Knox County, Ohio - Biographical sketches, 1881 (part 12 of 20)

MEAD, ALFRED, Hilliar township, brick and tile manufacturer, Centreburgh, Ohio, was born in Newark, New Jersey, May 27, 1845, and is the fifth child of Alfred and Hellen Mead, nee Collins, who came to Ohio about 1848. 'They settled in Jersey township, Licking county, Ohio, where they now reside. Alfred spent his youth on the farm. He enlisted October 27, 1861, in company H, Seventy-sixth Ohio volunteer infantry, for three years. He participated in the battles of Fort Donelson, Shiloh, siege of Corinth, Chickasaw Bayou, Arkansas Post, Jackson, siege of Vicksburgh, siege of Jackson, Lookout Mountain, Mission Ridge, Ringgold, Resaca. He was then appointed third sergeant of the company, and afterward participated in the battles of Dallas, siege of Kennesaw Mountain, Atlanta, Ezra Chapel, siege of Atlanta, Jonesborough, Lovejoy Station, where he was wounded with a musket ball. He also participated in the sieges of Savannah, Columbia, and Rentonville, North Carolina, besides eleven skirmishes. He veteranized at Woodville, Alabama. He served his country for three years and nine months, never failing in the performance of his duty. After his yeturn home from the army he learned the carpenter trade and followed it for about eight years, working in Iowa for some time, and spent some time in the lumber business in Indiana. In the fall of 1875 he opened a brick and tile kiln in Centreburgh. Mr. Mead started in life without the aid of any one, but assisted his parents in life and also succeeded in making for himself a comfortable home, establishing a growing trade. Mr. Mead is highly esteemed by the community, is social and pleasant in his manners, is a good citizen, was a good soldier, and has the confidence of all who know him. He was married to Miss Nichols, of Licking county, November 28, 1867.

MEELICK, GREENBURY, farmer, post Castle, was born in Jackson township, Knox county, Ohio, on the eighth day of October, 1818. He has been thrice married, and is the father of two. children, viz: Lorenzo, born January 3, 1847; Mary Imus, February 6, 1849. His present wife was Mrs. Esther McCrea, widow of Walter McCrea, who had five children, viz: Walter, born January ro, 1852; Robert O., July 23, 1855, and who died December 14, 1862; Leora A., born November 26, 1857, and died November 25, 1862; Eva Esther, born November 1, 1859, and died September 17, 1863; Joseph M., born November 5, 1862, and died December 5, 1862.

MEGINNIS JOHN, mechanic, Howard township, post office, Howard. He was born April 4, 1812, in Franklin county, Pennsylvania, came to this county in 1834, and pursued the business of stone and brick laying, In 1841 he was married to Rachel Lybarger, settled in Howard township, and has remained there ever since. They have five children: Catharine, Maoza, Emeline, Mary, and Henry.

Catharine married John Roberts and moved to Delaware county, Ohio. Maoza married Alexander Newton and settled iu Howard township. Mr. Meginnis has built a large number of stone and brick structures. _ His son, William, is at present with him.

- MELICK, the family of, Jackson township. David Melick, one of the pioneers of Jackson township, was born in Pennsylvania November 2, 1784, and was married to Hannah Haskins about the year 1805. She was born July 4, 1789. He emigrated to Jackson township in the vear 1810. His son, William Melick, was born in Pennsylvania December 1, 1806. He was married November 6, 1828, té Ermina Cooper, who was born June 12, 1809, and who died June 13, 1835. She bore him three children, viz: Daniel, born October 22, 1829; Nancy, born November 30, 1831; Hannah, born November 11, 1833.

MELTON, ROBERT, teamster, Fredericktown, was born in Knox county in 1849, at:d was married in 1878 to Sarah Frasier, who was born in Muskingum county, Ohio. They have one daughter, Sanora May, who was born in March, 1879.

MENDENHALL, E. I., was born in Chester county, Pennsylvania, April 21, 1840, but when about seven years of age his parents came to Mt. Vernon, where he attended school. He was then sent back to Pennsylvania, and attended an academy two years at Kennett square; then returned to Mt. Vernon and entered the law office of General G. W. Morgan, where he remained until he was admitted to the bar, when he opened an office and devoted his time to his profession, in which he has succeeded. After practicing for three years he formed a partnership with Joseph Watson, which continued for two years, then Mr. Watson went to Columbus, and since, Mr. Mendenhall has been alone, having a good practice, and is a highly respected member of the Knox county bar.

MEREDETH, BENJAMIN, deceased, Union township, was born in Coshocton county, Ohio, in 1810. He married Delila Welket, daughter of John and Elizabeth Welket, in 1832. They settled in Union township, remained a few years, then purchased and moved on a farm in Howard township, where they spent the remainder of their days. He died July 4, 1847. and Mrs. Meredith died July the seventeenth, 1855. They reared a family of seven children: Elizabeth J., Margaret M., Sarah E., Mary S., Leander W., Lucinda F., and John S. Elizabeth J. and John S. are dead.

ary 4, 1843. He married Martha J. Dillon, daughter of Thomas and Eliza Dillon, in 1864' They settled in Union township; at present they are living in Rosstown. They have four children; two sons and two daugters.

MERRIEN, ANDREW B., deceased, Morris township, was born in Chester township, Morrow county, Ohio, in 1826, and married in 1850 Margaret L. Rush, who was born in Morris township in 1829. "They have the following children: Anna M., born in 1850; John A.; in 1853; Sarah J., in 1856; Joe Bell, in 1859; Oakley M., in 1861; Jacob, in 1868; Ada B., in 1873; Frederick, in 1875.

Fredericktown. John A. married Mertice J. Lyon. Sarah J. married Charles W. Wise. Mr. Merrien died in Morris township in 1876. He was engaged in the lumber trade near Fredericktown, and was among the active men of the county. In his death the community and family met with a great loss. Mrs. Margaret Merrien still resides in this township.

MERRIN, JOHN C., post office, Fredericktown, teacher, Morris township, Ohio, born in Fredericktown, Knox county, Ohio, February 6, 1840; lived there until the fall of 1848, when his father, the Hon. Jacob Merrin, moved to his beautifnl farm in Berlin township. Lived with his father until 1879; was martied to Miss Zona Ravenscroft, of Henry county, Ohio, June 18, 1879; lived in Fredericktown during the winter of 1879-80, then moved to Morris township, where he now resides. Studied law under his brother, Joseph H. Merrin, one of the leading lawyers of Mansfield (now deceased), and after a rigid examination by the supreme court of Ohio, was admitted to practice law in 1863.

Served in the Union army a short time; was taken dangerously sick at Bermuda Hundred; was removed to the hospital at Fort Schuyler, a few miles above New York city, where he was honorably discharged on account of sickness.

The field of education had far greater charms for him than the practice of law. He has been intimately connected with the educational interests of the ungraded schools of Knox county for many years, probably more so than any other educator in Knox county. Has been president of the teachers' institute of Knox county many years. At the present time he fills that honorable position, He is recognized as one of the leading spirits in the interests of ungraded schools. His life has been devoted, heart and soul, to their progress and prosperity.

He taught his first term in Berlin township, when a mere boy of seventeen, where the township house now stands, and where he had been a pupil for many years. In this place he taught four consecutive terms. Teaching has been his profession ever since. He was appointed county school examiner in January, 1877, to fill a vacancy occasioned by the resignation of Isaac Lefever, jr.; was reappointed in 1877, and again appointed in September, 1880. He is the most experienced member of the present board, and is one of the most efficient examiners Knox county ever had. He has labored hard and successfully to advance the standard of qualification of teachers as fast as wisdom and prudence dictated. He is to-day one of the live educators and unfaltering friends of common schools.

MERRIEN, JOHN M., Morris township, farmer, post office, Fredericktown, was born December 5, 1853, and was married October 3, 1878, to Mertice Lyon, who was born'De-

MERRIMAN, CHARLES:AUSTIN, Mt. Vernon, attorney at law, was born near Chesterville, Morrow county, Ohio, January 20, 1851. He is the oldest child of James H. and Emily Merriman, xce Carey, daughter of Frederick Carey, one of the old settlers of Knox county. He spent his youth on the farm. He worked during the summer and taught school in the winter. While teaching he read law. He attended law school at Michigan State university, during the winters of 1873-4 and 1875-6, graduating, taking the degree of LL. D. Hewas admitted to the bar in Michigan in the year 1876, and the same year was admitted in Ohio. He spent eighteen months in the office of H. H. Greer, esq., in order to get a knowledge of the practice, and on the ninth day of November, 1877, he opened an office of his own, and has been practicing with a steady increase of business. He was married to Miss Emma Clegern, October 17, 1878. They have one child, Bessie L.

MERRIMAN, B.. Waldo, Hilliar township, physician and surgeon, Centreburgh, Ohio, is one of the rising young doctors of Knox county. He was born in Bloomfield township, Morrow county, March 20, 1854. His father was a farmer, and it was on the farm that the doctor spent his youth, holding the plow during the summer and going to school in the winter. He taught for several terms. When about twenty-one years of age he began reading medicine with Dr. F. R. Larimore, of He finished his course of reading with the well known physicians, Drs. Russelland McMillin, of Mt. Vernon, Ohio. His first course of lectures he attended at Columbus Medical college, and his succeeding courses were at the Long Island college, Brooklyn, New York, where he graduated in July, 1878. Hewas a close student, and had the advantages of first-class preceptors, which, coupled with his collegiate medical education, gave him such knowledge of his profession as to enable him to take a high rank with the public and his professional brethren. He first began his practice in Marengo, Morrow county, where he remained for about one year.

The town of Centreburgh opening up a wider field for praclice, he came therein the fall of 1879, and has a growing practice. He is a man of reserved manners, but readily makes friends by his constancy rather than by familiarity. He was married to Miss Eva M. Bird, of Liberty township, July 2s, 1878. They have one child.

MERYHEW, JOHN A., Wayne township, farmer, post office, Mt. Vernon, bornin Mt. Vernon in 1848, and was married in 1874 to Ida Bell Horner, who was born in Mt. Vernon in 1858. They have the following children: Jessie M., born in 1875; Frank H., in 1877; and Laura M., in 1879. Mr. Meyhew is a farmer by occupation.

