450 - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHERS Bar attended in a body. Rev. Fagan conducted the services at the church, assisted by Revs. Tussing, Bradley, Beeman and Rose. The large church edifice was crowded to its utmost capacity. The usual Masonic services took place at the grave, the Rev. Adams, of Junction City, officiating. The mortal remains of the deceased were interred in the family lot in New Lexington cemetery. KELLY, GEORGE H., teacher in New Lexington schools. Mr. Kelly was born April 23, 1858, in this place ; son of John H. and Anne C. (Poundstone) Kelly. Young Kelly was brought up and educated in his native town. He began teaching in 1879, and has followed the profession to the present time. KELLEY, H. F., farmer ; post office, Rehoboth ; born in this county in 1831. Son of James and Elizabeth (Shaw) Kelly. The former died in 1872, the latter in 1862. Mr. Kelly was married in 1852 to Miss Soohia Strait, daughter of Christopher and Katharine (Litle) Strait. They are the parents of ten children, viz. : Sarah E., deceased, Georgia, deceased, Mary F., Harriet J., James B., Caroline M., Lucy G., Charles A., William A., John H. Mr. Kelly was a soldier in the late war. KELLEY, JAMES F., school teacher, Shawnee, Ohio, was born August 13, 1843, in Clayton township, this county ; son of Wesley and Hannah (Huston) Kelley. Mr. Kelley remained at home on the farm until he was eighteen years of age, when he went to his uncle Huston, of Muskingum county, Ohio, whom he assisted on the farm in the summer season, and attended school in winter, and also taught three months in that county, when he returned to Perry county, and in Madison township, took charge of a school which he taught one month, and then enlisted for three years or during the war, in the United States Signal service, and was discharged at the close of the war, having served about two years. Upon his return he attended school about two months, then resumed teaching in Oakfield, Pleasant township, and taught six months. He then was engaged in the grocery and notion business about three years. Again resumed teaching in the grammar room of New Lexington, Ohio, where he taught some five years, six months of which time he taught the high school. Then taught two six months terms in Van Atta district, followed by a five months term in Thorn township, and the following summer in McConnelsville, Morgan county. Then came to Shawnee, where he has taught two years in grammar school, and one year was principal of high school. Mr. Kelley was corporation clerk in New Lexington seven years ; was married April 16, 1868, to Mary, daughter of William and Elizabeth (Moody) Newell, of Muskingum county, Ohio. They are the parents of three children, viz. : Maggie E., Carrie E., and Charles W. KELLEY, A. H., farmer, New Lexington, Ohio was born January 25, 1846, in Clayton township, this county, son of Wesley and Hannah (Huston) Kelley. Was raised a farmer, ant has given most of his attion to agriculture during his life. Was employed as clerk in dry goods store with his brother James F., for about one year, and about 1868. Just after this he engaged in partnership with his brother in grocery business for about one year, when he engaged in farming, which he has continued to this time, together with huckstering. Was married HISTORY OF PERRY COUNTY - 451 May 5, 1870, to Harriet, daughter of John and Marjory (Yates) Chenowith. They are the parents of five children, viz. : Olive M. Ross, Nellie F., Fannie M., and Archie ; also of one deceased, viz. : Mamie. Mr. Kelley now lives near New Lexington, Ohio, where he owns quite a nice farm home. KEMPER, ELIJAH, farmer, brick mason, stone cutter, marble dealer and inventor; born in Fauquier county, Virginia, 1798 ; post office, Thornville. ; is one of the two sons of Jacob Kemper who came to Perry county in 1807. His brother, Jacob, born the same year last named, moved to St. Marys, Ohio, in 1850, and has but one son, George W. Kemper. His mother's maiden name was Susan Bashaw. He had five sisters—Nancy Carey, deceased ; Lucy, the widow of Joel H. Kemper, Brownsyille, O. Harriet Edson, deceased Susannah McMullen, deceased ; and Mary the widow of Judge R. F. Hickman, late of Perry county. Elijah Kemper was first married at the age of forty-five years, to Miss Nancy Henthorn, whose father was James Henthorn, of Irish extraction, and whose mother was Sarah Fidler, of German parentage. This marriage was blessed with two children, both of whom died in infancy, and they were followed by the mother. The second marriage took place in 1852, to Elizabeth, daughter of Eli Whitaker, whose wife was Miss Mary Cherry. She died April 6th, 1882, in her eightieth year, loved and lamented by all who knew her, leaving her husband without children. She was a sister of John Whitaker, a merchant of New Lexington ; was a native of Washington county; Pennsylvania, from whence she came to Ohio in 1809 ; was a Methodist in belief, but with her husband, seceded, and united with Rev. James F. Given, who was silenced by the Methodist Episcopal Church, for his opposition to the war of 1861 ; and who with others of the same church, and other churches, organized a new church, known as the Christian Union. This organization has a paper printed at Newark, Ohio, called the Christian Union, and is the recognized organ of the new church, Which seeks the union of all Christians on a common platform of tolerance and fellowship. Elijah Kemper is a man of great force of. character, five feet nine inches tall ; weight, one hundred and sixty pounds ; head, twenty-three and one-half inches in circumference. He invented a popular gate, which slides and swings open with ease, and which was sold extensively in the East, and became a source of profit to its originator under, the patent laws. He found men wanting a full description, which when sent them, was used to infringe his patent, and was doubtless procured for this purpose alone. In 1881, he patented a hand seed sower, which more than doubles the acreage sown by one man in a day, and delivers the seed with great regularity and precision. Its cost, with right of use on a farm, is only two dollars ; and tinners can make it for less than half the money. He is French on his mother's side, and English on the Kemper side of his parentage. He has lived on one farm, near Thornville, for seventy-five years ; is a relative of Bishop Kemper of St. Louis, and Governor Kemper, of Virginia, was a cousin. He reads without spectacles now at the age of eighty-four years, and is one of the best preserved samples of physical activity in Ohio ; and to meet his equal in vigor of mind, body or memory, rarely happens. His uncle, Isaac Kemper and Dr. Daniel Kemper, came as early as 1805, 452 - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. and were the center posts of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Thorn. His memory links the following names with the settlement of Thorn township, prior to 1808 : Joseph McMullen, who laid out Thornville in 1818, by name of Lebanon; Besecker, the Goods, John Kindal, 1805 ; Keiths, Henry and Michael Boyer, 1802 ; Hendersons, Fosters, Groves, Ho0pers, Bowman, Reams, Stoneman, Karr, Neil, Dombold, Fulton, Warfield and Stockbarger. KENNEDY, THOMAS P., blacksmith, Maxville, Ohio ; born in Fairfield county, Ohio, September 9, 1821 ; son of William and Sarah (Henry) Kennedy. His early days were spent in attending district school and .ssisting his father in the blacksmith shop, of which trade he became master. In the spring of 1832, he came with his parents to Monday Creek township, Perry county, Ohio, and has ever since been one of its most respected citizens. In 1847 he came to Maxville, and opened a blacksmith shop, and has ever since carried on his trade in that village. Was married February 12, 1847, to Sophia, daughter of Bennet and Luzilla (Angle) Huston. They are the parents of nine children, viz. : William Bennet, Luzilla H., Levi H., Sarah E., Matilda J., John N., Clara E., Estella M., and Cora B. All living except William Bennet, who served in the war of the Rebellion, and was wounded at Fort Gregg, and died of his wounds at Petersburg, Virginia. Mr. Kennedy enlisted in Company C, Sixty-second Regiment, O. V. I., in 1864 ; participated in the capture of Richmond, and at the close of the war, received an honorable discharge. Mr. Kennedy was one of the first citizens of Maxville ; began life without a penny, but by strict application to his calling, has secured a good home for himself and family. KENNEDY. ABRAHAM C., teacher in Straitsville schools ; was born January 10, 1848, in this place, and brought up in Jackson townShip. He is a son of John and Susan (Parmer) Kennedy. Abraham C. began teaching January 11, 1868, and has taught fourteen years, and is now one of the best teachers of the county. He came to New Lexington in 1879, and in 1882, went to Straitsville. Mr. Kennedy was married May 26, 1870, to Miss Mary E., daughter of James and Julia A. (Mateer) Price. They are the parents of four children, viz. : Frank V., Emma Florence, Charles W. and Francis James Longdon. KENNEDY, GEORGE W., dealer in books, etc., Main street, New Lexington, Ohio ; was born March 4, 1855, in Vinton county, Ohio ; son of John D. and Susanna (Palmer) Kennedy. Young Kennedy was brought up on the farm until seventeen. He began teaching school at eighteen, and taught eight terms. He then clerked in a general merchandising store in Athens county, Ohio. Came to this place in June, 1879, and established his present business, in which he is succeeding well. KERN, JOSEPH, SR., deceased ; was born in Berks county, Pennsylvania, and was there married to Mary Swaivly in 1818. He kept a store in Reading until 1831, when, on the 12th day of May, the deed for the seventy-seven and one-half acres, where his son Joseph Kern, Jr., now lives., was signed by Asa Dennison. William Durrh, who married Joseph's sister, came to Ohio at the same time. The children of Joseph, Sr., were : Jeremiah, Hiram, Harriet, Sarah, Mary, Amanda, 453 - HISTORY OF PERRY COUNTY. Nancy and Joseph, both single, and who own and occupy the homestead. Joseph. Sr., liyed to his eighty-first and his wife to her sixty-ninth year. They were of Lutheran extraction, but became United Brethren. Joseph was a very honest but not temperate man, until he joined the Washingtonians, after which he kept his pledge till death. KESSLER, FRANK, wagon maker, New Lexington, Ohio ; was born November 25. 