300 - HISTORY OF HOCKING VALLEY. President, a position he retained until January, 1879, when A. Norton became President. A. G. Brown was Cashier until 1868, when he was succeeded by Thomas H. Sheldon. Mr. Sheldon resigned in 1882, and since Jan. 1, 1883, the position has been held by David H. Moore. David Kessinger was Teller from 1868 to 1876, in September of which year D. H. Moore was elected Teller. On Mr. Moore's being promoted to Cashier, John J. Welch became the Teller. The present Board of Directors consists of A. Norton, J. M. Welch, E. H. Moore, A. G. Brown, Emmett Tompkins, J. M. Goodspeed, and E. W. Nye. The charter of the bank was renewed Feb. 24, 1883. The capital stock was some time since increased to $75,000. Since the establishment of the bank, it has declared over $80,000 in dividends. The Bank of Athens.—Messrs. John Brown and James D. Brown started in the banking business in Albany in 1867, under the firm name of John Brown & Son. in October of the following year they removed, with their business, to Athens, where their bank has since been known as the "Bank of Athens." The elder Mr. Brown died in October, 1875, since which time the business has been conducted by Mr. J. D. Brown. Mr. R. H. Stewart was with the bank as Teller for about ten years, leaving in July, 1882. Charles W. Harris, the present Teller, entered the bank in January, 1876. W. B. Golden entered the bank in August, 1882. The bank of Athens has until this year (1883) occupied one of the oldest buildings ot the village, having been built in 1812. This has been taken down, and at the present writing Mr. Brown is erecting a new building 38 x 46 feet, with an L 18 x 19 on the same corner. The banking-room will be 18 x 26; private otfice 10 x 11. ATHENS GAS-LIGHT COMPANY. This company was organized as a joint stock company in 1872, its object being the manufacture ot gas for lighting the city. The original capital was $30,000. The facilities were all completed for operation in the fall of 1873, since which time gas has been used for lighting the streets, also the public and private buildings of the city. The original directors of the company were : John Ballard, G. T. Gould, C. H. Grosvenor, D. B. Stewart and L. W. Brown, John Ballard being President and L.W. Brown, Secretary. The present Directors are : J. M. Welch, D. B. Stewart, A. W. Ullum, Emmett Tompkins and W. D. Bartlett. J. M. Welch is HISTORY OF HOCKING VALLEY - 301 President and W. H. Harris, Secretary. This company has also built up a large trade in lime and cement in which, at present, they are the leading dealers in the city. TELEGRAPH LINES. The first telegraph line which passed through Athens City was that of the New Orleans & Ohio Telegraph Company. The first message received at Athens was on Oct. 6, 1848, and the line is still a public institution for private profit. The Pomeroy & Athens line was the next which opened for business, in January, 1859. OFFICERS OF THE TOWN OF ATHENS. The records of the town, from the date of incorporation, 1811, to that of 1825, inclusive, were lost. The latter year, however, it was known that James Gilman was President of the Council, and Joseph B. Miles, Recorder. The election for town officers, March 6, 1826, gave a total poll of forty-three votes, and the following persons were elected mem hers of the Town Council, viz.: Thomas 'Brice, by thirty-four vote 1s; Columbus Bierce, by thirty-four votes; Ebenezer Currier, by thirty-one votes; John Brown, Jr., by thirty-three votes, and Joseph B. Miles, by twenty-three votes. The following town officers were elected : Samuel Knowles, Marshal; Ebel' Foster, Supervisor; A. G. Brown, Treasurer; Calvary Morris, Collector; John Gill-more, Assessor. The council elected Ebenezer Currier, President, and Joseph B. Miles, Recorder. March 5, 1827.---Charles Shipman, Columbus Bierce, John Brown, Jr., Thomas Brice and Isaac Taylor were elected Councilmen; William W. Birce, Marshal ; John Gilimore, Assessor; James J. Fuller, Collector; A. G. Brown, Treasurer; Eben Foster, Supervisor. The council elected Columbus Bierce, President, and John Brown, Jr., Recorder for the ensuing year. March 10, 1828.—An election was held, pursuant to an act of the Legislature, passed Jan. 24, 1828, entitled an act to incorporate the town of Athens, in the county of Athens." Nine councilmen were chosen, whose term of office was afterward decided by lot, as follows, viz.: Joseph Dana, Thomas Brice and Jeremiah Olney, to serve three years; Isaac Barker, John Gillmore and Amos Crippen, to serve two years; and Ebenezer Currier, Eliphaz Perkins and Norman Root, to serve one year. The council elected of their 302 - HISTORY OF HOCKING VALLEY. own number, Joseph Dana, Mayor, and Norman Root, Recorder; and they appointed from the citizens, A. G. Brown, Treasurer; John McGill, Marshal; John Porter, Surveyor of wood and lumber, and William Golden, Clerk of the market. March 9, 1829.—Joseph Dana was elected Mayor; Ebenezer Currier, Calvary Morris and Norman Root, Councilmen; and John McGill, Marshal. Norman Root was chosen Recorder for the ensuing year; A. G. Brown, Treasurer, and John Porter, Surveyor of wood and lumber. The mode of electing the mayor and marshal had been changed by an act of the Legislature, passed Feb. 28, 1829, which made these officers elective by the people, instead of by the Town Council. March 8, 1830.— John Gillmore, Amos Crippen and Isaac Barker were elected to the Town Council, for three years, and John Perkins for one year; Joseph Dana was elected Mayor, and .John Sampson, Marshal. Norman Root was appointed Recorder, John Porter, Surveyor of wood and lumber, and Dr. A. V. Medbury, Treasurer. March 14, 1831.—Joseph Dana, Thomas Brice and John Per kins were elected Councilmen; Joseph Dana was elected Mayor, and John Sampson, Marshal. The Council appointed Norman Root, Recorder; Dr. A. V. Medbury, Treasurer, and Wm. D. Bartlett, Surveyor of wood and lumber for ensuing year. March 12, 1832.—Hull Foster, Wrn. D. Bartlett and Francis Beardsley were elected Councilmen; John Gillmore, Mayor, and Thomas Francis, Marshal. The Council appointed Thomas Brice, Recorder, and Dr. Medbury, Treasurer. March 11, 1833.—Samuel Miller, Oliver Childs and Isaac N. Norton were elected Councilmen; Samuel Miller, Mayor, and John Sampson, Marshal. Joseph Dana was appointed Recorder, and Dr. Medbury, Treasurer. March 10, 1834.—Thomas Francis, A. B. Walker and Charles Cunningham were elected Councilmen; Samuel Miller, Mayor, and John Sampson, Marshal. A. B. Walker was appointed Recorder, for the ensuing year, and Dr. Medbury, Treasurer. March 9, 1835.—Norman Root, James J. Fuller and Francis Beardsley were elected Councilmen; Samuel Miller, Mayor, and John Sampson, Marshal. Edgar P. Jewett was appointed Treasurer, and A. B. Walker, Recorder, for the ensuing year. March 14, 1836.—I. N. Norton, John Welch and Leonidas Jewett were elected Councilmen; I. N. Norton, Mayor, and Cyr HISTORY OF HOCKING VALLEY - 303 Gibson, Marshal. John Welch was appointed Recorder, and P. S. Baker, Treasurer. March 13, 1837.