HISTORY OF HOCKING VALLEY - 925 E., youngest daughter of John Rochester, of Logan. They have three children whose names are—Francis Mead, Eveline and John Rochester. He and wife are members of the First Presbyterian Church of Logan. He is a Master, Royal Arch, Council and Knight Templar Mason, and member of the lodge, chapter and council, at Logan, and Commandery No. 2, at Lancaster, and is Treasurer of the lodge, chapter and council at Logan. In December, 1860, Mr. Bowen was appointed City Treasurer to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John Rochester, which office he has ever since held by re-elections. William Mead Bowen was born in Logan, Hocking Co., Ohio; April 13, 1830, being the eighth child and eldest son of a family of eleven children, an only brother being the eleventh child. Mead Bowen, the father of W. M. Bowen, was of Welsh extraction, born in Talbot County, Md., Jan. 3, 1782. Having removed to Frederick County, Va., in 1810, he was married to Miss Lucy Drake, a daughter of Francis Drake, an Englishman, and lineal descendant of Sir Francis Drake, the famous English navigator of Queen Elizabeth's time. In the year 1816 the Elder Bowen removed from the valley in Virginia, crossing the Allegheny Mountains with his small family, consisting of his wife and two children, in a two wheeled vehicle, then known as a gig or carryall, landing on Ohio soil in the month of June the same year, stopping temporarily at the small village of Westfall, Pickaway County, where his brother Isaac resided, having preceded him to Ohio several years before. In the month of June, 1817, Mead Bowen moved for the last time, landing in the wilderness where Logan now stands on the 7th day of the m )nth, and residing in the same community until his death in 1877, being then nearly ninety-six years of age. W. M. Bowen springs from a family notable for longevity, his father living nearly ninety-six years and mother till eighty-nine years of age. The early life of W. M. Bowen was spent, in winter, attending such subscription or so-called district schools, as a country village could afford, changing masters and books almost every term, and in summer about his father's shop, his father carrying on a cabinet-making and house joining business, interspersed with hunting, fishing, and the usual routine of fun and frolic always to be found in a backwoods settlement. Advantages for acquiring an education in those early days, such as the youth of this day and generation enjoy, were not known, and when reading, writing and arithmetic, as far as and including the Rule of Three were mastered, 926 - HISTORY OF HOCKING VALLEY. the youth were considered competent for any branch of business in life (barring the professions) to which they might be called. At the age of sixteen years young Bowen, having passed through the school ordeal, received a call, that is, his father, having a large family of children to support, all girls with this single exception, called the youthful graduate into the cabinet and joiner shop, and inducted his genius into the mysteries of the practical and profitable use of the saw, plane and hammer. Three years spent in the shop gave a sufficient knowledge to satisfy him that some other kind of business would be more congenial if not more profitable. During his apprenticeship Bowen had applied his leisure hours to the reading of history and study of chemistry, natural philosophy and the higher branches of mathematics. Leaving the shop he entered as clerk in a grocery store. After acting a year or more in this capacity he took a position in a dry-goods store, and Dec. 25, 1851, being then past twenty-one years of age, was married to Mary Elizabeth Crooks, the daughter of James W. Crooks, an old dry-goods merchant of Logan. They have had eight children, six still living—Charles E., Kate B., James M., William M., Vernon G., and Fannie E. In 1854 young Bowen, wishing to obtain a thorough knowledge of double-entry bookkeeping, attended and graduated from Granger's Commercial College, Columbus, Ohio, after having been a married man some three years. On his return from his studies in 1855, he engaged to keep books for the Five Mile Furnace Company. The iron interest at that time seeming in a healthy condition a small property in Logan was sold and invested in furnace stock. The financial crisis of 1857 came on, iron went to naught, and organized companies followed, leaving penniless those who a few years previous seemed riding on the topmost wave of prosperity. Bowen's stock and earnings went the way of all things tangible, and returning to Logan he for a time engaged in the drug business. In 1858 he accepted a situation as Cashier and bookkeeper in the Citizens' Bank of Logan, a position he kept until the news of the first battle of Bull Run aroused all the latent patriotism of the individual. Resigning his position as Cashier in favor of his brother Charles, in fourteen days he reported with 103 men, rank, and file, at Camp Chase, the first three years' company raised in the valley. Taking position as Captain he was assigned the second place in the Thirty-first Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, that is, Company B. Having at that time never been exposed or having had any out-door exercise, and putting his whole HISTORY OF HOCKING VALLEY - 927 soul and energy in the business of drilling his company for the service, he contracted while in Camp Chase the typhoid fever, and lay all the month of September, 1861, and a portion of October at the point of death. About the 1st of November, same year, having recovered somewhat from his severe sickness, he reported for duty at Camp Dick Robinson, Garrard County, Ky. Remained in the service, passing through the campaign of the winters of 1861—'62, the battle of Mill Springs, the occupation of Nashville, and after the battle of Shiloh or Pittsburg Landing, when, having had three several returns of the first attack and completely broken down in health, was forced to resign his position in the army and return home, and for more than one-half year remained an idle invalid. Having regained health somewhat, in the fall of 1862 accepted a position in the Venango Bank, Franklin, Pa., where he removed his family. He continued in business in Franklin until the spring of 1864; then removed to Corry, Pa., and started the First National Bank of Corry, Pa., with a capital of $100,000, taking the position of Cashier. Having been successful in several oil enterprises Mr. Bowen sold out his banking interests in Corry and purchased two thirds of the stock of the First National Bank of Logan, whose capital was then $50,000, and in the summer of 1866 removed, once more returning to his native town, by his own business exertions being well fixed in life. He took charge of the bank as its President, with his brother C. E. Bowen, Cashier. In the spring of 1866, by the collapsing of a large private bank in New York City, where his bank had a deposit of $29,000, a loss was sustained, falling heavily on him, when he sold his own stock, making the losses good, but losing his prestige as largest owner and President of the same. In the same year he bought in connection with E. G. Collins the largest hardware store and business in the valley, and carried on the same for several years under the firm name of E. G. Collins & Co.; bought Mr. Collins's interest afterward and continued the business under the name of W. M. Bowen and sold to Messrs. James & Bishop in 1871. Being largely interested in fire insurance stock the fire in Chicago cleaned the remainder of Mr. Bowen's fortune, he losing in the destruction of property and depreciation in values consequent upon the passage of the Specie Resumption Act over $25,000; yet, nothing despairing, he is the same business man as of yore. In politics Mr. Bowen is a Democrat, and in the year 1873 was elected to fill a vacancy in the Sixty-first General Assembly (caused 928 - HISTORY OF HOCKING VALLEY. by the resignation of Hon. 0. Case to accept