HISTORY OF PERRY COUNTY - 325 Krieg, named in this sketch, was a native of Alsace, France, and a soldier with Napoleon, in Spain, Portugal, Italy, and Germany, and at the battle of Waterloo—serving nine years, in all. Francis Aid, father of Maximin, was a native of Baden, Germany. After his apprenticeship was completed, he got a permit to travel in Germany ; but "tyranny being so high, and wages so low," he determined to leave the country, and, by an odd stratagem, he succeeded in eluding the Government vigilance officer. He arrived at Alsace, France, where he made his home until he emigrated to America. Joseph Aid, brother of Maximin, came to this county in 1868. He was married June 4, 1848, to Miss Ge.nevieve, daughter of Jacob Kellhofer. They are the parents of thirteen children, viz. : Joseph Lafayette, now in the United States Army, Fifteenth Infantry Regimental Band ; Elizabeth, died in infancy ; Charles Theodore ; William ; Annie, deceased ; George ; John J., died in infancy ; Frederick ; Dora ; Lily and Minnie (twins) ; Harry, died in infancy ; and Genevieve, died in childhood. ALLEN, SAMUEL B., tonsorial artist, Rendville, Ohio, was born a slave, in Lewisburgh, Greenbrier county, Virginia, November 26, 1841, son of Isaac and Mary Ann (Scott) Allen. He remained a slave until the fall of 1861, when he took a "French furlough" and came to near Rutland, Meigs county, Ohio. and worked on a farm ; then to Gallipo- lis, Ohio, and workedin a Government hospital one year, and then went aboard, on a Government boat, ••D. C. Horton," and acted as porter one year, and for several years followed steamboating on the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers. His last trip was as steward on the "Granite State." Mr. Allen was married June 25. 1868, to Miss Rhoda, daughter of James and Mary (Bell) Hogg, of Pomeroy, Ohio. They are the parents of two children, namely : Isaac E.. and May Blanch. He first located his home at Middleport, Ohio, where he owns considerable property, and came with his family to Rendville, Ohio, in 1881. Mr. Allen began life for himself under the most unfavorable circumstances ; but, being possessed of more than ordinary intelligence and business ability, has become master of his trade, and has now secured a comfortable home. ALLEN, H. C., M.D.. physician, New Straitsville, Ohio. ALLISON, WILLIAM D.. farmer and pomologist. New Lexington, Ohio, was born June 20, 1823, in Bearfield township, this county ; son of Thomas and Elenor (House) Allison. He was raised a farmer, and has made that the business of his life, together with pomology. He lived in Bearfield township until he was nineteen years of age, when he moved to this township, near Bristol, where he resided until three years ago, when he moved to where he now makes his home, owning seventy-nine acres at this place, and one hundred and five acres near Bristol. At about the age of twenty years he began business for himself, renting his father,s farm, which he continued about three years, when he bought fifty-six acres of his father's farm, and rented the remaining portion, forty-nine acres, for seven successive years, at which time his father deeded him the forty-nine acres and made his home with him the remainder of his life. Mr. Allison's father came from Maryland to Ohio, about 1807, where he entered and cleared land, and endured all the hardships of frontier life : was drafted in the last Indian war and served 326 - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. about one month, when the war was closed. He used to trade with the Indians when he first came to this State. Wolves, bear, deer and turkey were in abundance, which he used to kill. Mr. Allison, the subject of this sketch, was married July 27, 1870, to Miss Deaver, born January 16, 1839, daughter of Reuben and Affadilla (Moody) Deaver. They are the parents of three children, viz.: Granville P., Isadore, and Nelson C. ANDERSON, CATHARINE C., Pike township, Maholm postoffice, Ohio ; farmer,s wife ; was born July 17, 1821, in Germany, daughter of Nicholas and Elizabeth (Coheart) Zahm. Mrs. Anderson lived in Germany until she was eight years of age, when she came with her parents to America, taking ship at Havre De Grace and landing in Philadelphia, where they bought a horse and wagon and drove to Wooster, Ohio, and from thence to East Union, Wayne county, Ohio, where her father en- tered eighty acres of land, upon which he lived for ten years, when he moved to within five miles of Somerset, this county, where he bought fifty acres of land and lived twenty-five years. At this time he went to Indiana, where he spent about nine years with his sons, Peter, Jacob, and George, after which he returned, and lived with Mrs. George Green up to the time of his death, dying at the age of eighty-seven years, and upon his birthday, near St. Joseph's Academy. Mrs. Anderson was married, January 6, 1840, to William D., son of Daniel and Anna (Hendrickson) Anderson, who was born March 5, 1819, in Pickaway county, Ohio, but was living at St. Joseph's Academy at the time of his marriage. After their marriage they lived for two years one mile south of the above named Academy ; from thence they moved to Hocking county, Ohio, where they lived six years, and again returned to about the same place they removed from, remaining this time about two years, when they came to where Mrs. Anderson still lives, at Bristol Station, in April of 1851., where he bought eighty acres of land, upon which he made all the improvements ; supplanting the log house by a neat frame dwelling, and gave most of his attention to farming. Re, in his life, gave considerable attention to the running of a saw mill, having owned one about seventeen years ; and after running a portable mill about five years, he sent it to Indiana, where his sons are now using it. He also owned eighty acres east of the present home, but sold fort acres of that tract, which leaves one hundred and twenty acres in all. He was station agent on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, and postmaster at Bristol Station, and kept a dry-good and grocery store at the same place and same time, up to the time of his death. Since his death Mrs. Anderson has opened a grocery store at Bristol Station, in copartnership with her daughter, Augusta Irene, who is, at this time, station agent and postmaster at the above place. Sarah A. is assistant post. master, and France A. C. is general assistant at both the store and post-office. Mr. and Mrs. Anderson became the parents of thirteen children, viz. : Philamon A., Mary E. (deceased), Adrian C., Daniel S., Emily H. (deceased), Thomas Mc., Agnes P., Margaret A. (deceased), Cecily C. (deceased), William N. (deceased), Augusta I., Sarah A., and France A. C. ANDREW, THOMAS, Mine Boss at No. 3, Rendville, Ohio, was born October 29, 1836, in Lancashire, England, son of William and Mary HISTORY OF PERRY COUNTY - 327 (Stokes) Andrew. At the age of nine years he went into the mines of England and worked about five years. In 1850 he came to America and located at St. Louis, Missouri, and mined there about three years ; then went to California, and mined until 1858, when he located at Rock Run, on the Monongahela River, Pennsylvania ; after which he mined at Amesville and Athens, Ohio. January 9, 1862, he enlisted in Company B, Fifty-third 0. V. I., and served three years. He was taken prisoner near Vicksburg, and held seven months, being confined in Mobile, Atlanta, Morton, Libby, Belle Island, and Pembleton. After his discharge he returned to the coal field in the Monongahela valley, Pennsylvania, and remained one summer ; then he obtained the position of Mine Boss at Leetonia, Ohio, where he remained until June, 1877, when he came to Moxahala, this county, and to his present location in 1879. Mr. Andrew was married, July 4, 1865, to Miss Elizabeth Riley, of Rock Run, Pennsylvania. They are the parents of three children, viz. : William, George, and James. ANSEL, JOSEPH ; post-office, Buckeye Cottage, Clayton township ; farmer ; born in Muskingum county in 1845 ; came to Perry county in 1870; son of Peter and Louisa (Stoneburner) Ansel. The latter died in 1881. Mr. Ansel was married, in 1870, to Miss Esther T. Wilson, daughter of Ezra and Elizabeth (Burgess) Wilson. They have four children, viz. : Burgess C., Bertha L., Ezra B., and Cleopatra. Mr. Ansel enlisted in the late war, in 1863, in Company B, Seventy-eighth 0. V. I., Army of the Cumberland. He was in the following battles, viz. : Kenesaw Mountain, Brush Mountain, Siege of Atlanta, etc. ; was taken prisoner at Raleigh, North Carolina. ARDREY, JAMES R. ;. farmer ; Madison township ; post-office, Mt. Perry. He is a son of John and Hannah (Huston) Ardrey, and was born August 7, 1851, in this township, where he has since lived, following his occupation. He now owns one hundred and fifty-six acres of good land. He was married, November J0, 1875, to Edith Smith, daughter of Edward and Harriet (Baird) Smith. Mr. and Mrs. Ardrey are the parents of four children : John C., Walter C., Randal C., and Hattie Emma. ARNOLD, WILLIAM WRIGHT, M. D., was born on the farm of his father, George Arnold, near Pleasantville, Fairfield county, April 6th, 1817. George Arnold came from the State of Maryland, with his wife, whose maiden name was Margaret Wright, on horseback, in the year 1815. She was a firm and faithful Presbyterian, while he remained steadfastly an adherent of the Catholic church to the end of his life, which was prolonged to the age of eighty-four years. It was their habit to attend church in the same carriage—George visiting the Catholic, and his wife visiting the Presbyterian church ; and this custom was persevered in with the utmost harmony between them to the end of life’s journey. The brothers of Dr. Arnold were Henry, George and David, all of whom died in Fairfield county, leaving sons, and John Baldwin Arnold of Van Buren county, Iowa. His sisters were, Mrs. Thomas Ewing of Fairfield county, and Rachel, who died when a young lady. After George Arnold was over eighty years old, he found three new 328 - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES jaw teeth developed in the upper jaw, just through the gums, a fact preserved here for the benefit of physiological science. Dr. W. W. Arnold was married Sept. 23d, 1843, to Miss Caroline Mitchell, a daughter of Randolph Mitchell, a merchant, and Lydia Whitmore, a sister of the late venerable Peter Whitmore of Perry county. Miss Caroline's grandmother was Sarah Alexander, born in London, and reputed to belong to the wealthy families of Virginia. This grandmother prided