Knox County, Ohio - Biographical sketches, 1881 (part 15 of 20)

RICHARD, HELEN, Gambier, farmer, a native of Ireland, was born in the county of Cork, February, 1811. In 1851 he emigrated to America and located near Milford, Clermont county, Ohio, and remained two years. In 1853 he came to Gambier, this county, and accepted the position of janitor at the college, which position he held and faithfully discharged his duty for twenty-one years, then in 1875, he turned his attention to farming, and has since made that his vocation. In 1854 he returned to Clermont county, where he married Miss Jane Parrott, December 3d, of same year, born in Clermont county in 1826. They settled in Gambier, where they now reside. They reared four children, viz: George, Stephen, John, and Richard.

RICHERT, JOHN, Brown township, farmer, son of George and Barbara Richert, was born in Stark county, Ohio, August 23, 1839. He was brought to Brown township, this county, by his parents in 1840. In 1859 he went to California by land, and returned by way of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans in 1864. In the spring of 1865 he again went to California, and remained about a year, when he again returned to his old home in this county. While in the gold regions he followed mining as his vocation, and since then his time has been spentona farm. At present he owns a farm about two miles west of Jelloway, in Brown township, on which he has erected buildings, which are among the best improvements in the township.

In February, 1867, he mairied Miss Sarah Oswalt, of Brown township, born in 1845, daughter of Frederick and Catharine Oswalt. They settled on the farm where they now reside. They have a family of children, both sons and daughters.

RICHERT, PETER F., Brown township, dealer in all kinds of boots and shoes, Jelloway. - Mr. Richert was born in Brown township, this county, April 2, 1850. He was brought up on a farm. When seventeen years old he commenced working at the shoemaker's trade, with his father, George Richert, being a shoemaker by trade. He would work at the trade during the fall and winter months, and on the farm for his father during the summer months, until in September, 1874, he moved to Jeloway, where he engaged in the business on his own account, dealing in all kinds of boots an] shoes, both course and fine, also manufactures everything in his line of business on short notice. He generally employs from two to three hands to manufacture boots for his trade, all of which are warranted to give satisfaction. He is always ready and willing to wait on his customers. In August, 1874, he married Miss Catharine Reinhard, of Brown township, this county, danghtor of George Reinhard. They settled in Jelloway, where they now reside. Their union resulted in two children, only one of whom is now living - Emanuel Theodore.

RIGBY, LUCIAN, Fredericktown, harness-maker was born in Licking county, Ohio, in 1831; came to Knox county with his parents in infancy. He was married in 1866, to Elizabeth Coulter, who was born in Alleghany county, Pennsylvania, in 1842. They have two children, viz.: Laura V., born May 30, 1868; Otho R., born April 14, 1870. Mr. Rigby learned harness making in Madison county, Ohio. He enlisted in the war September, 1861, and was a member of company A, Twentieth regiment, Ohio volunteer infantry. He was engaged in the service three years, and received an honorable discharge. After his return he opened a harness shop, and has continued here since. Mr. Rigby is a practical mechanic, a wide awake business man, and is one of the active and energetic men of Fredericktown.

RILEY, JOHN, Hilliar township, farmer, was born in Culpeper county, Virginia, May, 1811. His parents came to Ohio about 1824, settling near three miles west of Zanesville, on Fallen Timber run, where the elder Riley died. About two years after his wife, with her family of nine children - four sons and five daughters - came to Hilliar township. Here Mrs. Riley died at the advanced age of eighty-four years. The children are yet living, except Elijah who died when young.

The subject of this notice was married to Miss Susan B. Curtis, of Cambridge, Ohio, in September, 1837, and shortly after their marriage he purchased the tract of land now owned by the Evan heirs, being one of the first settlers on the Rathbone section. Here he constructed his rude cabin, and the young couple began life in the unbroken forest.

Mr. Riley worked with. energy and a determination to succeed. Almost day and night the sound of his axe might be heard. He cleared this tract without assistance. He disposed of this farm and bought a farm farther west, which he traded for his present home. This, like his first farm, was covered with heavy timber. He cleared this farm and made for himself and family a pleasant home. He owned at one time quite a

Mr. Riley, though comparatively small in stature, has done more labor perhaps than any man of his age in the township. He has always been active and industrious, starting in life without the aid of a dollar. He was unfortunate in his first purchase. He paid two payments on his land, and had worked hard to earn the money for his third and last payment. His house took fire when he and the family were away and the dwelling, together with his money, was entirely consumed.

Mr. Riley had but little advantages of education. He has the esteem of the community. By their marriage they had twelve children: Francis M., wife of Harry Messmore; Judson F., Harrison county, Missouri, a farmer; Leicester T., farmer, Harrison county, Missouri; Mary Emaline, wifeof Mahlon Rinehart, Kansas; William A., farmer in Hilliar township; Shelton M., farmer in

Emma E. (deceased), married J. W. Rinehart, and left a family of ten children; Loretta Belle, wife of Wesley Coe. Five of Mr. Riley's sons were in the army - Judson F., Leceister P., William A., Shelton M., and Morgan T.

RILEY, NICHOLAS, SR. (deceased), was born in Maryland about the year 1778, and emigrated to Butler township, Knox county, about the year 1806, purchasing land of John Shrimplin, the owner of Shrimplin's mill, one of the first in Knox county. This land, lying on Owl creek, was very heavily timbered with walnut, sugar, and sycamore.

He was married to Hannah Shrimplin at Wellsburgh, Virginia, prior to his removal to Ohio. The children born unto them were: William, born January 12, 1803; Harriet, September 22, 1804; Isaac, March 26, 1806; John, July 3, 1807; Eliza, September 23, 1809; Mary, February 4, 1812: Margaret, May 23, 1814; George Washington, August 7, 1816; Abraham Shrimplin, September 25, 1818; Maria Rachel Stockton, December 23, 1820; Hannah, January 14, 1823; Almira, December 30, 1825; Susanna, March 17, 1827; Nicholas, December 24, 1829.

Mr. Riley was an industrious and honored citizen, and did much for the development and improvement of that section of Butler township lying along Owl creek.

RILEY, GEORGE W., was born in Butler township, August 7, 1816. He isason ot Nicholas Riley, one of the very first settlers of Butler township. He is the owner of several hundred acres of good farming land, is an honored, industrious eitizen and a life long Democrat.

RILEY, NICHOLAS, was born December 24, 1829, in Butler township, and was married to Elizabeth Mercer, January 26, 1854. Mrs. Riley was born January 11, 1853. They have had seven children, viz: Ransom, Martha Jane, Samuel M. C., George A., Carrie E., David M., who are all living - one dead not named. Mrs. Riley died November 21, 1875.

RINEHART, MRS. HARRIET, was born in Clinton township, April 21, 1814; she was the daughter of Samuel and Mary Nye, zee Bartlett, who were born in New York, and married there in 1808, and the same year Mr. Nye came to Ohio, leaving his wife in New York. He located at the town of Clinton, his wife cotzing the next year. He remained in Clinton for some years and then moved on the farm now owned by Charles Swan, about two miles anda half from Mt. Vernon. The farm at that time was entirely covered with forest, and of necessity Mr. Nye had to swing the axe for months and years to make for himself a home. They here reared a family of nine children, seven daughters and two sons, five of whom are yet living.

Mr. Nye was a soldier of the War of 1812, and was a leading citizen of the community. He died at the ripe age of eighty-five years. His wife survived him for some years, dying with her daughter, Mrs. Robert Thompson, of Mt. Vernon, while ona visit. Thus ends all that is mortal of two of Knox coun-

John Rinehart, deceased, was born in New Jersey, March 28, 1810. His parents moved from New Jersey about 1815, and settled a few miles west of Mt. Vernon. October 24, 1833, he was married to Miss Harriet Nye, and the following year they moved to a farm two miles northeast of Centreburgh, and now owned by George Rinehart, their son. The land was entirely covered with forest, but he cleared it, and became one of the most prosperous farmers in the community. He was for many years a consistent member of the Methodist church, and took an active and leading part in the erection of suitable buildings for church purposes. As early as 1837 he was successful in having a place of worship erected in Centreburgh. When this church was no longer fit to occupy, he was instrumental in having the present church building erected. He was a leading and influential citizen, and his loss was felt when he died, January 15, 1880. They had a family of twelve children, six of whom are living. 'The living are William M., farmer, in Kansas; George, farmer, in Hilliar township; Preston and John Wesley; Hattie, married to M. F. Hasson, resides in Centreburgh; and Eliza J., married to Marshal Doty, farmer, and resides in Morrow county.

RINEHART, GEORGE, Hilliar township, farmer; was born in Hilliar township September 26, 1840. He is the fifth child of John and Harriet Rinehart. His youth was spent on his father's farm until he went to clerking ina store at Rich Hill, where he remained until he was about twenty years of age, when he returned home. He remained with his parents until he was married to Miss Alice P. Coe, daughter of Captain C. H. Coe, November, 1864. He shortly after moved to his father's old homestead, and a few years after he became owner of the farm by purchase, where he has since resided. Heisa successful farmer. By their union they have three children.

Preston H. Rinehart was born in Hilliar township October 22, 1842. He is ason of John and Harriet Rinehart. He was attending a select school in Centreburgh, and his parents not wishing him to leave school opposed his going to the army, but Preston could not confine himself to his studies, so he took leave of his friends and schoolmates and enlisted in company F, Sixty-fifth Ohio volunteer infantry, November 14, 1861, and was with the army of the Cumberland. He participated in the battles of Shilo, Stone River, Chattanooga, Chickamauga, Knoxville, Franklin, Lookout Mountain, Resaca, Columbia, Spring Hill and Nashville, besides many skirmishes. He was wounded at Nashville in the right ankle, and was laid up for some time. He was discharged at Nashville. He was a brave and true soldier, never shirking his duty, or never asking for a furlough.

William M. Rinehart, who now lives in Kansas, was also in the army. He enlisted in company F, One Hundred and Twenty-first Ohio volunteer infantry, and served for three years, receiving an honorable discharge. Thus the Rinehart boys served their country faithfully.

