HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY - 351 CHAPTER XXXIX. RICH HILL TOWNSHIP. RICH HILL was organized in 1815 under the following order of the county commissioners: "A petition was presented to the commissioners from a number of the inhabitants of Salt Creek township, praying that they would incorporate the thirteenth surveyed township in the eleventh range, to be erected into a township called and known as Rich Hill township, to which is added the twelfth surveyed township, and that part of the eleventh surveyed township in said range, which lies in Muskingum county. Ordered by the commissioners that the township be erected, March 18, 1815." Abraham Warne was one of the first trustees. Israel Robinson, a justice of the peace under the Salt Creek organization was retained in office in Rich Hill. It is said that John Reynolds gave the new township its name because, as he said, it was "so rich and hilly." Rich Hill is essentially an agricultural district, and all kinds of crops grow abundantly. The chief article of export is wool, but latterly quite a good many horses and cattle have been raised for market. The first mold-board plow used in the township was introduced by Abraham Warne, who also set out the first orchard. The plow was of the kind known as " Wood's patent." A Mr. Mayers brought in the first threshing-machine at a date that can not now be recalled. D. Irwin brought the first Merino sheep into Rich Hill from Pennsylvania. About 1836 Abraham Wells brought in a few short-horn cattle from Morgan county. In 1856 James Herron bought some thoroughbred short-horn Durhams of James McCune, of Blue Rock township. Later he bought some more in Athens county, Ohio. Daniel . Tom introduced a fine pair of Devonshires from Guernsey county in 1876. It is thought that the first settlers in Rich Hill were one Lawrence, a German, and his stepson, Leonard Stichler, who located on school section 46 in 1805. Lewis. Pierce and his sons, Llewellyn, Jonathan and Andrew, and Abraham Warne, John Moore, William Robinson and John and Neal McNaughton, came from Pennsylvania in 1806, and located in sections 19, 20 and 29. William Herron took up his residence on the southwest quarter of section 18 about the same time. During the next year, on section 16, located Daniel Monroe, John Jones, John Reynolds, Adam Shaner, William Ivers, and one Crow, and, on section 1, Michael Hammond and Abraham Pollock. Philemon Johnson, a Revolutionary soldier from Vermont, Israel Robinson and Hezekiah Hyatt came in 1808 and 1809. In 1811 came Caleb Monroe and C. Brady; in 1812, Thomas Elliott and Thomas Brady. Among other early corners were the St. Clairs, Fosters, Gregorys, Forsyths, Aulds, Sims, Givens, Crawfords, Spilimans and Dixons. The first who died in the township was Elizabeth McN aughton, a little girl. The second was one of the same name, but an old lady. A man named Martin was the third. All were buried in 1812, on the Mc,Naughton's land. The first public cemetery, now known as the "Methodist graveyard," was opened two years later. The marriage of James Dixon and Ann Herron was the first in the township. Caleb Monroe's and Deemy Hyatt's was the next one. The first birth was that of John Moore, in March, 1807. In August following Pierce Warne was born. The Zanesville and Marietta road was the first surveyed through any part of the township. The road from Chandlersville to Cambridge, put through, it is said, in 1810, was the second. Leonard Stichler built the first log cabin in 1805; Andrew Howell the first frame house in 1819; Neal McNaughton the first stone house in 1827; James Calhoun the first brick house in 1828. John Jordan taught the first school in 1814 or 1815, in a little log house near the site of the Pierce Warne residence. Dr. Daniel Bliss, of Salt Creek township, was the first medical practitioner here. Neal McNaughton built the first gristmill in 1818, on the east branch of Salt creek, on the northeast quarter of section 29, and after owning it twenty-one years sold it to Thomas Randolph, who in turn transferred it to Jesse Hayden, in whose ownership it was burned. Abraham Warne built the first sawmill in 1824. In 1837 James Cal- 352 - HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY. houn built the John Smith gristmill at Rix's Mills. The Rich Hill postoffice, the first in the township, was established at John Randall's, and removed in 1846 to Rix's Mills. Another office was established at Thomas Sheppard's, and removed successively to Morgan Morgan's, to Watt Henderson's and to John Pierce's. It was vacated in 1861 and reestablished as Freeland postoffice in 1874. The only trade center in the township is Rix's Mills (sometimes called Rixville) which is an inland post hamlet in the northeast corner of township, sixteen miles east of Zanesville, and six miles from New Concord, the nearest bank. Spratt, a small station on the Bellaire, Zanesville & Cincinnati railroad, four and one-half miles distant, is the nearest shipping point. "Monroe's Meeting house" was the familiar name of the first church built in this township in 1813, by a Methodist class formed at Daniel Monroe's in 1812. In 1836 it was replaced by a frame structure, costing $1,200, on the southeast corner of section 9, on land purchased of F. R. Winrod. In 1861, at a cost of $1,250 a new frame was built on the old foundation, and was dedicated in 1862 by Rev. Hiram Miller. Goshen Baptist church was organized October 18, 1822, by Elders Debalt and Rees. Early meetings were held at houses. From 1824 to 1849 the church worshiped in a building over the line in Guernsey county, until a building was erected in this township. Rixville United Presbyterian church was organized in 1825, by Rev. David Proudfit. The first church building was burned, and in 1850 a goodly frame structure was erected on the southwest quarter of section 9, at a cost of $1,600. Rich Hill' Baptist church was organized in 1833. No traces remain of its meetinghouse, which stood on the east side of section 29, on the creek bottom. Rich Hill Reformed Presbyterian church was formerly a flourishing organization. As late as 1836 its house was standing on section 30. Mount Zion Presbyterian church was organized August 4, 1839. Its first church building was erected in 1841, on the southeast quarter of section 27, and later became a parsonage. The present house of worship was built near the old structure in 1864, at a cost of $1,800. Buffalo and Williams' forks and South creek and McKee's, May's forks of Wills' creek drain this township. There are no minerals of consequence except coal. During the spring of 1807, a band of Shawnee Indians, numbering about thirty warriors, encamped on the Salt creek bottoms, near Abraham Warne's, and after a consultation with the whites, retired without molesting them or theirs. CHAPTER XL MONROE TOWNSHIP. THE original pioneer of this township was Charles Marquand, who settled on the land now occupied by his grandson, Charles Marquand, in the wilds of Wills creek, in 1810. He was of French descent, and spoke that language, was born on the Island of Guernsey about 1763, and mar ried there, and here all his children were born. He first settled at Georgetown, D. C., where he worked at his trade of a. carpenter. When he first settled on Wills creek not a stick of timber had been cut on his land, and no clearing had been made in what is now Monroe township. Charles Marquand was a man of energy and thrift, and aided by his sons, cleared up his land, and at his death owned 625 acres in this county. Possessing business ability to a marked degree, he had salt works on Wills creek at an early day, and built a gristmill, sawmill and ran a carding and fulling-mill, which were the first mills in this part of the county. He also conducted a general store in 1834 for the pioneers, the first in the township, and carried on a large business. In 1836-37 he built a large two-story brick house, which at that time was the only brick house in that part of the township. Charles Marquand was one of our most enterprising and business pioneers, and was largely instrumental in settling up this part of the county. He was known far and wide, and extended aid to many of the pioneers to assist them in establishing homes. To the French settlers, especially, he never refused aid, and possessed their confidence and esteem to a great degree. His son, Peter HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY - 353 Marquand, followed in the footsteps of his father, and was a business man of large influence. Marquand's mills were known far and wide by the old settlers, and were of great advantage to them. The property is now owned by John and Charles Marquand, grandsons of the original settler. James Sprague Sr. was the next pioneer of Monroe township. He settled at Otsego in 1812, and was the first settler of this place. He was one of the early pioneers of Ohio, and first settled at Marietta, and about 1800-1 settled at Wakatomaka, now Dresden, where he ran a gristmill for another party. The Indians from Otsego would come to him with small packages of corn to grind. Being a lover of hunting, he often visited Monroe township and Otsego in search of game, and was pleased with the locality. When the Indians crossed the. Muskingum river at Cass' ford in 1812, on their way to the reservation, Mr. Sprague saw them cut through the ice with. their tomahawks, to enable them to swim their horses through the river. He soon after moved his effects to Otsego on a sled. Nehemiah and. Jonathan Sprague, his brothers, were famous hunters and early settlers of Marietta, and while the Indian troubles were still rife, ascended the Muskingum river in a canoe, and entering the mouth of Wills creek, continued up about five miles, and discovered a small lake which is now called James Wilson's pond. Here they carefully hid their canoes from the Indians, signs of whom were plentiful, and proceeded to hunt deer and other .game. They preserved their meat by sinking it in the water until they had procured sufficient for their needs, when they returned to Marietta. It is claimed that this visit to Wills creek was made before the settlement at Zanesville or Dresden, and was probably the first visit made by white men to this vicinity. James Sprague was a great wolf hunter. It was difficult to get money for anything except wolf scalps, and thus many a wolf fell before his accurate aim. James Sprague is described as a fine example of the Ohio hunter and pioneer. He was a tall, strong, and large boned man, weighing from 185 to 200 pounds. He dressed in buckskins, wearing a fringed hunting shirt and coonskin cap. He first erected a rude, log but on the spot where Charles Walker now lives, where about three acres of land had been cleared by the Indians. This hardy old Revolutionary soldier and hunter passed his life without any severe sickness, and died in this township at the great age of nearly ninety-seven years. The next generation of Spragues being yet well remembered by some of our older settlers, as hunters and pioneers, it will be necessary here to give but a short account. Elijah Sprague, son of James, was born in 1801. At the age of thirteen years he shot, with his father's rifle, a panther which measured ten feet from tip to tip. His younger brother, William, was with him, and together they placed the beast on a pony's back and brought him in triumph to their father's cabin. Samuel Sprague, another son of James Sprague, the old pioneer, deserves a passing notice, as the oldest man in Monroe township at the time of his death. He was born in Bedford county, Penn., March 4, 1796, under Washington's second administration, and was brought to Ohio when a child. He died near Otsego July 4,1890, and was ninety-four years, three months and twenty-six days old at the time of his death. His daughter, Mrs. Levenia Simmons, was the first white child born in Monroe township. She is yet living. Samuel Sprague set out the first orchard at Otsego, bringing the trees from Dresden on an ox sled. The Bainters were among the very earliest settlers of Monroe township, and were great hunters and a well-known pioneer family. They all spring from Godfrey Bainter' the original pioneer, who came from Germany, bringing his wife and settling in Maryland, where twelve children were born. In 1800-1 he came to Ohio with his family and settled on wild land in Madison township, on the land now occupied by Joshua Stump, which to this day is called the old Bainter farm. He died in 1803 at the age of eighty-nine years. Jacob Bainter Sr., the son of Godfrey, and the father of Frederick and Jacob Bainter, now living in this township, was born in Maryland, and came with the family to Ohio. He was a soldier in the war of 1812, and married in Bedford county, Penn., where Godfrey. Bainter made his home some time after leaving Maryland. He settled first on the Wakatomaka creek, and in 1812 moved with his family to Monroe township and settled on land which his son Jacob now occupies. This is the statement of the venerable Frederick Bainter, son of Jacob Bainter Sr. But Jacob Bainter. Jr., is quite positive that his father settled on this land the fall of 1811, and that Charles Marquand settled before him, and that James Sprague settled at Otsego June, 1812. However, the difference is slight, and there is no positive authority as to which statement is correct. It is evident that the Spragues and Bainters made their settlement in the township at about the same time, and that Charles Marquand Sr., preceded them nearly, if not quite, two years. The first year the Bainters settled their food gave out, and as the wheat was just heading, they rubbed out the heads and used it with milk. They would have suffered for food .had not the game been so plentiful. Jacob Bainter was a very skillful hunter, and provided an abundance of wild game for the family. He was a powerful man, of iron constitution and a substantial pioneer farmer, 354 - HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY. owning nearly 600 acres of land. He died in 1865. at the patriarchal age of nearly ninety-five years. He belonged to a long-lived family. Of the twelve children of Godfrey Bainter, all lived to be over eighty years of age. Frederick Bainter, his son, was born in Madison township August 15, 1804, and is among the last of the sons of the pioneers, and is now living at the advanced age of eighty-eight, a substantial farmer, and still able to work on his farm. In his prime he had the tough sinews of a backwoodsman, and could cut the trees and make 250 fence rails in one day. Jacob Bainter Jr., now a substantial farmer in this township, was born on the farm where he now lives, June 10, 1815, making a continuous residence on one farm of seventy-seven years. Adam Bainter, son of Godfrey Bainter, was born in Maryland, and was sixteen years of age when his father moved to Ohio. About 1816 he moved to Monroe township and settled on the farm where Andrew A. Bainter now lives. He lived to the age of eighty-two years. John Bainter, his son, was born in Cass township in 1809, March 9; inherited his farm from his father; was one of our respected citizens, and died in 1890 aged eighty-one years. Henry Brannon, another of the pioneers of Monroe township and the founder of an excellent family, was born in Pennsylvania and settled in this township in 1812 on the farm adjoining that now occupied by James M. Brannon, his son. In his old age he sold out and went to Henry county, Iowa, where, he died at the age of seventy-eight years. He was also a mighty hunter, and one season, from the door of his log cabin, he shot seven deer that had come to feed on his turnips. This date of settlement was given on the authority of James M. Brannon, who is very positive he is correct. In 1813 Jared Cone came from New England and settled on section 13. In 1814 Joseph Stoner came from Pennsylvania and settled on section 13. In 1812-16 David Richardson came from Connecticut. In 1812-16 John S. Abbott, father of David J. Abbott, came to the township. He had married a daughter of Capt. David Richardson, and these families came out together. The journey was made by means of ox-wagons over the Indian trail from Cambridge. Tunis Elson, one of the pioneers of Monroe township, was from Crawford county, near Meadville, Penn., and came to Ohio in a pirogue, or large log canoe, bringing his wife and four children, and settling in Monroe township in 1817. They made the entire journey by water, coming down the Ohio and up the Muskingum river, and then up Wills creek until they reached Marquand's mills, where they were stopped by the riffle, the dam .not having then been built. , Samuel Sprague moved his family through the woods on horseback and settled in a log hut with neither door nor floor, which had been built by James Sprague, and here Mr. Elson cleared up a good farm. He built the first gristmill in' this vicinity, on White Eyes creek, in 1819. Henry Elson, son of Tunis, was a substantial old settler of this township. The maternal grandfather of his wife was a Mr. Kelly, who was one of the old colonial pioneers. At one time, while journeying in a boat with his wife, three children and two other men, one of whom was his brother, they met a boat containing a white man and two Indians, who appeared friendly. After some talk the Indians borrowed two of their best rifles, under the pretense of killing some deer. Mr. Kelly and his brother unsuspiciously stepped ashore to gather some pawpaws growing on the bank, when the Indians, who were on the watch for them, shot and killed them both, and they fell back into the boat dead. The remaining man pushed the boat off and escaped to the other side with Mrs. Kelly and the children. Leaving the boat, the party began a fearful march for the settlement. During this perilous journey Mrs.. Kelly and her three little children, one of whom was a babe in arms, lived on haws and other wild berries, and were nearly starved. She was bitten on the ankle by a copperhead snake, and her limb became badly swollen. Fearing they would all starve before they could reach the settlement, the man of the party set out alone for assistance, and, arriving safely, stirred up the settlers to the rescue. In the meantime Mrs. Kelly was days in the wilderness, and at one time, becoming entirely discouraged, laid her infant at the foot of a tree to die, when a boat came along and took them to a French station. Mrs. Kelly and her children were in a pitiable condition, but the kind-hearted settlers relieved all their wants and sent men to bring in the bodies of her husband and his brother. The infant who came so near perishing in the wilderness became the mother of Mrs. Henry Elson, now an aged lady residing in this township, from whose lips the writer gathered this story, which has never before been in print. In 1819 Caleb Buker, who was born at Gray, Me., in 1794, settled in this township. He was the son of Israel H. Buker, a Revolutionary soldier, who served under Washington and Lafayette and who was at the battles of Princeton and Trenton and with Washington at the famous crossing of the Delaware and during the bitter experiences of the winter at Valley Forge. He was one of the early school teachers of this region, and died at Otsego. His sons were famous early school teachers of this county, and were widely known. Caleb Buker became the wealthiest man of his day in Monroe township. When young he was a soldier in the HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY - 355 War of 1812. He was also a sailor, an old-time school teacher, one of the early merchants and an extensive real-estate owner. At his death his estate was valued at $150,000. He built the first stone house in the township, in 1830. In 1819 Alpha Buker, brother of the above, settled in Monroe township. He was also one of the noted pioneer school teachers. About 1851 he settled at Otsego and bought the hotel property now owned by Thomas H. Davis, which he kept for many years. He was postmaster and fifteen years justice of the peace. In 1827 Robert Waters came to Monroe township when a boy of fourteen years of age, with his brother Reuben. In 1828 Mrs. Elizabeth M. McDonald, widow of Nathaniel McDonald, settled on the farm long afterward occupied by Squire John McDonald, who was a 134 but fourteen years old when the settlement was made. In 1812 the first road was made between Symms Creek and Otsego, by James Sprague and sons. In 1815 the first road which was regularly surveyed was laid out by Charles Roberts, from James Lindley's, in Union township, to the mouth of Wills creek. The next road was from Col. John Reynold's store, on the Wheeling road, in Union township, to James Sprague's, in Monroe township by Joseph K. McCune, surveyor in 1817. The township elections were held at the house of James Sprague. In 1817 the first sawmill was built by Martin Richardson, on White Eyes creek. In 1819 Charles and Peter Marquand built the dam across Wills creek at the place since known as Marquaud's, Mills. Here they built a sawmill in 1820. In 1829 they built a carding and gristmill. In 1839 Samuel Sprague built a sawmill. In 1826 Joseph Walker started the first tannery and remained in this business for many years, which was afterward conducted by his son R. A. Walker. The first thoroughbred Durham cattle were introduced into the township by Decatur Buker and Barton Cone. In 1830 Dr. Cass came to Otsego, and was the first physician to reside here. Otsego is on the site of an old Indian town, and is a place of considerable trade. The land was originally entered by James Sprague in 1811, and in 1838 it was bought by Moses Abbott and Francis Wires, who laid out the town, assisted by James Boyle, county surveyor. The village has never been incorporated. The first hotel was kept by David Richardson, who, in 1837, built the house afterward occupied by Joseph C. Miller, and which was destroyed by fire . in 1870. Alonzo and Ralph De Lamoter built and kept the first store in Otsego in 1837. The next stores were those of Thomas Wilson and Thomas McCall. The corner store house, afterward occupied by the postoffice, was built in 1849 by James Bell. Squire Marshall and afterward Caleb Buker were merchants. In 1866 the village directory contained Joseph C. Simmons, hotel-keeper and farmer, William Vinsel & Co., dry goods, groceries and postoffice; J. M. Lane, physician and surgeon; William Snoots, blacksmith; J. L. Wortman, boots and shoes; Kinsey Wortman, coal dealer; Elias Sprague general store; Douglass Bell, M. D. ; Barton Cone, justice of the peace and farmer. Dr. Alonzo Delamater named the town after Otsego, N. Y. Originally the eastern portion of the town was owned by Moses Abbott and the western portion by Francis Wires. In 1880 the village contained twenty-seven houses and 120 inhabitants. The two hotels were kept by Joseph C. Miller and Joseph C. Simmons. Mr. A. V. P. Hager was postmaster and also kept a general variety store. Boyde and Cowden were in the same buisness. Thomas H. Davis was proprietor of a shoe shop and grocery. E. H. Bradford was a cabinet-maker. The millinery business was represented by Catherine C. Wortman and Phoebe Riney. William and Alfred Smith were in the coal business. Dr. A. L. Jackson was proprietor of a drug store, while James T. Case and Isaac McGraw were the blacksmiths of the town. John Hammond had a wagon shop, Marquis Norris was a harness-maker, and Walker & Co., were tanners. Otsego is surrounded by a good agricultural growing section, and contains about 150 inhabitants and is distant about eighteen miles from the county seat. It has a good public school building, two churches and a number of business houses. Barclay & Ross, general merchandise; Cowden & Boyce, general merchandise; John Hammond, wagon-maker; Hamilton & Watkins, millers; Otsego Flouring mills; J. T. Riney, contractor and undertaker; Isaac McGraw, blacksmith and old soldier; Jesse Ridgway, son of Basil Ridgway a pioneer of Adams township, is a prominent business man of Otsego, and engaged extensively in buying and selling horses. The Methodist Episcopal church is the first organization in Monroe township. It was founded in 1816 by William Knox and Jacob Young, who instituted the first class, consisting of the following persons: Charles Marquand; Samuel Sprague; George Bainter, his wife, Lydia, and their son, John; Miss Jack; Ashfield Watrous and his wife, Elizabeth. The first preaching was at the house of George Bainter, and Charles Marquand was the first class-leader. In 1828 this organization was absorbed by the Methodist Protestant church. Revs. Myers and Gibbons, in 1828, organized a class composed of the following members: Phineas 356 - HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY. Palmer, class-leader, and his wife, Margaret; David Richardson and his wife, Mary; James Holcomb and his wife, Electa; James Sprague and his wife, Susannah; Samuel Sprague; Elijah Sprague and his wife, Elizabeth. This is now the Pleasant Valley Methodist Episcopal church. Rev. J. P. Durbin, of the Zanesville circuit, formed a class as follows: William Clark, his wife, Nancy, and their family; Hugh Ballentine, his wife, Mary, and their family; Charles Wilcox, his wife, Nancy, and their family.. This was in the year 1822. Meetings were held at the house of Hugh Ballentine, where the class was originally organized, until 1848. This year a frame church was built, but was destroyed by fire in 1854 and rebuilt, the same size, in 1855. This church became the Maysville Methodist Episcopal church. Otsego Baptist church was organized by members of the Salem Township Baptist church, for the purpose of having religious services nearer at home. It was constituted July 20, 1844, by Elder William Sedwick, who officiated as pastor until May 19, 1849, when he resigned. The membership was as follows: C. G. Sedwick, H. C. Sedwick, Asheba Lane, Ruth Nash, William Emler, Mary Emler, Drucilla Richardson, Jared Cone Sr., Eliza Cone, Nelson F. Richardson, Elizabeth Emler, Sarah Bradford, Philip Darner, Rebecca Darner, Harriet E. Frazier, Maria Wortman, Ellen Trimble, Charles Foster, Margaret Foster, Elizabeth Buker, James Trimble, Mary Trimble, Robert Trimble, William Hague, Louis Lane, .Gilbert Ross, Casper Bradford, Barton Cone, Charles Frazier, Rebecca Trimble, Margaret Ross, Abraham Emler, Daniel Milton, Susan Milton, George Milton, Mary J. Milton, David McVickar, Elizabeth McVickar, Sarah Sprague, James Reed, Matilda A. Reed. The Otsego Presbyterian church was organized in 1848, the original founders b,eing Rev. William Wilson and Rev. William Wallace—the first name given was Mount Pleasant Presbyterian church, which was afterward changed to Otsego Presbyterian church, the new and old divisions of the church uniting. The original members were: Arthur Hamilton and his wife Catherine, Samuel Hamilton and his wife, Malcolm McNeil and his wife Isabel, John McNeil and his wife Margery, Malcolm McNeil 2d and his wife Eliza, Mary McNeil, Margaret McNeil, James. McNeil and his sisters Margaret, Sarah, Margery and Mary. In 1849 a frame church was completed, on land owned by Malcolm McNeil, and afterward donated to this church by his heirs. The first pastor was Rev. William Wallace, who died in 1852. The first elders were Arthur Hamilton, John McNeil and Malcolm McNeil. The present deacons are Malcolm McNeil 2d, and Samuel Hamilton. Union Chapel Methodist Protestant church was organized in 1860, at a private house, by the Rev. H. T. Lawson; class-leader was Robert Donaldson. The following were the original members of the class: G. W. Vensel and wife Sarah Ann, Samuel Echelberry and his wife Charity, Hannah Elsen, Alice Elsen, Nancy Donaldson, Frances Holcomb, Susan Holcomb, Elijah Sprague, Elizabeth Sprague. The first carpenter was John Thompson. Parker Shepardson was the first blacksmith. His shop was on White Eyes creek. In 1835 Thomas McCall introduced the first threshing machine; it was a tread power. In 1835 John S. Abbott brought the first mowing machine into the township. In October, 1820, Samuel Sprague and Mary Snoat were married, and it was the first marriage in Monroe township. . On July 29, 1814, Levina Sprague was born. She was the first white child born in the township, and the daughter of James and Susannah Sprague. In 1813 Martin Richardson built on section 19 the first frame house. In 1812 the first wagon was brought into the township. In 1819 David Richardson built the first brick house in the township. In 1814 Mary Stoner; who came from Pennsylvania with her husband, taught the first school in the township in her own house, which was on section 13. In 1816 Mary Richardson, wife of David Richardson, taught the second school in the township at her residence one-half mile south of Otsego. Barton Cone (deceased) was born in Monroe township, son of Jared Cone, the pioneer, was a substantial farmer of Monroe township, and a soldier in the 100 days' service. He was deacon of the Baptist church many years, and justice of the peace, and was familiarly known as Squire Cone. He accumulated a handsome property, and was a man of untarnished integrity. Col. Joseph Walker (deceased) was a commissioned officer in the old militia. On August 12, 1825, he settled in Monroe township from Pennsylvania. He was many years engaged in the tanning business at Otsego. Col. Walker was commissioned by Gov. Joseph Vance, as adjutant of the Fifth regiment, Second brigade, Fifteenth division of the militia of Ohio. His sword and commission have both been preserved. He took a great pride in the respectable and intelligent body of descendants who claimed him as their ancestor. Robert Boyce, (deceased), for years a prosperous merchant of Adamsville, died in Otsego in 1881. He was a native of Ireland, and came to America in 1828, and in 1836 settled in Madison township. He was the father of Richard Boyce, a prominent business man of Otsego. HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY - 357 CHAPTER XLI NEWTON TOWNSHIP. NEWTON township lies in the southwestern corner of the county, its western and part of its southern boundary being the county line. It is bounded north by Hopewell and Springfield, east by Springfield and Brush Creek and partially on the south by Clay. Jonathan's creek, the principal stream, flows in an irregular course through the central portion of the township, its two forks and their tributaries—Buckeye fork, Kent's run, Thompson' s run, One Mile run, Two Mile run, Three Mile run and other streams—rendering it one of the best watered townships in the county. The excellence of the clay of this township for the purposes of the potter has rendered the making of pottery ware a leading industry here. This part of the county was formerly a favorite resort of the Shawnee Indians and game and fish were abundant. The first land within the present borders of this township that was entered for settlement was the west half of section 23, township 15, range 14, by Jacob Smith in 1797. Smith came from Virginia and settled on this land about 1802. His homestead was the one known as the John Smith place, his son John having lived on it after