1000 - HISTORY OF HOCKING VALLEY. sixteen years of age he began working for himself on the Hocking Canal. He was the only native-born hand in the crew where he worked. During the year 1840 he removed to Adair County, Mo., With Michael Clern, and was in Clern's employ, building mills and other work, for eighteen m maths. He then returned to Falls Township, and August, 1844, purchased the farm where he resides, and has been engaged in farming. At the time he removed to his lands all was an unbroken forest. His first cleared lands were devoted to the growth of tobacco. In May, 1846, he enlisted in the Mexican war in Company D, Second Ohio Infantry, at Logan, Ohio; as a private for one year. He, with his command, went to Mexico, by way of Cincinnati and New Orleans. Their passage from New Orleans to Mexico was by the slow sailing vessels. He was at Palo Alto, Brazos Island, Matamoras, and first saw General Scott. at Comargo. They met with many deprivations on the march from Comargo to Monterey, and were opposed by Mexican lancers twenty times the American force. After severe fighting the Mexicans were defeated. He has served as Trustee of Falls Township eight years. He is a Master Mason, member of Mingo Lodge, No. 171, Logan, Ohio. April 26, 184'9, he married Susanna, daughter of Frederick and Leah (Fought) Friesner, of Falls Township. They have had eight children, two sons and two daughters now living—Lewis; Elizabeth, wife of John Davis of Jackson County, Kas.; Samuel E. and Ida A. at home. Solomon F., their oldest son, and Simeon, the fourth child, were drowned in Hocking River, June 4, 1865. Solomon F. was fifteen and Simeon was ten years of age. Their cousin, Frederick Goss, was drowned 'at the same time; a daughter, Leah, wife of Lewis Eckhart, of Van Wert, Ohio, died in the twenty-second year of her age. Mr. Stivfson remembers when the present site of Logan was a dense hazel thicket and a great resort for hazel-nutting by the children and young people. Isaac H Terrel, of Old Gore, was born in this township, Nov. 26, 1846. He is the son of Jesse Terrel, of Perry County, who removed there in 1849. Oar subject was reared on a farm and received a common-school education. He his followed farming till the last seven years which time he has spent in mining. April 10, 1877, he was married to Maggie Donaldson, a native of Falls-Gore, and daughter of Joshua Donaldson. In 1871 Mr. Terrel returned to this county from Perry County. He and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church. HISTORY OF HOCKING VALLEY - 1001 B. K. Tritsch, of Tritseh & Stier:, Merchants and dealers in dry goods, notions, boots and shoes, groceries and carpets, etc., Logan. They established their business in 1879, and Carry a stock of $15,000. B. K. Tritsch was born in Hagerstown, Md., Nov. 29, 1849. Soon after his birth his parents moved to Circleville, Pickaway Co., Ohio, and in April, 1861, came to Logan, Ohio. He attended the schools of Circleville and Logan. From the age of seventeen to twenty-eight he was superintendent of his father's woolen mills. June 15, 1875, he married Margaret Frantz, a daughter of Emanuel and Margaret (Mickey) Frantz. Mrs. Tritsch is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. Mr. Tritsch is one of the leading merchants and business men of Logan. He owns five dwelling houses and lots in Logan. Jacob Ezra Tritsch, proprietor of Logan Woolen Mills, was born near Hagerstown, Washington Co., Md., Sept. 24, 1819, a son of William and Elizabeth (Cline) Tritsch. He was educated in the subscription schools of Martinsburg, where his parents had removed when he was small. His father being a weaver, he was brought up to the same trade and worked as a journeyman four or five years. In 1846 he rented a small woolen mill in Pleasant Valley and remained there four years. In 1850 he came to Ohio and worked as a journeyman at Circleville, Pickaway County, till 1854, when lie rented the Lister Mills, consisting of woolen, grist and saw mills, where he carried on business a year, when, by litigation, the owners were deprived of water-power. He then returned to Circleville and worked in the mills there, manufacturing cloth by the yard and yarn by the pound, a year, when a better position being offered him in Columbus, he went there and remained a year. In 1857 he returned to Circleville and, in company with David Miller, built a mill and carried on business three years, when he sold his interest to Mr. Miller and went to Wilmiugton, Ohio, and rented the Wickersham woolen and grist mills. The following year he came to Logan and erected his present mills, where he is now mauufacturing a number of brands of cloth and yarn. Sept. 21, 1841, Mr. Tritsch married Harriet Rohrer, of Washington County, Md. She died in March, 1852, leaving four children—John W., an employe in his father's mills; Catherine, wife of Peter Lytle; Theodore G., also with his father, and Benjamin K., of the firm of Tritsch & Stiers. Mr. Tritsch is a Master, Royal Arch and Council Mason, and a member of lodge, chapter and council, Logan. 1002 - HISTORY OF HOCKING VALLEY. Robert Skinner Van Atta, molder and machinist in the Logan Foundry, was born near Belvidere, N. J., May 9, 1822, a son of Samuel and Jane (Stout) Van Atta. His mother died when he was an infant, and when he was four years of age his father removed to New York City, where he lived with him till fifteen years of age. He then returned to Washington Village, N. J., and began to learn the trade of a molder in the foundry of his uncle, Jesse S. Van Atta, remaining there two years. In the fall of 1838 he came with his father and his uncles, Jesse, Nelson and Ralph Van Atta, to Ohio, and the following spring settled and founded a foundry five miles north of Newark, on the Mt. Vernon road, at what was afterward called and is now known as Van Attaville. He worked in their foundry four years when he started out as a journeyman molder, working in Pomeroy, Dayton, Newark and back again to Van Attaville until 1848 when he came to Logan, and in June of that year became associated with Raymond Belt and founded the Logan Foundry under the firm name of Belt & Van Atta. In April, 1853, he retired from the firm and returned to Van Attaville and with his Uncle Nelson and Noah Clouse formed the firm of Clouse & Van Atta and became proprietors of the Van Atta Foundry. Mr. Clouse remained with them a number of years when he retired, the firm then becoming N. & R. S. Van Atta. In July, 1862, Mr. Van Atta retired from the firm and was employed as a machinist in the shops of the Pan Handle Railroad at Newark till the following spring. In 1863 he returned to Logan and has since been employed in the Logan Foundry. In 1859, while he was a member of the firm of Clouse & Van Atta, he started for Pike's Peak, but on reaching Fort Kearney changed his mind and returned. From 1866 to 1868 lie was Clerk of Falls Township. Nov. 14, 1850, Mr. Van Atta married Martha Jane Alexander, of Logan. They are the parents of five children, four now living—Frank A., an engineer on the C., H. V. & T. R. R.; Albert B., telegraph messenger; Harry B., assistant civil engineer on the C., H. V. & T. R. R., and Florence Ella. A daughter, Mary Alice, died in 1855 aged six months. Mr. Van Atta is a Master, Royal Arch and Council Mason, and a member of the lodge, chapter and council at Logan. Jacob Weaver, County Recorder of Hocking County, was born near Lancaster, Fairfield Co., Ohio, Oct. 13, 1842, where he was reared, obtaining a good common-school education in both English