BIOGRAPHICAL. (RETURN TO THE TITLE PAGE) br> PETER BLACK. Peter Black was born October 6, 1819, in Ramelton, County Donegal, Ireland, and was second son of a family of ten sons and two daughters. He was educated in the parish schools for eight or ten years and was a natural student, but his father was exacting and had a private tutor when the schools were closed. Mr. Black came to America in 1840, landing at Philadelphia, and journeyed to Pittsburg by stage and, with an elder brother, clerked and saved money, and in 1843 they decided they could embark in business on personal account. The brother was so favorably impressed with Zanesville upon his arrival that he determined to locate here, and a stock of goods was procured and shipped to the "Black Brothers." Peter came as the representative of the firm and rented a small room in a two-story brick on the site of the Equitable Building Company's offices, 508 Main street, where the enterprise prospered and was soon moved to the corner room now occupied by the Commercial National Bank, at Fifth and Main, where it remained a few years. About 1850 the firm purchased a row of small bricks on the north side of Main street, between Sixth street and Sewer alley, as their business place. About two years later the partnership was dissolved and each operated on personal account, and Peter opened a wholesale department in a room on the site of George R. Fox's store, with the retail trade in the room on the west, a connection being made by arches. In 1859 a partnership was formed with Alexander Grant, a brother-in-law and resident of Springfield, and a retail business opened at the southeast corner of Main and Third streets, under the name of Alexander Grant & Company, the tipper store being continued under the firm name of P. Black & Company. In 1861-2 the Music Hall Block was completed and in 1863 P. Black & Company moved the wholesale trade to it, and a partnership with another brother was formed, and a store opened in the Star Block, at northeast corner of Main and Third streets, as P. & J. Black, but soon after was associated with S. S. Black and Alexander Grant, as P. Black & Company in the Music Hall Block. He formed the First National Bank and was its first president, a position he retained upon the consolidation with it of the Muskingum National Bank. In 1877, in conjunction with Dr. W. A. Graham, another brother-in-law, he erected the Clarendon Hotel, and his last business efforts were in connection with that structure, in which he took great pride. He was around the building Saturday, July 6, 1878, looking into details and seemingly was in his usual good health, and went home about 4 p. m. ; at supper he declined to eat, as he was not feeling well and went to his room for rest. Dr. C. C. Hildreth called and prescribed for indigestion and left about p. m. Mr. Black rested uneasily until 4 a. m., when he expressed a more satisfactory feeling and the opinion he would be better in the morning. At 5 a. m. he slept and when the physician called at 7 a. m. and learned he was asleep, directed him to be undisturbed and to be given coffee upon awaking. The wife and daughter soon after entered the room and found that life was extinct. The funeral was conducted July , by Dr. Hoge, who had married him in 1851 to Miss Dorothy Van Hamm, daughter of Dr. John Van Hamm and granddaughter of General Isaac Van Hamm. The casket was borne from his late home, at the northwest corner of Seventh and Market, by his brothers and brothers-in-law ; the court house bell was tolled during the period of 238 - PAST AND PRESENT OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY. the passage of the cortege through the city, all business houses on Main street and upon the route of the procession to Woodlawn were closed until 6 p. m. and the First National Bank and Clarendon buildings were heavily draped. SAMUEL SULLIVAN COX. Samuel Sullivan Cox was the second son and child of Ezekial Taylor and Maria Matilda (Sullivan) Cox, and was born at Zanesville, Ohio, September 30, 1824. Small of stature, he was all energy, and his boyish pranks extended to his dignified father, Judge Cox, and his elder brother, Thomas J., received the reproofs and punishments due "Sam" rather than betray the real culprit. The local subscription schools and the Howe Academy supplied the education the town afforded, and at the age of thirteen the son was assisting the father, who was then clerk of the common pleas and supreme courts, and the boyish assistant swore jurors and witnesses, issued writs and made up journals. When fourteen years old he was formally appointed deputy clerk. When the juvenile military company, The Zanesville Lancers, was formed Cox became a member and was chosen orderly sergeant. In 1842 he became a student at the Ohio University, at Athens, but soon discovered that the education he desired could be obtained only in the east, and in April, 1844, he entered Brown University, from which he graduated in September, 1846. He read law in the office of Judge Corrington W. Searle, and later in the office of Judge Conyers, and was admitted to practice in 1849 at Zanesville. In 1853 he purchased a controlling interest in the Columbus Statesman, assumed editorial charge and removed to that city with his young bride, Miss Julia A. Buckingham, of Zanesville, to whom he had been married in 1851. The sobriquet of "Sunset" was attached to him by reason of an editorial description of a sunset published May 19, 1853 ; the article gave him wide notice, and his initials suggested the appropriateness of the appellation, and it became his distinguishing title. In 1855 he was offered the secretaryship of the legation to the court of St. James, but declined, and selected a similar position to Peru, but at Aspinwall was stricken with an alarming illness, and returned to the United States and resigned. In 1856 he was elected to congress from the Columbus district, served four terms, and was defeated for re-election in 1864. In 1866 he moved to New York and engaged in the practice of law, and in 1868 was again sent to congress from an east side district, and served twenty years, except the short time he was minister to Turkey. His only unsatisfied ambition was the speakership to which he several times nearly attained. During the enforced absence of Hon. M. C. Kerr, he was speaker protein. In 1885 he was appointed minister to Turkey by President Cleveland, but after short service resigned and re-entered congress. During the Civil war he opposed secession as well as the policy of the administration but was a personal friend of President Lincoln. He opposed the infamous "salary grab" of the forty-second congress and returned the four thousand eight hundred and twelve dollars sent him by the treasurer of the United States. Mr. Cox was brilliant as a lecturer, of great force and originality as an orator, abounded in wit and humor, which was described as "a medicine for the alleviation of human woes," and was widely known as an author and traveler, having traveled extensively throughout America, Europe and Africa. He was also a Regent of the Smithsonian Institution, at Washington. Although his health was serious impaired his actual condition was unknown to the public, and his death, at his New York home, September 10, 1889. was regarded as sudden outside his immediate family, The life saving service of the general government was established, in 1871, largely through his persistent effort, and a few months after his death the members of the service presented to his widow a memorial vase two feet high, twenty- five inches in diameter, and weighing one hundred and twenty-five ounces. Upon the front is depicted the rescue of the people from a stranded vessel, by a breeches buoy ; the handles are mermaids and the ornamentation of the highest order of design and execution. The inscription is : "This memorial vase is presented to Mrs. Samuel S. Cox by the members of the life saving service of the United States, in grateful remembrance of the tireless and successful efforts of her distinguished husband, the Honorable Samuel Sullivan Cox, to promote the interest and advance the efficiency and glory of the life saving service. He Was its early and consistent friend : Its earnest and eloquent advocate ; Its fearless and faithful champion. Mr. Cox was the especial champion of the letter carriers, whose compensation was discovered to be less than common laborers, and which he had fixed at a sum commensurate with the quality of the labor demanded ; an annual vacation of fifteen days, with full pay, was provided and a day's work was limited to eight hours, with compensation for extra work. The construction of the law respecting overtime was carried to the supreme court, whose decision was not rendered until three years after the death of the author of the bill, but the interpretation of Mr. Cox was sustained and claims aggregating three millions two hundred and fifty thousand dollars were filed for back pay. Mr. Cox's death was sincerely mourn- PAST AND PRESENT OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY - 239 ed by the carriers and in all the free delivery cities meetings were held and resolutions passed ; the movement for the erection of a statue was started in New York at a special meeting of the carriers, the day succeeding his death, and committees appointed to solicit contributions. A bronze statue, of heroic size, costing ten thousand dollars, was erected in Astor Place, New York, and at the dedication delegations of carriers were present from. Pacific and Gulf States, and over two thousand carriers from New York and Brooklyn were in the procession. The inscription on the base reads : "Samuel Sullivan Cox, the Letter Carriers' Friend. Erected in Grateful and Loving Memory of His Services in Congress by the Letter Carriers of New York, His Home, and of the United States, His Country, July 4, 1891." In 1905 the statute was removed from its down town location to a more desirable and suitable site further up town. The funeral was under the direction of the house of representatives. September 13 ; the floral tributes from the carriers were numerous and handsome, and the life saving service sent a floral life belt and muffled oar. Dr. Talmage said of the deceased statesman, "We shall not see his like again. Without a predecessor, he will be without a successor." LOUIS E. BRELSFORD. Louis E. Brelsford, who, elected by the largest majority ever given in Muskingum county to an incumbent of an office, is now serving as county auditor, his official record fully justifying the confidence and trust of his friends in his ability and fidelity, was horn in Zanesville, August 28, 1856. His father, Edwin Brelsford, was also a native of this city, born in 1823, and the family was established here at a pioneer epoch in the history of the county. The grandfather, Jonathan Brelsford, came from Bucks county, Pennsylvania, in 1816. and took up his abode in Zanesville. He was a gunsmith by trade, and was actively identified with industrial interests here at an early day. He was a member of the famous military company known as the Squirrel Hunters. His son, Edwin Brelsford, was a machinist, and for many years conducted business along that line. His political allegiance was given to the republican party upon its organization, and he cast a vote for its first presidential candidate in 1856. His death occurred the following year. He had married Ellen Marcer, who was born in Muskingum county in 1828, and died in 1892. They were the parents of three children : Carrie, who is living in Cambridge, Ohio ; Julia, the widow of A. C. Cochran, who was a banker and capitalist, her home being in Cambridge ; and Louis E. In the public schools of Zanesville Louis E. Brelsford acquired his early education which was supplemented by a night course in the business college. In early life he obtained a position as errand boy in the dry goods store of L. Wiles & Sons in his native city. He was then but thirteen years of age, and he remained with that house until he had reached the age of twenty years, acting for a long time as clerk. He had the entire confidence of his employers, and his fidelity and ability was indicated by the fact that he was so long retained in their service. He afterward went upon the road as traveling salesman for the Nonotuck Silk Company, which he represented for twenty years. He had the ready adaptability so necessary to a man in that business and his genial manner and unfailing courtesy made him very popular with the many: patrons whom he secured during his long' service on the road. Mr. Brelsford has ever taken a deep and active interest in matters pertaining to the welfare and progress of his native city, and in 1899 he was honored by election to the office of mayor. He gave to Zanesville a practical, business-like administration in which a number of new reforms and improvements were introduced. That he proved a capable officer is indicated by the fact that in 1901 he received his partyls nomination for the office of county auditor, to which he was elected for a three years' term, and in 1904 he was re-elected, receiving the largest majority ever given for auditor in the history of the county. He is, therefore, serving his second term. and no higher testimonial of public confidence could be given than the large vote which was accorded him. He has always been an advocate of republican principles and aside from partisan measures he has been the champion of every movement which he believed would contribute to the welfare and advancement of his home locality, his state or the nation. In January, 1883, Mr. Brelsford was married to Miss Mary Reed, the eldest daughter of one of the old families of Georgia, her parents being William G. and Willie (Peek) Reed. Her father was a planter and served as a Confederate officer in the Civil war. Mrs. Brelsford was born at Rockmart, Georgia, in 1865, and has become the mother of one son, Edwin Reed, now sixteen years of age. Mrs. Brelsford belongs to the Episcopal church, and Mr. Brelsford is a frequent attendant there. He is identified with all of the Masonic bodies, belonging to the Knights of Pythias fraternity, the Modern Woodmen of America, the United Commercial Travelers and to the Elks lodge, being a charter member of the last named. He is also a trustee of the Order of Eagles at Zanesville. Few men are more prominent or 240 - PAST AND PRESENT OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY. inure widely known in this enterprising city than Louis Brelsford, and his popularity is well deserved, as in him are embraced the characteristics of an unbending integrity, unabating energy and industry that never flags. These qualities have been manifest in his official career and, moreover, he is public-spirited and thoroughly interested in whatever tends to advance the moral, intellectual and material welfare of Zanesville. JEREMIAH R. RHODES. Jeremiah R. Rhodes. one of the prosperous fanners of Highland township, also dividing- his attention with stock-raising interests, was born in Noble county, September 12, 1840. The family is of German lineage, and the paternal grandfather was John Rhodes, who was born in Virginia in 1767, and died in 1837. His wife bore the maiden name of Lydia Moore, and was born March 17, 179l. Their son, William Rhodes, was born near Alexandria, Virginia, March 4, 1804, and after arriving at years of maturity he wedded Ann Rich, whose birth occurred October 15, 1811. They became the parents of eleven children, namely: Elizabeth, who was born June 20, 1830, and died in February, 1903 ; George R., who was born September 20, 1831, and is living in Caldwell, Ohio : Lydia, who was born January 6, 1833, and died June 10, 1902 ; John W., who was born August 17, 1834, and died December 26, 1881 William H., who was born February 12, 1836, and makes his home in Los Angeles, California ; Sarah, who was born August 13, 1837, and is now deceased ; Mary M., who was born March 15, 1839, and died January 18, 1884 ; Jeremiah R., of this review Maria, who was born May 24, 1842, and (lied October 29, 1868 Columbia, who was born February 5, 1844, and is now deceased ; and Miamma, who was born July 8, 1845, and has also passed away. Following the death of the mother of these children the father afterward married Cynthia Morris, who was born August 25, 1827, and died May 29, 1881. They, too, had ten children : Ishmael M.. who was born April 25, 1849: Gamaliel T., who was born September 8. 1851: Victoria F.., born March 7, 1854; Tacy Ann, April 25, 1856: Orrel, August 6, 1858: Charles Freemont, June 16. 1861: John B, November 13, 1863 ; Vesta 0., April 12, 1866; Bunyan S., April 8. 1869 ; and Robert D., September 2, 1871. The father died in September. 1884. He was a farmer by occupation, and owned one hundred and twenty acres of land in Noble county, where his death occurred. He was active in political affairs in his locality, served as one of the directors of the county infirmary, and was also justice of the peace for many years, ren dering decisions which were strictly fair and impartial. Prior to the war he was a stanch abolitionist, and was one of the conductors on the famous underground railway whereby many a fugitive slave was assisted on his way to freedom in the north. Subsequently he became a republican, when that party was formed to prevent the further extension of slavery, and he was not only interested in political questions but also gave active co-operation to many substantial measures for the general good. Jeremiah R. Rhodes was educated in the common schools of Noble county, in the normal school at Summerville, Ohio, and in the college at Sharon, this state. He afterward engaged in teaching school for twenty-five consecutive years with the exception of a brief period of less than three years, during which time he was a soldier of the Civil war. Feeling that his chief duty was to his country lie enlisted in August, 1862, as a member of Company H, 116th Ohio Infantry. He participated in several skirmishes, and was in the battle of Moorefield, West Virginia. For six months he was in the hospital and later he transferred to medical headquarters and after a military service of two years and seven months he was honorably discharged April 7, 1865, two days before the surrender of General Lee. Returning to his home Mr. Rhodes resumed the profession of teaching. and when he abandoned that vocation he followed farming in Noble, Guernsey and Muskingum counties. In April, 1893, he purchased the farm in Highland township upon which he has since resided, and he now has one hundred and forty acres of rich farming land on sections 19 and 20, two miles north of New Concord. Here he carries on general agricultural pursuits, stock-raising and dairying and his farm is well improved, being supplied with substantial buildings, the latest improved machinery and all modern accessories and equipments. In 1865 Mr. Rhodes was united in marriage to Miss Riley Stratton, who was born June 25, 1845 and died September 27, 1885. Her birth occurred in Maryland, where she spent her girlhood days. She became the mother of eight children : William T., who was born in 1867, and died in infancy Alexander, who died January 11, 1872, at the age of two and a half years ; Ruey and Robert, twins, but the former died October 7. 1885, and the latter two days later ; Charles L., who was born September 2, 1871, and is now working in the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad shops in Zanesville : Howard D., who was born November 16, 1873, and is a carpenter of Zanesville : Clara T., who was born April 29, 1876, and is the wife of W. D. Smith, of New Concord, and Mary M., who was born August 15, 1878, and married Clarence Garner, their home being near the fath- PAST AND PRESENT OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY - 241 er's farm. Mr. Rhodes was again married in Zanesville, December 22, 1886, by the Rev. Holliday to Sadie N. Sawhill, who was born in Guernsey county, Ohio, February 7, 1845. Both Mr. and Mrs. Rhodes are members of the Methodist Episcopal church, and he belongs to Olive Lodge, No. 310, Free and Accepted Masons. He is likewise a member of the Grange and the Patrons of Industry, and also of the Grand Army Post of New Concord. In politics he is an earnest republican, and was township clerk for twelve years, while for twenty years he has been notary public. He is regarded as a very progressive and influential citizen of his community—as loyal to his county, state and nation to-day as when he followed the stars and stripes upon the battle-fields of the south. WILLIAM C. WATERS, M. D. Among the native sons of Muskingum county who have gained a place in the front ranks of the medical fraternity of Zanesville is numbered Dr. 