan hovered about the Union column, and let no chance of advantage escape him; but it was between Hazle Green and West Liberty that he gave his namesake serious trouble. Every defile was blockaded with felled trees and huge rocks; and from every ambush, from behind which a dash could be made and a retreat be effected, was utilized. But the men of George Morgan were skilled in removing blockades, and abundantly supplied with axes, saws, block and tackle. Frequently, the advance guard of the Union general surprised the confederates in the very act of blockading the roads. A sharp skirmish would be the result, and it is believed that the confederates fared the worst. At one point the road was so thoroughly blockaded that an inspection showed that it would be easier to hew out a new road

through the forest, than to clear the old one. The ring of a thousand axes was soon heard in the forest, and every block and

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tackle was strained to the uttermost, and sufficient clearing was effected to allow the Union army to advance.

The moment Morgan reached West Liberty, he advanced with the brigade of de Courcy across a little stream, the only running water for twenty miles, towards Mount Sterling, and there planted his batteries and went into bivouac. Had an enemy advanced from Mount Sterling. he would have gone into action with his men and horses parched with thirst. But no enemy came. Morgan remained in position two days, and, as Baird had come up, the march was resumed towards the Ohio river.

It had been the purpose of Smith to attack Morgan, and for this purpose he had sent two divisions to Mount Sterling; but Bragg determined to concentrate his entire army, and Smith was ordered to join him.

There was frequent skirmishing between the two Morgans along the route from West Liberty to Grayson, at which point the Union army arrived at midnight on the second of October; and the next day. after having made a march of two hundred and nineteen miles through a country which has but few equals in the obstacles to be overcome by an army, the ten thousand Union soldiers, ragged, barefooted and hungry, went into camp on the banks of the beautiful Ohio.

Throughout the march General Morgan was ably sustained by Generals Baird, Carter, Spears, and Colonel John F. de Courcy, and by all his officers and soldiers.

Throughout the loyal States great anxiety had been felt for the safety of our little army at Cumberland Gap; and at Richmond the troops of Morgan's division were regarded as prisoners of war. When it was learned that they had safely reached the Ohio, the entire press of the loyal States spoke in terms of high commendation of Morgan and his successful retreat. The New York Post ranked it with the retreat of Xenephon; and the Herald demanded that he should be assigned to an independent command.

Major General Wright, then in command of the department of the Ohio, one of the ablest officers in our service, and now in command of the engineer department, made a report to the general in chief, from which the following extracts are made:

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE OHIO,

CINCINNATI, October 15, 1862.

GENERAL - I have the honor to transmit herewith a copy of the report of Brigadier General G. W. Morgan, dated the twelfth instant, detailing the circumstances occasioning the withdrawal of his forces from Cumberland Gap.

It appears from this report that the evacuation, which was in pursuance of the unanimous opinion of the general officers of the command, was a matter of necessity, arising from the provisions being exhausted, their communication being cut off, and no information of any prospect of relief being received.

While the evacuation of the gap is to be regretted, I do not see how, with starvation staring him in the face, and with no certainty of relief being afforded, he could have come to any other conclusion than the one arrived at. After the unfortunate battle near Richmond, Kentucky, the entire country between the Ohio river and Cumberland Gap was in possession of the rebels.

The march of General Morgan from Cumberland Gap to the Ohio river was most successfully accomplished, and reflects much credit on him and his officers for the skill with which it was conducted, and on the men for the cheerfulness with which they bore the hardships of a toilsome match of some two hundred miles, on scanty fare, over a country affording little subsistence, and often for long marches with an insufficient supply of water.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

H. G. WRIGHT,

Major General commanding.

H. W. HALLECK, General in Chief.

On the evacuation of Cumberland Gap, Captain de Silva and about two hundred other Union soldiers were left in the hospital at that place. General Morgan had left a letter to General Stephenson, commending the sick and wounded in our hospital to his especial protection; and they were not only treated with kindness, but with marked courtesy. One day Captain de Silva was invited to dine with Colonels Rains and Vance, both brigade commanders, each of whom became a brigadier general.

During the dinner they narrated to Captain de Silva, Stephenson's plan for Morgan's capture, which the confederates regarded as certain. Colonel Vance's brigade was composed of five infantry regiments and five hundred Indians. This force was at Baptist Gap, on the north side of the mountain, only four miles ftom Cumberland Gap. From Baptist Gap runs the Yellow Creek road, parallel to the Kentucky State road from Cumberland Gap. From-the latter point is another road, parallel to the Kentucky road, but on the north and east side of the Cumberland river. On the morning of the eighteenth of September, Vance ryas to have passed along the Yellow Creek road, until within three miles of Cumberland ford, when he was to have crossed the mountain and placed his command in ambush along a defile of less than one hundred yards between the mountain and the river. The moment Morgan left the gap, Stephenson was to have sent five thousand men by the Harland road, on Morgan's right flank, while he was to press Morgan from the rear; and the north side of Cumberland ford was to have been occupied by infantry and artillery. Had these plans been executed, Morgan's division would have been in a network of-steel.

In 1864 General Vance was a prisoner at Camp Chase, and Morgan wrote to hirn through the headquarters of General Heintzelman, commanding the district of Ohio; and Vance's reply was received through the same channel.

"CAMP CHASE, OHIO,

March 22, 1864.

My dear sir: Your favor of yesterday from Columbus was handed to me to-day, and I hasten to make such response as I feel to be consistent with my duty to my feelings of embarrassment in fully complving with your request. While, therefore, I am anxious to gratify the desire of so gallant a foeman as you proved yourself to be, I must bear in mind that my own brethren in arms are now in front of Cumberland Gap. It is true that time has elapsed sufficient for the Federal troops to know every path across the mountains, and native guides, are doubtless, always in readiness to point out the passages; yet if by any turn a statement of mine should be used to the prejudice of my country, I should regard myself as blameable in the highest degree.

I think, although that my duty does not prevent my saying that I did have the honor to command a brigade at the time mentioned by you, and had the way opened, proposed for use, sufficiently to cross the mountain,-and did effect a crossing, on the morning (September 18, 1862), the last of your troops left the Gap. Without going into details, I will say that in a short time our troops would have covered the Yellow Creek and the

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Harlan roads, in your rear, and would thus effectually have cut off your retreat, your front being pressed at the same time.

It was the opinion of every officer of rank in the command, that you moved exactly at the proper time, and with great skill and judgment. Let it be borne in mind, that a few days previous, General Leadbetter was in your rear, and of course the difficulties of retreat would have been greatly enhanced. His moving off, and our other plans not consummated, left the way open for you, and you wisely availed yourself of the opening.

I remember with pleasure the chivalrous bearing of the troops on both sides in the frequent skirmishes between them, as well as the courtesy which prevailed in times of less excitement and activity.

I am, General, with great respect, your obliged and obedient servant.

ROBERT B. VANCE

Brigadier General C. S. A.

GENERAL GEORGE W. MORGAN.

Columbus, Ohio."

The narrative of Morgan's operations in the Cumberland mountains, cannot be better closed than by the following letter from Secretary Chase.

"TREASURY DEPARTMENT, June 23, 1864

My dear General: Your note with the copy of your letter to General Thomas (adjutant general of U. S. A.), was received this morning, and 1 thank you for the opportunity of reading the letter. It seems to show conclusively that had you been properly supported, east Tennessee would now have been permanently restored to the Union, and a great internal position secured, from which the Rebellion could have been struck in any direction effectively. I saw the great necessity for the movement in the spring of 1861, and conferred with General McClellan on the subject. It is a mystery to me that it has not been effected. Your ideas put into practical accomplishment, would have saved many a life and many a campaign.

Sincerely yours,

S. .P. CHASE.

BRIGADIER GENERAL MORGAN."

The Seventh division of the .Army of the Ohio was now dissolved, and General Morgan was directed to report to General W. T. Sherman, at Memphis, with the brigade of de Courcy and Foster's battery. He was assigned to the command of the Third division of Sherman's army, composed of three brigades.

A movement against Vicksburgh was in preparation-Grant to advance upon an interior line, and Sherman by the Mississippi.

Before the flotilla had left Memphis it was there known that President Lincoln had designated General John A. McClernand (an officer in whom he had great confidence), for the command of the army to operate against Vicksburgh. It is believed that the knowledge of that fact caused the premature departure of the army from Memphis, and the loss of one thousand eight hundred men in front of Chickasaw bluffs.

Sherman's army, then called the right wing of the Thirteenth army corps, was composed of the divisions of Steele, Morgan, Morgan L. Smith, and A. J. Smith.

The plan was to carry the bluffs in the rear of Vicksburgh from the direction of the Yazoo.

These bluffs were impregnable against attack; were protected by a large bayou, several lagoons and marshes. Two causeways, each about twelve feet wide, led through the marshes to solid ground, but they were commanded by the trenches and batteries of the enemy.

The division of A. J. Smith was on the right, and no assault was attempted.

The division of Steele was on the left, beyond the bayou, with one of the narrow causeways leading through the marsh to dry land. Steele reported that the position in his front was impregnable, and his division was massed on the left centre, in rear of the division of Morgan.

The enemy then withdrew from his right, and massed his troops in front of Morgan.

Morgan L. Smith occupied the right centre, Morgan the left centre.

On the twenty-eighth of December Morgan L. Smith was severely wounded, and his division was placed under the command of A. J. Smith.

General Sherman regarded two lines of attack as practicable; the one in front of Morgan's division, and the other in front of the division of Morgan L. Smith. Of one of these practicable routes Sherman says:

"Meantime the Sixth Missouri infantry (division of M. L. Smith), at heavy loss, also crossed the bayou, but could not ascend the steep bank. Right over their heads was a rebel battery, whose fire was in a measure kept down by sharpshooters posted behind logs, stumps, and trees, on our side of the bayou. The men of the Sixth Missouri actually scooped out with their hands caves in the bank, which sheltered them against the fire of the enemy, who right over their heads held their muskets outside of the parapet vertically and fired down."

It was over such ground that an assault was ordered to be made after a reconnoissance, as we are told, by General Sherman.

Morgan's front was like that of Steele's original position, with the addition that Morgan had the bayou to overcome. His troops had to advance under fire, through a morass knee deep with tangled weeds and water, or over the narrow causeway, less than twelve feet wide.

Five brigades were under the immediate command of Morgan. The ground was such, that it was impossible to send more than two--each of four regiments, to the assault.

In his official report written four days after the action was fought, Sherman says: "It was near twelve o'clock (noon) when Morgan was ready." " ` * "The assault was made, and a lodgment effected on the hard tableland near the county road, and the heads of the assaulting columns reached different points of the enemy's works, but then met so withering a fire from the rifle pits, and cross fire of grape and cannister from the batteries, that the columns faltered, and finally fell back to the point of starting, leaving many dead, wounded and prisoners in the hands of the enemy.

"General Morgan's first report to me was that the troops were not discouraged, though the losses in Blair's and de Courcy's brigades were heavy, and that he would renew the assault in half an hour, but the assault was not renewed."

In twenty minutes time, the brigades of Blair and de Courcy, in killed, wounded, and taken prisoners, lost about one thousand eight hundred men. Despite that, the troops were of good heart, and on any ground upon which a battle could have been fought, would have advanced to the assault with a cheer.

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making a reconnoissance. which showed the field strewn with the dying and the dead, and observing the confident calm along the lines of the enemy, who would not fire on the newly massed columns, although within easy range, he determined not to double the sacrifice, when there was no possibility of success; ordered the brigades to retire, and reported the fact to Sherman in person.

In his report, Sherman says: " I assume all the responsibility, and attach fault to no one, and am generally satisfied with the high spirit manitested by all." "I attribute our failure to the strength of the enemy's position, both natural and artificial, and not to his superior fighting; but as we must all, in the future, have ample opportunities to test this quality, it is foolish to discuss it." "The only real fighting done during the assault, was done by Morgan's and Steele's divisions, and at the time of the crossing of the Sixth Missouri." The following is quoted from the Memoirs of Sherman:

"There was no bungling on my part, for I never worked harder, or with more intensity in my life; and General Grant, long after, in his report of the operations of the siege of Vicksburgh, gave us all full credit for the skill of the movement, and described the almost impregnable nature of the ground."

Napoleon was once asked, "What qualities make the ablest general?" His reply wets, "He is the best general who makes the fewest mistakes." And he might have added-there never was a general who did not make mistakes. After the return of the army from the capture and destruction of Post Arkansas, Grant reenforced it with additional troops, and still more by his own presence. He captured Vicksburgh, but he did not attempt to do so from the direction of the Yazoo. He crossed to the Louisiana bank of the river; marched past Vicksburgh on the opposite side; run transports past the enemy's batteries in the nighi; recrossed the Mississippi and captured Vicksburgh. That was generalship, not a mistake; but it is a mistake to select the enemy's strongest point of defence for assault.

After the repulse at Chickasaw, General John A. McClernand assumed the command of the army, now styled the army of the Mississippi, which was organized into the First and Second corps. The command of the first corps composed of the divisions of A. J. Smith and Osterhaus, was a-signed to Morgan; and the second, composed of the divisions of Steele and Stuart, to Sherman, successor to Morgan L. Smith.

McClernand embarked his army, and under the convoy of Porter's gun-boats, proceeded to Post Arkansas, called Fort Hindman, by the enemy.

The fort was defended by seven thousand five hundred men, and is thus described by Morgan in his report: " Post Arkansas is situated on a bluff, about twenty-five feet above the water, on the left bank of the Arkansas, and two hundred and fifty miles above its mouth. The fort (since destroyed by order of Major General McClernand) was a little above a bend, and oblique to the nver, facing southwest and northeast. On the southern face of this fort were two strongly constructed casemated works, riveted with iron bars. Each casemate contained one nine inch gun, and both commanded the approach from down the river. In the southwestern section there was a nine inch traverse gun in barbette, and there were ten other guns in barbette. During the action on the eleventh of January, 1863, seven of the thirteen guns were utterly destroyed by the combined fire of the gun-boats; and four twenty pounders of Fosters battery-Osterhaus' division-which opened fire on the fort at a range of eight hundred yards. Fragments of shell from the gun-boats and twenty-pounders were found within the casemates."

The field upon which the action was fought is a parallelogram of about one thousand yards square. The southern face rests upon the river, the east or northeast is formed of the east face of the fort, and a broken line of rifle pits, protected by wooden traverses, and running in a northeasterly. direction about seven hundred and twenty yards to a small bayou which, on the day of battle was twelve feet wide and eighteen inches deep, across which were several easy fords. Across the bayou, beyond the extreme left of the enemy's line is a forest with undergrowth, amid which is a slight elevation, which flanks the line occupied by the enemy's rifle pits. Had General Sherman succeeded in turning the enemy's left, as contemplated by the original plan of General McClernand, and planted a battery upon that elevation, it would have enfiladed the enemy's rifle pits and driven him from his cover in twenty minutes.

It will be remembered that Post Arkansas is on the left bank of the river. By land it is five, and by water twelve miles from Fletcher's landing, on the right bank. At the fort the river turns abruptly to the left, and runs for three miles in a southeasterly direction nearly parallel to its own channel. below the fort; so that from Fletcher's on the right bank to Smith's on the right bank, across the bend, is only three miles, and Smith's is three miles from the fort.

By direction of General McClernand, Morgan sent Lindsay's brigade with a section of ten, and a section of twenty-pounders under Captain Foster, and Captain McBride's cavalry company to land at Fletcher's and push across to Smith's, and from thence to establish a chain of videttes to the bank opposite the fort.

As soon as the guns of the fort were silenced, Lindsay caused his guns so to be placed in position as to enfilade the enemy's rifle pits, and the battery of artillery, and the infantry in the field in their rear.

The handling of these guns was admirable. The fuses were cut so as to explode the shells at estimated distances; and this unexpected raking fire filled the enemy's trenches with dead; silenced the field artillery behind them, and largely contributed to the result of the day.

Morgan's corps occupied the left, and that of Sherman the right of the Union line, and both bore themselves gallantly.

In his report, General McClernand spoke in terms of commendation of the technical and strategic skill displayed by General Morgan during these operations, which closed his services in the civil war. His health was seriously broken, and he resigned.

In 1864 General Morgan returned to the practice of the law. The next year he was nominated by acclamation as the Democratic candidate for governor, against General J. D. Cox. The majonty against him was under thirty thousand, while it was over one hundred thousand two years previously.

He was three times nominated by acclamation, and three times elected to Congress from the district composed of the counties of Knox, Licking, Coshocton, and Muskingum. His majority over Mr. Delano was two hundred and seventy-one. his seat was contested and he was ousted in Mr. Delano's favor during the second session of the Fortieth Congress. He was renominated in 1868, and was elected by over sixteen hundred majority. He was again nominated in 1870, and carried the same district by over two thousand one hundred majority.

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posed of the counties of Knox, Morrow, Delaware, Union, Marion, and Hardin.

Morgan, for the fourth time, was nominated by acclamation, and was only beaten by about four hundred votes; although three weeks afterwards Grant carried the same district by two thousand two hundred.

While in Congress Morgan served on the committees on Foreign Relations, Military Affairs, and Reconstruction; and in the Forty-second Congress received the votes of the Democrats for speaker, against Blaine, Republican. Since then he has been engaged in the practice of his profession, and declares his purpose not to be again a candidate.

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NEAL, GEORGE D., carriage manufacturer, corner Front and Main streets, Mt. Vernon, Ohio. A native of Mt. Vernon, was born September 20, 1844, and was educated in the public schools of this city. His first business engagement was with the firm of J. W. Weaver, wholesale and retail grocer, as salesman, where he served about three years, and then was in the employ of James George & Son one year. He then entered the employ of S. H. & L. W. Jackson, carriage manufacturers, to learn carriage trimming, and remained with them until the dissolution of the firm, after which he served other firms as journeyman at carriage trimming until 1871, when he established himself in the carriage business, in which he still continues. In 1877 he added to the carriage business that of shipping green fruits, cider, and vinegar, and in favorable seasons he ships about five thousand barrels of apples, and about five hundred barrels of vinegar. In the carriage business he carries a stock of about four thousand dollars, and manufactures all kinds of double and single carriages and light wagons, and does a business of from ten to twenty thousand dollars per year, and employs from eight to ten hands in the different departments. He occupies the commodious buildings erected by himself expressly for the business, which consists of a twostory brick building, thirty-two by sixty-three feet, with a twostory frame addition, twenty by thirty feet. Residence at No. 27 East Vine street.

NEIBEL, GEORGE W., Milford township, deceased, was born in Licking county, in 1829. He came to Knox county with his parents, and was reared on a farm, and always followed it as his occupation. He married Miss Mary A. Twist, February 29, 1852; she is the daughter of Peter and Catharne Twist, nee Reardsly. Site was born in New York, and came to Ohio about 1834, with her parents. Her father was a soldier in the War of 1812. The subject of this notice enlisted in company B. One Hundred and Forty-second regiment Ohio National guard. After his return home he was taken sick with lung disease, from which he died, April 11, 1866. They had one child, John H., born June 4, 1854. He is a man of sterling qualities, is well read, and highly esteemed by the community. He was married to Miss Ida A., daughter of David H. Speelman, November 18, 1880. They reside on the farm where he was reared.

NEIDERHOUSE. JACOB, Union township, farmer, post office, Rossville, born in Switzerland, in 1829, and came to this country in 1852. He settled in Holmes county, Ohio, where he lived fourteen years, and 1867 settled in Union township, where he now is. He was married in 1854, but his wife only lived three years. His second marriage was in 1858, to Miss C. Frederick. They have nine children-Mary, John, Robert, Samuel, Caroline, Lavina, Edward, Cora, and William. Mary married Daniel Kirk, and moved to Coshocton county, where she now lives.

NEFF. PETER, Gambier, Knox county, Ohio.-Resident twenty-one years, and has been engaged for many years in the development of the county for petroleum, and in the manufacture of Diamond Black. See his pamphlets, and the Ohio State Geological Survey, etc.

NEWELL, JAMES, deceased, born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, May 20, 1782. He married Miss Polly Fleming. July 11, 1811, who was born in Pennsylvania, July 17, 1792. Mr. Newell located in Clinton township in 1819. He died December 7, 1848, aged sixty-six years, and his wife, April 15, 1850, aged fifty-eight.

NEWTON, REV. CHARLES H., Mt. Vernon, deceased, was born at Warren, Washington county, Ohio, in September, 1820. He received a classical education at Marietta college, in which institution he graduated in 1845. Determined to lead a ministerial life, he entered Lane Theological seminary at Cincinnati, where he graduated in 1848. Immediately thereafter, on June 15, 1848, he was married to Miss Catharine Walter, of Walnut Hills, near Cincinnati. He took charge of the congregation of the Presbyterian church at New Richmond, Ohio, in 1848, where he remained six years, giving great satisfaction to the people, and doing much good. From New Richmond he removed to Delaware, Ohio, in October, 1855, where he remained for about fourteen years, very much beloved by his people, until he was chosen chaplain of the Ohio penitentiary, at Columbus, in 1870. As chaplain he was very popular, and his kind words and whulesome advice will long be remembered by those whose transgressions forced them to become inmates of that institution.

During his chaplaincy, Mr. Newton suggested and aided the officers of the penitentiary in introducing many reforms into the government of that institution, which were of great practical good to the inmates. His system of prison reform has been adopted in the government of nearly every institution of the kind in the United States.

From Columbus Mr. Newton came to Mt. Vernon in June, 1874, and had charge of the Presbyterian congregation up to the time of his death. He also preached to the congregation at Millwood.

He died at his residence in Mt. Vernon, August 8, 1878, after about a week's sickness. His disease was paralysis of the heart. The funeral took place on Saturday, August 10, 1878. The memorial services were held at the Presbyterian church on the next morning, Sunday, August 11th The funeral service was conducted by the Rev. William E. Moore, pastor of the Second Presbyterian church, of Columbus, assisted by the Rev. William Thompson, rector of St. Paul's Episcopal church, in this city, and by the Rev. Iarns, of the Baptist church. Dr. Moore preached from the words: "For me to live is Christ, and to die is gain."

NEWTON BROTHERS, corner West High street and public square, Mt. Vernon, Ohio. Walter M. and Frank B. Newton, are sons of the Rev. O. H. Newton, who was at the time of his death pastor of the First Presbyterian church, Mt Vernon, and had occupied that pulpit for several years previously. Rev. Mr. Newton was at one time chaplain of the Ohio penitentiary,

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and during his chaplaincy started the prison reform movement that has since met with great success in all the prisons of the country. During his father's chaplaincy W. M. Newton served as assistant clerk in the office of the prison, and his brother, F. B. Newton, attended school.

