Coshocton County, Ohio - Biographical sketches, 1881 (part 2 of 10)

This union resulted in eight children, viz: Thomas (deceased), Rebecca, Joshua, Martha, Charles H., Robert H., Hannah S. and Samuel Mc. Mr. Clark relates that when his father was moving to this county, they came to Coshocton on Sunday, and had to cross the river on a ferry boat, and that the whole town came down to the river to help them across, and that in ferrying the cattle across they had a good deal of trouble, some of them jumping overboard and swimming back. Among those of the village that turned out to assist them, were Mr. Adam Johnson and Colonel Williams. He also relates, that on arriving in New Castle township, after two days heavy driving from Coshocton, they moved in a house with one or two other families, and lived two weeks there, until they could build one of their own, and that there were about twenty persons in all occupying the house during those two weeks. On the farm where he now lives stands the trunk of an apple tree, that measures ten feet, three inches in circumference, that the seed or sproiit had been planted by Johnny Appleseed, who then lived upon the Mohican. . The trunk is about seventy years old, and in one specially favorable season, bore 140 bushels of apples.

CLARK NATHAN, Pike township; postoffice, West Carlisle ; farmer and stock raiser ; born in this county in 1839; son of Manley and Mary Clark. He was married in 1860, to Miss Mary E. Magruder, daughter of Hezakiah and Sarah A. (Lake) Magruder. They are the parents of three children, viz ; RoUen, George V. and Iva J. The subject of this sketch died in 1870. His widow still lives on the home farm, together with her daughter and two sons, surrounded by all the necessary comforts of life. Mrs. Clark's father died in 1858, her mother in 1850. She is the oldest of a family of five children.

CLARK WILLIAM, Perry township, New Guilford postoffice; born in this county in 1828; son of Joshua and Mary Clark, and grandson of William and Elizabeth (Barn) Giffln, and of John Clark; was married in 1861 to Miss H. L.

Teatoh, daughter of Ellis and Elizabeth Vefftch. They have nine children, viz : Elmer V., Walter H., Harriet E., Duette, Mary E., WiUiam H., T. E., Sylvia M. and Charles H.

CLEMMENS W., Coshocton; carriage black- .smith, West Main street; was born July 11, 1841, in Mt. Vernon, Knox county. He is son of .William Clemmens, a native of Virginia. Young was apprenticed to his trade, at about the age of fifteen, to William Sanderson. When about twenty-one, he came to this city and worked AS a journeyman with E. McDonald. In 1875, he established his present shop, and is doing a good business in all kinds of carriage-smithing. Mr. Clemmens was married, April 5, 1861, to Miss .Mary Taylor, daughter of John Taylor, of this city. They have had five children, two of whom, John William and AUie May, have died, and three, Cora Belle, Clarance Carl and Edith Luvane, are living.

COCHRAN JAMES, Jefferson township; born in East Union, Coshocton county, Ohio, December 4, 1838; son of Caleb and Anna (Duncan) Cochran, and grandson of William Cochran and Matthew Duncan. H^ grandfather, Duncan, to America, at twf Ive years of age, and settled in Maryland. His father was born February 6, 1806; died September 28, 1877. His mother was born, February 29, 1812, in New -Castle township.

He enlisted in Company D, Sixteenth 0. V. I., April 15,1861, under Captain McClain,and served three months; then enlisted December 1, 1861, in Company F, Eightieth 0. V. I., under Captain Metham; went into camp at Camp Meigs, then to Camp Jackson, at Columbus, Ohio ; from there he went to Cincinnati; thence to Fort Holt, Ky.; thence to Paduca, thence to the rear of Corinth, and assisted in the siege; thence to luka, Mississippi, and took part in the engagement there; thence back to Corinth, and assisted in the two fight between Rosecrans and Price; thence to Holly Springs, and to Memphis, Tennessee, where they took charge of the division trai?! and guarded it to Forest Hill; thence to Helena, Arkansas, via Memphis; thence four miles below, and went into camp on a sand bar to arrange for -the Yazoo Pass expedition, and after taking part in the expedition came back to the sand bar, and from there to Young's Point, Louisiana; thence to Hardtimes landing, on the Mississippi; thence via J'ort Gibson, Raymond, Jackson, Champion Hills, Black River, to a position in the rear of Vicksburg. He remained here forty-eight days; thence via Memphis and Chattanoogato the battle of Mission Ridge ; thence to camp near Chattanooga; thence to Bridgeport, Tennessee.

Alabama, thence to Resaoa, and thence to Atlanta, and to the sea with Sherman ; to Richmond, Virginia, and from thence to Washington, and attended the grand review ; thence to Louisville, Kentucky, and to Columbus, Ohio, where he received his discharge, August 28, 1865. He filled all the stations from private to captain, was chosen aid-de-camp for General Rice, also acting assistant inspector general for General James. Ht,- engaged in farming in the spring of 1866, and in 1867, went to Illinois, and engaged in teaming, and in the spring of 1869, came to Warsaw and began hotel-keeping, where he remained until the spring of 1876, when he took a trip to California, and visited many places along the Pacific coast and the Pacific railroad, being gone about fifteen months. On his return he again engaged in hotel-keeping, and remained in business until November, 1880. He was married July 1, 1866, to Miss Ada Hayes, daughter of John J. and Susan (Lochary) Hayes, and granddaughter of William and Agnes (Sheridan) Hayes, and Patrick and Sarah (Martin) Lochary, and great-granddaughter of Joseph and Nancy (Moore) Hay^s, and John Lochary, and finally, great-great-granddaughter of Anne (Nixon) Hayes. Lulu Gracia, born February 15, 1872, is their only child.

COCHRAN JOSEPH A., farmer; postoffice, West Lafayette ; was born in this county in 1839, and married in 1864 to Mary Ann Miller, who was born in this -township in 1843. They have seven children - Hattie E., Jeremiah A., Samuel M., Charles E., Perry O., William M. and Jesse. He was a soldier in the late war, a member of Company D, Sixteenth regiment 0. V. I., and served out the time of his enlistment.

COCHRAN JOHN M., Lafayette township; carpenter. West Lafayette ; born August 9, 1830, in Ellallsville, Jefferson county; son of Jacob Cochran, a native of Pennsylvania, of Irish decent; lived on a farm until about twenty-six years of age, when he commenced his present trade, after which he spent two years prospecting in the west. In 1861 he enlisted in Company D, Sixteenth 0. V. I., (three months' men) and re-enlisted in Company I, Fifty-first 0. V. I., and served two years and nine months, and re-enlisted as a veteran in same company and regimerit, and served until the close of the war, geting his discharge late in the fall of 1865, having served nearly five years; was captured twice but soon re-captured by his own comrades. At the close of the war, Mr. Cochran located in West Lafayette and resumed his trade, and has followed it to the present time. Mr. Cochran was married in 1865 to Miss Eliza Cutter, daughter of Benjamin Cutter, of Lafayette township. They have had four children, Casader, Clesson, Loney and Berdell.

COCHEAN ALEXANDEE, Perry township; postoffice, New Guilford; farmer and speculator; born in this county in 1845; son of Joseph and Mary A. (Underwood) Cochran, and grandson of Wilham and Ehzabeth (Huffman) Cochran, and of Joshua and Sarah Underwood; married in 1868 to Miss Mary S. Board, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth A. Board. They are the parents *)f four children, viz : Charles J., Foy, Maud and Claud Carl.

COE WILLIAM H, painter and printer, Coshocton, Ohio; was born December 14, 1834, in Coshocton, Ohio; son of Benjamin and Euth A. (Decker) Coe. Young Coe was brought up and educated in his native city. At eighteen he "went into the Coshocton Eepublican Printing office, where he remained about three years. From the Eepublican office he went to the Demorat office, where he remained until he enlisted in Company A, Sixteenth O. V. I., for four months. On his return home he went into the Coshocton Paper Mills, where he remained about three years; Then he followed painting until the Coshocton steel works opened, when he went into these works, where he has continued to the present time. Mr. Coe was elected city clerk in 1862, and re-elected in 1863, 4 and 5, and also elected to the same office in 1872 and 3. In 1879 he was elected township clerk and served two years. Mr. Coe was married October 7, 1862, to Miss Susan, daughter of Gabriel Clark. They are the parents of seven children, viz: Emma, Mary, Nora, Glen W. (deceased), infants, twin , boys, died, not named, and Edna.

COE E. v., Coshocton, Ohio; photographer, 226 Main street. Mr. Coe was born December 9, 1837, in Coshocton, Ohio; son of Benjamin and Euthanna (Decker) Coe, of Orange county, New York. They came to Coshocton about 1833 and were married in the house now occupied by John Burt, Sr. They became the parents of eight children, viz: William H., Elias V., Henrietta (deceased), Benjamin, Annie, Eeuben, (deceased), and Almeda. All are married and live in this county, excepting Annie, who resides atDennison, Ohio. Elias V. began the practice of his art September 15, 1862, with G. A. McDonald, with whom he was associated thirteen years and one month.. Then he bought out Mr McDonald and became sole proprietor of his present gallery, which is supplied with all the modern improvements and facilities for doing all kinds of photographic work in first class order. Mr. Coe was married June 7, 1868, to Miss Eliza E., daughter of Gabriel and Catharine E. (Eogers) Clark. They are the parents of four children, viz : George B., Agnes M., Stella and Samuel E.

stoves and manufacturer of tin, copper and sheet, iron ware; also tin roofing and spouting. Mr. Coe was born December 6, 1847, in Coshocton, Ohio, where he has spent almost his entire life. When about fifteen, he began working in the Coshocton paper mills and continued there twO' years. In 1864, he began his present trade and worked three years, then went to Oden, Illinois,, and remained there but a short time, then returned and engaged with Shaw & Sandswith, of whom he learned his trade. He next engaged with Harbaugh & Smith, with whom he continued until April, 1869, when he became partnerin the firm of Eobertson & Coe. In 1871, thispartnership was dissolved and Mr. Coe successively became foreman in the shops of Palmer & Eobinson, Slayton & Palmer, Palmer & Kobinson and G. W. Eickets & Co. Mr. Coe bought thetools of the last named firm and formed a partnership with E. M. Elliott, which firm continued until February, 1877, since which time Mr. Coe has conducted his business alone with marked success. Mr. Coe was married, March 80, 1871, to Miss Katie L., daughtei; of Urial Mills, of Salem, Marion county, Illinois. They are the parents of two children, viz: Laura A.j and Harry W. -

COFPMAM ADAM, Jefferson township; harnessmaker; postoffice, Warsaw; born in Tuscarawas county, Ohio, June 2, 1850; son of Frederick and Mary (Swift) Coffman, and grandson of Adam and Elizabeth (Darner) Swift. Mr. Coffman labored on the farm, in his boyhood, until about the age of 17, when he began clerking ina grocery store, for William Baad, in Warsaw;, and remained with him about two years. He then engaged as clerk with Shaffner Brothers,, and remained one year. He then returned to harnessmaking, which he had learned with his uncle). Charles Senft, between school hours. In December, 1872, he nurchased an interest in S. Hook's harness shop, and continued about two years at it; then became the sole proprietor, and is, at this writing, doing a very fair business.. He was married October 1, 1874, to Miss Siisan' Bumgardner, daughter of John and Mary (Linebaiigh) Bumgardner. They are the parents of two children : Wilbert O., born April 10, 1876, and Evert D., born October 11, 1877, died im December, 1877.