a position in the Secretary of State's office) to represent Hocking County in the Ohio House of Representatives; re-elected again and served through the Sixty-second General Assembly. Previous to that he had served as President of the School Board, and in various other minor positions. He was the pioneer fire-brick business man, having built largely for the purpose of manufacturing the same when the crash overtook him. He was in every public enterprise, among others started the first Building Association in the valley. He was admitted to the practice of law in April, 1817, and has served as Deputy Probate Judge three years, as Township Clerk two years, and in May, 1883, was nominated by the Democracy of Hocking County for the office of Auditor, which is equivalent in this county to an election. William Ribbel Bowlby, senior member of the boot and shoe firm, W.R. Bowlby & Son, Logan,was born near Belvidere, Warren County, N. J., June 18, 1829, a son of Charles and Rachel (Ribbel) Bowlby. In 1835 his parents came to Ohio, and settled on a farm near Newark, residing there there till 1811. They then removed to Linnville, remaining there two years, and in 1843 came to Hocking County. William R. remained at home till he attained his majority, and in 1851, having learned the shoemaker's trade, he went to Sugar Grove and started a manufactory, hiring a num. ber of hands. He afterward engaged in the same business in Urbana and Nelsonville, and in 1855 became permanently established in Logan. Dec. 24, 1854, he married Miss Jane Smith, of Somerset, Perry Co., Ohio. They have had a family of three children--Kate, Charles and Maggie. The latter died in 1881, aged fifteen years. Mr. Bowlby was obliged in early life to rely on his own resources, but by honesty and perseverance has accumulated an extensive property. Besides his business house and residence, he owns twenty-three tenement houses, which afford him a good revenue. Politically he is a Republican, and during the war of the Rebellion was a staunch Union man; has cast a vote for every Republican President. Mr. Bowlby is a man of sound judgment and strong will. In all his business dealings he is strictly honest, considers his word as binding as his note. Though quick to resent an insult, he is withal a kind, considerate friend, and has done much toward helping others in a business way, and in that way has lost, considerable money, very few deeming it necessary to repay what had been given in an hour of need. Mr. Bowlby has always been temperate and industrious. ..His weight is 213 pounds. HISTORY OF HOCKING VALLEY - 929 George Washington Brehm, Mayor of Logan and attorney, was born in Laurel Township, ;Hocking County, Ohio; July 14, 1841, where he was reared a farmer, being educated in the district school, and by attending one term at a select school at Lancaster, Ohio. When sixteen years. of age he taught the school in his own district, and afterward taught during the winter season twelve years. In 1870 he was appointed Deputy Clerk in the Probate Justice's office, under lion. George W. Alfred, and filled that position three years, studying law privately .during the time. In January, 1872, be was admitted to the bar by the District Court of Hocking County. In 1873. he began the practice of law at Logan, being associated with G. W. Alfred. This partnership continued, with the exception of two years, 1874–'75, till 1880. He has been Mayor of Logan since the spring of 1,876. In 1864 he was elected Clerk of Laurel Township, serving till, his removal to Logan in 1868. He has. been a Justice of the Peace of Falls Township since 1871. In 1867 he was appointed School Examiner of Hocking County, serving till 1876. March .26, 1863, Mr. Brehm married Eliza Snoke, of Fairfield County, who died Dec. 10, 1875,, leaving five children—Clara A., Frank H., Charles E., Willie E. and Ida E. Sept. 5, 1878, he married Marian Josephine Rhodes, of Orleans County, N. Y. They have two.children—Mary and Kate Eliza., Mr., and Mrs. Brehm are :members of the Primitive Baptist church. John G. Bright, farmer, cabinet maker,, house carpenter and joiner, fifth, son of George. and Frances (Bowman) Bright, was born near, Bremen, Fairfield Co., Ohio, March 28, 1817. When nineteen years of age he removed with his parents to Falls Township, Hocking County. At the age of twenty-one he rented lands of his father. In 1851, he removed to Elkhart County, Ind., and purchased a. farm. In 1858 he sold his farm and returned to Falls Township and purchased a portion, of the homestead. Although he did not serve as an apprentice at either of his trades, he has become efficient in both, Jan. 6, 1839, he married Elizabeth, daughter of Isaac and. Catharine (Fry) Red, of Marion Township. They have five children—John, Frances.(wife of William Fickle), Franklin P., George and Nancy J. (wife of Isaac Wolf), all of Hocking County. Mr. Bright is a member of the Dunkard, or Brethren church. Joseph Leohner Bright was born in Falls, Township, Hocking Co„ Ohio, Nov. 17, 1841, a son of Joseph B. and Catherine (Leohner) Bright. He was reared a farmer, living with his parents - 59 - 930 - HISTORY OF HOCKING VALLEY. till manhood. When twenty-one years of age he began teaching, and taught in many of the Hocking County schools. From 1877 to 1881 he was employed to buy ore for the Franklin Furnace Company, of Columbus, and other furnaces in the Hocking Valley. In 1881 he was employed as bookkeeper of the Akron Iron Corn. pany, of Athens County, remaining with them till 1883, when he resigned his position. In 1876 he was appointed by the Probate Court, County School Examiner of Hocking County, holding the position three years, and in 1882 was again appointed to the same office, still holding that position. In September, 1863, Mr. Bright married Margaret Elizabeth Weaver, of Hocking County, Ohio. They have had nine children, only five now living, the others dying in infancy—Lucy Alice, Ida May (wife of Henry Smith, of Logan), Mattie Izora, Lillie Maud and Jeunie Belle. Mr. Bright is a member of Mingo Lodge, No. 171, A. F. & A. M., Logan. Samuel Hamilton Bright, attorney at law, and senior member of the firm of Bright & Wright, Logan, was born near Logan, Nov. 9, 1841, the second of two sons of Samuel S. and Rebecca (Ijams) Bright. He was reared a farmer, commencing his education in the common district schools but finishing it in the Ohio University at Athens. He taught two terms in Hocking County, and in April, 1864, enlisted in Company K, Fiftieth Ohio Infantry, to serve three years or during the war, going out as a private. He was detailed a Quartermaster's clerk, serving as such till May, 1865, when he was promoted to Quartermaster-Sergeant. He was mustered out in September, 1865, and returned to Hocking County and resumed teaching. In the spring of 1866 he entered the Ohio University, attending four terms, and in the fall of 1867 he began the study of law in the office of C. H. Rippey, Logan, and was-admitted to the bar by the District Court at Circleville, in May, 1869, and at once began the practice of law in Logan. In 1872 P. F. Price became associated with him, forming the law firm of Bright & Price. Ahout a year later Mr. Price retired from the firm and in April, 1879, 0. W. H. Wright, a former student in his office, became associated with him. In May,1869, he was appointed United States Revenue Collector for Hocking County. The following year the district was enlarged, embracing Hocking, Fairfield and Perry counties. Jan. 1, 1872, Mr. Bright resigned the Collectorship on account of his increasing law business. For the last four years he has been President of the Board of Education of Logan. Feb. 10, 1870, he was married to Lydia T. Allen. of Athens, HISTORY OF HOOKING VALLEY - 931 Bradford Co., Pa. They have a family of' six children—Pascal Allen, Simnel Carlton, Frederick Ijams, Martha Louise, Sumner Spurgeon, and Warren Harris. Mr. and Mrs. Bright are members of the Methodist church. He is a member of James K. Rochester