400 - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. perhaps one cabin .to a section of land. Peter Eversole left a Bible, to his son that is now one hundred and fifty years old. It is printed in German, and is nearly two feet long by one foot in width, and about eight inches in thickness. He died at the age of eighty-seven, his wife having preceded him to the land of rest at the age of sixty-nine years. They were German Baptists in belief. John was married at the age of twenty-four, to Miss Jane Spencer, a daughter of Thomas, who was a brother of William Spencer, Sr., and uncle of William, Jr., now the father of Henry Spencer, of Reading township. Thomas King, afterwards the first Representative of Perry county, was married to a sister of Thomas Spencer, and his wife, who reared a family of other people's children, chiefly because she was affectionate and benevolent, and partly because she had no children of her own, was the aunt of Mrs. Eversole. The children of John Eversole, and his wife Jane Spencer, were five living and two dead ; Sarah Ellen at the age of fourteen and George when an infant. Those living are Louisa, wife of William Williams, third, deceased, and now the wife of Mr. Van Fossen of Zanesville, Ohio ; John, husband of Emma Cochrell, merchant ; David, farmer, husband of Mary, daughter of Abraham Bowser ; Peter, farmer, husband of Matilda, sister of Samuel Cochran; Emma Jane, wife of Frank Johnson, farmer, son of Harvey ; all of whom have the post office address Mount Perry, Ohio. The mother of Mrs. Eversole was Margaret Spencer, who made herself useful as a mid-wife over twenty-five years, mounting her horse day or night, in storm or sunshine, asserting the right of her sex to that office, and died much regretted at the age of sixty-five. William Spencer, Sr., was a Universalist in belief, a faith that still lingers in the. Spencer family. John Eversole and his wife are of the Christian Church. They are both readers of sacred books and patronize learning and the means of knowledge. FEEDLER, FIRDNAN, manager of Upson Coal Company's store, Shawnee, Ohio ; was born February 8, 185o, in Somerset, Ohio ; son of Jacob and Elizabeth (Lentz) Feedler. When Firdnan was two years of age, his father moved to Cardington, Morrow county, Ohio, where he was brought up, and clerked it a dry goods store five years, for W. Shunk & Co. ; and at Delaware, Ohio, clerked for Z. L. White two years. He returned to Cardington, and entered into partnership with his twin brother in the grocery business, remaining two years, when he sold his interest and went to Richwood, and clerked for J. Cratty & Co., in dry goods store, about two years, when he moved with the same firm to Ashland, Ohio, where they remained about eight months and then moved to Shawnee. Mr. Feedler remained with this firm in all about three years, when he went in partnership with his brother, under the firm name of Feedler Brothers. They went into general merchandise business, which they continued about eighteen months, when the firm was dissolved, his brother going home and dying within about one month. Mr. Feedler then engaged as clerk for E. M. McGilen & Co., Cleveland, Ohio, where he remained two years and one month, and then returned to Shawnee, Ohio, April. 1st, 1881, and took his present position. He was married November 28, 1876, to Aldia, daughter of Simeon F. Kern of Burbank, Wayne county, Ohio. They are the parents of two children, viz. : Geo. Rodney and Carrie Belle, deceased. HISTORY OF PERRY COUNTY - 401 FERGUSON, JOHN, of the firm of Ferguson & Noun, Attorneys at Law, New Lexington, Ohio ; was born February 3, 1846, in Jackson son township ; son of Terence and Bridget (Nangle) Ferguson. At the age of nineteen, young Ferguson began teaching school, and taught about six years. In 1868 he began reading law with Colonel Lyman J. Jackson of this place, and was admitted to practice in August, 1871. After practicing alone a short time, he formed a partnership with his preceptor, which continued until the fall of 1877. In 1878 the present firm was formed. Attorney Ferguson was married April 6th, 1875, to Miss Lizzie, daughter of David and Susan (Gordon) Hewitt, of Somerset, this county. They are the parents of three children : Zuleme, Charles and Genevieve. FERGUSON, ARTHUR B., shoemaker, Shawnee, Ohio ; was born March 28th, 1846, in Scotland, county of Lanark, in Lanarkhall ; son of John and Elizabeth (Browning) Ferguson. Mr. Ferguson, was raised in his native town, where he lived to the age of twenty years, during which time he learned his trade with his father. and is the fifth generation of his family who has successfully followed that business. From the age of seventeen years, he worked at journey work, which he con-tined about two years, when he employed on the railroad as brakeman, and where he had his leg mashed, which left him a permanent cripple, having followed the railroad about one year at the time of the accident. After his recovery he again found employment at his trade for about two years, in the counties of Ayr, Renfrew and Lanark. At this time he emigrated to America, arriving at New York, January 21, 1867, and from thence he went to Maryland, Alleghany county, where he was employed at his trade and mining, for about two years, when he returned to the place of his nativity, remaining during the winter of 1868 and 1869, when he again returned to America, landing in New York, April 23, 1869, and again went to Maryland, to Illinois and Pennsylvania, remaining about six months in each of these States, when he spent another summer in Maryland, from whence he went to the Hocking valley of Ohio, and remained about six months, when he was married, January 24, 1872, to Amanda L., daughter of James and Martha (Zarlie) LeFollet, of Vinton county, Ohio, but lived in Athens county at the time of her marriage. They are the parents of three children, viz. : John LeFollet, Maud Agnes and Archibald Boyd, and one deceased, Arthur Morton. After his marriage he lived in the Hocking valley about five years, when he came to Shawnee, Ohio, where he has since lived, and engaged in mining until about four years ago, when he was obliged to quit mining on account of his health. Since then he has been weighmaster at the New York furnace. Mr. Ferguson was corporation clerk for two years, and for the past six years has been township clerk ; and in the spring of 1882, was elected Mayor of this place. FINK, JOEL A., farmer, Jackson township ; post office, Junction City ; son of Joseph and Magdalene (Dittoe) Fink ; was born August 17, 1816, in this township ; has since lived in the county, and always led a farmer's life from boyhood. He was married in 1840. to Miss Margaret, daughter of Thomas and Margaret (Doran) Ryan. They are the parents of five children, viz. : Joseph, Sarah, Mary, William 36 402 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. and Charles. His parents were of German descent. Mr. Fink's father came to Somerset in 1805. His grandfather, John Fink, assisted in laying out the town of Somerset. FINCK, WILLIAM E., lawyer, Somerset ; was born in Somerset, in the year 1822. His father was Anthony Finck, and his mother's maiden name was Mary Spurk. His grandfather was John Finck, an early settler, if not the first, in Somerset. His wife was Cecelia Garaghty of Lancaster, Ohio. Their sons are, William E., Jr., and Michael G. Finck ; the latter a grocer and the former a lawyer. Their daughters are Mary, now wife of F. A. Dittoe, merchant of Somerset, and Miss Martha. Mr. Finck is of French-German extraction. He studied law and was admitted to practice in Somerset when only twenty-one years of age. His first position was that of Clerk of the Perry County Common Pleas and Supreme Courts, under the old Constitution. In his twenty-eighth year he was the Whig candidate for Congress, in a district counting six hundred Democratic majority, and was defeated by only forty-six votes, by Hon. James M. Gaylord of McConnelsville. He was elected to the Senate of Ohio in 1851, and in 1852 was a delegate to the National Convention' which nominated General Winfield Scott for the Presidency ; was 'an elector on the Scott ticket in Ohio ; joined the Democratic party in 1854, when Know-Nothingism swept the Whig party out of being; was elected to the Senate of Ohio in 1861, defeating the Hon. T. J. Maginnis of Zanesville in a hotly contested canvass ; was elected to Congress in 1862, defeating the Hon. C. A. Trimble of Chillicothe ; was re-elected to Congress in 1864, defeating the Hon. Job E. Stephenson of Chillicothe ; was again elected to Congress to fill the unexpired term of Hon. Hugh J. Jewett of Columbus. He has twice been a candidate upon the Democratic State, ticket, once for Attorney General, and once for Supreme Judge. He has repeatedly refused a candidacy for Common Pleas Judge, preferring his law practice, which has secured for him a large amount of lands in Missouri and Iowa, a handsome property in and around Somerset, several farms in Perry, and though he cannot be engaged at the usual fee of young attorneys, his practice is still very remunerative and engages all his time. No man was ever more systematic in keeping his accounts, truer to the faith which he professes to believe, or more honest toward his fellow men. FINCK, JUDGE JAMES E., carpenter and builder ; post office, Somerset. He was born in 1825 ; son of John, Jr., and grandson of John, Sr., who was the first of the Finck name in Perry county, and who cut much of the road for his wagon from Zanesville to Lancaster, and who a year later came back to where Somerset now stands, which town he laid out into lots and built a hotel where the public schools are now located, on the hill above the east railroad depot. Judge Finck's father was eighteen years of age when his grandfather, John, came to Ohio." His mother was Elizabeth Walker, a native of Maryland. She was born in the year 1800, and lived into her seventy-second year. Her children were Mary, deceased ; Cecelia, wife of Edward Droege; and Sarah, wife of William Blakeney ; Amanda, wife of Joseph Kircher ; Miss Emily, and James E. all of whom have Somerset, Ohio, as their post office address ; also William, carbuilder, Zanesville, Ohio ; HISTORY OF PERRY COUNTY - 403 Jacob, deceased, and Miles, engaged in mercantile life in Cincinnati. James was married in 1847, to Miss Catharine Foncannon, and on the same day his cousin, Hon. W. E. Fink was also married ; neither knowing of the other's intention. Her father was an early settler of Perry, where he died in his seventy-eighth year. Her brothers married and went West, so