RINEHART, WILLIAM, Morris township, farmer, post office, Mt. Vernon, born in Morris township, this county, July 10, 1819; and was married in 1844, to Elizabeth Willhit, who was born in Frederick county, Maryland, March 4, 1825. They had one daughter, Mary Ann, who was born in 1845. Mrs. Elizabeth Rinehart died August 8, 1846. Mr. Rinehart after-

Mr. Rinehart is a man of some prominence; he has been elected to different offices in this township, and filled them with credit; he received the nomination for infirmary director in July, 1880.

His father, Christian Rinehart, was born in 1766, in Morris county, New Jersey, was married in 1794, to Mary Douglass, who was born in New Jersey, in 1777. They had ten children - Phebe, Adam, Aaron D., Lewis, Ann, Margaret, John, Samuel,, Mary, and William.

Mr. Rinehart emigrated to Knox county, Ohio, in 1816, and located on the farm where his son William now resides. They cleared and improved this farm and remained here until death. They were among the pioneers of the county, and reared a large and respectable family.

RINEHART, JOHN, farmer, post office, Fredericktown, was born in this township in 1828, and was married to Susan Alfred, who was born in Carroll county, Ohio, in 1832. They had nine children - Charles (deceased), George D., Martha B., Adam A., William B., Anna, Jesse, John L, (deceased), and Stanton M.

Mr. Rinehart was elected treasurer of this township in 1877, and reelected in 1880. He is an extensive landholder and is one of the leading farmers of Morris township.

RINEHART, DAVID, farmer, post office, Fredericktown, was born in Mortis township, Knox county, Ohio, in 1839, and was married in 1861 to Harriet Darling, who was born in Wayne township in 1839. They have the following children: Edith M., born in 1862; Clement D., in 1864; Sarah J., in 1865; Adam D., in 1867; Edward R., in 1868; and Ella R., in 1875.

Mr. Rinehart is fully identified with this township, having always resided here, and is one of its most active and enterprising men. He owns a well improved farm with excellent buildings.

His father, Adam Rinehart (deceased), was born in Morris county, New Jersey, March 1, 1799, and came to Morris township in 1816, and was married to Martha Bonar, who was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania. They had the following children: Sarah Ann, John, Mary (deceased), George, Isabella, and David. Adam Rinehart died in Morris township in 1874. He was among its earliest settlers.

Mrs. Rinehart when a young woman, in company with two other ladies, went from this county to Washington county, Pennsyivania, on a visit, travelling the entire distance on horseback, going and returning.

RINGWALT, JOHN S., dry goods merchant, Mt. Vernon. This house was first opened May to, 1873, under the name of Ringwalt & Jennings, and commenced in the Norton building, northeast corner of the public square, with a new stock of about twenty-five thousand dollars, where they did business four years. Then they moved into the Kirk building, formerly owned by Mr. A. Wolff, where they remained two years. In

Main street, between the public square and Vine street, into which the firm movéd their stock in the commodious and elegant room in said block. Their trade has so increased that they now carry a stock of about fifty thousand dollars.

now doing a business of about ninety thousand dollars per year. His stock is much the largest and most complete in the city, and consists of a full line of black and colored silks and cashmeres, and dress goods of all kinds; also a full line of notions. Mr. Ringwalt keeps a force of six salesmen to wait upon the large number of customers who daily visit his store. His present stock is valued at thirty-five thousand dollars.

RISLEY, JACOB, deceased, of Clinton township, was born in Hancock county, Maryland, in the year 1785. In August, 1815, he was married in Augusta county, Virginia, to Miss Anna Fauber. This marriage took place on the twenty-third day of March. In September of the same year he emigrated to Ohia, and located in Knox county. His father, in the year 1812, came to Ohio and purchased one thousand and fifty acres of land in Knox county. Jacob Risley owned the farm three miles from Mt. Vernon, now in possession of his son-in-law, Chambers Ash.

Mr. Risley had one son and two daughters. One daughter, Mrs. Chambers Ash, is living in Knox county, and the other is living in Morrow county. The son, Dr. John Risley, is living in Iowa. In the year 1850 Jacob Risley moved to Morrow county, Ohio, and died on the seventeenth day of March, 1854, aged sixty-nine years.

ROBERTS, MRS. ESTHER, Hilliar township, daughter of Henry and Rebecca Slater, of Greene county, Pennsylvnnia, was born March 1, 1804. When she was about five years old, her parents emigrated to Ohio, and settled about a mile and a quarter south of Mt. Vernon, and were among the early settlers of Knox county. They remained for a number of years in Clinton township, where they first settled, and then moved to Hilliar township, settling west of where the subject of this notice resides. They reside there for a number of years, and died in Morrow county December, 1830.

Esther was married to David Roberts, and early in the spring of 1831 they moved on their farm in Hilliar township. The farm was entirely covered with forest, and of necessity Mr. Roberts had to clear the land, and of course, had all the experience of an early settler. There were born to them three sons and five daughters, six of whom reached maturity, and four of whom are still living, viz: Elizabeth, married to Levi Kyle; Phebe, married to Jackson Kyle; William J,, of whom we will speak hereafter, and Ivy, married to Benjamin Laughery.

Mrs. Roberts enjoys good health, and has the use of her mental faculties to a great degree for one of her age. She still resides on the old homestead with her son, William J. Roberts, who was born November 7, 1846, who lives now where he was born and raised, and never lived out of the township, except five years when he was in Hardin county, Ohio. He was married to Miss Sarah Lyon, of Morrow county, February 23, 1869, and asa result of their union they had a family of six children - all sons, five of whom are living.

1857, aged about fifty years. He was born in Greene county, Pennsylvania, and when quite young, his parents moved to Morgan township, and it was here that Mr. Roberts was raised to manhood.

ROBERTS, CHRISTIAN S., Hilliar township, retired farmer, was born in Morgan township December, 1812. His parents came from Greene county, Pennsylvania, in 1810 and settled on the farm now owned by John Roberts, brother of the subject of this notice. They became large land owners, having about twelve hundred acres. They were among the pioneers of Knox county, and by their honest toil helped to make Knox county what it really is, a beautiful land. They died on their favorite spot where they first settled, esteemed by all who knew them.

Mr. Roberts spent his young days on the farm. He remained at home until 1838, when he was married to Miss Elizabeth Braddick, of Knox county, and shortly after moved to Hilliar township where he has since resided, being engaged in farming until recently, when he retired and is now spending his days in his comfortable dwelling in Centreburgh. By his marriage there were three children, all of whom are dead.

ROBERTS, JOHN, Morgan township, farmer, born in Morgan township, December 31, 1818. He is the son of Abraham Roberts, of Virginia, who married Elizabeth Sellers and came to Ohio, being pioneers of Morgan township. They both died on the farm on which they first settled. They had a family of nine children.

The subject of this sketch was born on the farm on which he now resides, having never lived off this farm. September. 26, 1844, he was married to Miss Elizabeth Jones, daughter of Nelson Jones. They are the parents of twelve children. Those living are: Anna B., wife of Homer Burris, of Henry county, Missouri; Cordelia, wife of John Calvin, of Morgan township; Rogers P., David O., George Walter, Lizzie D,, and Charley L. The deceased are Clarence, Nelson, Reed, Edwin, and an infant. Mr. Roberts is a good citizen and has the esteem of the community.

ROBERTS, EDWARD, Hilliar township, farmer, was boru in Trumbull county, Ohio, October 21, 1829. Elizabeth Roberts was born in New York, November, 1814. Ezra Roberts was born in Trumbull county, Ohio, in 1837.

Daniel Roberts, father of the above children, was born near New Haven, Connecticut, in 1787, and emigrated to Broome county, New York, where, in 1812, he was married to Mary Green, who was born May 19, 1789. They remained in New York until about 1824, when they moved to Trumbull county, Ohio, where they remained until August, 1837, when they came to Hilliar township, and about three years after moved to the farm on which three of their children yet reside.

They had a family of nine children, and so far as is known only the three named in this sketch are living. January 31, 1843, Mrs. Roberts died; her husband followed her about seven years later.

The Messrs. Roberts aie good farmers, and among the substantial and influential men of Hilliar. Their farm contains about two hundred and forty acres of good land, and well improved. They have several,herds of thoroughbred cattle and a lot of fine thoroughbred sheep. They have the confidence and esteem of the public, are social and pleasant people, take great interest in the affairs of the country, and are goad citizens.

ROBERTSON, JESSE PRATT, farmer, Liberty township, Mt. Liberty, Ohio, was born in Washington county, New York; June 15, 1832. His father, Hezekiah Robertson, was born in 1805, and married Eliza Pratt, of the same State, in December, 1836. They came to Knox county and settled on the farm on which Mr. Robertson now resides, where the father died in 1867. His wife stiil survives him. They had eleven children, nine are yet living, viz: Jesse P., the subject of this notice, is the oldest; Mary E., wife of W. R. Proper, of Liberty township; Sarah M., wife of Milton Bird, of Liberty township, Ruth E., wife of Warren Bedell; Phillip E., farmer, Morrow county; Charles £., farmer, Morrow county; Frances A., wife of David Farr, of Liberty township; Caroline J., wife of Benjamin Thompson, who resides in Sullivan county, Missouri; and Kate. Two infants have died. Mr. Robertson was reared ona farm and received acommon school education. He enlisted in company A., Ninety-sixth Ohio volunteer infantry in July, 1862, and participated in the battle of Arkansas Post, where he was siightly wounded in his right arm. He was discharged September 18, 1863, on account of physical disability, caused from sicknes. On his return home he engaged in farming. He married-Miss Caroline A. McComb, November 2, 1854. She was born in Tompkins county, New York, 1832. Her father, Solomon McComb, emigrated to Ohio in 1847, and now is a resident of Mt. Vernon, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Robertson are the parents of e,even children, all of whom are living - Edme, born February 22, 1856; Charles, November 16, 1857; Caroline Adclia, born March 15, 1860, wife of Edward Jackson; Phillip E., November 27, 1861; W. Delos, August 6, 1864; William K., July 20, 1867; Frank B.,June 20, 1869; Linda J. M., May 6, 1872; Walter B., February 4, 1874; Grace O., July 26, 1876; and Fred., Jannary 21, 1880. Mr. Robertson is an estimable citizen, 1nd is highly esteemed for his uprightness of character.