and German. He is the son of Andrew and Anna (Weid- HISTORY OF HOCKING VALLEY - 1003 ner) Weaver. When nineteen years old lie enlisted in Company A, Seventeenth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer infantry. He participated in many battles, among them Stone River, Shiloh, siege and capture of Corinth, Perryville, Hoover's Gap, Tullahoma and Chickamauga, where he was wounded in the right foot and taken prisoner Sept. 20, 1863. He lay on the battle field for sixteen days, enduring intense pain, when he was put in prison at Atlanta, Ga., but after a few days he was transferred to Libby Prison, being incarcerated there two months. Nov. 30, 1863, lie was transferred to Danville, Va., where he was imprisoned until April 4, 1864, when he was taken to Andersonville Prison and held a prisoner till Sept. 9 of the same year. From there he was taken to Charleston and placed under the fire of the Union guns in the Charleston jail, during the bombardment of that city, after which he was taken to Florence, S. C. On Nov. 30, 1864, he was paroled, and received his discharge Jan. 19, 1865, his health being much impaired after his long imprisonment. From July, 1865, till January, 1877, he was employed as a brakeman on the B. & 0. R. R, on the Nashville & Chattanooga R. R., and during the year 1867 lie engaged in shipping stock from Lancaster, Ohio, to Eastern markets. In 1868 he went to Mattoon, Ill., remaining there till the end of the year, when lie returned to Ohio and settled in North Bern, Fairfield County, where he remained till July, 1873, running a portable saw-mill most of the time. He then removed to Lancaster and was employed as foreman of the C., H. V. & T. R. R. till December, 1880, when he was elected to his present office, having removed to Logan in 1876. He was married Aug. 2, 1868, to Miss Sarah J. Ballenger, of Mattoon, Ill. They are the parents of five children whose names are—John A., Mary L., Thomas Ewing, Joseph H. and William W. Mr. Weaver is a member of James K. Rochester Post, No. 140, G. A. R, of Logan, of which he is Adjutant. Ralph Webb, deceased, late of Falls-Gore, was born May 14, 1792, in Bridgeport, W. Va. his father, Rev. Benjamin Webb, a Methodist minister, came to Falls-Gore in 1816, and settled on the northwest quarter of section 29, where he died in 1827. Our subject came to this county with his father, and entered 160 acres, or the entire northeast quarter of section 29, receiving a patent from the United States Government. The two Webbs settled in a dense forest of heavy timber, and cut the first road from Logan to their land. Ralph Webb was married Dec. 25, 1812, to Martha 1004 - HISTORY OF HOCKING VALLEY. Scarf, by whom he had three children, but one now living—Benjamin, a resident of Falls-Gore. Mrs. Webb died Dec. 13, 1821, and Mr. Webb was married Feb. 18, 1823, to Mrs. Sarah A. Davis, a daughter of Daniel Gunder. They had nine children, but two of whom are living—Thomas and Rebecca (now Mrs. Hardy). The others were: Mrs. Ann Taylor, Mrs. Jane Sunderland, Isaac, Daniel G., William J., John J. and Mrs. M. Adaline Fickle. Mrs. Webb had one child by. her first husband—M. M. Davis, now Mrs. Work, of Lancaster, Ohio. Mrs. Webb resides with her son Thomas. Thomas Webb is a native of Falls-Gore, and was born May 27, 1831, a son of Ralph Webb. He was reared on the farm and was educated in the common schools, and at Lancaster, Ohio. He remained in Lancaster two years, working at the tinner's trade in the summer and attending school in the winter. He resided in Logan from 1866 to 1871, where he was engaged in buying and shipping cattle. He engaged in the cattle business when quite young, driving them to the Eastern markets. From 1855 to 1863 he crossed the mountains 121 times. From 1863 to 1871 he shipped by rail. In the fall of 1871 he went to Federal Creek, Ohio, and there engaged in the oil business until the fall of 1873, when he returned to Logan, remaining until the following spring, when he removed to his present farm on the southwest quarter of section 29, Falls-Gore Township, Where he now resides, and is engaged in stock-dealing. Mr. Webb was married Jan. 1, 1860, to Margaret A., daughter of Jonathan Saffel. They have had seven children, of whom six are living—Emma, Cleason G., Charles V., Isaac Willard, Hattie and Thomas S. At the time of the Morgan raid during the late war Mr. Webb was overtaken at Millertown, Ohio, by Morgan, and had two horses taken from him. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, and his family are members of the Methodist Episcopal church. Richard Sweezey Weitzell, son of George and Mary (Spurrier) Weitzel!, was born May 1, 1851, in McConnelsville, Ohio, where he was reared and educated at the common schools. He was brought up as a stone-cutter and mason, and at the age of twenty began to work for himself, being engaged as a workman and contractor till May, 1877, when he was employed in a surveying corps of the Columbus & Hocking Valley Railroad on Monday Creek and Snow Fork branches as rear chainman until the spring of 1878. He was then promoted topographer, being employed in that depart- HISTORY OF HOCKING VALLEY - 1005 ment until May, 1879, when he was engaged by the Columbus & Sunday Creek Valley Railroad as resident engineer, where he had charge of the construction of a ten-mile section of the road during the summer of that year. In the following spring the company changed its name to the Ohio Central, when he had charge of a construction of a residency of eighteen miles in Morrow County, Ohio. in June, 1880, lie severed his connection with that company, and was again employed by the C., H. V. & T. R. R. Company, as assistant engineer, residing at Columbus. In July he went to Georgia, and was employed on a division of the East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia Railroad until the following December, when he returned to Ohio and once more became assistant engineer on the C., H. V. & T. R. R., which position he still retains, residing at Logan. He is also employed as mining engineer by the Columbus & Hocking Coal and Iron Company, having charge of the survey of the mineral lands. In 1879 he became. associated with his brother, W. H. Weitzel], as quarriers and strippers of Hocking sandstone, his brother conducting the business. A pril 18, 1878, lie was married to Miss Frances, daughter of Dennis McCarty, of Logan. He is demitted Master Mason. John Wellman, son of John and Susannah (Scutt) Wellman, was born near Dorchester, in Dorsetshire, England,July 10, 1826. His mother dying when he was three years old, and his father when he was ten, he went to live with his grandfather, and at the age of thirteen he began to learn the miller's trade at Lowell, near his birthplace, where he was employed for nine years. He afterward followed his trade at Wyke until 1851, when he emigrated to America, and was employed as a miller at Albion, Orleans Co., N. Y. In the fall of 1853, he visited England, but returned the following spring and came to Ohio, where he worked in a mill near Columbus until the following August. He then came to Logan, and was employed as a miller by Rippey, Dewar & James until 1857, when he went to Lancaster, Ohio, and was employed in the mill of Joseph R. Parker, and with his successor, John D. Martin, until 1866. He then went to Sugar Grove, Ohio, where he managed a mill for John Martin until 1869, after which he returned to Logan, and with Jacob Killer and R. W. Keyens became proprietor of the steam flouring mill, under the firm name of J. Killer & Co. In 1875 Mr. Killer retired from the firm, the name being changed to Keyens & Wellman, and so continues. In September, 1006 - HISTORY OF HOCKING VALLEY. 