that at this writing she has neither sister nor brother living in Perry. The children of this marriage are Ida, wife of Conrad Letsinger ; post office, Somerset ; Elva, wife of Mark Haley, Omaha, Nebraska ; Miss Blanche, Endora and Alberta ; Fabian, a carpenter of Terre 'Haute, Indiana ; ,Hydalius, Urban and Edgar. Judge James E. Finck ranks in general :esteem as a first-class carpenter and builder. St. Joseph's, McLuney, South Fork and Holy Trinity Church edifices, stand as monuments of his skill ; but the recent convent building at St. Joseph's crowns all with a taste, a beauty and elegance but seldom equaled, and rarely, if ever, excelled. He aided the building of St. Patrick's Church edifice, and is now engaged as the superintending carpenter and architect of Sacred Heart Convent, Somerset. He put up the spire of the Reform Church edifices in Thornville and Somerset, and it has not fallen to the lot of any man in Perry to build more churches, or finer ones. In the fall of 1872, he was made the Democratic nominee for Probate Judge by the popular vote against a field of candidates who ranked high in popular favor, such as Henry McLaughlin, his cousin, A. A. Fink, Peter King and Charles F. Brush, ex-Treasurer. He was afterwards twice elected, and served the customary two terms with credit to himself and the public. Since his retirement he has again devoted himself to his favorite occupation of carpentering. His rural home nestles beautifully among the coal hills of Perry ; and here his garden and fruit culture occupy his leisure hours. His head measures twenty-two and one-half inches ; is also high and long ; his health is excellent and his disposition cheerful. Height, five feet eight inches. Weight, one hundred and seventy-five pounds. FINCK, AUSTIN A., was born in 1829 in Somerset ; son of Anthony and grandson of John Finck, the grand progenitor of this family in Perry county. The sons of this ancient pioneer were Jacob, Joseph, George, Anthony, John, Adam, and David Finck; the daughters were Mrs. Sarah Johnson, Mrs. Elizabeth McDonald, Mrs. Frances Hewett, and Mrs. Mary McGowen. Austin A. was educated inPerry county and drilled in the duties of a dry goods clerk. In May, 1854, he was married to Miss Caroline Lewis, of Rushville. Their children are William B. Finck, Miss Carrie and Miss Ellie Finck. Austin A. Finck runs far ahead of his ticket for clerk of his township, which office, as also that of village clerk, he is now filling, as for a long time since, to the satisfaction of the public. His great capacity as a dry goods clerk, ripened also by experience as a merchant on his own account, has secured for him a situation in the famous store-rooms of F. A. Dittoe, Esq., of Somerset. Here his urbanity, honesty and attentiveness to customers are winning a large trade for that celebrated establishment. The store-room was built by Mr. Mike Dittoe, an architect of thirty years experience in New York City, which was presented to his brother, F. A: Dittoe, and is equal to the best in Ohio in finish and adaptation 404 - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. to its present use, and for many coming years will stand as a model of architectural taste. FINK, DAVID, farmer ; post office, Somerset, Ohio. He was born in 1830, and is a son of Joseph and grandson of John Finck, the great ancestor of all the Fincks in Reading township, and who is the father of Somerset, having settled where the Union school-house of that town now stands in 1804 or 1805. His house, which served for a tavern, was the first ever erected in the town, of which John Finck and one Miller became the original proprietors. He owned the famous " Finck's Spring," now the property of his grandson, Hon. William E. Finck. No Catholic name antedates that of John Finck and his wife, whose maiden name was Mary Sneeringer. This venerable pair, with their family, were themselves numerous and devoted enough to form the nucleus of the first Catholic church not only in Perry county but in the State of Ohio. David Fink's mother was, prior to her marriage, in 1815, Miss Magdalena Dittoe, daughter of Jacob, Sr., and sister of Jacob, Jr., who deceased in Somerset in 1880. The brothers of David are Joel A., post office Junction City, Ohio ; James J., post office New Lexington, Ohio ; and his sisters are Sarah, wife of Thomas Largey, post office Altoona, Iowa ; Elizabeth, wife of Daniel Riffle, Lancaster, Ohio. David Fink was first married in 1853 to Miss Bridget Dittoe, who died April 29th, 1856. His second marriage was to Miss Lizzie O'Brien, February, 1861, who is the mother of Emerantia, Imelda S., Margaret L., Oscar M., Mary Nora, Helen C., and Estella C. Fink. David obtained his farm by deed from his father, who died in 1870, at the age of seventy-nine years, his mother having died in 1863. This delightful homestead is in sight of St. Joseph's ; contains the nearest coal vein to Somerset ; is well adapted to fruit and small grain. Four hundred gallons of Iona and Concord wine, the vintage of 1881, testify its capacity for fruit growing. Like his ancestors, he is a devoted and sincere Catholic ; has also served in various official stations, by the favor of his fellow citizens, and is by no means among the hindmost in the march of progress. FLANIGAN, JOHN, farmer and stock raiser, post office Rehoboth ; born in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, in 1820. From there he came to Wheeling, West Virginia, where he remained two years ; from there he came to Perry county about the year 1824 ; son of Edward and Cecelia (Katon). Flanigan. The former died in 1823, the latter in 1874. Married in 1844 to Miss Rachel Beaver, daughter of George and Elizabeth (Bridge) Beaver. They have three children, viz. : Katharine S., deceased, Mary E. and Thomas E. FLAUTT, GEORGE, was born in 1799; died in 1862. His father, Joseph, and his mother, were born, reared and married in one of the. Rhinish provinces of France. Grandfather Joseph Flautt and his wife came to America and settled in Canawaga county, Maryland, where all their children were born. These children were Deborah, Hannah, Jacob, Joseph And George Flautt. All lived to be over eighty. Hannah married William Mooney, who became a justice of the peace, and member of the Legislature of Maryland. Jacob was twice married. Joseph was married and one of his sons was a devoted Catholic HISTORY OF PERRY COUNTY - 405 priest. They all lived and died in Maryland, except George, who was twice married. His first wife was Miss Mooney, the mother of six children—William, Patrick, James, John, Mary and Nancy Flautt. Of these, William taught school, read medicine, practiced his profession forty years, and died in Hocking county, Ohio ; Patrick still lives in the same county, a justice of the peace, a chair maker and painter by trade; James also was a physician for thirty years, and died in Reads-burg, Sauk county, Wisconsin ; John came to Ohio in 1834; in 1836 went to Texas on horseback, served in the wars there, and in 1848 settled in Hocking county, where he married Miss Ellen White, daughter of Alexander White ; was elected Sheriff of the county, served several months of .his second term, when he met his death by accident of a runaway team. He was a Mason and an Odd Fellow. Mary married Willam Burns, and moved to Richland county, Ohio ; Nancy's second husband is Isaac Koons. She lives in Maryland. Her deceased husband was John Harman, by whom she had two children. The second marriage of George Flautt was to Margaret Harbaugh. This marriage also occurred in Maryland, several years after. the death of his first wife. The children of this marriage are : Ambrose, a successful merchant of Amanda, Fairfield county, Ohio ; Juliana, deceased, wife of Edward Kelly, a stone mason of Somerset, leaving two children ; Joseph, a cooper, a farmer, a clerk of the township, and assessor. He was also trustee of the township for some years. His wife was Mary McDonald. They have had ten children, four daughters and six sons. Three of the daughters are married. The next son of George Flautt is Henry, a man of sterling judgment as a farmer. He married Catharine Sanderson, and they have seven children. Sebastian is a cooper and farmer, and lives on the Flautt homestead, in Reading township. He married Ellen Mooter, and they have two children. Jerome Flautt, like his father, learned the cooper trade and the gunsmithing trade. He was successively elected clerk of the town for some years. Be writes an excellent hand, and takes much delight in rearing the best fruits and poultry. He spent nearly two years near Mobile, Alabama, experimenting in gardening early vegetables for the Northern markets. He married Sarah Freeman, and they have five children—Leta, Fanna, Kata, Ferdinand and Murray. George Flautt, the youngest son, is also a cooper, making the Flautt churn, invented by his father, and for many years past the leading churn. He has built three new houses, and for many years was clerk of the township. He married Cecelia Divit, and they have four children. Elizabeth is the wife of John McDonald, of Nelsonville, Ohio, a brick mason, and a soldier who served in the Union army with faithfulness to the end. They have six children. Margaret married L. P. Guisinger, a native of Perry, a teacher, a farmer, a plasterer, an agent, and a genius in mechanics. They have seven children. His post office is Chalfants, Perry county. FLOWERS, THOS., farmer and stock raiser, post Office New Lexington, Clayton township, Perry county ; born in Muskingum county in 1814 ; came to Perry county in 1820 ; son of Joseph and Elizabeth (Ambrose) Flowers. The former died January 17, 1867, the latter in 1864. Mr. Flowers was married in 1837 to Miss Mary Daugherty. They are the parents of ten children, viz. : Elizabeth C., Rebecca S., Simon H., 406 - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. William, deceased, John J., Anna A., George, Andrew G., Emanuel F.,. Charles V., two of whom are married. Mr. Flowers had two sons in the late war, viz. : William and Simon. They enlisted in Company K, One Hundred and Twenty-sixth O. V. I., Captain Lampton. They were engaged in the battle of the Wilderness, where it is supposed William lost his life, as he was never heard of afterwards. Simon was wounded in that engagement. Simon was also engaged in the following additional battles, viz. : Martinsburg, Locust Grove, Mine Run, Siege of Charleston, Winchester, Cedar Creek, Fisher's Hill, Middletown. FLOWERS, JEFFERSON, mechanic, foreman in Bent Works of Bringardner & Company, Junction City, Ohio ; son of Mathias and Mary (Elder) Flowers ; was born