HISTORY OF PERRY COUNTY - 425 Mr. Hays was married January 19, 1864, to Miss Barbara E., daughter of Isaac and Susan Baily. They are the parents of three children, viz. : Susanna E., George Franklin and Isaac Arthur (twins). HAZELTON, HENRY, farmer, Saltlick township, Shawnee, Ohio ; was born in this township ; son of John and Jane (Traverse) Hazelton. Mr. Hazelton was brought up a farmer, and has made farming the business of his life. Having all his life been a citizen of Saltlick township, he is now the second oldest citizen in it. Was married May 20, 1860, to Lois Amanda, daughter of Joseph and Susan (Raymer) Woodruff, of Orange county, New York. They are the parents of three children, viz. : Ulysses S. Grant, John M. and Mary Jane, who are living, and one that died in infancy. Mr. Hazelton's father came from Pennsylvania to Ohio at an early day, and settled on Congress laud at $1.25 per acre ; the same land is now considered worth $100 per acre, and some in the neighborhood has sold as high as $300 per acre. The land here, as farming land, yields about forty bushels of corn per acre ; wheat, about twenty bushels per acre. By good management Mr. Hazelton raises fifty bushels of corn per acre, and twenty-five bushels of wheat per acre. He now owns one hundred and sixty acres in Pike township, and four hundred and ninety acres in this township. That in Pike township, and eighty acres in this township, are optioned as mineral land. He enlisted in September of 1861, in Company H, Sixty-second Regiment, O. V. I., as Second Lieutenant for three years, or during the war, but was discharged in May, 1864, by reason of disabillity, caused by a wound received at Fort Wagner, South Carolina, in the attempt to carry the fort. Upon that charge the regiment lost three hundred and fifty men, killed and wounded, and every officer but one was killed or wounded. The Brigade Commander was also killed. Mr. Hazelton enlisted in the service as Second Lieutenant, and was discharged as First Lieutenant. His wound has made him a permanant cripple. HAZELTON, JAMES P., teacher, Straitsville, Ohio ; born in Saltlick, township, Perry county, Ohio, May 7, 1860 ; s0n of Harrison and Louvina (Marlow) Hazelton ; brought up on his father's farm, and attended school at Straitsville, and began teaching at the age of twenty years, in the grammar department of the Straitsville Public Schools. United with the Baptist Church at Old Straitsville, at the age of fifteen years, and at the early age of seventeen years became superintendent of the Baptist Sabbath school at that place, in which honored position he remained for three years. At eighteen years of age he was chosen clerk of the Baptist Church and has continued to perform the duties of that office ever since. Mr. Hazelton is a young man whose future is bright. In the spring of 1882 he entered the Penmanship Department of the Ohio Wesleyan Universary, at Delaware, Ohi0, and graduated in plain and ornamental penmanship at the Art Hall, under the instruction of Prof. G. W. Michael. HECK, A. R., born March 7, 1815, on the farm where he now lives, near Somerset, Ohio ; a successful and prosperous farmer. His father was Judge John Heck, born in 1790, who came with his father,Frederick Heck, from. Franklin county, Pennsylvania, to Ohio in 1796, and to Perry county in 1802. Frederick's sons were Judge John, of Perry - 39 - 426 - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. county, and George Heck, of Seneca county, Ohio ; his daughters were Susan, wife of Jacob Pence ; Margeret, wife of Peter Middaugh ; Elizabeth, wife of William McCormick ; Katharine, wife of Isaac Pence; and Maria single. Frederick Heck, on his arrival in Perry, purchased the splendid tract of three hundred and twenty acres where his descendants yet reside. The father of A. R.. Heck was married in 1811, to Peggy Sanderson, a. sister of the late venerable General George Anderson, of Lancaster, Ohio. Their sons were George and Alexander R; their daughters, Elizabeth, wife of Henry Brehm, and Huldah, wife of Hiram Dennison. George resided and died in Iowa, and of two sons, one fell in the battle of Franklin, Tennessee. Alexander R. Heck was united in marriage, June 25, 1833, to Rachel Linville, daughter of Solomon, who was the brother of Joseph and Benjamin Linville, of Fairfield county, Ohio. They had six daughters : Margaret, wife of Isaac Brook-hart, who has two daughters ; Elizabeth, wife of George L. Brehm,who has one son and one daughter , Katharine, wife of Raymond J. Dittoe, who has one son and one daughter ; Susan, wife of Clinton S. Dorris, who has one son, and Hannah, Wife of Hayden Arnold, died 1881. Alexander A. Heck, is a church member, conservative independent in politics, a good, if not a superior specimen of American citizenship,and the last of his name now living in the county. His taxes in 1881, were $140. HENRY, FRANKLIN L., farmer, Ferrara, Perry county, Ohio ; was born August 5, 1849, in Monroe township, Perry county, Ohio ; son of Cyrus and Abigail (Dye) Henry, Cyrus Henry was born in Carroll county, Ohio, and came to Monroe township with his father, John Henry, who entered a farm in the township about the year 1837. Abigail Dye was brought up near Clay's Monument, about five miles east of Wheeling, West Virginia. Franklin L. Henry was brought up on a farm. Began teaching school in 1869 ; taught first in the Dougan school Monroe township ; taught, in all, about six terms. He received a preparatory education at the Lebanon Academy. He entered the Ohio University at Athens, in the fall of 1871, and was graduated in the spring of 1876. In 1879 he formed one of a surveying party, under the supervision of Major J. W. Free and E. N. Maxwell. They first visited Fort Griffin and Fort Worth, Texas. On his return to the frontier he was taken with typhoid fever, compelling him to abandon the enter- prise and return to Albany, Texas, where he lay fourteen weeks, a part of the time at the very point of death. When he became convalescent he returned to his native home, where he has remained up to the present time. HENRICKS, DANIEL, farmer, Maxville, Ohio ; was born in Monday Creek township, November 2, 1832 ; son of George and Elizabeth (Fink) Henricks. He was brought up on a farm ; in 1851 he was elected township clerk ; in 1856 he moved to Lyon county, Kansas, where he lived fourteen years, and served as Justice of the Peace seven years, resigning the office when he left there. In 1870 he moved to the Indian Territory, where he remained three years ; in 1873 he moved to Texas, stopping in the northern part, where he resided four years, and returned to Monday Creek township in 1877, and located on his present farm. Mr. Henricks was married the first time February 15, 1851, to Nancy 427 - HISTORY OF PERRY COUNTY. daughter of James P. and Austis (Sherwood) Black, who died February 28, 1875. They became the parents of three children, viz. : John W., Elizabeth J. and James C. . He was married the second time April 1879, to Annie, daughter of Thomas and Jane (Huston) Hardy. Mr. Henricks' grandfather, John Henricks, was a native of Germany, and emigrated to America shortly after the Revolutionary War, and settled in Bedford county, Pennsylvania, but in 1809, moved with his son, George, to Ohio and settled in Perry county, where he built the first grist mill on Jonathan's Creek.. Mr. Henricks' father, George Henricks, moved into Monday Creek township in 1826. HEPPELL, JAMES W., engineer, Shawnee, Ohio ; was born November 30, 1844 in Northumberland, England ; son of James and Hannah (Brodee) Heppell ; was brought up in the country, and worked in a coal mine up to 1863, beginning at the age of nine years ; was engaged as fireman on the railroad for nine years, and then on a ship for one year as engineer, running from England to France. He came to America in 1873, landing in New York, and has been employed at the following business since his arrival :. At Dennison, Summit county, Ohio, one year ; Shawnee, Ohio, as a miner nine months ; on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, fireing engine fifteen months ; as engineer at the XX furnace, where he has remained up to this time. Mr. Heppell was married July 7. 1861., to Miss Barbra, daughter of Georg and Elizabeth (Miller) Campbell; are the parents of six children living, viz. : Elizabeth, Christena, eorge, Barbra, Fannie and Mary, and six dead, viz. : George, James, Hannah, Walter, Thomas and Edward. Mr. Heppell has passed some narrow escapes of his life ; at one time he was forty-eight hours bound in a coal mine, in England, whose shaft was one thousand and seven hundred feet deep. This shaft was sunk in 1799, and is still running coal. It is the mine in which Stevenson first proved his elevator engine to be a success, by which he amassed a fortune. HIGGINS, JAMES, was born in 1816. in Pennsylvania ; son of Arthur and Mary (Brown) Higgins ; he was brought up on a farm, and followed farming all his life, and was very successful. He came to Ohio at the age of fourteen years, with his father, who settled upon the farm now owned by the family of the subject of this sketch. Mr. Higgins was married June 8, 1847, to Miss Ellen McMenomy, born November I, 1822, in the northern part of Ireland, daughter of 'Roger and Marjory (McGinley) McMenomy. They became the parents of eight children, viz. : Arthur; John, James. Mary (deceased), Elizabeth. Francis, Stephen and Thomas, deceased. Mr. Higgins departed this life May 13, 1874. His wife, who still survives him, was brought to America when a child, whose parents settled in New York State ; at the age of ten years her uncle, Judge McGinley, brought her to Ohio. where she has since resided. HILL, ROBERT, farmer, born in 1843. in Thorn township, Perry county, Ohio ; post office, Rushville. In 1867 he was married to Miss Levina Lehman, a daughter of Christian Lehman, whose wife was the daughter of Frederick Siple of Fairfield county, Ohio. The father of Robert. was James Hill, deceased, in Perry county, Ohio : and his grandfather \yeas Robert Hill, deceased. in Virginia. His mother's maiden 428 - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. name was Margaret Tailor, and that of his grandmother was Sarah White, a native of Maryland, and deceased near Thornville. The children of Robert and Levina Hill are : George, John Richard, Martha,Rezella, Ann. Robert served his country in Company L. Fourth U. S. Artillery, six years in the regular army was discharged in March. and married in May. 1867. His first lieutenant was a son of Henry Ward Beecher. This eminent divine was visiting his son and saw a soldier