525 - HISTORY OF PERRY COUNTY. ROBERTS, JOHN T., collier, Shawnee, Ohio, was born September 18, 1827, in Anglesey, North Wales ; son of Thomas and Gwen (Ishmall) Roberts. Was married and lived in Anglesey until he was eighteen years of age, working in copper mines from the age of nine years, after which he was employed as follows : Carmarthenshire, working on railroad tunnel three years; Myrtha-tidvil Glamorganshire, mining iron ore four years. At this time he returned home and was married July 22, 1854, to Catharine, daughter of Thomas R. and Jane (Jones) Thomas. They are the parents of two children, Thomas and Jane, deceased. After his marriage he remained in Anglesey about three years. Worked on breakwater at Hollyhead, that cost $100,000, for about twenty years in building. In Staffordshire, England, about fifteen years mining coal, except about two years and six months he spent in Liverpool, where he was employed in corporation warehouses. At this time he emigrated to America, landing in New York, December 29, 1870, and went to Pomeroy, Ohio, where he mined coal seven months, when he went to Coalton, Kentucky, maned coal about five months and returned to Pomeroy, where he stayed about nine months, and then to New Straitsville, mining about eighteen months, when he moved to Shawnee, where he has since remained, employed as a miner, eight years. In Staffordshire, he was leader of a church choir about twelve years and is leader of a choir in the Welch church of this place. ROCKHOLD, JESSE, farmer and shoemaker, post office, Rehoboth, Clayton township ; born in Maryland in 1818. Settled in Perry county in 1854 ; son of Elijah and Rachel (Hitchcock) Rockhold. The former died about the year 1868 ; the latter about the year 1858. Married in Apri1, 1854 to Miss Augusta Hitchcock, daughter of Israel and Cornelia Hitchcock. They are the parents of three children, viz. : Luressa E., Delilah H., one not named ; two are dead. Mr. Rockhold's father was in the War of 1812. RODGERS, JOSEPH D., real estate, stock and grain dealer, Corning, Ohio ; son of Joseph and Catharine (Smith) Rodgers. Joseph Rodgers, Sr., came to Perry county, Ohio, from Wheeling, West Virginia, about the year 1831, with his father, Joseph Rodgers, and located, first on the west side of Monroe township. When Joseph, Sr., married he located about one half mile west of Corning, Ohio. The entire town is built on lands formerly owned by him. He followed agriculture and husbandry, by which he acquired an ample competency. Joseph D. Rodgers, the subject of this sketch, was married February 29, 1872, to Miss Adeline, daughter of V. W. and Ellen (Vanferson) Lewis, of Muskingum county, Ohio. They are the parents of three children, viz. : Chester Allen, Sheldon M. and George Lee. RODGERS, CHARLES M., stock dealer, Valley Falls, Jefferson county, Kansas, was born September 6, 1845, in Monroe township, Perry county, Ohio ; son of Joseph and Catharine (Smith) Rodgers. Charles M. was brought up on a farm in his native township ; located in Jefferson county, Kansas, in 1878, where he was married March 7, 1878. to Miss Florence, daughter of E. H. and Amanda (Law) Watkins. They are the parents of two children, Mettie Dell and Everett Garfield. RODGERS, NELSON L.. Corning, Ohio, was born August 17, 1852. in Monroe township, Perry county, Ohio ; son of Joseph and Catharine 526 - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. (Smith) Rodgers. Nelson L. was brought up in his native township, and was married September 18, 1873, to Miss Margaret, daughter of James and Eliza (Nedgar) Cain, of Homer township, Morgan county, Ohio, of Scotch-Irish ancestry. They are the parents of three children. Granville J., deceased, Lily Viola and Jessie Cloe. ROGERS, NELSON, retired farmer and stock dealer, Corning, Ohio, was born May 6, 1826, in Wheeling, West Virginia, son of Joseph and Elizabeth Rogers, who were natives of Fayette county Pennsylvania. Elizabeth Rogers, named above, was daughter of Captain William Haney. The parents of Nelson Rogers moved to near Rehoboth, Clayton township, Perry county, Ohio, when he was but four m0nths old. Here they remained three years, then came to Monroe township, where Nelson has made his home to the present time, excepting two years of his boyhood spent in Athens county, Ohio. Mr. Rogers' early life was spelt in real pioneer style. Then the deer, bear, wild hog and wild turkey were abundant in the woods of Monroe township. Game was so plenty as at times to be killed for sport and not used. When young he has gone alone, coon hunting, at night, and caught more coons than he could carry home with him. e has lived to see those rough and hardy pioneer times and customs change to the modern advanced customs and luxuries of the present times. Mr. Roger has given his attention to agriculture and stock dealing, and by honest industry and intelligent economy, he has obtained an ample competence for himself and family. He owns two hundred and forty-six acres of the valuable mineral land, situated between Corniug and Rendville, Ohio, and eighty acres of equally as good mineral land situated about one mile from the above tract, Mr. Rogers was married December 28, 1851, to Miss Miram Elma, daughter of Jesse and Epsey (Batton) Sanders. They are the parents of six children, viz. : Sarah Epsey, Kelita Austin, Benj. F., Abish Lincol, David Merchant and Ida May. ROGERS, KELITA AUSTIN, farmer, Corning, Ohio, was born August 5, 1855, in Monroe township, Ohio, son of Nelson and Miram Elma (Sanders) Rogers. Austin was brought up on the farm, but has learned the carpenter's trade and understands coal mining. Mr. Rogers was married October 12, 1879, to Miss Hannah, daughter of Avery and Sarah (Taggart) West, of Morgan county, Ohio, They are the parents of one child, viz. : James Delmer. ROSE, EZEKIEL, Bearfield township, Portersville post office, farmer, born in this township October 25, 1818, son of Ezekiel and Sarah (Thorp) Rose ; father of English and mother of Welsh descent. When the subject of this sketch attained manhood he went to Iowa and lived at Fort Des Moines several years. He went to California in 1849. Worked in the mines one year, and the rest of the four years he remained in California he kept store and a butcher shop. He was on the site of Sacramento City, before the first house was built there. He then returned to Bearfield township, bought a farm and has resided there ever since. June 26, 1855, he married Adaline V, Skinner, daughter of Amos and Margaret A. (Murree) Skinner. They are the parents of the following named children : Pleasant A., married to James E, Stoneburner, of this township ; Sadie M., school teacher ; Edward J., school teacher : and two died in infancy. HISTORY OF PERRY COUNTY - 527 ROWAN, E. J., book keeper, school teacher and civil engineer, Shawnee, Ohio ; was born December 23, 1830, in county Mayo, Ire- land, son of Edward and Catharine (Mulowny) Rowan. Was raised a farmer and followed agricultural pursuits until 1840, when he emigrated to America, landing at New York October 8, 1840 ; remained near Syracuse, New York, about four years and engaged at farming ; from there he went to Baltimore, Maryland, where he remained two years, working and visiting relatives. lie next found his way to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, April, 1846. remaining with his brother about one year, and then went to Rochester, Pennsylvania, where he went into partnership in a general merchandise store with his brother, where he remained about one year, and went to Steubenville, Ohio, in 1850, where he practiced engineering on the extension of the Pittsburgh and Cleveland Railroad, and was foreman of the survey, which employed him about one year. After this he returned to Pennsylvania and studied surveying with a farmer by the name of Richard D, Hudson, working on the farm to pay for his instructions, and remained about one year. At this time the same railroad that he had been working upon again opened and he was employed as division engineer, with the Honorable Israel Linton. of Ravenna, Ohio, where he remained two years ; thence to locate the railroad from Pittsburgh to Rochester, Pennsylvania, taking him six weeks, and then for four months calculated tables of quantities. Again at Steubenville, Ohio, working in yards of what was then the Steubenville and Indiana Railroad, and now commonly known as the Pan-Handle Route, about one month ; next he went to Xenia, Ohio, clerking and engineering for the Little Miami Railroad, from April, 1858, to April, 1859 ; from thence to Cincinnati, Ohio, still keeping books for the same company, regulating their time, etc. ; continued about two years, during which time he surveyed a road from Richmond, Indiana, to Indianapolis, Indiana, requiring about six weeks ; again returned to Xenia, and from that time until 1872 was with same road ; and owned property in Xenia. From Xenia he went to the tunnel on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, Straitsville Division, as watchman, and from there came to Shawnee where he drew maps of the Shawnee Valley mine, Fannie Furnace mine, platted the cemetery, and surveyed the streets and directed their grading of Shawnee. He is now teaching a night select school and a class of four students in geometry and trigonomety, Was married August 5, 1857, to Ann Jane, daughter of Thomas and Catharine (Breen) McCoy, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. They become the parents of eight children, viz. : Catharine F., Mary Ann, Ellen Agnes, Emily Jane, Edward, John Martin, Thomas William, deceased, Anna Jane, deceased. Mrs. Rowan died December 27, 1874, aged thirty-four years, nine months. RUDDOCK, GEORGE, farmer, post office Shawnee, Ohio ; was born April, 1827, in Halcombe, Somersetshire, England ; son of Solomon and Mary (Taylor) Ruddock. Mr. Ruddock lived with his father until he was eighteen years of age and was employed in mines at eight years of age, working in Holcombe about twelve years and in Norton parish ; the balance of the time he remained with his father. At the time of leaving his father's home he engaged with a mining company, of Monmouthshire, where he remained twenty years and was engaged 528 - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, with Myrtha Coal Company four years, and in mines until 1872, when he emigrated to America, landing in New York in July. 1872, and went to Dudley, Huntington counties, Pennsylvania, where he engaged in mining for John Whitehead and Company, for about two years, when he came to Shawnee, Ohio, where he mined about one year, and since which time he has been farming, and now is living in Shawnee. where he enjoys his own house, erected