Knox County, Ohio - Biographical sketches, 1881 (part 16 of 20)

In the spring of 1865 he removed from Ashland county to Brown township, Knox county, two miles south of Jelloway, the present home of his family. He was a great lover of travelling, having traversed most of the Western States during his life. He joined the German Baptist church in March, 1879, and was an exemplary member. During the last year of his life he was an invalid, being confined to his house most of the time by that fell disease, consumption. Although he suffered a great deal, he bore it with that patience and fortitude which becomes a Christian. Being loved and respected by all his relatives and neighbors, his death left an aching void which will be felt for years tocome. He died May 31, 1880, aged sixty-four years, ten months and four days.

SCHOLES, CHARLES, Brown township, was born January 20, 1855, two miles south of Loudonville, in Ashland county, Ohio. His parents were John and Lucy M. Scholes. He was reared by his parents and removed with them to Brown township, Knox county, two miles south of Jelloway, in April, 1865. Farming is his principal occupation, although he has taught several terms of school. He went to the Centennial exhibition in 1876, and crossed over into New Jersey. He has made two trips to the far west, the last one to Kansas during the summer of 1879, where he spent five months visiting different parts of that State. Then, in company with two other young gentlemen, he made a tour from the central part of Kansas of about six hundred miles, in a wagon, passing through the northeast part of Kansas, through Missouri, and up into the northeast part of Iowa. From there he started home, visiting friends and relatives along the road, arriving home after an absence of seven months.

He was married June 24, 1880, to Miss Laura Richert, a neighbor's daughter, and at present is residing with his mother, on the home farm in Brown township.

SCHOLES, ALLEN, Brown township, was born July 9, 1850, in Ashland county, Ohio. His parents' names were John and Lucy L. Scholes. He was reared by his parents, with whom he lived until he was twenty-five vears of age. He removed with his parents from Ashland county to Brown township, Knox county, two miles south of Jelloway, April 4, 1865. Farming is his chief occupation, but he teaches part of the year. In the spring of 1874, he and his father bought one hundred acres of land adjoining the homestead, Allen taking one-half of it.

He was married, at the age of twenty-five years, to Mary C. Nyhart, of Jefferson township, Knox county, and immediately moved on his farm, where he still resides. This marriage resulted in three births, viz: Lola M., Charles F., and John E.

He has been clerk of Brown township, for the last five years. In the fall of 1879 he was elected land appraiser of the township without any opposition; he was also census enumerator for Brown township for 1880.

SCOLES, GEORGE W., Gambier, a native of Knox county, Ohio, and son of Henry and Jemima Scoles, was born in Clay township, near Martinsburgh, April 15, 1826. His father, a native of Ohio, was born February 17, 1799, and came to this county in an early day, where he died about the year 1828. His mother, Jemima Scoles, was a native of Washington county, Pennsylvania, born January 24, 1799, and emigrated to this county about 1820, where she married Henry Scoles and reared four children, viz: George W., Keziah A., Jackson, and Amanda, and died March 6, 1875, aged seventy-six years.

Mr. G. W. Scoles married Miss Martha A. Thompson March 12, 1848, daughter of Joseph and Nancy Thompson, who was born in Greene county, Pennsylvania, in April, 1827. They settled in Harrison township, this county, and remained until 1852, when they moved on a farm in College township, where he engaged in farming and followed that as his vocation until in 1879, when he moved to Gambier and engaged in hotel keeping, which is their present business.

SCOLES, GEORGE H., Pike township, farmer, post office, Mt. Vernon, born in this township in 1840, and was married in 1866 to Rebecca J. Leonard, who was born in this township in 1843. They have two children - Ida Belle, born in 1869, and Alva L., born in 1870. Mr. and Mrs. Scoles are prominent members of the Methodist Episcopal church. He has held and filled prominent positions in the church, also township offices.

SCOLES, JAMES, L., Fredericktown, photographer, was 'born in this county in 1843, and was married April 18, 1872, to Ella J. Hunter, who was born in this county in 1848. They have two sons - L. Guy, born November 7, 1875; Carl Brook, May 19, 1878. Mr. Scoles learned photographing in Mt. Vernon, and engaged in that busines in New London, Ohio. In 1873 his property was all destroyed by fire, after which he came to Fredericktown and engaged in the same business. His well arranged and furnished rooms are located over W. B. Cox's shoe 'store. He is a first class artist, and is building up a paying business. ]

SCOLES, JOHN T., blacksmith, post office, Mt. Vernon. - He was born in Pike township in 1844. In 1868 he was married to Nancy Gower who was born in this county in 1847. They shave three children - Amy L., born June 15, 1869; Rebecca A., April 13, 1874; and Etta Edith August ro, 1877, and died August 15, 1879. Mr. Scoles has been engaged working at the blacksmith trade. He is a good mechanic and is doing an extensive custom trade.

SCOTT, REV. JAMES, Mt. Vernon, the pioneer Presbyterian minister of this county and section of the State, was born in Chester county, Pennsylvania, on the twenty-second day of February, 1773. His father, Josiah Scott, and family came to western Pennsylvania in 1781, and settled on lands which are now the eastern suburbs of the town of Washington, the present site of the ''United College of Washington and Jefferson." In early youth he united with the Presbyterian church under the ministry of Rev. Dr. McMillen. Some time after this, his convictions of duty led to the preparation for the Gospel ministry. After completing his preparatory studies, he entered Jefferson college, and graduated in 1805. Having completed his theological studies under the direction of Dr. Mc- Millen, he came to this section of Ohio in the year 1807.

For the first two or three years he was associated with the Rev. Dr. McCurdy in the superintendency of an Indian school and mission at Upper Sandusky, spending, however, a majority of his time in travelling from that place to Newark, and preaching to settlements on the route.

On the third day of July, 1810, he was united in marriage by the Rev. George Van Eman, to Miss Jane Wilson, daughter of Captain Archibald Wilson, of Newark, Ohio. Soon after his marriage, he removed to the then village of Clinton in Morris township. In 1828 he removed to Mt. Vernon, and in 1829, to the house on Wooster avenue, still occupied by a portion of his family.

For several years previous to the year 1828, he had the charge as pastor of the churches at Fredericktown, Clinton (now Mt. Vernon), and Martinsburgh. From that time until about 1842 or 1843, he gave his whole time to the church at Mt. Vernon, when he resigned the charge, still however, continuing to preach at different places, until some ten days previous to his death, which occurred on the eighteenth day of September, A. D. 1850.

Mr. Scott, as a man, was remarkable for his evenness of disposition. His most intimate acquaintance never saw him give way to anger or passion.

Rev. Mr. Hervey, of Martinsburgh, long his associate and intimate friend, thus portrays him asa public teacher: ''As a preacher of the Gospel he was remarkably earnest and sincere. He caused his hearers to feel, because he felt. With him a text was not merely a motto for a sermon (as is the tendency of certain tastes), but it was the brick and mortar of the superstructure, and its adornment also, and while he understood and presented the doctrines of the bible, and peculiarities of that scheme of theology which he held forth as the ground of the sinner's hope, he had acquired the rare excellency (not often attained), of preaching doctrinal truth in a practical and experimental manner. In his private duties, and in the graces of his own soul, he leaves a high example. The consistency of his daily life, in connection with his unfeigned piety, produced such an impression, not only upon the church but upon the men of the world, that the remark was frequéntly made that if he failed to reach Heaven it would be useless for others to try. His knowledge of the bible was so complete, consequent upon a faithful perusal of its sacred pages, and his wonderfully retentive memory, that he could give invariably the chapter and almost always the verse of any important text it contains."

One distinguished trait of his, it' would be well for ministers in these days to imitate. He made it a point always to be in the pulpit. when his congregation had a right to expect him. Possessed of a good, natural constitution, he was known to fail but once to fulfill his Sabbath engagements by sickness during the whole course of his ministerial life.

His remains now rest by the side of his wife, who died in August, 1862, having survived him nearly twelve years. They repose in the cemetery overlooking from the north the city of Mt. Vernon, and the church he so long and faithfully served in the cause of his Master. i

Unto James Scott and his wife Jane, seven children were born, viz: Josiah Wilson, who died when about three years of age; Abraham C., now an eminent physician, and residing at Bladensburgh; Ann V., Margaret J.. Mary; James Foster, who went as a soldier in the Mexican war, and died in that country in 1847, and Félicia, who married William Tulloss. Mr. Tulloss died in 1866.