the death of the pioneer. It appears that Smith was not the first actual settler, however, for Andrew Crooks and his wife, also from Virginia, located about 1800 on a part of section 6, near where Newtonville now is, where his son, George Crooks, afterward lived. About the same time, John Axline, from Bucks county, Penn., settled on the southeast quarter of section 34. Dr. Kent located near where Newtonville now is, about 1802 and seems to have remained only long enough to give his name to Kent's run. About 1805 Benjamin Croy, Jacob Baker, Peter Fauley and Daniel Horn located in this township.. Chauncey Ford located near where Roseville now is some time in 1804. Lewis Nye located and made improvements on section 9 about the same time. David Olive came with him, but died from a rattlesnake bite during the year 1804. Together these two men bargained for a half section of land that had previously been entered by one Jennings. Soon after he came, Andrew Crooks donated the use of sufficient land for a schoolhouse in which a school was opened by a well-educated, Scotchman named William McElree. This was doubtless the first school in the township. On the Springer place a schoolhouse was built very early in the present century, which has been referred to as the "Springer schoolhouse " and " the schoolhouse up Buckeye." The first teacher there was Timothy Wheeler, whose successor was Thomas H. Dalson, Not long afterward a school was established on the Abbott place. In the old log schoolhouse on the Rankin place Daniel Poe taught about 1810, and ten years later James D. Luke and Mary Walpole and Noah Tanner were among the pupils there. About this time, or a little earlier, perhaps, the Uniontown school was opened in Fultenham. The primitive schoolhouse on Crooks' land gave place later to a more modern structure known as the Lamb schoolhouse which was built not far from the old site, and that in turn to another on the old Athens road, a few miles from Roseville, which was known as the Walpole schoolhouse. Another school on the Maysville pike, a mile west of Newtonville, was taught by George Spencer, among whose pupils were Mrs. Elijah Rankin, Jonathan Hatcher and Jonas Burton. The early schools were all subscription schools. The first common school was opened in Uniontown just prior to 1850 and was under the supervision of Rev. William Ferguson, who was president of the school board. Newton township was organized early in 1802. The first township trustees were John Beckwith, Andrew Crooks and Benjamin Redman. The first clerk was Isaac Carter. The first justices of the peace were Alexander Nolan and Jacob Crooks. The first constables were William McElree and William Lawrence, though the latter is said to have been acting constable only. Early in the history of the township Isaac Carter was a justice of the peace, and in 1823 William Anderson was first elected, who held the office for about two decades. Early elections were held at the house of Squire Nolan, who lived southeast of the pres- 358 - HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY. ent site of Newtonville, and at William Fellows', west of the same point. Andrew Crooks, the pioneer, was a man of enterprise. There was no road between his place and Powell's mill, and he cut one and that turned the tide of travel in his direction to some extent. His. next venture was the opening of his house as an inn, about 1804. An idea of the thinness of the population at that time may be gained from the fact that though a " raising " was an important event, only the following named persons were present at the raising of Crook's house: Joseph Carpenter, David Olive, Henry Crooks, Solomon Hodge, Isaac Martin, John Mathias, Mary Crooks and Peggy Carpenter. Crooks died about 1850, aged over seventy years, and at that time had kept the house for more than forty-five years. The first hewed-log house in this section was built by Lewis Nye where Newtonville now is, about 1809 or 1810. Nye, Plummer built the first saw and gristmill in the township, near the locality of where Wills Bros.' large mill was later built, on Jonathan's creek, a mile east of where Uniontown now is. James Jeffries had a mill in the township about 1807, and another was built a year later by Caleb and Isaac Jones. Crook's mill was built about 1812. On the site of the old Jeffries mill a mill was built six years later by John Harrington for Jacob Smith. A few years afterward John Smith was the lessee of this mill, which was finally destroyed by fire. About 1838 or 1840 the Joneses—Isaac, Caleb and Moses, erected a mill on' the creek. Benjamin Redman started the first tannery, a little west of the bridge spanning Jonathan's creek. John Hendricks, father of the late Hon. Thomas A. Hendricks, of Indiana, early had a tannery near the site of Uniontown, on the same stream. In an advertisement which appeared in the issue of the Zanesville "Express" for September 23, 1818, S. H. Raymenton informed the public that the clothier's works on Jonathan's creek, about four miles from Zanesville, formerly owned by John Harrington, and at that time owned by John Slack, were in operation and that he would receive cloth at the houses of Andrew Crooks, David Tipton, Levi Chapman, and at his own house, in Putnam, to which places the cloth would be returned when dressed, he having a varied stock of dye stuffs, and workmen who so well understood the business as to be able to form any color desired. He stated, also, that he would receive wheat, rye, corn, oats, flaxseed beans, etc., in payment. Jacob Ronie established the first pottery some time prior to 1815. The next was established by A. Ensminger some time subsequent to 1825. Joseph Rambo established his pottery in 1863, and Harrison Suttle began in the same line of manufacture at Newtonville about eleven years later Jacob Funk set up his forge where Uniontown now is, about 1812. That he was an artist as well as a fine mechanic appears from the fact that he not only made very presentable swords for use during the war of 1812-14, but dies from which were printed some of the " script " in circulation in those days. About the same time William Bush began blacksmithing near Funk. Thomas Brown opened his shop a little before 1840. Another old disciple of Vulcan who was long popular in the township was Gabnet Keyes. Newtonville (White Cottage postoffice and station) is a town on the line of the Columbus, Shawnee & Hocking railroad, eight miles from Zanesville. It has telephone connection with Newark, Columbus, Lancaster and Zanesville. This is the center of a good local trade. Darlington, or Newton postoffice, is located at the junction of the Columbus, Shawnee & Hocking and the Cincinnati & Muskingum Valley railroads. It is a small hamlet, having little trade. The most important trade center and shipping point in the township is Uniontown (Fultonham station and postoffice), an incorporated village of about 400 inhabitants, in the western part, ten miles southwest of Zanesville, on the line of the Columbus, Shawnee & Hocking railroad. A short distance below the station is McCrea Park, a pleasure resort fitted up by the railroad company. Uniontown has telephone connection with Zanesville, Columbus, Lancaster, Newark and other points. It is the seat of Fultonham Academy, and here are located Muskingum Lodge No. 368, F. & A. M. Ham Gardner Post No. 545, G. A. R.; and Newton Lodge No. 278, I. O. O. F. HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY - 359 CHAPTER XLII FALLS TOWNSHIP. FALLS township is bounded north by Muskingum, east by Washington and Zanesville, south by Zanesville and Springfield, and west by Hopewell, and its lines are thus described: " Beginning on the west side of the Licking river, at the corporation line of the city of Zanesville, on what is the ' Military ' or ' Base ' line; thence west along said line one and a half miles to the southeast corner of Hopewell township; thence north along the line of said township to the southeasterly corner of Licking and southwesterly corner of Muskingum townships; thence east along the south line of Muskingum township to the Muskingum river; thence in a southerly direction along and down said river to the corporation line of the city of Zanesville; thence west and south around the said corporation of Zanesville to the place of beginning." The surface of this township is undulating and not unpicturesque. The slopes near the river are called the first and second bottoms. The soil is a sandy loam, quite productive, in the bottoms; on the uplands a clay subsoil, exceedingly rich. The forests which once covered this section were composed of chestnut, elm, ash, hickory, walnut, beech, maple and the different varieties of oak. Sandstone and limestone have been found here and iron also exists, and some parts yield a good quality of coal. Potter's clay is found also. The Licking river flows through the southwestern portion of Falls township, and to it Bartlett's, Devere's and Timber runs are tributary. There are in the township quite a number of constantly flowing springs. About two-thirds of the township lies northeast of the river and the balance southwest. Falls township was organized March 9, 1808 September 3, 1817, a portion of West Zanesville was attached. In October, 1870, West Zanesville was set off and constituted a part of the city of Zanesville. This township originally included Muskingum. The settlement of Falls township dates from 1790. It was not until four years later that the trading post was established at Zanestown and regular commerce was begun between the whites and Indians. The title of pioneer settler is awarded by common consent to Edward Tanner, who located near the south bank of the Licking, about seven miles above its mouth. Tanner, who was born in Virginia on the south branch of the Potomac, had at the age of sixteen been captured by the Indians who kept him a prisoner at upper Sandusky, Ohio, for three years and a half, finally releasing him and permitting him to return to his former home. After his marriage he came to this locality above referred to and there built a cabin and lived at peace with his aboriginal neighbors, with whom he is said to have maintained friendly relations by recourse to a system of fair dealing that should have commended itself to others similarly situated who came to grief because they did not recognize its efficacy. There his son, Samuel Tanner, was born in 1792, and at a later date Capt. William C. Tanner. Soon after the year 1800 Tanner built the first hewed-log house in the county and moved into it from his primitive cabin. This pioneer died in 1831. About a year after him came Baltzer Fletcher, also a Virginian, who located east of Tanner's, and John Kinkead, from New Jersey, came in 1795. About two years later John Ratliff and Elias Hughes located not far from the mouth of the Licking. They came from Virginia and are said to have been typical frontier scouts. They were not permanent settlers here, but removed about twenty miles up the river within a year of their coming. About 1798 one Priest located in this township, though the exact place of his settlement is unknown. The following reference to him has been found: " Mr. Priest, wife and six children, the youngest in arms, removed from Culpeper county, Va., 400 miles away, the parents walking, the mother carrying her babe, while the other children and their household goods and furniture were transported on pack horses. Mrs. Priest lived to be one hundred and two years old." About 1800 Abel Lewis came from Pennsylvania, making the journey on foot, 360 - HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY. and it is related of him that at night he secured his arm to a high limb in a tree with his pocket-handkerchief and slept in the tree top secure from danger from wild beasts. He was a surveyor and from 1803 to 1811 was clerk of the court. In 1812 he took up his residence on the farm, since known as that of his son, George J. Lewis. In 1804 John Channel located temporarily near the mouth of the Licking, subsequently removing to a point further up the river. He was well known as a hunter. William Kamp was an early settler and in 1807 Frederick Geyer was living on the Lewis Lane farm. Moses Dillon, the elder, from Pennsylvania, visited this part of the country about 1804. He came as the traveling companion of a Quaker preacher, whose objective point was the camping ground of the Wyandot Indians at the head waters of the Coshocton branch of the Muskingum, and who had then attained the age of three-score and ten. The great water power afforded by the falls of the Licking and his discovery of iron ore in the vicinity determined him to locate here, and be soon purchased about 3,000 acres of land, which included the falls, and in 1805 settled there permanently, establishing what was doubtless the first furnace and foundry west of the Alleghanies and subsequently engaged in other enterprises which are mentioned elsewhere. Charles and John Roberts, who came into this township prior to 1810, were the first surveyors, if tradition is to be relied on. One Woodword, who assisted Edward Tanner in the erection of his hewed. log house, is thought to have been the first carpenter. The old village of Dillon's Falls has been referred to. Its beginning was the location there of Moses Dillon, who, about 1805, put in operation a foundry and furnace and began the manufacture of hollow ware. After he opened his store this became an important trading point, and though no town was ever regularly laid out, a goodly number of families settled round about on Mr. Dillon's land. Later enterprises of Mr. Dillon and his sons have received attention elsewhere. John McIntire laid out the village of West Zanesville in 1809, platting squares which he subdivided into lots. The plat was never recorded, however. These lots extended from the north end of the bridge north along River street, and were numbered one to twenty, inclusive. That part of Newtown or the Western Addition, lying west of Blue avenue, was owned by John Lee. This addition was laid out in 1852. Terrace No. 1 and terrace No. 2. both on the John McIntire land, were laid out in 1855 and 1863, respectively. The village of West Zanesville was incorporated in 1869. Henry Peters was its first mayor and Imri Richards its first recorder. In 1870 this village was annexed to the city of Zanesville, and it has since formed a part of that municipality. A postoffice was established there in 1811, with John S. Parke as postmaster. A distillery was established near here about eighty years ago, by James Thorp, and another was put in operation later on the Snider farm by James Fulton, which afterward passed to the possession and management of Joseph Belknap. The mail route from Zanesville to Newark was opened through this township in 1806, and the mails were for a time carried on horseback. Neile, Moore & Co. put on a line of stages in 1825, and perhaps a little later John S. Dugan operated another line between the same terminal points by way of Irville and Nashport. The construction of the branch of the Baltimore & Ohio system, extending from Columbus to Wheeling, and formerly known as the Central Ohio railroad, marked the advent of this modern improvement in this township. Dillon's Falls is a station on this line. The National pike or National road, extending from Washington, D. C., to St. Louis, Mo., was constructed in 1830, and the part of it traversing this township has since afforded better facilities for road traffic than any other highway within or partially within its borders. A Mr. Black is said to have been the pioneer pedagogue, and is accredited with having taught a school near the boundary line of Falls and Hopewell townships as early as 1801. The first schoolhouse was erected on the William Search farm, in the southwest corner of the township, about 1804. Another early teacher was Mr. Ranney, who taught on the Camp farm, north of the Licking. Moses Dillon and his sons opened the first store at Dillon's Falls about 1806, bringing their miscellaneous merchandise in by packhorse for some years. Rev. James B. Findley, of the Methodist persuasion, preached about 1810 in the tavern house of Henry Dick, at Dillon's Falls, and organized a class consisting of John Hooper, Jacob Hooper, Mr. and Mrs. Cooper, J. Denlenhiffer and a colored man named Sam Gassaway. Dick's tavern is thought not to have been opened until 1810. John Corbis, of West Zanesville, opened a public' house in a log building with a porch, a year earlier. John Lee opened a tavern at Dillon's Falls about 1816.. The first gristmill in the township was put in operation at the falls early in the present century by George Jackson. It was located just below Dillon's furnace and was resorted to by settlers for fifty miles round about, who were at times obliged to wait several days for their grists to be ground. William English put a tannery in operation near by about the same time. A salt well was owned and operated on the James Miller farm, in the northeast part of the township, by Gen. Samuel Herrick, some time before 1825. Dr. HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY - 361 Isaac Helmick, who hung out his sign (if sign he had) at West Zanesville, is thought to have been the primitive physician in Falls township. The furnace and foundry established at Dillon's Falls, in 1805, by Moses Dillon Sr., has been mentioned. About ten years later he erected a flouringmill and two sawmills near the Falls. These enterprises were important for that time, considering the locality, and it is said that at times more than a hundred men were employed in carrying them on. With the store (opened about 1806) they formed the nucleus of a settlement which at one time included about half a hundred families. Mr. Dillon died in 1828 at the advanced age of ninety-four years. His sons, John, Isaac and Moses Jr., were men of good judgment and much business ability. The former operated the foundry for some years after the death of the father. About sixty-five or seventy years ago Isaac engaged in the manufacture of linseed oil, cloths, including cassimeres and satinets, and carpets, in West Zanesville, at the mouth of the Licking, where he had also a sawmill and a store, and for some years his business was quite extensive. Both John and Isaac Dillon were well known farmers and fruit growers, and the latter introduced the breeding of Merino sheep and raised much fine stock. They were prominent in the organization, in 1836, of the Muskingum County Agricultural society, of which the former was the first president. John Dillon died at the age of eighty-six years in 1862. oilmills of George Jackson were put in operation on the west side of the river, and not far distant, on the same side a forwarding and commission warehouse was erected by James Taylor. It was about this time, too, that the gristmill of Richard Fairlamb and Michael Dulty was erected on the west side a little below the dam, which mill later became the property of J. & R. Drone. and not long afterward was erected Gillespie's linseed oilmill, near the present site of the west abutment of the railway bridge, which subsequently came into the possession of R. N. & D. Dunlap, who converted it into a broomhandle and clothespin factory. The present dam was built in 1838 by state appropriation. Glen Moore nursery, near Zanesville, was established by S. Jacobs Moore about 1856. Thomas Wilkins, on the National pike, five miles west of Zanesville, began the manufacture of pottery in 1874, and about the same time a second pottery was established in this township near the falls of the Licking. Philip Mourin discovered limestone in the Newtonville strata, and above it iron ore of good quality, and in a deposit about half a foot in thickness. Prior to 1880 a good deal of this iron ore was hauled to Zanesville and consumed in the furnace there. About 1874 Mr. Mourin, in company with D. Hatton, began the operation of a lime kiln not far below the Falls, which they continued successfully until about twelve years ago. About .100 bushels of lime were produced daily by a continuous burner, and found a ready market in Zanesville. Below the limestone at Dillon's Falls is a strata of magnesian limestone from four to ten feet thick, which has been used. to advantage in architecture, it being soft and readily shaped when first quarried, and having the advantage of hardening under brief atmospheric exposure. William Trago began to burn brick in Falls township in 1808, near the A. M. Hollingsworth place, about two miles from Zanesville. About a year later the Muskingum river was first dammed at Zanesville, a little above the site of the present dam, and the grist, saw and The Quaker burying-ground, a mile west of Zanesville, near the mouth of Timber run, was the first graveyard opened in this township. The ground, an acre in area, was donated by John Dillon Sr. more than fourteen years ago, and among the first interments there were those of William Tudor and members of his household. On the north side of the National pike, about two miles from Zanesville, is the Jewish burying-ground, which was laid out twenty-one years ago, and has been improved. Mention has been made of the first preaching in the township by Rev.James B. Findley (Methodist), in 1810, and the organization, by him, of the first " class " of worshipers of that denomination. Through Mr. Findley's influence a hewed-log church was erected, not long afterward, by a popular subscription, which was dedicated, before it was finished, by Bishop McKendree, who preached from these words: "And upon this rock I will build my church." Many years later this primitive structure was superseded by a frame building. The influence of Rev. Mr. Findley seems to have been exerted for the good of the people at Dillon's Falls in more ways than one, and it is related that some time in 1810 he called the settlers together, and, standing on an inverted kettle, delivered to them such a strong plea in behalf of temperance that every one present signed and long kept the pledge. Rev. George Ellis was another early Methodist " itinerant " who preached in this township. Rev. David Sherrard was the first regular class-leader and preacher at the Falls. In the northwest part of this township a Methodist organization, known as " Hayne's " or " Hooper's" society, was effected. A house of worship was erected about 1810, which, on account of a burned log in one of its walls, was popularly known as "Black Log church," though by some it was called " the chapel." The Rich Vale Methodist Episcopal church was 362 - HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY. organized and its house of worship was erected soon after 1840. The building is located on the Zanesville and Dresden road, about five miles from Zanesville. Among the original members of this church were the families of F. N. Walker, S. M. Bell, Nathan Kelly, E. Wilkinson and Simeon Kelly, and their heads. Oakland church was organized in 1844, and among its constituent members were J. Pake, John Vandenbark, D. Edwards, William Camp and Mrs. J. Geyer, and their families. Rev. W. H. Marshall was the first regular pastor. William Camp, John Vandenbark and David Edwards were the first class-leaders. The land on which the house of worship stands was donated to the organization by C. C. Goddard, of Zanesville, who deeded it to John Vandenbark and William Camp, as trustees. The Methodist Protestant church of Falls township was organized about 1835, at John Tanner's house, where Revs. Joseph Thrapp and Cornelius Springer preached at times. The house of worship, near the center of the western border of the township, was erected in 1856. Rev. Mr. Thrapp also preached occasionally in the schoolhouse on the Frazeysburg road, which was erected more than fifty years ago on land donated for the purpose by John Vandenbark. CHAPTER XLIII MUSKINGUM TOWNSHIP. THIS, the second from west to east of the second tier of townships of the county from the northern limit, is bounded north by Jackson, Cass and Madison, east by Madison and Washington, south by Falls and west by Licking. The Muskingum river flows along its eastern border. Devore's run, which has its source in Cass township flows southeasterly through the western part of Muskingum. There are in th6 township some smaller streams, and some never-failing springs. The general surface is undulating, but in the eastern part, near the river, are prominent headlands, some of which rise quite abruptly. The soil is chiefly a sandy loam, though in the headlands spoken of is found a predominant clayey subsoil. Coal is plentiful in the eastern portions, and iron has been found. The principal timber trees are the oaks, hickory, ash, elm, beech, chestnut and walnut. There is an abundance of sandstone and limestone. The stone is of good quality and well adapted to building purposes. The township is traversed by the Cleveland & Canton and Cincinnati & Muskingum Valley railroads. Ellis, eight miles north of Zanesville, and seven miles south of Dresden, in the eastern part of this township, on the western bank of the Muskingum river, a station on these lines was founded, and its post-office was established a little more than twenty years ago. As it is now bounded, Muskingum township was organized September 3, 1817, when West Zanesville was divided between this and Falls township. On the last Saturday in the same month the first township election is said to have been held at the house of Capt. James Taylor. Among those who were elected to office was Henry Butler, justice of the peace. Among the early settlers in this township were David Devore, James Black, James Beach, John Bland, Elijah Stradley, Ebenezer Ryan, Timothy Prior, Jesse Dowell, William Bland, Levi Cooper, George Welsh, Samuel McCann and Joseph Spencer. The first three named came about 1797, and were the first white men to make a home in this township. Devore at first located and erected a cabin near the Muskingum, in the east part of the present township but removed to a place on the south half of section 6, township 2, range 8, near the stream since known as Devore's run. One of the others located on the Stitt farm. The third was of an unsettled disposition and did not choose a permanent home. John Bland who located on a part of section 13, is thought to have come the next year, and Silas Bland, his son, was born in camp before his parents had got settled in their wilderness home. Stradley and Ryan came in the year last mentioned and the former located on lot 36. William, brother of John Bland, came in 1803, and Cooper, Welsh, McCann and Spencer five years later. Rev. Joseph Thrapp, John Dorsey and Samuel Guest settled in the township in 1810, Dorsey on the west part of section 4. HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY - 363 Thrapp who had come from Virginia to Licking county, settled upon the J. E. Trapp farm in the southwest corner of the township. Samuel Baxter and Henry J. Butler came in 1812, the latter locating north of Thrapp. Three years later came J. M. Lane, a blacksmith, who located on section 19. He came from Baltimore county, Md., and Norman Gorsuch, from the same locality arrived soon afterward and located on the Joshua Gorsuch farm. He brought with him his family and his household effects, and, it is said that they covered a distance of 375 miles intervening between their old home and their new one in twenty-two days. Joshua Gorsuch, a son of the pioneer, married a daughter of Rev. Mr. Thrapp, and lived to an advanced age. Norman Gorsuch died aged seventy-three years. Timothy Prior, one of the pioneers, died in 1799, and his is believed to have been the first burial in the township. Two other pioneers, Jesse Dowell and James Devore, died the following year. The Gardner farm was the scene of their burial, and thus became the township's first cemetery. William Bland and Daniel Devore set out the first orchards in the first year of the present century, and not long afterward an apple and peach orchard was started by George Welsh. The first hewed-log house was erected by David Devore in 1798. It is stated that the first barn built in Muskingum township was one on the George Welsh farm, erected by Richard Owens, carpenter, about 1810, and it is believed that Owens was the first regular carpenter here. John M. Lane combined blacksmithing with farming, and was known as a blacksmith in this township prior to 1815. In the year last mentioned, or in 1816, Beal Owens set tip his forge, and soon afterward another blacksmith shop was established by Otto Miller. David Devore built the first gristmill on Devore's run in 1812, or thereabouts. This establishment was one of the most primitive description, it being necessary to carry the ground wheat upstairs in sacks on men's shoulders for bolting, and the bolting was done by hand at that. About the same time Rev. Joseph Thrapp put a sawmill in operation on his improvement. Devore's gristmill gave place to a sawmill, which was standing there about 1825, then the property of Elias Green. Dutton Lane established a tannery on the Dresden road about 1812, and Firman Spencer another in his part of the township about five years later. Among early school teachers were Sanford Raimy, John Elliott, Archibald McCann, a man named Phelps, and another named Shurtliffe or Shutliff, who is thought to have taught the first school in the township in the Pierson schoolhouse about 1815. David Pierson and James Welsh are accredited with having been actively engaged in the management of a distillery prior to 1820.. Another was established near the river by Col. George Jackson about 1818 or 1819. Michael Hahn. was operating a distillery in the township in 1824, or about that time. Col. Jackson, above mentioned, was making salt in the eastern part of the township, near the river, as early as 1821. The first public house was opened by David Devore, at his residence, as early as 1812. The house of Dutton Lane was thrown open to the public traveling over the Zanesville and Coshocton road about 1820. The Devore log house was primitive enough as a tavern, but Lane's was still more so, for it is said to have contained only one room, and that a by no means large one. Firman Spencer, above mentioned, erected the first brick house in Muskingum in 1825, near where Shannon was laid out five years later. Robert Welsh opened the first store in that locality about 1845. It is stated that at that time, when wheat was unsaleable at 20 cents a bushel in trade, its producers had to pay three to four shillings per yard for calico, 50 cents and more a pound for coffee, and $2 a pound for tea. Silver coin and scrip were employed in all transactions where barter was not resorted to of necessity, and there are those who say that coins were cut in halves and quarters when change could not be made conveniently without. Early in the history of the township blooded horses were brought from Maryland and Virginia by some of the pioneers. Joshua Gorsuch introduced imported hogs about 1828 to 1830. A little later Isaac Dillon of Falls township introduced an improved breed of sheep. Joshua