in 1881. Was married May, 1857, to Mary, daughter of Samuel and Ann (Dore) Green. They are the parents of seven children, viz. : Elizabeth Ann, William Jonah, Samuel George. Mary Jane, Robert, Martha and Thomas Dore, and one deceased. M. RUSSELL, W. H., was born in 1841, in Somerset, Ohio, where he vet resides, His father, William Russell, is a native of New jersey, and lost his father early in life, his mother surviving her husband for some years, He came to Ohio a few years prior to 1840, in which year he became the husband of Elizabeth, daughter of the late venerable Drury Harper, of Somerset. She had two brothers in the Mexican War, both having contracted disease there which cut short their lives. She has one sister, Mrs. Trunnell, now of the State of Missouri. W. H. Russell is the eldest of eight sons, all living in Ohio, except Edward, now in the State of Texas. There are two sisters of these sons, one the wife of W. H, Walker, and the other of Albert May, both residing in Som- erset. W. H. Russell volunteered in Company G, Thirty-first Regiment, 0. V, I,, in 1861, and served to the close of the war in 1865. In 1867, he was married to Miss Katharine Murphy, by whom he became the father of one son and one daughter. In 1878. this affectionate and estimable lady was called hence by death, and Mr. Russell has remained a widower since then. His son and daughter find a pleasant home with their grandparents, where also Mr. Russell himself has established his residence, and where two of his younger brothers remain also. In the year 1866, in partnership with his brother-in-law, W. H, Walker, their business as shoemakers and merchants began on a small capital which each had saved up from his earnings, prior to that date, and which has now so accumulated that, measured by their taxes, which are over $100 a year, certifies their success. RUTTER, WALTER, of the firm of Wilson & Rutter, butchers, New Lexington, Ohio ; was born March 25, 1828, in Newton township, Muskingum county, Ohio ; son of Benjamin and Sarah (Muse) Rutter, natives of Maryland, At the age of seventeen Walter came to Clayton township, where he followed farming until he was forty-five years of age, when he came to this place and established his present business. Mr, Wilson became partner in December, 1881. Mr. Rutter was married in March, 1850, to Miss Jane, daughter of Samuel and Barzilla (Crops) Croskey. They are the parents of three children, viz. : Samantha Alice, and Ida, and May, twins, who died in infancy. RYAN, WILLIAM J., druggist, Junction City, Ohio ; son of Roday and Mary (Donley) Ryan ; was born August 14, 1831, in this county began working at the tanning business when sixteen years of age, and followed the same until about the age of twenty-one, then attended school for one year, after which he went to St. Joseph's College one year, then went to Jackson county, Iowa, and followed farming two HISTORY OF PERRY COUNTY - 529 years, from there to Knox county, Missouri, and then April 20, 1861., started for California, driving through with a wagon via Salt Lake. Was three months reaching Virginia City, Nevada ; stayed there for a time, and then went to California and stayed two years ; landed there in Sacramento City, at the time of, the flood ; he engaged in the wood trade while there. Then came to Virginia City, and opened a feed stable, in partnership with Mathew Gisborn and followed it two years ; then went to San Francisco, and from there to New York, via the Isthmus, and from there to this county ; followed farming, and serving nine years as Justice of the Peace ; established himself in the drug business, in Junction City, in April, 1876, and has the largest stock of drugs and notions in town. He was married in 1854, to Helen, daughter of Levi and Ann (Lily) Burgoon ; they are the parents of eleven children, ten living, six boys and four girls, viz. : Mary A., Levi I., Thomas A., Elizabeth L., John F., Mark G., Joseph J., Lucy F,, Hiram E., Sarah J. Levi is in the Indian Territory. Thomas A. is one of the officers at the Insane Asylum. Mr. Ryan's father and mother were born in Ireland. RYLAND, CHARLES H., Justice of the Peace and farmer, post office Roseville, Muskingum county, Ohio ; born in Cumberland, Maryland, in 1843 ; came to Perry county, in 1874 ; son of Samuel and Mary A, Ryland. Married in 1868, to Miss Mattie E. Melick, daughter of William and Anna Melick. They are the parents of two children, viz. : Eva A. and Stephen M. Mr. Ryland is at present serving as Justice of the Peace of Harrison township. SAFFELL, MARY R., farmer's wife, Pike township, Lexington, Ohio ; was born November 22, 1818, in Frederick county, Maryland ; daughter of Thomas H. and Melinda (Harrison) Miller. Mrs. Saffell was raised a farmer's daughter and has lived on a farm all her life. er father brought her with the rest of his family to this State in an early day, when there yet remained a few Indians, to be seen occasionally. She was married January 11, 1838, to Samuel, son of Amos and Mary (Lemon) Saffell, who died and left her a widow. Mrs. Saffell has lived in this county since her marriage,and is now living on the Josiah Grimes farm,. that she is having farmed at this date, She has seventeen children by her only marriage, as follows : Mary J., Martha, Rhoda, Jehu, Louisa, Caroline, Reuben, Harriet Ann, William Horace, Charlotte M., (with twin sister, who died in infancy), James C., Samuel H., Silas A. and Rebecca E., are living, and -Reuben, Jno. Thomas and Velinda C. are dead. Mrs. Saffell's father, Thomas H. Mills, is now living with her, and is ninety-four years of age, and one of the oldest residents in the county. SALTSMAN, MARIA, Pike township, New Lexington, Ohio ; was born January 26, 1832, in Somerset, this county ; was married in 1851, to Andrew Saltsman, of Jefferson county, Ohio. They are the parents of two children, who are living, Charles Wesley and Nancy Jane. Mrs. Saltsman has always been a citizen of her native county, and has lived in New Lexington, Ohio, for the last ten years of her life, and lived on a farm during her married life previous to her going to this city. Her husband enlisted in the three years service during the late Rebellion, and died in the hospital of typhoid fever in 1864. Her son enlisted some nine years ago, from whom she has not heard up to the present - 52 - 530 - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. time. By economy :he now enjoys a pleasant home of her own on Railroad street, where she now lives with her daughter and son-in-law. Few can boast of so much patriotism of their family as can Mrs. Salts-man, all of her support having been given that could be offered by her. SANDERS, BENJAMIN, farmer, Monroe township, Hemlock, Ohio ; was born January 5, 1823, in Columbiana county, Ohio ; son of Jesse and Epsie (Batton) Sanders. He was brought up on a farm and followed agricultural pursuits until he was twenty-three or twenty-four years of age, when he \vent to Ringold, Morgan county, Ohio, and engaged in the mercantile business, in which he remained about five years. Mr. Sander's father brought him to this county when he was about seven years of age, and bought forty acres. and entered eighty acres of land at the same time, but sold Out in about six months afterward and went to Morgan county, Ohio ; after remaining in Morgan county about eighteen months he returned to this county, and again took possession of the same farm because of the man who purchased it being unable to meet the payments. After returning; he made this his home as long as he lived, and increased his possessions to five hundred acres of land, a part of which is now owned by his son, Benjamin, who lived with him until he went to Morgan county, Ohio, where he \vent into the mercantile business. Sold out in Morgan county in 1831, and returned to this county, buying a part of his father's farm ; engaged in agriculture and stock dealing, for about twenty years. He then bought the grist mill at Sulphur Springs and moved it to Hemlock. Has been the manager of a store in Hemlock for the past four years, which he owns. Has also been postmaster in Hemlock for the past five years. He now owns about three hundred acres in Saltlick and Monroe townships, and formerly owned about five hundred acres, selling part of the same to the Ohio Central Coal Company, that Buckingham is now built upon and where shaft No. 19 is now being operated. He was married to Susanna (Wood) Smith, of Belmont county, Ohio, who was a resident of this county at the time of her marriage. They are the parents of nine living children, viz. : William M., C. T., Spencer S., Sarah, Etneline, Elma, Almeda, Viola and Etta, and three dead, Epsie, Cynthia and Louvina Alice. SANDERS, THOMAS M., proprietor of dry goods and family grocery store, near depot, New Lexington, Ohio. Mr. Sanders was born February 28, 1835, in Pike township ; son of John and Mary (Fealty) Sanders, natives of Pennsylvania. Thomas M. was brought up on a farm, but followed various occupations. He railroaded in Wisconsin and Minnesota, being employed in the latter State when she repudiated her railroad bonds. Mr. Sanders began his present business in 1873, at Rehoboth where he remained about four and one-half years, after which he came to his present location, where he is doing a good business. SANDERS, WILLIAM MILES, merchant, Hemlock, Ohio ; was born, February 25, 1843, in Perry county, Ohio ; son of Benjamin and Susannah (Smith) Sanders. Was brought up on a farm, and followed agricultural pursuits until 1861, when he enlisted in Company C, Seventeenth Regiment, O. V. I. ; served his term of enlistment in Virginia, and was honorably discharged at Zanesville, Ohio. He then re-enlisted in Company D, Thirty-first Regiment, O. V. I., for three years or HISTORY OF PERRY COUNTY - 531 during the war, and served until September, 1862, when he enlisted at Nashville, Tennessee, in Company M, U. S. Cavalry, for three years, from which service he was discharged at San Antonia, Texas, December 18, 1865. While in O, V. I,, he was engaged in the following battles : Mill Springs, Siege of Corinth, Perryville, Shepherdsville, Cage's Fords battle of Stone River. While he was in the cavalry service, he was in the following engagements : Chickamauga, and was on Sherman's march to the sea ; and fell back to Nashville, and was in the battle between Hood and Thomas ; and in Wilson's famous cavalry raid, His regiment captured Andersonville, took Wertz, the commander, prisoner ; was captured April 18, and was held a prisoner at Libby for six days, when he was paroled, and in about one month rejoined his company, with which he remained until he was discharged, excepting one month, when he