ROBERTSON, AMASA PRATT, Liberty township, eclectic physician, Mt. Liberty post office, was born in Washington county, New York, January 5, 1843. His parents about a year after moved to Knox county; where the doctor spent his youth ona farm. In 1862 he enlisted in company F, One Hundred and Twenty-first Ohio volunteer infantry, and served until the close of the war. He was Third sergeant of his company and was subsequently commissioned sergeant major and as such he was discharged. He participated in the battles of Perryville, Kentucky; Franklin, Tennessee; Chickamauga, Lookout Mountain, Resaca, Kennesaw Mountain, Atlanta, and with the army to Savannah, thence to Bentonville, North Carolina. This, of course, includes all the skirmishes, battles and marches of that memorable campaign. After he returned home he attended school at Mt. Vernon and Columbus, Ohio, where he graduated in a commercial course. He taught school for several terms, and in 1869 began reading medicine with Dr. T. H. Vankirk, of Mt. Liberty, Ohio, reading about three years. In 1872 he entered the Eclectic Medical institute at Cincinnati, Ohio. He graduated and commenced practice in Mt. Liberty, where he has succeeded in securing a good practice. He was married to Miss Mary Thompson in November, 1873. They have one child, Oliye, born December 29, 1878. _

ROBERTSON, EZRA &., deceased, the father of Dr. Robertson, was born in Washington county, New York, September 26, 1809. His youth, until nineteen years.of age, was spent on a farm. He then learned the trade of wagonmaking, working at it until 1843, when he immigrated to Ohio and located on a farm in Hilliar township. He sold this farm and removed to Liberty township where he purchased a farm and remained on it until 1864, when he moved to Mt. Liberty where he engaged at his trade. He died November, 1880. He was an exemplary man and had many friends. He married Sarah Pratt, of Mew York. They had nine children, seven yet living. His wife survives him.

ROBINSON, SOLOMON, deceased, a native of Maryland, was born in 1871; he married Miss Rebecca Workman in 1801 or 1802, a native of Maryland, born in 1873, daughter of Isaac Workman. They settled in Maryland, remained a short time, then migrated to Harrison county, Ohio, where they lived until 1811, when they moved to Knox county, Ohio, and located in Union township, on the farm now owned by Jacob Rose, near Danville. He erected a log cabin, which served them as an abode for about ten years, when he built a hewed log house in which they lived for several years, when he erected a frame addition to his residence, which he used as a dwelling until 1866, when he moved to Clinton township, near Mt. Vernon, where he passed the remainder of his days. By his marriage to Miss Workman he had twelve children: Joseph, Barbara, William, Isaac, Sarah, Hugh, Matilda, Jacob, Margaret, Daniel, Basil, and Nancy, five of whom are living. His companion deceased March 1q,.1835. He married for his second wife, Nancy Wells, zee Workman, in 1837, by whom he had one child, Louisa, deceased. He died Septeinber 10, 1866. vived him until 1878, aged ninety years. farmer and followed farming as his vocation.

ROBINSON, WILLIAM, deceased, Union township, was born in Maryland in 1783, and married Miss Sarah Workman, of Maryland, in 1802. They settled in Maryland and remained the.e until 1811, when they emigrated to Knox county, Ohio, and located in Union township, on land now occupied by J. C. Langford, where they passed the remainder of their days. His first improvement on his land was the erection of a log cabin, which served them as an abode until 1822, when he erected a hewed log dwelling, in which they lived the remainder of their days. They reared a family of ten children: John, Margaret, David, Maria, Barbara, Lucinda, Matilda, Julia A., Sarah, and Mary, all of whom are dead except Lucinda, Mary, Matilda, and Margaret. His wife died in'1829. He married for his second wife, Mrs. Margaret McKinzie, zee Logstone, in 1831, by whom he had four children: Henry C., Lyman W., Royal D., and Elizabeth. He served in the War of 1812, and represented Knox county in the legislature one term. He also held the office of county commissioner several years. He followed farming as his vocation. His wife died in 1848; he survived her until 1863, aged eighty years.

ROBINSON, LYMAN W., farmer, post office, Gambier, son of William and Margaret Robinson, born in Union township, Knox county, September 12, 1835, by whom he was reared and educated. He was married October 28, 1858, to Deliah Dillin, daughter of Isaac and Eleanor Dillin, who was born in Harrison township, Knox county, March 8, 1833, After their marriage he remained one year with his father, farming on shares; he then moved to Harrison township, on the farm now owned by Joseph Ferenbaugh, where he remained one year, and then moved to Howard township ona farm owned by his father, where he farmed two years. During this time he purchased a farm of ninety-seven and a half acres in Harrison township, where he then moved and at present re- sides. They are the parents of three children - one died in infancy; and those living are Carrie M., born March 1, 1862, and on November 25, 1880, she married Leander Hays, of Clay township, where she at present resides; William D., born June 20, 1864, who lives at home.

ROBINSON, ISAAC F., Pike township, farmer, post office, Democracy, born in Union township in 1835, and was married in 1860 to Elizabeth Kramer, who was born in Mercer county, Pennsylvania, in 1844. They have seven children - Lydia Jane, born in 1861; Mary E., in 1863; William H., in 1865; Francis Emma, in 1867; George W., in 1869; Ella S., in 1871, and Effa May, in 1877.

Mr. Robinson purchased a farm in this township in 1855, and has displayed good taste in erecting his buildings; his house especially being a model one, with all in modern style. His father, Isaac Robinson, deceased, was a native of Union township, and was married to Rosannah Crouse, who was a native of Pennsylvania, and came to Ohio with her parents when a child. There are three surviving members of their family - William, who resides in Floyd. lowa; Mary (now Mrs. Morgan), who resides in Iowa, and Isaac F.

ROBINSON, JAMES RUSSELL, physician, Mt. Vernon, was born in Holmes county, Ohio, on the seventeenth day of April, 1850. Heattended such schools as the county then afforded. He went mainly to the schools of Mt. Vernon. He is of Scotch and Irish parentage, his father being Scotch, and his mother of Irish extraction. He read medicine with Dr. James Loar about two years, and two years with Dr. Newcomer, who resides in Connellsville, Pennsylvania. He then attended the University of Philadelphia, graduating in 1872, when about twenty-two years of age. He associated himself with his old preceptor, Dr. Newcomer, and in the spting of 1873 he purchased the interest of his associate. In 1875 he took his brother, L. E. Robinson, into partnership, which continued until 1877, since which time he has been practising alone. He was appointed, in 1874, physician to the county infirmary, and township physician. In 1877 he was appointed examining surgeon for the United States Government. When he was quite young his parents moved to Knox county, where his youthful days were spent.

ROCK, JAMES, landlord of Rock hotel, Fredericktown, was born in Ireland in 1809, and came to America in 1821. He located in Whitehall, New York, and in 1844 came to Mt. Vernon. He was married in 1840 to Hannah Lloyd, who was born in Vermont. They had four children, viz: George E.; John, deceased; Clark L., deceased; and Mary E., who was married to Frank Jacobs, and lives in Mt. Vernon.

Mrs. Hannah Rock died in Richland county, August 19, 1861. Mr. Rock afterwards married Harriet Cornell, who was born in Virginia in 1829. They had the following children, viz: James, jr., born January 7, 1863, died an infant; George E. was a soldier in the late war, a member of the Third Ohio cavaliy, and a member of the One Hundred and- Twenty-eighth regiment, Ohio volunteer infantry, and died during the war at Vicksburgh. Mr. Rock located in this town in 1864. He is proprietor of the Rock hotel, keeps a good house, and is an accommodating landlord, and though advanced in years, is still able toattend to business. '

ROGERS, JAMES, deceased, Wayne township, born in New York in 1805, married January 1, 1828, to Sarah Douglass, who was born in this county, Clinton township, February 9, 1809. They had the following children, viz: Samuel, born October 3, 1828; Hannah J., August 24, 1830; Mary, February 9, 1833; William, October 7, 1835; Timothy, October 30, 1837; Elizabeth, May 11, 1841; and Sarah, August 28, 1846.

Mr. Rogers died May 18, 1879. Mary died August 7, 1845. They resided in Fredericktown for twenty-five years. Mr. Rogers was engaged in buying, selling, and shipping horses to the east. He was an active and enterprising man, and had excellent business qualifications. He left his family in good circumstances. Mrs. Rogers is residing in Fredericktown with her daughter, Mrs. Foote.

ROGERS, EDWARD, meat market, Vine street, Mt. Vernon. Mr. Rogers was born in Weston, Warwickshire, England, February 22, 1829, where he resided until he was twentyeight years of age, during which time he was engaged in farming. In 1854 he came to this country and located in Mt. Vernon, and engaged in the baking business in partnership with his brother James, working under the firm name of J. & E. Rogers. This firm continued for two years, when Edward went to Gambier and continued in the same business, meeting with good success during thirteen years. He then adopted the butchering business, in which he continued for four years. In 1874 Mr. Rogers came back to Mt. Vernon, and engaged in butchering, which he still continues. He does the most extensive business in this line inthe city. His sales amount to about two thousand dollars per month, or twenty-five thousand dollars per year. He keeps constantly on nand fresh meats of all kinds, and smoked salt pork. He slaughters about two hundred and twenty-five head of cattle, seventy-five calves, seventy-five sheep and lambs, and fifty hogs per annum.

ROGERS, JAMES, manufacturer and dealer, Mt. Vernon, Ohio, was born in Weston, Warwickshire, England, March 1, 1831, where he resided until twenty-three vears old and during which time he followed farming, and learned the baking business, In 1853 he emigrated to this country and located in Mt. Vernon, where he has resided ever since. His first business engagement here was with the firm of J. George, in a bakery, 'in which he continued one year. He then established a business for himself, in which he continued with good success for sixteen years. He then moved out on his farm and devoted his attention to farming for two years, when he purchased a lot and built the Rogers' block, and engaged in the grocery business, in which he still continues. In 1875 he engaged in the hardware business, and in 1878 he added the merchant tailoring business, and is proprietor of the Norton flouring-mills, and is also managing his farm and dairy. He has made four additions to the city known as the Rogers' Addition, Rogers' North Addition, Rogers' Eastern Addition, and Rogers' and Doyle's Addition. He was married January 21, 1855, to Miss Elizabeth Tighe, and they have had a family of seven children, only one of whom is living, William J., who is assisting his father in the hardware business. Mr. Rogers is a man of real energy and unusual business abilities; has done much to develop the business interests of this city, and is one of its most respected citizens.