SCOTT, A. C. - Among the old citizens of Jackson township, is Dr. A. C. Scott, who is a native of the county and was born near the village of Clinton, in Morris township, March 13, 1817. His father was the Rev. James Scott, the first Presbyterian minister of the county. Heattended the school in his boyhood at Clinton and Mt. Vernon, and was a pupil at the first session of the old Martinsburgh academy, after which he spent one year at Washington college, Pennsylvania. On his return from thence he studiéd medicine in Mt. Vernon with Dr. J. N. Burr as his preceptor. He commenced the practice of his profession at Centreburgh, in Hilliar township, in April, 1840; was married to Miss Hannah Denny, of Jackson township, on the twenty-fourth day of June of the same year. He has four sons, the oldest of them, Dr. J. Foster Scott, resides at Sarcoxie, Jasper county, Missouri; William B. and A. C. Scott, jr., are farmers and reside in the vicinity of Bladensburgh, and Dr. John W. Scott, who is associated in the practice of medicine with his father. His two daughters are Violette and Lizzie. Dr. Scott became a citizen of Bladensburgh in October, 1841.

SCOTT, BALDWIN BANE, Mt. Vernon, a rising physician, was born in Knox county, Ohio, November 10, 1846. His father, Thomas E., is of direct Scotch descent. from Culpeper county, Virginia. -His mother is of English origin. Her parents came from Brainbridge, Connecticut.

The subject of this notice learned the trade of millwright with his father, and in the winter season taught school. He commenced to read medicine in the spring of 1872 with Drs. J. W. and Isaac W. Russell. He attended his first course of lectures at the Michigan university in 1874-5, and the winter of 1875-6, at the Medical Department of the Wooster university at Cleveland, Ohio. He graduated in the spring of 1876, and the same summer commenced the practice, in which he has been successful. He graduated perfect in his class - -one hundred. He was married to Miss Lunetta E. Kost, March 14, 1869, by whom he has had two sons - Walter K., born April 19, 1870, and Edwin J.. born May 10, 1872 - one of whom is living. He is secretary of the Knox County Medical society. He was elected one of the board of censors of the Medical Department of the University of Wooster, located at Cleveland, Ohio, in 1876, and again in 1881.

SCOTT, JAMES, Milford township, farmer, was born in Greene county, Pennsylvania, November 15, 1818. His father was a native of Maryland, and his mother of Pennsylvania. Her maiden name was Jane Fitch. They were married in Greene county, Pennsylvania. He came to Ohio in 1837, bringing with him three children, leaving James in Pennsylvania, where he remained until 1841.

They bought land in Bloomfield township, Knox county (now Morrow county), where Mr. Scott died. His wife survives him at an advanced age. Two ofthe children are yet living - James and George.

The subject of this 'sketch was reared on a farm. When about eighteen years old he learned the cooper trade, and worked more or less at that business for fifteen years.

In 1847 he purchased a tract of fifty-one acres of land and a twenty-one acre tract, which was entirely covered with forest. He cleared up this land, and has resided in Milford township for the last thirty-three years, being engaged in farming.

Agricultural society, and now is gne of the directors. He has held most of the township offices, is a prudent, careful business man and farmer, and has the esteem of the public.

He was married to Miss Sarah Horn in 1838, a native of Washington county, Pennsylvania, by whom he had five children, viz: Sarah Jane (married to John Williams), Priscilla (mairied to Thomas P. Fadely), Corbin T., James L., and Chinsworth, a promising boy of nineteen who was killed by a collision on the Baltimore & Ohio railroad at Independence, Richland county, in 1872. His wife died May, 1879.

SCOTT, JOSEPH, Wayne township, farmer, post office, I'redericktown, born in England, in 1833, came to Richland county, in 1849, and to this county in 1855. He was married in 1856, to Louisa Ball, who was born in this county, in 1829. They have been residents of Wayne township since 1873. Mr. Scott was formerly engaged in working on the railroad, and filled different prominent positions for twenty-two years. He settled on a farm in Wayne township, and is one of the leading farmers of this county.

SEARL, OTIS, Wayne township, farmer, post office, Fredericktown, born in New York, in 1818, came to Ohio in 1847, and was married in 1849, to Amelia Livingston, who was born in New York.

He owns a well improved farm with excellent buildings and is one among the best farmers in the township. He is enterprising and always ready to assist in every good cause and work.

SEILER, SIMON, Fredericktown, butcher, born in Dauphin county, Pennsylvania, in 1845, came to Ohio with his parents in childhood, they locating in Plymouth, Richland county, Ohio. He was married in 1867, to Edessa Cuykendall, who was born in Ohio, in 1848.

Mr. Seiler in company with Dorr Cuykendall owned the Fredericktown mill, and they were engaged in operating it until 1874, when it was burned. 'They erected a new mill in 1875, sold out to S. S. Tuttle & Co.; then engaged in butchering in 1879. He is a member of the firm of B. F. Seiler & Co.

SEILER, B. F., meat market. He was born in Plymouth, Huron county, in 1848; he was married in Richland county in 1871 to Delphine Brumback, who was born in Huron county. They have two children. Mildreth J. was born in 1873, and Carl in 1880.

Mr. Seiler learned the harness trade and worked at that business for five years, after which he engaged in the painting trade for nine years, then engaged in the butchering business in Fredericktown, where he is a member of the firm of B. F. Seiler & Co. They are doing quite an extensive trade.

SELBY, JOHN, Hilliar township, farmer, was born in Richland county, Ohio, December 11, 1817. His father, James, was born in Maryland, and served in the War of 1812. Soon after the war he came to Richland county settling in Perry township. He was married to Miss Elsie Dally, by whom he had eight children; six are living, the subject of this being the oldest child. He came to Hilliar township about 1840, and worked for his uncle, John Dally, on a farm. His first purchase was a tract of land of ninety acres where he now resides. He has since purchased a number of other tracts, and is one of the substantial farmers in Hilliar township. He started in life without the aid of a dollar, but by his industry and perseverance he has attained acompetency. He is a good farmer, a good citizen, and has the esteem of the commuuity. He was married to Miss Rebecca Debolt, by whom he had eight children, one daughter and seven sons, all doing well.

SELBY, SOLOMON, farmer, Middlebury township, post office, Levering; born in Harrison county, Ohio, in 1815; came to Knox county in the spring of 1820, and was married in 1844 to Margaret Yates, who was born in Virginia in 1816.

His father, Caleb Selby, was born in Maryland in the year 1783. He was one of the pioneers of this county, and died in Morrow county about 1858. His wife, Nancy Selby, died in Morrow county in 1853.

SELLERS, JOHN, farmer, Morgan township, was born in Greene county, Pennsylvania, in June, 1795. His parents belonged to the farmer class, being industrious and well-to-do people.

The subject of this sketch was one of ten children, only two of whom are now living. He spent his youth on the farm with his parents, attending such schools as were taught in the county in those days. His father purchased a tract of two hundred and fifty acres of land in Morgan township, and in the fall of 1823 Mr. Sellers came to this land and erected a cabin and then returned'to Pennsylvania, where he remained until the spring of 1824, when he emigrated to his new home with his family. He worked during the summer of 1824 in subduing the forest - the whole tract being heavily timbered.

In the spring of 1825, the noted ' Burlington storm." swept over M. Sellers' new home, levelling most of the timber. This was discouraging to him as he was bitterly hemmed in by an almost impenetrable jungle of fallen timber. But what he supposed wasa misfortune proved a blessing - from the fact that the fallen timber dried so, that the following year fire did the work of the axeman and the logroller.

Mr. Sellers, by his industry, prospered, and soon had a good farm, and in the course of time was enabled to purchase more land, until he is now the largest land owner in the township, and among the largest in the county. His success and integrity of character soon made him a leader, and he has always taken an active interest in the affairs of the township and county.

In politics Mr. Sellers is a Democrat of the Jackson type. In 1850 his party nominated and eleeted him a member of the Constitutional convention of Ohio.

Mr. Sellers is of benevolent impulses, and through his many acts of charity is known as ''the poor man's friend." sends any one away without supplying their wants. he is a Universalist.