The family came to Mt. Vernon in 1874, when W. M. entered the employ of T. B. Mead as salesman, with whom he remained two and a half years. He then formed a partnership with J. M. Tompkins, with whom he did business one year, when he bought out the interest of Mr. Tompkins, and formed a partnership with his brother, F. B. Newton, and the business has since been conducted under the firm of Newton Brothers. They commenced with a stock of about two thousand dollars and have met with marked success. They now carry a stock of about two thousand five hundred dollars. This firm is a new one; the partners are young and energetic, of good business habits, with moral characters beyond reproach; and they merit succcess and will win a rank among the mercantile men worthy of respect and honorable to themselves.

NIXON, ANDREW, farmer, Berlin township, post office, Shaler's Mills, was born in Jefferson county, in 1810, and was married to Mary Scarlet. They had one son, Michael, a resident of Mt. Vernon, Mrs. Nixon has deceased. Mr. Nixon's second marriage was with Jane Knight (Culberson), who was born in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, in 1816. They have one son, Edwin, who was born in 1862, and is living with his parents.

NICHOLS, JOHN, farmer, Pike township, post office, Democracy; born in Howard township, this county, in 1839, and was married in 1860 to Mary Hammel, who was born in Pike township in 1838. They have five children: Celesta A., born in 1861; Nancy Emogene, in 1864; Ardella F., in 1867; Permelia, in 1869, and John H. in 1873.

He was elected justice. of the peace in 1876, and was reelected in 1879, and is a very active Democrat of this township, always looking to the best interest of the township and county. He was engaged in the war about sixty days.

His father, John Nichols, deceased, was born in 1800, in Loudoun county, Virginia. He carne to Ohio in 1813, located in Mt. Vernon, and was married in 1820 to Sarah Davis, who was born near Hagerstown, Maryland, and came to Mt. Vernon in 1812. They had the following children: Martha, Sarah, Daniel (deceased), Peter, Jesse. Amos, Louisa, Rebecca (deceased), John, Jonas, and Drusilla. Mr. Nichols died in 1868, and Mrs. Sarah Nichols in 1879. They were among the earlier settlers of .Mt. Vernon, moved to Howard township, and remained there until 1860. Jesse, Daniel, and Jonas were soldiers in the late war. Daniel died from the effects of his service in the army. Jonas was a member of the Ohio National guard.

NICODEMUS, JACOB L., farmer, Middlebury township, post office, Fredericktown, was born in Maryland, in 1804, came to Ohio in 1852, and was married in 1835 to Susan Baile, who was born in Maryland in 1816. They had ten children, viz: Cecelia, born December 11, 1836; Evaline M., September 17, 1838; Ann S., February 17, 1840; Sarah L., June 7, 1841; Abraham P., August 27, 1843; Elizabeth M., August 20, 1845; Rachel F., June 28, 1848; Mary A., October 12, 1851; Charles W., November 22, 1853, and Susan C., August 12, 1857. The following children are dead: Evaline M. and Susan C. Cecelia was married to Lamvil S. Owen, and resides in Delaware county, Ohio; Evaline (deceased) was married to John Wells; Ann S. married to Marwin B. Gordon, they are now in Steuben county, Indiana; Sarah L. married Whiting Hawkins, of Morrow county; Abraham P. married Lucretia V. Reed, of Mansfield, Ohio; Elizabeth M. married Sheriden Ebersole, and resides in Ottawa county, Kansas; Rachel F. married Wellington Watkins, now living in Republic county, Kansas; Mary A. married Stuart J. Dixon, now living in this township; Charles W. married Martha E. Herendon and resides on the old home place.

Mrs. Nicodemus came to Morrow county in 1852, remained there until 1856, then located in Middlebury township; since that time he has been a resident of this township and has reared a large and respectable family of children, who are all married and have located as above noted.

NICHOLAS & ZUCK, proprietors of Green Valley flouringmills, Butler township, are prepared to do all kinds of merchant and custom work, also sawing at their saw-mill.

NORRICK, WILLIAM H., salesman, Pike township, post office, Democracy, born in 1850, in Harrison county, Ohio, and was married, in 1876, to Mary M. Donel, who was born in Ohio, in 1855. Mr. Nortick is engaged in selling buggies for Louis Cook, of Cincinnati, and has had good success, being the only man in this section of Ohio representing this manufacturing establishment.

NORTON, DANIEL S., deceased.-The first American settlers in the Attakapas of Orleans were the Nortons, who for several years endured contentedly the perils and privations in that then foreign climate, until sickness and death reduced their number and deprived them of their head and the managment of the affairs of Mrs. Ann Norton, and nine children, devolved entirely upon young Daniel S., who, possessed of a peculiar business mind, and an adventurous spirit, carried on various trading operations in the territory and the Mexican provinces. Some of his practical operations are worthy of notice.

He introduced the first sugar-cane in the Attakapas, and established that it could be cultivated successfully. His active and well informed mind, and inventive genius, were always striving to make improvements, and he first directed attention to the navigation of the bayous and rivers, and was interested in the first boat that engaged in their trade. He travelled on the first two boats that made trips on the Mississippi, and subsequently on the first boat built by a company at Brownsville, Pennsylvania, and run by Captain Gregg on the Lower Mississippi and Red rivers. His suggestions in construction and navigation, his knowledge of the rivers and the country, contributed much to those enterprises.

It was with the view of carrying on a trade with the, southern country that he located at Connellsville, Pennsylvania, and engaged in erecting machinery for manufacturing; and hence the deep solicitude for successful navigation of the rivers, to promote which he carried on correspondence, published articles, made investments, and labored industriously. The first cotton factory on the Youghiogheny (Pennsylvania) he erected, and operated successfully, bringing the raw cotton from his old home in Louisiana. His lands in that country were of great value, and his business there for about a half century was faithfully attended to by Governor Johnson, as his agent.

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marry Miss Sarah Banning, daughter of Rev. Anthony Banning. This was in 1816. He was still further irresistibly attracted by the-fine water power, fertile lands and beautiful prospects of Owl creek.

The building of machinery and improving of mills and manufacturing establishments may be said to have been the ruling passion of his life. A petition was presented to the general assembly of Ohio, when it met in Chillicothe, by Daniel S. Norton, John H. Platt, and Herman Long of Cincinnati, Asa Norton of Kentucky, and Abraham Baldwin of Pennsylvania, who had associated in manufacturing business, asking for encouragement of woollen manufactories, etc.

The first complete carding machines west of the Alleghany mountains were put up by Daniel S. Norton.

His career in this county-his efforts to promote education, home manufactures and internal improvementshis contributions to objects calculated to benefit the public-his assistance to old settlers in purchasing their farms and stock, making improvements, and providing fur their families-his kindness to friends, and generosity to relatives-will long be remembered. His love of country was unbounded, and the blood of the Revolution never coursed through veins more determined to perpetuate Liberty and Union. His liberality and patriotism in the War of 1812, the Texan Revolution, and the Mexican War is on record.

From a notice of the death of Mr. Norton, which took place Tuesday morning, October 25, 1859, of congestion of the lungs, in the columns of the Mt. Vernon Banner, the following extract is taken. At the time of his death Mr. Norton was seventy-two years of age, having been born in 1787:

"He first visited Mt. Vernon in the spring of 1816, and to the summer of that year introduced the first complete carding machine in this part of the State, and set it up at the mill of William Douglas, afterwards owned by James S. Banning. In the summer of 1817 he moved to Mt. Vernon, and in the fall of that year, having secured the admirable mill seat and water power which his sagacious eye had discovered the summer previous, he built the mills, which, improved and enlarged from time to time, as the wants of the county required, he continued to occupy and operate until his death.

"He engaged also in the mercantile business and carried it on prosperously for many years. He erected a woolen and a cotton factory, and an oil mill, and engaged extensively in agriculture anti the raising of cattle and horses, and contributed much to the improvement of the stock of both in the county.

"He was elected to the State senate from Knox and Richland counties in 1825, and while in that body took lively interest and an active part in inaugurating and establishing the wise canal policy of the State. He was a member of the committee appointed in 1825 to welcome De Witt Clinton. At the canal celebration in July, 1825, he first met Bishop Chase, who served as chaplain on that occasion, and was one of the gentlemen who accompanied the bishop in his tour of observation through a part of the county, looking up grounds for the location of Kenyon college, which resulted in the selection of the site now occupied by that institution. He contributed liberally to the establishment of that college, and was always its steadfast friend.

"He was always among the foremost in all public enterprises calculated to increase the growth of the town, or improve and develop the resources of the county. In July, 1849, the editor of the Times said: We are of the opinion that none of the earliest pioneers of our town have ever done so much to promote its growth and prosperity as Mr. Norton. If Mt. Vernon is specially indebted to the enterprise and liberality of any one man, that man is Daniel S. Norton.'

"As a man of business, he had no superior. Prompt, energetic and deliberate, he appeared to see the end from the beginning, and his plans, wisely laid, were worked out with a precision which commanded the admiration of all.

"A man of social qualities, he was the pride of the society in which he lived. Remarkable for his address and conversational power, his extensive reading, his acute observation and his wonderful memory, he attracted notice wherever he appeared, at home or abroad, and entered no circle which was not entertained and instructed by his presence.

"The cultivation of the cotton plant attracted his youthful attention, and among his papers of 1810, are calculations as to its culture and manufacture. He planted the first black seed in the southwest (it had been brought from the Bahamas), and he was the first experimenter with the hirsutum and the herbaceous in that locality.

"He had a keen perception of merit in the young, and not a few owe the beginning of their prosperous career in busines to his kind and wise patronage. He was ever ready to aid the industrious, and had a lively sympathy for the unfortunate. It was a touching sight to see the poor gather around his bier, and not the least of a good man's reward to hear them call him blessed."

NORTON, G. K., was born in 1826, and was a son of D. S. Norton, who was married to Sarah Banning, and had a family of six children, viz: Mary, wife of the late judge Hurd; A. Baldwin, who was appointed superintendent of Indian affairs at Santa Fe, New Mexico, but is now dead; A. Banning, and G. K. G. K. Norton, the subject of this sketch, after his preparatory education entered Kenyon college, but completed his education at Norwalk, Ohio, after which he took charge of his father's business, in which he continued until his father's death. Judge R. C. Hurd was appointed administrator of the estate of his father, and George was continued in charge by Mr. Hurd for two years after, when he purchased the mill and conducted the business until 1871, when he sold to Mr. Hurd. He then engaged in the grocery and produce business, in which he continued until his death.

He was married January 13, 1861, to Mrs. Elizabeth W Weirick, nee Ravmond. Mrs. Norton had two children by her first husband, and two by Mr. Norton. The last two are now residing with her.

Daniel S. Norton, a brother of G. K., was educated at Kenyon college, after which he studied with judge Hurd. He went to Minnesota, where he was elected to the State senate, and then to the United States Senate. He has deceased.

Sarah B. Norton, another of his father's family, was educated at Putnam Female seminary, near Zanesville, but died in November, 1851.

NORTON & KINDRICK, millinery and notion store, South Main street, Mt. Vernon. Mrs. J. K. Norton, senior member of this firm, was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, December 28, 1829.

Miss S. E. Kindrick was born in Florence, Pennsylvania, February 10, 1828.

When quite young the parents of these ladies came to Ohio and located in Steubenville, where they resided many years,

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after which they settled in this county, and then removed to the city.

Miss J. Kindrick was married to D. B. Norton, M. D., a native of this county, who was born June 27, 1831. He was a graduate of Willoughby Medical college, Cleveland. Shortly after marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Norton went to Chillicothe, Missouri, where he practiced his profession about eighteen months, when they returned to Ohio and settled at Worthington, near Columbus, where they resided five years. They then went to St. Charles, Illinois, where they resided nearly two years, when Dr. Norton died, and Mrs. Norton returned with her two children to Mt. Vernon, where she.has resided ever since.

After the death of Dr. Norton, which took place in 1858, Mrs. Norton entered a co-partnership with her sister, and in 1860, under the name of Norton & Kindrick, they opened a millinery estalishment, to which they added from time to time such goods in that line as the needs of the people and the fashions of the day required, until they placed their establishment on a par with the best in the State. At no time is their stock in trade less than two thousand dollars valuation, consisting of millinery goods in all its departments, and ladies' furnishing goods. The firm does an average business of from six thousand to seven thousand dollars per year. This firm has the best selected goods of any similar establisment in the city.

NYHART, JOHN M., Brown township, farmer, was born December 13, 1839, in Jefferson township. He is the son of Jacob and Mary Nyhart, now residing in Jefferson township, Knox county. He was reared on a farm. His education was obtained at a select school taught at Danville, this county, and several terms at Loudonville, Ashland county. During the winter of 1862-3 he taught a five months' term of school in Hanover township, Ashland county. In 1863 he was united in marriage with Miss Sophia Garrett, of Hanover township, Ashland county, daughter of William and Prudence J. Garrett.

They settled on the farm where they are now residing, located in Brown township, this county, near Jefloway. He then turned his attention to farming and stock raising, making sheep a specialty. He is the father of two children, one son and one daughter. He filled the office of township treasurer in Brown township for three years.

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O'BRIEN, WILLIAM E., Pike township, post office, Democracy, born in Frederick county, Maryland, in 1820, and was married in 1847 to Elizabeth Rockwell, who was born in New York, in 1828. They had eight children: Terance W., Ann Caroline, Daniel W., Emily V., Lovilla E., William E., and Julia Estella.

Mr. O'Bryan came to this county in 1841, and was engaged in the late war, having been a member of the Ohio National guard.

OBERHOLTZER, ABRAHAM O., hardware and jewelry, Hilliar township, Centreburgh, Ohio, was born in Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, in 1833. His parents came to Ohio in 1835 and settled in Holmes county, where he spent his youth. He learned the carpenter trade, and for some years worked during the summer and taught school in the winter. He also farmed and worked some in the mines, thus he was taught by his experience that there is no royal road to success, and that he himself, in order to reap, must "both hold and drive." He had no means with which to begin life, so he found himself with no money when he wished to enter into business, but with a determination to make an effort, and with an honest purpose, he entered into business in Waterford, Knox county. He kept a general line of goods, and by his strict adherence to the principles of business, he succeeded beyond his expectation. He remained in Waterford for seven years, and in 1879, came to Centreburgh, and opened up his present business. He carries a full line of foreign and domestic hardware, and has a rapidly growing trade.

He was married to Miss Rebecca L. Lidball, May 20, 1858. They had a family of five children, two only of whom are living.

OLDAKER, JAMES S., Miller township, farmer, was born in Licking-county, Ohio, March 30, 1815. His parents were natives of Virginia, who emigrated to Ohio at an early day, and were married in Miller township, or what is now Miller township, about 1811, and soon after, moved to Burlington township, Licking county, where they lived and died. They had five children, two of whom are living, viz: James and Elizabeth.

The subject of our notice was reared on a farm, and has always followed farming as his vocation. Upon the division of the old homestead, after the death of the parents, Mr. Oldaker took the northern part of the farm situated in Miller township, and moved upon it, and has resided there ever since. His farm shows care and prudent management, and his improvements are among the best in the township.

Mr. Oldaker is one of the leading members of society in the vicinity. He is highly esteemed for his excellent qualities. He has been a consistent member of the Christian church for over forty years, and one of the principal organizers of Fairview church, and is now secretary of the organization. He was married to Miss Elizabeth Ann Butcher, who was born December 5, 1819. They had eight children. The living are: Mary R., wife of Philip Losh; John B., Octavina, James W. Lewis, and Lucretia. Henry was a member of company G, Twentieth Ohio volunteer infantry, and died at Grand )unction, Tennessee. Andrew died at home.

OLIVER, WILLIAM, Gambier, a native of England, was born on the third day of August, 1810. At the age of fourteen years he engaged in the mercantile business as clerk, remained two years. In 1826 he commenced working in a flouring-mill with his father.

In 1837 he was united in marriage with Miss Sophia Harris, of England, born February 11, 1811.

He continued in the mill with his father until 1840. They migrated to America and located in Gambier, this county. In the spring of 1841 he took charge of the Gambier mills, which he operated successfully until the fall of 1846, when he moved on the farm in Monroe township, this county, which he purchased in 1843. He then turned his attention to farming and butchering, remaining on the farm until 1861, when they moved to Gambier, where they are now living.

He continued the butchering business until 1866. In 1865 he engaged in the grocery trade, and carried on the two branches of business in connection with overseeing his farm, until 1866, and then gave his attention wholly to butchering, his grocery trade and farming, and continued to do so to the present time.

ORSBORN, JAMES M., Hilliar township (pioneer), Centreburgh post office; was born in Bloomfield township, Knox county (now 'Morrow county), June 13, 1819. His parents were natives of Hartford, Connecticut. His father, Thomas

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Orsborn, was bound in his youth to a sea captain. and afterwards served in the War of 1812 as a marine. His wife was Miss Olive Manning. They came to Ohio about 1816, and settled in Bloomfield township, Knox county, now Morrow county. Mr. Orsborn had never seen a tree felled by the axe prior to his coming to Ohio, and knew little of the experience of a pioneer; but he soon became accustomed to the forest and was successful in clearing up his farm, and finally became one of the well-to-do farmers and an influential citizen. He and his wife passed over :he river on the old homestead. They had a family of nine children, seven of whom are yet living. The subject of this notice remained at home assisting his father on the farm until he was married to Miss Sophronia Thatcher, July 5, 1840. They some time after went to Mt. Liberty, where they kept hotel for about ten years, when to the hotel business was added a store, which in connection with the hotel was carried on five years more, when he sold out and went to farming, which he followed for some five years more when he sold out. He afterward purchased land in Illinois, but did not move upon it. He engaged in various undertakings until 1872, when he purchased property in Centreburgh and moved there, where he has since been engaged in the saw-mill business. Mr. Orsborn has always been an active, energetic, hard working man. They have a family of three children,-viz: George W., Lenora (married to Lewis Mitchell), Jerusha (married Isaac Teagarden).

OSWALT, HENRY, farmer, post office, Democracy, was born in Jefferson township in 1849, and was married in 1876 to Ellen Norrick, who was born in Brown township in 1854. They have one daughter-Sarah Edith-who was born August 18, 1880. Mr. Oswalt located in Pike township to 1879, on the Arnold farm. He is accumulating wealth. Economy and ndustry is the cause of his success.

OWEN, WILLIAM W., Middlebury township, carpenter, post office, Levering, was born in this township, August 13, 1828, and was married December 22, 1830, to Rebecca Burke, who was born in Martinsburgh, April 16, 1832. They had the following family: Sylvania, born March 5, 1852; Olive, January 22, 1854; John D., June 1, 1861; Dan, July 30, 1864; Harriet L., February 10, 1870; and Willie B., November 27, 1872. Olive Owen died April 13, 1867. Sylvania was married to Frank Coursen November 10, 1870, and resides in Richland county. Julia E. was married to William Forsyth, and resides in Bloomington, Illinois.

Mr. Owen has been engaged as carpenter some years, is a first class mechanic and an enterprising citizen.

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PAINTER, GEORGE, Wayne township, farmer, post office, Fredericktown, born in Holmescounty in 1847, and was married in 1867, to Ellen McLaughlin, who was born in New York in 1847. They have the following children-Jennie Maggie, born September 14, 1868; Cora Melinda, December 31, 1869; George Ostin, November 10, 1871; Lillie Bella, May 1, 1874; Patsie Mountainia, December 3, 1876; and Roberta Blanche, June 30. 1879. Mr. Painter is a farmer by occupation and has resided here since 1878.

PARK, JAMES, deceased, late of Pleasant township, was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, in 1787. He was of Scotch parentage. His grandfather came to America about the year 1730, and was a man of some note in the history of his adopted country. His father was killed by the Indians in Pennsylvania shortly after St. Clair's defeat. The subject of this sketch married Miss Elizabeth Marquis of Washington county, Pennsylvania, in 1803. Shortly after his marriage he moved to and settled in Belmont county, Ohio, and resided there twelve years. While residing in Belmont county he entered the service of his country and served in the army during a part of the War of 1812. In 1816 he came to Knox county and settled on a farm in pleasant township, where he resided up to the time of his death, in 1853. After his death his son Joseph received a land warrant from the general Government for his fathers' services during the war. Mr. Park was a man of strong mind and great energy, and soon made for himself and family of nine children-five sons and four daughters-a pleasant home out of the wilderness, in which he had pitched his tent. His son Joseph, and his two youngest sisters are now the only living ones in the county of that once large family.

PARK, JOSEPH V., son of the late James Park, was born at the old homestead in Pleasant township, on the twenty-third day of March, 1818. He received his education from the common schools of the neighborhood. His early days were spent in labor on his father's firm, which be now partially owns and successfully operates. He has served the people of the township eighteen years in the office of justice of the peace, and at the expiration of his last term he refused the offer of reelection.

October 12, 1853, he was united by marriage with Miss Elizabeth J. McFarland, daughter of the late Daniel McFarland, then of Mt. Vernon, from which union five children were born, viz.: Daniel M., James H., William V., Bessie I., and Frank J., all of whom are living. William and Bessie are twins.

One of the scenes of his early life in 1825 Mr. Park recollects with vivid distinctness. Like all early settlers his father kept a flock of sheep that required considerable attention, and upon the younger boys that care mostly developed. During the day the sheep were permitted to graze around the clearings and upon the commons, and were gathered at night and penned to protect them from the wolves. that great pest of pioneer farmers. His father had, at different times, been a severe loser by those night prowlers.

One day the sheep strayed from their usual haunts, and Joseph and an elder brother were sent out in search of them. It was nearly dark when the boys came across them on the river bottom nearly opposite the Kerr mill, now Miller's. It was dark by the time the boys started homeward with the sheep. They were soon startled by the howl of a wolf in the direction of Fallen Timbers, then in Pleasant, but now in College township. The signal was answered from another direction, and then the dismal howl came from every quarter, and each repetition came nearer and nearer. The speed of the sheep was hurried by the alarmed boys, as they were too young to defend their charge from the attack of a pack of hungry wolves. The boys had reached the barn, where the pen was located, when the father and two older sons came out with lighted torches and guns, as the howls had been heard at the house, causing considerable alarm. The approach of the wolves had been checked by the light of the torches at about forty rods from the fold, as was supposed, as it was too dark- to see the prowlers, but their snarls could be distinctly heard After the sheep had been secured, the father fired his gun in the direction of the wolves,

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when their snarls instantly ceased, and for a few moments profound silence prevailed. Then the disappointed wolves broke into continual bowls, likened to nothing the boys had ever heard before, so dismal and prolonged as though all the demons of the lower regions had broken out. Sheep in those early days were a necessfty to the pioneers, and great care was required to protect them from wolves.