'William C. Waters, whose birth occurred in Monroe township, in 1845. His ancestors were early settlers of Virginia. His father, Robert Waters, a native of Loudoun county, that state, came to Muskingum county with a party of ten, including his brother, Dr. Ashwell Waters, who for many years practiced at Orrville and Norton, Ohio, and his sister Polly, who afterward married a Mr. Huff. Their parents died in the Old Dominion. Robert Waters here turned his attention to agricultural pursuits, and he now lives upon the farm which was once owned and entered from the government by his father-in-law. He married Miss Sophronia Richardson, a daughter of Jesse Richardson, who came from Connecticut at an early day and secured government land in Monroe township. Not a furrow had been turned nor an improvement made but he at once began to clear and cultivate the tract and in course of time made it a good property. Mr. and Mrs. Waters became the parents of four children, of whom William C. was the third in order of birth. The wife and mother died in 1848, in the faith of the Methodist Protestant church, of which she was a devoted member. Robert Waters afterward married again, his second union being with Julia Barnard, and there were seven children by that marriage. He has now reached the advanced age of ninety-three years, and is numbered among the prominent pioneer settlers of Muskingum county, having for years been a witness of its growth and development as it has merged from frontier conditions and taken on the advantages and improvements known to the older east. His early political support was given the whig party and on its dissolution he joined the ranks of the new republican party. He is a member of the Methodist Protestant church. Dr. Waters began his education at the usual age, but when a youth of sixteen years, put aside his text-books in order to espouse the cause of the Union, enlisting at Otsego in 1861, as a member of Company F, Seventy-eight Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He served for three years and ten months and was mustered out at Columbus. He had been engaged in active duty until August, 1864, when he was placed on detached service as dispatch carrier for General O. O. Howard. This was a very important as well as hazardous position, but he never faltered in the performance of any duty no matter what the danger incurred. He participated in the battles of Fort Donelson, Shiloh, the siege of Corinth, Raymond, Port Gibson, Jackson, Champion Hill, Black River, the siege of Vicksburg and the Atlanta campaign. He was also with „Sherman on the celebrated march to the sea and to Richmond, and participated in the grand review in Washington, the most celebrated military pageant ever seen on the western continent. He had two brothers in the army, Jerome, who served with the One Hundred and Sixty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry ; and Marshall, who was with the Sixty-sixth Ohio Regiment and was wounded at the battle of Brandon. Following his return home Dr. Waters was engaged in agricultural pursuits for a number of years, when, determining to devote his attention to the practice of medicine and surgery, he entered the Columbus Medical College in 1880, completing his course there by graduation in 1882. He first opened an office in Adamsville, where he remained for twenty years, when, in 1901, he came to Zanesville, where he has since practiced with success. He belongs to the County Medical Society and the State Medical Association and with the interchange of thoughts and experience there as well as through the reading of medical journals he keeps in touch with the advanced ideas of the profession and the new methods which are from time to time accepted in connection with the healing art. Dr. Waters was married in April, 1867, to Miss Celia A. Barnard. a daughter of Jason Barnard and a native of Monroe township, Muskingum county. She died in 1898, at the age of forty-nine years, leaving a daughter and son : Laura A., who is now the wife of Dr. J. G. Shirer, of Newark, Ohio ; and Harvey W., who is a printer of Zanesville. In 1901 Dr. Waters was married to Miss Jennie C. Green, a daughter of W. S. Green, who was a millwright and is now engineer at the Newark Water Works. She was born in Marion county, Ohio, in 1870. Dr. and Mrs. Waters hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal church, 242 - PAST AND PRESENT OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY while his fraternal relations connect him with the Masons, the Knights of Pythias, the Camels and the Grand Army of the Republic, and in these various organizations he has gained warm friendship and high regard, while in the profession he has the esteem of his medical brethren because of his close conformity to the ethics of the fraternity. HON. ROBERT SILVEY. No compendium such as the province of this work defines in its essential limitations will serve to offer fit memorial to the life and accomplishments of Hon. Robert Silvey, who was one of the most prominent and influential residents of Muskingum county and central Ohio for a number of years. He was a man of much perseverance, strong individuality and keen intellectuality and his life record was an open scroll, inviting the closest scrutiny. He carved his name deeply upon the records of the political and business history of this section of the state which owes much of its advancement to his efforts. Mr. Silvey was born in Blue Rock township, June 30, 1826. His father, Robert Silvey, Sr., was a native of County Down, Ireland, while his mother was a daughter of Lieutenant Augustus Anderson, a Revolutionary soldier and officer with the New Jersey troops, serving under the command of Washington and of LaFayette. The son, Robert Silvey, of this review, was reared upon the home farm, his father having became a pioneer settler in Blue Rock township in the early part of the nineteenth century. He acquired his education in the common schools of that day and for a few years engaged in teaching his home district, in which at one time James A. Garfield, former president of the United States, was also a teacher. He remained upon the home farm until eighteen years of age and during the three succeeding years devoted his attention to educational work. In 1850, however, he became imbued with a desire to seek his fortune in California, hoping that he might benefit by the discovery of gold there, and joining other young men, he started for the Pacific coast by way of the noted Panama route. After a delay of two months on the isthmus and the tedious trip on the Pacific he landed in San Francisco in the month of July. Throughout 1850 and 1851 he experienced the varied dangers of a miner and at the end of that time decided to return to his native state. In 1852, therefore, we again find him in Ohio and for a short period he engaged in merchandising at Gaysport, while later he removed his store to Eagleport, Morgan county. There he remained for a number of years, being a successful merchant at that place. While living there he was first called to public office, receiving in 1868 the democratic nomination for county commissioner, to which position he was elected serving therein. for three years. Following his removal to Zanesville in 1872, Mr. Silvey received the democratic nomination for treasurer of Muskingum county, was elected and served so acceptably that he was re-elected in 1874, thus filling the office for four years. Following the expiration of his second term he acted for two years as deputy county treasurer under George W. Allen. Other official honors awaited him and from 1893 until 1896 he served as mayor of Zanesville, proving a capable chief executive of the city to which he gave a public- spirited, business-like and practical administration, introducing many needed reforms and improvements. He was elected a member of the seventy-fourth assembly in Ohio, in November, 1889, and although Muskingum county had been considered a republican stronghold for many years he has won his election by about five hundred majority. He was never defeated but once and that was in 1888 when he was a candidate for county auditor and lost the election by fifty-two votes. In the house he was connected with much important constructive legislation and he always gave to each question that came up for settlement a thoughtful consideration. He was a member of the important committees on municipal affairs, revision, ditches, drains and all water courses. He also served as director and president of the board of work house directors at Zanesville and in all the offices which he filled his course was characterized by promptness and fidelity. He was appointed by Governor Tod as lieutenant colonel and later during the Morgan raid was ma de adjutant general, but owing to the serious illness of his wife was unable to leave home. Although Mr. Silvey figured prominently in political circles for many years, having marked influence in the counsels of his party and laboring earnestly for democratic success, he also conducted business affairs of importance. He was for fifteen years president of the board of directors of the Homestead Building & Loan Association and continued his connection therewith from its organization until his death. In 1880, with others, he formed the company of Gay Brothers & Silvey for the manufacture of furniture and for the conduct of the wholesale and retail furniture trade. The firm was dissolved in 1891 but Mr. Silvey and his sons continued as wholesale and retail dealers in furniture, enjoying an extensive and profitable patronage until about 1901 when Robert Silvey retired from active business on account of failing health. In 1854 Mr. Silvey was united in marriage to Miss Emaline Lucas, a native of Delaware, Ohio, and a daughter of Hiram and Matilda PAGE 243 - PICTURE OF ROBERT SILVEY PAGE 244 - BLANK PAST AND PRESENT OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY - 245 (Larason) Lucas. She was born and reared in Blue Rock township and by this marriage there were six children but two have paSsed away : Leota and Robert L. Those still living are : Mrs. Hattie Weirich, of Washington, Pennsylvania ; Harry K., of Zanesville, who married Annie Brice, of Chicago, Illinois, and has three children, Robert K., Harry and Leota B.; Rolla E., of Zanesville, who married Belle Twaddle, by whom he had one child, R. Edgar, while his second wife was Rachel Williams and his third wife was Ruth Sheldon; Leona, the wife of Seymour C. Keyes, by whom she has a son, Edsel G. S. Mr. Silver was a member of the Masonic lodge at Duncan Falls and was connected with the Knights of Honor and the Ancient Order of United Workmen in Zanesville. He was also a member of the Market Street Baptist church which he and his family had attended for many years. He was in his seventy-eighth year at the time of his death and passed away February 1, 1904. He was honored and respected by all who knew him and his upright career made him one of Zanesville's beloved citizens. Integrity was a salient trait in his character and he was one in whom the public placed the greatest confidence. As the day with its morning of hope and promise, its noontide of activity, its evening of accomplished and successful effort ending in the grateful rest and quiet of the night so was the life of this man. He left behind him an honored record and an untarnished name and his memory is yet enshrined in the hearts of many who knew him. WILLIAM YAKEY. William Yakey, whose varied business interests have been an important element in the commercial and industrial development of his town and county, is now the president of the First National Bank of New Concord, and is also engaged in lumbering and farming. His keen perception and understanding of a business situation and his recognition and utilization of a business opportunity have been the basic elements of his prosperity, making him one of the representative men of his locality. He was born May 21, 1846, in Perry county, near New Lexington, Ohio, his parents being Henry and Margaret (Croskey) Yakey, the former a native of Loudoun county, Virginia, and the latter of Mansfield, Ohio. Henry Yakey arrived in this state about 1835, and located in Perry county, where he followed the occupation of farming. He spent the remainder of his days there and died in 1880. His political support was given the democracy. When he had completed his education as a student in the public schools of Perry county, William Yakey turned his attention to the commercial world, and entered upon his business career as a dealer in lumber in Fairfield county, Ohio. Later he engaged in merchandizing at various timeS in Junction City, Perry and New Lexington, Ohio. For many years he has been engaged m the manufacture and sale of lumber and since 1890 he has resided in New Concord, where he has manufactured lumber, owning and operating a Sawmill until the spring of 1905, when he sold his plant. He owns a farm, which he rents, and he was instrumental m developing an oil well four miles from New Concord, the company owning one two-barrel well. He is now well known in banking circles in the town and surrounding districts, having been president of the First National Bank of New Concord since its organization on the 5th of October, 1903. A safe, conservative and yet progressive policy was inaugurated that has awakened public confidence and the bank has enjoyed a prosperous existence from the beginning. Mr. Yakey has also dealt in stock, and he is a man of resolute, determined will, who carries forward to a successful completion whatever he undertakes. He is alert and enterprising, watchful of opportunity, managing his interests along modern business lines and with strict conformity to a high standard of commercial ethics. Mr. Yakey was married in 1876, to Miss Mary E. Ball, who was born in Morgan county in 1858, and a daughter of Joseph J. and Adelme (Bradley) Ball, who were natives of New England. The father, a farmer by occupation, was born March 20, 1807, and traces his lineage to the Washington family, his grandfather bemg a second cousin of Mary Ball, mother of George Washington. His wife was born in March. 185. Mr. and Mrs. Yakey have one child, Adeline, who was born in 1881, and is the wife of C. E. Meyer, who resides in. Sheridan, near Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, of the firm of Glass & Meyer. brokers at 1304 Keystone Building, Pittsburg. The parents are members of the Presbyterian church and are in- terested in the social and moral welfare of the community, their labors contributing to progress along those lines. Mr. Yakey is also deeply interested in politics and keeps well informed on the questions and issues of the day. He gives his support to the republican party, and was once nominated for the position of county sheriff, but resigned the following day. He has served, however, as a member of the city council of New Concord, and his effort in behalf of the improvement and upbuilding of the city has been far-reaching and beneficial. As president of the First National Bank, it was for him to fill the position of superintendent of construction during the building of the bank's hotel property, a magnificent two-story structure, with bank, hardware store, furniture store and the hotel office on the 246 - PAST AND PRESENT OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY. ground floor and eighteen outside rooms, well arranged, on the second floor. Arrangements have already been made to furnish the hotel complete and have it ready for occupancy September 1st. This will complete one of the most desirable hotel properties in any town of a like size in the state. He has been and is distinctively a man of affairs and one who has wielded a wide influence. His interest in public action is that of practical labor rather than theory and in public life, as in private business affairs, his work is followed by tangible and gratifying result. JOHN HOGE. The oldest reference to the name of Hoge is the year 1425. The name was originally D - Haga and Sir Andrew Haig the "Laird of merside," was the first to drop that style of spelling. Hoge is only another variant for Haig or Hage and this latter reaches back to the days of Petrus de Haga who came from Normandy in 115o. About the close of the seventeenth century, William Hoge came from Berwickshire. England, to America to escape the persecutions under the Stuarts. He married Barbara Hume, a fellow passenger on the ship and whose parents died from a virulent disease which broke out aboard the overcrowded vessel. William Hoge and his young wife settled first at Perth Amboy and finally in the Cumberland valley, Pennsylvania. Here his eldest son John founded the village of Hogetown in 1734. From this John Hoge descended the Hoge family of Pennsylvania. In 1735 William Hoge, although advanced in years, removed to Frederick county, Virginia, settling on the Opequon branch of the Potomac. Here he made his home, gave the land for the old Opequon church and the first regular pastor was his grandson, the Rev. John Hoge, son of John who had settled in the Cumberland valley. William, the second son, married a Quakeress and they lived in Frederick county, Virginia. Alexander Hoge, another son of William, was a member of the first congress and also of the Virginia convention which ratified the constitution of the United States. The family was one of the most noted in the Old Dominion and furnished a large number of clergymen, lawyers, physicians and prominent men. From William Hoge is descended the subject of this sketch, who is the second son of Israel Hoge and 'Betsey A. Doster, both natives of Frederick county, Virginia. Israel Hoge located in Zanesville in 1832 and was for some years engaged in the drug trade. Under the administration of President Tyler he was appointed postmaster of the city and served two terms. He died at an advanced age. The wife passed away some years before. John Hoge inherited from his parents a strong constitution. In his veins flows the blood of a sturdy race, Scotch and Quaker predominating. As a boy he attended the schools of his day and grew to manhood strong in body, quiet in manner, methodical in habits--perhaps grew up as most American boys of his time without special ambitions or purposes in life. Certain it is that he was always well poised, thoughtful and industrious. At the early age of fifteen years he began his business career without especial opportunities for the attainment of great things, simply as an employee in the soap works of the late William Schultz, a relative by marriage. Very early in life he gave evidence of that constructive genius which comes to the fore once in a generation or two in families and on which one is to stumble in seeking for a reasonable extraction. John Hoge before he became very determined to make that business grow. A it grew to very large proportions, a sure foundation on which to build a most honorable and successful commercial and manufacturing structure. No product of a manufacturing establishment was better known in a large section of this country than certain brands of soap so essential in the household economy produced by Schultz & Company, the title of the firm of which Mr. Hoge was an important factor for so many years. The dominating influence of his life was the secret of the marvelous success attending his career as a manufacturer—absolute integrity in dealing with the public. He originated many novel plans for attracting public attention and interesting purchasers of his goods. He thus took high rank among the great advertisers of the country and in a broad sense pioneered sonic of the most popular and effective means employed to this day. One need not go far to see the reason for commanding success. He believed in tho value of the products of the factory operated by his firm, confidently and continuously appealed to the purchasing public, made good and won. That is stating the .abstract facts, but back of the winning was a world of patient, systematic and effective planning and execution. The doing- that is the secret after all. But this four-square man of business was not only a manufacturer and advertiser. As the years went on his interests and his ideas broadened. Other enterprises claimed his attention and never in vain. He loved his native city and here all his years have been spent. In 