Coshocton County, Ohio - Biographical sketches, 1881 (part 10 of 10)

Mr. Wolf's second marriage took place October 29, 1857, to Miss Lavenia Howard, of Knox county, Ohio. They became the parents of eight children, viz : Joseph C, born July 30, 1858 ; Arminda, born March 8, 1861, died March 31, 1862 ; Almeda, born July 6, 1862; Luella J., born October 7, 1864; Jason G., born February 13, 1866; Addie, born November 8, 1868, died March 3, 1869 ; Nettie, born June 22, 1870. , His second wife died September 30, 1870. He was married the third time, August -24, 1871, to Miss Lavina Page, of Stark county, Ohio. Mr. Wolf's pareiits came from Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, and are of German descent. In 1837 Mr. Wolf moved to Knox county, Ohio, and remained ten years. He then returned to this county and has since remained. Wr. Wolf has dealt extensively in stock for twenty years. He owns a splehdid farm of 305 acres, situated in the Tuscarawas valley, near the town of Orange. Two of his sons, David and Frank, were in the army. David was wounded in the battle of Chicamauga, and died from the wound. They were members of Company C, Fifty-first regiment, O. V. I. Frank served three years.

WOLFE L. B., dealear in white, bronze monuments, statuary, etc., 139 Second street, Coshocton, Ohio; born June 2, 1834, in Evansburgh, Oxford township; son of Philip and Elizabeth, daughter of Rev. Jacob Meek, of Tuscarawas county. He spent his early life at the tanning, sadlery and harness business. In December, 1866, he enlisted in Company K, Captain G. ,H. Stewart, Fourth U. S. C, Colonel, later GeneVal E. V. Sumner. He reported for duty in the spring of 1857, at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and assisted in the survey of the southern boundary of Kansas, which required exactly six months. This was the first to succeed, after two previous attempts had failed, from the hostilities of the Indians and scarcity of water in the American desert.

The subsequent fall and winter, the command was engaged to keep the peace and guard the elections in Kansas. March 18, 1858, he started for Utah under command of Col. Huflfman, to escort supplies for Col. Johnston, at Fort Bridger. At Laport creek, sixty miles west of Fort Laraamie, on the morning of April 1, the snow was three feet deep, all having fallen the previous night. One quart of corn for each horse was all the grain they had ; and for ton days the only feed the horses got was the bark from Cottonwood poles which were cut and carried to the horses. Only one horse died ; the others kept in good condition. Going through the South Pass, they arrived at Fort Bridger July 4, in a severe snow storm. They returned under command of Capt. . Dessashore, through Bridger's Pass, via Fort Laramie, to Fort Leavenworth, having been absent eight months and traveled 2,200 miles. Remaining about two weeks, they started for Fort Riley under Major, afterward General, Sedgwick.

In 1859 the command was ordered to the Santa Fe crossing of the Arkansas, to guard the Santa Fe travel from Kansas City to Santa Fe, from the Kiawa and Comanche Indians. Returned in the fall to Fort Riley for winter quarters. After remaining about two weeks, were ordered back to the Pawnee fork of the Arkansas to establish a post, guard mail stations and mail trains from that point to Santa Fe. At this place the command remained about one month, and built a sod corral and winter quarters. Leaving a detachment of thirty men, they returned to Fort Riley, On this march they were caught in a " northwester," which froze their horses so badly that they could not stand, and had to be shot. One man's lower limbs were frozen so that they had to be amputated.

In the spring of 1860, he was ordered, under Major Sedgwick, to scour the plains for Comanche find Kiawa Indians. In the fall, their command was ordered to " Big Timber " of the Arkansas, where they built Fort Lyons, where they remained during the winter and next summer. In the fall, he was discharged, having served five years and witnessed many thrilling incidents, among which was the fata;l shooting of Pawnee, a war chief, while attempting to escape, after having been captured. Returning home, he resumed his trade, learned when a youth. In the summer of 1863, he was unanimously elected captain of Company E, Sixty-ninth Battery, and was ordered out in the 100-days' service, and served four months. At the close of the war, he again resumed his trade, and continued until the spring of 1880, when he assumed his present business, in which he has succeeded beyond his most sanguine expectations. His first job was put in the Waggoner cemetery, in Oxford township, over the remains of Mrs. Switzer and family. Captain Wolfe was married, September, 1862, to Miss Sarah J., daughter of Adam and Rebecca (Wiggins) Loos, of Oxford township. They have had five children, viz : Adam Cooper, deceased; Lanna Jane, Iv4n Milton, Esther Ella and Chat Lambert.