When the War of 1812 was declared, he enlisted in Captain Spencer's company of volunteers, recruited in Licking county. They marchedfrom Granville to Urbana, and from there to Fort Meigs, having to cut their way through the then unbroken wilderness of Northwestern Ohio. From there they went to Detroit, and were among the troops commanded by General Hull, when he surrendered to the British at Fort Malden. After remaining a prisoner of war for a few weeks, he was paroled and returned to his home at Granville. Some time prior to 1825, he went to Utica and engaged in the dry goods trade. August 24, 1825, he was married to Mrs. Martha Silliman, then a young widow lady, of Mt. Vernon, she having two little daughters, one of whom is Mrs. Wareing, of Utica, the other, Mrs. Kelsey, of Mt. Vernon. Mfs. Messenger died at the advanced age of eighty-four years, on the twenty-ninth of September last. Mr. and Mrs. Messenger had three sons: S. B. Messenger, a dentist of Newark; Captain H. C. Messenger, of Jackson, Ohio, who died in the army during the rebellion; and G. B. Messenger, of this city. Davia Messenger was, perhaps, the oldest Mason in this part of the country, having been a Mason in Centre Star Lodge, No. 11, Granville, in 1812, receiving his degrees up to and including the master mason degree there during that year. He had not been engaged in active business for many years previous to his death, which occurred at his home on Friday: January 14, 1881, at the advanced age of ninety years and nearly four months. He died of old age, having no disease, and confined to his bed only a few days. Since the death of his wife, with whom he had lived happily for more than fifty-five years, he has been only waiting and anxious to go.

METHEANY, ISRAEL, retired, Pike township, post office, Democracy, born in Preston county, Virginia, in 1816, and was married in 1840 to Rebecca Dewitt, who was born in this township. They had eight children: Daniel, Simeon, Mary A., Harvey, Rebecca E., Aaron, William, and Emma. Daniel, Aaron, and Simeon have died. He came to Ohio with his parents in 1820, located in Jefferson township, this county, in 1858, and came to Pike township where he has since resided.

His father, Israel Metheany, was born in Virginia; in 1789 he was married to Rebecca Conner. They had twelve children. Mr. and Mrs. Metheany died in this county. They were among the earlier settlers,

METZGER, JOSEPH, Milford township, farmer and stock grower. Mr. Metzger was born in Cambria county, Pennsylvania, June 18, 1819. In 1823 he was brought to Ohio by his parents, who located in Perry county, where they passed the remainder of their days. In 1842, Joseph Metzger married Miss Mary A. Bechtoll, 'of Muskingum county, Ohio, born July 24, 1823. They settled in Muskingum county, remained about two years, then moved to Morgan county, Ohio, and remained one year. In 1845 they moved to this county and located on the farm in Pleasant township now owned by Thomas Hillier, where they remained about two years, and in 1847 they moved to Mt. Vernon, remained until the fall of 1850, then moved on the farm in Monroe township where they are now living. Their union resulted in five children, three sons and two daughters. One of the daughters has deceased. His companion died July 12, 1851, leaving five small children to his care. He remained a widower about five years, then January 4, 1856, married Mrs. Rachel Houck, zee Walker, born September 2, 1832, daughter of Isaac Walker. They have a family of six children; five sons and one daughter.

MEYERS, MAX, Mt. Vernon, Was born November 17, 1843, in. Berlin, Prussia, and came to America in 1865. He stopped in. New York, Cincinnati and Columbus until 1872, when he came to Mt. Vernon, and commenced business as a dealer in glassware, manufacturing of tinware, etc., in which he is still engaged. He has several wagons on the road, and does a business of from four thousand to five thousand dollars per year. He married Sarah Shaw, by whom he has had a family of five children, two of whom only are living.

MILLER, JAMES, deceased, Miller township, was born in Dummerston, Vermont, December 16, 1783, and died September 30, 1844. Miller township was named in honor of this respected pioneer. The family tradition in regard to the circumstances connected with the naming of the township disagrees somewhat with the account given by Mr. Gates in his history of the township.

Mr. Miller invited his neighbors, who then embraced the whole township, to a raising of the first frame barn built in the township. In those days it was customary for the people to turn out for miles around, and assist each other when a cabin or a barn was built. Upon this occasion all the voters of the township happened to be present. It was about the time of the organization of the township, or when the old name - Sycamore - had been dropped, and the inhabitants were casting about fora new name, Mr. Miller entertained his guests very generously at the feast after the raising. Apple toddy and whiskey flowed freely, and when the company was feeling very fine, the question of naming the township came up, and the party unanimously resolved to name it in honor of their generous host. The honor was conferred as mueh too in consideration of the high estcem and respect in which Mr. Miller was held by all who knew him. He was a gentleman of education, and was looked up to for counsel and advice by the settlers for many years.

Mr. Miller emigrated from Windham county, Vermont, with his wife and four children in 1814, and was six weeks making the journey. The story of his emigration is but a repetition of that of other pioneers who left the barren hills of New England and turned toward the virgin soil of the great west.

Mrs. Miller's family - the Warners - had proceeded them several years and settled on the Licking, near Zanesville. They had written letters glowing with praises of Ohio's rich soil and mild climate. It was a great journey to make and had to te accomplished in wagons over mountains and valleys and-across great rivers.

Ohio was then far west, the great unknown, sometimes called the ''new world."" When Mr. Miller reached the Hudson, near Newbury, a rare vision presented itself. The broad expanse of water at that point, the rock bound shores covered with autumnal tinted foliage, excited the wonder of the children. Madison, then a boy of five, exclaimed: ''Oh, mother, is this the new world ?"

The route across the Susquehanna and over the A!leghanies to Wheeling presented rare natural attractions. Near _Zanesville Mrs. Warner, the mother of Mrs. Miller, was on her death bed, awaiting the arrival of her children, praying she might live to see their faces again, but when the emigrants reached Cambridge word came to the sorrowing daughter that the mother had expired. Mr. Miller left his family with the Warners during the winter of 1814-r5 until, he had located his land and prepared a shelter in Knox county, where he removed them in January, 1815.

What a task presented itself to those early pioneers! A square mile of solid timber to 1emove before it could be tickled by the plow and made to bring forth fruit! A man of less energy and will would have quailed at the prospect.

deed is now preserved by Dana Miller, his youngest son. The land was part of a reservation of Congress lands, as distinguished from so called military land, which latter embraced most of this part of the State.

Mr. Miller was not fully satisfied with the title of the military tract, hence sought an original grant from the United States. As stated before, this land was covered by a dense forest. Game was abundant. The boys could shoot deer near their cabin any day. The woods were alive with turkeys. Wolves made the night hideous by their howling, and bears were frequently met with, nor had the red man entirely forsaken these hunting grounds, now encroached upon by fast spreading civilization. One day while the family were at breakfast, with the cabin door open, a powerful savage stepped stealthily in and presented to the affrighted mother and children a spectacle which was truly new, novel, and apalling. He was armed with rifle and tomahawk, and plumed with feathers and beads. Mr. Miller preserved his coolness and arose from the table, addressing the Indian kindly found by signs he had been hunting in the neighborhood and desired something to eat. He was accordingly accommodated with a morsel at a side table, when he grunted thanks and departed.

Mr. Miller performed a vast amount of labor in clearing his farm, and in a few years his boys rendered valuable assistance. The pioneer boys were given axes at an early age, and soon learned to use them effectively. The land, meanwhile, began to produce corn and wheat, but there was no market. Mr. Miller often hauled wheat so faras the lake, and aftewards to Zanesville and Newark, and sold it as low as thirty-seven cents ber bushel. For many years produce would not bring money; the merchants only offering store goods. ' Hides were the only exception; they brought cash. The taxes must be paid in cash, and Mr. Miller considered himself fortunate, in wintering cattle, when enough died to enable him to pay his taxes.

Mr. Miller was of small stature but possessed of wonderful energy. He arose early and stirred up the whole household before the sun that the work might be executed always in season. His industry lasted until the day of his death. He was at that time finishing the brick house where his son now resides, and, conscious of his approaching end, he was careful to attend to every detail, even to paying the laborers each day all wages due, and giving directions for the coming day. He died of a disease of the tongue, which had affected his speech for several yeats, and was buried in the family cemetery near his residence.

James Milier was educated at Williams college, and during the War of 1812 was a member of the company of Captain Hayes, the father of President Hayes. He was married near Wordsborough, Vermont, in March, 1806, to Sarah Warner, who was born in Newfane, Vermont, April 1, 1788, the eldest daughter of Daniel Warner, jr., of Newfane, son of Daniel Warner, sr., supposed to have been from Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, and whose ancestors emigrated from England at an early day. Both the Warners emigrated to Ohio about the year 1807. Sarah Warner's mother was the daughter of the Hon. Luke Knowlton, a distinguished citizen of Vermont during the Revolution, and was a descendant of Thomas Knowlton, of Ipswitch, who lived about 1660 to 1700. Sarah Warner, at the time of her marriage, was an accomplished and educated young lady of rare personal beauty, and seemingly too tender to endure the hardships of pioneer life, but she lived to see the primeval forest on her husband's land 'replaced by smiling and fruitful fields. Besides, she reared a family of eleven children, all grown to manhood and womanhood. She died November 26, 1858, lamented by all who knew her, and leaving memories of a character for sweetness and gentleness that will stand as a shining example for all time. A brother aud sister of Mrs. Miller survive her, and now reside at Newark, Ohio, viz: Luke K. Warner and Mrs. Ie. S. Woods.

The descendants of James and Sarah Miller numbered eighty of which seventy are now living. They had eleven children: James Warner, the eldest, born in Vermont, July 8, 1807, married Mary G. Bryant, and had ten children and twenty-nine grandchildren. He was a prominent merchant in Mt. Vernon for forty years, and now resides iis Newark, Ohio.

Madison, born in Vermont September 12, 1809, died February 25, 1868; married, first, Sarah M. Hill, second, Mrs. Kate Bliss, and third, Mrs. Mary Daily. He had four children - two died young, and two are now living.

Mary M., born in Miller township, November 18, 1816, died November 30, 1846. She married Platt G. Beardslee, and had four children, One died young, Charles was killed in the battle of Atlanta, July 22, 1864, Emily and Mary married and had six children.

Harriet M., born in Miller township, May 5, 1824, married James H. Knox, and had four children, two now living. They reside in Indianola, Towa.