Another incident in which wolves were prominent actors is thus related: During the summer of 1822, a spelling bee was held at a neighboring school-house, which nearly all the young people attended. It was past midnight when the young folks started for their respective homes in small parties. One party, when about half-way home, was surrounded by a pack of wolves, and to save their lives the youngsters were forced to take to trees, and rest in the higher branches. Thus protected, the party was compelled to spend the balance of the night, listening to the snarls and howls of the disappointed beasts.

PARK, GEORGE W., Mt. Vernon, was born in Franklin county, Pennsylvania, October 11, 1852, educated at the district schools, but by close application he received a good English education. Followed farming until 1869, when he established the seed gardens at Fannettsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he did business until 1875, when he came to Mt. Vernon and established gardens. He is publisher of a floral magazine, which he started in 1871, at Fannettsburgh, and which has been a financial success. He started a green-house in 1879, where he keeps a rare collection of plants. He bas a very extensive collection of flower seeds, also all the leading varieties of garden seeds. Publishes a catalogue annually of flower and vegetable seeds, giving valuable information upon their cultivation.

The Floral Magazine is a sixteen page illustrated pamphlet, devoted to the culture of flowers of all kinds and is the pioneer of the floral magazines devoted entirely to flower culture.

He also does book and job printing in all its branches, with dispatch. Having all the modern improvements, in the shape of Baxter's engine, new press, and all the latest styles of type, his work is fine.

PARK, D. M., of the firm of Martin S Park, coal and feed dealers, Mt. Vernon. Mr. D. M. Park was born in Pleasant township, Knox county, Ohio, August 5, 1854. His father is a farmer, and young Park assisted on the farm and attended school until he reached his nineteenth year, when he engaged with Mr. Starr in the nursery business, in which he continued one year.

In April, 1877, he became a member of the firm of J. H. McFarland & Co., in which he remained until some time in the year 1879, when Mr. McFarland disposed of his interest to Mr. J. B. Martin, and the firm of Martin & Park was formed.

May 2, 1878, Mr. Park married Miss Nellie C. Chancey. One son, Clarence W., is the issue of this union, who was born October 18, 1879.

PARKE, JUDGE THOMAS V., Mt. Vernon, was born in Baltimore, Maryland, July 5, 1805, and in 1819 his parents moved into Frederick county, and Thomas engaged in the milling business. In 1832 he came to this county and located at Fredericktown, where he engaged in merchandizing, in which he continued several years, and during which he did business in different towns of the county. He came to Mt. Vernon in 1857 and was appointed deputy sheriff under I. Underwood, and served two terms. During his first year, as deputy, he was elected justice of the peace and served one term. In 1860 he was elected probate judge, in which he served two terms. In 1869 he was again elected to the office of the justice of the peace, to which he was successively elected for three terms, discharging the duties of his office with acceptance, and has now retired from public life. He was married, January 16, 1834, to Miss Mary. daughter of Charles Strong, of Fredericktown, by whom he had a family of eight children, four of whom are living, viz: Webster, Elnora Hyde, Kate H., and Thomas V.

PARKES, THOMAS, is a native of Gloucester, England, where he was born July 18, 1828. After leaving school he learned the trade of boot and shoe making, which he has made his business in life so far.

He came to America in 1857, stopping at Brooklyn, New York, where he manufactured the "copper nailed shoe" for four years, when he sold out and came to Mt. Vernon in 1862, and started shops, where he does all kinds of work with neatness and dispatch.

He was married to Miss Amelia Clara, daughter of John L. Shepperd, by whom he has had a family of five children, four of whom are living.

PARKER, MRS. H. C., millinery and notions, South Main street, Mt. Vernon. Mrs. Parker was born in Danville, this county, January 12, 1848. When about ten years of age, her father, Mr. S. W. Hopwood, came to Mt. Vernon with his family. At the age of sixteen Miss Hopwood engaged with Mrs. Andrews to learn the milliner business, with whom she remained five years, after which she went into partnership with Miss A. G. Critchfield, of Millwood, this county, and under the name of Hopwood & Critchfield, opened out an establishment for themselves, which was continued three years, when she bought her partner's interest. She has conducted the business successfully, and carries *an average stock of one thousand dollars, comprising millinery in all its departments, notions, hair goods, etc. Mrs. Parker does a business of from five thousand to six thousand dollars per year.

Miss Hopwood, on the twenty-fifth of July, 1875, married Mr. H. C. Parker. They have a family of two children. Mr. Parker is engaged in the boot and shoe establishment of Mr. R. M. Bowland.

PARMENTER, S. A., farmer, Morris township, post office, Mt. Vernon, was born in Boston in 1829, came to Ohio in 1838, and in 1851 married Grace Penhorwood, who was born in England in 1832, and canie with her parents to America at the age of nine years. They have the following children: Edward, born in 1853; Charles, in 1855; Dora, in 1858; Elmer, in 1861; John, in 1867; Minnie Grace, in 1868; Arthur, in 1871; Myrta, in 1876.

The following have deceased: Charles F. died in 1857; Elmer, in 1863; John, in 1867; Myrta, in 1877.

Mr. Parmenter purchased a farm in Morris township in 1866, and has since been engaged in farming. He came to Knox county in 1838, and located in Monroe township, and remained there until 1846. He learned the blacksmith trade in Mt. Vernon with Joseph Murphy, after learning the trade he worked at different places. He was married in Morris township, and remained there about four years, then went to Hilliar township, then to Mt. Vernon, where he worked at his trade.

PARR, SILAS, Mt. Vernon, a native of Devonshire, England, was born September 1, 1848. He came to America. in the year 1866, and settled in Mt. Vernon October 9, 1867.

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He was engaged with Thomas Trick to learn the boot and shoe trade, with whom he worked four years, and then with Mr. Weaver three years, at the expiration of which time he commenced business for himself at his present location on West High street, where he does all kinds of work, and repairing, and guarantees satisfaction.

He was married April 29, 1872, to Miss Mary E., daughter of George Fisher, of Mt. Vernon, by whom he has two daughters.

PARRISH, JARRETT, was born January 27, 1836, in Coshocton county, Ohio, and came with his father to Knox county when about two years old. He is the ninth child of a family of eleven children, viz: Nary Ann, Rachel, Ureth, Mordecai, English. Samuel, James, Benjamin, Jarrett, Salathel, and Telitha Jane, of whom two are dead Mary Ann and Samuel.

Mr. Parr attended school at the district schools, also at Fredericktown, after which he followed farming until 1864, when he engaged in merchandising in the village of Amity, where he continued until 1877, when he sold out and went into the insurance business for one year, since which he has been travelling for E. Shedd & Co., wholesale grocers, Columbus, Ohio. He, at present, is a candidate for sheriff.

He was married August 14, 1859, to Miss Amanda M. Lewis, of Knox county, and has a family of six children: Lydia Ellen, born November 3, 1860; Emma, May 1, 1862; A!bert, October 3, 1865; Delia May, May 7, 1867; Mary Etta, February 7, 1872; Burly E., February 27, 1875. All are living, but Albert, who died March 1, 1870.

PARROTT, DAVID, farmer, son of John and Rachel Parrott, was born in Bedford county, Pennsylvania, February 2, 1817. He was brought to Knox county, Ohio, in 1827, by his parents, who settled in Clinton township. He received a common school education, was reared a farmer, and lids made farming his business through life.

April 4, 1844, he married Miss Mary Davidson, who was born in Mt. Vernon in 1823, daughter of John and Effie Davidson. They settled on a farm in Clinton township, remained two years, then moved on the Rogers farm, in same township, lived there five years, and in the spring of 1851 moved on the farm where they are now living, he having purchased the farm in 1850. There was a small brick dwelling on the farm, which served them as an abode until 1858, when he erected their present brick residence.

They reared a family of four children, two sons and two daughters.

PARSONS, NATHAN, Union township, farmer, post office, Rossville, was barn in Holmes county, Ohio, December 19, 1823, and lived at home until 1844, when he followed agriculture in summer and teaching school in winter. In 1845 he married Miss M. Workman and settled in Holmes county, where he lived eight years. He then went to Illinois, and returned in 1856 to Knox county and settled on his present farm. He has seven children: Abraham, born in 1849; Jacob, 1851; Isaac, 1849; Edith Jane, 1854; Grace, 1857; Delia Ann, 1860; Ida J., 1863.

Abraham commenced his medical education in 1863 with Dr. Putnam, of Mt. Holly, now deceased, and finished it in 1869. He graduated in the Wooster university and settled in Gann. He takes the field of his preceptor, who was well known throughout the country. Mr. Parsons has filled the office of justice of the peace for a number of years. He has tried to fill the office with zeal and energy and judge for the right in all cases.

PATTERSON, ASA, Monroe township, retired farmer. A native of the State of New York, born in Pittsford, Monroe county, January 21, 1806. In March, 1832, he married Miss Jane Barker, of Monroe county, New York, born January 22, 1813, daughter of Lyman and Mary Barker, nee Munson. They remained in Monroe county until February, 1837. They migrated to Ohio and located in Monroe township, this county, on a farm now owned by Henry Barker, on which they resided about two years. Mr. Patterson purchased the land on which he now resides in a short time after his arrival in the county. It was then an unbroken forest, no woodman's axe had been there. He at once began making improvements on his land by clearing away the forest, cultivating the soil and erecting a cabin in which he moved his family in August, 1839, which served them as an abode until 1853, when he erected his present frame residence. They reared a family of ten children, viz: Henry, Isabella, Mary, Eleanor, Hutchison, Emily, Aaron, Frances and Agnes (twins), and Ida R. Hutchison deceased in the war of 1861, at Romney, Virginia, December 25, 1861.

PAUL, JAMES, was born March 12, 1803, in Washington county, Pennsylvania, and removed some years afterwards to Knox county, is now residing in Morrow county; was married to Sarah Bane January 15, 1854. 'They had the following children: Elizabeth, William, David, Daniel, Mary. Sarah, and James B., all living except David and James.

PAUL, DANIEL, one of Knox county's well known public citizens, is a native of Clay township, his birth occurring January 19, 1833. Mr. Paul is one of the wealthiest farmers of Clay township; has been a prominent Democratic politician; was senator from Knox-Wayne senatorial district in the Sixty-first general assembly; came very near receiving the nomination for Congress at the hands of the Democratic Congressional convention. Mr. Paul never married.

PEALER, SAMUEL, Pike township, farmer, post office, Democracy, born in Columbia county, Pennsylvania, in 1818; parents emigrated to Ohio when he was a child and located in this county. He was married in 1842 to Sarah C. Corbus, who was born in Ohio in 1824. They had seven children: George, born in 1843; Henry, in 1844; Hannah, in 1846; Daniel, in 1848; John, in 1850; Sarah E., in 1854; and Charles S., in 1860.

Mrs. Sarah C. Pealer died November 25, 1862. She was a worthy member of the Disciple church. Henry died in 1845; Hannah in 1863, and George died in 1875.

Mr. Pealer was a member of the Ohio National guards during the war, being in the service a short time only. He was very prominent in.this township during the war, raising men and contributing means to sustain the Union. The Pealer family was loyal in every emergency.

PEALER, IRA, Pike township, deceased, born in this township in 1828, and was married in 1852 to Susan Minteer, who was born in this county in 1829. They had six children-Miranda E., born in 1853; Sarah J., to 1855; Ida A., in 1857; Salena I., in 1859; Clara F., in 1861; and Ira O. E., in 1863.

Mr. Pealer enlisted in the late war and was a lieutenant of company F, One Hundred and Forty-second regiment Ohio National guards.

He was faithful in the discharge of his duties as a soldier and an officer. At Bermuda Hundred, Virginia, he became a victim of disease, and was conveyed to the Chesapeake hospital, at

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Fortress Monroe, where he died August 11, 1864, after a short, but severe illness. His body was sent home and buried on the farm where he was born.

It is but just to say of Lieutenant Pealer that in many respects he was a model man, such a man a; any parent could be proud of. He was a man of industry and economy, strict habits, and an honest, upright man. He was sociable, amiable, quiet, and inoffensive, and thought no evil of his neighbor, and a man of many friends and few enemies.

He was the ftiend of education, temperance, and good order. While he loved his family, friends and home, with life and all its comforts, he also loved his country that gave him birth. Of this love he gave abundant evidence, in that he forsook father, mother, and his own wife and children and home, to defend, protect, and maintain his country's honor; yea more, he laid his life on the altar of his country, and with other patriots died that his country might live and her free institutions be perpetuated. He thus transmitted a reputation to his posterity that was untainted and unsullied.

PEALER, F., Howard township, farmer, post office, Howard, was born January 13, 1835, in Union township. He came to Howard township in 1860, and worked on a farm three years. He then went to Danville and engaged in the mercantile trade, and followed it two years. He then followed undertaking and carriage making for a time, and then removed to the farm, which he now owns.

In 1863 he was married to Eleanor Rolstead. They have four children-Angeline, Mary, Garry, and Humphrey. Garry died at the age of six months.

PEALER, E. A., of the firm of Pealer & Son, dealers in farming implements, No. 1 Kremlin building, southeast comer High street and public square, Mt. Vernon. Mr. E. A. Pealer was born in Pike township, Knox county, December 20, 1830, and has continued a resident of the county up to the present day. His education was such as could be obtained from the district schools of forty years ago. Up to January, 1880, his occupation was that of a farmer. He commenced life for himself when about twenty-one years old. At the age of twenty-three he purchased a farm. In 1868 he engaged in the insurance business, and in 1871 he was elected secretary and treasurer of the company in whose employ he was. In that capacity he served four years. In 1875 he engaged in the grain, produce and stock business, in which, together with farming, he continued until January, 1880, when he removed to Mt. Vernon. In company with Mr. J. H. Norrick, he rented the corner room in the Kremlin black, formerly occupied by the late George B. Potwin, and opened out an agricultural supply wareroom, and has met with good success in the undertaking. The firm carries a full line of all kinds of agricultural implements, together with wagons, carriages and buggies. They represent goods of C. Aultman & Co., of Canton, Ohio; Buckeye mowers and reapers, and self binders, Canton Monitor engine, Bucher & Gibbs' Imperial plows, First and Bradley's and Hughes' sulky plows, Brown's corn cultivators, Champion corn planters, Studebaker and Moline farm wagons and spring wagons, carriages and buggies, of five different manufactures, from Moline, Illinois, Courtland, and Syracuse, New York, Toledo, and Troy, Ohio.

Mr. Pealer was married August 10, 1853, to Miss Selina E. Vincent, and had a family of three sons and one daughter. The daughter died February 22, 1877, aged seventeen years.

PEARDON, GEORGE, justice of the peace, Hilliar township, post office, Centreburgh, was born in Devonshire, England, to 1823. His young days were spent on a farm, and attending school until about fourteen years of age, when he was apprenticed to learn the trade of shoemaking. He served until his master gave up the business, thus giving George his freedom. Some time after this one of his neighbors, a Mr. Caldwell, was coming to America, and Mr. Peardon came with him to Ohio, and stopped for a short time near Danville, and then came to Gambier, where he worked at his trade, for several months. He then came to Mt. Vernon and worked at his trade with Samuel Smail for six years, and then set up for himself, where he remained until July, 1855, when he came to Centreburgh, where he has since remained.

He is a man of sound judgment, and exerts a quiet influence in the vicinity, and has the esteem of his neighbors. He was elected justice of the peace in 1872. and served for three years to the satisfaction of the public. He was again elected in the fall of 1878. He is prompt in his decisions and accurate in his judgment.

He was married to Miss Mary Hicks, of Mt. Vernon, March at, 1845, by Rev. Leonard Gurley. They had seven children, six of whom are living.

PENICK & RANSOM, leather manufacturers, successors of G. E. Raymond, West Gambier street, Mt. Vernon.-----Mr. William Penick, of this firm, was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, on the eleventh May, 1822, where he resided until he was ten years of age, when his parents came to Ohio, and located near Martinsburgh, this county. In 1841 he came to Mt. Vernon and entered the tannery of Hugh Oglevee to learn the trade, where he served three years. He then went to Millersburgh and worked for S. Weirick for two years and seven months. From Millersburgh he returned to Martinsburgh and purchased the tannery of O. Lord, and conducted the businessfor nineteen years, when he sold out. In 1865 Mr. Penick bought a half interest in the yard of George E. Raymond, and for three vears the firm of Raymond & Penick conducted a successful business. He then sold his interest, and was engaged in various ways until the fall of 1878, when he, in company with J. H. Ransom, bought the Raymond tannery, which the new firm still carries on.

PENN, WILLIAM, Middlebury, farmer, was born to Virginia, near Harper's Ferry, in 1826; came to Ohio in 1834 with his father, John Penn, and located in Richland county. He was married in 1851 to Ruth Clark, who was born in this township and county. They have two children: William, born in 1867, and Chloe, born in 1854.

Mr. Penn came to Knox county in 1853, and has remained here ever since. He is one of the useful and intelligent men of this county. His father, John Penn, was born in 1800, in Baltimore, Maryland, and died in 1879. Mrs. John Penn has moved to Indiana. Mrs. Ruth Penn's father. William Clark, was born in Vermont in 1777. He came to Ohio in 1818, and was married to Abigail Owen. who was born in 1797 in Vermont. They are among the old pioneers of the county. They had two children: Rachel, born in 1829, and Ruth, born in 1833. William Clark died in 1862, aged eighty-four years five months and eight days. Mrs. Abigail Clark died in 1871.

PENROSE, EVERARD, painter, Pleasant township, son of Benjamin and Rachel Penrose, was born in Bucks county Pennsylvania, on the fifteenth day of April, 1818. He was

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brought to Knox county, Ohio, by his parents in 1828, who located in Monroe township, remained a few years, then purchased and moved on a farm in Clinton township, where he grew to manhood. At the age of sixteen years he commenced teaching vocal music during the winter season, and has followed that as his vocation nearly every winter since that time. In 1838 he went to Philadelphia, where he learned painting and paperhanging, which he has made his principle vocation.

He has been married twice; first in 1846 to Elizabeth Armstrong, of Philadelphia, who died in 1847. In 1849 he was united in marriage with Miss Elizabeth Mills, of Philadelphia. In 1851 he returned to Knox county with his wife and one child, where they have passed most of their time. In 1870 he purchased the property in Pleasant township, where they are now living. They have had eight children, four sons and four daughters; one of the latter is dead.

PETERMAN, CHRISTIAN, deceased. Christian Peterman was born March 13, 1819, in Maple township, Delaware county, Pennsylvania, and at the time of his death his age was sixty-one years, eight months and fourteen days. He was a miller by trade. While he was yet a young man he was appointed to the position of warden of the Westchester prison, in Chester county, Pennsylvania, his administration lasting one year. The board of managers of the institutions showed their confidence in his abilities by offering him the position for another term, with an increased salary. By kindness he had won the confidence of the prisoners, and labored diligently to teach them Christian principles, and effected many reformations. His sensitive nature led him to believe that the position was one of too much responsibility and the burden too heavy for one of his youthful years, and he tendered his resignation. He left his native State in the year 1854, and settled in Millwood, Knox county, Ohio, where he engaged in mercantile pursuits, in company with his brother-in-law, Mr. C. W. Page. In 1864 he removed to Mt. Vernon, purchased the stock of dry goods of Peter McIntire, at the corner of Main and Gambier streets, where he continued the business under his own name until 1870, when his eldest son, Samuel H., was made a partner. In January, 1880, he sold his stock and retired from business.

He was a member of St. Paul's Episcopal church for twentyone years, during which time he proved to be a steadfast Christian, and was known for his many acts of kindness during sickness and death, among families of his own acquaintance. He was superintendent of St. Paul's Sunday-school, and also junior warden in the church for a number of years. He was also an active member of the Young Men's Christian association of this city, and it was while in attendance at one of its meetings, in 1875, that he suffered a slight stroke of paralysis. He was a member of the Masonic fraternity, having associated himself with Antioch lodge at Danville.

Mr. Peterman died Saturday, November 27, 1880.

Samuel H. Peterman was a native of Pennsylvania, and came to this county with his parents in 1854. He received his education in the union schools in this city (Mt. Vernon), and his first business engagement was as an employe of the United States Express company. In this employment he remained from 1869 to 1871, after which he went into partnership with his father. In April, 1880, he established a general insurance agency, and opened an office in the Peterman block, room 3, second floor, for conducting both fire and life insurance business. He represents such standard companies as the British American; Franklin, of Columbus; Travelers' Life and Accident; German Fire, of Pittsburgh; the Ohio Insurance company, Dayton; Mutual Fire, of Delaware; Merchants' and Mechanics', of Mansfield; Capitol City, of Columbus; Ohio Mutnal Relief, of Urbana. German, $360,000; British American,, $5,000,000; Ohio, of Dayton, $200,000; Travelers' Life and Accident, paid up cash capital, $600,000.

PHILLIPS, HENRY, deceased, late of Mt. Vernon, was born in Devonshire, England, March 20, 1803. He came to America in 1821 with his parents, who settled at Phillipsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he resided until 1824, when he went to Cadiz, Harrison county, Ohio. In 1825 he took up his residence in Steubenville, Jefferson county, where he followed his trade (stone-mason and stone-dresser), until 1835, when he went into the tavern business, and kept the Washington house for five years with great credit to himself.

In 1825 he was married to Miss Maria Wise, then of Steubenville, but formerly of Washington county, Pennsylvania, where she was born March 24, 1806. She had removed to Steubenville in 1816 with her parents. Her mother died in 1845, and her father in 1850.

Mr. and Mrs. Wise had two children-a son and a daughter. The son died in 1836, and the daughter, in 1825, became the wife of the subject of this sketch.

Mr. Phillips came to Knox county in 1840, and located on a partly cleared farm in Wayne township, where the family resided till 1860, when he took up his residence in Mt. Vernon, where he resided until his death. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Phillips ten children were born, seven of whom are still living-Elizabeth was born in 1830; Henry, in 1832; Thomas, in 1833; Harrison, in 1836; Mary Ann, in 1839; and Maria and Martha (twins), in 1841.

Three sons and two daughters are residents of Jasper county, Iowa; one daughter, the wife of John Scarbrough, resides in Newark; and one daughter, the wife of Simon H. Bair, is a resident of Mt. Vernon.

Mr. Phillips died at his late residence on West High street, Saturday morning, March 25, 1876, aged seventy-three years and five days. For the three years prior to his death his health had been on the decline. On the day previous to his death he was able to walk to the house of a friend, and none supposed he was so near his end.