1863, he was married to Miss Rosannah Andregg, of Lancaster, Ohio. They are the parents of seven children—Edward ,S., an employe in the mill; Anna, Margaret, Emma, Mary, John A. and Benjamin F. Alexander White was born in Ross County, Ohio, Jan. 10, 1803. His father was a Virginian by birth, but an early settler of Ohio. His mother was a native of Kentucky. His early education was limited, being such as could be picked up by attendance on leisure days at the country schools; but after attaining manhood he applied himself to study, and became one of the best informed men of his day. When a boy his time was spent in working on the farm in Adelphi and South Perry, his father removing in an early day to the latter place. From 1837 to 1840 he worked for General Worthington, at the Falls Mills. In 1840 he was elected County Recorder, serving three years. In 1845 he was elected Auditor, and re-elected for five successive terms. In 1858 he was again elected Auditor, serving two more terms. He was elected and served as a member of the State Board of Equalization for the district of which Hocking formed a part in the years 1853, 1859 and 1870. In 1873-'74 he represented his county in the Constitutional Convention. For thirty years he was an acting Justice of the Peace. Soon after coming to Logan he was elected Mayor, and served one or two terms. His first vote was for Henry Clay, in 1824. In politics he was an unfaltering Democrat, and the most influential man in this county the party ever possessed. In March, 1823, he married Sarah Friend, by whom he had ten children, eight of whom are still living His wife died Sept. 4, 1864, and Dec. 27, 1864, he married Mrs. Sarah Payne. Alexander White was a good and useful man, and in his sphere a great man. His long and unprecedented career in public service. indicates the confidence and trust the people had in his qualifications and integrity, and although violently and unsparingly opposed by political rivals, his bitterest enemies never dared to utter a word or breathe an insinuation against his honesty as a man and integrity as an officer. As a neighbor he was generous and kind, always aiming to help the deserving with such words and works of encouragement as circumstances demanded or his means permitted. He was a man of most determined purpose, cool and deliberate in making up his judgement, but when once satisfied as to what was right and for the best, he maintained himself against all and every opposition brought before him. He hated meanness, and could have no intercourse HISTORY OF HOCKING VALLEY - 1007 or association with those he thought dishonest. He was a steadfast friend in every relation of life, and when his word was pledged it stood as good for what he promised as his bond. In 1852 he bought the farm near Logan, where he resided till his death, in easy circumstances, surrounded by such comforts and conveniences as his tastes inclined and his own labors provided for him. He died June 19, 1876, after having lived to the advanced age of seventy-three years, and been for more than half a century identified with every public and important interest of his party, and every useful enterprise of his county; his death was a loss felt in every part of the county, as well as in the township in which he lived. Darius White, Secretary and Treasurer of the Logan Manufacturing Company, was born in Perry Township, Hocking (then Fairfield) County, Dec. 9, 1822, a son of Alex. and Sarah (Friend) White. He received a common-school education and commenced fife for himself as a teacher. From 1845 till 1861 he was employed as Clerk in the Auditor's office of Hocking County, and from 1862 till 1665 was Teller in the State Bank of Logan. In February, 1867, he with A. Houston, M. Kreig, A. B. Butin and E. S. Collins formed the present Logan Manufacturing Company under the firm name of Houston, Kreig & Co. He has served as Clerk of Logan over ten years, and as Mayor one year. March 24, 1845, he married Hester A. McBroom, of Hocking County. They have nine children—Nancy M., wife of J. W. Beem, of Indiana; Minerva Jane, of Logan; Alexander, of Illinois; Edward, of Chicago, Ill.; William H. and John, of Logan; Cora, wife of George Junkerman, of Sandusky, Ohio; Howard and Jessie, at home. Harlow White, son of Timothy and Clarissa (Montgomery) White, was born at Perry burg, Ohio, March 23, 1834. He lived in Belleville, Baltimore and Circleville, Ohio, till he grew to manhood, going to school in these places but receiving most of his education at the latter place. At the age of ten years he began as a driver on the Ohio Canal, and was so employed until he was fifteen. From then until he was twenty-one he worked on a boat, when he purchased a boat, and from then till 1865 he followed canal boating on the Ohio and Hocking canals. During this time, however, in the winter of 1861–'62, he was employed as Brigade Wagon-master under General Nelson, serving in Kentucky. He was then employed in a foundry at Circleville till 1867, when he was employed by B. W. Carlisle as a foreman on the State boats of the Hocking Canal, and in 1878 he was appointed the successor 1008 - HISTORY OF HOCKING VALLEY. of Mr. Carlisle as superintendent. In 1879 he removed to Logan and in conjunction with his superintendency he engaged in the grocery business which he still carries on. He has been twice married, his first wife being Clarissa Jackson, of Hocking County, whom he married in May, 1862. She died at Cadiz, Ohio, Nov. 9, 1868. He was again married Sept. 11, 1869, to Catherine Curtis, of Lancaster, who has borne him one child—Emma. Mr. White is a member of the German Reformed church and his wife belongs to the Methodist Episcopal church. He is a member of Logan Lodge, No. 119, K. of P. John Franklin White, attorney at law and City Solicitor, is the son of Darius and Hester (McBroom) White. He was born in Logan, Aug. 24, 1859, where he was reared and educated in Union schools and graduated from the Union High School in the class of '76. He then began teaching, which he followed till the year 1880, and while teaching in 1879 he also studied under the preceptorship of Hon. John S. Friesner, and afterward with S. H. Bright, until lie was admitted to the bar by the Supreme Court at Columbus, Jan. 3, 1882. He then began the practice of law at Logan, and in April, 1883, he was elected City Solicitor of Logan, for a term of two years. He is a Master Mason and member of Mingo Lodge, No. 171. John Wright Work was born in Lancaster, Ohio, Nov. 19, 1823, the eldest of three sons of Joseph and Nancy (Work) Work. He was educated in his native town. His father being a boot and shoe manufacturer he also learned the business, and when twenty-one years of age, in 1844, became associated with his father and uncle under the firm name of Work, Son & Work. In 1853 he came to Logan to take charge of a branch of the Lancaster house, under the firm name of John W. Work & Co. His uncle dying in 1862, the house in Lancaster was known as Work & Son, and the one in Logan as J. & J. W. Work. His father died in 1864, and he became sole proprietor of the store in Logan, and his brother, James M., was associated with him in the store at Lancaster, the name being Work & Brother. In 1878 he sold his interest in Lancaster to his brother. Mr. Work was appointed Deputy Collector of Internal Revenue of the third sub-division of the