Knox County, Ohio - Biographical sketches, 1881 (part 14 of 20)

-Mr. Norton never relinquished the idea which he had entertained through life, of returning there to live, and which was only broken in upon by his coming to Knox county to marry Miss Sarah Banning, daughter of Rev. Anthony Banning. This was in 1816. He was still further irresistibly attracted by the fine water power, fertile lands and beautiful prospects of Owl creek.

The building of machinery and improving of mills and manufacturing establishments may be said to have been the ruling passion of his life. A petition was presented to the general assembly of Ohio, when it met- in Chillicothe, by Daniel S. Nor-' ton, John H. Piatt, and Herman Long of Cincinnati, Asa Norton of Kentucky, and Abraham Baldwin of Pennsylvania, who had associated in manufacturing business, asking for encouragement of woollen manufactories, etc.

His career in this county - his efforts to promote education, home manufactures and internal improvements - his contributions to objects calculated to benefit the public - his assistance to old settlers in purchasing their farms and stock, making improvements, and providing for their families - his kindness to friends, and generosity to relatives - will long be remembered. His love of country was unbounded, and the blood of the Revolution never coursed through veins more determined to perpetuate Liberty and Union. His liberality and patriotism in the War of 1812, the Texan Revolution, and the Mexican War is on record.

From a notice of the death of Mr. Norton, which took place Tuesday morning, October 25, 1859, of congestion of the lungs, in the columns of the Mt. Vernon Banner, the following extract is taken. At the time of his death Mr. Norton was seventy-two years of age, having been born in 1787:

'He first visited Mt. Vernon in the spring of 1816, and in the summer of that vear introduced the first complete carding machine in this part of the State, and set it up at the mill of William Douglas, afterwards owned by James S. Banning. In the summer of 1817 he moved to Mt. Vernon, and in the fall of that year, having secured the admirable mill seat and water power which his sagacious eye had discovered the summer previous, he built the mills, which, improved and enlarged from time to time, as the wants of the county required, he continued to occupy and operate until his death.

'*He engaged also in the mercantile business and carried it on prosperously for many years. He erected a woolen and a cotton factory, and an oil mill, and engaged extensively in agriculture and the raising of cattle and horses, and contributed much to the improvement of the stock of both in the county.

'He was elected to the State senate from Knox and Richland counties in 1825, and while in that body took lively interest and an active part in inaugurating and establishing the wise canal policy of the State. He wasa member of the committee appointed in 1825 to welcome De Witt Clinton. At the canal celebration in July, 1825, he first met Bishop Chase, who served as chaplain on that occasion, and was one of the gentlemen who accompanied the bishop in his tour of observation through a part of the county, looking up grounds for the location of Kenyon college, which resulted in the selection of the site now occupied by that institution. He contributed liberally to the establishment of that college, and was always its steadfast friend.

'He was always among the foremost in all public enterprises calculated to increase the growth of the town, or improve and develop the resources of the county. In July, 1849, the editor of the Times said: 'We are of the opinion 'that none of the earliest pioneers of our town have ever done so much to promote its growth and prosperity as' Mr. Norton. If Mt. Vernon is specially indebted to the enterprise and liberality of any one man, that man is Daniel S. Norton.'

''As a man of business, he had no superior. Prompt, energetic and deliberate, he appeared to see the end from the beginning, and his plans, wisely laid, were worked out with a precision which commanded the admiration of all.

'"'A man of social qualities, he was the pride of the society in which he lived. Remarkable for his address and conversational power, his extensive reading, his acute observation and his wonderful memory, he attracted notice wherever he appeared, at home or abroad, and entered no circle which was not entertained and instructed by his presence.

''The cultivation of the cotton plant attracted his youthful attention, and among his papers of 1810 are calculations as to its culture and manufacture. He planted the first black seed in the southwest (it had been brought from the Bahamas), and he was the first experimenter with the hirsutum and the herbaceous in that locality.

''He had a keen perception of merit in the young, and not a few owe the beginning of their prosperous career in busines to his kind and wise patronage. He was ever ready to aid the industrious, and had a lively sympathy for the unfortunate. It was a touching sight to see the poor gather around his bier, and not the least of a good man's reward to hear them call him blessed."'

NORTON, G. K., was born in 1826, and was ason of D.S. Norton, who was married to Sarah Banning, and had a family of six children, viz: Mary, wife of the late Judge Hurd; A. Baldwin, who was appointed saperintendent of Indian affairs at Santa Fe, New Mexico, but is now dead; A. Banning, and G. K. G.K. Norton, the subject of this sketch, after his preparatory education entered Kenyon college, but completed his education at Norwalk, Ohio, after which he took charge of his father's business, in which he continued until his father's death. Judge R. C. Hurd was appointed administrator of the estate of his father, and George was continued in charge by Mr. Hurd for two years after, when he purchased the mill and conducted the business until 1871, when he sold to Mr. Hurd. He then engaged in the grocery and produce business, in which he continued until his death.

He was married January 13, 1861, to Mrs. Elizabeth Weirick: nee Raymond. Mrs. Norton had two children by her first husband, and two by Mr. Norton. The last two are now residing with her.

Daniel S. Norton, a brother of G. K., was educated at Kenyon college, after which he studied with Judge Hurd. He went to Minnesota, where he was elected to the State senate, and then to the United States Senate. He has deceased.

NORTON & KINDRICK, millinery and notion store, South Main street, Mt. Vernon. - Mrs. J. K. Norton, senior member of this firm, was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, December 28, 1829.

Miss J. Kindrick was married to D. B. Norton, M. D., a native of this county, who was born June 27, 1831. He was a graduate of Willoughby Medical college, Cleveland. Shortly after marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Norton went to Chillicothe, Missouri, where he practiced his profession about eighteen months, when they returned to Ohio and settled at Worthington, near Columbus, where they resided five years. They then went to St. Charles, Illinois, where they resided nearly two years, when Dr. Norton died, and Mrs. Norton returned with her two children to Mt. Vernon, where she has resided ever since.

After the death of Dr. Norton, which took place in 1858, Mrs. Norton entered a co-partnership with her sister, and in 1860, under the name of Norton & Kindrick, they opened a millinery estalishment, to which they added from time to time such goods in that line as the needs of the people and the fashions of the day required, until they placed their establishment on a par with the best in the State. At no time is their stock in trade less than two thousand dollars valuation, consisting of millinery goods in all its departments, and ladies' furnishing goods. The firm does an average business of from six thousand to seven thousand dollars per year. This firm has the best selected goods of any similar establisment in the city.

NYHART, JOHN M., Brown township, farmer, was born December 13, 1830, in Jefferson township. He is the son of Jacob and Mary Nyhart, now residing in Jefferson township, Knox county. He was reared on a farm. His education was obtained at a select school taught at Danville, this county, and several terms at Loudonville, Ashland county. During the winter of 1862-3 he taught a five months' term of school in Hanover township, Ashland county. In 1863 he was united in marriage with Miss Sophia Garrett, of Hanover township, Ashland county, daughter of William and Prudence J. Garrett.

They settled on the farm where they are now residing, located in Brown tewnship, this county, near Jelloway. He then turned his attention to farming and stock raising, making sheep a specialty. He is the father of two children, one son and one daughter. He filled the office of township treasurer in Brown township for three years.

O'BRIEN, WILLIAM E., Pike township, post office, Democracy, born in Frederick county, Maryland, in 1820, and was married in 1847 to Elizabeth Rockwell, who was born in New York, in 1828. They had eight children: Terance W., Ann Caroline, Daniel W., Emily V., Lovilla E., William E., and Julia Estella.

OBERHOLTZER, ABRAHAM O., hardware and jewelry, Hilliar township, Centreburgh, Ohio, was born in Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, in 1833. His parents came to Ohio in 1835 and settled in Holmes county, where he spent his youth. He learned the carpenter trade, and for some years worked during the summer and taught school in the winter. He also farmed and worked some in the mines, thus he was taught by his experience that there is no royal road to success, and that he himself, in order to reap, must ''both hold and drive." He had no means with which to begin life, so he found himself with no money when he wished to enter into business, but with a determination to make an effort, and with an honest purpose, he entered into business in Waterford, Knox county. He kept a general line of goods, and by his strict adherence to the principles of business, he succeeded beyond his expectation. He remained in Waterford for seven years, and in 1879, came to Centreburgh, and opened up his present business. He carries a full line of foreign and domestic hardware, and has a rapidly growing trade. .

OLDAKER, JAMES S., Miller township, farmer, was born in Licking county, Ohio, March 30, 1815. His parents were natives of Virginia, who emigrated to Ohio at an early day, and were married in Miller township, or what is now Miller township, about 1811, and soon after, moved to Burlington township, Licking county, where they lived and died. They had five children, two of whom are living, viz: James and Elizabeth.

The subject of our notice was reared on a farm, and has always followed farming as his vocation. Upon the division of the old homestead, after the death of the parents, Mr. Oldaker took the northern part of the farm situated in Miller township, and moved upon it, and has resided there ever since. His farm shows care and prudent management, and his improvements are among the best in the township. ;

Mr. Oldaker is one of the leading members of society in the vicinity. He is highly esteemed for his excellent qualities. He has been a consistent member of the Christian church for over forty years, and one of the principal organizers of Fairview church, and is now secretary of the organization, He was married to Miss Elizabeth Ann Butcher, who was born December 5, 1819. They had eight children. The living are: Mary R., wife of Philip Losh; John B., Octavina, James W. Lewis, and Lucretia.' Henry was a member of company G, Twentieth Ohio volunteer infantry, and died at Grand Junction, Tennessee. Andrew died at home.

OLIVER, WILLIAM, Gambier, a native of England, was born on the third day of August, 1810. At the age of fourteen years he engaged in the mercantile business as clerk, remained two years. In 1826 he commenced working in a flouring-mill with his father.

He continued in the mill with his father until 1840. They migrated to America and located in Gambier, this county. In the spring of 1841 he took charge of the Gambier mills, which he operated successfully until the fall of 1846, when he moved on the farm in Monroe township, this county, which he purchased in 1843. He then turned his attention to farming and butchering, remaining on the farm until 1861, when they moved to Gambier, where they are now living.