herself not only in the ancient wealth of her ancestry, but also in the family tradition that they were descended from Alexander, the Great. The children of this marriage are : Brezelius Mitchell Arnold, husband of Catharine, daughter of Daniel Baker of Crawford county, Ills ; Lydia Rachel, wife of John McLaughlin, post office, Thornville, 0. ; Elbridge Lee, husband of Alma, daughter of John Church, post office, Somerset ; Anthony Hayden, the early morning of whose marriage to Miss Hannah Kerr Heck, the youngest daughter of Alexander Heck, is clouded with sorrow by her death, in less than two years after the celebration of her nuptials ; Return Lavaga, now a student at the National Normal University, Lebanon, Ohio ; William Wright, a teacher of promise ; Mott Hunter, a student at the Wesleyan Ohio University, Delaware, Ohio ; George R. and Atlee Mitchell, both at home, and yet minors. This family of children are of Irish extraction on the Arnold side and of English, on the Mitchell side. Their mother lives in the same stately mansion erected by her father in 1828, the same where she was married ; where her children were born and reared ; where the first Methodist church of New Reading was organized ; where her parents lived and where they also died ; where, also, for a quarter of a century or more, her honored husband shared her joys and sorrows ; and where she at last smoothed the dying pillow of that husband and of her son, Randolph, who had, while yet an infant, preceded his father to the land of rest ; and the same house, too, where she saw all her sons become teachers as they grew to manhood, and then take their places in the front rank of respectable citizenship, as farmers and educators. Dr. Arnold began life on a farm, became a student at Granville College and Greenfield Academy, distinguished himself as a successful teacher, obtained a diploma from the Medical College at Cleveland in 1848, began the practice of medicine in New Reading, and, at his death in 1872, had won for his name and memory the distinction of a first-class physician, successful farmer, honest citizen and worthy Christian of the Reform Church. Besides the ancient but still beautiful brick mansion in which he resided, and six acres of town lots in New Reading, Dr. Arnold left one hundred and thirty-three acres of land adjoining the town plat, and about five hundred acres improved land for his sons in Crawford county, Illinois, all of which property and lands vindicate the soundness of his judgment and the strength of his sagacity as a financier. ASHBAUGH, WM. H., baker, Rendville, 0., born March 14, 1850, in Pike township, son of Simeon and Annie (Blair) Ashbaugh. His father came to Fairfield county, O., from Pennsylvania, emigrating from there to Perry county about sixty years ago. His mother's ancestors were natives of Virginia. William H. was brought up on a farm until about HISTORY OF PERRY COUNTY - 329 thirteen years of age, when he went to Zanesville to learn his trade. After completing which he first established himself in business at Richwood, Union county, then at Zanesville, and came to his present place in February, 1881, where he is doing a good business. ASHBROOK, THOS. M., was born August, 1847, in Fairfield county, Ohio. His father is Edward P. Ashbrook, and his mother Margaret Redmond: residents of Amanda township, Fairfield county. His father's brothers are Wm., residing in Amanda township, Cedar Hill P. 0. ; Mahlon, in St. Joseph, Missouri ; Absalom, deceased. Amelia Ashbrook, mother of Edward, and grandmothor of Thomas M., is now (1881) eighty-nine years of age, in full possession of her faculties. Her maiden name was Peters. Her sister, the wife of Aaron Ashbrook (deceased), lived to the advanced age of ninety-three years. Thomas was raised on a farm, and is one of three brothers and one sister ; was raised on a farm to the age of twenty-one years. He then engaged his services in a grist mill in Pickaway county. After three years there he came to Somerset, engaged in the same business, and afterwards started a planing mill on the site now occupied by the Snyder Brothers. He also engaged in the sale of mill machinery, and continues in the same business. The Ashbrooks are of Scotch descent, and seem to have originated in Berkley county, Virginia, where six sons and one daughter are recorded as follows : John had a family. He was killed by a horse in his native county. Thomas, who emigrated to Washington county, Pennsylvania, and had two sons. He was killed by Indians, or in the war. James, a noted lawyer, died in his native county. Moses, emigrated to Tennessee, and is doubtless the progenitor of those Ashbrooks residing in Nashville and other parts of the South. Aaron, the fifth son, emigrated to Hampshire County, Virginia ; had two sons and removed to Kentucky. Levi, the sixth son of the Berkley county, Virginia, Ashbrooks, was a Baptist preacher ; removed to Hampshire county, Virginia, and is the great-grandfather of Thomas M. He had one son and three daughters by his first wife. His second wife was Miss Chinnith. She had six sons and eight daughters. Levi, son of the first wife, married and emigrated to Kentucky, accumulated large wealth at or near Louisville, and then removed to St. Louis, Missouri, where he became a stock man and pork packer. John, a son of the second wife, married and emigrated to Kentucky. Absalom, another son, moved to Kentucky, died there, and his family moved back to Virginia, and thence to Ohio. Aaron, another of the six sons of Levi, emigrated to Fairfield county after his marriage to Miss Peters. His family consisted of four sons, Tunis P., John M., James and E. P. Ashbrook and four daughters. William, another of the six sons of Levi, emigrated to Fairfield county, Ohio. He had five sons, in order of age as follows : John, Absalom, Mahlon, Samuel, Edward, the father of Thomas M., the subject of this sketch, and from whom these facts are derived, and William. Also three daughters—Minerva, who was married to Benjamin Dunnick ; Iva, married to Daniel K. Kellerman ; Salicia, married to Benjamin Boman. Thomas, the fifth son of Levi, emigrated to Pickaway county, Ohio, and by his first wife had three sons and two daughters, by his second wife four sons, and in 1854 emigrated to Coles county, Illinois. Eli, the sixth son of Levi, 330 - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. became a preacher in the same church as his father Levi, and is better known as Elder Eli Ashbrook, born in Hampshire county, Virginia, from whence he emigrated to Pickaway county, 1810, then to Fairfield, and last to Johnstown, Licking county, and died January 2 1877, aged ninety-six years. Thomas M. Ashbrook was married 1869 to Martha Griffith, of Fairfield county. They have two daughters, Daisy and Minnie. He is a Universalist in religion, and Republican in politics. He has interested himself largely in gathering geneological facts relating to his family ancestry, and to him is due the above record of a large connection, to whom the above facts are entirely new. AXLINE, JOHN D., M.D., Shawnee, Ohio, born January 22, 1842, in Saltillo, Perry county, Ohio, son of Dr. Jonathan and Mary (Fan-ley) Axline, of German descent. John D. worked on a farm when a boy. In August, 1863, he enlisted in the Ninth O. V. C., and served to the close of the war. He followed the fortunes of Sherman's army in their " March to the Sea." On his return from the army he entered the Ohio University at Athens. He was graduated at the Medical College of Ohio at Cincinnati, in 1869. His first professional practice was in Muskingum county, and subsequently in Fairfield county, and in Missouri and Illinois. He located in Shawnee in 1874. Dr. Axline was married, February 22, 1871, to Miss Laura E., daughter of Col. William and Mary J. (Smith) Spencer, of English ancestry. BAILEY, ROWLAND A., is a son of John Bailey, and was born July 13, 1858, in Jefferson county, Pennsylvania. His mother is Mrs. Ann Bailey, whose maiden name was Walker, born in England, and who came with her parents to Jefferson county, Pennsylvania, in the year 1843. She was there united in marriage with John Bailey, a lumberman, and is the mother of three sons : Miles, John Thomas, and Rowland A. Bailey ; and two daughters, Mary Matilda, wife of William Kanan, and Hannah, wife of Marcus King ; all of Perry county. The father of these children enlisted in the 211 th Pennsylvania Infantry, 2d Brigade, 3d Division, 9th Army Corps, and fell, mortally wounded, on the 2d day of April, 1865. The children, then young, were placed in the Orphan's School, Dayton, Pennsylvania, and .came back to their widowed mother as they, respectively, arrived at the age of sixteen years. The mother, Ann Bailey, followed her parents to Perry county, Ohio, in the year 1872, and immediately took charge of her sick mother, who needed the care of an affectionate daughter for five years prior to her death, in 1877. After this event her father made a deed to Ann for the ninety acres on which she resides, near Somerset. Her son, Rowland A., now in the twenty-fourth year of his age, lives with his mother and cultivates this beautiful homestead, which has become, not only a monument to the gratitude of her father, but, also. to her heroic attention to a sick mother during a protracted illness, a reward she deserved but was not expecting. BAILLIE, JOHN ; foreman XX (Double-ex) Mines, Shawnee, Ohio ; was born, March I, 1847, in Newarthill, Scotland ; son of William and Mary (McMurdo) Baillie. When about nine years of age John went into the mines of Sc0tland, where he remained until he came to America, in the spring of 1869, and located on the Allegheny River, near Cal- HISTORY OF PERRY COUNTY - 331 laning, Pennsylvania, where he remained about one year, then located at Pine Run, on the Monongahela River, Pennsylvania, and remained there until he came to Shawnee, in the spring of 1872. Here he has been quite successful, having, in connection with the family, a good, pleasant home. Mr. Baillie was elected a member of the School Board in 1879, and served two years as clerk, and is at present treasurer of said board. BAILLIE, JAMES L. ; merchant, Shawnee, Ohio ; was born, December 15, 1848, in Newarthill, Lanarkshire, Scotland ; son of William and Mary (McMurdo) Baillie. Mr. Baillie was taken to Wishaw at the age of two years, where he made his home until he was twenty years of age, and was engaged as a miner until 1869, when he emigrated to America, landing in New York, where he was detained one week on account of a registered letter not being booked ; from there he went to