Post, No. 140, G. A. R. Allen Hezekiah Brooke, attorney at law, Logan, was born in Greenfield Township, Fairfield Co., Ohio, Nov. 17, 1852, a son of Hezekiah and Frances (Brandt) Brooke. He was educated in the Fairfield Union Academy at Pleasantville, Ohio, and at Wittenberg College, Springfield, Ohio. When thirteen years of age he commenced to take care of himself, although he remained at home till seventeen, and defrayed the expenses of his education. When nineteen years of age he began teaching and taught during the winter terms for three years. In the spring of 1875 he began the study of law in the office of S. H. Bright and was admitted to the bar by the District Court in Newark, Ohio, in June, 1877. He then in company with F. S. Purcell, commenced the publication of the Hocking Valley Gazette, but soon after sold his interest to T. S. Nutter and began the practice of his profession with C. H. Buerhaus, under the firm name of Brooke & Buerhaus. They continued together but a short time when, by mutual consent, they dissolved partnership, and since then Mr. Brooke has practiced alone. In 1881 he was elected City Solicitor of Logan and served two years. July 20, 1881, he married Emma C. Flenner of Lancaster, Ohio. They have on e child—Marie Theresa. Mr. Brooke is a member of Mingo Lodge, No. 171, A. F. & A. M., and of Logan Lodge, No. 119, K. of P. His grandfather was one of the pioneer settlers of the Hocking Valley, locating near the present site of Logan in 1810. Oliver Brooke, son of Hezekiah and Frances. (Brandt) Brooke, was born Jan. 20, 1835, in Greenfield Township, Fairfield Co., Ohio, in which place he was reared to manhood. At the age of eighteen he was apprenticed to Robert Hunter to learn the trade of carriage-making, but after serving nearly two years he abandoned it and taught school during the winter months and followed farming during the remainder of the year till 1869. While living in Greenfield Township ;he served as Assessor one year and as Assistant Assessor another year. From 1869 to 1871 he dealt in produce at Logan, when he worked in the coal mines at Straitsville until 1874, and in that year he established his present grocery business at Logan. He has been twice married, marrying his 932 - HISTORY OF HOCKING VALLEY. first wife, Miss Louisa J. Myers, in 1857. She died in November, 1863, leaving two children—Charles Luther and Emma Frances. He married his second wife, Miss Louisa E. Bright, of Logan, Jan. 29, 1867.. They have had six children, viz.: William H., Frank E., Louisa Belle, Mary Ruth, Samuel Bright and George Mills, who died in May, 1873, at the age of six years. James Ezra Brown, shop-clerk of the C., H. V. & T. Railroad, is the son of Edward M. and Martha J. (Rambo) Brown. He was born near Roseville, Muskingum Co., Ohio, Aug. 25, 1846, where he lived till August, 1854. He then moved with his parents to Hocking County, they settling in Benton Township, where his father died in 1861, and in the following year he moved with his mother to Logan. He received a commercial education at the Eastman National Business College, at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., graduating from that institution in July, 1871. From 1866 to 1871 he taught school in Perry and Hocking counties. After graduating he entered the Union school of Logan, and taught until 1880. In June, 1880, he began to learn telegraphy in the office of the C., H. V. & T. Railroad, at Logan, and was so engaged until May 3, 1881. In 1878 he became Secretary of the Hocking Agricultural Society which he resigned in 1831, to accept his present position: Mr. Brown is an Odd Fellow and member of Hocking Lodge, No. 262, at Logan, of which he is Past Grand, and is also -a member of Mineral Encampment, No. 91, I. 0. 0. F., of which he is a Past Patriarch. Charles D. Brown, bank foreman for the Columbus & Hocking Coal and Iron Company at Gore, was born in Guilford County, N. C., Sept. 22, 1847. He is the son of William W. Brown, deceased, a native of Davidson, N. C., who moved with his family to Lawrence County, Ohio, in 1849. Our subject lived in Lawrence County till 1874, when he went to Zanesville, Ohio, and was employed in the Ohio Iron Company there till 1876. He then came to Gore where he has since resided. He was agent for the Baird Iron Works two years, and afterward with the Thomas Iron Works till 1883, still remaining with their successors, having been ,foreman of their coal mines since September, 1882. In 1873 he was married, to Rebecca Ratcliff, a native of Carter County, Ky., and daughter of Samuel Ratcliff, of Greenup County, Ky. Mr. Brown belongs to the I. O. O. F. society. HISTORY OF HOCKING VALLEY - 933 Martin B. Brown, farmer, fifth son of James and Susan (Adams) Brown, was born near Junction City, Perry Co., Ohio, Dec. 7, 1848, and lived there with his parents until manhood. At the age of twenty-one years he began farming with his father for an interest and worked with him five years. He then, in 1874, purchased and removed to a farm in Hocking County, and lived there until the spring of 1882, when he sold his farm and purchased the one where he resides. Nov. 12, 1874, he married Amanda E., daughter of James and Maria (Ashbaugh) Sherlock, of Perry County. They have one son living—James A. They have lost one—Willie A., died aged three years. Mr. and Mrs. Brown are members of the United Brethren church. Thomas J. Brown, farmer, second son of James and Susan (Adams) Brown, was born near Junction City, Perry Co., Ohio, Aug. 15, 1842, and lived there with his parents until nineteen years of age, working on the farm and attending the common schools. Oct. 4, 1861, he enlisted in Company 0, Sixty-second Ohio Volunteer Infantry, at Zanesville, Ohio, as a private for three years and was appointed Corporal at the organization of the company. He was engaged the first battle of Winchester, Va., Port Republic, Blackwater, Va., Morris Island, S. C., and the assault upon Fort Wagner, where he was wounded and disabled for five weeks. He was appointed Sergeant of the company, dating from the battle of Fort Wagner. Nov. 18, 1863, was promoted to First Sergeant, and Jan. 1, 1861, re-enlisted as a veteran. Jan. 3, 1864, was appointed Sergeant-Major of his regiment and filled the position to the close of the war. June 9, 1864, he was in the battle of Petersburg, Va., afterward at Walthall Junction, Deep Bottom, Va., Deep Run, Va., also at Chafen's Farm, same date, where he was slightly wounded. He was at the siege of Petersburg until April 2, 1865, when he was engaged in the assault upon Fort Gregg, near Petersburg, and was present at Lee's surrender at Appomattox Court-House, Va., April 9, 1865. He was mustered out and discharged at City Point, Va., Sept. 1, 1865. He then returned home and worked on the farm for his father until the fall of 1868. In April, 1869, he purchased and removed to the farm where he now resides. Oct. 12, 1868, he married Mary A., daughter of 'Samuel and Sarah (Houts) Van Atta, of Perry County. They have three children—Joshua, Nettie M. and Sarah A., all at home. Himself and wife are members of the United Brethren church. 