Coshocton County, Ohio - Biographical sketches, 1909 (part 6 of 19)

Mr. Hagelbarger was married January 1, 1888, to Miss Dora Winslow, a daughter of David and Sarah (Spurgeon) Winslow. The Winslow ancestry ean be traced back to the time of the Mayflower and members of the name were heroes in the war of the Revolution. The paternal grandfather came to Ohio from Massachusetts, covering the entire distance on foot. He located the farm in Tiverton township on which our subject now 1esides. This region was then a dense wilderness and the grandfather in due course of time developed a good farm property. He built a log house, which at that time was consdiered the best house in Tiverton township and which until six years ago remained the family residence. It was on this farm and in that log house that David Winslow, the father of Mrs. Hagelbarger, was born and here he spent his entire life, his death occurring January 25, 1901. The wife and mother died June 8, 1889, and their remains lie buried in the 'Baptist cemetery in Tiverton township. After the death of his wife Mr. Winslow remained in the home of his daughter, Mrs. Hagelbarger, from whom he received the most devoted care. Mrs. Hagelbarger has one sister, Elizabeth, now the wife of J. J. Day, a general merchant of Killbuck, this state. The former was educated in the district schools and remained with her parents until the time of her marriage.

The home of Mr. and Mrs. Hagelbarger has been blessed with six children: Noble H., who was born September 14, 1889, and is in school; Nellie, born December 11, 1892; Ralph W., born January 11, 1897; Ruth, born October 25, 1899; Wayne, born January 25, 1903; and one who was born September 26, 1905, and died in infancy.

Politically Mr. Hagelbarger is a republican and his religious faith is indicated by his membership in the Disciples church at Tiverton, of which his wife and two eldest children are also members. His fraternal relations are with the Patrons of Husbandry, and he is a master of the Grange. Having spent his entire life in Tiverton township, Mr. Hagelbarger has a very wide and favorable acquaintance here. He is therefore interested in the progress and advancement of the community in which he lives and has always done his full share in bringing such conditions about. His estimable wife also shares with him in the esteem in which he is held and their own hospitable home is a favorite resort for their many friends.

The world pays its tribute of respect to the man who is successful in business, but more than that instinctively yields deference to him whose life has been passed in accordance with high and honorable principles, never displaying that selfish interest whereby the rights and privileges of others are sacrificed. The record of William Henry McCabe was in many respects an exemplary one and therefore his death was the occasion of sincere and widespread regret, when on the 13th of August, 1901, he passed away. He was born June 18, 1851, a son of John and Julia McCabe, who were natives of Ireland and came to America soon after their marriage, settling on Long Island. In 1856 they removed with their family to the vicinity of Plainfield, Coshocton county, Ohio, and afterward settled on a farm near West Lafayette, while later they took up their abode near Canal Lewisville. The father carried on agricultural pursuits throughout his entire life and died in 1885.

While yet a boy, Wilham Henry McCabe was employed at the railway station at West Lafayette, and there met with an accident that required the amputation of his leg. Thus handicapped, many a man of less resolute spirit would have felt that there was little chance left for him in life, but Mr. McCabe was not discouraged by this misfortune, and after educating himself for a business career he came to Coshocton, where he won lifelong friends through that desirable quality, which for want of a better term has been called personal magnetism. Here he entered the employ of the firm of Hay & Wilson as bookkeeper and later, in association with others, engaged in the dry-goods business. His ability was recognized in all lines, for he possessed sound judgment and clear insight into business situations, and was able to combine diverse forces into a harmonious whole. In 1881 he became associated with H. D. Beach in the publication of a newspaper called the Standard Commonwealth, the name being due to a consolidation of two papers. Later it was changed to the Democratic Standard. In 1889 Mr. Beach sold his interest to Mr. McCabe, who remained sole proprietor up to the time of his death. The Standard became a successful journal under his guidance, and was a credit to the newspaper interests of the state.

Cabe is a native of Franklin township, this county, and a representative of one of the prominent old families here. Her great-grandfather was Major Robinson, a native of Clarksburg, Virginia, who on coming to Ohio in 1801 settled on a farm near Conesville, Coshocton county, where he died in 1815. His son was Judge James Robinson, a very prominent representative citizen in connection with the judiciary interests of the state, and also a representative from his district to the legislature. His son, James Robinson, father of Mrs. McCabe, was a well known landowner, who at one time served as county commissioner, and died in 1868.

In polities Mr. McCabe was a pronounced democrat, who stood high in the councils of his party, where his opinions carried weight. He was appointed postmaster of Coshocton during President Cleveland's second administration, and dispatched the affairs of the office with businesslike promptness. At the time of his death he was acting as chairman of the democratic county executive committee and for many years he was a delegate to every party convention to which he was eligible. Fraternally he was connected with the Knights of Pythias, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and of Coshocton Lodge, No. 376, B. P. O. E., of which he served as exalted ruler. He was a leading citizen of his community and was identified with Coshocton for a quarter of a century. All Coshocton and hundreds of people elsewhere in the county and state knew and loved this genial, great-hearted man. He had the rare quality, not only of making friends, but of keeping them, and to be his friend was to command that which he possessed, whether it was much or little. He was generous, almost to a fault, and always felt that it was more blessed to give than to receive. He was respected by those who were his political enemies, admired by his friends, adored by his family and honored by all who knew him.

Bernard Preston

Bernard Preston, who is practically living retired in a comfortable home in West Carlisle, was throughout a long period identified with agri- éultural and business interests in Coshocton county. He was born in Belmont county, Ohio, September 25, 1822, a son of Silas and Ann Maria (Brown) Preston, the parents coming to Pike township, Coshocton county, from Washington county, Pennsylvania, in 1833. The father was a tanner and was engaged in business in West Carlisle.

Bernard Preston, whose name introduces this record, was reared under the parental roof and at an early age entered his father's tannery, under whose direction he learned the business. He worked in his father's tannery until he had reached his majority, when he became apprenticed to learn the harness and gsaddler's trades. After completing his term of indenture he engaged in business in West Carlisle, where he remained until 1865, when he took up his abode upon a farm, which he had purchased a few miles north of West Carlisle, and here he engaged in general agricultural pursuits and stock-raising until 1892, when he once more took up his abode in West Carlisle, where he owns and occupies a nice home, which is supplied with all modern conveniences and accessories for the comfort of the inmates. He was also in early life engaged in buying wool, shipping a large amount annually. His activity in business in former years. has brought to him a good competency, and now in the evening of his days he can look back over a life well spent and enjoy in comfort and ease the fruits of his former toil.

Mr. Preston was married-in May, 1844, to Miss Mary Westlake, a daughter of George and Ann Westlake, and their union has been blessed with twelve children, of whom four are deceased: William W., John H. and Howard, all of whom have departed this life; Louis B.; Silas; George; Charles B.; Albert D.; Ann, now the wife of George W. Gault; Sarah, now the wife of John Almack; Adeline, the wife of John H. Axline; and Bernard, who is also deceased. The wife and mother departed this life about twelve years ago.

Mr. Preston is a republican in his political views and affilations but has never been active as an office seeker. He has, however, served as assessor of the township for a number of years and has served as a member of the school board, the cause of education finding in him a warm and stalwart friend. He has not only been active in business affairs but has been a public-spirited citizen, interested in movements along all lines tending to promote material and substantial progress.

Hon. John W. Cassingham

The life of Hon. John W. Cassingham has been that of a gentleman of forceful character and of marked ability, and he has used well his time, talents and his opportunities, thereby adding to the name and fame of Coshocton. He is descended from both English and Scotch ancestry, his father, George F. Cassingham, having been born in County Kent, England, while his mother, who in her maidenhood bore the maiden name of Elizabeth Wilson, was born in the Scotch-Irish region of Pennsylvania.

John W. Cassingham has practically spent his entire life in Coshocton. The schools of his native place afforded him his educational privileges, and he made his initial step in the business world as driver of a cart for Samuel Brown, who had a grading contract from what is now a part of the Pan Handle Railroad Company at Rock Run, about three miles south of the city. Mr. Cassingham devoted a part of that year to the work, and the remainder of the time carried the mail on horseback between Coshocton and Canal Dover and Sugar Creek, in Tuscarawas county. He eagerly availed himself of every opportunity that led to advancement, and therefore accepted a position as assistant in the county treasurer's office. His work there extended over eleven years, commencing with Samuel Ketchum in 1857, and extending through the terms of Samuel Lamberson and 8S. C.

Burrell. That he was faithful and reliable is evidenced by his long connection with the office, wherein he also broadened his experience and knowledge, becoming qualified for still more responsible duties in the business world. On leaving the county treasurer's office, he organized the firm of Cassingham & Crowley and established a grocery store at the corner of Main and Fifth streets, Mr. Cassingham taking charge of the bookkeeping and the financial interests of the business. The partnership was continued until 1875, when he withdrew from the mercantile lines and turned his attention to coal mining operations in connection with Edward Prosser, having charge of a coal bank of B. S. Rickets. He was afterward connected with E. T. Dudley, of Piqua, Ohio, and afterward with Edward Prosser in the Penn Twyn Coal Company and for several years, beginning in 1879, he was secretary and financial manager of the Home Coal Company, in which E. Prosser, D. L. Triplett, the Barneys, G. W. Ricketts, Dr. Lee and others were interested.

