PAGE - 538 - BLANK PAST AND PRESENT OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY - 539 (RETURN TO THE TITLE PAGE) of three hundred and twenty acres. His time and energies were then devoted to the improvement of the property to the time of his death, which occurred when he was about sixty years of age. Joseph Dorsey was a lad of twelve years when he accompanied his parents on their removal to Ohio and here he assisted in the arduous task of developing a new farm, giving his father the benefit of his services throughout the period of his youth. In early manhood he wedded Miss Johanna Foster, a native of Wellsville, Maryland, they lived near the old home place where Mr. Dorsey secured a tract of land of one hundred and sixty acres, there carrying on general farming until the time of his death, which occurred when as was forty-nine years of age. Unto him and his wife were born ten children but only two are now living, the daughter being Ciscil. Dr. Dorsey, the only surviving son of the family, remained at home until sixteen years of age amd during that period was a student in the public schools. He then started out in life on his own account and for four years was employed by the month as a farm hand. Realizing the value of educational opportunities he afterward spent a year in the West Bedford Seminary and attended Hayesville Institute. at Hayesville, Ohio, for a short time. He engaged in teaching in 1861-2 but in the latter year responded to the country’s call for aid and was enrolled as a member of Company G, Ninety-seventh Ohio Infantry under Captain Tanner. on the 15th of August. He remained with the army in which he enlisted until after the cessation of hostilities, when he was mustered out June 16, 1865. He participated in many hotly contested engagements and was always found at his post of duty faithfully performing any task assigned him, and thus with a creditable military record he returned to his home. Not long afterward Dr. Dorsey made a trip to Missouri but soon returned to Muskingum county and began reading medicine. In 1868 he entered the Starling Medical College, at Columbus, Ohio, from which institution he was graduated with the class of 1870. Since that time he has practiced continually in Dresden with constantly growing success and has now a liberal patronage which indicates his standing in the profession and which also returns him a gratifying income. Dr. Dorsey is serving as pension examiner and he has been a member of the State Medical Society for ten years. He also belongs to the Knights of Pythias fraternity and to the Grand Army of the Republic. In 1872 Dr. Dorsey was married to Miss Anna Thistle Cresap and they have two children : Clara and Alice, the latter the wife of Charles Stevenson, a merchant of Dresden. Mrs. Dorsey's father was the late Thomas Brent Cresap, a merchant of Dresden, well and favorably known in Muskingum and adjoining counties. He was born and reared in Hampshire county, Virginia, and is of English lineage. The Cresaps were of an old English family, one of them being honored for bravery and daring displayed at the battle of Cressy in 1346. Thomas Cresap, of Yorkshire, England, came to Maryland in 1686, at the age of fifteen years, and is styled in the various histories of Maryland "the English colonel," distinguishing him from his youngest son and two of his grandsons who later became colonels m the Revolutionary war. Though born in England, this Colonel Cresap was an ardent supporter of the American cause. He led the Sons of Liberty in Frederick county when they buried the stamp act and hung the effigy of the stamp collector in front of the courthouse in Fredericktown, Maryland. General Washington was his personal friend and visited at his house. Colonel Thomas Cresap was a surveyor and laid out the road from Cumberland to Pittsburg, which General Braddock followed and his map of the boundary of Maryland can still be seen at the rooms of the Maryland Historical Society in Baltimore and is now recognized authority for the state boundary. He lived to be one hundred and six years of age. Thomas Brent Cresap was the fifth in descent from the "English colonel" and was a grandson of Colonel Michael Cresap of the Revolution. He had but one son, Thomas Michael Cresap, and one daughter, Abigail. Colonel Michael Cresap was for some Years sheriff of Hampshire county, Virginia, and died there in 1788. On leaving Virginia Thomas Brent Cresap removed to Maryland and thence came to Dresden when quite a young man. Here he established a dry goods store at the corner of Main and Mountain streets, now Eighth street, and the store and residence on Main street are still in possession of the family. After two years of successful business life in Dresden, Thomas Brent Cresap returned to Maryland. where he married Miss Minerva Thistle, of Cumberland, a daughter of Thomas Thistle. who was one of the first lawyers admitted to the bar in Allegany county, later a prominent merchant of Cumberland. Both Thomas B. Cresap and his wife are descended from officers of the Colonial and Revolutionary wars and were connected with the Brents. Bayards, Howards, Calverts, Carrolls, Schleys and other distinguished families of Virginia and Maryland. Thomas Brent Cresap following his marriage continued in merchandising in Dresden until he had conducted a store on the same corner for more than forty years. He made an honorable name which passed down to his children. Like his ancestors, he was upright in all his dealings and was a conscientious Christian. He died July 19, 1878, respected by all. A Dresden business man of to- 540 - PAST AND PRESENT OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY. day-1905-said recently in a public utterance "Mr. Cresap was the best man I ever knew and I knew from childhood." A like remark was made of his father, T. M. Cresap, by a Cumberland (Maryland) physician. Six of the children. of Thomas Brent Cresap reached adult years. His fourth son, George Howard Cresap, died unmarried when twenty-two years of age. Mary Louise became the wife of Rev. Thomas M. Stevenson and is living in Dresden. Julia Elizabeth was the wife of George W. Lemert and died March 17, 1903, at her home in Columbus, Ohio, but her remains were interred in the family burying ground in the Dresden cemetery. Amelia Bruce, or "Mittie," as she was called by those who loved her best, became the wife of William Senior of the firm of Rambo & Company Woolen Mills, and she died December 8, 1891, while her husband survived her for only three weeks. Anna Thistle is the wife of Dr. J. F. Dorsey. Blanch Ord married Robert B. Longstreth and resides near Logan, Ohio. The wife of Thomas B. Cresap, who possessed a find mind and remarkable strength of character and physique, died October 26, 1901, at the advanced age of eighty-eight years. EUGENE F. O'NEAL. Eugene F. O’Neal, a practitioner at the bar of Zanesville, was born in Washington township. Muskingum county. July 14, 1871, his parents being Samuel F. and Martha Wheeler O'Neal. His father was born in Leesburg, Virginia, in 1832, and coming to Muskingum county in 1853 located in Washington township. His ancestors were from Ireland and settled in Virginia prior to the Revolutionary war, one of them participating in the struggle for American independence. Samuel F. O'Neal engaged in teaching school in early manhood but through the greater part of bis life has followed the occupation of farming, and is to-day one of the prosperous agriculturists of Muskingum county. He holds membership in the Baptist church and gives his political allegiance to the democratic party. His wife, who was born in Adamsville, Muskingum comity, in 1834. was a daughter of Henry Wheeler. who removed from Essex county, New Jersey, to Ohio in 1825, establishing his home in Adamsville. He was of English lineage. Mrs. O’Neal is likewise a member of the Baptist church, and by her marriage she became the mother of three children : William S., Marcella and Eugene F. The elder son was an able member of the Muskingum county bar, well known and popular in this part of the state but he died of consumption in Denver, Colorado, July 7, 1901, at the age of thirty-five years. Eugene F. O'Neal is indebted to the country schools for the early educational privileges he. enjoyed, while later he attended Granville Academy and Denison University, at Granville, Ohio. Subsequently he worked upon a farm and while thus engaged devoted his leisure hours to reading law under the direction of his brother. He was admitted to the bar October 14, 1898, and entered upon practice in Zanesville, becoming his brother's successor, for William O'Neal was then in failing health. He has met with greater success than he anticipated and yet it is well deserved for he prepares his cases with great thoroughness and care and his devotion to his clients' interests is proverbial. He has a comprehensive knowledge of the principles of jurisprudence and his case is given a strong and logical presentation before court or jury. From the 1s of June, 1889, until the 7th of March, 1904, he was in partnership with J. M. McHenry but no practices alone. Mr. O'Neal was married August 6, 1902, to Miss Nora Bainter, a daughter of J. A. Bainter a farmer of Muskingum county. Mrs. O'Neil was born in Adamsville in 1875 and they have one child—Martha Margaret. Mr. O'Neal belongs to the Knights of Pythias fraternity, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and to Modern Woodmen of America, while his wife a member of the Lutheran church. In politics he is a democrat but while keeping well informed on the questions and issues of the da so that he is able to support his position by intelligent argument he has never sought or desire office, preferring to give his attention to his practice, which is constantly growing, and thereto making greater demands upon his time. SAMUEL F. McLAIN. Samuel F. McLain was born in Wayne township, November 10, 1823, on the farm which yet his home and he has now traveled life journey for almost eighty-two years. Few native sons of the county have longer resided with its borders than this worthy representative of pioneer family. His father, Daniel McLain, was a native of Pennsylvania, born in 1783, and of arriving at years of maturity he wedded Ma Frazer, whose birth occurred in the Keystone state in 1788. Daniel McLain came to Ohio 1812, locating in Zanesville. where he followed the carpenter's trade which he had previous learned and when his labors and economy brought him sufficient capital to enable him purchase land he became the owner of one hundred and three acres in Wayne township, upon which he successfully carried on agricultural pur- PAGE - 539 - PICTURE OF EUGENE F. O’NEAL PAGE - 540 - BLANK PAST AND PRESENT OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY - 541 suits for many years. His death occurred upon place that May 7, 1870, when he had reached the venerable age of eighty-seven years. His life was in harmony with his profession as a member of the Methodist Episcopal church and he left to his family an untarnished name. His political support was given the democracy. Samuel F. McLain had but limited school privileges owing to the undeveloped educational system of the county, but his training at farm labor was not meager and from an early age he assisted materially in developing and improving his father's land, thus gaining the practical experience that enabled him to carry successfully forward his farm labors in later years. Through a long period he was an active agriculturist but is now living retired. His home place comprises nineteen acres and there general farming is carried on. A coal mine has also been opened upon the farm and there is a rich deposit of this combustible product underlying his land. In 1849 Mr. McLain was united in marriage Miss Alice J. Anderson, who was born in Virginia and who died in 1904, at the age of seventy-nine years. They were the parents of the following children : George, Ethelinda, Alta, Anderson, Newton, Ida. Roy, Mary A. and Lizzie. Anderson owns a part of the farm that formerly longed to his grandfather. He married Jennie Vest, a native of Muskingum county and their children are : Harvey. Alice, Zela. Clara and Raymond. Newton McLain, who was born upon the home farm December 9, 1859, married Martha Swope, who was born in Wayne township and a daughter of John Swope, who died in 1905, at the age of eighty-four years. They have two daughters : Edna and Ella. Mr. McLain holds membership in the Baptist church, with which he as long been identified and he has always voted for the men and measures of the democratic party. He is now advanced far on life’s journey and his entire career has been actuated by honorable principles and worthy motives so that he receives the respect of his fellowmen and his example is one that is well worthy of emulation. BAILEY BROTHERS. No history of High Hill and Meigs township would be complete without mention of the firm of Bailey Brothers, who are most prominent and enterprising business men of their locality, conducting a large general mercantile enterprise at High Hill and also owning and operating a farm war the village. The brothers are sons of John W. Bailey, who was born at Jacksonville, Virginia, and came to Ohio in 1850, at which time lie settled in Muskingum county. Subsequently he located in Zanesville, where he followed blacksmithing, conducting a shop of his own. At a later date he sold his business there and purchased and conducted a smithy at Duncan Falls, but eventually he returned to Zanesville, where he had a large blacksmith shop, conducting an extensive business which permitted of the employment of a number of hands. He was very successful in his industrial pursuits and made judicious investment of his earnings in a good farm in Wayne township. On again leaving Zanesville he removed to High Hill, where he purchased a shop, which his sons still own. He was a leading factor in industrial life in the county in the middle portion of the nineteenth century and his life record proved the value and force of enterprise and unremitting labor as factors in a successful business career. John W. Bailey was united in marriage to Miss Lucy Ween, and they became the parents of four children : Cornelius, Millard, John and Susan, but all have passed away with the exception of Cornelius. who is now a prosperous farmer of Meigs township. For his second wife the father chose Elizabeth Myers. a native of Zanesville. and their children are Charles W., who married Mary Ethel, of Rich Hill township. and is a successful agriculturist of Iowa and George W. and John W., who are associated in business at High Hill. The father remained a resident of Muskingum county for more than a third of a century and departed this life on the 12th of February, 1884. George W. and John W. Bailey constitute the well known firm of Bailey Brothers, leading citizens of this county, who are conducting business at High Hill as merchants and blacksmiths. The brothers were educated in the public schools and became their father's successors in the management and conduct of an extensive blacksmith shop here. They also established a general mercantile store and they now have one of the largest enterprises of this character in Muskingum county, carrying an extensive and well selected stock of goods. Both branches of their business receive a liberal patronage and in addition to their interests in the village the brothers also own and operate a farm near High Hill, which likewise adds a good sum to their yearly earnings. They are honest and energetic business men, having the entire confidence and respect of their many patrons. They also conduct an undertaking business at High Hill. Of resourceful business ability, determined and alert, they carry forward to successful accomplishment whatever they undertake and their business methods neither seek nor require disguise. Both brothers are members of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows of High Hill and John W. Bailey is financial secretary and also 542 - PAST AND PRESENT OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY. one of the trustees and inside guard of the lodge. They are democrats in their political belief and affiliation and George Bailey has for many years been treasurer of Meigs township. John W. Bailey was married in 1884. to Miss Jane Howell, of Meigs township, a daughter of Andrew and Anna E. Howell, and their children are Anna E., the wife of Charles Engle, who is clerking in her father's store ; Jessie E. ; Edward L ; and George H. JOHN W. MILES. In the death of John W. Miles the community in which he lived and labored lost one of its best citizens—a man whose life had been quietly passed and yet whose devotion to duty and activity in business affairs made his life record a creditable and honorable one, worthy of emulation. He was a native of Loudoun county. Virginia, born on the 22d of November, 1837. and in the year 1868 he became a resident of Ohio, taking up his abode on the Zanesville road. Throughout the greater part of his life he carried on general agricultural pursuits and in following that calling he provided a comfortable living for his family. It was in the vear 1883 that Mr. Miles was united in