1842, in Hocking county ; son of John and Elizabeth (Sharshel) Kessler. Frank was brought up on the farm until the age of nineteen, when he went to his present trade. He first established a shop at Logan, Hocking county, in 1865. He remained there two years, then came to this place, where he has since remained. He is doing a good business, being one of the best mechanics in the county. Mr. Kessler was married in the spring of 1865 to Miss Catharine, daughter of John and Elizabeth Fox. They are the parents of seyen children, yiz. : Francis Anthony. James Edward, Mary Victoria, Roseanne Elizabeth, John William, Catharine and Charles Joseph. KING, MICHAEL, farmer, was born February 29, 1820, section 35, Thorn township ; his post office is Thornville, Ohio. He is a son of Christian' King and grandson of Rev. John King, who was the first preacher ever settled on the soil of Perry county. This Rey. John King was a natiye of a Rhinish Province in Germany ; came to America with his wife and his sons. John, Peter and Christian, (the father of Mike), and one daughter, Morelius, with him, prior to the adoption of the Federal Constitution, which fact naturalized him and made him a voter without papers. He must have come to Ohio and settled on section 35, in Thorn township, as early as 1802 or 1803. At any rate he found a very few neighbors, and of that best friend to man, money, he had but 25 cents left on arrival in the forests of Perry. He had, howeyer, a four-horse team of good horses and a good old fashioned wagon, and, it is to be presumed, a good share of provisions and clothing in it. He must have been a tine German scholar, as any one may learn by inspection of the superb constitution, in his handwriting, of the Presbyterian and Lutheran church of Zion, dated in 1805, and now in possession of the venerable George Daniels, of Thorn township. From the date of his arriyal in America, probably in 1787, to 1802 or 1803, when he came to Ohio, he resided in the State of Virginia. He was an expert in the selection of land in a new country, and this characteristic has benefited his descendants to this day, who still hold the same acres, and many more, selected at first by this old patriarch of the early time in Perry county. He pre-empted a half section, began cutting a road from his cabin to the Zane Trace, and hauled salt from Chillicothe by way of Lancaster, for a liyelihood. He must also have sayed some money, for a few years later, the searching glances or land buyers was turned upon his acres, not vet safe from their power to obtain, when he, through the friendship and aid of the Receiver at Chillicothe, closed his pre-emption and got a patent. He was a teacher of German and music in the infant schools of his day, and his enterprise also erected a still house in Virginia and Ohio, and the whiskv he made was doubtless as pure as the gospel he preached. He was a heavy set, stoutly built man. of kind disposition, inclined to books and industrial vocations. His children. born in America, were George, Jacob, Mrs. Spoon and Mrs. Brock. 454 - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. Christena King, Philip King and the Rev. Henry King, now of the Reform Church, and still living, and who, with Mrs. Catharine Brock, post office Hamilton, Ohio, are the sole survivors of the ten children. Philip died near Salem, Ohio, and was the father of Peter King, late of Perry ; George died near Stoutsville, Fairfield county ; Peter King died near Glenford, Perry county. where some of his children still reside ; Morelius, wife of Alexander Costonion, died on the home farm, section 35, where with Christian she shared the paternal homestead, Christian King, father of Michael, prior to 1812, was married to Margaret Basore, a sister of Mrs. John Humberger, still living. They became the parents of nine sons and three daughters, who grew to be men and women, and one child that died young. The sons were, John, Samuel, Michael Henry, Christian, Frederick, David, Simon and Reuben. The daughters were, Mary M., deceased, wife of Henry Humberger, also deceased.; Margaret, widow of Daniel Fisher ; Mary Ann, wife of Jacob Ramsey, Columbia City, Indiana. The father of the children died in 1852, and the mother followed in 1862, in the 69th year of her age. He made a will and appointed his sons, Samuel and Michael, its executors. Michael King was married January 3, 1847, to Miss Franey Auspach, daughter of Christian Auspach. Their children are, Franklin, husband of Miss Ella, daughter of John Beagler, Thornville, Ohio ; William Henry and David, Miss Tena Ann and Miss Ida Alice—three sons and two daughters. He began his married life, .by buying, in partnership. one hundred and eighty-three acres, subject to dower of Molly Humberger and two-elevenths belonging to heirs where he now resides, for $20 per acre, subject to dower. He paid in part a quarter section of land in Whitley county, Indiana, at $600. He now owns in fee one hundred and seventy-six acres alone and is helping his married son to pay for one hundred and twenty-eight acres in section 13, Thorn township. His barn caught fire in 1869, by a overheated threshing machine while in motion, and he lost it and its contents, but it was insured for $800, and he has replaced it with a splendid structure. In 1860 he built of brick, a comfortable farmer's mansion, and though not modern in all its parts, is a model of comfort and, especially the part devoted to the kitchen and dining rooms, where the best of bread and the most golden rose scented butter tempt the gustatory nerves and pronounce the highest eulogy on the high toned, practical education of Perry county wives and their blooming daughters. KING, J. R., blacksmith, Bearfield township, Portersville post office, born in Noble county in 1824, son of Jonathan and Mary (Swarthwood) King. His father was a native of Pennsylvania and his mother of Ohio. Mr. J. R. King came to this county in 1870, and lived in this township two years, when he moved to Sarahsville, and afterwards returned to this township, where he now resides. In 1841 he married Elizabeth A. Wright, of Noble county, and of Virginia ancestry. They are the parents of two children, Abraham and Catharine. The son married Miss Odell and resides in this township, and his daughter married J. W. Robinson. She died in 1867. KING, JOHN C., was born in 1835, in Perry county, Ohio ; is a farmer and carpenter , post office Glenford. He is a son of Peter King, whose father came from Germany when Peter was twelve years of age, and HISTORY OF PERRY COUNTY - 455 settled in Thorn township. Peter died on his farm, section 17, Hopewell, in 1858, at the age of seventy-four years. His wife, the mother of John C. King, was Mary Magdaline Whitmore, sister of the late venerable Peter Whitmore, of Reading township. She departed this life five years after her husband, leaving the following named children : Saloma, wife of Michael Cotterman, Little Sandusky, Ohio ; Katharine, wife of John Smith, deceased, Somerset ; Rebecca, wife of Isaac Zartman, Glenford ; Lydia, deceased; Susannah, deceased ; Thomas, deceased Mary M., wife of Porter Cline, Illinois ; Peter C., married to Miss Caroline Long, McCutchensville, Ohio ; David C., married to Margaret Mechling, Glenford ; Leah, wile of Jeremiah Alspach, Thornville, Ohio ; Elizabeth, wife of Samuel Alspach, Thornville, Ohio ; William C., married first to Mary Ann, daughter of Henry Zartman, and after her death, to Kate Focht, Upper Sandusky, Ohio, dry goods ; Franklin C., married to Miss Rachel Zillinger, daughter of Jacob, Union Station, Licking county, Ohio ; served in the One Hundred and Twenty-sixth Regiment, O. V. I., Company K, and was wounded three times ; and John C., who, in 1859, became the husband of Miss Elizabeth Rarick, daughter of the late Peter Rarick, of Thorn township. post office Glenford, Ohio. Their children are Altha, wife of Henry Lentz, post office Glenford ; Rufus Franklin, Henry Wallace, and Miss Cora. Mr. King owns a part of the original King homestead and all together, has .one hundred and fifty acres of land in Hopewell. He is a member of the Reform Church ; a Democrat, and sustains the record of his an- cestry for honesty, industry and frugality. KING, DAVID S., farmer, Madison township, post office Sego, Perry county, Ohio; born June I I, 1837, in Saltlick township ; son of Thomas and Sarah (Headley) King. David S. was brought up on a farm, and has followed agriculture to the present time. Mr. King served about four months in Company A, One Hundred and Sixty, O. N. G. He was married first November 1, 1857, to Miss Miraet, daughter of Cyrus and Hannah (Clerry) Adams. They became the parents of seven children, viz. : Martha Jane, married to Perry Brown ; Hannah E., Sarah A., Alzier L., Lewis S., Emma M., deceased, and Ida W. Mrs. King died April 23, 1870. Mr. King was married the second time to Miss Amanda R., daughter of James and Sarah (Hope) Wilson. They are the parents or four children, viz. : William E., Clara, deceased, Myrtle B. and Amanda Ellen. Mr. King came to his present residence in August, 1873, and is succeeding well. KING, A. B., coal operator, New Straitsville. KISHLER, THOMAS J ., of the firm of Berkimer & Kishler, carriage and wagon manufacturers, New Lexington, Ohio. Mr. K. was born October 8, 1862, in Jackson township ; son of George and Susan Kishler, natives of Pennsylvania. Young Kishler went to his trade when about fifteen, and became a partner in the above firm in the fall of 1881. KLEIN, J. J., retail dry goods merchant and grocer, Junction City, Ohio ; was born in May, 1855 ; son of Lewis and Hannah Klein ; came from Europe to America in 1871. He went to his present occupation in June, 1881; was married in 1881 to Miss Fanny, daughter of Henry and Rachel Weber. Mr. Klein keeps a good stock of goods, and has a first-class trade. - 12 - 456 - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. KLIPSTINE, PHILIP, farmer, Monroe township, post office Corning ; was b0rn August 20, 1820, in Greene county, Pennsylvania ; son of William and Nancy (Shuman) Klipstine. When Philip was about four years old, his father moved to Tyler county, Virginia. When twenty-two years of age Philip came to Monroe township, Perry county. Having but little financial means he worked by the month as a farm hand, until April 23, 1843, when he was married to Miss Emeline Reese. He then purchased the farm where he now resides. They are the parents of four children—Sarah, married to James C. Dew ; Mary, married to William J. Todd ; Martha, married to Thomas Killkinney, since died ; Kate, married to Cyrus M. Brown. When Mr. Klipstine first came to this township, deer and wild turkey