Calley, Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, and mined coal three years, from whence he came to Shawnee, Ohio, when it was in its infancy, and the mines had just been opened, where he was employed as a miner in the XX Furnace mine, and turned the first room in Hill No. 3, in which mine he has been employed nearly all of the time to the present. Mr. Baillie spent six months in mining in Kansas, in the winter of 1876 and 1877, and again returned to Shawnee, Ohio. In October, 1880, he went to New York city and completed a course in phrenology with Fowler & Wells, and obtained a diploma as a phrenologist. In partnership with Mr. William Davy, he purchased the general merchandise store of P. V. Adamson, February 15, 1882, where they keep a general merchandise store on Main street. Mr. Baillie was married, February 16, 1882, to Annie, daughter of Samuel and Jane (Sanderson) Murdock, formerly of England, and residents of this place at this time. BAILY, ARCHIBLE ; carpenter ; Shawnee, Ohio ; was born, July 14, 1851, in Muskingum county, Ohio ; son of Archibald and Melvina (Shirek) Baily. Mr. Baily lived upon a farm until he was fourteen years of age, when he was employed upon a steamboat and running coal barges on the Muskingum River until he was twenty-four years of age, when he came to Shawnee and engaged at carpentering, and with which he divided his time with boating up to the time of his marriage, September 10, 1878, to Mary, daughter of John and Martha (Hyatt) Smith, of McConnellsville, Ohio. They are the parents of three children, viz. : Edward, Harry, and Walter. Since his marriage he has made his home in this place, and his business that of a contractor in house carpentering up to the present. BAIR, EMANUEL ; farmer ; post-office, Chalfants ; born, in 1812, in Fairfield county ; is a son of Joseph Bair, who emigrated to Ohio, from Pennsylvania, in 1800, with his father. His father owned four hundred acre's of the Van Metre prairie. He remembers the Van Metres well, often heard his mother say they were kind neighbors. Grandfather and Grandmother Bair were both buried in the then Van Metre graveyard. The land was divided among three children, among whom was a Mrs. Lantz, John, and Joseph, the father of Emanuel Bair and John Bair, of Perry. In the hard times following the war of 1812 Joseph broke up, and finally, in 1827, moved his family to Hopewell, Perry. Mother 332 - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. Bair, about this time, received one thousand dollars from her paternal home in the East, Her name was Sherick, Her funds were put in land, section 28, where Joseph died, in his sixty-seventh year, and his widow only a few years ago in her eighty-second year, and was known as the most lovable of her age and sex, Her other children were, Jacob, who died very wealthy, near Edgewood, Illinois ; John, farmer, post-office, Somerset, and Joseph, who deceased young. Emanuel was married, 1844, to Miss Comfort Chalfant, who lived as his wife only six years, departing this life in 1850. Her children are, Jasper C,, present husband of Miss Mary Ramsey, daughter of Ellet ; Eliza, deceased wife of Emanuel Spangler, and who left an infant son ; also one child that died in infancy, so that no child but Jasper C, (post-office, Chalfants) now remains alive, Emanuel Bair started in life as an apprentice to the hatter trade, in Somerset, and, at the end of five years' service, he says it was fortunate for him that silk hats came into fashion and compelled him to quit the trade, and to break up some very bad habits of gambling and drinking and keeping late hours. When vet only twenty years of age he began the life ̊lea farmer, and succeeded from the start. He rented land, worked about, and saved his earnings. Eight years thus spent gave him some capital. He, therefore, bought eighty acres in Wood county. Ohio, in 1840, for $250. and exchanged this land for land in section 22, Hopewell, at a valuation of $500, a few weeks later. Sixteen years later he bought the Cowen farm at $3,400, and eleven years later sold it for $6,400. The next purchase was the Parks farm, section 35, one hundred and sixty acres, at $4,000, which, in one year after, he sold for $5,200. The next was in sections 13 and 24, where he now lives, two hundred acres for $1,200 The next was the Snyder farm, section one hundred and sixty acres, for which he exchanged eighty acres in Effingham county, Illinois. that cost him $800, and was put in at $1,630, with $1,900 caSh. Jasper C,. his son, also bought ninety acres, near the home farm, and exchanged one hundred and twenty acres in Indiana for one hundred and sixty acres in Hopewell, allowing a cash difference of $800, and lending $1,600, secured on the Indiana land, Thieves and robbers got the idea that Mr. Bair had lots of money, and that, one night, three masked villains, among them the famous Blackburn, laid siege to his castle, got some money, and were themselves all sent to the penitentiary, for it was no use to try to get away from a Bair, with such a grip and so much vigilance. His head measures 22-i inches in circumference ; his weight has varied from 140 to 165 pounds, and his height is 5 feet 9 inches. His head is round, rather than long, showing a tine intellectual lobe, with immense development of acquisitiveness and cognate faculties, His health has been uniformly good. BAIRD, JAMES T. ; farmer and stock dealer ; was born, February 15, 1841. in Perry county ; has lived on a farm all his life, and has been in the stock business ever since fifteen years of age. In 1847 his father moved to Hocking county, and lived there until the spring of 1869, then returned to Perry county, and settled where what is now called New Straitsville. which had scarcely been thought of at that time. He sold his property there to Moss & Marshal, proprietors of the Bessie Furnace. which is situated upon said property ; came to Junction City in HISTORY OF PERRY COUNTY - 333 1877, and has since resided there. Was married, November 27, 1867, to Miss Sarah A., daughter of Frederick and Mary A. (Lyle) Wion ; are the parents of seven children, viz. : Dora, Mary F., Julia A.. Frederick, Minnie M., William A., and Roy J. BAKER, DANIEL, the youngest of the four sons of John Baker, was born August 24, 1824, on the "Binckley Farm." next the county line. His mother's maiden name was Elizabeth Wingard, her first husband being Jacob Binckley, to whom she was married at the age of sixteen. She lived in the city of Washington, on the opposite side of the same street occupied by the "father of his country," whose face was, therefore, familiar to her youthful gaze. From the best data at hand, she was born the same date that gave birth to American liberty. This venerable lady departed this life in 1867, over ninety years of age, the survivor of two honored husbands. The date of her arrival and that of her husband, Jacob Binckley, is not at hand, but this much is remembered : they took shelter in a fence corner, covered with bark, until better quarters could be provided ; wolves howled around their tent at night ; she grated corn for bread, and regarded the breast of the wild turkey a good substitute for the staff of life ; which facts would indicate an early date of settlement. From her home in Perry county she rode on horseback to Washington city, to visit her relatives, an undertaking which, at this day, would not only be received as proof of great physical endurance and heroism, but of strong affection for friends. By her first husband she had three sons and three daughters, and by her second husband, John Baker, she was the mother of four sons and two daughters. Her sons were Jacob, Jonas,. Samuel and Daniel Baker ; her daughters were Catharine, former wife of William Combs, and Susan, wife of Isaiah Hampson. John Baker, when he became her second husband, was not rich, for his property is described as consisting of one gun which, when on his shoulder, carried the handkerchief which contained his clothing. He had no money, but possessed a brave heart, a strong arm, a good constitution, and an industry and economy which, in twenty-five years after his marriage, and at the date of his death, in his fifty-third year, left over four hundred acres of the best lands, to be divided among six children ; this was done wisely, by partition, among the four brothers, two of the brothers making the division, and the other two making choice, while all agreed to pay the cash to their sisters which they and their husbands agreed was right in amount and time of payment. Hundreds of dollars were thus saved to the heirs, which, in almost all other estates, distributed without will, are squandered in costs, charges, fees, plots, and final and litigation. Daniel, the youngest son, was married to Miss Sarah E. Franks, a native of Pennsylvania and daughter of the late venerable Rezin Franks, of Thorn township, November 20, 1845. Mrs. Baker,s mother carried her, when an infant, on horseback, from Pennsylvania to Perry county, in the year 1825. Her grandfather, Peter Waltzer, presented the farm on which Rezin Franks died, to the wife of that worthy gentleman and the mother of Sarah E., his daughter. Peter Waltzer presented each of his other daughters a like quantity of land, and to his only son, Peter Jr., the home farm in Pennsylvania, which he sold and followed his sisters to Perry county. The children of Daniel Baker are : Susan, wife 334 - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. of R. M. Barr, residing in Somerset ; Katharine, wife of Brezilius Arnold, a farmer and stock dealer, near Oblong, Crawford county, Illinois : Rezin F. Baker, a druggist, in Thornville, Ohio ; Martha. wife of Robert Edmond Kerr, a dry goods merchant, of West Rushville, Fairfield county, Ohio ; D. Wingard Baker, William E. Baker, and J. Hunton Baker, younger sons, at home. The Bakers are of German descent. Daniel is now one of the foremost farmers of his county, and has, added to the one hundred and twenty-one acres obtained by partition, and at first incumbered with one thousand dollars due his sisters, one hundred and fifty acres. of adjoining lands, and accumulated an estate estimated at twenty-five thousand .dollars in value. He was elected County Commissi0ner twice, and township trustee fifteen consecutive years, filling these stations with honor and ability, at one time assuming a personal responsibility amounting to five thousand dollars, on behalf of his township, and stopping at no obstacle in the way of his public trust as an officer. BAKER, SAMUEL, was born 1818, in Reading township, where he still resides, He is a