Twelfth Collectoral District of Ohio, during Johnson's administration and set ved three years. He was married Dec. 28, 1847, to Miss Ann Elizabeth, daughter of Robert and Elizabeth (Whitaker) Fielding. Mr. Fielding was a pioneer of Lancaster, having settled HISTORY OF HOCKING VALLEY - 1009 there in 1833. Mr. and Mrs. Work have four children—Clara Maria, wife of R. D. McManigal; Annie E., wife of J. P. Henderson; Mary. Ellen, wife of Dr. B. C. McManigal, and Edgar Whitaker, a student at Wooster University, Ohio. Four children died in infancy, and one son, William Fielding, died May 1, 1872, aged fifteen years. Mr. and Mrs. Work are members of the First Presbyterian Church of Logan. He is a Master, Royal Arch, Council and Knight Templar Mason, a member of the lodge, chapter and council at Logan, and the commandery at Lancaster. He is also a member of the Odd Fellows lodge and encampment at Logan, and is Past Grand and Past High Priest. Robert Reed Work, son of Joseph and Nancy (Work) Work, was born at Lancaster, Ohio, Sept. 25, 1832, where he lived till he was sixteen years old, being educated in the public schools of his native place. On leaving home he was apprenticed to his uncle, John Work, to learn the tinner's trade, and served until becoming of age. He then worked at his trade as a journeyman at Lancaster and other places till 1857 when he came to Logan and established his present hardware business, being associated with G. M. Webb, under the firm name of G. M. Webb & Co. In March, 1865, Thomas E. Baker became Mr. Webb's successor, changing the firm name to Work & Baker. He has served as Chief Engineer of the fire department of Logan for ten years. In May, 1864, he enlisted in Company K, One Hundred and Fifty-first Regiment, Ohio National Guards, to serve 100 days as a private. He served on guard duty in the fortifications at Washington, D. C., and was discharged in September, 1864. Dec. 6, 1859, he married Miss Ann V. Cushing, of Logan. They have seven children, viz.: Ella S., Charles Sumner, George Pullen, Robert Cushing, Lottie Rochester, Frank and Julia Meredith. Mr. Work and wife are members of the First Presbyterian Church of Logan, of which he is Ruling Elder. He is an Odd Fellow, and member of Charity Lodge, No. 7, at Lancaster. Oliver W. H. Wright, attorney at law at Logan and junior member of the law firm of Bright & Wright, is the son of William C. and Rachel (Dollison) Wright. He was born near Somerset Perry Co., Ohio, April 10, 1856, where he lived six years, when he moved with his parents to Hocking County. At the age of eight years, being thrown upon his own resources, he worked oh different farms till he was fifteen years old, when he was employed by Dr. James Little, on whose farm he worked until he became of - 64 - 1010 - HISTORY OF HOCKING VALLEY. age, at the same time attending the High School at Logan, from which he graduated in the class of 1876. He then taught in Hocking County, and at the same time began the study of law privately. After teaching three years he commenced to study under the preceptorship of S. H. Bright, teaching during the winter months. He was admitted to the bar April 1, 1879, by the Supreme Court at Columbus, and at once formed a co-partnership with his preceptor, forming the present law firm of Bright & Wright. Dec. 2, 1879, he was married to Miss Lelia, daughter of James E. Houston, of Logan. They have been blessed with one child—Anna. Mr. and Mrs. Wright are members of the Methodist Episcopal church at Logan. In the spring of 1880 he was elected City Clerk of Logan, and was re-elected in 1882, his term of office expiring' in April, 1884. He was elected a member of the Board of Education in April, 1883, for a term of three years. Mr. Wright is a Master, Royal Arch, Council and Knight Templar Mason, and member of Mingo Lodge, No. 171; Logan Chapter, No. 75; Hocking Council, No. 39, and Lancaster Commandery, No. 2, of Lancaster. He is also a Knight of Pythias, and member of Logan Lodge, No. 119. Robert Wright, manufacturer, was born in Portage County, Ohio, June '2, 1809. His parents were residents of Pennsylvania, whence his father, a farmer, removed to Ohio in 1800. His early education was received at the country school, in Hocking County, attending the winter sessions until he reached his eighteenth year. During the summer months of those years he was engaged in farm labor. Later, he also taught school for two or three terms in the winter season. He was thus employed as a farm hand until 1835, but during the latter years of that time was engaged in agricultural pursuits on his own account. From 1835 until 1842 he was interested in the construction of the Hocking Valley Canal, having secured a contract to finish five miles of this enterprise, partly in Athens and partly in Hocking County. From 1842 until 1855 he was employed entirely in agricultural pursuits, and in the latter year purchased the larger portion of the Hocking Falls Mills, securing the balance of the property in 1862. This mill was built by Governor Worthington, of Ohio, about the year 1818, and remained in the possession of his family until 1855. Since its sale the present owner has continued to conduct its affairs, and in connection with it is extensively interested in farming and stock-raising. The farm operated by him at the present time has been in HISTORY OF HOCKING VALLEY - 1011 his possession since 1829. In 1844 he was elected a Justice of the Peace, but resigned this office in 1846. He also served two terms of three years each as County Commissioner. In 1850 he was appointed by the Legislature of Ohio, Associate Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, and served in such capacity until the adoption of the new constitution abolishing the office. In 1852 he was appointed also by the Legislature one of the Trustees of the Ohio University, at Athens, Ohio, a position which he still holds. He was for several years a Director in the Logan branch of the State Bank of Ohio, and Director in the First National Bank of Logan during its existence, and also a stockholder in the Columbus & Hocking Valley Railroad until it was sold. He is interested in the building development of Logan, and in its several improvements. His present residence on Main street is the handsomest place of its kind in Logan, and was completed in 1873. He was married in October, 1840, to Elmira Hamblin, by whom he has had four children, three boys and one girl. Of the former, two are lawyers and the third a farmer. Jacob N. Zeller, farmer, fourth son of Jacob and Catharine (Goss) Zeller, was born in Good Hope Township, Hocking County, April 24, 1835, and lived with his parents until manhood, and received a common-school education. At the age of twenty years he rented a farm in Falls Township and lived there until 1867, when he purchased a farm. Two years later he sold his farm and in 1869 purchased the one where he resides, near Enterprise. Aug, 2. 1855, he married Elizabeth, daughter of Frederick and Leah (Fought) Friesner, of Falls Township. They have two children—Emily F. and Leah C. Naomi died at the age of twenty-four years, and Daniel H. at the age of twenty-two years. Mr. and Mrs. Zeller are members of the Methodist Episcopal church. CHAPTER XXXVII. WARD AND GREEN TOWNSHIPS. WARD TOWNSHIP-THE SEAT OF WEALTH OF COAL AND IRON-MINERAL, BUT NOT AGRICULTURAL - ABOUT NINETY PER CENT. - SHAWNEE ORE - GARDNER' S TRACE - INTERESTING SITUATION-DEW FARM ORGANIZATION-CARBON HILL-ORBISTON-MURRAY CITY-POPULATION AND AREA- SCHOOLS, ETC.