were abundant. He has seen the hardships of pioneer life, having cleared over one hundred acres of rough timber land, and he now enjoys the fruits of his labor, living in a comfortable h0me, independent of work. KNOTTS, J. W., carriage painter, Thornville, Ohio ; born in 1850, in Covington, Kentucky. He is a son of James B. Knotts, a carpenter and builder, a native of Wirt county, West. Virginia, who died in 1864, in the forty-sixth year of his age, of consumption, brought on by exposure in Arkansas. His brothers, the uncles of J. W. KnottS, are Isaac, of Missouri ; Luke, of Virginia ;. and John, of Cincinnati, Ohio. Uncle Edward Knotts died in Roseville, Arkansas. An aunt, Rebecca Lee, wife of Captain J. B. Lee, of the Confederate Army, is still living, post office Palestine, Wirt county, Virginia—a relative of the late Gen, Robert E. Lee. Another aunt, Matilda Knotts, now deceased, was the wife of Joseph Cook, near Parkersburg, Virginia. His (J. W.'s) mother's maiden name was Ann S. Cook, who is the mother of three sons and five daughters, all living. His grandmother's maiden name was Margaret Prottsman, afterwards Cook. His great-grandfather, Absalom Knotts, came from Ireland, and is of Scotch-Irish descent, and tradition alleges him to have been the owner of a large tract of land in Maryland, which he leased out for ninety-nine years, and on which the town of Dover now rests. Grandfather Edward Knotts was a son of this Absalom Knotts. J. W. Knotts became the husband of Miss Anna H. Ludtman, in 1871, at Marietta, Ohio. Her parents were natives of Germany, and her father was a shoemaker by trade, and died in the last named city. Their children are Charles, Edith, Iolia and Grace, now three years of age. Mr. Knotts learned his trade of painter in Marietta, under the tutilage of an eminent and very kind preceptor. He started a shop in that city, and carried on house, sign, carriage and decorative painting, and continued thus until 1881, since when he he was employed in the extensive carriage works of David Cherry & Company, in Thornville, Ohio. He is distinguished for his excellence as a workman, his devotion to the interests of his employer, and for his steady attention to his work. KOCHENDERFER, DR. JOHN H., Buckingham, Ohio ; was born July 29, 1841, in Lebanon county, Pennsylyania ; son of Joseph and Lovina (Artz) Kochenderfer. Came to Mansfield, Ohio, in 1856. He enlisted August 11, 1862, in Company D, One Hundred and Second O. V. I., and served three years. He was captured at the battle of Athens, Alabama, and was held a prisoner about seven months. While being trans- HISTORY OF PERRY COUNTY - 457 ferred from Vicksburg to St. Louis, on the steamer Sultana, she was blown up, causing about one thousand six hundred and seventy-five lives to be lost. The Doctor was thrown about three hundred feet from the vessel, and fell in the water, but was rescued in about five hours some eighteen miles below where the wreck occurred. He received an injury by being thrown against what was supposed to be a rope, from which he will never recover. The Doctor began the study of medicine in 1878 ; attended the Medical College at Cincinnati, and began practice with Dr. Deaver, in the spring of 1882. He was married November, 14, 1865, to Miss Malvina C., daughter of George and Hannah (Funk) Cox, of Richland county, Ohio. They are the parents of two children, viz. : Eliza C. and George J. KUHN, JOSEPH, farmer, son of Michael Kuhn, who emigrated from Strausburg, France, in 1831, after which he married Nancy Clover, who became the mother of Rosanna, George, John, Lewis, Mary and Joseph Kuhn, the subject of this sketch, who was married to Miss Harriet Louisa Murdock, in October, 1875. When a boy only nine years old he began life in the service of George Skipton, and his childless wife, who was Jane, daughter of James McCormick. Mr. Skipton died in 1880, at the advanced age of eighty-four, and by his will left his beautiful farm of sixty-seven acres to Joseph Kuhn, subject to the life estate of his aged widow. This high testimonial to the worth and faithfulness of Mr. Kuhn, was not more than he deserved, and is evidence of an appreciation thus worthily expressed by his benefactor and benefactress. KULLMAN, GEORGE, was born in Schweinham, Germany, February 22, 1811 ; he died in Somerset, Ohio, September 8, 1877 ; his father's name was John ; his mother's maiden name was Goodwork ; he had five brothers, Conrad, Nicholas, Jacob, John and Joseph, supposed to reside in Denmark or Sweden ; of the others, Jacob only came to America, and after service in the late Rebellion, died in Somerset. His only sister Mary, married to Nicholas Culp, settled in Columbus, Ohio, four or five years prior to the arrival of her brothers, George and Jacob, in 1840. The same ship which brought George and his brother, also brought Henry Culp, Joseph Art, Mary Nagle and a niece of George, since married to Joseph Art. In 1840, George married the above named Mary Nagle, journeying on horseback from Marion, Ohio, to Tiffin, to find a priest. The happy twain remained in Marion, Ohio, until after the birth of their first-born, Nicholas, christened in Tiffin, forty miles distant, in 1842, and whose death occurred in Somerset, in 1845. Here, a stranger in a strange land, with limited capital, it required all the solid virtues of economy, caution and perseverance, for which his countrymen are proverbial, to establish his business as a butcher. To the faithful aid of his wife, to her firm resolution to succeed, to her sound counsel and unflagging industry—joined to his own calm purpose and steadfast efforts by day and by night, in storm or sunshine—are to be attributed that success which always crowns the union of will, mind and muscle. Thirty-seven years after his arrival in Somerset, he departed this life, in faithful hope of the life everlasting ; his books and papers show that he gave away, in uncollectable claims, more than ten thousand dollars, and these claims stand to the credit of the kind - 48 - 458 - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. heart and confiding humanity of George Kullman and his dutiful wife, Mary Ann Nagle, to whom were spared three sons : John, the eldest, united in marriage to Lizzie Elder, a daughter of John Elder ; he farms and assists in butchering. Lewis, the Second, now living, is the cashier and salesman of the firm and remains single. Samuel, the youngest, united in marriage to Amanda Burns ; he farms and assists also in butchering. The business is not changed by the father's death, but by the affectionate influence of the mother and the good understanding of the brothers, maintains its prosperity and vindicates the wisdom of the father's last will and testament. KYLE, GEORGE GORDON, M. D., Corning, Ohio ; was born November 14, 1857, in Vershire, Orange county, Vermont ; son of Rev. John and Sarah (Gordon) Kyle. Dr. Kyle was educated in the public schools of Granville, Ohio, and at Denison University, Ohio, where he graduated in 187:, and received the degree of A.M. in 1880 ; he began the study of medicine in 1877, and graduated at the Starling Medical College, Columbus, Ohio, in the spring of 1880 ; the doctor began practice in Vermillion, Erie county, Ohio, and practiced about one year ; he located at Covington in August 1880 ; Dr. Kyle was married November 17, 1881, to Miss Lillie Bell, daughter of Isaiah Jones, of Newark, Ohio. LARIMER, J. B., proprietor of hotel and postmaster, Junction City, Ohio; was born in Jackson township, this county, in August, 1836 ; is a son of William and Margaret (Brown) Larimer ; followed carpentering until 1861, after which he enlisted in Company C, Sixty-second 0. V. I., and served until November of 1864, during which time he was promoted to the rank of FirSt Lieutenant ; after the war he followed his former occupation until June, 1880, when he commenced his present business ; was married in 1860 to Miss Lizzie, daughter of Josiah and Catharine (Thorn) Jones ; they are the parents of six children,viz. : Chas. J., Catharine, Margaret, Mary, Gertrude and Alice ; Mr. Larimer is a kind, genial, accommodating landlord, and keeps the best hotel in Junction City. LARZELERE, BENJAMIN, farmer and stock raiser ; post office, Roseville ; born in Pennsylvania in 1803 ; settled in Perry county, Ohio, in 1837 ; son of Benjamin and Sarah (Brown) and grandson of Nicholas Larzelere and of Joseph Brown ; married in 1835, to Miss Mary Daymond, who died in 1877. They have seven children, viz. : Sarah P., G. W., Robert A. G., Mary E. John Q. A., Julia D., Morgan R., five of whom are married. G.W. and Robert A., enlisted in the war of the Rebellion; G. W., in the One Hundred and Fifty-ninth Regiment ; Robert in the Thirty-second. He was in the battle of Cheat Muontain, where he was taken prisoner. LATTA, ALBERT G., farmer and stock raiser, Rehoboth post office, Clayton township, Perry county, Ohio ; born in this county, in 1848 ; son of Isaac B. and Nancy (Welsh) Latta ; grandson of George Latta, and of Henry and Mary Welsh ; married in 1869, to Miss Lizzie Brown, daughter of William and Mary (Haworth) Brown ; they have but one child, Calia M. LAVERTY, ADAM, farmer and miner, New Straitsville, Ohio ; was born Jan. 4, 1834, in Cullybackey, a little village three miles west of HISTORY OF PERRY COUNTY - 459 Ballymena, county Antrim, Ireland ; son of Archibald and Mary (Killen) Laverty. Mr. Laverty was raised in his native country, and remained in Ireland until 1866, when he emigrated to America, and,with his family, has resided in Coal township, this county, since 1872. Mr. Laverty's father was a native of Ireland. His mother was born in Ireland, of Scotish parentage. Mr. Laverty, the subject of this sketch, was married June 5, 1862, to Miss Ellen Lynch, of Greenock, Scotland, daughter of Thomas and Jane (McGuire) Lynch,who were formerly of Londonderry. They are the parents of seven children, viz. : Mary Ann, Archibald, Adam J., Ellen, Thomas Philip, Theresa and Clara. LAZIER, ELZA, potter by trade, Buckeye Cottage post office, Ohio ; born in this county in 1852 ; son of Isaac and Clara (Kelly) Lazier. The former emigrated from Maryland. Grandson of John Lazier, and of James and Nellie Kelly. Married in 1857, to Miss Pheobe J. Brooks, daughter of Hiram and Sarah A. (Cline) Brooks. They have nine children, viz. : Hiram H. ; Chas. Henry, deceased, Rosanna, Isaac, Ella E., Myrtle A. and two infants. Mr. Lazier's grandfather was in the War of 1812. LEAMAN, WASHINGTON, carpenter and wagon maker,post office Gore, Hocking county, Ohio ; was born January 22, 1824, in