Dana, born in Miller township, April 5, 1833, married Belle A. Ewalt, and had six children. They reside at the old homestead in Miller township.

Lucinda A., born in Miller township, May 12, 1838, and died in Bement, Illinois, May 17, 1872. She married, first, Willlam Ellis, and had one daughter; second, to Robert Fisher.

The genealogy of James Miller's family is thus narrated: His tamily has ancient and honorable lineage, dating back over two hundred years in America, and ante-dating from its emigration to America into traditional genealogy another century in Scotland.

The Millers, of Scotland, were of Saxon origin, and followed the leadership of Edwin, who conquered the Picts and founded Edinburgh, A. D. 449. The history of the family is rather obscure, until about the .year 1600, when the country was distracted by civil war, assuming a religious character between Catholicism and Protestantism. The Millers took sides with the Protestants, and later with the Presbyterians or Covenanters, when persecuted by James the First, in his efforts to establish Episcopacy. The laws against Presbyterianism were so arbitrary that it led to great disorder and opposition by the inhabitants, and many personal encounters passed between the liberty-loving Scots and the minions of the king, in the enforcement of obnoxious laws. The name of James Miller is found

''The compt of mony resauit in fra sick persones as hes transgrest aganest the statutis and ordenances of the guid toun; the namis of the persones that pay it, and the soun that evrie man pay it, and the occatione whair foir they pay it, begining at Mychelmas, 1608 yiers, till Mychelmas the yier of God, 1609 yiers, the time of thair offices of baill yiers, as follows: James Miller, for being found be the gaird, at twelve hours at even, with one sword drawin at James Harvie, £4. James Miller, for the bluid wyte of Patryk Chalmers, £9 18d.

The oppression of the covenanters led many to seek the shores of America, where they could worship God without restraint, and one senior Miller and his son James (who are the direct progenitors of this family in America), emigrated from Edinburgh about the year 1660. They settled in Charlestown near Boston, and joined the established Presbyterian church at that place.

We find recorded in the Genealogical dictionary of the firstsettlers of NewEngland: ''James Miller, the Scotsman, Charlestown, admitted to First church, December 17, 1676, and made freeman May 23, 1677, and died July 14, 1690. His wife Mary joined church August 5, 1677, being baptized that day with her eight children: James, Mary, Robert, Job, Abraham, Isaac, Mercy and Jane. The record of his father's death August 1, 1688, calls him 'Sen,' an aged Scotsman above seventy."'

Isaac Miller, the son of James, removed to Concord, Massachusetts, and afterwards to Worcester about the year 1718. His son Isaac, born in Concord May 7, 1708, married in Worcester, one Sarah Crosby, and reared a large family. In 1770, the year of the Boston massacre, he removed to Dummerston, Vermont, which town he surveyed and settled. John, the son of Isaac, jr., was born in Worcester December 20, 1756, and lived and died a farmer in Dummerston. His son James who was born in Dummerston December 16, 1783, emigrated to Ohio in 1814, and settled in Knox county, in what is now Miller township, named 1n his honor.

The genealogical order of the six generations as far as authenticated will then stand as follows: First, Sen. Miller, born in Edinburgh, Scotland, about 1613; second, James Miller, born in Edinburgh, Scotland, about 1640; third, Isaac Miller, born in Charlestown, Massachusetts, about 1670; fourth, Isaac Miller, jr., born in Concord, Massachusetts, 1708; Fifth, John Miller, born in Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1756; sixth, James Miller, born in Dummerston, Vermont, in 1783.

Many of the Scotch Millers attained eminence in literature and in science. The ancestors of Hugh Miller, the great geologist, were a seafaring race. Among the great writers wer2 John Miller, of Lanarkshire, professor of law in the university of Glasow; James Miller of Ayr, physician and chemist, and editor of the fourth edition of the Encyclopedia Britianca ; James Miller, professor of surgery in the university of Edinburgh; Thomas Miller, of Glenlee, baron and lord justice clerk of court sessions. ,

The ancient coat of arms of this family, adopted by the various Scotch branches, bears a similarity in the chief points of the field; the only variations appearing in minor objects in the divisions according to the fancy of the bearer, or as conferred by heraldic law. The chief points, as borne by all the scotch families, are: first, the color of the shield (white); second, the Moline cross, which represents the figure of the iron that supports the upper mill stone; third, the wavy bar in the base, and last, the mullet, or rowel ofa spur. A description of the arms borne by the American branch of the family, as near as can be authenticated, and as expressed in heraldic terms, is as follows: Argent, a cross moline, azure. In chief, second, bordure of three cinquefoils, gules, lozenge between two mullets ; sinister chief lozenge between two mullets. In fessee, hand with first and second fingers extended, two arms with hands clasped, moline cross, sable, between four hearts; in base wavy band of vert: crest, lion rampant with moline cross, sable, between paws; motto, Optima Celo, Unione Augetur.

Avery complete record has been preserved of the family of Isaac Miller, jr., the grandson and great-grandson of the Scottish emigrants. He was a staunch Republican in the troublesome times preceding the outbreak of the Revolution. Being a surveyor by profession, he became useful in the settlement of the then new country north of Massachusetts, but his enterprise met with disaster through the machinations of the tools of the king, who had set a mark on all Republicans.

In 1763, he, with others, were granted a township of land in New Hampshire, which they settled and paid for, but by a subterfuge, the British court then in session in Worcester, re-granted it to General Bellows, a Tory. He moved his family in 1770 to Dummerston, Vermont, which town he surveyed and settled. Isaac Miller, jr., had twelve children. Vespatian was a soldier in the old French war, and afterwards followed the sea. Hosea was a farmer. Rosanna married Major Joseph Negus, of Petersham. Among her descendants are Mrs. General R. B. Marcy, Mrs. General George B. McClellan, and Mrs. Major W. B. Russell, of the United States army. Sarah married Silas Wheeler, of Petersham. Joseph was a soldier of the war of the Revolution, and served seven years with distinction, being promoted to the rank of major, and merited the friendship and confidence of General Washington. Isaac was a captain in the Revolution, and was badly wounded early in the war near Boston. Marshall was a farmer and left many descendants.

John, the father of the subject of this sketch, was a Revolutionary soldier, and subsequently became very prominent as a citizen of Vermont. Catharine married a Mr. Knapp and reared a large family. William, the youngest, was a soldier in the latter part of the Revolution and rose to the rank of Major, cember 20, 1756, had eight children: Lewis, James, Levi, Sally, Polly, Rosanna, Susan, and John B. Rosanna and Susan are still living in Vermont, the former eighty-six and the latter eighty-four years of age.

MILLER, MARGARET Mrs., post office, Howard, was born in Northampton county, Pennsylvania, November 209, 1793. She moved to Somerset county, Pennsylvania, in 1795, and remained there fourteen years. She came to Howard township in 1810, and lived with her father until 1814, when she was married to Andrew Miller, and settled on her present farm. Mr. Miller was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, in 1783. He was one of the old veterans of 1812, and was in the Second platoon. He was one of the twelve who were detailed to kill James Burde. Mr. Miller belonged to Captain Sanderson's company, Twenty-seventh regiment United States infantry, and received an honorable discharge. He was enrolled on the pension roll of the Columbus agency. Mr. Miller lived on the farm until his death. .

MILLER, JAMES, deceased. He wasa native of Pennsylvania, and was married to Martha Zerick, who was born in Maryland in 1793. They had one daughter, Zarada, who was born in Knox eounty and-married in 1861 to Adam Kime, who was born in Stark county.

Daniel Zerick located in Clinton township in 1806, when there was one house in Mt. Vernon (so says Mrs. Miller). Mr. Daniel Zerick died in this county in 1851; his wife Martha died in 1836, Mr. James Miller died in Indiana about 1845.

MILLER, JOHN W., Jefferson township, farmer and mechanic; born in Montgomeiy county, Pennsylvania, May 14, 1815; was brought to Ohio by his parents when a child, his father locating in Columbiana county; where he was reared and received a common school education. At the age of seventeen years he contracted with his brother to learn him the carpenter trade, and served apprenticship of three years. He worked at his trade about eighteen years, he then worked one season for Christian Pherenbaugh at the plastering business, and since that time has conducted said business on his own responsibility, making it his principal vocation. In the winter of 1838 he came to Knox county, locating in Jefferson township near Greersville, and there commenced to work at his trades. May 13, 1847, he married Miss Sarah Burtnett, daughter of John Burtnett, born in Coshocton county May 14, 1826. After his marriage he purchased eighty acres of land in Jeffererson township northwest of Greersville two and a half miles, where he then moved and now resides: Mr. Miller has held the offices of trustee and assessor. Mr. and Mrs. Miller are the parents of five children, viz: Cinderella L., born June 27, 1850; John B., August 18, 1855; Effie A., April 13, 1861; Mira J.. April 28, 1866. Four are living and one died in infancy.

MILLER, ISAAC (deceased), Wayne township, born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, in 1817, and was married in 1868 to Sarah Fuller, who was born in Knox county, Ohio, in 1838. They have two children: William Eugene, born in 1870, and Daniel Oscar, in 1871. Mr. Miller died in 1872, in Green Valley, Wayne township, this county. Mrs. Sarah Miller, with the family, is still residing here, and is educating her children liberally.

Rhode Island. She was twice married. Her first husband was Dorton Daily. They had four children, viz: Sarah H., martied to William R. Rowland, of Mt. Liberty; Carrie A., deceased, who was married to John Hayes; Wildmina, died when about a year old, and Dorton L. Mr. Daily died, and she then married Madison Miller, son of James Miller, a pioneer. They had a son named Charles. Mr. Miller has deceased.

MILLER, JOSEPH M., farmer, Middlebury township, post office, Fredericktown, was born in Fayette county, Pennsy]- vania, in 1826, came to Ohio in 1830, and was married in 1848 to Terry Cecill, who was born in Harrison county, Ohio, in December, 1827. They have the following family: Ann Maria, born February 1, 1849; John Benjamin, October 31, 1850; Margaret Jane, February 27, 1853; Jacob, July 8, 1855; George, January 21, 1859; Francis, January 31, 1861, and David, July 16, 1864. The following have deceased: Jacob died September 13, 1856, and Ann Maria March 14, 1860.

John Benjamin was married to Elmyra Denman, now of Chesterville, Ohio. Mr. Joseph Miller located in Middlebury township in 1869. He owns a well improved farm with good buildings.