marriage to Mrs. Mary J. Griffith, who was born on the old homestead farm of the Wheeler family, about a half mile from her present place of residence, her natal day being March 13, 1837. Her parents were Henry A. and Azuba (Kirkpatrick) Wheeler. Her father was a native of Montgomery county, Maryland, and at an early period in the development of Muskingum county he took up his abode within its borders. When he arrived here an ax constituted his sole possession and with this he began cutting timber. makqing shingles and roofing barns. He followed that pursuit for sometime, laboring earnestly and unremittingly, and when he found it possible he entered a tract of land and began farming on his own account. His was a remarkable career in that he started out empty-handed and worked his way steadily upward to success, becoming one of the most extensive landowners of Muskingum county, his realty possessions comprising two thousand acres. He possessed sound judgment in business matters, made his investments carefully and improved his property with ideas of modern progress. At the time of his marriage he went to live in a little log house. He was active and influential in community affairs and for several years he capably filled the office of assessor. His early political support was given to the whig party and upon its dissolution he joined the ranks of the new republican party, which he continued to support until his death in 1876. He was survived by his wife until 1883. Mrs. Miles was reared and educated in Adamsville and in early womanhood, in 1863, she gave her hand in marriage to William E. Griffith, a native of this county and a son of George H. Griffith, who came to Ohio from Pennsylvania, establishing his home on the Zanesville road near the county seat. William E. Griffith was the owner of one hundred and sixty acres of land and throughout his business career carried on general farming. By this marriage there was one child— Edgar R., who was born in Muskingum county, February 18, 1865, and pursued his education in the schools of Adamsville. He afterward traveled extensively through the west and ever since his return has made his home with his mother. Mr. Griffith died in 1866, leaving his farm to his wife and little son. In 1883 Mrs. Griffith gave her hand in marriage to Mr. Miles and they lived happily together for twenty-one years, or until they were separated by the death of Mr. Miles on the 28th of November, 1904. He exercised his right of franchise in support of the men and measures of the republican party and in his life displayed sterling traits of character which won him many friends. Mrs. Miles is now the owner of two hundred and three acres of fine land about a mile from Adamsville. She rents this place. which is devoted to general farming and stock-raising, and a large amount of fruit has also been set ot upon it. The farm being valuable returns to her a good rental and because of her property holdings she now has a very desirable income. She is a member of the Baptist church and has a wide circle of friends and acquaintances in Adamsville and the surrounding district. M. FRANK GEYER. M. Frank Geyer, a leading merchant of Bloomfield and one of the most prominent and influential citizens of Highland township, his efforts ever being on the side of progress and improvement, was born September 25, 1845, upon his father’s farm in the township where he still makes his home. His parents were Peter B. and. Elizabeth (Coultrap) Geyer, the father born in Highland township in 1825, while the mother; was a native of Zanesville. Peter B. Geyer, reared to the occupation of farming, made that, pursuit his life work and became the owner of one hundred and sixty acres of land which he placed under a high state of cultivation, transforming it into valuable and productive farm. property. He took an active part in public life and for ten or twelve years served as township treasurer, discharging the duties of the office with promptness and fidelity. His death occurred in PAGE 543 - PICTURE OF HENRY A. WHEELER PAGE 544 - BLANK PAST AND PRESENT OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY - 545 1897 and thus passed away one of the valued pioneer residents of that part of the state. In his family were ten children, of whom nine are yet living. Frank Geyer pursued his early education in the common schools of his native township and afterward spent a year as a student in McCorkle college of Bloomfield. He was married in 1893 to Miss Anna Morrow, a daughter of David and Margaret W. Morrow, the former a farmer by cupation. Both parents are now deceased. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Geyer were born four children : Vera, born June 5, 1894 ; Cora, on the 5th of July, 1895 ; Marguerite, February 20, 1898 ; and Louanna, September 11, 1904. Mr. Geyer remained at home until he was thirty years of age, working in the fields from the time of early spring planting until after crops were harvested in the autumn, but believing that he would find another occupation more congenial at length left the plow and turned his attention to merchandizing. opening a store in Bloomfield, here he has since remained. The new venture has been attended with success from the beginning and he now carries a stock valued at seven thousand dollars. He is the leading general merchant of the town and he also deals in farm machinery. His business has reached extensive proportions owing to the tasty arrangement of the tore, his earnest desire to please his patrons and fair and honorable dealing. He and his wife members of the United Presbyterian church d in his political views he is a republican, prominent in local work of the party. His fellow townsmen, recognizing his worth and ability, have frequently called him to public office and he s rendered signal service to the community in he office of township treasurer for eight years and also as supervisor and trustee. He has a wide acquaintance in the county where his entire fe has been passed and where be has so directed sis efforts as to win financial success and also to in the trust and admiration of his fellowmen. GENERAL R. B. BROWN. R. B. Brown is a native of New Concord, Muskingum county, where he was born October 2, 184. His ancestry was Scotch-Irish and the strength of the Scottish sentiment is evinced in the name given him at baptism: Robert Burns. The Irish blood asserted itself when President Lincoln called for volunteers, in April, 1861, and on the 17th of the month, the first day of the recruiting, he volunteered but was rejected on account of his youth, but August 9. ensuing, was accepted and mustered into Company A, 15th Ohio Infantry, for three years. In February, 1864, he re-enlisted, as a veteran, and was mustered out December 27, 1865, after a service of nearly four yearS and five months. He participated in all the battles and skirmishes in which his regiment was engaged except at Nashville, at which time he was in the hospital with a wound received July 23, 1864, in front of Atlanta. His political enemies have permitted a wrong to be done a good soldier by referring to this wound, which was in the heel, and by merely stating the fact have allowed improper inferences to be drawn. At the time the injury was received he was lying, with the command, in the trenches and under fire. November 25, 1863, upon the crest of Mission Ridge, he captured the color bearer and the colors of the Ninth Mississippi Regiment, for which he was awarded a congressional medal of honor. In March, 1866, he entered Eastman's Business College, at Poughkeepsie, New York, and graduated after a six months' course, and for the succeeding four years taught school in Minnesota, in the meantime preparing himself for the bar, but in 1873 he became city editor of the Zanesville Courier and has maintained his connection since, being at the present time secretary, treasurer and business manager of the corporation, and is an active member of the associations of the dailies and newspapers of the state. Mr. Brown is an enthusiastic member of the Grand Army of the Republic and has been post commander of Hazlett post several times, and it was mainly by his untiring efforts that the Ohio Soldiers' and Sailors' Home at Sandusky was established. He was the first trustee appointed, Served twelve years and resigned in 1898. At the twentieth annual encampment of the Department of the Ohio G. A. R., held at Akron in 1885. he was elected department commander and served fifteen months and is a life member of the national encampment of that order. The title "General." which is frequently given to him, comes from his G. A. R. badge as a past department commander. The badge is the shoulder strap of a major general, and in the society's circles the wearer ranks as a general and is so addressed by the comrades. The application outside by members was taken up by those who did not understand the significance and the public has applied the title as a sobriquet. The only public office held by Mr. Brown was the mayoralty of New Concord, which he exercised for five months in filling the unexpired term of the elected mayor, who died, and which was given him by the village council. Mr. Brown is an enthusiastic republican and his pen and tongue are freely and vigorously employed on behalf of the party; his ancestral blood tells in each but as a speaker he usually gives it rein and he strikes at every head in sight, with- 546 - PAST AND PRESENT OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY. out apology for the force or effect of the blow. In religion he is an orthodox Presbyterian, of Covenanter stock, but somewhat tempered by intercourse with equally good men of other beliefs. Aside from his G. A. R. affiliations his only fraternal connections are with the Odd Fellows, of which he is a member in both lodge and encampment branches. WILLIAM L. EVANS, M. D. Dr. William L. Evans, who is living in Mount Sterling, where he is successfully engaged in the practice of medicine, was born in Licking county. Ohio, March 15, 1880, and is a son of E. H. Evans. a native of Illinois. The father, removing to Ohio, settled in Licking county, where he became a prominent farmer. He was married to Miss Hester A. Richey, a native of Ohio, and they have two surviving sons, the brother of Dr. Evans being Horace 0. Evans, who is engaged in teaching school at Hanover, Ohio. Dr. Evans was reared in the usual manner of farm lads, spending his boyhood days on the fathersis farm, while in the public schools he acquired his early education. Later he continued his studies in the high school at Hanover and the Doane Academy and thus acquired a good literary education to serve as the foundation upon which to rear the superstructure of professional knowledge. Determining to engage in the practice of medicine, he entered the Starling :Medical College at Columbus, from which he graduated with the class of 1893. He afterward practiced medicine for a vear in Hanover and in May. 1904, he located in Mount Sterling, where he has already secured a good patronage. Dr. Evans was married on the 11th of October, 1904, to Miss Nettie B. Donivan, who was born in Columbus and they have gained many friends during their residence in Mount Sterling and arc now prominent socially. Dr. Evans votes with the republican party. Fraternally he is connected with the Masonic lodge and Independent Order of Odd Fellows and also with Phi Beta Phi, a Greek letter fraternity. He is thoroughly familiar with the modern methods of medical and surgical practice and in his chosen work has shown his adaptability for the profession which claims his attention. PATRICK C. McGOVERN. Patrick C. McGovern, son of Patrick McGovern, was born in Guernsey county, Ohio. September 25, 1845. Upon that same day his father died. The latter was a native of County Caven, Ireland, and came to this country in 1836. In 1839 he returned to his native country but in 1842 decided to make the United States his future home and with his family. came to Guernsey county, Ohio, where in company with his brother-in-law, Peter Carnyn., he engaged in making macadamized roads. He died in Bellefontaine, Ohio, September 25, 1845 leaving his widow, formerly Miss Mary McGuire, whom he married in 1831, and seven children: Margaret, now deceased; Bridget, the wife of Ambrose Archer, of South Dakota; Mary, the wife of James Archer, of Minnesota ; Terrence, of Minnesota, who was a member of the Twentieth Ohio Volunteer Infantry in the Civil War: Thomas, who was associated with his brother, Patrick, in merchandisqing for seventeen years, after which be became an extensive farmer of :Morgan county, and there died October 3, 1902 ; Ellen, the wife of S. N. Archer, of Noble, county, Ohio, and Patrick C. Mr. McGovern of this review was about two Years old when taken by his mother to Noble county, Ohio, where he attended the public schools and was reared upon the farm. He was but eighteen years of age when in the spring of 1864 he enlisted in response to his country’s call for aid. becoming a member of Company D. Eighteenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, under command of Captain Collins and Colonel Charles Grosvenor. Three brothers of the family were soldiers of the war, Thomas having been with the Ninety-second Ohio Infantry. Patrick McGovern served until honorably discharged at Augusta. Georgia, in November, 1865. He then returned to Noble county, Ohio, where he engaged as a salesman for three years in the store owned by B. F. Penn. He then embarked in merchandizing in connection with his brother in East Union, Noble county, conducting a general store there until 1890, and prospered in his undertakings. In that year lie sold his interest. In the meantime he had become largely engaged in shipping live stock and his operations in that line of business bad proved successful. In the spring of 1890 he was appointed storekeeper of the Ohio penitentiary at Columbus and was also superintendent of the hospital under Governor Campbell, holding the appointment from 1890 until 1892. In the latter year he came to Dresden and embarked in the woolen manufacturing business. In the spring of the organizing the joint stock company, being associated in this enterprise with T. S. Prettyman, W. H. Bush, R. F. Penn, Isaac Hatcher, and Henry Large. Their plant is conducted under the name of The Muskingum Valley Woolen Manufacturing Company and Mr. McGovern was connected therewith for ten years as vice president and secretary. He then sold his interest in 1901 but remained with the company until 1902. Since PAGE - 547 - PICTURE OF PATRICK C. MCGOVERN PAGE - 548 - BLANK PAST AND PRESENT OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY - 549 that time he has been engaged in the real estate business and is now a member of The Dresden Real Estate & Improvement Corny. For fifteen months he was associated with A. S. Baker in the ownership of the Central Meat Market at Zanesville, Mr. Baker engaging the business. For a short time in 1904 Mr. McGovern engaged in the grain business is now devoting his entire time to his property interests. In 1872 Mr. McGovern was married to Miss Susan Archer, who was born in Noble county and is a daughter of James Archer, a native of at county. Mr. and Mrs. McGovern became parents of ten children : Leo Norbert, a merchant of Dresden ; Benjamin Lawrence. who living in Columbus. Ohio Charles Taylor, of the same city ; Ula Rose ; Stephen Terrence William Harry ; Mary Irene, the wife of Clyde Comer, of Dresden Edward Fleming ; Patrick Earl ; and Hannah Clotilda. Mr. McGovern votes with the democratic arty and he is a member of Major Cass Post, G. A. R. He is also a communicant of the Catholic church and has a nice home and is one of the highly respected citizens and prominent men of he community. His life has been characterized by untiring labor. Whatever he has undertaken as claimed his utmost energy and he has ever been watchful of all the details of his business and all indications point toward prosperity. In business affairs be is energetic and notably reliable, while promptness has always characterized m in meeting an engagement or a financial obligation. Mr. McGovern has ever been active in politics and takes an active interest in public affairs. At the time of the compiling of this narrative he is a candidate on the democratic state ticket for member of the board of public works. FRED HERRON. Fred Herron is a representative of one of the oldest families of Irish lineage in Muskingum county, and was born in Rich Hill township, June 22, 1836. on what is known as the old Herron homestead. His father, John Herron, was born in county Donegal, Ireland, in 1795, and was brought to America when a youth of nine years. His father. William Herron, also a native of the Emerald Isle, was married to Anne Moore, and they became the parents of six children : John. Alexander, George, William, Anne and Jane, all of whom are now deceased. For his second wife William Herron chose Elizabeth Crow, and they became the parents of seven children: Andrew. James, Samuel. Elizabeth, Marv, Martha and Sarah. The last named is now living in Zanesville and Alexander had a son who is now living near High Hill. Since the first representatives of the Herron family