Montgomery county, Maryland ; son of Daniel and Jane (Sibley).Leaman. At an early age, he went as an apprentice to the carpenter and wagon maker's trades, which he learned ; came to Ohio with his parents in 1835, and remained four years in Pike township, when they came in 1839 to Monday Creek township, where he has since resided. Was married May 5, 1843, to Hannah Massey, who died in 1845. Was married the second time May 11, 1847, to Susan, daughter of Jacob and Catharine (Valentine) Cavinee. They are the parents of nine children, viz. : Daniel, died in infancy ; John, Eliza, Mary J., George, Sarah C., Martha A., Matilda,died in infancy, and Samuel. LEHEW, J. O., teamster, Shawnee, Ohio ; was born November 3, 1850, in Morgan county, Ohio, and son of Samuel and Temperance (Beall) Lehew. Mr. Lehew was raised a farmer, and followed agricultural pursuits up to the age of twenty-three years. He farmed in Athens county, about seventeen years ; in Morgan county, two years, and in Wood county, West Virginia, two years ; he began teaming while in Virginia, and follower? it there about seven years, and in Athens county, two years, and in Morgan county, eight months, when he went to Shawnee, Ohio, where he has remained up to the present time, and has done all the teaming for the XX Furnace since he came to this place. Mr. Lehew was married April 8, 1872, to Hannah, daughter of Jacob and Jane (Lafevre) Martin, of Hocking county, Ohio. They are the parents of three children, viz. : Charles, Samuel and John. LEHMAN, CHRISTIAN, was born in 1802, in Juniatta county, Pennsylvania ; he was a son of Jacob Lehman ; his mother's maiden name was Hannah Peterson. These pioneers came to Perry county, in 1806, with eleven of their twelve children, comprising eight sons and four daughters. He bought eighty acres of land in Jackson township, resided for several years in Rushville, and finally settled on the farm where Christ- 460 - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. ian, now in his eightieth year, resides, and where his father, Jacob, died in the ninetieth year of his age. A sister of Christian Lehman, Betsey Turner, wife of Joseph Turner, is yet living in Rushville with her son, Abraham, in her ninety-sixth year. Christian was married in 1824, to Rebecca Siple, daughter of Frederick and Barbara Siple, then of Fairfield county. Their children are Richard, a blacksmith, Avlon post office, who, in 1857, was married to Eliza, daughter of Moses, a brother of Jacob Petty. Richard has two sons, Christian, a blacksmith,who is offered $14 per week for horse-shoeing in Columbus, and Clinton, younger and at home. The daughters are, Miss Eva and Martha, two sons and two daughters, from eight to twenty years of age. Hannah Lehman, wife of George Houtz, daughter of Christian and Rebecca Lehman, resides in Missouri, post office Hamburg, Iowa. John L. Lehman, architect and contracting carpenter, married to Sally Vandermark, daughter of Rev. Mathias Vandermark, residence, Columbus, Ohio. Mary Levina, wife of Robert Hill, residence at the homestead of her father, where, since the death of her mother, she presides as chief of the household, post office Avlon, Ohio. LEHMAN, RICHARD, eldest son of Christian, has acquired a comfortable home, which his strong arm at the anvil has beautified with a new and neat dwelling. He was a member of Company I, One Hundred and Twenty-sixth Regiment, O.V.I., Captain Yontz, attached to the famous Sixth Corps, which saved the day at Cedar Creek, after the rout of the Eighth and Nineteenth Corps, and thus saved, also, the valley of the Shenendoah from again falling back into the hands of the enemy. He served to the end of his enlistment, and was honorably discharged, when he resumed his occupation at the anvil and his place in that family circle, which had prayed for his safe return. LEMERT, RICHARD D., engineer at mine No. 13, Corning, Ohio ; was born April 19, 1852, in Crawford county, Ohio ; son of Joshua and Caroline (Blackwell) Lemert. Richard D. Lemert was brought up on a farm until about the age of fourteen years ; at eighteen began braking on the railroad, served four years, then fired two years, then took an engine and ran as railroad engineer two years. He took his present position in November, 1881. Mr. Lemert was married January 6, 1881, to Annie, daughter of Augustus and Mary Ucker, of Columbus, Ohio. They are the parents of one child, Maud Lemert. LEWIS, GEORGE, engineer, Shawnee, Ohio ; was born August 1, 1832, in Cardiff, South Wales ; son of George and Mary (Lewis) Lewis ; was raised in Cardiff, where he lived until 1868, and served his apprenticeship of five years at machinist's trade with Taff Bale Railroad, building engines. After completing his apprenticeship he ran an engine on the railroad three years ; at this time he began work for Mr. Booker, running an engine for tin and sheet-iron works about five years,up to 1861. He was next employed in putting up the Grangetown Iron Works, and was overseer of the engine at this place for seven years, until 1868, at which time he came to America, landing in New York, and from thence to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he was employed at the Superior Iron Mill and Furnace as engineer for five years ; at the end of this time he went to Newark, Ohio, where he was engaged in the Rolling Mill as engineer, for about two years, when he HISTORY OF PERRY COUNTY - 461 came to Shawnee, Ohio, where he has been with the XX Coal and Iron Company, as engineer up to this time. Mr. Lewis was married March 8. 1855, to Joan, daughter of Evan and Ann Thomas, of Cardiff, and niece of the manager of Booker's Furnace. They are the parents of six children, viz. : Eugenia, Frank, Henry, Edwin, Mary Ann and George, living, and five dead, Thomas. Mary, George, John and Herbert. LILLY, REV. H. F., the present President of St. Joseph Convent and House of Studies of the Dominican Order in the United States, is distinguished not only as such, but for his executive ability in advancing the interests, the usefulness and the fame of his Alma Mater. This institution was founded in 1818 by Rev. Edward Dominic Fenwick, afterwards first Catholic Bishop of Ohio and the North West ; the first priest after Father Fenwick, was his nephew, Rev. M. D. Young, who departed this life so recently as November 1878 ; associated with Father Young were Fathers Martin, De Rymacher, O'Larey and Hill. These Rev. Fathers resided at St. Joseph's, and performed missionary duty inside of a circle of one hundred miles. As a house of education, properly so called, the date is 1840, where students began to be received and a faculty of distinguished professors were engaged. Prior to this date no instructions were given in theology, or physics, but since then there have always been from ten to thirty students of philosophy and theology. The College was opened in 1851 for youth not aspiring to the Priesthood. It deservedly bore a high reputation as a Seat of learning, and was attended by students from all sections of the United States. It was closed in the first year of the war, chiefly on account of the withdrawal of its southern patronage. The Presidents were in order as follows : Rev. James Whelan, to 1854 ; Rev. P. D. Noon, to 1856 ; Rev. J. A. Kelly, to 1858 ; Rev. M. D. Lilly, to 1860, and the last President was Rev. J. A. Rochford ; the last three are still living. The College Building was one hundred and twenty by forty-five feet, of brick, three stories high and was torn down in 1880, when the material was used in the construction of the New Convent Building, which was dedicated, March 19, 1882. This magnificent edifice is one hundred and thirty-five by forty-five feet ; of brick, three stories and basement of stone, with slate roof; located a few miles south of Somerset. In solidity, elegance and fitness for the purpose intended it is unsurpassed in the United States. There is a hall in every story, and these halls lead to not less than seventy rooms or apartments, and are heated by a furnace below. Gas and water supplies are carried to all parts of the edifice, and the whole is completed with elevators and all the modern improvements. The Library is one of the most interesting features, rich in ancient and modern works and contains about seven thousand volumes, some of which were printed prior to the discovery of America. There are manuscripts dated in the thirteenth century, some of which are magnificently illustrated on envellum. Among its principal contributors were Bishop O'Finan, of Ireland, and Father Thomas Martin, already mentioned. The officers of the Convent at present, are in order of rank as follows : Prior, Rev. H.. F. Lilly, Rey. A. V. Higgins, Rev. Stephen Byrne, Rev. P. V. Keogh, Rev. J. C. Kent, Rev. T. A. Scallon, Rev. 462 - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES; J. F. Colbert, and Rev. E. F. Flood ; at this writing, December, 1882, there are twenty students. LINVILLE, JOSHUA, born in 1823, in Richland township, Fairfield county, Ohio, on the farm now known as Foresman's ; his father was the late yenerable and much esteemed Joseph Linville, Who came to Ohio from Rockingham county, Virginia, some years prior to 1820. The grandfather of Joshua was Benjamin Linville, who died in Virginia. The grandmother, wife of grandfather Linnville, was Ann Matthews. Their sons were Joseph, the father of Joshua ; Benjamin, still living in Salem, Fairfield county, at the advanced age of ninety odd years ; Solomon, William, and Hugh Foster Linville. The mother of Joshua Linville, was Margaret, daughter of Samuel Parrot. There were born to her and her husband Joseph Linville, Bruce and Samuel, in Virginia ; Joseph, Ann Armstrong, Sarah Eynman, Joshua, Delilah Coulson and Benjamin Linvilie, in Fairfield county. Bruce Linville, went to Edina, Knox county, Missouri, in charge of a stock of goods sent there by his patron and friend, a Mr. Cooney, formerly of Somerset ; he there rose to wealth and influence, became the treasurer of the county, and engaged in banking ; Benjamin is in Circleville, Ohio, and Joseph is one of the solid farmers and cattle dealers of Fairfield county. In 185o, Joshua became the husband of Ann Louisa Rissler, daughter of an esteemed farmer, Thomas Rissler, whose wife, the mother of Ann, was Margery Daily. The farms of Thomas Rissler and of the Linvilles join, though separated by the Perry and Fairfield line, and Mrs. Linville, when married moved to the adjoining farm, where she yet remains with her. husband, having lived all her life in sight of her paternal acres. Their children are Mary Alice, wife of Monroe Andrews. post office, Rushville ; Marge Ann, wife of Rezin Baker, a druggist of Thornville, Ohio ; Thomas R., husband of Clara, daughter of Alfred Melick ; Carey, Martha, Coulson, James R., William and Benjamin F. Linville. Joshua Linville, the father of these children, became the owner of the Linville homestead, to which he has added not only in area, but in substantial improvements and the yielding capacity of his acres. He and his wife are strict members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and enjoy the confidence and social consideration due to virtue and considerate hospitality, linked with social standing, belonging to the oldest families of this vicinity. LITSINGER, JOHN PURCEL, was born August 27. 