-HOLOCAUST-BIOGRAPHICAL. GREEN TOWNSHIP-ORGANIZATION AND AREA-TOPOGRAPHY-ITS. WEALT H OF WATER-COAL AND IRON-CRAFTS FURNACE-SAW AND GRIST MILLS-EARLY SETTLEMENT-HAYDENSVILLE-CHURCHES- -GREENLAND LODGE--ASSESSED VALUATION-SCHOOLS-POPULATION-ITS RELATIVE PROGRESS-BIOGRAPHICAL. WARD TOWNSHIP. MINERAL NOT AGRICULTURAL. Ward is the most eastern township in Hocking County. It is drained by Monday Creek and its branches, a tributary of the Hocking River. The soil, except in the valley, is generally thin, and the land very rough, the whole of it belonging to the mining district. The land, being mainly owned by mining companies, is cultivated principally by renters, on a small scale. The mineral deposits of the township, however, are of great value and at the present time are being rapidly developed. At least ninety per cent. of the land of this township is underlaid with the great layer of coal ten feet thick and of the most superior quality, besides other coal beds higher up in the hills three and four feet thick. Iron is now being taken from the hills, and lime and fire-clay are also found in great quantities. The celebrated SHAWNEE ORE which extends throughout the township is. the ore known as the cold shot, but is soft and shows large crystals in the foundry iron. , It is very well suited for mixing with the red shot irons, made from Lake Superior ore. This township is also abundantly supplied with good oak and poplar timber. - (1012) - HISTORY OF HOCKING VALLEY - 1013 The township was named in honor of Mr. Naham Ward, a resident of Marietta, a very extensive early land owner in the Hocking Valley. A small part of the present town of Buchtel, formerly known as Bessemer, lies over the county line in Ward Township. The town is on what is known as the old Dew farm, most of which lies in Ward Township, embracing some 500 acres of rich, alluvial tableland, lying at the base of the hills, at the intersection of the two streams, Monday Creek and Snow Fork. The Dew farm was settled nearly seventy years ago, and ever since has been a noted spot in this region of country. It marks the termination of what, in the early day, was known as the Gardner Trace." Tradition has it that when the whole country between the Muskingum and the Hocking was an unbroken wilderness, and before any permanent settlement had been made in this valley, a company of brave, adventurous pioneers started from Marietta to blaze a road through to the Pickaway plains. To avoid the swamps and marshes of the valley they went across the hills. Their route for weeks was uninterrupted except by the usual adventures common to pioneer explorers, and one Saturday evening—a mild and beautiful Indian summer day—they stopped and agreed to rest over Sunday in the valley of the stream to which, on this account, they gave the name of Sunday Creek. The next day's travel brought them to the site of the present town of Bechtel and in the evening they camped on the banks of the stream, which, marking the day's journey, they named Monday Creek. That night winter broke upon them in all its fury, and a snowstorm, such as is seldom experienced in this region, swept down from the hills, rendering further progress impossible. In vain they attempted the steep hills. The narrow valley, studded densely with huge sycamores and almost shut in by the overhanging hills, was closed against them by the deep billowy drifts. Further advance was impossible. Blazing a tree, which now marks an " outcrop" of coal, they concluded to return. The storm lasted for a week, and the silvery stream winding through the valley, disclosing the minerals more precious than diamonds, along whose dreary banks the pioneers waded in drifting snow, they called Snow Fork, a name cold and cheerless in its incipiency, but which in the developing future will be a wealth of warmth and cheer that the pioneers who gave it its frosty name and began its history with shivering could not reach even in their most pleasant dreams. 1014 - HISTORY OF HOCKING VALLEY. The township was organized in 1836, the election of township officers at that time resulting as follows: Trustees, R. Devoll, John Myers and Samuel Stacey. Mr. Devoll was re-elected a number of times, serving about ten years in succession. The first Justices of the Peace were: Samuel Stacey and James Spencer. VILLAGES. The villages of this township are new, and for the most part are inhabited by collections of miners about the mines. The most important among them at present is Carbon, Hill, which was laid out in 1873 by Hon. Thomas Ewing and Isom Finley, who at that time owned the land. The village is situated in the valley of Monday creek and on the Monday Creek branch of the C., H. V. & T. R. R. The property in the vicinity is now principally owned by the Hocking Coal and Iron Company, who are operating very extensively in coal and iron at this and other points in the Hocking Valley. The business establishments are as follows: Isom Finley, druggist and apothecary ; Dyre & Smith, hardware merchants; Quillen Brothers, dry goods and groceries; J. W. Downhour, general merchandise; Samuel Smith, hotel, and John Longstreth, blacksmith-shop. The village has one physician, Dr. C. F. Aplin. It has a public school building erected in 1882 at a cost of about $3,000. The school requires two teachers. There are three well-organized churches established here, the Methodist Episcopal, United Brethren and the Christian, all founded in 1882. The pastors at present are: Of the Methodist Episcopal, Rev. Mr. Shaw; of the United Brethren, Rev. Mr. Dixon, and of the Christian, Rev. Mr. Vanpelt. The Trustees of the Methodist Episcopal church are: T. N. Carpenter, A. B. Stitt and D. Bay; of the United Brethren church, George Randolph and John Roby; of the Christian church, William Hartley, James Jones and Elias Boudinot. The postoffice was established in 1879, when Mr. Brenholts, the present Post. master, was appointed to take charge of it. An assembly of the Knights of Labor was established here in 1881. Carbon Hill is connected by telephone with Sand Run and Orbiston; it also has telegraphic connections and an office of the Adams Express Company. Monday has a population of about 400 inhabitants, a graded school and two churches. ,A Methodist Episcopal and Baptist church societies hold their meetings in the school-house, which is a very fine building costing $2,600. HISTORY OF HOCKING VALLEY - 1015 Orbiston has an iron furnace, the Hellen Furnace, which was built in 1877, costing about $65,000. The owners of the furnace began making iron as soon as it was completed, in 1877, continuing less than a year, when business was suspended on account of financial embarrassment. The builders were the Ogden Iron Company, who sold the furnace after laying idle for a year to the Hocking Iron Company, when it again went into operation under the management of Mr. John Cummings. This company. spent considerable money in making repairs and enlarging the works, but they were again abandoned in July, 1880. Work was again revived in March, 1881, continuing until December, 1882, when the furnace was abandoned. Orbiston has about 500 inhabitants. Murray City has about 300 inhabitants. It received its name from an old gentleman by the name of Murray, residing at Somerset, Ohio, who owned the land on which it is situated. It lies in the eastern edge of the township, on the Perry County line. Murray City is in the heart of the coal fields, near the east county line, southeast of Straitsville, about seven miles, and in the valley of the Snow Forks. It has a beautiful situation