During his residence in Steubenville he joined a lodge of Odd Fellows, and on his removal to this place he took a withdrawal card, which he deposited with Mt. Vernon Lodge No. 20, I. O. O. F. He passed regularly through all the high positions, both in the subordinate lodge as well as in the encampment branch of the order, and at the time of .his death he was the oldest Odd Fellow in this part of the State. He was a man of strong mind and stet sterling integrity, and stood ready at any moment to render aid and comfort to those in trouble or distress. He was a member of the Christian church, and stood prominent in its councils, and as a citizen was a valuable member of the community. He served one term as justice of the peace in Wayne township, and four terms in Clinton township after his removal to Mt Vernon. His funeral services took place at the Christian church, on Vine street, Sunday, March 26, 1876, the Rev. Southmayd preaching the discourse. At the door of the church the remains were taken in charge by the Odd Fellows in the city, and taken to the cemetery, where the body was consigned to the tomb, according to the beautiful burial service of the order.

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Mrs. Maria Phillips, the beloved companion, now in her seventy-fifth year, survives her departed husband. She is a woman of uncommon intelligence, and of as strong marked characteristics as a woman as her husband was as a man; is of sound mind and good health, more so than most women of her advanced age. She feels her loss deeply, but is upheld by the loving hands of the Father of the widow and of the orphan. Long may she be spared to minister unto the poor and destitute.

Among the proceedings of Mt. Vernon Lodge No. 20, I. O. O. F., are the following resolutions, expressive of the great loss the lodge sustained on the death of Brother Henry Phillips:

"That in the death of Brother Henry Phillips we recognize the loss of a true and faithful brother, whose life and conduct has won the love of our brotherhood, and his pure and upright character the respect and esteem of his friends and acquaintances. That in the life of our brother we recognize the virtues which adorn the noblest of our race. He was a father in the highest sense of the word; a kind and affectionate husband, and a perfect gentleman in all his intercourse with his fellow citizens. In all, he was one of the masterpieces of God's creation."

PHILIPS, MOSES, farmer, post office, New Castle, was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, in 1812, and came with his father, Jacob Philips, to Coshocton county, Ohio, in 1818. From there he removed to this township, in 1838, and has resided in Butler ever since. He has been married twice. The first time to Margaret Fry, May 14, 1835, by whom he had eleven children, viz: Henry, Amy, William, Mary Ann, Charlotte, Jonathan, James, Levi, John, Peter, Samuel.

His second wife was Sarah Ann Underwood, daughter of Jesse Underwood, to whom he was married October 1,1863, and by whom he had five children, viz: Charles L., Delano, Arminia, Viola, and Robnetta. Mr. Philips' family is the largest in number of any one family in Butler township.

Peter Philips died in September, 1856; Jonathan, September, 1857; James died in the army, in 1864. His funeral discourse, delivered by Rev. Daniel Lambert, in the grove near the Woods church, Butler township, was an event long to be remembered by the hundreds of citizens who listened to its delivery.

PHILLIPS, HENRY, carpenter, was born to Washington county, Pennsylvania, July 11, 1814. He was brought to Knox county, Ohio, in 1818 by his parents, David and Nancy Phillips, who located in Clinton township, where they passed the remainder of their days.

David Phillips deceased February 20, 1863, aged eighty years. He served in the War of 1812. His companion survived him until April 14, 1864, when she died, aged seventy years. They reared a family of thirteen children: Mary, Henry, Samuel, James and Thomas (twins), Fermelia, Levi and Ruth (twins). Jackson, David, Johnson, Priscilla, and Hannah. Five of the foregoing, namely: Mary, Samuel, Levi, Jackson, and Priscilla have died.

Mr. Phillips is a carpenter and joiner by trade, and has followed that as his vocation during life. On the ninth of April, 1839, he married Miss Sarah Howard, born in Maryland November 2. 1820. They settled where he is now living, in Clinton township, two and a half miles from Mt. Vernon, on the Granville road. They reared a family of seven children, four sons and three daughters. His wife deceased February 27, 1864.

PHILLIPS, GEORGE deceased, Berlin township, was born in Harrison county, Ohio, in 1819, and married in 1840, to Emaline Woodruff, who was born in Pike township, this county, in 1823. They had eight children, viz: Amos P., born in 1842; Malinda A., 1844; Elnora A., 1851; Elmira E., 1854, deceased; William D., 1859, deceased; Laura B., 1861; Clement R., 1864, and Lizzie B., 1869. Mr. Phillips came to Knox county, at the age of six years, and remained a citizen until his death, January 26, 1879.

The father of Mrs. Phillips, Amos O. Woodruff, deceased, was born in 1795, in New Jersey; he was married to Elizabeth Rodgers, who was born in New Jersey in 1797. They had three children, viz: James R., Mary A., and Emaline. Mr. Woodruff came to Knox county, Ohio, in a very early day, and was a pioneer. He died in Michigan, and Mrs. Elizabeth Woodruff died in Pike township, in 1872.

PHILLIPS, JOHN R., farmer, Pike township, post office, Democracy, was born in Jefferson county, in 1823, and was married in 1843, to Sarah Quinn, who was born in Knox county in 1826. They had five children, viz: Elizabeth, born in 1845; Robert, 1848; William, 1854; Lydia, 1860, deceased; and John Shannon, 1870. Mr. Phillips came to Knox county with his parentsin 1825.

James Quinn, deceased, was born in New Jersey in 1781, and was married to Lydia Parks, who was born in. Pennsylvania in 1796. Tney had six children, viz: Robert, born in 1819; William, 1821; John, 1823; Sarah, 1826; Thompson, 1829; and Elizabeth, 1838. The deceased members are Thompson and Elizabeth. James Quinn died in 1865, and his wife in 1881.

PHILLIPS, JOHN, Berlin township, post office, Fredericktown, was born in Harrison county, Ohio, in 1821, and came to Knox county in 1825. He was married in 1843, to Ruth Hipsley, who was born in Carroll county, Maryland, in 1826, and came to Ohio with her parents at forty-seven years of age. They have the following children: Clarinda, born in 1843; Margaret deceased in 1845; Henry W., born in 1847; Deloy E., in 1850; Sarah E., in 1853; Albert W., to 1856. Clarinda Phillips is married to Hugh C. Wilson, and lives in Pike township. Henry W. is married to Elvira Wilson, and they also reside in Pike township. Deroy married Julia Beard, and resides in Jasper county, Iowa Sarah E. married Isaac C. Dunmire, and also resides in Jasper county, Iowa. Albert W. married Mary McCerg, and lives on the home place.

Mr. Phillips is a farmer by occupation, and has been identified with Knox county since 1825, and remembers well many incidents of pioneer life.

The father of Mrs. John Phillips, Joshua Hipsley, is a native of Maryland, and was married to Elizabeth Wilson, who was a native of the same State. They came to Knox county in 1834, and located in Berlin township, on the farm where John Phillips now resides. They had ten children: Mary Ann, married to Mr. Lee, deceased; Amos, living in lowa; Louis, in Indiana; Joseph, in lowa; Nicholas, in Illinois; Ruth, now married to Mr. Phillips; Caleb resides in Iowa; Sarah, now Mrs. Wilson, lives in Carroll county, Maryland, and Joshua, deceased. Mr. Joshua Hipsley died May 29, 1866.

Mrs. Elizabeth Hipsley died February 11, 1834.

PHILIPS, MRS. RACHEL, was born in Perry township, Coshocton county, Ohio, on the sixteenth day of September 1826, and was married to John Dalyer, October 6, 1842. by whom she had seven children, viz: Anna, born October 3, 1843; Levi, April 22, 1843: Ftances M., August 11, 1847; Mary

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Elizabeth, April 19, 1849, died September 14, 1876; Martha Eliza, April 10, 1851; Moses Franklin, February 15, 1853; Maria Josephine. January 29, 1855, died February 11, 1856.

John Dalyer was a member of the One Hundred and Twentyfirst Ohio volunteer infantry, and died April 29, 1865, of chronic dysentery, at Moorehead, North Carolina.

Levi enlisted in company F, Eightieth Ohio volunteer infantry, and was killed at Mission Ridge, November 25, 1863.

Mrs. Dalyer was married to Arthur Fawcett, December 19, 1871, who is still living.

PHILLIPS, BENJAMIN, Wayne township, farmer, post office, Mt. Vernon, born in Wayne township, in 1831, and married in 1860 to Clara Bonner, who was born in Muskingum county in 1839. They have five children: William B., born in 1861; Sarah, 1863; Benjamin, deceased at three years; Mable C., in 1869; Grant, in 1871, and Ellis H., in 1876.

Mr. Phillips has resided here a number of years, in 1864-5 he took a tour to Europe.

PHILLIPS. ELIAS, farmer. Pike township, post office, North Liberty. born in Pike township, this county, oil the farm where he now reside;, October 19, 1837, and was married in 1860, to Sarah Bow man, who was born in Ohio, in 1841. She dial in 1861.

Mr: Phillips was afterwards married to Sarah J. Weimer, who was born m Knox county, in 1842. They had five children: Alva C.. born May 13, 1863; Milan E., October 15, 1864; William C., March 24, 1866; Ira E., December 29, 1868. and Hallie I. October 1, 1876. Alva C. died August 5, 1876.

Mr. Elias Phillips has always been identified with this township and county. he owns the old homestead, which is now one of the most beautiful farms of this county.

PHILLIPS, HENRY W., farmer, Pike township, post office. Mt. Vernon, born in this township in 1847, and was married, in 1868, to Elvira Wilson, who lets born in this township, in 1845. They have three children: Margaret Alwilda, born in 1870 ; Ida Blanche, in 1872, and Eddie W., in 1876.

Mr. and Mrs. Phillips have always been residents of this township, and are both members of pioneer families.

PHILLIPS, JAMES W.. Pike township, farmer, post office, North Liberty: born in this township July 30, 1849, and was married in 1874 to Sarah M. Reed, who was born in this township March 7, 1854. They had three children, Mary L., born January 2, 1875; Clarence Leroy, October 14, 1876, died April 24, 1877; and Jenered J., born May 30, 1880.

Mr. and Mrs. Phillips are both members of pioneer families. He owns an improved farm and is a model farmer.

PHILO, HENRY. Mt. Vernon., is a native of Swaffham, England; was born April 17, 1846, and remained there until 1874. Upon arriving at manhood he learned the trade of carriage-making, and worked for the same man sixteen years, until he came to America. He first located at Mt. Holly as a salesman in a store, where he remained four years, after which he came to Mt. Vernon and bought out A. E. Philo, and engaged in keeping a grocery and restaurant, in which he is now engaged.

PICKARD, PETER, physician Mt. Vernon, was born in Devonshire, England, May 13, 1832, and attended the schools of Devonshire. When about seventeen vears of age his parents came to America, and he worked two summers on a farm, and in the winter attended school; he also attended select school several terms. At about the age of twenty-four years he began reading medicine with Drs. J. W. Russel and Matthew Thompson, and read with them three years and a half. He attended his first course of lectures at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, in Cincinnati, Ohio, and his last term he attended at the University of Buffalo, New York. He graduated February, 1859, and commenced practice in Martinsburgh the spring following; remained there eight and a half years and then came to Mt. Vernon, where he has since been engaged in the profession.

November twenty-eighth, 1862, he received the appointment of first assistant surgeon of the Forty-fifth regiment, but did not accept.

He is a member of the State Medical society and also a member of the Knox county society, and its treasurer.

He was married to Miss Harriet J. Veatch, of Knox county, May 17, 1865. They have three children-one son and two daughters.

PICKERING, ENOCH, farmer, Milford township, was born to Guernsey county, Ohio, in October, 1832. His father, Greenbury Pickering, was a native of Maryland. He was married in Greene county, Pennsylvania, to Miss Susannah Darr, a native of Virginia. About 1831 they came to Guernsey county, Ohio, where they remained until 1844, when they moved to Hilliar township, Knox county; remained until 1854, then moved to Henry county, Iowa (near Mt. Pleasant), where they lived and died. They had twelve children, six of each sex, and, so far as is known, ten of them. are living, viz: Lot, Albert, Corbley, Enoch, Philip, David, Maria (married William Wilson), Orpha (married John Hosick), Hannah (deceased), Elizabeth (married N. Boyd), Fannie (deceased), Lucinda (married William Parrin).

The subject of this notice remained at home with his parents until he was about twenty-two years of age, when he returned to Ohio. He was married to Miss Catharine Ward in 1854. Since his marriage he has been engaged mainly at farming. They have five children, viz: Sarah E., Manville, John S., Albert, and Lucinda.

Mr. Pickering is a good farmer and a good citizen, being both industrious and honest.

PIERCE, ISAAC, Hilliar township, blacksmith, was born in Mansfield, Richland county, January 30, 1810. His parents came to Knox county about six years after and settled on the Indian fields, south of Mt. Vernon, where Isaac remained until he was about ten years old, when his uncle, Peter Kinney, took him to Wheeling, Virginia, and he shortly after got on a boat as cook on the Ohio Liver. He followed the river for some years and then came to Mt. Vernon. where he learned the trade of blacksmithing with William Davis. His next move was to Hilliar township in 1834, and about two years after came to Centreburgh and carried un his trade for many years, until he became aficted with rheumatism.

He was among the early settlers of Knox county.

He was married to Miss Ann Eliza Belcher, July 24, 1834. By this union there were nine children born, five of whom are living, viz: Sarah, married to John Crawford, lives in Broadway, Union county, Ohio; Mary, widow of George Jones. in Centreburgh; William M., in Union county, Ohio; Louisa, married to Ira Barr, living in Centreburgh; Frank C., blacksmith, in Centreburgh.

Mr. Pierce was a soldier or the late war. His two sons, Jackson and William, were in the army also, and Mr. Pierce, al-

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though near fifty-two years of age, volunteered in company A, Ninety-sixth Ohio volunteer infantry, August 8, 1862. He was in the fights in front of Vicksburgh and at Arkansas Post. In March, 1863, he was discharged on account of chronic rheuma ism, contracted while in the service. February, 1864, he again enlisted in company F, One Hundred and Twenty-first regiment and was sent to Chattanooga, and participated in several of the engagements, among which were Akworth, Resaca, Atlanta, and Jonesborough. He was again taken with rheumatism and sent to the hospital. He was discharged at Camp Dennison, May 17, 1865.

PITKIN, REV. JOHN, Milford township, retired minister of the Presbyterian church, was born in Rutland county, Vermont, May 12, 1794. His parents were natives of Connecticut, and belonged to the farmer class. They had a family of four children, all of whom are dead, but the subject of this notice, he being the youngest child. He remained at home until he was eighteen years of age, when he enlisted in the Thirtieth United States infantry. This was in 1812. The first rendezvous was at Burlington, Vermont, thence to Plattsburgh, where they went into winter quarters. The spring of 1813 the command went to Lacole Mill, Canada, where they had an engagement with a British force. They guarded the ship-builders while constructing a fleet for Commodore McDonough. This fleet was used on Lake Champlain. He was discharged in June, 1813. He then worked at the hatting business for about two years, while in Vermont. H e also taught school for several terms. About 1815 he came to Ohio, locating at Chillicothe, where he taught school for several months. He then attended an academy, working night and morning for his board. He attended school there for several years, working his way by teaching, principally. He then attended Jefferson college at Cannonsburgh. Pennsylvania, for a year and a half. Having the ministry in view he studied theology three years with Rev. Dr. Wilson, a Presbyterian minister. Upon the completion of his studies he went to Indiana, where he preached three months then returned to Waterford, Washington county, Ohio, where he preached about six years; then at Dresden six years; at Utica, Licking county, Ohio, one year, and at the Milford Presbyterian church as stated supply. He also preached some time in Delaware county, Ohio. He preached regularly until he was seventy-five years of age. He is a theologian of the old school, and is regarded as a man of ability. His preaching was acceptable, and through him many were added to the church. He is spending the remainder of his days on his farm. He was married to Miss Eliza W. Wilson in 1824, who was the daughter of Rev. Dr. Robert G. Wilson, his preceptor. She was born in South Carolina in 1801, and died in 1864. She was an exemplary woman, and a devoted wife and mother. They had a family of ten children, eight of whom are living John G. and Ebenezer, died in the army; Elizabeth J. (married Mr. Camp); Robert W.; Mary W. (married George L. Smith); Emily H.; Samuel J.; Sarah F. (married Samuel Hookway); Paul H., a minister of the Presbyterian church; and Theodore S.

PLUMMIER, FRANKLIN W., Fredericktown, deceased, was born in Maryland in 1824; married in 1844 to Eliza Walter, who was born in 1824. They had the following family, viz.: Philip, born in 1846; Alfred, in 1848; Anna, in 1849; Mary, in 1852; .Charles, in 1854; Thomas, in 1856; and Jessie, in 1859.

Franklin Plummer died in 1860 in Wayne township. Anna M. died in 1868.

Mr, Plummer emigrated with his parents to Ohio in 1827, and located in Knox county. Mr. Plummer was engaged in buying and selling stock. He was one of the earliest settlers of this county, and also one of its best citizens.

Philip Plummer was a soldier of the late war, being a member of company B, Ninty-sixth Ohio volunteer infantry. He was afterward transferred to the Seventy-seventh Ohio volunteer infantry. He continued till the close of the war, and received an honorable discharge. He is now residing in Fredericktown engaged with the firm of S. S. Tuttle, manufacturers.

Alfred H. was a member of the Ohio National guards. He served out his time and received an honorable discharge.

PONTING, JOHN, county commissioner, is a citizen of Mt. Vernon. He was born in Somersetshire, England, June 21, 1826. He emigrated to America in the fall of 1847, and settled in Fredericktown, this county, and was engaged with the late James George for about three years, and then entered into the butchering business in Mt. Vernon, which he followed about one year, and then engaged in stock business, shipping to the eastern cities. He then engaged in the grocery business, which he successfully carried on for some years, when he sold out his business to Messrs. Armstrong K Tompkins, in 1877. In October, 1876, he was elected county commissioner, and served three years with great efficiency, and was again elected in 1879, which office he now holds.

Mr. Ponting was married to Miss Eliza Thompson, July; 1856. She died June 18, 1876. Mr. Ponting has been eminently successful in all that he has undertaken. He started in life without a dollar in the world.

POPHAM, FRANCIS (deceased). He was born in Maryland in 1784, and was married in 1803, to Mary Scoles, who was born in 1785. They had a large family, viz: Elias, born in 1805; George, in 1807; Samuel, in 1809; Easter, in 1810; John S., in 1811; Elizabeth, in 1814; Margaret, in 1816; Joseph, in 1817; William, in 1819; Minerva C., in 1821; Thomas, in 1822; Richard in 1824, and Rebecca. in 1825. Mrs. Mary Popham died in Indiana, September 5, 1857.

They emigrated to Ohio in 1808, and located in Pike township in 1809.

The father of Francis, Samuel Popham, was born in England, and came to America as a British subject, during the Revolutionary war; he became attached to this country and settled in Maryland, and died there.

POPHAM, SAMUEL (deceased), Pike township, was born in Harrison county, Ohio, in 1809, and was married in 1836 to Elizabeth Scoles, who was born in 1819. They had the following children, viz: Salena, born September 15, 1837; Eliza Ann, February 17, 1839; Columbus D., August 23, 1841; Margaret J., August 28, 1844; George F., October 21, 1846; Thomas I., September 5, 1849; Mary J., January 22, 1852; Amanda Olive, March 15, 1859; and Samuel L., September 12, 1862. Salena died September 30, 1837. Mrs. Elizabeth Popham died in March, 1874.

Samuel Popham married for his second wife Nancy Johnson, who was born in Richland county, in 1833. They lived together but a few-years. Mr. Popham died-June 8, 1880. He was a citizen of this county for many years, a good financier, became the owner of a number of farms, and gave to each of his children a good home.

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POPHAM, ELIAS, farmer, post office, Fredericktown, was born in Baltimore county, Maryland, in 1805, and came to Harrison county, Ohio, with his parents at the age of three years, and to Knox county in 1820, and was married in 1826 to Elizabeth Durbin, who was born in this county in 1810. They had the following family: Curtis, born in 1828; Samuel, in 1830; James, in 1834; Sherman, in 1835; Francis, in 1838; Euretta, in 1840; Christiana, in 1841; Corydon, in 1850; and Thomas, in 1852. Mrs. Elizabeth Popham died December 8, 1857; James died August 24, 1834; Euretta in 1840; and Christiana August 21, 1842.

Mr. Popham married for his second wife, in 1858, Julia E. Berry, who was born in Virginia in 1827. They had the following children: Louis B., born in 1861, and Ida May, born in 1863.

Mr. Popham settled in Pike township when he came to this county, and in 1840 he came to Morris township. He owns a good farm with all modern improvements.

POPHAM, COLUMBUS D., farmer, post office, Lytle City, Iowa county. Iowa. He was born in Pike township, Knox county, in 1841; he was married in 1866, to Margaret Patten, who was born in Tuscarawas county, in 1849. They have four children living: Quintila J., Florence O., Herbert C., and Hallie M. The deceased, Charles B., died in Iowa, in 1878.

Mr. Popham emigrated to Iowa in 1869. His memory still lingers in Knox county, Ohio, on the scenes of his childhood.

POPHAM, GEORGE F., farmer, post office, Democracy, born in Pike township, this county, October 2, 1846, and was married March 23, 1875, to Mary A. Matheny, who was born October 10, 1845, in Montoe township, this county.

Mr. Popham owns a well improved farm in this township, and is an enterprising and industrious farmer.

PORTER. J. H., Howard township, farmer, post office, Howard. He was born November 9, 1852, on what is now known as the Critchfield farm. His father was born in Brown township in 1831, and lived at different places in the county until his death, which occurred in 1866. His mother was subsequently married to William Taswell, and lived in Mt. Vernon. Mr. Porter was married to Miss Lydia Smith April 21, 1878.

POTTER. M. D., S. B., Fredericktown; was born in Bloomfield township, Morrow county, Ohio, November 7, 1828. He was educated in the common schools till about twenty-one years of age, then he attended the Fredericktown acadamy, after which he attended the Norwalk college, Huron county, Ohio. To defray his expenses he engaged in teaching and working at different kinds of work. He commenced reading medicine with Dr. T. R. Potter about 1850, after which he graduated at the Jefferson Medical college at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1854. He then located in Fredericktown and engaged in the practice of medicine. He leas since remained here, continuing the practice. The doctor has established a wide and extensive practice, has met with excellent success, and stands to-day at the head of the medical profession in this section of Ohio. He was one of the charter members of the Knox County Medical society, was elected three consecutive terms president of this society, also vice-president a number of terms.

Dr. S. B. Potter was married to Eleanor B. Leonard, daughter of Hon. Byram Leonard, of Knox county. They had two: children: Anna H. and Nellie A. Mrs. Eleanor Potter died March 10, 1871.