ROGERS, GEORGE, Mt. Vernon, of the firm of C. and G. Cooper & Co., Mt. Vernon, was born in Licking county, Ohio, September 19, 1836. His parents came to Mt. Vernon when

From the age of fourteen to that of twenty he was connected with the Cooper establishment, and attended the city high school. He read law with Messrs. Cooper & Vance, and travelled for the firm of C. and J. Cooper & Co. He was admitted to the bar in 1861, but never practiced.

In April, 1861, he enlisted in the second company of volunteers raised in the city, and was elected and commissioned second lieutenant of company B, Fourth Ohio volunteer infantry, Colonel Lorin Andrews, called into service for three months. At the expiration of his term of service Lieutenant Rogers came home and raised a company of one hundred and fifty men for the Twentieth regiment Ohio volunteer infantry, and was commissioned captain of company B, in which position he served until January, 1863, when he resigned. Shortly after his resignation the President appointed him lieutenant colonel of the Fourth regiment of the United States colored troops. He continued in command of the regiment until the close of the war. His regiment took part in the assault on Petersburgh. In June, 1864, he was detailed chief mustering and dispensing officer of the State of North Carolina, with headquarters at Newbern. He took an active part in breaking up the rebel rendezvous in that State. In the fall of 1864 he rejoined his command at Hampton Roads, where they embarked in the Fort Fisher expedition, the colonel taking a part in that affair. For meritorious services in the field he was commissioned brevet colonel, and also brevet brigadier general.

After the Fort Fisher expedition Colonel Rogers returned home and purchased a one-third interest in the Kokosing iron works, in connection with Charles and John Cooper. The firm of Coopers & Rogers had charge of the Kokosing works for three years, their specialty being building mowers. In 1869 that firm was consolidated with the firm conducting the Mt. Vernon iron works.

ROOD, WILLIAM HARRISON, Wayne township, farmer, post office, Fredericktown, born in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, October 18, 1816, came to Knox county August 9, 1817, with his parents, and was married May 3, 1837, to Anna Maria Bell, who was born in county of Westmeath, Ireland. They had the following children: Frank, born December 16, 1857; Cynthia Jane, October 12, 1860; Clara, August 8, 1861; Mary E., May 3, 1866; and Benjamin Franklin, November 3, 1870. Frank Rood died October 15, 1860. Mr. Rood is one of the earliest settlers of Wayne township. His father, Noah Rood was born in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, and married in Washington county, Pennsylvania, to Mary Minick, who was born in Pennsylvania. They had four sons and three daughters, viz.: Thomas, Phebe, Betsy, Samuel, Cyntha Ann, William, Harrison, and James Madison. Noah Rood died in Chester township, Morrow county, at the age of seventy-four years. Mrs. Mary Rood died in the'same county at the age of ninety-five years. They were pioneers of this county.

ROSENTHALL, I. & D., clothiers, Woodward block, corner Main and Vine streets, Mt. Vernon. Mr. I. Rosenthall, managing partner of this firm, was born in Richmond, Virginia, March 15, 1844. When nine years of age his parents removed to New York city, where they resided two years. From New York city the family removed to Pittsburgh. In the fall of 1860 Mr. Rosenthall came to Ohio, where he made his first engagement with the firm of William Flemming & J. Fink, who located at Bellefontaine, Logan county.' He afterwards entered the house of Stofal & Gates, with whom he continued one year, when he purchased the stock of the firm and conducted the business himself for five years. He went from Bellefontaine to Wooster and conducted the business for some five years. At the expiration of this time, he established a house of business at Akron, where he remained six years. From Akron he went to Altoona, Pennsylvania, and engaged in business with his brother - the firm being I. & D. Rosenthall. April 1, 1878, he came to Mt. Vernon and established the present house, while his brother remains at Altoona, in charge of the house there. The firm here carries the largest stock of ready-made clothing of any similar establishment in the city. They also have a large and fine assortment of gentlemen's furnishing goods, hats, caps, etc,

ROSS, TIMOTHY, Milford township, farmer, was born in Knox county December 25, 1820. His paternal grandfather, Timothy Ross, was a resident of New Jersey, and removed to western Pennsylvania at an early day.

Nathaniel Ross, a son of Timothy Ross, sr., was born in Greene county, Pennsylvania, February 19, 1794. He married Sallie Hair, of the same county, and in 1817 they came to Harrison township, Knox:county, and settled in the woods.

Mr. Ross cleared up this farm, and remained on it until the death of his wife, when he went to live with his children. He 'is yet living, and for a man of his years, is physically strong and mentally bright. He was the father of eight children, viz: Polly, wife of Adam Crumrine, of Hancock, Ohio; Cynthia, drowned while returning from school; John died young; Timothy, the subject of this notice; Rachel Ann, killed by the falling of a log from the spring house during a storm; Delilah, deceased, who was the wife of Robert Melick; Samuel, a resident of Harrison township; Benjamin died before reaching mature age. ;

The subject of this notice, Timothy Ross, remained with his parents until he was about twenty-three years of age, assisting his father on the farm. In April, 1844, he married Miss Esther Ann Crouse, who was born January 11, 1826. She is the daughter of George Crouse, who was born in Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, February 5, 1799, where at sixteen years of age he learned blacksmithing. At eighteen he went to Au-

Vernon, and engaged in blacksmithing and farming. He married Lydia Melker, a native of Rockingham. county, Virginia, in January, 1825. . They had four children: Jacob, deceased; Henry M., of Indiana; Philip M., of Iowa, and Esther Ann, wife of T. Ross. His second wife was Catharine Bitner, a native of Pennsylvania. He is yet living at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Ross. Shortly after the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Ross they moved to Hancock county, Ohio, remained there about four years, and returned to Knox county, locating in Milford township, where they have since resided.

Mr. Ross is a leading citizen, and is highly esteemed for his many good qualities. He takes an active interest in the affairs of the township, and is a leading. member of the Christian or Disciple church to which organization he has belonged for about twenty years. They had five children, viz: Sarah E., wife of Abraham Ewing; Delilah; Mary, deceased, who was the wife of Bruce E. Jackson; Melvina, wife of C. B. Jackson; and Ida.

December 11, 1821. He removed with his father, William Ross, to Clay township, Knox county, Ohio, in 1823, and remained there about four years, when he removed to Jackson township, where he resided until A. D. 1836, removing that year to Jefferson township, where his father died in 1841. Two months prior to his father's decease he left home to learn the stone-mason trade, to which he served an apprenticeship of three years, with James Blount, of Jackson township. During the time of his apprenticeship, in 1841, he went to school three months.

During the winter. of 1843 he taught school in Brown township. He went from Brown to Jackson fownship to work at his trade, removed from Jackson to Butler township in 1854, where he has ever since resided.

He was married September 5, 1844, to Miss Elizabeth Eley, of Butler township, who was born January 2, 1824. They have had five children, viz: Lemuel, born July 7, 1845; James, April 18, 1847; Benjamin and Jacob, twins, who were born July rs, 1850; Mary, December 16,1855; N. W. Farmer, who was born July 22, 1861, resides with Mr. Ross.

During the war of the Rebellion Lemuel and James enlisted in company G, One Hundred and Twenty-first Ohio volunteer infantry, Colonel H. B. Banning. Lemuel died April 2, 1864, and James April 4, 1864. Both died of measles near Rossville, Georgia. Their remains were brought home and buried in Dennis cemetery, Jackson township.

Mr. Ross has been a member of the Disciple church ever since he was twenty-one years of age, and elder in the church about thirty years. He was first a Democrat and afterwards became a Republican, and still continues in that political faith.

ROSS, JOSEPH, Brown township, farmer, a son of Elisha and Dorcas Ross, was born in this county on the seventh day of April, 1842. He was reared on a farm and has followed farming as his vocation. In 1866 he married Miss Mary Workman, of this county, daughter of Solomon and Mary A. Workman. They settled on the farm in Brown township, one and a half miles south of Jelloway, where they are now living. Their union resulted in three children - Franklin, Clinton, and David.

ROUSE, E. S. S., is a native of Rensselaer county, New York; born February 23, 1795. He was a member of Colonel Kerr's regiment in the War of 1812, in which he served six months. In 1818 he came to Ohio and located in Muskingum county on a farm, where he lived nine years, during which he was elected captain of a company in Colonel Springer's rifle regiment, of which he had command two and a half years. After leaving his farm he went to Dresden and engaged in the commission business, in which he remained about one anda half years, after which he returned to Oneida county, New York. He was married March 1, 1820, to Polly Mills, by whom he had a family of six children, five of whom are living, and are married, viz.: Maria Sealts, Lydia C. Rowley, Erastus, Andrew M., and John D., who enlisted in the Seventy-seventh Illinois regiment; was promoted to lieutenant, and afterward to captain; served about three years, aftér which he was appointed judge advocate of New Orleans. He came to Knox county and settled tn Miller township in 1833, and resided there until 1850, when he came to Mt. Vernon and engaged in the factory business, and has been in different kinds of business until he retired.

Mr. Rouse served the people df Miller township as justice of the peace for nine years, and ten years as township clerk. He was mayor of the city of Mt. Vernon one term. Mr. Rouse has always been an active business man, and in retiring from the field he has the satisfaction of knowing that he has done his part. He is now in his eighty-sixth year, and his wife is eightytwo. 'They are the oldest couple living in the city.

ROWE, LEWIS, Wayne township, farmer, post office, Fredericktown; born in New York April 9, 1812, and was married January 17, 1839, to Mary Campbell, who was born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, November 28, 1815. They have the following children: Sarah, born October 30, 1843; Lyman, August 21; 1846; Amanda, July 15, 1848.