shot down by the rebels while carrying sugar suspended from one end of a stick and coffee at the other. the stick being swung over his neck. The sight of this event. and the carelessness of the soldiery which seemed to border on indifference, made a deep impression on the manner and conversation of their distinguished visitor. Mr. Hills is a descendent of that Rev. Adam Lehman, whose name is connected with the first United Brethren Conference ever held in America : a name that will live in history while letters preserve its records. Her grandfather. Jacob Adam Lehman. was also a preacher in the same church. HILLERY, MARSHALL, was born in Virginia. March 2d, 1827. Emigrated with his parents to Ohio in 1830, and located on a farm near Lancaster, Ohio. After remaining a few years in Fairfield county, he removed with his parents to Monday Creek township, where he has resided ever since. His father. Elijah Hillery, was a native of Virginia. He served in the War of 1812. and was a great friend of the Union cause during the late troubles. He died October 9th. 1873. Marshall Hillery is a farmer by occupation ; although not largely engaged in farming, yet he maintains his position as one of the progressive farmers of the community. He was married to Sarah Martin. October 30th, 1830. She was born August 18, 1827. She is the daughter of Ellison Martin, of Logan, Hocking county. Mr. Martin was a prominent man in his party and society ; holding, at the time of his death. the offices of County Auditor. justice of the Peace and Postmaster. He died November 3, 1839. Marshall and Sarah Hillery are the parents of five children. The first, a son, died in his infancy ; Elizabeth J.. born September 20. 184, died April 12. 1836: John M.. born September 30. 1857 ; Charles E.. born July 16. 1861 Laura May. born July 2. 1863. died February 23. 1870. John M.. a teacher by profession, is engaged in teaching in the county of which he is a resident. Charles E. is a clerk in a dry goods *establishment. HILLIS, EDWARD. farmer. Pike township. New Lexington. Ohio; was born May 31. 1833. in Jackson township. this county ; son of Elijah and Elizabeth ( Freshour) Hillis. Mr. Hillis was raised a farmer. and has followed agricultural pursuits up to the present time. Mr. Hillis remained at home until the date of his marriage. October 26. 1832. to Miss Ellis Ferguson. born in December. 1837, daughter of Patrick and Margaret (McCabe, Ferguson. They are the parents (it six children. viz. : Richard. John. deceased : Mary. married to Clestin Mattingly : George. Edward and Charles. Mr. Hillis father came to Ohio at an early day, and after some time he entered eighty acres of land near what is now known as North Ferrara, but soon after he was killed at a house raising about one mile south of where the Moxahala furnace now stands, on the Vanwey farm, leaving a wife and ten children. Af- HISTORY OF PERRY COUNTY - 429 ter her husband's death, Mrs. Hillis still remained upon the farm, and her sons cleared it up and farmed it. Mrs. Hillis was again married in two or three years. to John Haughran, who lived with the Hillis family until the time of his death, which occurred in December, 1847, at which time Edward, the subject of this sketch, took charge of the farm. Haughran. after his marriage to Mrs. Hillis, bought the eighty acres she lived upon. and also purchased eighty acres that Mr. Hillis now lives upon : and npon the occasion of his death, the property went into an administrator's hands. when Mrs. Haughran bought the eighty acres she lived upon at the time of her last marriage, which her two sons, Edward and Thomas. assisted her in paying for, but was afterward allowed the amount of their assistance in the purchase in partnership of this same eighty acres of land. She also bought eighty-three acres at the same time. which she sold to her two sons, James and Washington. Two years after the partnership purchase by Edward and Thomas. Edward bought the share belonging to Thomas. At the administrator's sale. David, her oldest son, bought the eighty acres entered by Mr. Hillis. with whom she made her home until she died. James bought out Washington ; and Edward, after the death of James, bought out his heirs in 1879 ; and upon the death of his brother, David, who was killed at a railroad bridge raising. on the O. C. R. R., bought out his heirs also ; and owns a house and three lots in the Third ward, Zanesville. O. He acted as administrator for his brother David's estate. He also purchased in the spring of 1882, seventy acres of the John Riley farm. All of the original Hillis family were natural mechanics. Edward does all of his own work, such as blacksmithing, wagon making, carpentering. etc. In connection with his other work, he ran a threshing machine fifteen years. His health has been remarkably good, as there has never been a physician called to see him vet. When he was a boy, deer were so plenty that they had to guard the wheat field, having seen as many as twenty-rive or thirty in one herd. HITCHCOCK. COLONEL N. F., was born December 29. 1832, in Perry county, which has since been his home ; boyhood was spent on farm ; at the age of eighteen he commenced teaching ; followed it ten years, then organized a company of militia and went to the army as Captain ; was promoted to rank of Lieutenant Colonel ; served three years ; was in the following battles : Richmond, Perryville, Stone River, Chickamauga. Chattanooga. Resaca, Rome: Jonesborough; Atlanta, Nashville, Franklin. Was married March 6th, 1854. to Miss Gemia, daughter of John F. and Rosanna (Kelly) Angle ; are the parents of nine children. living, viz. : John H.. Mary, Rosanna. James H., S. Clinton, E. Ross, Harvey F., Alice J.. Lyda C. Mr. Hitchcock's parents are of English and Irish descent : has two brothers who were in the army, one being Captain. Mr. Hitchcock's grandfather on his father's side, Isaac H.. was one of the first pioneers. HITE. C. E.. M. D.. was born 1845. in Lancaster. Ohio ; is the only son of Jacob Hite. an old and highly respected citizen of Lancaster. and a grandson of John Hite. a Baptist minister of the old school. Dr. Hite's mother was Margaret Guseman. His sisters are Miss Mary and Miss Ella Hite of Lancaster. He was educated in the excellent free schools of his native city ; read medicine in the office and under the BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - 430 tuition of Dr. G. W. Boerstler, long celebrated as the foremost in his profession in Lancaster ; graduated in Cleveland Medical College1868; located in Rushville, where he became acquainted with and married Miss Sue Lewis, daughter of the late venerable W. B. Lewis, of that village. In 1871 he changed his location to Thornville, and a few months later became a partner of the late Dr. Allen Whitmer, who then, and to the say of his death 1881, enjoyed a very lucrative practice. By the death of this faithful physician and very excellent citizen, Dr. C. E. Hite succeeded to the very large practice theretofore enjoyed by the firm of Hite &Whitmer. He has been Master of Lodge 521, F. and A. M., since its organization in 1879 ; a member of the I. O. O. F., and in all respects a useful citizen, an ardent Democrat, and a thrifty man of affairs. He has two sons—Charles, the eldest, and Harry, now three years of age. Jacob Hite, his father, has been in business for nearly a half century as a merchant tailor in Lancaster, and such is the general confidence in his integrity and capacity that he has served as executor, without bond, at the request of the testator. HOLMES, CAPT. JAMES M., former cashier of the Perry County Bank, New Lexington, Ohio ; was born June 15, 1837, in Liberty township, Fairfield county, Ohio ; son of Eli and Catharine (Brown) Holmes. James M. was brought up on the farm, where he remained until twenty-six years of age, when he enlisted in Company B, One Hundred and Thirty-fifth Regiment O. V. I., and served about one year. When he came out of the service he engaged in the grocery business at Terre Haute, Indiana, and remained about one year, after which he came to Zanesville, Ohio, and engaged in the coal business, which he followed until 1873, when he came to this place and engaged in the Perry County Bank as book-keeper, and was elected cashier in 1878. February 22, 1881, lie was elected Captain of Company A. Seventeenth Regiment O. N. G. having previously held the office of Lieutenant of the company. G., commanded the squad of the company which suppressed the miners' riot at Corning in 1880. Captain Holmes was married November 9, 1862, to Miss Frances, daughter of James and Fannie (Stolts) Turner. They became the' parents of three children, viz. : Hattie A., Fannie K., and Mary E. Mr. Holmes is now a clerk in the Pension Department at Washington City. HOUSEHOLDER, ADAM, was born in Reading township, in 1816 ; is a farmer by occupation, his postoffice being Avlon, on the county line. His fatWas was Adam Householder, Sr., and his mother was Christina Siniff, who came to Ohio, in 1802, on horseback, carrying her eldest son, Philip, while her husband accompanied her on foot, carrying his trusty rifle, until they reached her father's (Philip Siniff) house, where the Wagner farm now is. The brothers of Adam Householder, Jr., were, Philip, John, Andrew, George, and Levi ; and his sisters were, Polly, wife of Levi Hodge ; Betsy, wife of John Griggs ; Margaret Ann, wife of John Hiles ; Christina, wife of George Griggs, and Nancy, wife of John M. Johnson. Adam Householder, Jr., first married Miss Margaret Lehman, daughter of Warner Lehman. The only son living by this marriage is Thomas Lehman, whose occupation is that of a farmer, and whose postofficeAvlonylon, Ohio. His second marriage was to Elizabeth, daughter of John Lehman, about the year 1847. The HISTORY OF PERRY COUNTY - 431 sons of this marriage are. Lewis. Balser, and D. F.: all married, and postoffice, Avlon, Ohio. and all living near the paternal homestead in homes of their own. The daughters were, Margaret Ann, wife of Abanus Purvis ; Caroline, wife of Earner Purvis : Emma, wife of Turner Elder, and Levina. vet at home. The Householders were of Dutch Reform parentage, but are now generally of the Brethren Church and of the Republican faith. Adam Householder, Jr.. starting in life. as a married man where he was born and reared, about the year 1840, depending alone upon his industry and good health for success, and rearing to manhood and to womanhood four sons and four daughters, that rank in society with honorable, names and encouraging portions, illustrate the benignity of American institutions. and the thrift, as well as respectability. of the Householder name in the county of its adoption and its birth. HOWDYSHELL, MICHAEL. farmer. Monday Creek township, P. O., Webb Summit, O. ; born May 4. 