brother of Daniel, just alluded to in the foregoing sketch. Samuel was married December, 1842, to Miss Elizabeth Jane Eyman, daughter of the late Henry Eyman, a prominent citizen of Fairfield county. Their children are—G. H. Baker, husband of Almeda, daughter of the venerable David Spece, who occupies the Binckley homestead of his grandmother, famous for its fertility and the beauty of its landscape ; William J. Baker, husband of Mary, daughter of William Love, of Perry county ; Elizabeth Katharine, wife of William Miller ; and Jacob A. Baker, single, and at home. Samuel Baker began his married life with the ninety-six acres he chose from his father,s patrimony, but also encumbered, like the shares of his brothers, with one thousand dollars due to his sisters, and the maintenance of his mother, who resided with him to the period of her death, That one thousand dollars debt was paid from the sale of corn at twenty cents per bushel, and three-year old cattle, at eight dollars per head, as his brothers had cause to remember. After the death of his brother Jonas, 1851, Samuel began that career of financial success which added four hundred and twenty ,acres to his ninety-six acre homestead, and raised his taxes from eight dollars to two hundred and forty a year, and superadded a road tax of twenty dollars per annum in a district free from town, city, or corporation taxes. He is an unbending Democrat in politics, liberal, and, like his brother Daniel, unsectarian in his religious views. No family of brothers ever divided an estate more peaceably among themselves, and lived on terms more agreeable the balance of their lives, BALL, WILLIAM, miller, Rendville, Ohio, was born January 5, 1845, in Deerfield township, Morgan county, Ohio ; son of James and Adaline (Bradley) Ball. William was brought up on a farm, and enlisted Jnne 27, 1864, in the First Ohio Heavy Artillery. Was engaged in several conflicts in the Army of the Cumberland, and served until the ,lose of the late war. Mr, Ball was married in 1867 to Miss Caroline, daughter of George Wolf, then of Junction City. Mr. Ball's father was a resident of Morgan county for fifty years. BARKER, WILLIAM, farmer and stock raiser, P. O. New Lexington, HISTORY OF PERRY COUNTY - 335 Perry county, Ohio. Born in New York in 1803, came to this state in 1809; son of John and Mary (Chamberlain) Barker, grandson of Samuel and Mary (Fithen) Barker, grandson of John and Sophiah (Mulford) Chamberlain, married in 1829 to Miss Barbara Strait, daughter of William and Sophiah (Imel) Strait. They are the parents of seven children, viz. : John H., Sophia (deceased), Samuel (deceased), Mary, Elizabeth, two not named (deceased), BARKER, JOHN, farmer, P. 0. Rehoboth, Clayton township, Perry county, Ohio. Born in New York in 1808, came to this county with his parents in 1809; son of John and Mary (Chamberlain) Barker. Married in 1830 to Miss Nancy Goodin, daughter of Colonel Samuel and Jane (Skinner) Goodin. They are the parents of five children, viz.: Jane (deceased), David C. (deceased), Rebecca, Mary A., Ellen. Mr. Barker filled the office of Infirmary Director for six years. BARKER, JOHN H., farmer ; postoffice, New Lexington, Clayton township, Perry county. Born in this county in 1830; son of William and Barbara (Strait) Barker; grandson of John and Mary (Chamberlain) Barker ; grand-son of William and Sophiah (Imel) Strait ; married, in 1857, to Miss Jemima Randolph, who died in 1857 ; married again, in 1859, to Miss Maria Shaw, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Rinehart) Shaw. They are the parents of seven children, viz. : Caroline M. Harriet E, ; Sarah E., deceased ; W. T. S. ; James M. ; Perry D., and Asbery F. Mr. Barker was elected School Director of 'Clayton township in 1867, and has continued to serve in that capacity till the present date. Mr. T. R. Shaw, a brother-in-law of Mr. Barker,s, enlisted in the late war in 1861, in Company K, 62d 0. V. I., where he made a good record for himself, serving his country till the close of the war, in 1865. BARR, R. M., attorney ; postoffice, Somerset, Reading township. Born December 7, 1845, in Fairfield county. At the age of twenty he finished a collegiate course at Athens, and began the study of law. He continued ten months, when sickness compelled him to abandon law, being unable to do anything for eighteen months. He then gave up the study of law and went to farming. He continued farming and taught the home school in the winter until 1876, when he again began the law. He removed to Somerset in 1877, and was admitted to the bar January 29, 1879. He practices in all the courts of record in the State, and has a large and growing practice. Mr. Barr was married October 16, 1867, to Miss Susan E. Baker, daughter of Daniel Baker, ex-Commissioner of Perry county. She was born March 23, 1848, in this county. They are the parents of four children, viz, : Sarah M. ; Anna L. ; Daniel M., and Mamie. BARNES, WEAVER, farmer born, 1812, in Maryland ; only son of Weaver Barnes, deceased, in Maryland. His mother was Phebe Jolly, .who was also the mother of Millie Barnes, wife of the late Jacob Petty ; and of Susan Barnes, wife of the late Stephen Vanatta ; and also of Priscilla Martin, (by a former husband), who became the wife of Asa Dennison, who, about the year 1817, with his wife and her two half-sisters, came to Perry county. One year later, Phebe, the mother of Weaver, who was then the wife of Ezekiel Lewis, a Revolutionary soldier, determined to come on horseback from Virginia to see her daughters, 336 - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. and placing her son, then only six years old, on the horse behind her, she encountered all the perils of such a journey and arrived safely. Few mothers have ever shown a stronger affection for her children, She returned to her home in Virginia, and about ten years later, after the death of Mr. Lewis, she emigrated to Perry county, where she lived until her decease, in 1855, aged seventy-six years. Mr, Barnes was married, in 1837, to Christena, only daughter of Aaron Vanatta, and only sister of the late John Vanatta. The children of this union were : Aaron, Priscilla, John, Jacob, Nathaniel, Cyrus, Ezekiel, Mary, Catharine and Louisa, who, when a child, lost her life by falling into a well, In 1863, he was married to Mrs.Catharine Ruff, formerly Miss Durrh, Their children by this marriage are : Weaver, Julia Ann, Charlotte and Elizabeth, There are but few citizens who can boast of a household so numerous, and who, from a destitute orphanage, has not only reared a large family, but contributed to the support of the church and the State, and who began with $2,25 of taxes, and has increased his valuation to a tax of $50 per annum, while his doors stood wide open to welcome his numerous friends with a generous hospitality. BARRETT, JAMES, collier, Shawnee, Ohio, was born March 2, 1825, in Westport, county Mayo, Ireland ; son of Richard and Ann (McMannus) Barrett. Mr. Barrett was raised a farmer, and followed agricultural pursuits until he was fifteen or sixteen years of age, when he went to Worcestershire, England, where he remained employed at whatever offered until he was twenty-five years of age, when he emigrated to America, landing at New Orleans, where he remained five or six months, and then was employed on a steamboat, plying on the Mississippi River, for about fifteen months, after which he went to Louisville, Kentucky, where he remained until 1856, employed at different kinds of work. From the latter place he came to Cincinnati, Ohio, and thence to Zanesville, where he remained about three years, employed on the railroad most of the time. Next he moved to Roseville, where he lived about twelve years, engaged at mining, from which place he came to Perry county, and lived about one year at Bristol Tunnel, and then came to Shawnee, where he still lives and is engaged as a miner. Mr, Barrett was married April 9, 1852, to Mary, daughter of Michael and Ann (O'Brien) Nockton, of Preston, Lancastershire, England, where they were married. They are the parents of nine children, viz. : Richard, Patrick, James, John, Walter, Frances, Anna V,, Marv, and Elizabeth, living, and five deceased, viz. : Ellen, Michael, and three died in infancy. BASTIAN, PHILIP, agent for the C. M, V. R. R. and Adams Express Co., New Lexington, Ohio ; was born October 10, 1814, in Hatten, France ; son of Philip Henry and Magdalena (Fridle) Bastian. They, with their family, came to America in the year 1828, landing at Baltimore, Maryland, and located in Perry township, Muskingum county, seven miles east of Zanesville, where Philip kept store, and was postmaster about eight years. From this place he removed his business to Uniontown, nine miles west of Zanesville, where he remained about one year, and came to this place, about the year 1851, and continued merchandizing until 1859, when he took his present position, being the first and only agent of the C., M. V. R. R. at this place. During the HISTORY OF PERRY COUNTY - 337 late war lie was sutler of the 114th Regiment O. V. I. Mr. Bastian was first married to Miss Frances Ermin, who died, without children, in about three years after marriage. He was married the second time to Miss Mary Anne Schurtz, born February 22, 1816, in Muskingum county, Ohio, daughter of Captain and Mary Anne (Stoner) Schurtz. S1860, Schurtz died March 14, 186o, aged seventy-four years and eleven days. Mr. and Mrs. Bastian are the parents of seven children, viz. : Mary, married to James H. Rice ; Frances, (now deceased), married to HeE,y Foey ; Laura, married to E. T. Webster ; Annettie, married to Attorney Joseph G. Huffman ; Maggie, married to Dr. Albert McLaughlin ; Rosie, and Emma. BEARD, SUSAN, Bearfield township, Portersville postoffice. Her husband, who is now deceased, was born in Maryland, in 1798. He emigrated to this State in 1828, and settled in Belmont county ; came to this county in 1846 ; located near Oakfield, and came to this township in 1854. In 1825, he married Susan Tillett, of Virginia. They are the parents of the folE,,ing children, viz.: James E., John, Stephen, AnniVirginia,s, Samuel, Mary and Virginia. BEAVER, ELIZABETH, born May 1, 1813, in Shenandoah county, Virginia, and came, with her parents, to Fairfield county in the fall of 1819. They were met at Somerset by her father's brothmother,sstian Kagay, and her mother's brother, Frederick Siple. Her father, Rudolph Ka-gay, converted a loom-house, belonging to Christian Kagay, in Pleasant township, into a winter's quarters. He rented a farm next spring in Walnut township, and160xt year, 