934 - HISTORY OF HOCKING VALLEY. Carl H. H. Buerhaus, Jr., Prosecuting Attorney for Hocking County, was born at Circleville, Ohio, June 23, 1856. When he was six years of age he removed with his parents to Zanesville, Ohio. He attended the city English schools during the day and the German select schools at night until 1864. When his parents returned to Circleville he attended the common schools of Circleville until 1866, when the family removed to Tarlton, Ohio. Young Buerhaus worked here in his father's tannery during the day, and at night and at odd times would read. He early formed a taste for solid reading, making himself familiar with the leading ancient and modern poets and historians. At the early age of twelve years he was familiar with Rollin, Hume, Macaulay, Gibbon, and the historians of the United States, storing his mind with a knowledge far in advance of his years. His wonderful memory enabled him to repeat almost all he read, word for word. In 1874 he came with his parents to Logan, Ohio. He worked here in his father's tannery, devoting his spare time and at night in obtaining an education. He would borrow books from neighboring libraries. He borrowed some histories of the Hon. J. S. Friesner, who, observing his wonderful memory, advised him to study law. Young Buerhaus borrowed some law books of Mr. Friesner and studied law at home nights for one year, then read law under Hon. J. S. Friesner, and on June 23, 1877, was admitted to the bar, this date being on his twenty-first birthday. He remained in the office of Mr. Friesner a short time, then practiced law with Judge James Grogan until December, 1877, when he was in partnership with Allen H. Brooks until 1878. In April, 1878, he was elected Township Clerk and re-elected in 1879. In May, 1880, he was nominated, and in October, 1880, was elected, Prosecuting Attorney of Hocking County by the Democratic party, and was re-elected in 1882, and still retains that office. He was admitted to the United States bar June 13, 1883. Mr. Buerhaus is purely a self-made man, and is one of the rising young lawyers of Ohio. He was married to Miss Ida V. Shawver, at Logan, Aug. 7, 1878. She was born in Liberty, Miss., a daughter of William and Nancy (Myers) Shawver. Carl Henry Harmon Buerhaus, proprietor of the largest tannery in Hocking County; at Logan, was born in the city of Hagen, Westphalia, Prussia, Germany, Jan. 23, 1823. He was the son of Henry G. and Joanna (Lucas) Buerhaus. Carl was the youngest of two sons. He attended school until sixteen, then worked at the HISTORY OF HOCKING VALLEY - 935 tanner's trade until twenty-one, when he served one year in the Thirty-seventh Regiment of Luxemburg, German army. He then returned home. and traveled for his father, who was a rectifier of fine liquors. In May, 1851, he came alone to America, landed in New York City; went to Freehold, N. J., worked one month at his trade; then came to Ohio, worked at Marietta two months, then at Zanesville two months, thence came to Lancaster and worked at his trade; was married here to Miss Joanna P. Roof, Nov. 23, 1852. She was born in Dobel, Wurtemberg, Germany, Dec. 17, 1830, a daughter of Frederic and Catherine (Munsch) Roof; who came to the United States in 1837. In the spring of 1856 Mr. and Mrs. Buerhaus removed to Circleville, Ohio, and he was foreman of a large steam tannery for eleven years. He then purchased a tannery. at Tarlton, .Ohio, and engaged in business here until April, 1874, when he purchased his present tannery, which is the largest tannery in the county. Mr. and Mrs.. Buerhaus have bad a family of six daughters and four sons, viz.: Joanna C. M., born Sept. 12, 1853, died Aug. 4, 1854; Matilda, born Feb. 12, 1855, died March 15, 1855; Carl H. H., born June 23, 1856; Mary, born Sept. 12, 1858, died April 9, 1873; Frederic Wm., born Sept. 1, 1860, died Nov. 12, 1872; Emma, born June 10, 1863; Charles J., born July 30, 1865; Anna C., born April 18, 1869; Edward, born Feb. 23, 1871; Bertha J., born ay 28, 1873. Mr. and Mrs. Buerhaus are members of the Methodist Episcopal church. Mr. Buerhaus is one of the leading business men and representative citizens of Logan. Andrew J. Burgess, section 36, Falls-Gore, is the son of Richard Burgess, deceased. He was born in Perry County, Ohio, Aug. 14, 1825, and the following year he was brought by his parents to Falls-Gore, where he has since resided. He was reared on a farm and attended the subscription schools, his educational advantages being very limited. He was married Oct. 12, 1845, to Elizabeth Taylor, by whom he has had eight children, six of whom are living —Clara A., John W., Richard, Mary, Lovina (deceased), Andrew J., Jr., Samantha and Amanda J. (deceased). Mr. Burgess has held the office of Supervisor for the past seventeen years, and has also been Township Trustee four years. He owns a farm of eighty-seven acres of land and is employed in general farming. He is a great hunter, having, in connection with four others, in the fall of 18,80, killed fifty-seven deer and three bears in four weeks. 936 - HISTORY OF HOCKING VALLEY Henson T. Burgess, of New Gore, or Hamlin, was born near Somerset, Perry. Co., Ohio, Feb. 4, 1822. He was married Jan. 7, 1841, to Miss Catherine, daughter of John Hayne. This union has been blessed with ten children—Mary A., Gabriel, Richard, John B. (deceased), Elizabeth M., Philemon, Louisa C., Mark V., Emanuel H. and George W. In 1846 he moved to Indiana and settled in French Township, Adams County, and in 1867 returned to Gore' Township. His brother, A. J., and Maxfield Hite first struck the six-foot vein of coal near Gore. His father, Richard Burgess, settled in Perry County before the war of 1812, and was a soldier of that war. He then came to what is now Burgessville, or a part of New Gore, in the fall of 1825. Jesse Bowen Butin, of the law firm of Brooke & Butin, and the real-estate firm of Myers, Brooke & Butin, was born in Logan, June 23, 1846, a son of Jacob E. and Mary (Bowen) Butin. He was educated in the common schools, living with his parents till manhood. At the age of fourteen he went into the office of the Rocking Sentinel to learn the trade of a printer, working some three years, when he abandoned the trade and was employed by L. H. Culver a year. He then worked for J. D. Poston till the spring of 1867 when he went to Philadelphia and. traveled for the wholesale house of Bancroft, Bates & Co. till the following fall, when he was taken sick and was unable to work till the fall of 1870. In the fall of 1869 he went to Garnett, Kas. (his brother-in-law, Major Elmer Golden, residing there), and while there became associated with Major Golden in the hardware business, remaining till the fall of 1873. He then returned to Ohio, and was employed in the store of the Baird Iron Works in Perry County till 1875, when he came to Logan and began the study of law in the office of Rippey Friesner. He was admitted to the bar in the fall of 1878 by the District Court at Logan. Re remained in the office of Colonel C. H. Rippey till the spring of 1879, when he engaged in the practice of his profession alone, In January, 1883, Lloyd Myers and A. H. Brooke became associated with him, establishing a collecting, abstract, real-estate and general insurance agency, and at the same time Mr. Brooke became associated with him in the practice of law. Oct. 3, 1872, Mr. Butin married Vina A. Hun ter,. of Garnett, Kas. They have one child—Roy Hunter. Mr. Butin is a member of Mingo Lodge, No. 171, A. F. & A. M., Logan. Rev. Thomas Joseph Cady, Rector of St. John's Catholic Church, Logan, was born near Hancock, Addison Co., Vt., Jan. 14, 1835, a son of Ephraim C. and Elizabeth (Safford) Cady. He received his HISTORY OF HOCKING VALLEY - 937 elementary education in the common schools, and in 1854 entered St. Joseph's College, Perry County, Ohio. In 1860 he entered St. Rose College, Washington County, Ky., remaining there four years. He then returned to St. Joseph College and passed his last examination prior to being ordained to the priesthood. He was ordained Sub-Deacon, Deacon and Priest during the latter part of November, 1863. His first charge was a small parish in Perry County, where he remained three years. In September, 1866, he was sent to New York City, and served as assistant to the Rector of St. Vincent's parish, corner of Sixty-sixth street and Lexington avenue. In May, 1868, he returned to Ohio and was assistant to the Rector of St. Dominick's Church, at Zanesville, until May, 1874, when he was sent to Nashville, Tenn., and served as assistant in St. Peter's Church four months. Since September, 1874, he has been Rector of St. John's Church, Logan. Oakley Case was born at Simsbury, Conn., June 29, 1824, a son of Ambrose and Esther (Chapman) Case. In 1839 his parents came to Ohio and settled in Logan. His father died the same year and his mother returned to Connecticut, and