Gorsuch, John M. Lane, Col. Ellis, John McDonald, and some of the Welshes and Blands were extensive and successful sheep growers. Durham cattle were introduced by James Still and James McCammon. Rev. Joseph Thrapp, who was a Methodist minister of much ability, well known throughout a wide extent of country, organized the first church in the township at his residence in 1810, with himself and family and John Thrapp and Messrs. Hickson and Hall and their families as members. Rev. James Quinn was the first pastor. This organization has had a successful existence, and during recent years has met for worship at Sherrard chapel. In 1815 a camp meeting was held by the Methodists on Mr. Thrapp's farm, and among those who preached were Bishops McKendree and Asbury, as they have since been known. Conversions were numerous, a notable one having been that of Samuel Hamilton, of Hopewell, who subsequently became a preacher in the same denomination, and as such labored successfully during a long and useful life. The first Sunday-school was started by Archibald McCann, who taught the Bible all day Sunday, as he taught 364 - HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY. ordinary school on other days. He is remembered as having had the welfare of the young people of his community at heart, and as being profoundly devoted to their spiritual and educational interests. An old newspaper contains an account of his accidental death by drowning in the canal at Zanesville some time in the latter part of March, 1839, by walking off the abutment of the open drawbridge. In 1813 the Baptists organized a,church sometimes called the Baxter church, with the following among its constituent members: Samuel Baxter, John Dorsey, and Samuel Guest and their wives and Mrs. Henry Butler, Mrs. Lane, and Mrs. Eastenbauer. Rev. Amos Nix was the first pastor. The house of worship of this congregation is located on the John Welsh farm. The Presbyterian church in the western part of the township was organized in 1814. Its first pastor was Rev. James Culbertson of Zanesville. Among its original members were David Pierson and family, in whose honor it has sometimes been referred to as the Pierson church, Joseph McDonald and family and members of the Welsh family. The church and cemetery. lot was given by David Pierson and George Welsh. A Sunday-school was organized about 1850. St Mary's Catholic church was organized at the residence of William Mattingly in 1834, and was ministered to by the Dominican fathers of Zanesville until 1855. In 1856 a commodious brick edifice was erected on John Mattingly's farm, on a church lot of an acre which Mr. Mattingly had given. The building was furnished by Francis Mattingly. Early deaths in the township have been men tioned, and early burials on the Gardner farm have been noted. There were other early interments on the Joshua Butler farm. Many pioneers and their descendants are buried in the Baptist and Presbyterian, cemeteries, the first mentioned of which comprises three acres of ground. The first burial in the Catholic cemetery was that of William Mattingly who died in 1857, aged about seventy-five. CHAPTER XLIV WAYNE TOWNSHIP. THE first actual settler here was probably James Finley, a Pennsylvanian, who came to the township about 1801 or 1802. His occupation was that of a weaver, and he afterward supplied many of his neighbors, the early settlers of the township, with the homespun cloth of which the clothing worn by them was always made. Abraham Mercer soon followed Finley to this township, coming from Virginia, and in the fall of 1803 settled on section 6. Caleb Dunn reached the same section in 1805, coming from Scioto, to which place he had taken his family the preceding. year. Nicholas Border and Lewis Carps came soon after, Border taking a piece of land in the south half of section 1 in the latter part of 1806, and Cams coming the following year, took up land adjoining Dunn, in section 6. Lemuel Joseph about the same time occupied a portion of section 10. The period of time prior to 1820 was marked by a rapid and steady growth of settlement. Among those who settled here during that period were John Kepler, Rev. William Sedwick, William Pringle, John, Jake, Andrew and George Mercer, Gen. Samuel Herrick, Rev. Pringle, Thomas Leach, Wells, Henry Harris, William Corbin, John S. Parkerson, George W. Gibbons, Daniel McLean, Josiah Fulkerson. The western part of the township was settled largely by Germans, among whom were Bowman, Glassman, Corbin, Deffenbaugh, Swope, Lehman and others, whose children and grandchildren reside in the vicinity and exhibit the same industry and integrity that characterized their fathers. Several distilleries were operated in the township. John Kepler's still, in the northern part, was one of the first, and probably the principal one in the neighborhood. William Corbin made ,whisky in a small way about a mile from Kepler's. Whisky was worth from 18 to 20 cents per gallon, and the quality so excellent that old residents smack their lips when speaking of it, bemoan the degeneracy of the manufacturers of the " poison " of these days and sigh for the good old times, with old-time pleasures and customs. The civilizing influence of the church was early HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY - 365 acknowledged. Many of the early settlers of this township were members of church before leaving their native states, and on coming to Ohio brought their religion with them. These realizing the strength to be obtained by concerted action organized a Methodist Episcopal church at the house of Lemuel Joseph, who was the first class-leader. Services were held at the house of Mr. Joseph and others for a time, after which a log church was built. Some of the early members of the church were Lemuel and Celia Joseph, Andrew, Mary, John and Elizabeth Mercer, Margaret Watts. James Watts was the pioneer preacher of this church. The first meeting house, known as Joseph's meeting house, was built of logs. It stood and was used as a place of worship until destroyed by fire. The present structure, known as " Fairview Chapel," marks the site of the old meeting house. A goodly number of the pioneers were of the Baptist church, among whom we note the families of Caleb Dunn, Evan Crane, William Evans, Daniel Comstock, Lewis Ayers, David Leright, Mrs. Groves, Mrs. Moore, Galbreath and Johnson. Revs. Pringle and Sedwick were the pioneer preachers, who worked in the fields or forests during the week and on Sundays would preach at the house of some settler in the neighborhood, preaching without pay. Religion and education go hand in hand, and the pioneers of Wayne township realizing this fact, soon after the organization of the church set about securing educational advantages for their children. About 1815 a log schoolhouse was erected on what is now the farm of W. Dunn, to whom we are indebted for nearly all our information concerning this primitive structure. This " temple of learning was built of round logs, the crevices " chinked " and plastered with clay. In one end was a fireplace which would burn large logs eight feet or more in length. It was' the duty of the boys attending the school to cut the wood which was burned. In this building a log was cut out at the proper hight to afford light in the room, and paper rendered translucent with grease was placed in the opening so formed. The floor was rough puncheons, the seats were of slabs or split trees with peg legs. Holes were bored in the walls of the building and wooden pins inserted on these slabs or hewed puncheon were placed for desks. In a house of this description some of the most worthy men of the county laid the foundations of successful lives. The schools were supported entirely by subscription of the patrons, and seldom continued longer than three months. The first death in the settlement of which we find any record is that of Asa Dunn, a son of Caleb Dunn, who died the year after his parents removed to this township and was buried on his father's farm, at a place, only a few hundred yards from the family residence, which has since been used as a family, and neighborhood burial ground. Probably the first blacksmith in the township was Charles Lisk at Duncan's Falls, another at same place was a man named Munsey. For many years the nearest smith was at Zanesville, where all horses were taken to be shod and all repair-work and plow making was done. Edward Trimble for many years ran a shop at the Falls. Michael Carns was probably the first wagonmaker in the township, his shop was in the northeast part of the township near the residence of Robert Griffin. A man . named Morrison made shoes at Duncan's Falls at an early day. Prior to 1835 the only way known to the settlers by which to separate wheat from the straw and chaff was-by use of the flail or by treading out the grain with horses, a slow and imperfect process. In the fall of that year Robert Griffin introduced a threshing-machine operated by tread-mill horse power. This, though it would now be considered a very primitive affair, was then a wonderful machine, as by its use as much as a .hundred bushels could be threshed in a day if conditions were favorable. Wayne township was organized from parts of Zanesville and Salt Creek townships, March 7, 1826. Pursuant to this order the election was held at the house of Joseph Dixon, at which Samuel Scott, Mathias Spangler and Jacob Mercer presided as judges of election, and Edward Smith and Thomas. Leach officiated as clerks. The offices to be filled at this election were, three trustees, five supervisors, two overseers of the poor, a treasurer, two fence-viewers, one clerk, and two constables. The successful candidates were: for trustees, John S. Parkinson, Jacob Mercer, Mathias Spangler; for supervisors, Samuel Scott, Edwin Smith, David McLean, Daniel Poland, Mathias Spangler Jr.; for overseers of the poor, Lemuel Joseph, Benjamin Carter; for treasurer, Richard Brookover; for fence-viewers Benjamin Barton, Daniel McLean; for clerk, George W. Gibbons; for constables, John Mason, Jacob Spangler. A little' later John S. Parkinson and Mathias Spangler were elected justices of the peace. The town of Duncan's Falls was originally laid out in 1841, in accordance with an order of the court of Common pleas, by John W. Foster, master commissioner, and James Taylor. Two additions to the town were made by Alvah Buckingham, both in 1849. The town has a population (1890) of 222. It has never been incorporated. The town has three churches, Methodist Episcopal,Baptist, and Presbyterian; four stores, post office, and the following secret and benevolent so- 366 - HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY. cieties: Masonic, G. A. R., Knights of Pythias, Women.' s Relief Corps, and P. O. S. A., all of which are prosperous. The only factory of any consequence in the town is the flouringmill of John: Miller, which is fully equipped with roller process and has a capacity of seventy-five barrels. The first store in the place was that of James Taylor, prior to .1825. .He carried a general stock of merchandise and exchanged for the produce of the settlers. Lyons & Wolff had a store near the mouth of Salt creek, in which was opened the first postoffice in the township. The mail was carried by. James Larrison, whose route was from Zanesville to McConnelsville. Before this office was opened the settlers were obliged to go to Zanesville for their m il. Mr. Lyons was the first postmaster. Probably the next store opened in that neighborhood was kept by a man named Grader. The first physician at Duncan's Falls was Dr. Mason, who died recently at an advanced age. The inconveniences of the settlers were greatly enhanced by the distance they had to travel to get corn or wheat ground. Zanesville being the nearest place, the trip was usually made up the river in a dug-out canoe. Two to four days were required to make the trip, and occasionally, when the corn was not thoroughly dry before grinding, the meal would be sour before reaching its destination. This fact led to the erection, by Samuel Frazer, of a gristmill on Flat river. A sawmill was erected in 1834, by Martin Chandler, on Salt creek. There being an abundance of material for the making of brick, I. S. Parkinson engaged in their manufacture as early as 1825, and was soon followed by General Herrick and Andrew Carns. In 1825 the government, realizing the enormous water power to be had here, erected a dam on the natural falls of the river. In 1836 Dugan and Bowen began the erection of a four-story gristmill, which was completed in 1838. It contained eight run of stones and was the principal mill for many miles along the Muskingum. This mill is still in operation. It has changed hands several times, and is now, the property of John Miller. It has been refitted and a great deal of new machinery has' been added. Among other improvements has been the substitution of a full roller process for the. old buhrs. 'A large room in the building was originally set apart and fitted up for a cardingmill, and was the only cardingmill in the township. The Duncans Falls Baptist church was organized in Taylorsville, Muskingum county, Ohio, October 17, 1840, by a council of brethren invited from neighboring churches 'for that purpose, viz. : from Salt Creek, Parley Brown, Archibald Galbraith, and Abel Johnson; from Zanesville, Thomas Neale and Charles Grant; from Zoar church, William Hambrick, B. Y. Seigfried. Michael White was also present. The council was organized by appointing Parley Brown, moderator, and Abel Johnson, clerk. The following seventeen persons (sixteen of whom had letters of dismission from Salt Creek church) presented themselves before the council, viz. : George Crane, Henry Sapp, James Crane, Samuel .Harper, William Bolman, George Gander, Susan Comstock, Mercy Crane, Matilda Groves, Sarah Cuberly, Elizabeth Ann Gander, Rebecca Morris, Hannah Armstrong, Catherine Sapp, Elizabeth Bolman, Moses Masters, and Elizabeth Masters, giving their reasons why they believed a Baptist church should be organized in the vicinity of Taylorsville. These reasons, with their articles of faith being satisfactory to the council, they were in the ordinary manner recognized as a regular Baptist church. At a subsequent meeting the new church adopted the name Duncan's Falls Baptist church. At this time the church had no meeting house, but held their meetings a part of the time in a cooper shop and at private houses, or wherever a convenient place could be found, but God was with them and added to their number from time to time, many precious souls. In the year 1841 the church resolved to make an effort to build a meeting house on the north side of the river, in the then opening village of Duncan's Falls, on a lot afterward donated to them by Alvah Buckingham and lady. The church met in their new meeting house for worship, the first time on March 9, 1844. Abel Johnson was the first pastor, under whose labors the church was gathered. The following ministers served the church as pastors at different times: G. C. Sedwick, Kitchell, Sheppard, Emersoia, Amerman, Harford, Erwin James, Davies, Swinehart, Chambers, Neff, Morriss and N. W. Dixon, the present pastor. During the intervals of these pastorates the church was frequently supplied with preaching by other ministers. Although many of the members of Duncan's Falls Baptist church resided in the country, away from the meeting house, surrounded by opposition to Baptist sentiment, 'the little band has struggled along its way, many times cast down, but never desparing, manfully " holding forth the Word of Life." At various times since its organization this church has had very fruitful revivals by which many new members were added to their number. Some noble men have been connected with this church. Men whose piety, liberality, and consecrated lives, endeared them to the church while living, and now that they have gone to their reward, their memory is embalmed and cherished in the hearts of those who survive them. Among the names of these brethern we would mention the names of Comstock, Gander, Cram, Male, and many others, should space permit. HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY - 367 Anchor lodge 283, A. F. & A. M., was organized in 1855, under a dispensation of the Grand lodge of . Ohio, by James D. Sturges, John J. Kassell, R. I. Peach, Fred Young, Thomas McLees, Joseph Starrett and P. Denek. In 1856 the lodge was chartered by the Grand lodge of the state at Zanesville, and the following were appointed the first officers of the lodge: James D. Sturges, W. M. ; John J. Kassell, Sr. Ward.; Marquis Williams, Jr. Ward. The lodge has about sixty members. The lodge owns a good two-story frame building, the upper story of which is finished for a lodge room, and is well furnished with all pharaphernalia. The building was erected by the Masonic Building association in 1884. The lodge completed payment for the building in 188.7. The lower story is occupied as a general store and postoffice. Dan Brown post No. 380, G. A. R., was organized and chartered September 29, 1883, with a membership at its institution of thirty-eight as follows: John T. Brown, Jacob Bash, F. M..Christie, O. B. Crumbaker, Joseph Daw, George W. Dempster, H. H. Dickes, Silas W. Fickle, H. S. Finley, A. M. Frazier. G. B. Howard, C. H. Hostler, D. Hoppstetter, John Kusmaul, A. L. Kinkade, Mathew Lynn, James McNeal, George McCurdy, John Mercer, William McGill, C. C. Miller, G. A. Neff, James G. Osborn, Joseph Peach, A. L. Petty, John Roberts, John Robison, William Robinson, Henry Rowine, D. L. Stockdale, I. C. Swingle, H. H. Smith, John Smith, John W. Tigner, C. Swinchall, John Waxier, David Wells, Frederick Young. Since its organization the post has been increased until it has now a membership of seventy-five. The first, officers of the post were Joseph Peach, post commander; F. M. Christie, S. V. C.; H. Hosier, J. V. C. ; S. W. Frickle, Adj t. ; J. W. Tigner, Q. M.; Fred Young, O. D.; H. H. Smith, O. G. ; O. B. Crumbaker, Surg. ; Rev. A. L. Petty, chaplain; John Roberts, S. M. ; G. B. Howard, Q. M. S. Olive Branch lodge No. 368, Knights of Pythias, was organized and chartered in 1889. It was instituted July 15, 1889, by Capt. Charles Fulkerson, who was deputized by the Grand lodge to perform this work. The degrees was conferred by McIntire lodge. Olive Branch lodge was instituted with a charter membership of fifty-six, whose names were as follows: J. Hardtla, G. A. Fouch, J. W. Rice, T. A. Dilly, W. S. Hyser, J. E. Webster, Wesley Dutro. J. E. Green, J. A. Marshall, J. Morrison, A. Miller, G. W. Stockdale, M. F. Fauber, L. H. Garrett, C. D. Few, B. H. Wion, E. Dutro, William Boetcher, E. E. Neff, J. Waxier, J. W. Elson, C. A. Waxier, J. F. Berkamer, W. H. Frazier, G. B. Davis, F. F. Dozier, J. E. Johns, P. J. Gay, C. G. Hardtla, L. I. Stockdale, J. E. Arnedt, W. T. M. Elliot, J. C. Forsyth, A. M. Shedron, W. P. Harrop, B. Mantz, A. C. Mitchell, B. F. Elmore, F. J. W. Howe, J. Hardtman, W. F. Price, R. J. Neff, G. H. Clapper, J. Staker, C. W. Murphy, P. R. Maxwell, and D. Brittigan, P. C. ; O. W. Ward, C. C.; W. E. Peach, V. C. ; D. S. Priest, Prel.; L. C. Burckholter, M. F. J. J. Kassell, M. E. ; B. Olive, K. R. S.; J. K. Wilson, M. A.; S. S. Waxier, O. G.; A. Reamer, J. G. In February, 1891, a lodge of Patriotic Order Sons of America was organized with a membership of twenty. The officers are John Weinfordner, president; Herman Perry, vice-president; U. S. Messick, past president; Stephen Cross, M. A. Andrew Armstrong, secretary; Robert Peach, treasurer; Gee Davis, financial secretary. CHAPTER XLV PERSONAL MEMOIRS. David J. Abbott, Otsego, Muskingum county, Ohio, is one of the old settlers and prominent farmers of Monroe township. John S. Abbott, his father, was one of the pioneers of Muskingum county and fame from Tolland, Conn., of English descent and co the old colonial family of Abbotts, who have produced many famous men and women, among whom is the famous historian, John S. C. Abbott, and the famous singer, Emma Abbott. John Abbott, the father of John S. Abbott, was a citizen of Tolland, Conn., and a soldier in the Revolutionary war. He had six brothers and from them have descended the numerous family of Abbotts in America. John Abbott was the father of six children: John S., 368 - HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY. Dr. Jehiel (who was a prominent physician of Westfield, Mass., and a member of the Massachusetts legislature), Elizabeth, Sarah, Susan J., and Margaret. He was a farmer of Tolland, Conn., and a member of the Presbyterian church. He died there. His wife lived to be ninety years of age. John S. Abbott, his son, and the father of our subject, was born April 22, 1786, on the old homestead at Tolland, Conn., and received a common-school education. Here he was married, March 22, 1810, to Eunice Richardson (born at Tolland, Conn., April 8, 1786), daughter of David Richardson, who was a soldier in the Revolutionary war and held the office of captain. He was the father of six children: Eunice, David, Marion; Nathaniel, Martin and Alpheus. Captain Richardson came to Ohio with his family by wagons drawn by oxen and settled in Monroe township in 1812. Here he died in the brick house now owned by the heirs of Caleb Buker, at the age of eighty years. He was a pioneer and a man of excellent character and a patriot. After his marriage, John S. Abbott resided in Connecticut two years, and in 1812 in company with Captain Richardson and several others came to Ohio. Mr. Abbott had an ox team with a horse as a leader and a huge covered ox wagon,and made the long journey quite comfortably, sleeping in the wagons at night. They took the Indian trail from Cambridge, and finally settled in Monroe township, next to a spring on the old Captain Richardson farm. This land was all a wilderness, and Mr. Abbott built a two-story hewed-log house and worked at the blacksmith's trade. He also had a contract in' the building of the National pike, five miles between Byesville and Cambridge. During the fulfillment of this contract he was taken sick with the malarial fever and died after a short illness. Mr. Abbott was one of the early justices of the peace of Salem township. He was a man of good character and a very strong and powerful man, and once walked (on a wager) from Salem township to the Holcomb farm and mowed with an old-fashioned scythe, five acres of heavy grass and walked home again, a distance of six miles in one day, when two acres were considered a good day's work. He was the father of seven children: Watson B., Austin L., Orren H:, Temperance, Melissa, Sarah E., John S., and David J. After Mr. Abbott's death, Mrs. Abbott, who had a good education for those days, taught school for several years in different parts of the county. She married again, John Mulvane, of this county, and died at the age of sixty-eight years, at the residence of her son John. She was a member of the Methodist church, and was a woman of great force of character making, friends wherever she went. She taught the first school in Adamsville. David J. Abbott, son of the above mentioned gentleman, was born August 18, 1826; in Salem township, where his father lived for about two years when he first came to this county. He received but little education for those days, as he was but an infant of six months when left an orphan and had but little opportunity. From the time he was from ten to eleven years of age, he worked out for farmers, and thus early took care of himself. He worked in this and Scioto counties, where he worked for his brother Orren. He went to Westfield, Mass., where his uncle, Dr. Jehiel Abbott lived, and attended two terms at the Westfield academy. He worked at Agawam Falls in the cotton mills for two years. While at Westfield he threw his first vote for Zachary Taylor. When he was twenty-four years of age he returned to Ohio and worked at farm labor. In 1852, January 1, he married Rachael C. Buker (born February 20, 1831) the daughter of Caleb Buker, who was a prominent and wealthy citizen of Monroe township. [See sketch of Decatur Buker.] To Mr. and Mrs. Abbott were born eight children: Francis M. (born May 16, 1853), Mary C. (born September 27, 1855), Eunice C. (born November 27, 1857), Annie E. (born November 27, 1859) Sarah M.- (born. November 2.3, 1863), Oiren H. (born April 3, 1867), John S. (born April 28, 1869), William B. (born September 8, 1872). After his marriage Mr. Abbott settled on the old Captain Richardson farm, and here lived for two years.. He then lived in different places in this township, finally purchasing ninety acres near the farm of Decatur Buker, and in 1867 he moved to his present farm, now owning 360 acres. In politics he is a stanch republican, has the respect of the people and has held the office of township trustee. Both Mr. and Mrs. Abbott are members of the Protestant Methodist church, and he has held the offices of trustee and steward. His wife died May 14, 1889. She was a devout Christian and a woman of fine character and an excellent mother. Of the children Mary married William Dunlap of Candor, Penn., May 16, 1872. They had one child, Mary C., born December 31, 1872. Mrs. Dunlap died January 10, 187B. Francis M., who is a farmer on the home farm, August 15, 1872, married Mary J. Vinsel. They have one child, Olive C., born September 23, 1874. Annie E. in 1875, married C. N. Bainter, deputy sheriff of E., county, and resides at No. 90 North Fifth street, Zanesville. They have three children: Blanch, Ernest and Emmitt. Eunice C. married Jeremiah Bradford, a farmer of Monroe township, and has one child, Ernest. Sarah M. married Eugene L. King, a farmer of Monroe township. The three younger sons are unmarried. Orren H. is a conductor on an electric car at Zanesville; John S. and William B. are at home. George E. Adams, mayor, Frazeysburgh Ohio, HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY - 369 is one of the old soldier citizens whose war record is quite interesting, for he was incarcerated in Libby prison in the dark days of the civil struggle. He is now the chief municipal officer of the town of Frazeysburgh. He was born in Muskingum county, near Dresden, and was the son of Zachariah Adams and the grandson of Littleton Adams, who was one of the original settlers of this county, coming here from Fauquier county, Va., about 1797 or 1798. The grandfather was a farmer in comfortable circumstances and came in a six-horse wagon to this county and brought his family; consisting of his wife and nine children: George, Zachariah, John, Benjamin, Samuel, Littleton, Alfred, Maria and Julia. Maria was next oldest to George and brought Zachariah, the father of our subject, in her arms, riding a horse across the Alleghany mountains. Mr. Adams settled in Madison township, on government land, which he cleared up and converted into a fine farm. There he lived many years and died at a good old age. He was an old line whig and took an active interest in politics. He was a well-informed man. The sons were also interested in politics, and it was said to be both interesting and instructive to hear them discuss political questions, two of the sons being strong democrats. Mr. Adams was a man interested in all improvement and development in those early days. Zachariah Adams grew to manhood in the wilderness and in some way received a good education for those early days and taught school when a young man. He was one of the early justices of the peace, and was sheriff of Muskingum county in those early days when it required a brave and resolute man to fill that position. He was a prominent military man and a colonel in the old militia. He was also active in political matters, was well known throughout the county, and possessed a great deal of influence in politics. When about forty years of age his health failed and he took a six-months' sea voyage to Cuba. He was married late in life, at the age of forty, to Miss Harriet Williams, daughter of Dr. William Williams, of Clermont county, Ohio, who was one of the leading physicians of early days. Dr. Williams was born in Pennsylvania about 1791, and was one of the pioneer physicians of Ohio. He was the father of Olive, Courtland, Selina, Harriet and Martha. His first wife dying, he married again, and the result was one daughter, Elizabeth. He died in Clermont county in the eighty-seventh year of his age. During his career as a physician he built up a fine practice and was well known as an able and successful physician. He- was well off, financially, and was 'a member of the Methodist Episcopal church: Mr. and Mrs. Zachariah Adams were the parents of nine children: Martha, Anna, William, George.E., Euphemia, Virginia, Howard, Thomas B., and one who died in infancy. Mr. Adams died at the age of sixty-six. During the latter part of his life he was greatly afflicted with heart disease and rheumatism. He was a man of great intelligence and accumulated an extensive library. He was a lover of reading and kept himself well informed on all matters pertaining to church and state. In later years his children found his name a passport wherever he was known. In early political opinions he was a whig, later a stanch republican and abolitionist and a firm supporter of the government. He was one of the pillars of the Methodist Episcopal church, held the office of steward and trustee and was also class leader. He contributed liberally of his means to the support of the same. His wife is still living and is now seventy-two years old. She is also a devout member of that church. Their son, George E. Adams, was born June 19, 1846, received a good common-school education, and when, but seventeen years of age, or on June 17, 1863, enlisted in Company H, First Virginia Light artillery. He was in two battles at New Creek, Va., on November 28, 1864, the date of the last battle of New Creek, he was captured together with about 700 men, being surprised by the confederates, who were dressed as Union soldiers. Mr. Adams was confined in Libby prison from November, 1864, until March 1, 1865. While in prison he was reduced in flesh from 165 to 90 pounds and came out a walking skeleton. The prison then contained about 1,000 prisoners and they were served very scanty rations, a small piece of corn bread about an inch and a half square, and a, piece of pork about the same size contributed the morning meal and nothing more was served until night when the same rations were repeated, except about one-half pint of bean soup took the place of the pork. They slept on the floor of, the prison at night with nothing to cover them but their own clothing. Mr. Adams considered himself fortunate in finding a brick which he used as a pillow. They were also treated with great harshness and many died from starvation and exposure. On being released Mr. Adams was a year in recovering from his prison exposure and has never since been the same man. The government grants him a small pension in acknowledgment of his faithful services. When he was discharged from the prison, the war was over and his military life was closed. After regaining his strength. in a measure, he farmed for two years on his father's old homestead and then embarked in the sawmill business. He was subsequently in the mercantile business a Smons Creek, Ohio, but soon sold out and bough a gristmill which he ran for two years. In 1876 he came to Frazeysburgh and engaged in the grocery. 