1821, bought the 160 acres in the Hocking valley, three miles below Lancaster, since owned by Hon. Thomas Ewing. Here father Kagay died, in 1828. In 1830, Elizabeth was married to John Beaver, in Seneca county, Ohio, at the home of her sister, Barbara Seitz. In 1837, she came back to Fairfield county to live with her bachelor brother, Jacob Kagay, bringing then her three daughters, and leaving an only son, Noah. in Seneca county. At the death of her brother Jacob, in 1867, the Probate Court allowed her $2,000 for services rendered as housekeeper for her brother, covering a period of thirty years, and to Noah Beaver an allowance of $300, for services, was likewise allowed. Wihundred funds, and some few hundred dollars received from her daughter, Hannah Grubb, then a widow also, she bought the home where she died, June, 1882, of hernia, or rather, more truthfully, from a slip of the surgeon's knife, who operated for the reduction of the hernia, or rather, more truthfully, from a slip of the surgeon’s knife, who operated for the reduction of the hernia. She lived two weeks after this accident. She made her will, and died, as she had lived, in the-Baptist belief and unclouded faith of life everlasting. Her children are : Amy and Noah, unmarried ; Lydia Ann, wife of Edward Turner, and Hannah, widow of George Grubb, who lives with her two sons, Richard and William, and her sister Amy, and brother, Noah Beaver, at the home left them by mother Beaver, postoffice, Rushville, Ohio. BECK, WILLIAM G., Rendville, Ohio, was born in Jackson township,Perry county, Ohio, January i11th, 1848, son of George and Maria (Hillery) Beck. William G. was brought up on a farm until he was seventeen years of age, when he began teaching school, and taught until he was twenty-two. He then engaged in general merchandising at Middletown, Jackson township, where he continued to do business until - 32 - 338 - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 1878, when he accepted a position in the store of Martin Ewing & Co., New Straitsville, Ohio, and in 1880 was employed as clerk in store, by the Ohio Central Coal Co. In 1882, returned to New Straitsville, Ohio, Mr. Beck was married September 19th, 1869, to Miss Margaret Adcock of Jackson township. They are the parents of two children, namely, Charles E. and George W. BELL, JOSEPH, born in Ayershire, Scotland, on Christmas day, 1802. His first school was at home, where he advanced to reading the Latin and Greek Testament a little ; he was taken to Kilmarnoch, and then to Blackwater Military School, His father died when Joseph was twelve, and at fifteen he was at Chatham, and at sixteen, at Windsor. He got a cadet's commission on his scholarship, permitting him to join the Royal Staff Corps of Engineers under Lord Greenock, at the age of sixteen. Served in Spain ; fell out with Greenock in 1821 ; was ordered under arrest, deserted with intention of aiding the Greeks, until he came to Canada, where Sir Howard Douglas, the Governor, discouraged his intention. He studied Spanish, and intended to go to South America to take part against Spain, but the Governor again controlled his purposes. At the age of twenty-two he weighed in Charleston, South Carolina, one hundred and ninety-six pounds. His height is five feet eight inches, and his head measures twenty-three and one-half inches. He never saw a man that could throw a twenty-eight pound weight farther than he could. He is proud 0f his native land, and says : "Scotland is the salt of the earth, the mother of Hume, Robinson, Buchanan, Basset, McCauley, Smollet, Beattie, Stewart, Black, Abbercombie and Arbuthnot, Combe and a hundred other men equally famous. She gave St. Patrick to Ireland, John Paul Jones to America, and Lord Cochran to scourge the Turks." England was called to apologize for Cochran's conduct toward Turkey. The reply was, " take him prisoner first." Now, at the age of eighty, Mr. Bell is in possession of all his faculties, rich in mental achievements beyond the common lot of men, a fact due to not wasting his life in gathering gold as most men have done, but in mastering the most abstruse problems, not only of mathematics but of political economy and theology. Judge Henry C. Whitman, now of Cincinnati, formerly Common Pleas Judge of Fairfield, Perry and Hocking, and noted for his judgment of men, declared to the writer that he never knew but one man who was .the superior or the equal of Joseph Bell in natural mental capacity, and never knew his equal in the richness and abundance of those mental stores which constitute the scholar, and which were so surprisingly gathered from every field of knowledge and ripened for use in the garners of thought and memory. Mr. Bell was married to the daughter of a wealthy Virginian, now deceased. Though much opposed to the war of the Rebellion, he lost one son, Samuel, in battle foi the Union ; and another son, though but a boy when he enlisted, served in the Sixth Army Corps in all its splendid battles and achievements, without a day's sickness or scratch from the enemy, This son, John, now resides in Missouri. A daughter, Margaret Bell, after achieving distinction as a scholar and teacher, became the wife of a merchant in Loveland, Ohio. Miss Lizzie Bell, since the death of her mother, a few years ago, presides as the mistress of her father's home in Thorn- HISTORY OF PERRY COUNTY - 339 ville, and there her presence gilds the evening of his life, as the setting sun gilds the evening sky with promise of a glorious rising on the morrow. BENNETT, ROBERT, retired farmer, New Lexington, Ohio, was born April 26th, 1821, in Gallia county, Ohio, son of Robert and Cecelia Bennett, They emigrated from Lancashire, England, in 1819, and located near Somerset, Perry county, about the year 1826. They remained in Reading township about six years, then in Clayton five years, and made their last remove to what is now Pleasant township, where they died. Mr. Bennett, the subject of this sketch, was married in 1848, to Miss Mary, daughter of Morris and Catharine (Collins) O'Conner. Mrs. Bennett was born in Pennsylvania, but came to Brush Creek township, Muskingum county, when but two years old. She was brought up and remained there until her marriage. They became the parents of thirteen children, viz. : Catharine F., Cecilia A,, married to Peter Forquer, Mary Loretta, Lafayette J,, Thomas W., Fran- ces E., Ellen C., Robert E., Vincent Leo, and four died in infancy ; all born in Pleasant township. Mr. and Mrs. Bennett have spent their lives, from infancy, in this part of the State. They grew up with the country, and have seen it change from the virgin forest, the home of the deer, wild turkey and bear, to the now broad fields of grain and pasture, where the domestic herds quietly feed. Mr. Bennett has given his attention to agriculture and husbandry, beginning in 1839 with forty-nine acres in the woods, but now has five hundred and thirty acres, well improved and stocked. This he has obtained by honest industry and economy. BENNETT, R. P., post office, Rehoboth—farmer and stock raiser, Clayton township. Born in Gallia county, Ohio, in 1824.. Came to Perry county with his father in 1825. Son of Robert and Cecilia Bennett, The former died in 1842, the latter in 1855. Mr. Bennet was married in 1853, to Miss Flizabeth McDonald, daughter of John and Margaret McDonald, They had twelve children, viz. : Clara E. (deceased), John C., Albert J., Margaret E., Clara E, (deceased), George C., Elizabeth E,, James C., Mary (deceased), Emma E., Mary, Richard. BENNETT, ALBERT R., Bearfield township, farmer, post office, Rendville, Ohio, was born October 30th, 1859, in Pleasant township, Perry county, Ohio, son of George and Anna (Carroll) Bennett, natives of England, who came to America in 1819. They came to Perry county, Ohio, about the year 1822, and located in Bearfield township in 1863. The family consisted of eleven children, viz. : Thomas J., John R., married to Catharine Monahan ; Margaret, married to Bernard Noon ; Cecelia, married to Philip Rei ; Mary Ellen, married to Jacob Weiner ; Philip P., married to Sarah E, Deaver ; Albert R, ; Josephine, married to Philip Noon ; Caroline, twin sister to Josephene ; William A., and George C. George Bennett, the father, named above, was born in 1818, and died in January, 1867. BENNETT, PHILIP P., farmer, Rendville, Ohio, was born March 21st, 1854, in Pike township, Perry county, Ohio, Son of George and Ann (Carroll) Bennett. He was brought up on a farm and followed agricultural pursuits, excepting two years, during which time he was em- 340 - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. ployed by W. P. Rend & Company ; also, merchandising under the firm name of Bennett & Noon. Mr. Bennett was married January 27, 1880, to Miss Sarah, daughter of Tillman Deaver, deceased, who formerly lived in Monroe township. They are the parents of one child, James P. Philip P. Bennet, the subject of this sketch,. by adhearing strictly to fair dealing and temperate habits, has secured a comfortable home. BETTS, BOSTON, Mayor of New Straitsville, and Justice of the Peace of Coal township, Perry county, Ohio. He was born January 12 , 1837, in Jacobsport (now Plainfield), Coshocton county, Ohio. He is a son of William C. andaHettie Betts, natives of Virginia. When sixteen years of age, he learned the blacksmith trade, which business he has followed ever since. In 1858 he was married to Miss Michel Baker, native of Tyler county, West Virginia. He enlisted in Co. C., 97th 0. V. I., in 1.862, serving three years in the Rebellion, enduring many hardships, and undergoing dangers. HiS brother, Charles Betts, belonged to Co. F., 1st Ohio Cavalry. His great-grandfather died a soldier in the Continental army, under General Washington. His father and two brothers served in the war of 1812. Mr. Betts located in New Straitsville, in April, 1873, and with the assistance of a few others, he organized a congregation of Disciples in September of the same year, which is now a prosperous society, supporting a church of their own. BIGRIGG, JOHN, collier, Shawnee, Ohio, was born May 15, 1828, in Cumberland county, England, son of John and Ann Bigrigg. Was raised iu his native county, and lived there, engaged in mining, until 187o, when he emigrated to America, landing in New York, and went to Sandy Creek, Pennsylvania, remaining three months mining, and was employed as a miner at Syracuse, New York, for about two years, when he came to Shawnee, Ohio, where he lived about eighteen months, and moved to Straitsville, Ohio, where he mined about three months, and from there he went to