ROWLAND, JAMES F., Milford township, one of the leading farmers of Milford township, was born in Richland county (now Ashland county), Ohio, April 11, 1824; is the son of Simon Rowland, a native of Pennsylvania, who came to Ohio at an early day and settled in Green township, Richland county, where he married Sarah Hill about 1817, who was a native of Vermont. They had eight children, five of whom are Jane, married to John Ohler; Cyrus A.; Alletha, married Joel Ward, and Joseph. The deceased were Eliza, Thomas, and Mary, the last of whom was married to Levi Browlyier. The parents died in Green township, Richland county, now Ashland county.

The subject of this notice was reared on the farm his father entered, and continued to live on it until 1860, when he moved to Knox county having sold the old homestead. In 1848 he married Sarah Ohler. They had ten children, viz: Simon, Calvin J., William L., Frank, Shannon, Jane (deceased), Alice (married to William Rizor), Ida (deceased), Lizzie, and Ella. Mr. Rowland is a leading member of the Baptist church and a man of influence. He is township trustee.

ROWLEY, SAMUEL, was born May 11, 1787, in Rutland county, Vermont, and emigrated to Ohio in 1813, stopping one year in Muskingum county. He came to Knox county. in 1814 and located in Miller township, where he resided until 1824, when he came to Mt. Vernon and remained until 1832, when he went teLicking county and remained two years, after which he came back to Mt. Vernon, where he resided until the day of his death, November 20, 1851.

He was married to Miss E. Ward November 3, 1808. She is still living at the advanced age of ninety-one years. She was born April 7, 1790. They reared a family of six children, four of whom are living.

ROWLEY, HORACE, harness and saddle manufacturer, - corner Main and Front streets, Mt. Vernon. Mr. Rowley was born in Pittsford, Rutland county, Vermont, on the fourth day ot September, 1809. When he was about three years of age his parents emigrated to Ohio and settled in Miller township, this county, where they resided about ten years, and then came to Mt. Vernon. After he came here he went into the saddle and harness trade, and served his time with William Mefford & John Gregg. He then entered into business for himself in this city, and carried on his shop for thirteen years. He then went to Indiana and worked awhile in New Albany, and then at Ger- Mmantown. He then returned to Ohio and located in Marysville, Union county, and carried on his business there for about one year. His next location was at Mt. Liberty, this county. He remained in business there for five years, In 1849 he returned to Mt. Vernon and engaged in the harness business and has continued in it ever since.

Mr. Rowley is the pioneer saddle and harness manufacturer of this city. He has always conducted the business himself, doing all his work, and has the satistaction of making his trade a success, and giving the people good, honest work, which he is still prepared to do.

ROWLEY, MRS. ELIZABETH, deceased.- - The deceased was born in Connecticut on the seventh of April, 1790, and was, at her death, in the ninety-first year of her age. She came with her husband to Ohio in 1814, first settling in Muskingum county. From thence the family removed to Knox county, locating in Miller township, and subsequently in the year 1824, they settled in Mt. Vetnon. Since her husband's death, in 1851, she has made her home with her son Jerome. She reared a family of six children, four of whom are still living, viz: Horace Rowley, Jerome Rowley, Mrs. Semanthe Winne, and Mrs. E, C. Vore, all of whom were at her bedside when she died.

She was a member of the Baptist church for sixty-five years, and'was a good Christian woman, respected and honored by all who enjoyed the pleasure of her acquaintance.

ROWLEY, JEROME, Mt. Vernon, is a native of Knox county, born in Miller township June 23, 1816, and received such an education as he could get at the public schools of that day. He followed farming until they came to Mt. Vernon, when he assisted his father in the hotel, during which he married Miss Maria Watkins, a daughter of Francis Watkins, who came from Washington county, Pennsylvania, and settled in Mt. Vernon in 1812. Shortly after his marriage he went to Ciark county, Illinois, where he engaged in farming, milling, merchandizing, and the stock business. He remained there until 1847, when he returned to Mt. Vernon, where he engaged in farming, and kept a country hotel about five miles from the city on the Columbus road, in Liberty township, where he remained until 1864, when he was burned out, and returned to Mt. Vernon, where he has lived ever since. He has been engaged in the flour trade for several years, but has retired from business.

He has reared a family of five children, four of whom are living - two sons and two daughters - all of whorn are married and live in Knox county.

ROWLEY, SHANNON F., Milford township, farmer and justice of the peace, Milfordton post office, was born in Mt. Vernon, January 24, 1839, and is the son of Jerome and Mariah Rowley, zee Wilkins.

The subject of this sketch spent his youth from his ninth year on a farm, and his always followed farming as his occupation. He was elected justice of the peace in 1878. Mr. Rowley is pleasant and social in his manners, and is a good citizen.

He married Miss Cynthia A. Smith, September 9, 1862, who was born February 20, 1844; "she is the daughter of Preserve and Amelia Smith, zee Knowles, natives of Litchfield county, Connecticut, who came to Milford township in 1831. They were highly respected citizens, and died at their home, known as the Five Corners. They had ten children: Henry A.,

George L., William D., L. F., Fannie M. (deceased), who was married to Luther Hyatt; Charles G., Emeline C., wife of John Milligan, of Brandon, Ohio; Sarah V., wife of Ira D. Hunt; Benjamin C., Cynthia A., wife ofS. F. Rowley; and Oscar E.

Mr. and Mrs. Rowley are the parents of three interesting children: Killian W., born December 17, 1869; Frank S., June 30, 1871; Jerome, December 31, 1874.

ROWLEY, H. YOUNG, proprietor of Rowley house, South Main street, Mt. Vernon, was born in this city December 26, 1848, and was educated in our excellent common schools. He first engaged in business with his father who conducted a grocery and feed store. In 1869 he became interested in the brewery business with James Miller, under the firm of Miller & Rowley. For two years the firm continued, when he bought his partner's business, and for three years more run the brewery successfully. In 1874 Mr. Rowley took charge of the Rowley house, and has continued proprietor to the present. The house is pleasantly located, and at this time is doing a large business. The house contains in all four-four rooms - thirty transient, and eleven sample rooms. On the first floor, one dining hall, office and bar, and ladies' and gentlemen's parlors, etc. Mr. Rowley has represented his ward in the city council.

ROWLEY, ISAACHER,- was born in Steuben county, New York, April 12, 1815, and came to Ohio in 1837, located in Fredericktown, and was married January, 1838, to Ruth Corbin, who was born inthis county in 181. They had four children: Artemas C., Mellville, Theodore (deceased), and an infant (deceased). Mrs. Ruth Rowley died September 2, 1848.

Mr. Rowley subsequently married Sarah A. Tremley. They had three children: Eva C. (deceased), an infant (deceased), and Anna R., who married George W. Mozier. They reside in Mt. Gilead, Morrow county. Mrs. Sarah Rowley died May 6, 1877.

Mr. Rowley has resided in Fredericktown and vicinity for forty-four years, and was engaged in farming the most of the time. He studied law and is engaged in a home practice; he is also a notary public, and has been justice of the peace in Berlin township. He isa prominent member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and has been a representative in three sessions in the grand lodge of the State of Ohio. He was a delegate to the State convention, and voted for Salmon P. Chase for governor at the organization of the Republican party, and has since been identified with this party.

He was appointed postmaster of Fredericktown in February, 1874, during General Grant's administration. He was formerly a member of the Methodist Episcopal church for twenty-five years, was an official member and did much to advance the interest of the church.

ROWLEY, O. P., farmer, College township, son of Hiram and Betsy Rowley, was born in Miller township, this county, February 1, 1821. Hiram Rowley, father of the subject of this sketch, was born in Vermont in 1794. He married Miss Betsy Wheeler, of Vermont, about 1817, who was born in 1793. They emigrated to Ohio and located in Miller township, this county, in about 1819, where they passed the remainder of their days. Mrs. Rowley died in 1876; he survived her until 1878. They reared a family of three children - -Ellen, Olney P., and John R. The first named is dead.

1843. They settled in Monroe township, remained several years, then moved to College township where they are now residing. Their union resulted in four children, viz: John R., Hiram, Olney G., and Noah S. John R. served three years in the late war, enlisting in 1862, and serving until the close of the war.

ROWLEY, WILLIAM, salesman, Fredericktown, was born in New York in 1832, emigrated to Michigan and remained for four years, then removed to Illinois, stayed there four years, then in 1840 came to Knox county, Ohio, and in 1852 went to California, remained there about fourteen years, and after returning toOhio was married in 1876, to Miss E. F. Roberts daughter of Richard Roberts, who was born in Knox county, Ohio, in 1842. Mr. Rowley is engaged with the firm of S. S. Tuttle & Co., in the saw-mill and lumber, yard.

ROWLEY, WILLIAM H., Berlin township, farmer, post office, Fredericktown, was born on the farm where he now resides, in 1839. He was married in 1864, to Catharine Lloyd, who was born in Morrow county, Ohio, in 1845. They have four children: Jennie, born in 1866; Frank, in 1867; J. T. Rowley, in 1869; Sadie, in 1876.

Mr. Rowley was a soldier in the late war, a member'of company G, One Hundred and Twenty-first regiment, Ohio volunteer infantry, and was engaged in the service for twenty-two months. He was wounded at the battle of Chickamauga in 1863, and was left on the battle-field. He fell into the hands of the rebels, and was held a prisoner nine days, and then paroled. He was honorably discharged. He was also engaged in the battle of Perryville. He has an Indian relic different from any inserted in the History of Richland County. He also has the bullet which was taken out of his limb, which wounded him during the service.

ROWLEY, ASA F., hardware and metal worker, post office, Rosstown. He was born January 14, 1841, in Berlin township, Knox county. In his fifteenth year he went to Mt. Vernon and learned the tinsmith trade with James Huntsbury. He enlisted in the One Hundred and Twenty-first Ohio volunteer infantry, and went to the south in 1862. He was special messenger under General Thomas the entire time he served, except three months. He was taken prisoner at Columbus, Kentucky, by General Morgan, and was sent to Camp Chase; and shortly afterwards was discharged. He then reenlisted in the United States engineers, under Lieutenant Senate, of Granville, Ohio, and assigned to Captain Thomas, in company G., and then detached to General Thomas as special messenger, and there remained until 1865, when he was discharged. In 1870 he was married to Sarah M. Weirick, and settled in Martinsburgh, Knox county, and there pursued his trade for three years, and then came to his present home. He does a very good business in tinware, stoves, hardware, etc., and is considered an excellent workman. He has two children, Charles and Lucy. His mother lives with him, is seventy-three years old, and in very good health.