1879 with his partner, the late Robert D. Schultz, the then best appointed opera house in this country was built in connection with an imposing business block of most charming architectural appearance, one of the handsomest in Ohio. During almost all PAGE 247 - PICTURE OF JOHN HOGE PAGE 248 - BLANK PAST AND PRESENT OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY - 249 his business career he has been foremost in banking circles ; is enrolled in the list of stockholders of nearly all the leading manufactories of the city ; president of The American Encaustic Tiling Company ; president of the Brown Manufacturing Company ; vice president of the Peoples Savings Bank ; president of the Guardian Trust & Safe Deposit Company ; president of The Courier Company ; president of The Griffith & Wedge Company ; president of the Homestead Building and Savings Company ; and a director in numerous corporations in various cities east and west. In a word his means and his time have been freely bestowed, in building up the industrial interests of his home city. It is doubted if, off hand Mr. Hoge can call the roll of the enterprises with which he is associated. Mr. Hoge came of a democratic ancestry but in politics he has been a republican since casting his first vote about the close of the Civil war. Never a partisan, tolerant of others views, intensely patriotic he stands for honor and purity in public affairs. He never held an office nor aspired to public position, although repeatedly urged to accept places of distinction. In his relations to industrial enterprises he has sought to be fair in his dealings with his fellowmen whatever their stations in life. John Hoge has lived a busy life and continues to so live from choice. In temperament and habit, he is a worker and like most great "captains of industry" finds his chiefest joy in adding to the bettering of conditions—personal and general. With him there is no standing still and in all enterprises with which he is connected he insists upon growth and expansion. He has made large investments in real estate in various cities from New York to Seattle. With him a well settled rule controls in these business ventures :"The most valuable properties are located on the avenues of commercial activity ; the laws of trade cannot be safely ignored nor easily changed ; at these points one may safely invest his money and then he must keep abreast of the demands of a progressive people in providing modern improvements." Conservative in action, never hasty in judgment, Mr. Hoge does not hesitate at large figures nor unusual expenditure. A careful student of local conditions with singularly clear judgment as to future growth he seldom makes a mistake in acquiring real estate and it is characteristic of his whole business life that the speculative is never a factor in deciding a given problem. To accumulate property has never been a "passion" with him, but an earnest of a successful life, an evidence of usefulness and the industrious use of the powers committed to him by the Creator. With him there is no standing still : one must go forward or backward. Enlarged opportunities and increasing wealth bring broader responsibilities which are not to be put aside. Men of means if they rightly appreciate their duty, should keep their capital as well as their minds actively employed to the end that the state may be enriched, the interests of the community enhanced and the rising generation taught the lessons of progress and thrift upon which the enduring fortunes of this country are so largely built. In all the relations of life John Hoge has been content with his station, mindful of his duties as a citizen, desiring the good opinion of his neighbors and always willing to aid in promoting the highest and best interests of his fellows. WILLIAM C. HANDSHY. William C. Handshy, a contractor and builder of Zanesville, was born in Muskingum county. June 15, 1856, his parents being David and Mary (Wheeler) Handshy, also natives of Muskingum county, the latter a daughter of Jacob Wheeler, one of the early settlers here. David Handshy followed farming throughout his entire life in order to provide for his family, and he passed away in 1902, at the age of seventy-two years, while his wife died in 1896, at the age of sixty- five years. They were the parents of eleven children, seven sons and four daughters, of whom William C. was the fourth in order of birth. Those still living are : Mary, Henry, David, William C., Alice, Samuel, Clarence and Charles. William C. Handshy pursued his education in the public schools and afterwards learned the carpenterls trade, which he followed until he entered the railroad shops. For twenty-two years, however, he has been engaged in contracting and building on his own account and the fact that he has continued in the one line of activity is an indication of his success as a representative of the trade. He has built many of the fine residences in Zanesville, including a large number of the pioneer homes on the Terrace and Putnam avenue. He has also built many of the public buildings, warehouses and stores, including the Peoples Bank building, W. H. Harper's grocery house and the Mosaic Tile Works. He is also a director of the American Savings Bank. He is capable, prompt and energetic, living faithfully up to the terms of his contract and his straightforward dealing has been one of the strong elements in his success. He has never been known to take advantage of the necessities of his fellowmen in any trade transaction, and his business record is, therefore, one or which any man might be proud to possess. In his political views Mr. Hanshy is a democrat, and for six years served as a trustee of the 250 - PAST AND PRESENT OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY. city water works, while in 1900 he became a candidate for county commissioner, but was defeated for that office. Prominent in Masonry he has attained the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite, and he also belongs to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and the Modern Woodmen of America. Mr. Handshy was married in 1880 to Miss Lola M. Hunter, who was born in this county and is the daughter of Frederick W. and Lavina (Bash) Hunter. Her mother died in July, 'ow, at the age of sixty years, and her father is still living, he being a well known farmer of this section of the state. In their family were four children, namely : Mrs. Handshy, Val H., William M. and Madone C. Mr. and Mrs. Handshy have one child, Howard M., who was born in Zanesville and married Judith Dodd, of this city. Mr. and Mrs. Handshy are well known in Zanesville, and as the result of his untiring labors, his ambition. his energy and well directed efforts he is the possessor of a competence which supplies him with many of the comforts that go to make life worth the living. O. D. FRANCIS. O. D. Francis. who is conducting a store at Nashport, was borning in Licking county, Ohio. August 10, 1863, and is descended from Virginian ancestry. His paternal grandfather, Samuel Francis, came from the Old Dominion to Ohio when the state was largely a pioneer district and in the midst of its forest he began farming and continued to follow agricultural pursuits until his death. His son, William H. H. Francis, was born in Licking county, Ohio, in 1841, and was reared to manhood upon the old homestead farm, assisting in its cultivation and development . until eighteen years of age, when, thinking that he would find another pursuit more congenial he abandoned the plow and began working in a general store at Toboso, Licking county. He was afterward employed in a similar capacity at Cottage Hill and subsequently he worked for N. F. Claypool at Nashport. In 1871 he embarked in general merchandising on his own account at Nashport and has continued in this business to the present time, assisted by his sons. They have a well equipped store, carrying a large line of general merchandise, and the business is constantly growing. Mr. Francis also owns a farm of sixty-five acres near Irville. He is a member of the old school Baptist church and has been active and influential in public affairs. He served on the school board of his district for a number of years, was trustee for several years and for sometime held the office of township treasurer, discharging the duties of these various positions with promptness and fidelity. In the year 1862 he was united in marriage to Miss Margaret Eva- line Drum, and they have three children : Charles E., the younger son, born in Nashport, in 1868, married Miss Mary E. McKnight, and they have four children : Ella C., Cora R., Carlton Z., and Minnie. Ella May Francis, daughter of William H. H. Francis, is now the wife of Frank M. Fleming. O. D. Francis, whose name introduces this record, was reared under the parental roof and acquired his education in the Public schools of Nash- port. He also pursued a business course in Zanesville and bemg thus well equipped for the practical duties of a commercial career he entered his father's store and has since been identified with him in business, having the management of the store at the present time. He also conducts a hotel in Nashport, called the Francis Hotel, and he likewise owns property in Zanesville. In 1885 Mr. Francis was united in marriage to Miss Frances Curtic, a daughter of Enoch Curtic, and unto them have been born five children, but one died in infancy. The others are : Eugene C., Eva Florence, William H. H. and Helen Gertrude. Mr. Francis had followed in his father’s political footsteps, giving his support to the republican party and he keeps well informed on the questions and issues of the day, thus being able to support his position by intelligent argument. He belongs to Durban Lodge, No. 487, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, in which he is a past grand and be enjoys in full measure the confidence and fellowship of his brethren of the fraternity. He is regarded as an enterprising young business man, of laudable ambition and keen discrimination. He has made a study of the indications of the times in the commercial world and utilizes every opportunity that comes to him to the best advantage. It is not hard to predict for him a successful career and Mr. Francis well merits the prosperity that he is already enjoying-. JOHN J. ADAMS. John J. Adams, a practitioner at the Muskingum county bar and for six years judge of the fifth judicial circuit of Ohio, was born on the 18th day of November, 1860, on his father's farm near Dresden, this state, his parents being the late George Willson and Mary J. R. Adams. His early education was obtained in the district schools and was continued in the high school at Dresden and the high school at Zanesville, being graduated from the latter institution with the PAST AND PRESENT OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY - 251 class of June, 1875. His more specifically literary education was acquired in Kenyon College, at Gambier, Ohio, which he entered m the fall of 1875, completing the course there by graduation with the class of 1879. Through the succeeding three, years he engaged in teaching in Harcourt Place Academy, at Gambier, Ohio, a private boarding school for boys, and in September, 188o, he entered upon the study of law under the direction of the Hon. Moses M. Granger, of Zanesville. Following his careful preliminary reading he was admitted to the Ohio bar, January 2, 1883, entering upon the practice of his chosen profession in partnership with Col. Gilbert D. Munson, under the firm name of Munson & Adams, which relation was maintained from the spring of 1883 until November, 1893, when Colonel Munson was elected to the common pleas bench. The following year Mr. Adams received the republican nomination for judge of the fifth circuit court of Ohio, and was elected in November by a plurality of eight thousand eight hundred and ninety-four. The fifth circuit is composed of the counties of Ashland, Richland, Wayne, Stark, Morrow, Delaware, Licking. Knox, Holmes, Tuscarawas, Coshocton, Muskingum, Morgan, Fairfield and Perry. Judge Adams was the first republican judge elected to the circuit bench in this circuit, large democratic majorities having previously been given. He served on the bench for the full term of six years, from February 9, 1895, until February 9, 19o1. The practice of law has been his real life work, and at the bar and on the bench he has won distinction. A man of unimpeachable character, of unusual intellectual endowments, with a thorough understanding of the law, patience, urbanity and industry, Judge Adams took to the bench the very highest qualifications for this responsible position in the state government, and his record as a judge has been in harmony with his record as a man and a lawyer, distinguished by unswerving integrity and a masterful grasp of every problem which has presented itself for solution. On the 26th of October, 1892. Judge Adams was married to Miss Dora May Black, the only daughter of Thomas and Cornelia (Van Ham) Black. Mrs. Adams died October 27, 1904. JOSHUA G. STUMP. Among the earnest men whose depth of character and strict adherence to principles excite the admiration of his contemporaries, Joshua G. Stump is prominent. He was for many years identified with agricultural interests in Muskingum county, and is now the president of the First National Bank of Dresden. Banking institutions are the heart of the commercial body, indicating the healthfulness of trade, and the bank that follows a safe, conservative policy does more to establish public confidence in times of widespread financial depression than anything else. Such a course has the First National Bank of Dresden followed under the able management of its president. Mr. Stump is moreover entitled to representation in this volume because of his active endorsement of measures for the public good and from the fact that he is one of the native sons of Muskingum county. He was born in Licking township, June 3o, 1834, and was the third in a family of four children born unto John R. and Rachel (Gorsuch) Stump. His father, a native of Hardy county, Virginia, was born January 12, 1798, and was a son of Leonard and Phoebe (Davis) Stump, who were likewise natives of the Old Dominion and were of German lineage. The great-grandfather was John Stump, who married Miss Brake. He died in early manhood, and his widow afterward became the wife of John Rager. They removed to Muskingum county in 1806 when this district was almost an unbroken wilderness, and here they spent their declining years, assisting in the frontier development of the locality as the evidence of an advanced civilization replaced the conditions of pioneer life. Leonard Stump first came to Ohio in 1802, and in October, 1804, he made his way to Muskingum county. That was before the era of railroads, and he accomplished the journey in a wagon drawn by four horses. He located in Licking township, about eleven miles from Zanesville, where he purchased one thousand acres of land from George Jackson, living thereon until his death which occurred in 1846, while his wife passed away about 1832. They were the parents of eight children who reached mature years : John R., James D., Mary, Jackson, Ruth, William, Elizabeth and Phoebe. Leonard Stump was an own cousin of Andrew Jackson, and when boys they played together, being reared in the same neighborhood. John R. Stump was a second cousin of Stonewall Jackson. The family has long been known for the work it has accomplished in pioneer localities. About 1740 or 1750, G. W. Brake, the brother of Miss Brake's great-grandmother, was stolen by the Indians in Hardy county, Virginia. He was then only four years old. The red men brought him with them to Kilbuck Creek, in Muskingum county, and he was perhaps the first white person who ever saw or set foot upon the territory now embraced within the borders of this county. He was reared by the Indians but after becoming a young man he made his escape and returned to his old home in Virginia. John R. Stump, father of Joshua G. Stump, was born in Virginia, January 12, 1798, and was 252 - PAST AND PRESENT OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY. but six years of age when brought by his parents to Muskingum county, having at that time already been a resident of the state for two years. He was educated in the primitive schools of the times and was reared upon his father's farm. Much of the native forest was still uncut, streams and rivers were unbridged, and the work of improvement seemed scarcely begun. He assisted m the work of development as the years went by, devoting his energies to general agricultural pursuits. As a companion and helpmate on life's journey he chose Miss Rachel Gorsuch, their marriage being celebrated in 1826. She was a daughter of Norman Gorsuch, a native of England. Unto Mr. and Mrs. John R. Stump were born four children : Margaret, who died in 1863 ; John, who died in 1861 ; Joshua ; and Leonard N., who is living in Denver, Colorado, and married Annie Lynn. He was county commissioner of Muskingum county, Ohio, from 1875 until 1878, and also served for a part of another term. Joshua G. Stump was a public-school student during the period of his boyhood and youth, and when not busy with his text-books he assisted in the work of plowing, planting and harvesting upon the home farm. He was married in 1868 to Miss Sarah Van Voorhis, a native of Licking township, born in 1843, and a daughter of Daniel and Jane (Roberts) Van Voorhis, who were natives of Wasnington county, Pennsylvania. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Stump were born five children, of whom four are yet living; Nellie M., born in Licking township in 1869; Daniel J., born in Madison township in 1873 ; Mary, born in Madison township in 1876; and Jay, born in Dresden in 1877. All of these children have been provided with excellent educational privileges. The eldest son, Charles, who was born m Madison township in 1870, died January 12, 1892. At the time of his marriage Mr. Stump took his bride to the old home farm and there remained until 1870, when he removed to Madison township, where he carried on general agricultural pursuits until 1898, being one of the leading and representative agriculturists of the county. His home farm comprises five hundred and eighty-one acres in a single tract, and is one of the most productive and valuable tracts of land in this portion of the state. The place is now managed and operated by his son Jay, but for years Mr. Stump gave it his personal supervision and attention, adding to it all modern equipments and placing his fields under a very high state of cultivation. In addition to this property he has landed interests in other counties in Ohio and upon the home farm is a handsome residence. He occupied it until 1898 when he removed to Dresden, and upon the establishment of the First National Bank in that year he was chosen president and has since acted in that capacity, while for two years his son Jay was assistant cashier. The bank is capitalized for fifty thousand dollars and there is about two hundred thousand dollars on deposit. From the beginning the institution has enjoyed a prosperous existence and has become one of the strong and thoroughly reliable financial concerns of the county. The officers at the present time are : Joshua G. Stump, president ; J. G. Prettyman, vice president, and C. S. Lettick, cashier. In his fraternal relations Mr. Stump is a Mason. Throughout the years of his manhood he has been one of the active business men of the county and probably no single individual has done more for the development of the community than Mr. Stump, whose work, however, has been performed in a quiet, unostentatious way. In manner he is courteous and pleasant, winning friends by his genial disposition and honorable character, which commands the respect of all. He is public spirited in an eminent degree, and has always given hi§ support to whatever is calculated to promote the general welfare. In all relations, however, whether as banker, agriculturist, or private citizen he has ever been faithful and true and no shadow of wrong or suspicion of evil ever darkens his honored pathway. HENRY HAMILTON STURTEVANT. Prominent among business men of Zanesville is numbered Henry Hamilton Sturtevant, who. for more than a quarter of a century, has been closely identified with the commercial history of this city, his name figuring prominently in mercantile affairs. He is to-day at the head of one of the leading mercantile enterprises of Zanesville and is recognized for his keen discrimination and sound judgment, while his executive ability and excellent management have brought to the concern of which he is the head a high degree of Success. The safe conservative policy which he inaugurated commends itself to the judgment of all and has secured a patronage which makes the volume of business transacted over its counters of great importance and magnitude. The success of the store is largely due to him and through it he has promoted the material welfare of the city. Mr. Sturtevant is a native of Vermont, his birth having occurred in Craftsbury, April 19, 1851. The Sturtevants trace their ancestry back to Holland. His father, Hiram Sturtevant, was also born in the Green Mountain state and was a farmer by occupation. He held membership for many years with the Congregational church and in early life gave his political allegiance to the democratic party, while later he became a republican and a stanch supporter of Abraham PAGE 253 - PICTURE OF H. H. STURTEBANT PAGE 254 - BLANK PAST AND PRESENT OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY - 255 Lincoln. He served as selectman in his town and ranked high in public regard m his community as a man of unquestioned probity, who was always true to his honest convictions and reliable in his dealings with his fellowmen. He died in November, 1895, at the age of seventy- five years. His wife, who, in her maidenhood was Sarah Eliza Cory, was born in Vermont, and is of Scotch lineage. Her father was Henry Cory, a farmer. She is now living in Montreal, Canada, at the age of eighty-two years, and she has long been a devoted member of the Congregational church. In the family were four children : Edward, a manufacturer of Franklin, New Hampshire ; Mary Elizabeth, of Montreal, who is the widow of David Thompson, who was superintendent of the Montreal Navigation Company ; Ezra Thompson, of Chicago, and Henry H. In the public schools of his native place, Henry Hamilton Sturtevant continued his studies until he reached the age of sixteen years, when he secured a position as clerk in a general store m the White mountains. A year later he went to Woodstock, Vermont, where for four years he was employed as a clerk, and this ended for a time his experience as a retail salesman. He went upon the road, however, as a traveling salesman, representing a wholesale dry goods house of Boston for four years, his territory being Ohio, Indiana and the district as far west as Kansas City. He left the road in the latter part of 1876 in order to engage in the dry goods business on his own account at Pittsfield. Massachusetts, where he remained for two years, when he sold his interests there and came to Zanesville. Here in connection with John Martin he opened a dry goods store at the corner of Fourth and Main streets in the City Hall building under the firm name of Sturtevant & Martin. They remained there for four years, when, their business having outgrown their quarters, they removed to their present location, but at that time had only the east fifty feet of the ground floor and even then it was supposed by some that they would never be able to fill their store with goods. However, success attended them and they are constantly forced to enlarge their stock in order to meet the growing demands of the trade. In 1889 Mr. Sturtevant purchased his partner's interest and at intervals became possessed of long leases of the large building now occupied by the company. Tearing down the old buildings the present modern glass front structure was erected with a frontage of ninety-five feet. In 1904 thirty feet more frontage on the ground floor was added and fifty feet more on the upper floor, thus giving a floor space of seventy-three thousand square feet. The building is three stories in height with basement. From 1889 until 1903 the business was conducted by Mr. Sturtevant, but in the spring of that year he organized a company, which was incorporated and capitalized for two hundred thousand dollars, he being its president, while W. C. Atkinson is secretary and treasurer. The stockholders are all employes of the concern and the object of incorporating was for the purpose of giving the employes an interest in the business and a snare in the profits. Those at all familiar with the commercial history of Zanesville know of the steady growth and substantial development of this enterprise. At the time the store was opened it was the smallest in Zanesville, but wonderful success has attended it and it is now the largest in the state between Cincinnati and Cleveland. There are many departments, covering a wide range of goods and the stock is carefully selected to meet the demands of the varied tastes of the public. Mr. Sturtevant was married in 1901, to Mrs. Blanch Martin, of Cleveland. Fraternally he is connected with the Elks, while his political support is given to the republican party. He has never been an aspirant for office, however, preferring to give his undivided attention to his business affairs which have claimed all of his time and energies and which in return have brought him splendid financial reward. It seems trite to say to those who are familiar with his history that he has risen unaided from comparative obscurity to rank with the leading merchants of central Ohio, yet in a history that will descend to future generations it should be put on record that his business career is one that any man might be proud to possess. Throughout his connection with mercantile interests in Zanesville he has been looked upon as a model of integrity and honor, never making an engagement that he has not fulfilled and standing to-day as an example of what determination and force, combined with the highest degree of integrity, can accomplish for a man of natural ability and strength of character. WILLIAM B. DEACON. William B. Deacon, financially interested in business enterprises of Zanesville and occupying a high position in public regard, was born m Buffalo, New York, July 4, 1853. His father, Thomas Deacon, was a native of England and in 1845 crossed the Atlantic to the United States, locatmg near Buffalo, New York, where he engaged in gardening and also handled meat. He came to Muskingum county in the spring of 1865 and located on Dresden road, between Zanesville and Dresden. There he carried on agricultural pursuits for a number of years. He was inde- 256 - PAST AND PRESENT OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY. pendent in his political views and in his religious faith was a Methodist, his life being in harmony with his professions as a member of the church. He died May 17, 1894, at the age of eighty-one years. His wife, Mrs. Anna Maria Deacon, was also born in England and her death occurred in Buffalo in 1860. She, too, was a church member. In the family were six children, of whom two are living: William B.; and Anna Maria, who is the wife of William Weaver of California. William B. Deacon is indebted to the public school system of Zanesville for the early educational privileges he enjoyed, but when still quite young he left school and entered his father's meat market, where he was employed until twenty-three years of age, when he turned his attention to the meat business on his own account. He continued in that line with excellent success until the fall of 1903, when he sold out. In the meantime he had made judicious investment of his earnings in real estate and is now the owner of considerable valuable property in Zanesville. He is likewise interested in the glass works of the city. On the 30th of December, 1874, Mr. Deacon was united in marriage to Miss Julia M. Vandegrift, a daughter of Daniel and Elizabeth Vandegrift, the former a millwright, who followed his trade in Zanesville. Mrs. Deacon was born in this city in 1854 and by her marriage has become the mother of six children : W. E., Irene. Elizabeth, Ethel, Grace and George H. The parents hold membership in the Second Street Methodist Episcopal church and Mr. Deacon has membership relations with the Odd Fellows, the Masons and the Mystic Circle. He exercises his right of franchise in support of the men and measures of the republican party and he was elected to represent the seventh ward in the city council in 1902. In April of that year he was chosen mayor of Zanesville and his administration found favor with the large majority of his fellow citizens for he was business-like, prompt and reliable in discharge of the duties which devolved upon him as chief executive of the city. By perseverance, determination and energy he has worked his way upward in the business world, reaching the goal of prosperity and his broad mind, genuine worth and public spirit have made him a director of public thought and action. HOWARD EVERTON BUKER. In a profession where much depends upon individual merit and ability, Howard E. Buker has made steady advancement and is to-day accounted one of the capable and successful lawyers of the Muskingum county bar. He was born in Monroe township, this county, September 17, 1870. His father, Elijah F. Buker, is also a native of the same township and has now reached the age of fifty-five years. The grandfather, Alpha Buker, came to Muskingum county in 1818 and established his home in Monroe township, at which time there was only one house between the location he chose and Zanesville. There he turned his attention to agricultural pursuits, continuing to carry on general farming at that place until his death, when his farm passed into possession of his son and subsequently became the property of Howard E. Buker, who owned it until after his removal to Zanesville. It is now the property of William Walker. The old log house in which Mr. Buker and his father were born is still standing, one of the landmarks of early pioneer times, giving indication through contrast of the progress of civilization in this part of the state. It was upon that farm that Elijah F. Buker was reared and for a long period made his home. During the civil war he ran away from home three times and enlisted, but each time his mother brought him back, objecting to his joining the army because of his extreme youth. He had two brothers, however, William R. and Caleb H. Buker, who served in the Union army. His home is now in Salem township, where he has a well improved farm property. He is a member of the Methodist Protestant church and fraternally is connected with the Knights of Pythias and the Masons. He married Hannah J. Gaumer, who was born in Salem township, Muskingum county, and is now fifty-three years of age. Her parents were Jonathan and Mahala Gaumer, the former a farmer by occupation. Mrs. Buker is a member of the Evangelical Lutheran church. Herbert M. Buker, a brother of our subject, is a job printer at Zanesville. Howard E. Buker, the elder son in the family, pursued his education in the district and high schools of Monroe township, Muskingum county, and when sixteen years of age Ile received a teacherls certificate. He followed teaching for three years, during the last year being employed in Monroe township high school. During the intervals of his teaching he attended the Adrian College, at Adrian, Michigan, for one term, and he afterward entered Muskingum College, at New Concord, Ohio, where he spent two years as a student. He began preparation for the practice of law in the office and under the direction of Frank H. Southard, with whom he continued his reading for several months, when he became a student in the Cincinnati Law School, in October, 1891, and was graduated in June, 1892, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Law. He was then admitted to the bar and in the fall of the same year he entered the office of his former tutor, Frank H. Southard, and began the practice of his profession. There he remained until PAGE - 257 - HOWARD E. BUKER PAGE - 158 - BLANK PAST AND PRESENT OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY - 259 1894, when he opened an office for himself and has since successfully engaged in the prosecution of his chosen calling. He was a candidate for judge of the common pleas court in 1898 and was second in the race for nomination, but withdrew before the convention convened and Judge Frazier was nominated. In his practice he has displayed the qualities which mark the notable lawyer, his clear and cogent reasoning and his logical .deductions being strong elements in his success. He, moreover, possesses laudable ambition and strong determination and in argument he never fails to impress court or jury and seldom fails to gain the verdict desired. Mr. Buker was married December 27, 1891, to Miss Viola Castor, a daughter of Philander S. and Sarah (Worthing) Castor, both of whom are still living, their home being at Otsego, Ohio. At an early day the Worthing and Castor families came to Ohio and settled in Guernsey county, and during the early '70s Philander S. Castor and wife took up their abode in Monroe township, Muskingum county. Mr. and Mrs. Buker have two children : Herbert Daniel, born June 1, 1895, and Helen Marie, born May 12, 1902. Mr. Buker is a member of the Market Street Baptist church and for several years has been active in both church and Sunday-school work, serving as superintendent of the Sunday school for six years. He is now vice president of the State Sunday School Association and also a member of the executive committee. WILLIAM D. LASH. William D. Lash, prominent in the circles of public education in Ohio, was born in Athens county, this state, in 1846. His father, Jacob Lash, also a native of Athens county, is still living there at the advanced age of eighty-five years. The paternal grandfather, William Lash, was of German lineage and removed from Belmont county to Athens county at an early period in its development. His son Jacob was reared and educated there and throughout his entire life has remained a resident of that locality. For many years he carried on agricultural pursuits and eventually put aside further business cares. He resided about five miles south of Athens at the time of the birth of his son William, and later removed to within a mile and a half of that village. There were practically no school facilities in that locality and there being no district school he and two of his neighbors established one. They organized a board and got the use of an old house which had formerly been used as a sheepfold, put in benches, floors and otherwise equipped the building for school purposes. The three men who carried on this work became school directors. They wanted money to buy ground for a district school but no one would give or sell the necessary amount of land, so at length they to go into court to condemn a piece of land for the purpose and the stone for the house and the timber were obtained from farmers of that locality. Mr. Lash boarded the workmen while they were engaged in the construction of the building. When it was completed he went to the president of the Ohio University, which was situated about one mile and a half from his home, in order to obtain a teacher, and for many years thereafter the teachers for the school were furnished by that institution. He certainly deserves much credit for what he did in behalf of public education in his district. He has long held membership in the Baptist church. His wife, whose maiden name was Susan Morrison, was born in Belmont county, Ohio, and in her early girlhood days removed to Athens county, where she died September 20, 1901, at the age of seventy-eight years. In their family were four children, Hugh M. Lash, the eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Lash, became a noted physician and occupied a chair in the Indiana Medical College. He was also a member of the board of health at Indianapolis and died there September 20, 1903. The third son, Eli Reynolds Lash, became a pharmacist, and is now conducting a drug store in Athens, Ohio. A sister, Lydia M., married Professor D. J. Evans, who at one time was a teacher in the little school house built by her father, and who is now professor of languages in the Ohio University, occupying the chair of Latin. With her the father now resides. He is a democrat in politics and has voted for sixteen presidential candidates, his first vote being cast for James K. Polk. Professor Lash attended school for one year in the old log building which his father assisted in fixing up and on the completion of the new schoolhouse was a student there until he entered the Ohio University, at Athens. During his junior and senior years he taught in the home school during the winter months in order to earn the money to pay his expenses at college and thus relieve his father of that burden as the latter was then in ill health and had to depend on hired help to operate the farm. Professor Lash was graduated from Ohio University in 1871 with the degree of A. B., while the master of arts degree was conferred upon him by his alma mater in 1874. In the fall succeeding his graduation he became a teacher in the high school at Jackson, Ohio, and at the close of the first term was made superintendent. At the end of the year he resigned and in the fall of 1872 became an assistant principal of the Zanesville high school. He was made principal at the end of the third year and occupied that position for three years, when in 1878 260 - PAST AND PRESENT OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY. he was appointed superintendent for all of the city schools and has now filled that position for twenty-seven years. The schools of Zanesville are practically a monument to his life work. He is continuously studying methods for the benefit of the school and has instituted many movements which have resulted beneficially. Under his guidance the schools have made steady progress, the standard of education being raised year after year and to-day Zanesville has every reason to be proud of her system of public instruction. In early life Professor Lash displayed the elementary strength of his character which has been developed as the years have gone by. He worked his own way through college and completed a six years' course in five years. As a student he was persistent and painstaking, thorough and proficient and the same characteristics have been manifest throughout his own experience as an educator. He is now a member of the National Educational Association and of the State Educational Association and presided at one of the state meetings. He also belongs to the Eastern Ohio Teachers' Association, of which he has been president and is a member of the County Teachers' Association. In October, 1873, William D. Lash was united in marriage to Miss Jenet W. Griffin, a daughter of Carvil and Edith ( Walker) Griffin. She was born in Connellsville, Pennsylvania, in 185o, and there were four children of this marriage : Earl Evans, now deceased ; William Ralph ; Holmes Griffin, and Edith V. Professor Lash is a democrat in his political views, but while always keeping well informed on the questions and issues of the day, has never been an aspirant for office. He has long held membership in the First Presbyterian church of Zanesville, in which he is a ruling elder. His mental powers have been continually quickened and strengthened by reading and investigation. His sympathies have been broad and he has learned from life its duties and responsibilities and as the years have passed his efficiency in his life work has continually increased. He has devoted his talents to a profession calling for a broad, cultured mind and strong intellectual force and for many years he has now occupied a leading position among Ohio's public educators. C. H. HANKS. C. H. Hanks, owning and operating a large mill at Adamsville, the capacity being fifty barrels per day, was born in Salem township, December 2, 1856, his parents being J. D. and Mary C. (Adams) Hanks, also natives of this county. His parental grandfather, Cephas Hanks, was born in Virginia and in 1827 came to Muskingum county, settling in Highland township, where he followed the occupation of farming. His wife was also a native of the Old Dominion and they were married in that state. Of their family three sons and four daughters are yet living. J. Hanks was reared to the occupation of farming, and has always carried on agricultural pursuits. He wedded Miss Mary Adams, a daughter of George and Christine (Werts) Adams, who were: born, reared and married in Virginia and came from that state to Ohio about 1815. Of their family the survivors are : Mrs. Hanks; a brother, who is living in Muskingum county ; and another brother in Iowa. Following his marriage J. D. Hanks continued farming and was thus engaged until forty-five years of age, when he turned his attention to the milling business, which he continued until 1885. He now owns eighty-five acres of land adjoining the corporation limits of Adamsville on the south and a farm of fifty acres more distant. He also has one and a half acres around his home and at present writing he is living retired, enjoying a rest which he has truly earned and richly deserves. His wife is a member of the Methodist church and both are held in high esteem. C. H. Hanks was a student in the Salem school and afterward in the schools of Adamsville and when his education was completed he joined his father in his milling enterprise. J. D. Hanks had purchased his mill from Charles Beck in 1873 and in 1884 he sold out to his son, C. H. Hanks, who continued its operation until 1887. In that year he became a merchant and for three years carried on his store, at the same time retaining the ownership of the mill until 1889. He then went to Zanesville where he was employed as a salesman in the dry goods store of Thomas Colton for a year. These changes were made on account of poor health. On the expiration of that period he returned to Adamsville and has since been engaged in milling, having here a well developed plant with an average output of fifty barrels per day. All of the local trade is accorded him and he conducts a big business with the farmers of the surrounding country, the mill being operated throughout the year. On the 17th of September, 1879, Mr. Hanks was married to Miss Carrie I. Ross, who was born September 8, 1861, in Adamsville, and is a daughter of L. R. and Mary A. (Smoot) Ross. Her father was a native of Muskingum county but his parents came to the west from Rhode Island. He carried on farming near Adamsville and for many years was accounted one of the leading agriculturists of his community. He died in 1900 and his wife passed away in 1888, the county thus losing two of its native citizens who though many years had been identified with the interests that have contributed to its upbuilding. Mrs. PAST AND PRESENT OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY - 261 Hanks now has two brothers and one sister deceased : Newton Ross, who was born in 185o and died in 1875 ; Holmes, who was born in 1849 and died in October, 1903 ; and Eva, who died in infancy. Holmes Ross left a widow, two daughters and two sons. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Hanks has been born a son—Ralph, whose birth occurred December 2, 1880. He married Verna G. Allen and is now engaged in a commission business with his uncle, Wilber Hanks, in Zanesville. C. H. Hanks is independent in his political views, supporting men and measures rather than party nor has he had any aspiration for public office. Fraternally he is connected with the Knights of Pythias and the Maccabees at Adamsville. He is a charter member of both and has never been out of office since they were organized. His wife is connected with the Methodist Episcopal church. They are widely and favorably known in the community where they reside and the circle of their friends is constantly growing. Mr. Hanks stands as one of the leading representatives of agricultural life here and in the capable control of his business affairs is meeting with gratifying success. IRWIN G. JENNINGS. Irwin G. Jennings, who is filling the position of probate judge in Muskingum county, was born in Zanesville, in 1875. a son of Dr. E. A. and Margaret C. (Chapman) Jennings. The father was born in Noble county, Ohio, and died in 1887, at the age of thirty-six years. He held membership in the Methodist Episcopal church. His wife, whose birth occurred in Zanesville, in 1853, is now living in this city. She is a daughter of Charles L. Chapman. a cabinet-maker, and by her marriage she became the mother of two sons but the brother, Charles C., is now deceased. Judge Jennings was a student in the public and high schools of Zanesville, being graduated with the class of 1893. In the fall of the same year he entered upon a classical course in Oberlin College and after a year spent in that institution lie continued his studies in Marietta College. where he completed a classical course. Having determined to enter upon the practice of law as a life work, he then began reading in the office and under the direction of Frank H. Southard, an attorney of Zanesville, and subsequently matriculated in the State University at Columbus, in 1898. being graduated the following year with the degree of Bachcler of Laws. In the fall of 1899 he was admitted to the bar at Columbus and entered at once upon the practice of his profession in Zanesville, continuing an active member of the legal fraternity here until elected to the office of probate judge. On the 23d of November, 1904, Judge Jennings was married to Miss Charlotte C. Lynn, a daughter of John T. and Cornelia (Rector) Lynn, and a native of Zanesville, born in 1880. Mr. Jennings is identified with the Masonic fraternity and gives his political allegiance to the republican party. He was elected to the office of probate judge in 19oz and is a member of the Muskingum County Bar Association. He is yet a young man but has already attained a creditable position as a representative of the Muskingum county bar and his friends predict for him still greater honors and success. WILLIAM COBB. William Cobb, manager of the Kapner Brothers & Duga knitting mill in Frazeysburg, has been well trained for his present important position by years of experience in the line of manufacturing knit goods, for when a young lad he entered upon his business career in a similar factory and throughout the greater part of his business career he has directed his labors into channels of a like nature. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 20, 1857, his parents being Isaac and Phoeba (Hunter) Cobb. both representatives of old families of that state. The father was a carpenter by trade. William Cobb was educated in the public schools of Beverly, New Jersey, and as a boy was employed in the knitting mills. He began by "piecing on a mule" and through his perseverance and capability he won promotion from time to time. Going to Philadelphia he was employed by the Pilling & Madley Stocking Company and at the age of nineteen was made foreman in the mill, which position he acceptably filled until 1883. In that year he went to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he acted as superintendent of the mill owned by S. H. Hallsted & Company until 189o. when he went to Indiana to install a mill at Kokomo. When that task was completed he went to Piqua. Ohio, where he was foreman in the underwear mills until 1893, when he returned to the east and was connected with the underwear mills at Perry, New York, until 1897. In that year he accepted a position as foreman in the hosiery mill at Frederick, Maryland, where he continued for six years. On the 15th of February, 1903, he came to Frazeysburg to act as superintendent and manager of the hosiery mill just established by Kapner Brothers & Duga. The mill thirty-four by seventy feet, two stories in height and furnishes employment to thirty-eight operatives, turning out one hundred and fifty dozen pairs of hose per 262 - PAST AND PRESENT OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY. day. Mr. Cobb has thorough understanding of the business in principle and detail, because of hiS practical experience in various departments, and is well qualified to assume the management of this enterprise, which under his capable direction is proving a profitable concern. Mr. Cobb was married in Wilmington, Delaware, to Miss Louisa Weigend, of Philadelphia, and eight children have been born to them : Robert, Martha, Lilly, and Otto and Mary, twinS, all born in Kentucky, opposite Cincinnati ; Ollie, born in Piqua, Ohio ; Laura, a native of Philadelphia ; and Ida, born in Perry, New York. Mr. Cobb is identified with the Odd Fellows and the Knights of the Golden Eagles. Politically he is a republican and is now serving as president of the school board in Frazeysburg, the cause of education finding in him a stalwart friend, who exercises his official prerogatives for the betterment of the schools. His life record shows as his dominant qualities perseverance and the mastery of every task which has fallen to his lot. It is these which won him ready recognition in manufacturing circles and gained him promotion until the position which he now occupies is a responsible one, bringing good financial remuneration. JAMES BUCKINGHAM. One of the best known and most prominent citizens of Zanesville is James Buckingham, who was born in this city on the 22d of October, 1831. and is a worthy representative of an honored pioneer family, being the third son of Alvah and Anna (Hale) Buckingham. HiS father was born in Ballston Spa, New York, March 20, 1791, and was a son of Ebenezer and Esther (Bradley) Buckingham, both natives of Greenfield. Connecticut, the former born November 1, 1748, and the latter on the 28th of February, 1754. In 1794, when only three years of age, Alvah Buckingham accompanied his parents on their removal to Cooperstown, New York. Two years later his elder brother, Ebenezer, left home to explore the country west of the Alleghany mountains and Ohio river, and in the spring of 1799 was followed by his brother Stephen. In the fall of the latter year they returned home with such glOWing accounts of the new land that their parents decided to move hither, taking with them their numerous children, except three married daughters. They first located at the mouth of Killbuck creek, some miles above the present town of Coshocton, theirs being almost the first settlement in that region, and their nearest white neighbors were at Zanesville, some thirty miles south on the Muskingum river. There were many Indians, however, in the locality at that time, with whom the oldest sons often traded for furs, robes, etc., while the younger members of the family played with the Indian children, their principal sports being "throwing the tomahawk," "shooting the bow and arrow," and "tossing up wood chips for the old Indians to fire at ' They' were very expert at these and other athletic' sports. Alvah Buckingham early learned the Indian language and after half a century had passed was still able to count in their tongue to the great amusement of his grandchildren. In the fall of 1803, finding their first location unhealthy the family removed to Carthage township in the southeastern part of Athens county, Ohio, on the Hockhocking river. Here Alvah Buckingham had the inestimable privilege of attending school, although the Schoolhouse was four miles distant from his home and he had to walk thereto daily. When out of school he assisted in the labors of the farm or indulged in hunting, the latter being his favorite pastime as there was plenty of game at that early day. The woods were infested with bear, deer, panther, raccoon, opossum and wild turkey, and near the farm was quite a celebrated deer lick, where on moonlight nights he waS accustomed to station his watch and many a victim rewarded his unerring rifle. It was on one of the lonely watches that his quickness of thought and rapidity of action saved his life and brought down a huge panther poiSed just above him ready for a spring. At the age of seventeen he met with a severe accident. While hunting in the woods one day his horse became frightened, reared and fell back on his rider. Stunned by the fall. Mr. Buckingham yet recovered to find that his right leg was broken both above and below the knee and over three miles from home where no aid could possibly reach him. Mustering all his strength and courage he managed to crawl on his two hands and one knee. On reaching the river, he found that it was low enough for him to cross by holding his mouth just above the water and in this way he reached home just before his sinking strength gave way. The limb was splintered as well as it could possibly be done in a country home with no skilled physician at hand, but a long weary year's confinement was the result and ever afterward a slight, though not perceptible, lameness. In 1804 the older brother, Ebenezer Buckingham, removed to Putnam, now the ninth ward of Zanesville, where he established business, and Alvah became his assistant in 1810, leaving the parents still at the Hocking farm. Three years later another brother. Stephen, died and Alvah was called upon to take charge of his business, which he did for two years. In April, 1816, he formed a partnership with his brother Ebenezer and Solomon Sturgis, who afterward became his brother, as they married sisters. They engaged PAGE - 263 - PICTURE OF A. BUCKINGHAM PAGE - 264 - BLANK PAGE 265 - PICTURE OF JAMES BUCKINGHAM PAGE 266 - BLANK PAST AND PRESENT OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY - 267 in merchandising under the firm name of E. Buckingham & Company and built up an excellent trade for that early day. Ebenezer Buckingham, the brother of Alvah, married Eunice Hale, of Glastonbury, Connecticut, and on his return to the west brought with him his sister-in-law, Miss Anna Hale, the whole party crossing the Alleghany mountains on horseback as there were no roads for carriages or wagons at that time. In 1818 Miss Hale returned to her eastern home but did not remain long, however. In her accustomed place as leader of the choir in the old church at Glastonbury, one Sunday in October, 1819, she glanced below and recognized the well known figure of her western friend, Alvah Buckingham. Later there followed an interview, a proposal and a hurried marriage on the following Sabbath evening, October 3, 1819. The young couple then started on horseback for their home in the west. Mrs. Alvah Buckingham was born in Glastonbury, Connecticut, March 9, 1795, and was the sixth in order of birth in a family of eight children, her parents being Benjamin and Martha (Welles) Hale, who were married December- 23, 1783. Her father was born October 3o, 1759, and died December 24, 1831. while her mother was born August 12, 1759, and died April 20, 1837. The former traced his ancestry back to Samuel Hale, who came from England and settled in Hartford, Connecticut, about 1634. His wife bore the name of Mary and among their children was Thomas Hale, who married Naomi Kilbourne, who was a daughter of John and Naomi Kilbourne and a granddaughter of Thomas and Frances Kilbourne. Timothy Hale, a son of Thomas and Naomi ( Kilbourne ) Hale. married Sarah Fran-, and their son, Captain Timothy Hale was the father df Benjamin Hale and the grandfather of Mrs. Buckingham. He married Hannah Hale, a (laughter of Benjamin and Hannah (Talcott) Hale, and a grandfather of Lieutenant Samuel and Mary (Welles) Hale. Lieutenant Samuel Hale was also a son of Samuel Hale, the progenitor of the family in America. His wife was a daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth (Hollister) Welles and granddaughter of Thomas and Elizabeth (Hunt) Welles, Thomas Welles having come from England to Salem, Massachusetts, June 24, 1629. Elizabeth (Hollister) Welles was a daughter of John Hollister. Sr., one of the first settlers of Wethersfield, Connecticut, and his wife who bore the maiden name of Joanna Treat and was a claughter of Richard and Joanna Treat. Mrs. Hannah (Talcott) Hale, previously mentioned, was a (laughter of Benjamin and Sarah (Hollister) Talcott, and a granddaughter of Samuel and Hannah (Holyoke) Talcott. Samuel Talcott was a son of John and Dorothy (Smith) Talcott, and 17 a grandson of John and Annie (Skinner) Talcott, the former a son of John Talcott, of Colchester, Connecticut, and the latter a daughter of William Skinner. Dorothy (Smith) Talcott was a daughter of Benjamin Smith. On the paternal side Hannah (Holyoke) Talcott was a granddaughter of Edward and Prudence ( Stockton) Holyoke, their son Elizur Holyoke being her father. He married Mary Pynchon, a daughter of Hon. William Pynchon, who was a son of John and (Orchard) Pynchon, and a grandson of John and Jane (Empson) Pynchon. Sarah (Hollister) Talcott was a daughter of John and Sarah (Goodrich) Hollister, and a granddaughter of John and Joanna (Treat) Hollister, mentioned above as being among the first settlers of Wethersfield, Connecticut. Sarah (Goodrich) Hollister was a daughter of William Goodrich, Jr., and his wife Sarah Marvin, a daughter of Matthew and Elizabeth Marvin. In the maternal line Mrs. Alvah Buckingham traced her ancestry back to Thomas Welles previously mentioned as coming from England to Salem, Massachusetts. June 24, 1629. He married Elizabeth Hunt and their son Samuel Welles married Elizabeth Hollister. a daughter of John and Joanna (Treat) Hollister, among the first settlers of Wethersfield, Connecticut. Captain Samuel Welles, a son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Hollister) Welles, married Ruth Rice and their son Thomas Welles was the great-grandfather of Mrs. Buckingham. He married Martha Pitkins, a daughter of William and Elizabeth (Stanley) Pitkins. William Pitkins was a son of Hon. William and Hannah ( Goodwin') Pitkins, and a grandson of Roger Pitkins. of Norwich, England, and of Osias Goodwin. while his wife, Elizabeth (Stanley) Pitkins. was a (laughter of Caleb and Hannah (Cowles) Stanley and a granddaughter of Timothy Stanley and John Cowles. William Welles, the grandfather of Mrs. Buckingham married Ann Shelton, a daughter of Joseph and Mary (Hollister) Shelton. Her grandfather, Daniel Shelton, married Elizabeth Welles, a daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth ( Hollister) Welles. Samuel Welles was a son of Thomas and Elizabeth (Hunt) Welles. previously mentioned, and his wife was a daughter of John and Joanna (Treat) Hollister. also mentioned before. Mary (Hollister) Shelton. the maternal great-grandmother of Mrs. Buckingham, was a daughter of Jo. and Ann Hollister, and a granddaughter of John and Sarah (Goodrich) Hollister. John Hollister was also a son of John and Joanna (Treat) Hollister, of Wethersfield, Connecticut, and his wife, Sarah (Goodrich) Hollister, was a daughter of William and Sarah (Marvin) Goodrich and a granddaughter of Matthew and Elizabeth Marvin. On the return of Alvah Buckingham and his bride to Putnam, Ohio, he purchased a very 268 - PAST AND PRESENT OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY. modest little house of one room on the banks of the Muskingum river and there they began housekeeping in 180, but the following year he built a two-story brick house, to which he added a commodious addition in 1834. Here all of their children were born and it is still the homestead of the family being now occupied by their youngest son, James Buckingham, whose name introduces this sketch. The latter's grandfather, Ebenezer Buckingham, Sr., died in October, 1824, on the old farm near Carthage, Athens county, Ohio, and his widow subsequently lived with her son, Ebenezer, Jr., in Putnam until she, too, passed away on the 25th of June, 1827. In August, 1832, the firm of E. Buckingham & Company was dissolved by the sudden and painful death of Ebenezer Buckingham, Jr., but the business was continued under the new name of A. Buckingham & Company. The following year another brother, Milton, was induced to leave the farm at Carthage and join the firm, taking a half of Alvah's share, while at the same time the latter’s partner, Solomon Sturges, sold a half of his interest to his brother Hezekiah, who removed from Fairfield, Connecticut. On the removal of Milton Buckingham to Springfield, Ohio, in 1843, Benjamin, the eldest son of .Alvah, became a member of the firm and in 1845 the old name was then changed to Buckingham & Sturges, the new company being composed of Benjamin H. Buckingham and William Sturges, the oldest sons of the two former partners. In 1850 Alvah Buckingham furnished the money with which his friend R. P. Burlingame opened up a lumberyard in Chicago and the following year the two built the first gram elevator in that city, it being a frame structure with a capacity of seventy-five thousand bushels and a great wonder at that time. It was called the Fulton elevator. In 1851 Mr. Buckingham established branch houses in New York and Toledo, Ohio, for his sons Benjamin and Philo, buying the Pendleton elevator, which was the first one built in Toledo. They soon erected another but in carrying on their extensive business Philo Buckingham lost his health and died quite suddenly April 6, 1853, at the old homestead in Putnam. In 1854 Alvah