Ashland County, Ohio - Biographical sketches, 1880 (part 18 of 19)

| appointment in the military service. The President ; took the matter under consideration, and, after con- ! suiting Hon. Salmon P. Chase, who was then Secretary of the Treasury, and Hon. John Sherman, then a j member of Congress, he offered him a captain's commission as quartermaster in the United States army. In j the meantime he had, through the personal influence of Mr. Sherman, received an appointment in the interior department, which he held up to November 24., 1S62, when he again called on the President and declined his generous offer, preferring active field service to that of quartermaster in the army, and again requested some appointment that would place him in the field. The President replied by saying, " that all appointments below' the rank of brigadiers in the volunteer service were made by the governors of States," and referred him to * Governor Dennison, of Ohio. Calling on Governor Dennison, and presenting the letter of President Lincoln, he at once expressed, a willingness to appoint him provost marshal, and assign him to duty in the city ot Columbus.

As soon as David 'Foci was inaugurated governor of Ohio he applied to him for a commission which would send him to the front. With a fair promise from Governor 'Pod to do so he returned home, awaiting the results.

In April, 1862, he was called home from Columbus to attend the funeral of his father. Being detained for some time attending to business pertaining to the estate, he did not return to Columbus until sent for by Governor Tod On arriving in Columbus the governor handed him a commission of first lieutenant, and detailed him as adjutant to organize the drafted men in Camp Buckingham, near Mansfield, Ohio, where he reported to Colonel C. G. Sherman, then in command of the camp, for duty. He at once entered upon that laborious work. The One Hundred and Second and One Hundred and Twentieth Ohio volunteer infantry regiments were then organized. The drafted men were mostly assigned to | the older regiments and sent to the front. On the or I ganization of the One Hundred and Twentieth he was again commissioned as adjutant, and assigned to that regiment, with which he left the State and went to the front, leaving Camp Buckingham in October, 1862, with Colonel French in command, and M. M. Speigle lieutenant colonel, and John Buckman as major. The regiment joined the main army at Memphis, Tennessee, and was assigned to the Thirteenth army corps. With the exception of Colonel French and Lieutenant Colonel Speigle, the regiment had never seen service. They participated in the assault, on Yickshurgh from the Yazoo river. After laying in the swamps around Haines' bln ft lour days, participating in all the charges and battles of the campaign, he was ordeied to take the regiment out to the front line and lay on their arms for the night. At two r. m. he received an order to retire the regiment and cover the retreat of the army to the 5 a/00 river, a distance of font miles. On leturninp luck to their original fines he was surprised to find the entire army had left, leaving the One Hundred and Twentieth Ohio volunteer infantry to cover the retreat and guaid !->ur bat- teries of artillery. On arriving at the Yazoo he found the commanding officers of the regiment safely on transports, ready to follow the army back to the Mississippi river.

Before the regiment reached the river the picket ot the army had crossed the bayou in force, and rvas following the retreating army. Soon after sunrise they approached near enough to commence firing. The First division of the Thirteenth corps were on transports in the Yazoo, and mainly out of sight of the advancing enemy. General Slocum hurried forward and informed General Osterhaus of the danger surrounding hint. The artillery was hurried forward and put into position, and several batteries taken from the transports were put in enfilading posit ion masked by the One Hundred and Twentieth, and held their position until the enemy advanced near enough, when the regiment filed to the rear of the guns, when they opened on the advancing enemy with grape, canister, solid shot, and shell. They were driven back with severe loss. Colonel French assumed command

On the fifth of January, 1S63, the entire army under General Grant, moved on transports against Arkansas Post, and, on the tenth of January, the fleet disem- . barked. On the following night they completely invested the entire fortification, behind which the enemy had about five thousand men. The attack was commenced on the morning of the eleventh, and was stubbornly resisted by tire enemy. At four o'clock in the afternoon a charge was ordered on. the left. The One Hundred arid Twentieth occupying the extreme left, charged up the river bank directly upon the fort. As soon as the charge began the enemy opened fire on the advancing column. When within fifty yards of the fori Colonel French ordered the regiment to lie down. Adjutant Slocum being on the extreme left of the advancing column, did not hear the order of the colonel and pushed the left forward until he saw the right wing of 'the regiment flat on the ground. The colonel again commanded "Lie down!" I venture to say that no child ever embraced a parent with more affection than the officers and men of the One Hundred and Twentieth embraced mother earth on that occasion - one soldier (weighing at least two hundred pounds), literally flattened himself, with his head protected by a mullen stalk not more than one inch in diameter. While in this position the bullets of the enemy passed from three to four feet above them, and as long as they remained there were comparatively secure, as the sharpshooters on the right kept the enemy down, so that they dare not compress their guns to fire into the regiment.

Colonel French ordered Adjutant Slocum to go to the rear, and ask General Osterhaus to relieve the One Hundred and Twentieth. The adjutant replied by saying if he went back he would get shot in the rear, and that the regiment was safe in their present position, and if they got up to retire, every man of them would be shot. The order was made imperative, so the adjutant crossed back along the line of the men, for some distance, when the cry went up "see the adjutant craw-fishing." Finally he sprang to his feet, and in a zig-zag course reached General Osterhaus, who expressed, surprise in seeing him deserting the regiment, and inquired into the cause of it. Instead of communicating the request of Colonel French to General Osterhaus, he informed the general that the rebel sharp-shooters were in the two wooden buildings inside the fort, shooting through the crevises, picking off our officers, and if he would order up two sections of artillery, and knock tire buildings down, it would be the means of saving the lives of many of our officers and men. Four twenty-pound rifled guns were advanced and opened fire on the buildings, after a few shots the houses were knocked into splinters, and fell. Very soon thereafter the fort surrendered with five thousand prisoners.

At ten p. m. of the same day Adjutant SIocuiq received an order from army headquarters to report in person forthwith on board the transport Illinois. After reading the order, the Camp Chase difficulty flashed through his mind. He said to himself: " Here is another case of disobedience to the orders of a superior officer." Fearing to take counsel, lest he might commit himself, he started in company with the orderly for headquarters. On arriving on board he saw General Sherman with all the corps commanders sitting around a table. He advanced tc General Sherman, laid down the order, and reported in person. After a number of questions were answered touching the matter, he was told to report back to his command. He heard no more of the matter until the eighteenth day of March, 1863, when he was informed that he had been promoted to major of the regiment for meritorious conduct in the field at Arkansas Post, jumping ten captains in one pro motion, Colonel French resigning the same day.

On the eighth day of September, 1S63, he was promoted to lieutenant colonel of the regiment. After the surrender of Foit Hindman and Arkansas Post the army returned to Young's Point, in front of Vicksburgh. Here Colonel Slocum was put in charge of digging out one section of the famous canal, to lead the waters of the Mississippi across the country in order that the transports might mote safely pass the water batteries defending the city of Vicksburgh, a work that was never accomplished nor never intended to be. In March, 1S63, the army of tire Mississippi crossed the river below Vicksburgh on transports that had run the blockade. Colonel Slocum participated in all the battles in the rear of Vicksburgh - battle of Raymond, Thompson's Hill, Jackson, Champion Hill and Big Black. He led the right wing of his regiment in the charge on Vicksburgh on the eighteenth day of May; again on the twenty-second of May. On the seventh of June, 1863, he received an cider of detail from corps headquarters, assigning him to duty as inspector general of the Thir tcetrth army corps, from which duty he was net relieved until after the surrender of Vicksburgh on the fourth of July, 1863. On the morning of the fourth he was left j in command of three divisions of the Thirteenth corps at Big Black river, twelve miles in the rear of Vicks

At one p. m. of the same day, an order was sent out by General Grant to move all the forces at Big Black river upon Jackson. The order was received by Colonel Slocum, and at once put into execution by calling the forces into line. By four p. m. the entire command had crossed the river, while the advance was four miles on in the direction of Jackson. At five p. M. the advance column was attacked by General Brecken ridge's command, which, was retreating to Jackson, Mississippi. The engagement lasted but a short time, when the advancing column bivouacked for the night, the absent officers rejoining their respective commands before morning. On the sixth of July, Colonel Slocum's regiment led the advance of the Thirteenth on Jackson, and formed the base line, directly in front of the enemy's breastworks, and here he was engaged from the tenth -to the seventeenth of July, the day the rebel authorities capitulated. Colonel Speigle there received a very severe, but not dangerous, wound in the hip, which disabled him untiL about the month of February, 1864, when he returned and assumed command of the regiment. After the siege of Jackson, Colonel Slocum returned to Vicksburgh, with but one hundred and eight effective men in the regiment.

In August, 1863, Colonel Slocum received an order from department headquarters, to proceed by transport to Port. Hudson, on the Mississippi river, and there to await further orders. On the third of September, 1863, they disembarked and went into camp at Port Hudson, for what purpose no one seemed to know. After remaining there eight days, their rations and forage were consumed, and no means of supply. The command consisted of the One Hundred and Twentieth Ohio volunteer infantry and one battery of six-pound guns. On the twelfth day of September, Colonel Slocum ordered the battery to the bank of the river to bring to the first transport that went, down the river. On the evening of the twelfth a transport was sighted and brought to by the battery. The regiment and battery were taken on board and landed ac Carlton, ten miles above New Orleans. Colonel Slocum at once reported to army headquarters in New Orleans his action in the premises, which was approved by the commanding officer.

The regiment having been reduced to a mere skeleton by sickness and death, Colonel Slocum was placed on detached duty at department headquarters, as judge advocate. Soon thereafter he was ordered to Texas to organize a- court-martial at Brownsville and one at another point. While there he received an order to report to Columbus, Ohio, on recruiting service. He took an ocean steamer for New Orleans, arriving at Carlton, where he was joined by the sergeants of the regiment, all of whom reached Columbus in December, 1863. In April, 1864, the colonel and his sergeants returned with one hundred and seventy-four enlisted men, and joined the regiment in Louisiana. He then re-organized the regiment by assignment of officers. The winter months had been conducive to the health of the men, and many who had been sent home on sick furlough had returned, besides many who had been in hospital.