ROWLEY, MELVILLE B., carpenter. - He was born in Fredericktown, July 18, 1844. April 28, 1866, he was married to Amanda E. Weirick, who was born in Amity, this county, in 1847. They have four children, namely: Irwin was born July 10, 1868; Issacher, jr., born May 4, 1871; Irene A., born January 31, 1873; and Melville, jr., born March r1, 1881.

Mr. Rowley enlisted in the late war August 16, 1862, a mem: ber of company G, One Hundred and Twenty-first regiment, Ohio volunteer infantry. He was in two battles and a number of skirmishes; he was injured at the battle of Chickamauga, Georgia, September 20, 1863; he was then sent to Cincinnati and transferred to the One Hundred and Twenty-sixth regiment, Second battalion, Invalid corps. He was detailed with R. P. L. Baber, paymaster United States army, as clerk, and remained with him till June 28, 1865. He was honorably discharged, and is now a pensioner of the Government.

ROWLEY, WALTER, Morris township, carpenter, post office, Fredericktown, was born in 1849, in Illinois. He came to Knox county with his parents when he was an infant, and was married in 1872, to Mary Hart, who was born in Morris township in 1856. They have three children: Freddie, born in 1873; Florence, in 1876; Addie F., in 1878.

ROWLEY, O. P., Fredericktown, dealer in watches, clocks, jewelry, and silverware, was born in Berlin township; served as an apprentice with W. M. Young, in Mt. Vernon, and came to Fredericktown, where he established his business in 1878. He has an extensive trade, is a skilful mechanic, an enterprising young man, and well deserves a liberal patronage.

a graduate of Yale college. His first diploma was signed September 4, 1794. His diploma for the higher branches was given September 9, 1778. He wasa soldier of the Revolution, commissioned a lieutenant by John Hancock, date January 1, 1777,. and afterwards received a captain's commission, March 19, 1779. Amos H. has in his posession the two diplomas, also the two commissions. He has in his possession the inventory of his father's estate, written February 24, 1792. The amount was three hundred and three pounds, six shillings and eight pence; also a land warrant for three hundred acres of land valued at thirty shillings (five dollars), located in Knox county, Ohio. Amos H. was the only heir. In the fall' of 1792 he was taken from Harwington, where his mother resided, to Berlin, Hartford county, Connecticut, to live with his guardian, and grandfather, Amos Hosford, after whom he was named. He remembers how he rode from Harwington to Berlin on horseback behind his uncle, and his reception at the time at his grandfather's, who was a farmer, a man of wealth for those times, also of influence, being a justice of the peace, which was an important position in those days.

He was elected to the assembly of the town of Berlin a number of years, at which time the subject of this sketch took him to the seat of government in a carriage, and when the session closed he had to bring himhome. He was reared on a farm put to work as soon as he was old enough through the summer, and during the winter went to school and received a good common school education, sufficient at least. to transact business. He gives a few items of interest that occured when he was in his minority while living with his grandfather. The town of Berlin consisted of three parishes or societies, viz: Worthington, Kensington, and New Britton; Worthington was located on the main or turnpike road leading from New Haven to Hartford and consisted of one main street nearly one mile in length, containing the stores, taverns, manufactories, and private resi-, dences of the place, of which there were a respectable number.

In the north end of the street on a triangular piece of ground stood the Presbyterian meeting-house, a large building which was generally filled every Sabbath. It was also used for a town house in the spring election of county and State offices.

On the main road about twenty rods from the meeting-house stood that ancient relic for the punishment of crime, the stockade and whipping-post, although seldom used. Yet he remembers that the ancient mode of punishment with the cat-of-nine-tails, according to the Mosaic law, was inflicted.

In the fall of 1804 he moved from Berlin, Hartford county, Connecticut, to Lewis county, New York, occupied a house adjoining land that he bought the next season. He built a cabin on his own land, making such improvements as his means permitted.

In the fall of 1809 he received the land warrant for his father's services in the Revolution. He then came to Knox county and located his land in Berlin township. Before he returnéd he engaged Jeremiah Brown to build a log cabin, but as the State road from Mt. Vernon to Mansfield was located before he commenced, and as the road passed through the centre of his land, he omitted building until he moved out, when he selected a location. A few years later he found it necessary to build a larger and more convenient house.

In those times the citizens took but little interest in the name of their township, but when Berlin was organized it became a subject of general interest. Mr. Stephen Cole and Amos H. Royce, being emigrants from the town of Berlin, they consulted together and proposed to call it Berlin, which name was accepted by common consent. Mr. Royce was the first justice of the peace elected, and was reelected and served in said office over fifteen years. He was an independent man, a strong abolitionist during slavery times, and always a strong advocate of temperance. He never used tobacco in any form, and wasa member of the Methodist Episcopal church until the slavery question was strongly agitated, when he left the church; he has never joined any church since, but has lived a very exemplary life. He resided on the same farm in Berlin township nearly sixty years.

He never had any occasion to use spectacles, although a great reader. He has taken the Cincinnati Dasly Gazette since 1860 and has read it daily, Sundays excepted, ever since.

Amos H. Royce was first married in 1804, to Nancy Danning. They had the following children, viz: Mary, born in 1804, Samuel in 1808, Emaline in 1810, Sally in 1813, Julia Ann in 1815, Louisa L. in 1818; Alfred in 1820, Laura A. in 1823, Jane A. in 1824, and Lucy in 1826. Mrs. Nancy Royce died January 21, 1852. Mr. Royce's second wife was Maria Parly, who died in 1859. He afterwards married Marilla Johnson, who died in 1870. His fourth wife was Abbie M. Sherwood. Amos H. Royce was a resident of Knox county during the War of 1812, and was drafted. 'They made their rendezvous at Mt. Vernon till they were ordered to Mansfield, where they remained three weeks. He assisted to build the block-house at Trucksville (Ganges). He was at New Haven during the massacre of the Copusand Zimmer families. He was also called out during the siege of Fort Meigs in 1813, also in 1814 when Fort Stephenson was besieged, but was soon relieved and returned home.

RUCKER, W. H., Berlin township, farmer, post office, Frederickstown, was born in Noble county, Ohio, in 1856. He came to Knox county in 1869, and was married in 1878 to

RUMMEL, JOHN, Berlin township, deceased, was born in Adams county, Pennsylvania, June 7, 1807, and was married March 17, 1831, to Elizabeth McPhern, who was born in Adams county, Pennsylvania, December 22, 1807. They emigrated to Ohio in 1836; located in Richland county, and remained till 1852, and then moved to Knox county. 'They had eight children - Hezekiah, born December 10, 1831; James E., September 28, 1833; George, December 20, 1835; Sarah J., April 26, 1838; Hiram, July 30, 1840; Elias, February 21, 1843; Mary E., September 24, 1845; and Melinda, September 3, 1848.

Hezekiah was married in Iowa and resides in Kansas; James E. resides in Washington territory. Hiram was married in Oregon and resides there. ~ Mr. John Rummel died August 26, 1877, in Berlin township, this county, and was buried in Worthington township, Richland county, in the cemetery near St. John's church.

Mrs, Rummel joined the Lutheran church in 1832, and was a member forty-nine years. She died at her residence in Berlin township in April, 1880, of paralysis, after a brief illness.

RUMMEL, GEORGE, Berlin township, farmer, post office, Shaler's Mills, was born in Franklin county, Pennsylvania, in 1835. His parents emigrated to Ohio when he was a child. He was married in 1866 to Eliza J. Irvine, who was born in Monroe township in 1844. They have one son - John I. - who was born September 9, 1867, and one daughter, who was born April 7, 1870, and died in 1871. In 1860 Mr. Rummel went to California and returned in 1865. He was engaged in mining.

RUMMEL, ELIAS, farmer, Berlin township, post office, Fredericktown, was born in Worthington township, Richland county, in 1843, and was married in 1871, to Sarah E. Mclntire, who was born in Holmes county in 1849. They have five children, viz: Jessie M., born in 1872; A. D., 1874; James W., 1876; Merbert M., 1878, and an infant in 1880. -Mr. Rummel when a young man, went to California and remained there four years, then returned to Ohio and located in this township. He owns a good farm.

RUSSELL, M. D., JOHN WADHAMS, Mt. Vernon, was born in Canaan, Litchfield county, Connecticut, June 28, 1804. He was the son of Stephen Russell, a man of influence and character in his time, who was repeatedly chosen to represent the people in the State legislature, and once by a unanimous vote of the district.

The subject of this sketch first attended the district school, and then prtpared for college at Morrisacademy. Having advanced sufficiently he entered Hamilton college, New York, in 1821. His health soon after failed, and he was advised by physicians to seek a residence, fora time at least, in a milder climate in some southern State. Accordingly he went south, and obtained a situation as teacher in the academy at Red Bank, Colleton district, South Carolina. He became warmly attached to his southern friends, and had, he says, ''a noble class of pupils." Dr. Sheridan, he says, ''was not only a friend, but a father to him,"' and by his advice he commenced the study of medicine in 1823.

Dr. Russell returned to Connecticut in 1824, and continued his medical studies under Dr. Alanson Abbe, of Litchfield- Having studied and reviewed the course prescribed by office students, he attended lectures in 1825 and 1826, at Yale college, and then a second course at Berkshire Medical college in 1826. The following winter he went to Philadelphia and became a private pupil of Dr. George McClellan, attending lectures at Jefferson Medical college, Philadelphia, where he graduated in 1827. In April of this year he began to practice in partnership with his preceptor in Litchfield, where he continued one year, giving a course of lectures on anatomy and physiology to the medical students, and such members of the law class as wished to attend. Although his prospects were good for gaining a practice in Litchfield, nevertheless, in the spring of 1828, he removed to Sandusky City, Ohio, and in the fall of the same year settled at Mt. Vernon, where he. has from that time to the present been actively engaged in the practice of medicine and surgery. In the latter branch he has been remarkably successful, and has performed as many, if not more, capital operations than any inland surgeon in Ohio,

Dr. Russell has frequently operated for stone, and on one occasion 'upon two patients.the same day. For encysted calculus he has performed the high operation with success.