was put on detached duty as escort for General Corse, to carry dispatches from Nashville, Tennessee, to a point three hundred miles up Red River, Upon his discharge from the service, he returned home and remained four weeks, when he went to New Pittsburg, Indiana, where he was married, August 31, 1866, to Miss Elizabeth A., daughter of Allen Fowler. They are the parents of four children, viz. : Spencer E., Martin L., Rasilla V., and Benjamin A., all born in Clark county, Iowa. In the fall of 1866, he went to Clark county, Iowa, where lie purchased a farm, upon which lie lived until 1877, when he went to Johnson county, Nebraska, In the following year he again moved to Rush county, Kansas, remaining until January, 1880, and returned by wagon to St. Louis, Missouri ; then by boat to Cincinnati, from where he drove home in a wagon to the old homestead, reaching his destination August, 1880. In the following September he purchased his present store. Mr. Sanders was the Greenback candidate of this county, in the fall of 1881, for Representative, SANDERS, SPENCER SMITH, miller, Saltlick township ; post office, Hemlock, Ohio; was born March 18, 1847, in Monroe township, this county ; son of Benjamin and Susannah (Smith) Sanders. Mr. Sanders was brought up on a farm, and followed agricultural pursuits until about four years ago, when he took charge of the Hemlock mill, to which he has given his attention up to this time, In the fall of 1864, Mr. Sanders enlisted in Company G, Twenty-fifth Regiment, O. V. I., for one year and was in the battle of Honey Hill, where he received a flesh wound in the arm, which disabled him for three months, when he was in general hospital. Upon his recovery he rejoined his regiment, served out his time and was discharged, by reason of expiration of term of enlistment, when he returned home and engaged in farming, until as above stated, e has served his township as trustee about four years, Mr. Sanders was married August 29, 1867, to Victoria, daughter of Reuben and Hester Ann (Cannon) Primrose, of this township formerly, but was a resident of Nelsonville, Athens county, Ohio, at the time of her marriage, where she was living with her brother, Isaac P, Primrose. They are the parents of five children, viz, : Anna Laura, Franklin Geddis, Edwin L,, Olive Clyde, and Mattie M. SANSOM, R, C., post master, Shawnee, Ohio was born December 21, 1837, in Tredegar, Wales ; son of Richard and Elizabeth (Woods) Sansom. Mr, Sansom emigrated to America with his parents in 184o, 532 - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES who first settled in Montreal, Canada, where they abode some three years, when they came to the United States of America, settling near Cumberland, Alleghany county, Maryland, living at this place until about 1857. At this time he went to Piedmont, Hampshire county, West Virginia, where he learned the machinist's trade, serving three years ; and where he was at the time of the breaking out of the Rebellion, when he enlisted with the Eleventh Regiment, Indiana V. I., and served during the three months' service, for which he received no pay ; and afterward enlisted with the Second Regiment, Maryland V. I., for the term of three years, and served two or three months over his time, in the armies of the Potomac and West Virginia, at which time he received an honorable discharge and returned home. During this service he was once wounded at Snickers Gap, but which left no permanent injury, Yet he contracted a disease, which has since proven to be varicose veins of the :imbs, and it so much disables him, that he is now unable to do much of any kind of business. He enlisted as a private, and was discharged as first lieutenant, Upon receiving his discharge, he returned home, and soon after he moved to Bedford county, Pennsylvania, where* he engaged in farming, for about three years, and then moved to Clearfield county, Pennsylvania, and was engaged as clerk in a coal company's store, and as weighmaster for about two years and six months, At this time he came to Shawnee, Ohio, and employed as weighmaster and shipping clerk for the Shawnee Valley Coal and Iron Company, from 1873 to 1881, when he was appointed postmaster at this place. Was married June 5, 1867, to Mary E., daughter of Samuel and Lucinda (Harden) Close. They are the parents of six children, viz. : Samuel R. P., Elizabeth H., deceased ; George T., Ida M., Charles W., and John T. SAWYER, CHARLES H., tonsorial artist, Corning, Ohio ; was born December 24, 1836, in Gillford county, North Carolina ; son of William and Merina (Mitchell) Sawyer, Charles H. was brought up on the farm until fourteen years of age, when he went to his trade ; and has worked at it in most of the principal cities of Indiana and Ohio, also in the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He came to his present location in May, 1880. Mr. Sawyer was married November 25, 1857, to Miss Eva C., daughter of William and Mary (Ludington) Townsend, of Oxford, Butler county, Ohio. They are the parents of three children, viz. : Ida B,, Calvin, deceased, and Dora L. SAWYER, E. OGDEN, M. D., Corning, Ohio ; was born November 29, 1851, in Cincinnati, Ohio ; son of Joseph O., and Mary Elizabeth (Stephens) Sawyer. The doctor was brought up in St. Louis, Missouri, until the age of fourteen, .after which time he resided in Cincinnati and Columbus, Ohio. e began the study of medicine April 1, 1878, with Dr. Halderman of Columbus, Ohio, and was graduated at Starling Medical College, at Columbus, Ohio, in the spring of 1880. Practiced first in Richmond, Indiana. Came to this place, January 2, 1882. Dr. Sawyer was married April 28, 1880, to Sarah R. Hall, M. D., of Salem, Columbiana county, Ohio. She is a graduate of the Friends' Seminary at Mt. Pleasant,. Ohio ; also attended two courses of lectures at the Woman's Medical College at Philadelphia. Pennsylvania ; and is at present physician at the Girls' Industrial Home at Delaware, Ohio. HISTORY OF PERRY COUNTY - 533 SCALLON, THOMAS, born 1821, in Washington, D. C., where his father, James, and his mother, Mary Scallon, arrived in 1819, from Wexford county, Ireland. His mother was a daughter of Patrick Redmond, and the sister of George Redmond, former Treasurer of Perry county, and of John Redmond, for many years a Justice of the Peace in Muskingum county. Her sisters are Bridget and Ann, now the wife of George Brehm, and Catharine, the deceased wife of the late venerable Miles Cluney ; and Peggy, widow of the late John Dittoe, The children of Mrs, Scallon are Thomas and Mrs. Mary Ann Echenrode, late of this county, and the mother of Thomas and Mary Echenrode, her only children. Thomas Scallon was married in 1843, to Miss Mary, daughter of John Dittoe, His children are : MaryJames, a plasterer by trade, post office, Lancaster ; Rev. Thomas, a Dominican priest at St. Joseph's ; Helen, a nun of St. Francis De Sales, Newark, Ohio, and known there as sister Genevieve ; Miss Anna, and George, post office, Somerset, Ohio. Thomas Scallon came to Perry county in 1829, when only eight years of age, and has resided on the same farm over fifty years, occupying the ancestral acres of his father, James Scallon, who deceased seven years after his settlement thereon, in sight of Somerset. e has improved the old homestead with excellent buildings ; served for many years as township assessor, several times performing all the work himself; so that faithfulness in office and to his duties as a private citizen, are among the virtues unanimously accorded to him, SCHNEIDER, LOUIS, Bearfield township ; post office, Portersville, Ohio. He is a farmer now, and followed merchandising thirteen years at Portersville. He was born in Baden, Germany, in 1825 ; son of Francis P. and Mary (Euhert) Schneider. He emigrated to this country in 1854 ; located at Portersville ; stayed in his brother's store the first winter, and then he went into business for himself, Mr. Schneider now owns four hundred and ninety-six acres of land, being one of the wealthiest and most successful farmers in the township, In 1855, he married Mary C, Reimond, of Deavertown. They are the parents of the following named children : William F., Annie L., deceased; J., Leo L,, George Otto, and Charles Reimond. His wife did in 1872, He married Ellen Cunningham, of Muskingum county, in 1873. They have one child, Michael A. SCOTT, MARTIN F., merchant ; born in Ohio county, West Virginia, in 1812, Son of Mathew Scott, born in Kilkenney ; and Elizabeth Lacy Scott, born in Wicklow county, Ireland ; came to this country in 1800. His father was an officer in the English Army, and was present at the trial of Robert Emmett, an incident of his life to which he ever after referred to with emotions of sorrow. He began mercantile life in Baltimore, Maryland, and about the year 1808, removed to Wheeling, West Virginia, bought a farm on the Ohio side of the river, but resided on the Virginia side, where Martin was born, This careful, cautious, honest and successful mail was bred to the mercantile life, which he yet pursues in his old age. He came to Somerset in 1838, after the death of his mother in 1837, intending to go to New Orleans. He changed his course to Iowa, intending to purchase land, and turn his occupation to that ofa farmer. In the Des Moines valley lie called at a house ; a woman with a child in her arms responded. He inquired of 534 - BIOGRAPHICAL. SKETCHES. her if there was any land to enter in this beautiful part of the State. "Are you one of those land grabbers ?" was the greeting. " What does that mean, madam ?" " One of those speculators who buy large tracts here and prevent the settlement of the country." " No," said Mr. Scott, " I intend settling here if I buy." And then, eyeing the woman more closely, he said, "your name was Johnson and I sold you your wedding dress." "Then your name is Martin Scott," exclaimed the lady, as she rushed forward to welcome him. He selected a section of land. Nothing but gold and silver and Missouri bank notes would be received at the land office ; scores of buyers were there waiting for the sales to open. Plowing around one acre and laying down four logs made a squatter's claim, and many made these claims, sold out and then moved 3n. The land sales were postponed, and Mr. Scott says, "That act of Van Buren's administration turned my feet back to Somerset, and he shall have the blame or the honor of my being here." While yet a lad he was sent from Belmont county to St, Joseph's in Perry county, to learn his catechism, the distance being over one hundred miles, and the road from Somerset to the church, a path cut through the woods. e was united in marriage with Cecelia Dittoe, daughter of Peter