On the first of May, 1864, the regiment was ordered | to join General Banks' army, then operating up Red j river in Louisiana. The regiment embarkgfiUpm the j steamer "City Belie," with six hundred and eighty effec- ! tive men, Colonel M. M. Speigle in command. Arriving j at the mouth of Red river in the evening, they laid over until the next morning to await a convoy of gunboats. In early morning they steamed up the river for some distance. Reaching Foit DeRuser, the officers of the navy reported shallow water, and they could proceed no further. Colonel Mudd, of the Second Illinois veteran cavalry, Colonel Blontz, bearer of dispatches, Colonel Bassett, and Colonel Slocum were called in council. A majority opposed going further without the protection of the navy, but Colonel Speigle, a brave officer, determined otherwise, and steamed up the river. Colonel Slocum and one hundred and fifty men took their position on the hurricane deck, not only as a guard, but to observe, if possible, any signs of the enemy. They had proceeded but a short distance until a negro woman was seen running in the direction of the transport, waving a handkerchief, saying that the rebels were around the bend. Colonel Speigle's attention was called to this .demonstration by Colonel Slocum. He still persisted, saying there was no serious danger, but alas for Colonel Speigle and many brave boys ! the warning proved. to be more than true.

The river was very narrow but; deep, with sharp curies. As the boat rounded Snaggy Point, a battery of their masked guns opened a vigorous fire on the frail trans- ! port, each shot taking effect ; one killing the pilot, and one j going through the machinery, cutting the steam pipe | and on through the cabin. Scarcely had the sound of I the last gun died away, until another battery opened in j front. General Majors, with a brigade of infantry,

! emerged from behind a cover, and poured a murdeious ; fire into the side of the transport. The infantry on the j hurricane deck kept up a continuous fire, but of little | effect. Colonel Speigle was among the first killed ; Colonel Slocum hastened to the cabin, saw Colonel Speigie with many others, lying on the cabin floor, with pools of blood surrounding them. Colonel Slocum spoke to him; his only reply was "I am gone this time." He raised bis head up while Colonel Mudd placed a knapsack under it. As Colonel Mudd raised up he was shot in the left temple. Colonels Basset and Blontz were also killed, and died instantly. The boat was then drifting down with the current; Colonel Slocum ordered the boat surrendered, and put fire to the state-room containing the mail for General Banks army. As soon as the boat was surrendered Colonel Slocum ordered every man J ashore with his gun. The boat had neared the shore ! when the men began jumping and throwing their guns. Taking advantage of the situation, Colonel SI cum with one hundred and fifty-five officers and men reached the ! shore in safety, and sought shelter in a dense wood. Those who failed to reach the bank were either drowned oi shot in the water attempting to reach shore The j remainder of the regiment were either killed or captured. ' The steam and hot water escaping from die boilers, I drove all who were on the boiler deck into the river, j many of them so badly scalded that they afterward died. This occurred about four i>. m. Colonel Slocum called tiie men into line, and marched them some distance back from the river, where they were organized in squads, with a commissioned officer at the head of each. On examination it was ascertained that there were seven rounds of servceable ammunition to each man. Both officers and men supposed, from the dangers surrounding them, that they would be marched down the river under the protection of the gun-boats, but Colonel Slocum changed the direction and marched up the river in the direction of Alexandria, where General Banks hod his headquarters.

Many were the complaints and murmurs of the men at this sudden and unexpected change in their destination - but to no avail. The march was a hazardous one at best, but Colonel Slocum best understood the situation, and pushed forward through an unbroken wilderness of pine, nothing to direct their course but drift from Red river. At sundown a plantation was reached. In a field some distance off a man was discovered unhitching a learn from a plow. Lieutenant Van ness was directed to bring him in. He proved to be a negro man, and a slave of a man named Grimes. The negro was closely examined by Colonel Slocum as to distance, routes, and the general topography of the country. He gave the distance to Alexandria as twenty-eight miles, and three routes or ways of reaching the place, one being a mule path through the timber, and three miles shorter than either of the traveled roods, 'the negro was put under charge of Lieutenant Vanness, with a promise that if he piloted them through safely lie would be rewarded, but if he led them into the enemy's lines, on another route, he would be shot. They then proceeded to the residence of Mr. Grimes, who met them with a stern rebuke for appearing on his premises with his slave in charge. Colonel 'Slocum placed a guard around his house, with instructions to let none of the inmates pass out. The men were nearly exhausted, having had nothing to eat since an early breakfast, and it became necessary that Mr. Grimes supply their wants. He became quite angry, and declared that no provisions could be given the men ; he made severe threats as to what he would do if anyone attempted to enter his house in search of provisions. Colonel Slocum stepped on the porch and presented the old man two navy revolvers, which brought him to submission. In a few minutes the men had plenty of corn-meal, side pork, and sour milk, and a number of fires lighted in the yard, cooking their supper - baking their corn batter on boards, and frying their meat in anything they could find that would grease. When all were supplied they formed in line for the long, dark, and tedious march of the: night. Mr. Grimes, unaccustomed to Yankee visitors, failed to bid them good-night. After marching through a wilderness country all night, they reached Red riser at daybreak, eight miles below Alexandria. There was a wood station on the river and an old log house. Colonel Slocum, with a few trusty men, approached the house and called to the inmates to come out. The first to appear was the owner of the premises, who appeared surprised to see Federal soldiers in his locality. A guard was placed around his house, and j Colonel Slocum inquired of him if there were any Con- | federate soldiers near. He was informed, after some hesitation, that one mile back from the river there were two regiments of rebel cavalry, and, looking across the river, we could see the rebel out-posts, or their horses.

Colonel Slocum determined to cross the river at this point, but on inquiry there were no skiffs nor boat of any j kind. A picket line was extended back some distance from the house. A wood-rack was made into a skiff by laying boards in the bottom; then twenty or twenty-five men would take off their clothing, put them on the skiff, with their guns on top, and the men in the water started diagonally across the stream. When the shore was reached ibe skiff was towed up the river and sent back. In this way by ten a. m. the entire command crossed in safe tv. Major McKinley was among the first to cross, and took charge of the men as they arrived. Colonel Slocum, before calling in his pickets, cautioned the old man to remain quiet, as there was danger in his communicating ! with the enemy. They then took possession of the ski if I and crossed the river, leaving the skiff to the mercy of j the stream Before the colonei was fully dressed, two transports, loaded with infantry, accompanied by two | gunboats, were seen descending the river. The colonel | made every effort to stop them, that he might warn them of the danger below; but they pushed onward and 1 reached Snaggy Point, and fell into the same trap, and | all were captured. The rebel pickets still occupied their | post. Not knowing the exact force of the enemy, the i colonel determined to put on as bold a front as possible.

J He prolonged his line a great distance, with battle flag in front am! regimental colors in the center, and marched upon the levee - the river and levee bending off in the direction of the rebel post.

When within a few hundred yards of the rebels' advanced line, they mounted their horses and galloped off like so many frightened wolves, thus allowing the colonel, with his handful of men, to pass through to Alexandria without firing a gun. On arriving at Alexandria the colonel reported in person to General Banks, who at once ordered all necessary provision to be made for the comfort of the men. After remaining in Alexandria a few days the remnant was temporarily consolidated with the Forty-second Ohio volunteer mfantrv, Colonel Slocum's regiment being again reduced by death and capture to less than a major's command. Owing to severe and permanent injuries received by Colonel Slocum while making his escape from the "City Belle," he was rendered unlit for field service. Before leaving the boat he had his left shoukW strap shot off. He was put on detached duty as chief of stall and provost marshal of the Thirteenth army corps, Gu.ci.il M. K. Lawler commanding.

lion with the One Hundred and Twentieth. The regiment was reduced by death, disease and capture to a -mere skeleton, yet it kept its distinction up to November 17, 1864, Major John McKinley in command.

On the thirteenth day of May Genera! Banks commenced Ids memorable retreat from Alexandria to the Mississippi at Chaneyville. The retreating columns of General Banks were attacked in force by the enemy. Colonel Slocum, with the Fourth brigade, took an active part in that engagement, as he did in the battle at Willow bayou, crossing the Atchafainya, arriving at M organza bend on the twenty-first of May, 1S64, where the army went into camp for reorganization.

On the twenty-fifth of May, 1864, Colonel Slocum w-ns appointed provost marshal of the trans-Mississippi, with headquarters at Morgan /.a, Louisiana. Much importance was attached to this new duty. Jt involved the trade and commerce of the river for one hundred and eighty miles front and eighty miles back. All the products of the country, destined for market or shipment, had to pass through his hands. This duty he continued to perform as long as the army remained at Morgan/a, and the entire country west of the Mississippi had been abandoned by rebel authority.

The monotony of the military post at Morganza was broken on the sixteenth day of November, 1864. Prior .to this date, General Lawler spoke of his having a birthday on the sixteenth, and proposed to celebrate it. Mrs. Breed, a widow lady from New Hampshire, a visiting friend, was married on the sixteenth of November. Mrs Slocum, the wife of General Slocum, proposed that they all join in celebrating the event, it being the anniversary of their marriage. Mrs. General Reynolds wished to join in. Genera! Lawler directed General Slocum to take the headquarters boat and go to New Orleans, and lay in a supply for the occasion, and extend an invitation to a number of officers and citizens of New Orleans to join them and partake of their hospitality. About sixty invited guests were in attendance, many of them from New Orleans. An elegant dinner was prepared for the occasion, and the table spread in the cabin of the headquarter boat. There were old and young, citizens and soldiers, all commingling together. After dinner they had music and dancing, m which all engaged. The presents brought up from New Orleans were quite profuse. The whole affair was enjoyed by all, and by none more than the citizens present. The next day General Slocum sent the headquarter boat to the city v. ith all who desired to go down.