the following year, with her family, again cane to Logan. He was educated in the common district schools of Connecticut, and after coming to Ohio attended the Ohio University and Granville College. He was reared a farmer, but at intervals worked in his brother's. printing office, there acquiring some knowledge of that trade, and just before becoming of age, in January, 1845, he became the proprietor and publisher of the Hooking Sentinel, a Democratic journal. He was the publisher of the Sentinel till 1857, when he was employed as bookkeeper for his brother Flavius, and afterward as clerk in the Probate office. In 1862 he was elected Probate Judge of Hocking County Court, and re-elected in 1865, holding the office two terms of three years each. Having studied law in the meantime, he was admitted to the bar by the District Court at Logan. In 1868 he became associated with James W. Stinchcomb, but in 1870 withdrew from the firm. In 1871 he was elected a Representative to the General Assembly of Ohio, and re-elected in 1873. In January, 1875, he resigned his seat in the Legislature to accept the appointment of chief clerk of Secretary of the State, William Bell. In 1877 he returned to Logan and became associated with Hon. John Friesner in the practice of law, remaining with him till Mr. Friesner was elected Judge of the Court of Common Pleas. He then became associated with L. J. Burgess, and practiced law 938 - HISTORY OF HOCKING VALLEY. under the firm name a Burgess & Case till 1881, when, on account of failing eye-sight, Mr. Case was obliged to give up the practice and withdraw from the firm. Jan. 21, 1845, he married Margaret Ann James, of Logan. They have four children—Lemuel Alonzo, of Columbus; Amanda Ellen, Emily (an attendant at the Columbus Central Lunatic Asylum), and Maggie. They have lost four children, three dying in infancy, and one, Mary Eliza, married George Cook, of Logan, and died March 11, 1883, leaving two children—Amanda Ellen and Maggie. Mr. Case is a Master, Royal Arch, Council and Knight Templar Mason, and is Past Master, Past High Priest and Past Illustrious Master. Craven Webster Clowe, farmer, youngest child of C. W. and Sarah N. (Beveridge) Clowe, was born near Uniontown, Muskingum Co., Ohio, April 21, 1831. His parents removed from Loudoun County, Va., a short tune before his birth. His father died when the subject of this sketch was but three months old, and his mother removed to Perry County and there married her second husband, and our subject lived with them until fourteen years of age. He received a limited education at the common-schools. At the age of fourteen years he packed his clothing in a handkerchief, and with 12i cents in money started in the world for himself, and first hired to work on a farm for John Cunningham, six miles west of Lancaster, Ohio, for $6 per month. He worked in that settlement until twenty years of age. In 1851 he was employed by Colonel Messenger a stock-dealer in Shelby County, Ill., as boss stock-drover, and was with him four years. His health failing, he returned to his mother's, in Ohio, and in 1856 purchased a farm in Green Township, Hocking County. In 1859 he sold his farm and moved to Perry County, but during the winters of 1859 and 1860 taught school in Green Township. Oct. 4, 1861, he enlisted in Company C, Sixty-second Ohio Infantry, at Zanesville, Ohio, as a private, for three years. Dec. 18, 1861, he was appointed First Sergeant of his company, and was filling that position at the first battle of Winchester, Va. July 1, 1863, he was promoted to Second Lieutenant, and June 1, 1864, to First Lieutenant, Regimental Quartermaster. He was engaged in the assault upon Fort Wagner, Morris Island, July 18, 1863, where he was wounded and temporarily disabled. Soon after he was placed in command of Company I, Sixty-second Regiment, for one month; then commanded Company A, same regiment, one month. He filled the position of Regimental Quartermaster until Sept. 20, 1864. He HISTORY OF HOCKING VALLEY - 939 was then transferred to the Commissary Department of First Brigade, First Division, Tenth Army Corps, as Captain, and served as such until the close of the war. He was at the seven days' battle on the Peninsula, and soon after detailed on special recruiting service, and was home on that business a short time. He was mustered out Nov. 30, 1864, and returned home and purchased the farm where he now resides, in Falls Township. He has been President of the Hocking County Agricultural Society. He is a Master Mason, member of Mingo Lodge, No. 171,. A. F. & A. M., Logan, Ohio. April 8, 1856, he married Barbara, daughter of Henry and Nancy (Davis) Hazelton, of Perry County. They have two children—Henry W. and Alice C., wife of F. M. Rhoads, of Falls Township. Captain Clowe has all his army papers on file showing the preceding army facts. Enoch George Collins was born in Lancaster, Fairfield Co., Ohio, Jan. 6, 1818, a son of John A. and Sarah (Seitz) Collins. He was reared in his native county, and was educated in the public schools, attending also one term at the Greenfield Academy. When sixteen years of age he began teaching the winter terms, working the rest of the year on the farm, continuing that course till thirty-one years of age. In 1849 he came to Logan, and was employed as a clerk in the store of his brother, Jesse L.Collins, two years; In 1851 he opened a general store in Maxwell, Perry County, and remained there fourteen years, and during most of the time was also Postmaster. In 1865 he returned to Logan, and with William M. Bowen engaged in the hardware business. In 1868 he retired from the firm and engaged in the general mercantile business till 1877, when he retired from active business. He was soon after stricken with paralysis, from which he has never fully recovered. He has been a member of the City Council and Board of Education of Logan several years each. March 27, 1851, he married Elizabeth Butin, daughter of A. H. Butin. They have had a family of six children, only three now living—Clara L., wife of Charles T. Monroe; Frank B., of Straitsville, Ohio, and Edwin C., of Columbus, Ohio. Charles died at the age of three years; John A. at the age of two years, and one died in infancy. Mr. and Mrs. Collins are members of the Methodist church. He has been Class-Leader, Steward and Sunday-school Superintendent many years, having been a member of the church nearly fifty years. He has taken all the degrees of Masonry through the Council, and of Odd Fellowship through the Encampment. 940 - HISTORY OF HOCKING VALLEY. Jesse Lee Collins, senior member of the firm of Collins & Moore, is the son of John A.. and Sarah (Seitz) Collins. He was born near Lancaster, Fairfield County, Jan. 18, 1821. He was reared on a farm, and educated in the common school and in the Greenfield Academy. When eighteen years old he became a clerk in the store of Myers & Fall, being ill their employ till 1842, when he became manager of a store for them at Logan. In 1843 he established himself in the general mercantile business at Logan, being associated with J. C. McCracken. They dissolved partnership in 1846, after which Mr... Collins became associated with different parties till 1868, when he formed a partnership with M. D. Moore, forming the present mercantile firm of Collins & Moore. In 1877 Mr. Collins made a tour through Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Illinois and Indiana. He has been a member of the City Council of Logan three years, and served as Recorder. He has also been a member of the Board of Education of Logan, being its President six years. Oct. 15, 1844, he married Miss Emma C. Rippey, of Logan. They have four children—Sarah W., wife of John M. Floyd, of Logan; Mary Caroline, wife of M. D. Moore, Of the firm of Collins & Moore; Katie W., and Jesse L. Mr. Collins and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church, of which he has served as Steward some thirty-eight years. He is a Master, Royal Arch, Council and Knight Templar