He was three times married. His first wife was Nancy Mitchell, a native of Greene county, Pennsylvania, to whom he was married before coming to Ohio. They had twelve children, five of whom are living: Elizabeth, wifé of William Hamilton; Levi, an influential farmer of Morgan township; George M., in Illinois; Mary A., wife of James Elliott, who resides in Texas; and Maria. His second wife was Miss Honey, who died without issue. His present wife was Mrs. Charlotte Rapp, zee Taylor. They have four children, viz: James B., Rufus P., C. L. Vallandigham, and Mitchell.

SELLERS, JABOB, farmer, Morgan township, was born in Morgan township, March 2, 1816. His father, Jacob Sellers, came to Morgan township in 1808 and purchased quite a large tract of land. He was a native of Greene county, Pennsylvania. His wife was Mary Beam, a native of Virginia. They hada family of eleven children, viz: William, Susan (wife of James

Honey), Sarah (wife of John Clutter), Isaac, David, John, Jackson, and Mary (wife of Joseph Bolwine). The above are deceased. The living are Christian, Jacob, and George.

Jacob Sellers, sr., was born in 1785, came to Knox county in 1808, and died in 1846. His wife was born December-18, 1790, and died August 6, 1878. When this couple came to Morgan township they lived in what is called a camp, and while living there built a small cabin on the site of the buildings now owned by John Penick. The farm was entirely covered with forest, which he cleared off and became one of the good farmers of that section.

The subject of this sketchwas reared on the old homestead and has always resided on a part of it, He married Miss Cynthia Carmon, and they have a family of four children, viz: Ida M. born May 1, 1859; Delphos S., April 22, 1861; James M., June 12, 1863 (died September 20, 1863); and Jesse H., June 7, 1870.

SELLERS, LEVI, Morgan township, farmer, was born in Greene county, Pennsylvania, August 9, 1823. He is the son of John Sellers, of Morgan township, of whom mention is made. His father shortly after the birth of Levi came to Morgan township, and settled here. Mr. Sellers spent his youth on the farm, and when old enough assisted in clearing it up. His educatior was such as the common schools afforded. He remained with his father until he was about twenty-five years of age. In October, 1848, he married Miss Cassandra McLain, daughter of "Squire Charles S. McLain, of Morgan township. Shortly after his marriage he moved to his present home, where they have resided ever since. Mr. Sellers is one of the well-to-do and influ. ential farmers of old Morgan, and is highly esteemed. He is the father of seven children, viz: Charles W., William H., Ella F., wife of H. B. Hughes, of Clay township; George W., Lizzie M., Jennie M., and Anna L.

SELLERS, GEORGE, Morgan township, farmer, born in Morgan township, May 8, 1824. He is the son of Jacob Sellers, sr., of whom mention is made in the biography of Jacob Sellers, jr. The subject of this notice was reared on a farm, and has always followed farming as hisoccupation. He resides on a part of the original tract his. father purchased when first settling in Ohio.

On March 11, 1847, he married Miss Adaline Hughes (daughter of Jonathan Hughes, a pioneer of Licking county), who was born December 7, 1829. They had a family of eight children, viz: One who died in infancy; Orcelia L., wife of John Oldaker; Zilpah C., wife of Aaron Channel; George H., Jacoh O., Rosa D., Mary F., wife of Lewis Hall, and Cora Ettie. Mr. Sellers is a good farmer and citizen

SELLERS, WILLIAM H., Morgan township, farmer, born October 5, 1850. He is the son of Levi and Cassandra Sellers, of whom mention is made. He was reared on his father's farm, educated at the common schools, and Dennison university, Granville, Ohio. He is a rising young farmer, intelligent and industrious.

He was married August 8, 1878, to Miss: Elizabeth J. Campbell, daughter of James Campbell, of Morgan township. They have one child, Gertrude, born March 22, 1880. _ ;

SELLERS, JAMES B., Morgan township, farmer, born in Morgan township, March 26, 1858, son of John sellers, of same township, and of whom mention is made elsewhere, was reared on a farm, and has continued farming ever since. He attended

He was married to Miss Grizzilda Beney, daughter of William Beney, of Clay township, on December 6, 1877. They have one child, John William.

SELLS, EMANUEL, Union township, farmer, post office, Millwood, born in 1824, in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, came to Ohio when ten years old, remained for a time in Ashland, and then moved to Knox county in 1848. In 1861 he enlisted in the Forty-third regiment, company K, Ohio volunteer infantry. He was through a large number of the southern States, and was in several battles and skirmishes. He sesved his time and received honorable discharge. He then settled on his farm, where he still remains.

Finley, who, at the time of her marriage resided at Steubenville, Ohio. The parents removed to Steubenville, where the subject of this sketch spent his youth. His father being a dentist, he commenced the profession at an early age. In 1856 hecame to Fredericktown, this county, and opened rooms, where he practiced his profession until 1868, and then located in Mt. Vernon, where he has ever since practiced his profession with eminent success. In December, 1870, he was examined by the State board, who were appointed under the laws of Ohio. He was not compelled to be examined, but submitted to an examination, as he was desirous of having their certificate; he hasa large and lucrative practice; he is regarded as a proficient and expert dentist. He was married to Miss Abbie Young, of Fredericktown, September, 1869. Unto them were born three children, two of whom are living.

SEVERNS, JAMES, retired farmer, Brown township, a son of Joseph and Mary Severns, was born in Coshocton county, Ohio, on the tenth day of February, 1805. His mother deceased when he was a boy of about nine summers. In 1817 he was brought to Knox county, Ohio, by his father and stepmother (his father having married again), who located near Millwood, remained one year, then moved back to Coshocton county and located near New Castle, where they lived about two years. In 1820 he purchased four hundred acres of Military land from Columbus Delano, in Brown township, this county, on which he made improvements and moved his family the same year, where he remained and followed farming as his vocation until his death, at the good old age of about eighty-eight years.

At the time of his settlement in Brown township there was but one cabin between his residence and Danville; neighbors were few and far apart. Their nearest grist-mill was one known as the Shrimplin mill, near Millwood. The red man was his friend and often called to see him; wild animals were abundant; the forests were full of game of all kinds; he was known asa great hunter and a good marksman. He was married twice, and was the father of twenty-two children, all of whom are now deceased, except James, by his first marriage, who is now living on a part of the old home farm, and two sons and one daughter by his second wife.

James Severns, the subject of this sketch, was reared a farmer and has made farming his vocation through life, and has lived on the same farm since 1820, which is situated two miles west of Jelloway, Brown township. He has been married three times, first to Miss Elizabeth Pierce, of Richland county, January 1, 1832, who bore him one child, Lyman W. She died in August, 1832, and he married Mrs. Armelia Frazier, mee Hughes, of Holmes county, Ohio, in May, 1838, who lived with him eighteen years, and deceased in 1856. He married Jane Sells, of Knox county in 1857, by whom he has had six children, four of whom are now living, viz: Joseph B., Mary E., John B., and James.

SEVERNS, ISAAC D., Pleasant township, farmer, son of Samuel Severns, was born in Coshocton county, Ohio, December 23, 1824. Farming is his vocatien. On the eighth of October, 1847, he married Miss Elizabeth Mills, born April 10, 1826, daughter of Joseph Mills. They settled on a farm in Coshocton county, where they remained until 1876, when he purchased the farm in Pleasant township, Knox county, Ohio, where they are now living. They have a family of four children, two sons and two daughters.

SEYMOUR, JESSE (deceased), Pleasant township, son of James and Susan Seymour, 'was born in Virginia, September 8, 1809, and brought up in Greene county, Pennsylvania. In 1838 he in company with his parents and other members of the family, emigrated to Knox county, Ohio, and located in Clinton township, where they remained a few years, then moved on a farm in Morgan township, where they remained until about 1850, when he purchased, and moved his fathers family, on a farm in Pleasant township, now owned by his heirs, and where his parents passed the remainder of their days. His mother died in 1862, aged seventy-six years. His father died in 1868, aged ninety-one years.