Mr. Cassingham was again called to public life, when in the fall of 1880 he was elected county auditor. His capable service was indicated in his reelection in 1883, and through a legislative extension of his term he continued in office for nearly a year beyond the usual term. Shortly prior to his retirement from that position he became associated with the Coshocton Coal Company, and also extended his efforts to other fields of activity, joining Hugh McElroy, of Pittsburg, in 1871, in the manufacture of paper, purchasing the Coshocton Paper Mill. The new undertaking proved very profitable and Mr. Cassingham, with others, built a paper mill at Newark, Ohio. In 1893, however, both of these mills were sold to the Columbia Straw Paper Company.

Mr. Cassingham is now connected as a stockholder and director with one manufacturing concern of considerable proportion, but is not especially active in its management. In addition to his operations in the coal fields of Ohio, which have assumed extensive proportions, he has also become heavily interested in West Virginia coal and timber lands. He is likewise prominently known in financial circles, becoming a director and vice president of the Commercial Banking Company in 1894, while at the present writing he is president of this institution, which is the oldest and largest bank in the city. In 1868 he became secretary of the Coshocton Savings Building & Loan Association, and is now a director of the Citizens Building & Loan Association,

On the 5th of November, 1863, Mr. Cassingham was married to Miss Caroline Lamberson, a daughter of Samuel Lamberson, former county treasurer. They have two sons who are active, energetic men, with considerable mining interests. Mr. Cassingham's indomitable energy, good judgment, kindly disposition, simple tastes and quiet manners and methodical business habits have made him a successful man and useful citizen, and an esteemed public servant. He has been called to various local positions of trust and responsibility, serving as a member of the city council, as a trustee of the waterworks, and for fifteen years as a member of the board of education. He is recognized as one of the stalwart and influen- tial representatives of democracy in this part of the state. In 1896 he was made a delegate to the democratic national convention in Chicago. In 1900 he was elected to represent his district in congress, and two years later was accorded reelection. He is energetic and far-seeing, honest and _ publicspirited, operating broadly and continuously, and by the stimulus of his exertions arousing the enterprise of others. During all his business life he has held many important relations to the public interest and his influence has been felt as a strong, steady, moving force in the social, moral and industrial movements of the community.

Thomas Hamilton

Thomas Hamilton is numbered among the veterans of the Civil war and in matters of citizenship has always been as loyal to his country as when he followed the old flag on the battlefields of the south. Throughout his business career he has followed the occupation of farming and_ has prospered in this undertaking, being now the owner of a valuable place of three hundred and six acres in White Eyes township, upon which he has lived continuously for more than a third of a century. A native of Ireland, he was born December 5, 1842, of the marriage of John and Mary (Fair) Hamilton, both of whom were natives of County Tyrone, Ireland. They came to America in 1843, settling in Keene, Ohio, but afterward removed to White Eyes township, where the father purchased a tract of land and carried on farming until his death. Unto him and his wife were born six children: Margaret, the wife of Jonas Brown, of White Eyes township; Thomas, of this review; Claudius, deceased; Mary E., the wife of W. F. Park, of Fresno; James and Matilda, who have also passed away.

Thomas Hamilton was reared as a farm boy, working at the plow and in the harvest fields through the months of spring, summer and autumn, while in the winter seasons he pursued his education in the public schools., At the age of nineteen, however, he left the farm that he might join in the defense of the Union, for rebellion had broken out in the south and the country was in grave peril. He therefore enlisted in August, 1862, as a member of Company J, Ninety-seventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and served until the close of the war, participating in a number of hotly contested battles. He participated in the engagements at Stone River, Mission Ridge, Kenesaw Mountain and Burnt Hickory. He was also in the battle of Atlanta and other engagements of the Atlanta campaign and was wounded in the left foot during the battle of Missionary Ridge. He was a brave and loyal soldier, never faltering in the performance of any duty assigned him, and when hostilities had been brought to an end he was honorably discharged at Nashville, Tennessee.

Mr. Hamilton then returned to Coshocton county, Ohio, and became actively interested in farming in this locality, purchasing eighty acres of land in White Eyes township. He made further arrangements for having a home of his own by his marriage to Miss Margaret J. Boyd, who was born in this county June 6, 1848, and is a daughter of Robert and Mary Ann (Johnson) Boyd, of whom mention is made elsewhere in this volume. After their marriage the young couple took up their abode on the farm which he had purchased and made it their home until 1873, when Mr. Hamilton sold that property and purchased one hundred and sixty acres of the place on which he now resides. To this he has added from time to time until he today has three hundred and six acres in this township. His careful cultivation of his fields has resulted in bringing to him large crops which find a ready sale on the market and he also makes a specialty of raising and breeding Percheron horses, owning several full blooded horses of that kind. His business interests are capably conducted along progressive lines and he is now one of the prosperous agriculturists of the community.

Unto Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton there were born six children: Mary Etta, whose birth occurred May 26, 1866, and who passed away April 21, 1890; Cora E., born February 13, 1868, who is the wife of M. L. Barrick, of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania; John F., who was born December 6, 1870, and is now a resident of Van Orin, Illinois; Ada, born November 20, 1873, who is the wife of W. H. Lorenze, of Coshocton county; Collenia D., born February 25, 1878, who % the wife of John E. Thomas, of Adams township; and Robert R., born December 6, 1882, who married Victor Myer.

The parents are members of the Methodist Episcopal church and Mr. Hamilton is serving as one of the church trustees. His political support is given the republican party and on that ticket he has been elected to several township offices, the duties of which he has discharged with credit to himself and satisfaction to his constitutents. He is also a member of the Grange and is interested in everything that pertains to the agricultural progress of the community. He deserves much credit for what he has accomplished in life, for his success is attributable entirely to his own labors. He has worked diligently, allowing no obstacles to bar his path and his unabating energy and industry have at length brought him a handsome reward in the shape of one of the fine farms of the county.

John H. Tompkins

John H. Tompkins was born at Front Royal, Virginia, May 28, 1834, and lived there until the age of fifteen, when, with his parents he emigrated to Ohio, traveling overland by wagon. He was a near relative of "Stonewall" Jackson, bearing a striking resemblance to his distinguished kinsman, and that noted general frequently visited the Tompkins home in Virginia.

After coming to Ohio Mr. Tompkins located in Jackson township, Coshocton county, where he engaged in farming and was very successful in that occupation. At the age of twenty-three he was married to Nancy J.

They were the parents of the following children: Lillie, Alpha, William, George B., Frank M., Luther, James C., Carrie and Jay J., all of whom, except William and Carrie, with their mother still survive. Lillie and Alpha are successful teachers in the county, the former being at present employed in the schools of Tuscarawas township. George B. is an engineer at Canton, Ohio, where he has been for several years and is very prosperous. James C., formerly a high-school teacher here, is employed as bookkeeper at San Francisco, California, and is doing well. Luther has been in the structural iron business for some time and is also located at San Francisco and is prospering. Jay J. is a well known and progressive merchant and musician in Coshocton. Frank M. is a successful teacher and for the past four years has been employed in the schools at Canal Lewisville.

In 1865 Mr. Tompkins moved to a farm near Canal Lewisville and resided in that vicinity until his death, which occurred April 13, 1904. Politically he was a democrat and held the office of justice of the peace almost continuously for thirty-six years.

Frank M. Tompkins began his early education in the district schools near his father's home, this being supplemented by a course of study in the public schools of Coshocton. He was reared to the duties of the home farm, early becoming familiar with the various tasks that fall to the lot of the agriculturist. However, he decided upon a professional career as a means of livelihood and started out in life as a teacher in the district schools. He was thus engaged until 1904, when he was employed as teacher in the Canal Lewisville schools, where he has continued to the present time. He is recognized as one of the most progressive educators of the county and is well liked in the community in which he makes his home.

He is a man of refinement and culture and is giving some of the best years of an active and useful life to the cause of education and has attained more than local distinction.

Scott Davis

The life of Scott Davis has been one of continuous activity, in which has been accorded due recognition of labor, and today he is numbered among the substantial citizens of Coshocton county, owning and operating a valuable farm of three hundred and thirty-four acres situated in Virginia and Jackson townships, and in addition to this he superintends the farm of his brother Frank, who makes his home in Colorado. Mr. Davis was born in Virginia township, October 4, 1857, a son of James and Zebra (Taylor) Davis, a sketch of whom appears elsewhere in this volume. The father was born October 31, 1827, and died November 1, 1904. He was married May 26, 1853, to Zebra Taylor, and they became the parents of eleven children, five of whom are still living: Emma, Scott, William Sherman, "Jennie,

Mr. And Mrs. James Davis

Scott Davis was reared on the home farm, assisting in the work of the fields from the time of early spring planting until the crops were harvested in the late autumn, while in the winter seasons he pursued his studies in the district schools. When he started out to make his own way in the world he chose the occupation to which he had been reared, first farming in Franklin township, where he lived for four years. He then removed to his present farm in Virginia township, this tract comprising three hundred and thirtyfour acres. He follows general farming and stock-raising and both branches of his business are proving a profitable source of revenue to him.