—Henry Bartlett, John N. Dean, Cephas Carpenter and Thomas Francis were elected Councilmen; Henry Bartlett, Mayor, and Samuel Miller, Marshal. Norman Root, appointed Recorder, and P. S. Baker, Treasurer. Record of 1838 missing. March 11, 1839. — John Brown, Jr., H. R. Gillmore and Cephas Carpenter were elected Councilmen for three years, and Norman Root, Robert McCabe and Francis Beardsley, for two years. John Brown, elected Mayor, and Dr. C. Bierce, Marshal. Norman Root appointed Recorder, and P. S. Baker, Treasurer. March 9, 1840.—P. S. Baker, John N. Dean and Cephas Carpenter, were elected Councilmen; John Brown, Mayor, and 1. K. Norton, Marshal. Norman Root appointed Recorder, and A. B. Walker, Treasurer. March 8, 1841.—James J. Fuller, E. Cockerill and Enos Stimson, were elected Councilmen; John Brown, Mayor, and Benjamin Brown, Marshal. Enos Stinson appointed Recorder, and A. B. Walker, Treasurer. March 14, 1842.—Leonidas Jewett, Norman Root and J. L. Currier were elected Councilmen; Norman Root, Mayor, and John Sampson, Marshal. Enos Stimson appointed Recorder, and A. B. Walker, Treasurer. March 13, 1843.—John Brown, Ezra Stewart and Francis Beardsley were elected Councilmen; John Brown, Mayor, and Jacob C. McCabe, Marshal. March 11, 1844.—John Ballard, Cephas Carpenter, Sumner Bartlett and Dr. Wm. Blackstone were elected Councilmen; John Brown, Mayor, and William Smith, Marshal. Leonidas Jewett appointed Recorder, and Benjamin Brown, Treasurer. Record of 1845, missing. March 9, 1846.—Ezra Stewart, Francis Beardsley and John Brown elected Councilmen for three years; Sumner Bartlett, Wrn. R. Smith and J. W. Bayard for two years; John Brown, Mayor, and Abel Stedman, Marshal. J. W. Bayard appointed Recorder, and 0. W. Brown, Treasurer. March 8, 1847.—John Ballard, Dr. Wrn. Blackstone and Cephas Carpenter were elected Councilmen; John Brown, Mayor, and Abel Stedman, Marshal. J. W. Bayard appointed Recorder, and 0. W. Brown, Treasurer. 304 - HISTORY OF HOCKING VALLEY. March 13, 1848.—Samuel Miller, Win. R. Smith and Joseph Jewett were elected Councilmen; Samuel Miller, Mayor, and Wrn. H. Abbott, Marshal. Joseph Jewett appointed Recorder, and 0. W. Brown, Treasurer. March, 12, 1849.—John Brown, Andrew Kessinger and Wrn. Walker were elected councilmen, John Brown, Mayor, and Abel Stedman, Marshal.. Joseph Jewett appointed Recorder, and 0. W. Brown, Treasurer. March, 11, 1850.—Joseph M. Dana, Lot L. Smith and Samuel Pickering were elected Councilmen; Samuel Miller, Mayor, and Abel Stedman, Marshal. Joseph Jewett appointed Recorder, and Leonidas Jewett, Treasurer. March, 10, 1851.—John Brown, Joseph M, Dana, Andrew Kessinger, E. P. Talpey and Wm.Walker, Councilmen; Samuel Miller, Mayor; Joseph Jewett, Recorder, and Leonidas Jewett, Treasurer. March 10, 1852.—Wm. Walker, Norman Root, John B. Paul, Samuel Miller, J. M. Dana, Councilmen; John Brown, Mayor; Joseph Jewett, Recorder, and L. Jewett, Treasurer. April 14, 1853.—John Brown, Samuel Miller, John B. Paul, Joseph Jewett, Wm. Walker, Councilmen; Norman Root, Mayor; J. M. Dana, Recorder, and L. Jewett, Treasurer. April 15, 1854.—John Brown, Wm. Walker, H. K. Blackstone, D. M. Clayton, Henry T. Hoyt, Councilmen; Norman Root, Mayor; J. M. Dana, Recorder; and L. Jewett, Treasurer. April, 1855.—Henry T. Hoyt, Jesse Davis, J. Lawrence Currier, J. C. Frost, N. H. Van Vorhes, Councilmen; Norman Root, Mayor; J. M. Dana, Recorder; L. Jewett, Treasurer. April, 1856.—H. K. Blackstone, Wm. P. Kessinger, Oliver W. Pickering, L. Jewett, E. H. Moore, Councilmen; Norman Root, Mayor; J. M. Dana, Recorder; L. Jewett, Treasurer. April, 1857.—Lot L. Smith, H. K. Blackstone, Wm. P. Kessinger, Geo. W. Baker, 0. W. Pickering, Councilmen; Norman Root, Mayor; J. M. Dana, Recorder; H. K. Blackstone, Treasurer. April, 1858.—Henry T. Hoyt, N. H. Van Vorhes, Lot L. Smith, Hiram R. Crippen, Thomas Davis, Councilmen; N. Root, Mayor; J. M. Dana, Recorder; H. T. Hoyt, Treasurer. April, 1859.—H. T. Hoyt, L. L. Smith, Charles H. Grosvenor, Thomas Davis, Hiram R. Crippen, Councilmen; N. Root, Mayor; J. M. Dana, Recorder; H. T. Hoyt, Treasurer. HISTORY OF HOCKING VALLEY - 305 April, 1860.—L. Jewett, W. P. Johnson, H. T. Hoyt, Win. Golden, Rufus P. Crippen, Councilmen; N. Root, Mayor; F. H. Stedman, Recorder; H. T. Hoyt, Treasurer. April, 1861.-L. Jewett, W. P. Johnson, H. T. Hoyt, Wm. Golden, H. S. Samson, Councilmen; N. Root, Mayor; F. H. Stedman, Recorder; H. T. Hoyt, Treasurer. April, 1862.-H. T. Hoyt, Wm. Golden, E. H. Moore, Josephus Tucker, E. C. Crippen, Councilmen; N. Root, Mayor; F. H. Stedman, Recorder; H. T. Hoyt, Treasurer. April, 1863.— H. T. Hoyt, E. C. Crippen, Josephus Tucker, Charles P. Ballard, Jesse Davis, Councilmen; N. Root, Mayor; F. H. Stedman, Recorder; H. T. Hoyt, Treasurer. April, 1864.—Abner Cooley, A. D. Brown, H. K. Blackstone, Josephus Tucker, R. P. Crippen, Councilmen; Joseph M. Dana, Mayor; Simeon W. Pickering, Recorder; A. D. Brown, Treasurer. April, 1865.—Jesse Van Law, N. H. Van Vorhes, H. K. Blackstone, Elmer Golden, A. D. Brown, Councilmen; J. M. Dana, Mayor; S. W. Pickering, Recorder; A. D. Brown, Treasurer. April, 1866.—A. D. Brown, H. K. Blackstone, J. W. Harris, N. H. Van Vorhes, Jesse Van Law, Councilmen; J. M. Dana, Mayor; S. W. Pickering, Recorder; A. M. Brown, Treasurer. April, 1867.—H. K. Blackstone, N. H. Van Vorhes, Jesse Van Law, J. H. Falloon and Wm. P. Johnson, Councilmen; George W. Baker, Mayor; Frederick L. Ballard, Recorder; H. H. Van Vorhes, Treasurer. April, 1868.—N. H. Van Vorhes, H. K. Blackstone, C. L. Wilson, H. S. Stimson and Alexander Cochran, Councilmen; J. M. Dana, Mayor; F. L. Ballard, Recorder; N. H. Van Vorhes, Treasurer. 1869.—Hiram C. Martin, Mayor; F. L: Ballard, Recorder; N. H. Van Vorhes, Treasurer; H. K. Blackstone, H. S. Stimson, Josephus Tucker, N. H. Van Vorhes, C. L. Wilson and F. L. Ballard, Councilmen. 1870.—Wm. Golden, Mayor; S. W. Pickering, Eli C. Crippen, H. S. Stimson, John Ring, W. W. Kurtz and W. W. Love, Council; C. H. Grosvenor, Solicitor; C. R. Sheldon, Clerk; James D. Brown, Treasurer; Robert White, Street Commissioner and Marshal. 1871.—The same as 1870, except Elza Jones, Marshal, in place of R. White, resigned. - 20 - 306 - HISTORY OF HOCKING VALLEY. 1872.—W rn. Golden, Mayor; L. W. Brown, George T. Gould, Jacob Grones, W. W. Kurtz, W. W. Love and J. ling, Council; C. H. Grosvenor, Solicitor; C. R. Sheldon, Clerk; James D. Brown, Treasurer; Robert White, Street Commissioner; M. B. Port, Marshal. 1873.—Members of Council, Louis W. Brown, George T. Gould, J. Groves, R. P. Crippen, Judiah Higgins and Nehemiah Warren; other officers the same as in 1872. 1874.—Wm. Golden, Mayor; James D. Brown, Treasurer; C. R. Sheldon, Clerk; L. M. Jewett, Solicitor; Robert White, Street Commissioner; J. Cart. Davis, Marshal. Council, J. Higgins, N. Warren, J. Grones, E. H. Moore, N. H. Van Vorhes and Winfield Scott, and George W. Baker, from Nov. 5, to till vacancy of N. H. Van Vorhes, resigned. 1875.—Council, S. W. Pickering, J. Higgins, Winfield Scott, E. M. Moore, H. K. Blackstone and J. Grones; other officers the same as in 1874. 1876.—Mayor, Wrn. Golden; Solicitor, Emmett Tompkins; Clerk, C. R. Sheldon; Treasurer, J. D. Brown; Marshal, M. B. Port; Street Commissioner, Peter Finsterwald; Council, Messrs. Leonard Brown, H. S. Stimson, E. H. Moore, W. H. Brown, J. Higgins and S. W. Pickering. 