He was a Baptist minister, and preached at the Owl Creek church for many years, also in Mt. Vernon and other places. In 1858 he had the misfortune to lose his sight, and though blind, continued to preach occasionally. He followed farming as his chief vocation. -

SHAFFER, PETER, Hilliar township, proprietor of Shaffer house, Centreburgh, Ohio, was born in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania in 1826. George Shaffer, his father, was a soldier in the War of 1812, and came to Ohio with his family in 1848 and settled in Berlin township, where the subject of this sketch spent his youth. Mr. Shaffer kept hotel in Mount Liberty and in connection runa farm. At Mt. Vernon he also kept a hotel. He returned again to Mt. Liberty after being in Mt. Vernon, and in connection with farming kept hotel. From Mt. Liberty he came to Centreburgh and opened his present hotel; in connection with the hotel he has a livery stable. From his long experience in the business of catering to the public he has acquired the art of making his guests feel at home. He is doing a good business and is always pleased to see his friends. Mr. Shaffer is pleasant and sociable in his manners, and merits the patronage of the public. He was married to Miss Ellen Thacher, of Liberty township, in 1854, and by this union they had a family of six children, all of whom are living.

Mt. Vernon railroad, Mount Liberty, was born June 6, 1854; he was the son of Peter and Ellen Shaffer, mee 'Thatcher. His youth was spent with his parents, and when he was old enough he was put to work; his educational advantages were limited, but he acquired sufficient to transact business. He was appointed agent at Mt. Liberty on the completion of the road, and has held it ever since. He makes an efficient and competent agent and is affable in his manners. In connection with his other business he buys grain. He was married to Miss Ella Lyal, daughter of John Lyal of Hilliar township, February 22, 1877. They have one child, Earl L., born June 19, 1878.

SHALER, DAVID, Middlebury township, millwright, post office, Levering; born in Washington county, 'Pennsylvania, July 14, 1812, and was married June 12, 1841, to Martha Dwyer. They have the following family: John D., born March I, 1842; Catharine, August 27, 1843; E. Shauck, February 20, 1845; Martha, June 1, 1847; Mary E., December 22, 1848; Charles, May 31, 1852; Olive, Magych 18, 1854. Mrs. Shaler died February 22, 1858. Olive Shaler died February 15, 1857. Mr. Shaler was married September, 1859, to Helen Burk, who was born in Martinsburgh, Knox county, July 21, 1861. They have the following children: Charlotte, born july 21, 1861; Frank L., June 8, 1863; Leah D., January 28, 1865; Bertie, February 12, 1870; David, December 16, 1873; William. October 27, 1874.

SHANNON, JOHN, Morris township, farmer, post office, Mt. Vernon, was born in Licking county, Ohio, in 1830; was married in 1855 to Margaret Davis, who was born in Licking county in 1833. They had the following children: Emma Jane, born in 1860; Alonzo, born in 1862; William, in 1856; Byron, in 1864; Maggie, in 1866. William died in 186r.

SHARP, DAVID, deceased, Morris township, was born in New Jersey in 1808, and married in 1832 to Mary Rinehart. They had twelve children: William, born in 1833; Christian, in 1835; Margaret May, in 1837; Morris, in 1839; Caroline, in 1841; Anora, in 1844; Samuel, in 1846; Mary, in 1847; Rebecca Jane in 1849; David, in 1853; George and Thomas in 1855. Mrs. Mary Sharp died in 1859. Mr. Sharp subsequently married Margaret Studer, by whom he had four children: Catharine, born in 1860; Fanny Ellen, in 1865; Philip, in 1868; Daniel, in 1870.

Mr. David Sharp died in 1876, at his residence in Morris township. David Sharp, jr., died in 1853. George died in 1858. Morris and William were soldiers in the late war.

The following members of the Sharp family are married: Mary A., to Dennis Jackson, September, 1871, and resides in this township; Anna E., to John S. Cowden, March, 1879, and isa resident of Clinton township.

Mr. Sharp moved to Bureau county, Illinois, in 1854, and remained there seven years. While residing there Pealey A. Sharp died, March 31, 1855. Mr. Sharp moved back to Delaware county, Ohio, and resided there a short time; then came to Morris township, this county, and resides here. He owns a pleasant home, is engaged in raising vegetables, fruits, etc. He is an industrious and worthy citizen.

SHARPNACK, E., Mt. Vernon, was born in Greene county, Pennsylvania, in 1836, and left there with his parents in the same year and came to Liberty township, Knox county, Ohio, and has beerfa citizen of Knox county ever since. He commenced in the grocery business in 1877, March 20, in which he has been engaged ever since. Previous to 1877 he was a farmer; educated at the common schools; doing a business of fourteen thousand dollars per year; married January 9, 1859 to Miss C. Tocam, of Knox county, and has a family of two children.

SHARTLE, DANIEL, Pike township, farmer, post office, Democracy, was born in Centre county, Pennsylvania, in 1811; came to Ohio in 1838, and was married in 1851 to Rebecca Carmichael, who was born in Brown township, this county, in 1826. They have five living children - Louisa E., born in 1852; William H., in 1854; Aaron D., in 1855; Almeda C., in 1861; and Alice M., in 1864.

H. was married in Kansas in 1880 to Miss Phosia E. Zigler, and is a resident of that State. Almeda was married in 1880 to Thomas McDonel, and is a resident of Monroe township. Aaron D. and Alice M. are living with their parents.

Mr. Shartle purchased the farm where he now resides, containing eighty acres, on the east half of the northwest quarter of section twenty, in township eight, range twelve. He paid three hundred dollars for the farm, cleared and improved it, and it is now one of the most valuable farms of this county. He gave his children a very liberal education.

SHAW, JOHN, deceased, Union township, son of William and Charlotte Shaw, was born in Allegheny county, Maryland, August 16, 1787. He was reared on a farm, and made farming his principal vocation. In 1809 he married Miss Charity Rickets, born in Allegheny county, Maryland, in 1792.

They settled in Allegheny county, remained until the fall of 1833, when he, with wife and family, emigrated to Danville, Knox county, Ohio, where they passed the remainder of their days.

They reared a family of ten children, viz: William, Benjamin R., Otho, Lavinia, Ruth, Josephus, Parmenas, Henry N., Eleanor and John T, William, Benjamin R., Laviniaand Ruth have died. Mr. Shaw filled the office of justice ot the peace for several years, in Union township. He died in 1842, and Mrs. Shaw, in 1855. Their third son, Josephus Shaw, was born in Allegheny county, Maryland, March 27, 1820. He is a saddler and harness maker, served his apprenticeship for three years, with M. L. Dayton, in Martinsburgh, Knox county, Ohio, from 1839 to 1842. He then worked as journeyman at his trade until 1844, when he commenced business for himself, in Danville, in the same county, where he has since lived, being the oldest man in the business in Danville.

In 1846 he married Martha Robinson of Union township. They settled in Danville, where they are living now. Their union resulted in six children, five sons and one daughter.

SHAW, JOHN, Mount Vernon was born March 4, 1809, in Lancashire, England, where he remained until 1826, when he emigrated to America and located in New Haven county, Connecticut, where he lived four years, then moved to Ohio and settled in Wayne township, Knox county, where he followed farming, but becoming dissatisfied in the spring of 1833, he started for Philadelphia on foot; when he got as far as Chester county he got a job inacotton factory, where he remained some two years. During this time the railroad had been built, and he returned home by rail. He went east again in the spring, and worked in the woollen factory, in Cecil county, Maryland, but very soon after his arrival, he was taken sick, and when recovered sufficiently, he returned to England and spent the winter, and regaining his health; in the spring he returned to Cecil county, Maryland, and was married shortly after, to Miss Charlotte Porter. He remained in Cecil for three years and then with his family, he returned to Knox county, Ohio, and farmed for four years; he then worked in a woollen factory in Wayne township. In 1849 he cameto Mt. Vernon and worked three years in the woollen factory here, then purchased the Marshal factory which he operated for eleven years. In 1864 he returned to Mt. Vernon and rented the Norton factory and has been engaged in various ways to the present time. They have had a family of eleven children, seven of whom are living.