On the tenth day uf January, 1865, General Slocum was honorably mustered out of the service, when he returned to Ashland. The results of the war had so effectually revolutionized the business of the country, that the practice of law was not at all desirable. In the winter of 1865 6, he returned to Louisiana with the view of purchasing property and making that State his future home.

After -pending some time in different localities, he saw from the impression left on the minds of the ex-con federates, that it was unsafe for any northern

On the thirteenth day of March, 1865, he received from the President of the United States a brigadier gen- | eral's commission bv brevet, "for meritorious service in | the field." This promotion was given him without so- ; licitation on his part. On the first day of March, 1-867,

; wishing to know if lie would accept an appointment as | assessor of internal revenue for the Fourteenth district j of Ohio. The general called a few of his Republican friends together, and made known to them the contents of the dispatch. Among the number was Captain S. M.

; he offered to decline the offer himself, if Captain Barber would accept it. The captain considered the matter until the next morning, when he declined, for the reason | that he was receiving, as .superintendent of the public 1 school, an equal salary. So the general accepted, and ; on tire sixth of March he was confirmed by the Senate,

' and his commission forwarded. He held the office up | to June 2 2, 1872, when the office of assessor was aboi- 1 ished by law. Two years thereafter his accounts with ; the treasury department were balanced, and a treasury j draft for thirty-six dollars and eighty-five cents sent him. j as his due. Since 1S72 he has been actively engaged m ; the practice of law.

General Slocum from early manhood has taken an j active part in the politics of the country. He was iden- | tified with the old Whig party, and commenced his political career before he became a voter, in the campaign of 1S40. Though always living in a strong Democratic locality, he would enter each succeeding campaign to i win. Lie has for years represented his county in State | conventions, and been twice a delegate to Republican National conventions. In August, 1S66, the loyal Union men of the southern States called a convention in the | city of Philadelphia. To give to their efforts and man- - ifestation of nationality a hearty recognition, the governors of all the northern States appointed two delegates from each congressional district to meet their southern, brethren in convention. Hon. Martin Welker, then a member of Congress from the Fourteenth district, and General Slocum, were appointed by Governor Brough a:, delegates to that convention, which in magnitude and : grandeur was the most imposing convention ever held in America. Up to the present writing General Slocum is regarded as one of the tenders of the Republican | party in central Ohio.

An incident not particularly connected with this skeb'!i, though one of peculiar historic account, occurred under | his observation and direction. Nine days after Colonel M. M. Speigle had been killed, the major of the Second Illinois cavalry, and General Slocum, sought to recover the remains of lhe:r colonels. On General Banks retreat down Red river, General Slocum and the major, (whose name is not remembered) vent down to Snaggy Point in search of the colonels, and found them both buried in the same grave. General Sioemn mounted his horse and rode seven miles up the river, where the fleet ! was tied up, boarded a quartermaster's boat, saw the j officer, and requested him to stop his boat at the place I of disaster, and throw off two coffins, for the purpose stated. When the fleet moved down the river the coffins j were taken ashore, the major remaining there with his j men to place the remains in the coffins, and ship them ! to the mouth of the river, or to the Atchufalaya. Some of che detail reported to General Slocum that the quartermaster's boat was crowded into the river before the coffin containing the remains of Colonel Speigle could be put aboard, and consequently left it on the banks of the river. General Slocum procured a detail of twentymen and an ambulance, and sent them down to bring up the coffin, which they did, under the fire of the enemy on the opposite shore. The detail reported that they had placed the coffin in the ambulance, and it had gone forward to join the ambulance corps. On the night of the battle of Willow Bayou, General Slocum received the following note:

"CoiONEL: I have the honor to request that you will make arrangement with soma transport in the Atchafalaya to convey the body of Colonel Speigle. It is getting so much decomposed that we cannot carry it in an ambulance any further, or keep it in the train. I know your anxiety to preserve it, and will contribute all in rny power toward it.

On the receipt of the above note, General Slocum hurried forward, in advance of the corps, and reached the Atchafalaya, where he found the fleet awaiting the army, to convey it across the stream. He at once made arrangements with the dispatch boat to carry the remains of Colonel Speigle to- Cairo, and from there forward them to Millersburgh, Ohio. On making inquiry at headquarters, where the ambulance could be found containing the remains of Colonel Speigle, he was informed by the chief clerk that the surgeon of the department had ordered it to be taken from the ambulance and run back in the woods. After getting a suitable box made for the coffin, the general, with a detail of men, went to bring in the remains, and place the same on the transport. Finding the wagon a hundred rods or more back from the road, in the woods, the coffin was taken from it. It appeared unusually light, and grave suspicions were aroused that the body had been taken from the coffin. The coffin was opened in the presence of at least twenty rnen, and no corpse had ever been in it. The inside was clean, and contained the shavings of the undertaker. This fact was communicated to the officers at headquarters, who appeared incredulous, and thought they must be mistaken. To satisfy themselves, each examined the coffin, and could sec no mark ; nr evidence that it had ever been used. In October j following, General Slocum, for the purpose of getting * the facts in the case, went to Burwick bay, in southwest Louisiana, where the Second Illinois cavalry were on duty, and there saw the major who had been left in charge at Snaggy Point. He informed General Slocum that when the fleet went down the river, the quartermaster ran his boat to the shore and threw off two coffins, in one of which they put the remains of Colonel Mudd, and carried on board the other coffin, which was too small to receive the remains of Colonel Speigle, so they placed him back in the grave, and covered him over, leaving the empty coffin on the bank of the river, where his remains repose to this day. The medical department at headquarters even went so far as to say that the stench arising from the decomposed body of Colonel Speigle was creating sickness, and thus ordered out of the ambulance, and sent in an open wagon back in the woods. It has often been wondered by Genera! Slocum if this astute medical corps were not yet inhaling the stench arising from the imaginary decomposed body. They certainly labored under an extreme hallucination of mind.

The Pioneer Society

September 10, 1875, the pioneers met at the court house in Ashland, and organized a pioneer and historical society, adopting a constitution and by-laws for the government ot the society. The first officers elected were: Francis Graham, president; George \Y. Buie of Montgomery, James Kilgore of Orange, Hamilton Porter of Sullivan, Henry Summers of Troy, Jacob Ker-hey of Ruggles, John Bryte of Ciearcreek, Hugh Burns of Milton, Thomas Cole of Jackson, Joseph Chandler of Perry, Henry Winbigler of Mohican, AJlen Metcalf of Lake, Thomas Bushneil of Vermillion, Daniel Kauffman of Mifflin, C. C. Coulter of Green, and John Bull of Hanover, vice-presidents - one from each township; Dr. P. H. Clark of Ashland, secretary; Dr. George W. Hiil of Ashland, historian; Isaac Stull of Ashland, treasurer. The election of officers for the society takes place annually. The successive presidents have been: Colonel George V. Uric, 1876; Andrew Mason, 1877: josiah Thomas, 1878; and Hugh Burns, 1S80. The same secretary and historian have been elected annually from the organization of the society. The following honorary members have been elected: Isaac Smoker, esq., Newark; General L. V. Bierce, Akron; I)r. I. P. Henderson, Newville; President Dicfenorf, Haycsville; Professor Sample, Perrysville ; Rev. John Robinson, 1). 1)., Ashland; Dr. J. P. Clark, Ashland; Dr. George \V. Hill, Ashland; and M. Ebright, esq., Ashland.

The Locusts

Those little pests, the se\ enteen-ycar locusts, a great phenomena in their way, made their appearance again in June, 1880. An old settler says they appeared in 1 S 1 5, 1829, 1846, and 1863 in Ohio, and remained each time about thirty or thirty five days, doing much damage to young timber and fruit. It was noticed that in 1813 there was a plain "P" on their wing; in 1829, 1846 and

The Ashland city church of the Brethren (Dunkard) was organized May 22, 1879, with S. Z. Sharp as elder in charge, and S. H. Basher assistant in the ministry. J.

H. Worst was also called to the ministry on the da) of organization and J. N. Roop and E. J. VVoist, deacons. The number of members enrolled at the time of organization was forty three, which has increased since to sixtyrive. The congregation worships every Sabbath in the chapel of Ashland college, and has a Sunday-school of one hundred members. The Gospel Preacher , having a circulation of about five thousand, and Our Sunday School, a juvenile weekly, having nearly six thousand subscribers, are published in Ashland under the auspices of the Brethren church.

For many years the church of the Brethren (Dunkards) had under consideration the propriety of establishing an institution for the higher education of the sons ! and daughters in that denomination, and had made a j number of attempts in this direction, at Berlin, and at j Plum Creek, Pennsylvania, and at Bourbon Indiana, all j of which efforts had failed, but the friends of the move- 1 meat in northeast Ohio, undaunted by previous reverses, j determined to make their enterprise a success, and solicited S. Z. Sharp, then professor in Maryville college, Tennessee, to sever his connection with that institution j and throw his entire energy into this new enterprise, j After several refusals he at last consented, and in June, 1877, made a tour through a part of this State, in search of a suitable location. The choice of himself and friends was nearly unanimous in favor of Ashland, and when this was well discussed by the friends of the movement, the matter was laid before some of the most influential citizens of Ashland, who at once caught the spirit, called a meeting in the city hall, where an unusually j lame and enthusiastic audience was addressed by the present president of the college, S. Z. Sharp, who set forth the object of the founders to be to establish a college equal to any in the State. That it would be under the care of the church of the Brethren to the same extent that other colleges were under the care of other religious bodies.