1877.—Council, E. B. Clarke, H. M. Lash, T. B. Warden, H. S.. Stimson, E. H. Moore and Leonard Brown; other officers held over from 1876. 1878.—Mayor, Emmett Tompkins; Solicitor, Evan J. Jones; Clerk, C. R. Sheldon; Treasurer, J. D. Brown; Marshal, M. B. Port; Street Commissioner, Peter Finsterwald; Council, Peter Kern, Winfield Scott, George W. Ullum, E. B. Clarke, H. M. Lash and T. B. Warden. 1879.—Council, E. B. Clark, F. 0. Pickering, T. H. Sheldon, P. Kern, G. W. Ullum and Winfield Scott; other officers held over from 1878. Dec. 31, J. P. Wood appointed Mayor to fill vacancy of Emmett Tompkins, resigned. 1880.—J. P. Wood, Mayor; C. R. Sheldon, Clerk; C. McClain, Treasurer; Walter Howe, Marshal; Peter Finsterwald, Street Commissioner; R. H. Stewart, John Graham, W. H Brown, T. Sheldon, F. O. Pickering, E. B. Clarke, Councilmen. 1881.—J. H. Calkins, Harry M. Roach, T. H. Sheldon, W. N HISTORY OF HOCKING VALLEY - 307 Brown, John Graham, R. H. Stewart, Councilmen; W. M. Scott, Marshal; other officers held over. 1882.—Mayor, J. P. Wood; Marshal, W. M. Scott; C. R. Sheldon, Clerk; C. McClain, Treasurer; Peter Finsterwald, Street Commissioner; D. L. Sleeper, Solicitor; Council, W. H. Brown, Conrad Josten, Peter Kern, J. H. Calkins, T. H. Sheldon and H. M. Roach. April 3, 1883.—Mayor, J. P. Wood; Solicitor, D. L. Sleeper; Clerk, C. R. Sheldon; Treasurer, C. McLean; Marshal, Peter Finsterwald; Street Commissioner, F. O. Pickering; Members of Council, Jesse H. Cornell, James D. Brown, H. M. Roach, W. If Brown, C. Josten and P. Kern. CHAPTER XIV. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES IN THE CITY OF ATHENS AND ATHENS TOWNSHIP. John Ackley, civil engineer and ex-County Surveyor of Athens County, was born in Washington County, Pa., May 31, 1825, He is the second of the five sons of John and Elizabeth ( Eaton ) Ackley, who came to Ohio in 1836 and settled in Lodi Township, Athens County. His mother died when he was eleven years old. He lived with his father till he was twenty years old, working on a farm and attending the common schools. In 1846 he entered the Ohio University at Athens, taking an irregular course, studying and teaching till 1849, when he was elected Surveyor of Athens County, holding the position six years, and since then at intervals till January, 1883, although the most of his time has been spent in surveying and civil engineering. He has also been engaged in farming in the vicinity of Athens since 1868. Dec. 31, 1849, he married Jerusha Haning, of Lodi Township. They have five children—Lavinia, wife of W. F. Lewis, of Waxahachie, Ellis Co., Tex.; Ida; Hattie, wife of H. A. Brown, of Scioto County, Ohio; Eber G., and Eliakim H. Mr. Ackley is Master of Grange No. 422, Athens, and County Deputy. Josiah Benton Allen, late Recording Clerk in the office of the Secretary of State at Columbus, Ohio, was born near Cadiz, Harrison Co., Ohio, July 14, 1842. He is the son of David and Mary ( Wilkin) Allen., He lived with his parents until he was seventeen, receiving his education in the common schools and the De Camp Institute at Pagetown, Ohio. July 4, 1861, he enlisted in Company C, Thirtieth Ohio Volunteer Infantry as a private. In April, 1862, he was promoted to First Orderly Sergeant. He participated in a number of battles and skirmishes, the most important being Giles Court-House, Carnifax Ferry, Second Bull Run, Centerville, South Mountain, Antietam, Haines's Bluff, Jackson, Champion Hill, Black River and Vicksburg. At the last, May 22, 1863, while storming Fort Gregg, he being in command of his company at the time, all but fourteen of his men were killed, h himself losing his left arm. After submitting to two amputations of the same arm, and being - (308) - HISTORY OF HOCKING VALLEY - 309 unfitted for service thereby, he was discharged for disability in 1864. He returned to Athens and attended the Ohio University until the close of the college year in 1866, then went to Missouri and that fall was engaged in the insurance business. During the winter he taught school in the village of Maysville, of that State; returned to Athens in April, 1867, and the following fall was, without opposition, elected Recorder of Athens County on the Republican ticket. He held that office by being re-elected, for twelve years. From January to June 1880 he held the stewardship of the Athens Asylum for the Insane. Losing that position through a change in the administration he was appointed Recording Clerk in the office of the Secretary of State at Columbus, in December, 1880, remaining there until January 1883. April 14, 1871, he was married to Miss Sue E. Racer of Marietta, Ohio. He is a member of J. C. McCoy Post, No. 1, G. A. R., and holds a membership in the council of administration of that order, of the State of Ohio. Benjamin Thomas Addleman, photographer, Athens, Ohio, was born near Richmond, Wayne Co., Ohio, Jan. 28, 1827. At the age of nineteen he went to Richmond and worked as an apprentice eighteen months to learn the gunsmith's trade. He then worked as a journeyman until 1849, when he opened a gunsmith shop in Richmond, remaining there until 1852, when he went to California and mined successfully in Canyon Creek until 1859. He then returned to Ohio and purchased a farm in Preble County near New Paris, and farmed nearly two years, when, selling his farm, he returned to Richmond and dealt in iron with his brother, J. P. Addleman, until 1861. He then purchased another farm in Wayne County and pursued farming until 1864, when he again returned to Richmond and engaged in photography until 1869. He removed to Hagerstown, Ohio, and engaged in photography until 1873 when he came to Athens and established his present gallery. In April, 1860, he married Miss Margaret Tenney, of Montgomery County, Ohio. They have six children---Charles L., bookkeeper for the Singer Sewing Machine Company of Athens; Adell; Clara Belle, wife of Clement H. Hooper, of Athens County; Lula, William A. and Frank George Washington Baker, general insurance agent, Athens, was born near Athens, O., May 2, 1829, where he was reared, receiving only a common-school education. His father, Nicholas Baker, was one of the pioneers of Athens County, and came with his parents from Massachusetts in 1814. His mother, Clara 310 - HISTORY OF HOCKING COUNTY   (White) Baker, was born in Washington County, O. The subject of this sketch came to Athens when twenty years of age and employed as a clerk in the drug store of John Perkins for two years. He then went to California where he worked in the gold mines in Placer and Butte counties about two years, returning home in February, 1854, making his adventure a success. In March of the same year he became associated with his former employer, John Perkins, in the drug business, under the firm name of Perkins & Baker, they doing business until 1859. He then engaged in the clothing and merchant tailoring business with F. L. Ballard under the firm name of Baker & Ballard, they discontinuing in 1861. In July of that year he entered the Union army as Captain of Company C, Thirty-ninth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and served as such until November, 1862, when he was commissioned Commissary of Subsistence