COFFMAN WILLIAM, Jefferson township,-: harnessmaker; postoflBce, Warsaw; born in Jefferson township, Coshocton county, October 23,. 1864, brother of Adam Coffman; son of Frederick and Mary (Senft) Coffman. He attended sthool and worked on "the farm until the age of twenty-one, when he began learning the harnessmaking business, with his brother, in Warsaw, with whom he is still engaged. Mr. Coffman is a

Biogbaphical Sketches

COGNION" STEPHEN, Linton township ; farmer; postoffice. Wills Creek; born June 6, 1852, in Franklin township ; son of Stephen and Eosella Cognion, natives of France; came to America about the year 1848, and located in Franklin township, from Avhich he came to his present residence in Linton township, in 1868. They are the parents of five children, three sons and two daughters. When Mr. Cognion came to America he was poor, but by the united labor and economy of himself and family, they have obtained a good home and farm. Of the children, Mary is married to William Krominaker ; John is married to Cathariene Doll ; Magdaline is married to John Switzer, Stephen and Nicholas are unmarried.

COLLIEE THOMAS W., Coshocton; born April 22, 1844, in CarroUton, Ohio ; son of Thomas W., a native of Virginia, of English ancestry. At seven years of age he began to set type, and remained six years, then attended school one year, and then resumed his place in the printing office. In April, 1861, he enlisted in Company F, Sixteenth 0. V. I., and served three months. In November following, he enlisted as a private in Company F, Eightieth O. V. I., and served to the close of the war. He was successively promoted to first sergeant, second lieutenant, first lieutenant, and appointed adjutant and commissioned Captajn of Company A, in October, 1864. He was provost marshal from June 1, 1865, until mustered out. Captain Collier was married April 14, 1864, to Miss Kate Pinehart, of New Philadelphia. This union was blessed with one child, a daughter, Minnie Wylly. Captain Collier was appointed postmaster of Coshocton, in May, 1869, and held the office until 1881. He was editor and proprietor of the Coshocton Age from September 1, 1866, to April 1, 1878.

CAGLE GEORGE T., Coshocton; boot and shoe m^aker, Clerry street, between Sixth and Seventh streets ; born August 9, 1842, in Frederick county, Maryland; son of John C, a native of He worked on a farm until he was fifteen, when he went to his trade and served three years ; then established a shop in the spring of 1862, in Uniontown, Maryland. In Novenj,ber, 1865, he came to this city and estab-' lished a shop, but soon sold out, and was a transient journeyman until 1879, when he established his present shop, in which he is doing a good business, employing several workmen, and working himself, also. Mr. Cagle enlisted in Battery F, Third P. V. H. A., and served until the close of the war. Mr. Cagle was married February 18, 1880, to Miss Mattie Brister, of this city.

1826, they emigrated to America, remaining in Albany county. New York, till the fall of 1835,. when they came to their present home in Linton township. Their children, ten in number, are as follows : Catherine, Hannah, John, Richard,, Mary J., Margaret, Lizzie, Anna, Michael and . Thomas.

COMPTON ELISHA, Jackson township; re^ tired farmer ; postoffice, Roscoe ; born in Culpepper county, Virginia, September 9, 1816; son of George and Sarah (Duke) Compton, of Irish ancestry. Elisha was raised on the farm, whichbusiness he successfully followed during his long life. Mr. Compton was married December 9^ 1841, to*Huda Anne, daughter of Jeremiah Hays, of Virginia township. This union was blessed with nine children, John, Mary Ann, R. T., Jeremiah, George, deceased, Harvey, Eliza Jane, deceased, Alice and Camilla.

COMPTON A. N., Coshocton, saddle and harness manufacturer and dealer in saddlery hardware; was born November 5, 1846, in Rappahannock county, Virginia; son of A. P. Y. Compton,, who was American born, of English ancestry. Young Compton was raised on a farm untif fourteen years old, when he was apprenticed to thesaddlery and harness trade for three years. Hethen went to Loudon county, Virginia, and served under instructions three years. In 1868 he opened a shop at Flint Hill, in his nativecounty, and conducted it about four years. In 1872 he came to this county and settled at Roscoe, where he continued his business until April, 1880, when he occupied his present room, which is sixt}'--five feet long by twenty-two and a half feet wide, being the largest in the county used for like business This large room is well filled with goods manufactured in the establishment, together with a fine stock of saddlery hardware. Mr. Compton was married November 22, 1874, to Miss Mary F. Carroll, daughter of Michael Carroll, deceased, of Roscoe. This union was blessed with two children, a daughter, Annie L., and a son, Edward M.

COMPTON J. A., Coshocton, dealer in musical instruments and sewing machines; was born January 10, 1850, in Jackson township; son of Elisha Compton, born in Virginia, of English ancestry. Young Compton was raised on the farm, and left it when about twenty-one years of age and entered the Ohio Wesleyan University, and remained three years, with the exception of teaching school one term. In the year 1873, Mr.

Oompton established his present business, in which he is doing well, having handled during the past year from 300 to 400 sewing machines, about fifty organs and a number of pianos.

COMPTON R. T., Coshocton; piano, organ und sewing machine dealer; born January 19, 1848, in Jackson township ; son of Eiisha Oompton, a native of Virginia, of English extraction; was raised on a farm. At the age of nineteen he the Ohio "Wesleyan University, and remained one year, after which he taught school -eight years in Illinois and six years in Ohio, -teaching in the towns of Chili, the Valley school, Adams' Mill school, in Muskingum county, and one year in this citv. He then traveled two years tor George H Grant & Co., of Richmond, Indiana, school furniture dealers. He then engaged with his brother in the present business, and established it for himself in 1880 Mr. deals in three popular makes of organs, three of pianos, and the Eldridge sewing rSachine. Mr. Compton was married March 11, 1879, to Miss Mary Ellen Dickey, daughter of Hiram Dickey, of Mill Creek township. He was organist in the Roscoe Methodist church for about eight years. In the spring of 1880, Mr. Compton bought a residence on the east end of Chestnut street, which he now occupies.

COMPTON JOHN M., Coshocton; attorney; born February 3, 1848, in Jackson township, this county, worked on the farm and attended public school until he was nineteen years of age, when he enlisted in Company K, Ninety-seventh 0. V. I., and served to the close of the war. On his return he completed his education by going to fichool and teaching. In 1867 he entered as a .student in the law office of Lee and Pomerene and was admitted to practice in 1869, and since that time he has given his entire attention to his profession. Attorney Compton was elected Mayor of the city in 1872 and re-elected in 1874, serving two consecutive terms. Mayor Compton was married June 2, 1870, to Miss- Camilla Burns, of Jackson township. The result of this union is four children, viz : Charles B., William M., Jessie iind Edward C. Mr. C. takes an active interest in educational affairs.

COMPTON J. F., druggist, 402 Main street, Ohio. Mr. Compton is a native of this county; was born in Jackson township, December 16, 1847, and received his preparatory in the district of that vicinity, and also took a course at the Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio, and afterward taught school for several years. In 1870 he engaged in the drug business in Roscoe and was burned out in 1874. He then engaged in the insurance business and continued in the same until 1877, after which he engaged with the firm of Barker, Moore &

Co., wholesale druggists, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as traveling salesman. In 1880 he established business for himself at his present location. He occupies a pleasant, commodious room, 26x40, where he keeps a large stock of pure drugs, chemicals, patent medicines, oils, paints, dye stuffs, glass, toilet articles, fancy goods, trusses, surgical instruments, etc.

CONE EDMUND, farmer ; Washington county ; postoffice, Wakatomaka; born in South Wilbraham, Hamden county, Connecticut, in 1810. He came to this county in 1828, and immediately engaged as teacher of the school that was about a quarter of a mile south of the present village of Carlisle. The building was a round-log one, the fireplace extending across one entire end. There was a spelling-book for about every five or six scholars, the cost of a speller being a bushel of wheat delivered in Zanesville. He had an attendance of seventy scholars. He commenced the study of medicine with his brother, J. Cone, Jr., who was practicing at this time, and was admitted to practice by the board of censors at Zanesville. He was first married to Miss Seward, who died, and he married Miss Hawthorne. Both were of this county.

CONNER ISAAC, Monroe township ; born June 29, 1837, in Monroe township, Coshocton county, Ohio; postoiBoe, Spring Mountain; son of James and Margaret (Holt) Conner, and grandson of Daniel and Pheobe (Penrose) Conner, and of John and Ehzabeth (Conner) Holt; also great-grandson of James and Mary Conner, and of Jesse Penrose. Mr. Conner is a farmer and was educated in the common schools. He was married to Mary J. Bingler, May 12, 1861, who was born November 10, 1843, daughter of Michael and Mary J. (Hogbin) Bingler, and granddaughter of Jessie and Catharine Bingler, and of William and Charity Hogbin. Their children are Joseph E., born January 1, 1863; Emily N. and Susie G., September 6. 1866 ; James 8 , July 10, 1873, and Mary E., January 28, 1879.

CONRAD JOHN, Mill Creek township, farmer; postoffice, Clark, Ohio; was born September 25, 1817, in West Moreland county, Pennsylvania; son of Jacob and Mary Conrad; married November 5, 1840, to Rebecca King, daughter of William and Mary M. King, who was born December 26, 1822, in York county, Pennsylvajjia. The children born to them are as follows: Mary Anne, born November 1,1841; Margaret, born November 9, 1842 ; Jacob William Henry, born December 24, 1845 ; John Weslev, born February 10, 1858; Rebecca Jane, born July 29, 1851; Maria Catharine, born August 22, 1854; Henry Washington, born June 22, 1856, and Elizabeth Barbara, born April 18, 1861.

COOK D. E , Linton township, farmer; born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, March 11, 1803; the son of George and Mary (Kobb) Cook. His father was born in Ireland, and emigrated to America when a young man. His mother was a native of Pennsylvania. In the fall of 1811 he came with his father to Guernsey county ; there remained till 1831, when he moved to Logan, and carried on farming and milling for sixteen years. In 1847 he took up his residence in Linton township, and has been here since. He was married April 8, 1831, to Catharine, daughter of Thomas Johnson. Ten children resulted from thismarriag: Thomas, George, "William C, deceased, Nancy J., John, Sarah, Amanda, deceased, Melona, deceased, ^ames H., deceased, and David Y. His wife having died, he was united in marriage with Lydia, daughter of Henry and Sarah Snyder, of Logan county. Their children are, Joseph Snyder, deceased, Mary Isabel, deceased, Catharine J. and Charles T.