MILLER, DANA, Miller township, farmer, was born in Miller township, April 5, 1833, and is the son of James Miller, a pioneer of this township.

The subject of this notice (Dana Miller) was reared on the old homestead, and attended the common schools and two terms at an academy. He was a member of company C, One Hundred and Forty-second regiment Ohio National guard. Mr. Miller is a close and thoughtful observer, and is well and favorably known in the community in which he lives for his integrity, generosity, intelligence and kindness of heart.

He was married to Miss Isabella A. Ewalt, daughter of Samuel Ewalt, of Clinton township, December 29, 1858. They had six children, viz: Mary Warner, born December 27, 1866; Lizzie E., born March 24, 1870; Frank K., born November 16, 1871; Clara, born January 27, 1877; Fannie G., born November 28, 1878. The oldest (a son) died in infancy. -

MILLER, WILLIAM A., Middlebury township, laborer, post office, Fredericktown, born in Missouri, August 3, 1844, and was married January 2, 1866, to Eliza Stoughteagle, who was born in Knox county, in April, 1836. They had the following children. Charles R., born May 7, 1869; Mary Alice, November 16, 1870; and Sadie Della, July 12, 1876, Four o their children died.

William A. Miller enlisted in the war December 3, 1863, in the One Hundred and Second regiment Ohio volunteer infantry. After the regiment was discharged he was transferred to the One Hundred and Eighty-ninth regiment Ohio volunteer infantry. He was engaged in the service till the war closed.

MILLER, THOMAS, Fredericktown, barber, was born in Bourbon county, Kentucky, in 1852; came to Ohio in 1866, and located in Fredericktown April ro, 1877. He was married in 1875 to Elsie Swartz who was born in Licking county, Ohio. They have two children, viz.: Myrtie May, born October 27, 1877; Robert Lee, born January 1, 1880.

was born in Knox county, June 26, 1836, and was marnied May 18, 1860, to Eliza Rankin, who was born in Licking county, July 5, 1834. The have two sons. James I., was born in Illinois, February 18, 1862; John Gay, born in Fredericktown, December 22, 1868.

MISER, PETER, who was born in the province of Hamberg, Holland, came to New Netherlands, now New York, in 1623 with Cornelius J. May, afterwards lieutenant governor of New Netherlands. He returned to Holland in 1634, and in 1637 again came to New Netherlands, where he remained until the French and Indian war commenced, when he removed to the province of Pennsylvania. There: his son, John Conrad Miser, was born.

At the urgent solicitation of Quagnant, a chief of the Mohawk nation, he went with him to his country to acquirea knowledge of the Mohawk language. Having mastered the language he returned home, and was occasionally employed as an interpreter. In 1729 he married and settled in Tulpahocken valley, and located a half mile east of the present site of Wolmesdorf, Berks county, Pennsylvania.

Conrad Miser, as occasion demanded, acted in various capacities, both public and private. Governor Gordon, in 1731, appointed him interpreter. Soon afterwards Governor Thomas appointed him justice of the peace. Governor Morris commissioned him as colonel of a regiment of volunteers for Berks county. Hespent more than a quarter of a century in the service of his country. He closed his eventful life July 13, 1760.

Conrad Miser had a son, Henry, born November 6, 1758, on Tulpahocken creek, who was grandfather of Dr. Thomas B. Miser, of Martinsburgh, Knox county, Ohio. At the age of six months his father removed to Northumberland county, Pennsylvania, and settled on Mahantango creek, where he was reared. He was married to Margaret Drucker Miller in 1794, but came to Ohio before his marriage to see the country. -He returned to Pennsylvania and afterwards removed to Ohio in 1802 and settled on sections thirty-two and thirty-three, township three and range ten of the Northwest Territory, now Jefferson county. He laid out Salem or Annapolis in Jefferson county: He had six sons and three daughters, viz.: John, Henry, Mary, Samuel, Barbara, David, George, Margaret, and William.

William was born April 5, 1815, in Annapolis, Jefferson county, on the farm his father settled on when he first came to Ohio; was married to Jane McDowell January 1, 1837. They had seven children, viz.: 'Thomas B., Robert H., George A., Mary M., Margaret I., William J., John S., and Dilla J.

T. B. Miser was born in Annapolis, Jefferson county, Ohio, on the seventh day of February, 1839; received the first rudiments of his education at district schools, and afterwards went to Carrollton academy, at Carrollton, Ohio, remaining about two years, when he went to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, attending a select school for young men, where'he completed his education. He then commenced the study of medicine with Drs. Hammond and Montgomery, of Annapolis, Ohio, and was with them about two years, when Dr. Hammond removing to Steubenville, went with him, still pursuing his studies for about two vears longer. He attended lectures one term at the Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery, afterwards graduating at Louisville Medical university.

He also received a diploma from the Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery. After graduating at Louisville be went to Missouri and practiced his profession. The war breaking out he was conscripted in the rebel army and was assigned to the Fifteenth regiment, Confederate States of America, George Law, colonel commanding. After serving two or three months he succeeded in making his escape to the northern States, went into the service of the Union as acting assistant surgeon, United States army, Magazine hospital, Louisville, Kentucky. He remained there during the fall and winter, and then came home and located in Martinsburgh, Knox county, Ohio, July 13, 1863, where he was about a year, practicing in partnership with Dr. D. H. Ralston, when he was appointed assistant surgeon Twenty-ninth regiment Ohio volunteer infantry; after serving six months was promoted to surgeon of the regiment. He went with Sherman on his '' March to the Sea," and was appointed brigade surgeon at Savannah, Georgia. He remained until the close of the war, when he was appointed surgeon in charge of hospital at Camp Cleveland, Ohio, since that time has practiced medicine in Martinsburgh.

MISHEY, J. K. P., Pike township, merchant, post office, North Liberty, born in Knox county, in 1847, and was married in 1868, to Aminda M. Crunkilton, who was born in Wayne county, Ohio, in 1849. They have three children: Clara Etta, born in 1870; Sherman Scott, in 1875; Frank Herd, in 1877.

Mr. Mishey engaged in the mercantile business in North Liberty, in 1867, and is still in business there. He is a practical business man, has a stock of goods consisting of dry goods, boots, shoes, groceries, and drugs, and constantly keeps a fresh supply on hand direct from manufacturers.

MISHEY, A. W., Pike township, merchant, post office, North Liberty, born in Pike township, this county, in 1854, and was married in 1877, to Alvina Spayde, who was born in Washington township, Richland county, in 1859. Mr. Mishey received a very liberal education and engaged in teaching for sometime. In 1879 he located in North Liberty, and engaged in mercantile business, making a specialty of hardware and groceries, keeping constantly on hand a good supply to meet the demand. He is the postmaster of North Liberty, the post office being in his store room. Mr. Mishey isa young man of good business ability; has the confidence of this community, and by his honesty and uprightness has gained the high esteem of all. He is a worthy member of the Evangelical church, and has a bright future before him. Mr. 'Mishey is one of the leading men in this township.

MITCHEL, WILLIAM, JR. - His father, William Mitchel, sr., Was a native of Sussex county, New Jersey, and was married to Phebe Southard in 1789. In 1796 or 1797 they located about twenty-five miles from Pittsburgh, on the Monogahela river, where they resided until 1808 when they came to Ohio and located one and one-half miles southwest of Fredericktown, where, with the assistance of his family he cleared up a farm, and also engaged in making brick. He hada family of eleven children, viz.: Jacob, born September 21, 1790; Nathaniel, May 6, 1792; Abigail, May 5, 1794; Mary, August 15, 1796; Hannah, October 8, 1798; Naomi, December 26, 1800; Sarah, January 7, 1803; John, May 19, 1806; Margaret, May 25, 1808; William, jr., July 15, 1811; and Silas, April 20, 1814. Of this large family all lived to maturity, and al! except one were married and had families, and were all members of the church. Only five survive, viz.: Hannah, Naomi, Margaret, William, jr., and Silas. William, jr., the tenth member of this family, received such an education as the days of his childhood afforded, after which he learned the axe trade with his brother-in-law, J. L. Young, which he followed closely for twenty-five years, and has worked at it occasionally since. In 1839 he went to Logan county, Illinois, where he followed his trade, together with farming, for seven years. In 1846 he went to Morrow county where he lived five years; then moved to Knox county, where he has since resided. He was married May 23, 1833, to Miss Lucy, daughter of Anson Brown, of this county. They have had a family of seven children, three of whom are living, viz.: L. Y. Mitchel, R. C. Mitchel, and Luella Mitchel.

MITCHELL, ALMON, Milford township, farmer, was born in Licking county, March 30, 1816. His parents, Sylvanus and Betsey Mitchell, #ee Knox, were natives of Massachusetts, and came with the Granville colony to Licking county, Ohio, in 1805, where they lived until 1822, when they moved to Milford township, one mile west ef Lock, where they lived and died. 'They had ten children, six sons and four daughters. Three only of this family are now living, viz: Albert, Almon, and Olive. The latter married Daniel Patterson, who resides in Pulaski county, Indiana. Those who are dead are Orrin (who was a Methodis minister), Cornelius, James, Lawrence, Spencer, Fannie (married to Joseph Morey), Lucina (married to Emer Hawkins), and Mary (married toS. Mead).

The subject of this notice was reared ona farm, and during the winter months attended the schools of those days and assisted on the farm. In Qctober, in 1837, he married Miss Margaret Hawkins, a native of Milford township, who was born May 2, 1818. She is the daughter of Harris Hawkins, a pioneer of Knox county, of whom mention is made among the pioneers of Milford township. After Mr. Mitchell was married he remained on his father's farm about four years, when, in 1842, he moved to his present farm, which he had previously purchased. When he moved on his farm the cabin stood near the site of his present house. Mr. Mitchell had the usual experience of early settlers. He persevered, however, and as a reward of his efforts he has added considerable to his first purchasc, until he is one of the substantial farmers of Milford township.

They have fourteen children, seven sons and seven daughters: Harris, deceased when young; Emer H., who lives in Piatt county, Illinois; Charles Lewis; Alice Amanda, who married Monroe Crego; Betsey Clarinda (deceased), who married Dempsey Conaway; Stephen Albert; Harriet Weltha, who married Thomas Wade; Torrence; Maria; Isabella; Willie H.; Laura Lucina, who married Emer Harris; Dana A., and Mary O.