1810. in Rockingham county, Virginia. son of Jacob and Mary (Miller) Howdyshell. He was brought up a farmer, and has made that the business of his life. In 1814 his father came to Ohio and located in Fairfield county, remaining about two years, when he moved to Hocking county, Ohio, and from there he went to Indiana, where both he and his wife died—Jacob at eighty-five years of age and Mary at ninety-live years of age. Michael came to this township about 1842, and located upon and entered the farm where he now lives. At the time of his coming that part of the county was a wilderness, and he cleared up his own land. When his father lived in Hocking county, Logan was unknown, there being but one log cabin at that place, occupied by a man by the name of Rhodes. They packed their wheat to Lancaster on horseback, and had to go to Zanesville for salt, which cost one dollar per bushel, and it required about four days to make the trip. When a boy, Michael used to hunting company his father. who made huntin his special business. At one time his father killed three bears without moving from his position. Wild turkeys were plentiful : deer and wild animals were a daily sight. Michael's early school days were spent in a log cabin scho0lhouse with puncheon floor, a split to for a seat, greased paper for window lights, clapboard door, and a split stick chimney that would take in a backlog nine feet long. He is one of a family of twelve children, seven of whom were boys. As a citizen, he has had but one lawsuit, and that before a justice of the Peace. He was married, in 1831. His wife, Sarah, came with her parents to Ohio from Virginia. Mrs. Howdyshell died May 14, 1877. They became the parents of seven children, viz. : Silas, Delilah. Frances. William H., died at nine years of age ; Samuel S.. Catharine, and Jerome. who died at the age of thirty years. HOWDYSHELL. ISAAC, farmer. Monday Creek township. P.O., Maxville, O. ; horn January 13, 1845. in this township, son of Samuel and Sylvy (Geiger) Howdyshell ; was brought up on a farm, and attended common school in the winter season. At the age of twenty-five years he attended school in Logan, Ohio, and the following year began teaching, and continued that business for eleven years, teaching most of this time in Hocking county, Ohio, and five successive terms in one district in Green township. He began life with no assistance, and now owns BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - 432 one hundred and sixty acres of well improved land where lie now lives. He was married April 3o, 1874, to Miss Nancy, daughter of Daniel and Elizabeth (Blosser) Hufford. To them were born three children. viz. : ME., Zeldaelda J., and Sarah Amanda. Samuel Howdyshell, father of Isaac was born in 1816, in Virginia. He was brought by his parents to Ohio when a boy and at about the age of twenty years, he went to Hocking county, Ohio, where he married Sylvv Geiger, who was born in 1824.. They moved to Perry county shortly before the birth of Isaac, their son. Unto them were born eleven children. viz. : Noah, David, Isaac, James A., deceased ; Samuel, deceased; Phoebe, Philip, Henson, Sarah, Jacob, and Albert, deceased. HOWERTH, J. W., farmer, Pleasant township ; post office, Moxahala ; born in Belmont county in 1843 ; son of Samuel and Sarah (Bo1ton) Howerth, and is of English descent. Mr. Howerth's parents emigrated to the United States about 1837. The subject of this sketch moved to Harrison county in 1857, and remained. there until lie came to this township, in 1871, and located on the farm where he now resides. In 1864 he married Miss N. Herriman, of Harrison county. They became the parents of three children :, Etty M., Lydia E., and Effie C. In 1872 he married Rebecca Speer ; her mother was born in Pennsylvania, and her father was of Irish extraction. They are the parents of three children : Dasie A., Sarah F., and William B. Miss Lorena D. Randals, Mrs. Howerth's daughter by her first husband, makes her home with the family. HOY, CHARLES, attorney at law, New Lexington, Ohio ; was born March 4, 1829, in Wayne, now Ashland, county, Ohio, son of Charles and Mary (daughter of Adam Poe) Hoy. Charles was brought up on the farm, and teaching school when seventeen years of age, and taught about five years. He was educated at Ashland and Wooster Academies and Western Reserve College ; began reading law in 1849, and was admitted to the bar at Mansfield, Ohio, in 1853 ; began the practice of his profession, in 1854, at Coshocton, Ohio. In 1857 he was elected Prosecuting Attorney of Coshocton county, and re-elected in 1859. Attorney Hoy was married, in 1855, to Miss Mary Jane, daughter of General Joseph and Rebecca (Lewis) Burns, of Coshocton, Ohio. He came to his present location in September, 1877. HUFFORD, DANIEL, farmer, Monday Creek township, P. 0., Maxville, 0. ; born May 28, 1831, on the farm now owned by his brother, John H., son of Daniel and Nancy (Welty) Hufford. He was brought up on a farm, and has given his attention to agricultural pursuits to this time. During his boyhood days he attended school a few months in the year. He has served as township trustee five terms, four of which were in succession, during the war. He was one of the Ohio National Guards, who were called out during the war. Mr. Hufford was married March 4, 1852, to Elizabeth, daughter of John I. and Hannah (Hufford) Blosser, of Hocking county, Ohio. They are the parents of six children, viz. : Nancy,, married, Ap30, 3o, 1874, to Isaac Howdyshell ; John W., a school teacher, was married, October 14, 1878, to Jane Vanatta, of Jackson township ; Hannah J., married to J. W. Davis, in 1875 ; Mary M., Alice A., died at the age of fifteen months, and Judson S. Mr. Hufford owns one hundred and fifty acres of well improved land where he lives. HISTORY OF PERRY COUNTY - 433 HUFFORD, JOHN H., farmer, Monday Creek township, post office Maxville, Ohio ; was born October 12, 1833, in this township; son of Daniel and Nancy (Welty) Hufford. John H. was brought up on a farm, and while at home has made agricultural pursuits the business of his life. August Is, 1862, he enlisted in Company G, One Hundred and Fourteenth Regiment, of which he was chosen Second Lieutenant, and served in the Tennessee Army under Sherman and Grant. Was engaged in the battles of Chickasaw Bluffs, Thompson's Hill, Magnolia Hills, Champion Hill, Black Riyer, Siege of Vicksburg, and was in two charges after he went to New Orleans, and thence to Texas under General Banks. Was discharged on the Mississippi river, above Vicksburg, July 4, 1864. While in the seryice he was promoted to First Lieutenant. Before going into the army he served three successive years as township assessor, and one since he returned. Was land appraiser in 1870. He was married the first time in January, 1853, to Elizabeth A., daughter of Peter and Margaret (Pulse) Beery, to whom were born two children, viz. : Margaret A. and Emanuel. Mrs. Hufford died March 23, 1856. Was married the second time October 9, 1866, to Mary E. Kishler, widow of Daniel Kishler. They are the parents of two children, viz. : Dora Lorena and Nellie Blanche. Mr. Hufford owns one hundred and twenty acres of land where he lives, improved and well stocked. Daniel Hufford, father of John H., was born January II, 1795, in Rockingham county, Virginia, and is of German parentage, and was brought to Fairfield county, Ohio, about 1797, where he was raised a farmer. Nancy Welty, who became John H. Hufford's mother, was born November 27, 1797, in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, and was brought to Fairfield county by her parents. After the marriage of Mr. Hufford to Miss Welty, they moved to and located in this township on the farm now owned by John H., and was one of the pioneers of this vicinity, and knew all the incidents. of a pioneer life. HULL, DAVID W., farmer, Pike township, post office New Lexington, Ohio ; born February is, 1824, upon the farm where he now lives ; son of Daniel and Elizabeth (Goodin) Hull. Mr. Hull's father came from Pennsylvania to Perry county, Ohio, and took up Congress land, the same that is now the farm of David W., where he lived until his death in 1858. Mr. Hull, the subject of this sketch, was raised a farmer, and has followed agricultural pursuits up to this date. He was married August 21, 1849, to Eliza N., daughter of Arthur and Nancy (Rinehart) Ankrom. They are the parents of five children, viz. : Arthur D., Emma M., William H., Nannie E. and Anna Belle, all living, and two of whom are married, viz. : Arthur D. and Emma M. Mr. Hull is one of the most prosperous farmers in this township, and now lives in a fine frame farm house, which has supplanted both the log cabin of yore, and the hewed log house of his boyhood days, and is one of the few who enjoy the farm of their nativity and the homestead. HULL, JOHN S., farmer and stock raiser, Clayton township. post office Somerset, Perry county ; born in this county in 1825 ; son of John and Rachel (Sayer) Hull. The former died in 1867, the latter in 1854. The former was a native of Pennsylvania, the latter of New - 40 - 434 - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. Jersey. He is a grandson of Benjamin and Hannah Hull, and of Revel and Hope Sayers. Married in 1847 to Miss Anna C., daughter of Philip and Margaret (Chilcote) Miller. They are the parents of four children, viz. : Harriet E., Rachel E., deceased, James A. and William A. HULL, DAVID, farmer and wool grower, post office Rehoboth ; born in Perry county in 1826son of Samuel and Mary (Goodin) Hull, grandson of Daniel and Rebecca (Malont) Hull. Married in 1851 to Miss Sarah A., daughter of Reason and Julia A. (Thrall) Hammond. They are the parents of two children, viz. : Mary E., who is married to Austin Dells, of this county, and Alvah Mr. Hull was drafted in the late war, but furnished a substitute. HUMBERGER ADAM, son of Peter and Mary Humberger, was born in Thorn township, Perry county, Ohio, in 1806. He worked on his father's farm few years, after becoming old enough, but evincing a genius and desire for mechanical pursuits, he was apprenticed to an uncle to learn the trade of a gunsmith. After completing his apprenticeship, he was united in marriage with a Miss Terrell, and soon afterward moved to Somerset, where he established a shop and carried on business successfully for many years. He had but a limited education—such as the schools of the day afforded—but