Dittoe, of Mt. Harrison, May 3, 1842. Their children are, viz. : Albert, bred to the law, and who died at his father's residence, June 5, 1880, leaving a widow and a son, Albert. both now in Washington, D. C. ; Thomas, commercial traveler, single ; Lewis, married, residence Chiwa-hua-hua, Mexico, (pronounced Che-wah-wah), merchant, banker and miner ; Philip, clerk, at home, single. The daughters are, Mary, Lizzie and Dora, all single and at home. The family has had excellent opportunities for education, and all his sons exhibit commendable traits of business. SCOTT, JOHN W,, collier, Shawnee, Ohio ; was born April 13, 1860, in Caxhoe, county of Durham, England ; son of George and Isabel (Richison) Scott. Mr. Scott was raised in his native county, and remained there until he was nineteen years of age. when he emigrated to America, landing in New York October 3, 1879, and came direct to Shawnee, where he mined eight or nine months, when he Went to Straitsville, and mined about one year, and from thence to Floodwood, remaining a short time, after which he went to Rendville, where lie has been employed up to the present time, and is now engaged at Beard's shaft, His parents still live in Crook, county Durham, England. SECRIST, ALEXANDER, engineer, Shawnee, Ohio ; was born July 12, 1845; at Bloom Furnace, Lawrence county, Ohio ; son of George and Mary Jane (Woodruff) Secrist ; was brought up about a furnace, and has made furnace work the business of his life. At the age of nine years, he ran an engine at the old Jackson Furnace, Jackson county, Ohio, where he was engaged for five years. At this time he enlisted in Company I. Fifth Regiment Virginia Volunteer Infantry, as fife Major, remaining three years, and was taken prisoner between Winchester and Bunker Hill, and was taken to Currantstown, above Winchester and confined in an old mill, where he remained about six days, when he slipped out of a hole, caused by some siding being broken off, unobserved by the guard, and went down under the water-wheel, where he remained until ten o'clock at night, when he passed out of the. camp, HISTORY OF PERRY COUNTY - 535 Climbing over some of the sleeping enemy and traveling till near morning, when he hid under some hay in a barn, The enemy took hay from this same mow that day, but did not discover him. The next night he went to a house to get something to eat, when he discovered two Rebel officers inside ; he beat a hasty retreat and hid under a straw stack until the next night, and for four days he only had blackberries and roasted corn to eat. Upon again traveling, he reached North Mountain, and wandered night after night, often coming to camps and shunning them until he reached the Union lines. The first meal he got to eat, after getting away from the mill, was given to him by a negro woman who came to milk near a straw stack where he was hidden, When he reacehd North Mountain a 'bushwhacker showed him the way across the mountain, where he was captured by the Union forces, suspected as a Rebel, and imprisoned at Cumberland for some length of time, when he was sent to Harper's Ferry, where he remained until a part of his company was brought there to receive their discharge, and, as he was looking out of the prison window, he was recognized by his old comrades, identified, and discharged with them. Returning home, he located at Jackson, in 1866, and has since ran an engine at Jackson, Bessimer and Shawnee, where he now remains. Mr, Secrist was mar-Tied May 2, 1872, to Miss Mary Ann, daughter of Felix and Rebecca (Jones) Nash. They are the parents of three children, viz, : Edward D., Harry Clay, deceased, and a infant not named. SECRIST, WILLIAM, engineer ; Shawnee, Ohio ; was born January 1854, in Jackson county, Ohio ; son of George and Mary Jane (Woodruff) Secrist ; was brought up in the county of his nativity, where he remained to the age of twenty years. While a youth he learned the trade of engineering,' at first engaging with George Hoop, at Jackson, running a grist mill engine eighteen months, and then to Orange Furnace, in same town, running the engine for three years. Since having learned his trade, he has been engaged in the following places : In Lawrence county, Ohio, at Olive Furnace, running engine one year ; Iron Valley Furnace, Vinton county, Ohio, dug ore and ran engine eighteen months ; Hocking county, Ohio, mined coal five or six months ; New Plymouth, Vinton county, Ohio, running portable sawmill engine, one year ; Gore furnace, Hocking county, blacksmithing and running engine about three years ; in Straitsville, as furnace top filler, three months, and in this place, at Fannie Furnace, since, running engine for about three years past, in turn with his brother. He was married October 11, 1874, to Eliza, daughter of Jonathan and Mary Jane (Decker) Moody, They are the parents of four children, viz, : Charles M., Minnie May, George A., and an infant not named. SELBY, THOMAS, farmer, Pike township, P. O, New Lexington, Ohio ; was horn November 12, 1804, in Anne Arundel county, Maryland ; son Eli and Ruth (Shipley) Selby. Mr, Selby was raised a farmer, but learned the blacksmith trade with Jacob Knowls, of Somerset, Perry county, Ohio, serving four years as an apprentice, which business he followed for thirty years, turning by many an ax, long before the introduction of the patent ax, Mr. Selby was united in marriage with Julia A. daughter of Thomas and Margaret (Ankney) Wright, February 10, 1831, They are the parents of the following children, viz. : John 536 - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. N., Eli M,, Jeremiah B., Joshua F., Eliza Ann, Margaret M,, Harriet L., Alpheus B., William Cook, and three dying in infancy. Mr. Selby came to Perry county in March, 1814, with his father, who settled in Pike township, entering three quarter-sections of land, the same that is now owned by Thomas, the subject of this sketch, and his heirs, who own six hundred acres of land. When the settlement was made, bears and wolves were plenty, and the land a desolate wilderness. In 1843, Mr. Selby supplanted his log cabin by a fine, large brick mansion, which he now lives in. He has been a successful and an enterprising business man, raising at one time the best sheep that were ever raised in Perry county, one that sheared thirty-three pounds of wool at one clipping. He now, in his old age, takes delight in raising thoroughbred cattle, and at one time owned a calf ninety-five days old, that weighs three hundred and eighty-five pounds, gaining a little over three pounds per day. SELBY, S. F., farmer and stock dealer ; post office, New Lexington, Ohio ; born in Pike township, Perry county, in 1837 ; son of Thomas and Julia A. (Wright) Selby ; grandson of Eli and Ruth (Shipley) Selby, and Thomas and Margaret (Ankney) Wright. He was married in 1873, to Miss Elizabeth Koots, daughter of Ephriam and Eliza (McKeever) Koots. SELLERS, H. P., farmer, and breeder of thoroughbred Atwood sheep, registered in Vermont Atwood Club. Post office, New Lexington ; Clayton township, Perry county, Ohio ; born in Perry county in 1842 ; son of Jacob and Julia E. (Reem) Sellers, grandson of John and Margaret (McMullen) Sellers. Married June 29, 1870, to Miss Harriet Roberts, daughter of H. H. and Carrie Roberts. They have four children, viz. : Stilla L., erbert C., W, L. A., and Whitfield. SHEARER, SAMUEL, was born in 1815, on the farm where he now resides, the place never having been out of the Shearer ownership. It lies in sight 0f Somerset, and the land maintains a reasonable state of fertility. At the age of nineteen he went to work at the carpenter trade, and in the winter worked at cabinet making, and from there on to the age of f0rty-five years pursued this occupation exclusively, At the age of forty-two he changed his bachelor life by his marriage to Sarah A. Brandt, whose maiden name was Sarah A. Cann, and who was the mother of one son, named James Brandt, at the date of her second marriage. The children by this marriage are, Emma E., Mary C., Laura T., Sallie E., all of whom are living except the first named. He was never clamorous for the eight hour law when working at his trade—he worked from sun to sun. When working by the month his wages, after his apprenticeship, ranged from eighteen to twenty-four dollars, He was counted a superior workman, and the Moeller corner, now the Brown corner, in Somerset, stands a witness to the skill which took the wood from the stump and fashioned it therein. After his marriage he worked on his farm and occasionally at his trade ; the demand for his services often withdrawing him from the farm. His cutting box costing $6, dispensed with the old rake and knife and cuts by hand, utilizing an old scythe for a knife, and one man, in a single hour, can easily cut enough hay or fodder to feed three cows f0r a week. He feeds his beeves on chopped feed, and a sorrel mare, now thirty years HISTORY OF PERRY COUNTY - 537 old, looks and acts so much as if hardly half this age, as to testify to the value of a good and cheap cutting box on the barn, and to the kindness and humanity of her owner. This celebrated animal will not, even now, bear a whip, or allow angry, loud words to be spoken to her. Mr. Shearer is an honest, honorable citizen, who prefers to speak well of others or remain silent. His life and successful management is a beautiful eulogy upon the sphere he fills in society and the institutions of his country. From early years, in consequence of sickness, his hearing is impaired, but not so much as to exclude him from social and conversational enjoyment. He is a firm friend of education for usefulness, and all his children have enjoyed, or are enjoying, the blessings of domestic and literary training. SHEARER, JOHN H., was born in Perry county, Ohio, in the year 1816, and though trained to life on the farm to the age of nineteen, he has, since 1836, devoted his life to the business of printing and publishing newspapers, comprising a period of forty-six years, and thus establishing his claim to being the oldest printer and editor now living in Ohio. He is a son of Daniel Shearer, who emigrated to Ohio as early as the year 1805. His mother's maiden name was Martha Miller, who dates the citizenship of her father in Ohio back to 1806. In 1836 John Shearer began learning his trade as a printer in the Western Post office in Somerset, with McAfee as proprietor. In 1839, haying completed his apprenticeship, he became half owner with that gentleman, who, in nine months after, sold his half to Alexander Miller, and again, in 1841, A. T. M. Filler bought the interest of Miller, which he held until 1844. Mr. Shearer then bought out Filler's half and became sole