He continued the butchering business until 1866. In 1865 he engaged in the grocery trade, and carried on the two branches of business in connection with overseeing his farm, until 1866, and then gave his attention wholly to butchering, his grocery trade and farming, and continued to do so to the present time.

ORSBORN, JAMES M., Hilliar township (pioneer), Centreburgh post office; was born in Bloomfield township, Knox county (now Morrow county), June 13, 1819. His parents were natives of Hartford, Connecticut. His father, Thomas

Orstom, was bound in his youth to a sea captain, and afterwards served inthe War of 1812 as a marine. His wife was Miss Olive Manning. They came to Ohio about 1816, and settled in Bloomfield township, Knox county, now Morrow county. Mr. Orsborn had never seen a tree felled by the axe prior to his coming to Ohio, and knew little of the experience of a pioneer; but he soon became accustomed to the forest and was successful in clearing up his farm, and finally became one of the' well-to-do farmers and an influential citizen. He and his wife passed over the river on the old homestead. They had a family of nine children, seven of whom are yet living. The subject of this notice remained at home assisting his father on the farm until he was married to Miss Sophronia Thatcher, July 5, 1840. They some time after went to Mt. Liberty, where they kept hotel for about ten years, when to the hotel business was added a store, which in connection with the hotel was carried on five years more, when he sold out and went to farming, which he followed for some five years more when he sold out. He afterward purchased land in Illinois, but did not move upon it. He engaged in various undertakings until 1872, when he purchased property in Centreburgh-and moved there, where he has since been engaged in the saw-mill business. Mr. Orsborn has always been an active, energetic, hard working man. They have a family of three children, viz: George W., Lenora (married to Lewis Mitchell), Jerusha (married Isaac Teagarden).

OSWALT, HENRY, farmer, post office, Democracy, was born in Jefferson township in 1849, and was married in 1876 to Ellen: Nortick, who was born in Brown township in 1854. They have one daughter - Sarah Edith - who was born August 18, 1880. Mr. Oswalt located in Pike township in 1879, on the Arnold farm. He is accumulating wealth. Economy and ndustry is the cause of his success.

OWEN, WILLIAM W., Middlebury township, carpenter, post office, Levering, was born in this township, August 13, 1828, and was married December 22, 1850, to Rebecca Burke, who was born in Martinsburgh, April 16, 1832. They had the following family: Sylvania, born March 5, 1852; Olive, January 22, 1854; John D., Juner, 1861; Dan, July 30, 1864; Harriet L., February 10, 1870; and Willie B., November 27, 1872. Olive Owen cied Aptil 13, 1867. Sylvania was married to Frank Coursen November 10, 1870, and resides in Richland county. Julia E. was married to William Forsyth, and resides in Bloomington, Illinois.

PAINTER, GEORGE, Wayne township, farmer, post office, Fredericktown, born in Holmescounty in 1847, and was married in 1867, to Ellen McLaughlin, who was born in New York in 1847. They have the following children - Jennie Maggie, born September 14, 1868; Cora Melinda, December 31, 1869; George Ostin, November 10, 1871; Lillie Bella, May 1, 1874; Patsie Mountainia, December 3, 1876; and Roberta Blanche, June 30, 1879. Mr. Painter is a farmer by occupation and has resided here since 1878.

PARK, JAMES, deceased, late of Pleasant township, was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, in 1787. He was of Scotch parentage. His grandfather came to America about the year 1730, and was a man of some note in the history of his adopted country. His father was killed by the Indians in Pennsylvania shortly after St. Clair's defeat. 'The subject of this sketch married Miss Elizabeth Marquis, of Washington county, Pennsylvania, in 1803. Shortly after his marriage he moved to and settled in Belmont county, Ohio, and resided there twelve years. While residing in Belmont county he entered the service of his country and served in the army during a part of the War of 1812. In 1816 he came to Knox county and settled on a farm in pleasant township, where he resided up to the time of his death, in 1853. After his death his son Joseph received a land warrant from the general Government for his fathers' services during the war. Mr. Park was a man of strong mind and great energy, and soon made for himself and family of nine children - five sons and four daughters - a pleasant home out of the wilderness, in which he had pitched his tent. His son Joseph, and his two youngest sisters are now the only living ones in the county of that once large family.

PARK, JOSEPH V., son of the late James Park, was born at the old homestead in Pleasant township, on the twenty-third day of March, 1818. He received his education from the common schools of the neighborhood. His early days were spent in labor cn his father's farm, which he now partially owns and successfully operates. He has served the people of the township eighteen years in the office of justice of the peace, and at the expiration of his last term he refused the offer of reelection.

October 12, 1853, he was united by marriage with Miss Elizabeth J. McFarland, daughter of the late Daniel McFarland, then of Mt. Vernon, from which union five children were born, viz.: Daniel M., Jomes H., William V., Bessie I., and Frank J., all of whom are living. William and Bessie are twins.

One of the scenes of his early life in 1825 Mr. Park recollects with vivid distinctness. Like all early settlers his father kept a flock of sheep that required considerable attention, and upon the younger boys that care mostly developed. During the day the sheep were permitted to graze around the clearings and upon the commons, and were gathered at night and penned to protect them from the wolves, that great pest of pioneer farmers. His father had, at different times, been a severe loser by those night prowlers.

One day the sheep strayed from their usual haunts, and Joseph and an elder brother were sent out in search of them. It was nearly dark when the boys came across them on the river bottom nearly opposite the Kerr mill, now Miller's. It was dark by the time the boys started homeward with the sheep. They were soon startled by the howl of a wolf in the direction of Fallen Timbers, then in Pleasant, but now in College township. The signal was answered from another direction, and then the dismal howl came from every quarter, and each repetition came nearer and nearer. The speed of the sheep was hurried by the alarmed boys, as they were too young to defend their charge from the attack of a pack of hungry wolves. The boys had reached the barn, where the pen was located, when the father and two older sons came out with lighted torches and guns, as the howls had been heard at the house, causing considerable alarm. The approach of the wolves had been checked by the light of the torches at about forty rods from the fold, as was supposed, as it was too dark to see the prowlers, but their snarls could be distinctly heard. After the sheep had been secured, the father fired his gun in the direction of the wolves, when their snarls instantly ceased, and for a few moments profound silence prevailed. Then the disappointed wolves broke into continual howls, likened to nothing the boys had ever heard before, so dismal and prolonged as though all the demons of the lower regions had broken out. Sheep in those early days were a necessity to the pioneers, and great care was required to protect them from wolves.

Another incident in which wolves were prominent actors is thus related: During the summer of 1822, a spelling bee was held at a neighboring school-house, which nearly all the young people attended. It was past midnight when the young folks started for their respective homes in sinall parties. One party, when about half-way home, was surrounded by a pack of wolves, and to save their lives the youngsters were forced to take to trees, and rest in the higher branches. Thus protected, the party was compelled to spend the balance of the night, listening to the snarls and howls of the disappointed beasts.

PARK, GEORGE W.,. Mt. Vernon, was born in Franklin county, Pennsylvania, October 11, 1852, educated at the district schools, but by close application he received a good English education. Followed farming until 1869, when he established the seed gardens at Fannettsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he did business until 1875, when he came to Mt. Vernon and established gardens. He is publisher of a floral magazine, which he started in 1871, at Fannettsburgh, and which has been a financial success. He started a green-house in 1879, where he keeps a rare collection of plants. He has a very extensive collection of flower seeds, also all the leading varieties of garden seeds. Publishes a catalogue annually of flower and vegetable seeds, giving valuable information upon their cultivation.

The Floral Magazine is a sixteen page illustrated pamphlet, devoted to the culture of flowers of all kinds and is the pioneer of the floral magazines devoted entirely to flower culture.

He also does book and job printing in all its branches, with dispatch. Having all the modern improvements, in the shape of Baxter's engine, new press, and all the latest styles of type, his work is fine.

PARK, D. M., of the firm of Martin & Park, coal and feed deaJers, Mt. Vernon. - Mr. D. M. Park was born in Pleasant towhship, Knox county, Ohio, August 5, 1854. His father is a farmer, and young Park assisted on the farm and attended school until he reached his nineteenth year, when he engaged with Mr. Starr in the nursery business, in which he continued one year.

In April, 1877, he became a member of the firm of J. H. Mc- Farland & Co., in which he remained until some time in the year 1879, when Mr. McFarland disposed of his interest to Mr. ]. B. Martin, and the firm of Martin & Park was formed.

PARKE, JUDGE THOMAS V., Mt. Vernon, was born in Baltimore, Maryland, July 5, 1805, and in 1819 his parents moved into Frederick county, and Thomas engaged in the milling business. In 1832 he came to this county and located at Fredericktown, where he engaged in merchandizing, in which he continued several years, and during which he did business in different towns of the county. He came to Mt. Vernon in 1857 and was appointed deputy sheriff under I. Underwood, and served two terms. During his first year, as deputy, he was elected justice of the peace and served one term. In 1860 he was elected probate judge, in which he served two terms. In 1869 he was again elected to the office of the justice of the peace, to which he was successively elected for three terms, discharging the duties of his office with acceptance, and has now retired from public life. He was married, January 16, 1834, to Miss Mary. daughter of Charles Strong, of Fredericktown, by whom he had a family of eight children, four of whom are living, viz: Webster, Elnora Hyde, Kate H., and Thomas V.

PARKES, THOMAS, is a native of Gloucester, England, where he was born July 18, 1828. After leaving school he learned the trade of boot and shoe making, which he has made his business in life so far.

He came to America in 1857, stopping at Brooklyn, New York, where he manufactured the ''copper nailed shoe" for four years, when he sold out and came to Mt. Vernon in 1862, and started shops, where he does all kinds of work with neatness and dispatch.