WOLF WILLIAM, Coshocton; county auditor ; was born May 11, 1833, in Keene township, this county. Mr. Wolf was engaged in farming until 1871, when he went into the tanning business in Monroe township, this county, and continued the business until he was elected to the office of auditor of Coshocton county, Ohio, in 1875, and re-elected to the same office in 1877. Mr. Wolf was married February 19, 1861, to Miss Malinda Manning, of Tuscarawas township. This union was blessed with three children, viz : Orlando D., Eugene and Ida May. Mr. Wolf's faither, George Wolf, was of French or German extraction. His mother's maiden name was Hannah McGuire.

WOLFE SAMUEL; farmer; postoffice, Mt. Vernon. He was born in Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, in 1810; came to Ohio in 1829, and was married in 1830, to Sidney Ooker, who was born in Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, in 1810. They had three daughters, namely : Mary Ann, born in 1832, and was married to Charles Matheny, and resides in Coshocton county ; Susannah, born in 1838, and was married to John Matheny, and are residents of Coshocton county ; Permilla, born in 1844. Mr. Wolfe emigrated to Coshocton county in 1831, and lived there fortyfour years. In 1873 he moved to Pike township, Knox county. He owns an improved farm, m good cultivation, with good buildings, and is a farmer after the Pennsylvania style, and is an honest, industrious man.

WOLFE GEORGE, Keene township; was born April 3, 1802, in Cumberland county, Pennsylvania; son of Philip and Margaret (Wagoner) Wolf, natives of Pennsylvania, and grandson of John Wolfe. He came to Ohio in 1810, and settled in Oxford township, Coshocton county. Mr.

Wolfe is a tanner by trade and for fifty years has worked at his trade in connection with farming. He married Miss Hannah McGuire February,. 1826, who was born in 1804; daughter of Francis and Mary (Miller) McGinn. The names of the children are as follows : Francis, Margret, William, Mary A., George W.j Thomas and Joseph. After the death of his first wife Mr. Wolfe married to Mrs. Alice Salyard Thomas, born September 9, 1829, daughter of William and Juha (Moffatt) Salyard ; granddaughter of John and Mary (Ayers) Salyard, and great-granddaughter of Equilla and Nancy (Sleeper) Mpffatt. Equilla was a soldier in the revolutionary war. Mrs. Thomas gave birth to four children : Nancy, William , John and Mary; Mrs. Wolfe to four: Jacob, Judge, Julia and Alpha.

WOLFE JOSEPH B., Franklin township ; farmer; born in Keene township, October 20, 1845; son of George and Hannah Wolfe. His father was a tanner by trade, and carried on a tannery in connection with farming He moved to Franklin township, March, 1871; married, October 31, 1872, to Cynthia P. Shannon, daughter of John Shannon, of Mill Creek township. They have one child, Clara Belle.

WOLFE THOMAS, Franklin township; born April 25, 1841, in Keene township ; son of George and Hannah Wolfe; remained there till 1865, when he came to Franklin township, and has lived there ever since, engaged in farming. He was married, December 31, 1862, to Mis AnnieJ daughter of Isaac White of Clark township. By this marriage, he has five children, viz : Power, Charles P., Zenona, Lulu and W. Clyde.

WOLFE FRANCIS, Franklin township; farmer ; eldest son of George and Hannah Wolfe ; born December 19, 1826, in Oxford township. His father was a son of Phillip and Margaret (Wagner) Wolfe, who came from Carlisle, Pennsylvania, to Oxford township in 1808. His mother was the daughter of Francis and Elizabeth (Miller) McGuire, who emigrated from Romney, Virginia, to the Tuscarawas valley, near Newcomer's town, about 1804, and in 1807 came to Lafayette township. Mr. Wolfe moved to Keene township when four years old, and remained there till he came to Franklin township in 1850. He was married February 28, 1854,' to Camilla Stuart, daughter of Matthew and Eda (GifTen) Stuart. Her maternal grandfather, Robert Griften, was among the earliest settlers of New Castle township. Her father was a contractor in Coshocton. Their children are five in number, viz: Charles, Robert S., Edith, Perry C, and Howard A.