Mr. Davis was married February 15, 1885, to Miss Emma Cox, a daughter of William and Margaret Cox, residents of Virginia township. Their union has been blessed with six children: Ward B., Alpha, Clarence, Uarvey, James and Blanche. The two last named, however, are deceased.

Mr. Davis gives his political support to the men and measures of the republican party and for several terms has filled the office of township trustee. As has been truly remarked, after all that may be done for a man in the way of giving him early opportunities for obtaining the requirements which are sought in the schools and in books, he must essentially formulate, determine and give sHape to his own character, and this is what Mr. Davis has done. He has persevered in the pursuit of a persistent purpose and gained a most satisfactory reward. His life is exemplary and he is ever interested in all those movements which are calculated to uplift and beneftt humanity, while his own high moral worth is deserving of highest commendation,

James Davis

I was born in Wales, October 31, 1827, and emigrated to the United States in 1841. Left home about last of July of that year. Left Swansea, Wales, on steamboat for Liverpool, England, on the 5th day of August. I left Liverpool on a sailing boat for New York and arrived at New York on the 22d of September, 1841, being on the sea about seven weeks. I journeyed from New York to Albany by steamboat, then to Buffalo by canal, from Buffalo to Cleveland and thence by canal boat to Roscoe, arriving there on Sunday. Then we walked out to the Coalport coal bank and afterward my brother Benjamin and myself went up to Holmes county to dig coal. As the sale of coal was poor, Brother Ben came down to Coalport and I went to school in December, 1841, and during January and February, 1842, in Holmes county. I came down to Coshocton county and worked with my brother Ben in a coal mine in the summer and went to school in the winter. Ben and I worked in partnership in coal mining and boated coal to Newark and Columbus in 1848 on the Ohio canal, selling mostly fine coal to the penitentiary and along the canal. I was married on the 26th of May, 1853, and my brother Ben and I worked together until he died on the 6th of March, 1855. After that I worked on the canal bank and carried on business by myself. In 1872 I moved over to creek farm and turned my attention to farming. I must confess I had good success all these times, but don't you forget I worked hard all these years. I bought land near Franklin Station. I farmed very extensively and also operated in the sand business. I made money enough to pay for all the land and build some very good houses. I am able to pay all my debt by selling some of my land. I believe I have told all the good I have done and now ask somebody else for the bad deeds 1 have done. In the fall of 1863 and spring of 1864 I built a canal boat for boating coal, the name of the boat being Ben Butler. In the summer of 1864 I hired a substitute to serve three years or during the war, for which I paid twelve hundred dollars. In the spring of 1865, when the Civil war ended, I worked in coal bank about three months and then quit and took up farming.

Captain Ebenezer Zane Hays

Captain E. Z. Hays, the subject of this sketch, a veteran of the Civil war and the oldest member of the Coshocton bar, was born in Belmont county, Ohio, December 10, 1837. His father was born in Maryland and was taken by his parents, about 1806 to 1810, to the blockhouse at Wheeling, West Virginia. He and his twin brother being carried "over the mountains" in a sack thrown across the back of a horse on which the mother rode. The father, John Joseph Hays, married Susan Laughary and went to farming on the hill above where Bridgeport now stands and there Captain E. Z. Hays was born. The family is of Scotch-Irish Presbyterian stock. Beginning with the Revolution and ending with the brief contest with Spain there has been a representative of the family in all our wars. In the spring of 1852 John J. Hays removed to a farm opposite Warsaw in this county. In politics he was an old line whig, later becoming identified with the republican party, being one of its organizers in this county, and always active and influential in its councils.

Ebenezer Z. Hays was the eldest child and only son in a family of four. The son having, by teaching school, acquired a liberal academic education, read law with C. C. Leonard (then one of the first lawyers of Coshoeton county), was admitted to practice, by the supreme court of Ohio on the 9th day of February, 1859, and the next day was engaged, with his preceptor, in trying an important case in the Coshocton common pleas court.

During the summer of 1859 he replenished his depleted purse by growing a fine corn crop, his father generously furnishing the land, the teams and the board for the young lawyer and allowed him to pocket all the proceeds. Being now in funds, he went to Illinois and engaged in school teaching until the Civil war broke out, when he enlisted in an Illinois company for the first three months' call, but that organization failing to get into the service and thinking the "Three Months' Men" would put down the rebellion, he returned to Ohio until the war was over, much displeased with himself for not getting into the army.

When the call came for three hundred thousand troops, E. Z. Hays was among the first to write his name upon the enrollment sheet of that organization that became known in history as Company K, Thirty-second Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He entered the service as a private but his fitness, his faithful discharge of duties and his personal courage soon brought him a second leutenant's commission, which was followed by commissions as first lieutenant and captain. Of his services for the Union we quote from a letter from Brigadier General B. F. Potts, late colonel of the Thirty-second Ohio Infantry, a letter now treasured by Captain Hays as a priceless possession. General Potts says, "Captain Hays served with distinguished honor for over three years, earning his respective promotions by gallant conduct on the field. Having been in the service with Captain Hays during his entire term of service, I know his worth as an officer and his genial qualities as a gentleman." The Thirty-second Ohio as a whole, participated in twenty-three engagements, in the sieges of Vicksburg, Mississippi and Atlanta, Georgia, in all of which Captain Hays had a part, either as a private, company or staff officer.

In Fremont's campaign up the valley of Virginia in the spring of 1862, Private Hays was made a prisoner near Cross Keys, and with some three thousand others confined in the fair grounds at Lynchburg, Virginia, from where, in July of that year, he effected his escape, but after traveling for fourteen nights up the James river, having several adventures on the way, he was recaptured within ten miles of personal friends who would have hastened him on his way. His captors took him back to Lynchburg fair grounds, where the colonel commanding the rebel guards ordered him confined in a stall and decorated with a ball and chain. As he was being taken to his place of confinement, he with his guards passed within a few feet of the guard lines of the general prison pen, at a point where the prisoners were permitted to come close to the line for bartering with hucksters, and they, the prisoners, having learned that an escaped prisoner was being taken to the ball and chain department, were crowded thickly near the guard line; Private Hays took in the situation, purposely dropped his cap, stooped to pick it up, which caused his guards to pass a couple of paces beyond him, when instead of falling in with them as they certainly expected, he with head down, bolted for the inside of the line. The ground being literally covered with little shelter tents, he was soon out of sight of the guards, who found much difficulty in working their way through the press of prisoners who contrived, innocently (?) enough, to be ever in the way. The fugitive, crawling from tent to tent, soon contrived to effect a change of clothing from rebel gray (coat, pants and cap, which he had captured in his wanderings) to Yankee blue, got a shave and a good wash, all of which combined to work so decided a change in his appearance that neither his guard nor his captors recognized him, although they passed within a few feet of where he lay upon the ground intently (? ) perusing an old copy of the Statutes of Virginia. Not many men of the Union army have the unique record of having broken into rebel prison. In a few days after his return to Lynchburg the prisoners confined there were sent to Belle Isle in the James river, from where he with several thousand others were paroled and turned in to Uncle Sam's hands at Akin's Landing, Virginia, about the 4th of September, 1862, and brought to Anapolis, Maryland. Having been exchanged and promoted to second lieutenant of Company K, he went with his regiment to the southwest, where he became a part of the army with which General Grant made his masterly Vicksburg campaign. Captain Hays with his regiment participated in all the battles incident to that campaign excepting that of Black River Bridge. At Champion's Hill they captured, by a brilliant bayonet charge, the First Mississippi Battery, Company K, passing directly through its line of guns.

As a commissioned officer Captain Hays soon won the confidence and esteem of his superior officers and the love and respect of the men he, from time to time, came to command. At the second battle at Champion's Hill, Mississippi, February 5, 1864, in command of two companies, he was sent to reinforce the skirmish line. In a brief time the two officers on the line who ranked him were both severely wounded. The command of the four companies and of the line then devolved upon him. He pushed his men forward with such determination and dash that the enemy was routed with considerable loss and pursued by his skirmishers into and through Jackson (the state capital) to the banks of Pearl river, where they saved from destruction the pontoon bridge which the rebels had thrown across that stream. Colonel Potts, commanding the brigade, was so well satisfied with his work on that occasion, that he said, ""Hays, my boy, you are down on my book for promotion."

When in Sherman's campaign to Atlanta, the brigade to which Captain Hays belonged charged the right wing of the rebel army in its strong position on top of Brushy Mountain, he was the first commissioned officer of his regiment over the rebel works and directed the fire that drove back the rebel reinforcements that were coming up their side of the mountain. These are only two of many incidents in his army life, but they will suffice to show the kind of a soldier and officer he was.