came to America, they have been in sympathy with the principles embodied in the republican platform and all have been churchmen, largely connected with the Methodist denomination. They have also been among the most successful and prominent farmers of Muskingum county since the family was established in this portion of the state and they are closely related to the Dixons and McIntires, with whom they hold annual reunions. John Herron, father of Fred Herron, came with his parents to America, as before stated, the family home being established near Philadelphia. Pennsylvania, in 1806, but became a resident of Ohio, and resided in Rich Hill township while the Indians were still numerous in this section of the state and when deer and wild game could be had in abundance. The family lived here during the war of 1812 and they shared in all the hardships and privations of pioneer life and took an active part in the early development and progress of the county. Later generations of the family have been equally loyal to the general good and the name of Herron has always stood as a synonym for activity and honor in business and progressive citizenship. John Herron was united in marriage in 1817, to Miss Jane Henderson, a representative of one of the prominent early Irish families of the county. She was one of nine daughters, all of whom lived to be over seventy years of age and died in the same neighborhood. Fred Herronls grandmother. Martha Mercer, also came from Ireland. In the family of John and Jane Herron were three sons and five daughters : William, Fred, John, James, Elizabeth, Margaret. Jane. Mary and Ann, and with the exception of Fred and Jane all have passed away. The sister married George Ray, a sailor, who died and was laid to rest in the Herron family lot in Salt Creek cemetery. Fred Herron, reared to the occupation of farming, has spent his entire life in this county, and in the public schools acquired his education. He was married in 1867 to Miss Sarah Armstrong, who was born in Salt Creek township, May 2, 1846. and thev immediately took up their abode upon the old Herron homestead. They became the parents of six children : Maggie J., now the wife of J. H. McIntire; Fred H., who married Grace Evans ; John A., at home ; Pearl C., who married Catherine Barker, who died a year later, leaving an infant daughter, Helen May ; Harry G., deceased ; and Ernest E., at home. Mr. Herron has always followed agricultural pursuits in order to provide for his family and now at the age of sixty-nine years is giving his supervision to his large farm of three hundred 550 - PAST AND PRESENT OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY. acres. He is one of the oldest and most consistent members of the Presbyterian church in which for many years he has served as a deacon. His life though quietly passed has been characterized by all that is honorable and straightforward in man's relations with his fellowmen and by fidelity in citizenship. He has therefore commanded and enjoyed the respect and good will of those with whom he has been associated and he is well known in Muskingum county. SILAS W. FICKEL Silas W. Fickel, now living retired in a pleasant home in Taylorville, Ohio, was born March 24, 1847, in Madison township. Perry county, Ohio, and is a son of George and Hannah (Harding) Fickel. The father was likewise a native of Perry county, while the mother's birth occurred in Licking county, Ohio. The paternal grandfather, Joseph Fickel, came from Pennsylvania to the Buckeye state, settling in Perry county about 1820. He was of Dutch lineage, while his wife was of Scotch descent. Becoming the owner of a tract of land of one hundred and sixty acres. he deqvoted his remaining days to its cultivation and improvement. George Fickel also became a farmer and continuously engaged in the titling of the soil until February I, 1864, when he joined the army. enlisting as a member of Company Seventy-eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He was afterward transferred to the Twenty-second Veteran Reserve Corps on the 13th of September, 1864, and served until the close of the war, being mustered out at Columbus, Ohio. July 13, 1865. Since that time he has largely lived retired and now makes his home at Fultonham at the age of eighty years. His wife died March 25, 1904, at the age of seventy-seven years. In his family were nine children, of whom six are now living. Silas W. Fickel pursued his education in the graded schools of Fultonham and he. too, responded to the country’s call for aid when the south attempted to overthrow the Union. He was but seventeen years of age when he enlisted on the 4th of January, 1864, and joined the boys in blue of Company B, Seventy-eighth Ohio Infantry. He participated in the battle of Peach Tree Creek and a number of skirmishes and was wounded on the 26th of August, 1864, while in action near Atlanta, Georgia. He was shot above the knee and had his leg amputated, but ampuqtation was again necessary and the member was cut off about five and a half inches from the hip. He was in the hospital at Marietta, Georgia, at Atlanta, Chattanooga and Nashville, also at Louisville, Kentucky, and Madison, Indiana, and at length was honorably discharged at Madison on the 29th day of May, 1865. He now receives a pension of fifty-five dollars per month, a merited reward from the government for the sacrifice which he made for his country. Mr. Fickel was married, September 25, 187o, to Almeda Erwine, who was born January 23, 1853, in Wayne township, Muskingum county, and was a daughter of Edward and Mary (Bagley) Erwine, both of whom were natives of Virginia. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Fickel was born a daughter, Minnie, whose birth occurred June 23, 1871, and is now the wife of Emil Waterstraat, a resident of Portland, Oregon. Thev have also reared an adopted son and for seven years their granddaughter has lived with them. The former, Edgar Lear. is a nephew of Mr. Fickel, and the granddaughter is Maude Waxponer. Mr. Fickel now has a fine home in Taylorville and another, fine residence and he is living retired, being in comfortable financial circumstances. He votes with the republican party, which was the defense of the Union cause at the time of the Civil war and has always been the advocate of progress. reform and improvement. His wife is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church and both are highly esteemed by a large circle of warm friends. DAVID BUCHANAN David Buchanan, never seeking to figure prominently in public life. but faithfully performing each day’s duty as it has come to hiM, is now living a retired life on his farm on section 15; Brush Creek township, and such a course is made possible through earnest and indefatigable labors in earlier years. "There is nothing more pleasing nor profitable than the study of biography said Carlyle, while George Washington said "Agriculture is the most useful as well as the most honorable occupation to which a man gives his energies. Thus in a review of the life history of Mr. Buchanan we not only find food for reflection, but also learn of his connection with farming interests, whereby he has worked his wav upward to success, and now, leaving the active work of the farm to his sons, he is enjoying a well merited rest. A native of Washington county, Pennsylvania, he was born July 24, 1825, his parents being Samuel and Martha (Hines) Buchanan. The father, also a native of Washington county, was born April 2, 1786, and on the 28th of February, 1816, in his native state he married Martha Bines, He came to Ohio in 1831, settling in Perry township, becoming one of the early stock-raisers and most successful farmers in Muskingum county. PAST AND PRESENT OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY - 551 He took an active and helpful part in the early development of the county and his labors resulted beneficially to the community. At the same time he managed his business interests so as to win prosperity. They were the parents of nine children of whom five died in infancy. Those who reached mature years were : Robert, who was born February 22, 1817, and was married February 17, 1848, to Margaret Harrison Haynes, by whom he had four children : Elizabeth Ann. who born January 19, 1822, and was married December 7, 1848. to Mathew Porter; David, this of review ; and Alfred, who was born December 12, 1831, and married Frances M. White, by whom he had one child. For his second wife he chose Caroline Webster, and they had two children. David Buchanan was reared to farm life working in the fields during tbe summer months and attending school through the winter seasons. At the age of twenty-three years he left home, starting out on his own account and for three years he was employed through the neighborhood as a farm hand. He was then married, on the 29th November. 1849 to Miss Mary Jane Probasco, and in 1853 they removed to Muskingum county. With a little family growing up around him, he had a renewed impetus for close and earnest toil and he utilized every opportunity to make his farm productive and profitable. By his first marriage there were six children : Samuel, who was born September 21, 1850, married Ann Harp and lived in Zanesville but both have passed away being survived by one daughter, Katie : Martha Jane, born October 14. 1852. is the wife of William Matthews, and they have two children, Julia who was born April 7. 1854, is the wife of William Cunningham. who resides near Roselle, this county : Ida Cunningham, who was born December 18, 1856, married Charles Moeckel and is now deceased ; David O., born August 31, 1859, and living in South Zanesville. married Ella Jones, and they have two children. Arabella died in infancy. Mr. Buchanan was married a second time, April 16, 1868, Miss E. Anderson becoming his wife. She was born January 28. 1845, and is now ceased. By this union there were two children. Charley A., who was born November 28, 1869, married Myrtle B. Mast, and thev live with his ther on the old homestead, but they lost their two children in infancy. Walter B., born December 26, 1871, is at home. Mr. Buchanan's second wife was a daughter of James Anderson and a granddaughter of John Anderson, both of whom were natives of Ireland, whence they came to Ohio and here engaged in general farming. Throughout his business career Mr. Buchanan has followed the occupation of farming and stock-raising and industriously and carefully managing his interests he gained a competence very desirable and sufficient to enable him now to live a retired life while his sons execute the work of the farm. His word is as good as his bond. his integrity standing as an unquestioned fact in his career. The family property comprises three hundred and seven acres of land. Mr. Buchanan is a member of the Presbyterian church and in his political views is a democrat. He has a host of warm friends and is most highly respected by all who know him. GEORGE B. HIBBS. George B. Hibbs, who carries on general farming in Springfield township and is also well known to the citizens of Muskingum county because of his capable services in public office, was born August 14, 1857, in the township where he yet resides. He represents one of the oldest families of the county, founded in this part of the state by his grandfather, William Hibbs a native of Bucks county. Pennsylvania. William Hibbs came to Ohio when the work of improvement and development was scarcely begun in this section of the state and entered land from the government in Springfield township, after which lie devoted his energies untiringly to the development of a farm. His son, William J. Hibbs, was born in Springfield township in 1826 and in his vouth was a district school student. His time was devoted to his studies through the winter months and during the remainder of the year he assisted in the arduous task of developing the home farm. In early manhood he wedded Miss Jane Burtch. a daughter of William Burtch. and they became the parents of five children : Charles. who is living in Wyoming; George B.; Mar, the wife of C. Bush ; Alice, the wife of W. P. Bell : and Elizabeth. who is living on the home place. William J. Hibbs devoted his life to farming and always remained a resident of Springfield township. where he owned and operated one hundred and ten acres of rich land. In 1888 he built a fine home two stories in height, containing six rooms. He also erected a large barn and outbuildings and developed a splendid property, his farm being situated on the Cooper Mill road about five miles west of Zanesville. In his fraternal relations he was an Odd Fellow and his religious faith was indicated by his membership in the Methodist Protestant church, in which he served as an officer and in the work of which he was deeply and helpfully interested. He voted with the Whig party in early manhood and later became a republican. He was quite active in local politics, served as trustee and township surveyor and was also a member of the school board. Viewed from a financial stand- 552 - PAST AND PRESENT OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY. point his life was prosperous and it was equally successful when judged by the standard whereby we measure character, for in all his relations with his fellowmen he was upright and honorable. He died January 12, 1899, while his wife passed away in 1897. Like the other members of the family George B. Hibbs was reared upon the old homestead farm. The children were provided with good educational privileges, all attending the district schools, while some were students in the schools of Zanesville. George B. Hibbs yet remains on the old home farm, where he is living with his sister Elizabeth, and under his guidance the place is kept in excellent condition, being supplied with all modern equipments and accessories. Everything about the place is neat and thrifty in appearance and he is regarded as one of the substantial agriculturists of his community. His fellow townsmen, recognizing his worth and ability, have also called him to public office. In 1890 he was elected township clerk, in which capacity he served for two and a half years, after which he was elected township treasurer. From 1896 until 1900 he served as deputy sheriff of the county and in 1890 he was deputy in the office of the county auditor, while in 1902 he was appointed county auditor to fill out an unexpired term. He has ever been a stanch republican, inflexible in his advocacy of the principles of the party, for he believes that its platform contains the best elements of good government. In his social relations he is a Modern Woodman. JAMES B. TANNER. James B. Tanner, filling the position of county commissioner and also successfully following the occupation of farming in Falls township, was born in that township within a mile and a half of his present home, his natal day being June 7, 1841. His parents were Ed and Elizabeth (Ramey) Tanner. both natives of this county. while the latter was a daughter of Alexander Ramey. His paternal grandfather was Edward Tanner. who married Sarah Brown. He was born in Virginia of English parentage and when about fifteen years of age was captured by the Indians and taken to Upper Sandusky. Ohio, where he remained for three and a half years. At the end of that time he was ransomed by the government and returned to his home in Virginia. In the intervening years he had learned the Indian language and had become thoroughly familiar with the ways and traditions of the red men while in captivity. He was married m Virginia and afterward emigrated from that state to Ohio, becoming one of the pioneer residents of that state. The trip was made on the river in a keel boat and afterward residing for a year near Coshocton he came with his family to this country. settling in Falls township, where he cultivated and improved land and thus opened up a good farm. Before leaving Virginia he had purchased land warrants sufficient to cover five hundred acres of land and at the time of his death in 1831 he had fine farms. Indians and wild game were very plentiful here at the time of his settlement and there were only two or three houses between his home and Zanesville. It was five miles to the home of the nearest neighbor and he had to go to Coshocton to mill and to do his trading. When death claimed him his remains were interred upon the old homestead farm. His wife, who was born in Virginia and was of Irish lineage, died in 1855. Edward Tanner, father of James B. Tanner, also became a prominent farmer of Falls township. He was `a member of the Methodist Episcopal church and his political allegiance was given to the republican party. Upon his father’s farm James B. Tanner was reared, early becoming familiar with the best, methods of tilling the soil and caring for the crops. He married Miss Priscilla Haines, a native of Falls township and a daughter of George Haines. They have five children : Flora wh is now the wife of George McCan; Minnie. the wife of Charles Marshall, of Falls township Mary E.; Clara ; and Ira E. Throughout his entire life James B. Tanner has resided in Falls township with the exception of the period which he spent in the Civil war He enlisted in 1862, when about twenty-on years