COOK D. Y., grocer and confectioner, Sixth street, between Main and Chestnut, Coshocton. Mr. Cook is a native of Logan county, 0., where he was born February 8, 1847. His parents came to Coshocton county when he was (Juite young, and he has been a resident of the county ever since. He received his education in the district schools of Linton township, and he followed joining as a business until the fall of 1879, when he came to Coshocton and engaged in the grocery and huckster business. He carries a good stock of staple and fancy groceries and confectioneries, and deals in all kinds of country produce, and makes a specialty of butter and eggs, in which department he runs a wagon and visits different parts of the surrounding country, in order to supply his custom with fresh supplies in this line. He was married to M. E. Hawthorne, by whom he has four children - three daughters and one son.

COOKSEY JAMES, Perry township; postoffice, West Carlisle ; born in Muskingum county, in 1833 ; settled in this county in 1857 ; son of William and Elizabeth (Oden) Cooksey ; married in 1857 to Sarah Lagg, daughter of Harrison and Nancy B. Cooksey. They are the parents of three children, viz : Celestia J., Izadora B., and Leora M. ; two are married. Mr. Cooksey was raised on a farm, and has continued farming ever since. He also deals pretty extensively in thorough-bred sheep.

COOPER JOSEPH, Keene township; son of Ludlow H. and Mary E. Cooper, both of whom were born in Orange county, New York ; grandson of Joseph and Susan (Halsey) Cooper, and of John and Mary (Howell) Seward, who was the daughter of Nathaniel and Ruth (Poppen)

Howell. His father enlisted in Captain Freegift's company, in 1814, and served three months. He came to Ohio, in 1834. Joseph learned the blacksmith trade, at eighteen, under C. C. Ramer ; enlisted in Company A, Sixteenth 0. V. I., April 18, 1861; was discharged in July following, and re-enlisted. His war record, copied from a memorial, is given below: "Joseph Cooper was mustered as sergeant of Company I, Ninety seventh 0. V. I., August 5, 1862, at Zanesville, Ohio; captain, Martin Wiser; colonel, John Lane; wounded at Murphreesboro', Tennessee, January 2, 1863; wounded again, at Mission Ridge, November 24, 1863, and wounded, at Franklin, Tennessee, December 8, 1864. The battles he was engaged in, were Perryville, Kentucky, October 8, 1862; Stone River, Tennessee, January 2, 1863; Chattanooga, Tennessee, September 8, 1863; Chiekamauga, Tennessee, September 20, 1863; Lookout Mountain, November 22, 1863; Mission- Ridge, November 26,1863; Buzzard Roost, May 14,1864; Altoona, Georgia, May 25, 1864; Dallas, Georgia, May 25, 1864; Marietta, Georgia, May 31, 1864; Peach Tree Creek, June 22, 1864; Kenesaw Mountain, June 27, 1864; Atlanta, July 21, 1864; Spring Hill, Tennessee, December 6,1864; Franklin, Tennessee, December 8, 1864, and Nashville, January 24, 1865. He was discharged June 10,

1865, at Nashville, Tennessee." January 6, 1866, he married Lucy C. Cowee, daughter of James and Augusta (Adams) Cowee, who was the daughter of John Q. and Dorothea (Elliott) Adams. Their children are Charlie, born December 18,

CORBIT GEORGE, Adams township; farmer; postoffice, Evansburgh, Ohio; son of Robert and Susannah (Puller) Corbit; was born December 6, 1835, in Coshocton county, Ohio, and has remaind a resident of the county all his life. Mr. Corbit was raised on the farm, and has always followed the occupation of a farmer. His father was of Irish and his mother of German descent, and were old pioneers of this county. Mr. Corbit was married November 29, 1857, to Miss Margaret A. Morris, of this county. They become the parents of twelve children, viz: Amanda, William R., Albert, Aaron, Melinda, an infant not named, Robert H.,- Mary, Charles, John M., Elmer and an infant not named.

CORBIT LEWIS, Adams township; farmer; postoffice, Bakersville ; born in Adams township, June 1, 1821 ; son of Robert and Susan (Fuller) Corbit, and grandson of Jesse Corbit and James and Catharine Fuller. His father came to this country about the year 1804, with James Miskimmins, born in May, 1790. He was married August 27, 1842, to Miss Eliza Carp, daughter of Adam and Mary (Cocharn) Carp, born July 21, 1822, in Guernsey countyj Ohio. They are par- ents of thirteen children, as follows : John, Robert and William, deceased ; James, Wilson; Sarah A. deceased ; Edward, George W., Adam ; Susan, Mary E., Laura A. and Almeda, deceased.

COULTER J. M., Perry township, postoffice, New Guilford ; born in Bedford county, Pennsyl- Yania; settled in this county in 1814. He was born in 1813, and is a son of William and Susan (McCoy) Coulter. Mr. Coulter's father held the office of county surveyor for twelve years, surveying being his calling the greater portion of his life. J. M. Coulter was a grandson of Thomas and Lydia (Connor) Coulter, and of William and Lydia Connor. Mr. Coulter has been twice married, first to Miss Nancy Pigmaai, who died in 1847. In 1857, Mr. Coulter married Miss Sarah A. Robinson, daughter of John and Bewly Robinson. Three children, viz : Mary J., J. R. and Joseph, were born of the first marriage ; and four, viz : Bewly, Susan V., Benjamin and Wallace, of the second. Mr. Coulter's son, J. R., enlisted in Company A, Seventy-sixth regiment Ohio volunteers, in 1861, Captain Lemert,. participating in the battles of Fort Donelson, Pittsburgh Landing, Corinth, Vicksburg, and others.

COX HAMILTON, Virginia township; born in East Virginia, in 1805; settled in this county in 1830, and is a son of Samuel and Elizabeth Cox. He was married in 1831, to Rachael Hardesty, daughther of Edmund and Ruta Hardesty. Mr. Cox has ten children living, and one dead. They are all married and living in this county. Postoffice, New Moscow.

COX J. E., Keene township; postoffice, Keene, Ohio; was born, in 1830, on Mill creek, Keene township, Coshocton county, Ohio. He attended the common schools of the township until twelve years old, walking three and one-half miles, morning and evening. When twelve years old, he attended a select school in the village of Keene, taught by Rev. J. D. Whitham, and received instruction in the higher English branches. He attended this school three years, having to walk over three miles, morning and evening. Mr. Cox began teaching in 1846, and is, perhaps, the oldest teacher in the county. He taught his first school in district No. 4, Clark township, in an old log house, formerly used as a dwelling. There was no blackboard, no desks, no furniture of any kind. The seats were made of slabs and fence-rails, with wooden pins for legs. The balance of the furniture consisted of hickory withes, used to encourage refractory pupils up the hill of science. Wood was used then instead of coal. Many times the teacher found no wood in the morning, and was either compelled to dismiss for the day, or send and borrow an ax and, by the aid of the pupils, furnish his own wood. After he had finished his first school, Mr. Cox began the study of medicine with Dr. W. F. DeL'aMater, working part of the time to pay his board and tuition. During the winter of 1846-7, he taught school in White Eyes township.

He then continued the study of medicine under Dr. J. Anderson, teaching in the winter and studying in the summer until he had completed the course required. He then went West to earn money to attend a course of lectures. While in the West he met with an accident which rendered him a permanent cripple, thereby changing his intentions in life. He returned home and concluded to follow the profession of . teaching, which he has successfully done ever since. His first certificate is dated March 2, 1862, and signed by Thomas Campbell, Esq., who was then acting as county examiner. The only school that he began and did not finish was in Bethlehem township ; and the failure was caused by a tree falling on the house and rendering it unfit for further use. Mr. Cox has taught in many of the country and village schools in this county. He has always been successful, and has never been compelled to ask the directors to aid bim in governing a school, which is something remarkable considering the long time he has been teaching. 'His last school was taught in district No. 8, White Eyes township, during the winter of 1880-'81.

COX W. W., Virginia township ; born in this township in 1833 ; son of Hamilton and Rachel Cox; married in 1856 to Margaret>P. Marquand, daughter of John and Martha Marquand. They have had eleven children, ten of whom are living. Mr. Cox has been twice elected justice of the peace of Virginia township!. Postoffice address, Dresden.

CRAWFORD J M., Coshocton, county recorder ; born May 30, 1852, in Roscoe, this county ; was educated in the public schools of his native village, and at McNeely normal school. Mr. C. commenced teaching in 1869, and taught until he entered upon the duties of his present office, in 1877. He was re-elected to the office of recorder in 1879. Mr. Crawford was married October 29, 1875, to Miss Pauhna Biggs, of Jackson township, this county. The result of this marriage is one son, Frank L.

CRAWFORD J. R., clerk in the firm of Hay & Morley ; born September 27, 1849, in Crawford township; son of Scott R. Crawford, a native of the County Tyrone, Ireland. He was raised on the farm until seventeen years of age, when he began clerking for John J. Stewart and continued a clerk to the' present time. He was married in March 1872, to Miss Mary Le Retilley, daughter of George Le Retilly of Roscoe. To them have been born two children, George R. and another.

CEAWFOED WILLIAM, miller in Empire mills, Eoscoe ; was born June 18, 1857, in Eosooe ; son of Eobert Crawford, born in 1825, in Steubenville, Ohio, of Irish descent. William entered the above mills in 1875, where he has remained to the present time.

CEAWFOED WILLIAM H., Mill Creek; farmer; postoffi.ee, New Bedford; born in 1839, in this township. His father, Andrew Crawford, was born in County Donegal, Ireland, and came to this county in 1820. He was married in 1837, to Miss Margaret Irwin of this county, who was born in 1813, in Ireland. She came to this country in 1824, and died in 1867. _ Thejr were the parents of four children He 'married in the same year Miss Mary Eamsey of Pittsburgh. The subject of tliis sketch is the oldest child. He was married in 1866, to Miss Mary CoUoredo, of Holmes county, who was born in 1844. They are the parents of three children, viz: Sarah, Angle and Augusta.

CEAWFOED JAMES, Mill Creek township; iarmer; postofBce, Mound; born in 1836, in this -county. Bis father, Oliver Crawford, was born in 1808, in Ireland. He came to this county in 1819, and was married in 1831, to Miss Jane Irwin, of this county. She was born in 1813, in Ireland, and died in 1855. They were the parents of eight children, the subject of this sketch being the third. He was married in 1862, to Miss Jane McCormick, of this county, who died in 1864. They were the parents of two children. He, in 1874, married Miss Lucinda Babcock, of this county. They have one child.

CEAWFOED J. W., Pike township; farmer and stock raiser ; postoffioe, Frazeysburgh, Muskingum county ; born in this county, in 1847 ; son of John and Rebecca (McCann) Crawford. He was married in 1874, to Miss Sarah M. Anderson, daughter of William and Mariah Anderson. They are the parents of three children, viz : William J. and Clide. Youngest is not named.

CEAWFOED O., Pike township ; farmer ; born in 1841, in this township. His father, John, was born in 1806, in Ireland. He came to this country and county in 1818, and was married in 1832, to Miss Eebecca McCann, of Muskingum county. She was born in 1807, in Strasburg, Virginia He died in 1851. They were the parents of six children. The subject of this sketch Was married in 1862, to Miss Margaret Moore, *f this county. She was born in 1839, in this county. They are the parents of four childrn, viz : Edmund, Loretta, Mary B., Eebecca E.