PARKER, MRS. H. C., millinery and notions, South Main street, Mt. Vernon. Mrs. Parker was born in Danville, this county, January 12, 1848. When about ten years of age, her father, Mr. S. W. Hopwood, came to Mt. Vernon with his family. At the age of sixteen Miss Hopwood engaged with Mrs, Andrews to learn the milliner business, with whom she remained five years, after which she went into partnership with Miss A. G. Critchfield, of Millwood, this county, and under the name of Hopwood & Critchfield, opened out an establishment for themselves, which was continued three years, when she bought her partner's interest. She has conducted the business successfully, and carries an average stock of one thousand dollars, comprising millinery in all its departments, notions, hair goods, etc. Mrs. Parker does a business of from five thousand to six thousand dollars per year.

Miss Hopwood, on the twenty-fifth of July, 1875, married Mr. H. C. Parker. They have a family of two children. Mr. Parker is engaged in the boot and shoe establishment of Mr. R. M. Bowland.

PARMENTER, S. A., farmer, Morris township, post office, Mt. Vernon, was born in Boston in 1829, came to Ohio in 1838, and in 1851 married Grace Penhorwood, who was born in England in 1832, and came with her parents to America at the age of nine years. They have the following children: Edward, born in 1853; Charles, in 1855; Dora, in 1858; Elmer, in 1861; John, in 1867; Minnie Grace, in 1868; Arthur, in 1871; Myrta, in 1876.

Mr. Parmenter purchased a farm in Morris township in 1866, and has since been engaged in farming. He came to Knox county in 1838, and located in Monroe township, and remained there until 1846. He learned the blacksmith trade in Mt. Vernon with Joseph Murphy. After learning the trade he worked at different places. He was married in Morris township, and remained there about four years, then went to Hilliar township, then to Mt. Vernon, where he worked at his trade.

PARR, SILAS, Mt. Vernon, a native of Devonshire, England, was born September 1, 1848. He came to America in the year 1866,.and settled in Mt. Vernon October 9, 1867.

He was engaged with Thomas Trick to learn the boot and shoe trade, with whom he worked four years, and then with Mr. Weaver three years, at the expiration of which time he commenced business for himself at his present location on West High street, where he does all kinds of work, and repairing, and guarantees satisfaction.

PARRISH, JARRETT, was born January 27, 1836, in Coshocton county, Ohio, and came with his father to Knox county when about two years old. He is the ninth child of a family of eleven children, viz: Mary Ann, Rachel, Ureth, Mordecai, English, Samuel, James, Benjamin, Jarrett, Salathel, and Telitha Jane, of whom two are dead - Mary Ann and Samuel.

Mr. Parr attended school at the district schools, also at Fredericktown, after which he followed farming until 1864, when he engaged in merchandizing in the village of Amity, where he continued until 1877, when he sold out and went into the insurance business for one year, since which he has been travelling for E. Shedd & Co., wholesale grocers, Columbus, Ohio. He, at present, isa candidate for sheriff.

PARROTT, DAVID, farmer, son of John and Rachel Parrott, was born in Bedford county, Pennsylvania, February 2, 1817. He was brought to Knox county, Ohio, in 1827, by his parents, who settled in Clinton township. He received a common school education, was reared a farmer, and has made farming his business through life.

April 4, 1844, he married Miss Mary Davidson, who was born in Mt. Vernon in 1823, daughter of John and Effie Davidson. They settled on a farm in Clinton township, remained two years, then moved on the Rogers farm, in same township, lived there five years, and in the spring of 1851 moved on the farm where they are now living, he having purchased the farm in 1850. There was a small brick dwelling on the farm, which served them asan abode until 1858, when he erected their present brick residence.

PARSONS, NATHAN, Union township, farmer, post office, Rossville, was born in Holmes county, Ohio, December 19, 1823, and lived at home until 1844, when he followed agriculture in summer and teaching school in winter. In 1845 he married Miss M. Workman and settled in Holmes county, where he lived eight years. He then went to Illinois, and returned in 1856 to Knox county and settled on his present farm. He has seven children: Abraham, born in 1849; Jacob, 1851; Isaac, 1849; Edith Jane, 1854; Grace, 1857; Della Ann, 1860; Ida J., 1863.

Abraham commenced his medical education in 1863 with Dr. Putnam, of Mt. Holly, now deceased, and finished it in 1869. He graduated in the Wooster university and settled in Gann. He takes the field of his preceptor, who was well known throughout the country. Mr. Parsons has filled the office of justice of the peace for a number of years. He has tried to fill the office with zeal and energy and judge for the right in all cases.

PATTERSON, ASA, Monroe township, retired farmer. A native of the State of New York, born in Pittsford, Monroe county, January 21, 1806. In March, 1832, he married Miss Jane Barker, of Monroe county, New York, born January 22, 1813, daughter of Lyman and Mary Barker, ee Munson. They remained in Monroe county until February, 1837. They migrated to Ohio and located in Monroe township, this county, on a farm now owned by Henry Barker, on which they resided about two years. Mr. Patterson purchased the land on which he now resides in a short time after his arrival in the county. It was then an unbroken forest, no woodman's axe had been there. He at once began making improvements on his land by clearing away the forest, cultivating the soil and erecting a cabin in which he moved his family in August, 1839, which served them as an abode until 1853, when he erected his present frame residence. They reared a family of ten children, viz: Henry, Isabella, Mary, Eleanor, Hutchison, Emily, Aaron, Frances and Agnes (twins), and Ida R. Hutchison deceased in the war of 1861, at Romney, Virginia, December 25, 186r.

PAUL, JAMES, was born March 12, 1803, in Washington county, Pennsylvania, and removed some years afterwards to Knox county, is now residing in Morrow county; was married to Sarah Bane January 15, 1854. They had the following children: Elizabeth, William, David, Daniel, Mary, Sarah, and James B., all living except David and James.

PAUL, DANIEL, one of Knox county's well known public citizens, isa nitive of Clay township, his birth occurring January 19, 1833. Mr. Paul is one of the wealthiest farmers of Clay township; has been a prominent Democratic politician; was senator from Knox-Wayne senatorial district in the Sixty-first general assembly; came very near receiving the nomination for Congress at the hands of the Democratic Congressional convention. Mr. Paul never married.

PEALER, SAMUEL, Pike township, farmer, post office, Democracy, born in Columbia county, Pennsylvania, in 1818; parents emigrated to Ohio when he was a child and located in this county. He was married in 1842 to Sarah C. Corbus, who was born in Ohio in 1824. They had seven children: George, born in 1843; Henry, in 1844; Hannah, in 1846; Daniel, in 1848; John, in 1850; Sarah E., in 1854; and Charles S., in 1860.

Mrs. Sarah C. Pealer died November 25, 1862. She was a worthy member of the Disciple church. Henry died in 1845; Hannah in 1863, and George died in 1875.

Mr. Pealer was a member of the Ohio National guards during the war, being in the service a short time only. He was very prominent in this township during the war, raising men and contributing means to sustain the Union, The Pealer family was.loyal in every emergency.

He was faithful in the discharge of his duties as a-soldier and an officer. At Bermuda Hundred, Virginia, he became a victim of disease, and was conveyed to the Chesapeake hospital, at

It is but just to say of Lieutenant Pealer that in many respects he was a model man, such a man as any parent could be proud of. He was a man of industry and economy, strict habits, and an honest, upright man. He was sociable, amiable, quiet, and inoffensive, and thought no evilof his neighbor, and a man of many friends and few enemies.

He was the friend of education, temperance, and good order. While he loved his family, friends and home, with life and all its comforts, he also loved his country that gave him birth. Of this love he gave abundant evidence, in that he forsook father, mother, and his own wife and children and home, to defend, protect, and maintain his country's honor; yea more, he laid his life on the altar of his country, and with other patriots died that his country might live and her free institutions be perpetuated. He thus transmitted a reputation to his posterity that was untainted and unsullied.

PEALER, F., Howard township, farmer, post office, Howard, was born January 13, 1835, in Union township. He came to Howard township in 1860, and worked ona farm three years. He then went to Danville and engaged in the mercantile trade, and followed it two years. He then followed undertaking and carriage making for a time, and then removed to the farm, which he now owns.

PEALER, E. A., of the firm of Pealer & Son, dealers in farming implements, No. 1 Kremlin building, southeast corner High street and public square, Mt. Vernon. Mr. 1¢. A. Pealer was barn in Pike township, Knox county, December 20, 1830, and _ has continued a resident of the county up to the present day. His education was such as could be obtained from the district schools of forty years ago. Up to January, 1880, his occupation was that of a farmer. He commenced life for himself when about twenty-one years old. At the age of twenty-three he purchased a farm. In 1868 he engaged in the insurance business, and in 1871 he was elected secretary and treasurer of the company in whose employ he was. In that capacity he served four years. In 1875 he engaged in the grain, produce and stock business, in which, together with farming, he continued until January, 1880, when he removed to Mt. Vernon. In company with Mr. J. H. Norrick, he rented the corner room in the Kremlin block, formerly occupied by the late George B. Potwin, and opened out an agricultural supply wareroom, and has met with good success in the undertaking. The firm carries a full line of all kinds of agricultural implements, together with wagons, carriages and_ bugygies. They represent goods of C. Aultman & Co., of Canton, Ohio; Buckeye mowers and reapers, and self binders, Canton Monitor engine, Bucher & Gibbs' Imperial plows, First and Bradley's and Hughes' sulky plows, Brown's corn cultivators, Champion corn planters, Studebaker and Moline farm wagons and spring wagons, carriages and buggies, of five different manufactures, from Moline, Illinois, Courtland, and Syracuse, New York, Toledo, and Troy, Ohio.

Mr. Pealer was married August 10, 1853, to Miss Selina E. Vincent, and had a family of three sons and one daughter. The daughter died February 22, 1877, aged seventeen years.

PEARDON, GEORGE, justice of the peace, Hilliar township, post office, Centreburgh, was born in Devonshire, England, in 1823. His young days were spent on a farm, and attending school until about fourteen years of age, when he was apprenticed to learn the trade of shoemaking. He served until his master gave up the business, thus giving George his freedom. Some time after this one of his neighbors, a Mr. Caldwell, was coming to America, and Mr. Peardon came with him to Ohio, and stopped for a short time near Danville, and then came to Gambier, where he worked at his trade, for several months. He then came to Mt. Vernon and worked at his trade with Samuel Smail for six years, and then set up for himself, where he remained until July, 1855, when he came to Centreburgh, where he has since remained.