SHAW, THOMAS, Boston boot and shoe house, corner Main and Gambier streets, Mt. Vernon. Mr. Shaw is a son of one of the pioneers of this city, ex-Senator John Shaw, and was born October 31, 1822. His first business engagement was with the firm of Hill & Woodard, in a general store, where he served two years; he then served the firm of K. Winne one year, after which he was engaged with N. N. Hill for six years. In July, 1843, he went to New York City and engaged with the firm of Dibblee, Pray & Co., dealers in fancy dry goods, as salesman. He was retained five years, after which he entered the firm of Benedick Hall & Co., boot and shoe jobbers, with whom he remained until 1856, when he went to Boston and engaged as manufacturer and wholesale dealer in boots and shoes, under the firm name of Shaw & Childs, and Thomas Shaw & Co., in which he remained until the fall of 1876, when he returned to Mt. Vernon, and finding the old room vacant that he has occupied when a boy, he decided to go into the boot and shoe business, in which he has since been engaged. He has a stock of from ten to twelve thousand dollars, consisting of boots and shoes, being one of the largest and most complete stocks in the city.

William A. Shaw died April 4, 1880; Mary died November 30, 1861; Douglass, May 21,.1877, drowned near Mt. Vernon while engaged in shearing sheep.

Mr. Shaw came to Knox county with his parents whena child; was engaged in farming during life; was a highly respected citizen. Mrs. Shaw resides in this township with her children.

1788. He was a cabinetmaker and joiner by trade, which business he followed as his avocation until 1828, when he turned his attention to farming which he made_ his avocation until the time of his death. In 1813 he married Miss Susannah Shaffer, of Greene county, Pennsylvania, who was born in 1794. They migrated to Ohio shortly after marriage and located in Licking county where they remained until 1828, when they moved to this county and located ona farm in Morgan township. In 1836 they moved to Clinton township and located near Mt. Vernon, where he died November 24, 1838, leaving a wife and eleven children. He was a good citizen, an affectionate husband, and a kind father. His companion survived him until April 24, 1877. Of the eleven children only four are now living, viz: Lovina, Lemuel, Lydia, and Burr.

SHEFFER, BURR, Pleasant township, farmer, son of Adam and Susannah Sheffer, was born in Knox county, Ohio on the second day of May, 1833. ; and stock raising as his avocation.

He has followed farming On the eighteenth of February, 1858, he was united in marriage with Miss Catharine Bechtel, born in this county, March 1, 1837, daughter of Martin and Sophia Bechtel. They settled on a farm in Clinton township, remained there until 1866, when he purchased and moved on the farm in Pleasant township now owned by Philip Fry. They lived on this farm about eleven years. In 1877 he purchased a part of the Bechtel homestead, on which they are now living. Their union resulted in four children: Ida M., Charles B., Anna S., and Mary M. Mary M. deceased February rr, 1877.

SHELLENBARGER, J. J., Howard township, post office, Howard, was born in Jefferson township, June 4, 1840. He remained at home until he was eight months old when his father died and he wastaken to Mr. S. Nighhart's, and remained there until he was fifteen years old. From this time he went from place to place farming, until his twenty-first year. He was then married to Mary Allen, December 3, 1860; moved ona farm and lived a year in Howard township. In October, 186r, he enlisted in Colonel Cassil's company, Ohio volunteer infantry. He went to Kentucky. The first battle he remembers was the battle of Stone Bridge, where he was wounded in the fight and was laid up for seven months. Chattanooga. Not long after they engaged in the battle of Mission Ridge. He was in eleven battles, besides severa] scouting expeditions. He had seven children: F. M., J. C., Nora Ellen, W. G., J. H., H. N., and W. F. Shellenbarger.

SHEPPARD, GEORGE C., Middlebury township, carpenter, post office, Fredericktown, born in Richland county, Ohio, June 14, 1845, and was married in 1869 to Louisa I. Lukens, who was born in Richland county in 1852. They have two children - Ada A., born September g, 1872; and Annette May, born March 8, 1875.

Mr. Sheppard was in the late war, a member of company I, Second Ohio artillery. He enlisted July 26, 1863, and was honorably discharged August 29, 186s.

SHERWOOD, HUMPHREY, was born in Rutland Vermont, November 19, 1806, where he resided until 1833, being reared on a farm; came to Ohio in 1833, and engaged to work ona farm for a Mr. Allen during the summer. He then re- turned to his old home in Vermont. Coming back to Mt. Vernon the following October, he bought a farm in company with his brother, which they owned about three years, when they sold it and went to Indiana, where he bought a farm, but sold it shortly after; came back to Mt. Vernon, and in the spring moved to his father-in-law's place (Nathan Johnson) in Clinton township, where he lived thirteen years, he then rented 4 farm one and one-half miles from Mt. Vernon, where he lived until January 1, 1863, when he moved to his present residence.

Mr. Sherwood was married to Miss Johnson, Febiuary 20, 1839, but lost her by death January 20, 1840. His second wife was Miss A. Wing, to whom he was married August 24, 1849. She died August 27, 1871. He married Sarah Larabee, August 23, 1877, who is a native of Howard township, and was born June 19, 1844.

SHERWOOD, STEPHEN H., retired farmer, post office, Fredericktown. - He was born in Benson, Rutland county, Vermont, February 28, 1811; came to Knox county in 1835; married August 28, 1836, to Mary I. Manly, who was born in Benson county, Vermont, February 13, 1811. They had four children - Julia M., born September 23, 1837; Horace H., June 21, 1846; Herbert A., March 27, 1851; Lucy M., July 2, 1853; Julia M. Sherwood was married April 16, 1857, to John H. Wilhelm, who was engaged teaching at different places, Cleveland, Fredericktown, etc. Horace H., was married to Anna R. Robinson, February 24, 1869. They had two children - Lua Dell and Herbert R., both deceased. Herbert A. was married September 12, 1878, to Acelia J. Thompson, of Warren, Trumbull county, Ohio. He studied medicine and graduated at the Homeopathic Cleveland Medical institute in 1876. Dr. Sherwood is engaged in the practice of Medicine in Warren Ohio. Mrs. Julia M. Wilhelm died May 5, 186r.

Mr. Sherwood is an intelligent and enterprising citizen of this township and county. He has taken great pains in educating his children, and they are reaping the benefits of his efforts.

His son, Dr. Sherwood, is haviny an extensive practice in his profession, and his daughter Lucy is an accomplished lady engaged in teaching instrumental music.

SHINABERRY, WILLIAM, deceased, was born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, in 1800. He emigrated to Knox county, Ohio, with his parents in 1806, who located in Clinton township, on land now owned by William O. Johnson and Mrs. Keifer, one mile from Mt. Vernon, on the Columbus road. His father was killed by a tree falling on him about one year after his settlement in this county. He was reared on a farm, and followed farming as his vocation. About 1819 or 1820 he matried Miss Rebecca Cramer, by which marriage he had two children - Elizabeth and Rebecca - both dead. His companion deceased in 1822, leaving two small children to his care... He martied for his secondwife Miss Sisson Fisher, about 1823, daughter of Enoch Fisher. They settled in Clinton township, ona part of his father's home, now owned by William O. Johnson, where they lived until 1837, when they moved on the farm now owned by Henry Myers, in same township, remained there two and a half years, and from thence they, in 1839, moved on the farm now owned by James and Isaac Johnson, located on the Columbus road, about two miles from Mt. Vernon. In 1847 he sold this farm and purchased and moved on a small property near the Johnson school-house, where, in 1853, his wife died. In 1853 he moved back on the old farm and there died in 1855. They reared a family of six children - Mary J., Enoch B., Ma-

SHINABERRY, ENOCH B., farmer, was born in Clinton township, Knox county, Ohio, September 1, 1826. He married Miss Henrietta G. Gotshall, june 29, 1847, who was born in Northumberland county, Pennsylvania, May 27, 1826. They settled on his father's home farm, where they lived until 1852, when he purchased and moved on the George Davis farm, where they are now living, located on the Granville road, two miles from Mt. Vernon. 'Their union resulted in eleven children - three sons and eight-daughters. Five of the daughters have deceased. He was brought up on a farm, and has followed farming and stockraising.

SHINABERRY, WILLIAM B., farmer, second son of the aforesaid William and Sisson Shinaberry, was born in Clinton township, Knox county, Ohio, March 25, 1835. He married Miss Lydia Ann Halsey, March 4, 1858, born in Knox county, February 27, 1840, daughter of D. F. Halsey, esq. They settled on his father's home farm, remained five years, and in 1863 they moved on the farm now owned by Minard Lafever, in Clinton township, and from thence, in 1866, he purchased and moved on the farm where he is now living, in same township. His companion deceased in June, 1867. He married for his second wife Miss Anna Parrott, March 3, 1868, born in Clinton township, daughter of Edmond and Margaret Parrott, zee Lafever. Their union resulted in one child - Dora. ' His vocation is farming.