CEAWFOED ANDEEW, Clark township; farmer; postoffice, Clark's; born in Crawford town- .ship, June 3, 1830; son of James and Mary (Eothwell) Crawford, and grandson of Thomas Crawford, who came from Ireland. He was married February 14, 1860, to Miss Marian Shilling, daughter of Joseph and Nancy (Howenstine) Shilling, and granddaughter of George Howenstine and Josfeph Shilling ; she was born in Medina county, Ohio, July 13, 1838. Plis father was one of the first settlers of Crawford township. Their children are as follows : Walter W , born December 15,1862; Cora, born September 28,1864; Frank H., born January 19, 1868 ; Charles, born May 22, 1870; James P., born February 11,1872; Jesse L., born March 10, 1874 ; Frederick, born September 4, 1876; Stella, born September 5, 1878, and Richard, born March 20, 1880.

CRIDEE JAMES, laborer; Tiverton township; postoffice. Union, Knox county ; born June 15, 1854, in Holmes county. He came to this county in 1868, and was married May 18, 1876, to Miss Alvira Strieker, of Holmes county, who was born in 1860, in this county. They are the parents of two children, viz : Anna O., born April 9, 1877, and Joseph A., born March 7, 1879.

CEILE MICHAEL, Crawford township; farmer; postoffice. Chili; born March 21, 1883, in Holmes county; son of Conrad and Elizabeth (Holderbum) Crile. Mr. Crile was married, January 24, 1856, to Miss Margaret, daughter of Jacob and Mary (Eider) Deeds, of Pennsylvania. They have had eight children - Mary E., married to George W. Everhart, Jacob C, Margaret M., married to Byron Johnston, Michael A., George W.,^ Austin D., Cora C. and Caroline F. Mr. Crile ' has a comfortable home for himself and family.

CEISWELL JOHN, Linton township; wagonmaker at Plainfield ; born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, April 19, 1833, son of James and Margaret (Miller) Criswell. His mother's parents emigrated from Ireland. His father came to Guernsey county about 1636, and to Oxford township about 1847. John remained on his father's farm there Jwo years, then learned his trade -with his brother Robert, at Adamsville, and, after working in Coshocton six months, he, in 1854, opened a wagon shop in Plainfield. During the greater part of the year 1864, he was employed by the government, in the wagon department, at Nashville and Chattanooga. In March, 1865, he enlisted in the service and was discharged the following November. Since that time he has followed his trade in Plainfield. He was married, October 4, 1855, to Mary, daughter of John Bonce, born in Loudon county, Virginia, and emigrated with her mother to Muskingum county when a young girl. His children are Sarah Jane, deceased, James H., deceased, Mary Alice, Nar. 0., David Martin and Delora May, twins, and Susan.

ship; farmer; postoffioe, Yankee Ridge; born in 1834, April 22, in Knox county. He was married October 7, 1868, to Miss Mary S. Block, of the same county, who was born October 24, 1841. They came to this county, in 1867, and are the parents of one child, Clinton A., born July 8, 1858.

CEOFT CONRAD, Crawford township; farmer; postoffice, Chili; born March 3, 1843, in Mill Creek township; son of John and Catherine (Conrad) Croft; came to Crawford township in the spring of 1868, and to his present residence in 1872. He married December 5, 1867, Catherine, daughter of Christian and Rebecca (Lower) Fisher. Sarah Ellen is their only child. Mr. Croft has succeeded well, having a comfortable home for himself and family.

CROFT JOHN J., Crawford township; postoffice, New Bedford; of the firm of Brown & Croft, hardware dealers ; was born April 20, 1841, dn Mill Creek township; son of John and Catherine (Conrad) Croft. He followed farming until 1876, when the present firm was formed. Mr. Croft was married April 16, 1872, to Miss Mary

CROFT SOLOMON, Mill creek township; farmer; postoffice. New Bedford, Ohio; born in Mill Creek township, October, 30, 1847; son of , John and Catharine Croft; was married November 11, 1875, to Amanda dinger, daughter of Isaac and Sarah dinger, who was born May 18, 1867. The children born to them were as follows : John F., born October 28, 1876, and Catharine, born March 25, 1881.

CROFT FREDERICK, Mill Creek township ; farmer; postoffice. New Bedford, Ohio; was born August 2t), 1837, in Mill Creek township ; son of John and Catharine Croft; was married in 1868 to Lucinda Keehn, who was born jn Holmes county, February 1, 1849, daughter of Frederick and Mary Keehn.

CROFT JOHN, Mill Creek township; farmer; postoffice, New Bedford; born in 1809, in Wurtemberg, Germany. He came to this country in 1817, landing at Philadelphia, and came to this county in 1821. He was married in 1828, to Miss Catharine Conrad, of Holmes county, Ohio, who was born in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, in 1810.

CROSKEY JOHN, dark township ; postoffice, Helmick ; farmer; born in Jefferson county, Ohio, December 8, 1831; son of Michael and Rachel V. (Lewis) Croskey, and grandson of Joseph Lewis. jlis father was one of the first blacksmiths in Clark township, and came from Ireland when he was 16 years of age. He was married October 4, 1854, to Emma M. Simpkinson, daughter of Charles and Sarah (Keeling) Simpkinson, who was born in Carroll county July 11, 1836. They are the parents of the following children: Sarah L. J., born July 6, 1855; Michael C, June 13, 1867 ; Hannah, January 9, 1859 ; Emma M., March 5, 1861 ; Floretta S. P., December 16, 1866, and Elsworth R., born March 13, 1877, an adopted son. Mr. Croskey owns a farm of forty acres on the KiUbuck.

CROUCH R. B., Jackson township, postoffice, Tyrone ; born in this county in 1846, son of Daniel and Elizabeth.Crouch, and grandson of Robert and Mary Crouch ; married in 3874 to Rebecca E. Gott, daughter of John and Mary Gott, of Jefferson county, Ohio. Their union has been blessed with one child, viz : Mary G.

CROUCH DANIEL, Pike township; postoffice. West Carlisle ; farmer and stock raiser; born in Harrison county, Ohio, in 1815; settled in this county in 1836 ; son of Robert and Mary (Merrit) Crouch, and grandson of Daniel and Nancy (Johnson) Crouch. He was married in 1836 to- Miss Elizabeth Brown, daughter of John and Elizabeth Brown. Mr. Crouch is the father of eleven children, viz : Nancy J., John M., Plessey Elizabeth, deceased, Mary, deceased, Robert B., William S., James J., Roda A., Martha and Sarah E. Mrs. Couch died in 1879.

CROUL WILLIAM, Monroe township; postoffice, Warsaw ; was born in Jefferson township, Coshocton county, November 28, 1843; son of Lewis and Elizabeth (Miller) Crdtil, and grandson of William and. Dorotha E. Miller. Hisfather was born in Darmstadt, Germany, in 1802; was one of the first settlers of Jefferson township, and helped build the Walhonding canal. Mr. Croul has always been a farmer, and is a highly respected man. He was married April 3, 1864, to Miss Mary Frederick, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Brillhart) Frederick, and granddaughter of George and Christina (Leaner) Frederick, and of Samuel and Susan (Whitezel) Brillhart. She was born December 9, 184'3. They have two children, viz : William F., born January 1, 1865, and Elizabeth S., born May 3, 1868.

CROWELL W. S., Coshocton; attorney ; born March 28, 1843, in Morgan, Ashtabula county, Ohio; son of S. B. Crowell,.born in the United States, of Engliih ancestry. The son obtained a good rudimentary education in the public schools of his native county, and at the age of fourteen years obtained a certificate for teaching school. From the age of sixteen he taught during the winter, and labored during the summer, until the beginning of the late civil war, when he enlisted in Company D, Sixteenth 0. V. I., (the i5rst company accepted from his county), and participated in the battle at Bich Mountain, West Virginia, one of the first of the war. On his return home, in August, 1861, he re-enUsted, and was elected second lieutenant of Company A, Twenty-ninth O. V. I. (Giddings' regiment). In February, 1862, he was promoted to first lieutenant, being only eighteen years old. In the spring of the same year he resigned and raised Company G, One Hundred and Fifth O. V. I., and was- commissioned its captain. He remained with the company through the campaigns of Kentucky, Tennessee, and Georgia, until after the fall of Atlanta, in the summer of 1864, when, for the first time, he was taken sick, and soon after discharged as unfit for mihtary duty, having served about forty months. He received honorable mention in the reports of the battles of Perryville, ^entucky, and Milton, Tennessee. On his return home, he entered, as a student, the law office of W. P. Howland, and was admitted to practice in 1866, but his health not being good, he did not enter upon his profession until 1870, at Coshocton. He was married May 4, 1869, to Miss Emily H. Wood, of Keene, Coshocton county, Ohio. Captain Crowell was elected prosecuting attorney, in 1872, and re-elected, with an increased majority, in 1874. Since the expiration of his second term, he has given his entire time to his profession.

CROWTHEB GEORGE, Perry township ; farmer ; postoffice, New Guilford ; born in Marylahd, in 1818 ; son of James and Delilah Crowther, and grandson of Jesse Cullison ; married in 1839, to Miss Elizabeth CuUison, daughter of Carlton and Hanna Cullison. They are the parents of three children, viz: Caroline, William and Alonzo. All are married. One lives in Knox county, Ohio, the others live in this county. Mr. Crowther has taken into his family a little girl, named Nerva Bush.

CBOWTHEB JESSE E., Perry township ; farmer and stock raiser; postoffice, New Guilford; born in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1825; settled in this county about the year 1829; son of James and Dehlah (Cullison) Crowther, and grandson of Jesse and Nettie Crowther. He was married in 1857, to Miss Mary A. Mills. Mr. Crowther is the father of three children, viz : Lina L., Frank and WiUiam L.

CBAWFOBD THOMAS W., Oxford township; farmer ; White Eyes Plains postoffice ; son of Alexander and EUzabeth (Wilson) Culbertson, both of this county. Mr. Culbertson was raised from the age of ten years by Mr. Solomon Vail, one of the pioneers of this county. The subject of this sketch was born in Keene township, in 1886, and was married- to Miss Martha J. Eehard, of this township. They have had seven children, as follows: Ellsworth, two years, deceased; Clara B.,. Walter, Leonie, Charles, deceased; Lucy and Ora 0. Mr. Crawford went out in Company E, One Hundred and Forty-second O.N.G., for 100 days; then, in January, 1865, he enlisted in the Eighty-^ eighth regiment, and served five months and twenty days, until mustered out by order of the secretary of war. Mr. Crawford and wife are members of the Protestant Methodist church, and are highly respected by a large circle of friends and acquaintances. His daughter, Clara, is alsoa member of the same church. He owns a good farm of ninety-seven acres in this township, and is an enterprising citizen. His mother passed away in 1851, and his father afterward married Miss Jennie Powelson, who died in April, 1858, and he died in May, 1859, one year and one month after his second wife.