of age, becoming a member of Company G Ninety-seventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry, which was commanded by his uncle. Captain William C. Tanner. A year later he re-enlisted in the Thirteenth Ohio Cavalry with which he continued until honorably discharged at Columbus the close of the war. He participated in the battles of White House Landing, Charles City Court House, siege of Petersburg, Weldon Railroad, Ream's Station, Poplar Grove Church, Pegram's Farm, Boydtown Plankroa and Hatchie's Run. He was a brave and lo soldier and in days of peace he has been equal loyal to his country and her welfare. When the war was over Mr. Tanner return to his home and has since given his attention agricultural pursuits. He is now the own of a good farm of two hundred and sixty acres and has property in Zanesville which he rents. In his political views he is a republican and he held the offices of township trustee and school director. He has served for five years as county commissioner and is now filling the position of second term, proving a most capable incumbent PAGE - 553 - PICTURE OF JAMES B. TANNER PAGE - 554 - BLANK PAST AND PRESENT OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY - 555 in that office. Fraternally he is a Master Mason and also belongs to the Modern Woodmen camp. Mr. Tanner is a large man of fine physique, gifted with much common sense and good business ability and in his business career and political service he has displayed traits of character which commend him to the confidence and esteem of all who know him. ALFRED L. KINKADE. Alfred L. Kinkade, a veteran of the Civil war, who, since 1887 has occupied the position of lock tender on lock 9, on the Muskingum river, and makes his home in Taylorville, was born in Harrison township, Muskingum county, August 19, 1843. His father, Charles Kinkade, was a native of the same county, while the grandfather, Joseph Kinkade, was born in Loudoun county. Virginia. The latter came to Ohio in 1810. Only a few years before that the state had been admitted to Union and there were large tracts of unbroken land and large forests which stood in their primeval strength. Muskingum county, too, presented the appearance of a frontier settlement when Joseph Kinkade took up his abode in Harrison township. There he aided in the early work of improvement and development. Charles Kinkade was reared amid the wild scenes of pioneer life and for many years followed farming. He also followed the river for a long period and his death occurred when lie was sixty-five years of age. His wife bore the maiden name of Adaline Neff, and at the time of her marriage resided in Brush Creek township. She was a daughter of John Neff. a native of Virginia, who became one the first settlers of that township. In their family were three children, Alfred, Noah and Elizabeth, the last named the wife of Captain Morton. Alfred L. Kinkade was a public school student Philo and spent his boyhood days upon the me farm, where he early became familiar with work that falls to the lot of the agriculturist he transforms his land into productive fields. He was a young man of nineteen years when, the 6th of October, 1862. he and his father fined the Union army for service in the Civil war, his father becoming a member of Company A and the son of Company F, One Hundred nd Twenty-second Ohio Infantry. The father red for three years and lost his health on the battlefields of the south. Mr. Kinkade of this review remained with the army until the close of hostilities when the Union flag was victoriously planted in the capital of the Southern Confederacy. He was with the eastern division and participated in twenty-two engagements, being three times wounded. On the 1st of May, 1862, in the battle of the Wilderness he was wounded by a minie-ball, which struck his left thigh. He never faltered in the performance of any military duty but was always true and loyal to his country and at the end of the war was honorably discharged with the rank of sergeant. He then returned to his home and followed the river until 1886. In the succeeding year he was appointed lock tender on lock No. 9, and has since filled this position. Mr. Kinkade was married to Miss Caroline Sullivan, a native of Philo and a daughter of William Sullivan, who was born in this county. They now have two children, Orville A. and Mary A. The son served three years as a member of Company D, Nineteenth United States Infantry during the Spanish-American war and is still a member of the regular army, belonging to Company C, Fifth United States Infantry. Mr. Kinkade is a republican in his political views, socially is connected with the Grand Army of the Republic and in religious faith is a Catholic. His life is characterized by industry and he is always found faithful in the performance of any duty which devolves upon him, a fact which is indicated by his long continuance in the position which he now fills, having for nineteen years served in the capacity of lock tender. In matters of citizenship he is as loyal to-day as when he followed the stars and stripes upon the battle-fields of the south. JACOB H. METZGER. Jacob H. Metzger. sexton of the Woodlawn cemetery of Zanesville, was born in this city October 23, 1850. He is a son of Jacob Metzger, who was a native of Germany and came to the United States when eighteen years of age. In 1830 he arrived at Zanesville, spending his remaining- days in this city, where he passed away at the age of seventy-eight years. He married Miss Sophia Roedy, who was born in Germany and was brought to the new world when a little maiden of four summers. They became the parents of six children, of whom but four are living : Mrs. Sophia McCadden, of Zanesville ; Mrs. Catherine Moody ; Jacob H. and George. All yet reside in this city. J acob H. Metzger was educated in the public schools of Zanesville and here learned the cabinet-maker's trade, which he followed for a number of years. Later different business interests claimed his time and attention. He was inspector of work shops in this city and also deputy oil inspector of the Zanesville district. At this writing, in 1905, he is sexton of the Woodlawn cemetery and in this position he is giving excellent satis- 556 - PAST AND PRESENT OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY faction, keeping the cemetery in fine condition. He is continually studying to beautify and improve it and his methods are practical, resulting in the attainment of the improvement which he desires. In his political affiliation Mr. Metzger is a republican. He married Miss Matilda Rapp and they have two children, Len and Cora. The family residence is in Zanesville and Mr. Metzger has the respect and confidence of business men and all with whom he has come in contract. HENRY F. ROHRMAN. Henry F. Rohrman, whose intense and well directed activity has made him one of the successful business men of Zanesville, closely connected with its commercial and manufacturing interests, was born in Germany, July 19, 1865, and pursued his education in the schools of that land, attending an academy at Herbon, Germany. He came to the United States when a young man of twenty years that be might find scope for his ambition and industry-his dominant qualities— for he had heard favorable reports of the excellent business opportunities afforded in America. He made his way direct of Chicago and there attended the College of Pharmacy, which he left in 1887. The same year he located in Zanesville and secured a position in Johnson’s drug store, where he remained for two years. He was afterward with the Graham Drug Company but in 1891 he abandoned pharmacy to engage in other business interests, entering the employ of David Schmid, importer of and dealer in slate, as a traveling salesman. He was with him in that capacity until \Ir. Schmid sold the business to the Vermont Slate Company in the fall of 1902, the partners of this company being John G. Williams and Henry F. Rohrman, the former acting as president, while the latter is vice president and treasurer. The main office is at Grandville, New York, Mr. Williams being a well-known and prominent man of that place, where his ancestors were in business before him. They are manufacturers, shippers and exporters of superior sea green, unfading green, red and purple roofing slate and are wholesale dealers in all kinds of black roofing as well as roofing materials and tools. The superior sea green quarries are located at West Pawlett, Vermont. The company also has an office at 53 Victoria street. London, for they enjoy a large export trade, shipping their celebrated superior sea green roofing slate extensively throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico and other countries. Their plant is equipped with the latest machinery and in connection with the slate business the company has become well known as manufacturers of important and useful devices. Their specialty in this department is the Vermont safety oil can which is especially adapted for the use of railroad companies and for machinery of all kinds. By a mechanical contrivance on the can pressed by the thumb the flow of the oil is regulated. They also manufacture the Vermont free rural delivery mailboxes, railway tinware, torches for shops and railroad purposes and many other useful articles and the output of the factory is extensive, finding a ready sale upon the market because of the utility of its products. The Vermont Slate Company's roofing slates were given the highest honor and gold medal by the jury of awards at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition at St. Louis because of their superior excellence. Mr. Rohrman was united in marriage in 1888 to Miss Emma M., Weber, a Daughter of Henry Weber, who was born in Germany and came to Zanesville at an early day. Mr. and Mrs. Rohrman hold membership in the German Lutheran church and they have one son, Henry F., Jr. Mr. Rohrman belongs to the United Commercial Travelers and in his political views is a republican. He has gained and retained the confidence and respect of his fellowmen and is distinctively one of the leading residents of the thriving city of Zanesville, with whose interests he has been identified almost continuously since his arrival in the new world twenty years ago. WILLIAM H. SHIRER William H. Shirer is the owner of a valuable farm of three hundred acres. most of which is bottom land and very productive. and in the control of his agricultural interests he displays excellent business ability, executive force and keen sagacity. He was born July 12, 1847, in Adamsville. Ohio, and is a son of G. W. Shirer, who is mentioned in connection with the history of Allen Doughty on another page of this work. His education. was acquired in the public schools of his native town and he was reared to the occupation of farming, which he has always followed as a life work. He early became familiar with the duties and labors that fall to the lot of the agriculturist and his practical experience enabled him to win success from the very beginning of his active business career. He purchased his present farm in 1873 and as the Years have gone by has devoted his attention to its cultivation and improvement until it is now a splendid property. It comprises three hundred acres of very rich and arable land situated a mile and a half northeast of Dresden. It is splendidly adapted to the raising of corn and PAGE - 557 - PICTURE OF HENRY F. ROHRMAN PAGE - 558 - BLANK PAGE - 559 - PICTURE QUARRIES OF THE VERMONT SLATE COMPANY PAGE - 660 - BLANK PAST AND PRESENT OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY - 561 he also produces other crops in his fields, the soil being very alluvial. Annually he harvests good crops which find a ready sale on the market and add each year to the success which is making him one of the prosperous citizens of Muskingum county. Mr. Shirer was married, in September, 1871, to Miss Anna E. Doughty, a native of Madison township and a daughter of Allen Doughty, who represented elsewhere in this volume. Four children grace their marriage: John C., the eldest born in September, 1873. married Miss Mary Hickey and lives in Columbus, Ohio. They have two children, Gertrude, born in 1895 and Francis, born in 1903. Arva J. Shirer, born September 8, 1877, is a graduate of the Ohio Wesleyan College at Delaware, Ohio, and has become a minister of the gospel. being at the present time a student in the theological school in Madison, New Jersey. He was married in November. 1904, to Miss Grace E. Wottring. Mary L., born September 4, 1882. is also a graduate of the Ohio Wesleyan University of Delaware. Ohio, and is now at home. Rose M., born October 22. 1886, is pursuing her studies in Delaware. Mr. Shirer belongs to the Odd Fellows society at Dresden and he and his family are all members of the Methodist Episcopal church. His religious belief has been a permeating influence in his life, guiding his business career and being an influencing force in his treatment of his fellowmen. CAPTAIN MILTON McLAUGHLIN. Captain Milton C. McLaughlin is not only well known in Zanesville but has a wide acquaintance ;along the Ohio and Muskingum rivers for rough many years he has acted as pilot. He was born in McConnelsville. Ohio, June 3. 1838. His paternal grandfather, William McLaughlin, was a native of Pennsylvania and came to this state as a pioneer settler, aiding in the work of reclaiming it for the purposes of civilization and modern improvement. He married Miss Mary Williams. also a native of Pennsylvania and they became the parents of nine children, all of whom have now passed away. James McLaughlin, the eldest of this family, was born in Columbiana county, Ohio, in 1801, and died in 1893, at the very venerable age of ninety-two years. He married Margaret Ann Meighen, native of Pennsylvania, and her death occurred when she was eighty-four years of age. They were the parents of nine children, of whom Milton was the seventh in order of birth. Only two are now living, his brother Aaron, a resident of Marietta, Ohio, being a pilot and master of steamer vessels. The father was a millwright by trade and removed from his native county to Morgan county, Ohio, where he followed that pursuit and also worked at carpentering. He served as auditor of Morgan county for eight years and was active and prominent in public affairs, having the trust of the entire community. He may well be styled a self-made man for he owed his advancement in life entirely to his own efforts. He attended school for only six weeks but in the school of experience he learned many valuable lessons and through reading and observation added continually to his knowledge. He possessed a very retentive memory and as the years passed stored his mind with much useful information. His early political support was given to the whig party and on its dissolution Ile joined the ranks of the new republican party. In early manhood he was elected and served as mayor of McConnelsville and as a public official was found to be systematic, prompt and capable in the discharge of all the duties that devolved upon him. He served as a member of the Morgan Guards of Morgan county in early days and acted as sergeant of his company. Milton C. McLaughlin was reared in the place of his nativity and attended its public schools and there remained until the spring of 1860, when he came to Zanesville. where he has resided continquously since with the exception of a period of two years which were passed in his native county. On reaching manhood he went upon the river upon a boat where his brother was employed. It made trips between Marietta and Zanesville, being engaged in trade on the Muskingum river. Mr. McLaughlin's first employment was as deck sweeper. He possessed energy and determination. however. and resolved that he would win advancement through merit and capability. He did faithfully and well whatever duty was assigned him and later went with his brother as third cook and afterward was promoted to various positions until he became steward of a steamer on the same river. A little later he became second clerk in the office of the boat and then went into the pilot house with his brother Aaron, who had become a pilot, to learn the river. This was in the spring of 186o and after serving his apprenticeship he received his government papers for license as a pilot and continued upon the river in that capacity. He was, upon boats engaged in trade between Zanesville, Ohio, and Pittsburg. Pennsylvania. on the Ohio river with Captain C. R. Stull, and under John N. Lyon he learned the Ohio river and continued to act as a pilot for seven years between the points mentioned. He was also on a boat engaged in trade between Ironton and Pittsburg for some time and then again in Zanesville and Marietta trade 562 - PAST AND PRESENT OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY on a packet boat until 1900. He has since been captain, clerk and pilot on the steamer Vega, a government boat on the river and this is his present business connection. He is still very active for one of his age and is much esteemed by people all along the river with those who have carried on trade between the points mentioned and those who often served under him. He receives the largest salary of any man on the Muskingum river, a fact which is indicative of his capability and efficiency. Captain McLaughlin was married in 1869 to Miss Adalaide Murdock, a native of Zanesville and a daughter of John Murdock. They have two sons: J. C. McLaughlin, who was employed in the government office at Zanesville under Lieutenant Beach, Lieutenant Gillett and Edmund Molser for fourteen years and is now in the government service at Beaver, Pennsylvania, married Eva Ford, a daughter of James Ford, and they have one child, Harry, who was born in Zanesville and is now nine years of age ; and Frank M., who was born in Zanesville, is now employed at a pottery. Mr. McLaughlin gives his political allegiance to the republican party since casting his first presidential vote and has never faltered in his support of its principles. Fraternally he is connected with Muskingum lodge, No. 28, I. 0. 