he was a great reader and student all his life. When some of his children were old enough to go to school and study Comstock's Philosophy, he also became a very close student of the book. When he came upon the statement that Comstock then made and taught—that a ball shot from a gun directly upward would return to the earth with the same force and velocity that it left the gun—he declared that " all nonsense ; for," said he, " the resistance of the air against the ball, both ascending and descending, must be taken into account, and that would make it an impossibility for the ball to return with the same force it leaves the gun." Satisfied himself, he at once proceeded to make a practical experiment, to convince Prof. Nourse and others that Comstock's book was teaching erroneous doctrine. He carefully weighed his powder and balls, then loaded his gun and placed the muzzle thereof against a board of a certain thickness. He then built a shed, covered with boards of the same character and thickness, set a gun upright in the center thereof, and sprung the trigger by means of a pulley and string, held by him in an adjacent building. The result was that, while the ball, shot from the gun, went through one board, and part of the way through another, the ball shot directly upward and returning, only buried itself about half in the board upon which it fell. Prof. Nourse was convinced, and wrote to the publishers of the philosophy referred to. The book was changed in this respect, and whoeyer will take. the pains to examine a Corn-stock's Philosophy, published thirty years ago, will see that it contains and teaches the error which the practical experiment herein related disproved. Mr. Humberger also invented and manufactured three revolvers, several years prior to Colt's invention and patent. One of these revolvers was fired on a general muster day, at Somerset, in the presence of hundreds of people, years before Colt's revolvers were heard of. The three revolvers made by Humberger were hunted up, taken to the East, and used in law suits growing out of the right to HISTORY OF PERRY COUNTY - 435 manufacture revolvers. He also visited New York, Washington, D. C., and Hartford, Connecticut. as a witness in some celebrated law suits pertaining to the same subject. Jr. Humberger also invented, and took out three patents, upon a corn harvesters upon which he worked and studied much during his later years. His harvester was tried, and worked with some degree of success, but he would neyer engage in selling the patent right, for the reason that the machine was not perfected, and not what he designed it to be. He was still thinking and working about his haryester when his health began to decline, and his labors were done. Mr. Humberger died in May, 1865, at the residence of a daughter in New Lexington. He has three daughters—Melinda, married to Samuel Boyer, liying at Pleasant Hill, Missouri ; Matilda, married to Jackson Parrott, and lives in Cass county. Missouri ; Mary A., married to E. S. Colborn, and lives at New Lexington, Ohio. HUMBERGER, HENRY. farmer, post office Thornville. He was born December 26, 1842. in section 26, Thorn township, Perry county, Ohio, where he still resides. His father was John Humberger, born in section 35, Thorn township, February 22. 1803, the same year Louisiana was purchased from France by Thomas Jefferson. October 9, 1828, he was united in marriage to Miss Mary Ann Basore, who was born February 24, 1809, whose father was Frederick Basore, who settled south from Rushville, in Richland township, Fairfield county, in 1803. Her mother's maiden name was Mary E. Keister, and her parents were of the Reform Presbyterian belief. Her father died at the age of sixty-fiye, her mother in her eightieth year, near New Reading, Perry county. The grandfather of Henry was Peter Humberger, who must haye landed in Perry county in 1802, where his brothers John and Henry also came, and settled on section 35, where they found John King. The children of this Peter Humberger were. beside two who died young—Katharine, the wife of Philip King ; Peter, deceased in Thorn township ; Margaret, wife of John Louis ; Hannah ; and Adam, who lived as a gunsmith in Somerset, is said to be the true inventor of the first revolving pistol ; died in New Lexington, buried in Somerset, and was the first Universalist who had a M. E. minister promise to preach his funeral, and tell the congregation he died in the faith, as he had lived in it, that all mankind would be ultimately happy in the land beyond the graye. In addition there was Adam's brother Benjamin, who died in Sandusky county. Ohio ; David, who moved to Whitley county, Indiana, and died there ; Henry, who died in the same county ; Mary, wife of Jacob Ciyits, post office Columbia City, Whitley county, Indiana. The children of John and Mary Ann Humberger were David, the husband of Eliza Ann Karr, Columbia City, Indiana ; Frederick, husband of Elizabeth Hetrick, same post office ; Mary Ann, wife of Simon Long, deceased, post office Tiffin, Ohio ; Peter. who was three times married, and died, leaving sons and daughters in Pike county, Indiana ; Elizabeth Rankin, whose post office is Thornville ; Margaret. deceased wife of Bernard Mechling, of Hopewell : Rey. John, husband of Mary Coolman. of Somerset, post office Petersburg, Mahoning county, Ohio George W., husband of Emma Hudgel. Plymouth, Jefferson county, Nebraska : 436 - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. Benjamin F., husband of Elenora Karr, post office Thornville ; and Henry, the youngest, except the last two named, who was married on the 14th of April, 1867, to Miss Eliza Ann, daughter of Daniel Snyder, of Thorn township. They have two living children—Miss Mary and Elva May. Henry Humberger, their father, is the proprietor of the ancient homestead, around which the precious memories of the family cling as a vine to the ancient oak. He joined the One Hundred and Fifty-second Indiana Regiment in 1865, and having seryed to the end of the war, was honorably discharged at Indianapolis. After the death of his father in 1846, his mother, yet living, at the age of seyenty-four, had her maintenance in the homestead, which went into Henry's name in 1867, subject to her rights. The family mansion is a spacious two-story brick ; the farm is just a round one hundred acres ; the spring, like the location, ranks among the foremost in the county, and, to Henry, it is matchless in beauty and contentment. HUNT, HIXSON, carriage manufacturer, New Lexington, Ohio ; born May 24, 1819, in Sussex county, New Jersey ; son of John and Jemima (Hixson) Hunt ; his grandfather Hunt came from England. Hixson was brought up on the farm until the age of fourteen, when he went to his trade and seryed seven years. In 1840 he came to this place, where he has followed his trade to the present time. Mr. Hunt was married December 23, 1842, to Miss Ann Eliza, daughter of William and Mary (Eagle) Pruner, of Wythe county, Virginia. They are the parents of eight children, viz. : Mary, deceased ; Almeda, deceased ; William Austin, deceased ; Ann Eliza, deceased ; Catharine, married to W. C. Hickman ; Almira, married to John E. Parker ; John H., married to Clara M. West, and Charles W. Mr. Hunt is one of the best mechanics in the county. HUSTON, ANDREW, farmer, Monday Creek township, post office New Straitsville, Ohio ; born August 16, 1805, in Erie county, Pennsylvania ; son of Christopher and Elizabeth (Work) Huston. He came to Fairfield county, Ohio, will his father, in 1806 ; spent his boyhood days on a farm ; came to Monday Creek township in the spring of 1836, where he has liyed, except a short time, ever since. Was married to Anna E., daughter of Alexander and Margaret (Love) Buchanan, of Fairfield county. They became the parents of one child, John. Mrs. (Buchanan) Huston died some time after. He was married the second time to Elizabeth Hardy, to whom was born one child. Was married the third time to Margaret Gosser, by whom he had one daughter, Elizabeth C. Mr. Huston took charge of the post office at Old Straitsville, under President Fillmore's Administration, for nearly seyen years. He was elected justice of the peace in Saltlick township in 1859, and re-elected in 1862, and seryed six years. HUSTON, JOHN W., farmer, Madison township, post office, Mount Perry. He was born September 27, 1829, in Madison township, and is a son of Edward and Jane Huston. His father was born in Ireland, and came to this township in 1812. Mr. H. has always followed farming-, and now owns an excellent farm. He enlisted in Company H, One Hundred and Sixtieth Regiment, serving four months as Lieutenant in that company. He was married March 30, 1852, to Eliza McBride, HISTORY OF PERRY COUNTY - 437 daughter of Andrew and Mary McBride. They are the parents of seven children, Edward G.. Mary M., (deceased), Andrew J., Malanthon F., Hannah J., Anna R., and Leslie A. HUSTON, R. W., proprietor provision grocery, corner of Main and Brown streets, New Lexington, Ohio. He carries a large stock of groceries, queensware and glassware ; also oysters and ice cream in season. He has a full share of the trade in his line. HUSTON, JAMES A., druggist, New Lexington, Ohio. HYNUS, HENRY, born May 20, 1834, in Cambria county, Pennsylvania ; post office, Somerset, Ohio. His father was Myrod Hynus, and his mother's maiden name was Mary Ann Swope. He had one brother. Joseph, who died belonging to the Regular Army, and who left a widow and one daughter in Newark, Ohio, from whence he enlisted. Henry's father died in Newark in 1877, at the age of eighty-two. His mother died at the age of fifty-six, and is buried in the Catholic cemetery in Somerset. His sisters were Martha, wife of Martin Kureth ; Rachel, wife of Henry Flowers ; Maria, wife of Ellis Bader, all of Newark, Ohio ; and Mary Ann, wife of Jacob Petry, supposed residence in California. After his marriage to Miss Rebecca Barker, daughter of John Barker, an old settler of Perry, and sister of Rev. David Barker, an Old School Baptist minister, who deceased at Pleasantville in 1882, they emigrated to Crawford county, Illinois, came back to Perry county in six months, and three years later, in 1867, again moved west to Adams county, Iowa, and from here he again returned to Perry county, where he has since resided, in prosperous circumstances. These journeys were performed in a wagon, and that to Iowa required thirty-two days going, and the same returning. Mr. Hynus exhibits " Old Nance," a mare twenty-two years old, which has performed all these journeys, and which animal, if she had kept a strict book account