proprietor, and so ran the office until 1846, when he rented the establishment to J. W. Shirley for three years. In 1849 Mr. Shearer resumed sole control and changed the name to the Somerset Post. In 1855 he sold out to Mr. E. S. Colborn, and the Post became merged with Mr. Colborn's paper, and both took the name of the Perry County American. In 1857 the office passed back to Mr. Shearer, and its name was changed to Somerset Review. About this time Mr. Shearer became involved as surety for Ottoe H. Miller and others, and sold out the Review to Judge R. F. Hickman. All the accumulations of the previous twenty years of his young and vigorous manhood were swept away, together with real estate that cost him $2,800. sacrificed at $800 to pay bail debts. It was a terrible blow, but not to his faith in God or his hope of ultimate recovery. In August, 1858, broken in heart and fortune, he visited Marysville, Ohio, and' bargained for the Tribune office, by which he bound himself to pay $500, within a year, balance when he could, and in October of the same year took possession, and, after the removal of his family, found only $9 left in his pocket-book to start his business and face a strange community. Luck, backed with unflagging energy and the favor of friend's, enabled him to pay $900 on the contract, when his old creditors began to grow clamorous. He informed the late Hon. C. S. Hamilton of the situation, as he had done at the beginning. This gentleman (afterwards killed by an insane son) replied : Stop paying me, and pay your Perry county creditors." These were n0ble words, uttered from a noble heart. John Shearer pulled through, paid all claims against him, and became sole owner of the Marysville Tribune, - 53 - 538 - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. which is valued at $10,000, being the best equipped county office in Ohio, and which, added to his real estate and other assets, at a reasonable estimate, allows him $27,000 for the last twenty years service, and turns the frowns of 1857 and the sacrifices of 1858 into the smiles and sunshine of life's afternoon. The first twenty-three years of his printer's life were ended by the destruction of his fortune, and the last twenty-three have not only recovered all that was lost by the first, but added a hundred-fold. and, in the evening of his days, assigned him to the front rank as a successful printer and editor, and command his history to be preserved in the annals of his native county, and his example to cheer all those overtaken by financial reverses. e was first married to Miss Matilda Ream, who died in 1865, leaving one son, Willie O. Shearer, and one daughter, Lorietta, now the widow of Dr. A. F. Zeigler, Columbus, Ohio. The second marriage was in 1868, to Mrs. J. A, Johnson, of Delaware county, Ohio, who died in 1881, leaving one son, John H. Shearer, Jr., now twelve years of age. SHEERAN, THOMAS, cutter in Peter Duffey's merchant tailoring room, New Lexington, Ohio ; born January 6, 1852, in Pike township ; son of James and Mary (Sharkey) Sheeran. Young Sheeran was brought up on a farm, where he remained until about fifteen years old, when he learned the plasterer's trade, and followed it about five years, then, in company with his brother Frank, established a merchant tailoring store at Athens, Ohio, where they remained about one year.. He then learned his present trade. Came to this place about the year 1867; He en gaged in his present position in 1878. Mr. Sheeran was married January 1, 1878, to Miss Margaret E., daughter of Anthony and Ellen (Greene) Daugherty. They are the parents of three children, viz.: Frank, deceased ; Mary, and Margaret Ellen. SHEERN, PIUS, farmer, post office, New Lexington, Pike township, Perry county, Ohio ; was born March 15, 1848, in this township ; son of James and Mary (Shirkey) Sheern. Was raised a farmer, and followed agricultural pursuits until 1863, in December of which year he enlisted in the army, in Company D, 30th O. V. I., for three years, or during the war, and served until June 5, 1865, when he was discharged by reason of the close of the war. Was engaged in the following battles : Dallas, Georgia ; Kenesaw Mountain, Georgia ; Nicojack Creek, Georgia ; Atlanta, Georgia ; Jonesborough, Georgia ; Savannah, Georgia ; charge of Fort McAllister, Georgia, under General Hayes, and Waynesburg, North Carolina. After being discharged he returned home and engaged in farming until 1874, when he went to Colorado, and where, in 1875, he enlisted in the regular army for five years, and served three years arid four months, being discharged at his own request. The hazardous task of carrying a dispatch from Bluff Creek to Camp Supply on the frontier became urgent, and as an inducement for some one to volunteer, the officer agreed that, to the man who would carry it, should be granted any request he might make upon his return. Mr. Sheeren performed the feat, and upon his return asked for his discharge, which was granted. During this service he waited upon Col. Lewis at the time he was wounded, who was Colonel commanding the 19th United States Infantry. Was engaged in the battle of Sand Hill, Kansas. Upon going to Colorado he prospected for gold and silver for HISTORY OF PERRY COUNTY - 539 one year previous to enlisting in the army, but was unsuccessful in his undertaking. Upon receiving his discharge he returned home, in 1879, and again engaged in farming, which he has followed up to this time. Was married September 23, 1879, to Ellen, daughter of Edward and Biddie Maloy, of this township. They are the parents of one child, Henry. SHERIDAN, JOHN L., was born in Somerset April 2, 1837, and is one of the three surviving sons of John and Mary Miner Sheridan. He was admitted to the bar in 1866, and the same year united in marriage to Miss Katharine Gallin, a daughter of the late venerable and lamented James Gallin, and sister of Mr, John Gallin, now in active and successful business in Somerset. He visited Texas and Mexico, immediately after his marriage, and beheld the setting sun of Maxamilian on the west and the rising sun of Reconstructed Union on the east of the Rio Grande. He served as register of the land office at Fairplay, Colorado. Was one of the speakers sent by the Republican State Committee of Ohio, in 1868 ; Republican candidate for State Senator in the district composed of Perry and Muskingum counties, and is now employed at Fort Supply, Indian Territory, returning home frequently to visit his family, consisting now of his mother, wife and two daughters. His homeward visits include a call at Chicago, where his brothers, General Philip Sheridan and Colonel M. V. Sheridan have their headquarters. Eminently social, and sometimes even convivial, the conversational powers of John L., make him the centre of social life, and no son of Somerset is more heartily welcomed to her precincts by his friends and acquaintances. SHERIDAN, GEN. PHILIP H., was born in Somerset, March 6, 1831. His parents were Irish, and had recently emigrated from county Cavan, in the northern part of their native land, They were members of the strong Roman Catholic community that had settled in this vicinity, and young Phil was reared in this faith at St. Joseph's Church. He secured a fair common school education, and having within him the promise of better things than the life of an ordinary villager, he obtained a. clerkship in the hardware store of Mr. Talbot, the best position open to an aspiring youth in a small town. He proved energetic, faithful and intelligent, and his leisure moments were occupied with the study of mathematic and history, under the kind tutilage of his employer. A better position with another storekeeper, Henry Dittoe, was offered him and accepted; but the gifted youth aspired to something better than selling goods behind the counter of a village store, and faithfully continued his studies. A vacancy existed at West Point in the cadetship of this district, and Gen. Thomas Ritchey, then Congressman from Perry county. received many applications for the position, supported by numerous recommendations and testimonials. e finally received a simple, straightforward letter, asking that the place be given the writer, signed by Phil Sheridan. The Representative knew the sturdy lad and gave him the appointment. Phil was seventeen years old when he bade farewell to his companions and friends at Somerset and entered West Point. e graduated with the class of 1853 in his twenty-third year, and was assigned to duty .in that year as Brevet Second Lieutenant on the frontier of Texas. Until 1861 he served in that State and in Oregon, 540 - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. except a short time when he was in the East as recruiting officer. When the great civil strife opened, Lieutenant Sheridan, with the impetuous eagerness of a young officer, was anxious for the fray, but was quite modest in his expectations of promotion. The goal of his ambition he confides to a friend : "Who knows,'' he writes, perhaps I may have a chance to earn a Major's commission." From Oregon he was transferred to Jefferson Barracks,. Missouri, but the duties to which he was assigned were civil rather than military in their character, and though not conforming to his ardent wishes, were performed with faithfulness and zeal, He audited the claims arising from the operations of the army in Missouri, and was then sent to Wisconsin to buy horses. In May, 1862, he was made Colonel of the Second Michigan Cavalry. His first engagement at Booneville with a greatly superior force under Gen, Chalmers, in July, 1862, foreshadowed in its brilliant success his future renown as a military leader, and won for him a commission of Brigadier-General of volunteers. A volume would scarcely be sufficient to contain his record during the war, His brilliant and rapid career and rise to the front rank of the nation's few great chieftains have lifted him without the narrow limits of Perry county and made him one of the favorite and honored sons of the whole country, His history and gallant achievements in the service of his country are as familiar to the citizens of California and Maine as to the people of his own county and State. At Perryville and at Stone River his vigor and dash was strikingly displayed ; his rank as Major-General of Volunteers dates from this latter 'battle. At Chickamauga, Mission Ridge, and other engagements, too numerous even to mention, his wonderful capacity was repeatedly revealed, and " Little Phil Sheridan" had gained the plaudits of his countrymen, and among the soldiers bore the reputation of a capital fighter, It was not till towards the close of the war that his greatest success was