0. F. There are few men in this part of the state outside of political life who have a wider acquaintance than Captain McLaughlin and he may well be termed one of the most popular men on the river. In 1864 he was in the secret service under A. C. Woolfock, A. Q. M. of Cairo, Illinois. His brother, James McLaughlin, volunteered in the First Ohio Regiment and afterward re-enlisted in the Seventy-eighth Ohio Infantry and served during the Civil war. He was one who ran the blockade at Vicksburg and was wounded while on the boat, which was the cause of his death. WILBUR F. McCOY. Wilbur F. McCoy, who figured for a long period in business circles in Zanesville, was a native of Virginia, his birth having occurred at Harper's Ferry on the 15th of June, 1842. His father, William McCoy, was a native of Scotland and after emigrating to America established his home in Virginia, where he followed merchandising, but being a strong supporter of the Union cause he left the Old Dominion during the period of the Civil war and brought his family to Zanesville, where he also conducted a store for a number of years. Wilbur F. McCoy was educated in the schools of his native state and came to Zanesville when a young man in the twenties. Eventually he became a partner in the Zanesville Hardware Company, continuing with that firm until within a year of his death, which occurred on the 24th of June, 1896, when he was fifty-four years of age. He was progressive and diligent in all his business dealings and the success of the Zanesville Hardware Company was attributable in no small degree to his efforts, keen discernment and good judgment. On the 4th of April, 1872, Mr. McCoy was united in marriage to Miss Cornelia Israel, who was born in the town of Putnam, now a part of Zanesville, April 4, 1843. She is a daughter of Captain William E. Israel, who spent the greater part of his life in this city. He was born near Barnesville, Ohio, and first married Martha L. Thompson. a native of Asbury Chapel. His second wife bore the maiden name of Adelia Spencer and is still living at the age of seventy- five years of age. Mfr. Israel died when seventy- five years of age. He was a boat-builder and at one time followed the river, becoming captain of a boat which made trips down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers to New Orleans. The marriage of Mr. and Mrs. McCoy was blessed with four children : Juliet Kane ; Helen M. ; William I., a mechanical engineer : and Bernard W. Juliet Kane was married. December 15, 1897, to Perry Smith, a native of this county and a lawyer of Zanesville. and they have two children : Perry McCoy, born February 21, 1900, and Cornelia McCoy, born January 15, 1905. Helen M. was married, October 31, 1902, to Richard V. Storer, who was born in Zanesville but is now living in Chicago, Illinois. where he is engaged in the granite and stone business. Mrs. McCoy, since the death of her husband, has erected her present home at No. 544 Adair avenue. Mr. McCoy took a deep interest in affairs and always kept well informed on the issues of the day. His business life was marked by consecutive advancement owing to his persistency of purpose and unfaltering energy. With the passing of years his circle of friends constantly grew. His name is enrolled upon the list of honored dead of Muskingum county. J. HOPE SUTOR. J. Hope Sutor, public accountant of Zanesville, was born in Muncy, Lycoming county, Pennsylvania, June 6, 1846. His father, H. P. Sutor, a merchant, was of American birth and of German parentage. He wedded Mary Culbertson Leattor, who was born in Philadelphia. Pennsylvania, and was of Scotch-Irish descent on the PAGE 563 - PICTURE OF WILBUR F. MCCOY PAGE - 564 - BLANK PAST AND PRESENT OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY - 565 paternal and American-French on the maternal side. In 1852 the parents, removed to Baltimore, Maryland, and the son became a public-school student in that city. He was pursuing the work Of the fourth year in the Baltimore City College, when he put aside his text-books to take up railroad life, having learned telegraphy during the summer vacation of 1863. His college course embraced both the scientific and literary subjects with French and German as the languages. On the 4th of January, 1864, he became telegraph operator for the Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad Company, at Havre de Grace, Maryland, where a ferry was operated. There was no bridge across the river and the movement of troops and supplies was very heavy. During the summer he was transferred to the terminus of the double track at Newark, Delaware, and upon the completion of the line to Elkton, was made station agent at Rossville, near Baltimore, but resigned there early in 1865. He then entered the services of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company on the construction of the double track and participated in the movement of the troops home after the Grand Review in Washington, in May of that year. In 1866 he was sent to Mountain division as train dispatcher and there remained until 1871. On the first of November of the latter year he came to Zanesville as dispatcher but was assigned to the office of General Superintendent Quincy at Columbus. his former superior officer in double track work. Mn 1872 he was made chief clerk in the maintenance of way department for the Baltimore & Ohio lines west of the Ohio. and about 1878 was elected secretary of the Newark, Somerset & Straitsville, the Baltimore & Ohio & Chicago and the Central Ohio Railroad companies, which constituted the leased lines. In 1885 he was transferred to Baltimore as chief clerk in the office of the general manager of the entire system and upon the abolition of the office he returned to Ohio to again enter upon the duties which he had formerly performed but on the 1st of September, 1889, he resigned so as to become assistant to the president, general manager and treasurer of the Zanesville & Ohio River Railway Company. In July, 1892, he was appointed as receiver and when the road was reorganized in 1900 as the Ohio & Little Kanawha Railroad, was made general manager and treasurer. When this property was sold in 1902 he retired from railway service and took up the profession of public accountant. As is indicated his advance from one responsible position to another was continuous and each change was a further step in his business career. In public affairs in Zanesville Mr. Sutor has been prominent although never an aspirant for office. He is, however, an ardent republican and during the famous campaign of 1896 organized the Railroad Men's Marching Club of three hundred members. He served on the board of education from 1890 until 1896, acting for two years as vice president and two years as president. At one time he was secretary of the board of trade and during his active business life has been a director in several of the city's industrial corporations. Mr. Sutor became a member of the Knights of Pythias fraternity in May, 1869, and was first grand chancellor of West Virginia, occupying that position in 1869-70. He was representative from that state to the supreme lodge of the world in 1870 and 1871 and is now the oldest past grand chancellor in Ohio and among the oldest in the west. He was made a Master Mason in Aurora lodge, No. 43, West Virginia, October, 1869, and affiliated at Zanesville in 1872. He is a past master, past high priest, past thrice illustrious master and a Knight Templar Mason. Also a charter member of Hope council, No. 82, of the Royal Arcanum, and is a past regent of that organization. He has likewise been a member of a number of similar societies from which he has now withdrawn. Mr. Sutor has always been a man of scholarly tastes and habits, spending many of his most pleasant hours in the companionship of his books. He has become familiar with standard fiction. but finds equal recreation in history and science. Particularly interested in the history of his adopted county as well as in the nation's progress and achievements, he has thoroughly informed himself concerning its development and upbuilding and that his researches have been broad and his investigation penetrating is indicated in the historical chapters of this volume which come from his pen. CHARLES E. RUSSELL. Charles E. Russell. who follows farming on section 4. Brush Creek township, was born February 5, 1862, in Muskingum county, his parents being James and Pleasant E. (Cohagaw) Russell. The father was born in Loudoun county, Virginia, and came to Ohio with his father, Martm Russell. The latter drove across the country from the Old Dominion and first rented land near Gaysport, but subsequently purchased land in Muskingum county, where he began farming on his own account. His son James remained with him during his boyhood and youth and assisted him in the cultivation and improvement of the home farm until about twenty-five years of age. He was then married to Miss Pleasant E. Cohagaw, a daughter of William Cohagaw, one of the early settlers of Muskingum county, who was also a native of the Old Dominion. At the time of his marriage James Russell began farming 566 - PAST AND PRESENT OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY. on his own account and continued to follow that pursuit until his death, which occurred when his son Charles was only three years of age. He was always an industrious man and he successfully carried on his farming pursuits. He passed away upon the farm which is now the property of our subject and his loss was deeply regretted by his many friends as well as his family. He was an active and influential republican, putting forth every effort in his power to promote the growth and insure the success of his party and his religious faith was indicated by his membership in the Methodist Episcopal church. Following the death of her husband Mrs. Russell afterward married a Mr. Taylor. By her first union she had three children : Rosie, now deceased ; Charles E., of this review ; and Elizabeth, the wife of Samuel Smith, by whom she had five children. Following his mother's second marriage Charles E. Russell remained at home until eighteen years of age, when he went to work for his uncle, after which he was employed as a farm hand for four years. At the age of twenty- three years he married Miss Amelia Stuker, a daughter of John and Sophia (Wolfort) Stuker, who were natives of Wayne township, Muskingum county. Her grandfather, Gotlieb Stuker, was born in Wurtemberg, Germany, and with his father crossed the Atlantic to America in early life, the family home being eventually established in Wayne township. Unto Charles E. and Amelia Russell were born three children : Eva, who was born February 5, 1884, and is now a student in Ada Normal College at Ada, Ohio ; Manford, who was born January 1, 1888 : and Carrie, born March 3, 1894. Mr. Russell owns eighty acres of land which is devoted to general farming and stock-raising and he has a beautiful home, attractive in its surroundings, tasteful in its furnishings and noted for its gracious hospitality. He takes pride in keeping everything about his place in good repair and follows the most progressive methods of farming. In his political views Mr. Russell has always been a stanch republican, but has never had any desire to hold office, preferring to give his time and attention to his business interests. He belongs to the Methodist Episcopal church and his co-operation can be counted upon for the furtherance of any movement for the material, intellectual, political or moral progress of his community. A man of domestic tastes, he is devoted to his family, and although his own educational privileges were somewhat limited he is determined that his children shall enjoy good advantages in that direction. His record is that of a man who has by his own unaided efforts worked his way upward to a position of affluence. His life has been one of industry and perseverance and he is now classed with the leading farmers of his community, having now a valuable property which in its splendid appearance indicates to the passer-by the careful supervision of its owner. HOWARD M. WILLEY. Howard M. Willey, who follows the occupation of farming and is also mail carrier in Wayne township, was born upon his present farm, April 9, 1870, and is a representative of one of the old Virginian families. His grandfather, John A. Willey, a native of the Old Dominion, came with his father to Muskingum county at an early day, when much of the land was still in possession of the government and entered one hundred and sixty acres of land, a part of which is now in possession of Howard M. Willey. Not a furrow had been turned or an improvement made upon the place, but soon the plow and the harrow prepared the fields for planting and in due time good harvests were gathered. The grandfather spent the remainder of his life on that place. Upon the old homestead Charles T. Willey, father of our subject, was born and reared and :Is a companion and helpmate for life's journey he chose Miss Sarah Haggerty, who was born in Pittsburg and died when Mr. Willey of this review was six years of age. Unto Charles F. Willey and his wife were born ten children, all natives of Wayne township, and five are yet living, as follows : John, who is living in Zanesville; Sadie, the wife of L. Parker ; Mrs. Kate Flanders ; Howard M., and rs. Janet Leslie. The father had eighty acres of land and carrid on general farming until his death, which occurred when he was sixty-nine years of age. His business interests were well managed and he became a prosperous farmer. In his political views he was a staunch republican and for nine years he served as a director of the county infirmary. Howard M. Willey was born upon the farm where he now resides and in the district schools of the neighborhood he obtained his education, while in later years reading and observation have broadened his knowledge. When his father removed to Zanesville he assumed the management of the home farm and soon demonstrated his ability to capably perform this task. He now owns and operates fifty acres of land, which his grandfather entered from the government, and which is about two and a half miles from the courthouse. It is a good property with modern improvements and equipments and hiS labors have made it very productive, so that his business is now profitable. Mr. Willey was happily married to Miss Lizzie Parker, a native of Zanesville and a daughter PAGE - 567 - PICTURE OF HOWARD H. WILLEY PAGE - 568 - BLANK PAST AND PRESENT OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY - 569 of Washington Parker, who was also born in that city, and yet makes his home there. Their children are Ruth, Russell, Charles and Ed Willey. Mr. Willey's opinions on political questions are in harmony with republican principles and he always votes for the candidates of the party, although he never seeks office as a reward for his fealty. Fraternally he is connected with the Odd Follows and his salient characteristics are such as make him respected by his brethren of the lodge and by the general public. THOMAS W. SIMMS. Thomas W. Simms is the owner of a well improved farm of about one hundred and eighty-four acres near Bloomfield, which was once the camping ground of the Indians and is said that the old Indian chief, White Eye, is buried upon this tract of land. It was upon this farm that Mr. Simms as born, December 25, 1859, his parents being John and Catherine (Spicer) Simms, the former a native of Ireland, born March 14, 1815, while the latter was born in Salem township, Muskingum county, January 9, 1821. John Simms was only three years old when brought by his parents to America, the family settling in Washington county, Pennsylvania, in 1818. About 1836 he drove a four-horse team to Muskingum county, Ohio, coming westward with his parents who settled in Union township on the Wheeling road. The grandfather there remained a few years, when he removed to Highland township and purchased land and spent many years upon the farm, which comprised two hundred acres. He then moved to his son John's (where T. W. lives) and died there at the age of ninety. His wife also died here at the age of ninety-three years. They were the parents of two sons and two daughters : John Martha, Rosana. and Hugh, but all are