On retiring from the service, Captain Hays formed a partnership with Colonel Josiah Given and engaged in the claim agency business in Columbus, Ohio. The firm was very successful, but Colonel Given, being made postmaster of the house of representatives at Washington, D. C., the firm was dissolved, Captain Hays going to Cadiz, Ohio, where he engaged in the practice of law, and where, on the 14th day of March, 1867, he was married to Miss Eliza Welch Beebe, eldest daughter of Walter B. and Maria B. Beebe. One child, Stuart Beebe Hays, now of Coshocton, Ohio, was the fruit of this union. On the call for troops for the war with Spain, this son responded promptly, entering the service as a private in Company F, Seventh Ohio Infantry. In a very short time he became first sergeant of his company, which potion he held until the muster out of his regiment.

After his marriage Captain Hays removed to Circleville, Ohio, and engaged in publishing the Circleville Union, the republican organ of Pickaway county, a service he performed to the satisfaction of the republicans of that county. Selling that paper he bought the Sunday Morning Times at Zanesville, Ohio, which he converted into the Daily Morning Times, now known in the newspaper world as the Times Recorder. Captain Hays vhas been employed in newspaper work in California and Colorado, besides being a frequent and acceptable correspondent, from time to time, of divers Ohio papers. He is also the author and editor of a history of his regiment that has had a liberal sale.

On the 11th day of July, 1879, the Captain's wife died at Cadiz, Ohio, and in the fall of 1880 he went to the Pacific coast in search of health. Returning he located at Warsaw, where he has since been practicing law, and where, on June 24, 1889, he was married to Mrs. Josephine (Butler) Darling, only daughter of Felix Butler and Nancy (Farquhar) Butler.

Captain Hays has been an active member of the Grand Army of the Republic and was assistant adjutant general of this department from 1896 to 1897 - one term. He very frequently served as commander of his post, as its delegate to department encampments, as district delegate, as aide on the staff of several department and national commanders, and as delegate at large for Ohio. In line with his military life was his appointment by Governor Nash as one of the commissioners for the state of Ohio for the purpose of locating and erecting monuments upon the Vicksburg (Miss.) National Military Park to such Ohio commands as participated in the campaign and siege of Vicksburg. At the dedication of those monuments, he delivered one of the principal addresses; see "Ohio at Vicksburg," page 351. He has been in demand for Memorial (30th of May) addresses and as speaker at camp fires and on other occasions.

Politically Captain Hays has been an active but liberal republican, frequently representing his county in state conventions and sometimes filling a place on a county ticket predestined to defeat. He was, in the first Harrison campaign, a member of the state central committee, and was held at state headquarters as a supernumerary speaker, in which capacity he made numerous political speeches throughout the state. In his younger days he was always actively engaged in state and national campaigns. He stood with Roosevelt in the Taft-Foraker campaign in Ohio in the spring and early summer of 1908, and was largely instrumental in securing the nomination of an anti-Foraker candidate for the legislature.

Howard Edward Hahn

Howard Edward Hahn is numbered among the younger members. of the Coshocton bar, but his years do not.seem a deterrent to his progress. He was born in Franklin township, Coshocton county, August 28, 1876, and is a representative of an old family of this state. His grandparents were residents of Bucks township, Tuscarawas county, Ohio, where his father, Adam

Hahn, was born, devoting his entire life to agricultural pursuits, and today owning one of the most beautiful and attractive farms in Coshocton county. Attorney Hahn's mother, who was Elizabeth Strohacker, is also a native of Ohio.

In his youthful days Howard E. Hahn trudged off each morning to the district school, wherein he mastered the common branches of learning, and later he supplemented his early intellectual training by study in the college of Scio, Ohio, for a year. He likewise attended the Ohio Normal University at Ada, Ohio, for a year and a half and, in preparation for his profession, he attended the law department of the Ohio State University at Columbus, where he graduated in June, 1900.

Mr. Hahn located for practice in Coshocton. He has never specialized but has remained in general practice and has shown himself thoroughly familar with many departments of jurisprudence. He never neglects the thorough preparation which should always precede the presentation of the case in the courts, while in his argument he is logical, strong and convincing.

Mr. Hahn was married on the 6th day of October, 1898, to Miss Lenora M. Johnson, of Coshocton. He is a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Knights of Pythias fraternity, while in more specifieally professional lines he is connected with the Coshocton County Bar <Association. His political support is given to the democratic party and for three years he served as city solicitor of Coshocton, beginning in 1903.

While advancement in the law is proverbially slow Mr. Hahn found that no long and dreary novitiate awaited him. He soon gained recognition as a diligent lawyer and one who is careful and accurate in the application of legal principles to the points of issue. He has won many notable victories for his chents and his business in the courts is steadily gaining in volume and importance.

George Stonehocker

George Stonehocker is one of Coshocton's native citizens, his birth having occurred February 13, 1864, on the farm in White Eyes township which is still his home. He is a son of Daniel and Mary (Sherrets) Stonehocker. The father was born in 1820 upon the old homestead farm and was a son of Jacob Stonehocker, a native of Virginia, who removed westward to this state in 1812. He first settled in Tuscarawas county and then went to White Eyes township four years later, becoming a pioneer resident of this community in the year 1816. He married Elizabeth Winklepleck, who was a native of Pennsylvania. Unto them were born eight children. This number included Daniel Stonehocker, who was born in Coshocton county in 1820, on the farm which was the birthplace of his son George. He was reared to the work of the fields, and as the years passed by he continued to engage in farming on his own account, developing a good property, which showed in its well kept appearance his careful supervision and energetic, vigorous management. He married Miss Mary Sherrets, a native of Tuscarawas county, born in 1829. They became the parents of three children: George; Jacob, who was born April 20, 1865, and died April 16, 1881; and Lizzie, who was born April 8, 1868, and is living with her brother. The mother's death occurred April 20, 1886, and the father survived her for more than five years and passed away April 25, 1892.

No event of special importance occurred to vary the routine of farm life for George Stonehocker in his boyhood and youth. He attended the district schools in order to acquire his education and during the vacation periods he worked in the fields, early becoming familiar with the labors and duties of farm life. He remained with his father until the latter's death, when he and his sister Lizzie came into possession of the old homestead, which comprises one hundred three and a half acres of land, pleasantly situated in White Eyes township not far from the city of Coshocton. The farm is well improved with modern equipments, and the fields return gratifying harvests as a reward for the care and labor bestowed upon them.

Mr. Stonehocker votes with the republican party and is a stalwart advocate of its principles. He has never sought nor desired office, however, yet he served for one term as assessor. He is a member of the Grange, No. 1558, and was its master for two terms, while for two years he represented the county in the state Grange. He is well known here as a leading farmer, and one who is in hearty sympathy with all progressive movements for the benefit of the agricultural community and the county at large.

George Wilson

George Wilson, who owns and operates one hundred and forty-five acres of rich and valuable land situated in Jefferson township, is also one of the few remaining veterans of the Civil war. He was born in Jefferson county, Ohio, May 12, 1839, a son of John and Elizabeth (Johnston) Wilson, both of whom were natives of County Tyrone, Ireland. The father came alone to the United States about 1833 or 1834, the voyage across the Atlantic requiring six weeks and three days. Upon landing in America he at once made his way to Jefferson county, Ohio, and in 1863 made his way to Coshocton county, locating on the land which is today owned by our subject. There he carried on general agricultural pursuits during his entire life. Ue met death by drowning in the Walhonding river in April, 1878. The wife survived for ten years and passed away in 1888. Their family numbered nine children, as: follows: William, who resides in Killbuck, Holmes county, this state; John, deceased; Nancy, the wife of Joseph Pithen, now living retired in Mingo Junction, Ohio; George, of this review; Mary A., Jane and Sarah E., all of whom have departed this life; Moses, who died in infancy; and James, a farmer of Jefferson township.

George Wilson acquired his education in one of the old-time log schoolhouses of Jefferson county and was reared to farm life. During his early life he learned the carpenter's trade, worked at the same for some time. He remained under the parental roof until he had reached the age of twenty-seven years, when he began life on his own account by choosing the occupation to which he had been reared. He began farming in Jefferson township, Coshocton county, where he has made his home to the present time. He is now the owner of the homestead property, comprising one hundred and_ forty-five acres of well improved land, which returns golden harvests as a reward for the care and labor bestowed upon the fields.

In 1862, at the time of the Civil war, Mr. Wilson put aside all business and personal considerations and enlisted as a member of Company E, Fiftysecond Ohio Volunteer Infantry for three years' service. He went to the front in August, 1862, and was discharged in the following February on account of disability, having received a wound in the shoulder in the battle of Perryville, Kentucky, from which he still suffers.

Following his discharge from the army Mr. Wilson returned to his home and resumed farm labor, which has been his occupation to the present time. Mr. Wilson established a home of his own by his marriage in 1866 to Miss Barbara Severens, a resident of Coshocton county. Their union has been blessed with seven children: Sarah E., who has passed away; Ida, the wife of Lemuel Church, a farmer of Tiverton township; Wiley, deceased; Effie, the wife of William Darling, of Bethlehem township, this county; Bertha, the wife of John Bowers, a farmer of Jefferson township; Verne, at home; and John J., who follows farming.