MITCHELL, A. T., of the firm of C. Mitchell, planing mill, Sandusky street, Mt. Vernon, was born in Richland county, Ohio; near Ontario, June 19, 1828, where he resided up to 1845. He then came to this county, and resided with his uncle, Mr. Thomas Mitchell, four miles west of Mt. Vernan, and worked on the farm for five years. He then went to carpentering and wagonmaking, which he followed for twelve years. Hethen moved to Mo:row county, and purchased a steam saw- and grist-mill which 'he ran about two years. In 1864 he came to the city, and engaged in the grocery business, which ke continued about four years. He then went to Sparta, Morrow county, and opened a general store under the firm of Mitchell & Robinson. He remained in Sparta only about six months, when he went to Mt. Vernon. He again went into the grocery business. This continued about one year. He then entered into business with Mr. Kelly, and did business under the name of Mitchell & Kelly, which continued about one year. May 1, 1877, he purchased the planing-mill of Clements & Reed. Recently, he disposed of the planing-mill, and at present is engaged in running a saw-mill.

MOODY, WILLIAM, Miller township, retired, farmer and minister of the Disciple church, was born in Licking county, Ohio, December 8, 1813. His father, William Moody, was an only son of James Moocy who died in Newfoundland.

William Moody, sr., married Mary Stadden, who was born in Northumberland county, Pennsylvania, in 1771, and there married. They emigrated to Licking county, Ohio, about 1805, and located in Madisen township, on the Bowling Green, four miles east of the town of Newark in 1807, where they resided until the death of William Moody, which occurred August 28, 1828, in the fifty-seventh year of his age. The subject of this sketch at that time was fifteen years of age. He continued to live with his mother and younger sister until March 24, 1835, when he married Miss Laura A. Wells, daughter of Osmond Wells, of Hanover township, Licking county, Ohio. She was born February r1, 1817.

Selling his interest in the homestead, he moved in 1837, to Richland county, Ohio, where he remained until 1852, when he sold and purchased one and a half miles west of Millwood, on Owl creek. Here his mother died in 1855, having lived with him since 1851. She was aged eighty-four.

Mr. Moody continued to reside here until 1865, being engaged farming during the week, and the ministry on the Sabbath. He then sold his farm, and gave his attention entirely to the ministry, and by the blessings of the. Lord many were added to the churches where he labored. In 1874 his health failed so as to prohibit active duties in the ministry. He still resides on the small farm in Miller township, which he purchased in 1865. He is esteemed by all who know him for his many Christian virtues. He is the only survivor of nine children. There were born to this couple eleven children - five are dead, and six areliving. The living are: John, a physician at Centreburgh, Ohio; Elisha, farmer, Delaware county; Mrs. Emma Hunt and Mrs. Laura Jewelin Delaware county, Ohio; Mrs. Mary Johnson in Miller township, and Mrs. Rachel Barker in Missouri. They had twenty-four grandchildren, all but three of whom are living.

MOODY, JOHN REED, Hilliar township, physician and surgeon, was born in Mansfield, Ohio, November 22, 1839. His father, who is now a minister in the Disciple church, came to Knox county and settled on a farm. It was here where John When about seventeen years of age he entered the grammar school at Kenyon college, with a view of taking a full collegiate course. He got on well with his studies and had entered the sophomore class, when the call for volunteers was made in 1861. He enlisted in company A, Fourth

Ohio, for three months. He served the three months, and shortly after his return home he went to New York and enlisted in the Fifty-ninth regiment. He was appointed hospital steward for the regiment. he regiment belonged to the Army of the Potomac, and was through the different campaigns, until after the battle of Antietam, when it veteranized. His term of enlistment having expired in the Fifty-ninth New York, he came,hhome and in a few days enlisted in company A, Ninety-sixth Ohio volunteer infantry. He was in all the fights with his regiment from Haine's Bluff, in the rear of Vicksburgh, until the surrender of Mobile, Alabama. He served his country faithfully and honesty for over four years, receiving two wounds as the price of his patriotism. On his return. home he concluded to read medicine with Dr. George W. Barnes, of Mt. Vernon, Ohio. After his course of reading he went to the Western Homeopathic college at Cleveland, and graduated there in the spring of 1866: After leaving college he practiced one year in Newark, Ohio, and one year in Somerset, Ohio. 'lhe faculty of the college recognizing his ability appointed him demonstrator of anatomy, which position he held for seven years, to the satisfaction of the management of the college. His health not being good he resigned his appointment, and opened an office in the city, where he remained ten: years, doing a large business. His practice being arduous and confining in the city, he concluded to relinquish it there and go where he conld have more out-door work. He accordingly came to Centreburgh in 1877, where again he has been successful in building up a good practice. He was married to Endorah A. Brown, January, 1876.

MOORE, FRANK R., attorney, Mt. Vernon, was born in Richland county April 16, 1852. His parents were natives of Maine, emigrating from their native State to Richland county, Ohio, and in 1857 they came to Mt. Vernon, where they yet reside.

The subject of this sketch attended the public schools, and while so doing was twice appointed to the United States Military academy at West Point, New York, from his congressional district, but on account of the objections of his parents he did not go. He graduated at the Mt. Vernon schools in June, 1871. He learned and worked at the carpenter trade, and upon the surveying of the Columbus and Mt. Vernon railroad he was a membher of the engineer corps, as assistant. He read law with Cooper, Porter & Mitchell, and was admitted to practice at the June term of 1875. After the dissolution of the firm Mr. Moore continued with Colonel Cooper until the fall of 1878, when he was elected to the office of prosecuting attorney, and again in 1880, running some three hundred ahead of his ticket. In politics he isa Democrat. He was for several years a member of the county board of school examiners. He was joined in marriage November 6, 1880, to Miss Blanche Struble, daughter of Daniel Struble, of Fredericktown, Ohio.

MOORE, A. C., baker and confectioner, East Gambier, between Main and Gay streets, Mt. Vernon. Mr. Moore was born in Harrison county, Ohio, February 28, 1836. When quite young his parents removed to Holmes county, where he remained until he reached the age of twenty-one years, during which time he attended school, worked on a farm, and served an apprenticeship at cabinet-making with J. Taylor at Millersburgh. He worked at his trade at Loudonville for a short time, when he commenced the manufacture of Dulcimers, which he continued for four years. In 1861 he engaged in the baking busines in Ashland county, and served an apprenticeship of two and one-half years, after which he went to Fredericktown and run a bakery for three and one-half years. He then commenced with Sargent & McKnear, cabinet-makers, and worked four years. He then came to Mt: Vernon and opened his present bakery in the old George bakery stand, East Gambier street, in which he still continues. He uses about one hundred and twenty-five barrels of flour per year, and does a business of about twelve hundred dollars per annum.

MOORE, D. M., merchant tailor, Woodward block, Vine street, Mt. Vernon. This firm was established March 1, 1880, andis a branch of the firm of D. M. Moore, of Newark, Ohio. The business here is conducted by J. C. Hartley, who is also cutter. They carry a large stock of goods.

Mr. Hartley is a native of Alliance, Ohio, and was born June, 1851. His first business engagement was with Hugh Bleakley, grocer, as salesman, where he served two years. He then engaged in tailoring, in which he has since been engaged, and has had seventeen years experience in the business.

MONTGOMERY, DAVID CARTER, attorney at law, president of Eagle Mutual Fire Insurance company and treasurer of the Ohio Mutual Aid association, of Mt. Vernon, was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, January 25, 1816. His father, David Montgomery, with his wife and family, came to Ohio in April, 1823, and settled in Knox county. © His father was twice married. His first wife's maiden name was Hannah McDowell, by whom he had six children, two of whom are now living. Upon the death of his wife he was inarried to Hannah Coleman, zee Carter, by whom he had one son and two daughters. Of these three children, two are living, viz: Mrs. Isaac Irwin, of Knox county, and the subject of this sketch. His father, by unfortunate flour and whiskey speeulations on the lower Mississippi, lost his mills and farm on Ten Mile, Pennsylvania, and remained in very humble circumstances during his after life. He followed teaching principally while in Pennsylvania, and on coming to Ohio he continued in that avocation. In the fall of 1838, the father was elected recorder (being seventy years of age, March, 1838), and was reelected at the expiration of his first and second terms, thus serving the people in that capacity for nine years. David's early life was spent on a farm. At the age of twenty-two he began to help his father in the recorder's office, and remained with him two years. He was deputy sheriff under William Beam, and also under Absalom Thrift, with the two over six years. In October, 1846, he was elected sheriff, and in October, 1848, he was reelected, thus serving two terms. While in the different offices of the county, he read law. He paid attention to farming about four years. He removed on the farm in November, 1853. In 1854 he rented the farm and returned to Mt. Vernon, and through advice of friends he reviewed his law studies. In the fall of 1856 he was put on the ticket for sheriff, but was defeated on account of Know Nothingism. Afterwards he was nominated for probate judge, and was defeated on account of political Know Nothingism. Mr. Montgomery was admitted to the barin 1858, and has since been engaged in its practice. He was married to Miss Jane Pratt, January 7, 1845. They have had four children - all died in infancy. He was twice placed on the Prohibition ticket for supreme judge. He was appointed provost marshal in 1862, and served until all apprehension of resistance and revolt against the draft of that year had passed away, when he resigned.

MORGAN, REUBEN H., attorney at law, has been a resident of Martinsburgh about four years. He was born in Muskingum county, Ohio, June 25, 1844. Mr. Morgan was probate judge of Muskingum county, and at the present time is justice of the peace, township clerk, and mayor of Martinsburgh; was married May 10, 1871, to Miss Angie Harris; has three children: Minnie V., Edith E. and Frankie; is a leading local Republican politician and member of the county central committee.