-ette township; son of David and Eliza (Gilbert) Wolfe. His fatlier was from Carlisle- county, Pennsylvania. He was a member of the One' Hundred and Forty-second O. N. G. After his return he farmed a while, and in 1871 begun business with James F. Williams in a planing mill. In 1878 a grist mill was added, and March 1880, he purchased his partner's interest, and has since conducted the business alone. His -custom is large and increasing, covering a radius -of many miles. He was married in 1863 to Miss daughter of William and Elizabeth Fowler. Their children are Eva May, William F., Malvern E., and Laura, deceased.

WOODWARD S. P.,^:,inton township; born in Tuscarawas county, July 5, 1844; son of J. M. and Tamar (Dicken) Woodward, grandson of Presley .and Jane (McFee) Woodward, and of Stephen Dicken. His grandfather, Presley Woodward, -came from near Fredericktown, Virginia, to Jefferson county about 1818, here his father was born. His grandfather Stephens, came to Tuscarawas county from near Cumberland, Pennsylvania. His mother died when he was two years old. In 1855 his father, previously a carpenter, en tered the Protestant Methodist ministry, and his place of residence was frequently changed. His family-lived in Monroe county, in Illinois, in Iowa, in Tuscarawas, Monroe, Belmont, Guernsey and Coshocton counties successively. Here the subject of this sketch left his father's family. He' had begun teaching school in Guernsey county in 1861, :and continued it in Coshocton till the spring of 1866, when he became salesman in David Brelsiord's store in Plainfield. In November, 1871, he Taegan business for himself in Plainfield, but in January, 1874, sold out his stock of goods and has been teaching since. He was a member of Company E, One Hundred and Forty-second O. N. G., .serving four months. From 1872 to 1879 he filled the office of township clerk, and in April, 1879, was elected Justice of the peace. Married June 3, 1866, to Miss Belle, daughter of David Brelsford, .and they have three children, viz : J. D., C. B. and Verne L.

WORKMAN WILLIAM, Keene township; farmer; postoffi[Ce,Roseoe, Ohio; son of General Jesse H. Workman; was born January 14, 1833, in Bethlehem township, this county. . His father was of German descent, and came from Maryland in 1800, and settled on the banks of the Walhonding, above Roscoe. He went from there to Co- .shocton and engaged in the tanning business, which he followed for thirty years. He then moved to his farm near Coshocton, where he spent the remainder of his days. He died in August, 1876, aged seventy-three years. He was commander of the musters of the military companies at Coshocton, and thereby received the title of brigadier general.

William and Barbara MaVkly, the grandfather and grandmother of William Workman, came from Frederick county, Maryland. William Makly died November 25, 1835, aged fifty-five years. Barbara Markly died March 16, 1877, aged ninetyeight years. Adam Markly, the gteat-grandfather of Wilham Workman, came from Frederick county, Maryland, in April, 1808, and settled in Bethlehem township, this county. He brought with him eight sons and four daughters, viz: Martin, William, John, Frederick, Amos, David, Abraham, Benjamin, Hester, Catharine, Elizabeth and Anna.

William Workman was raised on the farm, and has always followed that occupation. In April, 1877, he went . to California on account of his health, intending to make it his permanent home, but, being dissatisfied with the State, he returned in September of the same year, and has since remained, engaged in farming.

WORKMAN JESSE H., Tuscarawas township ; postofflce, Coshocton; farmer; born June 12, 1859, in Coshocton ; son of Jesse H., a native of Maryland, and grandson of Isaac Workman, whose father was a native of Holland. His mother's maiden name was Eliza Helabrant. She died in 1866 and his father in 1876 ; they are buried in the Coshocton cemetery. Jesse Workman is at present proprietor of a 375 acre farm, one and a half miles north of Coshocton, in the Tuscarawas valley.

WORKMAN H. B., Tiverton townshij); farmer; postoffice, Gann, Knox county; born in 1838, in this county. His father, James Workman, was born in 1812, in Belmont county, Ohio, and came to this county in 1824. He was married in 1833, to Miss Hannah Walker of this county, who was born in 1816. He died in 1878, she died in 1858. They were the parents of eight children. The subject of this sketch being the second. He was married in 1860, to Miss Isabella Parmenter, of this county, who was born in 1841, near Hornesdale, Pennsylvania. They are the parents of eight children, viz : Albert, Calona B., Ida J., Alexander, Mary E., Irvin, Nettie and Pery W.

WORKMAN STEPHEN, Tiverton township; farmer ; postoffice, Gann, Knox county ; born in 1824, in this township. His father, Abraham, was born in 1779, in Maryland. He was married in Virginia, in 1800, to Miss Gracie Conner, who was born in 1782. They came to this county in 1820. He died in 1860, and she died in the same year. They were the parents of twelve children, the subject of this sketch being the eleventh. He was married in 1847, to Miss Mary Johnston, of this county, who was born in 1830, in Richland county. She died in 1877. They were the parents of sixteen children, twelve of whom are living.