1847 ; his father was John Litsinger, and his brothers are Peter, Jacob, Albert and William ; his sisters are Isabel, single, living at home, Sarah, married to Joseph May, and resides in Reading township. All the brothers are living in the township of Reading, Perry county, where they were born, except Albert, machinist, married to Maggie Quill, residing in St. Paul, Minnesota ; his grandfather was Jacob Litsinger, who settled here in an early day and was the father of John and Jacob, and Appie. who married Miles Clark, and is now deceased. John Litsinger, at the age of fourteen, went to Henry county. Indiana. and worked on a farm for twenty months. His wages were eight dollars per month for the first eight months, when his wages were raised to twelve dollars per month. He returned to Somerset and engaged with Jacob Grimm to learn the art of carriage blacksmithing, boarding with his mother and receiving HISTORY OF PERRY COUNTY - 463 three dollars per week, for three years, mainly under the instruction of Lewis Chilcote. He then worked in Logan at twelve dollars per week ; then at Saltillo for about a year ; then again at Somerset for Albert Grimm ; then for Grimm & Bowman ; then for Grimm & Gallin, and finally in 1876, he became a partner with Thomas Smith, under the firm. name of Smith & Litsinger, who have ever since carried on an increasing and satisfactory business as carriage and buggy manufacturers, employing six hands, in addition to themselves. He was married in the year 1870, to Martha Smyrr, a step-daughter of R. M. Barber ; their children are Flora Alice, Mary Laura, Elizabeth Gertrude and John Orlistus. The firm of Smith & Litsinger carried on business on one of the back streets of Somerset, where the buildings became too small and the location too obscure for their business, and they erected a new factory on Main street upon the site where Enzer Chilcote, in his life time resided, but which was visited by the fire, which destroyed the Russel hotel, the old Exchange, Mrs. Filler's residence, a buggy factory, and the old residence of Dr. Pardee, afterwards that of R. S. Cox and John Motz. LLOYD, JOHN, JR., manager of the mercantile department of the New York and Straitsville Coal and Iron Company. ; Shawnee, Ohio ; was born March 27, 1848, in Carnaryanshire, North Wales, son of John and Jane (Williams) Lloyd. When Mr. Lloyd was three years old his father emigrated to America, settling at Utica, New York, remaining about one year, and went to Nelson Flats, Madison county, New York, remaining about nine years, from where he went to Palmyra, Portage county, Ohio, living there four years, when he moved to Pomeroy, Meigs county, Ohio, where his son, the subject of this sketch, began the business of clerking in the wholesale and retail grocery store of Shriber & Silverman, which he continued over one year, when he was employed as clerk in the Coal Company store of E. L. Williams, remaining a number of years, and was employed as a clerk in the Pomeroy Coal Company store ; soon after which he became a junior partner, in which position he remained until 1868. At this date he sold out his interest in the company store and entered into partnership with his father, in a general merchandise store, in the same place, and was married June 28, 1869, to Miss Mary A., youngest daughter of. Morgan and Elizabeth Reese, of Palmyra, Ohio. They are the parents of one child, viz. : Laura Eva. After continuing four years in the mercantile business they sold out and came to Shawnee, Ohio, at which place he engaged as clerk with Frank L. Krumm, in whose employ he remained only a short time, when he accepted the position of superintendent of the store of Huston & Hamilton, which he also held but a short time, when he, with J. B. Hamilton and James Ash, formed a copartnership under the firm name of Ash, Lloyd & Co. In a short time Ash withdrew and James Finley was taken in, and the firm name became Finley, Lloyd & Co., which proyed short lived, Mr. Finley withdrawing. In his stead Mr. Joseph Cratty was associated ; firm name, Hamilton, Cratty & Lloyd. This firm continued business for some time, when Mr. Shields was taken in ; firm name, Shields, Lloyd & Co. After continuing business for some time Mr. Lloyd withdrew and formed a copartnership with Joseph Vilas, A. H. Blood, and George A. Blood ; 464 - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. firm name, Vilas, Blood & Co., and conducted store for New York and Straitsville Coal and Iron Company. In this relation they did business for eighteen months, when they sold out to the company, and Mr. Lloyd became manager. Mr. Lloyd has previously been elected, and is now, a member of the city council. He is now a member of the school board, having served three years ; the first year as treasurer, second and third as president. LONGSHORE, THOMAS, post office, Moxahala, Pleasant township ; born June 8, 1812, in Belmont county, Ohio ; son of Amos and Ann (Cox) Longshore. His mother was of English and his father of Welsh extraction. Thomas Longshore spent his younger days in the vicinity of Zanesville. In 1836 he married Mary Ann Evans. They are the parents of the following named children : William H., born February, 1841, married Emily Rodgers in 1857, and now resides in Kansas ; George W., born September 27, 1842, married Sarah Rose, and resides in Kansas ; Isaac, born October 17, 1844, married Elizabeth Griggs, and lives in Franklin county ; Mary C., born November 7, 1846, deceased ; Charles H., born June 29, 1849, married a Miss Holcomb, and resides in Kansas ; Albert died in infancy ; Howard, born January 1, 1860. LONGSTRETH, M. H., farmer and dealer in live stock, post office, Rendville, Pleasant township ; born in this township in 1840 ; son of James and Elizabeth (Hanesworth) Longstreth ; maternal ancestors were English and paternal ancestors were Scotch and Irish. His father came to the United States when quite young, and came to this township in 1836. April 3, 1864, the subject of this sketch married Elizabeth P. Osburn, of Millerstown. She was of English descent, and died February I, 1877. They are the parents of the following named children: Mary, Cary Erastus, who died April 12, 1866 ; Elmore S., Edgar O., Viola P., who died October 25, 1876, and Clara E. Mr. Longstreth enlisted July 17, 1863, in Company K, 129th O. V. I., and remained in the service until March. He afterwards served four months in the one hundred day service. LOVE, DAVID, was born Jan. 24, 1852, in Reading township, Perry county, Ohio. He is a son of William Love. His mother was Miss Emily Church, daughter of the late venerable David Church, of this county. He is the eldest of four brothers and two sisters. He was reared a farmer and grazer of stock, and also became qualified to teach the schools of his neighborhood, requiring, at his time of life, superior attainments in the fundamental branches. He now resides on a farm of two hundred acres, cut in twain by Rush Creek, and, because of its fertility and supply of everlasting water, pre-eminently adapted to cattle grazing and sheep husbandry. David Love is not only a working man, but a reading man as well. He was also a reading boy, and found at home abundant material to gratify his mental nature. His father often said David was too fond of newspapers to be most useful as a helper on the farm. At the age of twenty-four he was united in marriage to Lydia J., daughter of John Fisher, deceased, a native of Kentucky, who inherited a number of slaves, lost by the war, was a dealer in horses, and a man of business capacity. Her mother, Susan Mitchell, sister of Mr. Frank Mitchell, wholesale grocer of St. Louis, Mis- HISTORY OF PERRY COUNTY - 465 souri, was therefore a daughter of Randolph Mitchell. Lydia Fisher lost her mother by death in St. Joseph, Missouri, when an infant only three months old. She was taken to the home of her grandmother—Mrs. Randolph Mitchell, of New Reading—where she was tenderly reared and. educated. It is a comforting reflection to Mrs. Love, that she had it in her power to return this affection by assistance and kindness to her aged grandmother, the only mother she ever knew. Mrs. Love has one brother, John Breckinridge Fisher, who is yet unmarried and unsettled in life. David Love and his wife Lydia have one son, Lestie, and one daughter, Emma, now living. Their home overlooks the valley of Rush Creek. LOWRY, A. A., farmer, post office, New Lexington, Pike township, Ohio ; was born February 12, 1853, in Pleasant township, Perry county ; son of Joseph and Eliza (Pence) Lowry ; was raised a farmer, and has followed farming to the present time. At the age of twenty-one years he began teaching school in winter season, and farming during the summer season, which he continued for about three years, eaching at Miller's school house, in Bearfield township, four months ; in Richfield township, Henry county, about seven months ; and in another district, same township, Barnhill school house, about eight months. Returned to Perry county, and has been engaged in farming since that time, on the home place about two years, and the Wesley Moore farm one year, when he, in partnership with his mother and sister, bought the farm they now live upon. Mr. Lowry's father was a native of Muskingum county, Ohio, and went to California in 1854, where he died in the year 1864. His mother was born in Pennsylvania, and came to Ohio about 1822. LUCA,. A. THEODORE, merchant, Rendville, Ohio ; was born July 22, 1842, in New Haven, Connecticut ; son of Alexander C. and Luzetta (Lewis) Luca. Mr. Luca was brought up in his native city, Where he lived until about 1867 or 1868, when he came to Ohio, where he has remained up to this time. At his home, New Haven, he attended school, and from 1860 to 1865, he was on the Island of Hayti, as a cotton speculator. Since he came to