370 - HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY. business for a short time, after which he was in the lumber business and this he still follows. He is a man of sound sense and excellent judgment and has a host of warm friends. He has held the office of justice of the peace two years, was mayor of the town for three terms, and other positions, all of which he filled in a creditable and satisfactory manner. He is a member of the G. A. R., Griffe post No. 337, and has been senior vice-commander one year. Like his father before him, Mr. Adams is a strong republican. He was married, February 1, 1872, to Miss Minnie A. Thompson, daughter of James and Sarah Thompson. Mr. Thompson was a merchant of Noble county, Ohio, but subsequently moved to the Lone Star state. He died about 1886. He was of Pennsylvania German stock. His family consisted of five children: Eleanor, Mary, Minnie A., Ernest B. and Edgar N. To Mr. and Mrs. Adams were born six children: Nellie W. (died in infancy), Lora E. (died at the age of five years), Blanch, Herbert, Wheeler and Seth: Mr. Adams and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church and he is one of the trustees. He is a man universally respected and is classed among the best citizens of the county. Among the old and prominent settlers of Ohio, and of English descent, may be mentioned the Adams family, of which Hon. Thomas Dick Adams, Dresden, Ohio, is a worthy representative. His grandfather, Samuel Adams, was a farmer of Fauquier county, Va., a large land owner, and, owned slaves, which he liberated when he moved to Washington township, Muskingum county, in 1826. He was then a man of large family, having married a Miss Smith. They had eight children, Harriett, Anna, Louisa, Juleana, Josephine, Mary, James T. and Joseph. Samuel Adams bought 400 acres of land in the northwest part of the township, and improved this property until it was the best farm in the township, setting out a fine orchard, which is still in a thrifty condition. He lived on this farm the rest of his life. In religion he was an Episcopalian, and in politics a democrat. Joseph Adams, his son, was born in Fauquier county, Va., July 16, 1804, and was about twenty. two year of age when he came to this county with his father. He received a good education in Virginia, was a school teacher and civil engineer, and was one of the early educators of this county. When young he traveled for pleasure, visited the famous Mammoth Cave of Kentucky, and was present in Philadelphia when La Fayette made his famous visit to this country, and shook hands with him. He did surveying, and then engaged in the mercantile business in Frazeysburgh, and later in Dresden. In 1846 he settled on a farm in Perry township, Licking county, where he resided until 1858, and then moved on a farm ten miles north of Newark. Leaving his family on this farm he returned to Dresden, engaged in the mercantile business, and was business manager for his uncle, George Adams, who owned 14,000 acres of land, and was also engaged in the milling business. In 1859 he moved his family to Dresden, and in 1864 engaged in business for one year, when he sold out. In 1866 he settled on what is now Brice Frazey's farm, and later settled in Dresden, where be died March 5, 1885, nearly eighty years of age. He had first married, at the age of thirty-one, Emma Reasoner, and to them were born two children, Howard and Jay. His wife died, and he married Mary E. Lemert, widow of Ferdinand Lemert, and formerly Miss Cass. [See sketch of Dr. E. Cass.] To this marriage were born six children: Jonathan, Oscar, Thomas Dick, Abner L., Josephine A. and Rebecca J. In politics Mr. Adams was an old line whig, and later, a republican, and he and Mrs Adams were members of the Christian church, of which he was deacon and trustee for many years. He was a man of good judgment, and was justice of the peace for many years, also school director and treasurer. Thomas Dick Adams, his son, was born January 10, 1849, in Perry township, Licking county, Ohio, on a farm. He received a common-school education, and attended the Dresden high school, and gained a knowledge of Latin. He then took a special course, preparatory to teaching at New Concord, Ohio, and began teaching in 1874 in Muskingum township. This he continued for some time, but his farming operation required his time, so he relinquished teaching and devoted his entire attention to this pursuit. In 1869 he superintended the construction of the first two sections of the C. & M. B. R. R. When young he was a clerk and book-keeper for his brother in Dresden. On November 16, 1870, he married Susannah Vanderbark. daughter of Eliphlet and Bethiah H. (Cole) Vanderbark. Mr. Vanderbark was a descendant of old pioneers of that name, and had three children: Susannah, Owen D. and Gresham. He was a substantial farmer, and owned 400 acres of land in this county. Himself and wife were members of the Old School Baptist church. He lived to be sixty- two years of age, and died January 24, 1889. To Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Dick Adams were born four children; Alta B., Mary E., Judson J. and Jessie G. Since his marriage Mr. Adams has resided on his farm near Dresden, which consists of 200 acres, pleasantly situated. Socially, Mr. Adams is a Mason. He is a member of the Christian church, and Mrs. Adams of the Baptist, and in politics he is a stanch republican, and has just been elected to the Ohio State legislature by that party. He is vice-president of the Muskingum Agricultural society, and has been HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY - 371 connected with it for a period of four years. When young, Mr. Adams read law, and at one time had a good practice. He has had an excellent education, and his judgment has been strengthened by the study of common law. He is a man of ability, and well fitted for. the part of a legislator, his life of a practical farmer bringing him nearer the people. His daughter, Alta, is an artist of ability, and has painted several fine pictures. Mary E. graduated at the age of fifteen years at the Dresden high school, and was the youngest pupil ever graduated from that school, which ranks as one of the best in the state. She has shown great talent in music and in crayon drawing; and is a young lady of fine talents. William W. Adams, a retired farmer, residing in Adamsville, Salem township, Muskingum county, Ohio, was born in Monroe township of this county, but when about six years of age his parents, George and Christina (Werts) Adams, moved to Salem township. The father was a native, of Virginia, born in Loudoun county in 1788, February 12, and was a son of William Adams, wbo died in Virginia. George Adams came to Muskingum county in 1807, and at the opening of the War of 1812 went to Virginia, where he enlisted in the army. After the war he married and returned to Muskingum county, passing the remainder of his days in Monroe and Salem townships. His wife died in 1873, and he followed her to the grave two years later. Both were members of the Lutheran church. Their family consisted of the following children: Helen, Susan, William W., George, Elizabeth, Mary, John, Sarah, and Margaret. The father followed agricultural pursuits all his life, and became a prosperous man. In politics he was a democrat. William W. Adams, subject of this sketch, was born May 11, 1822, and was reared and educated in. Salem township. He was married in March, 1852, to Miss Louisa Bainter, a native of Muskingum county, Ohio, born October 4, 1832, and the daughter of Frederick and Mariah (Crumba.ker) Bainter, both natives of the Old Dominion. Mr. and Mrs. Bainter settled in Muskingum county at an early day, and here the latter received her final summons. The former is still a resident of the county, and is now eighty-eight years old. Mr. and Mrs. Adams became the parents of eight children, five of whom are now living: Allen, George F., Susan M., Helen, and Ida. Susan is the wife of Robert Scott, Helen is now Mrs. George W. Williams, and Ida is the wife of Mrs. Albert Scott. The sons are prosperous farmers of Muskingum county. The children deceased were Maria C., Homer, and Cora. Mr. and Mrs. Adams were consistent members of the Lutheran church, and were well respected in the community. His first wife died September 7, 1867, and in March, 1869, Mr. Adams married Mrs. Sarah A. Carver, a native or Muskingum county, born May 9, 1827, and the daughter of Millar D. and Nancy A. Hannon, who were originally from Bucks county, Penn., but who moved to this county. The father died here in 1861 and the mother in 1863. They were the parents of one child besides Mrs. Adams, Mary, now deceased. The father was a farmer. Mr. Adams has held the office of township trustee and school director for a number of years, and is deeply interested in educational and religious matters. He has succeeded in accumulating considerable property, and is the owner of three as good farms as are in the township, 600 acres in all. He also owns a fine residence in Adamsville. He takes an interest in political matters, and votes with the democratic party. Mr. Adams' children all reside in the county, and he has eleven grandchildren. George P. Adams, farmer, Adamsville, Ohio, has been familiar with farm work from his earliest youth, and is now ranked among the prosperous farmers of Muskingum county. He was born in Salem township, this county, July 4, 1824, and is a son of George and Christina (Werts) Adams, both natives of Ohio. (See sketch of W. W. Adams.) George P. Adams was reared on a farm in Salem township and received his scholastic advantages in the schools of the same. When twenty-one years of age he started out to make his own way in life, and first settled on a farm in Monroe township, where he remained for four years. He then sold out and moved to Salem township, where be has made his home since. Mr. Adams was married on November 7, 1850, to Miss Margaret Green, a native of Muskingum county, born September 16, 1832, and the daughter of Elias and Betty (Conn) Green. She was the youngest of the following children: Francis, who was born January 27, 1827, and who died in Illinois, June 27, 1855; Willard C., who was born February 8, 1829, and who died in Illinois, December 25, 1867; and George C., who was born February 27, 1831, and who died December 25, 1853. Mrs. Adams' father was born Sepember 9, 1789, and died June 24, 1862, and her mother was born July 16, 1801, and died May 14, 1877. The parents were married in Muskingum county in 1826. The father followed farming and blacksmithing for a livelihood. With the exception of about four years, Mr. and Mrs. Adams have lived on their present farm ever since their marriage, and have reared four children : Salina A., who was born September 30, 1851, and who died in Kansas, January 15, 1888 (she was the wife of Mr. E. Stotts); Henry A., was born February 22, 1853, married Miss --, and is now a farmer in Adams township; Elias E., was born March 4, 1858, and is now farming in Adams township (he married Miss Anna Metcalf); and Carlton who 372 - HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY. was born September 16, 1861, and is now residing at home (he married Miss Mary A Gaumer). Mr. Adams is enterprising and progressive, and is one of the county's best citizens. He takes a deep interest in the progress of the county, and extends a willing and liberal hand to all enterprises of a laudable nature. He and Mrs. Adams are members of the Lutheran church, and in politics he is a stanch democrat. He has ten grandchildren living in Muskingum county and three in the West. James H. Aikin, the successful editor and proprietor of the " Enterprise," of New Concord, Ohio, was born in Guernsey county, in 1854, January 20, the son of H. P. and Isabella Sankey (Reed) Aikin. The father is now a resident of Monroe township, Muskingum county, and a farmer. He was 'born in Columbiana county, Ohio, July 15, 1820, and was the second of a family of nine children born to the union of George and Martha (Patton) Aikin. George Aikin was born in Pennsylvania of Scotch descent. He married, and the family- settled in Ohio. He was a soldier in the War of 1812. To himself and wife were born nine children: Jane, Hugh P., George W., John G., James P., Martha H., Margaret, Mary A. and William (who died when quite young). The others are living except Jane. The father settled in Columbiana county, and about 1835 or 1840 moved to Tuscarawas county. Here he followed farming the rest of his life, dying about 1860, was a member of the United Presbyterian church, and in politics a republican. The mother was also a native of Pennsylvania, and of Scotch descent. She died a few years ago at the age of ninety-six years. Their son, Hugh P. Aikin, and the father of James H., passed his youth in Columbiana and Tuscarawas counties, and attended the schools of that time. He settled in Muskingum county, in September, 1864, having previously settled in Guernsey county about 1845, where he had married and reared a family. Himself and wife were the parents of twelve children: George C., resides in Franklin county, Kas., a real estate man, married, and has seven children; Susanna J., now Mrs. James A. Atchison, of Franklin county, Kas., has six children; Martha, now Mrs. Samuel R. Guthrie, of Highland township, this county, has seven children; Robert, married and living at Bloomfield, is the postmaster, and has one child; James H. (our subject); Mary, now Mrs. William McDonald of Monroe township, has six children; Anna E. ; Sarah, now Mrs. Calvin Taylor, of Franklin county, Kas., has three children; Elizabeth M., now Mrs. John S. Franklin, of Monroe county, Iowa, has one child; John A. is at home; Emma L. and Esther R, at home. The first nine children were born in Guernsey county, and the last three in Monroe township, Muskingum county. These children are living, and the parents are also the grandparents of thirty-four grandchildren. Mr. Aikin is a member of the Associate church, and has been an elder in the same. In politics he was formerly a democrat, but since 1856 has been a republican. He has always been interested in politics, and has held offices in his township. Mrs. Aikin was formerly Isabella Reed, born in 1825, and the daughter of Robert and Jane (Sankey) Reed. Robert Reed was a resident of Jefferson county, Ohio, and later of Guernsey county, and the Reed family is of Scotch-Irish descent. To himself and wife were born six children: James, Robert, Alexander, Isabella, Jane and Esther. The father died in 1861, and the mother in 1882. The family were all members of the Associate Presbyterian church. Mr. Reed was a republican in later years, and in the War of 1812. James H. Aikin was born in Guernsey county, Ohio, the fifth of twelve children, and came to Muskingum county when he was ten years of age. He attended school in Monroe township, and later a college in Bloomfield. In 1881 he started in business for himself, and took charge of the " Enterprise," one of the leading local papers of the county. He has since edited this paper, and made it one of the brightest and most interesting papers in the county. Mr. Aikin was united in marriage to Miss Mary J. Dew in 1881. She was born in Muskingum county, October 25, 1858, and was one of the three children of Thomas and Jane (Wallace) Dew. Thomas Dew is a resident of New Concord, and an early settler of this county. To Mr. and Mrs . Aikin have been born four children: Wilford M., Mary A., Metelwa B., and Alma L. (died at the age of eighteen months). They are members of the United Presbyterian church, of which Mr. Aikin is a trustee. Mr. Aikin has been mayor of the town, held the office of justice of the peace for two terms, and is now a member of the city council and the board of education. In politics his sympathies are with the republican party. On all questions of public interest he has decided convictions, and no one need stand in doubt of his position. Possessed of an intensity of nature in every position in which he is placed he takes an active interest in carrying out what he conceives to be the obligations imposed upon him, and while he aims to be honest with his fellows and true to himself and his convictions, he aims to manifest a kindly spirit of charity to all. Hugh P. Akin, Sago, P. O. Muskingum county, Ohio, is one of the substantial farmers of Monroe township. His father, George Akin, came from Ireland, was a Protestant Irishman, and but a boy when brought here by his father, who was a pioneer settler of Columbiana county, Ohio, coming . between 1807 and 1812, and first settling in Wash- HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY - 373 ington county,Penn., where he resided some years. He cleared up a farm in the wilderness ,of Ohio and brought his wife and children—William, John, George and Margaret. He died about 1825 or 1826. George Akin was reared on his father's farm in Pennsylvania, and was a young man when he came to Columbiana county, Ohio. He was a soldier in the War of 1812, and served with Commodore Perry on Lake Erie; He married. Martha Patton, daughter of Hugh Patton, a pioneer settler of Jefferson county, Ohio, from Pennsylvania, and of Irish descent, his father coming from Ireland. To Mr. and Mrs. Akin were born.: ten children: Jane, Hugh P., John, William, George W., Eliza H., Mary A., Martha, James and Margaret. Mr. Akin settled in Jefferson county after mar riage, and lived for about seven or eight years there, when he moved to Columbiana county and resided for eight years, then moving to Tuscarawas county, where he remained the rest of his life. Both Mr. and Mrs. Akin were members of the Associate Presbyterian church. He lived to the ripe old age of eighty-one years, and died on his farm in Tuscarawas county, Ohio. Hugh P. Akin, their son, was born on his father's farm in Jefferson county, Ohio, and received a Common-school education. November 4, 1845, at the age of twenty-five, he married Isabel S. Reed, daughter of Robert and Jane (Sankey) Reed. Robert Reed was from Lancaster county, Penn., and an old pioneer of Jefferson county, Ohio, but moved to Guernsey county, where he lived the remainder of his life. Both Mr. and Mrs. Reed were members of the Associate Presbyterian church, and Mr. Reed was a ruling elder for many years, and also associate judge of the court in Guernsey county under the old constitution. He was married twice. His first wife died, leaving one child, Mary C. He then married Jane Sankey, and by her became the father of seven children: Jeannette, Susannah, Isabel, Hester, James, Robert, Alex: ander. Robert Reed lived to the age of sixty-two years, and died in Guernsey county, Ohio. After his Marriage Mr. Akin settled in Guernsey county, Ohio, where he lived for eighteen years. In 1864 he came to Muskingum county and bought a farm of 152 acres, where he has since lived.. Both Mr. and Mrs. Akin are member§ of the Associate Presbyterian church, and Mr. Akin has been ruling elder for many years. To them have been born twelve children: George C. Susan J., Martha H., Robert M., James H., Mary I., Anna E., Sarah M., Lizzie N., John A., Emma L. and Ruth E., all of whom are living. Robert received a business education at the Commercial college at Zanesville. James attended the college at Bloomfield, Ohio, and is now editor of the New Concord " Enter-rise." In politics Mr. Akin is a republican. He enjoys the respect of his fellow-citizens, and has held the office of township trustee. He has the reputation of being one of the best citizens, is a moral, upright man, and is now seventy-two years of age and has all his life been an aid to the moral and religious welfare of the community in which he lives. Mr. and Mrs. Akin are the grandparents of thirty-five grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren: Susan J., married James Atchison, a farmer of Franklin county; Kas., and has six children-Martha H., married Samuel Guthrie, of Bloomfield, and has seven children; George C., married Detta Jenkins (he is a farmer of Richmond, Franklin county, Kas.) and has seven children; Mary I., married William McDonald, a farmer of Monroe township, and has seven children; Robert M., married Mary McMillen (he is a farmer and postmaster at Sago) and has one child; James H.,. married Mary Dew (he is the editor of the " Enterprise," of New Concord, Ohio), and has three children; Sarah M., married Calvin Taylor a farmer of Franklin county, Kas., and has three children; Lizzie N., married John Franklin, a farmer of Monroe county, Iowa, and has one child; the rest of the Children are at home; The Akin family descended from good old pioneer, stock. The eldest brother of Mrs. Akin, James Reed, was in the Ninety-seventh regiment, Ohio Volunteer infantry, and served in our great Civil-war until killed at the battle of Mission Ridge. Among the well-established and well-known exponents of the jewelry trade in New Concord, Ohio, will be found William Alexander, who is respected alike in social as in commercial circles. Like many of the prominent citizens of the county he hails from Pennsylvania, his birth occurred in Washington county of that state in 1838, and was the oldest of five children born to Matthew R. and Martha (Sawhill) Alexander. His grandfather, William Alexander, was a native of County Downes, Ireland. Matthew R. Alexander was also a native of Washington county, Penn., born in 1816, and was reared to agricultural pursuits which occupation he followed for some time. However, after coming to Muskingum county, he was engaged in carpentering and the mill business. He was married in his native county and after coming west, in 1842, be settled in New Concord where, with the exception of five years spent in Cambridge, he passed the remainder of his days. He was formerly a Democrat, later a Whig, and during the latter part of his life was a strong Republican. He died on his farm about three miles from New Concord in 1889. He was a successful business man and left a fine farm in Guernsey county. In religion he was formerly a seceder but subsequently became a member of the U. P. church. His wife, the mother 374 - HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY. of our subject, died in New Concord in 1856, when forty years of age. They were the parents of five children: William, Neely, Joseph, David C. and Matthew S. All of these sons served in the Civil war—William in Company A, of the Fifteenth Ohio Volunteer infantry, Neely and Joseph in Company A, Forty-sixth Ohio infantry, and David and Matthew in the Eighty-eighth Ohio infantry. Neely saw much hard service, and was killed at the battle of Shiloh on April 6, 1862. He was born in Washington county, Penn. Joseph Alexander was wounded in the same battle, but recovered and was promoted to the position of first sergeant. He died in front of Vicksburg in June, 1863, of typhoid-pneumonia. Both were single men. David and Matthew enlisted in 1863. Matthew first entered the army. and went into battle before enlisting but after coming home, in 1863, he enlisted. He was with the Sixty-second regiment for about eight months. in 1862, and participated in the battle of Antietam. After the death of his first wife, who was a worthy member of the U: P. church, Mr. Alexander married Miss Mary A. Scott, and they reared a family of nine children : John H. (deceased), James B. (see sketch), Samuel M. Mattie E., Andrew H., Charles S., Margaret J., M., B. and Ida M. William Alexander passed his boyhood days in the village of New Concord, and when twenty-two years of age enlisted in Company A., Fifteenth Ohio Volunteer infantry as a private. He participated in the battle of Shiloh, Stone River, Liberty Gap, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge and on the Atlanta campaign, Rocky Face Ridge and Resaca. He was wounded twice at Pine Knob, Ga., cr4 June 14, 1864, once in the arm and again in the. side. .He was confined to the Cumberland hospital at Nashville, Tenn. He then came home July 18, on a thirty days' furlough, and at the end of that time he joined his regiment at Lovejoy station, south of Atlanta, about September 16. After this he was in the battles of Franklin, and Nashville which were the last engagements in which he participated. At the battle of Nashville, on December 4, 186-1, he was mounted orderly and was knocked senseless and his horse killed under him by an exploding shell. He was discharged at San Antonio, Tex., and remained in that state and in Louisiana for about four years afterward. About August, 1869, he returned to New Concord and here has made his home ever since. Owing to his wounds and hard service he has not been a strong than since the war. He has followed his trade, that of jeweler and watchmaker, for many years, and has excellent judgment concerning everything relating to the trade in which he is engaged. Mr. Alexander was married first in April 1873 to Miss Mary F. Ambler, a native of Guernsey county, Ohio, and the daughter of John Ambler. One child, Rolfe, was born to this union, but he died in infancy. Mrs. Alexander passed away in 1874. In May, 1875, Mr. Alexander married Miss N. M. Milone, daughter of Barney and Malinda Milone, of Guernsey county, Ohio, of which the daughter was also a native. To the second union has been born one son, W. Ray. Mr. and Mrs. Alexander are members of the M. E. church, in which he is one of the official board, and they are classed among the representative citizens of the county. He is deeply interested in all enterprises of a laudable nature and is a liberal supporter of educational and religious undertakings. In politics he supports the principles of the republican party and held the position of mayor of the town for some time. He has been a member of the school board. Socially he is a Master Mason, a member of Cambridge Lodge No. 66, and he is also a member of Harrison post No. 468, of New Concordia. Muskingum county boasts no resident more worthy- of mention than James B. Alexander, who is a prominent blacksmith and a much esteemed citizen of New Concord. He was born in that town on July 21, 1859, and is a son of Matthew R. and Mary A. (Scott) Alexander, being one of nine children, all living but one, born to his father's second union. These children were named as follows: John (died in 1861, when three years of age), James (subject), Samuel M., Andrew H., Mattie E., Charles S., Mary B., Ida NI. and Margaret J. The father, who was a devout member of the United Presbyterian church, died in 1889; but the mother, who also holds membership in that church, is residing in Guernsey county at the present time. [For further particulars of parents see sketch of William Alexander.] Until ten years of age James B. Alexander resided in the town of New Concord, and after that, until- he was seventeen years of age, he was in the country. At that age he went to Antrim, where he learned the trade he is now following, and in 1879 he came to New Concord, where he has been engaged in business ever since. He is wide awake and enterprising, and is one of the town's most thoroughgoing business men. He was married in 1881 to Miss Ella M. Smith, a native of Muskingum county, born on June 25, 1859, and the second of nine children, all now living, born to John and Susan (Zellers) Smith, the father a native of Muskingum county, born abdut two and a half miles from New Concord, and the mother a native of Maryland. The grandfather, William Smith, was one of the oldest pioneers of the county. The above-mentioned children were named as follows: Adrien J., Ella M., William O., Hiram H., James M., John B., Spencer W., Maud M. and Warren. Mr. Smith died in 1890. He was associated with the United Presbyterian church. To Mr. and Mrs. Alexander have been born two children, both HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY - 375 sons—Matthew R., whose birth occurred on June. 15, 1882, and J. O., born December 31, 1889. Mr. and Mrs. Alexander are members of the United Presbyterian church, and he is a trustee in the same. He is a member of the public school board, and a young man who is interested in all worthy public enterprises. He is active in politics and is a strong supporter of republican principles. He has been mayor of the town, and has been a member of the city council two terms. As a business man he takes the lead in his line in the neighborhood. Edgar W. Allen needs no special introduction to the people of Muskingum county, Ohio, for he was born in the city of Zanesville on June 9, 1841, and since about 1866 he has been a member of the bar of this county. His father, Leander Allen, was born at Martha's Vineyard in 1804, and died in Zanesville in 1882. He was for some twelve years an ocean' sailor, and a portion of that time was master of a vessel. The Allen family came to Muskingum county, Ohio, in 1815, being among its pioneer settlers, and here they at once identified themselves with its interests. The wife of Leander Allen, Mary A. Barton, was born in Wayne township, this county, in February, 1818, and here still resides. Edgar W. Allen was educated in the schools of Zanesville, and in 1862 entered upon the study of law, soon after which he was admitted to the bar, and at once began practicing in his birthplace. This calling has occupied his time and attention ever since, except from 1870 to 1874, during which time be was clerk of the courts of Muskingum county. He pis a republican, the measures of which party he supports on all occasions. December 18, 1873, Miss Jane W. Dempsey, of Lawrence county, Ohio, became his wife, and by her he has two children: Stella E. and Edgar D. He was made a mason of Lafayette lodge in 1862, and is now a member of Cyrene Commandery No. 10, of which he is prelate, and is a member of Muskingum Lodge No. 28 of the I. O. O. F. He and his worthy wife are members in good standing of the Methodist Episcopal church. George A. Allen, Zanesville, Ohio. In the year 1815 James Allen Sr., with his wife Lois Allen and their child, James Allen Jr. emigrated from Chilmark, Martha's Vineyard, Mass., and located in Zanesville, Ohio, where he kept tavern until 1819. He then removed with his family to Wayne township, 'located on a farm near Fairview, and there carried on farming and blacksmithing. This he followed until a short time prior to his death, which occurred in 1848, in a peculiar manner. He was engaged in husking corn, and when apparently as well as ever, he was suddenly stricken with blindness and wandered about in the cold until discovered by neighbors during the night. In the meantime he had become so chilled that he never recovered but died soon after. He was born at Martha's Vineyard, Mass., in 1762, was a well-known man of his day, and one of the early blacksmiths of Wayne township. His worthy wife had died a number of years previous, at the age of