by President Lincoln, and served under General Sherman until the fall of Vicksburg in July, 1863, when, broken down in health, he was sent home on a leave of absence. In the following November he was ordered to report to General Stephen A. Hulburt at Memphis, Tenn., and was by him ordered on duty at La Grange, Tenn., where he remained until March, 1864, when he served as Commissary of General A. J. Smith's command during the Red River expedition, until May, 1864. Having returned with that command to Memphis his health again became impaired and he was ordered by the General War Department to report to General Pope at Milwaukee, Wis., and by him to report to General Sibley at St. Paul, Minn., who ordered him on duty as Commissary of the Post at Fort Snelling, where he remained until Nov. 22, 1864, when he was ordered to report to General A. J. Smith at Nashville, Tenn., and remained with that command during the battle of Nashville, and the pursuit of the enemy to Eastport, Miss. Soon after the command was ordered to New Orleans where it was organized into the Sixteenth Army Corps, and our subject was commissioned Chief Commissary with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, and was with that corps at the siege and capture of Mobile and Montgomery, Ala., until April, 1865. At Montgomery he served as Chief Commissary of that department until December, 1865, when he was ordered to report at St. Louis, Mo., and from there home to Athens to await further orders; was mustered out of the service there Jan. 16, 1866. During that summer he went to West Virginia, and engaged in the oil business until the spring of 1867, when he returned to Athens HISTORY OF HOCKING COUNTY - 311   and was elected Mayor and Justice of the Peace, and served as such until September, 1869, when he was elected Treasurer of Athens County and held that office by re-election for two terms. In 1872 he was elected Clerk of the Courts of Athens County and filled that position for nine consecutive years. For six months in 1881 he owned a half interest in the Athens County Republican, when he sold and then established his present business. May 2, 1854, he married Amanda Mahon, of Blairsville, Pa. They have four children---Edward H., attorney at law, Cincinnati, O.; Anna B., Clara A., and Rollins M., at home. He is a prominent Mason and member of the lodge, chapter and commandery of Athens. Himself, wife and three of his children are members of the Methodist Episcopal church. Francis M. Barker, farmer, of Athens Township, eldest son of Joseph and Ruth (Griffith) Barker, was born in Athens Township, Athens Co., Ohio, April 23, 1836. At the age of twenty-one years he began working for himself. In 1858 he began farming for himself on his father's and other farms. Nov. 4, 1861, he enlisted in Company D, Seventy-Fifth-Ohio Volunteer Infantry, for three years, as a private, and was appointed Corporal of his company. He was with his company on duty until March 26, 1862. While at Huttonville, W. Va., he was accidentally wounded, and returned home on furlough, and remained until June following, when he returned to his command at Middletown, Va. From there he was sent to Baltimore, Md., to the hospital, and there discharged for disability, Aug. 9, 1862. He then returned to his home in Athens County. In 1863 he purchased eighty acres joining his father's farm, and lived there until 1865. He then sold his farm and purchased the one on which he now resides. Nov. 11, 1858, he married Amanda, daughter of Derick and Eliza (Saring) Byrd, of York Township. They have five children---Charles, Thaddeus W., Bertha B. (wife of Clarence Winget, of Lee Township), Rutha E. and Michael L. He is a Master Mason, and a member of Constitution Lodge, No. 426, Marshfield, Ohio; is Senior Warden of the lodge. He is also a member of Columbus Golden Post, No. 89, G. A. R., Athens, Ohio. His wife is a member of the Protestant Methodist church. Judge Isaac Barker, Jr., came to Athens when a young man, in 1798, where he lived continuously until the time of his death, March 30, 1873, at the age of ninety-four years. It is not, though, by virtue of his long residence here or the fact that he was a pion- 312 - HISTORY OF HOCKING COUNTY   eer, that we give him a place in this chapter, but because he was a man of ability and accomplishments, a public man of model character and habits. Judge Barker was born at Long Plains, near Bedford, Mass., Feb. 17, 1779, the son of Isaac and Rhoda (Cook) Barker. Isaac Barker, Sr., was a lineal descendant of Robert Barker, a Welshman, who emigrated to Plymouth Colony prior to 1630, and afterward became a colonial official. In 1789 he came with his father's family to Ohio, where they settled on a farm near the present site of Belpre, a mile above the garrison soon afterward built and known in pioneer history as "Farmer's Castle." At the outbreak of the Indian war of 1790-'94, the savages commenced war- fare on the settlement, killing and harrassing the field laborers and capturing prisoners, compelling a part of each family to stand on guard while the remainder worked and slept, destroying their stock and scanty crops until the entire settlement was compelled to take refuge in the garrison, where they suffered from disease and privation for two or three years, and were only relieved by the final treaty of peace concluded by General Wayne. Here in Belpre our subject spent the nine years of his pioneer life, having as companions the Putnams, Devols, Smiths, Danas, Rouses, Stones, Cookes, Bents, Brownings and many other families of more or less prominence in pioneer annals. In 1798 the family removed to Athens, then a village of half a dozen cabins, and settled on a farm. Judge Barker's education was acquired principally by private study. His first business on his own account after coming to Athens was that of hotel keeping. His hotel was on the site of the old Brown House, just in front of the college. After remaining here three years he removed to his long residence on the corner of College and State streets in 1818. During his residence in Athens, Judge Barker served ten years as Associate Judge of Common Pleas Court, and held the offices of County Sheriff, County Treasurer, and Collector of rents for the University, each a number of years. James Ashton Benson, Superintendent of the Hamley Run coal mines, was born in the city of Buffalo, N.Y., Jan. 7, 1837. When he was five years of age his parents, Michael and Harriet (Ashton) Benson, removed to Sheboygan, Wis. He was educated in the public schools of Sheboygan and at the Lawrence University, at Appleton, Wis. When becoming of age he followed teaching school in Manitowoc and Sheboygan counties until 1862, when he came to Ohio and located in Nelsonville, Athens County, where he was employed to take charge of a store for his uncle, Charles Ash- HISTORY OF HOCKING COUNTY - 313   ton. In 1865 his uncle died, and he and A.B. Walker were appointed administrators of the estate, requiring a years or more to settle it up. In February, 1865, he removed to Athens and engaged in the mercantile business until September, 1868, when he removed his business to Nelsonville. In 1873 he gave up merchandising and was employed as weigh-master at the coal mine of W. B. Brooks until 1878. He then went to Shawnee, O., where he carried on the mercantile business until 1882, when he returned to Athens and took charge of the Hamley Run coal mines as Superintendent for H.C. Wells & Co., of Columbus, O. While residing in Nelsonville, in 1873, he was elected City Clerk and during 1873 and 1874 served as a member of the Board of Education of that city. May 29, 1865, he was married to Aggie, daughter of Cornelius Steinrod, of Nelsonville. They had three children---George Edwin, Hattie and Abbie. Mr. Benson is a member of Paramuthia Lodge, No. 25, A. F.