The doctor then married Delia M. Burns May 8, 1872, who was born in Fredericktown, Knox county, Ohio. She was a widow of Dr. Alfred Burns, and daughter of Dr. A. W. Swetland, of Sparta, Ohio.

The doctor has been identified with the Baptist church, and still adheres strictly, and advocates those Christian doctrines. He has been connected with the Democratic party, has always voted that ticket, and promulgates its principles. He has had a number of students, and at present he has with him William M. Furgerson, son of Rev. W. M. Furgerson, of Fredericktown, and also Herbert S. Darling, son of William Darling, of this county.

PRATT, HENRY, Liberty township, retired farmer, was born in Lancaster county. Pennsylvania, December 17, 1802. He is the son of William and Elizabeth Pratt, nee Hooper, who came to Ohio in 1819 with a four horse team. They brought a family of six daughters and two sons, andsettled in Clinton township, near the Ewalt settlement, where they had a tract of two hundred acres of land. He remained here until 1829, when he was drowned in Owl creek while on his return from Mt. Vernon. He was was on horse-back, and it is supposed was taken with a paralytic stroke and was unable to regain the shore. The horse which he rode upon finding the rider gone came home and neighed. The subject of this notice, Henry Pratt, rode the horse to the ford and dismounted leaving the horse unhitched. He (the horse) returned again to the farm, and again returned to the ford, seeming to understand that his master had met with some serious accident. Mrs. Pratt survived her husband until 1853. The children are all dead except Henry and Jane, the wife of D. C. Montgomery, esq., of Mt. Vernon.

The subject of this notice spent his youth on a farm and remained at home until he was twenty-six years of age. He worked at the carpenter trade and wagon making for some time. In 1829 he married Miss Penelope Buckingham, and in 1835 moved to his present farm where he has resided ever since. They have had seven children, three of whom are living, viz: Sylvester, farmer; John, in Tama county, fowa; and Eliza J., who married William C. Parker, of Liberty township. Mrs. Pratt died in March, 1878. Mr. Pratt has always been an industrious man, and has helped to improve the neighborhood in which he lives. He is social in his habits.

Sylvester Pratt, a son of Henry Pratt, was born in Liberty township to 1831, and has continued to reside there ever since. He is a good farmer and an excellent citizen. In 1852 he married Miss Cordelia Parrish. They had one child, John Franklin. In 1854 his wife died. His second wife was Mary E. Tarr. They had three children, only one living, viz: Sarah Isabelle.

PRICE, VEAZEY, was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, April 17, 1819. He was brought to Knox county, Ohio, by his parents, Samuel and Margaret Price, in 1826, who located in Pleasant township, where they remained until 1856, when he, (Samuel Price), with wife and family, all except Veazey, emigrated to Iowa, where he deceased at the age of seventy-two years. His wife died aged eighty-two years. They reared a family of seven children: William, Thomas, Veazey, James, Samuel, Dorthus, and Sarah. Only three of the above named are now living: Sarah, Veazey, and Samuel. Veazey Price married Miss Eliza R. Veatch, in 1846, daughter of Peter Veatch, and settled in Mt. Vernon, By trade he is a joiner and

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pattern maker. He commenced working at his trade in 1837, and served three years as an apprentice with John Arentrue at the joiner trade, after serving his time as an apprentice, which ended in 1840, he remained one year with his old employer, and in 1841 he commenced work with Charles Cooper, making the wood work on carding machines and spinning jacks, and making patterns. He continued with Mr. Cooper as pattern maker until 1854, when he purchased and moved on a farm in Morgan township, same county, where they lived twelve years, and in 1866, he purchased and moved on the farm where he is now living, in Clinton township, two miles west of Mt. Vernon. Since leaving the employ of Mr. Cooper, and moving on a farm, he has made farming his vocation. They have three childrenone son and two daughters.

PRICE. SAMUEL, farmer, youngest son of Samuel Rice, deceased, was born in Knox county, Ohio, May 14, 1825. He married Miss Sarah A. Kerr in 1852, born in Knox county, Ohio. to 1828, daughter of Benjamin and Rose Kerr. They settled in same county, and remained two years. In 1854 they emigrated to Iowa, where they lived sixteen and a half years, and then returned to Knox county. In the spring of 1871 they purchased and moved on the property where they are now living, on the Newark road, a short distance from Mt. Vernon. He owns a farm in Pleasant township, and follows farming as his vocation.

PRICE, CALEB H., farmer, post office, Shaler's Mills, was born in Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, in 1818. He came to Ohio in 1860, and was married to Nancy Simmons, who was born in Jefferson township, Richland county. They have two children: Abraham, born in 1871, and Aldie, in 1874. Mr. Price has been engaged teaching school, and in the ministry in the German Baptist church.

PUGH, HENRY H., Pike township, tanner, post office Democracy, born in Newark, Licking county, August 19, 1841, and married December 31, 1868, to Josephine Wierick, who was born in Knox county, June 6, 1848. They have four children; Edward E., born March 24, 1870; Mary Jane, December 17, 1871; William H., October 13, 1873; and Charles M., April 30, 1876.

Mrs. Pugh when a girl received a liberal education, and was engaged in teaching school for six terms in Knox county.

Mr. Pugh was a soldier in the late war, enlisted June 9, 1862, and was a member of company K, Eightysecond regiment, Ohio volunteer infantry. He was in the following engagements. Perryville, Kentucky; Stone Ricer, Tennessee; Gallatin Landing; Tennessee; Hovey's Gap, Tennessee; two battles at Franklin, Tennessee; Chicamauga, Lookout Mountain, and Missionary Ridge, Tennessee; battle of Ringgold, Georgia; battle of Resacca, Kennesaw Mountain, Atlanta, Etowah Creek, Georgia; Jonesborough, Savannah, Georgia; Bentonville, North Carolina; and Waynesborough, North Carolina. He was engaged in the service until 1865, and received an honorable discharge. He learned the tanner's trade in Wilmington, Ohio, and is now engaged in that business in Amity.

Mrs. Pugh's father, John Weirick, was born in Zanesville, Muskingum county, Ohio, in 1810. When he was two years old he went with his parents to Pennsylvania. He learned the tanner's trade in Harrisburgh, Pennsylvania, and was engaged in that business for forty-seven years. He was first married November 23, 1838, to Nancy Long, who was born in Dayton, Ohio, in 1838. They had three children: George B. S., born in 1839; James L., in 1842; and Sarah M., in 1845. Mrs. Nancy Weirick departed this life February 15, 1846.

Mr. Weirick's second marriage was to Miss Eliza Steiner, who was born in Newville, Ohio. They had four children: Amanda E., born in 1847; Josephine, in 1848; Harriet, in 1850; and Mary E, in 1853.

The family have married as follows: George B. and Lousetta Anderson, in 1860; James L. and Nancy Simkins. in 1868; Amanda E. and Melleville B. Rowley; Josephine A. and H. H. Pugh, in 1868; Harriet W. and Milton Lattie, in 1866; Sarah M. and Asaph Rowley, in 1861; Mary E. and B. J. Porter, in 1873.

Mr. Weirick and two of his sons, George and James, have been married the second time, and are all living with their second wives. Mr. Weirick is proprietor of the Amity hotel, and has been engaged in the business since 1871, keeping a very respectable house. He and his wife have the ability to make their guests feel at home, and all who stop with them, find the Amity house a pleasant home for the traveler.

PUMPHREY, BASSTLL WELLS, M. D., (deceased, was born August 22, 1812, in Brooke county, Virginia. His ancestors on his father's side came with Lord Baltimore. One settled in South Carolina, and the other in Maryland, of which latter family the subject of this sketch is a descendant. His grandfather, on his mother's side was a captain in the Revolutionary army, and was one of the men who organized the State of Ghio, and was a member of the first constitutional convention.

Until fourteen years young Pumphrey remained with hi. parents. He attended school at Athens, Ohio, and read medicine with Dr. Sellers, of Pittsburgh, and then went to the University of Maryland, and graduated in 1832. He commenced the practice of medicine in Mt. Pleasant. Ohio, in 1833, where be remained until 1842, when he removed to Mt. Vernon. where he continued to follow his profession till his death. He was appointed examining pension surgeon in 1842, and served ten years, and was reappointed and resigned his position. He died October 19, 1880, of apoplexy.

Dr. Pumphrey was married to Miss Maria J. Updegraff in 1832. She was the daughter of James Updegraff, one of the first settlers of Ohio. Three children were born to them, one son and two daughters. The son died when young. His daughters are both married. His oldest daughter married Andrew Parrott, and lives near Mt. Vernon, and his other daughter married Brooklyn L. Terry, and resides in Columbus.

PUMPHREY, R. J., Hilliar township, real estate dealer, Centreburgh. He is the fourth child of Fleming and Mary J. Pumphrey, was born in Harrison count, Ohio, June 23, 1846. His parents moved to Knox county in 1852, arid settled on a farm. where the subject of this notice spent his early days assisting his father on the farm and attending school during the winter months.

When about twenty years of age he went to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, for the purpose of attending commercial college, but upon receiving an appointment as clerk in the city hospital he relinquished his object, He remained to the clerkship for a year, and then returned to Ohio and opened a general store in Centreburgh. By his judicious management and strict adherence to business principles he attained an enviable reputation for integrity, and was successful in his business. He is a close observer and weighs any undertaking in which he might engage,

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viewing the possibilities and probabilities of success. This, coupled with a comprehensive knowledge of the world, makes him a safe counsellor in matters of business.

He was elected justice of the peace and served for three years with satisfaction to those who had business to transact before him. He is a member of the council and takes an active intive interest in the improvement of the town. He has had more to do with improving the village, perhaps, than any other individual. He is social in his manner, and is calculated to make fast friends. He is in the heyday of his life, young, striving and vigorous.

He is a leading citizen. He was married to Miss Mary E. Collard, of Hartford, Licking county, Ohio, October, 1872. Their union has been blessed with two children.

PUMPHREY, JOSIAH M., is owner of the "Prairie farm," one of the best in Clay. He . was born in Belmont county, Ohio, June 4, A. D. 1821. He removed to Licking county in 1848, and to Clay township April, 1, 1858; was married to Miss Celia A. Ross, February 24, 1849, who was born in Clay township in 1830. They have one child, Ross.

Mr. Pumphrey has been a prominent member of the Disciple church for twenty-seven years, and elder in the same twenty years.

PUTNAM, NORMAN WILLIAMS, College township, was born in Windsor county, Vermont, October 17, 1800. All the Putnams, of New England, descended from John Putnam, who, with two brothers, came from Buckinghamshire, England in 1634, and settled at Salem, or Danruse, Massachusetts. John Putnam had three sons, John, Nathaniel, and Thomas. General Israel Putnam's father was Joseph, son of Thomas. A. great-grandson of General Israel Putnam (Douglas Putnam) now lives at Marietta, Ohio. Many others of his descendants are living there and in the neighborhood.

General Rufus Putnam's father was Elisha, son of Edward, son of Thomas. There are also a large number of the descendants of this branch of the Putnam family living in and about Marietta.

Daniel, the grandfather of N. W. Putnam, was born in Sutton, Massachusetts, the birthplace of General Rufus Putnam, about the year 1733. He married Ann, a daughter of Hon. Samuel Chase (the grandfather of Bishop Philander Chase), moved from Sutton to New Hampshire with the Chase colony, in 1764, and settled upon the township of land given to Deacon Dudley Chase, on account of his being the first settler on Connecticut river north of Charlestown, New Hampshire, then known as Fort No. 4. He had three sons and several daughters.

The youngest son. Isaac, was the father of N. W. Putnam. He came with his family to Gambier in 1833, and died in Gambler in 1849, aged seventy-nine years. His wife died in Gambler in 1837.

His youngest daughter, Mary, married in 1835 Rev. S. A. Bronson, D. D., now of Mansfield, Ohio. She died in Gambier, in 1849, the next day after the death of her father, and were both buried in the same grave. His youngest son. Daniel, is still living near Potsdam, New York.

His son, N. W. Putnam, came to Ohio in 1829, and was at once employed as clerk in the college store. He remained in that capacity until the store was given up, in 1834. In February, 1833, he was married to Maria, third daughter of Archibald Douglass. The result of this marriage was the birth of ten children-five boys and five girls. Three of the girls and two boys are still living.

The eldest son, Rufus, died in August, 1851, from the accidental discharge of a shotgun in the hands of a companion and relative. The charge destroyed the knee joint, requiring amputation. He would have entered the Freshman class in September, had his life been spared.

His second son, Douglass, when of age, went to Terre Haute, Indiana, in 1858. At the breaking out of the Rebellion he enlisted for three months in the Eleventh Zouaves, under General Lew Wallace, now governor of New Mexico. The regiment was ordered to West Virginia. At the expiration of the three months they returned to Indiana, and was reorganized. A new regiment of infantry, the Seventy-first Indiana volunteers, was being raised in the neighborhood of Terre Haute. Young Putnam joined the new regiment, and in a short time was made quartermaster. He held this position until near the close of the war, when he was promoted to a captaincy. In September, 1865, after the regiment was disbanded, he went to Kansas. For some years he has teen employed in the United States railway mail service, and was head clerk in Superintendent, Col. Hunt's office, in St. Louis when his health failed, and in May, 1879, came home, and in June died at the family homestead in Gambier.

Mr. Putnam's third son, John Henry, was a graduate of Kenyon college class of 1864. There were fifty-five members entered the Freshman class in 1860, and only fifteen graduated. At the breaking out of the war quite a number of the class, and many other students of the college, with their esteemed president, Colonel Lorin Andrews, left the institution, and joined the Union army.

Mr. Putnam has occupied his present residence for over twenty years. He has, in connection with his boarding house, been engaged in a small way in gardening and fruit culturemostly for the purpose of supplying his table with fresh fruits and vegetables, and has enjoyed better health than ever before in his life. He has long since come to the conclusion that he was not cut out for a merchant. Bishop Chase used to say that he (Bishop Chase) was not much of a preacher that his forte was in begging. He claimed to be the prince of beggars. He said he got nothing for preaching in Gambier, and it was "poor preach and poor pay."'

Mr. Putnam feels that his end is near, and when called to depart this life, be desires to be at peace with God, and in perfect charity with all the world.

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RANDALL, DANIEL, Middlebury township, farmer, post office, Fredericktown, born in Rensselaer county, New York, March 7, 1837, and was married in October, 1869, to Mary Allen, who was born in 1843 in Monroe county, Ohio. They have two sons-Edward, born November 1, 1872, and John, September 11, 1874.

Mr. Randall came to Knox county in the spring of 1850: He is justice of the peace in this township, and is an enterprising citizen.

RANDALL, JOHN D., Fredericktown, deceased, was born in New York in 1838; married in 1866 to Alice McCaskey, who was born in Knox county, Ohio, in 1842. They have one daughter-Maggie J. Randall - who was torn in 1868.

Mr. Randall resided in this county for a number of years

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and then moved to Illinois, remaining there about seven years. His health became impaired and he moved to Michigan for its improvement. While there he died in 1873. He was a soldier in the late war. He first enlisted for three months, and then reenlisted for three years.

Mrs. Alice Randall and her daughter are now residents of Fredericktown.

RANKIN, L. D., deceased, was born November 5, 1804, in Fayette county, Pennsylvania; came to Ohio to 1815; located in Knox county in 1849; was married to Christena Livingston, who was born in Monongalia county, Virginia, July 1, 1803. They had six children James, Margaret, Eliza Ann, Malissa, Rebecca J., and Elizabeth.

Mr. L. D. Rankin died in Fredericktown May 31, 1867. His wife, Christena Rankin, died in the same place June 10, 1869.

RANSOM, R. B., farmer, Wayne township, post office, Mt. Vernon; born in 1838, and was married to Mary Chancey, who was born in Berlin township in 1842. They have four children: Laura T., born in 1862; Edwin M., in 1864, Bertha M., in 1868; Pearl, in 1874; and Edith Grace in 1877.

Mr. Ransom has always resided in this township, and owns a beautiful farm in Green Valley-the garden spot of Knox county.

RANSOM, JOHN H., Mt. Vernon, of the firm of Penick & Ransom, leather manufacturers, was born in this city on the nineteenth day of September, 1847. He was a pupil of our public schools. His first effort in a business way was with the late George B. Potwin, produce dealer, with whom he remained two years. He then engaged with S. L. Taylor, dry goods dealer, as salesman and bookkeeper, where he was retained five years. For three years he was engaged as salesman with firm of Swetland & Bryant. He then engaged in the grocery business which he carried on some nine months, when he sold, out and engaged in the butchering business with Mr. Penick, under the name of Penick & Ransom. This business he conducted for five and a half years, when they purchased the tannery of G. E. Raymond in the fall of 1878, and still continues the manufacture of leather. This is one of the best establishments in central Ohio, and is much the largest in the county, and has a capacity of about six thousand pieces a year. The establishment has steampower for pumping, grinding and leaching bark, and heating purposes. The building is eighty by one hundred feet, and contains seventy vats, three finishing rooms, shaving room, boiler and engine room, and office, with machinery enough to run a first class tannery. Their specialty is in harness, also upper leather, calf, kip, etc.

RAYMOND, RACHEL (BANNING), deceased. Mrs. Rachel B. Raymond, relict of the late Rev. Elnathan Raymond, was the third child of Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Banning, and was born in the town of Connellsville, Pennsvlvania, on the twelfth of November, 1796. Her death occurred on Friday morning, July 23, 1880, at Mt. Vernon, making her at the time of her death nearly eighty-four years of age. In the year 1812 Miss Banning, with her parents, emigrated to Ohio and settled in this city, when it was a mere hamlet in the wilderness. Seven years later, or in 1819, Miss Banning was married to Mr. Elnathan Raymond, and the same year the newly married couple left this comparatively new country and returned east, locating in New York. only to remain a few years, however, for in 1834 they returned, where they resided the balance of their lives. From this union six children were born, five of whom still survive, viz: Mrs. G. A. Jones, Mrs. G. K. Norton, Miss Mary Raymond, Mrs. James Blanchard, and George E. Raymond. Mrs. Raymond survived her husband six years, he having died in this city August, 1874. Her last illness was the first serious indisposition that any of her surviving relatives remember, as she was in excellent health to within a week of her demise. Her children all reside in this city, with the exception of George E. Raymond, who was at once advised of her condition, and at the hour of her death all of her children living were present. Her last illness was general congestion, though her mental faculties were unimpaired to within a few minutes of death. She was able to talk with her sorrowing children and grandchildren gathered around her bedside. Five children, eleven grandchildren, and sixteen great-grandchildren mourn the loss of a kind and loving parent.

Mrs. Raymond was always actively engaged and ever ready to lend a helping hand to anything that was of a benevolent char. acter. Amongst the many organizations she was a member of and took a special interest in was The Soldiers Aid society, which was organized in 1861, at her residence. In 1863 the Union League society was organized, the object being to erect a monument to the memory of the Union soldiers at the close of the war. She was its first proposer and its permanent president, and one of its most active members, being one of the first to solicit funds for the erection of the monument, and it was ever an object of great solicitude with her to see it erected during her lifetime, in which she was gratified. Great credit is due her for the zeal she manifested in that enterprise. Her family were its most liberal contributors. She was also a champion of temperance, and a most zealous worker in the cause.

REED, ELIAS, Pike township, farmer, post office, North Liberty, was born in Brown township, this county, in 1847, and was married in 1871 to Anna C. O'Bryan, who was born in Pike township, this county, in 1851. They have two children: Debert, born June 26, 1872, and Maude, February 4, 1874.

Mr. Reed came to Pike township in 1871, is a farmer, and one of the active men of this township.

RESSEL, L. D., Union township, farmer, post office, Rossville, was born in Brown township, Knox county, August 21, 1843. His father came to this county and settled on a farm which he cleared up himself. He died in his seventy-sixth year. L. D. Ressel went to Columbus in 1867 and married Miss M. E Moor. In 1872 he moved to Knox county, where he remained. He has been engaged in farming until the present time. He has bought and sold several farms, but finally has settled himself permanently on his present farm. He has two children: Maggie and Carrie.

REYNOLDS, DANIEL, Hilliar township, farmer, was born in Hardy county, Virginia, Februarv 4, 1811. He is the son of William and Rebecca Reynolds, nee Harris. They were born in Virginia, and married there, where they remained until about 1815, when they came to Licking county, Ohio, where they remained until about 1820, when they removed to Knox county, settling in Hilliar township, where they both died.

The subject of this sketch remained at home with his parents until they died, and now resides on the farm where they settled.

He is one of the few pioneers who are now living in the township. He remembers when the township was almost an unbroken forest. He was married to Miss :Mary Battomfield June 19, 1840. Thev had a family of five children, four of whom are living, viz: Amanda, married to Stephen Rinehart:

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John W., farmer, Delaware county, Ohio; Miles M. and Leslie, who live at home.

Mr. Reynolds is a social and pleasant gentleman, and is esteemed by the community.

RHINEHALT, DAVID, wagon maker, Middlebury township, post office, Fredericktown, born in District of Columbia, October 13, 1844, came to Richland county, in 1848, and to Knox county in 1872, where he has remained since his marriage, in 1867, to Martha Warick, who was born in Richland county, February 2, 1849.

They have the following family: Olive, born March 17, 1868; Dellvan, October 24, 1870; Lide, May 31, 1873; Landon, March 13, 1876, and Hoy, July 23, 1878.

He is the owner of a stationary saw-mill, located on his place in this township with all of the modern improvements, and is doing custom-work to order. He is one of the active men of this township. David Rhinehalt was a soldier of the late war, having been a member of company D, One Hundred and Sixty-third regiment Ohio volunteer infantry, and was engaged in the service four months.

RICE, EPHRAIM, farmer, Brown township, post office, Danville, son of Isaac Rice, born in Bedford county, Pennsylvania, August 15, 1827, was brought to Knox county by his parents when a boy, in 1827, his father locating in Jefferson township, where he erected a good hewed log house, into which he moved his family. Here the subject of this sketch was reared and remained until February 3, 1857, when he married Mary M. Bowman, she being the widow of Martin Bowman, born July 5, 1835. After his marriage he purchased a farm of one hundred and twenty-five acres in Brown township, where he then moved and has since remained.

Mr. Rice has held the office of trustee for a number of years. By their marriage they have become the parents of seven children: Clinton M., born November 6, 1857; Tamsen J., March 13, 1860; Emma F., September 1, 1861; Hattie E., June 2, 1863; Solomon B., March 12, 1865; William B., January 28, 1867; J. I. C., November 21, 1869.

Tamsen J. and Emma E. are both married and reside in Brown township, Knox county.