Mr. Wilson is independent in polities, with democratic tendencies. He is a Mason, belonging to Warsaw lodge, at Spring Mountain, of which he has served as junior and senior wardens, while for the past fourteen years he has been senior deacon. He is also identified with Stanton Post, G. A. R., at Warsaw, while his wife is a member of the Christian church. Mr. Wilson has spent the greater part of his life in Coshocton county and is therefore thoroughly familiar with its history. His suecess has come to him only through his own efforts and well directed labors, for all that he today possesses has been acquired through his economy and careful management. He is well and favorably known in this community and is highly esteemed by all.

Hon. Gail S. Hamilton

Hon. Gail S. Hamalton, mayor of Coshocton, is giving to the city a public-spirited and businesslike administration, his support of many progressive measures gaining for him the endorsement of the large majority of his fellow townsmen. A native son of Ohio, he was born in Wellington, Lorain county, August 8, 1868, his parents being Gaylord B. and Flora (Selkirk) Hamilton. In the paternal line he is descended from Alexander Hamilton and on the maternal side from Daniel Boone. His father was born in Medina county, Ohio, in 1824 and was a son of Lindsey Hamilton, who walked the entire distance from New York to Ohio and settled four miles north of the village of Medina. He was accompanied on the trip by a brother and two cousins and they settled at the four corners of the road, which district still bears the name of Hamilton's Corners. Gail S. Hamilton is today the only descendant of these four kinsmen bearing the name in Ohio. They were prominent factors in the early development of this part of the state.

Gaylord B. Hamilton was made postmaster of Medina, Ohio, when twenty-one years of age and after retiring from that office he entered the railway mail service, with which he was identified for many years. While thus engaged he became the inventor and patentee of the mail catcher, which is now universally used by all railroads for catching the mail bag at way stations while the train is in motion. Previous to this time it had been the custom to catch the bag with the arm and a broken shoulder frequently resulted. The need suggested the invention to Mr. Hamilton, who at length perfected it. Prominent in political circles, he was for years a member of the state central committee of Ohio but was never an aspirant for public office. He was an intimate friend of James A. Garfield and other distinguished republicans of the state and his labors were untiring in behalf of their success. Fraternally he was connected with the Masons and he was widely recognized as one of the influential and honored residents of his section up to the time of his death, which occurred in 1889, when he was sixty-five years of age.

Gail S. Hamilton was reared to farm life, for when he was five years of age his parents removed to the farm belonging to his grandfather, who had been paralyzed and needed the assistance of his son upon the old homestead. It was thus that Gail S. Hamilton spent his early youth amid rural surroundings, acquiring his preliminary education in the district schools. He was twelve years of age when the family removed to Medina and there he attended the graded and high schools. When seventeen years of age he entered upon his business career, securing a situation in the flour and feed store owned by the O. C. Shepherd Milling Company. 'Two years later he resigned in order to accept a position in a laundry and was identified with that line of business for eight years. In 1895 he came to Coshocton, Ohio, and accepted a position as clerk in the Empire Hotel, where he remained for three years. He was later connected with a laundry in Toledo for two years, but in 1900 returned to Coshocton, where he again acted as clerk in the Empire Hotel for a year.

It was during that period that Mr. Hamilton was married to Miss Lena Atkinson, of Delta, Ohio, and immediately following his marriage he purchased a restaurant on Hickory street, conducting it for three years. On selling out in 1904 he took a nine months' trip to California for the benefit of his wife's health, and on his return in the spring of 1905 he purchased the Star restaurant, which he conducted in connection with the Star Hotel for eighteen months, after which he sold out and engaged in the theatrical business, establishing the first electric theater opened in Coshocton. This has proven a financial success and is the popular theater of the city.

Mr. Hamilton is perhaps even better known in political circles and is an ardent republican, who has labored earnestly for the welfare and success of his party. In 1904 he announced his candidacy for the office of mayor but was defeated in the nominating convention. In 1906 he withdrew in favor of a friend but in 1908 again sought the nomination and at the ensuing election was chosen for the office by a handsome majority. He is proving a capable chief executive, who administers the affairs of the city along economical yet progressive business lines and has secured the passage of a number of important measures relative to the city's welfare.

Mr. Hamilton bélongs to Coshocton Lodge, No. 96, A. F. & A. M., Samaritan Chapter, No. 50, R. A. M.; Coshocton Commandery, No. 63, K. T.; Fidelity Lodge, No. 185, K. P.; Coshocton Lodge, No. 76, B. P. O. E.; and the Fraternal Order of Eagles, No. 761. He also attends and supports the Presbyterian church, of which his wife is a member. Mr. Hamilton is a popular man, of friendly and cordial spirit and his good nature and many sterling traits of character have gained him the friendship and regard of many, while his recognized business ability constituted an element in his election to the office which he as now ably filling.

Henry C. Herbig

Looking again upon the well remembered features and upon the days when Henry Herbig proved his worth to the community, memory of the man and the friend that he was recalls those personal qualities which with his public-spirited acts were held alike in the highest regard.

When Coshocton industries most needed a helping hand his was the one to pull them through. He was a moving spirit in the new and greater Coshocton, in the promotion of her industrial and commercial importance, and the advancement of public improvements. Under situations demanding most circumspect tact and prudence he demonstrated his capacity for financial achievement. Manufacturing and mercantile interests, general business enterprise, and the welfare of Coshocton at large advanced through his judgment as banker. The bank grew and prospered under his management, and he lived to see his pride - the solid old Commercial National - hold its place as the foremost financial institution in this section of the state.

The bank was Henry Herbig's life work. In that structure of pillared front he gave the best that was in him, all his energy, all his powers of endurance. Long before his health finally broke, when it seemed that nerves were straining past the breaking point and friends advised him to go slowly, he had in reserve that endurance and mental alertness which withstood the strain of years.

The many who knew him can yet pleasantly recall his manner of restless energy, his unflagging determination to advance Coshocton in all things. He was quick in his movements, and swift in his thinking. He was able to turn quickly from one subject to another, and dispatch business as fast as it came before him. Of exemplary habits and of indefatigable industry, he was always the same active, thoroughgoing, unatfected man of courage and decision.

He was born in Brunswick, Germany, in 1851, and two years later his parents located in Columbus. Naturally studious, his younger years saw him well started on a business career. Coming here from the Deshler National Bank of Columbus at nineteen he was associated with T. C. Ricketts in the establishment of the First National Bank of Coshocton in 1872. Mr. Herbig at first filled the position of bookkeeper, besides attending largely to cashier's duties. Two years afterward he became cashier. Faithful, industrious, well equipped, he justified from the beginning the confidence reposed in him in this responsible position.

He never lost faith in the future of Coshocton. In the dark days of "73 the storm of financial panic that swept over the country carried down the steel works. With characteristic energy Mr. Herbig accomplished results which started the fires anew in the Houston Hay Axle Works. And through the stress of 95, while factories over the land were closing, not a fire was drawn in the Coshocton mill; for payrolls were met with the banker's help until goods could be sold. Coshocton industries verified the judgment of Mr. Herbig. They grew "and flourished. An inestimable benefit was conferred upon them and upon the community at large by the helpful policy of Mr. Herbig, carried to the careful limits of safe and conservative banking.

Financial men of the state came to know him. He was one of the organizers of the Ohio Bankers' Association and the first treasurer. So highly was he esteemed that he was reelected treasurer continuously until life's close. A man of education and refinement, he was congenial company. Art and literature appealed to him. He found diversion in music, and, full of business as his life was, he gave time occasionally to the piano. He cared enough for the beauty of flowers to cultivate them at his fine home in Fourth street.

The marriage of Mr. Herbig and Miss Clarinda R. Ranne took place in 1876. A daughter, Helen, died in 1907. Another daughter is Mrs. Philip Wales, of Remsen, New York. A son, Fred, died in 1902; another, Carl, is of the energetic type which ranks him among the most active of Coshocton's representative business men, with all the good qualities of college experience and athletics. He is a stockholder in the printing house of Broome & Herbig, is prominent in the insurance field, an Elk and active in politics. He enlisted in the army during the Spanish-American war. His wife, formerly Miss Charlotte Rose, is a social favorite.

Henry Herbig's interest in Coshocton's welfare extended to earnest and conscientious service on the board of education. .He also served as city treasurer and was a prominent member of the board of trade. His business interests embraced corporations in West Virginia as well as in local fields. He was director and treasurer of the Coal River & Western Railway Company, director of the United Construction Company, and director of the Coal River Mining Company, all of Charleston, West Virginia; director of the Commercial National Bank, of the Broome & Herbig Company, the Pope-Gosser

Failing health induced Mr. Herbig to resign as bank cashier in the fall of 1905. Accompanied by Mrs. Herbig, his daughter Helen and relatives from Mansfield he went to California, then to Arizona and New Mexico, but there was no improvement. With the strength that still remained he came home in April, 1906. The surgeon found tuberculosis of the bowels. There was no hope. Sunday, a fortnight after the home-coming, the sleep of peace came to him as the faint dawn of Easter streaked the darkness of the hills.

A city mourned her loss. The day of the funeral the closed doors of the Commercial National, the Coshocton National and the People's Bank marked the last tribute to the memory of the city's veteran banker. The members of the Business Men's Association attended the services in a body. Members of the Ohio Bankers' executive committee from Cleveland, Toledo, South Charleston and Ironton were present.