That among the prominent features of the institution ! would be thorough scholarship and the cultivation of a sentiment among students to appreciate solid worth 1 rather than vain show, and that plain neat attire and a [ richly stored mind were better than a gaudy dress and |

* This article is a revised sketch of this Imrch, rrtvivi'il fur publication after the author's short notice else vvliore published in this volume h.ul been put in true.

an empty mind After hearing the plans and aims of the proposed institution, the citizens of Ashland unanimously endorsed the project, and at once raised ten thousand dollars toward the erection of the college building. The most beautiful site in this part of the State was selected. A campus of twenty-seven acres of land was bought for six thousand three hundred and thirty-three dollars, and a building erected, which is at this writing nearly completed, and will cost, including material, work, supervision, furniture, apparatus and cabinet, sixty thousand dollars. The college building is one hundred feet front, one hundred deep, four stories high, built of brick, roofed with slate, and for substantial construction and convenience, has few equals. There is also a boarding hall one hundred and ten feet long, forty feet wide, and four stories high, which, when completed, will cost between ten thousand and eleven thousand .dollars.

A charter was obtained February 22, 187S, by which, the institution is placed under the care of the Church of the Brethren, and put upon an equal footing with any other college in the State. The charter provides for the following courses of instruction: Classical, philosophical, normal and commercial. The college was formally opened September 17, 1S79, with a full corps of instructors, as follows: Eider S. Z. Sharp, A. M., president and professor of mental and moral philosophy; L. Huber, A. M., professor of Latin and modern languages; J. E. Stubbs, A. M., professor of Greek language and literature : David Bailey, A. M., professor of mathematics; Jacob Keim, Bn. B., professor cf natural science; J. C. Ewing, professor of music; Mis. C. P. Chapman, teacher of painting and drawing.

The first term closed December 2g, 1879, with one hundred and twelve pupils enrolled, arid was regarded as a decided success in every respect.

Early Events

"William Sheets, now residing about two miles east of Ashland, was the first male child born within the town, who lived to reach manhood, I.orin Andrews, president of Kenyon college, and late a colonel in one of the Ohio volunteer regiments, was the second child who attained maturity, born in Ashland.'

This takes the advantage of other deserving pioneers born in the township. Messrs. Sheets and Andrews were born a few weeks apart in the spring of 1819, while David Carter, yet living on the old Carter homestead, two and one-half miles south of Ashland, was born March 1S, 1815, about four years before either. He has no children, but resides with his lady at the old Carter home, with good mental and physical preservation. Let justice be done, and tiic truth of history be preserved.

ker, Peter Wicoff, John Emerick, John Riddle, J. C. Young, William Green, John Ewalt, George Marks, Asahei Webster, Elijah Oram, John Weatherbee, John Smith, Robert Chandler, the Cornells, Metcalfs and others settled in Lake township. These settlers located principally east of the Lake fork, and were from the States of New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia. The lands west of the Lake fork remained unsettled for many years after the first pioneers came into the east part of the township. From 1S20 to 2830, the tide of emigration was continuous; and at this period, 1875, very few townships within the limits of this county can exhibit finer farms, better dwellings and more costly bank barns. The valley of the Lake fork for richness of soil and well cultivated farms, cannot be excelled. The lands west of that stream are mostly owned by sturdy farmers from Pennsylvania, and produce an abundance of wheat, oats and corn.

T He First Mill

John Greenlee is of the opinion that the first mill, known as Odell's, was erected in the spring of 1S13, and not in 1812, as stated by Mr. Knapp, the nearest mills at that period being those of Shrimplin, on Owl creek, Knox county, and Stibbs, east of Wooster, where the settlers obtained their grists and grain the first and second years after they arrived. These mills were poor concerns - made of hewed logs, with one run of stones. That of Odell was also of hewed logs, an undershot wheel, one run of stones, and was a mere corn cracker. Nearly all the settlers used hominy blocks, and perforated deer skins for sieves. In this way their meal and hominy were separated. About the year 1820, Jabez Smith erected a saw- and grist-mill about half a mile south of Mohicanville. He continued to own and use those mills for a number of years, and then sold to Robert F. Chandler, who occupied the premises until the spring of 1875, when the mills accidentally took fire and were wholly consumed. The Rochester mill, so-called, was erected at a point some three miles southeast of Mohicanville, on the Mohican, where William Green had a saw-mill, in 1836. The site was purchased by Hanvey &- Smith, from Rochester, New York, and the presenl large mill erected. These parties carried on the mill for some time, when it passed into new hands. It was called the "Rochester mill," from the locality from which they came in New York.

First Justice Of The Peace

Mr. Greenlee states that the first justice of the peace elected in Lake township was James Loudon Priest, who was chosen in 1812, for three years. He was .succeeded in 1 S 1 5 by John Weatherbee, father of the late Justus S. Weatherbee, and he, in 1S1S, by John Newkirk. The records of the township ha\e been lost or destroyed,

First School

The first school-house was built on the lands of Mr. j Greenlee, in 1817, and the first teacher was John New- | kirk, afterward justice of the peace. The second school-house was erected on the lands of John Weath- ; erbee, near the old fort, a year or two later.

First Church

j '1'he Presbyterians put up a small church on section sixteen, in 1826, at which there was occasional preach- I ing. Prior to that, meetings were held in the cabins of 5 the pioneers. The Revs. Graham and Warner, were the j earliest Methodist preachers in Lake.

For many years there was no physician in Lake. In { 'cases demanding skilful medical treatment, physicians : from Mansfield or Wooster were called. The principal : diseases were fever and ague, and bilious disturbances,

| and rarely fatal. A good constitution, a little dieting, a j decoction of bitter herbs, cherry bark and whiskey, constituted the principal home remedies. Mrs. Tames L.

; Priest and Mrs. Nathan Odell possessed a great deal of ; fame as doctors and nurses among the pioneers. Their I -system of practice is now called the Eclectic among anti-mineral practitioners.

Boating On The Lake Fork

About the year 1823 Robert Crawford, a rugged pioi neer from Orange township, conceived the idea of buiLlj ing a long flat boat on the Lake fork, to be loaded wilh I cherry and walnut lumber for New Orleans. He posj sessed a fine team, and a strong Maryland wagon, with which he gathered logs to the various mills between j Ashland and the Lake fork, to be cut into lumber. He constructed a flat-boat about one hundred and twentyfive feet long, and launched it near what is now the Rochester mill, and collecting his lumber, placed it on | board. All being ready, be passed down the Lake fork into the Walhonding, the Muskingum, the Ohio, and the Mississippi to New Orleans, where he made sale of his 1 lumber and returned. It is believed that the Wachtei i brothers accompanied nim on his voyage. Phis is the only instance in which a flat-boat descended tire Lake fork from that region. Many of the early pioneets,

*The impression is created by Mr. Knapp that |osiiu.i Or.nn. of that part of Lake now in Clinton township, Wayne co mo, was ju tice '>f the pence in iFL |, im.l consequent!) the firs' justice. Mr, Greenlee says Joshua Oram w.v- never a justice in Lake, nor eb< where so far as he knows. Wilham Wieoli who i- a relative of Mr t >r..m, j confirms! he foregoing -a itement.

Professor S. Sharp, A. M., first president of Ashland college, Ohio, was born in Airy Dale, Huntingdon county, State of Pennsylvania, where his father, Solomon Sharp, also was born. He began teaching school in the year 1855, and afterwards attended the Pennsylvania State Normal school at Millcrsviile, where he graduated in i860. He became principal of Kisha coquillas seminary in 1861, assistant professor of languages in the Pennsylvania State Normal school in 1866, and in 1868 took charge of New Providence Normal school in the State of Tennessee. In 1875 he accepted a professorship in Maryville college, Tennessee, and in 187S was elected president of Ashland college. His wife, Salome Z. Sharp, was the daughter of Sbem Zook, a citizen of note and an extensive contributor to the agricultural department at Washington. She was born March 31, 1839, at Reedsville, Mifflin county, Pennsylvania. The children of the above are: Annie L., born April 9, 1865; Theodore S., born August 15, 1S69; and Maurice, born March 17, 1874.

George Ik Smith was born in Ashland, Ohio, December 5, 1844. He received his education at the Ashland union schools, and at Kenyon college, Gambier, Ohio. He was admitted to the bar at Ashland in 1867, after reading the required lime and course in the office of his father, J. W, Smith, and soon after was taken into his father's business as partner, which partnership still exists. He was also admitted to the circuit court of the United States for the Northern district of Ohio, at Cleveland, in 1874. In 1879 he was married, at St. Louis, to Miss Jessie Sutherland, of that city, daughter of Hon j. W. Sutherland, a formei well known Ashland county boy. In 1878 he vyas elected to the office of prosecuting attorney of his county, being elected thereto oy the Democratic party, of which he is an active working member. At the end of his first term he was again renominated for the same position.

, Henry J. Pii.ee emigrated to the United States in 1853, when but fourteen years old. His parents, Werner PI. H. and Margaretta Pille resided in the Grand Duchy of Oldenburgh, Germany, where they both died at the advanced age of seventy-four years. The family consisted of nine children, six boys and three girls. The latter died when young. The boys are still living, of whom foui are in the United States. One, Francis H., is in Cincinnati; Herman H. is in Massillon, Ohio ; Henry J. is in Ashland, and his twin br. ther, John H., in Dayton, Kentucky. Henry J. Pille came direct fr mi Germany to Massillon Ohio, where he resided for six years, and while there learned the trade of a tinner. He worked in several large cities in the United States.