MORELAND, WILLIAM, Milford township, farmer, was born in Jefferson county, Ohio, November 19, 1819. His father, Bazaleel Moreland, was born in Charles county, Maryland, February 25, 1782, The Moreland family are of *nglish origin, and came to America in the early part of the last century, and settled in Maryland. There is now a numerous family living in Hampshire county, Virginia, and a number reside in the Western States. Bazaleel Moreland went from his native county in Maryland to Hampshire county, Virginia, when he was about twenty-one years of age, and there married Margaret Fahs, born November 6, 1785, a native of that county, and by descent German. They remained in Hampshire county, Virginia, after their marriage about ten years. About 1816 they emigrated to there some time and then moved to Harrison county and in the spring of 1829, moved to Licking county, eight miles nor:h of Newark, in Newton township, where they remained until 1848, when they came to Knox county, settling in Milford township, on the farm, where their son William now resides. Here they both died: Mr. Moreland, September 19, 1857; and Mrs. Moreland, September 11, 1864. They hada family of twelve children, viz: Elizabeth, wife of Joseph Evans, resides near Canton, Illinois; Anne, deceased, married Reese Jones; Mary, deceased, married Peter Evans, diedin Illinois; Margaret, widow of Alban Warthen, resides in Pataskala, Ohio; Philip, deceased; Martha, widow of Burdett Warthen, resides in St. Louisville, Licking county; William the subject of this notice; Rebecca, wife of Felix Donnelly, resides in Remmington, Indiana; Lettice, (deceased, ) wife of William Donnelly; Richard in Milford township; Katharine, wife of Robert Horton, in Newton township, Licking county, Ohio; George W., farmer, near Utica, Licking county. The subject of this notice remained at home until 1843, with his parents. He remained in Licking county until 1856, when he came to Milford township, where he has since resided. He was married to Miss Nancy Samson November 2, 1843. She was born May 27, 1824, in Licking county, Ohio, was the daughter of Daniel Samson. They had a family of nine children: first child died in infancy; Alban W., born February 25, 1848, farmer, resides in Milford township; Daniel H., born June 2, 1850, farmer in Milford township; Eliza, born July 16, 1852, wife of George W. Myers, Milford township; Rosa, born August, 1854, wife of Albert Vance, resides in Utica; Eugene, born August 26, 1856, lives at home; Matilda, born December 13, 1858, died October 7, 1862; Bert, born May 20, 1864, died July 10, 1877; Caroline, born March 12, 1867. Mr. Moreland nas held several of the offices of the township, being clerk four years; assessor one year, and was elected land appraiser in 1880. He is a faithful member of the.Disciple church. In politics he is a democrat; is a leading citizen of the township, and is much esteemed by the community for his many Christian virtures. He is an unpretentious, well informed man.

ginia, December 1, 1809; she is the daughter of William and Betsy Daily, zee Kilngore, natives of Virginia, who were born, reared and married there, and in the spring of 1810 emigrated to Granville, Licking county, where they remained for about six years, and in 1816 moved to Dry Creck, near the Columbus road, in Liberty township, settling in the timber, where they lived and died. These highly esteemed people had a family of fourteen children, four of whom died in infancy: Daniel, deceased; Rhoda, the subject of this notice; Dorton, deceased; Serrepta, deceased, married Hezekiah Clements, and had a family of children; Betsy, wife of Daniel Vance, of Miller township; Polly Ann, wife of Emor B. Harvis, and now resides near Red Oak, Iowa; Decorum, living in Westerville, Ohio; Decatur, in Red Oak, Iowa; Dennis, who resides on the old homestead in Liberty township; Diskin, deceased.

The subject of this notice was married to Nathan Lamson, in 1824, who was born 'in New Milford, Connecticut, and came with his father, Judson Lamson, a pioneer of Milford township, to Ohio. They had three children: Betsy R., widow of Wiljiam C. McKenney; George J., a resident of Brandon and of whom mention is made in the biographies of Miller township; and Lawrence H., deceased.

Mr. Lamson was a farmer and very worthy gentleman, who died in 1838. Mrs. Lamson married Joseph Morey, who was born near Rutland, Vermont, December 19, 1799, died April 9, 1880. He came to Granville, Obio, in 1813. He was one of Milford's best citizens, and was much esteemed. By this marriage there were two children born: Rose T. and Corwin. Mrs. Morey is spending the evening of her life on the homestead, where she has resided for forty-five years. She is much respected by all who know her, for her many Christian virtues.

MOREY, WILLIAM, farmer, Miller township, was born in Licking county, Ohio, September 13, 1826. About a year after his parents, David and Harriet C. Morey, zee Reynolds, moved to Clinton township on a farm three miles south of Mt. Vernon, on the Utica road. Here they lived and died. She had a family of eleven children. The subject of this sketch was reared on a farm and attended the district schools. From sixteen to twenty-one years he was at Cincinnati, where he learned the baking and confectionery business. He worked for a few years in Ohio and Illinois; the remainder of his time he has spent on the farm, except three months, when he was a member of company C, One Hundred and Forty-second regiment, Ohio National guards. He was married to Miss Elizabeth Ann Myers, daughter of John Myers, of Milford township, January, 1856. They had seven children, six of whom are living, viz: Marion S., Aldon D., Halleck J. (deceased), Carrie O., Dora D., Ida May, and Eddie Chase.

MORRISON, THOMAS (deceased), Berlin township, was born in Columbia county, Pennsylvania, and married Isabelle McReynolds, who was born in the same county. They had four children, viz: Isabelle, Eliza, John, and Hugh M. They emigrated to Mt. Vernon in 1821, moved to Berlin township in 1825 on their farm. The parents died at home. Hugh M. owns the home farm at present.

MORRISON, W. D., farmer and blacksmith, Berlin township, post office, Fredericktown, was born in Columbia county, Pennsylvania, in 1827, came to Ohio in 1844, and married Isabelle Morrison, who was born in this township in 1826. They have seven children, viz: Mary, Eliza, Martha, Josephine, Anna Bell, Geraldine, Emma A., Thomas W. and Lilla E, Mr,

MORTON, JOHN W. (deceased), son of Joseph and Margaret Morton, was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, November 29, 1817. His father died in 1823. In 1826 his mother, with her children - one son and three daughters - emigrated to Knox county, Ohio, and located on a farm in Clinton township, now owned by Mrs. Margaret Morton's heirs.

Mr. Morton married Miss Martha Chambers in 1848, who was born in Miller township, Knox county, Ohio, November 25, 1826, daughter of Benjamin and Rachel Chambers. They settled on the old home farm with his mother, remained about seventeen years, and, in 1866, he purchased and moved on the farm where his widow and daughter are now living in Clinton township, adjoining the home farm on the north, and knownas apart of the old Johnson farm.

MOUNT, CHARLES J. (deceased), Fredericktown, was born in New Jersey in 1825, and came to Knox county when he was quite young. He was married in 1850 to Phebe D. Boberts, who was born in Knox county in 1824. They have the following family, viz: Sylviz W., born in 1852; Ella J., in 7855; Charles B., in 1857; Martha R., in 1860; and Elliot, in 1862.

Mr. Charles Mount was a carpenter by trade, and worked at this trade in Fredericktown. He wasa soldier in the late war - a member of the Twentieth regiment, Ohio volunteer infantry. He enlisted in November, 1861, and received an honorable discharge in August, 1862. He died in September, 1863, from effects of disease contracted in the army.

MOWRY, JACOB, Union township, farmer, post office, Rossville, was born in Jefferson township in August, 1847, and remained at home until 1875, when he came to Union township. He married Catharine Armstrong in 1874, and not long after bought the farm on which he now lives. He has two children - Minnie Viola and Alpha Alice.

MOXLEY, GREENBURG W., Liberty township, deceased, was born in Maryland, November 30, 1830. He came to Liberty township when he w.is about four years old, was reared on a farm and followed farming all his life. He was a straight forward, upright man, industrious in his business and a good farmer, kind husband and affectionate father.

August 29, 1860, he was united in marriage to Miss M. Hyatt, who was born Septeinber 25, 1835. 'They had two children, viz; Morris R. and Elizabeth. He died January 21, 1880.

MUCK, AARON, Middlebury township, laborer, post office, Fredericktown, born in Washington county, Maryland, in 1823, came to Miller township in 1837, and was married in 1851, to Catharine Shafer, who was born in Franklin county in 1830. and had the following children: Mary E., born September 14, 1852; John W., April 27, 1854; Louisa C., February 17, 1856; Nancy N., December 13, 1857: Emma J., February 8, 1860; Lillie A., July 6, 1865; Franklin D., July 21, 1867; Rosa B., October 9, 1869. The following are deceased: Franklin D., died January 5, 1869; Mrs. Catherine Muck died January 21, 1878, in this county.

MUENSCHER, D.D., REV. JOSEPH, was born in Providence, Rhode Island, December 21, 1798. He prepared for college at Phillips' academy, Andover, Massachusetts, and graduated from Brown university in 1821. He then entered the Theological seminary at Andover, where he remained one and one-half years, and on March 7, 1824, he was ordained deacon, and on March 13, 1825, was ordained priest of the Protestant Episcopal church. He-was rector of Christ's church, (South Leicester, now Rochdale), Massachusetts, from 1824 to 1827; and of St. John's church, Northampton, from 1827 to 1831; of Trinity church, Saco, Maine, from 1831 to 1833, after which he came to Ohio and was chosen professor of sacred literature, in the Theological seminary at Gambier, where he remained from 1833 to 1841, when he resigned and accepted a call from St. Paul's church, Mt. Vernon, but continued as instructor in Hebrew in the seminary from 1841 to 1843. He was rector of St. Paul's church from 1841 to 1855, when he resigned, and has remained without any particular charge, but officiates occasionally. He is the author of several very popular and instructive works, one of which consists of notes explanatory of the Proverbs of Solomon, another being A Manuel of Biblical Interpretations; and a work on the orthography and pronunciation of the English language; also The Church Choir, being a collection of sacred music, which has been extensively used in the Episcopal church. He has also contributed articles to the Theological periodicals and other religious publications. He was the founder of the ''Society for the relief of widows and orphans of deceased clergymen of the Protestant Episcopal church of Ohio," and has been its secretary most of the time to the present. He was married to Miss Ruth Washburn, a sister of the late Hon. Emory Washburn, ex-governor of Massachusetts, and daughter of Joseph and Ruth Washburn, of. Leicester, Massachusetts. They have had a family of seven children, viz: Joseph W., Eliza C., Emory W., Sophia, Charles H., Robert P., and Sarah. Joseph W. graduated at Kenyon college and read law at Cambridge, and entered upon the practice of his profession at Sandusky, Ohio, where he died July 30, 1849. Eliza C. Terry died in Mt. Vernon, March 23, 1866. Emory W. graduated at Kenyon college and engaged in ciyil engineering at Grand Rapids, Michigan. Charles H. engaged in the mercantile business in Sandusky, Ohio, and Mrs. Sarah Young resides in Butler, Montgomery county, Illinois.