RICE, FREDERICK, Jefferson township, deceased, son of Isaac and Cordelia Rice; born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, December 19, 1821; was brought to Knox county by his parents when seven years of age, his father locating in Jefferson township, north of the village of Danville, where the subject of this sketch received his education. At the age of twentyone years he commenced teaching school, and taught five terms. On November 11, 1857, at the age of twenty-five years, he united in marriage with Miss Nancy J. Withron, daughter of James and Elizabeth Withron, born in Carroll county, October 6, 1826.

After his marriage he moved on a farm owned by Philip Baker, where he remained about five years; he then rented a farm owned by Marshal, and remained there until his father's death, which occurred about the year 1855 or 1856. He then purchased the farm formerly owned by his father, where he moved with his family, and remained until his death, which occurred March 20, 1875, aged fifty-three years. Mr. Rice filled the offices of trustee, clerk, and justice of the peace, in Jeferson township. The marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Rice resulted in eight children, viz: James W., born December 26, 1846, died September 16, 1850; Isaac O., born July 28, 1851; Charming F., December 10, 1854; William B., June 25, 1857, died October 2, 1857; Charles P., born November 7, 1858; Frederick F., March 21, 1863, died September 11, 1879; Elizabeth C., born October 2, 1865; Byron L., March 2, 1871. Five of the children are living.

Nancy J. Rice, wife of Frederick Rice, died September 17, 1879, aged fifty-three years. She had been a consistent member of the Wesleyan Methodist Episcopal church of Jefferson township.

RICE, NELSON F., farmer, Clay township, born in Greene county, Pennsylvania, September 16, 1832, and with his father, Thomas Rice, came to Knox county, Ohio, in 1835, locating first in Jackson township, but removing to Clay township about 1838.

He was married to Catharine Travel March 10, 1857. His wife was born December 19, 1836. Their children were Columbus Ohio, born December 29, 1857; Henry M., born October 7, 1859; William S., born July 10, 1865; and an unnamed daughter which died in infancy.

Mrs. Rice died January 31, 1880. Mr. Rice was married the second time February 12, 1880, to Miss Allie Smith, who was born in Licking county, Ohio, June 3, 1857. He is the owner of two hundred and fifty acres of good farming land in the southern part of Clay township.

RICHARD, HELEN, Gambier, farmer, a native of-Ireland, was born in the county of Cork, February, 1811. In 1851 he emigrated to America and located near Milford, Clermout county, Ohio, and remained two years. In 1853 he came to Gambier, this county, and accepted the position of janitor at the college, which position he held and faithfully discharged his duty for twenty-one years, then in 1875, he turned his attention to fanning, and has since made that his vocation. In 1854 he returned to Clermont county, where he married Miss Jane Parrott, December 3d, of same year, born in Clermont county in 1826. They settled in Gambier, where they now reside. They reared four children, viz: George, Stephen, John, and Richard.

RICHERT, JOHN, Brown township, farmer, son of George and Barbara Richert, was born in Stark county. Ohio, August 23, 1839. He was brought to Brown township, this county, by his parents in 1840. In 1859 he went to California by land, and returned byway of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans in 1864. In the spring of 1865 he again went to California, and remained about a year, when he again returned to his old home in this county. While in the gold regions he followed mining as his vocation, and since then his time has been spent on a farm. At present he owns a farm about two miles west of Jelloway, in Brown township, on which he has erected buildings, which are among the best improvements in the township.

In February, 1867, he matried Miss Sarah Oswalt, of Brown township, born in 1845, daughter of Frederick and Catharine Oswalt. They settled on the farm where they now reside. They have a family of children, both sons and daughters.

RICHERT, PETER F., Brown township, dealer in all kinds of boots and shoes, Jelloway.-Mr. Richert was born in Brown township, this county, April 2, 1850. He was brought up on a farm. When seventeen years old he commenced working at the shoemaker's trade, with his father, George Richert, being a shoemaker by trade. He would work at the trade during the fall and winter months, and on the farm for his father during the summer months, until in September, 1874, he moved to Jelloway, where he engaged in the business on his own account.

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dealing in all kinds of boots and shoes, both course and fine, also manufactures everything in his line of business on short notice. He generally employs from two to three hands to manufacture boots for his trade, all of which are warranted to give satisfaction. He is always ready and willing to wait on his customers. In August, 1874, he married Miss Catharine Reinhard, of Brown township, this county, daughter. of George Reinhard. They settled in Jelloway, where they now reside. Their union resulted in two children, only one of whom is now living-Emanuel Theodore.

RIGBY, LUCIAN, Fredericktown, harness-maker was born in Licking county, Ohio, in 1831; came to Knox county with his parents in infancy. He was married in 1866, to Elizabeth Coulter, who was from in Alleghany county, Pennsylvania, in 1842. They have two children, viz.: Laura V., born May 30, 1868; Otho R., born April 14, 1870. Mr. Rigby learned harness making in Madison county, Ohio. He enlisted in the war September, 1861, and was a member of company A, Twentieth regiment, Ohio volunteer infantry. He was engaged in the service three years, and received an honorable discharge. After his return he opened a harness shop, and has continued here since. Mr. Rigby is a practical mechanic, a wide awake bus). ness man, and is one of the active and energetic men of Fredericktown.

RILEY, JOHN, Hilliar township, farmer, was born in Culpeper county, Virginia, May, 1811. His parents came to Ohio about 1824, settling near three miles west of Zanesville, on Fallen Timber run, where the elder Riley died. About two years after his wife, with her family of nine children-four sons and five daughters--came to Hilliar township. Here Mrs. Riley died at the advanced age of eighty-four years. The children are yet living, except Elijah who died when young.

The subject of this notice was married to Miss Susan B. Curtis, of Cambridge, Ohio, in September, 1837, and shortly after their marriage he purchased the tract of land now owned by the Evan heirs, being one of the first settlers on the Rathbone section. Here he constructed his rude cabin, and the young couple began life in the unbroken forest.

Mr. Riley worked with energy and a determination to succeed. Almost day and night the sound of his axe might be heard. He cleared this tract without assistance. He disposed of this farm and bought a farm farther west, which he traded for his present home. This, like his first farm, was covered with heavy timber. He cleared this farm and made for himself and family a pleasant home. He owned at one time quite a quantity of land, but as his children grew up he divided it. Mr. Riley, though comparatively small in stature, has done more labor perhaps than any man of his age in the township. He has always been active and industrious, starting in life without the aid of a dollar. He was unfortunate in his first purchase. He paid two. payments on his land, and had worked hard to earn the money for his third and last payment. His house took fire when he and the family were away and the dwelling, together with his money, was entirely consumed Mr. Riley had but little advantages of education. He has the esteem of the community.

By their marriage they had twelve children: Francis M., wife of Harry Messmore; Judson F., Harrison county, Missouri, a farmer; Leicester T., farmer, Harrison county, Missouri; Mary Emaline, wife of Mahlon Rinehart, Kansas; William A., farmer in Hilliar township; Shelton M., farmer in Morrow county, Ohio; Morgan T., died September, 1870, aged twenty-three years. Bruce and Clara Ann died when young.

Emma E. (deceased), married J. W. Rinehart, and left a family of ten children; Loretta Belle, wife of Wesley Coe. Five of Mr. Riley's sons were in the army-Judson F., Leceister P., William A., Shelton M., and Morgan T.

RILEY, NICHOLAS, SR. (deceased, was born in Maryland about the year 1778, and emigrated to Butler township, Knox county, about the year 1806, purchasing land of John Shrimplin, the owner of Shrimplin's mill, one of the first in Knox county. This land, lying on Owl creek, was very heavily timbered with walnut, sugar, and sycamore.

Mr. Riley soon cleared up his farm, which was a very productive one and lived on the same until the time of his death, December 15, 1866.

He was married to Hannah Shrimplin at Wellsburgh, Virginia, prior to his removal to Ohio. The children born unto them were: William, born January 12, 1803; Harriet, September 22, 1804; Isaac, March 26, 1806; John, July 3, 1807; Eliza, September 23, 1809; Mary, February 4, 1812: Margaret, May 23, 1814; George Washington, August 7, 1816; Abraham Shrimplin, September 25, 1818; Maria Rachel Stockton, December 23, 1820; Hannah, January 14, 1823; Almira, December 30, 1825; Susanna, March 17, 1827; Nicholas, December 24, 1829.

Mr. Riley was an industrious and honored citizen, and did much for the development and improvement of that section of Butler township lying along Owl creek.

RILEY, GEORGE W., was born in Butler township, August 7, 1816. He is a son of Nicholas Riley, one of the very first settlers of Butler township. He is the owner of several hundred acres of good farming land, is an honored, industrious eitizen and a life long Democrat.

RILEY, NICHOLAS, was born December 24, 1829, in Butler township, and was married to Elizabeth Mercer, January 26, 1854. Mrs. Riley was born January 11, 1853. They have had seven children, viz: Ransom, Martha Jane, Samuel M. C., George A., Carrie E., David M., who are all living-one dead not named. Mrs. Riley died November 21, 1875.

Mr. Riley is the owner of three hundred and thirty acres of land lying on Owl creek.

RINEHART, MRS. HARRIET, was born in Clinton township, April 21, 1814; she was the daughter of Samuel and Mary Nye, tee Bartlett, who were born in New York, and married there in 1808, and the same year Mr. Nye came to Ohio, leaving his wife in New York. He located at the town of Clinton, his wife coming the next year. He remained in Clinton for some years and then moved on the farm now owned by Charles Swan, about two miles and a half from Mt. Vernon. The farm at that time was entirely covered with forest, and of necessity Mr. Nye had to swing the axe for months and years to make for himself a home. They here reared a family of nine children, seven daughters and two sons, five of whom are yet living.

Mr. Nye was a soldier of the War of 1812, and was a leading citizen of the community. He died at the ripe age of eighty-five years. His wife survived him for some years, dying with her daughter, Mrs. Robert Thompson, of Mt. Vernon, while on a visit. Thus ends all that is mortal of two of Knox coun-

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ty's early settlers. They have left their impress, however upon the community.

John Rinehart, deceased, was born in New Jersey, March 28, 1810. His parents moved from New Jersey about 1815, and settled a few miles west of Mt. Vernon. October 24, 1833, he was married to Miss Harriet Nye, and the following year they moved to a farm two miles northeast of Centreburgh, and now owned by George Rinehart, their son. The land was entirely covered with forest, but he cleared it, and became one of the most prosperous farmers in the community. He was for many years a consistent member of the Methodist church, and took an active and leading part in the erection of suitable buildings for church purposes. As early as 1837 he was successful in having a place of worship erected in Centreburgh. When this church was no longer fit to occupy, he was instrumental in having the present church building erected. He was a leading and influential citizen, and his loss was felt when he died, January 15, 1880. They had a family of twelve children, six of whom are living. The living are William M., farmer, in Kansas; George, farmer, in Hilliar township; Preston and John Wesley; Hattie, married to M. F. Hasson, resides in Centreburgh; and Eliza J., married to Marshal Doty, farmer, and resides in Morrow county.

RINEHART, GEORGE, Hilliar township, farmer; was born in Hilliar township September 26, 1840. He is the fifth child of John and Harriet Rinehart. His youth was spent on his father's farm until he went to clerking in a store at Rich Hill, where he remained until he was about twenty years of age, when he returned home. He remained with his parents until he was married to Miss Alice P. Coe, daughter of Captain C. H. Coe, November, 1864. He shortly after moved to his father's old homestead, and a few years after he became owner of the farm by purchase, where he has since resided. He is a successful farmer. By their union they have three children.

Preston H. Rinehart was born in Hilliar township October 22, 1842. He is a son of John and Harriet Rinehart. He was attending a select school in Centreburgh, and his parents not wishing him to leave school opposed his going to the army, but Preston could not confine himself to his studies, so he took leave of his friends and schoolmates and enlisted in company F, Sixty-fifth Ohio volunteer infantry, November 14, 1861, and was with the army of the Cumberland. He participated in the battles of Shilo, Stone River, Chattanooga, Chickamauga, Knoxville, Franklin, Lookout Mountain, Resaca, Columbia, Spring Hill and Nashville, besides many skirmishes. He was wounded at Nashville in the right ankle, and was laid up for some time. He was discharged at Nashville. He was a brave and true soldier, never shirking his duty, or never asking for a furlough.

William M. Rinehart, who now lives in Kansas, was also in the army. He enlisted in company F, One Hundred and Twenty-first Ohio volunteer infantry, and served for three years, receiving an honorable discharge. Thus the Rinehart boys served their country faithfully.

RINEHART, WILLIAM, Morris township, farmer, post office. Mt. Vernon, born in Morris township, this county, July l0, 1819; and was married in 1844, to Elizabeth Willhit, who was born in Frederick county, Maryland, March 4, 1825. They had one daughter, Mary Ann, who was born in 1845. Mrs. Elizabeth Rinehart died August 8, 1846. Mr. Rinehart afterwards married Abigail A. Sherman, who was born in Wayne township, this county, January 25, 1835. They have six children-Martha, born September 20, 1854; Wfliard, February 29, 1856; Jefferson W., December 17, 1857; William S., November. 12, 1866; Byran J., October 7, 1869; and Eva Nett, November 12, 1871.

Mr. Rinehart is a man of some prominence; he has been elected to different offices in this township, and filled them with credit; he received the nomination for infirmary director in July, 1880.

His father, Christian Rinehart, was born in 1766, in Morris County, New Jersey, was married in 1794, to Mary Douglass, who was born in New Jersey, in 1777. They had ten children Phebe, Adam, Aaron D., Lewis, Ann, Margaret, John, Samuel, Mary, and William.

Mr. Rinehart emigrated to Knox county, Ohio, in 1816, and located on the fern where his son William now resides. They cleared and improved this farm and remained here until death. They were among the pioneers of the county, and reared a large and respectable family.

RINEHART, JOHN, farmer, post office, Fredericktown, was born in this township in 1828, and was married to Susan Alfred, who was born in Carroll county, Ohio, in 1832. They had nine children-Charles (deceased), George D., Martha B., Adam A., William B., Anna, Jesse, John L. (deceased), and Stanton M. .

Mr. Rinehart was elected treasurer of this township in 1877, and reelected in 1880. He is an extensive landholder and is one of the leading farmers of Morris township.

RINEHART, DAVID, farmer, post office, Fredericktown, was born in Monis township, Knox county, Ohio, in 1839, and was married in 1861 to Harriet Darling, who was born in Wayne township in 1839. They have the following children: Edith M., born in 1862; Clement D., in 1864; Sarah J., in 1865; Adam D., in 1867; Edward R., in 1868; and Ella R., in 1875.

Mr. Rinehart is fully identified with this township, having always resided here, and is one of its most active and enterprising men. He owns a well improved farm with excellent buildings.

His father, Adam Rinehart (deceased), was born in Morris county, New Jersey, March 1, 1799, and came to Morris township in 1816, and was married to Martha Bonar, who was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania. They had the following children: Sarah Ann, John, Mary (deceased), George, Isabella, and David. Adam Rinehart died in Morris township in 1874. He was among its earliest settlers.

Mrs. Martha Rinehart died in this township in December, 1866.

Mr. Rinehart cleared up the farm where his son David now resides.

Mrs. Rinehart when a young woman, in company with two other ladies, went from this county to Washington county, Pennsylvania, on a visit, travelling the entire distance on horseback, going and returning.

RINGWALT, JOHN S., dry goods merchant, Mt. Vernon. This house was first opened May 10, 1873, under the name of Ringwalt & Jennings, and commenced in the Norton building, northeast corner of the public square, with a new stock of about twenty-five thousand dollars, where they did business four years. Then they moved into the Kirk building, formerly owned by Mr. A. Wolff, where they remained two years. In 1879 Mr. Ringwalt purchased the Sapp block, on west side

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Main street, between the public square and Vine street, into which the firm moved their stock in the commodious and elegant room in said block. Their trade has so increased that they now carry a stock of about fifty thousand dollars.

January 1, 1880, Mr. Ringwalt purchased the interest of Mr. Jennings, since which time he has been sole proprietor, and is now doing a business of about ninety thousand dollars per year. His stock is much the largest and most complete in the city, and consists of a full line of black and colored silks and cashmeres, and dress goods of all kinds; also a full line of notions. Mr. Ringwalt keeps a force of six salesmen to wait upon the large number of customers who daily visit his store. His present stock is valued at thirty-five thousand dollars.

Mr. Ringwalt has been in business in Mt. Vernon twentyseven years.

RISLEY, JACOB, deceased, of Clinton township, was born in Hancock county, Maryland, in the year 1785. In August, 1815, he was married in Augusta county, Virginia, to Miss Anna Fauber. This marriage took place on the twenty-third day of March. In September of the same year he emigrated to Ohio, and located in Knox county. His father, in the year 1812, came to Ohio and purchased one thousand and fifty acres of land in Knox county. Jacob Risley owned the farm three miles from Mt. Vernon, now in possession of his son-in-law, Chambers Ash.

Mr. Risley had one son and two daughters. One daughter, Mrs. Chambers Ash, is living in Knox county, and the other is living in Morrow county. The son, Dr. John Risley, is living in Iowa. In the year 1850 Jacob Risley moved to Morrow county, Ohio, and died on the seventeenth day of March, 1854, aged sixty-nine years.

ROBERTS, MRS. ESTHER, Hilliar township, daughter of Henry and Rebecca Slater, of Greene county, Pennsylvnnia, was born March 1, 1804. When she was about five years old, her parents emigrated to Ohio, and settled about a mile and a quarter south of Mt. Vernon, and were among the early settlers of Knox county. They remained for a number of years in Clinton township, where they first settled, and then moved to Hilliar township settling west of where the subject of this notice resides. They reside there for a number of years, and died in Morrow county December, 1830.

Esther was married to David Roberts, and early in the spring of 1831 they moved on their farm in Hilliar township. The farm was entirely covered with forest, and of necessity Mr. Roberts had to clear the land, and of course, had all the experience of an early settler. There were born to them three sons and five daughters, six of whom reached maturity, and four of whom are still living, viz: Elizabeth, married to Levi Kyle; Phebe, married to Jackson Kyle; William j„ of whom we will speak hereafter, and Ivy, married to Benjamin Laughery.

Mrs. Roberts enjoys good health, and has the use of her mental faculties to a great degree for one of her age. She still resides on the old homestead with her son, William J. Roberts, who was born November 7, 1846, who lives now where he was born and raised, and never lived out of the township, except five years when he was in Hardin county, Ohio. He was married to Miss Sarah Lyon, of Morrow county, February 23, 1869, and as a result of their union they had a family of six children-all sons, five of whom are living.

Mr. Roberts is a respected citizen, and is quiet and social in his manners. Mr. John Roberts died on his farm January, 1857, aged about fifty years. He was born in Greene county, Pennsylvania, and when quite young, his parents moved to Morgan township, and it was here that Mr. Roberts was raised to manhood.

ROBERTS, CHRISTIAN S., Hilliar township, retired farmer, was born in Morgan township December, 1812. His parents came from Greene county, Pennsylvania, in 1810 and settled on the farm now owned by John Roberts, brother of the subject of this notice. They became large land owners, having about twelve hundred acres. They were among the pioneers of Knox county, and by their honest toil helped to make Knox county what it really is, a beautiful land. They died on their favorite spot where they first settled, esteemed by all who knew them.

Mr. Roberts spent his young days on the farm. He remained at home until 1838, when he was married to Miss Elizabeth Braddick, of Knox county, and shortly after moved to Hilliar township where he has since resided, being engaged in farming until recently, when he retired and is now spending his days in his comfortable dwelling in Centreburgh. By his marriage there were three children, all of whom are dead.

ROBERTS, JOHN. Morgan township, farmer, born in Morgan township, December 31, 1818. He is the son of Abraham Roberts, of Virginia, who married Elizabeth Sellers and came to Ohio, being pioneers of Morgan township. They both died on the farm on which they first settled. They had a family of nine children.

The subject of this sketch was born on the farm on which he now resides, having never lived off this farm. September 26, 1844, he was married to Miss Elizabeth J ones, daughter of Nelson Jones. They are the parents of twelve children. Those living are: Anna B., wife of Homer Burris, of Henry county, Missouri; Cordelia, wife of John Calvin, of Morgan township; Rogers P., David O., George Walter, Lizzie D., and Charley L. The deceased are Clarence, Nelson, Reed, Edwin, and an infant. Mr. Roberts is a good citizen and has the esteem of the community.

ROBERTS, EDWARD, Hilliar township, farmer, was born in Trumbull county, Ohio, October 21, 1829. Elizabeth Roberts was born in New York, November, 1814. Ezra Roberts was born in Trumbull county, Ohio, in 1837.

Daniel Roberts, father of the above children, was born near New Haven, Connecticut, in 1787, and emigrated to Broome county, New York, where, to 1812, he was married to Mary Green, who was born May 19, 1789. They remained in New York until about 1824, when they moved to Trumbull county, Ohio, where they remained until August, 1837, when they came to Hilliar township, and about three years after moved to the farm on which three of their children yet reside.

They had a family of nine children, and so far as is known only the three named in this sketch are living. January 31, 1843, Mrs. Roberts died; her husband followed her about seven years later.

The Messrs. Roberts are a good farmers, and among the substantial and influential men of Hilliar. Their farm contains about two hundred and forty acres of good land, and well improved. They have several herds of thoroughbred cattle and a lot of fine thoroughbred sheep. They have the confidence and esteem of the public, are social and pleasant people, take great interest in the affairs of the country, and are good citizens.

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ROBERTSON, JESSE PRATT, farmer, Liberty township, Mt. Liberty, Ohio, was born in Washington county, New York; June 15, 1832. His fatter, Hezekiah Robertson, was born in 1805, and married Eliza Pratt, of the same State, in December, 1836. They came to Knox county and settled on the farm on which Mr. Robertson now resides, where the father died in 1867. His wife still survives him. They had eleven children, nine are yet living, viz: Jesse P., the subject of this notice, is the oldest; Mary E., wife of W. R. Proper, of Liberty township; Sarah M., wife of Milton Bird, of Liberty township, Ruth E., wife of Warren Bedell; Phillip E., farmer, Morrow county; Charles E., farmer, Morrow county; Frances A., wife of David Farr, of Liberty township; Caroline J., wife of Benjamin Thompson, who resides in Sullivan county, Missouri; and Kate. Two infants have died. Mr. Robertson was reared on a farm and received a common school education. He enlisted in company A., Ninety-sixth Ohio volunteer infantry in July, 1862, and participated in the battle of Arkansas Post, where he was slightly wounded in his right arm. He was discharged September 18, 1863, on account of physical disability, caused from sicknes. On his return home he engaged in farming. He married Miss Caroline A. McComb, November 2, 1854. She was born in Tompkins county, New York, 1832. Her father, Solomon McComb, emigrated to Ohio in 1847, and now is a resident of Mt. Vernon, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Robertson are the parents of eleven children, all of whom are living-Edme, born February 22, 1856; Charles, November 16, 1857; Caroline Adelia, born March 15, 1860, wife of Edward Jackson; Phillip E., November 27, 1861; W. Delos, August 6, 1864; William K., July 20, 1867; Frank B., June 20, 1869; Linda J. M., May 6, 1872; Walter B., February 4, 1874; Grace O., July 26, 1876; and Fred., January 21, 1880. Mr. Robertson is an estimable citizen, and is highly esteemed for his uprightness of character.