December 5, 1845, in this county, and has since lived in the county. His boyhood days were spent on a farm until he was nineteen years of age. He then went to the carpenter trade, and worked at it till 1879, then went into the bent works. He was married in 1870 to Miss Mary, daughter of Joel A. and Margaret (Ryan) Fink. They are the parents of two children, viz. : Teresea C. and Maggie L. His parents are of German and Irish descent. FORQUER, WILLIAM, Pleasant township, Moxahala post office. He was born in Butler county, Pennsylvania, October 25, 1822 ; son of William and Rose (Dugan) Forquer, who were both natives of Ireland. They emigrated to this country in 1795 ; stayed in, Philadelphia about three years, and then moved to Butler county, Pennsylvania. They came to Pike township in 1823, and both died on the farm he entered there. William Forquer married Catharine Donahoe, in 1845 ; she is a native of this township. After his marriage he moved to the farm where he now resides. Her parents were born in Ireland, and both died in the United States. His children are George, who married Mary Bennett, and resides in this township ; Peter, married Celia Bennett, and resides in this township ; Mary A., married F. B. Bennett, resides in this township ; Sarah, married John A. McDonagle, who is now elected Clerk of the Court of this county, and resides in New Lexington ; Rose, married Thomas Bennett ; she died in New Lexington ; William is at home ; Loretta deceased, and Loretta living. FOSTER, EMANUEL, born 1823, on the farm where he now resides. Post office, Thornville. His mother's maiden name was Maria Mechling. His father, Andrew Foster, died in his sixty-ninth year, in 1849, and Mother Foster in her sixty-ninth year in 1858. It is not certain when the Rev. William Foster, the father of Andrew, arrived with his family in Perry county, then Fairfield, but from a document signed by him in 1805, organizing Zion's church, which document is now in possession of the venerable George Daniels, it must have been prior to 1805. The wife of Rev. Foster was a Daniels, and thus the connection between the Fosters and the Daniels name in Thorn township. Grandfather Foster came to Thorn township, when the low flat lands were avoided and more rolling lands were in demand. He died in 1815, the first preacher of the Lutheran faith who settled in Perry county. The sons of Rev. William Foster were William, Daniel, Andrew, Henry, George, Christian, Samuel, Benjamin and John. The daughters were Magdalena, wife of John Walters ; Mrs. John Fox, and Mrs. Jacob Mechling, of Fairfield county. Mrs. Fox's only daughter, HISTORY OP PERRY COUNTY - 407 that ever lived in Perry or Fairfield counties, married Peter Custer, of Fairfield county, The mother of these nine sons' and three daughters was Magdalena Daniels, who died in 1823, her husband, Rev. William Foster, having preceded her to the grave some eight years before. Of these twelve children, John is the only one who never married, and he is supposed to have lost his life on a trip to New Orleans. All got from their father one hundred and sixty acres of land, and the quarter section bought for John went to the other heirs. Thus it required no less than three sections or nineteen hundred and twenty acres to reach round to all the children. To return to Andrew, the father of Emanuel Foster. Of ten children only the following grew to mature age : Jacob, deceased, whose wife was Elizabeth Holt ; Joseph, deceased, whose wife was Elizabeth Sult ; Mary, deceased wife of James Clifton ; Elijah, of whom more hereafter ; Mahala, wife of Peter W. Sprinkle, post office, Holden, Johnson county, Missouri, and Emanuel who was married to Susan E. Franks, daughter of Rezin Franks, late of Thorn township, a noted and very successful stock dealer and farmer. The children of Emanuel Foster and his wife Susan, are Benton C. ; Maria Edith ; William E. ; Martha May, and Aaron Harlan, now eleven years of age. Mr. Foster has two farms in Thorn township and eighty acres in Van Wert county, Ohio, is a firm Democrat in politics, and Lutheran in religion, and enjoys the confidence of all for honesty and his moral worth. FOSTER, ELIJAH, born November 30, 1820, son of Andrew and brother of Emanuel Foster. In 1849 Elijah was married to Miss Jane Turner, who after bearing him one son, Charles Foster, of Pickerington, Ohio, died in May, 1852. He then went to California, and after a protracted stay of fourteen years in the mountains of California, Oregon, Idaho, Utah and Montana, prospecting as a miner and undergoing all the hardships of camp and frontier life, in 1869 returned home and was married to a Miss Katharine Anderson, daughter of Thomas Anderson, an early settler of Fairfield county who shares with him the joys and comforts of their beautiful and fruitful home in the suburbs of Thornville. There are no children by this last marriage. Mr. Foster is a benevolent, kind and generous citizen, modest, and retiring for-pleasure to the precincts of home, and seeking the abodes of the needy only to gratify his exalted benevolence and humanity. He has followed the elk waist deep in snow The Gallatin valley is the warmest he saw, and it has frost high up every month in the year, and snow in sight all the time. Up toward the sources of the streams named, the whole year round the snow line is in sight. Mr. Foster is six feet one inch tall, weighs one hundred and sixty pounds, and when in California his weight ran up toone hundred and ninety pounds. There is a volume of the most thrilling adventure, instructive facts, and profitable experience in his fourteen years of mountain life as a miner, a gardener, a lumberman, and a hunter. FOSTER, JAMES, was born where he now lives in Thorn township, Perry county, in 1833, on section twenty, the homestead of his father, George Foster, and of his grandfather, Rev. William Foster, who died in 1815, and whose tomb is on the same farm. The maiden name of James Foster's mother was Christena Bean, and that of his grandmother 408 - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. was Magdalena Daniels. His brothers were Samuel, deceased, in Van Wert county, Ohio, who left two sons and three daughters ; Simon, the husband of Susan Fisher ; and John, deceased, leaving one son and two daughters, all of Van Wert county, Ohio. His sisters were Mary, wife of Henry Cover ; Elizabeth, wife of Charles Denman ; and Salo-ma, wife of John Avery, all of Van Wert county, Ohio. These with James are four sons and three daughters. The father of this family, George Foster, died in 1858, in his sixty-ninth year, and the mother in 1857, in her sixty-third year. The year prior to the latter event James Foster was married to Miss Diana, daughter of Henry Boyer, Jr., and granddaughter of Henry Boyer, Sr. It will be observed that he was one of seven heirs to the homestead, and after the death of his father, the law distributed the estate. It was valued in 1860 at $5,530, each share being estimated at $790, at which price James became the purchaser of the home farm, comprising one hundred and sixty acres, more or less. He not only paid for it, but has now erected a splendid dwelling house, and spacious barns, and the entire farm presents the marks of thrift and comfort. His children are six in number, five sons and one daughter, Leoh Katharine, the eldest, being the wife of Joseph Beck, post office, Thornville. ' The sons are all at home. Their names are Charles Allen, Henry Lee, William Edward, James Albert, and George Simon, now three years old. He and his wife are of the Lutheran faith. The first draft in 1862 took James Foster, and he paid James Richey, of Somerset, $375 to go as his substitute. It is supposed his farm was first occupied by grandfather Foster in 1803, but other recollections put it anywhere between that and 1807. James weighs one hundred and sixty-five pounds, is five feet ten inches tall. His father was six feet one inch, and weighed two hundred pounds. He was no hunter, like Uncle Ben Foster. He related the fine appearance of Kentucky soldiers who passed through northward in the war of 1812. They were all six-footers. James was administrator of his father's estate, and executor of his father-in-law's ; owns two hundred acres of land, and is a living witness to the fact that farming pays, and that industry and economy win the prize. FOWLER, DAVID C., farmer and tanner, New Lexington, Ohio, was born October. 18, 1822, upon the quarter section where he now lives. He is a son of John and Sarah (Brown) Fowler. Mr. Fowler was raised on a farm, and at the age of nineteen years went to the tanner's trade with John H. Stewart, of New Lexington, Ohio, remaining two years with him when he went to Baltimore city, Maryland, and finished his trade in fourteen months with William Jenkins & Sons, of No. 4 Water street. After learning his trade he returned to this place and opened a tanyard of his own, where he continued as a tanner until January, 1883 ; in all thirty-six years. Having sold out to John A. Armstrong, of Athens county, Ohio, he gave his entire attention to farming, and the running of a stationary steam saw-mill, which he has been running for the past thirteen years. During the above time he bought eighty-four acres of land, most of which is a part of his father's homestead, and has farmed more or.less for ten or twelve years past. In 1864 he went into the army as Captain of Co. F, One Hundred and Sixtieth Regiment, Ohio National Guards, and served four months, receiving HISTORY OF PERRY COUNTY - 409 an honorable discharge, and returned home in September. He also had four brothers in the service, viz. : Isaac, John W., Benjamin and William, two of whom were captains, John and Benjamin, serving in the Thirtieth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, three years' service, and were both wounded, partially disabling each of them for life. Benjamin veteranized, and was engaged in eleven battles, and was on Sherman's march to the sea. Isaac died while in the army. In all the five brothers served about twelve years in their country's defense, and their father was a soldier in the war of 1812. Mr. Fowler has, upon his father's side of the house, a great aunt, Ann Fowler, who is ninety-six years old, living in Maryland ; and ,upon his mother's side of the house, a great uncle, Rev. Mathew Brown, of Wood county, Ohio, who is ninety-six years of age. Patriotism and longevity is seldom so marked as in the Fowler family, and their ancestors. Mary Fowler, the oldest sister of D. C. Fowler, saw her great grandmother, on her mother's side of the house, married at the age of