Ohio, he learned the shoemaker trade, which he made his business for twelve or thirteen years, when he entered his present business in this place in 1881. Mr. Luca is a son of Alexander C. Luca, Sr., musical director of the Luca Family of musicians who have won many encomiums in the United States, both collectively and individually, in vocal and instrumental music. His brothers, Cleveland C., Alexander C., Jr., and John W., with their father, were the Luca Family. That this family was possessed of rare musical genius, will be clearly evinced by a perusal of the book, " Music and Some Musical People," by Trotter. LUTZ, MICHAEL, farmer, born September, 1836 ; son of David Lutz, and grandson of Michael, the progenitor of the very numerous and respectable connection bearing the name of Lutz, who came from the State of Maryland. He was of German and Lutheran extraction, and landed in Perry county in 1814. His sons were, Jacob, George, John, Samuel and Michael ; and his daughters were, Rebecca Stimel, Sarah Ann Souslin, Betsy Spohn and Katharine Sours. He died on the farm where his son Michael died, in sight of Somerset, and where - 44 - 466 - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. Michael Lutz, a nephew, succeeds not only to the name but the ancestral acres, derived from his uncle Michael, who was a bachelor, a Democrat, and one of the best farmers of the county. The farm, to-day, maintains its reputation for fertility and thrift, and certifies that it has not fallen into unworthy hands. Michael Lutz and his wife, Rebecca (Sours) Lutz, have two children, Mary Katharine, the wife of Jacob Shough, and John A., just coming into manhood, and who will soon assume the cares and responsibility of keeping the old farm up to the standard of its merited renown. LYON, JEROME BONAPARTE, physician and surgeon, New Straitsville, Ohio ; was born October 10, 1853, in Hocking county, Ohio ; son of James and Margaret (Shelhammer) Lyon. Was raised a farmer, until he was fifteen yearS of age, when he went to high school in New Lexington, Ohio, where he spent about four years, during part of which time he taught school in Hocking, Perry and Fairfield counties ; in all about two years. At the expiration of this time he began the study of medicine with Dr. A. R. Richards of New Lexington, Ohio, and studied about four years with him, attending lectures at the Ohio Medical College of Cincinnati, graduating with the class of 1879 and 1880, in the old school of medicine, after which he came directly to this place and began his practice. Was married April 25, 1881, to Miss Etta R. Smith, born August 2, 1861, in Athens county, Ohio ; daughter of Charles and Susan (King) Smith. MCBRIDE, WILLIAM J., Rendville, Ohio ; was born October 17, 1850, in Rochester, New York. When an infant, his parents moved to Ontario, Canada, where he was brought up on a farm, and in his father's store. Whilst a youth, he worked two years at cabinet and carpenter work. He then attended a school of design eighteen months, after which he determined to be a railroader, and became railroad engineer in two years after going on the road. In 1878 he came to Gallipolis, O., and was boss carpenter in the railroad shops at that place seven months. Came to his present residence in July, 1879. Was married August 4, 1872, to Miss Eliza, daughter of Michael and Mary (O'Brien) McAleer of Canada. They are the parents of nine children, all of whom died in infancy, excepting Charles, born March 4, 1877. MCCLEAN, ALEXANDER, farmer, Monday Creek township, post office, McCunesville, Ohio, was born March 25,1823, in county Antrim, Ireland Son of John and Margaret (Conley) McClean. Mr. McClean came to America in 1831, with his father, who settled in Mbyerstown, where he lived about one year and was engaged on public works ; about this time he died at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. At the age of ten years, Alexander, the subject of this sketch, was employed on the Union Canal as grogg boss, where he remained about two years, when he went to Grant's Hill and was grogg boss about one year, and then came to Ohio, via Marietta to Zanesville, on the Ohio and Muskingum rivers. From Marietta to Zanesville they started on a boat that was pushed by poles, but after ten miles ride they concluded to walk the remainder of their journey and all the way to New Lexington, near where they found Mrs. McClean's father, who had previously come to Ohio. Mr. Conley built them a house in his door yard where they lived until Mr. McClean bought eighty acres of land where he now lives, some HISTORY OF PERRY COUNTY - 467 years afterward. In the spring after their arrival Mr. McClean was employed by Thomas Martin to work on the national pike at $4.00 per month during one summer, and was next employed by John McGary at same work for $6.00 per month one summer, and the third summer by Henry Devlin ; and was employed by a man named Taggart, driving oxen at $12 per month one season. Broke gravel about twelve miles west of Columbus at $1.00 per rod, where he hired a boy to drive at $4.00 per month, making upon this contract about $2.00 per day, which employed him about one year, when he came to Jackson township and bought eighty acres of land for $175, $35 of which he borrowed of Reuben Tharp at 25 per cent. interest ; built a log cabin, into which his mother and sister moved, and he returned to work on the pike where he remained five months during which time his mother died. Upon again returning home he paid the $35 he had borrowed with the 25 per cent. interest, and lived upon the farm for two or three years in the log cabin, when he hewed logs with his narrow ax for a new dwelling, after which of course it was necessary to have a raising, and this is the way he tells it. " Of course we had to have a raising, and we had whisky in it ; most of the men got drunk and we barely escaped a fight, but before nightfall we had the house up to the square, and my neighbors had returned home, no accident having occurred. The next day I employed a carpenter to complete the job. He measured the width of the house, and we cut down the finest stick we could find in the dense woodland, sawed it the right length for rafters, split them out and framed them, and thought we would have more than an ordinary good roof, for those days, but when we come to put them up, to and behold, they were too short and would have made the roof too flat, but it was not the fault of the carpenter, as the cornermen had not carried their corners perpendicularly, causing the, top to be wider than the bottom, and we lost the work spent on the split rafters, and we had to use sapling rafters ; the house is still standing round up the valley yonder, a monument of bygone, log cabin raisings." Mr. McClean lived some six or seven years in that house when he exchanged it for forty acres near Straitsville with Bazel Gordon, from whom he received $550, as the valued difference between the farms, giving him five years time to pay it in, and afterward sold the fortv acres for which he exchanged, and bought eighty acres of Israel Gordon for $1,050, in Monday Creek township, and was obliged to again resume the forty acres upon the failure of the purchaser to pay for it. Moved to the eighty acres, to which he added forty acres at $400, and lived there five years, when he again sold out and moved to his present place of abode, where he had purchased one hundred and sixty acres of land for $2,050, upon which there was a hewed log barn and a hewed log house, both of which he has supplanted by good frame buildings. Since coming to this place he has increased his number of acres to five hundred, and has sold eighty acres to his son James. Mr. McClean has been for several years a stock dealer, and he made sheep buying and selling a specialty. Mr. McClean was married September 22, 1840 to Miss Mary, daughter of John F., and Margaret (Gordon) Hoy, of Monroe township. They are the parents of ten living children, viz. : James; Alexander, William, Albert, Charlie, Si- 468 - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. mon, Margaret, Mary, Rosa, Sallie, and two deceased, John and Patrick. MCCLOY, DAVID E., check weighman, New Straitsville, Ohio. Was born March 17, 1842, in Roseville, Muskingum county, son of William and Ruth (Worley)McCloy. Mr. McCloy was brought up in New Lexington, this county, where his father moved when David E. was a youth, and where he lived until 1872, when he came to this place. While in New Lexington he learned the harness maker, saddler and painter's trades, which he followed np to June, 1862, when he enlisted in Company I, under Captain L. F. Muzzy, in the One Hundred and Fourteenth Regiment, O. V. I. for three years, or during the war, and served until August, 1864, when he was discharged by reason of general disability. Was in the following engagements : Chickasaw Bluffs, Arkansas Post, Champion Hill, Thompson's Hill, Black River Bridge, and Siege of Vicksburg. After receiving his discharge he returned home, and eighteen months from this time, upon his recovery, he again engaged at his former occupation, until 1872, when he came to this place and has been employed as follows : Harness making one year, when he became weighmaster at W. P. Rend & Co.'s mine, which position he held for about five years, when he took his present position at the Thomas Coal Company's mine, where he has been for the past two years. Mr. McCloy was married the first time November 1866, to Martha A., daughter of Asa and Eliza (Plummer) Ball. This union was blessed with six children, viz. : Twins, that died in infancy ; Minnie May, Charles A., David Worley, and William Asbury. Mrs. McCloy died December 9, 1875. Mr. McCloy was married the second time, July 1, 1877, to Miss Minerva, daughter of John G. and Sarah (Ray) Pummell. They are the parents of three chiidren, viz. : Benjamin F., born March 28, 1878 ; John H., horn July 2, 1880, died February 0, 1881, and Lillie M., born January 18, 1882. MCCLOUD, BENJAMIN F., mine boss, Corning, Ohio, born January 16, 1847, in Canawa county, West Virginia, son of David and Mary A. (Hagarman) McCloud. At the age of fourteen he began iron moulding with his father, which he followed for six years, when he commenced mining at Campbell's Creek, near Charleston, West Virginia. In 1875 he engaged with the Consolidated Coal Company, of Cincinnati, remaining with them six years. He came to his present place in the spring of 1880. Mr. McCloud was married June 18, 1867, to Mary A. Hall. They are the parents of five children, viz. : William B., Walter S., Charles