He is a man of sound judgment, and exerts a quiet influence in the vicinity, and has the esteem of his neighbors. He was elected justice of the peace in 1872, and served for three years to the satisfaction of the public. He was again elected in the fall of 1878. He is prompt in his decisions and accurate in his judgment. '

PIEENICK & RANSOM, leather manufacturers, successors of G. E. Raymond, West Gambier street, Mt. Vernon. - Mr. William Penick, of this firm, was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, on the eleventh May, 1822, where he resided until he was ten years of age, when his parents came to Ohio, and located near Martinsburgh, this county. In 1841 he came to Mt. Vernon and entcred the tannery of Hugi Oglevee to learn the trade, where ne served three years. He then went to Millersburgh and worked for S. Weirick for two years and seven months. From Millersburgh he returned to Martinsburgh and purchased the tannery of O. Lord, and conducted the business for nineteen years, when he sold out. In 1865 Mr. Penick bought a half interest in the yard of George E. Raymond, and for three years the firm of Raymond & Penick conducted a successful business. He then sold his interest, and was engaged in various ways until the fall of 1878, wher he, in company with J. H. Ransom, bought the Raymond tannery, which the new firm still carries on.

PENN, WILLIAM, Middlebury, farmer, was born in Virginia, near Harper's Ferry, in 1826; came to Ohio in 1834 with his father, John Penn, and located in Richland county. He was married in 1851 to Ruth Clark, who was born in this township and county. They have two children: William, born in 1867, and Chloe, born in 1854.

Mr. Penn came to Knox county in 1853, and has remained here ever since. He is one of the useful and intelligent men of this county. -His father, John Penn, was born in 1800, in Baltimore, Maryland, and died in 1879. Mrs. John Penn has moved to Indiana. Mrs. Ruth Penn's father, William Clark, was born in Vermont in 1777. He came to Ohio in 1818, and was married to Abigail Owen, who was born in 1797 in Vermont. They are among the old pioneers of the county. They had two children: Rachel, born in 1829, and Ruth, born in 1833. William Clark died in 1862, aged eighty-four years five

PENROSE, EVERARD, painter, Pleasant township, son of Benjamin and Rachel Penrose, was born in Bucks county Pennsylvania, on the fifteenth day of April, 1818. He was brought to Knox county, Ohio, by his parents in 1828, who located in Monroe township, remained a few years, then purchased and moved on a farm in Clinton township, where he grew tomanhood. At the age of sixteen years he commenced teaching vocal music during the winter season, and has followed that as his vocation nearly every winter since that time. In 1838 he went to Philadelphia, where he learned painting and paperhanging, which he has made.his principle vocation.

He has been married twice; first in 1846 to Elizabeth Armstrong, of Philadelphia, who died in 1847. In 1849 he was united in marriage with Miss Elizabeth Mills, of Philadelphia. In 1851 he returned to Knox county with his wife and one child, where they have passed most of their time. In 1870 he purchased the property in Pleasant township, where they are now living. They have had eight children, four sons and four daughters; one of the latter is dead.

PETERMAN, CHRISTIAN, - deceased.- - Christian Peterman was born March 13, 1819, in Maple township, Delaware county, Pennsylvania, and at the time of his death his age was sixty-one years, eight months and fourteen days. He was a miller by trade. While he was yet a young man he was appointed to the position of warden of the Westchester prison, in Chester county, Pennsylvania, his administration lasting one year. The board of managers of the institutions showed their confidence in his abilities by offering him the position for another term, with an increased salary. By kindness he had won the confidence of the prisoners, and labored diligently to teach them Christian principles, and effected many reformations. His sensitive nature led him to believe that the position was one of too much responsibility and the burden too heavy for one of his youthful years, and he tendered his resignation. He left his native State in the year 1854, and settled in Millwood, Knox county, Ohio, where he engaged in mercantile pursuits, in company with his brother-in-law, Mr. C.. W. Page. In 1864 he removed to Mt. Vernon, purchased the stock of dry goods of Peter McIntire, at the corner of Main and Gambier streets, where he continued the business under his own name until 1870, when his eldest son, Samuel H., was made a partner. In January, 1880, he sold his stock and retired from business.

He was a member of St. Paul's Episcopal church for twentyone years, during which time he proved to be a steadfast Christian, and was known for his many acts of kindness during sickness and death, among families of his own acquaintance. He was superintendent of St. Paul's Sunday-school, and also junior warden in the church for a number of years. He was also an active member of the Young Men's Christian association of this city, and it was while in attendance at one of its meetings, in 1875, that he suffered a slight stroke of paralysis. He was a member of the Masonic fraternity, having associated himself with Antioch lodge at Danville.

Samuel H. Peterman was a native of Pennsylvania, and came to this county with his parents in 1854. He received his education in the union schools in this city (Mt. Vernon), and his first business engagement was as an employe of the United States Express company. In this employment he remained from 1869 to 1871, after which he went'into partnership with his father. In April, 1880, he established a general insurance agency, and opened an office in the Peterman block, room 3, second floor, for conducting both fire and life insurance business. He represents such standard companies as the British American; Franklin, of Columbus; Travelers' Life and Accident; German Fire, of Pittsburgh; the Ohio Insurance company, Dayton; Mutual Fire, of Delaware; Merchants' and Mechanics', of Mansfield; Capitol City, of Columbus; Ohio Mutnal Relief, of Urbana. German, $360,000; British American, $5,000,000; Ohio, of Dayton, $200,000; Travelers' Life and Accident, paid up cash capital, $600,000.

PHILLIPS, HENRY, deceased, late of Mt. Vernon, was born in Devonshire, England, March 20, 1803. He came to America in 1821 with his parents, who settled at Phillipsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he resided until 1824, when he went to Cadiz, Harrison county, Ohio. In 1825 he took up his residence in Steubenville, Jefferson county, where he followed his trade (stone-mason and stone-dresser), until 1835, when he went into the tavern business, and kept the Washington house for five years with great credit to himself.

In 1825 he was married to Miss Maria Wise, then of Steubenville, but formerly of Washington county, Pennsylvania, where she was born March 24, 1806. She had removed to Steubenville in 1816 with her parents. Her mother died in 1845, and her father in 1850.

Mr. and Mrs. Wise had two children - a son and a daughter. The son died in 1836, and the daughter, in 1825, became the wife of the subject of this sketch.

Mr. Phillips came to Knox county in 1840, and located on a partly cleared farm in Wayne township, where the family resided till 1860, when he took up his residence in Mt. Vernon, where he resided until his death. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Phillips ten children were born, seven of whom are still living - Elizabeth was born in 1830: Henry, in 1832; Thomas, in 1833; Harrison, in 1836; Mary Ann, in 1839; and Maria and Martha (twins), in 1841.

Three sons and two daughters are residents of Jasper county, Iowa; one daughter, the wife of John Scarbrough, resides in Newark; and one daughter, the wife of Simon H. Bair, is a resident of Mt. Vernon.

Mr. Phillips died at his late residence on West High street, Saturday morning, March 25, 1876, aged seventy-three years and five days. For the three years prior to his death his health had been on the decline. On the day previous to his death he

During his residence in Steubenville he joined a lodge of Odd Fellows, and on his removal to this place he took a withdrawal card, which he deposited with Mt. Vernon Lodge No. 20, I. O. O. F. He passed regularly through all the high positions, both in the subordinate lodge as well as in the encampment branch of the order, and at the time of his death he was the oldest Odd Fellow in this part of the State. He was a man of strong mind and Steiling integrity, and stood ready at any moment to render aid and comfort to those in trouble or distress. He was a member of the Christian church, and stood prominent in its councils, and as a citizen was a valuable member of the community. He served one term as justice of the peace in Wayne township, and four terms in Clinton township after his removal to Mt. Vernon. His funeral services took place at the Christian church, on Vine street, Sunday, March 26, 1876, the Rev. Southmayd preaching the discourse. At the door of the church the remains were taken in charge by the Odd Fellows in the city, and taken to the cemetery, where the body was consigned to the tomb, according to the beautiful burial service of the order.

Mrs. Maria Phillips, the beloved companion, now in her seventy-fifth year, survives her departed husband. She is a woman of uncommon intelligence, and of as strong marked characteristics as a woman as her husband was asa man; is of sound mind and good health, more so than most women of her advanced age. She feels her loss deeply, but is upheld by the loving hands of the Father of the widow and of the orphan. Long may she be spared to minister unto the poor and destitute.

Among the proceedings of Mt. Vernon Lodge No. 20, [. O. O. F., are the following resolutions, expressive of the great loss the lodge sustained on the death of Brother Henry Phillips:

''That in the death of Brother Henry Phillips we recognize the loss of a true and faithful brother, whose life and conduct has won the love of our brotherhood,.and his pure and upright character the respect and esteem of his friends and acquaintances. That in the life of our brother we recognize the virtues which adorn the noblest of our race. He wasa father in the highest sense of the word; a kind and affectionate husband, and a perfect gentleman in all his intercourse with his fellow citizens. In all, he was one of the masterpieces of God's creation."

PHILIPS, MOSES, farmer, post office, New Castle, was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, in 1812, and came with his father, Jacob Philips, to Coshocton county, Ohio, in 1818. From there he removed to this township, in 1838, and has resided in Butler ever since. Hehas been married twice. The first time to Margaret Fry, May 14, 1835, by whom he had eleven children, viz: Henry, Amy, William, Mary Ann, Charlotte, Jonathan, James, Levi, John, Peter, Samuel.

His second wife was Sarah Ann Underwood, daughter of Jesse Underwood, to whom he was married October 1, 1863, and by whom he had five children, viz: Charles L., Delano, Arminia, Viola, and Robnetta. Mr. Philips' family is the largest in number of any one family in Butler township. ~

Peter Philips died in September, 1856; Jonathan, September, 1857; James died in the army, in 1864. His funeral discourse, delivered by Rev. Daniel Lambert, in the grove near the Woods church, Butler township, was an event long to be remembered by the hundreds of citizens who listened to its delivery.