MURPHY, BENJAMIN, deceased, was born in Morgan county, Virginia, on the twenty-sixth day of April, 1783, and brought up in Fayette county, Pennsylvania. May 2, 1805, he married Miss Joarnah Lewis, born in New Jersey, April 5, 1786.

they lived until the fall of 1823, when they moved to Knox county, Ohio, and located in Mt. Vernon, where he remained several years, and then purchased and moved ona farm near Fredericktown, same county. They lived on this farm a few years and then moved back to Mt. Vernon, where his wife deceased in 1862. He died at the home of his son, Elias, two miles west of Mt. Vernon, January 18, 1867, aged eighty-four years. They reared a family of seven children, viz: Israel, korn in Pennsylvania, March 18, 1806; Elias, in Pennsylvania, Au- gust 5, 1808; Mary, in Pennsylvania, March 14, 1811; Oliver P., in Pennsylvania, January 1, 1816; Martha J., in Pennsylvania, March 21, 1819; Lewis S., in Pennsylvania, November 1, 1821; Eliza, in Ohio, July 5, 1824. All are now deceased except Elias, Mary, and Eliza. Two of Mrs. Murphy's brothers, John and Thomas Lewis, served in the War of 1812. Benjamin Murphy was drafted in the same war, but owing to circumstances he could not leave home, and his brother, Barrick, went into the army in his place, served the time out and returned home.

MURPHY, ELIAS, farmer, second son of Benjamin and Joannah Murphy, was born in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, August 5, 1808. He came with his parents to Knox county, Ohio, in 1823. On the twenty-ninth day of May, 1834, he married Miss Margaret Newell, who was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, on the first day of August, 1812, and was brought to Knox county, Ohio, by her parents, James and Polley Newell, in 1819. Shottly after his marriage to Miss Newell he purchased and moved on the farm where they are now living, in Clinton township, two miles west of Mt. Vernon. He has made farming and stock raising his vocation. Their union resulted in eight childrens, two sons and six daughters. One son and one daughter aredeceased. His son, Lewis M., served in the war of 186r.

Newell, James, deceased, was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, May 20, 1782. He married Miss Polley Fleming July 2, 1811, born in Pennsylvania July 17, 1792. They settled in Washington county, Pennsylvania, where they remained eight years, and in 1819, emigrated to Knox county, Ohio; located in Clinton township on a farm now owned by Joseph Meyrs, two and one-half miles west of Mt. Vernon, where they passed the remainder of their days. He died December 7, 1848. His companion survived him until April 15, 1850.

They reared a family of seven children: Margaret, born in Pennsylvania August 1, 1812; Samuel, born in Pennsylvania June 10, 1814; Sarah, born in Pennsylvania July 14, 1816, Jane, born in Pennsylvania September 20, 1818; [hza A., born in Ohio December 25, 1821; Hugh, born in Ohio December 25, 1824, James S., April 4, 1828. Two of the number are now deceased - Sareh and James S.

MURPHEY, WILLIAM, Hilliar township, farmer, was born in Guernsey county, Ohio, March 31, 1818. His father was:a native of Pennsylvania, and his mother a Virginian by birth. His name was James Murphey, and his wife's maiden name was Mary Ann Paschal. They were married in Guernsey county, Ohio, and came to Hilliar township in June, 1830, and settled immediately west of where Centreburgh now stands, where he owned four hundred acres of land. They had a family of ten children, the subject of our sketch being the fifth child. They were among the early settlers of Hilliar township.

Mr. Murphey spent his youth at home with his parents on the farm, until he was about twenty-two years of age. He lived in Illinois, lowa, and Missouri about seven years, and the rest of his life has been spent in Hilliartownship. He is an excellent farmer, and has the esteem of the public. He was married to Miss Julia Ann Smith in 1846. They had five children, two of whom are living - Alva M. and Ida J.

Ohio, where he was reared and educated at the public schools, and remained until 1858. After leaving school he learned boatbuilding, at which he worked three years; he then followed sailing for about two years, and at the opening of the war he enlisted in company I°, Forty-third Ohio volunteer infantry, and served two years and one month, when he was discharged on account of disabilities and returned home,

During his term of service he came to Mt. Vernon and was married to Miss Lizzie Crandall in May, 1862. After his discharge he moved to Columbus and resided there until 1864, when he again enlisted in company A, One Hundred and Seventysixth Ohio volunteer infantry, and was made orderly sergeant.

In January, 1865, he was commissioned second lieutenant, and in March was commissioncd first lieutenant, and was mustered out and discharged in July, 1865, but was immediately commissioned second lieutenant of company A, Seventeenth United States Colored infantry; and in the following December was promoted first lieutenant, in which capacity he served until 1866, when the regiment was mustered out and discharged. He was given the honor of brevet captain for meritorious service, commission to date from 1865. After his discharge he returned to Mt. Vernon and went into business. He was appointed deputy sheriff under Sheriff Steel, and was continued under his seccessor. He has been secretary of the board of health since 1868, but is now engaged at his trade as house finisher.

Mrs. Murphy was bornin October, 1838. Since 1868 she has been ministering to the comfort and happiness of the community by keeping elegant ice cream parlors; furnishing to the public ice cream of all flavors desired, by wholesale as well as retail; also lemonade and wedding cakes, as well as all other kinds of cake.

MYERS, GEORGE, farmer, Milford township, was born near Woodstock, Virginia, in the year 1813. About 1820 his parents Frederick and Mary Myers, zee Riffy, with their family came to Licking county and remained one year, and then moved to Milford township, having traded a five-horse team and wagon for one hundred acres of land, which was unimproved. They had twelve children, six of each sex, six of whom are living. They (the parents) lived and died on this farm.

The subject of this notice spent his young days on the farm he now resides upon and has followed farming all his life. He is a pioneer in every sense of the word. He came here when but few families lived in the township. Here he passed the years of his young manhood, and here is spending his old age. He married Miss Catharine Gripp June 1, 1838, who was born in Bennington township, Licking county, June 1, 1816. The young couple began house-keeping in this township, and here reared their family.

Mrs. Myers died March 18, 1880, aged nearly sixty-four years. They had eleven children, ten of whom grew up and nine are yet living, viz: Ezra Lewis, William W., Henry John, Torrence, George M., Winfield Scott, Frederick, Oscar. Harrison and Ida V. have deceased.

Mr. Myers is one of Milford's best citizens, and of its most substantial farmers. After the death of his father he purchased the old home farm on which he now resides.

MYERS, DAVID, Brown township, farmer, post office, Jelloway, and son of Abraham and Elizabeth Myers, born in Dauphin county, Pennsylvania, May 3, 1815, was brought to

Ohio when a child by his parents, his father locating in Steubenville, Jefferson county, where he remained until 1826, when he removed with his family to Knox county, locating near Danville, where he remained a few years. His father then moved to Pike township, where David Myers, the subject of this sketch, was reared to manhood.

July 28, 1836, he married Miss Catharine Pinkley, daughter of David Pinkley, born in Richland county, April 28, 1817. After his marriage he rented a farm in Richland county, which he occupied about three years. He then moved back to Knox county, where he has since remained. About 1855-56 he purchased a farm of fifty acres one mile and a half south of Jelloway, in Brown township, where he then moved. By their union they became the parents of nine childien; Sarah E., Joseph, who served three years in the late Rebellion, in the Sixty-fifth Ohio volunteer infantry, in company A, under Captain Cassil; Margaret A., James, who died in the army in December, 1863, he being a member of the Ninety-sixth Ohio volunteer infantry in company B, J-eonard being his captain; William, Armanda, Masey, David M. and Mary. January 1, 1857, his companion died at the age of forty years.

In 1867 he married Libby Bailey, widow of William Bailey, born in Danville, Knox county in 1825. About five years after this marriage he bought a farm of one hundred and four acres southwest of Jelloway, where he then moved, and has ever since lived,

MYERS, JOHN, treasurer of Knox county, is a resident of Mt. Vernon. He was born in Bedford caunty, Pennsylvania, December 6, 1830. His parents came to Knox county in 1836, and engaged in farming. The subject of this sketch followed farming for a few years, and then engaged in the grocery business. From the grocery he entered the dry goods store of William Hendrick, where he remained for one year, and then returned to farming.

Mr. Myers was elected county recorder in 1871, and reelected in 1874. At the October election in 1879 he was elected county treasurer, which office he now holds. He was married to Miss Lorretta J. Armstrong, eldest daughter of the late Colonel John Armstrong, September 22, 1858, by whom he has had three children, only one of whom is now living.

MYERS, JOHN W., Milford township, farmer, is a native of Milford township, was born February 21, 1837, son ot Frederic Myers, of whom mention is made in this volume, in the biography of Jeorge W. Myers.

The subject of this sketch. was reared on a farm and has always followed it as his vocation. He started 1n life poor, but has secured a competency by industry and frugality. He is an excellent farmer, and his farm shows careful attention, and is an estimable citizen.

MYERS, WILLIAM W., Milford township, wagonmaker and repairer of all kinds of farming implements, Lock post office, was born in Milford township, March 13, 1841. He is the son of George and Catharine Myers. He was on his father's farm until twenty years of age. He then went to the carpenter trade, learned it, then took up the trade, which he is now following. He is a natural mechanic and can manufacture almost anything which can be made in the way of sleighs, sleigh runners, in fact he can construct anything of the vehicle kind. He

He was married to Miss Julia Niebel, daughter of Joseph Niebel, April 14 1864. They had three children - James Lewis, born January 8, 1865, died October 3, 1877; Ella Elma, July 19, 1868; Aremenia, January 25, 1872, died April 9, 18735.

MORGAN, GENERAL GEORGE W. The paternal and maternal ancestors of the subject of this sketch were Celts. His great-grandfather, Evan Morgan, emigrated to the United States from Wales, and established himself at Prospect, a country seat near Princeton, New Jersey.

Prior to the war of the Revolution, George Morgan, son of Evan, became a member of the firm of Baynton, Wharton & Morgan, one of the largest commercial houses in Philadelphia, and in 1764 he married Mary Baynton, daughter of the senior member of the firm. Her mother's maiden name was Chevalier, and her parents were both of French extraction.