! and in 1859 went to Illinois, where he resided for nearly six years, working at his trade. 1 Hiring the late Rebellion he enlisted in the One Hundred and Thirty-second regiment, Illinois volunteer infantry, and while m the service contracted disease, and was sent home on sick furlough, but did not join his regiment again, on account of his disease. The regiment was discharged irom I service at Chicago, Illinois. From this disease lie 6 as suffered more or less since that time. In 1866 he came to ; Ashland, Ohio, where he iias resided ever since, working j at his trade occasionally', as his health would allow. In the | spring of 1S67 lie went into business with I. Knoth, anu i carried on the stove and tin trade for nearly four years, i when he sold out, and in 1S77 went into business again ! with Mr. F. Knoth, in which they are still engaged, in ; 1 868 he married Frederick a Wendling, a native of the I Rhine Province of Bavaria, Ge' many. They have three j children, one boy and two girls. The oldest, Henry E.,

! is eleven years of age; Josephine In, ten, and Carrie 1 K., five. In religion, he :s a member of the Catholic church, and in politics is an adherent to the Democratic | principles, j died February 27, 1874. Before the war of 1812, he 1 moved from Franklin county to Westmoreland county, j Pennsylvania, and from there entered the army in thf-t ! war, in Captain Jack's company of. Pennsylvania militia, j In 1834 he removed with his family to Vermillion township, Ashland county, Ohio, where he resided to the I day of his death, and was buried in Ashland cemetery. His widow resided in Vermillion township until April, 1880, when she moved to Milton township, one mile west of \shland. She was horn April 2, 1S00, and is i at this time in the enjoyment of tolerable health. Two ; unmarried daughters are stiil living with her -Isabelle and Ann. Eleanor married Eli Keslar and reared a large family, and at present lives in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, where she has always resided. William R. also resides in Westmoreland county, Penni sylvania, where he married a Miss U Using. of that county. They have had eleven children, of whom ten i are still living: Elizabeth, married Jesse Weddle, by with him. At present they live in Wooster, Ohio. Martha married Michael .Bourses, and resides in Cutler, Indiana. Mary married Moses Moore, and has five children living; they reside in Ashland, Ohio. Rachel married Henry Hurmichouser, September 30, 185-, and [ immediately afterwards moved to Plymouth, Indiana, j where they have resided ever since, having had two sons: Willie, who died August 3, 1879, aged twenty years; and Harry, who is still living, aged thirteen years. Thomas S. was born December 12, 1839, at the old home in Vermillion township, and attended the common school until the age of fifteen, when he went to Vermillion institute, then under the care of Dr. Diefendorf, for whom he has great reverence. At the age of sixteen he commenced teaching, and continued attending school and teaching until r86r. In the spring of 1861, he went to Indiana, and worked there till autumn, when he came home with the noted "Indiana shakes,'' which lasted nearly eighteen months. In the summer of 1863 he read me,dicinu in Wooster, Ohio, with Dr. Robison and hisl partner, where he continued untill May 1864, when he went out as hospital steward in the One Hundred and Sixty-ninth regiment Ohio volunteer infantry, but soon acted as assistant surgeon. In the fall of 1864 he returned, and went to attend medical lectures at Jefferson Medical college, where he graduated in March, 1S66. He came home and was married April 3, t866, to Kate Blocher, of Wayne county, Ohio, daughter of John Blocher, deceased, of Canaan township, Wayne county. He then located in A.shland for the practice of medicine and surgery, where he has j remained ever since. They have a son, born June 3, 1867, and a daughter, born January 2, 1877, comprising all their children. His wife, Kate Blocher, was born December 23, 1S39, in Canaan township, Wayne county, Ohio.

Owen Tompkins was born in Chester county, Pennsylvania, February 7, 1839. His parents were John Tompkins, who was also born in Chester county, Penn, sylvan i t, and Mary, his wife, who was a native of Montreal, Canada. They had a family of eight children, as follows: Elizabeth, Emily, Mary, Margaret, Peter, John Naomi and Owen. Soon after the birth of the latter his mother died. He remained with his father and the other members of the family until he became of age. In 1861 lie enlisted as a soldier in the war of the Rebellion for the term of three months, and at the end of that time was appointed as second lieutenant in the Eighty-second Pennsylvania volunteers for the three years service. During that time he was promoted from second to first lieutenant, and became adjutant of the regiment. In 1S64 he was commissioned as captain of the company he first entered as lieutenant. After the dose of the war, in 1S67, he was commissioned by the Secretary of War as a second lieutenant in the regular army, but from force of circumstances did not serve. He held a civil position under the State government of Pennsylvania five years, and in 1S72 went to Columbus, Ohio, and in 1876 came to Ashland, where he has since been engaged in business. In 1S63 he was married to

William H. FI. Potter, the subject of this sketch, was born in Columbia township, Lorain county, Ohio. May 7, t8i6. When an infant his parents removed to Medina county, Ohio, where he resided until eight years of age, when his father died, and he went to live with Franklin Wells, where he remained until the age of twenty-one years. Until he was fifteen years old he followed farming as his vocation, but from that time until he was of age he worked in a store, and at the trade of cabinet making. From that time until the year 1849 or '50 he carried on the cabinet making business himself in Lorain and Ashland counties. After that date he engaged in the book and drug business at this place, Ashland, until 1867, since which time he has carried on and owned the gas works and has furnished Ashland with gas. lie. was married October 27, 1841, to Miss Catharine Peabody, who was born in New York State, July 21, 1819. By this union have been born nine children, five of whom are still living and named respectively, Emma F., who was born July n, 1844; William IF, born January 20, 1851; Charles W. IT, born July 13. 1853; George E., born September 1, 1S55; and Edgar A., born June 20, 1858. The ones deceased were Nancy Alice, born August 1 1 , 1842, and died November 12, 1873; Mary Florence, born June 9, 1847, and died June 21, 1 849; William C, born July 29, 1849. and died March 20, 1851; Frank Irwin, born July 2, 1861, and died October 8, 1S62. William FT. was married September 16, 1878, to Miss Julia Young. Samuel Y. Potter, our subject's father, was born in New Haven, Connecticut, about the year 1795, and he together with his brother, came to this State at an early day, and located in Lorain county. From thence he removed to Medina county, where he died. At the time of his death he was sheriff of the county. He was married to Miss Sallie Pritchard, who died in 1849. She v.as also born in Connecticut, and removed with her parents to Ohio at an early day. Mr. Potter used to hear his parents recall the many hardships and privations tiiat they together with their pioneer associates had to contend with, incident to rioncer life, that the present as well as the future generations will never know nor ex perience. Mr. Potter has, by industry and good management, made for himself and family a good home. lie and his family enjoy the respect and esteem of all in the community where they reside or where they arc known.

Samuel Gates Wif.st was born in Adams county, Pennsylvania, June 28, 1850. His parents are Jacob Wiest, his father, born November 24, 1825, and his mother, Margaret Wiest, born March 22, 1S2S. They still live in Pennsylvania, where they have raised a family of seven children, as follows: Samuel G., M. I.., Emma S., Ellen B., Charles E., Ada Rate, and Anna I,., of whom all but two live in the county of their birth. M. L. is in Ashland, and is a member of the firm of Balmley & Co., marble cutters. Samuel G., the subject oi this sketch, came to Ashland in June, 1873, ami immediately engaged in the drug business with J P. Hurley.

He afterwards took the old stand of W. K. Foltz, one ! door east of the Miller house, where he continued in business by himself until 1880, when he associated with himself K. \Y. Leaser, and still continues in the drug business. S. G. Wiest was married September 4, 1876, to Relic Mansfield, daughter of M. H. Mansfield, of Ashland, and has one child, John M., born February 4, 1879.

P. H. Clark, hi. !>., was born August 3, 1819. His grandparents and parents were among the early settlers of Ohio, arriving in this State in 1817. Dr. H. M. Clark, ids father, was a native of Connecticut, and was born in 1789; he served as surgeon in the navy during the war of 1812-15. hi is mother was Laura Downs Clark, who was born in Connecticut in 1798. Their children were:

P. H., I eander, Hannah M., and Theo. F. Both Leander and Theo. are in Tama county, Iowa : Hannah is the wife of Professor j. C. Bryant, of Bryant's Mercantile college, Buffalo. All of the above named children were born in Wake man, Huron county, Ohio, whence the parents moved from Connecticut. The grandparents settled in Medina, where they lived and died. Dr. P. FI. Clark, the subject of this sketch, studied at Oberlin college, and attended his first course of lectures at Willoughby Medical college, in the winter of 1839-40. He then moved to New Haven, Indiana, where he practiced medicine six years. December 12, 1845, he was married to Sarah Jane McDougall, of that place. She died December 6, 1846, and after her death he removed to Ozaukee, Wisconsin, where he practiced his profession four years. He was again married May 18, 1847, to Elizabeth Clark, daughter of B. B. Clark, M. D., of Ashland; she was his first cousin. In June, 1850, they came to Ashland, where he has since been engaged in the practice of medicine, with the exception of two years, when he served as assistant surgeon in the war of die Rebellion. In the winter of 1861-2 he attended his second course of lectures at the Buffalo Medical college, from which he graduated in March, 1862. He was elected secretary of the Ashland County Pioneer Historical society, September 10, 1875, and still retains the office. He has been president of the Ashland Cemetery association several years; and has been a member of the Ohio State Medical association since June, 1862, and has been United States pension examining surgeon since December, 1S62

M. R. Go 1 trey was born in Huron county, Ohio, August 3, 1S42. His father, William A. Godfrey, was born in New York State; his mother was also a native of the same State. They raised three children: Zera, who lives in Michigan; Elizabeth, who lives in Huron county; and Michael R., the subject of this sketch. The latter enlisted in the Sixteenth Ohio volunteer infantry for tlu. three months' service. In October, 1S64, he was married to Miss Deloras Everet, and the day following his marriage lie enlisted in the 'Twenty ninth Ohio volunteer infantry, in which he served until the close of the war. To them have been born five children. as follows: Cora E., Ida May, William A., Charles and Mabel.