WEIGHT JOHN W., M. D., Coshocton ; bom July 17, 1842, in Harrison county, Ohio; son of Benjamin Wright, who Avas American born of English ancestry. His mother's maiden name was Lucinda Eager, daughter of Conrod Eager, founder of Eagirsville, Tuscarawas county, Ohio. Young Wright spent his childhood and early youth on the farm. At the age of fifteen he com menced teaching school, and taught seven consecutive years, during which time he read medicine with Dr. William Vanhorn. In the winter of 1864-5 he attended a course of lectures at Cincinnati college of medicine and surgery. In the summer he attended a course at Starling' medical college, in 1867 a course at Well's Eye and Ear hospital in Philadelphia, .Pennsylvania, and in June, 1873, was graduated at the first named college with the title of M. D. Dr. Wright first entered upon the practice of his profession at Port Washington, Ohio, and remained two years ; then for the same period at Eagersville. In the spring of 1869 he came to this city, and opened an office in his present residence. Main street. January 14, 1880, he established his office in Columbus, Ohio, considering that point as oflFering superior inducements for the practice of his specialty, the treatment of the diseases of the eye and ear. Dr. Wright was married August 9, 1864, to Miss Belle Hesket, daughter of John Hesket, Esq., sheriff of this county, This union was blessed with six children, all living, viz: Frances Neva, Nellie Corena, John Hesket, Halstedy Columbus Chnton, and Mary Lucinda. Dr. Wright has successfully performed several difficult surgical operations in this county, among which is the operation for cataract, which he has removed, thereby giving sight where there was total blindness.

WEIGHT HENEY, Virginia township; born October 24, 1817, in this county ; son of Joseph and Elizabeth (McCoy) Wright. He was raised a farmer and educated in the district schools. At the age of twenty-one he commenced business in hfe for himself. He married Emily Croy, August 22, 1841. They had six children, viz: Emanuel, Lucinda, B. F., Catharine, William O., Isadora A. Two are living in this township, one in Washington township, and three in Jackson.

WEIGHT LOYD, Virginia township; born in Coshocton county, Ohio; son of Joseph and Ehzabeth Wright; married in 1839, to Eachel Houser, who died July 5, 1878. Their union was blessed with eight children, viz: Henry, Mary, Margaret J., William, Malissa, John, Laura, and Elizabeth. Postoffice, New Moscow.

April 19, 1885, to Miss Mary Wright, who died in 1862. Mr. Wright has nine children living and seven dead. Postoffice, Willow Brook, Coshocton county.

WEIGHT LEWIS, Perry township ; postoffice,. West Carlisle ; farmer and stock raiser ; born in this county, in 1839; son of William and Martha (Clark) Wright, and grandson of Edward and Elizabeth Wright; married, December 16, I860,, to Miss Martha E. Cochran, daughter of Montraville and Elizabeth (Ashcraft) Cochran. They are the parents of five children, viz: Malissa^ Sylva J., Dora A., deceased; Joseph A. and Wheeler 0. . «

WEIGHT NATHAN, Jefferson townships born February 19, 1798, in Bedford townshjp ;. son of Nathan", Sr., and Hannah (Warly) Wright, and grandson of Acre and Elizabeth Warley, American born. He came to Coshocton county, in 1814. He was a blacksmith and sicklemaker. Mr. "Wright was married, August 22, 1822, to Elizabeth Eipley, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Sheets) Eipley. Their children were Atha» liah, Darius, Acre, Ethan, Ellen, Hannah, Lucas, Mary, William Cass and Almeda, all living.

WEIGHT DAEIUS, postoffice, Warsaw; was born in Bedford township, Coshocton county, January 17, 1825. He worked with his father in the shop, and on the farm, until the age of twenty-two, when he began business for himself, in his father's shop, where he remained two yeairS, then went to Washington township crossroads, and opened shop, and carried on business the_re about twenty-two years ; then came to Warsaw, and has been engaged in smithing in this village since that time. He has a'fair amount of trade, and a splendid shop. Mr. Wright was married to Miss Elizabeth Grove, daughter of David Grove. They are the parents of eight children : Nathan, Mary E., Lurintha, Sarah, William, Hampton, Franklin D. and Darius E.