seventy-five years. They were among the very early pioneers of Wayne township. Their only child, James Allen Jr., was born at Martha's Vineyard, in 1782, grew to maturity there and married Miss Cynthia Cottle, a native of the same place. He went with his wife and four children to Ohio in 1815 with James Allen Sr., and with the latter settled in Wayne township, where he resided on a farm until his death in 1847. His wife survived him until 1861, and died when seventy-eight years of age. He developed the coal deposits on his farm and in an early day supplied the Third Street foundry of Zanesville with coal. Of the children born to James and Cynthia (Cottle) Allen, four sons and one daughter grew to mature years: Leander (deceased); Adolphus, served in the regular army of the United States, and died from cholera at Wheeling, W. Va. ; John C., for many years as leading business man of South Toledo, Ohio, still resides in that city and is now about eighty-two years of age; Lois, married Jonathan Smith, of Muskingum county, and died in Blue Rock township, this county, about 1889, leaving four sons and two daughters; James B., who moved to Decatur, Ill., in 1859, enlisted in the service of the United States, Illinois Volunteer Infantry in 1861, was wounded in the battle of Pittsburg Landing and bled to death; Leander. the eldest of this family, was born at Martha's Vineyard, Mass., August 4, 1804, and at the age of eleven years came with his parents to Zanesville. He had a great desire to become a sailor, and when sixteen years of age ran away from his home and walked the entire distance to Philadelphia. He traveled to New Bedford, Conn., and there engaged as a sailor on a whaling vessel and put to sea on a three-year cruise in the Pacific ocean. The following twelve years of his life were spent upon the high seas, becoming during that time master of the ship and visiting various portions of the world. At one time he was severely wounded and left for dead upon one of the New Zealand islands. He was found by the savages, who, instead of practicing their canibalistic rites common to the inhabitants of those islands, employed crude science and nursed him back to health. Some months later his vessel-again visited the island to obtain a supply of fresh water, and he supprised his old companions by appearing before them fully recovered, and again shipped with them. In 1832 he abandoned the sea and returned to Zanesville, where he became a painter and an early business 376 - HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY. advertisement of that city was "Allen the Painter." He died in Zanesville, April 15, 1882. February 1, 1835, he married Miss Mary A. Barton, who bore him six living children: Frances (now Mrs William M. Lewis, of Zanesville), John H., Susan M., Edgar W., and George A. Mary A. Barton was born in Wayne township, Muskingum county, Ohio, February 15, 1818, and now resides in Zanesville. She is the daughter of Benjamin and Sally Barton, both natives of Virginia. who came to Muskingum about the beginning of the present century, and settled in Wayne township. George A. Allen, whose name heads this sketch is secretary of the Zanesville Gas Light Company, and one of the prominent business men of Zanesville. He was born in Zanesville, July 12, 1851, and is a son of Leander and Mary (Barton) Allen. He received his education in the high schools of the city, graduating in 1868. He attended Zanesville Commercial college, and after spending one year as traveling salesman, was appointed deputy county clerk of courts, which position he held for three years. The next seven years were spent as clerk, book-keeper and traveling salesman, respectively, for a wholesale hat house. He also served four years as deputy county treasurer, and, after some time spent in business in Cincinnati, accepted his present position as secretary of the Zanesville Gas Light company. In 1879 he married Miss Charlotte L. Hack, of Coshocton, Ohio, and to them has been born one child, Charles M. Socially Mr. Allen is a member of the I. O. O. F. and the Mystic Circle. George W. Allen, farmer, Norwich, has been a resident of Muskingum county, Ohio, all his life, his birth having occurred in that county on March 4, 1821, and his example of industry and earnest and sincere endeavor to succeed in life is well worthy of imitation. He was the elder of two children born to the marriage of Andrew and Mary (Self) Allen, natives of the Old Dominion. The father came to Muskingum county, Ohio, about 1816, settled on the farm now owned by Mr. Allen, and there died in 1833. This farm was entered by. John Self, of Frederick county, Va. Mrs. Allen, mother of subject, died in this county when in her ninety-fourth year. Their other child, William S., went to California, and while there had considerable trouble with his "lungs. He returned to the East in 1855, and two years later died in Union township. The father was a good farmer and a prominent man in the county in his day. George W. Allen remained in Union township until he became a young man and then engaged in stage driving on the pike from Zanesville to Wheeling, W. Va., following this business for seven years. After leaving the pike he married, and then, as his brother had gone to California, he took charge of the farm, He selected Miss Lucy E. Black, a native of Guernsey county, and daughter of Ralph Black, as his companion in life, and their nuptials were celebrated in 1851. This union resulted in the birth of ten children: Mary, now Mrs. Galligher of Newark, Ohio; John M., who is a resident of Cambridge, Ohio; Alonzo and Melissa (twins), the former residing on a farm and the latter, now Mrs. Edwin Taylor, lives in Perry township; Elizabeth, now Mrs. M. Winters, is a resident of Perry township also; Emma, died when twenty-one years of age; Ella; now Mrs. Arthur Taylor, is a resident of Union township; William, died when twenty-four years of age; George W., is warmer of this township, and Charles is at home, attending school. Mr. Allen's wife is a member of the Baptist church. He is considerably interested in political affairs and supports the principals of the democratic party. In 1875. Mr. Allen was elected county treasurer, and so well did he fill this responsible position, and so ably did he discharge its duties, that he was re-elected in 1877, holding the position until 1880. He has held all the township offices, viz. : assessor, trustee, treasurer, etc., and filled them with distinction and to the satisfaction of all concerned, leaving behind him a record of faithfulness, ability and carefully performed duty. He is public spirited and uses all his interests to support the cause of religion and education, as well as all other laudable enterprises. He is a master Mason and was master of Malta lodge No. 118, of Norwich, for fifteen consecutive years. He has held membership in that order for forty-two or forty-three years. Mr. Allen has followed the occupation of a farmer and has been unusually successful. He first began with eighty-four acres, but by industry and good management he has increased this to 215 acres, and now has a good property. Prominent among the well-known and representative citizens of Muskingum county, Ohio, there is probably no one more deserving of mention than James H. Alloways, mayor, Dresden, Ohio, for his residence within its borders has extended throughout his entire life, his birth having occurred in Dresden on June 21, 1846. He is a son of John W. and Lucy (McConnell) Alloways, the grandson of Asariah Alloways, and the great-grandson of Stephen Alloways, who was a native of Scotland. Asariah Alloways was born in Pennsylvania, and when fifty years of age, died of cholera in York county, of that state. He was a gunsmith by trade, and his grandson, James H. Alloway, has a rifle that he made, which is now over one hundred years old. John W. Alloways was born in York county, Penn. , May 8, 1820, and in 1833 he came to Muskingum county where be has since resided. In 1852 he began merchandising in Dresden, and has followed HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY - 377 this occupation very successfully ever since. His wife died in 1866. James H. Alloways received, his scholastic advantages in the schools of Dresden, and at an early age began clerking for his father. When twenty-one years of age he became a partner. In the spring of 1890 he was elected mayor of Dresden, and in the discharge of his official duties he shows excellent judgment and an unusual degree of interest in the welfare of the town. He was married in Knox county, Ohio, May 2, 1872, to Miss Joanna Allen,and their union has been blessed by the birth of five interesting children: John W., Nannie J., Hattie B., Mary L., and James R. Mr. Alloways is a member of the Masonic Fraternity, Dresden Lodge No. 103, and his father is a charter member of Watatomaka Lodge No. 186, I. O. O. F. Both are democrats. Albion J. Andrews, a prominent member of the legal fraternity of Zanesville, was born in Muskingum county, Ohio, August 12, 1842, to the union of William A. and Patia J. (Littlefield) Andrews, both natives of Maine, the father born in Kennebec county, November 16, 1814, and the mother in Bath, in 1816. The parents were married in 1837, and the same year moved to Knox county, Ohio, where they remained for about three years. From there they moved to Jackson township, Muskingum county, and there the father's death occurred August 30, 1864. He followed agricultural pursuits all his life, and was a man possessed of more than ordinary intelligence. His neighbors and friends found in him an able and judicious counselor, a safe and true friend, and a man whose honesty and integrity were unquestioned. He gave freely of his means to churches, charitable institutions, etc., and was foremost in any good work. He was an uncompromising democrat in politics, and was able, when necessary, to defend his side of the question with intelligent argument. He was one of four men in his county who voted for John C. Breckinridge in 1860. He served as justice of the peace for a number of years and was always active in local politics. His wife died July 26, 1884, at the home of our subject in Zanesville. The latter was the third in order of birth of six children who are named as follows: Augusta P., the wife of John Simpson, resides near Newark, Ohio; Clara, died in infancy; Ellen, the fourth child, is the wife of Matthew Ashmore and resides in Springfield township, Muskingum, county, Ohio; George, died in 1864, and Charles, the sixth child, died in infancy. Albion J. Andrews divided his time in youth in assisting on the farm during the summer months, and attending school during the winter season. When seventeen years of age he began attending the, high school at Zanesville, where he finished his schooling, and then returned to the farm, remaining on the same until 1863. He then entered the law office of Hon. A. P. Blocksom, at Zanesville, and remained with him until August 30, 1864, when, on account of the death of his father, he was compelled to leave his law studies and return to the farm to take care of his mother and sisters. He remained at home until 1867, teaching school during the winter and farming during the summer, also reading law when the opportunity presented itself, until the spring of the last named year, when he entered the office of his former preceptor. In the fall of the same year he was admitted to the bar and at once formed a partnership with his preceptor. They had a thriving business which continued until 1872, when Mr. Blocksom's son was admitted to the bar and he formed a partnership with his father. Mr. Andrews then opened an office and devoted his entire time to his profession, meeting with excellent success. In April, 1868, he was elected city solicitor and re-elected twice afterward, and, in October; 1873, he was elected prosecuting attorney of the county for four years being re-elected in 1875. He represented the Eighth ward in the city council for eight years, and represented the Tenth ward on the board of education for two years. He is at present a member of the city board of school examiners. On July 6, 1871, he was married to Miss Annie E. Slack, a native of Muskingum county, Ohio, and the daughter of Henry P. Slack, who is a respected and esteemed citizen of Zanesville. Seven children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Andrews: Albion J. Jr., is now in his senior year in the Ohio Wesleyan university (he expects to make law his profession and. reads with his father during vacation), Annie E., Charles A., Helen L. and three who died in infancy. Mr. Andrews is a member of the A. F. & A. M., Amity lodge No. 5, and is also member of the .Royal Arcanum. Politically he follows his father, and has a strong liking for the democratic party. He has been an active and influential member of the Methodist Episcopal church ever since 1864. William Armstrong, who is one of the oldest pioneers of Salem township, has been a successful farmer for many years, and in his case that oft much-abused phrase, "self-made man," seems to have a true illustration, for his rise in life has been accomplished through his individual efforts and by a constant and persistent industry. He was born in Ireland in November, 1806, being one of five children born to Alexander and Mary (Foster) Armstrong, and in 1808 he was brought by them to America, and when but two years old, settled with them in this county. Although the father followed the occupation of farming he was 378 - HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY. also a contractor on the National pike through the country, his sons also working on the same. After this contract was completed they settled down to farming and made for themselves homes in Muskingum county. Alexander Armstrong and his wife died in this county, of which they had become useful and influential citizens. Their children were named as follows: Elizabeth (Mrs. McCurdy), died November 20, 1891; John, who has been dead a number of years; William, whose name heads this sketch; James, who died in 1846, and Alexander, who resides in Perry township and has attained the advanced age of eighty-two years. William Armstrong was reared in this county, and as he grew up he became familiar with farming in all its details and when starting out in life for himself it was but natural that he should choose agriculture as his future calling. He was married in 1832 to Miss Isabel Moore, a daughter of Thomas Moore, who was an early settler of Perry township, this county. Mr. Armstrong was called upon to mourn the death of his wife, March 11, 1872, she having borne him a daughter, Catherine, who was born March 5, 1833. For his second wife Mr. Armstrong took Rachel Osler, of Highland township, but she was called from him by death in 1891. After his marriage he began tilling the farm of 160 acres, which was given him by his father, and by his good management he has become a large landholder and a wealthy citizen. He is very practical in his views and is well known throughout the county as a man of sound good sense and one who is not in the least niggardly in the use of his means. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, and in his political views was formerly a whig, but is now a republican and is deeply interested in municipal affairs. He is a charter member of the A. F. & A. M. lodge of. Adamsville, in which order he has taken much interest. In 1864 he enlisted in the Union army for the 100 days' service, at which time he was fifty-six years of age, and served his full time, being on garrison duty the most of this time. In his youth he learned the trade of a carpenter, and it has been his chief pleasure of late years to improve his place and to make many articles of convenience for his home. He is an interesting conversationalist, and it is a pleasure as well as a profit to those who listen to his reminiscences of early days. Alexander Armstrong an an old settler of Perry township, Muskingum county, Ohio, and a man much respected for his many excellent qualities, was born in Perry township, within two and a half miles of where he now lives, November 10, 1810. His father, Alexander Armstrong Sr., was a native of County Armock, Ireland, but his people were of English descent. Alexander, Sr., was married in his native country, and immigrated with his family to America in 1808, locating near Pittsburg, Penn., where 'he remained about two years. He then came to Muskingum county, Ohio, located on 160 acres of land, purchased from the government, in Perry township, and paid $2.50 per acre. This same piece of land is yet in the family, and is one of the finest tracts in Muskingum county. Mr. Armstrong is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, and was a very liberal supporter of the early churches in Muskingum county. In politics be was a whig, but lived to vote a few times in the infancy of the republican party. He was a prominent man, and held many of the different offices in his township. The father died when eighty-six years of age, and the mother passed away three months later, when eighty-four years of age. They passed a long life of usefulness, and died honored and respected by all. Their son, Alexander Armstrong Jr., received his education in the subscription schools of the day, and as might be supposed his scholastic advantages were not of the best. He worked hard in assisting in clearing the farm in his youth, and always found that he could do as much hard work as any man he ever met. He was first married on May 6, 1852, to Miss Rebecca Hardesty, of Union township, but on July 4, 1881, this estimable lady passed away. Mr. Armstrong is a member of the Masonic order, Malta lodge 118, situated at Norwich. He is a worthy supporter of all laudable enterprises, and contributes liberally to churches, schools, etc. After the death of his first wife he married Mrs. Margaret A. Slack, of Washington township. Although a republican in politics, Mr. Armstrong has-several times been called upon to hold the office of trustee, showing the high regard in which he is held by his neighbors, for the township is strongly democratic. He is the owner of 180 acres of land, all finely improved, and is one of the substantial men of the county. Michael Arnold, Adamsville, Ohio, represents one of the old colonial families of German descent in Muskingum county. His grandfather came from Germany and took part in the Revolutionary war. He married in America, and was the father of four children: Adam, Michael, Jacob and Elizabeth. Mr. Arnold settled in Loudoun county, Va., where he owns a piece of land. He worked at the trade of a weaver, and was a member of the Lutheran Church. He lived to the age of eighty years, dying in Loudoun county. He was a lover of freedom, and his descendants may well take an honest pride in their original American ancestor who fought in the war for independence. Adam Arnold, his son and the father of Michael, was born in Loudoun county, Va. He received a common-school educa- HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY - 379 tion in the German language, could read English, and learned when young the trade of a stonemason, at which he worked until married. He married Mary. Bojar, daughter of Michael Bojar, a farmer in Loudoun county, Va., and the father of the following children: Philip, Jacob, Samuel, John, Michael, Mary, Madelina, and Elizabeth, who died unmarried. Mr. Bojar came from Germany after the Revolutionary war. He was a Lutheran, and he and grandfather Arnold assisted in 'founding and building the Lutheran church near Lovettsville, Loudoun county, Va. After his marriage Adam Arnold settled on a farm in Loudoun county, and was 'the father of six children: Elizabeth, Mary, Sarah, Rebecca, Michael and Adam, all born in Loudoun county, Va., on the farm. Both he and his wife are members of the Lutheran church. His wife died in 1820, and Mr. Arnold lived for many years a widower. In 1854 The came to Ohio with his son Michael and died here at the age of eighty-two years. He was a hard-working and industrious man, a devout Christian and respected by all. Michael Arnold, his son, was born April 29, 1818, on his father's farm, and had the good fortune to be bred a farmer. He received a limited common-school education in English, and from his mother learned to speak German. He remained in Loudoun county, working on the farm until he was thirty-three years of age, when he married, March 4, 1852', Elizabeth C. Souder, of Loudoun county, Va., born April 9, 1826, and the daughter of Michael and Susan (Slater) Souder. Mrs. Souder was an aunt of George W. Slater (see sketch). Michael Souder was of German descent, born in Loudoun county, Va. ; was a substantial farmer and the father Of six children: Philip, Elizabeth, Emma, Susan, Eliza and John. He and his wife are members of the Lutheran church, and he died on his farm at the age of forty years. After his marriage Michael Arnold bought a small farm, where he resided two years, and in the fall of 1854 came to Ohio and settled in Madison township, near Guilbert station, where he lived nine years. About 1863 he came to his present farm, consisting of 135 acres of good land. To himself and wife have been born eight children: William M. (born March 2, 1853, and married Alice King (they have four children, and he is a farmer of this township. (See sketch of King family), Susan V. (deceased, born January 19, 1855), Edwin F. (born September 11, 1857, deceased in his sixth year), Emma (born July 8, 1859, died an infant), Annie (born February 25, 1862, died an infant), Ella J. (born January 17, 1864, and married Thomas Keys, a blacksmith of Adamsville; they have three children), Charles A. (born December 12, 1866, an able school teacher of Madison township), John Philip (born October 1, 1868). Mr. and Mrs. Arnold are members of the Methodist Episcopal church of Adamsville, and he has held the office of steward and is now church trustee. In politics he was formerly an old line whig, and later a democrat and now a prohibitionist. Mr. Arnold has always been in favor of good schools and has been a member of the board of education in his district. He has given his children good common-school educations. He is a public-spirited man and in favor of all enterprises for the good of the county. His life has been a natural result of an honest purpose and high moral standard well lived up to, and of which his descendants may well be proud. Arnold & Bateman, embalmers and funeral directors, Zanesville, Ohio. The custom of embalming the dead, which dates back many thousand years, has been practiced in all ages, and by all nations, by a great variety of processes. In ancient times it was regarded as a wonderful art, and its secrets were jealously guarded by those who practiced it, and the expense attending the embalming process' was so great that only the wealthy were able to avail themselves of it, for the preservation of departed friends. Modern science has, however, discovered systems which are in every respect superior to those practiced by the ancients, and by means of which the expense of embalming is brought within the means of all. One of the most satisfactory, if not the only true system, is that employed by Messrs. Arnold & Bateman, whose establishment is located at Nos. 13 and 15 South Fifth street, in Zanesville. This firm was established in November, 1881, and is composed of Messrs. Arnold and Bateman, gentlemen who bring into requisition the highest accomplishments and a thorough conception of the duties and responsibilities associated with the business in which they are engaged; the facilities which they enjoy for filling engagements in all departments of the business, assures the highest efficiency. They keep constantly on hand wood and cloth-covered coffins and caskets, burial cases, and everything in the way of undertakers' supplies. They have fine hearses and first class coaches for funeral occasions. They will attend funerals in city or country on reasonable terms. They will take the entire control of funeral obsequies, embalming and encasing bodies for shipment to distant points, or for their preservation. John K. Arnold, senior member of the firm, was born in Bellefontaine, Logan county, Ohio, February 9, 1845. When a young man he learned the jewelry and watchmaking trade and worked at it up to 1880, when, in company with W. M. Bateman, he purchased E. N. Hatcher's undertaking establishment and since then has given his time and attention to this business. He came to Zanesville in 1866 and worked in the jewelry store of Janes & Mershon up to 1880. He was married November 380 - HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY. 24, 1884, to Miss Emma Ebert, a native of Muskingum county, Ohio, and daughter of Elish a Ebert who resides in ianesville and is seventy-nine years of age. One child, Edwin, was born to Mr. and Mrs. Arnold. Mr. Arnold is a member of the Mechanic lodge No. 130, I. O. O. F. In politics he is a republican. He and Mrs. Arnold hold membership in the Presbyterian church. An honorable business man, he has secured a liberal and influential patronage by honestly deserving it. W. M. Bateman, junior member of the firm, is a native of Washington township, Muskingum county, Ohio, born February 22, 1856. He is a son of Penrod Bateman, who was born in Clay township, Muskingum county, Ohio, November 12, 1820. The elder Bateman was elected sheriff of Muskingum county on the republican ticket in 1856, and served in that *capacity up to. 1860, at which time he was appointed postmaster at Zanesville, holding that office at the time of his death, which occurred in St. Paul, Minn., December 8, 1862, whither he had gone for his health. He was chairman of the republican central committee for several years, and always took an active part in local politics. His father was John Bateman. Our subject's mother, whose maiden name was Elizabeth Mears, was born in county, England, January 12, 1820 and now resides in Zanesville. Her father, William Mears, came to the United States in 1827 and settled in Muskingum county, Ohio. W. M. Bateman was the fifth of six children born to his parents; Frank M., who resides in Mercer county, Ill. ; Annie 0. (deceased); Lizzie H., wife of Q. R. Kelley, resides in Perry township, Muskingum county; Mary A., wife of Jasper Beard, residing in Mercer county, Ill. ; and Penrod (deceased). W. M. Bateman was reared on his father's farm, attending the district school and farming alternately, and at a suitable age entered the Dennison university at Granville, Ohio, where he finished his education. He followed agricultural pursuits up to 1880 and then formed a partnership with John K. Arnold. They purchased the undertaking establishment of E. N. Hatcher, and since then Mr. Bateman has given his entire attention to his business. He was married on November 9, 1881, to Miss Ella E. Carter, a native of Muskingum county and the daughter of M. H. Carter. The fruits of this union have been two children: Helen C. and Fred W. Mr. Bateman has shown his appreciation of secret organizations by becoming a member of McIntire lodge No. 38, .K. of P. and Muskingum lodge No. 28, I. O. O. F. He and Mrs. Bateman are members of the Baptist church, and in politics he is democratic. Fenton Bagley, attorney, Zanesville, Ohio. As a leading citizen of Muskingum county in its professional, business and social life, lending eminent strength to her bar, tone to her finance and grace to her society, Mr. Bagley is second to none in the county. He was born in Newton township, Muskingum county, Ohio, October 10, 1838. He enlisted in the Seventy-eighth Ohio Volunteer infantry, in November, 1861, was discharged. in August. 