F., (twins), Mary Ellen and Frank. MCCORMICK, S. J., merchant, Logan, Ohio. Born in Maxville, Perry county, Ohio, December 23, 1835. Son of William and Elizabeth (Johnson) McCormick. His early boyhood was spent iu assisting his father in the line of business, which, at that time, was one of the leading industries of southern Perry. In 1861 he opened a store in Maxville, and continued to engage in mercantile pursuits until the spring of 1882, when, disposing of his stock of goods, he removed to Logan, Hocking county, Ohio. Was married April 19, 1866, to Cynthia, daughter of Moses and Julia A. (Patterson) Rambo, of South Bloomingville, Hocking county, Ohio, to whom were born two children, Frank Herbert and HISTORY OF PERRY COUNTY - 469 Mabel R. By economy and industry Mr. McCormick has secured for himself and family a good home and a competence sufficient to make life happy. William McCormick, deceased, father of S. J. McCormick, was born in Fairfield county, Ohio, November 12, 1802. He was among the pioneers of the State, and white men were living in but a few localities, and Indians and wild beasts were daily seen. He was married July 25, 1833, to Elizabeth Johnson, who was born in Virginia, March 2, 1809. Eight children were born to them, viz. : James T., S. J., Sarah J., John W., Amos G., Francis M., David L., Mary E. William McCormick was among the first to locate in Maxville, and remained one of its most influential citizens until his death, which occurred October 11, 1856. Moses Rambo, deceased, father of Mrs. S. J. McCormick,was born in Perry county, Ohio, November 26, 1807. Was married to Julia A. Patterson September 16, 1830, who was born in Pennsylvania, October 13, 1805, and came to Perry county, Ohio, at a very early date. They were the parents of the following children : Oliver G., George W., Cynthia M., Calvin L., Benjamin F. Moses Rambo died in South Bloomingville, Ohio, May t0, 1866. Julia A., his wife. died December to, 1862. MCCOURTNEY, SAMUEL, farmer, was born in Greene county, Pennsylvania, April 8, 1832. Came to this county with his parents in September, 1834, and has since lived here. His boyhood days were spent on a farm till the age of twenty, after which he taught school for a time. He then engaged in farming and school teaching until 1864. Since then he has followed farming. In 1874 he was elected County Surveyor, and held the office six years. Was married in 1861 to Margaret, daughter of William and Margaret (Clarke) Pattridge ; they are the parents of seven children, viz. Mary A., Francis L., Maggie A., John E., Nettie I., Catharine and Rose. Mr. McCourtney is a son of Arthur and Nancy (Gordon) McCourtney. Mr. McCourtney's father was born in Ireland, near Iniskillan, county of Fermonwaugh, March 8, 1792, and is still living, on January 4, 1882. The principal part of his life was spent in school teaching. He came to New York in. 1817. Mr. McCourtney's wife's people are of Irish descent. MCCRILLIS, MATHEW, dentist, Somerset, Ohio. He was born in April, 1856, in Reading township ; is a son of David McCrillis, deceased, who was a successful and highly appreciated teacher and citizen. Mathew's mother was Margaret Pence, daughter of the late venerable Isaac Pence of Perry. He was only ten years old when he lost both parents, the father's death preceding that of his mother only a few months. He has one brother and one sister. He was tenderly and faithfully reared under the care of his grandparents, on the old Pence homestead, until his twenty-first year, when he went to Findlay, Ohio, to study and practice his chosen profession, where he remained several years. When yet a boy on the farm, he practiced dentistry, and his aptitude in these offices gained for him the name of Dr. McCrillis, and presaged the bent of his mind. On his return from California, whither he had wandered in search of dental knowledge and experience, he located in Somerset in 1881, and became a partner in dentistry with Dr. H. C. Greiner, now serving his second term in the Legislature as a Representative of his county. Dr. McCrilllis has taken full charge of the 470 - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. extensive and growing business of the firm during the temporary absence of his distinguished partner, and is noted for the correctness of his habits, for devotion to his chosen occupation, and that gentle charity which makes him a favorite in the best social circles of society. MCCULLOUGH, R. N., farmer, Monday Creek township ; post office, Maxville, Ohio ; was born October 4, 1817, in Fairfield county, Ohio ; son of William and Nancy (Nels0n) McCullough. Mr. McCullough was brought up on a farm, and has made agricultural pursuits the business of his life. In 1841, he came to Monday Creek township, and located on his present farm of one hundred and eighty acres of land, where he still lives. Mr. McCullough was married, December 8, 1840, to Miss Mary, daughter of David S., and Sarah (Larrimer) Haggerty, of Fairfield county, Ohio. Unto them were born ten children, viz.: William, deceased ; Eliza J., Sarah E., Nancy, John W., Tames, Rhoda L., George S., Mary E., deceased, and Charlie L. MCDONALD, JAMES, farmer, Pleasant township ; post office, Rendville, Ohio ; born May 27, 1838, in this township, on the farm where he now resides. Son of John and Margaret (Farrahey) McDonald. His father was born in Kildair county, Ireland, and his mother in Longford, Ireland. His father emigrated to the United States in 1822, and located and died in advanced life on the farm where James now resides. His father died September 17, 1854, aged sixty-seven ; and his mother died April 6, 1881, aged seventy-nine. The subject of this sketch married Jane Ann Walpole, of Morgan county, Ohio, November 2, 1858. She was 0f Irish descent. They are the parents of ten children, viz. : Margaret A., John G., George B., Francis F., Ellen A., Charles, William, Richard F., Mary and Joseph. MCDONALD, ADAM N., track boss, Corning, Ohio ; was born April 28, 1840, in Edinburgshire county, Scotland ; son of John and Jennett (Riddle) McDonald. Adam N., at the age of twelve, went into the mines of Scotland, where he worked until 1870, when he came to America, and located in Mercer county, Pennsylvania. In 1876, removed to Mahoning county, Ohio, and to his present home, March 2, 1880. Mr. McDonald was married September 19, 1862, to Miss Robina, daughter of Alexander and Isabella Monroe, of Scotland. They are the parents of four children, viz. : Jessie. Isabella Jane, Robina and Jane. Mr. McDonald has been successful, and does not regret that he and his family have cast their lot in this free country. MCDONALD, JAMES S., farmer, Pike township; post office, New Lexington, Ohio ; was born October 13, 1842, in uskingum county, Ohio; son of Robert and Mary A. (Starrett) McDonald. Was raised a farmer, and has made farming the business of his life. Came to Perry county, Ohio, at the age of fiye years, with his father, and lived in Salt Lick township, now Coal township, to the time of his marriage, November 22, 1866, to Miss Martha E., daughter of John and Elizabeth (Collins) McKinney, of Hocking county, Ohio.. They are the parents of six children, viz. : Mary A., Robert L., John W., James E., Franklin A., and Elizabeth E. ; all living at home. After his marriage, he bought. sixty-five acres of land from his father, for one thousand one hundred dollars, and afterward sold forty acres of the same for what he gave for the whole ; and again bought sixty-five acres of his father for HISTORY OF PERRY COUNTY - 471 one thousand three hundred dollars. and in the course of one year sold all he then had, for two thousand one hundred dollars ; at which time he moved to Pike township. on his father's farm, and cropped one year with him, when he bought eighty acres in Saltlick, and the original home farm, for one thousand seven hundred and seventy dollars, where he lived four years, during which time he had optioned his farm, and at the expiration of which time it was taken per the option at rive thousand five hundred dollars, when he bought one hundred acres where he now lives, for six thousand five hundred dollars. Since coming to this farm he has remodeled the dwelling, making it as good as new. Mr. McDonald enlisted in the army, in Company K, One Hundred and Twenty-ninth Regiment, 0. V. I.. for six months, which he served, and was discharged by reason of expiration of term of enlistment. Returned home and enlisted in the one hundred days' service in Company A, One Hundred and Sixtieth Regiment, 0. N. G., and served about four months, when he was again discharged by reason of expiration of term of enlistment ; and again enlisted in Company G, Twenty-fifth Regiment, 0. V. I., serving to the close of the war, when he was discharged by reason of the close of the war. During his last term of service, all of his bunk mates were shot but one, who died of disease, and he was disabled for life by what is known as varicose veins of the limbs, for which he gets a pension of thirty-six dollars per year. MCDONALD, LEWIS F., farmer, Shawnee, Ohio ; was born November 22, 1859, at Sulphur Springs, this township ; son of Lewis and Margaret (Wilson) McDonald. Was brougnt up on a farm, and has followed agricultural pursuits to this time. Mr. McDonald's father was a native of Ohio, and at one time, at Sulphur Springs, kept a store which was blown up by an explosion of gunpowder in 1870, killing him and one son, Nirum, who was three years and nine months old. The estimated loss of goods and building, was about six thousand dollars, with no insurance. Mr. McDonald was married August 28, 1881, to Miss Ida M., daughter of Simeon and Elizabeth (Stores) Sanders. In 1874, with his mother and sister, he moved to Yellow Springs, Ohio, where he attended college two years and six months, and afterward lived two years in Morrow county, Ohio, when they returned to the homestead, where they have remained to the present time. MCGONAGLE, JOHN A., Clerk of Perry county, Ohio ; was born June 17, 1851, in Pike township ; son of William and Ann (Carr) McGonagle. Young McGonagle received his primary education in the primitive log school house, and finished his education in this place. At the age of nineteen he began teaching, and taught eleven winter terms, and worked at the carpenter's trade during the summer. Mr. McGonagle was elected Clerk of the Courts of Perry County, October 1881. He was married June 23, 1874, to Miss Sarah C., daughter of William and Catharine (Donahoe) Forquer. They are the parents of two children, viz. : William Charles and Cassie