attained. In March, 1864 he was appointed Commander of the Cavalry Corps of the Army of the Potomac, and in this capacity his military genius shone and made him the greatest Cavalry General in the war, During the twelve months following, he swept the valley of Virginia, capturing within that period more than two hundred battle flags, one hundred and seventy field pieces in open fight, and war munitions and public property of all kinds captured and destroyed to the value of more than $3,000,000. His command fought seventy-six battles in eleven months. In August, 1864, he was placed in command of the Army of Shenandoah, a position in which his skill in handling troops, the combination of caution and audacity, the celerity of movement and fertility of resource which he possessed, had ample field for exercise. The crowning achievement of his career was at Cedar Creek, He had been called to Washington. October 13, 1864. to a military consultation. The enemy, under Longstreet and Early. had arranged to mass their forces and make a desperate effort to crush his command. They stealthily approached and fell suddenly upon his army, which, after a strong resistance, fell back and was in full retreat when met by their commander on his return from the capital. His famous ride from Winchester has been immortalized by a distinguished poet. Meeting his disorganized and fleeing troops, he realized the disastrous situation at a glance. To the first fugitives he exclaimed, — Face the HISTORY OF PERRY COUNTY - 541 other way, boys ; face the other way ! We are going to lick them out of their boots ! " His presence restored the confidence of his wearied men, and inspired them with an enthusiasm to renew the conflict. Hastily reforming the shattered lines, he hurled them against the advancing foe and won the most glorious victory of the war. The effect on the whole army of the East was such, that in sight of Richmond General Grant ordered a salute of one hundred guns in honor of the event. A vacancy just then occurring, Sheridan was commissioned Major-General of the Regular Army, the highest military rank then within the power of the government to bestow, Subsequently General Sheridan was transferred to the Southwest, where order and quiet followed all his movements, and later to the Western frontier. When General Grant was elected President, and Lieutenant-General Sherman succeeded him as General, this latter rank fell to Sheridan, In physique he is deep-chested, short and stout, and his appearance on horseback is most striking. " Dashing Phil Sheridan," as he was known, is no less popular with his men and officers than in society, He was married in 1875. SHERMAN, D. H., farmer, born in 1843, in Licking county, Ohio, post office Thornville ; son of John Sherman, who came to Perry county when, his only child, David H., was six years of age. His grandfather, Eli Sherman, died in Licking county, Ohio. His great grandfather was Joel Sherman, native of Connecticut, who lost his life at the hands of the savage while hunting cows 0n the border, near Marietta, His great grandfather, Joel, sleeps in peace in the Marietta cemetery. The grandmother of David H. was Peggy Findlay, and his great grandmother, the widow of him killed by Indians, lived to be near one hundred years of age. She married a Mr. Shoeman after the death of Sherman, The mother of David H, Sherman was Elizabeth Hooper, daughter of Rev. James Hooper, of the Methodist Episcopal Church. She is a grand daughter of Jacob Hooper, who came to Ohio early, Rev. James Hooper was a soldier in the War of 1812. His brothers were Philip, Samuel, Rev, Jacob, Ezekiel and John Hooper. The brothers of Mrs. Sherman (the mother of David H.) were Jacob, William and David ; sisters, Elsa Ortman, Fanny Wiseman and Mary J. Dunaway. Her mother, the wife of Rev. James Hooper, was Polly Swayzie, and her grandmother's maiden name was Elsie Milligan. She and her husband are still living in comfort, and D. H., their only child does the farm work of the homestead, though he owns a farm of his own adjoining it. This son was in the 126th Regiment. He became the husband of Miss Clara Cooper, daughter of John, of Thorn township, Her mother was Ruth Eliza Price, daughter of the venerable Thomas Price, of Hopewell, now in his ninety-first year. Her grandmother was Sarah Freeman. The father of Thomas Price fought on the British side, but deserted and fought on the side of liberty, and tradition says by so doing forfeited not only his life but a large fortune in England. His life was spared. He became separated from his brother, Alexander, for many years ; by accident they were restored to each other, the accident being this : In 1812, Rebecca Hite, of Zanesville, Ohio, took care of a Soldier, sick with measles. This soldier spoke of one Alexander Price, who, it happened, was an uncle of Mrs, Hite, 542 - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. and the lost was found. A good act is never thrown away, This woman's kindness to a strange sick soldier was rewarded, D, A. Sherman and wife have the following named children : William, John, Arthur, Alice, Sarah and Ruth—three sons and three daughters. To school these children, Mr. Sherman erected a school house on his own land and carved a part of the school district out of Fairfield and a part out of Perry county. This was a feat in diplomacy no ordinary mind would even undertake, much less accomplish, in Ohio. He is a Democrat, central committee man of his township, and a very thorough man of affairs—quiet, but very thoughtful. SHEELER, JERRY, assistant foundryman, Shawnee, Ohio ; was born May 27, 1827, in Green county, Kentucky, son of Jacob and Elizabeth (Canon) Sheeler. Was brought up on a farm and followed agricultural pursuits to the age of twenty-one years, when he engaged as keeper of the Bellfont furnace, same county, which position he held for three years, when he took charge of the farm belonging to this furnace, together with its steamboat landing on the Ohio River, and held that position some twelve or fifteen years. From here he went to Ashland furnace, in Ashland, Greenup, now Boyd county, Kentucky, where he kept furnace for seven Nears, with the exceptions of four months he spent at. Nelson furnace, Indiana ; then to Ironton, Ohio, where he was keeper of furnace for five months, at same time assisting the foundryman. From there he came to Shawnee, Ohio. At first he engaged at Fannie furnace as foundryman for three months ; and was there four months on repairs, directly after which he employed with the XX as assistant foundryman, which position he now holds and has been incumbent of for sixteen months, Mr. Sheeler was married June 29, 1849, to Mary, daughter of John and Rachel Beason, of Fayette. county, Pennsylvania. They are the parents of two children, viz. : Jacob and John, Mrs. Sheeler departed this life June 11, 1854. Mr. Sheeler was enlisted in the army in September, 1864, serving ten months, and was engaged in the battle between Hood and Thomas, at Nashville, Tennessee. Was mustered out of service in August, 1865 ; was enlisted in Company H, twenty-sixth Kentucky Regiment, first brigade second division, twenty-third army corps under Generals Scofield and Thomas. Mr. Sheeler was again married February 2, 1856, to Mary Ann, daughter of Aaron and Millie Pickerel, of Greenup county, Kentucky. They are the parents of nine children, viz. : Elizabeth, Maggie, Lucy, Edward, Fannie, Henry, Franklin, Minnie and Katie, SHELLY, D. C., was born in Hopewell township, Perry county, 1817 ; reared here, and was never out of the State but once, and then on a visit to relatives in the State of Indiana. He is a successful farmer by occupation, but exerts a mechanical genius in wood, iron and stone, having done the chief part of his own building. His father was George Shelly, son of George Shelly, Senior, who came to Hopewell township in 1814. D. C.'s father was single then, but soon after was married to Miss Margaret Cooperider, who had eleven brothers, and Mrs, Shelly alleges that " each brother had a sister," which is true, for the reason, that she was the only daughter. D. C. Shelly had two brothers, John, deceased in Indiana, and George, post office Glenford. HISTORY OF PERRY COUNTY - 543 He had also two sisters, Margaret, wife of George Deffenbaugh, post office Thornville, and Elizabeth, wife of Simon P. Swinehart. His mother died in her sixty-first, and his father in his seventy-seventh year. D. C. Shelly was married in ,1841, to Katharine, daughter of Peter and Mary Mechling. He began his married life on his father's homestead, and, as he became able, bought out the heirs in the Mechling homestead, subject to the dower 0f his mother-in-law, Mary Mechling, until 1850, when he removed ..to it. Their only two living children are Elvena, wife of Amos Albert, post office Chalfant's, and Jefferson, married to Louisa, daughter of Jacob Cooperider. One daughter, Emily is deceased. These kind hearted people also tenderly reared and educated three orphan ancestors, John Baichley and Alfred Mechling, both of whom became teachers, and Elkana Boyer, The grandchildren of D. C, and Katharine Shelly (the children of Jefferson and Louisa Shelly), are Emmit, Dennis, Harvey, Nettie May, George and Frank, Daniel C. Shelly is among the foremost in agricultural pursuits, his farm comprising one hundred and seventy-two acres, on part of which the town of Glenford is built. His an old time Lutheran in religion, a Democrat in politics, and firm adherent to whatever he regards as the right. SCHENK, WILLIAM HENRY, M. D., Thornville, born 1824, in Fauquier county, Virginia ; is a son of John D,, and his mother's maiden name was Miss Gillian Lloyd. His grandfather, Michael, was also a native of Virginia, but his great ancestor, the father of Michael Schenk, was a native of Germany. The grandfather of Doctor Schenk, on his mother's side, was Emory Lloyd, who came with his son-in-law, John D. Schenk, the father of the doctor, to Ohio in 1834, Grandfather Lloyd made his home in the Schenk family, near Etna, Licking county, until his death, at the age of ninety-five. He was a Revolutionary soldier, and Doctor Schenk has often heard him relate the experience and trials of those times. The " bare foot " story, he said, was no fiction. He had often taken the place of ill clad soldier on sentinel, to keep him from suffering, He kept a diary and was tempted to print it, but was as often tempted to abandon it. A work on arithmetic was nearly ready for the press, but this, too, was allowed to go by default, He made his own almanacs, and often amused himself with women who did not like their age to be known, by asking them to tell him the day