on rising ground in this valley. It is the first of the mining towns in that region within Hocking County, although close on its eastern border. The plat o the town was recorded Feb. 20, 1873, and the first sale of lots took place Feb. 19, 1873, and were freely purchased. Sand Run is a very small village of About 200 inhabitants, situated near the center of the township. It was laid out in 1880 by Mr. J. H. Summers. It is situated on a railroad, and has connection by telegraph and telephone with the surrounding villages. POPULATION AND AREA. Ward Township is six miles square, with an acreage of 23,040 acres. It is a succession of hills and valleys, but the latter are Small, and the former predominating. It is bounded on the north by Perry County, on the east and south by Athens County, and NI the west by Green Township. The soil is rich enough in the valley to raise fruitful crops, and the hills make good pasture lands. Its mineral wealth is rapidly increasing; its population more than any other township in the county. In 1850 the population was 823; 1860, 1,070; 1870, 1,305; 1880, 2,272, or a gain in the past decade within a fraction of seventy-five per cent. The assessed valuation of Ward Township in 1882 was: Real-estate, $457,757; personal property; $183,713. 1016 - HISTORY OF HOCKING VALLEY. SCHOOLS. With but one exception (Falls) Ward Township has the largest number of public schools of any township in the county, having eleven school-houses, all in good repair, with an average attendance of pupils equal to any other, according to its population of school age. The township appropriation for 1883 amounted to $4,746.88. A HOLOCAUST. Short as the history of this township is in material facts, a calamity has checkered its career which will be long remembered with horror by its people. In the prosperous little village of Carbon Hill lived John Lunsford with his wife and family of seven children, his business being the care of a store which he kept in a part of his dwelling. On the night of Feb. 27, 1878, all the usual pre cautions having been taken to set the store and house in safe order, the family retired to their beds, but a long, long rest it was, interrupted only by a few moments of anguish. At about eleven o'clock the immediate neighbors were awakened by the cries of Mrs. Luns ford, who, being driven from her burning house by suffocation could only implore her friends to save, if possible, the lives of her children. Notwithstanding every effort was made to do so, it was all in vain, for the hungry flames were rapidly finishing their work. Mrs. Lunsford with an infant in her arms were the only members of the family to escape. The father, on awakening, the fire already burning furiously, had rushed up the stairs to where the six doomed children were sleeping; but before lie could return the roof fell in and all hope of escape was over. On the following morning the charred remains of the father and six children, ranging from nineteen to eight years of age, were taken from the ruin and, after an inquest, were carefully and sadly laid away by their friends in their final rest. The origin of the fire is not known but is supposed to have come from the defective stove in the store. BIOGRAPHICAL. Samuel Clegg was born in England, Feb. 29, 1804, and moved to this country in 1838 or '40 and lived here until his death, March 16, 1876. He was a member of the I. 0. 0. F. fraternity in Eng land. He was married to Lucetta Zarley, a daughter of Jonathan Drake, who died in Pennsylvania. They had three children—Ann HISTORY OF HOOKING VALLEY - 1017 Amanda L. and Sarah. Mrs. Clegg was born Dec. 19, 1813, in Somerset County, Penn. She owns 197 acres of land, on section 2, Ward Township, which is under a good state of cultivation. Natlain Dawley was born July 25, 1793, and died Sept. 12, 1873, aged eighty years, one month and eighteen days. His ancestors were natives of Rhode Island. He was married Aug. 16, 1822, to Annie Wilcox, daughter of William and Mary Wilcox. Mr. Wilcox was born in September, 14803. Mr. and Mrs. Dawley's children are—William, Mary Annis, Boon, Horace, Harriet, Abigail, Harrison, Perry and Sarah A. Julia A. and Chebney died in infancy. W. H. Dawley, born Oct. 16, 1823, was a son of Nathan and Annie Dawley. His mother is still living. Mr. Dawley was born in Athens County, and was educated in the common schools of the county. lie was married March 1, 1849, to Miss Augusta Pugsley, daughter of James and Elsey Pugsley. They have two children—Oscar D. and Hattie. Mr. Dawley owns 514 acres of fine land, on section 34, Ward Township, and is engaged in farm ing and stock-raising. He is an old settler of the county, and a reliable citizen. Politically he is a Republican. Philip Devoll was born July 2, 1811, and is the son of Joseph and Sarah Devoll, who came to Ohio from Rhode Island in 1811 or 1812, and located in Ward Township in 1839. Mr. Devoll was married in November, 1831, to Miss Sarah Allen, a daughter of Asher and Polly Allen. They are the parents of six children—Cynthia, Polly, Eliza, Lorilla, Emma and Eva. Mr. and Mrs. Devoll have been members of the Bible Christian church fifty years. W. R. Dixon was born July 31, 1815, in Carlisle, Cumberlain County, England, and was the only son of James and Jane Dixon, lawful citizens of the United States. Mr. Dixon moved to this country when he was sixteen years old, and settled at Steubenville, Ohio, and came to Athens County about 1843 or '44. He was married July 16, 1845, to Miss Sarah D. Cass, a daughter of Jeremiah and Sarah B. Cass. Mrs. Cass is yet living in Athens County, and is ninety-four years old. Mr. Dixon was a very fine Greek and Latin scholar, as well as a very artistic painter. Mrs. Dixon has a number of landscapes and pictures painted by him. He never belonged to any secret organization, but was a member of the Episcopal church, joining that church before leaving England. He died Nov. 25, 1881, and was buried on Thanksgiving day. He 1018 - HISTORY OF HOCKING VALLEY. was a great lover of flowers, and left a garden that has no equal in the county, and is surpassed by none in the State. Mr. and Mrs. Dixon had five children, three living—N. T., Mary E. and W. J. Elizabeth died in 1880, and Vileta July 25, 1882. Mrs. Dixon is a member of the Baptist church. I. Finley was born in Morgan County, Ohio, Sept. 23, 1846 and is a son of Samuel and Margaret Finley, who are both living. Mr. Finley was educated in Morgan County in the public schools He moved to Straitsville in 1871, where he went into the drug business. In 1873 he moved to Carbon Hill, where he again became established in the drug business in 1882. He was married Aug. 30, 1871, to Miss Jennie Balding, a daughter of Lewis and Sarah Balding. Mr. Balding was Justice of the Peace for about twenty years, and also Infirmary Director. Mr. Finley has three children—Willard I., Delia and Grace. Mrs. Finley died Nov. 29, 1879. Mr. Finley was the founder of Carbon Hill, which he laid out in 1873. He is at present engaged in the drug business. His political views are Democratic. S. H. Gordecke was born at Columbus, Ohio, Aug. 28, 1854, and is a son of W. and Isabella Gordecke. His mother is now making her home with him. She is sixty-one years old. Mr. Gordecke was educated in the common schools of Ohio, and at the age of fourteen went into business. He is a business young man and is at present chief clerk and general manager of the company store at Longstreth. He has one of the best stores in the State of Ohio, and does a' cash business of about $60,000 a year. He was married Feb. 16, 1876, to Lutie J. Clark. They have' three children—Nettie, Bersie and Susie. John Harper was born Jan. 4, 1833, and is a son of John Harper, who lived in Cincinnati, and died with cholera in 1832. Mr. Harper was married March 20, 1850, to Miss Annie Harrison, who came from England about two years previous to that time. They have eleven children of whom ten are living--Catherine, Alice, Sarah, Benjamin, Lincoln, Lillie, Nira, Mary, Josephine and Blanche. Martha died when she was about four years old. Mr. Harper is a very successful farmer and has in his possession 100, acres of land, residing on section 14, Ward Township. He sold $16,000 worth of coal land in the last year. He is now, and has been for the last six years, Township Treasurer, and was Land Appraiser one year. HISTORY OF HOCKING VALLEY - 1019 J. B. Jackson, born Sept. 11, 1820, is a son of Robert Jackson, who was born in Pennsylvania, Aug. 8, 1795. He came to Athens. County, Feb. 25, 1837, where he lived thirty years, and in 1867 came to Ward Township, Hocking County. Mr. Jackson was educated in the common schools of Ohio, in the old-fashioned log. houses and by studying at home, there not being sufficient schools. and teachers at that time. He was married March 21, 1844, to Mary Bean. They have three children--O. D., the founder of Jacksonville, Ohio; Mrs. E. V. Randolph, and Mary L. Mr. Jackson, served 100 days in the late war, and was discharged in September,. 1664. He has served as Assessor four terms and was Enrolling Clerk in the war. He was Census Enumerator in 1881, and submitted about the best report sent to the census office. He is a. farmer and has a very pleasant home of 160 acres of land on section 14, Ward Township. A. A. Junipher, born March 31, 1827, in Athens County, is a son of George and Phoebe Junipher. His mother died about 1840, and his father in 1869. Mr. Junipher moved to Ward Township when he was about sixteen and settled on the Codner place. He afterward moved to the Wilcox place where he now lives. He was married Feb. 9, 1869, to Julia Bartlet, a daughter of Silvanus and Amanda Bartlet, of New Plymouth, Vinton County.. They have one child—May Addie. Mr. Junipher is Township Trustee. He owns 377 acres of good land. John Lyons was born Nov. 20, 1798, in a block house in Marietta, Ohio. He moved to Newport, and there lived until he was ten years of age, when he came to Athens County. About 1835 or '40, he moved to Ward Township, on Monday Creek, where he now resides. When a young man he was married to May Limon, by whom he had two children. He was afterward married to Eliza George. They had nine children of whom six are living—Mary,. Joseph W., Elizabeth, Jane (deceased), G. C. (deceased), E. A., W. H., N. A. and D. D. He has a nice little farm on section 14, Ward Township, and is engaged in farming and stock-raising. He is one of the oldest settlers in Hocking Valley, and would have gone to the war of 1812, had it not been for the objections of his. parents. Robert Masters was born Feb. 9, 1824, in Guernsey County, Ohio, and is a son of Robert and Elizabeth Masters, both of whom are dead. Mr. Masters moved from Muskingum to Hocking County in 1854. He is an old pioneer of this county and is at 1020 - HISTORY OF HOCKING VALLEY. present Township Trustee. He was in the Army of the Cumberland three years and seven months, and was wounded in the battle of Chickamauga, but after his recovery served the rest of his time and was then discharged. He was married Aug. 17, 1847, to Miss Ann Mary Trimmer. They have had four children, only two now living—Daniel R. and Mrs. Frances Spencer; James and Charity Almedia are deceased. Mr. Masters went to California in 1850 and remained. until Aug. 16, 1852. He at one time owned 300 -acres of coal land but has now disposed of it. He is worth at present about $6,500. He owns 186 acres of land in Kansas. Mrs. Masters was born Oct. 20, 1827, and was a daughter of Daniel and Charity Trimmer, who are both dead. Mr. Trimmer was a farmer and stock-raiser. Politically Mr. Masters is a Republican. W. J. McManigal was born in December, 1834, in Mifflin County, Penn., and is the son of Robert McManigal, who died in Pennsylvania in 1857. Mr. R. McManigal was Sheriff of Mifflin County from 1845 to 1848. Mr. W. J. McManigal moved to Buchtel, Ohio, in 1877, and from there to Orbiston in December, 1879, where he has since filled the position of bookkeeper for the Hocking Iron Company. He has been surveyor for the Hocking Iron Company since he has been connected with them, and was appointed Postmaster in 1883. He was educated in Kishoquillas Seminary, Mifflin County, Penn., but left school at the age of twenty, when he was elected County Surveyor of that county. Mr. McManigal was married in 1858 to Martha J. Lawrence, of Millroy, Penn., daughter of Rev. Samuel Lawrence, who was a minister of the Cumberland Presbyterian church, and died in 1875 at Lewistown, Penn. Mr. and Mrs. McManigal are the parents of six children—Edwin F., Robert C., Elizabeth M., Mary Y., Samuel L. and Sallie L. Sallie died Sept. 24, 1866, at the age of two years. Lynus B. Pelton, late of Ward Township, Hocking Co., Ohio, was born in Connecticut, Oct. 5, 1814. His father, Samuel Pelton, was: a tailor, and came to Ward Township in 1853, where he died June 28, 1857. Our subject also came here at the same time. He was married Sept. 23, 1838, to Hettie M. Woodruff, a daughter of Daniel and Hannah Woodruff (deceased). The former was a blacksmith. They had four children—Charlotte Julia A., Rachel E. (deceased), and Mary A. Mr. Pelton died Oct. 15, 1877. HISTORY OF HOCKING VALLEY - 1021 J. S. Shaw was born Feb. 16, 1825, in Perry County, Ohio, but was reared in Ward Township, Hocking County. He is a son of Eli and Elizabeth Shaw and received his education in the old-fashioned log school-house. He was one of the old settlers of Ward Township, and has killed a great many deering an early day. He was married April 12, 1844, to Miss Annie Woods, daughter of Andy and Elizabeth Woods. Mr. Woody was a soldier in the war of 1812. Mr. Shaw has five children—Alba, Ephraim, Elizabeth, William and Ida E. Andy and Mariah died in childhood. Mr. Shaw owns eighty-three acres of fine land on section 16, which he values at $200 an acre. Elisha Watkins was born in Athens County, Ohio, in 1806, the son of Jonathan Watkins, who died in that county. He came to Ward Township in 1846 and was one of the first settlers of this county. In 1874 he was injured by a fall which ultimately caused his death in 1876. He was by trade a stone mason. He married Margaret Philips, daughter of Peter and Sarah E. Philips. Mr. and Mrs. Watkins were the parents of eleven children, of whom nine are now living—Wilson, Adaline, Martha, G. W., Jerome, Sarah E., Elisha, James and Laura E. Mary J. died at the age of twenty-one and Sarah at the age of eighteen in 1863. J. S. Watkins, a son of Elisha Watkins, was born Sept. 18, 1848. He was in the livery business in Straitsville, Ohio, ten years, selling out and returning to Murray City, May 18, 1882. Ile owns ten acres of land in Watkins's addition to Murray City, valued at $10,000. Mr. Watkins was married July 8, 1879, to Miss Samantha Hardy, daughter of Benjamin and Margaret Hardy. They have one child—Daisy, aged two years. Mrs. Watkins's father died in April, 1880, aged seventy-five years. GREEN TOWNSHIP. ORGANIZATION AND AREA: This township was first made a voting precinct in 1823, and on June 7, 1825, it was organized as Green Township, and