against her master at twenty-five cents per day for her work, and a fair allowance for her colts, would have him in debt over $4,000. Mr. Hynus is an enterprising gardener, and has proved that onions as large as tea cups can be raised from the seed in one year. During 1881, he experimented with forty-eight kinds of potatoes and forty of corn. He took the first premium at the Ohio State Fair in 1881, on best amber and red wheat, and bushel of meal, and yellow corn ; also first on best display of cereals, and best new varieties of potatoes, the Belle, and best on other varieties, Mammoth and Pearl. Also a premium on the ten best kinds of potatoes, with many second premiums on other articles. His presence at the State Fair has eleyated Perry to a high rank in premium winning. He is equally up in hogs and horses, and is called far and near as a doctor of the last-named animals. His sons are Jefferson J., Vincent, a teacher ; Isaac Y., Arthur and John H. Hynus. His daughters are Miss Mary E., Nancy Jane, and Clara E. Hynus. ILIFF, WESLEY, post office, McLuney ; born in Pennsylvania in 1814. Settled here in a very early day. Son of John and Anna (Henry) Iliff. Mr. Iliff has been twice married, first in 1836 to Miss Harriet Teal, who died in 1878. This union was blessed with seven children, viz. : Sarah A., deceased, Isaac, deceased, Elizabeth, deceased, John F., Thomas C., Acy T., James W. Thomas C., after graduating at Athens University, entered the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal church, 438 - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. where he has risen to quite an eminent position. Mr. Iliff was married again in 1878 to Miss Nettie Shetron. JACKSON, JOSEPH, born at Rockaway, Morris county, New Jersey, November 15. 1832 ; came to Ohio in 1857. settled at Johnstown, Licking county, Ohio ; entered the army of the United States, August, 1862, One Hundred and Thirteenth Regiment. Company F, Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He was wounded at the battle of Chicamauga, September 20, 1863, in left arm which is seriously impaired. Was discharged on account of wound, December 31. 1863. at Camp Chase. Removed to Perry county, October, 1878, being engaged in the business of insurance. Was married in January, 1861. to Abbie A. Merrill. of Johnstown. Licking county, Ohio. She was born in the State of Maine, and came after her parents, about the year 1858. Their liying children are : Henry Merrill, Joseph Elsworth. and Lilly E. Jackson. The grandfather, whose name is borne by the subject of this sketch, Colonel Joseph Jackson, ranked as Colonel in the War of 1812 ; was postmaster under Washington at Rockaway. New Jersey, which office he held until deposed by Tyler in 1842. He claimed to haye built the first rolling mill in the United States. at Rockaway, in 1824 or 1825. Joseph is a perseyering insurance agent, and is deemed highly successful and strictly reliable. JACKSON, COLONEL LYMAN J.. of the firm of Jackson & Conly, attorneys-at-law. New Lexington. Ohio ; was born January 12, 1834., near West Rushyille, Fairfield county. Ohio. His father. John J. Jackson, was born in Otsego county, New York. February 7, 1792. and was descended from Abram Jackson. who emigrated from England to Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1624. His mother, Mary C. Grate. was a native of Emmettsburg. Maryland. but resided from 1804 till 1827, at Franklinton. Franklin county: Ohio, with her parents, who died there. In March, 1839 the Jackson family remoyed from Rushyille. Fairfield county, to a farm near New Reading. Perry county. Ohio. The parents liyed here during the rest of their liyes, the mother dying in March, 1871, and the father in September. 1876. Lyman lived and worked on the farm until October. 1851. when he was sent to St. Joseph's College, in that county, and attended its sessions until 1855. From this time until 1857 he worked on the farm in summer. and taught school in winter, at the same time studying law and continuing his college studies. In May, 1857, he was admitted by the Supreme Court to the practice of law, graduated at St. Joseph's College, July 7, 1857, and in that month commenced the practice of law at New Lexington. In the fall of 1859 he was candidate for Prosecuting Attorney of Perry county. .running on what was then the Northern ticket in a county seat contest, and was elected, though the rest of the ticket was heayily defeated. He was the first volunteer from the county in the Union army. Immediately after the firing on Fort Sumter, he raised Company E, Seventeenth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Militia, which he commanded as Captain during its three months service in Western Virginia. When it was mustered out. he was appointed in August. 1861. Captain of Company G. Thirty-first Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and served as such until January. 1862, when he was promoted and commissioned as Major of the Eleventh Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry. With this HISTORY OF PERRY COUNTY - 439 regiment, a great part of the time in command of it, he served, in 1862, in Maryland and Virginia through some of the severest battles of the war. Resigning this position, he was in May, 1864, appointed Colonel of the One Hundred and Fifty-ninth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and commanded it during its term of service. In the fall of 1865 he served for a short period by appointment to fill a vacancy as Prosecuting Attorney of Muskingum county. February 17, 1863, he was married to Miss Mary E. Taggart, daughter of Arthur Taggart, Esq., late of Morgan county, Ohio. Resuming the practice of law at New Lexington shortly after the war, he was, in April, 1873, elected delegate for Perry county to the third Ohio Constitutional Convention. In October, 1877, he was elected State Senator from the district composed of Muskingum and Perry counties, and in October, 1879 he was re-elected to the same position. In religion, Colonel Jackson is a Roman Catholic, and in politics has always acted with the Democratic party except during the Rebellion. JAMES, H. C., farmer and stock raiser ; post office, McLuney, Ohio ; born in Muskingum county, Ohio, in 1833 ; settled in this county in 1876 ; son of Isaac and Mary (Hollow) Tames. Married in 1855, to Miss Hannah, daughter of William and Abigal (Search) Barrel. They are the parents of nine children, viz. : Milton J., Alice, Edmund, Cornelia, deceased ; Mary C., Linna B., Cora. Curtis, Matilda. Two are married, one living in this county and one in Morgan county. JAMES, CYRUS MATSON, shoemaker, New Straitsville, Ohio ; was born July 10, 1838, in Coshocton county, Ohio ; son of William and Sarah (Bagley) James. Was raised a farmer, and followed agricultural pursuits until he was twenty-one years of age. His father having moved .into Athens county, Ohio, while he was quite young, he was raised in that county, and went to his trade at Millfield, working with J. W. P. Cook, who was .employed with one Woodworth of that place, where he worked about eight months, when he began journey work for himself, working in all in this place some eight or ten years, and one year in Nelsonyille, Ohio, and has been engaged at the following places ; Amestown about six months ; again in Millfield until 1874 ; Chauncy, same county, four months ; Hemlock, Perry county, Ohio, about sixteen months, from whence he came to this place, where he has since remained to this time, engaged at his trade. Was married October 6th, 1861, to Mary King, born March 21, 1842, in Washington county, Ohio, daughter of Job and Elizabeth (McCants) King. They are the parents of three children, viz. : Albert, Eugene and Charley. JAMES, THOMAS P., collier, Shawnee, Ohio ; was born January 13, 1853, in Risca, Monmouthshire, England ; son of Daniel M. and Mary Ann (Price) James. Was raised a collier and emigrated to America with his parents at the age of twelve years, who, landing in New York, September 19, 1865, went to Newark, Ohio, where they lived about one year, when they moved to Summit county, Ohio, and where James, the subject of this sketch, remained ten years, from whence he came to Shawnee, Ohio. While living of Newark, he worked on a farm for his uncle, since which he has been engaged at his business of mining. Was Married November 11, 1873, to Ann, daughter of David B. and 440 - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. Mary (Tucker) Jones. They are the parents of three children, viz. Mary Ann, Sarah Jane, and Winnifred. JENKINS, JOHN, collier, Shawnee Ohio ; was born July 12, 1833, in Tregaron, Cardiganshire, Wales ; son of David and Mary Jenkins. Lived in Cardiganshire until he was twelve years of age, when he moved to Monmouthshire, and lived there until 1864 ; at this time he again moved to Brecknockshire, remaining one year, from where, in 1865, he emigrated to America, landing in New York, and thence to Pomeroy, Meigs county, Ohio, which place he made his home until 1872. Leaving his family in Pomeroy, he went to Straitsville in July, and remained until February following. He then moved his family to Shawnee, and there they have lived to the present time. Mr. Jenkins is, at this time, township trustee, and has been elected four terms in succession. He has seen Shawnee grow from its infancy. Has made mining his business during his life. Was married August 6, 1853, to Mary, daughter of Daniel and Eliza (Price) Jones of Brynmawn, Wales. They are the parents of eight children, viz. : David, Daniel, Mary Jane, John, Mordecai, Lizzie, William, deceased, and an infant, deceased. JOHNSON, JOHN K., millwright, Shawnee, Ohio ; was born February 13, 1817, in Adams county, Pennsylvania ; son of John and Mary (Koon) Johnson. Was raised a farmer, and followed agricultural pursuits until he was eighteen years of age, when he went to the millwright trade, which business he followed until 1872, building flouring mills at Tuscarora, Mt. Union mill in Maryland, and rebuilt some in Pennsylvania ; one near Cumberland, Muskingum county, Ohio, for James McClurg ; one on Meigs Creek, Morgan county, Ohio ; one in Sharon, Morgan county, Ohio, now in Noble county ; two at Sulphur Springs, Perry county, Ohio, on same foundation, one burning down ; one in WesRiyer,inia, on Twelve Pole River, nine miles from Guyandott ; one for John Dickerson, in Meigs township, Morgan county, Ohio ; and remodeled qplaceS number in different places ; also built a steam tannery in Perry county, Pennsylvania, for John McFarland, that is calculated to tan thirty thousand hides per, year. In 1854 he bought a farm of