now deceased. John Simms was educated in the common schools of Pennsylvania. assisting his father in his boyhood days on the old homestead and retaining with him in Ohio until the time of his marriage. He operated the first sawmill in this section of the state, carrying on the business for twelve years. He received a part of the farm pon which his son Thomas now resides as a gift from his father and throughout his remaining days was the owner of two hundred acres of rich ad arable land. the cultivation and labor which he bestowed upon it bringing him good financial returns. He was a republican in politics and both he and his wife were devoted members of the United Presbyterian church of Bloomfield, where they were buried. He died January 23, 1896, at the age of eighty-one years, and his wife passed away September 4, 1887, at the age of sixty-six years. They were the parents of seven children, of whom six are now living : Mrs. Margaret Scott, a resident of Beatrice, Nebraska ; Sarah, of Bloomfield, Ohio ; Mrs. Elizabeth McDonald, of Nebraska ; Gibson, a farmer living in Smith county, Kansas ; Thomas W., of this review ; Mrs. Ella Couden, a resident of Monroe township ; and Martha, who died in May, 1887. Thomas W. Simms, having obtained his education in the district schools, began farming on the old homestead, where he has spent his entire life. He was married in 1884, to Miss Tillie Ross, whose birth occurred October 26, 1859, in Highland township, her parents being David W. and Margaret (Davis) Ross. Her mother attended the little old log school, a picture of which is shown in this work. Her father was born in Washington county. Pennsylvania. July 8, 1835, and was the son of Thomas and Matilda (Winters) Ross. The grandfather was born in the Keystone state in 1800, and the grandmother's birth occurred there in 1810. Thomas Ross was a blacksmith by trade and came to Ohio, in September, 1855, locating at Bloomfield, where he turned his attention to farming, which he followed until his death in 1862. His widow survived him for many years. passing away in 1897. David Ross was practically self-educated as he had little chance to attend school, but experience. observation and reading brought him much practical knowledge. He remained with his father until after the outbreak of the Civil war and in 1864 he enlisted in the Union Army, becoming a member of Company D, One Hundred and Sixtieth Ohio Infantry. under Captain M. R. Trace. He served for five months and participated in the battles of the Shenandoah valley and Harper's Ferry. He has resided continuously upon the farm which he now owns since 1859, with the exception of the brief period which he spent with the Union troops. He was married in the year mentioned to Miss Margaret Davis, one of the pioneers of the county. Mrs. Ross passed away July 6, 1900. Mr. Ross is a democrat in his political views and has been township trustee, supervisor and a member of the school board, while in local affairs he takes an active interest, always giving his aid and influence to further the cause of progress and development. He belongs to Hansen Post, No. 468, G. A. R., of New Concord, and is a member of the United Presbyterian church at Bloomfield. His farm comprises one hundred and forty acres and its well improved condition indicates his life of untiring activity and well directed effort. Mrs. SimmS has two sisters and four brothers, namely : William T., Clara J., Alice R., Marion C., Alvin W. and Frank E. Mr. and Mrs. Simms had but two children and Ethel died in infancy, the surviving son. being 570 - PAST AND PRESENT OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY Floyd C., now attending school at New Concord. Mr. Simms owns one hundred and eighty-four acres of well improved land and carries on general farming and stock-raising. He has good stock upon his place, including cattle, horses, sheep and hogs, some of which were thoroughbreds, and both branches of his business are proving profitable because he thoroughly understands his work and is untiring in his labors to promote the interests of the farm. He lives about a mile and a half west of Bloomfield. In politics he is a republican and he, his wife and son are faithful members of the United Presbyterian church. THOMAS HARVEY WILSON.   Thomas Harvey Wilson, a representative of agricultural interests of Highland township. was born on the place which is vet his home, July 1845. His father, Hugh Wilson. was born in Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, June 11, 1800, and in that state was married, on the 25th of January, 1827, to Miss Mary Nichols. whose birth occurred in Allgheny county, on the 19th of March, 1809. They removed from the Keystone state to Ohio in 1836, and took up their abode on a farm which is now owned and occupied by Thomas H. Wilson. They purchased the place from Casper Fell and John Hart, the farm comprising one hundred and sixty acres. At the time it came into possession of Hugh Wilson the taxes, both real and personal. amounted to less than five dollars. The farm had been entered by John Hart and the patent granted May 20, 1828. Mr. Wilson of this review now has in his possession the old original patent granted by the government and also his first tax receipts of 1846, representing an amount of six dollars and twenty cents upon both real and personal property.   Hugh Wilson was a pioneer farmer of the county, assisting very materially in the early development and progress, and for many years his labors proved of direct benefit in the upbuilding and advancement of his part of the state. His farm comprised one hundred and sixty acres of land and he carried on agricultural pursuits and also did carpentering. He voted with the whig party until its dissolution, when he joined the ranks of the new republican party and was well known as one of its local leaders. He served both as justice of the peace and school director and he was a member of the Associate Reform church. while his wife held membership in the Presbyterian church. His death occurred September 11, 1880. and Mrs. Wilson passed away in Illinois, on th 14th of July, 1887. They were the parents of ten children, of whom five are vet living, namely Rebecca Spicer, a resident of Colorado; Mrs. Sarah J. McBride, of Illinois ; Mrs. Elizabeth R. Pyles, who is living in that state ; Mrs. Lucinda Bennett, of New Concord, Ohio ; and Thomas H. Two brothers are now deceased: Samuel N., who died while serving with the Thirty-sixth Illinois Infantry, was for three years a member of Union Army and then re-enlisted. James G. served for three years with the Eighty-third Illinois Infantry and died after the close of the war.   Thomas Harvey Wilson attended the common schools in his boyhood days and always assisted his father in the operation of the home farming during his youth. At the time of the Civil war, however, he responded to the country's call for aid enlisting on the 2d of May, 1864, when in his eighteenth year. He became a member of Company B, One Hundred and Sixtieth Regiment of Ohio Infantry, with which he remained three months, participating in several skirmishes and in the movements of the Army of the Potomac there. He then returned to his old home and resumed agricultural pursuits and has always resided upon the old homestead farm. Here he now owns one hundred and sixty acres of very rich and arable land, well improved with modern buildings and all accessories. The place is devoted to general farming and stock-raising, is specialty being cattle and sheep, and in the control of his interests he displays excellent business ability and executive force.   On the 23d of January, 1868, Mr. Wilson was united in marriage to Miss Matilda G. Thompson who was born February 12, 1847, in Highland township, and is a daughter of Robert and Nancy (Guthrie) Thompson, who came from Washington county, Pennsylvania, to Ohio, about 1838. Her father was a farmer and stonemason and owned one hundred and sixty acres of land, which he cleared and cultivated, transforming it into a productive farm. He had two sons and ten daughters and all of the daughters resided near the home of Mr. Wilson until 1895, while seven of the number are yet living. Unto Mr. and Mrs Wilson have been born nine children : Samuel who was born December 4, 1868, is a carpenter living at Wood River, Nebraska ; Frank, born December 12, 1870, is engaged in the dairy business in Mercer county, Illinois. Cary E., born February 1, 1873, wedded Mary Miller and living in Phelps county, Nebraska, where he followed farming ; Charles B., born April 8, 1875. is farmer at Wood River, Nebraska ; Hugh E., born March 6, 1877, follows farming in the same locality. Clyde E., born April 21, 1882, Jane B born November 7, 1883, Lillie P., born September 12, 1886, and James Harvey, born September 18, 1888, are all at home.   Mr. Wilson is a republican and has served as township trustee for several years, while for two   PAST AND PRESENT OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY - 571   years he was also assessor. He and his family are members of the United Presbyterian church at Bloomfield, and he is interested in the political, material, intellectual and moral improvement of the county, giving his support and co-operation to many movements for advancement along these   MOSES A. McCALL.   Moses A. McCall owns and operates a valuable farm of one hundred acres on section 18, Monroe township. His entire life has been passed in this county and he is a worthy representative of a pioneer family. His birth occurred November 6, 1846, in Otsego, and his parents were Thomas and Lucy A. L. (Abbott) McCall. The father was born in Pennsylvania and when a young man came to Ohio. The mother's birth occurred in 1826 and in her girlhood days she came form Augusta, Maine, to this state. Her father laid out the village of Otsego and donated the public square to the town. Thomas McCall conducted the first store in Otsego, removing to that village after living for some time upon his farm. All of the southern part of Monroe township was at one time owned by the McCalls, there being four families of that name. By trade Thomas McCall was a carpenter and after disposal of his store he was identified with building operations in Otsego and vicinity until his death. He constructed bridges across Wills creek and erected many houses, churches and school buildings. He died in 1858, at the comparatively early age of forty-eight years. while his wife long survived him, passing away in June 1903, her remains being interred in Bethel churchyard. They were the parents of eight children : John H.. who married Charlotte Wills, of Coshocton, and has two children ; Sarah who became the wife of Michael Brannen and died leaving four children, while one had previously passed away ; Moses A., of this review ; Robert C., who married Tillie Bainter, by whom he had four children, two living, and resides in New Concord ; Margaret Isabelle, who became the wife of John Hammond and died leaving seven or eight children ; James W., who married Mary Simms, by whom he has six children and follows farming near Coshocton ; Nancy J.. the wife of T. C. Conner, a civil engineer of Zanesville, by whom she had two children, one yet living ; and Julia C., the wife of Amaziah G. Bradford, of Lafayette, Ohio. They have four children and have lost one.   Mr. McCall of this review was educated in the common schools of Otsego and also under the private - instruction of a minster of the name of McFarland. He was only seventeen years of age when in September, 1864, he enlisted at Zanesville as a member of Company F, One Hundred and Seventy-eighth Ohio Infantry under Captain Daniel Dugan. He had previously been in the government employ and after enlisting he served for one year and three months with the army. He took part in several skirmishes, also in the battle of Kingston, North Carolina, and Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and was present at the surrender of General Johnston at Raleigh, North Carolina. In July, 1865, he was honorably discharged at Charlotte, North Carolina. When the war was over and the country no longer needed his services Mr. McCall returned to his home with a creditable military record and began work as a farm hand, being thus employed until 1900, when with the capital he had saved from his earnings he purchased one hundred acres of land on section 18, Monroe township. He has a valuable property two miles south of Otsego and Mr. McCall now carries on general farming and stock-raising. He makes a specialty- of cattle, which he feeds for the market each year and his annual shipments bring him a good. income. In all his business affairs lie is practical and he has never been known to take advantage of the necessities of his fellowmen in any trade transaction.   In February, 1870, Mr. McCall was married to Ann E. Wheeler, who was born in 1852 and is the daughter of Jacob and Agnes ( Walker) Wheeler. Her father was born in Virginia in 1820 and„ following the occupation of farming. became a successful and prominent man of his community. He always adhered to the democracy but was never an office seeker. His wife was a native of this county but her parents came from Pennsylvania to Ohio. In the family of Mr. and Mrs. Wheeler were ten children. The home of Mr. and Mrs. McCall has been blessed with two sons and a daughter : Thomas W. was born March 27, 1871, and was educated in the common schools. He married Mirtle Wells and lives in Iowa, where he is employed as a railroad man. He has one child. Rora 6., born April 15. 1872, is employed in a pottery in Zanesville. He wedded Ella Klein and has three children. Agnes. born in July 12, 1873, is the wife of E. H. Mangold, of Adamsville, and has three children.   The parents are members of the Baptist church of Otsego and take an active and helpful interest in its work. Mr. McCall having served as one of its trustees for many years. He votes with the democracy, has been township clerk, personal assessor and real estate assessor. He holds membership relations with John Trimble Post, No. 628, G. A. R., in which he has served as commander, and in all matters of citizenship   572 - PAST AND PRESENT OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY.   he is as true and loyal to his country and her best interests as when he followed the old flag on southern battlefields and thus demonstrated his fidelity to the Union.   FRANK M. COUDEN.   Frank M. Couden is a representative of one of the old pioneer families of Muskingum county. He was born September 9, 1862, in Monroe township, his parents being Joseph and Margaret (Davis) Couden. The father was born in Adams township, Muskingum county, February 29, 1832, and was a son of Joseph Couden, who came from Ireland to the new world about 1814. He served his country as a soldier in the second war with England for about six months. He was a stone-cutter by trade, but taking up his abode in Ohio he became the owner of eighty acres of land in Adams township, Muskingum county, and devoted his energies to farming in the midst of what was then a wild pioneer district. Joseph Couden was reared to the occupation of farming amid the scenes of frontier life and is vet living to tell the tale of early experiences here when the work of improvement and progress seemed scarcely begun. When he was a school boy the people of the neighborhood had to chop down trees and split the logs in order to make seats for the pupils and the parents also had to chop and haul wood for the stove, which would contain a very long stick. All of the pupils carried their luncheon to school and it consisted mainly of corn cakes and buckwheat cakes, which they would warm on the stove at noon. They never had any recess and school began at seven o'clock in the morning and lasted until four o'clock in the afternoon. The schoolhouse was built of logs and there were seventy-five pupils in attendance. The first teacher that Joseph Couden had was Edward Menegh, who was a Roman Catholic and received fifteen dollars per month for his services. He was a hard drinker and often becoming intoxicated would spend a part of his time lying in the shade of a tree near the schoolhouse. It can safely be said that the pupils did not waste much time on their studies during these periods. When Joseph Couden was a boy he walked eighteen miles to his work, carrying with him an ax with which he chopped three cords of wood in a day. He helped to put up the first telegraph line in the county, extending from Zanesville to McConnelsville, and has been otherwise connected with the work of improvement and progress here as the evidences of civilization have been introduced. He has always been a very strong and rugged man and is yet hale and hearty. Throughout his entire life he has made farming his business. He was married in 1855 to Miss Margaret Davis, a daughter of David Davis, and a sister of James and Harvey Davis, of this county. Mr. and Mrs. Couden became the parents of eight children, whom they reared to adult age. In politics the father is a stanch democrat and for eight years he served as supervisor and at another time filled the office of constable. He is a member of the Patrons of Industry and both he and his wife hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal church.   