& A. M., of Athens. James Crawford Bower was born January 30, 1835, near Pittsburg, Pa., where he was reared and received a common-school education. He was the third of seven sons of Alexander and Martha (Couch) Bower, with whom he lived till fifteen years of age when he was apprenticed to learn the blacksmith’s trade, serving three years and seven months. After working as a journeyman about a year, he, in March, 1855, came to Athens County, Ohio, and established himself in a shop at Pleasanton, where he remained till 1862, being at the same time engaged in farming. In 1862 he was commissioned a recruiting officer with the rank of First Lieutenant, and recruited Company I, Ninety-second Ohio Infantry, going into the service with them as First Lieutenant. He served about nine months when he resigned an account of sickness. In April, 1864, he went to Montana; worked at his trade there till October, 1866, and then returned to Athens County, locating in Albany, where he opened a shop. In 1877 he moved on to a farm in the vicinity of Albany and carried on the farm in connection with blacksmithing. In 1880 he came to Athens, where he is now engaged in the dairy business. Aug. 15, 1855, he married Louisa Cooley, of Pleasanton. They have five children---Loduska, Emma, William, Charles, and Hattie. Mr. Bower has been Coroner of Athens County since the fall of 1878. He is a Master, Royal Arch, Council and Knight Templar Mason, and a member of lodge, chapter, council and commandery at Athens. He has served as Junior Warden of 314 - HISTORY OF HOCKING COUNTY   his lodge. He is also a member of Athenian Lodge, No. 497, K. of P., and Columbus Golden Post, No. 89 G. A. R. Daniel Boyd, deceased, was born in the county of Donegal, in the Northern part of Ireland, in September, 1794. His ancestors came from Scotland. His opportunities for obtaining an education were limited, but by improving his spare hours while learning the weaver’s trade he acquired a good education. He had a natural love of books, and was a constant reader, and in after life whatever luxuries his circumstances might compel him to forego, newspapers and periodicals were always to be found in his home. In boyhood he had become familiar with the wrongs and hardships of the Irish people. His father Robert Boyd, possessed a small leasehold estate, which he intended to divide among his four sons. But Daniel, having read of the rich land and free air of the western world set his heart on seeking a new home free from exacting titles and odious rents. Succeeding in obtaining sufficient money with which to pay his passage he came to America, landing at Philadelphia in 1819. He walked over the mountains to Steubenville, Ohio, where he found employment as a teacher and afterward as a weaver. In 1827 he removed to Keene, Coshocton County where he engaged in the mercantile business, near which place he located his parents and younger brothers and sisters who followed him to America in 1822. His business proving a failure he became deeply involved in debt. In 1838 he removed to Athens County, Ohio and settled on a farm in Carthage Township, where he died in 1867, and where for nearly thirty years he was a highly respected as a man of the strictest integrity, warm sympathy, and generous impulses. Here after many years of hard labor, he succeeded in paying off his indebtedness with its heavily accrued interest. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, and gave liberally of his means for its support, and at his house the “itinerant” was always a welcome guest. He took a deep interest in educational institutions, especially the common schools of the vicinity. In 1825 he was married to Jane Elliott, a sister of Rev. Charles Elliott, widely known in the Methodist Episcopal denomination as a minister, editor and author. They were blessed with nine children---John Elliott, a physician, who died in Columbia in 1855; Mary Ann, who died in 1867; Jane a prominent teacher of Athens County; Kate, Principal of the Athens High School; Hugh a graduate of Ohio University in the class of 1859, afterward a member of the Ohio Con- HISTORY OF HOCKING COUNTY - 315   ference of the Methodist Episcopal church, and since 1871 Professor of the Greek an Latin Languages in Cornell College, Iowa; Lucy, formerly a teacher in the Nelsonville school, but now teaching in the Orphan’s Home of Xenia; William Fletcher, a graduate of the Ohio University in the class of 1866, now attorney at law at Cincinnati; Fanny Blair, wife of Charles Lawrence, Esq., of Carthage Township; and Margaret, who taught for several years in the Cincinnati Wesleyan College and is now Principal of the High School in Martinsville, Ind. She is the first lady graduate of the Ohio University. After the death of their father, in 1867, the family sold the farm and removed to Athens where they procured a pleasant home and where those remaining at home still live, and with them their mother, happily and contented at the age of eighty years.    Hon. Archibald Green Brown, was born at Waterford, Washington Co., Ohio, April 16, 1798, is of Puritan stock. His father was Captain Benjamin Brown of Revolutionary fame, who came from Massachusetts in 1776, and settled in Washington County, Ohio. Our subject was educated in the Ohio University at Athens, graduating in the close of 1822, and is now the oldest living graduate of that institution. In the latter part of 1822 he went to Columbus, Ohio, where he taught in an academy until the following year, when he returned to Athens and taught in the preparatory department of his alma mater from September of that year until the spring of 1825. In the summer of 1825 he established the Athens Mirror, the first paper published in Athens County, the publication of which he continued until 1830. In July 1825, he was appointed, by the Court of Common Pleas, Recorder of Athens County, which he subsequently held, by election, for a period of thirteen years. Prior to 1826 he was elected Justice of the Peace of Athens, and held that office continuously until about 1850. In 1834, while filling the office of Justice of the Peace and County Recorder, he taught a private school in Athens, and, having in the meantime privately studied law, was admitted to the bar at Athens, during the same year. In April 1850, he was elected member of the Constitutional Convention that framed the present Constitution of Ohio, and in July of the same year was appointed Presiding Judge of the Eighth Judicial Circuit, to fill a vacancy, and held that office until February, 1852. Since then he has devoted his life to his profession and has