PHILLIPS, HENRY, carpenter, was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, July 11, 1814. He was brought to Knox county, Ohio, in 1818 by his parents, David and Nancy Phillips, who located in Clinton township, where they passed the remainder of their days.

David Phillips deceased February 20, 1863, aged eighty years. He served inthe War of 1812. His companion survived him until April 14, 1864, when she died, aged seventy years. They reared a family of thirteen children: Mary, Henry, Samuel, James and Thomas (twins), Permelia, Levi and Ruth (twins), Jackson, David, Johnson, Priscilla, and Hannah. Five of the foregoing, namely: Mary, Samuel, Levi, Jackson, and Priscilla have died.

Mr. Phillips is a carpenter and joiner by trade, and has followed that as his vocation during life. On the ninth of April, 1839, he married Miss Sarah Howard, born in Maryland November 2, 1820. They settled where he is now living, in Clinton township, two and a half miles from Mt. Vernon, on the Granville road. They reared a family of seven children, four sons and three daughters. His wife deceased February 27, 1864.

in Harrison county, Ohio, in 181g, and married in 1840, to Emaline Woodruff, who was born in Pike township, this county, in 1823. They had eight children, viz: Amos P., born in 1842; Malinda A., 1844; Elnora A., 1851; Elmira E., 1854, deceased; William D., 1859, deceased; Laura B., 1861; Clement R., 1864, and Lizzie B., 1869. Mr. Phillips came to Knox county, at the age of six years, and remained a citizen until his death, January 26, 1879.

The father of Mrs. Phillips, Amos O. Woodruff, deceased, was born in 1795, in New jersey; he was married to Elizabeth Rodgers, who was born in New Jersey in 1797. They had three children, viz: James R., Mary A., and Emaline. Mr. Woodruff came to Knox county, Ohio, in a very early day, and was a pioneer. He died in Michigan, and Mrs, Elizabeth Woodruff died in Pike township, in 1872.

PHILLIPS, JOHN R., farmer, Pike township, post office, Democracy, was born in Jefferson county, in 1823, and was married in 1843, to Sarah Quinn, who was bornin Knox county in 1826. They had five children, viz: Elizabeth, born in 1845; Robert, 1848; William, 1854; Lydia, 1860, deceased; and John Shannon, 1870. Mr. Phillips came to Knox county with his parents in 1825.

James Quinn, deceased, was born in New Jersey in 1781, and was married to Lydia Parks, who was born in Pennsylvania in 1796. They had six children, viz: Robert, born in 1819; William, 1821; John, 1823; Sarah, 1826; Thompson, 1829; and Llizabeth, 1838. The deceased members are Thompson and Elizabeth. James Quinn died in 1865, and his wife in 1881.

PHILLIPs, JOHN, Berlin township, post office, Fredericktown, was born in Harrison county, Ohio, in 1821, and came to Knox county in 1825. He was married in 1843, to Ruth Hipsley, who was born in Carroll county, Maryland, in 1826, and came to Ohio with her parents at forty-seven years of age. They have the following children: Clarinda, born in 1843; Margaret deceased in 1845; Henry W., born in 1847; Deroy E., in 1850; Sarah E., in 1853; Albert W., in 1856. Clarinda Phillips is married to Hugh C. Wilson, and lives in Pike township. Henry W. is married to Elvira Wilson, and they also reside in Pike township. Deroy married Julia Beard, and resides in Jasper county, Iowa. Sarah E. married Isaac C. Dunmire, and also resides in Jasper county, Iowa. Albert W. married Mary McCerg, and lives on the home place.

Mr. Phillips is a farmer by occupation, and has been identified with Knox county since 1825, and remembers well many incidents of pioneer life.

The father of Mrs. John Phillips, Joshua Hipsley, is a native of Maryland, and was married to Elizabeth Wilson, who was a native of the same State. They came to Knox county in 1834, and located in Berlin township, on the farm where John Phillips now resides. They had ten children: Mary Ann, married to Mr. Lee, deceased; Amos, living in Iowa; Louis, in Indiana; Joseph, in Iowa; Nicholas, in Illinois; Ruth, now married to Mr. Phillips; Caleb resides in Iowa; Sarah, now Mrs. Wilson, lives in Carroll county, Maryland, and Joshua deceased. Mr. Joshua Hipsley died May 29, 1866.

PHILIPS, MRS. RACHEL, was born in Perry township, Coshocton county, Ohio, on the sixteenth day of September, 1826, and was married to John Dalyer, October 6, 1842, by whom she had seven children, viz: Anna, born October 3, 1843; Levi, April 22, 1845; Frances M., August 11, 1847; Mary

John Dalyer was a member of the One Hundred and Twentyfirst Ohio volunteer infantry, and died April 29, 1865, of chronic dysentery, at Moorehead, North Carolina.

PHILLIPS, BENJAMIN, Wayne township, farmer, post office, Mt. Vernon, born in Wayne township, in 183%, and married in 1860 to Clara Bonner, who was born in Muskingnm county in 1839. They have five children: William B., born in 1861; Sarah, 1863; Benjamin, deceased at three years; Mable C., in 1869; Grant, in 1871, and Ellis H., in 1876.

PHILLIPS, ELIAS, farmer, Pike township, post office, North Liberty, boin in Pike township, this county, on the farm where he now resides, October 19, 1837, and was married in 1860, to Sarah Bowman, who was born in Ohio, in 1841. She died in 186r.

Mr. Elias Phillips has always been identified with this township and county. He owns the old homestead, which is now one of the most beautiful farms of this county.

PHILLIPS, HENRY W., farmer, Pike township, post office, Mt. Vernon, born in this township in 1847, and was married, in 1868, to Elvira Wilson, who was born in this township, in 1845. They have three children: Margaret Alwilda, born in 1870; Ida Blanche, in 1872, and Eddie W., in 1876.

PHILLIPS, JAMES W., Pike township, farmer, post office, North Liberty; born in this township July 30, 1849, and was married in 1874 to Sarah M. Reed, who was born in this township March 7, 1854. They had three children, Mary L., born January 2, 1875; Clarence Leroy, Octuber 14, 1876, died Apri} 24, 1877; and Jenered J., born May 30, 1880.

PHILO, HENRY, Mt. Vernon., is a native of Swaffham, England; was born April 17, 1846, and remained there until 1874. Upon arriving at manhood he learned the trade of carriage-making, and worked for the same man sixteen years, until he came to America. He first located at Mt. Holly as a salesman in a store, where he remained four years, after which he came to Mt. Vernon and bought out A. E. Philo, and engaged in keeping a grocery and restaurant, in which he is now engaged.

PICKARD, PETER, physician Mt. Vernon, was born in Devonshire, England, May 13, 1832, and attended the schools of Devonshire. When about seventeen years of age his parents came to America, and he worked two summers on a farm, and in the winter attended school; he also attended select school several terms. At about the age of twenty-four years he began reading medicine with Drs. ]. W. Russel and Matthew Thompson, and read with them three years anda half. He attended his first course of lectures at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, in Cincinnati, Ohio, and his last term he attended at the University of Buffalo, New York. He graduated February, 1859, and commenced practice in Martinsburgh the spring following; remained there eight and a half years and then came to Mt. Vernon, where he has since been engaged in the profession.

PICKERING, ENOCH, farmer, Milford township, was born in Guernsey county, Ohio, in October, 1832. His father, Greenbury Pickering, was a native of Maryland. He was married in Greene county, Pennsylvania, to Miss Susannah Darr, a native of Virginia. About 1831 they came to Guernsey county, Ohio, where they remained until 1844, when they moved to Hilliar township, Knox county; remained until 1854, then moved to Henry county, Iowa (near Mt. Pleasant), where they lived and died. They had twelve children, six of each sex, and, so far as is known, ten of them are living, viz: Lot, Albert, Corbley, Enoch, Philip, David, Maria (married William Wilson), Orpha (married John Hosick), Hannah (deceased), Elizabeth (married N. Boyd), Fannie (deceased), Lucinda (married William Parrin).

The subject of this notice remained at home with his parents until he was about twenty-two years of age, when he returned to Ohio. He was married to Miss Catharine Ward in 1854. Since his marriage he has been engaged mainly at farming. They have five children, viz: Sarah E., Manville, John S., Albert, and Lucinda.

PIERCE, ISAAC, Hilliar township, blacksmith, was born in Mansfield, Richland county, January 30, 1810, His parents came to Knox county about six years after and settled on the Indian fields, south of Mt. Vernon, where Isaac remained until he was about ten years old, when his uncle, Peter Kinney, took him to Wheeling, Virginia, and he shortly after got ona boat as cook on the Ohioriver. He followed the river for some years and then came to Mt. Vernon, where he learned the trade of blacksmithing with William Davis. His next move was to Hilliar township in 1834, and about two years after came to Centreburgh and carried on his trade for many years, until he became afflicted with rheumatism.

He was married to Miss Ann Eliza Belcher, July 24, 1834. By this union there were nine children born, five of whom are living, viz: Sarah, married to John Crawford, lives in Broadway, Union county, Ohio; Mary, widow of George Jones, in Centreburgh; William M., in Union county, Ohio; Louisa, married to Ira Barr, living in Centreburgh; Frank C., blacksmith, in Centreburgh.

though near fifty-two years of age, volunteered in company A, Ninety-sixth Ohio volunteer infantry, August 8, 1862. He was in the fights in front of Vicksburgh and at Arkansas Post. In March, 1863, he was discharged on account of chronic rheumatism, contracted while inthe service. February, 1864, he again enlisted in company F, One Hundred and Twenty-first regiment and was sent to Chattanooga, and participated in several of the engagements, among which were Akworth, Resaca, Atlanta, and Jonesborough. He was again taken with rheumatism and sent to the hospital. He was discharged at Camp Dennison, May 17, 186s.