Ai.mf.r R. Camim'.kix was born May 19, 1853. His grandparents were of Scotch and Irish ancestry, and came from Pennsylvania to Ashland .county, where his father, James Campbell, was born, May 19, 1828. His mother, Isabel Cam: bell, was born in the same county, and is now living m Bowling Green, Wood county, Ohio, his father having died February 9, 1875. They had five I children, three of whom died in childhood. Laura E. is

I the wife of Titus Beck, of Bowling Green. Aimer R., the subject of this sketch, received his education at Baldwin university, Berea, Ohio, after which he taught school until 1875, when he commenced reading law with his uncle, R. M. Campbell, esq., of Ashland, with whom he was a partner one year. In 1 S 7 7 he was elected justice of the peace for Montgomery township, which office he held for three years.

Benjamin Gkosscup, son of Paul and Rebecca Grosscup, was born in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, September 15, 1818. Benjamin's father was born in Berks county. Pennsylvania, in 1784, and his mother, whose maiden name was Rebecca Shearer, was born in Franklin county, Pennsylvania, in 1786. and died in 1859. They were married in 1810. Paul Grosscup removed to Milton township, Ashland county, Ohio, in 1830, with his family, consisting of five sons and two daughters, of whom two are now living - Benjamin and Daniel. Beniamin owned the farm in Milton township, which, he helped to clear, until 1872, when he removed to Ashland. He was married in 1843. To Susannah Bowermaster, who was born October 34, 18? £, and came to Milton township with her parents :n 1842. Frederick Bowermaster, her father, was born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, in 1782, and was manied to Catharine Mohler, of Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, who was born i:i 1782 and died in 1857. They raised a family of four children, one son and three daughters. Mr. Benjamin Grosscup has had four children : Lehman, who died; Peter S., born February 15, 1852; Frederick P., born April 5, 1854; Benjamin S., born October 14. 1 S58.

Jackson S. Wf.ktman was born March 13, 1845. His grandparents were from Columbia county, Pennsylvania, where his father, W'lliarn A Vert man, was born about 1817. In 1837 the family came to Ohio and settled in the present county of Ashland. His father crane to Ashland about 1840, where he married Susannah Stahl, in 1844. She was a native of Harrisburgh, Pennsylvania, and was born about 1821. She died in 1859, after raising a family of four children: j. S., Z. T., F, P.j and Virginia The father was again married about 1 02, to. Keziah Culbertson, by whom he had two children, one of whom died in infancy. The surviving one, Ida L.. is now living in Ashland county. J. S. Wertman, the subject of this sketch, completed his education in Witi tenberg college in 1S69 After leaving < >Ut .. hr oca 1 pied himself with teaching for a lime, and then engaged j in surveying and engineering. In 1873 he ivmmrivcd reading law at Indianapolis, Indiana, fn the office of 1! F. Davis. From thence he came to Ashland county, in 1877, where he has since practiced his profession. He was married to Sara, Kilgore, of Indianapolis, June 16, j 1875, and by her has had two children, of whom one I died in infancy. The other, Shields K.. was born May i 9, 1877. The grandfather of j. S. vYertman, settled on the farm new owned by William Wertman, where our subject and his brothers and sisters were born.

John Damp was born in England, May 15, 1854. His - father, Tames Damp, died in England; his mother died ' at Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. They raised a family of six ! children, of whom Samuel lives at Olmsted Falls; Wil- ! liam at Akron; Elizabeth at Olathe, Kansas; Edward at | Olmsted Falls; and Joseph at Randolph, California, j John Damp learned the trade of milling in England, i where he served four years, and afterwards worked one | year at the business. When twenty years of age he j came to this country, and remained at Cuyahoga Falls ! from 1856 to 1865, when he removed to Ashland, where I he has since resided, with the exception of three years, I when he was engaged in milling at Mansfield. His mill at 'that place was destroyed by fire, and in the fall of 1869 he returned to Ashland. Since that time he has j been engaged in milling at this place, with different | partners, and has been associated with E. T. Drayton since 1877, under the firm name of Damp & Drayton. He was married February 20, 1861, to Fannie Palmer, of Cuyahoga Falls, by whom he has had five children. ' Three of the children died in infancy. Those now liv- j i tig are Albert Grant, born December 31, 1863, and j Anna Beli, born October 6, 1874.

N elson Thomas was born June 6, 1S31. His father j was a native of Wales, where he was born about 1 7 S 6 : j he died near Jeromeville, Ohio, in 1853. His mother, j Anna Thomas, was born in New Jersey, about 1806. j They had a family of five children, of whom Jane died i in Kosciusko county, Indiana; Elizabeth, who married I J. M. Hess, and lives in Cass county, Missouri; j Amanda, who married Thomas Norris, and lives in Ful- | tori county. Indiana; Sarah M., who married Joseph H. j Page, and lives in Cass county, Missouri. Nelson i Thomas, the subject of this sketch, was married when twenty-one years of age, to Sarah Keister, of Hayes- j ville, Ohio. They have had six children, five of whom are living. One son, Franklin, died October 30, 1877, i at the age of nineteen.

native of the same county, as was his mother, Hannah Myers, both of whom died in Ashland countv, after I raising a family of eight children, as follows: Eliza, 1

David, Mary A.. Israel, Sarah A., Lydia, Henry K. and ; Julia A. Henry K. Myers, the subject of this sketch, | came to Ohio in the fall of 1839. "'ith his parents and \ their family, and settled 111 Orange township, Ashland : county. He remained at Iris father's for some years, I working a part of the time in the saw-mill owned by his j father. While there he was married to Anna Shoe- j maker, of Chester township, Wayne county, Ohio, l>\ whom he has had five children, one of whom, Allen Gilbert, died in infancy. The others are John Mary E., David N. and Bertha 11. Mr. Myers remained in Orange township until 1865, when he moved to Ashland and. engaged in the lumber business. In 1874 he went into the milling business with partne-i.s the firm name being H. K. Myers & Co. The partners were Christian Cabel and J. T. Engel. The partnership still continues, the lumber business being conducted under the firm name of Cabel, Myers & Co., tire third partner being Jesse Cabel, son of Christian Cabel. Mr. Myers is also interested with J. J. Shoemaker in the grocery business in Ashland.

Frank E. Myers, son of George and Elizabeth Myers, was born March 16, 1848. His father was a native of Pennsylvania, whence he came with his parents when a youth, and settled on the homestead in Perntownship, and his mother was born in Wayne counrv, Ohio. There they were married, and raised a family of nine children: Frank E., Celena, P. A., Mary M., Elizabeth S., Alvah N., George D., Minnie V., and Effie. Frank E. Myers, the subject of this sketch, lived at homer working on the farm, and attending school during the winter months, until he arrived at maturity, when he left home and entered the dry goods store of M. B. Parnieb,-, at Ashland, with whom he remained about a year, when he returned to the farm. Pie again came to Ashland and worked for the Ashland Machine company, where he continued four years, until 1875, when he opened a local agency for agricultural implements, and in 1879 associated with himself his brother, P. A. Myeis, who had until then been employed by him. In iS 78 the increasing demand of his business required him to move to the large building now occupied by himself anu his brother. During ail the time since 1875, he has been general tiaveling agent for Bucher, Gibbs & Co., of Canton, Ohio, for Ohio and the eastern States. January 18, 1S72, he married Alvesta, daughter of S. Hohenshil, of Rowsburgh. They have had five children: Mamie E.,

Meigs S. Campbell was born June 8, 1S25, in Danville, Knox county, Ohio. Ills father, Silas Campbell, was a native of Virginia (now West Virginia), and his mother was born in Maryland. They raised four children ---Meigs S., Thornton W., James M., and I). R. Meigs S. Campbell, the subject of this sketch, learned the hatter's trade, at Coshocton and Mt. Vernon, living in the latter place from 1846 to 1851, when he removed to Ashland. While living in Ashland he has been engaged in the lively business and the hat and cap trade, the most of his time being devoted to the latter, in which he is still engaged December 25, 1850, he was married to Clara Hall, of Mt. Vernon, Ohio, by whom he lias had three children, as follows: W. Fletcher, born in 1S51, married and living in Laramie City, Wyoming territory; Mary B., born about 1S53, married Maura e Valiant, and lives in Cleveland; Clara, born about 1 S5 A, married Harry Stevens, and lives in Ashland.

E. T. Drayton was bom at Canton, Ohio, Septem! er 30, 1825, his parents being dhomas A. Drayton, a m* tive of Massachusetts, and Margaret Drayton, a nr*'.e of Pennsylvania. They had six children, two o! "horn died in infancy. Those living are Elizabeth, Sarah Jan

.Amanda M.. and E. T., the subject of this sketch, who j came to Ashland in 1842. He spent three years in learn- | ing the harness trade, after which he was engaged in | various mercantile pursuits until 1877, when the firm of J Damp A Drayton was formed, for the purpose of carry- j ing on tire milling business, at -. 'rich they still continue ] in Ashland: He was six years clerk of the county court, i from 1862 io 1868, and was elected as a Republican in a county which is strongly Democratic. He has been twice married, his first wife being Sophia Sloan (daughter of Rev. John Sloan, of Orange township), by whom he had one child, Mary S., who lives at home in Ashland, j His second wife was Emma Bean, niece of Judge Wick, | of Greenville, Pennsylvania, to whom he was married | June 5, i860. He is a member of the Presbyterian J church, and has been superintendent in the Sunday- j school of that church for the past eight years. In politics he is a Republican.