Buckingham sold a third interest m the Fulton elevator at Chicago to his old partner, Solomon Sturges, and shortly afterward concluded a contract with the Illinois Central Railroad Company to do all of their grain warehouse busmess for ten years. In 1856 he built and opened the two large warehouses in Chicago called A and B, each having a capacity of seven hundred thousand bushels of grain. After that he spent most of his time in that city, whither he removed his family three years later. In April, 1865, however, he took up his residence in New York city, where he purchased a home, living there until his death. In the spring of 1866, having occasion to locate some western lands, Alvah. Buckingham, accompanied by his son James, traveled through Indiana, Illinois, Missouri and Kansas, much of the journey being acomplished in a spring wagon over rough roads, but he did not seem fatigued although at that time seventy-five years of age. In the spring of 1867 he made a second pilgrimage to the west, this time passing through Iowa and Nebraska and traveling over the line of the Pacific Railroad as far as it had been finished. It was his ambition to be a passenger on the first train that went through to the Pacific coast, but in this he was disappointed. The summer of 1867 was spent with his wife and two daughters, Mrs. S. S. Cox and Mrs. Hardenbergh, at Saratoga, ending in a most pleasurable trip to the White mountains, but .soon after their return to New York his Wife was taken ill with pneumonia and died on the 23d of September, 1867, her remains being taken back to the old home at Putnam, Ohio, for interment. Two weeks later Mr. Buckingham was stricken down, dying at Putnam, October 4, 1867, and he was laid to rest by the side of his wife in Woodlawn cemetery. He was a man of unusual strength of character, was a conscientious Christian and of unfailing courtesy. He was upright and honorable in all his dealings with his fellowmen and possessed extraordinary business ability and keen sagacity which enabled him to overcome all the difficulties found in the path to prosperity. In his bome he was a most affectionate husband and indulgent father, and in this region, where he so long made his home, he was universally respected and honored. He found a true helpmate in his wife, who aided and encouraged him by her kindly sympathy and love, and by her industry and economy relieved him of all anxiety. In the family of this worthy couple were the following children : Benjamin H., born July 26, 180, was married November 11, 1845, to Martha E. Potwin, and died November 6, 1864. Philo, born March 24, 1825, died April 6, 1853. Elizabeth, born January 24, 1827, died December 12, 1827. Julia Ann, born March 9, 1829, was married October 11, 1849, to Hon, Samuel S. Cox, of Ohio ; James, born October 22, 1831, is the next of the family ; and Elizabeth, born September 13, 1836, was married September 26, 1864, to John A. Hardenbergh, of New York. James Buckingham was educated at Marietta, Ohio, and at Brown University. Providence, Rhode Island, but on acount of ill health was forced to leave college before completing the regular course in February, 1852. A part of the winter of 1852-3 was spent in his father's elevator at Chicago, and the following April lo- PAST AND PRESENT OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY - 269 cated on his farm at Duncan's Falls, Ohio, where he made his home until his return to Zanesville in September, 1863, when he again took up his abode in the house where he was born. In June, 1854, he invented the cogs placed on the outside of the driving wheels used on mowing and reaping machines, but never patented it. Mr. Buckingham was married at Chillicothe, Ohio, November 5, 1831, to Miss Jane P. Wills, who was born in that city on the 8th of October, 1832, and is the third child in the family of Dr. David and Eliza (Peebles) Wills. Five children blessed this union : Elise Wills, born January 16, 1856, was married October 11, 1883, to F. G. Darlington; Mary Humphreys, born December 6, 1859, was married January 27, 1887, to A. E. Greene ; Philo Hale, born December 27, 1861, died August 19, 1869 ; Ellen Wood, born October 19. 1863, was married October 2, 1889, to William Young and died November 12, 189o; and Julia, born July 16, 1867, was married January 28, 1891, to S. M. Pinkerton. During the Civil war Mr. Buckingham was a member of Company A, One Hundred and Fifty- ninth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, in the spring and summer of 1864, and was stationed in Virginia and Maryland. He has always taken an active interest in public affairs and has been prominently identified with many enterprises which have had for their object the upbuilding of the city or the community in which he lives. From January, 1865, until January, 1873, he was a director of the Ohio State Agricultural Society, serving as its treasurer four years and as its president in 1872. He was also one of the trustees of the Central Lunatic Asylum, to finish, furnish and open it. He was president of the Zanesville & Ohio River Railroad from its beginning to its completion. and as a reliable, energetic business man he has met with success in all his undertakings. He has devoted considerable attention to real estate dealings, being interested in ranches and other farm property and will lands in Ohio. Indiana, Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska. He is still active in business affairs and is a man whom to know is to honor. During his long residence in Zanesville he has gained a wide acquaintance and stands deservedly high in the esteem of his fellow citizens. REV. A. L. LEININGER. The noblest work in which man can engage is the salvation of souls and in ministering to the spiritual wants of humanity. Happy is that man who has a love for the divine calling and who unselfishly devotes his life for the good of others. History records many instances in which men have willingly given tip the honors of this world that they might go out into the highways and byways and care for the lost ones, and in so doing seeking only the honor that comes from God. Even while they seek not the honors of this world, the world honors them for their fidelity to truth, and their names are held in everlasting remembrance. It is with pleasure that we attest in this volume to the good works and unselfish spirit of one whom the citizens of Zanesville and Muskingum county delight to honor. Father Leininger is a native of Ohio, born August 17, 1862, in Navarre, Stark county. He is the son of Conrad and Tecla Leininger, natives of Germany. In the parochial and public schools of his native town he pursued his early studies, after which he entered St. Vincent's College, Beatty, Pennsylvania, pursuing the classical and philosophical course. He then entered St. Mary's, Baltimore, Maryland, for his theological training, and was ordained to the holy priesthood December 22, 1888, Cardinal Gibbons, archbishop of Baltimore. Soon after his ordination Father Leininger became pastor of Millersburg, and missions in Holmes county, Ohio, where he remained five years, during which time his work was so acceptable to his congregation and his superiors that he was given a larger charge. While at Millersburg he remodeled and rebuilt the stone church, which is still an object of pride to the good people of Glenmont. He also graded the grounds which was a three years' task, while a debt of nine thousand dollars was paid, and repairs and improvements were made on the mission churches. Ilefore leaving he liquidated every dollar of indebtedness on the church at Millersburg and on the various missions. In July, 1893, Father Leininger was transferred to St. John's, Logan. Ohio, but remained there some five months only, there being a wider and better field awaiting him. In December, 1893, he was requested by the Rt. Rev. Bishop to take charge of St. Nicholas' church in Zanesville, which charge was reluctantly accepted, December 6. 1893. The people of Logan had begun to realize the treasure they had in him, and were loth to let him go. But duty demanded him to go to the more promising field where his talents could be more profitably used for God and humanity. On leaving for his new field of labor, the Hocking Sentinel, of Logan. gave him the following complimentary notice : "Rev. Leininger of St. John's Catholic church of this place has been transferred to Zanesville and established as pastor of St. Nicholas, one of the largest congregations in the diocese. The appointment to this charge is a deserved and an honorable promotion. During his short stay in Logan, Father Leininger has made excellent needed improvements and repairs to the church 270 - PAST AND PRESENT OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY property, and by his piety and zeal has inspired his congregation with devotion and true Christian spirit. He has endeared himself to his congregation and all the people who know him, and in leaving Logan, he and his household, mother and sister, occasion deep regret from the parting, they take with them the earnest prayers and hearty good wishes of the people of Hocking for a happy and pleasant home in their new location in the good old city of saints on the Muskingum." For more than twelve years Father Leininger has now been a resident of Zanesville, and there is probably no man living in the city more widely known, or more universally loved. The work that he has done has been heroic, and the sacrifices made for the upbuilding of the cause in the city will never be known or realized in this world. Two mighty monuments-St. Nicholas church and the Good Samaritan hospital-bear evidence of his unselfish labors. His own people especially know of his busy life, always ready for duty, and taking delight in doing his work for duty's sake, as well as a labor of love. Outside of his church he is greatly esteemed, and he had not long been a resident of Zanesville before the general public was made acquainted with his scholarly attainments, his deep piety and unselfish spirit. At a reunion of the Nineteenth Veteran Volunteers, held in October, 1894, he was one of the principal speakers, the Zanesville Courier giving the following account of his address : "Rev. Father Leininger, the scholarly young priest in charge of St. Nicholas' Catholic church, appeared before the general public for the first time in this city and he captivated every listener. It is not often that clergymen of this denomination are heard at soldier camp fires, not because they are not patriotic and liberty loving; they are busy men and as a rule the duties of their holy office require their undivided attention. Father Leininger is thoroughly American from the crown of his head to the soles of his feet. He believes in the flag and its supremacy, and he believes in an unswerving obedience to the law and the right. He is opposed to race prejudice and the abridgement of the political rights of citizens in Ohio— or any other state. He took an advanced ground on the 'enjoyment of liberty, and defined the duties and rights of the citizen under the law in language forcible and brilliant. The reverend gentleman is a thinker and student. He evidenced a knowledge of American history and traditions quite beyond what one expects to find outside the professional politician. In a word. Father Leininger's address was one of the most polished. dignified. forceful and patriotic a Zanesville audience has listened to since the days of the war. He is an easy, graceful speaker, and terribly in earnest in the statement of what he believes to be the truth." The address made such a marked impression on the members of the local post in Zanesville, that Father Leininger was asked to become an associate member of the post, and his application being acted on, he was duly made a member, and during the ceremony of the presentation of the associate membership badge the audience sang with spirit "Rally round the flag." It is not the one who sits with folded hands, content to let the world wag along as it will, but the man who does something, the man who has a purpose in life, that is esteemed and honored of all. Father Leininger has shown that he has a purpose in life, that his heart and soul is in his divine calling, and it is no wonder that those who know him best esteem him the more. JACOB FREDERICK GREUL. The late Jacob Frederick Greul, the founder of the Greul Tanning Company, was born in Germany, November 13, 1815, and came to America in his youth. He settled first in Baltimore, Maryland, and thence made his way to Ohio, traveling by canal and taking up his abode in Lancaster, this state. In early life he learned the tanner's trade, working for one dollar per week and his board. He served a regular apprenticeship, thoroughly mastering the business, and after lie had completed his trade in Lancaster he went to Circleville, Ohio, where he worked as a journeyman. He was also engaged in business in a similar way in Stoutsville, Ohio, where he became. manager of a tannery. Mr. Greul was married in Lancaster. Ohio, to Miss Barbara Wetzel, a native of Germany, and for several years they continued to reside there, but in 1859 came to Zanesville. Here in connection with Christopher Bishop, Mr. Greul engaged in the tanning business at the head of Main street and at the corner of Ninth. There the business was located until after the Civil war, when it was removed to Wayne street, where they purchased property, erected a building and operated a tanners under the firm name of Greul & Bishop. They conducted the business together for five years, at the end of which time Mr. Greul purchased has partner's interest and remained at the head of the business up to the time of his death. At an early day the company tanned calf and sheep skins and upper leather. They now make a specialty of harness leather. The capacity of the plant has been greatly enlarged since the death of the founder. being increased threefold and many important improvements have been made in the plant. including the installing of all new modern machinery. This business has become one PAGE 271 - PICTURE OF J. F. GREUL, SR PAGE 272 - BLANK PAST AND PRESENT OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY - 273 the important industries of Zanesville. Mr. Greul continued at the head of the business until 1893, when- he passed away at the age of sixty-eight years. The firm has since incorporated the business under the name of the Greul Tanning Company, the capital stock being twenty thousand dollars. All this is in possession of the family, Jacob F. Greul being treasurer and manager, while George K. Foster, of Columbus, is president, and G. F. Grassell, of Zanesville, is secretary. The building in which the business is conducted has a frontage of two hundred and fifty-five feet and covers about an acre of ground, while employment is furnished to twenty-four workmen, most of whom are skilled laborers. Unto M r. and Mrs. Greul were born eight children, of whom seven are now living: Louisa, who is the wife of Albert Vetter, a resident of Nebraska, by whom she has six children ; Emma, the wife of George K. Foster, who is living in Columbus, Ohio ; Matilda, the wife of John Murray, a resident of Columbus ; George J.; Jacob Frederick ; Sophia, who is living at Zanesville, and Mary, also a resident of this city. The mother died in 1870, at the age of forty-five years. W. T. CONLEY, M. D. Dr. W. T. Conley, who, in the practice of medicine in Dresden and surrounding districts has demonstrated his ability by the excellent results that have attended his professional efforts. was born in Coshocton county, Ohio. March 17. 1861, and is a son of Charles and Lavina (Richardson) Conley. The father, a native of New York, removed to Ohio when a young man and followed the occupation of farming in this state. His wife was a native of Vermont. Dr. Conley obtained his literary education in the public schools and afterward entered upon the study of medicine in the Ohio Medical College at Cincinnati. When he had carefully prepared for his chosen calling he began practice in 1887 at Willis Creek, Ohio, where he remained for about five years and in 1882 he located at Dresden where he has since practiced with constantly growing success. His interest in his chosen calling has been manifest by the fact that he keeps in touch with the progress that is continually being made by the medical fraternity, adopting new ideas and methods that promise to be of value in the alleviation of human suffering- and the restoration of health. Dr. Conley was united in marriage to Miss Belnora Hesket, a native of Ohio. and they have three children : Nevil, Verean and Jene. Their home is a large two-story brick residence on Main street, opposite the postoffice, and its hospitality is one of its notable and pleasant characteristics. Dr. Conley ranks high professionally and socially and his life may well be said to be successful, viewed both from a professional and financial standpoint. HOWARD FILLMORE ELLIOTT. Muskingum county has been signally favored in the character of men who have filled its offices, a large majority of whom have been men of marked public spirit and devotion to the general good. Of this class Howard F. Elliott is a representative and at the present time is acceptably serving as sheriff, having been chosen to the office for a second term. He was born in Zanesville, October 16, 1869, his parents being Thomas and Charilla (White) Elliott. The father was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and in 1854 came to Muskingum county, Ohio, settling upon a farm in Meigs township. The year prior to the Civil war he removed to Kentucky, but after the inauguration of hostilities he returned to Zanesville. He was a wagon-maker and carpenter by trade and followed those pursuits m his early business life, while later he engaged in the grocery business for some time. His political views were in accord with the principles of the republican party and he held membership in the Baptist church. He married Miss Charilla White. who was born in Meigs township and was a daughter of Clemson White, a farmer of this county. She, too, belonged to the Baptist church. Her death occurred in 1880, at the age of fifty-three years, while Mr. Elliott passed away in 1898. at the age of sixty-two years. They were the parents of six children : Leslie and Edward, now deceased : Laura, the wife of Fred Gurley, a farmer at White Cottage, Ohio ; Alice. the wife of John Fairweather. a lumber merchant at Downers Grove, Ohio ; Mary, deceased ; and Howard F. In the public schools Howard F. Elliott began his education and at length put aside his textbooks to accept a clerkship in a grocery store. Later he learned the trade of upholstering and for fourteen years was engaged in, that business, forming a partnership with Henry C. Mvlius, which continued for six years. He was appointed deputy sheriff by James B. Alexander and filled that position for four years, when in 1902 he was elected to the office of sheriff and at the close of his term was re-elected in 1904, so that he is now serving for the second term. He is a member of the State Association of Sheriffs and of the Ohio Police Association and in the discharge of his duties is ever prompt and fearless, neither fear nor favor swerving him in his course. 