Henry Thomas, Jr

Henry Thomas, Jr., successfully engaged in farming in Adams _ township, was born in Tuscarawas county, Ohio, July, 24, 1858, his parents being Henry and Louise (Doll) Thomas, who were natives of Germany. They emigrated to America in an early day and took up their abode in Tuscarawas county, Ohio, where the father purchased land. The mother of our subject passed away in 1892, but Henry Thomas still survives, making his home in Coshocton county. Their family numbered seven children, namely: Daniel, deceased; Elizabeth, the wife of Jacob Schlar, of Tuscarawas county; Henry, of this review; Louise, the wife of Jacob Gebhart, of Tuscarawas county; Caroline and Adam, both of whom are residents of Coshocton county; and Mary, the wife of F. Graham, of Canton, Ohio.

Henry Thomas, Jr., attended the common schools in the acquirement of an education and remained at home until he had attained his majority. He was then successfully engaged in the operation of a rented farm for some years and subsequently purchased his present valuable farm of two hundred and four acres in Adams township. In addition to the work of general farming he makes a specialty of raising Norman horses and in both branches of his business is meeting with a gratifying and well merited measure of prosperity. The success which has attended his efforts is but the just reward of his untiring industry and capable business management, and he is now widely recognized as one of the enterprising and progressive agriculturists of the community.

Mr. Thomas has been married twice. In 1888 he wedded Miss Catharine Lawrence, who passed away in August of that year. In 1890 he was joined in wedlock to Miss Eliza Yong, whose birth occurred in this county in 1866, she being one of a family of eight children. Her father is deceased but her mother still makes her home in Coshocton county. Unto Mr. and Mrs.

Tn his political views Mr. Thomas is a stalwart democrat and has served as supervisor and as school director. Both he and his wife are active and helpful members of the Lutheran church, and are well known and highly esteemed throughout the community as people of genuine personal worth and many excellent traits of character.

James Glenn

James Glenn is a strong and able attorney of Coshocton who since his admission to the bar has been connected with much important litigation. Born in Guernsey, Ohio, April 13, 1868, he is of Scotch lineage, although early representatives of the name came from the land of hills and heather to the new world during the colonial epoch in our country's history. A member of the family participated in the Revolutionary war as a soldier of the Continental army. The family was represented in Washington county, Pennsylvania, prior to the war of 1812 and in pioneer times in Ohio was established in this state. John Glenn, the father of our subject, was born in Noble county, Ohio, and early became familiar with the hardships and privations incident to frontier life. He continued a resident of Noble county until after the Civil war, when he removed to Guernsey county. He was a tanner by trade but in the latter county owned land and carried on general farming. After the inaugaration of hostilities between the north and south he joined the Union army as a member of Company A, Seventeenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and served throughout the war, participating in every engagement in which his regiment took part. He died in the year 1891, and is still survived by his widow,who bore the maiden name of Mary Ferguson. She was a daughter of James Ferguson, a pioneer of Guernsey county, Ohio. He came from Belfast, Ireland, to the new world, and the homestead which he secured in Guernsey county is still in possession of the family, being now owned by Mr. Glenn and his brother-in-law.

In the district schools James Glenn pursued his early education, which he afterwards supplemented by study in Muskinguin College, a leading educational institution at New Concord, Ohio, Choosing the practice of law as a life work he began reading at the age of eighteen years under the direction of his cousin, S. A. Dickson, a leading member of the Dayton bar, and when Mr. Dickson was appointed to the office of superintendent of public instruc: tion at the Soldiers and Sailors Orphans Home, at Xenia, Mr. Glenn continued his reading with Trvette & Weyre, well known attorneys of Cambridge, Ohio. In 1891, at Columbus, he successfully passed an examination which admitted him to the bar, and immediately afterwards began practice at New Concord, where he remained until 18938. He then came to Coshocton and for fifteen years has been a representative of the legal fraternity here. He has always engaged in the general practice of law and has been connected with much im- portant litigation in both civil and criminal law practice. He conducted a prosecution of Dickerson for murder and secured his conviction, and assisted in the defense of Mrs. Ida May Borderkerger. He is strong in argument, clear in his reasonings and logical in his deductions. Outside of his profession he has numerous interests in the coal operations in this and Muskingum counties, and in the oil operations in Washington county. He is likewise the owner of a valuable farm property in Guernsey county, having made judicious investment of his capital in real estate.

In 1890 Mr. Glenn was marrted to Miss Emma Lee Lawyer, of Guernsey county, and they now have six children: Clare, the wife of Frank Raiff; Tone; Margaret; John, who is eleven years of age; James, a lad of five summers; and Annabelle.

Mr. Glenn is a member of the Coshocton County Bar Association, and is well known in political circles. In 1896 he was elected to the house of representatives of the Ohio general assembly on the democratic ticket, and while thus serving was the author of some important general laws and of two local laws of interest to Coshocton county. In 1903 he was elected prosecuting attorney of Coshocton county, and filled the position until 1906. He finds needed rest and recreation from arduous business and professional cares in driving and in baseball, of which he is a devotee. There is no business in which advancement depends more largly upon individual merit than in the profession of the law, and that Mr. Glenn now occupies a place of prominence in the legal fraternity is attributable to his close application, his ready mastery of legal principles and an analytical mind which enables him readily to understand the relative value of the points in his case.

Jacob Lahna

Difficulties and obstacles have entered into the life of Jacob Lahna but he possesses the will power and determination that has put these in the background and forging his way to the front is now numbered among the substantial citizens of Coshocton county. Mr. Lahna was born in Muskingum county, Ohio, June 4, 1848, a son of Jacob and Ruth Ann (Sandler) Lahna, who were natives of Elzar, France, whence they emigrated to America in an early day and established their home in Muskingum county. After a time they made their way to Coshocton county and here spent their remaining days, the father passing away in 1867, while the mother survived for about twenty-two years, passing away in 1889. Their family numbered five children but the three-youngest are deceased, the eldest of the family being Charles, of Linton township.

The other member of the family and the second in order of birth, Jacob Lahna, acquired a common-school education and was reared on the home farm. In 1865, however, he put aside all business and personal considerations and offered his services to the government, serving until the close of hostilities. He then returned to his home in Coshocton county and soon after was married to Miss Sarah Wagner, who was born in this county in 1845, a daughter of Michael and Mary Ann (Lash) Wagner, in whose family were eleven children. The parents were natives of Prussia and emigrated to America in an early day, first locating in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. After a few years there spent they took up their abode in Coshocton county and here passed to their final rest.

Mr. Lahna upon starting out in life on his own account chose the occupation to which he had been reared and through his energy, ambition and determination has accumulated a well improved farm of ninety-five acres, situated in Linton township. He has improved his place with good buildings and fences, has tiled the land and made it a cultivable tract, which yields abundant harvests. :

The home of Mr. and Mrs. Lahna has been blessed with eleven children but the two youngest are deceased, those surviving being: Mary, of Chicago, Illinois; Rosa, the wife of Jacob Rarick, a resident of Stark county, this state; David, who makes his home in Coshocton; John, who is on the home farm; Agnes, the wife of William Moffit, also of Chicago; Sadie, the wife of Howard Roller, a resident of Coshocton county; William, Joseph and Benjamin, all under the parental roof.

Mr. Lahna's study of the political questions and issues of the day has led him to give stalwart support to the democratic party. He has filled the office of constable, while for the past six years he has been a school director and takes a deep interest in the maintenance of a good school system. The spirit of self-help is the source of all genuine worth in the individual and this truth is abundantly verified in the life of Mr. Lahna. Steadily pursuing his way undeterred by the obstacles that have barred his path he is achieving a prosperity of which he has every reason to be proud.

Nicholas J. Mullet

Nicholas J. Mullet, residing on his valuable farm of one hundred and seventy-five acres in Bethlehem township, was born in Switzerland, May 10, 1834, his parents being Steven and Anna M. Mullet, who were also natives of that country. In 1850, however, the father emigrated to the United States, locating in Coshocton county, Ohio. His family numbered nine children, namely: Mary; Fannie and Elizabeth, who are deceased; Nicholas J., of this review; Steven and John, who have also passed away; Jonas and Jacob, who are residents of this county; and Barbara, who has likewise been called to the home beyond. The parents of these children are deceased.

Nicholas J. Mullet acquired a common-school education and remained under the parental roof until he had attained his majority, subsequently working at the shoemaker's trade and also as a farmer, In 1865 he removed to Missouri and made his home in that state for three years. He was engaged in the operation of rented land until 1892 and afterward purchased his present farm of one hundred and seventy-five acres in Bethlehem township, in the cultivation of which he has since been successfully engaged. He also raises and feeds stock on quite an extensive scale and, by reason of his unfaltering industry and capable management, has met with a gratifying measure of prosperity in his undertakings.