Early in April, 1776, about four months prior to the declaration of independence, the Continental Congress appointed George Morgan Indian agent, with instructions to negotiate certain treaties with the Indians.

Know ye; That the delegates of the Colonies of New Hampshire; Massachusetts Bay; Rhode Island; Connecticut; New York; New Jersey; Pennsylvania; Delaware; Maryland; Virginia; North Carolina; South Carolina; and Georgia, in Congress assembled; reposing especial confidence in George Morgan Esquire, have nominated and appointed him, the said George Morgan, Esquire, Agent under their Commissioners for Indian Affairs in the middle department.

John Hancock

The annals of Heckewelder and Hildreth, and Taylor in his history of Ohio, speak of the important services rendered by George Morgan in his negotiations with the various tribes of Indians, whom he never deceived. f

Among other treaties, he negotiated one with the Delawares, whose confidence he enjoyed to an almost unlimited extent. As an evidence of their regard, they conferred upon him the title of Tamerind - the Truth Teller - after the great Delaware chief who had borne that name.

That war was not an exception to Wars generally, so far as the rivalship and ambition of leaders were concerned. They clashed then, as they have since, and will always continue to do. Certain generals aspired to chief leadership, and sought to Prominent among those aspirants were Gates and Lee. General Conway belonged to their faction, which was opposed with bitterness by Generel Cadwalader. A duel was the resuit. Cadwalader challenged Conway, and according to the usages of the times, Colonel George Morgan, although a friend of Washington, acted as Conway's second, or, as the French term it, his witness. They fought with pistols. The choice of ground, and the first shot, by lot fell to Conway. The day was gusty, and probably to this fact Cadwalader owed his life. A gust swept across Conway's line of fire, and his ball whistled harmlessly near Cadwalader's head. The wind still blew in sudden puffs. Cadwalader raised his arm to fire, but feeling the force of the wind, let it fall again, without touching the trigger.

The wind lulled, and with the utmost deliberation, Cadwalader fired, and Conway staggered and was caught in Morgan's arms. The ball struck him squarely in the mouth, barely missed the spinal column, and was caught in his hair, which, according to the custom of that day, was worn long, and tied in a clump or club behind.

Sir: - You will see by the enclosed letter from the Marquis de la Fayette to me, that the Empress of Russia is desirous of obtaining some authentic documents, respecting the language of the natives of this country for the purpose of compiling an universal Dictionary.

As I have thought no person was more in condition to accomplish that essential service, for the republic of letters than yourself, I have taken the liberty of transmitting a specimen of the vocabulary to you, together with a request that you will do me 'he favor of paying as early and accurate attention to the completion of the matter, as your avocations will admit. ;

Persuaded that a gentleman of your taste for science in general, and particularly of your capacity for acquiring the information in question, will enter upon the task with pleasure, I make no apology for troubling you with it, nor do I think it necessary to add anything farther, than that it may be expedient to extend the vocabulary as far as with the aid of your friends, you conveniently can, and that the greatest possible precision and exactitude will be indispensable, in committing the Indian words to paper by a just orthography.

Colonel George Morgan

With sentiments of esteem and regard I have the honor to be Sir Yr. most obed't H'ble Sr. G. WASHINGTON." COLONEL GEORGE MORGAN, of Prospect, near Princeton. ''Paris, February the roth.

The enclosed, my dear General, is a vocabulary which the empress of Russia Has requested me to Have filled up with indian names, as she has ordered an universal dictionary to be made of all languages. It would greatly oblige her to collect the words she sends translated into the several idioms of the nations on the banks of the Oyho (Ohio). Presly Nevil and Morgan of Fort Pitt, General Mullenbery in Fayette county, and our other friends could undertake it for us, and be very attentive in accuracy. I beg your pardon my dear General, for the trouble I give you, but Have been particularly applied to, and cannot dispense with paying great attention to the business. This goes with so long an epistle of mire that I shall only present you here with my best love and wishes, and am my dear General, your respectful and tender friend LAFAYETTE."

Some years after the recognition of American Independence, Colonel George Morgan purchased a farm, long known as Morganza, near Canonsburgh, in western Pennsylvania. It was from that place President Jefferson received his first intelligence of Burr's conspiracy. :

In his life of Aaron Burr, Parton says: ''It so chanced that one of Burr's first visits, on his western tour had consequences of the utmost importance.

"Tt was to the house of Colonel Morgan, a name of renown in the west, a valiant old campaigner who lived with his two stalwart sons near the little town of Canonsburgh, Pennsylvania, that this fatal visit was made. Civilities had passed between Morgan and Burr in former years, and that old patriot had concevied for Burr a very warm friendship, which his misfortunes and peculiarities strengthened. As his custom was, Colonel Burr gave notice of his coming, and the old gentleman bursting with hospitality sent forth his two sons to meet the expected guests. Colonel Burr rode with one of the sons and Colonel De Peister with the other. Burr's conversation surprised the young gentlemen. Among other things he said the Union could not last long; a separation of the States must ensue in four or five years. He made minute inquiries respecting the militia and arms of the country, and of the character of the officers. One of Morgan's workmen chanced to pass, and Burr said he wished he had ten thousand such men."

Colonel George Morgan and his sons, John and Thomas, were witnesses on behalf of the Government at Burr's trial; and it was at Richmond, where the trial took place, that Thomas Morgan and Katherine Duane, the future parents of George W. Morgan, first met. Miss Duane was daughter of Colonel William Duane, editor of the Aurora, the recognized organ of Thomas Jefferson. His father, John Duane, married Anastatia Sarsfield, a collateral relative of General Patrick Sarsfield, who commanded the Irish troops at the famous battle of Limerick. John Duane and wife emigrated from Ireland to the United States in the first half of the Eighteenth century, and settled near Lake Champlain in the State of New York. Their son William was born in 1760, and after the death of his father, in 1771, his mother returned to Ireland, where he received a classical education, and greatly excelled as a linguist. Anastatia Duane was a devout Catholic, and became forever estranged from her son because he married Katherine Corcoran, a Presbyterian.

In 1784 William Duane went to Calcutta, in India, and established a journal called Zhe World, one side of which was printed in English and the other in Hindoostan. The paper acquired great influence, and Duane amassed a considerable fortune ina few years. He dreamed of an Anglo-Indian empire; and the governor general became uneasy at the influence of The World. One fine morning when a ship was about to sail for England Duane was invited to breakfast with that officer, and was entertained with every semblance of hospitality, The breakfast over, in marched a guard of soldiers, who arrested Duane and conveyed him on board the English ship. His large property was confiscated by the governor general, and on his arrival in England he in vain sought for redress. He soon became the editor of The Advertiser, the organ of the pronounced liberals who followed the lead of John Horne Tooke. In consequence of the boldness of his articles he was arrested for libel; and in 1795 he returned to the United States, and became the associate editor with Bache of The Aurora, and soon became the sole editor and proprietor. That journal led the opposition to the administration of John Adams, and upon the action of the Senate, Duane was indicted and tried for libel under the sedition laws. He was heavily fined, but the fines were afterwards remitted by President Jefferson.

Duane was commissioned Lieutenant Colonel in a regiment of rifles in the army of the United States, and held that rank in the War of 1812. He was the author of a number of scientific and literary works, among which was a work on tactics, which for many years was recognized as authority. His son, William J. Duane, was Secretary of the Treasury under Andrew Jackson, with whom he hada rupture. Duane refused to remove the public deposits from the United States bank, on the ground that the bank was entitled to hold them until the expiration of its charter. As a compromise, Jackson tendered him the mission to Russia, which he declined. He was then removed, and Roger B. Taney was appointed his successor.

George W. Morgan was born at Washington, Pennsylvania, September 20, 1820. The course of his education was irregular. He was for four years in what was then known as the English department connected with Washington college, and was in the grammar school before enrolling as a private soldier in the army of the Republic of Texas.

He early evinced a fondness for history, and read with avidity the Lives of Plutarch, Rollins' Ancient History, and the separate lives of the great military captains. After his return from Texas he entered Washington college, and was in that institution about eighteen months, when he was sent to the military academy, where he remained two years.

On the sixth day of September, 1836, Captain Thomas J. Morgan organized a company of volunteers for service in the Republic of Texas, then menaced with a second invasion by Mexico, and George enrolled his name asa volunteer in his brother's company. Not long after the arrival of the company in Texas, George was promoted to be first sergeant, and entered with zeal on the discharge of his duties.

The army of Texas was then in Camp Independence, on the La Bacca, under the command of Brigadier General Felix Huston, late a lawyer of Natchez, Mississippi. He was a man of eloquence, courage, and energy, and by instinct a soldier. His army was well drilled, but not well disciplined. As a commander, Huston was after the style of Wallenstein, and goyerned his soldiers by his personal magnetism; and they would have followed him wherever he chose to lead. During the intervals of drill hé would make passionate harangues to his troops; recite the tragedy of the Alamo, and the butchery of Fannin and his five hundred comrades at Goliad. Then would follow a glowing description of Mexico; a thrilling narrative of 'the conquest by Ferdinand Cortez; and he promised to lead his soldiers to the halls of the Montezumas, if the President and Congress would allow him to do so. Sam Houston was then President, and Congress was in session at Columbia, the capital of the State. Albert Sidney Johnston, who afterwards fell at Shiloh, was the adjutant general of Texas. He was a graduate of the United States military, academy, and was recognized by all who knew him as possessing many elements of greatness. With a kindly heart, he was grave, dignified, and reserved, but without the magnetism that was one of the chief characteristics of Sam Houston.

Major Gray, Captain T. J. Morgan, and probably other officers, informed the President through the adjutant general, of the demoralized condition of the army.

Felix Huston was brigadier general in command of the army in the field, while the rank of Sidney Johnston was colonel. Congress authorized the President to commission a first brigadier general, a grade till then unknown, and the commission was bestowed on Johnston.

In the meantime Sam Houston visited the camp on the La Bacca. He was a man of majestic presence; six feet four inches in height, and nobly developed in person. He was alike great as a statesman and as a soldier. Having called upon General Huston, he visited the hospital, cheered the sick, and here and there recognized an old comrade of San Jacinto. The next day he reviewed the army; caused it to be formed in double column closed in mass, and addressed the troops in deep and solemn tones, asa father might speak to his erring children.