Conesville, Coshocton connty, Ohio, staying about four months, and then worked three years in Beach Hollow and Miami coal mines, near Coshocton, Ohio, when he again returned to Shawnee, Ohio, and where he has remained up to this time, mining for Manley Coal Company about eighteen months, and the remainder of the time in Shawnee Valley mine. Was married Dec. 15, 1849, to Anna, daughter of Arthur and Elizabeth (Bonstead) Malkinson. They are the parents of ten c ildren, viz. : Elizabeth, Jonathan, Arthur, Annie, Jane, John, Julia, Henry (deceased), William (deceased), and one died in infancy.. r. Bigrigg became a member of the Baptist Church while in Coshocton, Ohio, but since coining to this place has joined the Primitive Methodist Church. BINCKLEY, JOHN, Thornville, Ohio, furniture merchant and school teacher, was born in 1856, in Perry county. He is a son of John Binckley, and grandson of Jacob Binckley, now living in Thorn township, at the age of ninety-three years. He puts the date of the settlement of his father, John Binckley, and his brothers, the sons of John, Sr., viz. : William, John, Christian, and Daniel Binckley, in 180f. The sisters of these sons were : Polly, wife of Henry Beeker, who died in Allen county, Ohio ; Betsy, wife of HISTORY OF PERRY COUNTY - 341 Adan Anspach, who died in Perry county ; Katy, wife of Jacob Overmeyer—both died in New Reading, Perry county ; Millie, wife of Jacob Shrider, both living, P, 0, Lafayette, Ohio ; Peggy, wife of Jacob Custer—both died in Allen county, near Lafayette, Ohio ; Franey, wife of George Shrider, Lafayette, Ohio ; Louisa, died in infancy. The other twelve children all grew to mature life, were married, and some are still living, Sally, the youngest of eight daughters, became the wife of Barney Hammer, died near Sego, Perry county, John Binckley, Jr., one of the sons of John, Sr.. died in Allen county, Ohio ; William died in Tiffin, Ohio; Daniel died in Reading township ; Christian is living in Northern Ohio. These, with Jacob, above named, were the five sons of John, Sr. The great ancestor of all the Binckleys was Christian, Sr., who came to Ohio a widower, his wife having died near Hagerstown, Maryland, The sons of this Christian Binckley, the patriarch of the family, were John, the father of Jacob, with whom Christian made his home, section 31. Hopewell township. Then there were Adam Binckley and Henry Binckley. brothers of John, Sr., aforesaid, the three sons of the patriarch, Christian Binckley. They all came to Perry in 1801. At the same time he bronght with him three daughters, to wit : Lizzie, wife of Jacob Foy ; Katharine. wife of Adam Spoon and Sarah. wife of Henry Musser, near Millersport, For each of these three sons and three daughters. the old widower patriarch provided a home in this new land of promise, Christian lived till 1831, and died after his son John, in whose house he lived, now the Peter Shrider place. He was then in his ninety-seventh year, After the death of his father (John, Sr.), in 1804 or 1805, Jacob and his brother John bought the place—section 31. Hopewell. where this John also died. When twenty-one years of age, Jacob married Martha Downour. This was 1810. This marriage produced twelve children, seven boys and five girls—John, William, Jacob, Barney, Daniel, David, and Levi (who died young), Mary, Sarah, Lizzie, Peggy and Louisa. In 1838 Jacob sold his farm and moved with his wife to the farm where he lives with his daughter. Sarah Zartman, in Thorn township. His wife died in 1848. John Binckley, the furniture dealer of Thornville, has made a high reputation as a teacher in the common schools. His mother,s maiden name was Katharine Stevens, who died when John was a babe. When seven years of age he lost his father by death. He had eight brothers and three sisters, Seven of these brothers are still living. He lived in the family of D. C. Shelly, of Hopewell. eight and one-half years, He taught fifteen 'terms of school. He worked by the month for Nathan Plank and others, He attended school at Mount Perry, under the tutilage of Prof. White ; also at Delaware College. In 1877 he became the husband of Miss Irene Orr. daughter of Albert Orr. Their children are Arthur and Walter, now two years of age, He bought a small farm in 1880, which he sold in 1882, and entered upon his present business, to which he brings, besides some capital. the same energy, urbanity, and integrity, which, added to his capacity and judgment, warrants his success, and makes him a rival in the line of his chosen business, BIRKIMER, JOHN A., of the firm of Birkimer & Kishler, carriage 342 - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. and wagon manufacturers, New Lexington, Ohio. Mr. Birkimer was born April 3d, 1854, in Reading township, son of Edward and Louisa (Beckweth) Birkimer. John A. went to his trade at eighteen, establishing his business first at Somerset. He came to this place in 1877, and formed a partnership with Samuel H. Morgan, and conducted business with him until the present firm was formed in the fall of 1881. This firm is doing a good, active business, both in new work and repairing. Mr. Birkimer was married, June 5th, 1878, to Miss Sarah, daughter of James and Mariah (Fowler) Davis. They are the parents of one child, Earle. BLAIR, SELDON W., tinner, New Lexington, Ohio, born June 19th, 18,4, in Pike township, son of Thomas W. and Anna (Davis) Blair. Seldon W. was brought up on a farm, where he remained until about twenty, when he went to his trade, and worked journeyman work in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Wheeling, West Virginia, Indianapolis, Indiana, and other cities. Came to this place in 1875. Mr. Blair was a member of C ompany F, i6oth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and served four months. He was married in April, 1869, to Miss Sarah, daughter of Sarah (Seals) Williams. She died early in the summer of 1882. BLOSSER, NOAH H., physician. Maxville, Ohio, was born in Monday Creek township, Perry county, Ohio, October 26th, 1847 ; son of Nicholas and Elizabeth (Hufford) Blosser. Spent his early days on a farm, and attended school during the winter, until about seventeen years of age, when he began teaching, and continued to teach for about eight years. In 1873 he obtained the position of express agent of the C. & M. V. division of the P. C. & St, L. Railway, at Junction City, Ohio, in which position he remained until 1879, when he resigned to accept the superintendency of the Junction City public schools. During the period in which he was acting as express agent and teacher, he was employing all his spare time in the study of medicine. And in the fall of 188o, he entered the Pulte Homoeopathic Medical College at Cincinnati. In the spring of 1881, he located at Maxville, and began the practice of medicine, in which profession he is rapidly attaining eminence. Dr. Blosser was married, June 3oth, 187o, to Miss Austirs O., daughter of Samuel S. and Mary (Black) Poling, of Monday Creek township, formerly of Fairfield county, Ohio ; to whom were born two children, Franklin Elwood and Bertha Belle. BLOSSER, SOLOMON L., dealer in hardware and tinware, Corning, Ohio, was born October I, 1851, in Rush Creek township, Fairfield county, Ohio ; son of Isaac and Margaret (Peble) Blosser. Solomon L. was brought up in a village, and established his present business here in July, 1880. Mr. Blosser was married, July 13, 1872, to Miss, Jennie, daughter of Jacob and Ellen Hinsman, of Marion township, Hocking county, Ohio. They are the parents of three children. viz.: Magdaline (deceased), Francis Milton, and Zettie Ellen. BOIES, CHARLES, farmer, Baird's Furnace, Ohio, was born September 21, 1850, in Muskingum county, Ohio ; son of Isaac and Eliza (Knipe) Boies. Mr. Boies was brought up on a farm, and he has given his attention to farming and stock raising up to this date. Stock raising is made a specialty by him, and he deals largely in thoroughbred horses, hogs and sheep. He now owns three hundred and twenty acres HISTORY OF PERRY COUNTY - 343 of land, the best farm in the township, which is underlayed with both coal and iron ore. He was married, September t0, 1872, to Jennie E., daughter of Hiram and Martha (Strawn) Wilson. This union was blessed with three children, viz. : Isaac J., died at the age of nineteen months, Wilbert Noble and John H. Isaac Boies, father of Charles, was born November 27th, 1807, in Beaver county, Pennsylvania, and came to Muskingum county when a young man, where he was married to Eliza Knipe, March 8th, 1849, who was born in Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, November 29, 1818, and came to Ohio when a young woman. Seven years after their marriage they moved to the Hocking River and remained three years, from where they went to Muskingum county, Ohio, on the Chandlersville road, and lived two years and six months, and again to Monday Creek township, on the Heine farm, where they both departed this life ; Isaac dying August 26, 1873, and Eliza, his wife, August 31, 1880. They became the parents of four children, viz. : Charles, the subject of this sketch ; James died at four years of age ; Philip, and Margaret. Philip and Margaret now live on the homestead. Mrs. Boies' parents, Hiram and Martha (Strawn) Wilson, were born in Pike township, this county, Mr. Wilson has departed this life, and Mrs. Wilson is now the wife of John Nixon of Pike township, this county. BOIES, PHILIP, Monday Creek township, farmer, Winona, Ohio, was born October 7th 1854, in Falls township, Hocking county, Ohio, son of Isaac and Eliza (Knipe) Boies. Mr. Boies was raised a farmer, and has made agricultural pursuits, with stock raising, the business of his life, and with his sister occupies the homestead farm of three hundred and fifty-seven acres, part of which is underlaid with a vein of limestone nine feet thick, iron ore, and a vein of coal three feet thick. BOLING, JAMES H., farmer and school teacher. Mr. Boling also read medicine. Post office, Buckeye Cottage, Clayton township, Perry county, Ohio. Born in this county in 1847. Son of James and Jane Boling. Married in 1875, to Miss Wilson, daughter of Ezra and Elizabeth (Burgess). They are the parents of two children, viz. : Ralph W., Earl W. Mr. Boling enlisted in the late war in 1864, Company G.. Thirty-first V. I., Captain Stone, Army of the Cumberland. He was in the battles of Recasa and Kenesaw Mountain. Mr. Boling has been engaged in teaching about thirteen years. BOWERS, J. H., post office Crooksville, farmer and stock raiser. Born in Muskingum county in 1813, came to Perry county in 1868. Son of Joseph and