1862. In May, 1864, he was commissioned firbt lieutenant, Company B, One hundred and Fifty-ninth Ohio Volunteer infantry, and subsequently participated in the siege of Fort Donelson and the battle of Shiloh. In 1865 he was admitted to the Muskingum county bar, and has ever since continued to successfully practice law. Mr. Bagley was married to Miss Isabelle Tipton a teacher in the public schools of Zanesville, Ohio, March 15,1877. Having been elected to the office of prosecuting attorney for Muskingum county in 1879,1e served in that capacity for two years with high honor to himself and his constituents. Mr. Bagley was of devout Methodist Episcopal parentage, and early in life connected himself with that church. In 1879 he transferred his church relations to the Presbyterian denomination, and has continued to work earnestly in that branch of Christ's church. The county republican executive committee elected Mr. Bagley its secretary in 1882, which office he continuously filled for four years. For years Mr. Bagley has stood as a leader in republican politics in Zanesville and Muskingum counties. Always firm in his convictions and earnest in his religion, patriotism, political belief and all else that tends to make model citizens, he has fearlessly stood for enterprise for the advancement of public good. Nowhere in Muskingum county, Ohio, is there to be found a man of more energy, determined will or force of character than Julius A. Bainter possesses, and no agriculturist is deserving of greater success in the conduct and management of a farm than he. He was born in Monroe township of this county on July 24, 1834, the second of four children born to Frederick and Mariah (Crumbaker) Bainter, the former of whom was born in Madison township of this county, August 19, 1804, a son of Jacob and Elizabeth Bainter, who settled here in 1802, and a grandson of Frederick Bainter, who also came here in 1802, and died shortly after reaching this county. Jacob. Bainter moved to Monroe township in 1808 in search of a healthier climate, for malaria was prevalent in the low lands along the river in Madison township, but in Monroe township he afterward reared his family who are named as follows: John. George, Frederick, Daniel, Ely, Jacob, Mariab, Eliza and Elizabeth. The father of these children died about 1865, his wife, who was a Miss Rife, having died same year. The Bainters came to this section from Bedford county, Penn. and became well known and honored residents of Muskingum county, Ohio. Frederick HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY - 381 Bainter, the father of Julius A., spent his early life in Monroe township. At the age of twenty-seven years he was married to Miss Crumbaker, and the following are their children: Louisa, who was the first wife of W. W. Adams; Julius A. ; Theodore, who is living on the home place in Monroe township; Jonas, who died at the age of thirty-eight years. After his marriage Mr. Bainter settled on a farm in Monroe township, and there he has resided ever since. Farming has always been his chief occupation, and the manner in which he has conducted his affairs has had everything to do in obtaining the competence which he now enjoys. His farm was at first heavily covered with timber, but with undeviating energy he wielded his ax, and in due time his land was cleared and a considerable portion under cultivation. He is a democrat, and is interested in all important issues of the day. He is a member of the Lutheran church and is active in all church matters, having been superintendent of the Sunday-school for a number of years. His wife was born in Loudoun county, Va., in 1815, and died in 1882, a daughter of John and Catherine Crumbaker. She was also an earnest worker in the Lutheran church. Her parents came to this county in 1816, the journey being overland, and as Mrs. Bainter was the youngest of the family, she was carried the most of the way by her mother, who walked the most of the distance. The youthful days of Julius A. Bainter were spent in Monroe township, and in 1857 he started out to do for himself. He was married to Miss Margaret Adams, since which time he has resided on the Adams' farm. His wife was born February 7, 1840, a daughter of George and Christina Adams. To Julius Bainter and his wife the following children were born: Henry H., who is married and living near home; Homer, who died at the age of three years; Hayman who died when one year old; Harvey, who is married and living in Missouri; Bruce, who is married and resides in Adamsville; George F., who resides in Cleveland; Nina B., Nora D., John W., Harmon G., and Jennie. Mr. Bainter and a number of his children belong to the Lutheran church. He is a democrat politically a public-spirited citizen and an earnest Christian. He has a well-improved farm of 144 acres, and is engaged in general farming; in which he has been more than ordinarily successful. James Baker, Dresden, Ohio, is a descendant of one of the earliest settlers of Tuscarawas and Coshocton counties, Ohio, and of Irish ancestry. John Nelson Baker, his grandfather, came to America from Ireland, and settled in West Virginia after the Revolutionary war. He married Miss Williams, of Virginia, and they were the parents of seven children: William, Thomas, John, Sallie, James, Joseph and Martha. He afterward came to Ohio, and first settled in Tuscarawas county, where he lived but a short time, when he died, while his children were yet small. The Indians were in possession of the country at that time, and Mr. Baker had a great deal of trouble to keep them off, his family being compelled to leave the house for safety. John Baker, his son, and the father of James, was born in West Virginia, and was about six years of age when he moved with his father to the wilderness of Ohio. As there were no schools here at that time he received but little education, and could read but not write. His father died, and his mother married again a man by the name of Beaver, who had two children, George and Peggy. The family depended largely upon game and the sale of furs, and John and the elder brother supported the family by means of hunting. The elder brother, William, died, and Thomas shot himself through the thigh, which necessitated the amputation of the limb. He returned to Virginia, thus leaving the family dependent for four or five years upon the hunter's skill of John Baker, who supported the family until his mother married. He then went to Coshocton county, and married Sally Burl. To them were born seven children: Joseph, Benjamin, Nancy, Hester, James, George and Martha. In 1824 Mr. Baker moved to Muskingum county, and lived here until 1839, when he moved to Illinois, and settled in Lawrence county, were he spent the remainder of his days. When a young man he was a soldier in the War of 1812. He died at the age of sixty-two years in 1842. James Baker, his son, was born November 18, 1818, in Coshocton county, Ohio, received but little education, and learned farming and carpentering, and could turn his hand to almost any kind of work. He started to work when he was very young, and when twenty-two years of age began for himself, and married, May 3, 1853, Susannah Cullins, daughter of George and Mary J. (Mucbler) Cullins. George Cullins was one of the early settlers of this county,.and was wounded by the Indians. [See sketch of Henry Cullins.] To Mr. and Mrs. James Baker have been born three children, Sarah J., Cornelius R. and Marietta. Mr. Baker settled on the river in Muskingum county, where he lived three years, and in 1860 settled on his present farm, in a log but with a stick chimney. The house was very small, but the family lived there two years, when Mr. Baker built a farm house. In the fall of 1861 he enlisted in Company F, Sixty-second Regiment, Ohio Volunteer infantry, and served one year and seven days, and was present at the battle of Winchester. He was taken sick, was discharged on account of disability, and returned home. On account of his disability he receives a pension from the government. He was a man who did not hesitate to offer his services to the govern- 382 - HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY. meat, and risk his life in defense of his country. By hard work and industry he has accumulated a handsome property, and is well known as an honorable and upright citizen. W. R. Baker, a prominent business man and assistant manager of the business of Stolzenbach Branch United States Baking company, owes his nativity to Deavertown, Morgan county, Ohio, where his birth occurred in 1852. His parents, Jacob and Phoebe (Diehl) Baker, were natives of Bavaria, Germany, and came to Ohio when twenty-eight and twelve years of age respectively. They were married in Zanesville, Ohio, and subsequently moved to Morgan county of that state, where Mr. Baker embarked in merchandising. In 1870 they returned to Zanesville, where the father died in September, 1888, when seventy-four years of age. Mrs. Baker is still a resident of Zanesville, and although sixty-eight years of age, is still quite strong and active. Of the ten children born to this union, W. R. Baker was third in order of birth. He attended the public schools of his native place, and in 1870 came to Zanesville, where he entered the employ of a wholesale grocery company. He worked himself up to the position of traveling salesman, and for about twelve years covered territory in southeast Ohio. In January, 1885, he engaged in his present business. In 1889 he was elected on the democratic ticket to the position of trustee of the waterworks, and ran ahead of his ticket. In September, 1883, he married Miss Louise Stolzenbach, a native of Zanesville, and daughter of C. Stolzenbach, and the result of this union is two sons. Mr. Baker is a democrat, and a hearty supporter of the principles of his party. He is a member of the English Lutheran church. Henry Ballou (deceased) was one of the early settlers of Muskingum county, Ohio, his settlement in this region dating from the year 1820. He was born in Cheshire county, N. H., September 6, 1796, a son of James and Mehitabel (Ingalls) Ballou, the latter of whom was left a widow with a family of small children to care for. In 1814, with her two sons and three daughters, the mother immigrated to Ohio, and about 1820 she settled in Salt Creek township, Muskingum county, where she was called from life the following year. Her children were James, Henry, Hetty (Mrs. Rufus), Eliza and Alpha. Henry Ballou was married March 20, 1823, to Phcebe P. Tanner, after which, for some time, they resided in Salt Creek township and afterward in Harrison township, where they made a permanent home. Mr Ballou filled several township offices with ability, besides greatly improving his farm. After a life of usefulness he died on the 23d of February, 1857, and is now sleeping his last sleep in Virginia Ridge cemetery. He and his wife became the parents of the following children: Jacob T., born March 4, 1824; James Ellis, born July 2, 1828; and Orrin Ballou, born September 21, 1831. Mr. Ballou was a man of fine natural attainments, and these were strengthened and enriched by judicious reading and by contact with the business affairs of life. To know him was to respect and admire him for his many worthy traits of character, and his death was considered a loss, not only to his own immediate family, but to the community in which he resided. He was a brother of Mrs. Eliza (Ballou) Garfield. the worthy and honored mother of President James A. Garfield. Orrin Ballou was the second son of Henry Ballou, and like the majority of pioneer boys, he assisted in the labors on the home farm and attended the subscription schools of his day, in which he obtained a fair English education. He was engaged in farming until 1862, when he began mining for coal on .his farm, and he was one of the leaders in developing the coal interests of Muskingum county. In 1866 or 1867 he also began the manufacture of salt in considerable quantities, but owing to the expense of its manufacture he gave it up. He held official position in Muskingum county from 1876 to 1880 by re-election, and was faithfulness itself in the discharge of his duties. He was married to Matilda J., daughter of William and Sarah (Johnson) Price of this county but formerly of Maryland, their union taking place on the 20th of January, 1853. He and his wife became the parents of five children: Henry, who is in Montana; William F., in California; Sarah A., Harriet E. and Anna. Mr. Ballou is a member of the Royal Arcanum and the A. O. U. W. Jacob Tanner, the father-in-law of Henry Ballou, was born in New Jersey, April 21, 1774, and was married to Lydia Passmore, who was born -June 18, 1778, their union being celebrated March 8, 1798, and resulting in the birth of these children: Mary Ann, born June 25, 1799; John Passmore, born August 20, 1800; George, born November 3, 1801; Phcebe, born November 25, 1803. Jacob Tanner died in Chester county, September 23, 1805, and in 1816 his widow came to Zanesville with her children, where she made her home, but her death occurred at the home of her grandson, Jacob Ballou, September 22, 1866. Her son John settled in Kentucky, where he died; George removed from Kentucky to Nebraska, dying in the latter state; Phcebe (Mrs. Ballou) is living with her son Jacob, and although eighty-seven years of age is well preserved mentally and physically. Moses Barnhouse, farmer, of Muskingum county, Ohio. A lifetime of hard, earnest endeavor in pursuing the occupation to which he now gives his attention, coupled with strict integrity, honesty of purpose, and liberality in, the right directions, have- HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY - 385 had the result to place Mr. Barnhouse among the truly respected and honored agriculturists of the county. He was born in Caldwell, Noble county, Ohio, May 17, 1841, and is a son of Benjamin and Mary (Gillespie) Barnhouse; natives of Virginia and of Irish descent. Moses Barnhouse received his initiatory education in the common schools of his district, but when the war came up he, with the enthusiasm of youth, enlisted as a private in Company I, First Ohio Heavy Artillery, and was in several active engagements, but the most of the time was with a foraging party. He received an honorable discharge August 2, 1865, and returned to his home in Noble county, Ohio, where he remained until the year 1871, when he came to Muskingum county and purchased 159 acres of land where he has carried on general farming ever since. He has been thrifty, industrious and pains taking, and as a reward for his faithfulness to his duties he is now in independent circumstances and has the confidence and good will of all who know him. He was married August 24, 1871, to Miss Martha, daughter of William and Mary Jane Huffman, and by her is the father of two children, Mary T. and Albert. Mr. Barnhouse is a member of the G. A. R., politically is a republican, and he and his wife are worthy and consistent members of the Presbyterian church. John Baughman (deceased) was born near Gettysburg, in Adams county, Penn., September 16, 1804. In 1811 he came with his parents to Ohio. He was married on September 18, 1828, to. Miss Sarah Stover. He was a farmer by occupation. In 1837 he removed to Stovertown and opened a general mercantile establishment, which he conducted with success until 1846. He also erected and conducted a sawmill in addition to his other duties. In 1842 he was elected justice of the peace of Brush Creek township, and during his term of service made an efficient public officer. He was re-elected to this office many times. He was an intelligent and well-informed man, not only on the current topics of the times, but also on deeper subjects. In 1859 he was elected one of the commissioners of the county, in which capacity he served until 1862. He was also at different times township land appraiser. He was a republican in politics. As a member of the Evangelical Lutheran church he took a great interest in its affairs, both at home and abroad. The old Lutheran church building preceding the present structure was built by him and he bore two-thirds of its cost. He and his wife lived to celebrate their golden wedding, at which time there were present eight children, twenty-seven grandchildren and one great-grandchild. Mrs. Baughman was born December 23, 1809. Her parents, Samuel and Mary Stover, settled in this county in 1811. Mrs. Baugh-, man died November 14, 1888, and Mr. Baughman on July 23, 1879. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Baughman were as follows: Elizabeth, born February 20, 1830; David F., born February 17, 1831, and died March 13, 1833; William D., born June 1, 1834, and died September 1, 1841; Aurilla, A., born November 26, 1835; Henry C., born December 4, 1837; Elzina J., born December 7, 1840; Sarah M., born August 10, 1843, and died February 18, 1889; Dr. John S., born September 4, 1847; Jesse T., born February 27, 1850, and Dr. Samuel S., born April 27, 1852. Jesse T., son of John and Sarah Baughman, was born on the farm on which he now makes his home. He obtained a fair education in the English branches in the common schools of the county. He was early trained to the laborious duties of farm life, and has made this his chief occupation. He was married to Miss Mary J., daughter of William Pletcher, September 22, 1875, and their union has resulted in the birth of six children, the following of whom are now living: Elzina M., born May 13, 1877; Roy B., born May 22, 1878; Perley P., born February 18, 1882; Chauncey K., born November 2, 1889. Almon R., the fourth of the family, was born July 2, 1887, and died February 25, 1889, and Samuel L. was born September 24, 1891. Jesse T. Baughman has served as township clerk and township treasurer two years each. He has always been a supporter of the principles of the republican party. His farm comprises 170 acres, and under his able management yields good crops. He and his wife are members of the Evangelical Lutheran church. His brother, Henry, served in the Ninth Missouri regiment during the first year of the war, but he was afterward transferred to the Fifty-ninth Illinois Volunteer infantry, Company F. He enlisted as a private, but by meritorious conduct rose gradually the promotion through the various grades, and at the close of the war held the rank of captain. He was taken prisoner twice, but escaped both times. On one of these occasions he was recaptured by the Union troops, and thus effected his escape. He was a brave and courageous soldier and officer, and always showed much spirit and determination on the battlefield. Joseph. Baughman (deceased) was a son of Christian Baughman and grandson of Christian Baughman Sr., the latter being a pioneer of this section, mention of whom is made in this volume. Joseph Baughman was born in Pennsylvania December 11, 1808, and when a child of three years was brought by his parents to the wilds of Ohio, where, on his father's farm, he grew to manhood, learning the details of an agricultural life. His education was obtained in the, old-time subscrip- 386 - HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY. tion schools. March 24, 1831, he was married to Mary, daughter of James Hopkins, a sketch of whom is given in this volume, and soon after his marriage he purchased eighty-four acres of land in Newton township, now known as the Baughman homestead. This land was partly improved, for on it was a small log cabin and. a little of the land had been cleared. He prospered in his undertakings and became well-to-do, but through it all he was modest and unostentatious, devoted to his own affairs and his family, and held himself entirely aloof from public affairs. Nine children Were born to him and his wife: George W., Lydia A., Nancy E., Rebecca J., Sarah E., John W., James F., Mary M. and Susan L. He and his estimable wife were honored members of the Lutheran church from childhood, and for many years he was an official member and a liberal supporter of the same, contributing freely to the erection of a church and in the support of a minister. He met an untimely and sudden death from an accident while riding one horse and leading another; he received injuries which resulted in his death on September 20, 1862, without regaining consciousness. His widow departed this life August 3,1890, at the age of seventy-nine. years. George Baughman, farmer, Roseville, Ohio, one of the pioneer settlers of Muskingum county and a man well and favorably known all over the same, was born in Newton township, Muskingum county, Ohio, February 14, 1813. His father, Christian Baughman, came from Pennsylvania to Muskingum county, Ohio, about 1811, and made the journey in wagons. When this pioneer reached Zanesville he had but 50 cents, and with a family to support, the outlook was not very encouraging. He at once began working, and in spite of hardships and privations, became one of the substantial and much respected citizens of the county. To his marriage were born eleven sons and one daughter who have since proven a credit to the community in which they live. One of these children, George Baughman (subject of sketch), passed his early life on the farm with his parents and received a limited education in the subscription schools of that period. He remained under the parental roof until twenty-two years of age and on the 30th of October, 1834, he was united in marriage to Miss Catherine Rees of Springfield township, Muskingum county. Shortly after his marriage Mr. Baughman received some little help from his father and bought eighty acres of land in Clay township. This he has since resided on and after the lapse of fifty-seven years, is the owner of 262 acres of as well-improved land as can be found in the township. He is also the owner of town property in Roseville. When twenty years of age he joined the Lutheran church, and to this day he has been a liberal and worthy supporter of the same. Although he has never been active in politics, he was formerly an Andrew Jackson democrat, but now affiliates with the republican party. When the war broke out he could not leave his large family, but one of his sons was in the service. His marriage resulted in the birth of thirteen children: Solomon R., born November 5, 1835; Martha A., born September 15, 1837; Sarah E., born June 26, 1839; Lucy J. born May 21, 1841; Nancy C., born August 29, 1843; George W., born September 20, 1845; Hester E., born December 13, 1847; Mary J., born May 21, 1850; John G., born August 7, 1852; Amanda J., born June 2, 1854; Clara E., born February 11, 1856; Catherine R., born February 18, 1858; and Bruce J., born April 18, 1860. Three children of this family have passed away and also the mother who died September 15, 1886, when sixty-eight years of age. Samuel Baughman has been identified with the progress and development of Muskingum county for many years, and by his own unaided efforts he has accumulated a fair share of this world's goods. He was born in this county on the farm where Jesse, his brother, now resides, on the 17th of May, 1822, the eighth child born to Christian Baughman, a pioneer, of whom mention is made elsewhere in this volume. Samuel was brought up to a knowledge of farm life, and in him were early instilled principles of economy, frugality and honesty which have remained with him to this day and have been the stepping stones to his present success. His early literary acquirements, which were rather limited, were obtained in the subscription schools which were in vogue in his day, but he has since received a thorough education in the hard, but useful and practical school of experience, and and is now a well-informed man. He was married to Ruth, daughter of James and Sarah Hopkins, October 12, 1843, and after his marriage he settled where his brother, S. S., is now living, on which he built a hewed-log house, for doing which he received thirteen and a half cents per day for his labor. He rented and resided on his land for two or three years, and as he himself expressed it, he did not get rich very fast." In 1846 he purchased eighty-two acres of land in Newton township, all of which was woodland, with the exception of ten acres, on which a small cabin had been erected. It contained only two rooms, but it answered Mr. and Mrs. Baughman the purpose of a home for ten years. It then gave place to a commodious frame structure which now constitutes his present comfortable home. Mr. Baughman has been prospered in his affairs and from time to time has added to his original purchase until he is the owner of 127 acres of good land, which he has greatly improved with buildings of all kinds and good fences. To HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY - 387 the union of Mr. and Mrs. Baughman the following children have been born: James H., Jacob and Sarah E. who are deceased, Jesse M., David F., George W., Louisa C., Joseph L., Mary L. and Annie L. Mr. and Mrs. Baughman are exemplary members of the Lutheran church, and politically, Mr. Baughman has always supported the republican party in'its principles of government. The Baughman family, of Muskingum county, Ohio, was first represented in this country by Christian Baughman, grandfather of Solomon S. Baughman, who emigrated to America with his family from Germany about the year 1791, and lived and died iu Pennsylvania. His son, Christian Baughman (father of our subject), in 1812 came to Muskingum county, Ohio, at which time he had but 50 cents in money, but was the possessor of three horses. He purchased 163 acres of land in Bush Creek township, which he greatly improved before his death, and on which he passed the remaining years of his life. He was born November 26, 1785, and died August 3, 1836. Elizabeth, his wife, was born January 24, 1785, and died November 8, 1866. Their children were as follows: John, born September 16, 1804, and died July 23, 1879; Jacob, born October 3, 1805, and was murdered August 29, 1863; Christian was born April 27, 1807, and died April 30, 1886; Joseph was born December 11, 1808, and died September 20, 1862, from injuries received from being thrown from a horse; Adam was born Febuary 3, 1810, and died September 18, 1877 ; George was born February 14, 1813, and is a resident of Clay township; Andrew was born June 1, 1815, and died December 28, 1888; a daughter that died in infancy comes next; David was born May 19, 1820, and lives in Clark county, Ill. ; Samuel was born May 17, 1822, and lives in Newton township; Elizabeth was born February 27, 1824, and is a resident of Ottumwa, Iowa; Solomon S. was born June 14, 1827, and is a resident of Brush Creek township, and Jesse M. who was born October 24, 1829. The father of these children was a democrat politically and a man of unblemished reputation. He possessed the characteristics of the German people-honesty, frugality and industry -and was for many years a worthy member of the Lutheran church. Solomon S. Baughman, the twelfth child of Christian Baughman, was born on the old Baughman homestead in Brush Creek township, and his early life was spent in a manner common to the sons of pioneer families. His education was limited to the imperfect system of subscription schools in vogiie at that time, but the most of his time was spent in endeavoring to subdue the wilderness. He was married on the 27th of March, 1851, to Miss Susannah, daughter of William and Susannah Swingle, of whom mention is made in this work. Following his marriage he settled on the farm where he now lives, which at that time was but little improved, and this farm has been the scene of his labors. He and his estimable wife have, by their united efforts. succeeded in clearing up and developing the resources of their land, and it is now devoted to well cultivated fields of grain. To them a family of seven children have been born: William W., born September 9. 1854, married to Mary Showers, daughter of Alvah Showers; Solomon L., born August 4, 1859, married Louisa Eicher, daughter of Adam Eicher, by whom he has three children-Chester, Herbert (deceased) and Esther Rosa (born November 15, 1891); Roceilla Alice, born January 21, 1863, and died June 14, 1890; Florence A., born October 25, 1868. The three eldest children of the family died in infancy. Mr. Baughman gave his children good educational advantages, and William taught school for several terms. Mr. Baughman has always been a patron of education, and has acted as a director in his school district for many consecutive years. He' and his wife and children are members of the Lutheran church and manifest much interest in the advancement of the cause of Christianity. He has been a Republican in politics since the organization of that party, but prior to that was an old line whig. Jesse M. Baughman was born on the 24th of October, 1829, and his youth was spent upon a farm and in attending the subscription schools that were started in the vicinity of his home. Owing to the inferior character of the schools at that peroid, and to the fact that his services were required in clearing the home farm from timber and underbrush, he only attended about thirty days throughout the year and then did not advance as rapidly in his studies as he should. He was married October 19, 1854, to Elizabeth Ziegler and soon after settled on the farm on which he now resides and on which he was born. Their union was blessed in the birth of the following children: James H., who died at the .age of five years; Delilah E., wife of Clark I. Weaver; Lewis E., a prominent and successful educator, and now principal of the Dresden high school (began teaching when he was eighteen years of age and followed this occupation for five years at Chandlersville; he is married to Anna Day); Cora A. is superintendent of a department in the McIntire Home, at Zanesville; Lucy J. ; Mary L. and Abbie M. Mr. Baughman is comfortably fixed, financially, and he and his wife are members of the Lutheran church, with which they have been connected for many years. His wife s grandfather, Andrew Zeigler, was the founder of the Zeigler family in this county and was one of its earliest settlers, and it is the impression of one of his grand-daughters 388 - HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY. that he was a school teacher, but this is not certain. Samuel Zeigler, his son, Was probably born in this country and was married to Rachel, daughter of Jacob Spangler, a pioneer of this section. Samuel Zeigler resided for many years near and was manager in charge of the salt works at, or near, that place. About 1854 he removed to Vinton county, Ohio, where he resided until his death, which occurred February 23, 1886, at the age of seventy-seven years. His wife was born in 1812, and to them a family of twelve children were born: Nancy, Elizabeth, James, Alfred (deceased), Martha (deceased), Margaret, Levi, Mary, Mason, William, Samuel and David. Mrs. Zeigler now resides in Hamden, Ohio. William Beal, Dresden, Ohio, a prosperous agriculturist of this region, successfully manages his farm of 389 acres, and inherits the thrift and energy of his German ancestors. His grandfather, George Beal, was a ,,farmer of Beaver county, Penn., and was married to Miss Nancy Sparks, who was the daughter of Capt. Sparks, who served in the Revolution. To them were born these children: William, Sarah, Elizabeth, Rachel, Deborah, Margaret, Elias, John, Isaac, George and Nancy. William was in the War of 1812 and John served as common pleas judge of Blackford county, Ind. Mr. Beal was a deacon in the Baptist church, and a man of moderate means. He came to Guernsey county, Ohio, in 1814, and settled near Birmingham, where he remained until his death, when about eighty years of age. His son, Isaac Beal, and the father of William Beal was born in Beaver county, Penn., in 1807, and received but a limited education. Some of his brothers were quite well educated. Isaac was seven years old when he came with his parents to Guernsey county, and he grew up in the rough school of pioneer days, working on the farm and attending school when he could find time from his duties. He was married in Guernsey county, Ohio, October 14, 1830, to Miss Jane Neal, who was born June 12, 1812, and who was the daughter of William and Mary A. (Sheridan) Neal. William Neal was born in Ireland, and came to Maryland, where he married and settled. He afterward emigrated to Ohio and settled in Belmont county, then in Harrison, and finally in Guernsey county, where he died in his sixty-sixth year. His companion, Mary A. Sheridan, who was the aunt of Gen. Phillip H. Sheridan and the cousin of Gen. Robert E. Lee, died March 1, 1874, in her ninety-fourth year. Their family consisted of thirteen children: Sarah S., Rachel, John, James, Mary A., William, Jane (wife of Isaac Beal), Elizabeth, Thomas, Lee, Archibald, Asbery S. and Alexander G. Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Beal settled in Guernsey county after marriage, and there, their children, sixteen in number, were born: Mary A., Nancy A., Perry, Sarah, Archibald, Rachel J., William, Elizabeth, Margaret L., Martha S., Thomas, Elias, Bersheba, Isaac S., George and Lee. Mr. Beal was a man of comfortable circumstances; was the owner of 160 acres of land. He and Mrs. Beal held membership in the Old School Baptist church, and Mr. Beal was deacon for many years. In politics he was a republican. He had one son, Archibald, in the civil war. He enlisted in Company K, Eighty-fourth Illinois regiment, and served as sergeant, and was at the battle of Murfreesboro, Tenn., where he was captured by the confederates but was retaken by the -Union troops the same day, and died January 5, 1863, from exposure. Isaac Beal lived to be eighty years of age, and died on his farm in Guernsey county, December 26, 1887. He was one of the old pioneer settlers, and cleared up a great deal of wild land. His widow is still living, and is now in her eightieth year. Their son, William Beal, owes his nativity to Guernsey, county, Ohio, where his birth occurred November 3, 1841, and he was liberally educated in the common schools. His father, who had but limited educational advantages himself, was determined to send his children to school, and young William attended school in the winter and worked on the farm during the summer months until twenty-two years of age.. He selected as his companion in life Miss Sarah A. Morgan, who was born December 4, 1845, daughter of Washington and Mary (Lake) Morgan, and their nuptials were celebrated on December 24, 1863. To them were born three children: Spenser L., Elroy and Jane E. After marriage Mr. and Mrs. Beal settled on a farm in Cass township, this county, and sadly afflicted was Mr. Beal while living there. A disease that was epidemic in the county entered the family, and Elroy died August 17, 1870; Mrs. Beal died on the 20th of the same month, Spencer L. on the 22d, and Jane E. on the 27th, all within ten days of each other. On October 2, 1871, Mr. Beal married Miss Charity E. Butler, who was born December 17, 1844, daughter of William and Elizabeth (McGee) Butler. [See sketch of Joshua Butler.] William Butler was born in Brook county, Va., July 20, 1810, and was a school teacher for some time, although a carpenter by trade. For many years he was a preacher in the Old School Baptist church, and moderator of the association for quite a number of years. He was married to Miss Elizabeth McGee, January 4, 1838. She was born August 3, 1815. To them were born three children: Honor, Henry J. and Charity E. He was a self-educated man, a substantial farmer, and a man who was of great benefit to his community HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY - 389 in its early days. He died June 16, 1885. After marriage Mr. and Mrs. Beal settled on the farm where they now live, and here all their children were born: Isaac T., John W. and Perry L. In politics Mr. Beal is a republican, and has held several of the township offices. He and Mrs. Beal are members of the Old School Baptist church, in which he was clerk for several years and is now deacon. He is deeply interested in school matters, and is educating his sons at Dresden. Mr. Beal is a well-informed man, and keeps thoroughly abreast with the times. This family is widely known and highly respected in Muskingum county. George W. Bell, Adamsville, Ohio, is one of the most prominent farmers of Adams township, and the largest landholder. John Bell, his grandfather, was from Westmoreland county, Penn., of Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry. He was a farmer, and married Rachel Stillwell, also from Pennsylvania, and of Scotch ancestry.. He came with his family to Muskingum county and settled in Adams township on a farm, now owned by John R. Bell. He was the father of ten children: One daughter, Elizabeth, Haley, John. J., Mary A., William, Nancy, Catherine, Sarah, James and Amy. Mr. Bell bought his land of the original settler, and it bad a clearing on if. This tract contained eighty acres, besides which he bought eighty acres of Willis creek, Adams township, and eighty acres in Hocking county. He lived to be seventy-eight years of age, was a member of the Fairview Methodist church, and his wife was a member of the Baptist church at Adamsville. In politics he was an old line whig, and was a quiet, civil man, of excellent character, industrious and hardworking citizen. His education was limited to reading and writing. William Bell, his son, was born February 9, 1809, in Westmoreland county, Penn., and came with his father's family to Adams township when a young man. The trip was made in one of the old-fashioned Pennsylvania wagons. He had a common-school education. He married Rachel Gaumer, daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth (Sturtz) Gaumer. The father was the grand-uncle of Hon. Daniel H. Gaumer, of Zanesville. [See sketch.] To Mr. and Mrs. Bell were born seven children, two of whom died in infancy: George W., Jacob J., Elizabeth C., John R. and Jared C. After his marriage Mr. Bell settled on a farm now occupied by his son, John R. Bell. He entered this land which consisted originally of eighty acres, and was a very active, energetic man of good business capacity, careful and economical, attending strictly to his own affairs, letting politics alone and became very successful. He bought land from time to time until he owned 640 acres in one tract, besides 173 acres, making 813 acres, all in Adams township, with the exception of fifty-three acres in Monroe township. Both himself and wife are members of the Lutheran church. He died January 26, 1876, at the age of sixty-seven years. In politics he was a republican, and a strong union man during the war. George W. Bell, his son, and the subject of this sketch, was born May 19, 1832, on his father's farm, in Adams township. He received a common-school education, learning farming in early life, and married Elizabeth C. Vinsel, daughter of John and Mary (Bogue) Vinsel. John Vinsel was from Loudoun county, Va., and of Dutch ancestry of old colonial stock. He was the father of two children: William H. and Elizabeth C., and came to Ohio in 1844, settling in Monroe township, where he owned 648 acres of land, and was a well-to-do farmer. Himself and wife were members of the Lutheran church, and in politics he was å republican. He lived to the age of sixty-two years, and died August 26, 1856. After his marriage, George W. Bell settled On a farm in Adams township, belonging to his father, where he lived one year and then moved to a farm which Mrs. Bell had inherited from her father, and resided there twelve years. He then came to his present farm, which he bought of Jacob Gaumer's heirs, and has been in the family for three generations. It was entered by Jacob Gaumer in 1819. Mrs. William Bell, the mother of our subject, is yet living at the advanced age of eighty years, with her faculties well retained. Mr. Bell is one of our practical farmers, owning 780 acres of land, all in this township. He is an excellent business man, and has accumulated a handsome property. To Mr. and Mrs. Bell have been born six children: Susan A., Mary A., Mariam E., Rachel J. (deceased at the age of three years and nine months), Carrie E. (deceased at the age of two years and nine months), and Charles B. In politics Mr. Bell is a democrat. He is a man whose judgment is respected, and he is serving his fifth term in succession, some fourteen years, as justice of the peace. He has also been treasurer, clerk and trustee. Both he and Mrs. Bell are members of the Lutheran church, and Mr. Bell has held the office of warden and deacon for the past twenty years. He has also been a liberal contributor to the cause of religion, is public spirited, in favor of good schools and roads, and served on the board of education for years, and clerk for fifteen years. Mr. Bell is a man of broad and liberal views, and is a member of the Grange. He stands high as one of the practical and substantial farmers of this region. John L. Bennett, Frazeysburg, Ohio. This is one of the most remarkable families that Muskingum county has produced. They are remarkable for many things, but most of all for those sterling traits of character which enable a humble 390 - HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY. pioneer family to live through the vicissitudes of pioneer life, to multiply, and become a power in the land for good; training up their children to be honorable and valuable citizens until to-day, their descendants number hundreds of the best of the land. The 'grandfather of John L. Bennett, and the founder of the family in America, was James Bennett, who emigrated when a young man with his brother from England and settled among the Quakers of Pennsylvania. He afterward went to the Valley of Virginia, married Jane McCormick and late in- life removed to the west part of Ohio, paying a visit of a few days to his son Joshua on the way. He afterward removed to Indiana, and there died. Joshua Bennett, his son, and the father of John L. Bennett, was born March 23, 1788, in Charleston, Jefferson county, Va. His mother died a few months after his birth. He received about six weeks' schooling, but being fond of reading became well posted on the current topics of the day. His youth was spent on his father's farm and in teaming between Winchester, Va., and Baltimore, Md. He drove a six-horse team and hauled immense loads on the large wagons of those days. He experienced religion when about seventeen years of age, and was a liberal friend and supporter of the church all his life. The itinerant preacher was always cordially welcome to his house. His first marriage occurred in Jefferson county, Va., to Miss Jane Mendenhall, who was born November 25, 1784, and who was the daughter of Samuel and Hannah Mendenhall. To them were born six children: Hannah and Lydia (twins), Uriah P., Samuel, Maria Jane and Martha. Of these three are now living, and were present at the family reunion held near Frazeysburg, Ohio, at the residence of Joshua Bennett, in 1888. Their names are Uriah P., Maria and Martha. Jane Mendenhall was a Quaker, and her son, Uriah P., says of her: " My mother was a Quaker, and my recollection of her is that she was of the plainspoken, amiable kind, and I have often wished that I had inherited a large measure of the sweetness of her disposition. As I look backward now from my standpoint of more than three score and ten, it seems to me that she was always trying to show the bright side of life as affording more rational and enduring happiness than the dark side, and to me the pleasant memories of her are favored with an admiration for the plain dress and plain speech whieh showed so constantly the presence of the law of human kindness of heart. She never seemed to lose her power of self control, the calm repose taught her in childhood by her Quaker parents." Lydia died February 2, 1813; Hannah died here on the old homestead May 7, 1882, in her seven: tieth year. At birth she was very small and would not have filled a quart cup. Samuel died of small pox in Pittsburg and was buried in Alleghany, Penn., December 24, 1871, in the fifty-sixth year of his age. Neither of them ever married. Samuel learned the printing business and followed it for a number of years, but at the time of his death was employed in a bank. Early in the spring of 1816 three families emigrated from Jefferson and Frederick counties, Va., to Jackson township, Muskingum county, Ohio, where they arrived on May 1 of that year, making the journey with four-horse teams. These families were Robert Drake, wife and four sons, Richard C. Mendenhall and wife and three children, and Joshua Bennett and wife and three children. They cut' and blazed their way from Zanesville, taking two days to travel sixteen miles. A vacant cabin on the hillside, south of the homestead, served them as shelter until a hewed-log house was built. Here two children, Maria J. and Martha, were born. In June, 1825, another installment of Virginia emigrants arrived in their neighborhood, composed of Grandmother Mendenhall in her "caryall," John Wimmer and family, Henry Shepherd and family, and Hugh Reed and family in their wagons. Grandmother Mendenhall had a huge log house built for herself adjoining that of uncle Chancy Mendenhall, where she resided until her death in 1833, when in her seventy-fourth year. Nearly five and a half years after locating here, on October 12, 1821, Jane Mendenhall, wife of Joshua Bennett, died. On January 30, 1823, he married Amelia Channell, widow of Joseph Channell, and by this union became the father of six children, one daughter and five sons, all now living, and all present at the last Bennett reunion in 1888. Their names are: Samantha, John Lee, George W., Alpheus J., Joshua B. and Leonidas M. The mother of these children lived to be eighty-three years old, and died in 1873 on the old homestead. She lived to see her youngest child nearly forty years of age. She was a devout Christian. Joshua Bennett was a man universally esteemed and respected, held the office of township trustee, clerk and treasurer, and was commissioner two terms (six years) for said county. He died June 30, 1860, at the age of seventy-three. He was a lifelong member of the Methodist church, and held the office of steward and trustee for years. He contributed liberally of his means to build up the church in Frazeysburg. In politics he was formerly a whig, but in later years he affiliated with the republican party. He was industrious and enterprising and accumulated quite a fortune. His son, and the subject of this sketch, John L. Bennett, was born August 28, 1825, and his Mother was Amelia Channell, whose parents, John and Rebecca (Bagley) Channell, were natives of Virginia. Mr. Channell was born in 1767, and was of HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY - 391 English descent. He was one of the earliest settlers of Zanesville, on the west bank of Muskingum river. He was a noted Indian trader and hunter. At one time an Indian came to him and wanted to trade him a bear. When asked where it was the Indina replied, " Only up here a little ways." Mr. Channell went with the Indian and frequently asked where the bear was, but received about the same answer. They finally reached the Bowling Green country, near the present site of Newark, about twenty-five miles from Mr. Channell's home, and there found the bear, which weighed 600 pounds, and which he bought, paying for it a cambric shirt. It was in this tramp that Mr. Channell saw and admired the land east of Newark about two miles, and afterward bought 300 acres, paying, $2 per acre in furs. His grandson, our subject, well remembers the old hunter and the stories he told. He died October 29, 1835, in the sixty-eighth year of his age. John L. Bennett was born on the old homestead, in a log house, and received a very meager education. He married Thresa M. Baughman, November 16, 1848. She was born April 11, 1825, and was the daughter of Henry and Elizabeth (Porter) Baughman, the father a native of America, but of German descent. Mr. Baughman came to Muskingum county, Ohio, in 1812, and settled on a farm in Jackson township. He was a soldier in the War of 1812, and was at the battle of Bladensburg. He was the father of thirteen children. To Mr. and Mrs. Bennett were born six children: Louisa (born September 18, 1849), Joshua Hugh (born January 12, 1851), Charles Homer (born March 19, 1855, and died May 12 of that year), Alva Lee (born March 26, 1858, and died February 22„ 1875), Elmer E. (born June 20, 1862), and May (born April 19, 1866. After marriage Mr. Bennett settled near the old homestead, and resided there until March 16, 1886, when he moved to his present home, which is a part of the old estate. In 1871 his wife died, and Mr, Bennett has never remarried. He is a member of the Methodist church, and has been church trustee and class-leader. In politics he is a stanch republican, and he has held the office of township trustee for twenty years. On May 2, 1864, Mr. Bennett enlisted in company H, Ohio Volunteer infantry, and was in service at Baltimore. Prior to this he was a member of the United States guards for nine years, and was a member of the company that pursued John Morgan and their raiders in their memorable hostile incursion through Ohio in 1864. He assisted in the capture of some of the raiders. During this raid Mr. Bennett\ rode night and day for nearly six days, and endured great fatigue. He was in his meadow mowing when he heard the news that John Morgan was about to attack Zanesville. Leaving his horses standing in the field, he mounted a saddled horse, and hastily gathering a number of men, rode rapidly to that city, and was one of the first to volunteer to pursue the raiders. Mr. Bennett was very patriotic and would gladly have enlisted earlier in the war, but the demands of a young and dependent family prevented him. He is a man of high character and one of the county's best citizens. John H. Best, ex-city clerk and hardware merchant at 172 Underwood street, is well known in the city and is as popular socially as he is successful in business. He is a native of Zanesville, Ohio, born April 19, 1847, and is a son of Valentine and Miranda (Fox) Best, the father a native of Zanesville Ohio, and the mother of Maryland. The grandfather, Valentine Best, was a native of the Emerald Isle and immigrated to the United States at an early date. He was one of the first settlers of Zanesville and is well remembered by the old residents of the city. He distilled the first whisky ever made in Muskingum county, and located in what is now the Third ward. There is now an addition known as " Best's addition to the Third ward." The grandfather died in 1819. Valentine Best Jr. was but little over a year old when his father died and he was educated in Zanesville, receiving such schooling as those early days afforded. He learned the tinner's trade and carried on house furnishing and hardware business for forty years or more. He was well known and respected all over the county. He was councilman of the village of Putnam in 1854. His death occurred in 1876. He was the father of six sons and four daughters, five. of whom are now living: Solan M., John H.. Laura, Mary and Ida. John H. Best was reared and educated in Zanesville and at an early age engaged in the tinnery business which he has carried on for twenty years. In 1863 he enlisted in the United States navy and served one year, being only fifteen years of age at the time of enlistment. He was all through the Red River expedition. In 1867 he was united in marriage to Miss Lunetta Arter, who bore him six children, three now living: John V., Mamie and Reuben. In 1886 Mr. Best' was elected city clerk, served four years, and was assessor of the Fourth ward for five years. The Best family is one of the oldest and best respected of Zanesville. All Mr. Best's brothers were soldiers. Socially he is a member of the Masonic fraternity, Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias, G. A. R. Post No. 81 and the Mystic Circle. Capt. Andrew Jackson Blizzard, Frazeysburg, Ohio, is one of the oldest residents of Jackson township, and a descendant of one of the oldest pioneer settlers. His grandfather, Thomas Blizzard, came from eastern Virginia in 1808, and brought his family, consisting of his wife and 392 - HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY. eight children: Reuben, Wesley, John, Phebe, Mary, Ann, Ellen and William, the last named being but nine years of age at that time. Three of the daughters were married women. Thomas, Blizzard was of mixed ancestry, the blood of the Spaniard, Frenchman and Englishman flowing in his veins. He came to Ohio with a company of pioneers, ten families as nearly as can be learned; and followed the Zane trace to Irville, arriving in November, 1808. They cut their way through the unbroken wilderness to Jackson township and camped the first winter three and a half miles from Irville, in the Ohio Canal bottoms, camping near his son-in-law, Nathan Baker, making a barricade and passing the winter in wagons: In the spring Mr. Blizzard settled temporarily about where the town of Frazeysburg now stands, Clark Hollenback, one of his sons-in-law, and himself living and farming together.. It is believed that Mr. Blizzard, Hollenback and Samuel Smith, another son-in-law, lived together until April 1, 1817, when Mr. Blizzard bought a claim of John Hardesty, the southwest quarter of section 12, and here his son, Cola Blizzard, lived for years on what is called the "Old Blizzard homestead." Thomas Blizzard also entered the southeast quarter of section 12,. in 1812, which land he afterward sold to Samuel Smith in 1817, but it subsequently came in Col. Blizzard's possession. Nathan Baker lived near them, and was the first justice of the peace of Jackson township. He came here before the Blizzards, and was a 'son-in-law of Thomas Blizzard. In 1814 Mr. Blizzard sent his.son, William, a boy of about fifteen years, back through the woods to East Virginia on horseback, a distance of several hun dred miles, riding the little gray mare as she was called. This long journey embraced crossing the Alleghany mountains at a time when the entire distance was an unbroken wilderness, and as it was just at the close of the War of 1812-14, back settlements were in an uneasy condition, fearing danger from the Indians. But a few cabins had been erected on the Zane trail, which was but little better than a blazed trail. Mr. Blizard gave the boy careful directions as to the course to be followed, and particularly enjoined him to give " the little gray mare " the run when in doubt as to which path to take, and trust to her remembrance of the road she had traveled before. "The little gray mare" was very intelligent and a favorite with Thomas Blizzard, who had confidence in her recollecting the road and trusted her implicity. There are several stories of her intelligence still told in the Blizzard family. In this case she proved true to her record, and brought the boy safely over the long and difficult road. This journey was undertaken to collect money due. Mr. Blizzard on property in East Virginia, and which he needed to pay for his land in Ohio. The honesty of those pioneer times is well illustrated by this story. That a boy of that tender age could make- such a journey at all is to be wondered at, but that he could return safely through the woods hundreds of miles, with a considerable sum of money in his possession, very often camping at night in the woods, or reaching, if possible, the friendly shelter of some pioneer backwoods cabin where the honest settler would give him shelter in its one room and a chance to sleep on a shakedown, or more likely on the floor, speaks well for the good old times when the " latch string was always out " and thieves and robbers almost unknown. The Spartans, one of the fiercest tribes of history, trained their boys to feats of strength and endurance.. Our pioneer ancestors, of necessity, were also trained to great feats of endurance and strength. William Blizzard, the young boy who made the perilous journey, was the father of the subject of this sketch. Thomas Blizzard received the deed to his land April 1, 1817, from John Hardesty, who had entered it in 1812, and here lived the remainder of his days, dying at the age of eighty-five. He was an old pioneer of the early American stamp, who preferred to face the perils of a pioneer life to remaining in a more settled portion. Mr. Blizzard was very friendly to one of the Indians who visited him often, and who at one time wanted some powder which Mr. Blizzard had brought from Virginia in kegs, offering in exchange for some of it to point out the locality of a lead mine, which he said if the Indians were to find out he had betrayed, he would not be allowed to live. Mr. Blizzard asked for proof, for powder was more precious than lead. The Indian went away, and returned with samples of lead, but Mr. Blizzard would not take the bargain as he thought he could not spare the powder. Therefore, to this day the secret remains unsolved, and there is a possibility that within a short distance from the old Blizzard homestead there is a valuable lead mine awaiting a discoverer. In those early days the country abounded in game, black bear, wolf, deer, panther and wild turkey. Reuben and Wesley Blizzard were famous hunters, and brought down a great deal of game. The former was present at the battle of Tippecanoe as a scout, and finally bought the land where the battle was fought, passing the remainder of his days. Game constituted the principal meat of the families. When they first came to Jackson township they pounded their corn in mortars, and afterward went to mill to Dillon falls, on the Licking river, a distance' of thirteen miles. Their clothing was made from the skins of wild animals, but were afterward home-spun of both wool and flax. Thus those old pioneers lived and founded the township and county, Clark Hollenback, who was the first owner of HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY - 893 the land where Frazeysburg now stands married Miss Ann Blizzard. He moved to Illinois just before the Black Hawk war. The Indians burned his house. No lives were lost. Benjamin Richards, also a son-in-law of Thomas Blizzard, lived in Jackson township up to 1834, when he moved to Illinois. Col. William Blizzard, son of the old pioneer, Thomas Blizzard, was born in East Virginia, January 1, 1799, and was but nine years of - age when he came with his parents to Ohio. He grew to manhood among the scenes of pioneer life, and this aided materially in forming his sturdy, independent character. He married Miss Maria Fairall, daughter of the old pioneer, William Fairall. [See sketch of J. W. Fairall.] Colonel and Mrs. Blizzard were the parents of twelve children: Andrew J., Elizabeth E., Maria J., William T., James M., John W., Levi R., Martha A., George W., Martin V., and two who died in infancy. After marriage Col. Blizzard remained on the old Blizzard plantation and there passed the closing scenes of his life, dying at the age of seventy-seven years. He was a soldier in the militia, beginning as ensign, or second lieutenant, and went through all the grades to that of colonel. The entire family was of military cast. Reuben, his oldest brother, was a captain in the militia, and was a man well known and respected. He first settled or entered land in Jackson township and lived for several years on it, when he sold out and moved to Indiana. He lived to the good old age of eighty years or more. Wesley Blizzard entered land in Licking county near Newark, Ohio, and lived and died there at a good old age. He had a great deal of influence with his fellow-citizens in his county. John Blizzard went into the distilling business near Dayton, Ohio, and came to his death by the bursting of a still, when he was quite young. The Colonel was public spirited, served many years as township trustee and principally through his efforts the township was saved from paying $20,000 railroad bonds, which he proved unconstitutionally issued. The $20,000 railroad bonds were defeated by decision of a higher court in a case of the same kind on the ground of the road not keing located at the time of the signing of the bonds.. He reared a large family and at one time owned 1,000 acres of land. He assisted his children to a start in life and at his death owned 160 acres. He was a man of excellent character, was careful of his honor, and was prompt to pay his debts. He built a brick house on the old homestead in 1832; it is still standing and is owned by William Thomas Blizzard, a grandson of Thomas Blizzard. Captain Andrew Jackson Blizzard, a son of Colonel William Blizzard and the subject of this sketch, was born in the old log house on the old homestead January 24, 1821, and received the limited education of pioneer days. He attended the first subscription school which was taught in Frazeysburg, Ohio, when he was a lad of seven years. The teacher was Robert Penry, who taught the young backwoodsman the "three R's " in a log cabin in Frazeysburg, which had benches made of split logs and stick chimneys daubed with mud which conveyed the smoke from the ample fireplace. Mr. Blizzard attended school two winters and well remembers a treat furnished by Mr. Penry to his school on a holiday. It consisted of two bushels of apples and one gallon of whisky. This was in 1828. In those days whisky was a common beverage used on the table at meal times and at all merrymakings to entertain the visitors and speed the parting guest. Clark Hollenback started the village of Frazeysburg under the name of Knoxville, and he sold out to Samuel Frazey, of Zanesville, and he changed the name to Frazeysburg. Richard Griffe was the first postmaster. At the age of twenty-two Mr. Blizzard married Miss Mary A. Norris. daughter of Isaac and Charity (Conley) Norris. [See sketch of B. Z. Norris.] To Mr. and Mrs. Blizzard were born six children: George W., William S., Marian A., Maria J., Mary V. and Howard E. After marriage Mr. Blizzard moved to his present farm, which was part of his father's estate and resided in the log cabin. In 1844 he built his present residence. He cleared off his land and it soon become an exceeding fertile farm. He was a soldier in the old militia and from the age of eighteen was captain until it was disbanded. He has always had the respect of his fellow-men, and has held the office of township trustee several years. Like his father before him he remained quietly on his farm, attending to his duties as an American citizen. He is an old Jacksonian democrat, like his father and all others of the family. Mr. Blizzard stands deservedly high as a good citizen and is a man of excellent character. He is hale and hearty at seventy-one years, and can look back almost the entire progress of his state. Robert Boyd (deceased). One of the men who came to this section of the country when Zanesville was but a village was Robert Boyd, who possessed all the characteristics of the early pioneer — courage, fortitude, perseverance and industry. He was born on a vessel on the Atlantic ocean while his parents were en route to America, and of the latter it is only known that they were of Irish birth and had two little sons who, when their parents died while they were very young, became separated and were never afterward reunited. After landing on the shores of America Mrs. Boyd located in Hagerstown, Md., and during the latter part of the Revolutionary war Robert Boyd took part in that struggle, serving in the capacity of a teamster for 394 - HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY. about six months. Following this he gave considerable attention to teaming, driving six horses in transporting freight and passengers from point to point; subsequently he followed his calling of a shoemaker, carrying with him his kit of tools and doing work for the people 'at their homes. Later in life he rented land and followed farming near Zanesville, Ohio. By his first wife, whom he probably married in Maryland and whose name was Mrs. (Young) Silverthorn, it is believed that he became the father of eight children: John, who preceded his father to Ohio, afterward returned to Maryland, taking with him a horse to aid the family in reaching Ohio; Ann, who married a man by the name of McGahha; Jacob, who was killed by the falling of the "Y" bridge at Zanesville in 1833, on which he was at work as a carpenter (he was instructed by Buckingham to drive a key, but Jacob informed him that if it was done the bridge would fall, but Mr. Buckingham remarked "drive away,". and Jacob did so, and as he had prophesied the bridge swayed and went down carrying them with it, down to their deaths); Peter is next in order of birth; Sophia became the wife of a Mr. Smith; Effie married Thonas Longshore; Philip, and Sarah who married a man by the name of Martin. For his second wife Robert Boyd married Mrs. Sarah (Cox) Longshore, by whom he had one child, Joseph, who lives in Newton township, Muskingum county, and is the only living representative of the Boyd family. Robert Boyd was the first auctioneer in the county and during the latter years of his life he was a member of the United Brethren church. He died in 1853 at the extremely advanced age of ninety-six years. His widow departed this life in September, 1866, at the age of eighty-five years. Joseph Boyd, their son, was born December 14, 1825, in Brush Creek township, this county, on a quarter section of land that adjoined his present home. His early life was spent on the home farm, and in the early subscription schools