eighty years to a man by the name of Goodin, aged eighty-one years, who after their marriage kept house ten years, when they became so feeble that in after life they lived with their children, she living to be ninety-six years old. Mr. Fowler's father, John Fowler, was born July 18, 1786, in Baltimore county, Maryland, came to Ohio in 1811, and was the first settler in Pike township. Mr. Brown became the father of twenty children by two marriages, all of whom he raised to manhood and womanhood. The oldest, Sarah Brown, was born July 17, 1796, in Hampshire county, Virginia, came to Ohio at an early day and was married to John Fowler, September 12, 1816. They became the parents of eleven children, viz. : Mary A., Susannah, Richard, David C.. Eliza, Isaac, John W., Mariah, Cyrus, Benjamin, and William H., of whom David C. is the subject of this sketch. Father Fowler died in March, 1874, at the age of eighty-seven years. Mother Fowler died in March, .1863, aged sixty-seven years. Mr. Fowler, the subject of this sketch, was married March 26, 1846, to Miss Cornelia S., daughter of Vincent and Ellen (Hogland) Smith, of Washington county, Ohio. They are the parents of five children, viz. : Acta C., now Essington, living in this county ; James C., Superintendent of the New Lexington Union Schools at this time ; Alice C., now Kennen, of Licking county, Ohio ; one daughter who died in infancy ; and Lucerne, now Morgan, living in New Lexington, Ohio. Mrs. Fowler's parents came to Washington county, Ohio, from Connecticut at an early day. Mr. Fowler is now one of Perry county's oldest citizens, having been born and raised here ; has enjoyed remarkably good health, and never saw a person shake with ague. FOWLER, WILLIAM, farmer, Pike township, New Lexington, Ohio ; was born February 3 1837, in this township, son of John and Sarah (Brown) Fowler ; was raised a farmer, and has followed agricultural pursuits to the present- time, and made his home with his father up to the time of his death some eight years ago. He is the youngest member of the family of eleven children, and became the support of his father in his declining years. He now lives upon the first land entered by his father in 1811, and where his father died. At the time of his entry there was but little timber cut between here and the Ohio River, - 37 - 410 - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. consequently he was obliged to clear out his farm of one hundred and sixty acres, by the assistance of his sons. Game of all kinds was plenty, and he traded four acres of land, a part of the present site of New Lexington, for a gun that was valued at $40. Mr. Fowler, the subject of this sketch, was married November 5, 1859, to Miss Harriet, daughter of William and Rachel (Skinner) Davis. They became the parents of two children, viz. : Albert and Cora. Mrs. Fowler departed this life in March, 1874. He was married the second time, Nov. 3, 1875, to Martha, daughter of John and Sarah (Strawn) Davis. They became the parents of one child, Wilbert Franklin. Mr. Fowler enlisted in Company G, One Hundred and Fourteenth Regiment, 0. V. August, 1862, for three years, or during the war, and served just to the close of the war, and his term of enlistment, and was engaged in the following battles : Mobile, Alabama ; Graham's Plantation ; Chickasaw Bluffs, and Vicksburg. Held .the office of Corporal, and also had four brothers in the army, three of whom were Captains, viz. : John, Benjamin and David, and his father served in the was of 1812. FOWLER, PROF. J. C., Superintendent of New Lexington public schools, born November 4, 1852, in this place ; son of D. C. and Cornelia S. (Smith) Fowler. Young Fowler was educated in the public schools of his native town and by self culture he has become a thorough English scholar. At the age of seventeen, Professor Fowler began teaching, and has been constantly in the profession up to the present time. He took his present position in 1877. FOX, GEORGE, butcher, Corning, Ohio, was born February 23, 1857, near Logan, Hocking county, Ohio, son of John G. and Catharine (Weiland) Fox. George was brought up on the farm where his father now lives. At the age of fourteen he went to the blacksmith trade and worked one year. Then he went to New Lexington, Ohio, and worked in a butcher-shop for his brother-in-law, Weiland, until 1876, when he went to Columbus and worked in a meat shop one season. He then traveled about one year, and worked in a number of places until he located at Logan, and carried on a butcher shop until March, 1881, when he came to his present place. Mr. Fox was married in March, 1880, to Margaret, daughter of Anthony and Catharine (Rectenwald) Steden. They are the parents of one child, Annie Catharine Fox. FOX, FRANK E., formerly of the firm of Huston & Fox, family gro- ceries, New Lexington. Mr. Fox was born May 26, 1861, in Logan, Hocking c0unty, Ohio ; son of John and Catherine Fox. Young Fox came to this place in 1872, and attended school four years, then entered a grocery store as clerk, where he remained until the present firm was formed, January 21, 1880. He has since sold his interest and now does business in Corning. FRANCIS, ERASTUS F., contractor, Shawnee, Ohio, was born February 16, 1830, in Licking county, Ohio, son of William and Lavina (Boilen) Francis. Mr. Francis was brought up on a farm and followed agricultural pursuits up to 1851, at which time he went as an apprentice to learn the distiller's trade, serving one year, and then followed the business, about seven years in Peru, Miami county, Indiana. Again he retuned to agricultural pursuits, in Indiana, for three years, and for HISTORY OF PERRY COUNTY - 411 twelve years in Licking county, Ohio, upon his brother's farm, and two years upon the Shawnee Valley Coal Company's farm in this county. After this he engaged with the Straitsville Cannel Coal Company of New York, for five years, as long as it existed, and then employed with the_ Ohio Central Coal Company of Corning, and has remained with them up to this time as a contractor and otherwise. Mr. Francis was married June 1, 1856, to Mary, daughter of James and Elizabeth Davis, of Miami county, Indiana. They are the parents of two children, viz. : Charles and Walter. He was married a second time, December 6, 1869, to Mariah, daughter of Courtney and Margaret Debevoise. They are the parents of seven children, viz. : Three living, Milton, Annie and William, and four dead, Hester, infant, Lovina and Edward. ...Mr. Francis was enlisted in Company E, One Hundred and Thirty-fifth Regiment, O. N. G., and served in the army of the Potomac four months, and was in an engagement at John Brown's school house. Was drafted while in the service and again, soon after returned into the service and remained until the war was over, and served five years in the State service. FRANKLIN, R. H., butcher, Junction City, Ohio, was born in Carroll county, Maryland, June 16, 1836 ; is a son of Nathan and Susan (Demit) Franklin ; lived on the farm until 1865, then went to his present business in Centerville, Carroll county, Maryland ; came to Junction City in 1873, following the same business. Was married in 1857, to Miss Ann M., daughter of Joshua and Martha (Porter) Barnes. They are the parents of four sons and one daughter, viz. : Nathan G., Augustus, Catharine, Joseph Ellsworth and Joshua Edward. FREE, JOHN W., attorney, New Lexington ; son of Dr. John and Catharine Free, was born in York county, Pennsylvania, August 8, 1830. His mother's maiden name was Catharine Newman. She was of English descent, and nearly related to the Newmans who were the first settlers of Richland county, Ohio. Dr. Free,the father, was of German descent, and an Evangelical (Albrecks) preacher, as well as a physician. When John W., was about one year old, the family moved to Mansfield, Ohio, and in 1841, to the neighborhood of McCutchenville, Wyandot county, in the same State. Here, for several years, he divided his time between attending school in the winter and working on the farm, and at the plastering trade in the summer. He taught school for a number of terms, commencing when only sixteen years of age. He also attended two sessions at Heidleberg College, Tiffin, Ohio. In the year 1856, he came to New Lexington, Perry county, Ohio, and engaged in the mercantile business. He was engaged in Straitsville in the same business,, when, August 1, 1861, he received an order from Governor Dennison to raise a company of three years troops. The men were raised in a very few days, and August 7th, he reported to Governor Dennison with one hundred and ten men, and was commissioned Captain of Company A, Thirty-first Regiment, O. V. I. This was the first three years men enlisted in the county. February 28, 1862, Captain John W. Free was promoted to Major of the regiment. He followed the fortunes of the regiment, and was engaged in most all the important battles of the Army of the Cumberland, to which department the regiment belonged. After being mustered out of the Military ser- 412 - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. vice, December 21, 1864, Major Free resumed mercantile pursuits at New Lexington, and also read law in the office of Butler & Jackson. During the winter of 1867-68, he attended a course of lectures at the Cincinnati Law College, and graduated there in the spring of 1868. since which time he has practiced his profession at New Lexington. Major Free is a Republican in politics, and has generally taken an active part in political affairs. but always declined office. Mr. Free was married April I. 1858, to Miss Catharine Frantz, daughter of S0lomon Frantz, of the neighborhood of New Lexington. His first wife died April 14, 1865, and he was again married, February 2, 1866, to Miss Martha Moore, daughter of Andrew Moore, then of Hocking county, now of Perry. His second wife died in 1873, and in 1876, he was married to Mrs. Laura E. Watkins, of Washington, C. H., Ohio. He is the father of four children, two being dead. FUCHS, N., butcher, New Straitsville. He was born October 25, 1828, in Venningen Rheinbegern, Germany ; is a son of Jacob and Mary (Valinger) Fuchs, natives of the same place. He came to America in 1853, and settled in Cincinnati, where he followed the trade of a barber. Ten years after, he returned to Germany and married Clementine Englert. Mr. Fuchs remained in Germany several years, keeping hotel. Two sons, Charles and Eugene, were born there. In 1868 he returned to America, and located in Lancaster, Fairfield county, where he remained until 1872, keeping a grocery. Here his son, Frank, was born. Mr. Fuchs