Diebold Guth was born in Uhrweiler, Alsace, Germany, October 17, 1824. His father, Jacob Guth, a native of Alsace, came to the United States in 1849, ! and remained in New York until ids death in 1875. ! His mother, Catharine Guth, was born- in Alsace in 1810, | and died there in 1S29. Their children were Diebold and Margaret. After the death of his first wife, Mr. Guth was again married and had two children. Jacob j and John. The latter is in the commission business in j New York. Diebold Guth emigrated to the United | States in 1841, and settled in Knox county, Ohio, where j he remained until 1843, when he removed to Loudon- j vide, Ashland county. In the fill! of 1847 he returned I to his native land, and in the fall of 1848 came hack to j this country, bringing with him his parents. In . October. ! 1848, lie was married in Mohicanville, to Margaret Wolf, j also a native of Alsace. She died March 17, 1851, ! leaving one son, John Jacob, who was born December j 24, 1850. Mr. Guth was again married in 1857, to j Adeline Craig, who died without issue. For his third I wife he married Augusta Long, February 10, 1870. She ! was born August 21, 1841, in Wurtemberg, Germany. I By this union there were five children - Amelia J., born I August '7, 1871, and died November 28, 1873; August I Diebold, born February 18, 1S73, died Feb a ary 28, I 1873 ; Henry W., born January 1.1, 1S74: Frederick G., j born May 20, 1875, died August 15, 1.875 : and Augusta i M., born June 28, 1876. Mr. Guth is at present engaged ! in the grocery business in Ashland, in which he has j been engaged since he removed from Loudonviile in j 1863.

Theo. Teepee was born November 29, 1835. His father, S. P. Teeple, was born in New York State and died in Iowa about 1840. His mother, Sarah Teeple, is also a native of New York State. After the death of her husband she was married to John Baker, and lives in Wooster, Ohio. To Mr. and Mrs. Teeple were born : two children, Thco. and Ralph. Then. Teeple, the I subject of this sketch, was born in Pennsylvania. When 1 young his parents removed to Iowa, where his father ; died in a few years. When about ten years of age his j mother removed to Ohio. In 1862 Mr. Teeple was married to Jennie S. Bingham. They have had three children, one of whom died in infancy. Those who are living are J., born in 1863, and Albert, born about 1S65. Mi. Teeple learned photography in j86i, and has since followed that business. In the fall of 1879 he removed to Ashland. Previous to that time he lived in Cincinnati from 1872 until 1876, and the remainder of the time until he removed to Ashland, was located at Wooster. He now has a photographic studio in both Wooster and Ashland.

J. A Hisfy, D. D. S., was born in 1849. His father and mother were natives of Columbiana county, in which his mother still lives. Their children were Wilson, Clara, Hannah, Cyrus, Sylvanus, Jonathan A., Leonard, Joseph, Charles, Kate and Milton. Jonathan A. Hisey, the subject of this sketch, commenced the study of dentistry in Columbiana, Ohio, in 1867. After completing-'his studies he commenced practice in that town, where he remained until 1873. March 12, 7S69, he was married to Lucretia Hinkle, of the same town, and in 1873 removed to Ashland, where he opened a dental office, and has since been in continuous practice. They have three children - Walter II., born June 19, 1870; Austin E., born August 4, 1872; and Nora M-, born September 17, 1874.

Joseph B. Charles was born in -Ashland (then Richland) county, April 21, 1833. He lived on a farm until fifteen years of age, when he learned blacksniithing and edge-tool making. Ip. tire spring of 1853 he walked across the plains to California, and was there eight years. He returned from there in 1S61 and volunteered in battery D, First regiment of Ohio Light artillery, in which he served three years. In 1864 he was promoted by the War Department from sergeant in his regiment, io captain in the First regiment of United States colored troops. In 1S66 he was brevetted major or artillery, and was mustered out in April of the same year Fie was married January 30, 1866. to Mary E. Stull, of Ashland, at that lime being home on a furlough thirty days, and, on his return w as accompanied by his wife. Mrs. Charles returned to Ohio, leaving Chattanooga, Tennes see, March 3, 1S66, and arrived at home three hours after the burial of her brother, of whose death she had not learned. From 1867 to 1871 he sold boots and shoes, and in April of the '.after year he engaged in the hardware business, and has since been engaged in that and the shoe trade, associated with his father-in-law, Isaac Stull.

George A. -Uij.man was born at Loudonviile, 1 is parents being Adam and Barbara Caiman, both of whom were born in Alsace, Germany. Each came to the United States when about two years of age, and were married in Holmes county, Ohio. They raised a family of eight children, as follows: Caroline, who mariied Michael

Scheff, and lives in Richland county ; George A.; Minnie, who married W. S. Fisher, and lives in Loudonviile; Me gie, who died al >ut 1864: Mary, who married F. Arnold, and lives in Loudonviile: Adam, Adolph, anu Amanda, who also live at Loudoiiviiie. George A Ullmar. clerked in his father's store in Loudonviile until

August, 1878, when he took the office of county treasurer, to which he had been elected the fall previous. He was married to Anna Rebecca Merklinger, of Loudonviile. In 1870 lie became associated with his father in hi. store, in which he still retains an interest. He is the father of two children: Joseph A., born January

WiLLts L. Edwards was born June 27, 1843, near Bucyrus, Ohio, and at the early age of six months was adopted by Rev. William Hutchison, his mother dying July 3, 1843. His parents were Dr. L. M. Edwards, a native of Pennsvlvania, who died near Kenton, Ohio, in 1 S 7 6, and Susan Edwards, a native of Wales. They had a family of eight children, as follows: Wellington, Caroline, Rachel, Cortland, Yalumnia, Adaline, "Willie, and Willis B. Rev. William Hutchison went to Tennessee with his family in 1S46, and remained until the spring of i860, when they returned to Bucyrus. Mr. Edwards commenced learning the art of photography in 1861, and in 1862 he enlisted in the Eighty-sixth Ohio volunteer infantry, in which he served four months. He then returned and again commenced the work of photography, which he has since followed. He worked one year at Mansfield, and in 1864 came to Ashland as operator for Budtorf & McCormick. From 1SC4 until 1870 he followed this art in Ravenna, Wooster and Mt. Vernon, and in the iatter year opened a studio in Ashland-, where he has since remained. In the fall of 1S64 he was married to Mary j. Sauer, of Ashland, by whom he had three children- -Ida May, born in September, 1865:

, Charles F., born in September, 1867; and Milton L., born in September, 1869. Mrs. Edwards died August 25, 1873, and two years later he was married to Mrs. Mary A. Heifner, of Ashland county.

Frank. Monevsmith was born in Auburn, Indiana, in July, 1832. When a child his parents removed to Perrysville, Ashland county, where he was raised. His father, William H. Moneysrnith, was a native of Pennsylvania, and died in Michigan in j S5S. His mother, E. ]. Money smith, was born in this Stale. She was the mother of four children -Cordelia, who married H. RkDelev and, lives in Ashland ; Dora, who married A. B. Cornins, and lives in Mt. Gilead; Wr. IT., who lives in Kansas, and Frank, the subject of this sketch. When a youth he attended the Vermillion institute, from 1S65 to 1S6S, and in the latter year he came to Ashland, where he teamed the cigar business, at which he worked until j S 7 5 , when he went west. He returned early in 1SS0, and is now engaged in the cigar business in Ashland.

Mrs. Katk Oita was the daughter of John and Barbara Mecael, natives of Germany, where he died, leaving two children: John, who still resides there, and Catharine, the subject of this sketch, who was born in Germany, February 26, 1823. Some time after the death of her husband, Mrs. Barbara Mecael was a second time married, to Nicholas knoth, by whom she had three children: Charles, Frank, and Henry. Catharine Me- 1 cael was married January 22, 1 S i 6, to John Haelbrond. and in iTjy came to tins country, locating in Ashland. By this union were born six children, one of whom, a girl,

- died in infancy. The others were John, born September S, 1847, who lives in Ashland; Charles, horn July t - 1849, who also lives in Ashland; Jacob, born April >> 1852, who lives in Fremont; Frank p., born August 1 1 1854, who lives in Wyoming territory; Clara Catharine, born November 28, 1856, and died January 1;. 185-,; A. Cordelia, born November 2, i860. Mr. Haelbrond died August 17, 1S60. His widow was married October ; 22, 1862, to Frederick Otta, a native of Prussia. They | have one child, Daniel William, born. February 27, 1 S 6 3 , who lives at home in Ashland. Mr. Otta died January | 17, 1S74. He had been engaged in the brewery busi- I ness until within some four years of his death, when he | disposed of his brewery on account of ill health. After ; his death Mrs. Otta opened a restaurant and boarding i house on Third street, where she still, remains.