CULLISON MARTIN, Bedford township; farmer ; postoffice. West Bedford ; born in 1828, in this county. His father, Carlton Cullison, wasborn in 1796, in Maryland, and was married in 1818, to Miss Hannah Passingham, of the same State, who was born in 1798. They came to this county in 1825. He died in 1865, and she died in 1878. They were the parents of nine children, the subject of this sketch being the fourth. He was married in 1852, to Miss Emily Clark, of this county, who was born in' 1834, in this county. They are the parents of five children, four of whom are living, viz : Ami, Harvey V., Mary J., Martha E.

CULLISON JOSEPH A., Perry township;, postoffice. New Guilford; born in Harrison county, Ohio, in 1828 ; settled in this county, in 1833 ; son of Abner and Lydia Cullison, and grandson of Joseph. and Teritia (Shepard) Cullison, and of William and Susannah McCoy. Mr, Cullison has been twice married, first to Miss Katharine Bayley. They had seven children, viz': Willis, Edgar, William C. and Lydia E., deceased; Charles W. and George W. He was married in September, 1872, to Miss Margaret Wolf, daughter of George and Sarah Wolf.

CULLISON N. W., Perry township; postoffice,. New Guilford; born in Maryland, in 1834; settled in this county, in 1886; son of Wheeler and Katharine (Watts) Cullison, and grandson of Shedrick and Margaret Cullison, and of Nathaniel and Mary Watts. He married Evaline Birch^ daughter of Jacob and Mary Birch. They have three children, viz: Sylva B,, Laura v. and Lizzie M.

CULLISON T. W., Perry township; postoffice. New Guilford ; born in Baltimore county, Maryland, in 1820; settled in this county in 1835; son of Wheeler and Catherine (Watts) Cullison, and grandson of Shedrick and Margaret Cullison, and of Nathaniel and Mary Watts. Mr. CuUison has twice married ; first, in 1840, to Miss Nancy Cullison. They had one child, J. W. His second marriage was in 1849, to Louisa J. Lee. They have eleven children, viz : Austin C, John N , Sanford, Charles F., Harvey W., Eolla L., Ellmer E., Milton S., Thos G., Adda W. and Etta A.

CULLISON EPHRAIM, Perry township; postoffice, Mohawk Village; farmer and stock-raiser; 'born in Baltimore county, Maryland, July 11, 1822; settled in this county, in 1824 ; son of Carlton and Hannah Culhson,and grandson of Jessie and Notie (Wheeler) Cullison ; maried, in 1843, to Miss Harriet Wantling, who died May 10, 1880. Mr. Cullison is the father of six children, viz: TVIary E., William, Louisa, Hannah, deceased, Daniel and Caroline.

CULLISON JAMES W., Franklin township; born in New Castle township, July 16, 1831 ; son of Moses Cullison, who was born in Maryland, and married there Mary Wantland, of Connecticut, both of English ancestry. His grandfather Cullison was an emigrant from Scotland. In 1836, he moved to Perry township, where his mother died the following year. In June, 1841, 'his father's household was scattered by the marriage of his eldest daughter, and James found a home with William and George Given, of Jeflfer-

- son township. Two years later, his father died, and he was bound out to the Givens till he was eighteen, when he began the struggle of life for himself, working on the farm in summers, and attending school in winters, first in the country, then several years at the West Bedford academy. He then learned the carpenter trade with his cousin, Jeremiah Cullison, worked at it during summer and taught school in winter till his marriaee, December 30, 1858, with Sarah A., daughter of George A. McCleeary. Since then he has been farming, also dea,ling in stock and selling agricultural implements extensively. His children are- William Bell, deceased, Seth McCleeary, George Harvey, Kinsey Sherman and John Elmer.

CUNNINGHAM M AH LON, Washington township; farmer; postoffice. Tunnel Hill; born in 1836, in this county. His father was born, in 1808, in Fayette county, Pennsylvania. He was married, in 1827, to Miss Rebecca Trego, of the same county, who was born in 1805. They are the parents of nine children. Mahlon Cunningham was married, in 1861, to Miss Catherine Masten, of this county, who was born in 1840. They are the parents of two children, viz : S. E. .and Mary J.

Cutshall and Robert West. , Grandmother Cutshall lived to the advanced age of 110 years. Mr. Cutshall came to Coshocton county in January, 1S41, located in Adams township, and has resided here ever since. He was married, in 1841, to Miss Margaret A. Boop, daughter of Michael and Elizabeth (Winnings) Boop, and granddaughter of Jacob and Margaret (Sigman) Boop and Samuel Winnings. She was born February 1, 1822, in Jefferson county, Ohio. They are the parents of six children, viz: Elizabeth A., Rachel, Mary, George W., Harriet A. and Emma.

DAILEY FRANK B., Coshocton, Ohio; carriage wood-worker for V. 0. Jeffer's factory. Mr. Dailey was born in Lancaster City, Pennsylvania, August 21, 1847 ; son of John and Jijlia (Delano) Dailey. His paternal ancestors are Irish, and his maternal French. He enlisted August 2, 1862, Company 6, One Hundred and Fifteenth Pennsylvania V. I., and served until July 3, 1865. Durmg his service he participated in thirteen general engagements ; among them the battles of Malvern Hill, second Bull Run, Fredericksburg, Chancellors ville, Gettysburg, SpjOttsylvania' and before Petersburg, besides many skirmishes. He came out of all these unscathed. When the war was over, he went to his present trade, at Lancaster City, Pennsylvania, where he remained until July, 1871, when he came to Coshocton' which has since been his home. Mr. Dailey was married December 26, 1872, to Miss Annie M., daughter of Andrew Denic, deceased, formerly of Roscoe. They are the parents of three children, viz : Frank, Edward and Mary Agnes.

DARLING ISAAC, Bethlehem township; farmer; postoffice, Warsaw, Ohio; son of Isaac Darling, Sr.; was born December 7, 1839, in Coshocton county. He was married December 8, 1865, to Miss Almeda Butler, of this county, who was born August 18, 1843. They are the parents of five children, three of whom are dead. Jeanette was born March 21, 1867; Glendora was born October 6, 1878. Mr. Darling was raised on the farm, and has always followed the occupation of farmer. He and his wife are prominent members of the Methodist Episcopal church. Mr. Darling has served as trustee and clerk of his township for several years.

DARLING WILSON, deceased, Bethlehem township; farmer; son of James Darling ; was born in July, 1830. I-Ie was married in 1850, to Miss Barbara Frederick, of this county, who was born January 19, 1835. They became the parents of four children, viz : Mary P., born in December, 1853; Camille L. and Colona, twins, born July 23, 1858; William F., born August 10, 1860. Mr.

Darling was raised on the farm, and always followed that occupation. He died very suddenly on October 18, 1880, of apoplexy. Mr. Darling's father was one of the old pioneers of the county. Mr. Darling was a prominent member of the Methodist Episcopal church. Mrs. Darling is still a member. Mr. Darling was esteemed and honored by all who knew him.

DARLING AARON, Bethlehem township; farmer; postoffice, Warsaw, Ohio; son of James Darling ; was born in 1832, in Coshocton county. His father came to this county in 1806 and was one of the old pioneers. Aaron Darling was married in 1861, to Miss Nancy A. Moore, who was born June 18, 1839, in Coshocton county. They are the parents of three children, viz : Florella B., Charles and William. Florella B. is engaged in teaching school. Mr. Darling was raised on the farm, and has always followed that occupation. He owns a good farm and is esteemed by all his acquaintances.

DARLING L. C, Bethlehem township ; farmer ; postoffice, Warsaw, Ohio ; son of Jacob and Harriet A. (Spurgeon) Darling; was born January 14, 1849, in this county. His parents were of Irish descent. His father came from Virginia and his mother from Knox coxmty, Ohio. Mr. Darling was raised on the farm, and has always followed that occupation. He was married January 8, 1874, to Miss Mary A. Bantum, of this county, who was born March 23, 1848. They are the parents of one child, viz : Cora, who was born September 31, 1874.

DAUGHERTY SAMUEL M., Adams township; farmer; postoffice, Evansburgh; born in Keene township, July 2, 1826 ; son of John aiid Jane (Mitchell) Daugherty, and grandson of James and Jane (Lawson; Daugherty, and Samuel and Nancy (Lyons) Mitchell. His grandparents came from Ireland to America in 1778. His father was born in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, in 1788, and moved to Keene township, this county, in 1818, where the subject of this sketch was born. He began the carpenter trade - at the age of eighteen, and continued until the age of twenty-three ; then moved to his present location, where he worked at the trade and farmed for about six years. He was then bereft of his companion, and compelled to quit housekeeping, but worked at his trade three years; then turned his attention to farming, and is still following that business. He lives on a fa,rm of two hundred acres, pleasantly located in the southern part of the township. He has also a farm of two hundred and seventy-four acres one and one-half miles east of the home farm. He was married November 29, 1849, to Miss Mary Beaver, daughter of Thomas and Sarah (Clous) Beaver, of Irish and English descent. Mrs.

Daugherty died February 23, 1856. She was the mother of one child, Mary, born February 4, 1856. Mr. Daugherty was married February 3, 1859, to Miss Eliza Watson, daughter of RoBert and Agnes (Munce) Watson, and granddaughter of John and Mary (Neely) Watson, and Thomas and Margaret (McKnight) Munce, and greatgranddaughter of Mary Moultrie. Mrs. Daugherty is of Irish and Scotch parentage. She has a son, Robert W., born March 25, 1860. Mr. Daugherty is a gentleman of high standing, and is at present filling the office of county commissioner.

DAUGHERTY J. L., Jackson township; Roscoe postoffice; born in Keene township, in this coun^ty, in 1829; son of John and Jaae (Mitchell) Daugherty; married in 1861, to Nancy Karr, daughter of J. W. and Mariah Karr. Mrs. Daugherty died in 1880. Mr. Daugherty is the father of seven children, viz : Priscilla A., William T., Mariah J., Nancy E., G. C, Emma B., Lula M. Four are married and living in this county. Mr. Daugherty enlisted .in the army as captain of Company G, One Hundred and Fortythird Ohio regiment, in 1864 - Army of the Potoiiiac.

DAUGHERTY ROSS, Oxford township; White Eyes Plains postoffice; farmer; was born in this township in 1831 ; son of James D., a native of Wilmington, Delaware, of Irish descent. His mother was a native of this township. Both parents have died. The subject of this sketch was married to Miss Sarah Wurtsbaugh, of Keene township, daughter of Harrison W. and Lucinda (Spira) Wurtsbaugh. They have had six children, as follows : David Peatt, deceased, aged eleven months; Martha Ann, Byron, Mack, John, Jennie May. Mr. Daugherty took part in the war, going out in Company A, Eighty-eighth Ohio V. I., and and served two years and eleven months. He owns sixty-three acres of good land, and is honest and well spoken of by all. They are members of the Baptist Church.