next moved to New Straitsville, where he kept a general assortment of goods, three or four years, since which time he has been carrying on a good business as a butcher. Four children were born here, viz. : Christ, August, Lee and Anna. FULLERTON, WILLIAM, merchant and postmaster, Mount Perry. He was born June 9, 1845, in Hopewell township, this county ; is a son of John and Matilda (Crawford) Fullerton. He was brought up on a farm, where he resided until 1878, when he came to Mount Perry and established his present business. He carries a general stock of dry goods, groceries, and such articles as are needed in stores in small towns, and has an excellent trade. He was married March 13, 1877, to Amanda, daughter of Henry and Sarah Jones. They have two children, Martin P., and Annie May. FUNDERBURG, NOAH, farmer, post office, Somerset ; born 1827 ; is a son of Jacob Funderburg and his wife, who was. Priscella Henthorn, grandson of Noah Funderburg, who, with his wife, emigrated from Germany to Frederick county, Maryland, where Jacob was born in 1785, and who, with father, mother, one brother, and six sisters, came to Perry county, in a six-horse and .one-horse wagon. He bought a half section of land near Somerset, and soon found half of it was only a tax title, and the other half no better. He must thus have lost nearly $1,500. and he gathered up his effects, and with money still left, bought one hundred and sixty acres in section three, Thorn township, where he lived and died a few years afterwards. His widow died at the house of one of her daughters, in Jackson township, some years later, at the age of ninety. Jacob became the owner of the Thorn township farm, on which he lived to the date of. his death, in 1878, and in his eighty-fifth year. Noah is of English-Welsh extraction on the maternal side, and HISTORY OF PERRY COUNTY - 413 thus his mother tongue is English. October, 1851, he was married to Miss Phebe Skinner, daughter of William, who came to Perry county in 1808, and whose first wife and her infant were drowned in Kent's Run while returning on horseback from Zanesville. Her maiden name was Sarah Jones, and her only surviving child became the second wife of Judge George Kishler, of Perry. Mr. and Mrs. Funderburg own and reside where she was born, and in the same brick house erected by her father, about 1820, and which preserves all its tine appearance, without any sign of decay, after sixty odd years of exposure. This farm, with additions, now comprises one hundred and seventy-five acres. Like all good farmers, his land grows better and not poorer. He prefers wheat to wool-growing, and has, for five years averaged $125 per acre from a vineyard lot. His first tax was fifty-four cents, and has since risen to as many dollars, The care of her afflicted mother, the second wife of her father, William Skinner, who was, prior to her marriage, Miss Mary Oatley, fell upon Mrs. Fundenburg, and to this task, of some years duration, was added the care, also, of her husband's uncle, " Sammy Funderburg, who suffered from his seventh year a mental disease, caused by scarletina, so that he was placed under guardianship, which office was kindly and faithfully performed by Mr. and Mrs. Funderburg, who, like her ancestors, is an O. S. Baptist, and like them. also, distinguished for her kindness and hospitality. Their children are : Mary E., George C., Laura C., Minerva B., William T., Jacob R., Rachel C., John H., and Noah E. GALLAGHER, PETER, mine boss, Sheldon, Ohio. Was born February 15, 1845, in Athens county, Ohio, son of Peter and Bridget (Farrie) Gallagher. Was raised on a farm, and followed agricultural pursuits until 1861, at which time he enlisted in Company A, Sixty-third Regiment, O. V. I., under Captain Nathan Picket, for three years, or durthe war, and was engaged in the capture of Island Number Ten, bombardment of Fort Pillow, and under hot fire at New Madrid, serving eleven months, when he was discharged by reason of disability, caused by measles, whooping-cough and cold. After receiving his discharge he was unable, for two years, to engage in any kind of business ; at this time he again engaged in farming, which he continued for about two years, since which he has been engaged as follows : Grading on Hocking Valley Railroad, taking charge of a squad of men for three or four months ; laying track about six months ; took charge of gravel train two months ; foreman of laying iron three months ; then took charge of railroad switch for the Straitsville Great Vein Coal and Iron Company for one year, at which time he gave up that position on account of the many miners' strikes, and mined for two years, when he went into grocery and provision store, continuing until the panic of 1872 and 1873, which obliged him to close up business, having largely credited customers ; again engaged in mining for about one year, when he was elected Marshal of New Straitsville, serving three years, during which time hie also was constable. Resigning his office at this time, he accepted the position of guard at Ohio Penitentiary, remaining about two years. Returning at this time, and engaged with the Consolidated Coal and Coke Company, which had charge of the Great Vein Coal and Iron Company's mine. at track laying, mining, and check weighman, for 414 - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.   One year. He was then appointed to his present position, mine boss. He was married November 10, 1874, to Miss Rosa McClain, born May 1850,85o, in Monday Creek township, this connty, daughter of Alexander and Mary (Hoy) McClain, They are the parents of four children, viz. : James F., Charles L., Sarah T., and Maggie. GALLAGHER, M. J., proprietor American House, Somerset. Born September 28, 1858, in Reading township. His father, Charles E., was born in 1836, in St. Johns, New Brunswick. He came to this county in 1842. He was married November, 1857, to Miss Mary Dumolt, of Hocking county. She was born1831.1831 They were the parents of eight children, six of whom are living. M. J. is the eldest. He and his sister came into the hotel November 22, 1880. In December the old people came to live with their children in the hotel. The father of the subject of this sketch died January 29, 1881. The hotel is still being run by M. J. Gallagher. His grandfather, Francis Gallagher, died March 25, 1881. GARRY, JACOB, postmaster, Maxville, Ohio. Was born in Reading township, Perry county, Ohio, November I I, 1835 ; son of Charles and Mary (Hontz) Garry. Brought up on a farm, and at the age of eighteen was apprenticed to the trade of shoemaker. Came to Maxville, Ohio, in 1862, where he has ever since resided. Enlisted May, 1864, in Company F, One Hundred and Sixtieth Regiment, O. N. G., and was honorably discharged from the same in September of the same year. Was appointed postmaster April 23, 1879, which position he has ever since filled with. credit. Mr. Garry was married December, 1852, to Malinda, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Strobl) Bowman, to whom were born six children : Caramay, Ida Elizabeth, Amanda C., William E., Harvey F., Elmer E., the two oldest of whom have passed to the " bright beyond." Mr. Garry is one of the substantial citizens of Maxville, and can ever be found busy at the bench, plying his trade, in that village. GIBSON, MATHEW, track layer, New Straitsville Ohio. Was born January 17, 1849, in Northumberland, England ; son of Mathew and Isabelle (Mason) Gibson. Was raised in a mining region, and began work about a mine at the age of nine years, and has given his attention to that business up to the present time. Emigrated to America in 1856, with his father, who, landing in New York, went to Mason City, Virginia, where he still lives, and has been engaged in mining. Mathew remained with his father until he was nineteen years of age, and was employed at Mason City about ten years, three months of which was for himself. Since that time he has been employed at the following places: Galva, Illinois, two months ; again at Mason City about two years ; Coalton, Kentucky, about eight months ; returned to Mason City, and in September of 1871 went to Nelsonville, Athens county, Ohio, remaining only about two weeks ; Lick Run about nineteen months. During his stay here he was married. May 19, 1872, to Miss Mary Ann Parker, who was born September 7, 1853, in Peach Orchard, on Big Sandy river near Catlettsburgh, Boyd county, daughter of Michael and Adortha (Natress) Parker. They are the parents of three children, viz. : John William, Ellen and Margaret. After his marriage he moved to Shawnee, Ohio, where he lived about five years, when he moved to HISTORY OF PERRY COUNTY - 415 Knightsville, Indiana, remaining about six months, and returned to Shawnee, from where he moved in six months afterward, September. 1879, to this place, where he has remained up to this time and become a permanent citizen, owning his present place of abode, and upon which he has erected a neat cottage dwelling. Mr. Gibson is at this time a member of the Town Council. While living in Shawnee he held the office of Township Trustee for one term, and served as Street Commissioner also in that place. He is now Past Grand of the Kincaid Lodge of Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of Shawnee, Ohio. GOODLIVE, HENRY, deceased ; was born July 8, 1808, in Switzerland, and died December 1, 1867. Mr. Goodlive was raised a farmer, and followed that business during his life. He was married October 8, 1830, to Elizabeth, daughter of Jacob and Catharine Good, who was born in January, 1812. They became the parents of twelve children, viz. : Martha, Catharine, Mary A., Jacob, George, Sarah A., Abraham, Elizabeth, Julia A., deceased, Matilda, Amanda and David L. In 1839 Mr. Goodlive came to Monday Creek township, which he after- ward made his home up to the time of his death, and where his family still reside, upon a farm of eighty acres. GOODLIVE, ADAM, Monday Creek township, farmer, Maxville, Ohio ; was born August 3, 1841, in this township ; son of Abraham and Christina (Bear) Goodlive. Mr. Goodlive was raised on a farm, and has followed farming pursuits up to this time, except time spent in the military service. In October of 1861, he enlisted in Company C, Sixty-second Regiment, O. V. I., and participated in all the engagements of the Army of the Potomac. He retired from active service in July, 1862, and returned home. He was married December 24, 1865, to Miss Martha Nunemaker, b0rn April I. 1840, daughter of Peter and Catharine (Hammer) Nunemaker, of Hocking county, Ohio, to whom were born four children, viz. : Charley, William H., Thomas H. and John S., all of whom are living. GORDON, JOSEPHUS, post office Rehoboth, farmer and stock raiser ; born in Perry county in 1835 ; son of Samuel and Dorothy (Wells) Gordon, who emigrated here from Greene county, Pennsylvania, about the year 1834. They are of German and Irish parentage. The subject of this sketch was married in 1859 to Miss Harriet J. Kelly, daughter of James and Elizabeth ,(Shaw) Kelly. They are the parents of ten children, viz. : John E., Samuel C., George V., Mary E., Emma W., Maggie K., Joe M., Paul, Earl, James, deceased. GORDON, P. A., M. D., physician and surgeon, Junction City, Ohio, was born March 7, 1853, in Perry county ; son of Basil .and Margaret (Keeman) Gordon. His boyhood days were spent on a farm until the age of nineteen years ; then taught school and attended normal school until twenty-five years of age, after which he took a course at the Ohio Medical College, Cincinnati. Mr. Gordon located in Junction City in the spring of 1880, and at present writing has established a good practice. He was married April. 