was known as No. 2. It is a congressional township in size, being township 13, range 16. When first made a voting precinct its territory was north of the Hooking River, the triangle in the southwest corner and across the river being a part of Falls, but .at that time and at its organization it included Falls-Gore within its limits, as it did when made a voting precinct, but at the organization of the county in 1818 it was included in Falls Township. It 1022 - HISTORY OF HOCKING VALLEY. lost Falls-Gore in 1828, the people of Falls-Gore asking to be attached to Falls Township. This was March 4, 1828, and since that time Green has held her present territory. It is bounded on the north by Falls-Gore, east by Ward, south by Starr, and west by Falls townships. ITS TOPOGRAPHY. The valleys found in Green Township are rather of a rolling nature, the eroding of the past forming their undulating surface. The hills are rugged, and in some places are not subject to cultivation; still, where not too steep, vegetation will thrive fairly, and grasses generally glow to their summit. From this cause and from the fact that it is one of the best-watered townships in the county, it would prove an excellent township for stock. ITS WEALTH OF WATER. Five-Mile Creek, a description of which is given in Starr Town--ship history, enters this township on section 25, in the, southwest quarter, and flows north, joining its waters with the Hocking on the northeast quarter of section 26. Sandy Fork enters the township on the northwest quarter of section 31, and leaves it on the southeast quarter of the same section, meandering in a course of about one mile and a half. Oldtown Creek just crosses the west side of section 36. Three-Mile Creek is so named from the fact that the main stream is but little over three miles long. It rises on sections 24 and 30, and, running in a southerly course, flows into a bayou connecting with the Hocking River on the southeast quarter of section 27. Small tributaries arising from springs empty into the main branch. Kitchen Run, is another small stream, which takes its rise on sections 10, 11 and 12, uniting together flows in a southeasterly course, and unites its waters with those of Monday Creek, leaving the township at the northeast corner of section 4. Its tributaries are small. The stream takes its name from a man by the name of Kitchen, from the further fact that he ran a race with a couple of other hunters on the bank of this stream. They had killed a deer, and it was proposed to run a race for the possession, or rather ownership of the skin. Kitchen won the race and the skin, and the stream was given the name of " Kitchen Run." Hocking River passes through from the northwest to the south-east, leaving about two thirds of the town north and east of the river, HISTORY OF HOCKING VALLEY - 1023 and the remaining one third south and west. In the valley of this river is the wealth of its agricultural lands, rich in its productive capacity, the soil being almost inexhaustible in its nature. COAL AND IRON. Both coal and iron are found in this township, but the latter has not been largely developed, and no very large seams have been found. The township lies properly within the coal measure; the western line being irregular, has been found extending into Laurel Township; and, as you go south, this irregularity extends further west until it touches- Ross County, coal having been found in Eagle Township, Vinton County, on its western side. The coal in Green lies in the hills which skirt the valley of the Hocking, and is considerable above the level of the valley. The Hayden Mining and Manufacturing Company, who are doing a large business in sewer pipes, are also interested in the Hayden Coal Mine originally belonging to and opened by Peter Hayden. The company has some 2,800 acres of land, and fire clay is found in large quantity. The company was incorporated in December, 1882, with Peter Hayden is president and principal stockholder, he originally owning the whole, property ; C. H. Hayden, vice-president, and John W. Jones, general manager. The sewer pipe factory is in course of erection near the railroad depot. This will be carried-on in connection with mining, the mines having the capacity to work about 130 men. Mr. Hayden built a switch two miles long to his bank, and using two engines and a mining engine on coal level. This is the largest mining industry in the township excepting the Craft Furnace Company. Green Township's mining interests, like many others in the Hocking Valley is yet in its infancy, but perhaps the railroad projects which are now starting, intending to penetrate the coal and iron region of the Hocking Valley, will open up a more extended manufacturing and mining interest. The proposed building of these roads has also started the owners of the coal lands, who will open them up the moment transportation facilities are at command. The new lines projected wiH strike the heart of the coal and iron region and in connection with the project of the belt railroad.' are destined to develop the coal and iron resources of the valley to a magnificent extent. 1024 - HISTORY OF HOCKING VALLEY. CRAFT'S FURNACE. This is one of the largest as well as one of the best furnaces in the Hocking Valley. It was formerly located at Newport, Ky., opposite-Cincinnati. It was found cheaper to freight the pig iron than the ore, and the furnace was removed from Newport in the spring of 1877, by its owners, the Craft Iron Company. The company are owners off' about 900 acres of mineral land with an inexhaustible supply of iron ore and coal. The capacity of the furnace is forty-five tons per day. The buildings are extensive and of brick. The stack is fifty-six feet high; diameter at tugers, ten feet; at bosh, eighteen and a half, and some Lake Superior ore is used, mixed with native ore. The fuel used is bituminous coal and the machinery of the latest invention for their work. The furnace went into blast Nov. 5,. 1879, and has continued from that date, except some temporary stops, up to May 21, 1883; she then blew out to make general repairs. The company Will also build one new hot blast, another battery of boilers (they now have three batteries of two boilers each), and will put in new hearth, tressel, etc. The company went into the combination known as the Columbus and Hocking Valley Coal and Iron Company March 1, 1883. This furnace is located on section 5 in Green Township, Hocking County. Frank Wheeler, general superintendent, Grove Stoddard, bookkeeper. When in full blast 130 men are employed at the furnace and mines. There is no, town 'laid out here, yet the small residences of the workmen form quite a group and look like an embryo village. A postoffice was-opened in 1879 with the name of Glendale, but the place generally goes by the name of Craft's Furnace. It lies on the Monday Creek branch of the Hocking Valley Railroad. In connection with their business the company run a large general store, in which the post-office is also kept, and Grove Stoddard, the first Postmaster, still retains the position. SAW-MILLS. The mill known as the Boardman Mill was first erected in 1850- or '52 on section 34. It was burned in 1855. The mill was rebuilt the next year and a planing-mill added in 1860, the first of the kind in Hocking County. The old Patton Mill, now among the things of the past, was first used as a saw-mill, the oldest probably in time township, having been erected in 1825. Seven years after a gristmill, custom run, was added. Robert Patton was the owner and