WEIGHT B. F., Jackson township ; born in Virginia township, Coshocton county; son of Henry and Emily Wright; married in 1871 to Martha McCoy, daughter of William and Catharine McCoy. Mr. Wright is the father of five children, viz : Edward, 'Earl L., Mertie L, Aritta, Harry G. Postoffice, Eoscoe.

ZIMMEE VALENTINE, Franklin township; farmer ; born December 9, 1834, in Allegheny, Pennsylvania. His father was a locksmith, and was born October 1, 1797 ; emigrated from Alsace, France, landing at Baltimore, June 9, 1830, and after farming awhile in Muskingum county, worked in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, eight years in a cannon manufactory. Mr. Zimmer was married in 1865, to Elizabeth Grass, born July 10, 1837;^ daughter of David and Elizabeth Grass. Their children are - William, born March 5, 1858; David, March 18, 1860; John, July 10, 1864; Rosa Caroline, March 1, 1869 ; George Henry, May 8, 1871, and Ann Eliza, January 14, 1874.

ZIMMERMAN JACOB, Adams township; farmer; postoffioe, Bakersville; born in Switzerland, near Berne, January 28, 1838 ; son of Christian and Anna (Margh) Zimmerman. He came to this country October 28, 1854, when he was but sixteen years of age. He came to Tuscarawas county and remained there eighteen years, then moved to Adams township, this county and has been a resident of this place since. Mr. Z. was married November 30, 1859, to Sarah Young, daijghter of Abraham and Anna (Harger) Young, and granddaughter of Christian Young, born August 16, 1840, in Tuscarawas county. They are the parents of nine children, as follows :

ZUGSCHWERT CHRISTIAN; saloon and grocery, 140 Secpnd street; born August 31,1822, in Wurtemberg, Germany. His father's name was Adam Zugschwert. At fourteen years of age he went to the shoemaking trade, which he followed twenty-seven years. He came to America in 1849, worked a few months in New York and Buffalo, and came to this city in the Same year. In 1864 he began his present business, in which he is doing moderately well. Mr. Zugschwert was married February 1, 1856, to Miss Lena G/isbaoh, of Franklin township. They are blessed with five children, viz : Lizzie, Annie, Adam, Wilham and Martha.

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AGNEW JOAB M., miller in Empire mills, Eoscoe, Ohio. Mr. Agnew was born June 21, 1816, in Princeton, New Jersey, of Irish ancestry. He was brought up in a hotel, where he remained until he was twenty-one years of age, when he came to Roscoe. In 1842 he commenced milling, which occupation he has followed to the present writing; Mr. Agnew has assisted to Duild two large flouring mills, one of which was burned, and has been miller in the finest mill in the county for twenty-five years. Mr. Agnew has in his possession an ivory cane weighing one and a half pounds, which was presented to his grandfather, Joab Mershon, by Richard Stogdon, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence; also a seven-bladed razor, with shifting handle, making a razor for every day of the week. These razors are from 150 to 200 years old, having been an heirloom for six generations. He also has a seven-dollar continental bill, which his grandfather received as pay for services in the revolutionary war.

BERRY WILLIAM, Perry township; New Guilford postoffice; born in Belmont county, Ohio, March 1, 1820; son of John and Elizabeth (Yost) Berry, and grandson of John Berry, and of Peter Yost. Mr. Berry's father settled ysi this county in 1828, and died in 1857. Mr. Berry has been twice married ; first, to Miss Gernuma Lee, with whom he had eight children. Mrs. Berry was killed by a horse running away with her. Mr. Berry married Miss Jane Dillon, in 1874, daughter of John and Keziah Dillon. Mr. Berry has been twice elected to the office of county commissioner, and is now serving his second term.

BURNS SAMUEL, the progenitor of the present Burns family; was born in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, March 12, 1770. Of his parents, nothing is known more than they were of Scotch- Irish origin, and come to this country at an early date, and he made his home with them until his seventeenth year. He had three brothers, James, John and William, all of whom served in the war of the revolution. William died in the service, of camp-fever. John was taken prisoner at Quebec, and he and two others made theif escape by approaching one of the sentinels, on the walls, to whom they offered an empty bottle to take a drink. As he tipped the bottle up John Burns struck him under the chin, and knocked him off the walls. They then made their escape across the frozen river, enduring terrible sufferings from hunger and exposure, before reaching the American army.