6, 1880, to Miss Kate, daughter of Michael and Rebecca (Beckwith) Forquer. This union has been blessed with one child, viz. : Earl Augustine, born January 26, 1881. Mr. Gordon is employed by the B. & O. Relief Association, for medical and surgical assistance. 416 - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. GORMLEY, JOHN E., book-keeper, New Straitsville, Ohio, was born April 9, 1850, in St. John's, New Brunswick ; son of Patrick and Margaret (Denny) Gormley. While living at home his father moved to Bost0n, Massachusetts, in 1852, where they lived until John E. was fifteen years of age, when they moved to Columbus, Ohio, where John E. lived twelve years and engaged in business at the early age of sixteen years, with Miller, Green & Joyce, with whom he remained nine years, first a chore boy and assistant clerk, after which he was appointed entry clerk, book-keeper and cashier successively. He was next employed as book-keeper for the New York & Ohio Coal Company, with whom he remained one year, when he came to this place and took his present position. Mr. Gormley Was married March 2, 1875, to Miss Belle M. Cushman, daughter of George W. and Belinda (Mitchell) Cushman. They are the parents of three children, viz. : Harry, Blanche and Grace. Mr. Gormley's father, Patrick Gormley, was born in 1816, in County Tyrone, Ireland, and emigrated to America in 1837, settling at St. John's, New Brunswick, where his family was born as above mentioned. But after living in Columbus for some length of time, he returned to Boston, Massachusetts, where he now lives. His mother, Margaret Denny. was born and raised in Londonderry, Ireland ; was married in 1837, and died in Columbus, Ohio, February, 1870, where she is buried. GOULDING, JABEZ, miner, New Straitsville. He was born in Gurndiffath, near Pontypool, Monmouthshire, in 1837 ; is a son of Samuel and Mary Goulding, natives of Gloucestershire, who settled in Gurndiffath early in life, and raised nine children, six sons and three daughters. Mr. Goulding married Ruth Randall, July 27, 1866, and the same year moved to Glamorganshire, South Wales, where he was employed by the Greenhill, Church & Pentre Company to open a new mine called the Church mines, on the number three vein. He was employed by this company till 1869. In March, 1869, he started for America, arriving in New York, March 28th. He was first employed in the Potomac mines, on George Creek, Maryland. After four months work here he came to Jackson county, Ohio, where he located and sent for his family in South Wales. They arrived in this country in 1872, and after residing in Jackson county for eight years they moved to New Straitsville, where he engaged in the mining business, and success has attended him. GRANGER, GEORGE A., proprietor of the Merchant and Custom Mill, New Lexington, Ohio, was born January 25, 1842, in Suffield, Hartford county, Connecticut ; son of Aratus K. and Cordelia M. (Hathaway) Granger. George A. was brought up on the farm, where he remained until he was twenty-one years of age, when he engaged in his present business. He came to this place in 1863 ; he erected his present mill building in 1879. Mr. Granger was married June 16, 1868, to Miss Josephine E., daughter of Abner M. and Margaret C. (Chapalier) White. They are the parents of one child—Joan, deceased. Mr. Granger's mill grinds about one hundred and fifty bushel; of wheat per day the entire year. GRANT, JOHN A., farmer, Saltlick township ; P. 0., Shawnee, 0. ; was born August 15, 1828, in Fauquier county, Virginia ; son of Samuel HISTORY OF PERRY COUNTY - 417 and Maria (Hitch) Grant. Mr. Grant was raised a farmer, and has followed agricultural pursuits to the present time. Was brought to Ohio by his father in 1828, who first settled in Muskingum county, where he remained until 1835, when he came to Perry county, and settled upon the farm of one hundred and twenty acres, where Mr. Grant now resides. It was bought from Alvah Buckingham, who entered it. When he came, he had to build his cabin and clear the land, it being an entire wilderness. Here he lived until his death in September, 1861. By will of the father, John A. became owner of the farm by paying the stipulated sum of $900. John A. has added one hundred and twenty acres to his farm, and erected a fine frame dwelling. After the death of his father, John A. took care of his mother until her death in 1875. Mr. Grant served as Justice of the Peace of this township for eight years, and resigned one year before the closing of his last term. Was township clerk one year, and land appraiser in 1880. Mr. Grant was married October 13, 1853, to Margaret M., daughter of Robert and Margaret (McClelland) Adams of Clayton township, this county. They became the parents of two children, viz. : Robert F., married, and lives in Nebraska; and Samuel R. Mrs. Grant died December 21st, 1858. Mr. Grant was married the second time, January 10, 1861, to Jemima, daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth (Watlin) Rockhold of Harrison township, Perry county, Ohio. They are the parents of six living children, viz. : Iva, Joshua T., Maria E., Earl C., Roscoe Conklin, and Mandie M., and one, deceased, Joseph Madison, died March 2d, 1875, aged eleven years and six months, with inflammation of brain and lungs. This was an exemplary boy, who was fond of the words of God, and became familiar with many passages ; he was a regular church and Sunday school attendant ; said he was going to Jesus, and prayed for his parents, brothers and sisters. His interest in the welfare of others was more than ordinary, even remarkable ; his knowledge and manners would have adorned one of riper years, and will ever be a pleasant remembrance to his friends. Mr. Grant enlisted February 7, 1864, in Company A, Thirty-first O. V. I., for three years, or during the war, and served to the close of the war. Was engaged in the battles of Resaca, Buzzard Roost, Peachtree Creek, where he became disabled. Was sent to Louisville, Kentucky, where he was recruited and discharged, on his way to rejoin his regiment. GRIGGS, SAMUEL, born in New Jersey, November 19th, 1794 ; was a son of Daniel Griggs, and brother of John, Christopher and Joacum, the first and last named having died in Pennsylvania, while Christopher, when last heard from, was in Iowa. Samuel sent a substitute into the war of 1812, and in 1833, came in a two-horse wagon with his wife, who was Debby Fields, and their two children, John and Elizabeth, to Somerset, where they rested until they purchased the Henry Bowan farm, a few miles west of Somerset, now known as the Miles Dittoe farm, which he sold in less than three years ; and after visiting Indiana, Illinois, Missouri and Kentucky, in search of another home, and finding no place that suited him, purchased the farm where he afterwards lived until his death, and where his only son, John Griggs, now resides, in the south-west corner of Reading township. Debby Fields, the wife 38 418 - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. of Samuel Griggs, is a full cousin of the famous Cyrus W. Fields, thus connecting the name of Griggs with that of Fields. GRIGGS, JOHN, was born 1819, in Lycoming county, Pennsylvania, and was therefore only fourteen years old when he came to Ohio, and seventeen when he began life where he now resides. He was united in marriage to Miss Mary Lechrone, in March, 1843. Their children are Katharine E., wife of John. Kerr, deceased, and who ended her widowhood by marriage to Joseph Newton Eyman. William Griggs was married to Miss Josephena D. Eyman, daughter of Bryan Eyman, Esq., and departed this life in 1881, leaving his wife, one son, and three daughters. Henry W. Griggs was married to Miss Ida Phillips, daughter of Mr. Reuben Phillips, and resides in Walnut township, Fairfield county ; post office, Millersport. Watson Griggs was married to Mima M. Neely, daughter of John Neely, and resides on the home farm. The family is Scotch on the Griggs side, and English on the Fields side of its ancestry. Here lives John Griggs, independent as a sovereign, his gentle wife and aged mother comprising the household—that aged mother whose memory yet sparkles with gems of recollection, and whose dark eye flashes with thought. Her son John has added to his possessions the celebrated Lydey Rock farm, just one mile up the Wagner valley, from the Newark, S. & S. R. R., which contains a strong magnesian, chalybeate spring, three feet of iron ore, and a landscape wild and picturesque. GRIMES, F. M., farmer, Pleasant township ; post office, Moxahala ; he was born April 7, 1844 ; son of David and Nancy (Hollingshead) Grimes, both natives of this State. His grandparents were natives of Pennsylvania. Mr. F. M. Grimes was born on the farm on which he now resides, and his farm contains two hundred and twelve acres. He married Miss M. E. Buxton February 6, 1873 ; she was of Monroe township. They became the parents of three children, viz. ; Burt, born Dec. 12, 1873 ; John, September 16, 1877 ; Grace, June 21, 1879. GRIMES, H. C., dentist, Somerset ; he was born in 1828 in Somerset. His father and mother were both born in Wurtemburg, Germany. The subject of this sketch went West in 1850, and came back in 1853, being inside that time one year in Dakota. He went into the army, Thirty-first O. V. I., in 1861 ; he enlisted as Lieutenant, and was promoted to a Captaincy. He resigned in 1863. He remained at home six months on account of sickness. He enlisted as Captain in the spring of 1864, and came back in fall of 1864. The last time