DAUGHERTY ROBERT M., Oxford township; farmer; postoffice, Plainfield. Mr. Daugherty was born May 19, 1830, in Harrison county, Ohio. He was raised on the farm, and had followed that occupation all his life. In 1839, he went to Tuscarawas county, and remained two years. He then went to Jefferson county, and lived there two years ; then came to Coshocton county, and has resided here ever since. Mr. Daugherty was married, April 9, 1869, ,to Miss Mary Jones, of this county. They are the parents of seven children : Seth, Charity J., Willis, John, Frank, Mary and Clara B., all of whom are living. One, Charity J., is married. His oldest son, Seth, is engaged in teaching, having taught successfully for five years. Mr. Daugherty has

DAVIED JOHN, Franklin township; born January 22, 1814, in "\'ittoncourt, Faulguemont Canton, Moselle Department, France; son of John Davied. In 1847, he emigrated to America, landing at New Orleans, and coming up to Zanesville, by water. He had been a stonemason, in France, but engaged in farming here, the first two years in Muskingum county; then a year in Fountain county, Indiana; next in Franklin township. Married, in 1855, to Ann Grand- Girard, bora in Voinehaute, France, January 25, 1826. By a former marriage to John N. Daniel, she had twri children, viz : John N , born January 14, 185 'and Margaret (Burton), born November 30, 1851. Mr. Davied's children are Ferdinand, born April 23,1856; Mary (Burton), born April 3, 1858; Anna (Collet), March 31, 1860, John, November 20, 1861; Leo, March 14, 1863, and Matilda, March 14, 1866.

DAVIS BENTON, Lafayette township; farmer; Plainfield postoffice ; only son of John Davis ; was born in this township, in 1846; was marriec^ to Miss Blanche Beelsford, of Linton township, who became the mother of four children, viz : Beelsford, Stephen-, Mary and Blanche. The subject of this sketch was educated at Vermillion Institute, Ashland county, and is a progressive young farmer.

DAVIS JOHN N., Adams township; farmer; postoffice, Evansburgh ; born in Adams township, Coshocton county, Ohio, April 26, 1850; son of James and Rachel J. (Kimball) Davis, and grandson of John and Ann Davis and Abner and Nancy (Jeffries) Kimball. He remained with his father until twenty-three years of age, when he married and began farming for himself. The date of his marriage is September 15, 1874, to Miss Hannah McFarland, daughter of Ezekiel and Isabella (Corbit) McFarland, and granddaughter of Robert and Ann McFarland, and Robert and Susan (Fuller) Corbit. She was born October 30, 1845. They are the parents of three children : George C, born July 10, 1875; Richard G., born January 19, 1877, and Isabel J., born July 15, 1878.

DAVIS J. T., Oxford township; physician; Orange, Evansburgh postoffice; son of Thomas Davis; was born in 1845, in this county, and after receiving a good high school education, he took up the study of medicine about the year 1865, under Dr. Bates, of Wheeling, and finished under Dr. Chapman, of Bakersville, and commenced the practice in 1869, in Harrison county. After prosecuting his profession in that county about two years, he met with misfortune, loosing his entire accumulations by fire, and his next location was at his present place, where, by strict attention to business, he has had a flattering degree of success. He has a good practice, and is surrounded by the comforts of a good home. He was married in 1866, to Miss R. E. Spurgeon, of Knox county, and they have one child, a boy, Charles H., now in his twelfth year. The doctor finds time to handle better road horses than any body in this part of the county, and is a genuine lover of a good horse, of which he has handled a good many.

DAVIS JAIMES R., Adams township; farmer; postoffice, Evansburgh; born in Herefordshire, England, November 4, 1818 ; son of John and Ann (Baily) Davis. He came to America in June, 1832, on the Sarah, of Petersburg, Virginia, landed in New York, from thence he came to Adams township, Coshocton county, via Hudson river, Erie canal, Lake Erie and Ohio canal, and has been a resident of this township since. He was married May 5, 1841, to Miss Rachel X Kimball, daughter of Abner and Nancy (Jeffries) Kimball. They are parents of eleven children, viz : Emily A., born December 20, 1842, died October 19, 1867; MyraJ., born September 29,1844; Curtis, born October 19, 1846; Charles W., born August 17, 1848, died October 17, 1875; John N., born April 26, 1850; Abner T., born February 18, 1852, Ernest J. S., born December 1, 1863; Eleanor M., born March 28, 1866; Hereford H. C, born December 12, 1858 ; Horace F. H., born November 8, 1860, and Laura L., born August 14, 1863. John is married and living in Adams township; Abner and Ernest are farming in Kansas; Curtis is in Knoxville, Iowa. He formerly lived in Idaho and while there was representative two years, Mr, Davis' father died in September 1833, and his mother died September, 1840.

DAWSON MARCUS, Virginia township; born in East Virginia, in 1808 ; settled in Coshocton county in 1829; son of William and Hanna Dawson. Mr. Dawson has been married three times. His first wife was Mary Reed, who bore him four children. His second wife was the mother of eight children. His third wife was Katherine Clark. Postofiice, Willow Brook.

DAWSON WILLIAM, Jackson township; born in this county, in 1833 ; son of Marcus and Mary Dawson; married November 2, 1861, to Augusta M. Adams, daughter of John Q, and Lovina Adams. Their union was. blessed with nine children, one of whom is dead, viz ; J. Q., Murrell E., Effie L., Ora B., Aba M., Kate L., WiUiam M., Glide W. Postofiice, Roscoe.

DAY WILLIAM H., Tuscarawas township; farmer; Canal Lewisville: born March 15,1833, in Wayne county, Pennsylvania ; son of Barney Day, of Irish ancestry ; raised on the farm, came to this county in the spring of 1847, and settled in Jackson township, near Roscoe, and came to his present residence in 1852, and has followed farming during his entire life. He at present is living with his brother-in-law.

DEAN EGBERT, Bedford township; farmer; postoffice, Warsaw, Ohio; son of Samuel and Mary (McCurdy) Dean; was born April 5, 1819, in Jefferson county, Ohio. He came to this county in 1848, and has since remained. Mr. Dean was raised on the farm, and has always followed that occupation. He was married April 3, 1851, to Miss Margaret J. Hamilton, of this county. They are the parents of five children, viz: dharlotte J., Mary A., J.ohn H.^ William L. and Wilbur S , all of whom are living. Mr. Dean owns a good farm, in Bedford township, and is respected by all his neighbors, as a man of integrity and business qualities.

DECIOUS CORNELIUS, Jackson township; Roscoe postoffice ; born in Page county, Virginia, in 1813, settled in this county in 1843; son of Frederick and Magdaline Decious; married, in 1830, to Katharine Davis, daughter of William B. and Jane Davis. They have six children, viz : Charles, John, Frank, Lewis, Howard, deceased, and William. All are married but two. Those married are all living in this comity.

DEAN WILLIAM, Bedford township; farmer; postoffice, Tunnel Hill; born in 1823, in Jefferson county, Ohio, and was married in 1853, to Miss Asmath Starr, of the same county, who was born in 1836. They came to this county in 1853. They are the parents of ten children, seven of whom are living, viz : George H., deceased, Mary M., John'H., Eliza J., William H., Dennis, Nettie, Henry H., Lina, deceased, and Ella B., deceased Mr. Dean has lived where he now is since 1868. He is one of the large land owners of the township, having about 325 acres.

DEEDS ABRAHAM, Oxford township; farmer; postoffice, Plainfield, Ohio; son of John and Mary (Seabault) Deeds ; was born September 23, 1802, in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania. Mr. Deeds was raised on the farm, and has followed that occupation all his life. In 1830, he removed from Pennsylvania, and came to this county, remaining nine years. He then removed to Athens county, Ohio, and resided there six years, returning then to this county, where he has since resided. Mr. Deeds was married September 11, 1828, to Miss Agnes Singson, of .Harrisburgh, Pennsylvania. They became the parents of ten children, viz; John, Susannah, Samuel, deceased, Sarah, Abraham, deceased, Drusyla, Fannie, Josephus, deceased, and William H., deceased. When Mr. Deeds came to this county, it was generally a wilderness, the few settlers living in

DENMAN A. D,, Tuscarawas township; Coshocton postoffice; of the firm of A. D. & D. F. Denman, farmers and stock raisers. A. D. Denman was born in Springfield, Essex CDunty, New Jersey; son of David and Mary (Lyon) Denman, of English ancestry, and came to his present residence in October, 1834. He was married November 16, 1828, to Miss Eliza A., daughter of Moses and Lydia (Munn) Condit, of New Jersey. This union was blessed with three children. George and Matthias died, and only one is living. D. F. Denman, of the above firm, was born April 15, 1830, in Essex county. New Jersey. He was married October 18, 1855, to Miss Matilda W., daughter of C. L. and Sophronia (Hamilton) Whiting. This union has been been blessed with six children, three deceased, viz : Alfred W., E. Alida and Emma L. Their three living children are Clara B., Herbert and Matthias. This firm is engaged in stock raising and agriculture, suoceding well in both, having their farm and buildings in first class repair and raisfing the breeds of stock. The farm now owned by this firm was patented to Matthias Dehman, grandfather of the senior member of the firm, April 24i 1816. They also hold patent for lands granted to said Matthias Denman, March 28, 1800, and signed by President John Adams. Matthias Denmaii was, at one time probably, the largest landholder in the State. He was also one of three partners who founded the city of Cincinnati.

DEVORE ELI, Tiverton township; farmer; postoffice, Gann, Knox county; born in 1844, in Holmes county, and was married in 1864, to Miss EHzabeth A. Crider, of Holmes county, who was born in 1847, in Knox county. They came to this county in 1868. They are the parents of five children, viz: Mary F., born February 11, 1865; Nancy J., born March 23, 1867 ; Lucy, born August 24, 1870; James R., born February 12, 1875, and Lyman, born November 16, 1877.

DEVORE WILLIAM, Tiverton township; farmer; postoffice, Gann, Knox county; born in 1840, in Carroll county. He came to Holmes county with his parents in 1843, and to this county in 1855. He is unmarried, and has lived on the same farm since 1855.

DbWITT ISAAC C, Adams township; farmer; postoffice, Bakersville ; born in Adams township, Coshocton county, October 14, 1839; son of Vincent and Eleanor (Cordra,y) DeWitt, and grandson of Thomas Cordray. He attended school until the age of maturity, and has since devoted his time to farming. He was married September

1, 1864, to Miss Delila Smith, daughter of Bartholemew and Mary A. (Reed) Smith, and granddaughter of George and Elizabeth (Ellis) Smith. She was born in Bucks township, Tuscarawas county, July, 24, 1845. They are the parents of three children, Asmer A., born June 20, 1865; Francis M., born June 20, 1868, and Ira A., born June 17, 1872.

DeWITT W.,W., Lafayette township; wagon and carriage maker ;' West Lafayette; was born in Adams township, this county, December 18, 1849; son of Jonathan and Margaret DeWitt. W. W. followed carpentering and cabinet making for about nine years, then engaged in his present business, which he has been conducting seven years, and in that time has built up quite ap extensive trade. He was married in 1877, to Miss Angeline McLain, of this township; they have had one child; Clifford Monroe.

DeWITT SOLOMON, Crawford township; proprietor of hotel, Chili ; born in Adams township, August 23, 1829; son of Vincent DeWitt and Elenor (Cordray) DeWitt, both of whom were natives of Maryland. Mr. DeWitt left home in 1853 and followed farming until 1870, when he went into the dry goods business at Chili, married Miss Nancy Fisher October 13, 1853. Her parents, Absolem Fisher and Harriet (Johnson) Fisher were both native born. Their family consists of four children; Lenox, Phebe, John, Alice and Frank.