Mason, and is a member of the lodge, chapter and council at Logan, and of the commandery at Lancaster. George Cook, foreman of the Sentinel office, was born in I es boro, Hocking Co., Ohio, Aug. 18, 1844. Oct. 1, 1861, he enlisted in Company F, Forty-sixth Ohio Infantry, and served four years and three months. He participated in the battles of Pittsburg Landing, siege of Corinth, Holly Springs, Jackson, Black River, Vicksburg, Chattanooga, Knoxville, Lookout Mountain, Mission Ridge, Snake Creek, Resaca, Dallas, Atlanta and Jones. boro. From Atlanta he went to the sea; was at Savannah, Bentonville and Raleigh. During his entire term of service he was never unfitted for duty. He was discharged at Louisville, July 27, 1865. With the exception of one or two years absence Mr. Cook has been foreman of the Sentinel office since 1865. In 1873 he established the Nelsonville Miner, the first paper printed in that town. In 1878 he removed the office to Shawnee and published the Shawnee Journal till the Journal was succeeded by the Banner. Mr. Cook was married Feb. 13, 1870, to Mary E. Case. HISTORY OF HOCKING VALLEY - 941 Arthur M. Cortney, son of Arthur and Nancy (Gordon) Cortney, was born in Waynesburgh, Greene Co., Pa , Nov. 8, 1827. In 1834 he accompanied his parents to Ohio, where they settled in Jackson Township, Perry County, and resided there till our subject became of age. He was educated in the district school and by his father, who was a school teacher, being also a practical surveyor and civil engineer. In his twentieth year our subject began to teach and has taught in Perry and Hocking counties a great many years. From 1852 till 1856 he was the Township Clerk of Jackson Township, Perry. County. In 1866 he settled at Logan and engaged in the grocery business until 1872, after which he taught in the district of that county six years. He was then elected a member of the Council of Logan, and engaged in civil engineering and teaching till the fall of 1881, when he was elected on the Democratic ticket, Clerk of the Circuit Court and Clerk of Common Pleas of Hocking County for a term of three years. He was married May 5, 1852, to Miss Rosannah, daughter of Hugh and Rosa (Conley) Clark, of Perry County. She has borne him twelve children, three sons and nine daughters, seven of whom still survive, viz: Rosa, Hugh V., Lottie, Lucy, Kate, Laura and Estella, all living at home. Of those who died, all lived to maturity with the exception of one who ,died at the age of seven. William Henry Cowell, master mechanic in the shops of the C., H. V. & T. R. R. Company at Logan, was born near Sandusky City, Ohio, Feb. 11, 1838. At the age of five years he went with his parents, Amasa and Emily (Chapman). Cowell, to Adrian, where he lived until manhood, receiving a good common-school education. At the age of nineteen he began to learn the trade of a machinist in the shops of Ripley and Whitehouse at Adrian, serving a little over a year. He then began to work as a journeyman at Detroit, Mich.,. on the Detroit locomotive works, being employed there some four months when the shops were closed, after which he worked at different places till 1866, when he was employed as foreman in the machine shops of the Columbus & Indianapolis Central Railroad until the spring of 1868. He was employed as engineer on several roads till the fall of 1869, when he was engaged as foreman in the shops of the Atlantic & Pacific Railroad, at Pacific, Mo., for four months, when he ran a locomotive on the Wabash Railroad, from Springfield, Ill., to Danville, Ill., until the fall of 1871, when he came to Logan and was engineer till 1880, after which he was placed in his present position. 942 - HISTORY OF HOOKING VALLEY. He was married Sept. 13, 1877, to Miss Laura Dean, of Columbus, Ohio. He is a Master, Royal Arch, Council and Knight Templar Mason and member of the lodge, chapter, council and commandery at Columbus. William H. Crawford, chief engineer Gore Furnace, was born in Greanup County, Ky., Jan '22, 1847. His father, John Crawford (deceased), was a native of County Tyrone, Ireland, who came to America when three years old. Our subject has always worked in the furnace with the exception of three years spent in the late war. He enlisted in Company B, Twenty-second Kentucky Volunteer Infantry. He served under the late General Garfield and participated in the battles of Middle Creek, Cumberland Gap, siege of Vicksburg and Jackson, Miss. He was then transferred to New Orleans, under General Banks. and participated in the Red River campaign and other smaller engagements. He came to Gore in May, 1876, and was appointed to his present position. He was married May 24, 1866, to Mary, daughter of Bailey Harding (deceased). They have seven children—Elizabeth, John, Jennie, Anna L., Jessie P., Lettie and George. Mr. Crawford belongs to the Masonic fraternity. Daniel John Cresap, merchant tailor, Logan, was born near Cumberland, Md., Nov. 14, 1814, a son of Joseph and Sidney (Sanford) Cresap. His parents both died before he had reached his fourteenth year and he was thus early thrown on his own resources. He was educated in the academy at Cumberland. When in his fifteenth year he became apprenticed to learn the tailor's trade, to serve till. he was, twenty-one. Being dissatisfied he served only a year and then came to Ohio and worked five months in Cincinnati. He then went to Louisville, Ky., and afterward worked as a journeyman in several Southern cities. In 1834 he went to Washington, D. C., and in 1835 to Berkley Springs, W. Va. In the fall of 1835 he returned to Cumberland, and in 1837 came again to Ohio, settling in Dresden, Muskingum County. In 1839 he went to Hills, and in 1842 to Ripley. In 1843 he went to Louisa, Ky., and was the proprietor of a steam saw-mill two years, when he returned again to Ripley. In the winter of 1849-'50 he went to California, returning East in 1853 and settling in Cincinnati. In the spring of 1862 he went to Columbus, and soon after went out as Sutler of the Eighteenth Regiment, remaining eight months. In May, 1866, he came to Logan and was employed as cutter for Rose & Gerson until the spring of 1868 when he became HISTORY OF HOCKING- VALLEY - 943 Mr. Gerson's successor, the name changing to Rose & Cresap, this firm continuing till 1881. During 1876 and 1877 Mr. Cresap served as a member of the City Council of Logan. In November, 1840, he married Sarah Baysman, who died in 1843, leaving two children—Virginia, wife of M. B. Lovett, of White Sulphur Springs, Ala., and Anna Sanford, wife of Hon. R. S. Bebb, of Beatrice, Neb. In 1844 Mr. Cresap married Elizabeth Campbell, of Ripley. They have had nine children, only four now living--Belle, wife of Webster W. Poston, of Nelsonville; James C., a Lieutenant in the U. S. navy; Robert E. L., in business with his father; and Edward 0. Katie died in 1864 aged eight years; Nellie in 1880, and 66 others in infancy. Mr. and Mrs. Cresap are members of the Methodist church. He is a member of Mingo Lodge, No. 171, A. F. & A. M. Cromwell B. Culver, of Old Gore, was born Jan. 15, 1803. Ibis father, Reuben Culver (deceased), was a native of Connecticut and came to Ohio about the year 1796. Olive Buel, the mother of our subject, was a daughter of Timothy Buel, who came out of the battle of Stonington bareheaded. Our subject was married in 1833 to Elizabeth Gilmer (deceased). They were the parents of three children, all deceased. He was again married in 1853 to Sarah J. Perry and they have been blessed with two children whose names are—Mary E. (Donaldson) and Edwin S. Edwin S. Culver was born March 21, 1856, at Old Gore, where he was reared and educated._ He also attended school for two years in Logan. In May, 1879, he entered the employ of the Thomas Iron Works Company, as assistant book-keeper, which position he held till March 1, 1883, when he was employed by the Columbus and Hocking Coal and Iron Company as chief clerk of their mammoth store at New Gore, his present position. He is also