he was under General Thomas. Mr. Grimes was elected to the State Legislature in 1879. He is the author of the famous " Hawk Bill." He learned his profession since the war. He was married to Miss Mary P. Rankin of Brownsville, Licking county, Ohio. She was born in Muskingum county, Ohio. They are the parents of three children, two of whom are living : Caddie, Willie, (dead) ; John D. HADDEN, SAMUEL, proprietor planing mill, New Lexington, Ohio. Mr. Hadden was born February 14, 1842, in Union township, Muskingum county, Ohio ; son of Samuel M. and Ann (Lorimer) Hadden. They were the parents of twelve children—nine sons and three daughters. Four of the sons served in the late war, two of whom lost their lives on the battlefield. Samuel was brought up on the farm, where he HISTORY OF PERRY COUNTY - 419 remained until twenty-two years of age. He came to this county in 1868, and in the following year came to this place, and engaged in his present business, with a partner the greater part of the time. In the meantime Mr. Hadden traveled in the West, one year, in the interest of a mining company. He is now sole proprietor of an active business in this line. Mr. Hadden was married October 8, 1867, to Almira, daughter of Dr. J. W. and Sarah (McConnell) Law, of Tuscarawas county, Ohio. They are the parents of six children, viz. : William, Francis, Charles, Samuel, Annetta and John. HAMILTON, THOMAS H., New Lexington, Ohio, was born September 14, 1859, in New Lexington, Ohio ; son of Thomas and Helen (Johnson) Hamilton. Thomas Hamilton was a native of Virginia, and Helen Johnson, of Perry county, Ohio. Mr. Hamilton, the subject of this sketch, was married November 24, 1881, to Miss Libbie, daughter of William Haines, of Somerset, Ohio. HAMMITT, SAMUEL, farmer, Madison township ; post office, Mt. Perry. He was born April 3, 1823, in Madison township, Perry county. He is a son of George and Jane (Bergrin) Hammitt. He was brought up as a farmer, which occupation he has since followed. Mr. H. enlisted in Company H, 160th Regiment O.V. I., and served four months as a corporal. He was married December 22, 1850, to Mary J. Ford, daughter of Charles and Harriet Ford. His second marriage was to Mary J. Danison, daughter of Edward and Aletha Danison. Mr. and Mrs. H. are the parents of eight children, viz. : William R., Charles N., Clarissa J., Andrew J., Jacob L. (deceased), John B., Adelaide R., and George W. HAMMOND, JOHN, the venerable ancestor of the very respectable family which bears his name, was born in county of Donegal, Ireland, from whence he and his brother Thomas came to Dauphin county, Pennsylvania, where John was married to Miss Rebecca James. On the first day of .November, 1805, he and his wife, with her mother and father, and his brother Thomas, arrived in a four-horse wagon at a spot near where Trinity Church now stands in Somerset. Here they began cutting a wagon road toward their destination, and were soon discovered by Jacob Finck, who at once offered his aid, and who, by his natural kind heartedness, won the friendship of the Hammonds, which was ardently reciprocated to the end of their long and worthy lives. Arrived at last on the half section they had ;elected for their future homes, they erected a tent around a dogwood tree, yet standing as a living witness, near the Sulphur spring, on the south side of the farm. Under this temporary shelter grandmother James, most probably wearied by the long journey just completed, took sick and died, November 17th, 1805. Her venerable husband followed her a few years later, and they are most probably the first aged pair whose death may be recorded in the county. John Hammond and his devoted wife, now deprived of the affectionate support of her parents, bravely adhered to the purpose of hewing a home ont of the frowning forest for themselves and their children. In this purpose they were also effectively assisted by Thomas, who made his home with them until June 30th, 1852, when he departed this life, at the age of seventy-seven years, but not until his aim at success and independence had been realized. He was a soldier in the 420 - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. War of 1812. It Was no uncommon thing for this family, and others scattered here and there, to go as far as Chillicothe or Zanesville for grain grinding, and often the brave wife of John Hammond was left alone in her cabin home, with her little ones, to answer the demands of the roving Indian for salt or bread, and to defend her home against the intrusions of wild beasts. The life of John Hammond was prolonged to the age of eighty-eight years and that of his wife to eighty-nine years.. They lived to behold the fruitful fields which their firmness and industry had rescued from a forest waste, and to see their children grow to the estate of womanhood and manhood and take rank among the foremost in useful life and in the esteem of society. Their children were Thomas, husband of Miss Olive Spencer, and who, about eighteen years since, removed from Perry county to McLane county, Illinois ; John, who died in East Rushville in 1832 Nancy, who preserves her maiden name, and resides with her sister, Mrs. Stewart ; Mary Ann Cowen, wife of the late George Cowen, of Hopewell ; James, who died in California, and whose wife was Miss Eliza Hukel, yet living with her sons in Iowa. HAMMOND, JESSE, is the only survivor of all the sons of John and Rebecca Hammond, and to whom descended a share of the ancestral acres, and all of the manhood and social character of his ancestry. He is the husband of Miss Elizabeth Cowen, with whom he spent many years of a happy life, first clouded by her departure from it, a few years since. He is supported in his irreparable bereavement and in his declining years by the kind offices of a niece to his departed wife. Next in age to Jesse was Cyrus, who died on his farm in sight of Somerset. Elijah and William .died before coming of age ; and next is Rebecca, wife of Mr. John Stewart, who occupies the homestead, hallowed by all the holy remembrances of childhood, and blessed with a daughter, now sixteen, the only prospective heir to all the patrimonial domain, and a husband, whose skill as a farmer and success as a husbandman have added beauty, as well as acres, to the old home, where there ever has been, as there is now, an unaffected welcome to its kindred and its friends. The maiden name of Mr. Stewart's mother was Nancy Meldrem, whom, with all his brothers, he left in county Donegal, Ireland. His father was James Stewart. His marriage ceremony was pronounced by Rev. P. V. Ferree, in 1862. HANLEY, EDWARD, proprietor of restaurant, New Straitsville. He was born May 5, 1830, in Glasgow, Scotland ; a son of P. Hanley, a native of Ireland, who moved to Scotland when Edward was young. His parents had four children, two of whom are yet living. While the children were yet young, Mr. Hanley lost his life in a coal mine. Edward began work in the mines when but seven years and eight months old. At the age of fifteen he was a contractor, and at the age of twenty was married to Elizabeth Holmes, a native of Ireland. Mr. and Mrs. Hanley became the parents of seven children, all born in Scotland, five of whom are still living. In 1866 they came to America, and four months after. Mrs. Hanley died. Mr. Hanley began mining in the Kanawha River region, in Virginia, where he worked eleven days with a "pick and drill," and had charge of two hundred men. In 1870 Mr. Hanley married Margaret Croal, a native of Ireland, and daugh- HISTORY OF PERRY COUNTY - 421 ter of Edward and Catharine Croal. She had two brothers—James and Francis—both of whom were killed in the late war, the former at Spottsylvania Court House, the latter at the White House Road, two miles from " Old Church," on the 13th of June, 1863. In 1871, Mr. and Mrs. Hanley came to New Straitsville, where he took charge of the Troy mines until 1874. For the excellent work in this mine he received well merited praise from Andrew Roy, State Inspecter of Mines. Mr. Hanley now conducts an excellent restaurant. HANNON, JOHN SYLVESTER, Rector of St. Mary's Catholic Church, Shawnee, Ohio, was born October 28, 1851, in Steubenville, Ohio, son of Bernard and Rose (O'Harra) Hannan. He received his preparatory education at Mt. St. Mary's of the West, then entered St. Aloysius Seminary, and completed his philosophical and theological education, at Columbus, Ohio. He was 0rdained November 7, 1879, by Archbishop Purcell, at St. Francis Church, at Cincinnati, Ohio. After his ordination he was stationed at St. Joseph's Cathedral, and had charge of the surrounding missions attached to the cathedral. At the same time he was chaplain to the Ohi0 State Penitentiary. From these duties he was transferred to Athens, Ohio, and had charge at St. Paul's Church about three months. He came to his present charge May 1, 1880. Before his appointment here this congregation was attended once a month from Straitsville. During his labors here he has built the present church building, and the congregation is steadily increasing. HANSBERGER, JOEL J., proprietor of Park House, and lumberman and contractor, Corning, Ohio, was born September 14, 184o, in Amanda township, Fairfield county, Ohio, son of Joel and Elizabeth (Loose) Hansberger. Joel was brought up on the farm. At the age of twenty he enlisted in Company K, Seventeenth O. V. I., and veteranized, serving four years, and never was absent from his regiment on account of sickness, and was engaged in thirty-two different battles. During his service he was commissary sergeant eighteen months. At the close of the war he engaged as dry goods clerk ; subsequently was drug clerk. He conducted a hardware store about six months ; after selling this out he engaged in general merchandizing, which he has conducted for the last eleven years. At this time he owns a store at Baltimore, Fairfield county, Ohio. In the fall of 1881 he established his business here, and opened his hotel in the spring of 1882. Mr. Hansberger was married February 14, 1867, to Miss Caroline, daughter of Daniel and Elizabeth Tschopp, of Pleasant township, Fairfield county, Ohio. They are the parents of six children, viz. : Ulysses Franklin, Harry Grant, William C., Carrie Clementine, Ernest Eugene, and Arthur Garfield. HARBAUGH, DANIEL, farmer, Shawnee, Ohio, was born December 4, 1818, in Somerset county, Pennsylvania, and son of John and Roxana (Wymer) Harbaugh. Mr. Harbaugh was raised a farmer, and has followed agricultural pursuits pretty much all his life. He lived to the age of seventeen years in Pennsylvania, when he came to Ohio with his