During the late war the doctor was one of the examining surgeons for admission of volunteer surgeons into the army, and was chairman of the board,

He was president of the Mt. Vernon bank during its existence, and is now connected with the Phoenix Mining and Mineral Land company of Colorado.

He has been solicited on several occasions to accept chairs in medical colleges in Ohio, but he has devoted his energies to private practice, which has been the favorite pursuit of his life.

He has been a member of the medical society of Knox county and also of the Ohio State Medical society from their organization, and was president of the latter; of the American Medical association since 1861, and attended the meeting in San Francisco in 1871, and is an honorary member of the California State Medical society.

He has been twice married; first, in the spring of 1828, to Eliza, daughter of Hon. William Beebe, of Litchfield, Connecticut. He has two children living - Ann Eliza and William Beebe. His second marriage was in 1872, to Ellen M. Brown, of San Francisco, California.

His daughter, Ann Eliza, now Mrs. William C. Cooper, accompanied him to California to attend the meeting of the American Medical association in 1871. They both enjoyed the trip, and often refer in terms of fond recollection to the many pleasant incidents of the journey, and the kindness and hospitality experienced from the profession and the citizens of California. After the adjournment of the association they made excursions to some noted places on the Pacific coast, and stopped three days at Salt Lake City, e# route. Mrs. Ellen M. Russell died October 14, 1879.

RUSSELL, WILLIAM B., Mt. Vernon, oldest son of J. W. Russell, M.D., was born February 23, 1829, in Mt. Vernon, where he received his preparatory education, when he entered Kenyon college, taking a partial course. After leaving school, he accepted a position in the drug house of Buckingham & Co. In 1852 he bought a half interest in the business, and shortly after, bought Mr. Buckingham out, and has been engaged ever since in the business. He carries one of the largest stocks of drugs in the city,and keeps the only place where physicians' wants can be fully supplied. His stock consists of a full line of pure drugs, chemicals, surgical instruments, etc.

Elijah and Margaret Ryan, was born in Licking county, Ohio, near the Knox county line, January 13, 1814. He was brought up on a farm, and followed farming until 1834, when he commenced working ina grist- and saw-mill with James Patterson.

In 1838 he married Miss Mary Payne, born July 11, 1816, and daughter of Ralphiel Payne. They settled in Mt. Vernon, where he continued working in the mill until 1849, when he purchased and moved on the farm where they are now living in Pleasant towuship, one mile and a half east of Mt. Vernon, since which time he has been engaged in farming. Their union resulted in seven children - all dead.

RHODES, JACOB, Pleasant township, farmer, and son of John and Elizabeth Rhodes, was born in Licking county, Ohio, April 20, 1836. On the twenty-first day of January, 1861, he was united in marriage with Miss Mary Hunt, born in this county January 17, 1835, and daughter of Richard and Nancy Hunt. They settled in Morgan township, and remained until 1876, when he purchased and moved on the farm in Pleasant township, where they are now living. Their union resulted in five children - two sons and three daughters. He has followed farming as his vocation.

In August, 1862, he left his home and family, enlisted in company G, of the One Hundred and Twenty-first Ohio volunteer infantry, and served in defence of his country until the close of the war, when he received an honorable discharge in June, 1865, He was with Sherman on his march to the sea. On his return he resumed the business of farming.

SAILOR, FREDERICK, deceased. - Among the early settlers in Pleasant township was the family of Frederick Sailor. Mr. Sailor was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on the fourth day of March, 180i. On the twenty-eighth day of September, 1830, he married Miss Elizabeth Himes, who was born on the seventh of September, 1804, in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania. The family emigrated from Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, in the year 1844 to Ohio, and settled on a farm in Pleasant township, this county, near the line of College township. Mr. Sailor died on the thirteenth of May, 1859, in the fifty-eighth year of his age. Mrs. Elizabeth Sailor and her youngest daughter reside on the old homestead farm.

Henry William went to Iowa in 1853, and on the breaking out of the late Rebellion, joined an Iowa regiment, was taken sick, died, and was buried at Memphis, Tennessee.

John Bissant moved to Iowa in 1867, where he still resides. On the tenth day of April, 1854, he married Miss Mary Ann Walker, of College township. Four daughters are the issue of this marriage.

Thomas Benton went to Pennsylvania in 1861, where he enlisted in the Second Pennsylvania cavalry and served three years. On the twenty-seventh of January, 1862, he married Miss Martha Ann Burgoyne, of Philadelphia, resides in that place, and is the father of three children - two daughters and one son.

Mary Himes was, on the tenth day of August, 1859, married to Mr. Philip Lough, of Pleasant township, and in 1873 they moved to Nebraska. Mrs. Lough died in 1875. One son was the issue of this marriage.

SANDERSON, WILLIAM, SR., lumber dealer, corner Of High and Sandusky streets, Mt. Vernon. This venerable gen-_ tleman - one of Mt. Vernon's oldest citizens - was born in Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, September 18, 1803, where he resided until he was twenty-seven years old (1830). At the age of sixteen, Mr. Sanderson commenced to learn the carriagemaking trade, which he followed up to within a few years past. In 1825 he married Miss Hannah Wolf. Eight children were born unto them. With one exception, the children have all married and have children of their own.

Mr. Sanderson emigrated to Ohio in 1830. The journey was made in wagons, and some twenty-four days were spent on the toad. There were no railroads at that date. Mr. Sanderson located at Mt. Vernon and established himself at wagon-making. He made the first wagon ever made in the city. Several of his early wagons are yet in existence, and one is in good repair that he made thirty years ago. He carried on business in this city for thirty-two years, during which he manufactured very extensively. During the last three years he built one hundred and seven carriages and one hundred and seven buggies each year, besides making many wagons and sleighs and repairing. He employed constantly from eighteen to twenty hands. his manufacturing branch, his repair department brought in a revenue amounting from two thousand to thiee thousand dollars per annum. III health caused him to transfer his business to his son-in-law, and he moved on toafarm. Here he remained for ten years.

Mr. Sanderson, on returning to this city, engaged in the lumber business with Thomas McCreary, under the name of Mc_ Creary & Sanderson. This firm continued for two years, when Thomas McCreary sold his interest to R. B. Creary, and the firm was changed to Sanderson & McCreary. This last firm was successful in business for three years.

At this period Mr. Sanderson bought the interest of his partner, and has continued the business on his own account, and has constantly on hand a stock of the value of between five thousand and six thousand dollars. This large stock comprises pine lumber, building lumber, shingles, lath, flooring, siding, fence posts, etc. His business is large and increasing.

SANDERSON, DAVID, carriage manufacturer, East street, near the Cleveland, Mt. Vernon & Columbus depot, Mt. Vernon. David Sanderson was born in Mt. Vernon July 7, 1841, and was educated in our city schools. His first business engagement was with his father where he worked at carriage trimming. He worked in his father's shop until he was twentythree years old. After his father sold out he engaged with S. H. Jackson, with whom he worked four years. Henext engaged with Hezekiah Graff, with whom he continued one year. In partnership with his brother he established himself in business in the old Rowley building, northeast corner of Main and Front streets. This firm continued for two years. His next effort was establishing himself in the old Crable shop, where he carried on business for three years. He erected the shops he now occupies, which are large and commodious. His building is two and one-half stories, forty: by sixty and eighteen by twenty feet. His residence is on the north side of Water street on the same lot with his shop. Mr. Sanderson carries a stock of about two thousand dollars, and manufactures all kinds of carriages, buggies and spring wagons; also, does all kinds of repairing.

SANDERSON, W. H., livery, West Front street, Mt. Vernon. Mr. Sanderson was born in Coshocton county, Ohio. His parents moved to Delaware county when he was a child, and still reside there. Mr. W.+H. Sanderson's first business engagement was in learning carriage painting with Mr. William Sanderson, sr., Mt. Vernon, which he followed about two years. He enlisted in company C, Ninety-sixth Ohio volunteer infantry, and served nearly four years. After his honorable discharge from the service he went to Cleveland, Ohio, and engaged with John Anderson of that city as bookkeeper, with whom he continued ten years. He returned to Mt. Vernon and engaged in the livery business, in which he has continued up to this date. He has met with good success. He keeps a stock of from ten to eighteen horses, eight buggies, two sample wagons and coach and carriages. His stock is all first class. He doesa business of from three thousand to five thousand dollars per annum.

SANDERSON, WILLIAM, JR., proprietor livery, feed, and sale stavle, West Vine street, Mt. Vernon, was born in Cumberland county, Maryland, May 18, 1828, and when about two years old his parents emigrated to Ohio and located in Mt. Vernon in 1830, where they still reside.

Mr. Sanderson is the second of a family of eight children, all of whom are living, and have families. His first business engage- - ment was in the carriage manufactory of his father, where he continued to work until he was about twenty-six years old (1854). He then engaged in the livery business, in which he has remained ever since. He carries a stock valued at about three thousand five hundred dollars, including nine horses and ten vehicles, consisting of buggies, carriages, and hacks, all of which are in good order and afford first class accommodations for the travelling public.

SANDERS, EUNICE (deceased), at time of her death said to be the oldest settler in Knox county, was born August 12, 1783, in Morris county, New Jersey, and emigrated to this county in 1808, as the wife of Ephraim Lyon. She lived on the farm on which shc died seventy-three years. The country was in the hands of the Indians when she came here, and she remembered very well when they used to take refuge in the old Lewis fort, situated where Luzerne now stands. She was the mother of eight children, two of whom went before her to the spirit land. Two daughters are married and are living in the west, while the other four children are living in this township. She remembered all the Presidents, Washington having been inaugurated when she was six years old. For many years she had been noted as being the oldest one living of the first settlers. She lived to see the country that was a wooded wilderness become a land of beautiful homes. For fifteen years she had been unable to walk a step. Her age was ninety-seven years, four months and twelve days.

SAPP, JONATHAN, Howard township, farmer, post office, Howard, was born July 17, 1809, in Union township. He was married to Miss Mary Durbin, July 15, 1830. He lived on the old farm with his father thirty years. He then bought the old Bradfield farm just across the line in Howard township, where he still lives.