seventy-eight acres in Saltlick township1,000ry county, Ohio, for $1,0oo, which he sold to the Smith Mining Company of Shawnee, for $7,800, in 1873, since which he has been living a retired life. Was married January 16, 1845, to Margaret, daughter of James and Nancy McClerg, of Muskingum county, Ohio,Mrs. Johnson died April 30, 1873. JOHNSON, JACOB J., President Perry County Bank, New Lexington, Ohio ; was born August 28th, 1821, in Waynesburg, Greene county, Pennsylvania ; son of Jacob (who died in Pennsylvania), and Sarah (Gorden) Johnson. His ancestors came from New Jersey. When Jacob J. was about nine years of age, his mother located on a farm in Reading township, where he was brought up and remained until eighteen, when he began teaching school, and taught several terms. In 1850, Mr. Johnson was elected Sheriff of Perry county, and served eight years in all. In 1870, Sheriff Johnson was elected Treasurer of Perry county,1880,served four years. In 1880, he was elected member of the State Board of Equalization. In January, 1879, he was elected President of the Perry County Bank—the last two offices named he now HISTORY OF PERRY COUNTY - 441 holds. Mr. Johnson was married in April, 1847, to Miss Permelia, daughter of John and Nancy (Greene) Tutwiler. They are the parents of ten children, viz. : Susan, deceased ; Mary, deceased ; Lucretia, Albert V., Francis J., Victoria, William, Jacob, Martina, and Sarah, deceased. JOHNSON, JOHN, superintendent of laborers at XX Furnace, Shawnee, Ohio ; was born April 10, 1827, in the county of Durham, in the northern part of England ; son of Adam and Ann (Ayer) Johnson. Mr. Johnson came to America at the early age of thirteen years, landing in New York, July 3, 1840, and has been engaged at the following places and busines : At Sackage's Iron Works, North River, New York, about six months ; Troy, New York, in rolling mill, fifteen months; Hall, New York, two months ; St. John's, Lake Champlain, ew York, about five months ; Albany, New York, worked on levee, about seyen months ; Saratoga Springs, on fish pond, six months ; Buffalo, New York, on streets, six months ; Erie, Pennsylvania, on docks, six months ; Brady's Bend Iron Works at Blast Furnace, two years ; Guitanquin Iron Works, in rolling mill, one year ; Pittsburg, in rolling mill, (before any blast furnace was built in Pittsburgh), six months ; Cincinnati, a day laborer ; Cleveland, Ohio, on canal docks ; Sandusky, Ohio, in lumber yard ; Detroit, Michigan, two months ; Port Huron, two or three months in lumberyard ; from Cleveland, Oh* to Baltimore, Maryland, driving cattle ; fisheries on Bush River, South Carolina, hauling seine for herring, six weeks ; Baltimore, Maryland, engaging as fireman and strokeman on a steamer, sailing to ports of St. Petersburg, Russia ; Konstadt, Prussia ; Copenhagen, Denmark ; Elsinore, Denmark ; Rochelle, France ; Cadiz, Spain ; Gibralter, Spain ; Malaga, Spain ; Carthagena, Spain, for two years and six months, returning to Baltimore, Maryland ; Mt. Savage iron works, Alleghany county, Maryland ; at furnace one year ; Cleveland, Ohio, at furnace ; Detroit, Michigan, at furnace ; Ann Arber, at furnace ; Flint, Michigan, walked across Indian Reserve to Saginaw City, about 100 miles distant ; took berth of firing on steamer, one year and six months ; Cleveland and Portsmouth, on Ohio canal ; Hanging Rock furnace region, among furnaces, five or six years ; Easton, Pennsylvania, about five months ; at Cooper's iron works, Jerseytown, Pennsylvania ; again in Mount Savage ; at Isesferry, Virginia in. Monongalia, Preston, Harrison, Marion and Taylor counties, Virginia, digging iron ore and working at furnaces for twenty-one years ; at Zanesville, Ohio, on court house, six weeks ; at Frazeysburg, Ohio, digging iron ore four months for Zanesville furnace ; Glenford, Perry county, Ohio, and opened limestone quarry for Fannie Furnace, while it was in Newark, Ohio, working about eight months. Came to Shawnee in 1875, and by his advice as to the paying quality of iron ore at Iron Point, the Fannie Furnace was moved to this place, where he has remained up to this time ; he is now overseer of laboring hands at XX Furnace in this place. Was married June 12, 1854, to Mary, daughter of Henry and Sarah Frankinville. They are the parents of two children, Henry and Mary, both deceased. JOHNSON, THOMAS, was born in 1829, in Washington county, Pennsylvania ; he is a son of the late venerable Aaron Johnson. The maid- - 41 - 442 - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.   en name of his Mother, Who is still living at the age of eighty-six years, was Sarah Law, a daughter of Robert Law, of Scotch descent. His father was of English and Irish parentage, and both his parents were of Quaker extraction ; both became Baptists, of which church Aaron Johnson died a member in full fellowship, in 1879, at the age of eighty-eight years. He was tall and athletic, and in his younger days complained very much, and often of ill health. Ten children were born to this marriage, all of whom grew to be men and women ; the wife of John Skinner being the eldest ; two brothers live in Iowa, and one, Aaron, in Kansas. One uncle, Nimrod Johnson, died in Van Wert, Ohio, without children. Thomas sold the farm he had bought of his father for $2,000, after adding twenty acres to it for the sum $4,100, and embarked in mercantile life in Somerset, and is one of the very few who have been successful after such a change. In religion he is a Methodist, while his present wife, who was Miss Lizzie Levitt, is a Lutheran. His father brought the first fine sheep to Perry county, and on account of his success and devotion to sheep husbandry was often called "Shepherd Johnson." He was elected to the Senate of Ohio, about the year 1843, on the Democratic ticket, and remained a firm supporter of that party to the time of his death, and sank to his grave respected for his Sterling honesty and sincerity through a long life. The first tax paid by Thomas Johnson did not exceed dollars, which rose afterward to $300. One hundred and seventy one acres of land in sight of Somerset, stocked with cattle and sheep, a large stock of dry goods, and valuable town property, are witness of that excellent judgment of what the market demands, and how and when to supply it, which testify to his solid success, while he indulged the utmost hospitality, and his purse was ever open to the demands of want. JOHNSON, A. D., farmer, Madison township, Mount Perry post office. He was born November 22, 1838, in Shelby county, Ohio, and is a son of John H. and Christenia (Rhinehart) Johnson ; has always followed farming, now owning an excellent home. Mr. Johnson was married August 23, 1863, to Caroline Fullerton, daughter of Samuel Fullerton ; they have four children, Louisa L., Samuel S., Emma B. and Anna F. JOHNSON, GEORGE M., trader, Corning, Ohio ; born April 29, 1848, on Malta Hill, in Morgan county, Ohio ; son of Stephen and Catharine (O'Leary) Johnson. His father was a native of Maryland, and his mother of Morgan county, Ohio ; her parents wnatiyesives of Ireland. Her mother was first married to William Townsend, by whom she had two children, Mary and William ; her second husband's name was Morgan O'Leary, by whom she had one child, Catharine, naaboye.ove. George M. Johnson was brought up on a farm, and has followed agriculture and dealing in stock up to the present time. In 1862, he came to Monroe township, this county, and located on a farm adjoining the town of Corning, which he held until the spring of 1882. Mr. Johnson was married February 15, 1872, to Lucy A., daughter of William and Delilah (Miller) Fisher, of Monroe township, who entered and owned the land where Corning now stands. The present site of Corning once ace,a sugar camp. They are the parents of one child, George M. JOHNSTON, JAMES E.; of the firm of Johnston & Bryan, attorneys at law and notaries public, New Lexington, Ohio ; was born February 1, HISTORY OF PERRY COUNTY - 443 1851, in Brownsyille, Licking county, Ohio ; son of Seth R. and Isabell (Miner) Johnston. James E. Johnston was brought up at Glenford, this county. and assisted in his father's store until 1874, when he began reading law with W. E. Finck. He graduated at the Cincinnati Law School, in 1878. Began practice at Shawnee, where he remained one year, then came to this place and continued the practice of his profession alone until March, 1881, when the present firm was formed. Mr. Johnston was married in Oct0ber, 1878, to Miss Lydia L., daughter of James Brown, then of Bowling Green township, Licking county, Ohio. JONES, JEHU B., was born in 1813, in Somerset county, Pennsylvania, and was but two years old when his parents, Jehu Jones, Sr., and Jane (Kilpatrick), settled on the farm now held by the heirs of S. C. Dick. This farm had then about fifteen acres partly cleared ; here these pioneers lived until 1844, when mother Jones, and, ten years later, father Jones, were called to rest. The sons, who grew to manhood, are : David, who married Miss Jane Pugh, and who died in Pike township, leaving three sons and two daughters ; John, who liyes in Warren county, Illinois, and who married Miss Elizabeth Rush, having five sons and four daughters ; Jehu B., who married Miss Rebecca Goodin, Much, 1846, and still resides on the farm adjoining the ancestral homestead—his wife died in 1866, leaving two sons ; David, who resides in Blackford county, Indiana, and who is married to Miss Addie Shull, now the mother of two daughters, and George M., who is single and remains with his father. There are two daughters, Phidelia, the wife of Charles Stickel, a successful tanner and currier, near Somerset, blessed with four sons and one daughter, and Miss Mary, who shares with her brother; George, and her father, the comforts and the cares of the homestead. Jehu B. Jones is Worthy of the beautiful home he enjoys, and the broad acres he has transformed from a forest waste to fruitful fields. He has held several offices of trust and profit in his township, and neyer yet was a candidate when he did not show strength beyond the lines of his party. True to his convictions of right and duty he has not always remained loyal to party, but while acting within party lines, no man is more faithful to his ticket, or more zealous for the right. He possesses brave impulses, is true to his friends, generous to his foes, benevolent to the poor, sympathizes with the suffering and hates the oppressor, while he defends the victim. JONES, WILLIAM J., collier, Shawnee, Ohio ; was born March 19, 1840, in Falkirk, Stirlingshire, Scotland ; son of John