T. MCGREW, FINLEY B., blacksmith and contractor, Shawnee, Ohio ; was born April 4, 1846, in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania ; son of James B. and Margaret (Vail) McGrew. Was brought up a farmer, until he was fourteen years of, age, and then engaged in business for one year, when he enlisted in Company B, Fifty-third Regiment, O.   472 - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. V. I., for three years or during the war, serving three months, when his father took him out of service because of his being under age ; after which he remained at home until 1863, when he again enlisted in company B, Eighty-sixth Regiment, O. V. I., remaining four months ; again returning home, he went to Barnesville, Ohio, aad engaged in tobacco raising, but sold the crop in the field, and went as a substitute in Company B, One Hundred and Sixty-first Regiment, O. N. G., serving four months. In 1865 he began the blacksmith trade with George Powell, of McConnelsville, Ohio, serving two years and six months as apprentice, after which he worked in the following places : Malta, Ohio, for Brown Manufacturing Company ; superintended oil farm Stanton, forer and Richard Stanton, for two years and six months ; Canton, Missouri, blacksmithing, two months ; Atchison, Missouri, one year six months, at trade ; McConnelsville, Ohio, in partnership with Powell, blacksmithing, thirteen months ; Straitsville, Ohio, for Dannals, smithing, two months ; Shawnee, where he has been engaged in blacksmithing and contracting lime and iron ore jobs, up to this time. Mr. McGrew came to Ohio at the age of eight years, with his father, who served as Auditor of Morgan county, Ohio, about twelve years, and was elected for the next ensuing term at the time of his death. He was also County Surveyor for six years of same county. Mr. McGrew, the subject of this sketch, was married August 1st, 1875, to Ann L. Davis, daughter, of Samuel and Mary (Keever) Davis. They are the parents of three children, viz. : Jasper, Laura and Mary ; all living and at home. MCKAY, CAPT. GEORGE A., ticket and freight agent of the Ohio Central Railroad Company, Corning, Ohio ; was born June 16, 1841, in Oswego, New York ; son of Alexander and Rosetta Louisa (Hamilton) McKay, both of Scotch descent. Alexander McKay was purveyor of the British Army in Canada in 1837, but joining, the Independents, he lost by confiscation his valuable estate, and was forced to leave the country. He located first at Oswego, New York, and subsequently at Cleveland, Ohio. He died in San Francisco, California, in 1856. George A. spent his childhood and early youth in his native city. He came to Cleveland, Ohio, in 1847, which has been his residence to the present time. At the age of eleven ournalred the Ohio State Journal office as a printer's apprentice, and remained about three years. April 17, 1861, he enlisted as a private soldier in Company A, Seventh through., and was promoted through every grade to captain. He re-enlisted, and was mustered out at the expiration of his term of service. While on duty he received nine wounds. At the battle of Ringold, Georgia, he was severely wounded in both legs, the left one having both bones broken, and the main artery severed. Dnring the last eighteen months of service he was Inspector General on the staffs of Generals Camdy, Geary and Hooker. Captain McKay was married December 20, 1865, to Miss Margaret A., daughter of James and Mary (Roome) Creech, natives of Scotland, but now of Cleveland, Ohio. They are the parents of four children, viz. : Addison H., George A., Edward Creighton and John H. Captain McKay has a business experience as chief voucher clerk and charge of a Cleveland special station for the Lake Shore Railroad. He was chief clerk for South Shore Line, also. In April, 1877, he was elected Inspector of Weights and HISTORY OF PERRY COUNTY - 473 Measures for Cuyahoga county, and Cleveland City, Ohio, and served until the latter part of 1881, when he came to his present position on the solicitation of Hudson Fitch, General Freight Agent of the Ohio Central Railroad. MCKEEVER, JAMES, was born May 4, 1804, in New York ; son of Archie and Mary (Mullen) McKeever. He was brought up on a farm, and followed agricultural pursuits until he was eighteen years of age. His mother died when he was nine years old, and he lived with his father until he was fourteen years of age, when he made his home with his brother-in-law, Mr. Veil, of Tuscarawas county, Ohio, until his eighteenth year. At this time he came to Perry county, Ohio, and lived with an uncle until he was twenty-one years of age, during which time he probably learned his trade ; after which he moved to a farm near Roseville, Muskingum county, Ohio, where he remained about one year, when he went West, spending some twelve years in Indiana, Illinois, Missouri and Wisconsin. He was also in Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, and spent some length of time in Pennsylvania, and has been in most of the States in the Union. After his return from the Western tour, he remained about two years at New Lexington, when he went to Texas, remaining eighteen months, and again returned to New Lexington, where, about seven months afterward, he Was married, April 16, 1842, to Marjory, daughter of Alexander and Jane (Riley) Brown, of this place. They became the parents of six children, now living, viz. : Franklin, Mary Jane, Callie, Lizzie, Irene, Buris Alexander, and four deceased—Sarah Catharine, James, Josephine and Urila. After his marriage Mr. McKeever lived in and near New Lexington, up to the time of his death, which occurred October 9, 1880, and was buried in New Lexington cemetery. MCKENNA, WILLIAM, druggist, Junction City, Ohio ; son of William (deceased) and Charity (Burgoon) McKenna; was born in 1859 in this county ; went to Nebraska in January of 1880 ; stayed one year, then returned to Perry county, and went to the Capital City Commercial College, Columbus, Ohio, one term, after which he went into the drug business in Junction City, where he does a first-class business. Mr. McKenna was married November 22, 1881, to Miss Lola, daughter of John and Hannah (Koon) Weimer. MCLAUGHLIN, A. W., physician ; was born in August, 1856, near Somerset. His father, H. B. McLaughlin, was born in 1823, in Pennsylvania. He was married in 1854 to Miss Mary J. Barber, of New Reading, this county. She was b0rn in 1833. They are the parents of five children. The subject of this sketch is the oldest. He began the study of medicine in 1876, under Dr. A. Richard, of New Lexington. He graduated from the Ohio Medical College of Cincinnati, when he located in Somerset. His father was Sheriff of this county for two terms, beginning January, 1862. MCMAHON, TIMOTHY, M. D., of the firm of McMahon & Wright, physicians, New Lexington, Ohio. Dr. McMahon is a natiye of Washington Rappahannock county \Virginia, son of John and Nancy (Johnson) McMahon. At the age of ten years he was brought to this county by his parents, who located at Rehoboth. About the year 1842, he began the study of medicine, and at the age of twenty began practice, - 45 - 474 - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. and has continued the same to the present writing. In 1858 the Dr. came to this place and was married the same year to Miss Julia A., daughter of Henry Stallh, of Somerset. They are the parents of one child, Mary, married to the junior partner of the above firm. Dr. McMahon is one of the prominent physicians of this place. MCNULTY, HENRY, attorney-at-law, Dubuque, Iowa, the only surviving son of Hugh McNulty, who was a native of Ireland ; came to Perry county, Ohio, early in the century ; lived for many years on a farm in Clayton township, and later in life removed to 'Somerset where he died about 1860. The maiden name of Henry's mother was Miss Katharine McCristal, daughter of Owen McCristal and his wife, who was Sarah O'Niel, and both of the county Tyrone, Ireland. About the year 1814 they landed in Philadelphia, stayed there one year, and from there moved to Westmoreland county, Pennsylyania, to a farm. Here he took a section of turnpike as contractor. Next year moved to Brownsville, Fayette county, Pennsylvania, where Mary Martin, the sister of Mrs. McNulty, was married to Patrick McCristal. Made a mile of the national road there, and the Martin family all moved to Perry county, except John, who went to New York and died there. This was in 1817 or 1818. Grandfather Owen Martin lived to the age of eighty-two, and his wife to the age of ninety years, and both are buried at St. Joseph's, the first Roman Catholic church in Ohio. Their sons were Thomas, whose son, John, is in San Francisco ; James, whose sons were Owen and Thomas ; John, whose sons were Edward and Daniel ; and Henry, whose sons are Willie, Charles and Harry, and who is also the father of ten daughters by the first marriage to Katharine Griffin, and the second to Elizabeth Carrol. The children of Katharine and Hugh McNulty, were John, now deceased, Henry, now living in Dubuque, Iowa, Mrs. Sarah Burns, a widow, living in Somerset, and Ellen, who was never married. The children of Mary McCristal were Daniel and James, both married and deceased, but leaving children, and Sarah, wife of James Creighton, Omaha, Nebraska. The McNulty ancestry, except Hugh and a bachelor brother, who died in Maryland, are in Ireland, so that the descendants of Hugh are the only representatives of this family in America, and of these only one son, Henry McNulty, survives, and a son of Henry named Louis McNulty, of Dubuque, Iowa, who has one sister, Katie. The children of Mrs. Burns, sister of Henry McNulty, are John Burns, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and Mrs. Amanda Kuhlman, wife of Samuel Kuhlman, of Somerset, Ohio, who has one son, Louis Kuhlman. MCQUEEN, REV. CLAYBORNE S., M. D., post office, Rendville, Ohio, was born November 4, 1819, in Culpepper, Virginia, son of Robert and Hannah McQueen. The Dr. was brought up on a farm. Began teaching school at sixteen, and taught about eleven years. When about twenty-four began reading law but when about ready to be admitted to the bar, he decided to abandon the legal profession for that of medicine selecting Dr. W. H. Reeves for preceptor, and attended Columbus Medical College. He began practice at Millerstown in June, 1849, and remained six years ; practiced at Ringgold nine years, and near Wrightstown, Morgan county, where he located on a farm and remained until the spring of 1882, when he came to Rendville. Dr. -Row 1, Cell 1- -Row 2, Cell 1-