Justice of the Peace and assistant Postmaster at New Gore, or Hamlin. Mr. Culver is a member of the Masonic fraternity. Lawrence Augustus Culver, President of the People's Bank of Logan, was born in Logan, Oct. 9, 1834, the son of Reuben and Hannah D. (Brooke) Culver. His education was obtained in the Logan public schools. When sixteen years of age he commenced clerking, and in his nineteenth year, in 1853, became engaged in the drug and dry-goods business in Logan. In 1857 or '58 he became associated with J. C. Tool. In 1859 Mr. Tool retired from the business and Mr. Culver carried it on alone till 1861, when he sold out and removed to his farm in the vicinity of Logan. In 1863 he, with C. E. Bowen, A. W. Beery, C. V. Culver, L. H. 944 - HISTORY OF HOOKING VALLEY Culver, and C. B. Culver (an uncle), organized the First National Bank of Logan, and he was chosen President. In 1865 he resigned his position, still retaining an interest in the business, and went to Reno, Pa.; with the intention of organizing a bank at that place, but, instead, became engaged with his brother, C.V. Culver, in constructing a, railroad. In the fall of 1866 he returned to Logan.. In March, 1867, he sold his interest in the First National Bank, and with others established the People's Bank of Logan, he again being chosen President. Since 1857 Mr. Culver has been largely interested in real estate. In the fall of 1880, he, with other capitalists, 'organized the Motherwell Iron and Steel Company of Logan, of which he is President. In February, 1882, he purchased an interest in the Logan Gas Light and Coke Company, and is its present Treasurer. July 29, 1859, he was married to Lucy H. Brooke, daughter of M. D. Brooke, of Madison, Ind. They have four children—Reuben D., a law student ; Sophia, a student at the Western Female Seminary, Oxford, Ohio ; Florence E., and Lawrence A., Jr. Two children are deceased—Lucia H., died in July, 1861, aged nine months, and Lucy H., in February, 1878, aged eight years. .Mr. and Mrs. Culver are members of the Methodist Episcopal church. He is a Master, Royal Arch, Council and Knight Templar Mason, a member of Lancaster Commandery, No. 2, and a demitted member of the .other orders. James William Davis, County Surveyor of Hocking County, was born in Falls Township, near Logan, July 4, 1844, a son of Levi and Mary A. (Rodman) Davis. In July, 1861, he enlisted in Company B, Thirty-first Ohio Infantry, to serve three years. In January, 1864, he veteranized and served till the close of the war, serving as Corporal from his last enlistment. He was in the battles of Mill Springs, Shiloh, Hoover's Gap, Chickamauga, Stone River, Chattanooga, and in the campaign to Atlanta, and from there with Sherman to the sea. He was discharged in July, 1865. at Camp Chase, Ohio. After a short visit at home he went to Louisville, ,Ky., and remained two years, when he returned to Logan. His father being a civil engineer he also studied the science, and in 1872 was elected his father's successor as County Surveyor, and has since filled that position, he having filled the same position over thirty years. Sept. 11, 1866, Mr. Davis married Almeda Mane, of Falls Township. They have two children—Ada and Otto. HISTORY OF HOCKING VALLEY - 945 Levi Davis; civil engineer and surveyor, of Hocking County, was born in Loudoun County, Va., near Leesburg, July 1, 1805, a son of John W. and Elizabeth (Hesser) Davis. When he was nine years of age his parents moved to Fairfax County, Va., remaining there four years, when they removed to Prince William County, and three years later returned to Loudoun County. In 1823 they came to Ohio, first settling near Hanover, Columbiana County. Mr. Davis received his rudimentary education in the common schools, but by private personal application acquired a mathematical and scientific education, and after years of careful study, obtained a practical knowledge of civil engineering and surveying, being one of the best of that profession in the State. When twenty years of age he left home and was employed as a laborer on the public works of the Ohio Canal six months, when he was appointed superintendent of the canal construction, retaining that position till 1830. The next three years he was a contractor on the National turnpike road in Muskingum County, and in 1833 was appointed by the Government as superintendent of construction for a section of fifteen miles of the same turnpike in Licking and Franklin counties. In 1836 he resigned his position and was a contractor on the Sandy and Beaver Canal in Columbiana County till 1838, when he was employed as superintendent of construction on the slack water works of Muskingum River till 1839. From that year till 1842 he taught school in Muskingum County, when he came to Hocking County and settled two mile; south of Logan, where he still resides. In 1844 he was elected County Surveyor of Hocking County, holding the position thirty years, when, in 1874, on account of his age, he declined re-election, and his son, James W., was elected in his stead. Aug. 15, 1830, Mr. Davis married Mary Ann Rodman, of Muskingum County. They have had a family of thirteen children, eight of whom are still living—John R., born Aug. 15, 1831; Sarah J., Oct. 5, 1833, now Mrs. John Shields; Samuel G., born March 12, 1835, died Nov. 9, 1836; Wesley A., born July 18, 1837; Levi, May 11, 1839, married Mary Bighorn; Mary R., born May 5, 1841, died May 13, 1841; Lycurgus, born April 3, 1842; James W., July 4, 1844; Eliza A., Nov. 20, 1846; Samantha (Mrs. Jones), May 7, 1849, died in 1880; Edith C., born April 3, 1852, died April 7, 1854; Harriet M., born Feb. 18, 1855; Lucellus, Oct. 30, 1859, died Sept. 22, 1863.   - 60 -   646 - HISTORY OF HOCKING VALLEY.   George Deishley, Marshal of Logan, is the son of Godlope and Susan (Saters) Deishley. He was born in Logan, Feb. 11, 1847, where he was reared, and received an education at the Union School. When very young he, earned wages by being variously employed, and thus helped to support his father's family. After he became of age he was employed at Logan as a laborer until 1875, from 1873 until then being employed as a section hand on the C., H. V. & T. R. R. He was then elected City Marshal of Logan, his present position. He was married in 1869 to Miss Sarah Applegate, of Logan, by whom he has had three children—Charles, Ettie May and George.   George Washington Dollison, M. D., of Logan, was born near Waynesburg, Pa., Feb. 14, 1830, a son of James and Mahala (Moore) Dollison. When he was two years old he came with his parents to Ohio. They settled on a farm near Zanesville, where he lived till manhood, and was given a good common-school education. When he was twenty years of age he began to teach, and taught continuously for five years. During this time he studied medicine under the preceptorship of Dr. P. J. Greene, of Mt. Pleasant, Ohio, studying with him three years. He took his primary course of lectures at the Eclectic Medical Institute in Cincinnati, Ohio, in the winter of 1862. He then practiced until October, 1872, when he entered the Starling Medical College, at Columbus, Ohio, from which he graduated as M. D. in March, 1873. His first practice was in Ilesboro, Hocking Co., Ohio, from 1856 till 1873, when he came to Logan and established his present practice. In May, 1871, he became a member of the Eclectic Medical Association of Ohio, to which he has contributed essays on different medical topics, still retaining his membership. He has been twice married. His first wife was Jane Barker, of Perry County, Ohio, whom he married Oct. 5, 1852, and who died Oct. 16, 1877, leaving six children—Louisa Ellen, wife of Uriah W. Bowen, of Logan; Emma M., Jennie N., Martha A.., James Martin and John Bruce. Sept. 28, 1882, Dr. Dollison married Mrs. E. L. Piper, of Washington Court-House, Ohio. In September, 1864, he enlisted in Company 0, Sixty-seventh Ohio Infantry, going out as a private, but one month later was promoted to Assistant Surgeon, and served as such until his discharge at the close of the war.   