PITKIN, REV. JOHN, Milford township, retired minister of the Presbyterian church, was born in Rutland county, Vermont, May 12, 1794. His parents were natives of Connecticut, and belonged to the farmer class. They had a family of four children, all of whom are dead, but the subject of this notice, he being the youngest child. He remained at home until he was eighteen years of age, when he enlisted in the Thirtieth United States infantry. This was in 1812. The first rendezvous was at Burlington, Vermont, thence to Plattsburgh, where they went into winter quarters. The spring of 1813 the command went to:Lacole Mill, Canada, where they had an engagement with a British force. They guarded the ship-builders while constructing a fleet for Commodore McDonough. This fleet was used on Lake Champlain. He was discharged in June, 1813. He then worked at the hatting business for about two years, while in Vermont. He also taught school for several terms. About 1815 he came to Ohio, locating at Chillicothe, where he taught school for several months. He then attended an academy, working night and morning for his board. He attended school there for several years, working his way by teaching, principally. He then attended Jefferson college at Cannonsburgh, Pennsylvania, for a year anda half. Having the ministry in view he studied theology three years with Rev. Dr. Wilson, a Presbyterian minister. Upon the completion of his studies he went to Indiana, where he preached three months, then returned to Waterford, Washington county, Ohio, where he preached about six years; then at Dresden six years; at Utica, Licking county, Ohio, one year, and at the Milford Presbyterian church as stated supply. He also preached some time in Delaware county, Ohio. He preached regularly until he was seven_ ty-five years of age. He is a theologian of the old school, and is regarded as a man of ability. His preaching was acceptable, and through him many were added to the church. He is spending the remainder of his days on his farm. He was married to Miss Eliza W. Wilson in 1824, who was the daughter of Rev. Dr. Robert G. Wilson, his preceptor. She was born in South Carolina in 1801, and died in 1864. She was an.exemplary woman, and a devoted wife and mother. They had a family of ten children, eight of whom are living- - John G. and Ebenezer, died in the army; Elizabeth J. (married Mr. Camp); Robert W.; Mary W. (married George L. Smith); Emily H.; Samuel J.; Sarah F. (married Samuel Hookway); Paul H., a minister of the Presbyterian church; and Theodore S.

PLUMMER, FRANKLIN W., Fredericktown, deceased, was born in Maryland in 1824; married in 1844 to Eliza Walter, who was born in 1824. They had the following family, viz.: Philip, born in 1846; Alfred, in 1848; Anna, in 1849; Mary, in 1852; Charles, in 1854; Thomas, in 1856; and Jessie, in 1859.

Mr, Plummer emigrited with his parents to Ohio in 1827, and located in Knox county. Mr. Plummer was engaged in buying and selling stock. He was one of the earliest settlers of this county, and also one of its best citizens.

Philip Plummer was a soldier of the late war, being a member of company B, Ninty-sixth Ohio volunteer infantry. He was afterward transferred to the Seventy-seventh Ohio volunteer infantry. He continued till the close of the war, and received an honorable discharge. He is now residing in Fredericktown engaged with the firm of S. S. Tuttle, manufacturers.

PONTING, JOHN, county commissioner, is a citizen of Mt. Vernon. He was bornin Somersetshire, England, June 21, 1826. Heemigrated to America in the fall of 1847, and settled in Fredericktown, this county, and was engaged with the late James George for about three years, and then entered into the butchering business in Mt. Vernon, which he followed about one year, and then engaged in stock business, shipping to the eastern cities. He then engaged in the grocery business, which he successfully carried on for some years, when he sold out his business to Messrs. Armstrong & Tompkins, in 1877. In October, 1876, he was elected county commissioner, and served three years with great efficiency, and was again elected in 1879, which office he now holds.

Mr. Ponting was married to Miss Eliza Thompson, July, 1856. She died June 18, 1876. Mr. Ponting has been eminently successful in all that he has undertaken. He started in life without a dollar in the world.

The father of Francis, Samuel Popham, was born in England, and came to America as a British subject, during the Revolutionary war; he became attached to this country and settled in Maryland, and died there.

POPHAM, SAMUEL (deceased), Pike township, was born in Harrison county, Ohio, in 1809, and was married in 1836 to Elizabeth Scoles, who was born in 1819. They had the following children, viz: Salena, born September 15, 1837; Eliza Ann, February 17, 1839; Columbus D., August 23, 1841; Margaret J., August 28, 1844; George F., October 21, 1846; Thomas J., September 5, 1849; Mary J., January 22, 1852; Amanda Olive, March 15, 1859; and Samuel L., September 12, 1862. Salena died September 30, 1837. Mrs. Elizabeth Popham died in March, 1874.

Samuel Popham married for his second wife Nancy Johnson, who was born in Richland county, in 1833. They lived together but a few years. Mr. Popham died June 8, 1880. He was a citizen of this county for many years, a good financier, became the owner of a number of farms, and gave to each of his children a good home.

POPHAM, ELIAS, farmer, post office, Fredericktown, was born in Baltimore county, Maryland, in 1805, and came to Harrison county, Ohio, with his parents at the age of three years, and to Knox county in 1820, and was married in 1826 to Elizabeth Durbin, who was born in this county in 1810. They had the following family: Curtis, born in 1828; Samuel, in 1830; James, in 1834; Sherman, in 1835; Francis, in 1838; Euretta, in 1840; Christiana, in 1841; Corydon, in 1850; and Thomas, in 1852. Mrs. Elizabeth Popham died December 8, 1857; James died August 24, 1834; Euretta in 1840; and Christiana August 21, 1842.

Mr. Popham married for his second'wife, in 1858, Julia E. Berry, who was born in Virginia in 1827. They had the following children: Louis B., born in 1861, and Ida May, born in 1863.

Mr. Popham settled in Pike township when he came to this county, and in 1840 he came to Morris township. He owns a good farm with all modern improvements.

POPHAM, COLUMBUS D., farmer, post office, Lytle 'City, lowa county, Iowa. He was born in Pike township, Knox county, in 1841; he was married in 1866, to Margaret Patten, who was born in Tuscarawas county, in 1849. They have four children living: Quintila J., Florence O., Herbert C., and Hallie M. The deceased, Charles B., died in Iowa, in 1878.

POPHAM, GFORGE F., farmer, post office, Democracy, born in Pike township, this county, October 2, 1846, and was married March 23, 1875, to Mary A. Matheny, who was born October 10, 1845, in Monioe township, this county.

PORTER, J. H., Howard township, farmer, post office, Howard. He was born November 9, 1852, on what is now known as the Critchfield farm. His father was born in Brown township in 1831, and lived at different places in the county until his death, which occurred in 1866. His mother was subsequently married to William Taswell, and lived in Mt. Vernon. Mr. Porter was married to Miss Lydia Smith April 21, 1878.

POTTER, M. D., S. B., Fredericktown; was born in Bloomfield township, Morrow county, Ohio, November 7, 1828. He was educated in the common schools till about twenty-one years of age, then he attended the Fredericktown acadamy, after which he attended the Norwalk college, Huron county, Ohio. To defray his expenses he engaged in teaching and working at different kinds of work. He commenced reading medicine with Dr. T. R. Potter about 1850, after which he graduated at the Jefferson Medical college at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1854. He then located in Fredericktown and engaged in the practice of medicine. He has since remained here, continuing the practice. The doctor has established a wide and extensive practice, has met with excellent success, and stands to-day at the head of the medical profession in this section of Ohio. He was one of the charter members of the Knox County Medical society, was elected three consecutive terms president of this society, also vice-president a number of terms.

The doctor then married Delia M: Burns May 8, 1872, who was born in Fredericktown, Knox county, Ohio. She was a widow of Dr. Alfred Burns, and daughter of Dr. A. W. Swetland, of Sparta, Ohio.

The doctor has been identified with the Baptist church, and still adheres strictly, and advocates those Christian doctrines. He has been connected with the Democratic party, has always voted that ticket, and promulgates its principles. He has had a number of students, and at-present he has with him William M. Furgerson, son of Rev. W. M. Furgerson, of Fredericktown, and also Herbert S. Darling, son of William Darling, of this county.

PRATT, HENRY, Liberty township, retired farmer, was born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, December 17, 1802. He is the son of William and Elizabeth Pratt, zee Hooper, who came to Ohio in 181g with a four horse team. They brought a family of six daughters and two sons, andsettled in Clinton township, near the Ewalt settlement, where they had a tract of two hundred acres of land. He remained here until 1829, when he was drowned in Owl creek while on his return from Mt. Vernon. He was was on horse-back, and it is supposed was taken with a paralytic stroke and was unable:to regain the shore. The horse which he rude upon finding the rider gone came home and neighed. The subject of thisnotice, Henry Pratt, rode the horse to the ford and dismounted leaving the horse unhitched. He (the horse) returned again to the farm, and again returned to the ford, seeming to understand that his master had met with some serious accident. Mrs. Prati survived her husband until 1853. The children are all dead except Henry and Jane, the wife of D. C. Montgomery, esq., of Mt. Vernon.

The subject of this notice spent his youth on a farm and remained at home until he was twenty-six years of age. He worked at the carpenter trade and wagon making for some time. In 1829 he married Miss Penelope Buckingham, and in 1835 moved to his present farm where he has resided ever since. They have had seven children, three of whom are living, viz: Sylvester, farmer; John, in Tama county, Jowa; and Eliza ales who married William C. Parker, of Liberty township. Mrs. Pratt died in March, 1878. Mr. Pratt has always been an industrious man, and has helped to improve the neighborhood in which he lives. He is social in his habits.

Sylvester Pratt, a son of Henry Pratt, was born in Liberty township in 1831, and has continued to reside there ever since. He is a good farmer and an excellent citizen. In 1852 he married Miss Cordelia Parrish. They had one child, John Franklin. In 1854 his wife died. His second wife was Mary E. Tarr. They had three children, only one living, viz: Sarah Isabelle.