Samuel Burns, when fourteen years of age, came to Wheeling Creek, West Virginia, and from thence to Pittsburgh, where he took passage on a boat to New Orleans. He related that on his passage down the river there. were but two river settlements on the Ohio, one at Marietta and one at a place called Limestone. Arriving at New Orleans, he took passage on an ocean ship and sailed for Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Arriving there he went to Pine Grove Iron Furnace, near Carlisle, Pennsylvania, where he remained until married in the year 1792 to Mrs. Jane Lambertson, and moved to Millerstown, Shenandoah county Virginia. He then worked for four years learning the hatter's trade. He then moved to Waynesburg, Augusta county, Virginia, where he lived for a period of seventeen years. He then came to New Philadelphia, Ohio, in the fall of 1815, where he remained until April, IS^C, when he came to Coshocton, coming down the Tuscarawas river in^ a canoe with his family, where he followed his trade until old age rendered him unable to endure the hardships of that trade. He also served as Justice of the Peace for many years, and was familiarly known as " Squire Burns." He died September 21, 1852.

Jane Burns, his wife, whose maiden name was Jane Leggett, was born near Carlisle, Pennsylvania, in the year 1767; was first married to Richard Lambertson, grandfather of Samuel

Lambertson, of this city. He being killed at a raising near Bedford, Pennsylvania, she returned to her father's, where she remained until she was married to Samuel Burns, as before stated. Her father was born, in Ireland and sold for his passage to this country. Her mother was born near Little York, Pennsylvania, and was of Pennsylvania Dutch descent, her maiden name being Sarah Yost. Jane Burns died Novembe'r 29, 1845, being 78 years old. She was the mother of ten children, three of whom died at an early age. The eldest of the family was Mary Burns Crowley, born February 5, 1796. She married John Crawley, Sr., of this place, and was the mother of four children, one of whom is one of our prominent grocerymen, John Burns Crawley. She died February 24, 1834.

Joseph Burns, Sr., was born March 11, 1800, in Waynesburgh, Augusta county, Virginia. He was sixteen years of age when he came to this county. He, and the rest of the family, with the exception of his mother and youngest sister, walked the whole distance from Waynesboro' to New Philadelphia. He early showed a dislike for his father's trade, and, when eighteen years of age, wrote for General Adam Johnson, then clerk and auditor of this county. In 1821 he was elected county auditor, which ofEice he held until 1838, when he resigned, having been elected a member of the State Legislature, serving in that capacity from 1838-40. In 1843 he was elected county clerk, which office he filled a term of eight years. In 1857 he was elected congressman from this district, where he served his country for two years. He then engaged in the drug business in the town of Roscoe, where he remained in business until elected probate judge in the year 1869. He remained in said of- ' fice until his death, which occurred , May 9, 1875. When the old State militia was in order he was a prominent officer, having been elected to the rank of a major general, and was known by all as General Burns. At the close of the war he was made a pension agent, and was, perhaps, the most successful person holding that office here. Never exacting as to fees, and always free with his purse among his friends and fellow-citizens, he left at the end of his days only a moderate portion. Many men, with more greed, or less honest or frugal, would have amiassed fortunes with his opportunies. He was twice married, his first wife was Rebecca Lewis, and his second wife was Mrs. Alexander Hay. His oldest son, William, was educated at West Point, and was, during the late war, a brigadier general. He had, in all, six sons and two daughters, five of those and his widow survive him.

with his father's family. In the fall of 1816, December 4, he commenced carrying the United States mail to Zanesville, Freeport, Harrison county, and Mt. Vernon, for his father. On the road to Freeport (at the head of White Eyes plains), there was but one house to the distance of twenty-one miles. On the ridge road to Mt. Vernon, after leaving lower Roscoe, there was a distance of fifteen miles without one house. He served at this for about one year. When his brother Joseph left, he took his place in the hatter shop, and followed the trade until 1842, when, owing to large importations of hats on the canal, brought from eastern cities, and sold at lower prices than they could be made here, he quit the trade and engaged in farming. He followed this occupation until the year 1866. Being desirous of living an easier life, he quit farming, and has since been living a retired life in this city. He was married twice. His first wife was Mary McGuir.e,.-whdi died in 1844, two years after marriage. He was again married December 17, 1 856, to Eleanor M. Ferguson, of Roscoe, daughter of Mathew Ferguson, of that place. He had, in all, two children, one of which died. William Burns, Jr., his only son, is now engaged in the business of a watchmaker and jeweler. Was born June 29, 1859, in Coshocton, Ohio. William Burns, Sr., is now in his seventy-eighth year, and enjoying good health. He is regarded as one of the most prominent pioneers of the county.