DICKEY WILLIAM, Keene township, farmer ; born July 28, 1857, in Mill Creek township ; son of Hiram and Jane (Ling) Dickey, and grandson of John Dickey. At the age of twenty Mr. Dickey left home and traveled through Iowa, Illinois aaid Indiana; then came home, but soon returned to Indiana, where he was married July, 1, 1877, to Jennie J. Belser, born June 23, 1860, in Decatur county, Indiana, daughter of Augustus and Catharine (Hazelrigg) Belser, and granddaughter of Godfrey and Abbie (Dupee) Belser. Her grandmother, Abbie, was a native of Boston, of French descent. Her maternal grandparents were Charles and Caroline (McCoy) Hazelrigg. Karl F., born December 17, 1879, was their only child.

DICKEY JOHN, Jackson township; born in Franklin county, Pennsylvania, in 1810; son of William and Elizabeth Dickey ; settled in this county in 1839; married in 1845, to Miss Jane Thompson, daughter of John and Mary Thompson. Mr. Dickey is the father of five children, two of whom are dead, and two are married. The names of those living are as follows : William J., A. AV., J. F. Postoffice, Tyrone.

DICKEY WILLIAM, deceased, Bedford township; born in 1771, in county Tyrone, Ireland;, came to this country in 1785, and was married to- Miss Elizabeth Graham, who was born in 1781,. and died in 1832, in Steubenville, Ohio. Mr. Dickey came to this county in 1840, and died in 1848. They were the parents of eleven children^ only three of whom are living ; one in Cincinnati, one the wife of Park Wheeler, of this county, and Fanny, who lives on the old homestead.

DICKERSON WILLIAM, Bedford township; farmer and blacksmith ; postoffice, Tunnel Hill;- born in 1827, in Fayette county, Pennsylvania ;, came to this county in 1847 with his father, who was born in 1788, in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, and was married in 1811 to Ehzabeth Doney, of the same county, who was born in 1795. He died in 1874. She died in 1870. They werethe parents of ten children ; the subject of this sketch being the eighth. He was married in 1850 to Miss M. J. Eaton, of this county, who was born in 1832 in this county. They are the parents of twelve children, all living.

DICKERSON JAMES F., Bedford township; farmer ; postoffice, Tunnel Hill ; born in 1829, in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, and came to this county in 1847 with his fatlier, who was born in 1788 in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, and was married in 1811 to Elizabeth Doney, of the ^ame county, who was born in 1795. He died in 1874^ and she died in 1870. They were the parents of ten children ; the subject of this sketch being theyoungest. He was married in 1856 to Miss Margie Fisher, of this county, who was born in 1839, in Harrison county, Ohio. They are the parentsof one child, Ida M.

DICKERSON JOSHUA, Bedford toiynship; farmer ; postoffice. Tunnel Hill ; born in 1845, in this county. His father was born in 1798, in in Harrison conunty, Ohio, and was married in 1820, to Miss Nancy Glasner, of the same county, who was born in 1796. They came to tlris county,, in 1820, and he died in 1879. They were the parents of nine children, the subject of this sketch being the seventh child.

DICKERSON JOHN, farmer; Washington township ; postoflfloe, Wakatomaka ; born in 1822, in Fayette county, Pennsylvania; came to this county in 1831, with his father, who was born in 1783, in FaJ'ettte county, Pennsylvania. He was married in 1811, to Miss Jane Morrison, of the same county, who was born in 1792. He died in 1857, she died' in 1878. They were the parents of eight children. The subject of this sketch being the seventh. He was married in 1844, to Miss Elizabeth Crumley, of this county, who was born in 1828, in Harrison county. They are the parents of eleven children, viz ; Susan J., Mary 0.,.

DICKERSON LEVI, farmer; Washington township; Wakatomaka, born in 1832, in this county. His father was born in 1788, in Fayette Pennsylvania, and was married in 1811, to Miss Jane Morrison, of the same county, who was born in 1792. He died in 1857, she died in 1878. They were the parents of eight children, the subject of this sketch being the youngest. He was married in 1854, to Miss Sarah E. Middleton, of this county, who was born in 1884, in Pennsylvania. They are the parents of eleven -children, viz : Morrison, Mary E., Hartley, Emma J., Harriet S., John C, Charles H., Carrie B., Efiie J., Armor and Daniel.

DICKERSON JOSEPH, farmer; Washington township ; postofiice. Tunnel Hill ; born in 1820, in Harrison county. He came to this county in 1834, with his grandfather, Levi Dickerson, his father having died in 1821, in Harrison county. Joseph was married in 1841, to Miss Mary Jones, of this county, who was born ir^ 1821, in Harrison county. They are the parents of eight children, viz: Elizabeth, deceased; Susan, Lavina; Sarah J., deceased ; Martha, Aaron W., Mary A., Emma 0.

DICKERSON LEVI, farmer; Washington postoffice, Wakatomaka; born in 1827, in this county. His father was born in 1798, in Pennsylvania. He settled in Harrison county, and was married there to Miss Nancy Glasmir, this county, who was born in 1796, in Penn- .-sylvania. They came to this county in 1825. He died in 1879. They were the parents of nine children, the subject of this sketch being the fourth. He was married in 1850 to Miss Amy Howell, of Tuscarawas county, who was born in 1825, in Belmont county. They are the parents -of seven children, viz : Joshua, Isabelle, Benjamin, David, Nancy, Amy and James.

DIEFENBACH A. A., Crawford township ; boot And shoe manufacturer ; postoffice. New Bedford, 'Ohio; was born December 10, 1865, in Tuscarawas -county ; son of Adam and Louise (Greeannabold). He remained with his parents on the farm until eighteen years of age, when he went to his trade and, in 1874, established business in New Bedford with Simon P. Sprenke, and continued the partnership until October 1, 1879, when Mr. Diefen- "bach became sole proprietor. He is doing a first-class business for a country town. He and two other good workmen being constantly employed.

DINGLEDINE SEBASTIAN, Adams township; saddler; postoffice, Bakersville; born in Hesse Darmstadt, Germany, March 18, 18^2 ; son -of B6lthazer and Amca C. JDingledine, and grandson of John Dingledine. He left his native country for America in 1830, landing in Baltimore after a voyage of sixty-four days, then came to Pennsylvania, where he remained about four years, and from there came to Tuscarawas county, Ohio, where he resided about thirtyseven years, being the second postmaster of that village. He then moved to Illinois, and after remaining there about three years, he again .moved to Ohio, and settled in Bakersville, where he has resided since, engaged at his trade, doing a fair business. He is at present serving his fourth term as justice of the peace of Adams township. He learned his trade with Sampson Shalter, of Canal Dover, in 1838. Mr. Dingledine was married May 7, 1846, to Miss Julia A. Gard, daughter of John and Susannah C. (Oswalt) Gard. She died in November, 1867, from injuries received by being thrown from a buggy. By this marriage he became the father of one child, James, born July 5, 1860. He was married September 16, 1868, to Miss Delila Carnahan, daughter of D.j,vid and Eliza T. (McCune) Carnahan, and granddaughter of James and Margaret Carnahan, and James and Margaret McCune. She was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, December 15, 1837. They have three children, viz : Agnes C, born September 12, 1869; Charles M., born May 25, 1871 ; Howard S., born December 2. 1877.

DILLON ISRAEL, Coshocton; clerk* of the courts of common pleas ; born June 17, 1819, in Perry township and spent his entire life on the farm until elected to the above office in 1875 and re-elected in 1878, his entire tenure of olfice being six years. Mr Dillon was elected a justice of the peace in 1853, and served three consecutive , terms, and after an interval of two years again served three consecutive terms, making in all eighteen years of service as justice of the peace. Esquire Dillon has taken an active part in educational matters, having served for a number of years! on the board of education of the county. Mr. Dillon was married October 18, 1840, to Misa Elizabeth Jane Pitch, daughter of Wilham and Mary Fitch, of Perry township. This union has been blessed with twelve children, two deceased, viz : Rebecca Jane and William Melville, and ten living, viz : Amos, Mary Catharine, Eliza, Leora, Deborah Anne, Josiah, Samuel, Israel Buchanan, Elizabeth, Emma and Sarah Frances. Mrs. Dillon, consort of Esquire Dillin, died in March, 1870, and is buried at New Guilford, Perry township. Mr. Dillon's second marriage was to Mrs. Isabelle Batrett, of Mohawk village, September 24, 1874. The result of this marriage was one child, a daughter, Ida Belle. The grandfather of Esquire Dillon was a native of Ireland but came to America and served in the revolutionary war for the independance of the United States.

DILLON AMOS, Perry township; postoflfice, New Guilford ; born in this county, in 1841 ; son of Israel and Elizabeth (Fitch) Dillon, grandson of William and Deborah M. (Meredith) Dillon, also of William and Mary Meredith. Mr. Dillon's great-grandfather was a revolutionary soldier. Mr. Dillon, in 1865, married Susannah Casteel, daughter of Thomas and Susannah (Bottomfield) Casteel. They have eight children, viz: Sarah E., Israel T., William J., Howard T., Ettie J., Eachael A., Bertha L. ajid John C. Mr. Dillon was engaged in the merchandise business some three years; followed farming since.

DILLON P. J., Tuscarawas township ; Coshocton postoffice ; farmer ; born February 10, 1845, in Knox county ; son of Thomas and Eliza Jane (Buxton) Dillon. His maternal grandfather was Francis Buxton. Young Dillon was brought up on the farm. When about twelve years of age he located in New Castle township. May 2, 1864, he enlisted in Company A, One Hundred and forty-second O. V. I. (100-days men); re-enlisted in Company I, O. V. I. for one year.^ At the close of the war he visited Missouri and soon returned; then went to Illinois and taught one term of school, and again visited Missouri ; then home again, and back to Illinois, where he taught school. He again visited Missouri and returned home, and for the third time went to Illinois and taught school, and from there he went tjklowa and taught school; then the fourth time visited Missouri, and returned to Iowa; tlien went to Minnesota and remained during the cold winter, and in the spring returned to Iowa, and from there went to the Pacific coast, visiting California and Oregon, remaining one year ; then returned, in 1876, to Ohio, where he has remained to the present time. Mr. Dillon was married first August 18, 1868, to Miss Susan Clark, daughter of John' Clark. They had four children, three of whom died in infancy. Willis elide is their only living child. His second marriage was on October 22, 1879, to Miss Carrie E. Wood, daughter of Andrew Wood, deceased, formerly of Tuscarawas township.

DIVAN T. E, Perry township; farmer; postoffice, West Carhsle; horn in this county in 1850; son of Adolphus and Mary (Hardenbrook) Divan, and grandson of Henry and Mary Divan ; married in 1869, to Miss Harriet Cochran, who died in 1872. He married, in the same year, Anna A. Board, daughter of Thomas H. and Elizabeth A. Board. They are the parents of four children, viz : Ola M., Walter M., Floyd and Arazota.