; S. W. Brack, son of S. M. and Rosanna Black, was ; hom in Green township, Ashland county, Ohio, Match 3, 1834. His parents were natives of Pennsylvania, and i had the following children born to them: Catharine, who - married Samuel Conkle, and died about 1865; Elizabeth, ; who married Sylvester Huff, and lives in Indiana; P. [., ; who lives in Loudonville, Ohio; John, who lives in Buri goon, Ohio; Sarah, who married Henry Snyder, and ' lives in Ashland, Ohio; S. W., the subject of this sketch ; ! Henry and Joseph, who live m Iowa ; William, who died in Missouri in 1878; Daniel; and Lewis, who lives in | Ashland county. Mr. Black, sr., is now living in Green j township, Ashland county, his wife having died about I 1855. S. W. Black lived at home until the age of seveu- ; teen, when he went to Loudonville to learn the bakes y i and confectionery business with his brother, P. J. After finishing his apprenticeship he worked at his crude in various places for three years, and in tire fall of 1856 rej turned to Loudonville, where he worked for his brotha i for several months, when he bought him out and con! m- ,1 ued there in business for about four years. Mr. Black went to Ashland in the fall of 1861, remained there three vears, and returned to Loudonville, where he stayed one year. In 1866 he again removed to Ashland j and opened a bakery and confectionery store, in winch 1 business he is now engaged. In 1857 Mr. Black was J married to Caroline Ulhnan, of Loudonville, by whom

Gutki.ius I. Ye rick was born in Miftlinburgh, Penn ! sylvania, August n, 1S34. When a small child he removed with his parents to the eastern part of Ashland county, then a part of Wayne county, Ohio, and when seven years of age went to live with Jacob Bern, on whose farm he worked for two years, and afterwards resided with Samuel Landis, doing farm work for about the same length of time, and for John Russell one year, i At the age of twelve years he was apprenticed to Jol.it I Goodwin, to learn the wood turning and painting bus: until the spring of i860, when he sold his interest m the business to J. B, Stubbs. From 1S60 to 1869 he was engaged in the real estate and collection business, and in the latter year was elected treasurer of Ashland county, in which office ire served four years, when he again resumed the real estate and collection business. In 1874 he bought out the interest in the livery stable of Peter Fitzgar, of the firm of Thomas & I'itzgar, but gives his chief attention to the real estate and collection business, Mr. Thomas conducting the livery business. Mr. Yeriek's father. Peter Yerick, was born in Pennsylvania, in 179b, and his mother, Catharine Yerick, was born in Mifllinburgh, Pennsylvania; both are still living. They had the following children born to them: Elvina, who married John Goodwin, .and lives in Findlay, Ohio; Henry E., who lives in Washington, Iowa; Elizabeth, \vho married. John Shott, and lives in Wayne county, Ohio; Guielius I.: Caroline, who lives in Toledo, Ohio;

' Rebecca, who died when about sixteen years of age ; Catharine, who married John Switzer, and is a widow, living in Iowa City; Samuel VC, who lives in Burlington, Iowa; Mary Ann, who married John Lane, and lives in t Crete, Nebraska; F. E./aiso in Crete, Nebraska: John, who lives at Atlantic, Iowa ; Joseph, w ho lives at Toledo,

Lizzie Weisenstine was born in Germany March : 31, 1S37, and came to this country with her mother when seventeen years old, and located at Mansfield, Ohio, where she lived until the age of twenty, when she was married to Jacob Weisenstine, of Ashland, where she . then removed. Mrs. Weisenstine had the following children by this marriage : Lizzie, born March 30, 1859, and died January 9, 1862; Mary, born August 23, 1861, married E. W. Rogers, and lives in Missouri; Jacob E., born October 28, 1863, and died August 29, 1865; Joseph F., born October 15, 1865 ; Louise, born September 24, 1869; and Frank S., born. June 27, 1S73. Mrs. Weisenstine's parents, Jacob and Clara Houtz, were natives of Otterberg, Rhine Phaltz, Germany; her fathei died in Germany, and her mother died in Mansfield, Ohio, in 1878. Mr. and Mrs. Houtz had children as follows*: Frank, who died in Germany in 1877; Jacob, who lives in Mt. Vernon, Ohio; Catharine, who married David Miller, of Mansfield; Charlotte, who married Jacob Wentz, and lives in Mansfield; Louise, who married .Philip Lawrence; and Lizzie.

Jacob Weisenstine was bom in Wertemberg, Germany, June t 2, 1833, and came to this country in 1853, stopping in New York. The following year he came to Ashland, and worked at his trade of shoe-making for Stubbs and Wasson for several years. In 1S58 he married Miss Lizzie Houtz. . Mr. Weisentine was engaged in the shoe, grocery, and restaurant business for some time previous to hi-, death, which occurred January S, 1876. Mrs. Weisenstine now carries on the business.

Ih-txiAMix Myers was born in Petty township, December 21, 1841, and is the son of Jacob and Mary Myers, natives oi Pennsylvania. His father was born in Center county, of that Slate, May 25, 1788, and died in j Ashland county, Ohio, August 4, 1857. rlis mother j was born in the same county as his fathei, and died in j Perry township, Ashland county, September 12, 1878.

His brothers are Jonathan, George, Jacob, and Darnel, i all residents of Perry township, except Jacob, who re- | sides in Kansas; his sisters are Margaret, Eliza, Mary, and Catharine, all living in this county, except Mary, who is deceased. Benjamin Myers resided with his father in Perry township until i860, doing farm work in the summer time and attending district school in the winter time. In 1861-62 he attended the Vermillion institute at Hayesville, but, in 1862, offered his services in defence of his country, enlisting in company F, One Hundred 1 and Twentieth Ohio- volunteer infantry. In July, 1865, i he returned home from the war and resumed his studies ! at the institute. In 1866 he began the study of medi- ! cine at Wooster, Ohio, in the office of Drs. Robinson re | Weaver. In 1867 he attended upon a course of medij cal instruction in the Jefferson Medical college of Phil- | adelphia, graduating from that college in 1869. In June j of the same year he formed a partnership with Dr. J. P.

! Ohio. November 29, 1879, he was united in marriage ! with- Samantha Cowan, his partner's daughter. His ehilj dren are: Rena born November 19, 1871, and ! Emma C., born September 14. 1873. Mrs. Myers died j November 21, 1878. In 1873 Mr. Myers was elected to | the Ohio legislature, and re-elected in 1875, serving in ! all four years.

! from Columbia county, Pennsylvania, was born August i 7, 1S29, at the old homestead in Pennsylvania. He re- | moved with his father's family to Ohio, and settled in S the present county cf Ashland, in the spring of 1-839.

1 Here he remained on his father's farm, comprising one hundred and fifty-nine acres, most of the time until eighteen years of age, when he started to learn the trade of cabinet-maker with Stubbs & Coffin, of Ashland. He completed his trade, and for some time carried on the j business, when in the year 1859 he changed his busij ness to the pursuits of agriculture, purchasing one hunj dred and five acres of the original tract purchased by 1 his father. Here he has rema'ned, continuing to im- | prove and add to, until it can be said that he has one of the finest improved farms of Ashland county. Mr. Wertman was united in marriage in the year 1852 to j Aliada S. Simonton, daughter of Henry Simonton, of ! Pennsylvania. To this union were born two children.

Bv i-'.on' M. SwiN'Ei oi-'t) was born in this township (Montgomery), this county, March 6, 1850, and this | county has always been Lis home. His vocation through life has been that of a salesman in different stores, and he has been engaged in the furniture business, as also the bed spring bottom business. He has also paid some attention to farming, in which business he is now engaged in. He was married April S, 1870, to Miss Libbie Gates, who was. also born in this county, August 27, 1856. They have one child, named Susie May, who was born May 3, 1880. She is still living.

Isaac Kii.hukm.r was born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, January 28, 1850, he being one of eleven children of Henry Kilhefner. In the year 1854, his parents, with their family of then three children, moved from Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, to Ashland county, Ohio, They bought a small farm four miles east of Ashland, moved upon it, and lived there some twenty odd years. During this time Isaac remained with his parents upon the farm. In the winter of 1870 he was married to Miss .Amanda Kahl. In the following spring (187 r,) he moved upon the farm of Air. Samuel Horn, taking charge of it. In the year 1S72 he united with the German Baptist (or Dunkard) church. In the year 1875 be was elected to the ministry by the church, and in the year 1877 was duly licensed as a minister of the Gospel. He is the father of one child: Edwin L. Kilhefner.

j. P. Devor was born January 15, 1S22, near.Roxbury, Franklin county, Pennsylvania, and was married to Mary A. Hassler, near Grindstone Hill, same county and State, February 1, 1849, and removed to Ashland, Ohio, April 25, 1849, where they have since resided. To them have been born ten children - seven are still living. Their names are Charles A., Alice A., John R., Jacob F., j r. , Horace L., Alary A., William J., Edgar J,, Harry IT. and Samuel K. The last named, Samuel H., died at the age cf fifteen years, five months and seven days, of typhoid fever, a bright and intelligent boy. The other two died young. John, at the age of two and one-half years, of scarlet fever; the other thirty-three days old, of cholera infantum. Mr. Devor is of Scotch- Irish descent. In the fall of 1856 he was elected justice o! the peace, ana continued in said office by re-election for three terms. By profession he is an attorney at law, and by applying himself strictly to his profession he lias built tip for himself a large practice.

Jos;. '/a L. Devon was born in Plymouth, Indiana, July 14, 1850. When he was four years of age he removed with Iris mother to Ashland county, Ohio, which has since been his home. His father died in the army during the war of the Rebellion. Air. Devor was married .May 22, 1S79, to Miss Leancttc Rowland, a native of Ashland county, having been bora in Montgomery township July 30, 1860. Mr. Devor, though he has had a brief experience as a school teacher, has given his chief attention to fanning, in winch pursuit he lias been very successful.

Ei'HKAtM Slocum was born in Stillwater, Livingston county, New York, March 19, rSiS, and was brought to Ohio by iris j a.rents the year of his birth. They settled a mile and a half cast of .Ashland, where Air. Slocum nov. lives, llis education was limited to the subscription schools of die day, and two winters in the district j schools of New York. When twelve years of age. he ; went to the mouth of Black river and there clerked two | years, when he returned , to his home. Soon after lie i went to Onondaga county, New York, where he also re- 1 nrained two years. On his return from Buffalo to Cicvcj land the vessel on which he sailed narrowly escaped j wrecking, and was obliged to return to port. Another | start was made, and after rough sailing for a day and a i half they arrived at Cleveland. From that point he ! walked the entire distance to Ashland, through an I almost unbroken forest. In 1837 he went with a team j to Illinois, and down the river from Peoria to Danville,

! Kentucky, in a boat, from which point lie walked to ins i home. May 14, 1840, he was married to Eliza Freer, j by whom he had nine children - E. W., Harriet, Melissa, Annice, Albert, Ida, Emma, Alfred and Fred. Mrs. Slocum died November 4, 7855. August 20, 1836, he was again married to Martha P. Carter. Air. Slocum and his brother Eli bought the homestead several years before the death of their father. Ephraim still retains j his purchase, but Eli sold his some years since.