and Sarah (Leaky) Jones ; was raised in town to the age of seven years, and then in the country to manhood, and has worked in mines since he was nine years old. Was married March 12, 1861, to Jane, daughter of John and Susan (Paul) Cowie, of Stenhouseneuir, Stirlingshire, Scotland. They are the parents of six living children : Sarah, Jennie, Susanna, Willie, Robert and Emma, and four dead : Susan, John, James and Jno. Mr. Jones came to this country, landing in New York, August 6, 1872, but left his family in Scotland. He came direct from New York to Shawnee, Ohio, and soon after sent for his family, who landed in New York January 2, 1873, from whence they came direct to Shawnee, where they have lived to the present time, and where he has been engaged in 444 - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. mining, and at this time is with the New York and Straitsville Coal and Iron Company. JONES, LEWIS, collier, Shawnee, Ohio ; was born May, 10, 1845, in Tredegar, Monmouthshire, Wales ; son of John and Elizabeth (Richards) Jones. Mr. Jones was employed in the coaleries in Wales at eight years of age, and followed that business until 1869, when he emigrated to America, leaving Liverpool in October, and landing in New York on the 25th of October, 1869 ; from there he went to Pomeroy, Meigs county, Ohio, mining about two years, and soon after reaching Pomeroy, his family, whom he had left in Wales, joined him and have remained with him up to this time. He has been engaged as follows : Syracuse, Ohio, remaining over two years ; New Straitsville, Ohio, one year, when he came to Shawnee, Ohio, where he has since made his home and been employed as a miner. Mr. Jones was married September I, 1867, to Sarah, daughter of John and Ann (Byron) Reese, of Tredegar, Wales. They are the parents of eight children, viz. : Margaret, Elizabeth, Sarah Jane,' John William, Caroline, Anna, Lewis and Elizabeth, deceased. JONES, HENRY, of the firm of Jones Brothers, dealers in lumber, contractors, undertakers and dealers in real estate, Corning, Ohio ; was born January 29, 1851, in Liverpool, England ; son of James E.. and Rosanna (Henry) Jones. Henry. came in 1871, and located in Shawnee, Ohio, in 1872. In 1873, went to Columbus, Ohio, and remained about three years ; then returned to Shawnee, where he remained until he came to his present residence in 1881. Mr. Jones was married in November, 1875, to Miss Jane, daughter of Richard and Ellen (Jones) Richison, natives of North Wales. They are the parents of two children, viz. : Edith Madaline and Ellen. This firm is doing an active business, having quite an extensive trade. KAGAY, MARTIN, P. O., Somerset ; was born August l0th, 1825, in Berne township, Fairfield county, Ohio; youngest of the twelve children of Rudolph and Hannah (Siple) agay, who were born, married and united with the German Baptist Church in Shenandoah county, Virginia. The sons born there were John, Jacob, Christian, Abraham, and Rudolph Kagay, Jr. ; and those born in Fairfield county, Ohio, whither Rudolph and his family emigrated in 1819, Were Henry and Martin. The daughters were five in number—Katharine, wife of Andrew, the son of John Hite ; Barbara, wife of Elder Lewis Seitz ; Hannah, wife of John Crooks, Sr. ; Elizabeth, widow of John Beaver ; and Polly, widow of Hezekiah Kanode, and the only one of the five yet living. Of the sons, Christian, Jacob, and Rudolph are no more. So that of the twelve children of father Rudolph and mother Hannah Kagay only five remain—John, in his eighty-sixth year; Abraham, in his eightieth year ; Henry, in his sixty-first year ; Mrs. Kanode, in her sixty-eighth year ; and Martin, in his fifty-eighth year. All lived to be men and women, and all reared large families except Jacob, who died a bachelor in his sixty-seventh year. All were farmers or the wives of farmers except Polly, whose husband was a plasterer and bricklayer, and Martin, who became a physician and engaged otherwise. Father Rudolph lived to the age of. fifty-six, and is buried three miles south of Lancaster, while mother Hannah Kagay lived to see her ninety-first HISTORY OF PERRY COUNTY - 445 year and then died of hernia. Martin was left an orphan in his fourth year by the death of his father, and to his twelfth year was sent to school, and then to the saddler's trade in Rushville to his fourteenth year. He resumed work on the farm and home of his brother Jacob to his eighteenth year ; taught his first school in his nineteenth year in Seneca county, Ohio ; taught one year in Marion county, Illinois ; attended college at Granville, Ohio, in 1847-48 ; read medicine and practiced his profession at Pleasantville ; was elected Clerk of the Court in 1851 ; was beaten, with his entire ticket, in 1854 ; raised and sold eighty acres of corn in Licking county in 1855 ; became editor of the Democratic Union in Somerset in 1856. and spent that entire year and not less than one thousand dollars in cash to reyolutionize Perry county from the domination of the Know-Nothing and Republican party, and succeeded in restoring that county to the Democrats that year by an average majority of forty votes against two hundred and ninety-eight for Goyernor Chase in 1855 ; and in 1859, when the Union newspaper, which he then edited, had secured the entire county patronage, he transferred it for a " song " to those who neyer appreciated his generosity ; engaged in a patent corn cutter invented by Rible ; taught school in Somerset ; inaugurated the purchase of the present school lot, and carried it by five majority in a poll of two hundred and fifty votes ; stumped the county for Douglas, in 1860 ; took a decided stand for the war against the South, which had, by its bolt, defeated Douglas and the Democratic party ; became the first Assessor of Internal Reyenue in Perry county, as he had been the first Clerk of the Courts, under the present Constitution. in Fairfield ; was appointed Commissioner of Enrollment, or " Draft Commissioner," as it was called, by President Lincoln. on recommendation of Hon. Alfred McVeigh and Hon. Carey A. Trimble, in 1862, in which capacity he seryed to the end of the war, receiying an honorable discharge from Secretary Stanton ; started the Somerset Advocate, in 1867, to reviye the railroad idea from Newark to Straitsville, which cost one and a half million dollars, and moved, perhaps, twenty millions more of capital into furnaces, lands, towns, and mining, and added not less than ten thousand to the population of Perry county, directly or indirectly ; bought three sections of coal lands, on option, and realized large and sudden profits, and never sold to a man who did not also realize profits ; bought lands in and about Somerset, carried on a grocery trade, and, between the losses on the credit system of the latter and the depreciation of land prices after the panic of 1874., lost all his property, which had cost him more than double his liabilities ; was cast into jail on a charge of embezzlement, made by a perjured villain whom he neyer before had seen or known, and who could, therefore, know nothing as to guilt or innocence, and on which charge no indictment could be found, and hence the prisoner was discharged, with a reputation limping in the hobbles of unjust suspicion ; but, with a spirit unbroken and a resolve unshaken, the conflicts of life were renewed ; sympathy for the oppressed toiler was awakened into newness of life by his return to labor in the fields. The flat and heavily timbered lands of North-western Ohio, joined to their scarcity of stone and gravel for pikes, , and the great cost of these even where material is plenty, 446 - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES suggested to Mr. Kagay the application of trench and tile, with charcoal covering, to the making of pikes. Martin Kagay became the husband of Christina Walters in 1850. Their suryiving children are, Samuel, Rudolph Rizzio, Della, Ida, and Maggie. Three children died in infancy. The father of Mrs. Kagay was John Walters, deceased, of Fairfield county. Her mother was Mary Magdalena, daughter of the venerable Rev. William Foster, of Thorn township. Her vocal powers were rare in her maiden days, and, she was in request at the singing schools of those times, and her voice, even now, possesses a compass and melody of the most engaging sweetness. She was reared and educated in the Lutheran belief. KALB, GEORGE E., was born in 1851, in Rushville, Ohio ; he is the editor and proprietor ,of the Thornville News and the Junction City Advocate, both weekly, and both published in Perry county. He is a son of Elijah Kalb, a native of Washington county, Maryland, who settled in Rushville in 1837, where he engaged in the drug trade, and served as post master thirty-five consecutive years. His birth was in 1803, and in 1829 he was united in marriage to Miss Rebecca, daughter of James Tenant, Sharpsburg, Virginia. This gentleman ran off from England in his boyhood, and in after life became the owner of a line of steamers, and large tracts of land near Sharpsburg, Virginia. His steamers were captured, his houses and fences were burned by the soldiery during the Rebellion, and after the war ended he found his splendid fortune wrecked in the whirlpool of revolution. He lived to the year 1866, and died at the age of eighty, near Shepardstown, a poor man in fortune, but rich in all the elements of manhood which values convictions of right and duty more highly than gold or lands. Elijah Kalb died in May, 1876, ten years after his father-in-law, and Mrs. Kalb is still living, at the age of seventy. The family were strict members of the M. E. Church, and Mr. Kalb was a sincere, upright and honest citizen, and carried to his grave the homage ever paid to sterling worth. According to Daniel G. Kalb, of Springfield, Illinois, Elijah's family is connected with that of the Baron de Kalb, of Revolutionary fame—exactly how is not at hand now to state. The brother of George E. Kalb, and son of Elijah, is Mayberry, a carpenter, Rushville, Ohio. Three sisters are all married and live in Rushville, except one in Zanesville. In 1874 George E. was married to Miss Ruth A. Siniff, daughter of Jacob Siniff, Sr., who died at the age of eighty years. The children of this marriage are Charles de Kalb and Roy de Kalb, of Rushville, the spelling and the naming being intended to assert the title of these sons to the form used by their ancient relative, the Baron de Kalb. KARR, NOAH, born 1824, in Thorn township ; son of Rev. William Karr, a teacher in German and English, and a Baptist preacher, who was among the earliest settlers of Perry. The