Frank M. Couden pursued his education in the common schools of Adams, Salem and Highland townships and in his youth he worked as a farm. hand for some time. On one occasion, however, he was in a runaway and was so injured that he was unable to perform any manual labor for sonic time, so during that period he sold books—religious, historical and educational works. He afterward resumed, work on a farm and later purchased a half interest in a farm adjoining the place that he now owns. In 1899 he sold his original property, and bought his present farm, comprising one hundred and twenty acres in Highland township. It has since been his place of residence and is now a well improved property devoted to general agricultural pursuits an the raising of cattle and sheep. He likewise raises some fruits and his farm in its various departments is neat and thrifty in appearance giving evidence of careful and practical supervision.   On the l0th of March, 1891, Mr. Couden was united in marriage to Miss Ola Davis, who was born December 2, 1866, in Highland township and is a daughter of James and Elizabeth (Holland) Davis. They have one child, Waldo H. who was born September 14, 1896, and is with his parents at the family home. about two an one-half miles west of Bloomfield. Mr. Conde is independent in his political views. He belong to the Patrons of Industry and he and his wife are members of the Bethel Methodist Episcopal church. He is a worthy representative of a pi neer family and during his residence here ha carried forward the work of substantial improvement and progress which was instituted b his grandfather and further promoted by his father.   COLONEL T. F. SPANGLER.   The name of Tileston F. Spangler is inseparably associated with the commercial and industrial development of Zanesville during the pa quarter of a century. He is a native of the city and was born March 28. 1849. the eldest son o Benjamin and Elizabeth ( Tarrance ) Spangler   PAGE - 573 - PICTURE OF COLONEL T. F. SPANGLER   PAGE - 574 - BLANK   PAGE - 575 - PICTURE OF BENJAMIN SPANGLER   PAGE - 576 - BLANK   PAST AND PRESENT OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY - 577   both of whom were natives of Muskingum county. His paternal grandfather was Jacob Spangler, who came to this locality in 1810 with his father, Mathias Spangler, but afterward returned to Maryland, where he enlisted as a soldier of the war of 1812. After his discharge from the service he returned to Muskingum county and followed the occupation of farming in Wayne township for many years. Colonel Spangler's maternal grandfather, Henry Tarrance, was also a soldier of the war of 1812. He came to this county from Chester county, Pennsylvania, and was a son of James Tarrance, who emigrated to this country from the rth of Ireland soon after the close of the Revolutionary war.   Colonel Spangler passed through the entire course of the public school system of Zanesville and was graduated from the high school with the class of 1867. Like many other successful men. he began his business career as a teacher, a profession in which he earned some distinction during the short period of two years he was so employed. In 1870 he entered the law office of A. W. Train as clerk and student, and from his tutor, who was then in the front rank of the Muskingum bar, received those old-fashioned theories of law which made the tutor distinguished and have served to make the pupil the prudent painstaking counsel whose advice is respected by his business associates.   In 1873 Colonel Spangler was admitted to practice and, having become connected with building and loan company operations during his law student life, lie directed his attention more to conveyancing and office practice than to the re strenuous profession of an advocate. In 1880 he became the senior partner of a real estate firm and has maintained an active interest in that line of business. He was the leading promoter of the Homestead Building and Savings Company, the People's Savings Bank and the Guardian Trust and Safe Deposit Company, each of which is among the city's present most prosperous, substantial and reputable financial institutions.   Every measure for the development of the city since his advent into its business circles has had his active support. and he is not an inactive supporter of anything with which he is connected. For a number of years he was either president, director or working committeeman of the former Board of Trade; was among the leading spirits in securing the permanent location at Zanesville of the immense plant of the American Encaustic Tiling Company ; from 1873 until 1883 was secretary of the Muskingum County Agricultural Society: served six years as a member of the board of directors of the joint city and county workhouse ; and is now prominently active in advocacy of the ship canal by way of the Muskingum river from Lake Erie to the Ohio river. He has been managing member of the syndicates which laid out and, by liberal conditions to purchasers of lots, built up the additions of Fair Oaks, Brighton, Maplewood and Tiledale. In 1883 Governor Hoadly commissioned him a staff aide with the rank of colonel, in which he served two years. During the Berner riots. at Cincinnati. in 1884, he volunteered for duty and his ten days' service during that memorial period was personally complimented by the executive. Upon the accession of Governor Campbell in 1889, he again served two years as aide with the same rank.   In 1875 Colonel Spangler was married to Miss Mary Cox, youngest sister of Hon. S. S. Cox, at the latter's residence in New York, and immediately began his home life in Zanesville. To them were born five .children, but Mamie died in infancy. Those still living are Leola M.. Dora M., Helen S.. and Arthur Cox.   In church circles Colonel Spangler is president of the board of trustees of the Putnam Presbyterian church, and in fraternal circles he is a member of the lodge of Amity. No. 5, F. & A. M.; Zanesville chapter, No. 9, R. A. M.; Cyrene commanders, No. 1o, K. T., of which he is a past commander ; has attained to the thirty-second degree in the Scottish Rite ; and is a member of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He is also a member of Mechanics lodge, No. 230, I. 0. 0. F.   In business circles Colonel Spangler is president of the People's Savings Bank, the Spangler Realty Company and the Ohio Canal Association; first vice president and manager of the Guardian Trust and Safe Deposit Company; secretary and attorney of the Homestead Building and Savings Company ; director and secretary of the Kearns-Gorsuch Bottle Company; director of the Muskingum Coffin Company; and trustee and secretary of the Soldiers' and Sailors' Monumental Building and the Helen Purcell Home.   ALBERT H. CALDWELL.   Albert H. Caldwell, now living retired from the active work of the farm to which he gave his time and attention for many years, was born June 12, 1839, in Harrison county, Ohio, his parents being John and Sarah (Reed) Caldwell. The father was a native of Lafayette county, Pennsylvania, while the mother's birth occurred in Harrison county, Ohio, and they spent much of their lives in Harrison county. Mr. Caldwell was a blacksmith by trade but purchased a farm upon which he reared his family of eleven children. He successfully carried on agricultural pursuits for   578 - PAST AND PRESENT OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY.   many years and although he led a busy life he yet found time to perform some public service, filling the offices of justice of the peace and county commissioner.   Albert H. Caldwell supplemented his early educational privileges by study in Franklin college, at New Athens, Ohio, where he was graduated in 1859. He then took up the study of theology in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, and was licensed as a minister of the gospel on the 15th of April, 1863, by the Steubenville presbytery and ordained by the Lake presbytery on the 8th of February, 1865. He served as pastor of the churches at Franklin and Utica, Pennsylvania, from 1865 until 1867 and in January, 1867, took charge of a church of his denomination at Antrim, Ohio, where he remained until 1895. He then retired from the ministry and purchased the farm on section 21, Highland township, where he vet resides. He is now practically living retired, leaving the active work of the farm to his son. He owns sixty acres of well improved land, rich and arable. conveniently and pleasantly located a mile north of New Concord.   In 1866 Mr. Caldwell was united in marriage to Miss Mary McKee, of Franklin, Pennsylvania, a daughter of James and Adeline (Cochran) McKee, Her father was connected with the iron industry in the Keystone state, being a manufacturer of furnaces. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Caldwell have been born three children : John C., who operates the home farm: Albert W., who married Anna McKnight, of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, and is now engaged in preaching at McKeesport, Pennsylvania ; and Octa E., who is living at home. The parents hold membership in the United Presbyterian church of New Concord and Mr. Caldwell is still deeply interested in the cause to which he has devoted so many years of his active life.   JUDGE WILLIAM H. BALL.   Judge William H. Ball at one time figured prominently in the history of jurisprudence in Muskingum county, and although he has now retired from active connection with his profession he yet received the veneration and respect of the members of the bar because his own career was one which reflected credit upon the legal fraternity here. Nature bestowed upon him rare gifts. He possesses a mind of considerable compass combined with an industry which brought forth every spark of talent with which nature had gifted him. He has always been regarded as a superior man and now at the age of eighty- seven. years he is spending the evening of life in the quiet retirement which is a fitting crown to years of active and useful labor. He is a native of Virginia, having been born in Fairfax county, in the Old Dominion, May 2, 1818. His father, William Ball, was born m Virginia, near the District of Columbia, and in the vicinity of Ball's Crossroads, in June, 1781. He married Sarah Cassidy, also a native of the same locality. His death occurred in April, 1862, while: his wife passed away in November, 1863, at the age of seventy-four years. Both died in Fairfax county, Virginia, but their remains were; brought to Zanesville for interment in Greenwood cemetery. Throughout his entire life he followed the occupation of farming and although too old to enter the service at the time of the Civil war his sympathies were with the Union cause.   Judge Ball spent the days of his boyhood and youth at the old home in Virginia and in 1845, came to Ohio, establishing his home in Zanesville. He had previously studied law for one, year in Virginia and after cooling to Zanesville continued his reading with General C. B. Goddard, who directed his studies until Ile was admitted to the bar in June, 1847. He then went to Putnam county, Ohio. where he remained for three months, but did not secure a clientage during that period and returned to Zanesville. Here he entered into practice, his ability winning him recognition, and in 1851 he was chosen prosecuting attorney. He filled that position for one year, when he resigned to become political editor of the Zanesville Courier, acting as editor in 1853. He then resumed his law practice in this city and earnest effort, close application and exercise of his native talent won him prestige at the bar. His legal learning. his analytical mind, the readiness with which he grasped the points in an argument, combined to make him one of the capable lawyers here. Political questions were of deep interest to him and his natural fitness for leadership was recognized by the public election of office. He was chosen to represent his county in the state legislature in October, 1871. He was defeated for constitutional convention, however, in 1873. but in 1878 he was again made a candidate for office and was elected judge of the court of common pleas, which position he filled for five years, after which he was defeated for re-election by Judge Phillips. He has never, however, been a politician in the sense of office seeking, preferring to leave this for others. At different times he was engaged in the practice of law with partners, including Edmond Brush, the father of Dr. Brush ; John O'Neil, A. W. Train, John M. Hollingsworth and David Marsh. During his connection with the last named his practice extended to Perry county and he was also with J. A. Ivers, in Morgan county. During all these years he continued his practice in   PAGE - 579 - PICTURE OF JUDGE WILLIAM H. BALL   PAGE -580 - BLANK   PAST AND PRESENT OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY - 581   Zanesville and in 1884, after his retirement from the bench, he resumed his law practice, in which he continued until 1901, when he retired. He possesses an excellent presence and earnest manner, marked strength of character, a thorough grasp of the law and the ability to accurately apply its principles. These qualities made him an effective and successful advocate and insured him rank with other distinguished judges of the county. For four years he has now lived retired. On the 6th of February, 1851, Judge Ball married Caroline Wilson Stuart, who was born in Zanesville, Ohio, and was a daughter of Robert Stuart, who conducted a hotel in this city at an early clay, coming to Muskingum county from Pennsylvania. Mrs. Ball died August 6, 1895, at the age of sixty-nine years. They were the parents of three children : Elizabeth S. ; Mrs. Sarah Bates Hereford ; and Edward R., who is now in charge of L. K. Brown's sand works.   In 1862 Judge Ball was appointed colonel of the One Hundred and Twenty-second Ohio Infantry and served with his regiment until 1865, when, on account of his wife's health, he resigned. He was in active service all of the time and never missed a battle in which his regiment participated. He was wounded at the battle of Opequan in the valley of Virginia. Except when incapacitated for duty he was always with his command, a most brave and loyal soldier who inspired his men to deeds of valor by his own bravery and fearlessness. In his political views Judge Ball was a whig until 1854, when he became what was known as a silver gray whig and in 1866 he espoused the cause of democracy, which he has since supported. He is now a member of the Grand Army of the Republic of Zanesville. There is particular satisfaction in reverting to the life history of the honored and venerable gentleman whose name initiates this review, since his mind bears the impress of the historical annals of the state of Ohio from the early pioneer days, and from the fact that he has been a loyal son of the republic and has attained to a position of distinctive prominence in the thriving little city where he has retained his residence until the present time, being now one of the revered patriarchs of the community.   JOHN AMERICUS WILLIAMS.   John A. Williams, a lawyer of Roseville, is numbered among the native sons of Perry county, Ohio, his birth having occurred at Bristol, in 1852. His grandfather, William Williams, was a native of Connecticut and there is a tradition in the family that he is a descendant of William Williams, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. The grandfather was a New England schoolteacher who removed from Connecticut to Virginia and engaged in teaching near Roanoke and Winchester, that state. At an early day, about 1835, he came to Ohio and also taught sch00l in this state.   Our subject's father, Levi K. Williams, was born in Frederick county, Virginia, in 1813, and removed from the Old Dominion to Zanesville, Ohio, in 1834. He afterward studied medicine and on leaving Zanesville took up his abode at Oakfield, Perry county, where he engaged in practice for a number of years. Later he went to Bristol, where he had a very extensive practice, but this made too great demands upon his strength and he removed to Roseville, where he died the year after, passing away in 1860. In early manhood he married Rachel Jennings, a daughter of Daniel Jennings, who came from Virginia to Ohio about 1834, also settling in Zanesville, but later removing to Mount Sterling. He was a native of Massachusetts and had gone to Virginia when a young man. Unto r. and rs. Williams were born three children : Columbus L., a member of the Williams, Adair Merchandise Company, at Columbus. Ohio ; William Calvin. who died in 1874; and John A. The father was a whig in early life and upon the dissolution of that party joined the ranks of the new republican party. His career as a practitioner was a very useful one to his fellowmen, his ability enabling him to do much for those who needed his services.   