ROBERTSON, AMASA PRATT, Liberty township, eclectic physician, Mt. Liberty post office, was born in Washington county, New York, January 5, 1843. His parents about a year after moved to Knox county; where the doctor spent his vouth on a farm. In 1862 he enlisted in company F, One Hundred and Twenty-first Ohio volunteer infantry, and served until the close of the war. He was Third sergeant of his company and was subsequently commissioned sergeant major and as such he was discharged. He participated in the battles of Perryville, Kentucky; Franklin Tennessee; Chickamauga, Lookout Mountain, Resaca, Kennesaw Mountain, Atlanta, and with the army to Savannah, thence to Bentonville, North Carolina. This, of course, includes all the skirmishes, battles and marches of that memorable campaign. After he returned home he attended school at Mt. Vernon and Columbus, Ohio, where he graduated in a commercial course. He taught school for several terms, and in 1869 began reading medicine with Dr. T. H. Vankirk, of Mt. Liberty, Ohio, reading about three years. In 1872 he entered the Eclectic Medical institute at Cincinnati, Ohio. He graduated and commenced practice in Mt. Liberty, where he has succeeded in securing a good practice. He was married to. Miss Mary Thompson in November, 1873. They have one child, Olive, born December 29, 1878.

ROBERTSON, EZRA S., deceased, the father of Dr. Robertson, was born in Washington county, New York, September 26, 1809. His youth, until nineteen years of age, was spent on a farm. He then learned the trade of wagonmaking, working at it until 1843, when he immigrated to Ohio and located on a farm in Hilliar township. He sold this farm and removed to Liberty township where he purchased a farm and remained on it until 1864, when he moved to Mt. Liberty where he engaged at his trade. He died November, 1880. He was an exemplary man and had many friends. He married Sarah Pratt, of New York. They had nine children, seven yet living. His wife survives him.

ROBINSON, SOLOMON, deceased, a native of Maryland, was born in 1871; he married Miss Rebecca Workman in 1801 or 1802, a native of Maryland, born in 1873, daughter of Isaac Workman. They settled in Maryland, remained a short time, then migrated to Harrison county, Ohio, where they lived until 1811, when they moved to Knox county, Ohio, and located in Union township; on the farm now owned by Jacob Rose, near Danville. He erected a log cabin, which served them as an abode for about ten years, when he built a hewed log house in which they lived for several years, when he erected a frame addition to his residence, which he used as a dwelling until 1866, when he moved to Clinton township, near Mt. Vernon, where he passed the remainder of his days. By his marriage to Miss Workman he had twelve children: Joseph, Barbara, William, Isaac, Sarah, Hugh, Matilda, Jacob, Margaret,. Daniel, Basil, and Nancy, five of whom are living. His companion deceased March 14, 1835. He married for his second wife, Nancy Wells, nee Workman, in 1837, by whom he had one child, Louisa, deceased. He died September 10, 1866. His wife survived him until 1878, aged ninety years. He was reared a farmer and followed farming as his vocation.

ROBINSON, WILLIAM, deceased, Union township, was born in Maryland in 1783, and married Miss Sarah Workman, of Maryland, in 1802. They settled in Maryland and remained there until 1811, when they emigrated to Knox county, Ohio, and located in Union township, on land now occupied by J. C. Langford, where they passed the remainder of their days. His first improvement on his land was the erection of a log cabin, which served them as an abode until 1822, when he erected a hewed log dwelling, in which they lived the remainder of their days. They reared a family of ten children: John, Margaret, David, Maria, Barbara, Lucinda, Matilda, Julia A., Sarah, and Mary, all of whom are dead exccpt Lucinda, Mary, Matilda, and Margaret. His wife died in 1829. He married for his second wife, Mrs. Margaret McKinzie, nee Logstone, in 1831, by whom he had four children: Henry C., Lyman W., Royal D., and Elizabeth. He served in the War of 1812, and represented Knox county in the legislature one term. He also held the office of county commissioner several years. He followed farming as his vocation. His wife died in 1848; he survived her until 1863, aged eighty years.

ROBINSON, LYMAN W., farmer, post office, Gambier, son of William and Margaret Robinson, born in Union township, Knox county, September 12, 1835, by whom he was reared and educated. He was married October 28, 1858, to Deliah Dillin, daughter of Isaac and Eleanor Dillin, who was born in Harrison township, Knox county, March 8, 1833. After their marriage he remained one year with his father, farming on shares; he then moved to Harrison township, on the farm now owned by Joseph Ferenbaugh, where he remained one year, and then moved to Howard township on a farm owned by his father, where he farmed two years. During this time he purchased a farm of ninety-seven and a half acres in Harrison township, where he then moved and at present re-

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sides. They are the parents of three children-one died in infancy; and those living are Carrie M., born March 1, 1862, and on November 25, 1880, she married Leander Hays, of Clay township, where she at present resides; William D., born June 29, 1864, who lives at home.

ROBINSON, ISAAC F., Pike township, farmer, post office, Democracy, born in Union township in 1835, and was married in 1860 to Elizabeth Kramer, who was born in Mercer county, Pennsylvania, in 1844. They have seven children-Lydia Jane, born in 1861; Mary E., in 1863; William H., in 1865; Francis Emma, in 1867; George W., in 1869; Ella S., in 1871, and Effa May, in 1877.

Mr. Robinson purchased a farm in this township in 1855, and has displayed good taste in erecting his buildings; his house especially being a model one, with all in modern style. His father, Isaac Robinson, deceased, was a native of Union township, and was man ied to Rosannah Crouse, who was a native of Pennsylvania, and came to Ohio with her parents when a child. There are three surviving members of their familyWilliam, who resides in Floyd. Iowa; Mary (now Mrs. Morgan), who resides in Iowa, and Isaac F.

Mr. Robinson died in Illinois several years ago. The Robinson family were pioneers of Knox county.

ROBINSON, JAMES RUSSELL, physician, Mt. Vernon, was born in Holmes county, Ohio, on the seventeenth day of April, 1850. He attended such schools as the county then afforded. He went mainly to the schools of Mt. Vernon. He is of Scotch and Irish parentage, his father being Scotch, and his mother of Irish extraction. He read medicine with Dr. James Loar about two years, and two years with Dr. Newcomer, who resides in Connellsville, Pennsylvania. He then attended the University of Philadelphia, graduating in 1872, when about twenty-two years of age. He associated himself with his old preceptor, Dr. Newcomer, and in the spring of 1873 he purchased the interest of his associate. In 1875 he took his brother, L. E. Robinson, into partnership, which continued until 1877, since which time he has been practising alone. He was appointed, in 1874, physician to the county infirmary, and township physician. In 1877 he was appointed examining surgeon for the United States Government. When he was quite young his parents moved to Knox county, where his youthful days were spent.

ROCK, JAMES, landlord of Rock hotel, Fredericktown, was born in Ireland in 1809, and came to America in 1821. He located in Whitehall, New York, and in 1844 came to Mt. Vernon. He was married in 1840 to Hannah Lloyd, who was born in Vermont. They had four children, viz: George E.; John, deceased; Clark L., deceased; and Mary E., who was married to Frank Jacobs, and lives in Mt. Vernon.

Mrs. Hannah Rock died in Richland county, August 19, 1861. Mr. Rock afterwards married Harriet Cornell, who was born in Virginia in 1829. They had the following children, viz: James, jr., born January 7, 1863, died an infant; George E. was a soldier in the late war, a member of the Third Ohio cavalry, and died during the service at Nashville, Tennessee; Clark L. was a member of the One Hundred and Twenty-eighth-regiment, Ohio volunteer infantry, and died during the war at Vicksburgh. Mr. Rock located in this town in 1864. He is proprietor of the Rock hotel, keeps a good house, and is an accommodating landlord, and though advanced in years, is still able to attend to business.

ROGERS, JAMES, deceased, Wayne township, born in New York in 1805, married January 1, 1828, to Sarah Douglass, who was born in this county, Clinton township, February 9, 1809. They had the following children, viz: Samuel, born October 3, 1828; Hannah J., August 24, 1830; Mary, February 9, 1833; William. October 7, 1835; Timothy, October 30, 1837; Elizabeth, May 11, 1841; and Sarah, August 28, 1846.

Mr. Rogers died May 18, 1879. Mary died August 7, 1845. They resided in Fredericktown for twentyfive years. Mr. Rogers was engaged in buying, selling, and shipping horses to the east! He was an active and enterprising man, and had excellent business qualifications. He left his family in good circumstances. Mrs. Rogers is residing in Fredericktown with her daughter, Mrs. Foote.

ROGERS, EDWARD, meat market, Vine street, Mt. Vernon. Mr. Rogers was born in Weston, Warwickshire, England, February 22, 1829, where he resided until he was twenty-eight years of age, during which time he was engaged in farming. In 1854 he came to this country and located in Mt. Vernon, and engaged in the baking business in partnership with his brother James, working under the firm name of J. & E. Rogers. This firm continued for two years, when Edward went to Gambier and continued in the same business, meeting with good success during thirteen years. He then adopted the butchering business, in which he continued for four years. In 1874 Mr. Rogers came back to Mt. Vernon, and engaged in butchering, which he still continues. He does the most extensive business in this line in the city. His sales amount to about two thousand dollars per month, . or twenty-five thousand dollars per year. He keeps constantly on hand fresh meats of all kinds, and smoked salt pork. He slaughters about two hundred and twenty-five head of cattle, seventy-five calves, seventy-five sheep and lambs, and fifty hogs per annum.

ROGERS, JAMES, manufacturer and dealer, Mt. Vernon, Ohio, was born in Weston, Warwickshire, England, March 1, 1831, where he resided until twenty-three years old and during which time he followed farming, and learned the baking business. In 1853 he emigrated to this country and located in Mt. Vernon, where he has resided ever since. His first business engagement here was with the firm of T. George, in a bakery, in which he continued one year. He then established a business for himself, in which he continued with good success for sixteen years. He then moved out on his farm and devoted his attention to farming for two years, when he purchased a lot and built the Rogers' block, and engaged in the grocery business, in which he still continues. In 1875 he engaged in the hardware business, and in 1878 he added the merchant tailoring business, and is proprietor of the Norton flouring-mills, and is also managing his farm and dairy. He has made four additions to the city known as the Rogers' Addition, Rogers' North Addition, Rogers' Eastern Addition, and Rogers' and Doyle's Addition. He was married January 21, 1855, to Miss Elizabeth Tighe, and they have had a family of seven children, only one of whom is living, William J., who is assisting his father in the hardware business. Mr. Rogers is a man of real energy and unusual business abilities; has done much to develop the business interests of this city, and is one of its most respected citizens.

ROGERS, GEORGE, Mt. Vernon, of the firm of C. and G. Cooper & CO., Mt. Vernon, was born in Licking county, Ohio, September 19, 1836. His parents came to Mt. Vernon when

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George was about four years of age, where he has resided ever since, with the exception of four years.

From the age of fourteen to that of twenty he was connected with the Cooper establishment, and attended the city high school. He read law with Messrs. Cooper & Vance, and travelled for the firm of C. and J. Cooper & Co. He was admitted to the bar in 1861, but never practiced.

In April, 1861, he enlisted in the second company of volunteers raised in the city, and was elected and commissioned second lieutenant of company B, Fourth Ohio volunteer infantry, Colonel Lorin Andrews, called into service for three months. At the expiration of his term of service Lieutenant Rogers came home and raised a company of one hundred and fifty men for the Twentieth regiment Ohio volunteer infantry, and was commissioned captain of company B, in which position he served until January, 1863, when he resigned. Shortly after his resignation the President appointed him lieutenant colonel of the Fourth regiment of the United States colored troops. He continued in command of the regiment until the close of the war. His regiment took part in the assault on Petersburgh. In June, 1864, he was detailed chief mustering and dispensing officer of the State of North Carolina, with headquarters at Newbern. He took an active part in breaking up the rebel rendezvous in that State. In the fall of 1864 he rejoined his command at Hampton Roads, where they embarked in the Fort Fisher expedition, the colonel taking a part in that affair. For meritorious services in the field he was commissioned brevet colonel, and also brevet brigadier general.

After the Fort Fisher expedition Colonel Rogers returned home and purchased a one-third interest in the Kokosing iron works, in connection with Charles and John Cooper. The firm of Coopers & Rogers had charge of the Kokosing works for three years, their specialty being building mowers. In 1869 that firm was consolidated with the firm. conducting the Mt. Vernon iron works.

ROOD, WILLIAM HARRISON, Wayne township, farmer, post office, Fredericktown, born in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, October 18, 1816, came to Knox county August 9, 1817, with his parents, and was married May 3, 1837, to Anna Maria Bell, who was born in county of Westmeath, Ireland. They had the following children: Frank, born December 16, 1857; Cynthia Jane, October 12, 1860; Clara, August 8, 1861; Mary E., May 3, 1866; and Benjamin Franklin, November 3, 1870. Frank Rood died October 15, 1860. Mr. Rood is one of the earliest settlers of Wayne township. His father, Noah Rood was born in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, and married in Washington county, Pennsylvania, to Mary Minick, who was born in Pennsylvania. They had four sons and three daughters, viz.: Thomas, Phebe, Betsy, Samuel, Cyntha Ann, William, Harrison, and James Madison. Noah Rood died in Chester township, Morrow county, at the age of seventy-four years. Mrs. Mary Rood died in the same county at the age of ninety-five years. They were pioneers of this county.

ROSENTHALL, I. & D., clothiers, Woodward block, corner Main and Vine streets, Mt. Vernon. Mr. I. Rosenthall, managing partner of this firm, was born in Richmond, Virginia, March 15, 1844. When nine years of age his parents removed to New York city, where they resided two years. From New York city the family removed to Pittsburgh. In the fall of 1860 Mr. Rosenthall. came to Ohio, where he made his first engagement with the firm of William Flemming & J. Fink, who located at Bellefontaine, Logan county. He afterwards entered the house of Stofal & Gates, with whom he continued one year, when he purchased the stock of the firm and conducted the business himself for five years. He went from Bellefontaine to Wooster and conducted the business for some five years. At the expiration of this time, he established a house of business at Akron, where he remained six years. From Akron he went to Altoona, Pennsylvania, and engaged in business with his brother-the firm being I. & D. Rosenthall. April 1, 1878, he came to Mt. Vernon and established the present house, while his brother remains at Altoona, to charge of the house there. The firm here carries the largest stock of ready made clothing of any similar establishment in the city. They also have a large and fine assortment of gentlemen's furnishing goods, hats, caps, etc.

ROSS, TIMOTHY, Milford township, farmer, was born in Knox county December 25, 1820. His paternal grandfather, Timothy Ross, was a resident of New Jersey, and removed to western Pennsylvania at an early day.

Nathaniel Ross, a son of Timothy Ross, sr., was born in Greene county, Pennsylvania, February 19, 1794. He married Sallie Hair, of the same county, and in 1817 they came to Harrison township, Knox county, and settled in the woods.

Mr. Ross cleared up this farm, and remained on it until the death of his wife, when he went to live with his children. He is yet living, and for a man of his years, is physically strong and mentally bright. He was the father of eight children, viz: Polly, wife of Adam Crumrine, of Hancock, Ohio; Cynthia, drowned while returning from school; John died young; Timothy, the subject of this notice; Rachel Ann, killed by the falling of a log from the spring hcuse during a storm; Delilah, deceased, who was the wife of Robert Melick; Samuel, a resident of Harrison township; Benjamin died before reaching mature age.

The subject of this notice, Timothy Ross. remained with his parents until he was about twenty-three years of age. assisting his father on the farm. In April, 1844, he married Miss Esther Ann Crouse. who was born January 11, 1826. She is the daughter of George Crouse, who was born in Cumberland county, Pennsylvania. February 5, 1799, where at sixteen years of age he learned blacksmithing. At eighteen he went to Augusta county, Virginia, and in the fall of 1820 he came to Mt. Vernon, and engaged in blacksmithing and farming. He married Lydia Melker, a native of Rockingham county, Virginia, in January, 1825. They had four children: Jacob, deceased; Henry M., of Indiana; Philip M., of Iowa, and Esther Ann, wife of T. Ross. His second wife was Catharine Bitner, a native of Pennsylvania. He is yet living at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Ross. Shortly after the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Ross they moved to Hancock county, Ohio, remained there about four years, and returned to Knox county, locating in Milford township, where they have since resided.

Mr. Ross is a leading citizen, and is highly esteemed for his many good qualities. He takes an active interest in the affairs of the township, and is a leading member of the Christian or Disciple church to which organization he has belonged for about twenty years. Thev had five children, viz: Sarah E., wife of Abraham Ewing; Delilah; Mary, deceased. who was the wife of Bruce E. Jackson; Melvina, wife of C. B. Jackson; and Ida.

ROSS, WILLIAM, was born in Greene county, Pennsylvania,

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December 11, 1821. He removed with his father, William Ross, to Clay township, Knox county, Ohio, in 1823, and remained there about four years, when he removed to Jackson township, where he resided until A: D. 1836, removing that year to Jefferson township, where his father died in 1841. Two months prior to his father's decease he left home to learn the stone-mason trade, to which he served an apprenticeship of three years, with James Blount, of Jackson township. During the time of his apprenticeship, in 1841, he went to school three months.

During the winter of 1843 he taught school in Brown township. He went from Brown to Jackson township to work at his trade, removed from Jackson to Butler township in 1854, where he has ever since resided.

He was married September 5, 1844, to Miss Elizabeth Eley, of Butler township, who was born January 2, 1824. They have had five children, viz: Lemuel, born July 7, 1845; James, April 18, 1847; Benjamin and Jacob, twins, who were born July 15, 1850; Mary, December 16,. 1855; N. W. Farmer, who was born July 22, 1861, resides with Mr. Ross.

During the war of the Rebellion Lemuel and James enlisted in company G, One Hundred and Twenty-first Ohio volunteer infantry, Colonel H. B. Banning. Lemuel died April 2, 1864, and James April 4, 1864. Both died of measles near Rossville, Georgia. Their remains were brought home and buried in Dennis cemetery, Jackson township.

Mr. Ross has been a member of the Disciple church ever since he was twenty-one years of age, and elder in the church about thirty years. He was first a Democrat and afterwards became a Republican, and still continues in that political faith.

ROSS, JOSEPH, Brown township, farmer, a son of Elisha and Dorcas Ross, was born in this county on the seventh day of April, 1842. He was reared on a farm and has followed farming as his vocation. In 1866 he married Miss Mary Workman, of this county, daughter of Solomon and Mary A. Workman. They settled on the farm in Brown township, one and a half miles south of Jelloway, where they are now living. Thcir union resulted in three children-Franklin, Clinton, and David.

Mr. Ross owns a farm of one hundred and seven acres about one-half of which is bottom land.

ROUSE, E. S. S., is a native of Rensselaer county, New York; born February 23, 1795. He was a member of Colonel Kerr's regiment in the War of 1812., in which he served six months. In 1818 he came to Ohio and located in Muskingum county on a farm, where he lived nine years, during which he was elected captain of a company in Colonel Springer's rifle regiment, of which he had command two and a half years. After leaving his farm he went to Dresden and engaged in the commission business, in which he remained about one and a half years, after which he returned to Oneida county, New York. He was married March 1, 1820, to Polly Mills, by whom he had a family of six children, five of whom are living, and are married, viz.: Maria Sealts, Lydia C. Rowley, Emstus, Andrew M., and John D., who enlisted in the Seventy-seventh Illinois regiment; was promoted to lieutenant, and afterward to captain; served about three nears, after which he was appointed judge advocate of New Orleans. He came to Knox county and settled to Miller township in 1833, and resided there until 1850, when he came to Mt. Vernon and engaged in the factory business, and has been in different kinds of business until he retired.

Mr. Rouse served the people of Miller township as justice of the peace for nine years, and ten years as township clerk. He was mayor of the city of Mt. Vernon one term. Mr. Rouse has always been an active business man, and in retiring from the field he has the satisfaction of knowing that he has done his part. He is now in his eighty-sixth year, and his wife is eighty-two. They are the oldest couple living in the city.

ROWE, LEWIS, Wayne township, farmer, post office, Fredericktown; born in New York April 9, 1812, and was married January 17, 1839, to Mary Campbell, who was born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, November 28, 1815. They have the following children: Sarah, born October 30, 1843; Lyman, August 21; 1846; Amanda, July 15, 1848.

Mr. Rowe has been engaged in farming, and owns a well improved farm with good buildings.

Lyman Rowe is now residing in Toledo, Ohio, engaged as bookkeeper for a manufacturing firm..

ROWLAND, JAMES F., Milford township, one of the leading farmers of Milford township, was born in Richland county (now Ashland county), Ohio, April 11, 1824; is the son of Simon Rowland, a native of Pennsylvania, who came to Ohio at an early day and settled in Green township, Richland county, where he married Sarah Hill about 1817, who was a native of Vermont. They had eight children, five of whom are living, the subject of this notice being the eldest. Jane, married to John Ohler; Cyrus A.; Alletha, married Joel Ward, and Joseph. The deceased were Eliza, Thomas, and Mary, the last of whom was married to Levi Browlyier. The parents died in Green township, Richland county, now Ashland county.

The subject of this notice was reared on the farm his father entered, and continued to live on it until 1860, when he moved to Knox county having sold the old homestead. In 1848 he married Sarah Oliicr. They had ten children, viz: Simon. Calvin J., William L., Frank, Shannon, Jane (deceased), Alice (married to William Rizor), Ida (deceased),. Lizzie, and Ella. Mr. Rowland is a leading member of the Baptist church and a man of influence. He is township trustee.

ROWLEY, SAMUEL, was born May 11, 1787, in Rutland county, Vermont, and emigrated to Ohio in 1813, stopping one year in Muskingum county. He came to Knox county in 1814 and located in Miller township, where he resided until 1824, when he came to Mt. Vernon and remained until 1832, when he went to Licking county and remained two years, after which he came back to Mt. Vernon, where he resided until the day of his death, November 20, 1851.

He was married to Miss E. Ward November 3, 1808. She is still living at the advanced age of ninetyone years. She was born April 7, 1790. They reared a family of six children, four of whom are living.