PRICE, VEAZEY, was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, April 17, 1819. He was brought to Knox county, Ohio, by his parents, Samuel and Margaret Price, in 1826, who located in Pleasant township, where they remained until 1856, when he, (Samuel Price), with wife and family, all except Veazey, emigrated to lowa, where he deceased at the age of seventy-two years. His wife died aged eighty-two vears. They reared a family of seven children: William, Thomas, Veazey, James, Samuel, Dorthus, and Sarah. Only three of the above named are now living: Sarah, Veazey, and Samuel. Veazey Price married Miss Eliza R. Veatch, in 1846, daughter of Peter the joiner trade, after serving his time as an apprentice, which ended in 1840, he remained one year with his old employer, and in 1841 he commenced work with Charles Cooper, making the wood work on carding machines and spinning jacks, and making patterns. He continued with Mr. Cooper as pattern maker until 1854, when he purchased and moved on a farm in Morgan township, same county, where they lived twelve years, and in 1866, he purchased and moved on the farm where he is now living, in Clinton township, two miles west of Mt. Vernon. Since leaving the employ of Mr. Cooper, and moving on a farm, he has made farming his vocation. They have three children - one son and two daughters.

PRICE, SAMUEL, farmer, youngest son of Samuel Rice, deceased, was born in Knox county, Ohio, May 14, 1825. He married Miss Sarah A. Kerr in 1852, born in Knox county, Ohio, in 1828, daughter of Benjamin and Rose Kerr. They settled in same county, and remained two years. In 1854 they emigrated to Iowa, where they lived sixteen and a half years, and then returned to Knox county. In thespring of 1871 they purchased and moved on the property where they are now living, on the Newark road, a short distance from Mt. Vernon. He owns a farm in Pleasant township, and follows farming as his vocation.

PRICE, CALEB H., farmer, post office, Shaler's Mills, was born in Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, in 1818. Hecame to Ohio in 1860, and was married to Nancy Simmons, who was born in Jefferson township, Richland county. They have two children: Abraham, born in 1871, and Aldie, in 1874. Mr. Price has been engaged teaching school, and in the ministry in the German Baptist church.

PUGH, HENRY H., Pike township, tanner, post office Democracy, born in Newark, Licking county, August 19, 1841, and married December 31, 1868, to Josephine Wierick, who was born in Knox county, June 6, 1848. They have four children; Edward E., born March 24, 1870; Mary Jane, December 17, 1871; William H., October 13, 1873; and Charles M., April 30, 1876.

Mr. Pugh was a soldier in the late war, enlisted June 9, 1862, and was a member of company K, Eighty-second regiment, Ohio volunteer infantry. He was in the following engagements. Perryville, Kentucky; Stone River, Tennessee; Gallatin Landing, Tennessee; Hovey's Gap, Tennessee; two battles at Franklin, Tennessee; Chicamauga, Lookout Mountain, and Missionary Ridge, Tennessee; battle of Ringgold, Georgia; battle of Resacca, Kennesaw Mountain, Atlanta, Etowah Creek, Georgia; Jonesborough, Savannah, Georgia; Bentonville, North Carolina; and Waynesborough, North Carolina. He was engaged in the service until 1865, and received an honorable discharge. He learned the tanner's trade in Wilmington, Ohio, and is now engaged in that business in Amity.

Mrs. Pugh's father, John Weirick, was born in Zanesville, Muskingum county, Ohio, in 1810. _ When he was two years old he went with his parents to Pennsylvania. He learned the tanner's trade in Harrisburgh, Pennsylvania, and was engaged in that business for forty-seven years. He was first married November 23, 1838, to Nancy Long, who was born in Dayton, Ohio, in 1838. They had three children: George B. S., born

Mr. Weirick's second marriage was to Miss Eliza Steiner, who was born in Newville,-Ohio. They had four children: Amanda E., born in 1847; Josephine, in 1848; Harriet, in 1850; and Mary E, in 1853.

The family have married as follows: George B. and Lousetta Anderson, in 1860; James L. and Nancy Simkins, in 1868; Amanda E. and Melleville B. Rowley; Josephine A. and H. H. Pugh, in 1868; Harriet W. and Milton Lattie, in 1866; Sarah M. and Asaph Rowley, in 1861; Mary E. and B. J. Porter, in 1873.

Mr. Weirick and two of his sons, George and Jaines, have been married the second time, and are all living with their second wives. Mr. Weirick is proprietor of the Amity hotel, and has been engaged in the business since 1871, keeping a very respectable house. He and his wife have the ability to make their guests feelat home, and all who stop with them, find the Amity house a pleasant home for the traveller.

PUMPHREY, BASSILL WELLS, M. D., (deceased), was born August 22, 1812, in Brooke county, Virginia. His ancestors on his father's side came with Lord Baltimore. One settled in South Carolina, and the other in Maryland, of which latter family the subject of this sketch is a descendant. His grandfather, on his mother's side was a captain in the Revolutionary army, and was one of the men who organized the State of Ghio, and was a member of the first constitutional convention.

Until fourteen years young Pumphrey remained with his parents. He attended school at Athens, Ohio, and read medicine with Dr. Sellers, of Pittsburgh, and then went to the University of Maryland, and graduated in 1832. He commenced the practice of medicine in Mt. Pleasant, Ohio, in 1833, where he remained until 1842, when he removed to Mt. Vernon, where he continued to follow his profession till his death. He was appointed examining pension surgeon in 1842, and served ten years, and was reappointed and resigned his position. He died October 19, 1880, of apoplexy.

Dr. Pumphrey was married to Miss Maria J. Updegraff in 1832. She was the daughter of James Updegraff, one of the first settlers of Ohio. Three children were born to them, one son and two daughters. The son died when young. His daughters are both married. His oldest daughter married Andrew Parrott, and lives near Mt. Vernon, and his other daughter married Brooklyn L. Terry, and resides in Columbus.

PUMPHREY, R. J., Hilliar township, real estate dealer, Centreburgh. - He is the fourth child of Fleming and Mary J. Pumphrey, was born in Harrison county, Ohio, June 23, 1846. His parents moved to Knox county in 1852, and settled on a farm where the subject of this'notice spent his early days assisting his father on the farm and attending school during the winter months.

When about twenty years of age he went to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, for the purpose of attending commercial college, but upon receiving an appointment as clerk in the city hospital he relinquished his object, He remained in the clerkship for a year, and then returned to Ohio and opened a general store in Centreburgh. By his judicious management and strict adherence to business principles he attained an enviable reputation for integrity, and was successful in his business. He is a close observer and weighs any undertaking in which he might engage, viewing the possibilities and probabilities of success. This, coupled with a comprehensive knowledge of the world, makes him a safe counsellor in matters of business.

He was elected justice of the peace and served for three years with satisfaction to those who had business to transact before him. He is a member of the council and takes an active intive interest in the improvement of the town. He has had more to do with improving the village, perhaps, than any other individual. He is social in his manner, and is calculated to make fast friends. He is in the heyday of his life, young, striving and vigorous.

He is a leading citizen. He was married to Miss Mary E. Conard, of Hartford, Licking county, Ohio, October, 1872. Their union has been blessed with two children.

PUMPHREY, JOSIAH M., is owner of the '' Prairie farm," one of the best in Clay. He was bornin Belmont county, Ohio, June 4, A. D. 1821. He removed to Licking county in 1848, and to Clay township Apnuil, 1, 1858; was married to Miss Celia A. Ross, February 24, 1849, who was born in Clay township in 1830. They have one child, Ross.

PUTNAM, NORMAN WILLIAMS, College:township, was born in Windsor county, Vermont, October 17, 1800. All the Putnams, of New LEngland, descended from John Putnam, who, with two brothers, came from Buckinghamshire, England, in 1634, and settled at Salem, or Danruse, Massachusetts. John Putnam had three sons, John, Nathaniel, and Thomas. General Israel Putnam's father was Joseph, son of Thomas. A great-grandson of General Israel Putnam (Douglas Putnam) now lives at Marietta, Ohio. Many others of his descendants are living there and in the neighborhood.

General Rufus Putnam's father was Elisha, son of Edward, son of Thomas. There are also a large number of the descendants of this branch of the Putnam family living in and about Marietta.

Daniel, the grand'ather of N. W. Putnam, was born in Sutton, Massachusetts, the birthplace of General Rufus Putnam, about the year 1733. He married Ann, a daughter of Hon. Samuel Chase (the grandfather of Bishop Philander Chase), moved from Sutton to New Hampshire with the Chase colony, in 1764, and settled upon the township of land given to Deacon Dudley Chase, on account of his being the first settler on Connecticut river north of Charlestown, New Hampshire, then known as Fort No. 4. He had three sons and several daughters.

The youngest son, Isaac, was the father of N. W. Putnam. He came with his family to Gambier in 1833, and died in Gambier in 1849, aged seventy-nine years. His wife died in Gambier in 1837.

His youngest daughter, Mary, married in 1835 Rev. S. A. Bronson, D. D., now of Mansfield, Ohio. She died in Gambier, in 1849, the next day after the death of her father, and were both buried in the same grave. His youngest son, Daniel, is still living near Potsdam, New York.

His son, N. W. Putnam, came to Ohio in 1829, and was at once employed as clerk in the college store. He remained in that capacity until the store was given up, in 1834. In February, 1833, he was married to Maria, third daughter of Archibald Douglass. The result of this marriage was the birth of ten

The eldest son, Rufus, died in August, 1851, from the accidental discharge of a shotgun in the hands of a companion and relative. The charge destroyed the knee joint, requiring amputation. He would have entered the Freshman class in September, had his life been spared.

His second son, Douglass, when of age, went to Terre Haute, Indiana, in 1858. At the breaking out of the Rebellion he enlisted for three months in the Eleventh Zouaves, under General Lew Wallace, now governor of New Mexico. The regiment was ordered to West Virginia. At the expiration of the three months they returned to Indiana, and was reorganized. A new regiment of infantry, the Seventy-first Indrana volunteers, was being raised in the neighborhood of Terre Haute. Young Putnam joined the new regiment, and ina short time was made quartermaster. He held this position until near the close of the war, when he was promoted to a captaincy. In September, 1865, after the regiment was disbanded, he went to Kansas. For some years he has been employed in the United States railway mail service, and was head clerk in Superintendent, Col. Hunt's office, in St. Louis when his health failed, and in May, 1879, came home, and in June died at the family homestead in Gambier.

Mr. Putnam's third son, John Henry, was a graduate of Kenyon college class of 1864. There were fifty-five members entered the Freshman class in 1860, and only fifteen graduated. At the breaking out of the war quite a number of the class, and many other students of the college, with their esteemed president, Colonel Lorin Andrews, left the institution, and joined the Union army.