built up an enviable reputation as a real-estate lawyer. In 1841 he became a Trustee of the Ohio 316 - HISTORY OF HOCKING COUNTY   University and still holds that position. Jan. 8, 1824, he married Priscilla K. Crippen, by whom he had five children---Henry T., attorney at Law; Athens; Louis W. late of Athens, who was for some fifteen years Clerk of the Court of Athens County, and who died Sept. 29, 1873, at the age of forty-two; the others died in infancy. He has been a member of the First Presbyterian Church of Athens since 1819 and a ruling Elder since 1833. Charles Henry Brown, born Nov. 26, 1846, in Athens, Ohio is the youngest of three children of Charles Pitt and Angeline Elizabeth (Crippen) Brown, and grandson of the late General W. Brown, an old Pioneer of Athens County. He was educated in the Athens High School and the Ohio University, it being his intention to graduate from the later in the class of 1865. He was suspended for a minor offense, and afterward reinstated, but considering the suspension unjust he withdrew from the class, and spent the next two years in teaching. April 7, 1867, he married Ann Eliza, daughter of Harvey and Abbie (Calvert) Carpenter, of Canaan Township, who died October 23, 1867. After his marriage he settled on a farm in Cannan Township, which he still owns and carries on in connection with other business. In 1874 he was employed by the Adams Express Company and worked for them in different capacities for five years. In 1879 he received his present situation as bill clerk for the M. & C. R. R. In 1877 he married Ada Earhart, from whom he was divorced in 1880. Feb. 7, 1881, he married Ada J., daughter of Hiram Hill, of Marietta, Ohio HISTORY OF HOCKING COUNTY - 317   Granville Currier Brown, of the firm of G. C. Brown & Co., proprietors of the “Warren House,” Athens, was born in Athens, May 16, 1853, where he was reared and educated in the public schools. He is the son of Oscar W. and Adaline S. (Currier) Brown. At the age of seventeen he began to clerk in the store of W. W. Love & Co., at Athens, remaining with them three years. He was then variously employed for one year, and in 1874 began to clerk in the Brown Hotel, for Major Elmer Golden, remaining with him in that and the Warren House until November, 1882, when he became associated with W. H. Brown, under the firm name of G. C. Brown & Co., proprietors of the Warren House, Athens, he having the full charge of the house. He is a Master Mason, and member of Parmuthia Lodge, No. 25, Athens. Henry Thomas Brown, attorney, Athens, was born in Athens, Nov. 11, 1825. He is the oldest of two sons of Hon. Archibald Green Brown, a pioneer lawyer, and a native of Ohio. His mother, Priscilla King Crippen, was a native of New York. He was educated in Ohio University, at Athens. He chose his father’s profession, and at the age of nineteen began the study of law in his office. He was admitted to the bar by the Supreme Court at Pomeroy, Ohio, in 1846, and at once began to practice at Athens. In 1852 he became associated with his father, under the firm name of A. G. & H. T. Brown. In 1860 L. A. Koons became associated with them, changing the firm name to Brown & Koons. In 1864 Mr. Brown entered the Union Army as a First Lieutenant and Quartermaster of the One Hundred and Forty First Regiment, Ohio National Guards, and served five months. Dec. 16, 1847, he married Charlotte M. Fuller, of Athens, by whom he has five children---Charlotte E., wife of Henry D. Mirick, of Athens; Herbert H., of Parsons, Kan.; Mabel King and Bertha B., living at home; and Harold of Nebraska. They lost one son, Carlos Louis, who died at Athens, June 30, 1878, at the age of twenty two. He's 318 - HISTORY OF HOCKING COUNTY   an Odd Fellow, a member of Sereno Lodge, No. 479, and of Athens Encampment, No 175, and has held all the positions in both bodies. He is a member of the First Presbyterian Church of Athens. James Dickey Brown, a banker of Athens, son of John and Susan (Green) Brown, was born at Albany, Athens Co., Ohio, Aug. 27, 1845. He was educated in the High School of his native town. In the spring of 1865, at the age of nineteen, he became associated with his father in the mercantile business at Albany, under the firm name of John Brown & Son. They discontinued the mercantile business in the fall of 1867, and engaged in private banking at Albany, under the same firm name. In the fall of 1868 they removed to Athens, and established the Bank of Athens, carrying on private banking together there, until the death of the senior member of the firm, Oct. 18, 1875. Since then our subject has carried on the business alone. In 1867 he enlisted in Company H, One Hundred and Forty-First Ohio Volunteer Infantry, as a private, and served on guard duty 100 days, at Barboursville, W. Va. May 23, 1867, he married Lizzie, daughter of Elmer Armstrong, Esq., of Athens County. They have two children, John and Jennie Jaynes. Mr. Brown and wife are members of the First Presbyterian Church of Athens, of which church he has been a ruling elder since April, 1875. Our subject is a Mason, a member of Paramuthia Lodge, No. 25, A. F. & A. M., of Athens. John Brown.—The founder of the Brown family in America was William Brown, who came to this country from England in 1660, and settled in Hatfield, Mass. Sixty years later, in 1720, the family removed to Leicester, Mass., where, at an advanced age, William Brown died. Captain John Brown, son of William, came with the family to Leicester, and was there elected to the Massachusetts Legislature and served with ability for twenty successive years. He was twice married and the father of nineteen children. His eldest son was John Brown, a Revolutionary soldier, who was mice wounded at the historic battle of Bunker Hill. He came to Ohio in 1797, settling in Washington County. His eldest son, Samuel Brown, father of our subject, was also a Revolutionary soldier. [le came to Ohio with his parents in 1797, landing at Marietta, mud settled in Athens County, Dover Township. His wife was Lydia Thayre, of Taunton, Mass. They were the parents of seven children, five of whom were born before and two after they came ;o Ohio. Their names, in the order of their birth, were—Samuel HISTORY OF HOCKING VALLEY - 319 B., William T., Phoebe, Lydia, Betsey, Harriet and John. John Brown was born in Ames Township, Athens, (then Washington) Co., Ohio, Dec. 23, 1801. While he was still a child his parents removed to a farm within nine miles of Marietta. In 1836 he married Susan Green, of 'Washington County, who was a faithful wife to him and a devoted mother to his children till her death, Aug. 19, 1859. In 1838 he removed to Trimble Township, and two years later to Albany. In 1868 he took up his residence in Athens, where he remained till his death, Oct. 18, 1875. Throughout his career he sustained a marked character. In whatever community he lived, wherever his influence extended, he was recognized as a man of sagacity and strength. Without high official station and without undue self-assertion, he was, by inherent superiority, a public man. The only public office he ever held was that of County Commissioner, to which he was three times elected without his consent and against his wishes, and he was probably the ablest, or at least one of the ablest, that ever filled that position in Athens County. In any suitable notice of the man a prominent place must be given to his intellectual character; and first, when the circumstances of his life are considered, one cannot but be struck by his mental force and individuality. His educational advantages were limited. At ten years of age he went one or two terms to a district school, and at nineteen went about half a year to the High School in Marietta. At the former h learned little, if anything, beyond reading and spelling, but on this foundation, slender as it was, he never ceased to build. 