Mahala (Horton) Bowers. Married in 1840, to Miss Hannah Walters, daughter of John and Alice Walters. They are the parents of eight children, viz. : Louisa J., Lewis S., Anna M. (deceased), Manda, Armstead (deceased), Adelia, Maggie and H, C. One child is married and living in Muskingum county. BOWMAN, JOEL, was born in 1827, and his occupation is, and has been, that of a successful miller and farmer, His post-office is Somerset. He is a son of Bernard Bowman, and grandson of George Bowman, who settled, in 1802, on the farm in Reading township, where his son Bernard died in 1863. Joel's mother was Mary Elizabeth (Poorman), and her father was Bernard Poorman. Both the Bowmans and Poormans are of German descent, and Lutheran in religion. In 1848 344 - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. Joel Bowman became the husband of Miss Mary A, Binckley, daughter of the late venerable Samuel Binckley, of Reading township, Perry county. They have reared three sons and four daughters to manhood and womanhood, and buried five others prior to that period of life. Joel purchased of his father the grist-mill and twenty-four acres of land in 1863, and paid for it from the earnings of the mill alone in less than two years' time, Twelve years- since, he built a saw-mill, and nine years since, attached to both.grist and saw-mills a steam engine, so they can now be run by water or steam power. In 1873 he added eighty acres adjoining the mill property, and thus inside of twenty years paid for a property estimated to be worth $16,000, besides investments in Wood county, Ohio. and rearing and educating his family most respectably. He has also paid over $1,200 in bail money, which is an improvement on his father's record, who paid nearly $6,50o of the same kind of cash and held the fort, but not without an effort that is creditable to his great energy and the resources of a well balanced mind and fruitful fields. Bernard, the father of Joel Bowman, stood high in the esteem of his neighbors, and his history is full of instruction to those of his descendants, who have the power to imitate his sterling virtues while they resist the bonds held by bank collectors and refuse to become the victims of commercial bank indorsers in blank. Grandfather George Bowman generally landed where he started to go. In 1802, on his road to Perry county, they tried to bribe him with lot' gifts if he would stay in Zanesville and work at blacksmithing. It was no use ; his mind was fixed, He was not a hunter by trade or habit. but on one occasion he brought in seven bear skins on his pony. On one occasion his horse fell and broke his ankle as to make him a cripple the balance of his life. Grandmother Bowman, whose maiden name was Susannah Rugh sister of Peter and Solomon Rugh, late of Fairfield county. possessed the courage necessary for pioneer life. On one occasion she loaded the rifle and shot a huge rattle snake that came too near the cabin in the woods. So late as the year 1819, when the first mill-dam was being built above the present site of Bowman's mill, a young bear was caught and held by the hind legs, as it tried to scramble up the steep bank, until other workmen dispatched the beast with hand-spikes. About the same time, also, but more likely earlier in the date, the Indians took George Bowman,s pony, He followed with one companion and recaptured the animal at Foresman's old mill site in Fairfield county, or near there. BOWMAN. JOHN W., Monday Creek township. farmer, Maxville, Ohio, was born March 13, 1840, in Jackson township, this county ; son of John and Elizabeth (Strohl) Bowman ; was brought up on a farm, and at the age of eighteen years he engaged as an apprentice and learned the shoemaker trade, which he followed in Bristol, Pike township, and in Jackson township, until 1870, when he went to farming. In the fall of 1879 he came to this township and located on his present farm. Mr. Bowman was married December 12. 1861, to Rachel M,, daughter of Benjamin and Ann Maria (Strubble) Griggs. both natives of Sussex county, New Jersey. They were married in that State and came to Perry county in the year 1820. and Benjamin Griggs ever after was a resident of Perry county until the date of his death, June 9th, HISTORY OF PERRY COUNTY - 345 1879. Ann Maria Strubble died April 7th, 1877. John Bowman, Sen,, died several years ago, but his wife, mother of the subject of this sketch. is living with her son, Joseph D. Bowman, one of the principal boot and shoe merchants of New Lexington. Benjamin Griggs served as a drummer boy in the war of 1812, enlisting from his native State—New Jersey. To John W. and wife were born the following children : Edgar J., Madison B., Grant, William S., Isadora, Ann Maria, Maggie, Myrtle M., Delila Blanche, and George E. ; all living except Edgar J., the oldest, who died at the early age of three years. Mr. B. owns one hundred and sixty acres of the best mineral land in Monday Creek township, underlaid with eight-feet veins of coal, and a vein of red-grey iron ore, varying from ten to eighteen inches in thickness. The Griggses were all prominent members of the Second Baptist Church, and Mrs. Bowman's brother, Elias, is at present a prominent minister in Mercer county. Mrs. Bowman connected herself with that church in early maidenhood. The Bowmans were all prominent members of the Lutheran Reform Church. BOYD , WILLIAM F., baggage master for B. & 0, R. R., Shawnee' Ohio, was born November 19, 1828, in County Antrim, Belfast, Ireland. Came to America August 3, 1847, and located at Newark, New Jersey. Mr. Boyd was married in January. 1852, to Miss Catharine, daughter of Michael and Mary Anne (Stephens) McDonald, of Newark, New Jersey. They became the parents of three children, viz. : Mary Anne, married to Owen McKenna, of Newark, Ohio ; Adelaide R,, married to Frank W, Caffee, of Newark, Ohio ; and McDonald, who also resides at Newark, Ohio, Mr. Boyd resided at Newark, New Jersey, seven years, working at carriage manufacturing. He came to Newark, Ohio, in 1854, and remained until 1868, working at his trade, carriage blacksmithing. He also lived at Coalport, Coshocton county, Ohio, four years. Came to Shawnee in 1872, and took his present position in 1874, He was one of the charter members of the Knights of Pythias, No, 117, Shawnee, Ohio, and has attended every meeting of the Lodge, excepting one, then he was absent attending Grand Lodge. Mrs. Boyd died March 4, 1861. BRADLEY, REV. JEROME B., Saltlick, Shawnee, Ohio, minister of the gospel in the Methodist Episcopal Church, was born April 5, 1846, in Bourbon county, Kentucky, the son of Washington and Nancy (McDowell) Bradley. Rev. Bradley was raised a farmer, and followed agricultural pursuits during the summer season, and school teaching in the winter season, until the year 1870. In September of 1869 he was licensed by the Mount Olive Quarterly Conference to preach, and in the following spring of 1870 he entered the traveling connection of the Kentucky Annual Conference, preaching upon the circuits of Carrolton, two years ; Meade, one year ; Somerset, a half station, three years, where he went in March, and began a revival meeting in August, where they had made a brush arbor for the purpose. The work proved a decided success, and lasted during his pastorate stay, and resulted in the addition of three hundred good members to the church, and a revival of religion all over Pulaski county, Kentucky. Hand in hand goes religious feeling and religious work, by which he was enabled also during his pastoral work to build up on 346 - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. this circuit three new churches. One was three miles from Somerset, on Pittman creek, and, to his honor, called Bradley Chapel ; one 'some seven or eight miles from Somerset, on Buck creek, and christened Wesley Chapel ; and a third one, a neat frame church, where the brush arbor stood, and called Mount Zion ; this was near Science Hill, on the Cincinnati Southern R, R. The church in Somerset was repaired, also, and, upon the whole, the church property was increased from $2,500 on appraisement in 1872, to $4,500, appraised in 1875, notwithstanding the great decline in all kinds of property during this time, Next he was sent to Sardis and Murpheysville, Mason county, Kentucky, where he remained for two years, and had a revival meeting at Sardis, thirty-five members being the accessions. After his mission here he went next to Fallsboro circuit, Lewis county, Kentucky, where he had some six churches under his charge, and had good revival meetings at each church, resulting in the accession of fifty souls to the church during his labor of two years upon this work. During his labor at this place he was secretary of a camp meeting association of the Maysville district, that bought and dedicated to camp meeting services what is known as Ruggles camp meeting grounds. Now he is sent to Vanceburg, county-seat of Lewis county, Kentucky, where his charge was over a half station and three other appointments, laboring in this connection one year, during which, he took charge of the camp meeting held at Ruggles camp meeting grounds. In 1880 he was transferred to the Ohio Conference, and stationed at Shawnee, Ohio, where he had charge of the M. E, Church two years. Upon entering this work he found thirty-five members, but during a revival meeting in 1881, the number was increased to one hundred and fifty full members, and thirty-five on probation. During this year they have also built an addition to the church that cost $735. At the first and only call for money for this purpose, $862.50 was subscribed, and the work was soon completed and paid for ; in all, the church raised and paid, in 1881, about $2,300, They also have purchased a neat frame parsonage, that cost them $900, during 1881, This year of 1882 they increased the salary of Rev, Bradley from $00 to $900, and still move on with the work. During this winter they eld another revival, which has resulted in thirty-seven accessions to the church, Rev. Bradley was married September 31, 1865, t0 Miss Barbara, daughter of J, B. and Matilda (Maston) Insko, of Bracken county, Kentucky, who died July 20, 1875, leaving him with three children, viz. : Lucy E., Joseph W., William W., all now living and at home. He was married a second time December 2, 1876, t0 Miss Lucy Helen, daughter of Thomas and Serepta (Owens) Galbraith, of Bracken county, Kentucky. They are the parents of two children, Ethan G. and Morley. BRADSHAW, JOHN, born in Somerset, 1850, is a farmer, P. 0. Glen ford, Ohio. He is a son of Joseph Bradshaw, who, with his