Mr. Putnam has occupied his present residence for over twenty vears. He has, in connection with his boarding house, been engaged in a small way in gardening and fruit culture - mostly for the purpose of supplying his table with fresh fruits and vegetables, and has enjoyed better health than ever before in his life. He has long since come to the conclusion that he was not cut out fora merchant. Bishop Chase used to say that he (Bishop Chase) was not much of a preacher that his forte was in begging. He claimed to be the prince of beggars. He said he got nothing for preaching in Gambier, and it was ''poor preach and poor pay."

Mr. Putnam feels that his end is near, and when called to depart this life, he desires to be at peace with God, and in perfect charity with all the world.

RANDALL, DANIEL, Middlebury township, farmer, post office, Fredericktown, born in Rensselaer county, New York, March 7, 1837, and was married in October, 1869, to Mary Allen, who was born in 1843 in Monroe county, Ohio. They have two sons - Edward, born November 1, 1872, and John, September 11, 1874.

RANDALL, JOHN D., Fredericktown, deceased, was born in New York in 1838; married in 1866 to Alice McCaskey, who was born in Knox county, Ohio, in 1842. They have one daughter - Maggie J. Randall - who was born in 1868.

and then moved to Illinois, remaining there about seven years. His health became impaired and he moved to Michigan for its improvement. While there he died in 1873. He was a soldier in the late war. He first enlisted for three months, and then reenlisted for three years.

RANKIN, L. D., deceased, was born November 5, 1804, in Fayette county, Pennsylvania; came to Ohio in 1815; located in Knox county in 1849; was married to Christena Livingston, who was born in Monongalia county, Virginia, July 1, 1803. They had six children - James, Margaret, Eliza Ann, Malissa, Rebecca J., and Elizabeth.

RANSOM, R. B., farmer, Wayne township, post office, Mt. Vernon; born in 1838, and: was married to Mary Chancey, who was born in Berlin township in 1842. They have four children: Laura T., born in 1862; Edwin M., in 1864, Bertha M., in 1868; Pearl, in 1874; and Edith Grace, in 1877.

RANSOM, JOHN H., Mt. Vernon, of the firm of Penick & Ransom, leather manufacturers, was born in this city on the nineteenth day of September, 1847. He was a pupil of our public schools. His first effort in a business way was with the late George B. Potwin, produce dealer, with whom he remained two years. He then engaged with S. L. Taylor, dry goods dealer, as salesman and bookkeeper, where he was retained five years. For three years he was engaged as salesman with firm of Swetland & Bryant. He then engaged in the grocery business which he carried on some nine months, when he sold out and engaged in the butchering business with Mr. Penick, under the name of Penick & Ransom. This business he conducted for five anda half years, when they purchased the tannery of G. E. Raymond in the fall of 1878, and still continues the manufacture of leather. This is one of the best establishments in central Ohio, and is much the largest in the county, and has a capacity of about six thousand pieces a year. The establishment has steampower for pumping, grinding and leaching bark, and heating purposes. The building is eighty by one hundred feet, and contains seventy vats, three finishing rooms, shaving room, boiler and engine room, and office, with machinery enough to run a first class tannery. Their specialty is in harness, also upper leather, calf, kip, etc.

RAYMOND, RACHEL (BANNING), deceased. Mrs. Rachel B. Raymond, relict of the late Rev. Elnathan Raymond, was the third child of Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Banning, and was born in the town of Connellsville, Pennsylvania, on the twelfth of November, 1796. Her death occurred on Friday morning, July 23, 1880, at Mt. Vernon, making her at the time of her death nearly eighty-four years of age. In the year 1812 Miss Banning, with her parents, emigrated to Ohio and settled in this city, when it was a mere hamlet in the wilderness. Seven years later, or in 1819, Miss Banning was married to Mr. Elnathan Raymond, and the same year the newly married couple left this comparatively new country and returned east, locating in New York. only to remain a few years, however, for in 1834 they returned, where they resided the, balance of their lives. From this union six children were born, five of whom still survive, viz: Mrs. G. A. Jones, Mrs. G. K. Norton, Miss Mary Raymond, Mrs. James Blanchard, and George E. Raymond. Mrs. Raymond survived her husband six years, he having died in this city August, 1874. Her last illness was the first serious indisposition that any of her surviving relatives remember, as she was in excellent health to within a week of her demise. Her children all reside in this city, with the exception of George E. Raymond, who was at once advised of her condition, and at the hour of her death all of her children living were present. Her last illness was general congestion, though her mental faculties were unimpaired to within a few minutes of death. She was able to talk with her sorrowing children and grandchildren gathered around her bedside. Five children, eleven grandchildren, and sixteen great-grandchildren mourn the loss of a kind and loving parent.

Mrs. Raymond was always actively engaged and ever ready to lenda helping hand to anything that was of a benevolent character. Amongst the many organizations she was a member of and took a special interest in was The Soldiers Aid society, which was organized in 1861, at her residence. In 1863 the Union League society was organized, the object being to erect a monument to the memory of the Union soldiers at the close of the war. She was its first proposer and its permanent president, and one of its most active members, being one of the first to solicit funds for the erection of the monument, and it was ever an object of great solicitude with, her to see it erected during her lifetime, in which she was gratified. Great credit is due her for the zeal she manifested in that enterprise. Her family were its most liberal contributors. She was also a champion of temperance, and a most zealous worker in the cause.

REED, ELIAS, Pike township, farmer, post office, North Liberty, was born in Brown township, this county, in 1847, and was married in 1871 to Anna C, O'Bryan, who was born in Pike township, this county, in 1851. They have two children: Debert, born June 26, 1872, and Maude, February 4, 1874.

RESSEL, L. D., Union township, farmer, post office, Rossville, was born in Brown township, Knox county, August 21, 1843. His father came to this county and settled on a farm which he cleared up himself. He died in his seventy-sixth year. L. D. Ressel went to Columbus in 1867 and married Miss M. E Moor. In 1872 he moved to Knox county, where he remained. He has been engaged in farming until the present time. He has bought and sold several farms, but finally has settled himself permanently on his present farm. He has two children - Maggie and Carrie.

REYNOLDS, DANIEL, Hilliar township, farmer, was born in Hardy county, Virginia, February 4, 1811. He is the son of William and Rebecca Reynolds, zee Harris. They were born in Virginia, and married there, where they remained until about 1815, when they came to Licking county, Ohio, where they remained until about 1820, when they removed to Knox county, settling in Hilliar township, where they both died.

He is one of the few pioneers who are now living in the township. He remembers when the township was almost an unbroken forest. He was married to Miss Mary Battomfield June 19, 1840. They had a family of five children, four of whom are living, viz; Amanda, married to Stephen Rinehart;

RHINEHALT, DAVID, wagon maker, Middlebury township, post office, Fredericktown, born in District of Columbia, October 13, 1844, came to Richland county, in 1848, and to Knox county in 1872, where he has remained since his mairiage, in 1867, to Martha Warick, who was born in Richland county, February 2, 1849.

He is the owner of a stationary saw-mill, located on his place in this township with all of the. modern improvements, and is doing custom-work to order. He is one of the active men of this township. David Rhinehalt was a soldier of the late war, having been a member of company D, One Hundred and Sixty-third regiment Ohio volunteer infantry, and was engaged in the service four months.

Danville, son of Isaac Rice, born in Bedford county, Pennsylvania, August 15, 1827, was brought to Knox county by his parents when a boy, in 1827, his father locating in Jefferson township, where he erected a good hewed log house, into which he moved his family. Here the subject of this sketch was reared and remained until February 3, 1857, when he married Mary M. Bowman, she being the widow of Martm Bowman, born July 5, 1835. After his marriage he purchased a farm of one hundred and twenty-five acres in Brown township, where he then moved and has since remained. _ Mr. Rice has held the office of trustee for a number of years. By their marriage they have become the parents of seven children: M., born November 6, 1857; Tamsen J., March 13, 1860; Emma F., September 1, 1861; Hattie E., June 2, 1863; Solomon B., March 12, 1865; William B., January 28, 1867; J. I. C., November 21, 1869.

RICE, FREDERICK, Jefferson township, deceased, son of Isaac and Cordelia Rice; born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, December 19, 1821; was brought to Knox county by his parents when seven years of age, his father locating in Jefferson township, north of the village of Danville, where the subject of this sketch received his education. At the age of twentyone years he commenced teaching school, and taught five terms. On November 11, 1857, at the age of twenty-five years, he united in marriage with Miss Nancy J. Withron, daughter of James and Elizabeth Withron, born in Carroll county, October 6, 1826.

After his marriage he moved on a farm owned by Philip Baker, where he remained about five years; he then rented a farm owned by Marshal, and remained there until his father's death, which occurred about the year 1855 or 1856. He then purchased the farm formerly owned by his father, where he moved with his family, and remained until his death, which occurred March 20, 1875, aged fifty-three years: Mr. Rice filled the offices of trustee, clerk, and justice of the peace, in Jefferson township. The marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Rice resulted in eight children, viz: James W., born December 26, 1846, died September 16, 1850; Isaac O., born July 28, 1851; Channing F., December 10, 1854;

Nancy J. Rice, wife of Frederick Rice, died September 17, 1879, aged fifty-three years. She had been a consistent member of the Wesleyan Methodist Episcopal church of Jefferson township.

RICE, NELSON F., farmer, Clay township, born in Greene county, Pennsylvania, September 16, 1832, and with his father, Thomas Rice, came to Knox county, Ohio, in 1835, locating first in Jackson township, but removing to Clay township about 1838.

He was inarried to Catharine Travel March 10, 1857. His wife was born December 19, 1836. Their children were Columbus Ohio, born December 29, 1857; Henry M., born October 7, 1859; William S., born July ro, 1865; and an unnamed daughter which died in infancy.

Mrs. Rice died January 31, 1880. Mr. Rice was married the second time February 12, 1880, to Miss Allie Smith, who was born in Licking county, Ohio, June 3, 1857. He is the owner of two hundred and fifty acres of good farming land in the southern part of Clay township.