'When thirteen years old he began the study of arithmetic at home, and having, with his mother's assistance, mastered the fundamental rules, he pressed on alone. During the six or seven months' he spent at Marietta he devoted eighteen hours a day to study and recitation. Not being satisfied with the work required in school, he took up besides both chemistry and physics, and pursued them in private with his usual exactness and thoroughness. Soon after leaving school he became a teacher, and for twelve or fourteen years taught in winter and worked en his farm in summer. To the general public he was best known as a business man. In practical matters h displayed clear perceptions, sound judgment and great caution, and h managed his affairs with such care and discretion that he succeeded in building up no inconsiderable fortune. He was a man of exact and general information, and made himself familiar with geology, botany, chemistry, astronomy, physics, and was also well read in medicine. 320 - HISTORY OF HOCKING VALLEY. Like Terence he could say, "I count nothing pertaining to man foreign to me." His moral character was as sharply defined as his intellectual character. His life was pure, temperate and honest. The most distinctive features of his moral character were courage and justice. His courage had nothing of bravado; he took a courageous position as a matter of course. In an early day to be an Abolitionist was to suffer ostracism. Yet he was one of the few to openly and strongly avow himself a friend of the slave. Abolitionism was no mere sentiment with him; he studied the subject till h was more than a match for his ablest opponents. He was a man of much kindness and even tenderness of feeling. Toward cases of distress he was among the most benevolent. At the time of his death he was President of the Bank of Athens, his son James D. being Cashier. He always merited as he received the confidence and patronage of the public, and in his death Athens lost one of her best and most influential citizens. Eber Green Carpenter, M. D., is a native of New Hampshire, the son of Dr. Eber and Judith Green Carpenter. He was born in Alstead, Cheshire County, August, 1808, and was reared and educated in his native town. his father and brother being physicians, he studied medicine under them and graduated as M. D. from the Berkshire Medical College, an adjunct of Williams College, in 1831. He then practiced at Lempster, N. H., until 1833 when h came to Ohio and located at Chester, the county seat of Meigs County. On account of impaired health during 1836 he made a visit to his native State, and on returning to Ohio, permanently located at Athens, where he practiced continuously until March, 1879, when he had the misfortune to fracture the neck of his thigh bone, the result of a fall, which not uniting rendered him a cripple. Not being able to endure the fatigue of practicing, he was obliged to abandon it. October, 1833, he married Miss Mary Kellogg Stanley, a daughter of the late Timothy Stanley, of Marietta, Ohio. They have had five children—Mary P., wife of .R. De Steiger, of Athens; George H., deceased, a physician who was accidently killed in Missouri in 1861; Helen M., wife of J. L. Hatfield, recently a Professor in the Ohio University at Athens, but now of Missouri; Emma, unmarried ; and Julia,wife of Dr. R. W. Erwin, of Bay City, Mich. Dr. and Mrs. Carpenter are members of the First Presbyterian Church of Athens. He was made a Master Mason at Alstead, N. H., in 1832. HISTORY OF HOCKING VALLEY - 321 Parker Carpenter', son of Frederick and Mary W. (Johnson) Carpenter, was born in Rome Township, Athens Co., Ohio, Nov. 4, 1831. When he was four years of age his parents came to Athens Township, where he was reared and has spent the most of his life, engaged in farming. From 1863 to 1868 he combined tanning with his farm labor. In 1869 he was elected Assessor of Athens Township, serving a year. In 1872 he was nominated Sheriff of Athens County on the Republican ticket, but was defeated. In 1874 he was again nominated by the same party and elected, and in 1876 was re-elected to the same office, serving continuously four years. From 1872 to 1874 he served as Deputy Sheriff under Sheriff N. Warren. In 1882 he was elected Trustee of Athens Township, still ,holding that office. Oct. 12, 1853, he married Elizabeth C. Knowles, of Alexander Township, who died June 18, 1874. Feb. 26, 1876, he married Jane D. Cook, of Alexander Township. They have three children—Frederick, R. F., and Hattie May. Mr. Carpenter is a member of Sereno Lodge, No. 479, I. 0. 0. F., Athens. John Porterfield Coe, Treasurer of Athens County, was born in Ohio County, W.Va., Oct. 5, 1842. His father, Silas Coe, was a native of Pennsylvania, and his mother, Emily (Porterfield) Coe, of Ohio. In his seventh year he came with his parents to Athens County, they settling on a farm near Athens, where he lived with them until his nineteenth year. He was given only a common-school education. On leaving home, in 1861, he enlisted in the Union army as a private in Company C, Thirty-sixth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and served during the war. In 1863 he was promoted to Corporal, to Sergeant in 1864, and to First or Orderly Sergeant in May, 1865, but had acted as Orderly Sergeant from May, 1864. During his time of service he was only twice on the sick list, once by camp fever and again by an injured ankle, caused by a spent ball. He participated in all the battles in which his regiment took part, the most important being South Mountain, Antietam, Chickamauga, Mission Ridge, and the battles in the Shenandoah Valley, during Sherman's campaign. He was mustered out of the service in August, 1865, when he returned home to Athens County. In March, 1866, he went to Vinton-County, where he engaged in farming and dealing in stock. In the fall of 1867 he returned to Athens County, and again engaged in farming and dealing in stock, making sheep a specialty. In the fall of 1879 he was the Republican nominee for Treasurer of Athens County, - 21 - 322 - HISTORY OF HOCKING VALLEY. and was elected by a handsome majority, and was elected his own successor without opposition in the fall of 1881. In 1870 he was elected Clerk of Lee Township, which he held for nine consecutive years, until his election as County Treasurer in 1879. Oct. 25, 1866, he married Lucy, daughter of Edward Blake, late County Commissioner of Athens County, by whom he has five children—Flora Alice, William Wallace, Perry Glenn, Frank Edward, and Mary Elsa. He is a