of the week, and the day of what month they were born. Having thus entraped them, he would laugh and say, " now I know your age exactly," and they would, with equal merriment, chide his supposed presumption, until he felt himself forced to vindicate the science of numbers and tell them their age with such accuracy as to astonish them beyond description. This veteran soldier and arithmetician was a Virginian of modern fortune and while living there, owned a few slaves, and after coming to Ohio, persisted in his pro-slavery views. He voted for Washington and for every President down to Zachariah Taylor, in 1848. John D., the father of Doctor Schenk, lived to his eighty-seventh year, and remained a spry old man to that time. The brothers of Doctor Schenk are George Emry, post office Fairfield, Illinois ; Michael A., post office Outville, OhioTheodrick L., Newburg, Arkansas. His sisters are Valeria, wife of Howland White, post office 544 - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. Cardington, Ohio ; Frances G., wife of Myron Bates, Outville, Ohio. Doctor W. H. Schenk read medicine and graduated at Cleveland in 1852, in which year he located in Thornville, where he has now been in practice for thirty years. In 1854 he married Miss Melinda, daughter of the late venerable Adam Bogenwright, of Thorn, who lived to the remarkable age of one hundred years, Doctor Schenk's children were six in all, but one died in infancy, The survivors are Valeria K., wife of Charles Wilson, Thornville ; Miss Francis G., Miss Lilian L. and George Emry Schenk, a dry goods clerk, and Charles E. at home. SHEPPERD, T. J., merchant, Moxahala, of the firm of Shepperd and Pile. The same firm also own a store at Rendville. Mr. Shepperd was born in 1840, in Pleasant township, near Oakfield ; went to Wisconsin in 1858, returned in 1861, enlisted in the Thirtieth Ohio Volunteer Infantry ; remained in that regiment all through the service, four years. Hugh Ewing was his Colonel ; Theodore Jones, Lieutenant-Colonel, but Jones was subsequently made Colonel when Ewing was pr0moted. He was in the battles of South Mountain, Antietem, Atlanta, Mission Ridge, Vicksburg ; went with Sherman to the sea, and came out of the war having received but a couple of slight wounds. In 1868 he married Annie E. Fowler, of Pleasant township, and she died in 1877. She became the mother of two children, Addie M, and James W. In 1878 he married Parthena Ayers, daughter of Thomas Ayers, of this township, They have one child, Annie E., born in 1879. SHEPPERD, GEORGE W,, farmer, Pleasant township, Moxahala post office ; son of Absalom Barney and Sarah (Snelling) Shepperd ; his grand father, Nathanial Shepperd, was born in Baltimore county, Maryland, his- great-grandfather was a native of England. His mother's ancestry was English and Welsh, His father came from Maryland to Muskingum county, and from there to this township in 1831, and entered the farm where he now resides, In November, 1859, he married Rebecca M. Brown, of Pike township, who was of Irish descent. Their children are Hester B., Cora and David E. March 9, 1871, he married Adaline McArtor, of Monroe township, who is of English and Scotch. descent. Their children are, Alice J,, William B., Charles S, and two who died in infancy. SHOUGH, P. A,, deceased ; born at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, in 1824 ; died in Somerset, Ohio, in 1881. He married Sophia Price, in Virginia, and soon rem0ved to Franklin county, Pennsylvania, where he pursued his trade, tailoring, and where were born, William, single ; George, married, painter ; Lizzie, single ; Jacob, merchant tailor, married ; Joseph, plasterer, married ; Newton, clerk, single, and McClure, clerk, single, In 1860, P. H, Shough became messenger in the State Department under Governor Curtain, of Pennsylvania ; moved to Somerset in 1870 ; was an Odd Fellow, and at his death his widow drew $1,000 from the Insurance of the Order. SHRIDER, LEVI, farmer, carpenter and generally ingenious ; born in 1831 in Reading township ; son of Peter Shrider, a stalwart man still living, six feet and two inches in his stocking feet. Levi resides on section 20, northeast one-fourth, patented 1805, signed by the great Thomas Jefferson, President of the United States ; and the southwest one-fourth, HISTORY OF PERRY COUNTY - 545 1808, in the name of Andrew Hite, father of Samuel, Isaac and John Hite. This farm contains a renowned spring, strong enough to fill a tile eight inches in diameter ; was used to run a wheel for churning butter, for mill purposes, the early resort of hunters, a short distance below which was a deer lick. A horse mill and still-house were also erected by "Uncle Sammy Hite." Indian graves were not far distant, but now these ancient forms are departed. A pear tree grown from the seed, now thirty inches over the stump, is still in bearing vigor, a few rods from the big spring, and perhaps on a level twelve feet above it. A wood pile was placed surrounding it and the chips and rotten dirt had accumulated around it to the depth of two feet or more, when removed by Shrider fourteen years ago, This removal exposed some of the roots and he was compelled to erect a frame of wood around it and fill this frame with muck from the woods. The tree recovered it former vigor and yields as high as thirty to forty bushels of 'pears in one season. It has not missed bearing for the last fourteen years, and tradition says it never did fail, and the same tradition makes Samuel Hite the first settler of Thorn, and Solomon Whitmer the first white male child born in Perry or in that territory which now composes it. Levi Shrider was first married April 4, 1855, to Caroline, daughter of John Auspach, of Reading township. By this marriage he became the father of six children, five of whom are now living, to-wit : William H,, a blacksmith, in Thornville, Ohio ; Samuel C., a farmer ; David E., John P., post office of all, Thornville ; and Levi C., post office, Somerset. The Second marriage took place to Miss Sarah, daughter of Joseph Orr, in 1868. The children of this marriage are, Oswell, Estella, Lewis H., Daisy S. and Murray Frederick, now three years old. He followed wagon making until competition of machinery drove him to carpentering and to farming. He has produced fine work in the cabinet line, and the pulpit of the Lutheran Church in New Reading attests his skill. He built his own dwelling and barn, and these are among the most respectable in beauty and convenience. His judgment of land and real estate was complimented by his fellow citizens, by election as land appraiser over a very popular opponent -of the same party, He owns one hundred acres of the best land with the best of improvements in Thorn township, and when he bought it, in 1868, he went into debt $3,000. The fact that he has paid out and erected buildings on .the land worth $3,000 more, not only assert the fertility of the soil, but the best order of financial ability and skill is a farmer, SHRIVER, WILLIAM I., Treasurer of Perry county ; post office, New Lexington. SIMONS, A. P., mine boss, New Straitsville, Ohio ; was born April 9, 1853, in. Washington county, Ohio ; son of Meigs and Eliza (Hocking) Simons ; was raised a farmer and continued on the farm until his twentieth year, when he went to mining in this place, and was engaged at that and laying track until December, 1881, when he took hi, present position with the Straitsville Coal Company. Mr, Simon's grey t grandfather came from Vermont to Marietta with a colony and lives in the fort at that place, and was wounded by the Indians while living there, and they were obliged to guard their grain fields from incursions by the - 54 - 546 - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. red men, After the Indians were driven back, he entered land upon the Muskingum River, in Washington county, Ohio, where he lived until his death. His grandfather, Hosea Simons, came into possession of the home farm and lived there until he raised his family, when he moved into Iowa, where he lived until about 1872, when he departed this life. His father remained in Washington county until his death, which occurred February 18, 1859, in his thirty-second year. His mother was born and raised in Maryland, and came to Ohio with her parents in 1847, who settled in Washington county, where she lived at the time of her marriage. Her father lived with his son until his death in November, :860, and was in his eightieth year. Her mother lived to be ninety-eight years of age, and died in October, 1878. Mrs. Simons afterward married, January 29, 1854, Mr. John Hammond, of Virginia., and with her family moved in that State, where they lived until the spring of 1866, when they went to Michigan, remaining one year, and then went into Missouri, living in Ralls county one year, and Audrain county from that time until 1881, owning two different farms in this county, one in the south and one in the northern part of said county, owning them at different times, While in the northern part of this county, Mr, Hammond came to his death, October 1, 1871, at the age of sixty years. Mr. Simons, the subject of this sketch, returned to Ohio in 1872, and his Mother, Mrs. Hammond, in 1881, Mr. Simons was married February 6, 1877, to Sarah Holt. born August 24, 1855, in. Harrison county, West Virginia, daughter of William and Catharine (Gray) Holt. They became the parents of one child, viz. : Arthur. Mrs. Simons died August 2, 1880. Mrs. Hammond and all of her living children are now together in the same house in this place. SIMS, P, R, weighman, Straitsville Coal Company, New Straits- ville, Ohio, R,, was born at Eagleport, Muskingum county, Ohio ; is of German parentage ; a son of Absalom and Christenia (Hartman) Sims. In 1855 they removed to Cambridge, Guernsey county, Ohio, where P, R. Sims remained with his parents until the breaking out of the Rebellion in 1861. His father, at that time, was fifty-nine years old, and after several ineffectual attempts to enlist, dyed his bearde and hair, and succeeded, His enlistment was followed by his sons Simon, John, Isaac, William and P, R., the last enlisting in the spring of 1862 for three years. He remained the entire time, doing good service, and re- ceiving two slight wounds, one at Stone River, and one at the charge of Mission Ridge, Chattanooga, Tennessee. His Company was A, of the Ninety-seventh O. V, I. During the term of enlistment, Mr. Sims participated in twenty-one general engagements, his last being the battle of Franklin, Tennessee, one of the severest fought battles of the war ; Wood's entire army was brought to bear on thirteen thousand men, who eventually came off victorious, killing