From 1824 until the day of his death Mr. Rowley was engaged in keeping hotel.

ROWLEY, HORACE, harness and saddle manufacturer, corner Main and Front streets, Mt. Vernon. Mr. Rowley was born in Pittsford, Rutland county, Vermont, on the fourth day of September, 1809. When he was about three years of age his parents emigrated to Ohio and settled in Miller township, this county, where they resided about ten years, and then came to Mt. Vernon. After he came here he went into the saddle and harness trade, and served his time with William Mefford & John Gregg. He then entered into business for himself in this city,

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and carried on his shop for thirteen years. He then went to Indiana and worked awhile in New Albany, and then at Germantown. He then returned to Ohio and located in Marysville, Union county, and carried on his business there for about one year. His next location was at lit. Liberty, this county. He remained in business there for five years. In 1849 he returned to Mt. Vernon -ad engaged in the harness business and has continued in it ever since.

Mr. Rowley is the pioneer saddle and harness manufacturer of this city. He has always conducted the business himself, doing all his work, and has the satistaction of making his trade a success, and giving the people good, honest work, which he is still prepared to do.

ROWLEY, MRS. ELIZABETH, deceased.--The deceased was born in Connecticut on the seventh of April, 1790, and was, at her death, in the ninety-first year of her age. She came with her husband to Ohio in 1814, first settling in Muskingum county. From thence the family removed to Knox county, locating in Miller township, and subsequently in the year 1824, they settled in Mt. Vernon. Since her husband's death, in 1851, she has made her home with her son Jerome. She reared a family of six children, four of whom are still living, viz: Horace Rowley, Jerome Rowley, Mrs. Semanthe Winne, and Mrs. E. C. Vore, all of whom were at her bedside when she died.

She was a member of the Baptist church for sixty-five years, and was a good Christian woman, respected and honored by all who enjoyed the pleasure of her acquaintance.

ROWLEY, JEROME, Mt. Vernon, is a native of Knox county, born in Miller township June 23, 1816, and received such an education as he could get at the public schools of that day. He followed farming until they came to Mt. Vernon, when he assisted his father to the hotel, during which he married Miss Maria Watkins, a daughter of Francis Watkins, who came from Washington county, Pennsylvania, and settled in Mt. Vernon in 1812. Shortly after his marriage he went to Ciark county, Illinois, where he engaged in farming, milling, merchandizing, and the stock business. He remained there until 1847, when he returned to Mt. Vernon, where he engaged in farming, and kept a country hotel about five miles from the city on the Columbus road, in Liberty township, where he remained until 1864, when he was burned out, and returned to Mt. Vernon, where he has lived ever since. He has been engaged in the flour trade for several years, but has retired from business.

He has reared a family of five children, four of whom are living-two sons and two daughters-all of whom are married and live in Knox county.

ROWLEY, SHANNON Ft, Milford township, farmer and justice of the peace, Milfordton post office, was born in Mt. Vernon, January 24, 1839, and is the son of Jerome and Mariah Rowley, nee Wilkins.

The subject of this sketch spent his youth from his ninth year on a farm, and has always followed farming as his occupation. He was elected justice of the peace m 1878. Mr. Rowley is pleasant and social in his manners, and is a good citizen.

He married Miss Cynthia A. Smith, September 9, 1862, who was born February 20, 1844; she is the daughter of Preserve and Amelia Smith, nee Knowles, natives of Litchfield county, Connecticut, who came to Milford township in 1831. They were highly respected citizens, and died at their home, known as the Five Corners. They had ten children: Henry A., George L., William D., L. F., Fannie M. (deceased), who was married to Luther Hyatt; Charles G.. Emeline C., wife of John Milligan, of Brandon, Ohio; Sarah V., wife of Ira D. Hunt; Benjamin C., Cynthia A., wife of S. F. Rowley; and Oscar E.

Mr. and Mrs. Rowley are the parents of three interesting children: Killian W., born December 17, 1869; Frank S., June 30, 1871; Jerome, December 31, 1874.

ROWLEY, H. YOUNG, proprietor of Rowley house, South Main street, Mt. Vernon, was born in this city December 26, 1848, and was educated in our excellent common schools. He first engaged in business with his father who conducted a grocery and teed store. In 1869 he became interested in the brewery business with James Miller, under the firm of Miller & Rowley. For two years the firm continued, when he bought his partner's business, and for three years more run the brewery successfully. In 1874 Mr. Rowley took charge of the Rowley house, and has continued proprietor to the present. The house is pleasantly located, and at this time is doing a large business. The house contains in all four-four rooms-thirty transient, and eleven sample rooms. On the first floor, one dining hall, office and bar, and ladies' and gentlemen's parlors, etc. Mr. Rowley has represented his ward in the city council.

ROWLEY, ISAACHER, was born in Steuben county, New York, April 12, 1815, and came to Ohio in 1837, located in Fredericktown, and was married January, 1838, to Ruth Corbin, who was born in this county in 1811. They had four children: Artemas C., Mellville, Theodore (deceased), and an infant (deceased). Mrs. Ruth Row ley died September 2, 1848.

Mr. Rowley subsequently married Sarah A. Tremley. They had three children: Eva C. (deceased), an infant (deceased), and Anna R., who married George W. Mozier. They reside in Mt. Gilead, Morrow county. Mrs. Sarah Rowley died May 6,.1877.

Mr. Rowley married !or his third wife Mrs. E. B. Neal, sister of his first wife.

Mr. Rowley has resided in Fredericktown and vicinity for forty-four years, and was engaged in farming the most of the time. He studied law and is engaged in a home practice; he is also a notary public, and has been justice of the peace in Berlin township. He is a prominent member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and has been a representative in three sessions in the grand lodge of the State of Ohio. He was a delegate to the State convention, and voted for Salmon P. Chase for governor at the organization of the Republican party, and has since been identified with this party.

He was appointed postmaster of Fredericktown in February, 1874, during General Grant's administration. He was formerly a member of the Methodist Episcopal church for twenty-five years, was an official member and did much to advance the interest of the church.

ROWLEY, O. P., farmer, College township, son of Hiram and Betsy Rowley, way born in Miller township, this county, February 1, 1821. Hiram Rowley, father of the subject of this sketch, was born in Vermont in 1794. He married Miss Betsy Wheeler, of Vermont, about 1817, who was born in 1793. They emigrated to Ohio and located in Miller township, this county, in about 1819, where they passed the remainder of their days. Mrs. Rowley died in 1876; he survived her until 1878. They reared a family of three children-Ellen, Olney P., and John R. The first named is dead.

Mr. Rowley married Miss Eliza McKinzie, of this county, in

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1843. They settled in Monroe township, remained several years, then moved to College township where they are now residing. Their union resulted in four children, viz: John R., Hiram, Olney G., and Noah S. John R. served three years in the late war, enlisting in 1862, and serving until the close of the war.

ROWLEY, WILLIAM, salesman, Fredericktown, was born in New York in 1832, emigrated to Michigan and remained for four years, then removed to Illinois, stayed there four years, then in 1840 came to Knox county, Ohio, and in 1852 went to California, remained there about fourteen years, and after returning to Ohio was married in 1876, to Miss E. F. Roberts daughter of Richard Roberts, who was born in Knox county, Ohio, in 1842. Mr. Rowley is engaged with the firm of S. S. Tuttle & Co., in the saw-mill and lumber yard.

ROWLEY, WILLIAM H., Berlin township, farmer, post office, Fredericktown, was born on the farm where he now resides, in 1839. He was married in 1864, to Catharine Lloyd, who was born in Morrow county, Ohio, in 1845. They have four children: Jennie, born in 1866; Frank, in 1867; J. T, Rowley, in 1869; Sadie, in 1876.

Mr. Rowley was a soldier in the late war, a member of company G, One Hundred and Twenty-first regiment, Ohio volunteer infantry, and was engaged in the service for twenty-two months. He was wounded at the battle of Chickamauga in 1863, and was left on the battle-field. He fell into the hands of the rebels, and was held a prisoner nine days, and then paroled. He was honorably discharged. He was also engaged in the battle of Perryville. He has an Indian relic different from any inserted in the History of Richland County. He also has the bullet which was taken out of his limb, which wounded him during the service.

ROWLEY, ASA F., hardware and metal worker, post office, Rosstown. He was born January 14, 1841, in Berlin township, Knox county. In his fifteenth year he went to Mt. Vernon and learned the tinsmith trade with James Huntsbury. He enlisted in the One Hundred and Twenty-first Ohio volunteer infantry, and went to the south in 1862. He was special messenger under General Thomas the entire time he served, except three months. He was taken prisoner at Columbus, Kentucky, by General Morgan, and was sent to Camp Chase; and shortly afterwards was discharged. He then reenlisted in the United States engineers, under Lieutenant Senate, of Granville, Ohio, and assigned to Captain Thomas, in company G., and then detached to General Thomas as special messenger, and there remained until 1865, when he was discharged. In 1870 he was marred to Sarah M. Weirick, and settled in Martinsburgh, Knox county, and there pursued his trade for three years, and then came to his present home. He does a very good business in tinware, stoves, hardware, etc., and is considered an excellent workman. He has two children, Charles and Lucy. His mother lives with him, is seventy-three years old, and in very good health.

ROWLEY, MELVILLE B., carpenter.-He was born in Fredericktown, July 18, 1844. April 28, 1866, he was married to Amanda E. Weirick, who was born in Amity, this county, in 1847. They have four children, namely: Irwin was born July 10, 1868; Issacher, jr., born May 4, 1871; Irene A., born January 31, 1873; and Melville, jr., born March 11, 1881.

He has been and is still engaged at the carpenter trade during the summer, and in the winter engaged in stripping poultry.

Mr. Rowley enlisted in the late war August 16, 1862, a member of company G, One Hundred and Twenty-first regiment, Ohio volunteer infantry. He was in two battles and a number of skirmishes; he was injured at the battle of Chickamauga, Georgia, September 20, 1863; he was then sent to Cincinnati and transferred to the One Hundred and Twenty-sixth regiment, Second battalion, Invalid corps. He was detailed with R. P. L. Baber, paymaster United States army, as clerk, and remained with him till June 28, 1865. He was honorably discharged, and is now a pensioner of the Government.

ROWLEY, WALTER, Morris township, carpenter, post office, Fredericktown, was born in 1849, in Illinois. He came to Knox county with his parents when he was an infant, and was married in 1872, to Mary Hart, who was born in Morris township in 1856. They have three children: Freddie, born in 1873; Florence, in 1876; Addie F., in 1878.

Mr. Rowley is a carpenter by trade and is a skilful mechanic.

ROWLEY, O. P., Fredericktown, dealer in watches, clocks, jewelry, and silverware, was born in Berlin township; served as an apprentice with W. M. Young, in Mt. Vernon, and came to Fredericktown, where he established his business in 1878. He has an extensive trade, is a skilful mechanic, an enterprising young man, and well deserves a liberal patronage.

ROYCE, AMOS H., Fredericktown, retired, was born in Harwington, Litchfield, Connecticut, September 26, 1786. He is a son of Nehemiah Royce, a native of Connecticut, who was a graduate of Yale college. His first diploma was signed September 4, 1794. His diploma for the higher branches was given September 9, 1778. He was a soldier of the Revolution, commissioned a lieutenant by John Hancock, date January 1, 1777, and afterwards received a captain's commission, March 19, 1779. Amos H. has in his posession the two diplomas, also the two commissions. He has in his possession the inventory of his father's estate, written February 24, 1792. The amount was three hundred and three pounds, six shillings and eight pence; also a land warrant for three hundred acres of land valued at thirty shillings (five dollars), located in Knox county, Ohio. Amos H. was the only heir. In the fall of 1792 he was taken from Harwington, where his mother resided, to Berlin, Hartford county, Connecticut, to live with his guardian, and grandfather, Amos Hosford, after whom he was named. He remembers how he rode from Harwington to Berlin on horseback behind his uncle, and his reception at the time at his grandfather's, who was a farmer, a man of wealth for those times, also of influence, being a justice of the peace, which was an important position in those days.

He was elected to the assembly of the town of Berlin a number of years, at which time the subject of this sketch took him to the seat of government in a carriage, and when the session closed he had to bring him home. He was reared on a farm put to work as soon as he was old enough through the summer, and during the winter went to school and received a good common school education, sufficient at least to transact business. He gives a few items of interest that occured when he was in his minority while living with his grandfather. The town of Berlin consisted of three parishes or societies, viz: Worthington, Kensington, and New Britton; Worthington was located on the main or turnpike road leading from New Haven to Hartford and consisted of one main street nearly one mile in length, containing the stores, taverns, manufactories, and private residences of the place, of which there were a respectable number.

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In the north end of the street on a triangular piece of ground stood the Presbyterian meeting-house, a large building which was generally filled every Sabbath. It was also used for a town house in the spring election of county and State offices.

On the main road about twenty rods from the meeting-house stood that ancient relic for the punishment of crime, the stockade and whipping-post, although seldom used. Yet he remembers that the ancient mode of punishment with the cat-of-nine-tails, according to the Mosaic law, was inflicted.

In the fall of 1804 he moved from Berlin, Hartford county, Connecticut, to Lewis county, New York, occupied a house adjoining land that he bought the next season. He built a cabin on his own land, making such improvements as his means permitted.

In the fall of 1809 he received the land warrant for his father's services in the Revolution. He then came to Knox county and located his land in Berlin township. Before he returned he engaged Jeremiah Brown to build a log cabin, but as the State road from Mt. Vernon to Mansfield was located before he commenced, and as the road passed through the centre of his land, he omitted building until he moved out, when he selected a location. A few years later he found it necessary to build a larger and more convenient house.

In those times the citizens took but little interest in the name of their township, but when Berlin was organized it became a subject of general interest. Mr. Stephen Cole and Amos H. Royce, being emigrants from the town of Berlin, they consulted together and proposed to call it Berlin, which name was accepted by common consent. Mr. Royce was the first justice of the peace elected, and was reelected and served in said office over fifteen years. He was an independent man, a strong abolitionist during slavery times, and always a strong advocate of temperance. He never used tobacco in any form, and was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church until the slavery question was strongly agitated, when he left the church; he has never joined any church since, but has lived a very exemplary life. He resided on the same farm fn Berlin township nearly sixty years.

He never had any occasion to use spectacles, although a great reader. He has taken the Cincinnati Daily Gazette since 1860 and has read it daily, Sundays excepted, ever since.

Amos H. Royce was first married in 1804, to Nancy banning: They had the. following children, viz: Mary, born in 1804, Samuel in 1808, Emaline in 1810, Sally in 1813, Julia Ann in 1815, Louisa L. in 1818; Alfred in 1820, Laura A. in 1823, Jane A. in 1824, and Lucy in 1826. Mrs. Nancy Royce died January 21, 1852. Mr. Royce's second wife was Maria Parly, who died in 1859. He afterwards married Marilla Johnson, who died in 1870. His fourth wife was Abbie M. Sherwood. Amos H. Royce was a resident of Knox county during the War of 1812, and was drafted. They made their rendezvous at Mt. Vernon till they were ordered to Mansfield, where they remained three weeks. He assisted to build the block-house at Ttucksville (Ganges. He was at New Haven during the massacre of the Copus and Zimmer families. He was also called out during the siege of Fort Meigs in 1813, also in 1814 when Fort Stephenson was besieged, but was soon relieved and returned home.

RUCKER, W. H., Berlin township, farmer, post office, Frederickstown, was born in Noble county, Ohio, in 1856. He came to Knox county in 1869, and was married in 1878 to Miss Lamyra Elliott, who was born in Berlin in the year 1860.

RUMMEL, JOHN, Berlin township, deceased, was born in Adams county, Pennsylvania, June 7, 1807, and was married March 17, 1831, to Elizabeth McPhern, who was born in Adams county, Pennsylvania. December 22, 1807. They emigrated to Ohio in 1836; located in Richland county, and remained till 1852, and then moved to Knox county. They had eight children- Hezekiah, born December 10, 1831; James E., September 28, 1833; George, December 20, 1835; Sarah J., April 26, 1838; Hiram, July 30, 1840; Elias, February 21, 1843; Mary E., September 24, 1845; and Melinda, September 3, 1848.

Hezekiah was married in Iowa and resides in Kansas; James E. resides in Washington territory. Hiram was married in Oregon and resides there.

Mr. John Rummel died August 26, 1877, in Berlin township, this county, and was buried in Worthington township, Richland county, in the cemetery near St. John's church.

Mrs, Rummel joined the Lutheran church in 1832, and was a member forty-nine years. She died at her residence in Berlin township in April, 1880, of paralysis, after a brief illness.

RUMMEL, GEORGE, Berlin township, farmer, post office, Shaler's Mills, was born in Franklin county, Pennsylvania, in 1835. His parents emigrated to Ohio when he was a child. He was married in 1866 to Eliza J. Irvine, who was born in Monroe township in 1844. They have one son John I.-who was born September 9, 1867, and one daughter, who was born April 7, 1870, and died in 1871. In 1860 Mr. Rummel went to California and returned in 1865. He was engaged in mining.

RUMMEL, ELIAS, farmer, Berlin township, post office, Fredericktown, was born in Worthington township, Richland county, in 1843, and was married in 1871, to Sarah E. McIntire, who was born in Holmes county in 1849. They have five children, viz: Jessie M., born in 1872; A. D., 1874; James W., 1876; Herbert M., 1878, and an infant in 1880. Mr. Rummel, when a young man, went to California and remained there four years, then returned to Ohio and located in this township. He owns a good farm.

RUSSELL. M. D., JOHN WADHAMS, Mt. Vernon, was born in Canaan, Litchfield county, Connecticut, June 28, 1804, He was the son of Stephen Russell, a man of influence and character in his time, who was repeatedly chosen to represent the people in the State legislature, and once by a unanimous vote of the district.

The subject of this sketch first attended the district school, and then prepared for college at Morris academy. Having advanced sufficiently he entered Hamilton college, New York, in 1821. His health soon after failed, and he was advised by physicians to seek a residence, for a time at least, in a milder climate in some southern State. Accordingly he went south, and obtained a situation as teacher in the academy at Red Bank, Colleton district, South Carolina. He became warmly attached to his southern friends, and had, he says, "a noble class of pupils." Dr. Sheridan, he says, "was not only a friend, but a father to him," and by his advice he commenced the study of medicine in 1823.

Dr. Russell returned to Connecticut in 1824, and continued his medical studies under Dr. Alanson Abbe, of LitchfieldHaving studied and reviewed the course prescribed by office students, he attended lectures in 1825 and 1826, at Yale college,

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and then a second course at Berkshire Medical college in 1826. The following winter he went to Philadelphia and became a private pupil of Dr. George McClellan, attending lectures at Jefferson Medical college, Philadelphia, where he graduated in 1827. In April of this year he began to practice in partnership with his preceptor in Litchfield, where he continued one year, giving a course of lectures on anatomy and physiology to the medical students, and such members of the law class as wished to attend. Although his prospects were good for gaining a practice in Litchfield, nevertheless, in the spring of 1828, he removed to Sandusky City, Ohio, and in the fall of the same year settled at Mt. Vernon, where he has from that time to the present been actively engaged in the practice of medicine and surgery. In the latter branch he has been remarkably successful, and has performed as many, if not more, capital operations than any inland surgeon in Ohio.

Dr. Russell has frequently operated for stone, and on one occasion upon two patients the same day. For encysted calculus he has performed the high operation with success.

During the late war the doctor was one of the examining surgeons for admission of volunteer surgeons into the army, and was chairman of the board.

He was president of the Mt. Vernon bank during its existence, and is now connected with the Phoenix Mining and Mineral Land company of Colorado.

He has been solicited on several occasions to accept chairs in medical colleges in Ohio, but he has devoted his energies to private practice, which has been the favorite pursuit of his life. .

He has been a member of the medical society of Knox county and also of the Ohio State Medical society from their organization, and was president of the latter; of the American Medical association since 1861, and attended the meeting in San Francisco in 1871, and is an honorary member of the California State Medical society.

He has been twice married; first, in the spring of 1828, to Eliza, daughter of Hon. William Beebe, of Litchfield, Connecticut. He has two children living-Ann Eliza and William Beebe. His second marriage was in 1872, to Ellen M. Brown, of Sail Francisco, California.

His daughter, Ann Eliza, now Mrs. William C. Cooper, accompanied him to California to attend the meeting of the American Medical association in 1871. They both enjoyed the trip, and often refer in terms of fond recollection to the many pleasant incidents of the journey, and the kindness and hospitality experienced from the profession and the citizens of California. After the adjournment of the association they made excursions to some noted places on the Pacific coast, and stopped three days at Salt Lake City, en route. Mrs. Ellen M. Russell died October 14, 1879.

RUSSELL, WILLIAM B., Mt. Vernon, oldest son of J. W. Russell, M.D., was born February 23, 1829, in Mt. Vernon, where he received his preparatory education, when he entered Kenyon college, taking a partial course. After leaving school, he accepted a position in the drug house of Buckingham & Co. In 1852 he bought a half interest in the business, and shortly after, bought -Mr. Buckingham out, and has been engaged ever since in the business. He carries one of the largest stocks of drugs in the city,and keeps the only place where physicians' wants can be fully supplied. His stock consists of a full line of pure drugs, chemicals, surgical instruments, etc.

RYAN, JOHN, Pleasant township, farmer, and son of Elijah and Margaret Ryan, was born in Licking county, Ohio, near the Knox county line, January 13, 1814. He was brought up on a farm, and followed farming until 1834, when he commenced working in a grist- and saw-mill with James. Patterson.

In 1838 he married Miss Mary Payne, born July 11, 1816, and daughter of Ralphiel Payne. They settled in Mt. Vernon, where he continued working in the mill until 1849, when he purchased and moved on the farm where they are now living in Pleasant township, one mile and a half east of Mt. Vernon, since which time he has been engaged in farming. .Their union resulted in seven children-all dead.

RHODES, JACOB, Pleasant township, farmer, and son of John and Elizabeth Rhodes, was born in Licking county, Ohio, April 20, 1836. On the twenty-first day of January, 1861, he was united in marriage with Miss Mary Hunt, born in this county January 17, 1835, and daughter of Richard and Nancy Hunt. They sealed in Morgan township, and remained until 1876, when he purchased and moved on the farm in Pleasant township, where they are now living. Their union resulted in five children-two sons and three daughters. He has followed farming as his vocation.

In August, 1862, he left his home and family, enlisted in company G, of the One Hundred and Twenty-first Ohio volunteer infantry, and served in defence of his country until the close of the war, when he received an honorable discharge in June, 1865. He was with Sherman on his march to the sea. On his return he resumed the business of farming.