member of Athenian Lodge, No. 104, K. of P., of which h is Treasurer. Himself and wife are members of the First Alexander Cumberland Presbyterian Church of Alexander Township. Colonel Robert Albert Constable, attorney at law, Athens, is the only son of the late Robert E. Constable, a prominent lawyer of Athens, a native of Maryland, who came to Athens in 1826, and died at that place Jan. 19, 1883.. His mother was Elizabeth H. (Barker) Constable, a native of Athens. He was born at Athens in March, 1830, where he was reared and educated in the private school and at the Ohio University. At the age of seventeen, in 1847, h began the study of law in his father's office and was admitted to the bar by the Supreme Court at Delaware, 0., in June, 1851. However he did not enter upon the practice of law at once, but engaged in the mercantile business until 1854, when he became associated with his father and formed the law firm of Constable & Constable. They remained together until 1878 when, on account of failing health, his father retired from the firm. At the breaking out of the war in 1861, being a Brigadier-General of militia, his brigade being composed of Washington, Athens, Meigs and Gallia counties, he, with Captain J. M. Dana, went to Columbus and offered his services to Governor Dennison, by whom he was authorized to recruit 2,000 men for the United States service, which he did and sent forward. In 1861 h helped to raise the Seventy-fifth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and was commissioned Lieutenant-Colonel. Soon after, the Colonel, N. C. McLane, being promoted to Brigadier-General, he was promoted to Colonel. At the battle of McDowell, Va., in April, 1862, while sick with typhoid fever, he was taken prisoner by the Confederates, and was incarcerated at Libby Prison and Salisbury four months, and at Belle Island one day, when h was exchanged under the first cartel .for the exchange of prisoners. He then returned home on a leave of absence and remained until October of that year, when he rejoined his regiment at Fairfax Court-House, Va. In 1863 he, not endorsing President HISTORY OF HOCKING VALLEY - 323 Lincoln's emancipation, like many others, resigned his commission, returned to Athens and resumed the practice of law. June 10, 1851, he married Martha S., daughter of Professor Joseph Dana, of Athens, by whom he has four children—Elizabeth A., wife of W. R. Flinn, of North Adams, ; Ethel Dana, Anna and Henry Lee, at home. He is a member of Columbus Golden Post, No. 89, G. A. R., of which he is Commander, and also is a member of the National Council of Administration of the same order. Robert E. Constable was born at Chestertown, Kent Co., Md., Nov. 29, 1809. He began his education in Maryland, and became very thoroughly grounded in the languages before he came to Athens, in July, 1826. Here h entered the Ohio University, and remained as a student until about half through the senior year, when he was married to Elizabeth H. Barker, daughter of Judge Isaac Barker, May 5, 1829. Soon after that time he was elected Recorder of Athens County. He studied law during his term of office and was admitted to the bar in the spring of 1835, at Jackson, O. He entered upon the practice of law in Athens County and was elected soon afterward Prosecuting Attorney. This position he resigned, in order to be able to practice as criminal lawyer and counselor. He was a leading and successful lawyer in this part of the State until his health failed him, when he was obliged to retire from practice. He was very active in all his undertakings. As a lawyer h was markedly successful in addressing a jury, and his ability was most specially adapted to the conducting of criminal cases. He was an orator of merit, and was chosen at different times as chief speaker on important occasions, being a devoted member of the old Whig party. In his most active days he was as a politician justly considered as entitled to the respect and confidence of the people. In the later years of his life he was so afflicted that it was impossible for him to be active in the scenes of public and social life. In the year 1827 Mr. Constable became a Christian and joined the Methodist Episcopal church; but in later years he became a member of the Episcopalian society, organized at Athens. He had been reared as an Episcopalian originally. He died at Athens, Jan. 19, 1883, leaving one son, R. A. Constable. Thomas Andrew Cooper, carpenter and joiner, was born near Chestnut Flat, Walker Co., Ga., Sept. 16,1838, the eldest of twelve children of Andrew and Nancy (White) Cooper. He received a limited education in the common schools of that country, and worked on the farm with his father until he was nineteen years old. 324 - HISTORY OF HOCKING VALLEY He continued farming for himself until March, 1862, when circum-stances forced him into the service of the Confederate States, and he was assigned as a private to the Army of Virginia under Jackson, and participated in the battles of Bristow Station, second Bull Run, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Spottsylvania Court-house, Monocacy, Md., Lynchburg, Va., and in the several engagements in the Shenandoah Valley during the campaign of 1864. In September, 1864, he came to Parkersburg, W. Va., and engaged to work at gardening for T. T. Davidson, near that place, until January, 1865, when he was employed by the New York Oil Company as carpenter, in Wood County, W. Va., until March of the same year. He then came to Marietta, O., and entered the employ of the Marietta Cincinnati Railroad Company as bridge carpenter under S. M. Wright, foreman. In February, 1868, he entered the employ of Gould & Smith, contractors, on the Columbus & Hocking Valley Railroad, as bridge carpenter, and worked for them until Novem-ber, 1868. He then formed a partnership with T. T. Davidson, near Parkersburg, W. Va., for the purpose of market gardening, the firm name being Davidson &, Cooper. In September of same year they dissolved partnership, and Mr. Cooper came to Athens, O., and again entered the employ of Gould & Smith and worked for them until the Hocking Valley Road was completed. In July, 1870, he was employed by Gould & Wright as bridge carpenter in the construction of the Hope Furnace branch of the M. & C. R. R.; and also the Straitsville branch of the Columbus & Hocking Valley Railroad. In November, 1870, he was employed by the Salina Salt and Coal Company, until July, 1871; then by the Columbus Hocking Valley Railroad Company until May, 1872; then by Joseph Herrold until January, '1873; then by S. M. Wright at Hamley Run Coal Works till January, 1874; then by G. T. Gould at Salina until January, 1877; and by the Hocking Valley Coal and Salt Company at Chauncey, Ohio, until January, 1878. Dur-ing the years of 1878, 1879 and 1880 he was variously engaged at the trade in Athens, and in the spring was employed by the C. H. V. Railroad Company at Columbus, where he worked until April, 1882. He was then employed by William Gladfelter, of Springfield, O., contractor and builder, and worked for Min until Oct. 9, 1882, when he returned to Athens. Aug. 9, 1857, he was married to Miss Sarah Elizabeth. daughter of Sexton and Martha Ann (Will-