father and settled in Perry county, Ohio, and of which county he has been a resident up to this present time. He was married February 14, 1845, to Mary, daughter of John and Jane (Travars) Hazel-ton. They are the parents of nine children, viz. : John, Henry, James, Gabriel, Sarah Jane, Barbara Ellen, Hannah Lydia, Mary, Louisa, and 422 - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. William T. S., all living but one—Louisa. All who are living are married, with but one exception, that of Willie, who is at home. Mr. Harbaugh has, at this time, twenty-five grandchildren, and is quite vigorous of his age. He helped to roll logs, in the days of yore, where now are the present sites of Shawnee and Straitsville, and has seen the farms change from $10 and $12 per acre to $60, $70, $00, $150, and up to $300 per acre, all upon the account of developed mineral wealth, which was opened to commerce by the building of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad branch that reached this point, the first meeting of which he attended at Newark, Ohio, and which brought a copious shower of wealth into his community. He has been, and at the present time is, one of the reliable citizens of this county, and has filled the offices of township treasurer and trustee for several years. He also has held all the society 0fficial positions of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Shawnee, Ohio. He now owns two hundred and thirty-four acres of land at McCuneville, two miles from Shawnee, the coal of which is leased to a New York coal company, at ten cents per ton. His statement as to how Shawnee came by its name is as follows : In an early day, when the country was sparsely settled, and there were no Sunday schools and but few churches, the youngsters were accustomed to grow up almost uncultivated, and with but little literary culture. During a winter term of school it so happened that some difficulty arose between the master (Stephen Wise) and a scholar by the name of James Small, and it happened that the master attempted to correct the scholar, who proposed, by pugilistic force, to resist the punishment, and thus ensued the tussle for predominance ; but the master—perhaps being the better of the two, and undoubtedly in the right—came of conqueror. Of course, the thing became news and took wings, flying from ear to ear, and came to the hearing of an elderly gentleman of the community—Mr. Henry Hazelton—who had served in the Indian wars ; upon which he remarked that they (the boys of that community) reminded him of the Shawnees, meaning the tribe of Shawnee Indians ; from which it became a title of the boys, and later the creek they lived upon, and still later to the mining town of that name. HARDY, DAVID, farmer, Maxville, Ohio ; born in Fairfield county, Ohio, July 2, 1829 ; son of Thomas and Jane (Huston) Hardy. At the age of three years he, with his father, came to Perry county and located in Monday Creek township, where he has ever since resided. His boyhood was spent on his father's farm, and he has continued to till the soil through his entire life. He was married October 25, 1852, to Lucretia R., daughter of Ralph and Sarah (Gunder) Webb, to whom were born six children—Sarah, Jane, Margaret, John R., Thomas W. and Gustavus A., all living in Monday Creek township, except Margaret and John, who died several years since. Mr. Hardy is a substantial farmer, owning one hundred and twenty acres in Monday Creek township, and enjoys the respect of all who know him. HARLAN, B. F., post office Somerset, Ohio, was born in the State of Delaware, May 5, 1831. His father was William Harlan, who died in Pennsylvania, in 1850, in the sixtieth year of his age. He was a good mechanic in all kinds of wood work. His mother was Miss Sarah Hewlet, who died in 1865, in her seventy-third year. She was the HISTORY OP PERRY COUNTY - 413 mother of three sons and three daughters, who grew to manhood and womanhood. Of these, one sister, Mrs. Sarah Tague, wife of John Tague, post office Rehoboth, resides in this county. The family is of English descent on both sides. Its religion was of those Baptists known as Christians, or Campbellites. Mr. Harlan and his wife are Lutherans. In politics he was always Whig or Republican. He was married November 31, 1827, to Miss Mary Smitley, daughter of the venerable John Smitley, near Newtonville, Ohio. They lived in Muskingum and Licking counties until 1861, when they came to Perry. His occupation being that of a miller caused several removals, until 1874, he bought the farm on which he now resides. He has been successful as a miller, and still pursues this occupation. His sons are John William and Joel. His daughters are Sarah Louisa and Elizabeth Ann, both single. Inheriting no patrimony but honesty, industry, and a reasonable degree of health, Mr. Harlan and his wife have attained to circumstances of comparative independence, while much of the time he nursed his health, and qualified himself for his avocation of a first-class miller. A close student of passing events, he has gained a competence by the stern virtues of industry, economy, perseverance and temperance. HARSH, JACOB H., merchant, Rendville, Ohio ; born June 25, 1844, in Franklin county, Pennsylvania ; son of Jacob and Mary (Gantz) Harsh. Jacob Harsh was a native of Virginia, and Mary Gantz a native of Washington county, Pennsylvania, of German ancestry. Jacob H. was brought up on a farm until about twenty years 0f age, when he emigrated to Russellville, Kentucky, and clerked in a store about four years. From there he went to Owensboro, on the Ohio River, and engaged in the manufacture of brooms, in which employment he continued about three years. He then taught school one year, after which he returned to this State and located at Columbus. His first employment in that city was to clerk in a dry goods house, which he followed for five years. He came to Rendville, his present abode, in August, 1879. He was married September 30, 1879, to Miss Leanna, daughter of Thomas and Penelope (McFarland) Barron, of Owensboro, Kentucky. They are the parents of one child, Thomas Barron Harsh. HARTSOUGH, DANIEL F., minister of the gospel, Maxville, Ohio, was born April t0, 1826, in Fairfield county, Ohio ; son of Daniel and Catharine (Fulcarth) Hartsough. He was brought up on a farm, and came to this township soon after his marriage, where he remained one and one-half years, and then went to Indiana and remained about thirteen years and six months in Huntington and Kosciusko counties. At the end of this time he again returned to this township, where he has since resided. His father was a German Baptist in religion, and he, at the age of twenty-one years, united with the same church, and at twenty-four years of age became deacon of the same, and at thirty years of age entered the ministry of that church, and at this time holds the second degree in that relation. He is now pastor on the Rush Creek District, and officiates at Bremen, Marion, and Durban Run. Rev. Hartsough was married March 8, 1849, to Susannah, daughter of George and Elizabeth (Fink) Henricks. They are the parents of six children, viz. : George, Isaac, Aaron, John, Elizabeth C. and Ira C. HARVEY, HUMPHREY, grocer and baker, Shawnee, Ohio, was born 424 - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. in 1829, in county Cornwall, England ; son of John and Thomasine (Cornish) Harvey. He came to America in 1850, and located in New York City, and worked in a bakery two years. He then went to Alleghany county, Maryland, and remained about twenty years. Mr. Harvey was married in 1850 to Miss Jane, daughter of Henry Bishop, of county Cornwall, England. They became the parents of one child, viz. : John. Mrs. Harvey died in 1856, and Mr. Harvey was again married in 1858 to Miss Lucinda Jane, daughter of Travis and Blanche (McCoy) Coppage, of Maryland. They are the parents of eight children, viz. : Thomasine Blanche, married to John Ritz, Lucinda Jane, William Alfred, George Travis, Henry James, Thomas Humphrey, Hattie May and Iva Grant. Mr. Harvey's is the oldest business house in Shawnee, and is succeeding well. HATFIELD, JOHN, miller, Monroe township, Corning, Ohio, was born February 17, 1820, in Pennsylvania ; son of William and Mary Ann (Miller) Hatfield. Mr. Hatfield was brought up on a farm, and followed agricultural pursuits and running threshing machines for twenty-four years, until about twenty years ago, when he engaged in his present business of running a saw mill, which he is now about to change into a flouring mill. He also has managed threshing machines since he quit farming. Mr. Hatfield came to Ohio with his parents at an early day, who settled in Richland township, Muskingum county, and afterward moved to Indiana, where they lived about one year, when they returned to Fairfield county, Ohio, where they lived up to the time of their deaths. His father was a soldier in the War of 1812, serving two six months terms. His grandfather, Edward Hatfield, was married in England to Miss Mary Lee, and emigrated to America during the Revolutionary War ; became a soldier for freedom and right ; endured the hardships and cruelties of war, but was encouraged by a brave wife, who continued with him during the campaign, and where their first child, Edward, was born, and afterward they became the parents of William, father of the subject of this sketch, and Samuel. John Hatfield lived with his father until he was past twenty-two years of age, when he was married to Miss Alice C. Darnell, born January 13, 1822, in Culpepper county, Virginia, daughter of Jeremiah and Narcissa Frances (Coppage) Darnell. They are the parents of nine children, viz. : Harriet Ann, married to James Moore ; Eliza Jane, married to Joseph Bougle ; Narcissa Frances, married to John Eberts ; Lewis, married to Elizabeth Irwin ; J. M., married to Cynthia J. Post ; Mary Alice, married to John W. Roberts ; John Wesley, married to Frances Maxwell ; Charles Calvert and Maggie E., at home. Mrs. Hatfieid's parents came to Ohio when she was a small girl, where they llved up to the time of their deaths. Mr. Darnell died in Morgan county, and Mrs. Darnell in Licking county. each living to a good, ripe age. HAYS, GEORGE L., post office clerk, New Lexington, Ohio, was born December 14, 1840, in Jackson township ; son of John and Zelda (Rinehart), Hays. Young Hays was brought up on a farm, where he remained until 1867, when he came to this place and established a provision grocery, which he conducted till 1872, after which he clerked in a store and taught school until 1877, when he took his present position.