274 - PAST AND PRESENT OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY. On the 3oth of June, 1897, Mr. Elliott was married to Miss Amelia Miller, who was born in Zanesville, in 1870, and is a daughter of Nicholas and Catherine Miller. She is a member of the German Lutheran church, while Mr. Elliott belongs to the Knights of Pythias fraternity, the Red Men, Concordia Grove of Druids and Zanesville Aerie of the Fraternal Order of Eagles. His political allegiance has always been given to the republican party. In whatever relation of life we find him, in official service, in political circles or m business or social relations, he is always the same honorable gentleman, whose worth well merits the high regard which is uniformly given him. MOSES M. GRANGER. Moses M. Granger, former judge of the common pleas court of the eighth judicial district of Ohio and for many years a leading practitioner at the Muskingum county bar, was born in Zanesville, Ohio, October 22, 1831. His father, James Granger, was a representative of one of the old colonial families of northern Connecticut, while the mother, who bore the maiden name of Matilda Vance Moorhead, was a native of Belmont county, Ohio, and a representative of Maryland and Virginian ancestry. The son at the usual age became a public-school student and following his mastery of the elementary branches of learning he continued his education in Kenyon College, Ohio, from which institution he was graduated with the class of 1850. He studied law under Judge Charles C. Conyers and was admitted to the Ohio bar at Columbus on the 3d of January, 1853. His professional career has been marked by steady advancement, and the favorable judgment which the world passed upon him at the outset of his career has been m no degree set aside or modified, but on the contrary has been strengthened as the years have passed. Almost from the beginning a liberal and distinctively representative clientage has been accorded him and his name figures on the reports of the great majority of the leading cases tried in the courts of his district. He was city solicitor of Zanesville in 1865-6 and was prosecuting attorney of Muskingum county m 1866. The same year he was elected judge of the common pleas court of the eighth judicial district of Ohio and served on the bench until 1871. Further official service came to him when he was called to the position of reporter of the Ohio supreme court in 1872-3. He was also chief judge of the second Ohio supreme court commission from 1883 until 1885. In political circles, too, Judge Granger won dvancement and honors. He rendered active Serv ice to the government at the time of the Civil war, proving his loyalty upon the battle-fields of the south. He was a captain in the Eighteenth United States Infantry in 1861-2, was promoted to major and lieutenant colonel of the One Hundred and Twenty-second Ohio Volunteer Infantry, with which he served from 1862 until 1864, and was brevetted colonel of the United States Volunteers, October 19, 1864. His army service was in Kentucky, Tennessee and Mississippi with General George H. Thomas' division in 1861-2. After joining the volunteer army he served in Maryland and Virginia and was with the Eighth, Third and Sixth Army corps in Grant's campaign from the Rapidan to Petersburg and was in Sheridan's command in the battles of the Shenandoah valley. Judge Granger was married to Miss Mary Hoyt Reese, a granddaughter of Judge Charles Robert Sherman. Their eldest son, Alfred Hoyt Granger, is an architect of Chicago, while the second son, Sherman Moorhead Granger, is his father's partner in the practice of law. The only daughter, Ethel, is now the wife of William Darlington Schultz, of Zanesville. Aside from the prominence to which he has attained in legal and military circles, Judge Granger has become known as a writer. He is the author of a volume entitled Washington versus Jefferson : The Case Tried by Battle in 1861-5 (Houghton, Mifflin & Company, 1898). He also prepared the article called the Battle of Cedar Creek, Volume 3, Ohio Commandery War Papers. Smce April, 1865, he has been the managing administrator of the educational trust created by the will of John McIntire, the founder of Zanesville. It would be almost tautological in this connection to enter into any series of statements showing Judge Granger to be a man of scholarly attainments and broad mentality, as these have been shadowed forth between the lines of this review. He is, moreover, a man of public spirit and of deep human sympathy. Honored and respected in every class of society he has for many years been a leader in thought and action in the public life of Ohio and his name is inscribed high on the roll of its prominent citizens. WILLIAM P. SNIDER. One of the most energetic and successful young buSiness men of South Zanesville is William P. Snider, bookkeeper for the William Snider Lumber Company. He was born in Somerset, Ohio, October 1, 1879, and is a son of T. J. and Martha (Burgoon) Snider. The father was born in 1840 and for several years was ent PAGE 275 - PICTURE OF MOSES M. GRANGER PAGE 276 - BLANK PAST AND PRESENT OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY - 277 gaged in the lumber business in Somerset, but finally removed to Zanesville in 1901 and assisted in organizing the William Snider Lumber Company, which was incorporated in 1903 with William Snider as president ; James Flautt, vice president ; William Welker, secretary ; and T. J. Snider, treasurer. Our subject also acts as general manager and it is mainly due to his untiring efforts that the company has won the success that it now enjoys. In the yards at South Zanesville they employ five people and are doing a large retail business, dealing in all kinds of building material. They deal extensively in hard wood, buying the standing timber which they cut, and they are now filling an order for one hundred thousand feet for the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company. Besides their property in South Zanesville they have six sawmills in this state ; two in Guernsey county ; one in Muskingum county, and two in Perry county. William P. Snider was reared and educated in this state and has one brother, John E., who was born in 1881. In Iwo our subject was united in marriage to Miss Agnes Z. Litzinger, of Somerset. a daughter of W. W. Litzinger, but she died on the 2d of April, 1904. Mr. Snider now resides on Maysville avenue, Zanesville. He is a member of St. Thomas Catholic church and in politics is independent, taking no active part in public affairs as he prefers to give his undivided attention to his business interests. As an honorable, upright business men of progressive methods he has met with well deserved success in his undertakings and stands high in the esteem of his fellow citizens who recognize his worth and ability. LESLIE KEYES. Leslie Keyes, well known as a representative of agricultural interests in Madison township, his home being on section 11, has resided in this township through almost a half century. He was horn in county Fermanagh, Ireland, June 22, 1842. His father, Thomas Keyes, was born in the north of Ireland, about 1786, and was of Scotch- Irish lineage. Having arrived at years of maturity he wedded Miss Mabel Johnston, who was born in the same locality in which his birth occurred and they became the parents of six children : William ; Samuel ; John, who died in 1871 ; James, who died in infancy ; Charles, who was a soldier of Company E, Ninety-seventh Ohio Infantry during the Civil war and was killed at the battle of Kenesaw Mountain ; and Leslie, of this review. The father'S death occurred on the Emerald isle in 1850, and in June, 1850, the mother and her children crossed the Atlantic to the new world. They made their way into the interior of the country, settling on a farm in Madison township, Muskingum county, and the boys began working in the neighborhood as farm hands. Mrs. Keyes afterward gave her hand in marriage to William Humphreys, of Coshocton, Ohio, but her death occurred soon afterward on the loth of June, 1857. Leslie Keyes spent the first nine years of his life in the land of his nativity and then accompanied his mother on the emigration to the new world. Here at this tender age he started out to make his own way and he secured employment on a farm where he did such services as his age and strength permitted. Later he performed the full work f a farm hand and continued the tilling of the soil for others until his marriage, when, ambitious to have a home of his own, he made arrangements for the purchase of property. That he has prospered in his undertakings is indicated by the fact that he is to-day one of the extensive landowners of the county, his realty holdings aggregating four hundred and ninety-six acres. He is also one of the leading and prominent stock- raisers, having two hundred Merino sheep and fifty head of fine high-grade and thoroughbred Durham cattle. His herd is a valuable one, indicating his love of fine stock and his excellent judgment in regard to the value of farm animals. In 1866 Mr. Keyes was united in marriage to Miss Margaret Armstrong, a native of Madison township, and a daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth (Humphreys) Armstrong, both of whom were natives of Ireland. Her father died in August, 187o, and nine years later the mother passed away. Thomas Armstrong and his brothers. Robert anal Christopher, came from Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, to Muskingum county in 1831 and he was married in 1832. The brothers took up three hundred and forty acres from the government and clearing the same, Thomas Armstrong built a log house and lived on his farm until his death. The brothers belonged to the Episcopal church and founded St. Mathews church, near Keyes house. Mr. and Mrs. Keyes have become the parents of six children : Bessie J., Mina S., Charles A., Leslie A., M. Agnes and one deceased. The eldest daughter is now the wife of Addison Eckelberry and they reside in Coshocton, Ohio, and Charles A. married Gwendelon Arnold, while the younger members of the family are still at home. Mr. Keyes, his wife and children are communicants of the Episcopal church, are interested in its work and contribute generously to its support. In politics he is a republican and has served as trustee and treasurer of Madison township. The record of few men is more creditable or honorable than that of Leslie Keyes. Thrown upon his own resources at the early age of nine 278 - PAST AND PRESENT OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY. years he has labored persistently and with laudable ambition to make for himself and family a good home. His life record has been a succession of victories for he has come off conqueror in the strife with adverse conditions, unfavorable environments and the competition which one always meets in the business world. He is now one of the most prosperous residents of Madison township and is also classed with her best citizens. EDWARD R. MEYER. Edward R. Meyer, a member of the Muskingum county bar, who is now devoting his attention principally to corporation law, was born in Zanesville, in 1873. His father, Moses Meyer, was a native of Alsace-Lorraine, France, and is now living at Zanesville at the age of sixty-nine years. He came to the United States in 1852, locating first in New Orleans, and in 1856, he made his way to Zanesville, where he was engaged in merchant tailoring. He followed that business with success for forty years, or until 1896, when he retired to private life. He is a member of the Trinity Methodist church. Fraternally, he is connected with the Odd Fellows lodge, and politically is a republican, taking an active interest in the work of his party. Figuring through almost a half century in business life and public affairs in Zanesville, he is to-day regarded as one of its honored and representative men. He married Miss Caroline Miller, who was born in Wayne township, Muskingum county, Ohio, in 1849, and died November 30, 1901. Her parents were Jacob and Catherine (Hock) Miller. Mr. and Mrs. Meyer had eight children, of whom they reared seven : Charles J., who is living in Zanesville ; Edward R. ; Harry C., of Zanesville, who is an architect and designed the Weller Theater building and the People's Bank building; Albert M., a traveling salesman, residing in Cleveland ; Harriet E., a clerk in the office of the probate judge; Leota M. and Annabel R. Edward R. Meyer began his education in the public schools and was graduated from the high school with the class of 1891. He then entered the Cincinnati Law School m 1892 and completed his course there by graduation in 1894. He was also a law student in the office of Frank A. Durban and entered upon the practice of his chosen profession in Cincinnati, Ohio, July 2, 1894, in connection with Thomas A. Logan. There he remained until February, 1895, when he established his office in Zanesville, where he has since practiced with great success, giving his attention largely to corporation law. He is the general counsel for the Southeastern Ohio Railway, Light & Power Company and represents other important corporations and business firms. He carefully prepared for his chosen life work, possessing a keen analytical mind and strong powers of logic, and in his chosen profession has met with most desirable success. He is now serving as United States commissioner for the southern district of Ohio, and has a local connection with the B. & 0. R. R. and the C. & M. V. R. R. Edward R. Meyer was married, January 1, 1895, to Miss Anna L. Super, who was born in Mansfield, Ohio, in 1875, and is a daughter of Charles Super, who was a contractor. Mr. and Mrs. Meyer hold membership in the First Presbyterian church. He belongs to Amity lodge, A. F. & A. M., in which he is now serving as chaplain ; also a member of Zanesville chapter, R. A. M., and Cyrene commandery, K. T. Iv politics he is a stalwart republican, taking an active and helpful part in its work, and he has been a member of the county executive committee a number of times and secretary of the board of deputy state supervisors of elections. His reputation as a lawyer has been won through earnest, honest labor, and his standing at the bar is a merited tribute to his ability. ALFRED KELLY. Alfred Kelly, living in Zanesville, was born in Falls township, Muskingum county, January 7, 1852, his parents being Nathan and Mary (Crabtree) Kelly. His paternal grandparents were Isaac and Mary (Gadd) Kelly, who came to this county at an early period in its development, making the journey on horseback from Wheeling, West Virginia, to Muskingum township, for there were then no railroads. They located where Alfred Kelly was born and were early pioneer people of the locality, assisting largely in the development and improvement of that part of the state. They were also interested in the moral growth of the community and were devoted members of the Methodist church. Nathan Kelly was born in Falls township in 1822, was educated in Muskingum township and throughout his life followed the occupation of farming. He prospered in his undertakings and at one time owned four hundred acres of valuable land in connection with good town property. He married Miss Mary Crabtree, whose parents were natives of Manchester, England. and became pioneer residents of Muskingum county. Mr. Kelly gave his political support to the democratic party and for three years served as a member of the county mfirmary board, was also on the school board and filled the office of township PAGE 279 - PICTURE OF EDWARD R. MEYER PAGE 280 - BLANK PAST AND PRESENT OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY - 281 trustee. He won the respect, confidence and good will of all who knew him and, honored and esteemed by all, he passed away in October, 1893, when seventy-one years of age. His widow still survives him and is living on Lee street, in Zanesville, in the seventy-sixth year of her age. They were the parents of five children, three sons and two daughters and the sons are yet living, namely : Alfred; Charles, who occupies the home place ; and Benjamin, who is an undertaker of Zanesville. Alfred Kelly was a public-school student in his youth and afterward successfully engaged in teaching for eight years. Through the summer months he followed farm work on the old homestead and through the winter seasons was identified with the educational development of the county, teaching his first term of school when but seventeen years of age. He became a land owner when about twenty-eight years of age and with laudable ambition he worked to extend his realty possessions until he is to-day the owner of three hundred acres of rich and arable land in Muskingum county, together with town property in Zanesville. Taking charge of his home farm he placed it under a high state of cultivation and added to it all modern equipments and accessories. He erected good buildings and extended the work of improvement along many lines and he continued his active farm work until 1903 since which time he has lived retired. He had, however, taken up his abode in Zanesville in 1899 and has since made his home in this city. Mr. Kelly was married in 1878 to Miss Mary L. Crossland, a sister of Dr. Crossland and a daughter of George and Alvira (Muchler) Crossland, the former a native of England. while the latter was born in Muskingum county but is of German descent. Mr. Crossland is now deceased but his widow yet survives and lives with her son, Dr. Crossland, on Seventh street in Zanesville. Mr. and Mrs. Kelly have two children: Lillie F., born in August, 1881; and Iva E., born in May, 1891. The elder daughter is a graduate of the high school and business college of Zanesville and possesses considerable musical talent. The younger (laughter is also a high-school graduate. Mr. Kelly belongs to the Modern Woodmen camp and attends the services of the Methodist Episcopal church. His political support is given to the democracy and he has been honored with several local offices, serving as justice of the peace of Falls township and also as assessor and township treasurer in Muskingum township. He has always lived in this county and the fact that many of his warmest friends are those who have known him from boyhood is an indication that his has been an honorable, upright career. He takes great pride in what has been accomplished in the county and as a citizen he has always been public-spirited and progressive, giving his aid wherever possible to further the general good. JOHN C. DUERR. John C. Duerr is connected with industrial interests of Zanesville as manufacturer of covered and open business wagons. He also does blacksmithing and iron work and as the years have passed has built up a good trade. He is a son of Christian C. Duerr, a native of Wurtemberg, Germany, who settled in Zanesville, Ohio, in 1853, and was first employed at brewing ale at the old Washington brewery. He was married in this city in 1855 and he died July 11, 1903, after a residence here of a half century. John C. Duerr was born in Zanesville in 1857 in a building known as the Heilman Building at the corner of Main and Eighth streets. When he was only a year old his parents removed to the present homestead on the South river road in the old third ward, just below Salt Gum hollow. There two sisters were added to the family, the younger one, Anna, afterward becoming the wife of George Baker, a member of the firm of Baker Brothers, wholesale grocers of Zanesville. The elder sister was never married. The children of the household became pupils of the old third ward school building and after putting aside his textbooks John C. Duerr entered upon an apprenticeship to the trade of a coachsmith and wagon dealer. This was in 1871 and his employer was William Allen, who conducted a shop on Marietta street. He completed his apprenticeship, however, with George Coon in the old State Building, located near the approach to the Sixth street bridge. Subsequently he worked as a journeyman with John Maier in a wagon shop in Marietta street and in 1880 Ile entered the employ of the Brown Manufacturing Company, with which he was thus connected for three years. He afterwards returned to the employ of Mr. Maier and subsequently was admitted to a partnership by him. A year later he purchased his partner's interest and then formed a partnership with H. Shuman. which relation was maintained for three years, when Mr. Duerr again became sole proprietor. In the beginning the business was largely that of carriage building but later he extended the scope of his work and began the building of wagons, including delivery wagons, all kinds of drays and ice wagons. His reputation in this line has extended not only throughout the city but also into many- adjoining districts of the state where the product of his factory is sold. He now employs from eight to ten men and his shops are fitted out with steam power and much mod- 282 - PAST AND PRESENT OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY ern machinery such as is in use at the present time m the best equipped wagon works. His busmess has steadily grown and has for a number of years been the source of a good income for the owner. In addition to the manufacture of wagons he also does blacksmithing and iron work and makes a specialty of repairing and rubber tiring. In 1885 Mr. Duerr was married to Miss Anna S. Miller, at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her parents removed to Wayne township, Muskingum county, and purchased the well known Adwell farm near Duncan Falls. Her father had been engaged in the livery business in Philadelphia but is now living a retired life on the old homestead farm in this county, where also resides his wife and two soils. Mrs. Miller's father, Henry Krauskopf, was one of the old-time settlers living near Duncan Falls. After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Duerr located on Wayne avenue, where he erected a house, and through all the intervening years they have remained on the same street. CEPHAS S. LITTICK. Cephas S. Littick, cashier of the First National Bank of Dresden, was born in Coshocton county, Ohio, January 11, 1863, and comes of German lineage, tracing his ancestry back to George Littick, who was a native of the fatherland and became a pioneer settler of Ohio. George Littick followed the occupation of farming and died in Coshocton county, while his farm, which is situated in Franklin township, is still retained by his descendants. His son, Lott Littick, was also a native of. Coshocton county and there followed agricultural pursuits. His son, Thomas Littick, father of Cephas S. Littick, was born in Coshocton county in 1832 and died in 1876. He also devoted his energies' to the tilling of the soil and during his younger years he cleared many acres of land, working at that arduous task for twenty- five cents per day. In 1868 he removed to Muskingum county with his family, investing his capital in one hundred and sixty acres of land, lymg seven miles east of Dresden. There he resided until his death, which occurred in 1876 and the farm which he owned and operated is now in possession of his son Cephas. Thomas Littick was united in marriage to Miss Malinda Spencer, who was born in Coshocton county, Ohio, and is also deceased. She was a daughter of Joseph C. Spencer, a native of Muskingum county, who was a son 0f William Spencer. Her father was a teacher .for several years and afterwards a farmer, while her grandfather was a minister of the Baptist church, being one of the early preachers of that denomination in this county. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Littick were born four children : John B., who is with the C. C. Aler Wall Paper Company, of Columbus, Ohio, and is one of its stockholders ; Cephas S., subject of this sketch ; Rebecca J., the wife of J. Woodward, of North Jackson, Ohio ; and William 0., who is manager of the Times-Recorder, a newspaper of wide circulation of Zanesville, Ohio. Following the death of his first wife Thomas Littick was united in marriage to Louisa J. Doughty, a daughter of Allen Doughty. There are two children by that marriage : Jesse A. and Cora E., the wife of H. C. Smith. Cephas S. Littick, left an orphan at thirteen years of age, was reared to manhood upon his father's farm, living with a stepmother. He attended the public schools and also spent one term at Mount Union College. He continued at the old home until twenty-eight years of age, having purchased the farm from the other heirs, and for twelve years was successfully engaged in teaching in Muskingum county, spending five years as a teacher in Adams township, his home school, after having taught his first year at the Fitz school in Madison, an adjoining township, and six years in Adamsville. He won for himself a creditable position in educational circles for he had the ability to impart clearly, readily and concisely to others the knowledge that he had acquired. In 1896 he was appointed deputy treasurer of Muskingum county, which office he filled for two years when he was appointed cashier of the First National Bank of Dresden. He has since acted in this capacity and is a popular bank official, his uniform courtesy and careful consideration for the patrons of the bank winning him many friends. In 1884 Mr. Littick was united in marriage to Miss Etta J. Hanks, who was born in Highland township, Muskingum county, Ohio, and is a daughter of Isaac W. Hanks, who was born in this county and followed the occupation of farming. His father, Cephas Hanks, was also a farmer and was a relative of Abraham Lincoln's mother. Isaac Hanks married Martha Noble, who was born in Ireland and was the daughter of Henry Noble, who came to the United States (luring the early girlhood of his daughter. Mr. and Mrs. Littick have two children : Carlos H., who is assistant cashier of the bank, and Gerald F., who attends the Dresden high school. Politically Mr. Littick is a republican. He served as a member of the Dresden school board for f0ur years and while engaged in teaching served on the executive committee of the Muskingum County Teachers Institute. He has always been interested in educational affairs and does everything in his power to promote the cause of the schools in Muskingum county. Fraternally he is connected with the Knights of PAST AND PRESENT OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY - 283 Pythias lodge and he is a man of fine personal appearance and his strong traits, which have their root in his intellectual and moral force of character, make him a valued and representative citizen of Dresden. CHARLES WATERS. Charles Waters, now deceased, who, during an active lifetime followed farming and by his upright career won the confidence and good will of his fellowmen, was born near the Ohio river, February 19, 1836. His parents, John F. and Mary Ann (Moss) Waters, were both natives of Maryland and came to Muskingum county about 1840. Here Mr. Waters followed the occupation of farming. After remaining in Ohio for some time he removed with his wife to Iowa and his death occurred there. His widow, however, returned to Ohio and made her home with her son Charles until her demise. Charles Waters accompanied his parents on their removal from the place of his birth to Muskingum county and was educated at Rush creek. In his youth he was instructed concerning the value of integrity, industry and perseverance and all through his life those qualities were manifest. In early manhood he began farming and in connection with general agricultural pursuits he also carried on dairying. He was practical and progressive in his methods and he possessed the determination that enabled him to carry forward to successful completion whatever he undertook. His widow still owns the old home farm and keeps many cows, her son doing the active work in connection with the improvement of the place and the conduct of the dairy. In 1856 Mr. Waters was married to Miss Sarah E. Bunting, who was born June 3, 1837, in this county, seven miles from Zanesville and has here lived throughout her entire life. Her parents were Oliver and Alice (Edwards) Bunting, the former a native of Virginia and the latter of New York city. Her paternal grandfather, John Bunting, was a native of Scotland, and became a resident of Muskingum county about 1800. He resided on a farm near Sonora, where he spent his remaining days, and Oliver Bunting also became a prominent farmer of that locality. The maternal grandmother of Mrs. Waters arrived in Muskingum county in 1805. Unto our subject and his wife were born eleven children : William, who died in 1884, leaving a wife and two children ; Keturah, at home ; John, who is living in East Liverpool ; Mary Alice, the wife of James S. Caldwell, a resident of Colorado; Alonzo, who makes his home in Chicago ; George, who is living in Zanesville ; Gilbert, of East Liverpool ; Mrs. Anna Gurling, who lives near her mother ; Ludwell, who is operating the old home farm; Fancha, the wife of William McKnott, who resides near Columbus, Ohio ; and Edward, who died in 1893. Mr. Waters was quite prominent in local democratic circles, and did all in his power to promote the growth and insure the success of his party. He was a school director and assessor for several years, and also served as collector for some time. No public trust reposed in him was ever betrayed in the slightest degree, and he was ever true to the duties that devolved upon him whether in public or private life. He held membership in the Presbyterian church and died in that faith in February, 1899. He is yet held in fond remembrance by many friends who knew him, as well as his immediate family, and his name should be inscribed on the pages of Muskingum county's history. His widow resides at No. 513 Luck road, in Zanesville, one daughter remaining with her, and her son operates the home farm. Mrs. Waters yet enjoys good health and has a very wide circle of friends here. W. C. KINNER, M. D. Dr. W. C. Kinner is accorded a position of prominence among the physicians of Adamsville and his standing in the profession is indicated by the fact that he has been a contributor to various medical journals. He is vet a young man, but has already won success that many an older representative of the profession might well envy. He was born January 23, 1874, in Plainfield, Coshocton county, Ohio. his parents being William M., and Sarah (Cochran) Kinner. The father was born in Plainfield, while the mother's birth occurred in Lafayette, Coshocton county. The paternal grandfather, James Kinner, came to Ohio from New Jersey, and was of Dutch descent. He married a Miss Colter, of Coshocton county, and in the conduct of his business interests he won prosperity, notwithstanding the fact that he started out in life on his own account a poor man. William M. Kinner served his country for three years in the Union army as a member of Company H. Eightieth Regiment of Ohio Volunteers, joining the boys in blue when but fifteen years of age. Otherwise his entire life has been devoted to agriculture and stock-raising interests, and he was a very successful farmer, carrying on agricultural pursuits on an extensive scale. He was also a great lover of horses, keeping on hand about twenty and at one time he had a sale of horses which netted him two thousand dollars. He died in 1886 and is still survived by his wife, who yet makes her home in Coshocton county. They were the parents of nine children of whom eight are yet living. 284 - PAST AND PRESENT OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY. Dr. Kinner pursued his education in the high school of Plainfield and afterward engaged in teaching for six years, but preferring to direct his efforts to other professional labors he began reading medicine under the direction of Dr. Morehead of Plainfield, and subsequently matriculated in the medical college at Cincinnati, Ohio, from which he was graduated in 1900 with a class of one hundred and twenty-six. This was the first class to complete the four-years' course. Dr. Kinner practiced for two years with Dr. Morehead, of Plainfield, and then came to Adamsville where he has since remained. His investigation and research have led him to prepare a number of articles for medical journals and he is also faithfully performing the duties incumbent upon him through a large private practice. He removed to Adamsville at the time Dr. W. R. Hosick went to Newcomerstown, becoming his successor, and in November, 1904, he purchased the practice of Dr. R. B. Bainter. On the 10th of June, 1903, Dr. Kinner married Miss Bertha M. Elsea, who was born December 23, 1879, a daughter of J. W. and Mary (Ratcliff) Elsea, who are represented elsewhere in this work. Dr. and Mrs. Kinner have one child, William Elsea, born April 21, 1904. The young couple are prominent socially in Adamsville, and the hospitality of the best homes is freely accorded them. Fraternally he is connected with the Masons and is a pastmaster of his lodge, and he also belongs to the Modern Woodmen camp. His professional duties make heavy demand upon his time and attention, his practice is steadily growing and the medical fraternity as well as the general public accords him a position of prominence in its ranks. WILLIAM ALEXANDER GRAHAM. To a student of human nature there is nothing of greater interest than to examine into the life of a self-made man and analyze the principles by which he has been governed, the methods he has pursued, to know what means he has employed for advancement and to study the plans which have given him prominence, enabling him to pass on the highway of life many who had a more advantageous start. In the history of Mr. Graham there is deep food for thought and if one so desires he may profit by the obvious lessons therein contained. While now living retired he was for many years a most prominent and active factor in commercial and financial circles, belonging to that class of representative men who promote general prosperity, while advancing their individual success. Mr. Graham was born January 9, 1821, in Westchester county, New York, and acquired his education in Mount Pleasant Academy on the bank of the Hudson river. He is a son of Andrew and Sarah (Oakley) Graham, of Scotch- Irish extraction although both were born in this country. The father was engaged in the wholesale drug business in New York city and the son's early business training was in that line so that it was but natural that he should chose that vocation for a life pursuit. In 1845, having fitted himself to conduct a drug store, he came to Zanesville and opened a retail house, forming a partnership with David Maginnis under the firm style of Maginnis & Graham. In 1850 Mr. Maginnis sold his interest to Mr. Graham, who for many years was the sole owner and did an extensive wholesale and retail business. His patronage steadily increased year by year and the house bore an unassailable reputation in commercial circles. Mr. Graham took an active part in the development of commercial and industrial enterprises here for a period of a half century. He was one of the organizers of the First National Bank and has been a director since 1864. In 1878, upon the death of Peter Black, who was its president. Mr. Graham was elected his successor and continued at the head of the institution until January 1, 1904. a period of twenty-six years, at the end of which time he was succeeded by C. Stolzenbach, who is now president. Mr. Graham has at various times been associated with manufacturing and other business interests of the city, giving his financial support to these, while oftentimes his wise counsel and good judgment have proven the foundation upon which has been builded the success of various business concerns. He has indeed been a valuable citizen to Zanesville not only because of his activity in business circles but also through his liberality in the establishment of public improvements. Mr. Graham was married in 1847 to Miss Sarah Van Hamm, a daughter of the Hon. John Van Hamm. a pioneer settler of central Ohio, who came to Zanesville in 1810 and who, in 1812, joined the American army during the second war with England, serving with the rank of surgeon. He was also at one time a member of the Ohio senate and national honors were accorded him in his appointment as United States minister to Chili under President Jackson. In 1888 Mr. Graham was called upon to mourn the loss of his wife, who died in November of that year. Two sons of the family are living, Willis H. and Clarence V. Graham, who still own and conduct the original drug store on Main street established by their father. Mr. Graham has now passed the eighty-fourth milestone on life's journey and has virtually retired from active business life. He vet supervises to some extent his investments, making his headquarters at the First National Bank, where he has PAGE 285 - PICTURE OF W. A. GRAHAM PAGE 286- BLANK PAST AND PRESENT OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY - 287 always been found for the past forty-one years. He has been a resident of Zanesville for sixty years and is, therefore, justly numbered among her honored pioneers and leading citizens. His is an honorable career of a conscientious man, who by his upright life has won the confidence of all with whom he has come in contact. Although the snows of many winters have whitened his hair he has the vigor of a much younger man and in spirit and interests seems vet in his prime. Old age need not suggest as a matter of course want of occupation or helplessness. There is an old age that is a benediction to all that come in contact with it, that gives out its rich stores of learning and experience, and grows stronger intellectually and spiritually as the years pass. Such is the life of Mr. Graham, an encouragement to his associates and an example well worthy of emulation to the young. ROBERT PRICE. Robert Price, a retired contractor who has figured prominently in political circles and has been a recognized leader in local affairs, wielding a wide influence, was born in Zanesville, July 22, 1833. His father, Daniel Price, was a native of Baltimore, Maryland, born in 1804. and in June, 1832, he came to Zanesville. He married Miss Annie Woodward. a native of Pennsylvania. their wedding being celebrated in Baltimore. Daniel Price was a brick-layer, and stone-mason by trade. He assisted in building the first stone bridge at Ellicott's Mill in Baltimore, and after coming to Zanesville he began contracting in stone and brick work. carrying on the business until a few years prior to his death, which occurred June 6, 1887. His wife passed away June 16, 1861, when sixty years of age. He was one of the pioneer residents of this part of the state, assisting materially in its early development and progress. He erected the office building at the west end of the old court house in 1833. He was a very conscientious man, highly esteemed for his honesty, which was ever above question. Both he and his wife held membership in the Second street Methodist church, and he erected the Seventh street Methodist Episcopal church in 1841. He also did a great deal of work for John Dillon, who was one of the pioneer residents of Zanesville, being employed at the iron works at Dillon's Falls. Many other of the important early structures of the county stand as monuments to his skill and enterprise. Unto him and his wife were born seven children, Robert being the second son. Those now living are : Robert, William, David, and Sarah J.. the widow of John W. Ross and the mother of Harry W. Ross. Robert Price entered a private school in Zanesville at the usual age and after putting aside his text-books he learned the brick-layer's and mason's trades under the direction of his father. Although engaged in business for himself he aided the firm of T. B. Townsend & Company, and as their foreman he superintended the work on the courthouse and other public and private buildings. In 1861 he recruited a part of the Sixty- second Ohio Regiment but did not enter the army at that time. In 1864, however, he enlisted in response to the call for men to serve one hundred days and he became a lieutenant of Company F, One Hundred and Fifty-ninth Regiment of the Ohio National Guards. With his command he went to Maryland to guard bridges and following the close of his military service he returned to Zanesville. As a contractor Mr. Price carried on business here with a growing and gratifying success until 1902. when he retired to, private life. having acquired a competence sufficient to supply him with all the necessities and many of the comforts and luxuries that go to make life worth the living. The last work which lie did was on his own residence. In 1888 Ile erected the buildings for the glass and coffin factories, and the following year built an addition to the Zanesville Courier plant. He has erected many brick buildings throughout the city and surrounding country. Mr. Price has figured prominently not only in the city but also in the affairs of the state, and Zanesville has found him an earnest champion of every measure and movement for its progress and improvement. He was a member of the city council for ten years and was its president four years. Higher political honors were accorded him, however, for in 1879 lie was elected to represent his district in the state legislature, and in 1881 was again elected. His efficient and faithful service during his first term winning him reelection. He was a wise legislator, studying closely the questions of the day and giving his conscientious support to those measures which he believed were calculated to promote the general welfare of the commonwealth. He is a man of strong convictions, fearless in expressing his ideas upon all proper occasions, yet always ready to hear and weigh the views of those who differ from him. The predominant trait in his character is his absolute uprightness, and his course in the general assembly was one that reflected credit upon himself and his constituents. He served on the committees of municipal corporations. fish culture and game, turnpikes and roads, and during his second term was chairman of the committee on municipal corporations. He has been president of the law and order league in Zanesville and also of the Pioneer and Historical Society of this county, and the Woodlawn Cemetery Association.