In 1864 Mr. Mullet was joined in wedlock to Miss Mary A. Mullet, who, though of the same name, was not a relative. She was born in Coshocton county, Ohio, in 1844, a daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth Mullet, who are deceased. She has but one brother, Solomon. Unto our subject and his wife have been born sixteen children, as follows: Andrew L., whose natal day was May 14, 1864, and who is now a resident of Michigan; Elizabeth E., born October 4, 1865, who is the wife of John Rodhe, of this county; Albert P., who has passed away; Edward J. and Charles H., living in Coshocton county; Amanda C., the wife of Burnside Bantum, of Bethlehem township; Emma M., the wife of William Evans, of Bethlehem township; Martha S., the wife of Charles Steyer, of Adams township; Jacob N., living in Michigan; Jessie F., who resides in Canton, Ohio; Henry C., of Bethlehem township; Mary J., the wife of J. Easter, of Coshocton county; Coe J., also a resident of this county; Matthew K., at home; Maude J., the wife of David Easter, of this county; and Charlotte V., also at home.

Mr. Mullet gives stanch allegiance to the men and measures of the democracy, and has served as school director. Both he and his wife are devoted and faithful members of the Evangelical church, and are widely and favorably known throughout the county, not only by reason of the long period of their residence here but also because they have ever manifested those sterling traits of character which in every land and clime command respect and admiration. They have a good group picture of themselves and sixteen children, which took first prize at the county fair at Coshocton in the fall of 1908.

George J. Bock

George J. Bock, numbered among the eapable officials of Coshocton county, is now filling the position of county surveyor, in which connection he is discharging his duties with credit to himself and satisfaction to his constituents. One of the county's native sons, he was born in the city of Coshocton, January 18, 1879. His father, George J. Bock, Sr., was a native of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, where he was reared and married. He wedded Miss Mary L. Rehm, a native of Newark, New Jersey, and about 1878 they removed to Coshocton. The father was a barber and here followed his trade until 1907, when he withdrew from that line of business and turned his attention to contracting in partnership with his son and namesake, doing business under the firm style of George J. Bock & Son. The senior partner is a stalwart democrat in politics but has never been an aspirant for office, Throughout the period of his residence in Coshocton he has manifested

George J. Bock, Jr

George J. Bock, Jr., was reared in Coshocton and, passing through consecutive grades in the pabee schools, was graduated from the high school with the class of 1897. He then iad his initial step in the business world, spending three years at work at the plumber's trade, during which time he devoted his evening and leisure hours to the study of civil engineering. In 1900 he went to Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, to complete his studies and afterward secured a position with the Wabash Railroad Company in the civil engineering department in the construction of the road into Pittsburg. He was employed by that road for two years, during which time he attended night school in Pittsburg. "Throughout his entire life he has been ambitious to learn and has constantly broadened his knowledge by reading and investigation. He possesses, too, an observing eye and retentive memory and, unlike many who study but do not assimilate that which they learn, he has ever made good use of his knowledge. In the spring of 1903 he went to the Ohio Northern University at Ada, Ohio, where he pursued a special course in civil engineering and in the fall of that year he returned to Pittsburg, where he accepted a position in the office of a private engineering firm.

Mr. Bock returned to Coshocton in September, 1904, to take charge of the office of county surveyor, to which he had been elected in the fall of 1903. In 1906 he was reelected and is now serving for the second term, proving a popular and competent official. He has carefully systematized the work of the office and is most faithful and accurate in the discherge of the duties devolving upon him. When he entered this office there had been no concrete work done on the bridges of the county but during his incumbency many substantial bridges have been erected using much concrete work. Mr. Bock has done a great deal of engineering both for the town and for private parties. Since his return to Coshocton he has also become associated with his father in the general contracting business, although they make a specialty of heavy masonry. Although they have been connected with contract work here for only a brief period, they have already built up a good patronage and secured a most creditable name as representatives of industrial interests in Coshocton.

In November, 1904, Mr. Bock was married to Miss Josephine M. Bock, of Pittsburg, and unto them have been born two daughters, Mary Clementine and Aleta Margaret. Mr. Bock belongs to Coshocton Lodge, No. 376, B. P. O. E., in which he is holding the office of leading knight. He is also grand knight in Coshocton Lodge, No. 994, of the Knights of Columbus, and is a member of the Catholic church. Reared in the faith of the aetmenans party, he has never found occasion to change his views upon such matters, his mature judgment sanctioning the principles of the party and the methods employed thereby in the government service. His own official record has won him the commendation of republicans and democrats alike, and when we note the persistency of purpose with which Mr. Bock gained his education and prepared for life's practical and responsible duties we cannot but add our tribute of praise for what he has accomplished. Such a life record may well serve as a source of inspiration and encouragement to others, showing what may be done when, without any special advantages or opportunities, the individual carves out a place for himself in the world.

Dr. Jesse McClain, a successful practitioner of the regular school with a large patronage in Coshocton, was born in West Lafayette, Ohio, April 1, 1868. He is a descendant of Seth McClain, who in 1804 came from Virginia to Ohio and built a cabin near the fine spring, now known as the College Spring, on the Ferguson farm. After living there for about ten years he and other settlers discovered that they were on the Higby section of military land and because of this he removed to Linton township, becoming one of the earliest settlers there. He married a daughter of the Sells family, whose relatives settled further up the river. His son James became the father of Colonel R. W. McClain and the grandfather of Dr. McClain of this review.

Richard McClain, the father, was born in Linton township in November, 1823, and was married in 1848 to Miss Catherine Elson, of this township. They had ten children, namely: Jennie; Seth, deceased; Ella; Arthur; Lizzie; Lyde; Noah; Laura, deceased; Charles; and Jesse. Mr. Me- Clain was a man of note in this township, having held numerous township offices, and was county treasurer two terms. In a newspaper account of his life it was said that his youth and manhood were passed at a time when men were honest and integrity and uprightness of character were prized jewels. He possessed these in an uncommon degree, as evidenced by the high appreciation of his neighbors and friends throughout the country. His courage and patriotism were co-equal and he defended his country with the same devotion to duty that actuated him in his eventful and successful life. When a young man he enlisted in the Third Ohio Infantry and, with other comrades from this place, served in the war with Mexico in 1846-48. At the breaking out of the rebellion in 1861, the firing on Fort Sumter aroused him and he was the first in this country to organize a company, which served with distinction for three months as part of the Sixteenth Ohio Upon his return he immediately assisted in recruiting and organizing the Fifty-first Ohio, one of the best regiments in the service. He was elected major at the organization and then to colonel, after the promotion of Colonel Stanley Matthews. He participated with his comrades in the battle of Stone River and others of the campaign. At Chickamauga he was captured, and after one year spent in Libby prison was exchanged and returned to the command of his regiment, serving until the close, of the war. Upon his return home he was nominated and elected treasurer on the democratic ticket, though he had been an uncompromising republican. When his term expired he was reelected by being the candidate of both parties, which was sufficient recommendation of the faithful discharge of his duties. He was one of the most efficient officers the country ever had. Colonel McClain died March 31, 1880. His wife bore the maiden name of Catherine Elson and is still living at the advanced age of eighty-three years.

Dr. McClain pursued his education in the district schools and in the Lafayette high school, prior to entering the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, this state. With broad literary knowledge to serve as the foundation upon which to rear the superstructure of professional learning, he next entered the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Chicago and won the M.D. degree in 1895. Immediately following the completion of his course there he began practice in Coshocton, where he has remained continuously since, save the time devoted to post-graduate study in the Chicago Clinical School. While he engages in general practice and enjoys a lucrative patronage therein, he specializes to some extent in surgery and is most competent in that regard. He keeps abreast with the leading members of the profession through the interchange of thought and experience in the meetings of the Coshocton Medical Association, the Ohio Medical Society and the American medical Association, in all of which he holds membership.

In June, 1895, occurred the marriage of Dr. McClain and Miss Mary Burt, of West Lafayette, Ohio, and they are well known socially in the city, having many friends here. Dr. McClain is a member of the various Masonic bodies, including the chapter and commandery, and he belongs to the Methodist Episcopal church. He takes an active interest in local affairs and was formerly a member of the board of health and the board of public safety, but while his interest in matters of general importance is that of a publicspirited citizen, his time and attention are chiefly devoted to his profession, wherein he has attained considerable success. Not all who become followers of the medical profession attain success therein. It demands special fitness - a quick sympathy, combined with readiness of perception in determining the remedies that are needed for the peculiar condition of the patient. To these qualities must also be added a broad, comprehensive and accurate knowledge of the principles of the medical science. In all of these particulars Dr. McClain is well qualified and thus he is continually making advancement.

Judge Julius C. Pomerene

Judge Julius C. Pomerene, lawyer and jurist, whose name is now on the roll of the county's honored dead, was one of the distinguished members of the Ohio bar. He well merited the honor and success which came to him, for he labored earnestly to secure advancement, realizing that in no profession does progress depend more largely upon individual merit than in the practice of the law. He gained notable distinction through the fit utilization of the innate talents which were his, becoming an able lawyer with keen analytical and logical mind, giving to his clients the benefit of ripe ability and unqualified allegiance. He possessed a mind of singular precision and power, capable of an impartial view of both sides of the question and of arriving at a just conclusion. His life history forms an important chapter in the annals of this county.