Sarah Burns, fifth child of Samuel and Jane Burns, was born September 28, 1804. She was never married, making her home with her brother, William Burns, and at time of death, and some time prior, with her younger sister, Mrs. James Hay. She died in the year 1867, July 27, of cancer of the breast, of which disease she suffered many years.

John Burns was born in Waynesboro',Virginia, September 18, 1805. He came to this county with his father's family, and worked at the hatter's trade until twenty-four years of age, he went to Chillicothe with his brother-in-law, John Siiieltzer, where he remained one year, he then came to Roscoe, and clerked with Smeltzer and his successors, (Medberry & Ransom) until 1838, when he was made a partner, under the name of Medberry, Burns & Co. In 1840 he retired from the firm and entered into partnership with Samuel Moflatt, for the sale of dry goods. In 1845, MofFatt retired and the firm was changed to Burns & Le Retilley, and remained so until 1860, when he bought Le Retilley out and continued to do business in his own name until his death. He was married in 1837, to Rachel Retilley, by whom he had four children, one son and three daughters, the eldest daughter being the wife of one of our prominent attorneys, J. M. Compton. Allhischildrenandhis widow still sur- viyehim. He died July SO, 1871. His good sense and his integrity were marked qualities. Thoroughly interested in public affairs, and always a zealous partizan, and ready to help his friends to public office, he never had any desire in that direction for himself, and, it is believed, never held any official position. He was a pains-taking and successful business man.

Nancy Burns (Smeltzer) was born August 20, 1807, in Waynesboro', Virginia. In 1826 she was married to John Smeltzer, afterward of Troy, Ohio. Her husband was elected a member of the legislature of 1827-8, afterward engaging in the firm of Medberry & Ransom. She removed to Koscoe and lived there a few years. She then moved to Troy, Ohio, where her husband died. She then moved to Lima, Ohio, where she. now resides. She was the mother of four children, only one, a daughter, now living, and with whom she makes her home.

Jane Burns (Hay) was born in Waynesboro', Virginia, August 25, 1811. She was married to James Hay in 1834, and is the mother of six children, two of whom are now living, her daughter Sarah being married to the late James Wilson, a prominent business man. She has been lately bereaved of her husband, who died September 24, 1881. A noteworthy fact of the Burns family is, they all reached a ripe old age, and are all highly respected for their integrity and good sense.

Democratic Standard

The Democratic Standard, Coshocton, Ohio, was established October 1, 1881, by H. D. Beach, editor and proprietor. It is an eight-column folio in size and Democratic in politics. It pays particular attention to gathering the local news of the county and is in a prosperous condition.

The following is a list of soldiers who entered the Union army during the war of the rebellion from Coshocton county, and who lost <their lives in battle or died from wounds received or disease contracted while in the service, and is as near correct as can at this time be made :

One Hundred And Forty-Third O. N. G.

William A. Ricketta, Hiram Compton, Stephen Compton, Alexander Lockard, Oscar Bunn, Perry Riper, Thomas Brown, Allen Brown, Reuben A. Mack, Lanceon Kimble, James Raney, Thomas Raney, Hamilton Raney, Christopher Cott, J. W. Jobe, and William Griffee.

White Bronze

Captain L. B. Wolfe, general agent for the " Monumental Bronze Compan}- " of Bridgeport, Connecticut, at Coshocton, furnishes the following regarding an article now attracting very general attention :

A little over seven years ago the first experiments were made in this country in producing cemetery work from refined New Jersey zinc, and given the trade name of " White Bronze," it being a light colored, non-corrosive metal, possessing far greater enduring qualities for this purpose than any of the different kinds of stone now used. The beginning of this enterprise was on a small scale. Soon the fact was developed than the white bronze for monumental and cemetery purposes. Professor Ogdon Doremus, of New York City, asks : " Why was this not thought of years ago?" The accompanying cuts exhibit some of the designs, and the following is a brief history of its rise and progress: The Monumental Bronze Company is located at Bridgeport, Connecticut.

that a good idea was embodied in the undertaking, and a company in Bridgeport, Connecticut, was not slow in accepting an offer to develop the matter, and became the sole manufacturers. Step by step the work went on, until a point was reached where a large increase of capital was necessary, in order to meet the growing demand for the work. In the winter of

1879-80, the Monumental Bronze Company was organized, with a capital of 1300,000, and so rapid has been its growth in popular favor, that the company was compelled to establish a new manufactory in the winter of 1880-81 in Detroit, Michigan, making a combined capital now invested in their business of $500,000.