he obtained a limited education. He remained at home until twenty-five years of age, and on April 3, 1851, he was married to Miss Susan L. Riley, after which he rented the Deitrick farm, near Stovertown, where he resided five years. He subsequently bought eighty acres of land on Brush creek, where James Pletcher now resides, purchasing, eight years later, or in 1864, the Riley homestead of 1622 acres, the same on which he is now residing. In addition to looking after the interests of his farm, he follows auctioneering, and is considered one of the best in the county. His maiden effort in that line was the selling of the Riley estate in 1864, which he him self purchased immediately afterward. He has served nine years as justice of the peace, six in Brush Creek township and three in Newton. He was commissioned notary public in 1884, and for eight years was clerk of Brush Creek township' Mr. Boyd possesses much executive ability, and this attribute has been recognized by his election to different public positions, and to the fact that he has been the administrator of numerous estates. Eight children were born to himself and wife: Reuben N., Elizabeth E., Lydia J. (deceased), Phaebe A., Robert W. (deceased), James E., John S. and Sarah M. Reuben, Lydia, James and Sarah have taught school, and the rest have a good common education. Mr. Boyd and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church, holding membership at Bethel. Mr. Boyd is a republican in politics. His wife is a daughter of William Freeman Riley, a pioneer settler of this county, to which he came in 1818. He purchased the place where his son-in-law, Joseph Boyd, now resides, at which time but a few acres had been cleared, and on this land he made a permanent home. He was twice married, espousing his first wife in Virginia, she bearing him the following children, who came with him to this county: Anna (Mrs. McCoy) and Rebecca (Mrs. Crossland). His second wife was Mary Palmer, of Maryland, but their marriage was celebrated in Virginia. For many years Mr. Riley was in the government employ at Harper's Ferry. After settling on his land here he began clearing and improving it. He and his second wife early associated themselves with the M. E. church, and throughout life they were consistent Christians. They became the parents of five children in Virginia: Martha A., John N. (deceased), Samuel P., William F. and James O., and the following in Ohio: Reuben (deceased), John Wesley, Zachariah, Mary E., Elizabeth, Susan, George W. and Lorenza. H. Mr. Riley died in 1863 at the age of eighty-one years and his widow on December 6, 1873 in the eighty-sixth year of her age. George W. Boyer is a substantial farmer of Licking township, and has passed all his life in Muskingum county. Basil Boyer, his father, was born near Frederickstown, Md., March 14, 1812, and was one of 'a family of nine children born to his parents, the other members of the family being David W., John, William, Thomas, Matilda, Nancy, Eliza and Catharine. Basil Boyer inherited German blood of his ancestors, and' when a young man of seventeen he came on foot to Muskingum county and had only a $5 bill in his pocket upon his arrival. He began working for William Francis, a farmer on edge of Licking county near the Muskingum county line. January 3, 1841, he was married to Miss Mary A. Francis, who was born February 18, 1816, daughter of William and Mary (Romine) Francis. Mr. Boyer resided on the home farm for about four years after his marriage, then purchased land in this county, on which he resided until his death, April 14, 1883, at HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY - 395 the age of seventy-one years. He was a man of great energy, and by his own exertions became possessed of a handsome property, owning at the time of his death 500 acres of good farming land. He made it the rule of his life to attend to his own affairs, and although a democrat, politically, he let office and politics alone. His widow survived him until July 20, 1886, when she, too, passed away. Their union resulted in the birth of three children —George W., Amos M. and Corbin M. The eldest child was born January 20, 1842, on the edge of Licking county, on the farm belonging to his grandfather Francis, and was a little over four years of age when his father brought him to this county. He obtained a common-school education and learned the details of farming, and upon reaching manhood was married to Mary E. Perry, daughter of Elijah and Eliza (Perry) Perry, the former of whom came from Virginia to this section in the fall of 1836, having married a short time previous to this event. He became the father of four children—William: T., Mary E., Lewis W. and Samuel E. Mr. Perry is yet living on his farm in Licking township and is a member of the Disciple church. His wife died in 1887. After his marriage Mr. Boyer resided on a farm in Licking township for sixteen years and then moved to his present farm. He has been quite successful and is the owner of 200 acres of good land, well fitted Up with excellent buildings of all kinds. He is a democrat in politics, but, like his father before him, he takes but little interest in politics, preferring to devote his time and attention to his farm. He and his wife are members of the Baptist church, and he is a man whose word is considered as good as his bond. He and his wife have two children: Livonna C. and William E., both of whom are well educated. The latter attended school at Hanover and Pataskala, and is now teaching in Licking county with good success. He expects to complete his education, and being a young man of excellent ability, will undoubtedly succeed. The following is a sketch of the Perry family: for many years. George was engaged in business in Indianapolis, and became quite popular in political affairs, holding the office of county judge for some time. The sisters Polly and Fanny, went with their brothers to Indiana. John Perry's second marriage was to Susan Utterback and the fruits of this union were six children: William, Harriet, Isabella, Caleb, Elijah and Susan. William was twice married, his first wife being Lucy Wals, who bore him no children. He moved to Ohio in 1830 and the following year his wife died. His second marriage was to Martha , and they became the parents of six children. Mr. Perry died at' the age of eighty-one. Harriet married Jacob Tipton, a farmer, and they became the parents of several children. Isabella was twice married, first to M. Andrews, who was a shoemaker and a skilled workman. To them were born eight children, all of whom died in infancy, except one and she married a British officer. Her second marriage was to a Mr. Proctor, a bricklayer by trade. Caleb left Virginia in 1840 and went to the northern part of Illinois, where he worked at the carpenter's trade. Susan married Charles Sumption, a blacksmith by trade, and several children were born to them. Elijah Perry, subject of this sketch, was born in Frederick county, Va., in 1810, and was but two years old when his father died. His mother died in 1834. He learned the carpenter's trade in his youth, but after his marriage in 1836, he began his career as an agriculturist and that has been his principal occupation since. He. married Miss Eliza Perry, daughter of Thomas and, Elizabeth Perry, and six children were the result of this union: William T., Thornton A., Mary E., Lewis W.. Samuel E. and Eliza I. Thornton A. died in 1849 and Eliza I. the following year. Elijah Perry emigrated to Ohio in October, 1836, with his father-in-law, and made the journey in wagons. When he arrived he could have put all his household possessions in a flour barrel, and $1.50 was all the money he owned. He went to housekeeping in Licking county, but subsequently moved to Muskingum county, where, in 1847, he bought a farm of sixty acres, three miles south of Nashport. His wife died March 17, 1887, and he kept house until 1892, when he moved to his daughters. He united with the Disciple church, February 26, 1859, and was immersed by Abraham Walker. Since that time he has been a devoted follower of Christ and has read the New Testament through seventy-one times. Elijah Perry, one of the influential and much esteemed citizens of Muskingum county, Ohio, is the son of John and Susan Perry. John Perry was born in Germany and came to the United States when a small boy. He resided in Philadelphia and followed this trade, shoemaker, all his life and accumulated considerable property, the most of which he lost, however, by going security for his friends. He was twice married, first to Miss Frances -, who bore him four children: Samuel, George, Polly and Fanny. The eldest son, Samuel, was a farmer by occupation, and served a short time in the War of 1812. He and his brother,. George, emigrated to the territory of Indiana at an early date and there resided. Among the residents of Muskingum county, Ohio, the name of John H. Boyer is a familiar one. Ho was born in Guernsey county, this state, March 24, 1844, and is the son of Abraham and Catherine (Fifer) Boyer. Abraham was a native 396 - HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY. of Pennsylvania and the son of William Boyer, who came from Pennsylvania and died here. He was born January 13, 1801, and moved to Ohio about 1840, settling in Guernsey county, where he purchased a farm. He remained there but a short time, when he came to Salt Creek township, this county, but moved back about 1855. He is now residing iu Muskingum county with his children. While in Pennsylvania he married Catherine Fifer, a native of Pennsylvania, and they were the parents of eight children : Julia A. (who married Mr. Waller, of Guernsey county), Lavinia (who married Kark Bird, of Guernsey county), William (who is living in Kansas. He was a soldier in the Ninth Illinois infantry and saw a good deal of hard service. He is married and has one child), Alexander (who is living in this township and also served in the war), Catherine (who is Mrs. Wilson, of Guernsey county), Rebecca (the wife of Mr. Hiner, of Muskingum county), Levy. (who served in Company A, Fifteenth Ohio infantry and is a married man living in Guernsey county) and John H. (our subject). Mrs. Boyer died in 1846, in Guernsey county, Ohio, and Mr. Boyer married for his second wife Mary Norman, of Noble county. They have a family of six children: James (who is living at Shawnee, Perry county), Sarah (deceased), Samuel (farmer of Salt Creek township, this county), David (living at Shawnee, Perry county), Mary J. and Obediah (both died while young). Mr. and Mrs. Boyer were pioneers of the state and worthy members of the Methodist Episcopal church. John H. was . reared in this and Guernsey counties, receiving a district-school education. November 16, 1861, he enlisted in Company A, Seventy-eighth Ohio Volunteer infantry veteranized, and was four years in the service and served in the battles of Henry, Fort Donelson, Shiloh, Corinth, Iuka, Jackson, Bolivar, Vicksburg and Raymond. At Champion's Hill he was shot in the neck and jawbone and disabled for three or four months. He rejoined his regiment at Vicksburg and took part in the battles of Resaca, Ga., Big Shanty, and at Kenesaw mountain was again wounded. Later he took part in the battle of Atlanta and siege of Atlanta,. was also at Bentonville, S. C., against Gen. Johnston and with Sherman on his raid. He was paroled at Columbus, and at the time of his enlistment was the youngest in the company. After the war he settled on the farm he now occupies at Rix's Mills, Muskingum county, and married Margaret Muble, daughter of John Muble, a native of Scotland, but an old pioneer of this county. She was born in 1843 in England. Mr. Boyer is one of the successful farmers of this neighborhood, and takes a great interest in all matters for the advancement and improvement of the county. Himself and family are members of the Methodist Episcopal church. Following are the names of the children: Belle (who married Samuel Moore, of Newark, Ohio); William (of Perry county), Mattie, Leilie (at home), Elmer C., John and Flora (at home). He lost three children: Louis, Perlie and Flora. Mr. Boyer has also three grandchildren: Edna, Bertha and John. George L. Bradford, Otsego, Ohio, is one of the old soldier citizens of this township. He comes of old Virginian colonial family and a branch of the famous New England family, who descend from Gov. William Bradford, one of the Pilgrim fathers. The great-grandfather of our subject was a sea captain, a farmer of Loudoun county, Va., and a Revolutionary soldier. Three of his sons are remembered by our subject—John, George, and Casper. Both John and Casper settled in Muskingum county, and George settled in Marion county, Ind., and reared a family of twenty-two children. John Bradford was the grandfather of our subject and married in Virginia, Mary Davis, whose father was a soldier in the Revolutionary war and carried the scar of a sabre cut on his head. John Bradford was the father of eleven children : Margaret, Hannah, William, John, Jasper, Benjamin, David, Isaac (died an infant), Isaac (who was the seventh son), Sarah, and Mary A. John Bradford was the original pioneer of the Bradfords, and settled in a dense wilderness and cleared up a farm of 330 acres. He lived to about eighty years of age. He built the first frame building in Highland township, which was an addition to his hewed-log house. He owned the first threshing machine ever used in Highland township. Mrs. Bradford died an old lady and Mr. Bradford married Cassie Wright, a widow. Jasper Bradford, their son and the father of our subject, was born in Highland township in 1818. He received but a limited education and married Mary E. Lane, daughter of Abraham and Mary (Baker) Lane, of Highland township. Mary was but seventeen years of age when she married, and died at the age of twenty. She was the mother of two children—Achsah L. and George L. Abraham Lane was of English descent and was from Pennsylvania. He lived to be eighty years of age. After the death of his wife, Jasper Bradford married Elizabeth Davis, by whom he became the father of four children—Harriet, Ellen, John M., and Amanda. He moved to Edgar county, Ill., and this wife died. Mr. Bradford then returned to Ohio and settled in Morrow county, and married Mary Miller. This wife died and he married Lucy Shaffer. He is now living on his farm in Morrow county. George L. Bradford, his son, was born in Highland township, November 27, 1843. His mother died when he was but four weeks old, on HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY - 397 Christmas day, 1843, and he thus never knew anything about a parent's care. He was reared by his aunt, Achsah Bradford, wife of Benjamin Bradford and mother of Dr. John I. Bradford. [See sketch.] He was married January 10, 1867, to Lucinda J. Cone, daughter of Barton Cone and Julia A. (Walker) Cone. Barton Cone was the son of Jared Cone and the father of Mrs. Bradford. He was born in Monroe township and married Julia Walker. They were the parents of ten children—Lucinda, Celia, Eliza, Newel, Ozias, William, Hannah, James, Joseph and Edmund. He was a soldier in the 100 days' service and lived to the age of sixty-five years, dying December, 1887. After marriage, George L. Bradford first settled on a farm belonging to Barton Cone, in Muskingum township, where he lived about three years, and in April, 1870, bought his present farm. To Mr. and Mrs. Bradford have been born five children, all sons: Barton I. (born October 1, 1867), Wilmer L. (born October 10, 1869), Howard L. (born September 11, 1871), O. Ephram (born July 27, 1873), Philander S. (born February 26, 1885). Barton I. is a farmer of this township, and married Ella Case, daughter of James Case. Wilmer L. is an employe of the Pan Handle Railroad. Howard L. is a school teacher and has taught in this township. The remainder are at home. They all have good common school educations. Howard L. attended college at New Concord. Mr. Brad-Bradford is a substantial farmer, good citizen, and has held the office of township trustee- for nine years. He and his wife are members of the Baptist church, and Mr. Bradford has been deacon sixteen years. In politics he is a stanch republican. On October 6, 1862, Mr. Bradford enlisted in Company F, Seventy-Eighth Ohio Volunteer infantry, and served nine months. He was in the battle of Raymond, Miss., Champion's Hill, Jackson, Miss., and throughout the seige of Vicksburg. In February, 1863, he was on the night watch at Nashville, Tenn., in the quartermaster's department, six months. At the battle of Champion's Hill he was wounded by a gunshot in the right hand and had his gun stock shot to pieces by a minie-ball, and at Raymond received a spent ball in his blanket which he had rolled around his body. The ball struck him on the breast and passed through about two inches of the rolled blanket which saved his life. He was discharged at Vicksburg, Miss, July 13, 1863, and re-enlisted at Zanesville February 2, 1865, in Company E, One Hundred and Ninety-fifth Ohio Volunteer infantry, and detained as mounted orderly for Gen. W. H. Banning and discharged at Alexandria, Va., December 18, 1865. Mr. Bradford is a member of the G. A. R., John Trimble Post 628, Department of Ohio, of Otsego, Ohio, and is at present commander. He has held the office of chaplain for three years. He is still in the prime of life and is a man of integrity and a practical farmer. He descends from one of the most ancient and honorable of the old colonial families. who number among them many of the most distinguished men of the past and present. Dr. John I. Bradford, Ostego, Ohio, is one of the leading physicians of. Muskingum county, and the only one residing in Otsego. The family is one of the old pioneer families descending from Virginia colonial stock, of English descent, who early settled in Hardy county, Va., and came to Ohio among the early pioneers, settling in Highland township, Peter and John Bradford being the first of the name to come. They married sisters; Peter married Nancy Davis, and John, Sarah Davis. John was the grandfather of our subject. His father's name was also John, who came to Ohio and died here. John Bradford and his wife, Sarah, were the parents of eleven children: Peggie, Hannah, William, John, Casper, Benjamin, David, Isaac (deceased), Isaac, Sarah and Mary J. When Mr. Bradford settled on his land it was an entire wilderness. He owned at one time about 350 acres of land and had money at interest. He lived to the age of about seventy-eight years and was one the sterling pioneer characters. He died in 1866. His first wife died and Mr. Bradford married Cassie Wright, a widow with a family of children. John W. Davis, father of Sarah (Davis) Bradford, was also from ardy county, Va., and was originally from Wales. He was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, and came with his family to Ohio at the same time the Bradfords came. John W. Davis married Margaret Cornell, and they were the parents of Sarah, Nancy, David, William, Benjamin, John and Mary. Mr. Davis settled in the same section in Highland township as the Brad-fords. Benjamin Bradford, son of John Bradford, and the father of our subject, was born on the old homestead in Highland township, April 11, 1821, and was brought up in the rough schools of the pioneer and backwoodsmen. He early learned to work on the farm and married Achsah Lane, November 2, 1845. She was the daughter of Abraham and Mary (Baker) Lane. The father was from Pennsylvania and was one of the old settlers of Highland township. After his marriage Benjamin Bradford settled on the old homestead and remained here a few years, then bought a farm in Adams township and remained here until 1869, when he bought a farm east of Otsego, where he spent the remainder of his days, dying June 22, 1889, at the age of sixty-eight years. Both Mr. and Mrs. Bradford were devout members of the Baptist church and Mr. Bradford was a church trustee for some years. To them were born eight 398 - HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY. children: Lane died at the age of four years and ten months, Mary B. died when three years and six months old, (these two children died within twenty-four hours' of each other of croup), John I., Jeremiah M., Sarah C., Obediah L., Ephram H. and Edgar E. Like his father, Mr. Bradford was a good moral citizen, peaceable and an excellent neighbor. He was greatly beloved by his family. His widow is yet living. She was born November 2, 1819, is now an old lady in good health, retaining all her faculties. John I. Bradford, their son and our subject, was born on his Grandfather Lane's farm in Monroe township, January 23, 1850. He grew up in this county and when about seventeen years of age hired out to work. at farm work for about three years. Then breaking his arm, he attended school more continuously. He began teaching school in the fall of 1870, and so continued until 1876, when he took up the study of medicine with his uncle, Dr. J. M. Lane, of Bloomfield, Highland township, to which study he applied himself for three years, meanwhile attending the Columbus Medical college and graduating in the spring of 1879. He then began practicing medicine at Otsego,, where he has been in continuous practice for thirteen years and has built up a large and lucrative practice. Dr. Bradford is a man who keeps up with the times, and is informed in all new developments of medical sciences. He married on May 1, 1879, Matilda Davis, and they were the parents of two children: Emma M. and James C. R. Mrs. Bradford died April 23, 1884, and the Doctor married again February 3, 1887, Florence I. Boyce. They have had one child, Boyce E., born January 6, 1892. Both Dr. and Mrs. Bradford are members of the Methodist Episcopal church. Dr. Bradford is public spirited, contributes liberally of his means to assist his church and has taken an active interest in the cause of education. He was a member of the school board for twelve years. The Bradford family descend from good old colonial stock. Mrs. Dr. Bradford is engaged in the mercantile business for herself in the firm of Cowden & Boyce. Jennie Boyce, her sister, now Mrs. McCurdy and formerly Mrs. R. M. Cowden, is her partner. The business was originated by R. M. Cowden and now run by the two sisters. The firm stands high and have ample capital. They carry the largest stock in Otsego. The Muskingum valley is one of the most fertile agricultural regions of the state of Ohio, and in Salt Creek township, near this locality, Milton Clay Brookover is the owner of a farm of 136 acres, which he tills in a careful manner, and is also engaged in buying and selling stock. He is of German descent, and traces his ancestry back to Jacob Brookover, who was born in Germany on the 29th of February, 1738, near the Rhine river. At quite an early age he left Germany, with the rest of his father's family to come to this country, and after a long journey of seventeen weeks (all of the family but himself having died on the voyage), he landed on American shores. The ship on which he sailed was manned by a desperate crew, who attempted to starve the passengers to death, and were only prevented from so doing by the threats of the passengers to throw the captain of the vessel overboard unless he reached land by a stated time. Jacob Brookover learned the tailor trade in Maryland; afterward married, and raised a family of eight children. Three of his sons served in the Revolutionary war, one being in the regular army. After the close of the war he moved to Virginia, and afterward came to Ohio, where he died at the age of eighty-nine years. Richard Brookover, his son, and grandfather of Milton Clay Brookover, was born at Fredericksburg, Md., October 26, 1771, was a carpenter and farmer by occupation, was fairly successful in both callings, and was for many years a resident of this county. His home was in Wayne township, about four miles from Zanesville. He was a man whom to know was to honor. He died in 1846, and was buried in cemetery near Fairview church. Lylle Brookover was one of seven children born to Richard Brook-over and wife, whose maiden name was Mary Cochran, and first saw the light of day on Third street, Zanesville, Ohio, on the 4th of October, 1808, at which time the place was a mere village, and gave no promise of being the bustling city it now is. He became a man of much discrimination and judgment, and was frequently called to places of public trust. About middle life his hearing began to fail, and in his later years became entirely deaf., But for this sad affliction his influence would have been more widely felt. He was first a whig in politics, afterward became a republican, and so continued throughout the remainder of his days. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church for over fifty years. He was an omnivorous reader, and had a most thorough knowledge of the affairs of his country. He was married to Miss Sarah Mercer, in 1837, whoo survives him and is seventy-eight years old, by whom he had four sons. He died in 1886 in his seventy-eighth year. Milton, the eldest of his sons was born on the old homestead in Muskingum county, Ohio, May 15, 1838, and acquired a fair education in the common schools. After teaching school for a short time he turned his attention to farming and stock dealing, and this has been his chief occupation ever since. He was married April 10, 1864, to Miss Kate A. Shane, daughter of Samuel and Sophia (Bowers) Shane, and to their union one daughter HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY - 399 was born, whom they named Eura B. Mrs. Brookover a Christian woman, was called from life on the 29th of January, 1876, and on the 8th of January, 1878, he took for his second wife, Miss Anna M. Adams, daughter of Zachariah and Harriet (Williams) Adams. Mr. Brookover has two sons by his second wife—Charlie A. and Will Carleton, both promising lads. Mr. Brookover is a republican in politics, and more than a year ago joined the Farmer's Alliance, in which he takes a deep and abiding interest. He is a believer in the faith of the Methodist Episcopal church, of' which he is quite a regular attendant and a liberal supporter. He lives about one-fourth of a mile from Carlwick station on B. Z. & C. R. R., and is the postmaster at that point. He has entered heart and soul in the movement for the benefit of the agricultural classes, but is a patron of all worthy institutions and movements Mrs. Brookover was born in Madison township of this county, April 8, 1840, and is of English and German descent. After she acquired an education, she followed the occupation of teaching until about the time she was married. Her father, Zachariah Adams, was born in Norfolk, Va., the second of a family of ten children, eight sons and two daughters, and in mature years was elected sheriff of the county, but owing to failing health was obliged to resign the office, and made a trip to the island of Cuba, where he remained six months. He died in 1864. His father, Littleton Adams, was also a Virginian, and was a soldier in the War of 1812, and became pay-master. When ten years of age he was brought from his native state to Ohio, as his parents were not believers in slavery, and spent the remainder of his days in Muskingum county. Mrs. Brookover's mother is still living at the age of seventy-three years on the old home place in Madison township, and is a most estimable Christian lady. Mr: Brookover'a three brothers, Newton H., Charles M. and John M., are still living, as is also his mother in her seventy-eighth year. One sister of his father, Mrs. Mary C. Patton, is still living, the only surviving member of his father's family. Among the thousands of brave men who fought desperately in defense of the old flag was D. J. Brown, merchant, Dillon, Ohio, who enlisted in the winter of 1863 in Company G, Thirty-first Ohio Volunteer infantry. He was transferred to the front' immediately and assigned to Gen. Sherman's army, then in front of Atlanta. He participated in the battles of Resaca, Ga., May 14, 1864; Tunnel Hill, May 8, 1864; Dalton, May 12, 1864; Dallas Gap, May 27, 1864; Pine Mountain, June 19, 1864; Kenesaw Mountain, June 24, 1864; Chattahoochee River, July 5, 1864; Peach Tree Creek, July 20, 1864; Atlanta, September, 2, and Jonesboro,. September 1, of that year. He was at Nashville and Savannah in January, 1865; Bentonville, N. C., March 19, 1865; Goldsboro, March 23, 1865, and Raleigh, April 13, 1865. Mr. Brown served from the time of enlistment until his discharge on the 20th of July, 1865. He passed through the battles above mentioned unscathed, save a mere scratch from a bullet at Atlanta. Returning to his home he filled the position of salesman in a store for some time. In 1867 he was wedded to Miss Kate Marshall, and afterward settled on a farm where he followed agricultural pursuits for some time. In 1878 he opened a store in Junction City, Ohio, which he conducted for some time and then removed to Stovertown, where he established a-store and later conducted a hotel. In 1888 he opened a general store at Cannellville, where he is now doing a general mercantile business, carrying a general stock of goods and doing an annual business of from $10,000 to $12,000. He is a gentleman of high social and business standing, who has won success by honestly deserving it. He was born in Muskingum county, Ohio, July 18, 1846, his birth occurring at Roseville. He is a member of Dan Brown Post No. 380, Duncan's Falls, Ohio, and he is also a member of the K. of P., Cannell lodge No. 437. Politically he is a republican. Robert Burns Brown was born in New Concord, Ohio, October 2, 1844. His ancesters were Scotch-Irish and emigrated to America about the beginning of this century. Robert Brown, his grandfather, originally settled at Chambersburg, Penn., and here Alexander, the father of Robert Burns Brown, was born in 1812. In 1816 the grandfather entered a quarter . section of land in Highland township, Muskingum county, Ohio, and this farm remained in the possession of the family sixty years. Robert Burns Brown, who was named after the great Scotch poet by his patriotic grandmother, who rejoiced in their Scotch origin, spent his youth in the village schools of his native town and was preparing to enter Muskingum college when the war's dread alarm thrilled the country in the spring of 1861. He enlisted with two cousins and several classmates, April 17, 1861, in Company A., Fifteenth Ohio Volunteers, but was rejected on account of his youth. August. 9, following, he was sworn into the service as a private in Company A, Fifteenth Ohio infantry, then being organized for "three years or during the war." He re-enlisted as a veteran volunteer in February, 1864, and served throughout the war in the ranks, being mustered out December 27, 1865, after a service of fifty-three months. He participated in all the battles and skirmishes in which his regiment was engaged, except the battle of Nashville, when he was suffering from a wound received in front of Atlanta, Ga., July 23, 1864. Mr. Brown entered