Family tradition has it that the founder of the family in America was a French youth, Julius Pomerene, who ran away from home, was secreted by La Fayette on one of his vessels and, after the arrival of the French troops in the new world, served with the American forces through the Revolutionary war, one account claiming that he held the rank of sergeant under General La Fayette. After the close of the war he became a resident of Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, and was there married to Magdalena Heller, a German lady.

Julius C. Pomerene, a son of Julius and Elizabeth (Piersol) Pomerene, was born in Salt Creek township, Holmes county, Ohio, June 27, 1835. His boyhood and youth were spent upon the farm where his father settled on removing from Pennsylvania to Ohio in 1819. There the father of our subject lived until called to his final rest in 1863, his time and energies being devoted to general agricultural pursuits. His son and namesake, Judge Pomerene, was a pupil in the district schools until he reached the age of seventeen years, when he matriculated in Mount Union College, where he remained for two years. He did not have the means to pursue an uninterrupted course through college and he spent his summers and vacations at work on the farm, while in the fall and winter months he taught or attended school as necessity and opportunity pointed the way. He was for one year a student in the Hayesville Academy and altogether spent about three years in the acquirement of a higher education.

Ambitious to become a member of the bar, Judge Pomerene began reading law as a student in the office and under the direction of Hoagland & Reed, then the leading attorneys of Holmes county, with whom he continued for a year. At the expiration of that period he entered the State and Union Law College at Cleveland, Ohio, from which he was graduated in June, 1859. In November of the same year he located for practice at Coshocton and remained an active and prominent member of the bar until his election to the bench of the circuit court in 1892. He was first associated in partnership with Colonel Josiah Given, another one of the judges of the supreme court of Iowa, and this connection continued until the outbreak of the Civil war. Judge Pomerene afterward practiced alone for about eighteen months and was then associated with Benjamin S. Lee for six years. On the dissolution of that partnership he joined Etherington T. Spangler in a partnership that remained in effect for fifteen years. Judge Pomerene was then alone in practice until 1886, when on the admission of his son, William R., the firm of J. C. and W. R. Pomerene was formed. There was no interruption to this association until January 1, 1893, when Judge Pomerene withdrew to take his place upon the bench of the circuit court. In the meantime he had gained distinction as one of the foremost members of the bar of northern Ohio. One who knew him well said of him: education. He is upright in his intercourse with his fellow citizens and has a thorough appreciation of the rights of others. He is a man of firm convictions, though not dogmatical in enforcing his views on others. He is open, frank and sincere in his manner and has the confidence and esteem of all those who come to know him well. As a lawyer he has long been one of the foremost at this bar. He is conscientious with his clients and is regarded as a safe counselor. He had a large practice before he went on the bench, which was of a general nature, though he had more chancery practice, perhaps, than business in open court. He is recognized as one of the best read lawyers in this section of the state and is eminently qualified for the judicial ermine."

Such was Judge Pomerene's position in the public regard that when he received the democratic nomination for one of the judges of the fifth judicial district it was at once conceded that it was almost useless to place an oprenent in the field. His election was a foregone conclusion and the record which he made on the bench is perhaps best told in the words of an eminent rnember of the Ohio bar, who said:

"Judge Pomerene is an able jurist. He is adapted by nature and education for a judge. He has an equitable mind and is well grounded in the principles of law. He.is clear and concise in his statements of questions of law and eminently just in his decisions. He is conservative and safe rather than brilliant, and his judgment has been sustained by the supreme court. The purity of his life, the honesty of his purpose and his close adherence to the practice of law, to the exclusion of everything else since he entered the profession, are other elements of his character that have raised him in the esteem of the members of the bar in the district. He has maintained himself well in the position of judge and fully met the expectations of those who placed him there."

As previously indicated, Judge Pomerene was a stalwart democrat, yet was without those qualities that are characteristic of the so-called politician. He was a believer in the principles of his party and recognized the obligations of citizenship but never countenanced in the slightest degree the employment of political methods which would not bear the closest investigation. On the * bench he never allowed partisanship or personal prejudice to interfere with the faithful administration of justice and his decisions were not only strictly fair but were based also upon a comprehensive knowledge of the law. He was yet the incumbent in the office of circuit judge when death came to him suddenly December 28, 1897.

Judge Pomerene is still survived by his wife, two sons and a daughter. Mrs. Pomerene, who bore the maiden name of Irene Perky, was a daughter of John F. and Julia Perky, of Hancock county, Ohio. The sons are William R. and Frank E., associates in the practice of law under the firm name of Pomerene & Pomerene, while the daughter, Helen, is the wife of Lincoln C. Carson, of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. She was born September 28, 1869, and was a student in the Coshocton public schools, in Granville Female College of Granville, Ohio, and a convent school at Nottingham, near Cleve-

Such in brief is the life history of Judge Pomerene. He was a man respected and honored by young and old, rich and poor. He had many warm friends and those who came within the closer circle of his acquaintance found him a most genial companion, while all who knew him entertained for him the esteem which the world instinctively pays in recognition of genuine worth. During his practice his course was such as to reflect credit upon the bar of this district and state. He conducted important litigation in the state and federal courts with gratifying success, winning well earned fame and distinction. He convinced by his concise statements of law and facts rather than by word painting and his assertions in court were seldom questioned seriously, so high was the respect for his legal ability and integrity. He was an able, faithful and conscientious minister in the temple of justice and gave to his client the service of great talent, unwearied industry and rare learning.

Joseph L. McDowell, who at the age of fourteen was serving as page in the Ohio legislature, is now classed with the leading lawyers of Coshocton and is now serving as county prosecuting attorney. He was born in this city April 6, 1874, of the marriage of John and Catherine (Kelly) McDowell, both of whom were natives of Ireland. The father, coming to America in early manhood, spent a short time in Cooperstown, New York, and thence removed to Coshocton, Ohio, where he learned the blacksmith's trade. At the outbreak of the Civil war he enlisted as a mechanic and worked at blacksmithing in the government service throughout the period of hostilities. When peace had been restored, he returned to Coshocton, where he again followed his trade, becoming known as an enterprising, progressive and successful mechanic. While never an aspirant for public office, he was a worker in the ranks of the democratic party and his efforts in its behalf were farreaching and beneficial. He died in 1900, at the age of sixty-three years.

Joseph L. McDowell, spending his boyhood days in his father's home, was sent to the public schools of Coshocton and while receiving theoretical training there, was also having the practical experiences which come to the boy who early learns the value of money by earning it. He worked as a newsboy and bootblack in his early youth and at the age of fourteen years was given the position of page in the state legislature, being the first democratic page to serve in a republican house. He continued there for eight years and then went with Senator Calvin Bryce to Washington. He remained at the national capital, however, for only two months, when he asked to be returned to the Ohio legislature, as the emoluments were greater there and living expenses less. While acting as page in Columbus he attended night school under Professor King and began reading law with Captain E. W. James, the pioneer attorney of Coshocton, as his preceptor. A laudable ambition prompted him in this course and has constituted one of the strong features in his later advancement. In the fall of 1895 he entered the Cincinnati Law College, was graduated therefrom in the class of 1898 and was admitted to the bar on the 11th of June. Immediately afterward he opened an office in the Forbes block in Coshocton, where he began the practice of his profession. He has practiced independently and has secured a liberal clientage, for he soon demonstrated his ability to cope with older and more experienced lawyers. He has won many notable cases - a fact which is due to his careful and thorough preparation and his correct application of legal principles to the points at issue. He served as city solicitor for four years, from 1900 until 1904, and in 1906 was elected prosecuting attorney of Coshocton county, which position he is now capably filling. In this connection he is a faithful guardian of the legal interests of the county and one whose ability has gained for him high commendation.

Mr. McDowell is a member of Coshocton Lodge, No. 976, B. P. O. E.. and also belongs to the Knights of Columbus and the Fraternal Order of Eagles, while of the Catholic church he is a communicant.

On the 5th of August, 1907, Mr. McDowell was married to Miss Ella Couerty, of Coshocton, a daughter of Farley Couerty, who is a member of the board of public service in this city. The record of Mr. McDowell is marked by advancement through successive stages and he certainly deserves the proud American title of a self-made man. Whatever he has accomplished, whatever success he has won and whatever fame he has achieved are attributable to his well directed efforts and the wise use of his native talents and powers.

In recent years Coshocton's development has been very rapid. Many business concerns have here found a profitable field and their trade interests are bringing the city into close touch with other parts of the country. Each successful industry should be a matter of pride to the citizens in that it is a factor in the general progress and improvement here. The Spellacy-Raiff Enameling Company is now conducting a prosperous concern in the manufacture of high grade enameled kitchen ware.

The president of the company, M. Spellacy, was born in Clare county, Ireland, in 1844 and was therefore only about six years of age when in 1850 his parents, John and Nora (Hartney) Spellacy, brought their family to the United States. They located first in Vermont and the father became identified with railroad work there. He lived at various places and after the breaking out of the Civil war engaged in contracting and railroad building, with which he was identified until he reached the evening of life. He died in 1888 at the very venerable age of ninety-two years.