SHIPLEY, AMON MASSENA, Mt. Vernon, deceased, was born in Springhill township, Fayette county, Pennsylvania, October 5, 1806. He was reared on a farm, and married Miss Susannah Saddler, abovt one year his senior, and of the same neighborhood, on the fifth day of April, 1827. They came to Knox county in 1832, and settled on what is known as the Old Hill place in Monroe township, about three miles east of Mt. Vernon, on the Coshocton road, where they met with all the privations and hardships incident to clearing up and improving afarm at that time. Mr. Shipley was for some years engaged in school teaching in the winter and farming the balance of the year. In 1852 he sold his farm in Monroe township and bought the ''old Indian fields" in Howard township, containing four hundred and eight acres, where, for many years, he carried on farming and lumbering.

On the sixteenth of November, 1872, his wife, Mrs. Susannah Shipley, after eight weeks of intense suffering, passed away in great peace, her wonderful patience in suffering being a signa] proof of the triumph of the Chrisrian's faith. Soon after his companion's death, Mr. Shipley sold his land in this county and retired from business, and moved to Jackson county, Michigan, where he still resides. He has eight children living, viz: Minerva, the eldest daughter, was born in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, July 14, 1828, and married William D. Woollison, of Monroe township, who is now a successful farmer in Cedar county, Iowa, and has five children living; Worthington R., was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, November 5, 1829; he is now farming in Howard township; Benedict F. (see biography); Emeline, born July 12, 1838, resides in Spring Arbor, Michigan; Agnes D., born March 13, 1842, married Calvin Miller, of Clay township, and is now living in Marion county, Illinois; Eugene C., born June 8, 1845, married Miss E. J. Baker, of Monroe township, December r5, 1871, and now resides in Jackson city, Michigan; he is an excellent mechanic, and is a local preacher in the Free Methodist church; Almon

D., born August 9, 1847, married Miss Elizabeth Hale, of West Windsor, Richland county, September ro, 1878; he is a physician and surgeon, and resides and practices near Toledo, Ohio; Robert S., born October 26, 1852, married Miss Ellen Barron, of Brown township, March 6, 1877. He is a very ingenious mechanic and a successful physician and surgeon, and is practicing medicine at Lindsey, Ohio. :

SHIPLEY, WORTHINGTON, Howard township, farmer, post office, Howard, was born in Springfield township, Fayette county, Pennsylvania, November 5, 1829, and moved to Monroe township, Knox county, with his father in 1832, who lived in Monroe township twenty years, and then moved to Howard township in 1852, where he lived on his farm twenty-five years. He then moved to Spring Arbor, Michigan.

Worthington Shipley's mother died in Howard township, February ro, 1873, on the old farm. March ro, 1857, he was married. He has been engaged largely in lumbering, and conducting milling as well as farming.

SHIPLEY, BENEDICT F., Monroe township, son of Amon and Massena Shipley, was born in Monroe township, Knox county, Ohio, January 29, 1836. His childhood and youth were spent on the farm and in the saw-mill. In 1858 he went to South Carolina, via Baltimore, Washington City, and Richmond. After visiting several places in the southern States he went to Charleston, South Carolina, intending to follow the sea, but after applying to a number of sea captains for a berth, he abandoned the idea, and, as he afterwards learned, barely escaped shipping on a pirate craft. In the spring of 1859 he returned home, visiting all the eastern cities except Boston. The following autumn he started south again véa Cincinnati, and down the river to Memphis, and across Arkansas on foot to Clarksville, Texas, where he engaged in merchandizing. In this he continued until early in 1861, when he joined an expedition organized by the State, to march against a force of about twelve hundred Indians, under the old chief Hopotholoholo, who with his braves were threatening the border settlements with destruction. The summer and winter of 1861 he spent among the Indians in the territory, being with his command in some desperate encounters with Hopotholoholo's band, who were finally routed and scattered. In the spring of 1862, he, with the whole command, was marched to White river, in Arkansas, and turned over to the confederate government as conscripts, and placed under command of General Beauregard at Corinth, Mississippi. Having been promoted to a lieutenantcy, Mr. Shipley soon sent in his resignation. It was never accepted, but he was turned over instead to Jeff Davis at Richmond. Having obtained leave of absence on tendering his resignation, he visited Mobile, Alabama, and returned to Texas via Vicksburgh and Monroe, Louisiana. From Texas he returned to Mississippi, and spent the winter of 1862 and 1863 in Tallahatchie county, hunting bear on Tipp's lake, in a large swamp near the Tallahatchie river. In the following summer, feeling feeling no longer safe from confederate conscription, Mr. Shipley made his way to the Mississippi river, flanked the confederate pickets and appeared in the Yankee lines at Helena, Arkansas, July 16, 1863.

Mr. Shipley returned home, but soon went to California via New York and Aspinwall. Here he engaged in merchandizing at Mugginsville, on Cats-paw flat, west of Mule-ear divide, in Lyekiyou county, where he remained nearly three years. Mr. Shipley returned to Knox county in 1866, and married Mary C:

Anderson, of Howard township, Séptember 11, 1866. He now resides in Monroe township, near where he was born. Four children were the issue of this marriage, viz: Marion Eugene, born July 16, 1868; Price McKendree, born June 28, 1871; William Burrk, born June 29, 1873; Lida Ora, born September 20, 1875.

SHIPLEY, GEOPGE W., Pike township, farmer, post office, North Liberty, born in this township in 1838, and was married in 1861 to Sarah J. Rummel, who was born in Worthington township, Richland county, in 1838. They have three children - Mary G., born in 1862; Willard B., in 1865, and Edwin R., in 1870.

His father, Elias Shipley, was born in Maryland in 1791, and was married to Rebecca Phillips, who was born in Maryland in 1796. They had twelve children - -Reuben, Catharine, William A., James, Brice, George W., and Rebecca. The deceased children are Mary Jane, Caroline, Elias, Charles, and John Wesley.

Elias Shipley, sr., died in this township in 1861. They came to Knox county at an early day and settled in this township, and are numbered among the pioneers.

SHIRA, RUDOLPH H., Pike township, farmer, post office, North Liberty, was born in Stark county, Ohio, in 1820; went to Richland county when quite young; remained there eleven years, and was married in 1844 to Catharine Loose, who was born in Bedford county, Pennsylvania, in 1825. They have eight children - William, born in 1845; Rob Roy, in 1847; George, in 1849; Emma, in 1854; Amanda, in 1855; Abi S., in 1859; Wilson, in 1861; and Lloyd, in 1867.

The following are married: Rob Roy, to Ellen Shacklet, deceased; George, to Mary Penroe; he is a practicing physician at Dunkirk, Ohio. William is engaged in the study and practice of medicine in Scottown, Marion county, Ohio. Amanda Shira was married to Melvin Sweitzer; they reside at Independence, Richland county.

SHOWERS, JEREMIAH, Berlin township, mason, post office, Fredericktown, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1841. He came to Ohio in 1856, and located in Berlin township, Knox county, where he was married in 1865, to Sarah Ann Davis, who was born in Berlin towiship, in 1842. They have two children: Leota, born in 1867; Frank B., in 1870.

Mr. Showers was a soldier in the late war, and was among the first to respond to the call. He was a member of company E, Third Ohio volunteer cavalry, and was engaged with this company and regiment three years and six months. He was also engaged in the company of Guthrie Grays for six months. He continued until the close of the war, and was one of the loyal, faithful, and brave soldiers of Ohio.

SHRIMPLIN, ABSALOM, Jefferson township, deceased, son of John Shrimplin, born in Knox county, Butler township, November 27, 1806, where he was reared and received a common school education.

In 1829, June 23d, at the age of twenty-two years, he married Miss Priscilla F. Dial, daughter of Isaac and Hannah Dial, who was born in Pleasant township, Knox county, in 1810, October 28. After his marriage he remained in Butler township, being the owner of one hundred and ninety-two acres of land. In 1849 he sold said land, purchased a farm of two hundred and twenty-two and a half acres in Jefferson township, about eighty rods southeast of the village of Greersville, where he then moved with his family, and remained until his death, which occurred the twenty-eighth day of December, 1878, in his seventy-second year. His companion survives him in her seventy-first year.