Up to January 1, 1881, there were standing in the different cemeteries of the land over 8000 of these monuments, they having sold in 1880 over 1000 jobs. From January 1, to July 1, 1881, there were over 2000 jobs sold, and both manufactories crowded to their utmost to fill orders. The company now has under contemplation the establishing of a third manufactory. So closely is the artistic combined with the mechanical, that, from a small photograph of the living or dead, they can put the portrait on their work, showing every lineament of the features just as plainly as the picture represents them.. They also manufacture, in connection with their beautiful monuments, statuary, medallion portraits, portrait busts, etc. All scientific works endorse its durability, and we will quote from the standard authority of the scientific world, i. e. Watt's Dictionary of Chemistry : " When zinc is exposed to the air or placed in water, its surface becomes covered with a gray film of oxide, which does not increase. This film will resist the chemical effects of the atmosphere at all times."

The American Machinist asserts that zinc is four per cent harder than granite - zinc being twentysix and granite twenty-two. Why to stone ? It never rusts or cracks by the action of the atmosphere, and will not grow moss upon its surface. Quite the contrary is the case with marble and granite, both of which will moss, crack, chip, and granite will rust. Granite is formed of alumina, feldspar, hornblende, iron, mica, potash and silica. Our climate dissolves the feldspar and potash, and the iron rusts.

Marble is the crystalized carbonate of lime, and corbonic acid in the air is a solvent, hence it gets dingy and rough after a few years exposure to the action of the elements. Both, being porous, absorb moisture and are great feeders of moss and cryptogam ous plants. Hence it is that the white bronze is one of the important discoveries of the day. The Detroit manufactory now has , completed a medallion portrait of our late President Garfield, which is pronounced perfect by his friends. The company is also designing a statue of him, heroic size, in white bronze.

BARGAR CAPT. G. H., of the firm of Bargar & Forbes, Attorneys at Law, Coshocton, 0., son of Dr. Valentine and Ahce (Lee) Bargar. Oapt. Bargar read law with his uncle, B. S. Lee, graduated at Columbus Law School in 1861 ; served as Captain of Company G, 122d 0. V. I., from the fall of 1861 to Dec, 1864; elected Clerk of Court of Common Pleas of Coshocton county, and served six years. Married in 1863 to Miss Sophia J., daughter of Wm. and Maria Lakin. Family of six children, viz : Minnie Alice, Byron, Gilbert, William, Fannie and Fred. Elected as representative to Legislature from Coshocton county in the fall of 1881.

JUDD LLOYD T, dealer in pianos and organs, 158 Second street, Coshocton. He was born August , 27, 1849, in Fairfield county, Connecticut. He is a son of William and Elizabeth F. (Seeley) Judd. His ancestors came to America in the " Mayflower," and settled in Connecticut, where they became numerous and influential. Both his great-grandfathers served in the war of the revolution, and his grandfather Judd in the war of 18] 2. In 1868, Wm.. Judd, with his family - excepting Elizabeth, who had married David Runyan, and who lived in Brooklyn, N. Y. - came to Miami county, Ohio, where they remained tiU 1874, when they came to Coshocton. His family consists of the following children, viz : Harriet (deceased), John S, who was mortally wounded at Spottsylvania, May 12, 1864, and died at Army Square Hospital, D.' C, May 30; Wm. Arthur (deceased) ; EUzabeth V., Lloyd T., Alice, Edward, Ida, Stella and Ora.

SNYDER S. P., M. D., Crawford township, was born May 5, 1852, in German township, Holmes county, Ohio, son of Peter and Elizabeth (Sower) Snyder. Young Snyder began teaching common schools, October 21, 1872, and ended March 16, 1878, teaching in all seven terms. He began reading medicine in April, 1876, with Dr. P. J. Lenhart, of Chili, and remained under his instruction six months, then taught one term of school. In the spring of 1877 he resumed his medical studies with Dr. J. Guittard, of New Bedford, and completed under his instructions. September 26, 1878, he entered the medical department of Wooster University at Cleveland, and was graduated with the first honors in a class of forty, March 4, 1880. In the fall of the same year the Doctor began practice in New Bedford, and has been eminently successfal. Dr. Snyder was married May 13, 1877, to Miss Amanda, daughter of John and Melinda Luke. They afe the parents of one child, viz : Myrtle.