three to one of the enemy. His father was killed in the battle of Stone River, Tennessee. His Company was B, of the Fifteenth Regiment, O. V, I. His brother William, a member of Company A, Twenty-second Battery, was killed at the battle of Cumberland Gap. His brother Isaac, a member of Company H, Forty-fifth Illinois Regiment, was killed in the forlorn hope charge on the blown up redoubt. His brother, Simeon, a member of Company B, Fifteenth Regiment, O. V. I., was killed at the battle of Mission HISTORY OF PERRY COUNTY - 547 Ridge. His brother, John, a member of Company B, Fifteenth Regiment, O. V. I., was wounded at Munfordville, Kentucky, and discharged, leaving P. R. the last of six members from one family. In consequence of the sacrifice made by this family, P, R. was offered a discharge, but declined, preferring to remain and avenge the deaths of his father and brothers, and aid in putting down the wicked rebellion, which had caused him and his mother such losses, While in the service, in 1863, P. R, received a commission as Sergeant of Company A, Ninety-seventh Regiment, given for meritorious and gallant conduct, signed by Colonel Milton Barnes, Colonel J. Q Lane, and Adjutant Joseph Gossuch, and was always afterwards known as the "boy sergeant," He was only fifteen years of age when he enlisted, and made one 0f the most gallant records achieved in the late war, After Vie close, P. R. returned home, and remained home with his widowed mother, until 1867, when he enlisted in the regular army, and was sent to San Francisco, California, where he was assigned to Company A, Ninth U. S. I., detailed to the mail service on the route on the Bay of San Francisco. The steamer "General McPherson " was plying from the city to Angels Island, thence to Alcatrag (bird) Island, thence to Presictio, Black Point, Fort Point, Goat Island and return. P, R. remained in this service about six months, when an accident occurred, which literally tore off the steamer to the water's edge, wounding several officers and the Captain, Jones. Several of the officer's ladies were aboard the steamer at the time. Nearly every man left the steamer but P, R. and O, H. Gardner, of Lake Village, New Hampshire, who cared for the wounded and ladies until rescue came, For this bravery, they were both rewarded. Gardner was detailed to the city as Sergeant of the Recruiting Department, and Sims as Clerk in the Medical Director's office, Department of California, He remained here until within five months of the expiration of his term, when, on request, he was transferred to New San Diego, Lower California, in the Quartermaster's Department, under Captain Cragie. His term expired May 16, 1870, when he returned to Cambridge, Ohio, to fill an engagement with Minnie Urban, of that place, to whom he was married September 2d. Her father, Gudlib Urban, was born in Leipsic, Germany ; her mother, Catharine (Miller) in Bavaria. They settled in Guernsey county about 1858. After his marriage, Mr. Sims removed to New Straitsville, where he now resides, being in the employ of the Straitsville Coal Company, as weighman, a position he has filled almost since coming here. SINES, JOHN, mine boss, Corning, Ohio ; was born February 16, 1837, in Guernsey county, Ohio ; son of Absalom and Christena (Hartman) Sines, John's first experience in mining was at Black Rock, Muskingum county, Ohio, where he went into the minds at six „rears of age and remained there until thirteen, when he went to Simmons; Creek and worked in a stone quarry eighteen months. Subsequently he mined at Zanesville, Cambridge, Nelsonville and Straitsville, Ohio, he came to his present location in 1880. Mr. Sines was married January 1 , 1856, to Miss Hulda T., daughter of Alexander and Catharine (Hartman) Teal, of Guernsey county, Ohio. They are the parents of several children and one adopted child, viz. : Leonard D., John A., Annie, Flora 548 - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES C., Laura C., Herbert, deceased, Etta Dale and Frederick, adopted. Mr. Sines has given close attention to mining and is now one of the most experienced miners in Perry county. SKINNER, AMOS, farmer, Bearfield township, Portersville post office ; born in Virginia, May 25, 1802 ; son of Peter and Sarah (Roberts) Skinner ; father of French, and mother of English descent. He emigrated to Ohio in 1835 and settled in Madison township, this county, lived there a little over a year, and resided one year in Clayton township before he moved to the farm where he now resides. In 1825, he married Margaret A. Murrey, of Virginia, daughter of Thomas Murrey. They are the parents of the following named children : Ferdinand F., married to Elizabeth Hearing. He is deceased. Thomas P., married to Julia A. Whiley, and resides in Kansas ; Amos A., deceased ; Mary E. ; Sarah M., married George W. Murris, resides in this township ; Adaline V., married Ezekiel Rose ; John R. married Harriet Breece, and resides in Kansas ; Julia A., who married Lyman Lamb. He is deceased ; Rebecca H., married William Ells, of this township ; Elra W,, married James. E. Breece, of this township. SKINNER, T. P., farmer and stock raiser, post office Buckeye Cot- tage, Clay ton ownship, Perry county, Ohio ; born in this county in 1834 ; son of Lemuel and Lucinda (Birch) Skinner. Grandson of Peter and. Sarah (Roberts) Skinner. Mr, Skinner was married in 1860 to Miss Harriet Brown, daughter of Isaac and Ellinor (Chinoth) Brown. They are the parents of nine children, viz. : Ernest B., Charles E., Frank N., William E. Lester R., deceased, Beverly O., Lucy E., Homer B. and Anna M. SKINNER, P. H., Rendville, Perry county, Ohio, was born January 5, 1852, in Monroe township, Perry county, Ohio ; son of John and Mary (Smith) Skinner, At the age of two years his father died leaving him, his mother and another brother. They lived on a farm in Union township, Morgan county, Ohio, and he and his brother James, two years older, attended the district school until he became of age, In 1878 he attended school at New Lexington and taught his first school in Chapel Hill, which profession he has followed ever since. Was married January 14, 1881, to Miss Mary Donahoe and located in Rendville in 1881, where he taught a subscription school, and on May 29, 1882, was elected Justice of the Peace, to till the vacancy occasioned by the death of George Thompson. SMITH, MAJOR THOMAS J., provision grocer, east side of Main street, New Lexington, Ohio. Major Smith was born, March 16, 1846, in this place ; son of James and Eliza Smith. In March, 1862, he enlisted in Company G. Sixty-first O. V. I., and veteraned in March, 1864. The second week after his return from the war he entered school and attended about seven months. In April, 1866, established his present business, in which he has been successful. Major Smith was married February 22, 1870, to Miss Madglin, daughter of John and Catharine (Shorr) Fox. They are the parents of three children, viz. : Mary Frances, Thomas J. and Catharine. SMITH, JOHN D., merchant, Shawnee, Ohio, was born December 29, 1846, in Limerick, Ireland ; son of David and Ellen (Burke) Smith. Mr. Smith was raised a mechanic and emigrated to America about the HISTORY OF PERRY COUNTY - 549 age of nine years with his mother, a brother and a sister, settling in Dunkirk, New York. His father died while he was yet quite young and for a few years he was obliged to face the storms of life, but he had the courage to tell his mother that he could provide for himself and assist her, He was first employed upon a steamboat plying on Lake Erie from Dunkirk to Toledo, Cleveland, Detroit and Buffalo, where he remained nine months, and then went to Pennsylvania " to strike oil," but not being successful, he was employed in a brick yard at three dollars per day, in the fall of 1865, remaining during the brick making season of that year, when he returned to Corry, New York, and was employed at the A. & G. W. railroad shops. After remaining with them in the yards for some time, he learned upholstering with them and remained in this place until the fall of 1866, when the shops were moved to Franklin Mills, Portage county, now known as Kent, and where he remained until 1868 ; at this time he became a journeyman, went to Pittsburgh, failed to get employment and there became a peddler, continuing three months, From Pittsburgh he went to Steubenville, Ohio, and was employed with Thomas Denmead, master mechanic of the P. C, & St, L. R'y, remaining until the next spring, when he was sent to Dennison, Ohio, where he stayed until fall and returned to Steubenville, upholstering until 1870, and was then sent to Lancaster, Ohio, to take charge of the upholstering department of the C. & M. V. R'y shops in that place, from where he went, in 1872, to the diamond fields of Africa. In April of 1872 he received a letter from a Mr, Stickney, a former shop mate of that place, asking him how he would like to go on an adventure to Africa, when he replied, " I'm your Moses," and on April 27, left Lancaster to join him with a Mr, Hall, of Zanesville, This party, on May 3, left for New York and passed over the Alleghanies at night, losing sight of the horse shoe bend, thinking they had lost a great piece of natural scenery, but it could not vie with what came in their way afterward, in the form of mountains, Arrived at New York May 4, where they took the steamer Angeline, of the Anchor Line, for Glasgow, Scotland, where they arrived May 21. A few days previous to their arrival, President Grant had made a demand on the British Government for the Alabama Indemnity, which gave them some trouble to get through the Kingdom. They remained in this city, Glasgow, two days, visiting the Cathedral and other places of note, From here they went to Melrose on the Tweed, where they visited Sir Walter Scott's residence, Dryburg and Abbey, where this not d bard of romance sleeps his last sleep ; also, other places of interes :. The next day they arrived at Carlisle and stayed one night, and thence to London, the greatest city of the world, arriving May 29, and the next day booked for South America on the steamer Norseman, and sailed from Southampton, June 10, having remained here for rest and recuperation, as they had been wonderfully sea sick from New York to Glasgow, sailing with high winds and rough sea, The first evening out from Southampton they again were all sick and all the way across the Bay of Biscay and until they reached Madeira Island on Sunday, June 18, which they all hailed with gladness after eight days sailing in bad weather. Smith says it is the most beautiful place in the world. Funchal City is the capital, and here they remained until seven o'clock