SHERMAN, ABNER D., farmer, Middlebury township, post office, Fredericktown, born in Middlebury township, August 23, 1837, and was married January 3, 1858, to Elizabeth Tobin, who was born in Guernsey county, Ohio, February 28, 1836. They have one son, Walden L., born April 1, 1859.

His father, Abner Sherman, was born January 29, 1804, in Belmont county, and was married March 26, 1826, to Katherine Kerby, who was born in Maryland March 19, 1806. They had two children: Mary Jane, born December 7, 1826; and Abner, August 23, 1837. Mary Jane Sherman was married January 4, 1845, to Luther Mann. 'They reside in Perry township, Richland county.

SHULTS, JACOB, farmer, Jefferson township, post office, Danville, was born in Sommerset county, Pennsylvania, February 15, 1808. In 1809 he came with his parents to what was then known as Stark county, Ohio, but by the changes that have been made in the county lines it is now known as Carroll county. He lived with his parents in said county until the year 1836, when he married his wife, Miss Mary Breakler, who was born in Germany, December 16, 1808. In 1809 Mr. and Mrs. Shults moved on the farm where they now live. They became the parents of seven children, who grew to be young men and women. 'Their two sons, Jacob and Christopher, volunteered to defend their country December 8, 1861. Christopher died in Jackson, Tennessee, September 2, 1862. Jacob died at same place, October 28, 1862. Both died of camp disease. Henry also enlisted in the autumn of 1864, in company K, Sixtyninth regiment, Ohio volunteer infantry, and was honorably dischargen in 1865. Mr. Shults how resides in Jefferson township, on the farm he entered September, 1833. He is seventytwo years old and enjoys good health for a man of his age. Their seven children are still living.

SILLIMAN, ALEX, horse dealer, Fredericktown, was born in Beaver county, Pennsylvania, March 30, 1839, came to Ohio when quite small, and was married to L. J. Trayhern, who was born in Ohio. They have seven children, viz.: Alex S., James A., Samuel Ulysses, Susie, Nellie, Mamie, Nannie. Mr. Silliman is engaged in buying and selling horses, and is one of our best judges in this trade.

SIMS, JOHNSON, farmer, was born in Clay township July 8, 1835, and with the exception of four years when he was in Iowa, has resided in Clay township. He was married September 15, 1869, to Miss Hartiet Floyd, who was born January 23, 1842. They have only one chi!d: Hannah May, who was born September 3, 1870, in Polk county, Iowa.

Mr. Sims was a member of company D, One Hundred and Twenty-fifth Ohio volunteer infantry, and was severely wounded at the battle of Chickamauga. They are members of the Presbyterian church of Martinsburgh, and Mr. Sims is a deacon in the church.

SIMMONS, THOMAS, Pike township, farmer, post office, Democracy, born in Worthington township, Richland county, Ohio, in 1850, and was: married in 1873, to. Lorilla Evlyn O'Bryan, who was born in Pike township, this county, in 1855. They have four children: Emerald Alvernon and Sylva Alberta (twins), born in 1873; Samuel Douglass, in 1876; and Estella May, in 1878. Mr. Simmons came to Knox county in 1861.

SIMONS, NICHOLAS, Milford township, farmer, was born in Pennsylvania March 5, 1796, and remained there until about 1825, when he came to Ohio. He worked east-of Mt. Vernon for some time. While there, he made the acquaintance of Miss Hannah Devours, and they were married. She was born July 28, 1815, and is a native of Pennsylvania. Soon after their marriage they came to Milford township, where he has resided ever since. He purchased the farm he now owns, which was a wilderness at the time, and built his first abiding place near the site of his present dwelling.

Mr. Simons has been a hard working, industrious man, honest in his dealings, and by his industry he has made for himself a comfortable home wherein to spend his remaining days. They hada family of thirteen children - those living are: Catharine; Barbara, married to John Blaker; Jacob; Margaret, widow of David Glancy; Henry, Nathaniel, Lavina, Louisa and Sarah; and the deceased are: John, Elizabeth, Solomon and an infant.

SIMONS, M. J., Fredericktown, dealer in dry goods, notions and queensware, was born in Knox county, Ohio, in 1832, and was married in 1855, to Alice Smith, who was born in Canada. They have three children, viz: Charlie, Fred, and Maude. Two died young.

Mr. Simons was engaged in his business in 1852, has the most extensive store in this place, and has been one of the most successful men in the mercantile business here. He has a very large and complete stock, and the best the market affords.

SIMPKINS, BENJAMIN F., Pike township, farmer, post office, Democracy, was born in Monroe township, this county in 1847, and was married November 3, 1867, to Martha E. Hyatt, who was born near Mt. Holly, this county, in 1849. They have one son--Isaac E. - born August 8, 1868. Mr. Simpkins came to Pike township in the spring of 1878, and has builta residence in Amity. During the summer season he engages in farming, and during the winter in manufacturing axe handles. He is a member of a pioneer family.

SIMPSON, JOHN, Howard township, farmer, post office, Howard, was born in Brown township on the second day of pril, 1841, His father died in the year 1846. He lived with his grandfather until he was eighteen years old. He was married in his twenty-first year to Miss Drusilla Clark, and moved to his present farm in 1865. He moved to Union township in 1869, remained there two years, and then went back to his present farm. He has nine children: Slora Jane, Elmer, John, Grant, Olive, Quincy, William, Frank, and an infant.

sevén years old, when they removed to Clearfield county, and located on a farm where he resided fourteen years, and then emigrated to Pittsburgh, Wayne county, Chio, where they lived three. years, and until April 1, 1840. While living in Clearfield young Singer entered the employ of an elder brother and learned the tailoring trade, where he served four years. His first business engagement in his own hehalf was at Pittsburgh, Wayne county, where he started a tailor shop and continued it until 1840, when he came to Mt. Vernon and engaged in the same business, and carried it on until 1852, when he went to Lancaster, Ohio, and engaged as cutter in an establishment there, remaining there two years. On his return to this city he entered the employment of A. Wolff as cutter, which continued eight and a half years, and then two years with Mark Curtis. He then commenced merchant tailoring, and has carried it on ever since. He commenced with a capital of fifteen hundred dollars, and has been doing a business of about twenty thousand dollars per year. He now carries a stock of five thousand dollars, comprising cloths, cassimeres, suitings, overcoatings, and merchant tailoring in ail its branches, and warrants every suit that leaves his establishment.

SLAIGHT, GEORGE, deceased, Union township, was born in Richmond county, New York, June 10, 1796. He worked in the coasting trade as a sailor between New York and Richmond, Virginia, when a young man. In February, 1820, he married Mary D. Winant, born in New London, Connecticut, May 15, 1794. They settled on Staten Island, near New York city, remaining until 1828, when they moved to New York city, where they lived until the spring of 183g. They then came to this county and settled in Jefferson, now Union township, on land now owned by his heirs, where they passed the remainder of their life. They reared four children: Edward T., Henry G., Frances E., and Elizabeth E.; all living.

SLOAN, ROBERT R., deceased, was born February 28, 1815, in Washington county, Pennsylvania, where his early years were spent. He graduated at Jefferson college, Pennsylvania, in 1841. He has been a citizen of Ohio, with the exception of two years spent in Missouri, since the year 1840. He taught during this time in the Ashland academy with Professor Fulton and Miss Jane Coulter, who, in 1843, became his wife.

In 1844 Mr. Sloan opened a boys' school in Mt. Vernon, beginning with one scholar, and increasing to fifty or sixty in four months. At the same time Mrs. Sloan opened a school for girls, which ripened at last into the Mt. Vernon seminary, under charge of Mr. Sloan as superintendent, and Mrs. Sloan as principal and matron. They continued jointly in the management of this seminary until 1867, when they removed to Cleveland.

In 1861 Mr. Sloan was chosen corresponding secretary of the Ohio Christian Missionary society, which position he filled with great credit to himself and efficiency to the society until 1869, when he resigned.