first wife of Rev. William Karr was Miss Hannah Good, aunt of the present venerable John Good, of Thorn, and sister of Joseph Good, the father of John. The two daughters resulting from this marriage are now deceased in Indiana. The second marriage was to Susan Griffith, the mother of Noah Karr, and four other sons, now deceased, and one daughter, the wife of David Hurnberger. Noah Karr worked as a farm laborer seven HISTORY OF PERRY COUNTY - 447 years, for William Yost, of Thorn ; was then married to Miss Katharine Smith ; moved into the house where he was born, and began three more years of seryice to the same employer. He was elected Sheriff of Perry counts- in 1870, re-elected in 1872, and after serving two terms in 1878 was elected County Treasurer, in all of which trusts he served with credit to himself and to the public, and retains to this day the confidence and esteem of the people of Perry. His children are Noah Karr, Jr., now married to Miss Kate McWaid, of Somerset, and who was assistant treasurer to his father, and now assistant in the Somerset Flouring Mills, of which his father has purchased a half share. The daughters are Mrs. B. F. Humberger, Mrs. Amos Helser, and Mrs. George Meloy, and one yet single and at home with her parents. Mr. Karr, though social and fond of fun, is temperate and decorous in his habits. He paid eight hundred dollars for a substitute in the army, sold wool for one dollar per pound, and for fiye hogs he realized the war price of one hundred and eighty dollars, while his wheat went to market at two dollars and fifty cents. He has been engaged as a shipper of horses, of eggs, and other species of trade, connected with a hub factory, and with a planing mill, and in all his career he has maintained the same honorable record, and enjoyed the confidence of his fellow-citizens. KATING, LAWRENCE. Marshal of New Lexington, Ohio, was born July 4, 1858, in county Tipperary, Ireland ; son of Joseph and Mary (Bryan) Kating ; came to America in February, 1866, and located in Columbus, Ohio, where he remained about fiye years. The succeeding year was spent at Pickaway and Mount Vernon, Ohio, and came to this place in the spring of 1873 ; he was appointed to serye on the police force of New Lexington in 1874, and the following year was elected marshal of the place ; served four years and was re-elected in the spring of 1882. KEAR, HARRY, Shawnee, Ohio ; was born January 19, 1854, in Gloucestershire, Forest of Dean, England ; son of John and Elizabeth (Hicks) Kear. Mr. Kear came to America in 1873, landing in New York April 3d, and thence via Baltimore to Cumberland and McKeesport, on the Monongahela Riyer, Pennsylyania, where he worked as a miner for about two months, and thence to Frostburg, Maryland, also engaged as a miner in this place for about two years ; and from there he came to Shawnee, Ohio, in 1875, and mined some two years, and thence to Bussey, Morgan county, Iowa, via Ottumwa ; remained here some fiye or six months engaged as a miner, and in sinking a coal shaft. From here he went to Knoxyille, where he ran a country bank for a farmer by the name of Woodruff ; next he appeared at Lucas, Lucas county, Iowa, where he mined six or eight months, and afterward assisted in sinking another coal shaft, and again went to mining ; remained here about thirteen months, and returned to Shawnee, yia Chicago, Columbus and Newark, in 1877, again mining about eighteen months ; returned to Pennsylyania, and to Berkley Springs, Morgan county, Virginia, where lie mined and worked V for an iron ore company, of Dunbar, Pennsylvania, about four or fiye months. From here, yia Baltimore, Maryland; and Philadelphia, Pennsylyania, to New York, where he took the steamer, City of Richmond, of the Inman Line, 447 -BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. setting sail for Liverpool, where he landed July 2, 1878, having left New York on the 22d of June previous, making the voyage in nine days and twelve hours. From Liverpool he went to the place of his nativity, and spent six weeks in England, visiting London and other principal cities of that country, and again he set sail for New York, August 15, 1878, from Liverpool, and landed August 25, 1878, remaining in New York four days, when he returned to Berkley Springs, Virginia, and to Frostburg, Maryland, and thence to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with the intention of buying some place of business, but not suiting himself here, he again returned to Shawnee, and went into business with his brother, who had come from England with him, but afterward bought out his brother, and went into business for himself, where he is still situated. Mr. Kear was married November 6, 1879, to Lida, daughter of Alfred Micklethwaite, of Shawnee, Ohio. They are the parents of one child, fourteen months old February 12, 1882, whose name is Bessie Kear. KEENAN, JOHN, New Lexington, Ohio; was born October 22, 1833, in Greene county, Pennsylvania ; son of Patrick and Mary Keenan. They came to this county about the year 1837, and located near New Lexington, where they remained about two years, then removed to Salt-lick township, where John was brought up. Mr. Keenan was married January 16, 1859, to Miss Ellen, daughter of John and Mary McGarvey, of Jackson township. They are the parents of eleven children, viz. : Patrick, Thomas, James, William, Hugh, Mary, Rose, Catherine, deceased, Euphemia, Joseph, and an infant not named. Mr. Keenan came to this plaee in the spring of 1864; and has resided here to the present time. KELLY, JOHN HENRY, was a son of Henry and Mary (Petit) Kelly, and was born in Madison township, Perry county, Ohio, December 29, 1825, and died May 18, 1881. He was married to Miss Annie C. Poundstone, at Bowling Green township, Licking county, Ohio, September 23, 1847. Mr. Kelly was brought up on a farm in Madison township, Perry county, attending as opportunity permitted, the district school. His father was a teacher—one of the best in his day—and John was early instructed in all the common branches of learning, and himself became a teacher at the early age of sixteen. After teaching for several years in "the neighborhood of his nativity, he came to Rehoboth to teach in the fall of 1849. After teaching there one year he was employed in the same capacity at New Lexington, and from that time New Lexington became his permanent home, though after a few years he abandoned the occupation of teaching. As an instructor, he ranked considerably above the ayerage, and he was more than ordinarily successful wherever engaged. After he quit teaching he tried merchandizing a little while, but did not succeed to his satisfaction, and disliked the business. He was, in 1856, the Republican nominee for County Auditor, and came within sixteen votes of being elected. He had studied law for s0me time, and soon after his defeat for Auditor, was admitted to the bar, and opened an office in New Lexington early in 1857. He was very diligent and painstaking in business intrusted to his charge, and almost immediately secured a paying practice. In the summer of 1862 he assisted in recruiting the One Hundred and Fourteenth Regi- HISTORY OF PERRY COUNTY - 449 ment, O. V. I., and was commissioned as Major of the regiment. He was promoted to the office of Lieutenant-Colonel, then Colonel, and was finally breyetted Brigadier-General for gallant and meritorious services at the battle of Mobile." Major Kelly was engaged in the first unsuccessful attack on Vicksburg, by General Sherman, and was soon after in the battle of Arkansas 'Post. Then he lay with troops under Grant at Young's Point and Milliken's Bend, where, from malarial disease, so many of the gallant sons of Perry went down to death that the country might live. When the final hour came and the sick and disabled were sent up the river, Major Kelly was one of the well ones who moved silently and swiftly down the western bank of the Mississippi, then crossed at Grand Gulf to the eastern side. He was engaged in nearly all the important battles around Vicksburg which led to its capitulation July 1863. Not long after this, he became commander of the regiment. and went with an expedition down to New Orleans and across the Gulf to Galveston. Finally the command was sent to Mobile and the One Hundred and Fourteenth participated in the bayonet charge that led to the capture of the city. This was the last battle of the war. A few months after this Colonel Kelly came to Ohio with his regiment, and was mustered out of service with it. After leaving the army, Colonel Kelly, now General by breyet, resumed the practice of law, and to some extent engaged in farming operations. Upon the death of Henry Sheeran, Prosecuting Attorney, General Kelly was appointed Prosecut0r to fill out the unexpired term. He was, also, in 1871, nominated for Representative by the Republican party, but was defeated at the election. In 1879 he became the Republican candidate for Probate Judge, and was elected. General Kelly, in one way or another, has been much public life. and was generally known. In addition to what has been related, he has been Mayor of New Lexington, and frequently a member of the town council, board of education, and Sunday school superintendent, and other offices in the church of which he was a useful member. And all public and official stations he filled with more than ordinary ability. General Kelly united with the Methodist Episcopal Church at Rehoboth in 1850 and remained a member until his death. He was brave, gener0us hearted and benevolent, and ever ready and ever willing to assist, to the utmost of his ability, the poor, afflicted and needy. He was plain spoken. but affable, urbane and generally popular with men of all creeds and parties, and his loss was widely and deeply felt. His death was sudden and unexpected and cast a yery perceptible gloom upon the town and county, He was taken sick Sunday eyening, May 15th, while at church. and sufered severe pain, except when under the influence of narcotics, until his death. General Kelly left a wife and two sons. Two daughters died not long since. His aged mother is still living ; also his brothers and sisters. His funeral took place Friday, May 20th, and assumed very much of a public and general character. The New Lexington and New Straitsville Masonic Lodges attended in a body, and many members of other Lodges were also present. General Kelly was a Past Master of New Lexington Lodge, and was its Secretary at the time of his death. The Ewing Guards were out in force and participated in the ceremonies of burial. The members of the Perry county - 42 -