Dr. John H. Donaldson, son of Joshua Donaldson, of New Lexington, was born in Green Township, this county, Sept. 15, 1849. He attended Starling Medical College at Columbus, Ohio, from which he graduated Feb. 25, 1881, after which he immediately   HISTORY OF HOCKING VALLEY - 947   came to New Gore, where he commenced the practice of his profession, in which he has been very successful. Sept. 5, 1875, he was married to Mary, daughter of Cromwell B. Culver, of Gore. They have been blessed with two children—Orlando V. and Starling L.   Patrick Doyle was born in Kings County, Ireland, Aug. 17, 1833. In 1819 he emigrated with his parents to America, where they settled, in Cincinnati. In 1850 he was apprenticed to Alexander Cable, of Cincinnati, to learn the tanner's trade, at which he served five years, after which he worked as a journeyman at different places in Ohio till April, 1857, then came to Logan and worked as a journeyman for A. Steinman & Co. until 1874, working the year following for C. H. Buerhaus. In 1875 he rented the tannery of A. Steinman & Co. and engaged in tanning, in which business he still continues. Nov. 2, 1858, he was married to Mary McBride, of Logan. They have seven children living—Patrick Henry, Anna Dara, William Michael, Bridget Elizabeth, Catherine, and John B. and Thomas St. Leger (twins). Mr. Doyle and wife are members of St. John's Catholic Church, of Logan. April, 1883, he was elected one of the Trustees of the Oak Grove Cemetery. He is a member of the Mingo Chief Fire Company, of Logan.   Nicholas Eberst, head keeper at Gore Furnace, was born near Logan, Ohio, Oct. 22, 1843, a son of Gottleib Eberst, of Lancaster, Ohio. The subject of this sketch was reared on a farm. He worked at Logan Furnace ten years and at Winona Furnace two years, and in 1880 came to his present place of residence. June 22, 1865, he was united in marriage to Catherine Miser. They have had a family of nine children, six of whom are still living, whose names are Kate, George, John, Loretta, Edward and Frank. They belong to the Catholic denomination.   William Nelson England, son of Abner G. and Matilda (Nelson) England, was born Feb. 11, 1845, in Falls Township, Hocking County. He lived there till he was four year's old, when his parents removed to Green Township of the same county, in 1849 his mother dying in August of the same year. His father died 11 January, 1858, when our subject was but thirteen years of age, and he lived with his uncle, Nathan R. England, until he was seventeen years old, attending the common schools until, then. In June, 1862, he went to Newton, Iowa, and attended the High School of that city for three months, when he, on Sept. 13 of that year, enlisted in Company E, Eighth Iowa Volunteer Cavalry, to serve three years as a private, but while out was promoted to Cor-   948 - HISTORY OF HOCKING VALLEY   poral. He served until Aug. 13, 1865, when he was mustered out at Macon, Ga., after participating in a number of battles and skirmishes, the most important of which being the siege and capture of Atlanta. After his discharge he returned to Hocking County and engaged in teaching school during the winters, and in summer seasons he farmed on his farm in Green Township. In 1868-'69 he superintended the building of part of the C. & H. V. R.R., between Nelsonville and Athens, and from that time pursued farming in Starr, McArthur and Green townships at different intervals until the winter of 1876. He then sold his last farm, in Green Town-shirt, to the Craft's Iron Co., and removed to Ward Township, where he operated a saw and grist mill till the fall of 1877. In April, 1876, he was elected Justice of the Peace of Ward Township, retiring from that position to accept the Auditorship of Hocking County in 1877. He was re-elected on the Democratic ticket in the fall of 1880, his term of office expiring in November, 1883. He was married Feb. 22, 1868, to Miss Mary M. Wolf, of Haydensvile, Hocking County. Mr. England is a Master Mason, of Philodorean Lodge, No. 157, of Nelsonville. He is a member of the Odd. Fellows lodge at Logan, and is also a Knight of Pythias of the lodge at Logan.   John S. Engle, farmer, son of William and Sarah (Vough) Engle, was born in Good Hope Township, Hocking County, May 16, 1838, and lived with his parents until manhood. At the age of twenty-one years he rented lands and farmed until 1866. He then purchased a farm where he lived until 1876, when he sold and purchased and removed to the farm where he now resides. He was Township Assessor for the years 1873 and 1874. Dec. 17, 1861, he married Barbara C., daughter of John D. and Margaret (Eckhart) Loomis, of Hocking County. They had six children—William E., a teacher; John F., Miretta M., Lucius B., Charles A. and a son unnamed. Mr. and Mrs. Engle are members of the United Brethren church.   Vint Ferguson, Superintendent of Gore Furnace, was born in Lawrence County,' Ohio, Feb. 1, 1850, a son of John Ferguson, o: South Point, Lawrence Co., Ohio. Our subject was educated a. Marshall College, Va., and at the Ohio State Normal School, Leb anon, Ohio. Mr. Ferguson has been engaged in some department of the iron business since 1868. He first began as bookkeeper fo the Ohio Iron Furnace Company at Zanesville, in which capacity hi served five years. He ,then was bookkeeper for the Baird Iroi   HISTORY OF HOCKING VALLEY - 949   Company in Perry County six months. He came to New Gore in April, 1877, and was bookkeeper here until April 1, 1880, when he became general manager of the Thomas Iron Works (now Gore Furnace), and holds the same situation for the Columbus and Hocking Coal and Iron Company. He was married June 19, 1875, to Miss Anna G. Church, daughter of Elijah Church (deceased), late of Zanesville, Ohio.   Hon. John S. Friesner, Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of the first sub-division of the Seventh Judicial District of Ohio, is the youngest son of David and Eliza (Shields) Friesner, born in Logan, May 13, 1848. his father died when he was eleven years old; he lived with his mother a year, then spent the next two years with his guardian, Joseph Simpson, near Bremen, in Fairfield County, Ohio'. He then returned to Logan and attended the grammar-school department of the Logan Union School until March. 1862, when he enlisted in the Thirty-eighth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and went to Chillicothe, where ho was rejected on account of his youth. He then returned to school, but enlisted again the following May in Company K, One Hundred and Fifty-first, Ohio National Guards, as a private to serve 100 days, doing guard duty in the fortification at Washington, D. C. After being mustered out at the expiration of his term of service, he returned to Logan. During the winter of 1864—'65, he taught school in Good Hope Township, and in the following spring was employed by the late W. W. Poston, of Nelsonville, to purchase stock. In the winter and spring of 1866 he worked in the coal mines, after which he was employed in the hardware store of James A. Cox, of Logan, until the fall of 1867. He then formed a partnership with his brother, William S., in the grocery business, under the firm name of Friesner brothers, studying law privately at the same time. In the spring of 1868, he retired from the firm and entered the law office of Hon. Jas. R. Grogan as a law student, remaining under his preceptorship till the fall of 1870, and teaching school during the winters, when he was admitted to the bar by the District Court at Logan, Hon.'Jacob Brinkerhoff, Judge of the Supreme Court of Ohio, presiding. He then established his law practice at Logan, and in the summer of 1871 Colonel Charles H. Rippey became associated with him, forming the law firm of Rippey Friesner. They also opened a branch office at New Straitsville, under the firm name of Rippey, Friesner & Price, Roberti E. Price of that place being associated with them. In the fall Of 1876 they