wife, Ellen Welch, were born in Ireland, and came to the United States in 1848, After a short tarry at Elyria, Ohio, they come to Somerset, Ohio, where Joseph died in 1866, in his fifty-seventh year. Mother Bradshaw still lives in Somerset, at the age of sixty-six years. She is the mother of Patrick, P. 0. Somerset ; James, P. 0, Dayton ; and Miss Joanna, P. 0. Somerset. Her son John was married November 4, 1874, to Miss HISTORY OF PERRY COUNTY - 347 Ann Katharine, the only daughter of the venerable Adam Ice, a native of France, and now a resident of Hopewell, at whose house he boarded when working as a day laborer at a saw mill near by, when, becoming well acquainted, he became the husband of Miss Katharine. In 1881 he moved to the farm in section 3, Hopewell, comprising one hundred and twenty acres, Their children are George, Murray and Mary Olive. Mr. Bradshaw,s example is that of a steady, sober young man, not born to any fortune, but a strong physical constitution, attentive to his duty as a day laborer, winning his way to the confidence of the most respected society, and in after life maintaining his character for frugality and attention to business. James was out in the three months' service, Co, E, 17th Regiment ; also, in the 31st Ohio, and served to the end of the war, Patrick was also in the 31st Ohio, and served till the close of the war. Both veteraned. BRADSHAW, W. A., potter, P. O. Buckeye Cottage, Clayton township. Born in this county in 1853. He is a son of T. W. and Lucinda (Petit) Bradshaw, grandson of Robert and Mary Bradshaw, and of William and Elizabeth (Hoke) Petit, He was married in 1875 to Miss Edith P, Martin. They are the parents of three children, viz. : Clara L., Albert F., and one not named. Mr. Bradshaw's grandfather Bradshaw was in the war of 1812. BREECE, JAMES E., farmer, Bearfield township, Rendville P. O. Born in this township in 1845, son of Jonathan and Sandusky A, (Trussell) Breece. In 1867 he married Almira W. Skinner, daughter of Amos and Margaret A. (Murray) Skinner, both natives of Virginia. They emigrated to this county and settled in this township in an early day. Mr. and Mrs. James E. Breece are the parents of five children, viz. : Mary A., born April 26, 1868 ; Martha A., May 30, 1872 ; Deborah, November 16, 1876 ; Charles A., November 2, 1878 ; and John W., July 5, 1881. BREWSTER, JOHNSON C., Monroe township, farmer, Corning, Ohio, was born July 14, 1848, in Muskingum county, Ohio ; son of Stephen and Eliza (Brown) Brewster, and was brought up on a farm ; at eighteen engaged in the milling business, which he followed until 1880, when he engaged in agriculture. He came to Perry county in 1868, and to his present residence in 1878. Mr. Brewster was married March 18, 1875, to Miss Amy L., daughter of Joseph and Catharine (Smith) Rogers, of Monroe township, They are the parents of two children, viz. : Bertrit and Iona Leore. BROWN, J. J., P. O. Crooksville, farmer. Born in Kent county, Delaware, in 1816 ; settled in this county in 1846 ; son of William and Susan (Black) Brown. Mr, Brown's father died in 1857, his mother in 1862. They were of English and Scotch descent. Mr. Brown has been twice married, first in 1839, to Miss Jane Dills, who died in 1854. This union was blessed with four children, viz. : Benjamin, Richard, Jane (deceased), William. Married again in 1854, to Mrs. Julia A. Triplet. Mrs. Triplet had three children, viz. : Margaret, Susan and Mary. Mr. Brown had two sons in the late war. BROWN, DAVID W., was born in Fairfield county, 1817, November 22d ; is a successful farmer; the oldest of the name now living ; brother of the late Judge William Brown and Robert Brown, old time officials 348 - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. of Perry county. His post office is Thornville. His grandfather was William Brown, who, with his wife, Sarah McMullen, then the mother of one daughter, Rosannah, afterwards wife of Robin Walker, emigrated from Ireland. The children of this marriage were : William, David and Robert, well remembered in Fairfield county ; Sally, Elizabeth and Margaret, all of whom came to Fairfield county, except Elizabeth, wife of John, and Sarah, wife of Abram Yost, who settled in Perry. William, the father of David W., Robert and Judge Brown, was married in Pennsylvania, to Miss Sarah McTeer, whose father was a soldier, who fought with the butt of his gun in the trenches at Bunker Hill, on the side of "liberty or death." They were the parents of the sons named, and never had any other children. In 1835, the family came from Fairfield to Perry county, and settled in Thorn township. Father Brown survived his wife six or eight years, and died at the age of eighty-two, his wife in her sixty-ninth year. They were of the Associate Reform Church, since the United Presbyterian. William, after service as County Treasurer and Probate Judge, died near Somerset, Robert, after service as a teacher for many years, and County Auditor for a long time, died in the State of Missouri, whither he moved late in life. David W. is therefore sole surviver ; was married in 1835, to Miss Eliza Cherry, daughter of John Cherry of Fairfield. His children are, John C., husband of Miss Harriet, daughter of George Mechling of Thornville ; Almonara, wife of John Yost, son of 'William, post offuce, Linville, Ohio ; Elizabeth, now the widow 0f the late Dr. Allen Whitmer ; Azuba, wife of J, P. Eversole, grocer. freight agent and post master, North Berne. Fairfield county, Ohio ; Robert at home, and David McGraw, in honor of a Kentuckian of this name, who nursed his father, David Brown, when sick with cholera, on board a steamer landed at Hannibal, Missouri, in 1849. Another son, Charles L.. husband of Miss Martha Franks, follows the trade of butchering in Thornville. David Brown lost his estimable wife in 1880, and is now a widower. The site of his farm of two hundred acres, is that of the first few settled in Thorn township, and the same selected by Joseph Cooper, whose name clings to a road laid out by him, and who drove a team and sled back to Pennsylvania for provisions, in winter, leaving his wife and children to hear the wolves lapping from the slop bucket outside the cabin door. Here the first water mill of this vicinity was erected, on a stream passing through the Brown homestead, the residence of which is of brick, on an eminence overlooking a vast extent of country, fringed by hills and vocalized by passing trains and lowing herds. It is a delightful landscape. Except the cloud cast upon the evening of his life by the death of his wife, the achievements of David Brown's career, shed lustre on the rewards of industry and the joys of rural life. BROWN, GEORGE W., born December 12th, 1834, in Muskingum county, Ohio. He is now proprietor of a livery stable, and is a horse buyer. He is a son of Dixon Brown, late of Somerset, who was a leading dry goods merchant, railroad director, member of the Methodist church, and citizen of large influence in society, and who had acquired a large share of wealth. which was ever held subject to his hospitality, his desire to advance the public good, and to assist his children and his friends, George's mother was Elizabeth Richard, a daughter of George HISTORY OF PERRY COUNTY - 349 and Ellen Richard, both of whom died in sight of Somerset. where their daughter also died. , George's only brother, is J. Murray Brown of Columbus, Ohio, and his only surviving sister is Mrs. Ella McCune of Newark, Ohio. George W. was a willful lad, who cut loose from parental moorings in Somerset, when only fourteen years of age, and landed in Wheeling. Virginia, without a dollar in his pocket, but soon applied to a Mr. Culberson for work in a tin shop, which he obtained ; but his father soon heard of him and bound him as an apprentice to Mr. Culberson, for three years. George served his time and became a good workman, and was more inclined afterwards to stay in sight of the paternal roof. After the death of his parents, assisted by the friends and legal counsel, he rescued a handsome homestead from the wreck occasioned by his father's weakness on his sick bed, and the evil disposed who seemed to have his mind under their control. This was a great triumph for George, and leaves him in comfortable circumstances, His wife was Miss Emma Zane, daughter of Samuel Zane, and great-granddaughter of Colonel Ebenezer Zane, and of Elizabeth Bloomfield. The name of Zane is linked with the earliest history of Ohio, and with the heroism which 'defended the border of civilization against the attacks of the savage. Her ancestors owned the sections where Zanesville, Lancaster and part of Chillicothe now stand, and were of the highly educated and polished movers in the progress of the past. Elizabeth Zane, fresh from school at Philadelphia, on her return to Wheeling, soon found that place, (1782), under siege from Indians. The fort was occupied by brave defenders, but the powder was nearly exhausted, and none nearer than Colonel Zane’s house, forty rods distant. Elizabeth Zane insisted on going there and returning with supplies. She was told a man could go and come quicker, and, therefore, with less danger ; but she replied, " a woman would not be missed so much as a man ;" and after preparing herself for the greatest fleetness, she ran for the powder, and arriving at the house, a table cloth was tied by two corners around her neck, while she held the other two corners in her hand, and while her first trip was assailed only by the cry of " squaw, squaw," her return was beset by whizzing bullets and savage yells, but she got back without a scratch, except holes through her clothing, and her memory grows green on the page of history. She died in Belmont county, Ohio, after two marriages—the first to Mr. McLaughlin, the last to Mr. Clark, near Martinsville, BROWN, A. M., physician, Pleasant township, post office, Moxahala, born in Pike township, August 17th, 1837, His parents are supposed to be of Irish descent. He went to Illinois with his parents when thirteen years old, remained there until he was twenty-one. He then learned the shoemaking trade, and worked at his trade in Perry county. In 1864 he began reading medicine with Dr. M. D. Hufford of Straitsville, remained in his office two years, and then practiced with him six months. He then went to Rendville and practiced there six years, spending one winter in Indianapolis. Then practiced at Connersville, Lafayette county, nine m0nths ; at Gore, Hocking county, eight months ; at Straitsville one year, and he then moved to Moxahala, where he still practices, and is also a member of the firm of Noe