DOAK POBERT, Crawford township; farmer; postoffice, 'hili, Ohio; born March 9, 1826, in Amwell township, Washington county, Pennsylvania; son of Williapi Doak, of Crawford township. In 1882 he located \yith his father about two miles east of Chili. He was married May 20, 1847, to Miss Mary Anne, daughter of Thomas M. and Sarah (Hughes) McCollum. She was born August 17, 1826, in Amity, Washington county, Pennsylvania. This union was blessed with four children, viz: William R., Thomas M., deceased; Adam J. and Sarah E. Mr. Doak has slicceeded well, being blessed with a good family and ai comfortable home.

DOAK WILLIAM, Crawford township ; retired farmer; postoffice. Chili, Ohio; born December 5, 1804, in South Strabane township, Washington county, Pennsylvania. His father and he were both born on the farm, patented to William'sfather. William is son of William and Nancy (Dill) Doak, of Irish ancestry. Mr. Doak cam& to his present residence in 1882. The entire country was new then, his farm being nearly all timbered land, but has lived to enjoy the fruits of his toil. The cabin has changed' to a comfortable frame, and the forest to fields of pasturey grain and orchards. Mr. Doak was married about the year 1824, to Miss Evaline, daughter of Adam and Elizabeth (Mason) Gardner They are the parents of seven children, viz : Robert, Adam, deceased, Mary Anne, deceased, Nancy Jane, married to David Ewing ; Elizabeth, married to Thomas Wilson; And-rew, married to Louisa Pocock ; and William, married to Sallie E. McNary. Mr. Doak started to provide for himself, without wealth, but has now a competency for himself and wife, who still lives to share the comforts of their united toil in early life.

DOAK A. J., Clark township; dry goods merchant; postoffice, Clark's; born in Crawford township, Coshocton county, December 1, 1887; son of William and Evaline (Gardener) Doak. He attended school, and taught until twenty-five' years of age, when he began the merchantile business in New Bedford, in the spring of 1862, where he remained until the fall of 1864, when he came to Bloomfield and engaged in the samebusiness, and has continued here ever since. He has a flourishing trade, and carries a fine assortment of dry goods, groceries and ready made clothing, hats, caps, boots and shoes, and everything usually found in a general merchandising establishment. He was married February 29,. 1860, to Miss Louisa M. Pocock, sister of Colonel Pocock, of Coshocton, and daughter of Joshua, and Catharine (Wilson Pocock). She was born in Keene township May 19, 1835. They are blessed with three children - Edgar A., born April 28, 1862; William C, born August 13, 1868; Ella C.,. born December 23, 1870.

DONAGHY CHARLES B., Coshocton; railroad contractor and plasterer ; born January 8, 1849, in Wellsville, Columbiana county; son of William Donaghy, born in Lancaster county,

Pennsylvania, of Irish ancestors. Young Donaghy was raised in Steubenville, Ohio, attending public school until seventeen, when he entered Fairfield academy, and remained two and a half years, then attended Reynoldsville academy, under instruction of D. J. Snyder, two years. Messrs, Donaghy, Sr. and Jr., have been remarkable railroad builders, having completed large contracts on the Pan Handle, New Salem, Cincinnati and Louisville Short Line, Chesapeak and Ohio, Atlantic and Lake Erie ; Springfield, Day ton and Cincinnati Short Line; Cleveland, Mt. Vernon and Columbus ; Pittsburgh, Merietta and Cleveland, and Soiota railroads ; also built eight miles of Lancaster and New Salem turnpike. Charles B. first came to this city in November, 1873, and remained two years, and after an absence of a few years, building railroads, returned, and is now a contractor for plastering, doing a first-class business.

DORSEY CLEMENT, Coshocton; proprietor barber shop, corner Main and Fourth streets; born December 25, 1839, in Washington county, Maryland; worked on a farm and canal boating until 24 years of age, when he came to Parkersburg, West Virginia, with I. Cuthberson, a government agent. In June, 1867, he went to Stubenville, Ohio, and followed steamboating; was on the C. E. Hillman when she collided with the Nannie Byers, which sunk at Madison, Indiana, and forty-five lives lost. ' In September, 1867, he went to Newark and worked in a barber shop and attended school until December 1, 1868, when he came to this city and established a shop, and continued his business to the present. Mr. Dorsey was the first colored juror of this county, also the first colored citizen to be nominated for a county office., Mr. Dorsey was married, October 14, 1869, Mrs. Martha Lucas, of Janesville, Wisconsin. This union was blessed with five children, viz: Mildred Effie, Isham C, Jesse C, Gertrude Hays and Clement G. Mr. Dorsey came to this city with but $48, but now owns real estate and a good home.

DORSEY ELMOS, Pike township; postofiice. West Carhsle; farmer and stock raiser; born in Muskingum county, in 1842; settled in this county in 1880; son of John and Prudence Dorsey. His father settled in Muskingum county in 1812, and died in 1877. His mother died in 1878. The subject of this sketch is the youngest of a family of three children, one living in Missouri and one in Licking county, Ohio. He wa.s married in November, 1870, to Miss Lizzie Magruder, daughter of George and Maijgera Magruder.

DRAPER SAMUEL H., Tiverton township; farmer; postoffice, Yankee Ridge, Ohio; born September 8, 1808, in Knox county. He came to this county in 1830, and was married in 1837, to

Miss Elizabeth Smith, of this county, who was born in November, 1818, in Pennsylvania. She died in 1844. They were the parents of three children. He was married in 1845, to Miss Catharine Horton, of this county, who wa.s born" in 1823 and died in 1852. They were the parents of three children. He was married in 1852, to Miss Elizabeth Huey, of this county, who was born in 1828 and died in 1871. He married, in 1871, Miss Isabella Lockard, of this county, who was born in 1825.

DRESr^R JACOB, Crawford township; postoffie. New Bedford; blacksmith; born May 24, 1842, in Hesse-Hombufg, Germany; son of Frederick and Margaret (Kline) Dresher; came to America in 1855 and first located in Adarns county, next in Crawford township, went to his trade in 1858, and has followed it to the present time. He came to his present residence in 1876. Was married June 22, 1866, to Miss Louisa, daughter of John and Catharine (Lyman) Kesler. They have five children: John Frederick, deceased, Emily M., Caroline R., Karl H. and Augustus Jacob.

DUGAN WILLIAM, Linton township; farmer: born in January, 1833, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ; son of Francis and Ann (Smith) Dugan, who emigrated from county Down, Ireland, in 1833, remained in Philadelphia a few years, then came out to Harrison county, lived there about ten years, and moved to Guernsey county. There Mr Dugan remained till he came to Linton township, in 1875. He enlisted in January, 1862, in Company I, Eightieth O. V. I., and served three years in the army. He was under fire at the siege of Corinth, battle of Corinth, luka, siege of Vicksburg, Jackson, Champion Hill, etc. He was married in 1855, to Hannah Walgamot, daughter of David and Sophia Walgamot, of Guernsey county. Their children are Jemima Ellen, Jane, Mary, Lincoln, William, David, Sophia, Alva and Samuel.

DULING DAVID, Linton township ; saddler ; postofiice, Plainfield; born October 18, 1845, in Lafayette township ; son of William and Rebecca P. Duling. His grandfather, Edmund D^hng, came to this county in 1815. His maternal grandparents, David and Lucy Richardson were early settlers in the county, coming from Vermont. His father, a Protestant Methodist minister, died at Steubenville, in 1854. He lived iA Linton township from that time until October, 1861, when he enlisted in Company F, Fifty-first 0. V. I., and remained in the army four years, seeing active service at Stone river, Chickamauga, the numerous battles in the Atlanta campaign, Franklin, Nashville, etc. After his return he kept a grocery in Plainfield one year, then, in 1867, enlisted in the regular army for three years, and was stationed at Atlanta, Georgia, Huntsville, Alabama, Jacksonville, Alabama, Columbia, South Carolina, Ealeigh, North Carolina, and Wilmington, North Carolina. After his discharge he owned a saddler shop in Coshocton till 1875, then moved to Plainfield, and has been running a shop here since. He was married in 1872, to Christina Weisser, daughter of Jacob Weisser, of Coshocton. His children are Lizzie, deceased, and Maud.

DULIXG HIRAM W., Linton township; farmer ; born April 4, 1829, at his present home in .township; son of Edmund and Mary (Dean) Duling, and grandson of William Duling and of Thomas and Jane (Gilmore) Dean. His father emigrated from Hampshire county, Virginia, to Linton township, in 1815. Mr. Duling has always lived in this township. He was married February 18, 1S69, to Sarah Catharine Lawrey, daughter of Joseph and Jane (Piatt) Lowrey. Their children are, Uriella, Joseph L., James Edmund, and Lowel Mason. He was a member of Company E, One Hundred and Forty-second 0. N. G., and was in service about four months in Virginia

DUNCAN JONAS, Keene township; favmer; born June 27, 1843, in Mill Creek township; son of John and Elizabeth (Long) Duncan. He was married April 30, 1868, to Amanda Shannon, whose ancestry is as follows : Parents, Nathan and Mary (Endsley) Shannon; grandparents, Isaac and Jane (Porter) Shannon, and John and Jane (Plane) Endsley; great-grandfathers, Robert Shannon, born in Ireland, Thomas Porter and Thomas Plane. Mr. Duncan's family consists of five children: Mary E., born August 4, 1869; Joseph A., January 9, 1871; Sophia L , (jctober 18, 1872; Cynthia Grace, September, 1874, and Martha, January 11, 1878.

DUNCAN T. D., ICeene township; born July 9, 1846, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; son of Robert C. and Nancy (Patterson) Duncan, of Scotch and English descent. His childhood and early youth was spent on a farm in Reaver county, Pennsylvania; from seventeen to nineteen he attended the academy at Heaver, then took a course at W"ashington and Jefferson college, AVashington, Pennsylvania, graduating in 1869. The following two years he spent at the Western Theological Seminary, Allegheny City, and after a year spent as principal of Callensburg academy. Clarion county, Pennsylvania, he returned and completed his theological studies, graduating in the spring of 1874. The next year he was engaged as principal of the Verona academy, Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, then in the spring of 1875, he received a call from Clark Presbyterian church, Bloomfield, which he. accepted and was ordained in May. He remained there as pastor until April, 1879. After traveling for some time he accepted a position in August, 1880, as principal of the public schools and lacademy at Keene. He was married in June, 1876, to Miss Ella, daughter of George and Jane (Douglas) Craig. They have one child - Robert C., born Julv 5, 1877.

DUNL AP JOHN, Bedford township ; farmer ; postoffice. Tunnel Hill; born in 1839 in this county. His father, James Dunlap, was born in 1796, in Pennsylvania, and came to this county while yet unmarried, and was married to Miss Hannah Baker, of this county. He died in 1879. She died in 1839. They were the parents of eight children ; the subject of this sketch being the youngest. He was married in 1861 to Miss Rachel H. Philips, of this county, who was born in 1844. They are the parents of four children, viz : Samuel L., deceased, Charlie, Sarah E., and John.