John A. Williams was educated in the public schools and afterward engaged in teaching for twenty years. serving as superintendent of the schools of Roseville for a number of years and organizing the graded school system here. In the meantime lie began reading law and was long qualified for the profession before he sought admission to the bar in 1894. Previous to this time, however, he did a vast amount of legal business and since his admission he has been practicing with success in Roseville. In his earlier years, however, he was identified for a brief period with journalistic interests. In 1881 he established the Roseville Times, which he conducted until his removal to Zanesville, the following year. There he became one of the editors of the Signal, remaining in Zanesville for three years. He is now giving his undivided attention to his law practice and has always been a close student of the principles of jurisprudence and the correctness of their application to the points in litigation. Mr. Williams' logical grasp of facts and of law applicable to them, as well as his untiring industry and principles, have been some of the most potent elements in his success. In the argument of a case he exhibits a remarkable clearness of expression, an adequate and precise diction, which enables him to   582 - PAST AND PRESENT OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY   make others understand not only the salient points of his argument but also to clearly understand the very fine analytical distinctions which differentiate one legal principle from another.   In 1872 Mr. Williams was married to Miss Alice Dunn, who was born in Roseville in 1857, a daughter of William Dunn, an attorney, who practiced for a number of years at the Roseville bar and for more than forty years held the office of justice of the peace. Mr. and Mrs. Williams had five children: Herman C., who is editor and proprietor of the Roseville Review ; Arthur O., the eastern representative of the J. W. McCoy Pottery Company of Roseville ; John, an attorney of Oklahoma ; Myrll, who is directress of the musical department at Shepherds College, at Shepherdstown, West Virginia ; and Nellie, at home. The parents are members of the Presbyterian church and Mr. Williams belongs to the Masonic fraternity. Prominent locally in political circles, he is a stanch advocate of democratic principles and has several times served as both village and township clerk. He has also been justice of the peace and a member of the board of education for several years. He was a member of the first county board of elections, served as postmaster under Grover Cleveland and in educational and church affairs he takes a deep and helpful interest.   Mr. Williams would doubtless have succeeded in politics, but he has been too busy as a lawyer to take an active part in public affairs. His views upon questions of public policy are very pronounced, however, and his influence may always be counted upon in behalf of good government and the advancement of the interests of the whole people.   CAPTAIN THOMAS S. BLACK.   Thomas Spencer Black, deceased, whose prominence in Muskingum county was none the less the result of an honored private life than a business career of notable integrity and success, was born in the extreme northern part of Ireland, his birth occurring at Ramelton, County Donegal, on the 6th of September, 1839. He was the eleventh in order of birth in a family of twelve children, whose parents were Joseph and Jane Mary (Spencer) flack. At the usual age he entered the public schools and continued his studies in Ramelton until sixteen years of age, when he took passage on a westward bound vessel at Liverpool, England, landing at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, six weeks later. He did not tarry in that state, however. but went at once to Springfield, Ohio, where his brother Andrew lived, who was proprietor of a retail dry-goods house there. Captain Black entered his brother's employ and continued with him for five. years, but in August, 1860, removed from Springfield to Zanesville, where he again became. a salesman in a dry-goods establishment, the latter store being owned by his brother-in-law, Alexander Grant, at the southeast corner of Third and Main streets. He continued with Mr. Grant until the inauguration of the Civil war.   Captain Black was among the first to respond in Muskingum county to his country's call for aid. He had watched with interest the progress of events in the south and resolved that if secession was attempted he would strike a blow in defense of the Union. Accordingly he entered the army on the 16th of August, 1862, as first lieutenant of the One Hundred and Twenty- second Ohio Volunteer Infantry, of which regiment Judge W. H. Ball was colonel. He made a notable record, being conspicuous for bravery. his meritorious conduct on the field of battle winning him promotion from the ranks to captain of his company. His colonel at the time of Captain Black's death said "He was brave, gentle, courteous, efficient and all that a volunteer soldier should be that was good. If I were to pick out three men that I could always count on I would choose Mr. Black as one of these. Nobody could say aught of him that was not commendatory. His was one of the cleanest characters that I ever encountered and while he was brave he was always as gentle as a woman." His honorable discharge came to him on the Toth of December, 1864, because of physical disability resulting from a wound sustained in battle. He was mustered in at Camp Zanesville and was in active service from the 23d of October, until January 1, 1863, in what is now West Virginia, in the Second Brigade, Milroy's Division of the Army of West Virginia ; from January 1, 1863, until July 1, 1864, in Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland in Elliott's Brigade; Milroy's Division, Eighth Corps; from July 1, 1863, until March 31, 1864, in the Second Brigade, Third Division, Third Corps ; from March 31, 1864, until June 3, 1864, in Virginia, in the Second Brigade, Third Division, Sixth Corps ; and after June 3, 1864, until his discharge was under treatment for his wound. He served as aid-de-camp on the brigade staff of General J. Warren Keifer. This brigade was in New York city in August and September, 1863, going by steamer from and to Alexandria, Virginia, under orders to aid in suppressing draft riots in New York. The battles in which he participated were as follows : Winchester. June 14-15, 1863 ; Locust Grove, November 28, 1863; Wilderness, May 5-6-7, 1864; Spottsylvania Courthouse, May 9-21, 1864: Topotomay Creek, 'May 31, 1864; Cold Harbor, June 1-3. 1864. He was also in the march from New   PAGE - 583 - PICTURE OF CAPTAIN THOMAS S. BLACK   PAGE - 584 - BLANK   PAST AND PRESENT OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY - 585   Creek, now Keyser, West Virginia, by way of Luyn's Creek, Moorefield, Wardensville and Romny to Winchester. From Winchester went to Front Royal and back, thence to New Market and back and returned afterward from Winchester to Harper's Ferry and was later with the Army of the Potomac in its movements. He was wounded slightly in the hand at the battle of the Wilderness and very seriously in the right ankle at Cold Harbor, on the 3d of June, 1864, and this ended his military career. He was sent to the hospital on the 19th of December, 1864, and unable for further field service was honorably discharged. He was held in the highest esteem by Brigadier-General Keifer and made indeed a creditable military record.   Following his return to Zanesville Captain Black again entered business life and remained an active factor in commercial circles here until his death. He formed a partnership with Alex- der Grant, under the firm style of Grant & Black, their store being located at the southeast corner of Third and Main streets and in 1868 Captain Black bought out the retail business of his brother William at the northwest corner of Main and Fourth streets, conducting that store until 1878, when ne sold out to the firm of Sturtevant & Martin. On the 1st of March, 1879, he organized the firm of Black & Company for the conduct of a wholesale dry-goods and notion business, which they opened on the north side of Main street between Fifth and Sixth streets. In August, 1880, they removed to the Stevens building on Sixth street, between Main and South streets, and in 1889 the business was incorporated as the Black & Grant Company, with Captain Black as its president. They purchased a lot on South Fifth street and erected there a large four-story building, in which they began operations in February, 1891. Captain Black remained as president of the company up to the time of his death and under his able management, executive force and keen business discernment, a large commercial enterprise was developed. He was very energetic. discharging business with readiness and quickly comprehending intricate business situations. He did not confine his attention alone to mercantile interests for he became identified with other local business enterprises and for a number of years served as a director of the First National Bank and the Homestead Building and Savings Company. His employes had frequent cause to thank him for his kindness and helpful care. He was not only just but generous and they knew that faithful service on their part would be rewarded by promotion as opportunity offered. The poor and needy also found in him a friend and yet he was very unostentatious in his charity, giving, generously because of broad humanitarian principles, yet never seeking the praise of public opinion.   On the 18th of April, 1867, Captain Black was united in marriage to Miss Cornelia Van Hamm, a daughter of Judge Washington and Clara Van Hamm, and unto them were born four children: Clarence Spencer; Dora May, the wife of John J. Adams ; Walter Van Hamm ; and Robert Smallwood. To his family he was very devoted, being a man of domestic tastes and he found his greatest pleasure in the companionship of his wife and children.   Soon after removing to Zanesville Captain Black became a member of the Second Presbyterian church and his name was on its rolls to the time of his death. He was interested in the various church activities and did much to promote the growth and extend the influence of the church, while in his life he exemplified his Christian faith. He was also a member of the Loyal Legion and the Grand Army of the Republic. He passed away after a brief illness. February 22, 1900. and one of the local editors of Zanesville said of him : "Captain Black was a wonderfully patient, even-tempered man. Gentlemen who have been closely associated with him for many years say that they have never known him to lose his temper or utter a word calculated to cause pain or give offense. He was public-spirited to an eminent degree, always being among the foremost in every enterprise for the general warfare. He left behind him an untarnished record and his life history is one which should prove an incentive to continuous and honorable effort for it shows the sure reward of character. He won not only success. but the unqualified regard and good will of his fellowmen and he was well known throughout the state, his friends being numerous at home and abroad.   LAWRENCE BLANKENBUHLER.   Lawrence Blankenbuhler, now deceased, figured for a number of years in commercial circles in Zanesville. He was born in McConnelsville, Ohio, July 4, 1860, a son of George Nicholas Blankenbuhler, who is mentioned elsewhere in this work in connection with the sketch of John Blankenbuhler. In the common schools Lawrence Blankenbuhler pursued his education. He came to Zanesville , when about fifteen years of age to visit his brother John and began working for him in his bakery. He learned the business in principle and detail and finally formed a partnership in the bakery and ice cream business. He was thus connected with this line of business throughout his remaining days and was also in-   586 - PAST AND PRESENT OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY.   terested in a milling business as a member of the firm of Blankenbuhler Brothers & Beaumont. They operated a mill and engaged in the manufacture of ice cream, bread and crackers. Following the dissolution of this partnership Lawrence Blankenbuhler continued in business alone as proprietor of the bakery and ice cream manufactory and he enjoyed a liberal patronage, while his business reputation was above question.   On the 11th of May, 1886, occurred his marriage to Miss Clara E. Winter, a daughter of Charles and Phillipina (Theaumont) Winter. Her father, a native of Germany, came to the United States when a young man, making his way at once to Zanesville. He was a painter by trade and after following that pursuit for a time he turned his attention to merchandising. Mrs. Blankenbuhler, who was born in Zanesville in 1865, was the youngest of a family of four daughters and by her marriage she became the mother of two daughters—Helen Marie and Clara Ethel, both at school.   Mr. Blankenbuhler died April 2, 1892. He had prospered in his business undertakings and was thus enabled to leave his family in comfortable financial circumstances. He was a republican in his political belief and held membership in the German Lutheran church, serving as one of the officers at the time of his demise. He was a man of distinctive and forceful individuality and his success in his undertakings was marked so that his methods were of interest to the commercial world, and investigation into his history shows that he based his business principles and actions upon strict adherence to the rules which govern industry, economy and unswerving integrity.   EDMUND CONE BRUSH. A. M., M. D.   Dr. Edmund Cone Brush, physician and surgeon of Zanesville and author of medical and current literature, was born October 22, 1852, in the city which is still his home, and is a descendant of Revolutionary ancestors, the family having been founded in America in colonial days. His parents were Edmund and Alice S. (Cone) Brush. He was only eight years of age at the time of his father’s death and the mother afterward removed to Marietta, Ohio, where he became a student in the public schools. When ten years of age he entered the academy of Marietta College and continuing his studies through successive grades was graduated from the academy with the class of 1868. He received the degree of A. M. at Marietta College in 1888.   Dr. Brush afterward filled a clerkship until 1871, at which time he entered upon the study of medicine, his reading being directed by Dr. B. F. Hart, one of the leading physicians of that portion of the state. The following year he attended lectures at Starling Medical College an on the 3d of July, 1873, he was appointed by Governor Noyes to a position on the medical staff of the Ohio penitentiary. He was relieved from that position in 1874, through a change in administration, and later he completed his studies at Starling Medical College under Dr. Davi Halderman, being graduated in 1875.   Immediately thereafter Dr. Brush located at Harmar, Ohio, where he engaged in practice until the spring .of 1876. The republicans again coming into power and R. B. Hayes having been elected governor, Dr. Brush was chosen for his, old position upon the medical staff of the Ohio penitentiary and acted in that capacity until the election of Governor Bishop, when he again retired. In 1873, during his first term on the medical staff of that state institution, cholera was prevalent there and Dr. Brush battled with it so bravely and successfully that he was given honorable mention in the annual report of the prison board to the governor. Upon leaving that position he was appointed demonstrator of anatomy in Columbus Medical College and the following year, 1879, he resigned in order to accept a similar position in his alma mater, where he remained for two years. During one year, in addition to his duties at college, he served as assistant physician at the Central Insane Asylum. In 1881. desiring to enter upon general practice, he resigned and located in the mining district at Corning, Ohio, where he was appointed surgeon for the Ohio Central Mining Company and also for the Ohio Central Railroad Company. Here he practiced until the spring of 1884.   While there, on the 24th of October, 1883, Dr. Brush was married to Miss Fanny L. Russell, of Zanesville, a daughter of the Hon. Charles C. and Louvisa (Moorehead) Russell, and in May. 1884, Dr. Brush and his wife established their home in Zanesville, where he at once entered upon the general practice of medicine. He is surgeon for five lines of railroad entering this city and for four years he was a member of the county pension board. He has been president of the Hildreth District Medical Society and from 1886 until 1891 he served as one of the physicians at the County Infirmary. For two years he was physician to the Zanesville workhouse and for five years, front 1885 until 1890, he was assistant secretary to the Ohio State Medical Society, while in 1892 he was elected second vice president of the society. In 1902 he was chosen its president and the following year he was elected one of the ten counselors of that society. He is a trustee and physician of the John McIntire Children’s Home and for fifteen years he has been president of the board of trustees of the Zanesville Atheneum and was the originator of the idea of presenting the library