They had eleven children: Simon, Catharine, Susan, Frances, William, Francis, Edmond, Susanna, Jobn, Timothy, and Sarah Ann. Catharine died at nineteen years of age; William, at thirty; Edmond, at twenty-two; Susanna, at three; Francis, at three; and Sarah Ann, at three.

Gann. He was born September 10, 1813, in Alleghany county, Maryland, and came here in Jpne, 1818. He settled in Howard township, and lived there until his twenty-second year.

In 1834 he was married to Rosanna Lose, and settled in Jefferson township, where he still remains. His business has been farming and carpentering. He had eight children: Joseph, who died at nine years of age; Margaret, born June 16, 1839; Drusilla, January 19, 1840; Adam, August 21, 1841; Emma, March 4, 1843; M. E., March 2, 1845; H. E., October 30, 1846; Henry, March 3, 1848; Frederick, June 5, 1850; R. D., January 8, 1857; all living and doing well.

SAPP, CALVIN, M. D., deceased, son of Joseph and Drusilla Sapp, was born near Danville, this county, on the twenty-first day of December, 1821. He was educated at Kenyon college. In 1842 he commenced the study of medicine in Danville with Dr. Houtz. He read one year there and then went to Loudonville, Ashland county, where he completed his course wlth Drs, Fuller and Whitney.

In the winter of 1845-7 he attended his first course of lectures in Cleveland. He then engaged in the practiee of medicine, and continued to practice twenty-three years, and in the winter of 1869-70 he graduated in the Cleveland Medical college. March 4, 1847, he married Miss Sarah B. Baker, born near Danville, this county, in June, 1824, and settled in Loudonville. In the spring of 1847 he became a partner of Dr. Fuller in the practice of medicine, and remained as such about four years, when their partnership ceased. ;

In the spring of 1851, leaving his wife at home, Dr. Sapp went to California, where he continued in his profession. He located first in Sacramento City, and remained about six months; from thence to Weaverville, where he remained nine months; then went to Portland, Oregon, where he remained about six months. In 1852 he returned to San Francisco and remained there about nine months. In 1853 he went aboard a merchant vessel, as physican and surgeon, bound for Philadelphia by way of China, East and West Indies, reaching Philadelphia in the fall of 1853; and from thence he returned home to his family.

In the spring of 1854 he commenced the practice of medicine in Danville, and continued until 1870, when he moved to Gambier, where he resided until his death. He left a family of five children - Clinton E., Laura C., Dora, Victoria and Luetta. His son, Clinton E., was educated at Gambier, read medicine with his father, attended his first term of lectures at Cleveland, and graduated at Cincinnati in the Ohio Medical college in the winter of 1874-5, and is a partner of his father's in the practice of medicine at Gambier.

SAPP, JAMES, with the firm of M. C. Sapp, boot and shoe dealer, Rogers' Arcade block, east side south Main street, Mt. Vernon. Mr. James Sapp was born in Knox county, October 2, 1832. He remained on a farm until his seventeenth year, when he went as an apprentice to the boot and shoe trade, and served three years, and then:worked as a journeyman for six months. He then entered the employ of Messrs. Miller & White, at Mt. Vernon, and continued with them for four years. He then went to Cleveland and engaged with the firm of Webster, Spencer & Miller, and remained one year. On his retuyn to Mt. Vernon he entered the boot and shoe store of Nathaniel McGiffin as salesman, with whom he remained two years. In 1860 he purchased the stock of Mr. McGiffin, and continued the business for five years, and then sold out to Mr. W. J. Morton, and went to New York city and engaged with the wholesale house of Howes, Hyatt & Co., with whom he remained one year. He then returned to Mt. Vernon and repurchased the stock he had previously sold to Mr. Morton.

In 1866 he sold his stock in trade to Mr. W. T. Patton, and remained in his employ as salesman for ten months. His next engagement was with the firm of Miller & Houston, Columbus, Ohio, as travelling salesman. For one year he remained with the above mentioned firm. He commenced business in his present location in the fall of 1878, and has retained it ever since. He carries a stock of about one thousand five hundred dollars, comprising koots, shoes, and rubbers; also does manufacturing and repairing in all its branches.

SAPP, WILLIAM G., Union township, farmer, post office, Gann, bornin Gann, March 3, 1840. In 1861 he enlisted in the Fifty-first Ohio volunteer infantry, company I., and served his full time and returned with the honors of a brave soldier, September 3, 1865. He-was married to Margaret Gann, and settled in Union township; where he has since remained. His business is chiefly agricultural. His children are: George, born May 30, 1868; John, November 23, 1870, Sarah Catharine, August 2, 1875; and Samuel, November 20, 1876. Oscar died October 3, 1878, and Samuel, November 22, 1876. The living children are all at home and attending school. William Sapp was wounded in the hip at the battle of Stone River Tennessee. He was in about thirteen battles, but sustained no other injuries, except a deficiency in his eyesight, which has never been removed.

SARGENT, WILLIAM I., Fredericktown, painter, was born in Fredericktown in 1854. He was married in 1876, to Jennie Randall, who was born in Licking county in 1857. They have one daughter, Martha L., born in 1878. Mr. Sargent isa painter by trade and is a skilful mechanic.

SAWER JAMES S., Gambier, retired, a native of England, was born in Suffolk, on the twelfth day of Octuber, 1804. The early part of his life was spent on a farm, in taking care of sheep and cattle. In 1833 he emigrated to America and located in Delaware, Ohio, where he remained one year and a half, then came to Gambier, this county. In 1835 he returned to his native county in England, where, on the eleventh of February, 1836, he was united in marriage with Miss Sophia Adams, of same county, born June 12, 1806, daughter of George and Elizabeth Adams. On the eighteenth day of February, 1836, they sailed from St. Catharine docks for America, and he returned with his companion to Gambier. They have since made that their place of residence. They reared a family of four daughters, viz,: Margaret E., Emma A., Sophia T., and Sarah. In 1836 he engaged in keeping a place of refreshments for the college, which he continued until 1874, when he retired from business, and is now living a retired iife.

SCHNEBLY, JOHN A., deceased, Pleasant township, was born in Washington county, Maryland, June 26, 1815. He was a son of John and Susan Schnebly; his father died in 1819. In 1829 he came with his mother to this county and located in Pleasant township. On the twenty-sixth day of October, 1841, he was united in marriage with Miss Rhoda A. Veatch, daughter al Serer eta i He: = | eee Rpcwsest. ts. ies Meme, Tai 2 PBs at Newt eee. 8 Sarre ty ann Ste Mage So wa Ftas einen Te. od "4 = Case ye Fatal 37 me. a 7 aes mr se amt as =e See ALL se a a ages rath ie Tae piesa lhl Sak

Ohio, on the eighteenth day of July, 1820. They settled on the farm in Pleasant township, this county, now owned and occupied by his widow and family, where he passed the remainder of his days. He died March 6, 1872. He was the father of ten children, four sons and six daughters; all were living at the time of their father's death, but two of the number, one son and one daughter, have since deceased.

SCHRIMPLIN, SAMUEL, is a native of Butler township, born on the twenty-fourth day of April, 1815. He was married to Miss Lena Ream in December, 1837, who was born in Pennsylvania, June 30, 1817. They have had eleven children, viz: Elizabeth, John Van Buren, Richard M. Johnson, William Allen, Bruce, Matilda, Anna Belle, George, Lydia, Abraham, and Sarah Catharine.

John Van Buren and William Allen enlisted in 1861-in company K, Forty-third Ohio volunteer infantry. John Van Buren was killed at the battle of Corinth, October 4, 1862, and William Allen was wounded at New Madrid, Missouri, was brought home and died May 20, 1864. Bruce enlisted in the Sixty-fifth Ohio volunteer infantry, in 1861, and died March 23, 1862, at Nashville, Tennessee, of typhoid pneumonia.

SCHROEDER, WILLIAM L., Middlebury township, farmer, post office, Fredericktown, born in Wayne: tcwnship, August 31, 1846, and was married March 30, 1868, to Louisa Alverson, who was born in Middlebury township, May 3, 1844. They have the following children: Corie L., born January 11, 1870; Charlie W., August 9, 1873; Glenn T., March 15, 1877; George, January 22, 1879, died March 11, 1879.

SCHWEIKERT, PHILIP F., was born in Baden, Germany, June 26, 1836, and at the age of seventeen came to New York with his father, where he was apprenticed to George F. Bort, a barber, with whom he remained two years. Upon attaining his majority he went to Quincy, Illinois, where he worked at his trade two years. His next move was to Kansas City, Missouri, where he embarked in an expedition to Pike's Peak. After working awhile in the mines he established the first barber-shop in Aurora - now Denver City - in 1859. From there he went to New Mexico, Texas, and Mexico; thence to Corpus Christi and New Orleans. At the latter place he was, in 1861, induced to serve in the Magnolia Guards, under General Tracy, of the confederate army; and after the occupation of New Orleans by the Federal troops he enlisted in company B, Thirteenth regiment, Connecticut volunteers, under General Butler. He was taken prisoner at Fisher's Hill, October 7, 1864, and sent to Libby prison, where he remained until February, 1865, when he was paroled, and discharged May 25, 1865.

Going to New York, he married Miss Susanna Stephens, by whom he had five children, four of whom died in infancy. Freddie K., the surviving child, was born January 25, 1869.

In 1875 Mr. Schweikert came to Columbus, Ohio, and in 1876 moved to Mt. Vernon, where he has remained until the present time, working at his trade.

SCHOLES, JOHN, Brown township, -was born in Belmont county, Ohio, July 27, 1815. His parents removed from Belmont county to Holmes county in 1823; from thence to Ashland county, two miles south of Loudonville, in 1832. He spent the greater part of his life in that county, living with his

His occupation during his life was farming, although he taught several terms of school during his younger days. He was married in April, 1847, to Lucy L. Shearer, of Ashland county, and a near neighbor of his. This marriage resulted in eight births, viz: Sarah J., Allen, Mary, Charles, William, James N., Francis H., and Thomas, all of whom are living except William and James N., who died in their youth of scarlet fever. Those living are all married except Thomas.