In 1875 he was elected president of the Ohio Christian Missionary society, which position he filled at the time of his death, which occurred July 30, 1877, in his sixty-third year.

SMITH, DEACON JOHN S., deceased, late of Miller township, was born on the ninth day of March, A. D. 1793, in Tyrone county, in the north of Ireland, and came to the United

States with his parents in 17¢6,,who located in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, where the subject of this sketch continued to reside with his parents until after his marriage in December, 1817. In May, 1818, he removed to Knox county, Ohio, and located on the farm where he died, having been a resident of the county nearly sixty years.

Mr. Smith united with the Presbyterian church in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, at about the age of twenty-two years, of which church his parents were members - uniting by letter upon his removal to Ohio with the Presbyterian church in Mt. Vernon, which church was then under the pastoral care of Rev. James Scott. He served in the capacities of deacon and Tuling elder in the church for many years. He was a faithful attendant of the church of his choice until prevented by the infirmities of age, and was greatly attached thereto. He wasa devoted Christian, and always felt his dependence on Christ, in whom he trusted for eternal life. That faith which he so long enjoyed did not fail him in the closing days of his life, for he died with a full and clear view of his acceptance with God, and could exclaim ''I know that my Redeemer liveth."

This good man died at his late residence, three and one-half miles south of Mt. Vernon, on the fifth day of November, 1877, In the eighty-fifth year of his age.

The subject of the above sketch was married to Miss Mary Sterret December 4, 1817. She was of Scotch descent, born in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, June 9, 1801, and died January 26, 1879, on the old homestead. She was a lady of many Christian virtues.

They were the parents of eleven children, viz: Mrs. Eliza Levering, of Gratiot county, Michigan; Mrs. Mary Letts, of Utica, Licking county, Ohio; Moses, farmer near Gambier; Robert, who resides on the old homestead; Sarah, who lives on the farm; Mrs. Emily Bebout, Morgan township; William is a lawyer of St. Louis, Missouri. The deceased: John N., died September 24, 1860, on the farm; Catharine B., wife of A. ae Hyatt, of Brownsville, Ohio, died August 15, 1862; Cynthia Tulloss, died January 20, 1864, in Franklin county, Kansas; Nancy Sims, died December 25, 1878, in Delaware, Ohio.

SMITH, JAMES, Pleasant township, deceased (a native of Ireland), was born in 1798. When but seventeen years of age he emigrated to America, and located in Hunterdon county, New Jersey, where he engaged in the mercantile business, and continued in it a number of years.

In 1825 he married Miss Frances Jones, daughter of Abraham and Catharine Jones, born in New Jersey on the fifteenth day of October, 1801. They settled in New Jersey, where they remained fourteen years. Their union resulted in six children, one of whom deceased young.

In 1839; he, with his wife and five children - Mary, Sarah, William I., Frances, and James, emigrated to Knox county, Ohio, and located on the farm in Pleasant township now owned by his son, William J. He then engaged in farming, living on the same farm until his death, which occurred February g, 1856. He owned a farm of two hundred acres. His companion is still living, at the advanced age of seventy-nine years, enjoying good health. She is living with her son on the home farm. Only two of her children are now living, viz: Sarah and William J. Sarah married Reed Setts, and is now a widow, her husband died in 1876. William J. was born in the State of New Jersey, February 7, 1831. He was brought up on a farm and made farming and stock raising his vocation.

In August, 1858, he married Miss Susannah Baker, born in Knox county, February 12, 1832, daughter of Peter and Barbara Baker. They settled on his father's home farm, where they are now living. They have a family of five children, two sons and three daughters. In 1878 he erected one of the finest brick residences in Pleasant township, on the old home farm, in which he now resides.

SMITH, JAMES, deceased. There were none of the earlier settlers of Mt. Vernon more generally known, or more prominently connected with every good work tending to promote the interests of the pioneers of Knox county, than the person whose name heads this article. Mr. Smith was born March 6, 1779, at the family homestead near Harrisburgh, Rockingham county, Virginia. His father died during the minority of James, leaving him, the youngest of a large family, to the care of his widowed mother, by whom he was educated. At the decease of his mother, in the distribution and settlement of his father's estate, he inherited eight negioslaves. He married Miss Rebecca Emmett, daughter of Rev. John Emmett, then of Staunton, Virginia.

Impressed with the truth and justice of the declaration ''that all men are created equal, and entitled to the enjoyment of personal liberty," he emancipated all his, slaves, and with his wife and child, Jane, who afterwards married Colonel Charles Sager, he removed to Ohio. Arriving in Knox county in 1806, he first settled on the Haines farm, one and one-half miles south of Mt. Vernon.

The journey from Virginia to Ohio was no easy matter, as it had to be made on pack-horses, through an unsettled region, without suitable roads or stopping places. It was a tiresome and fatiguing journey for his young wife and infant child. When he reached Knox county he had expended all his money but fifty cents.

He soon removed to the new town of Mt. Vernon. Witha disposition to engage in any honest employment, he was reasonably prosperous; a member of the Christian church, and a local preacher of that denomination, he preached without pay or salary, and his house, for many years, was the stopping place of the ministers of that and other denominations, and especially of the early settlers in other parts of the county visiting Mt. Vernon. .

When the county was organized and courts established, Mr. Smith was appointed clerk of the supreme court and court Of common pleas, a position he filled to the satisfaction of the judges for a quarter of a century.

A season of great financial embarrassment induced the business men of Knox county, as well as of Licking, Richland and other localities, to engage in banking as a means of relief, and the result was the establishment of banks of issue at this and other localities in advance of legislation expressly authorizing the issue of paper money. Mr. Smith, Robert Giffin, John Hawn, jr., Samuel Kratzer, and others, organized ''The Owl Creek bank," of Mt. Vernon, and were induced to loan upon the notes of solvent persons, a large amount of the money issued by the bank, relying upon the payment of these notes, in addition to the capital paid in for their redemption. The makers of these notes combined, and were able to defeat the expected legislation, and refused to pay their notes; the bank, not having been legally incorporated, could not enforce the collection. The bank bills thus loaned were put in circulation by these borrowers, and the bank stockholders compelled to redeem them ; this,

Mr. Smith, and the other stockholders, were compelled to redeem those outstanding bank notes, not being able to legally enforce collection of the notes received, and upon the faith of which they were issued. 'The last payment on the part of Mr. Smith, to redeem those bank bills, required the application of the entire proceeds of the sale of his farm, situated on the Martinsburgh road, near Mt. Vernon. The old case of Luke Walpole vs. Robert Giffin and others, finally closed up this unfortunate banking venture, and virtually ruined most of its stockholders, men 'who never realized a cent of profit out of it. Allusion is made to this matter in justice to all the parties interested, as the facts have not been fully understood by those who refer to the old Owl Creek bank in terms not complimentary to its originators.

Mr. Smith continued to reside in and near Mt. Vernon until the year 1838, when he removed to Madison county, Ohio, where he died in 1841, in the sixty-second year of his age. His death was occasioned by injuries received in being thrown from his horse. His remains were removed to Mt. Vernon, where they rest near those of his wife, who died of cholera in 1832.

All the children of Mr. Smith, except Jane, were born in Mt. Vernon - three girls and three boys. The daughters are all dead save Mrs. Adaline Davis, who still resides in Ohio. The sons, Benjamin, James, jr., and Vispacian, are all citizens of Minnesota, where they have resided since 1856. The desire to ''go west,'' which induced the father to leave Virginia, appears to have, fifty years afterwards, possessed the sons. Whilst they are reasonably prosperous and attached to their homes in Minnesota, they note with pride and pleasure the growth and prosperity of their native town of Mt. Vernon.

SMITH, ISAAC, farmer, post office, North Liberty. He was born in Wayne county, Ohio, in 1814. He was married to Deliah Smith. They had two daughters, Sarah and Maria. They reside in Iowa. Mrs. Deliah Smith died in this county, September 28, 1858. ;

Mr. Smith subsequently married Sarah Wallace, who was born in Dauphin county, Pennsylvania, in 1832. They have six children; Eldaah, born in 1860; Armina A., in 1862; Ettie, in 1864; Mary, in 1866; Charlie, in 1868; Milton, in 1869. Mr. Smith came to this county in 1854, and located in Pike township, where he now resides. He was engaged atthe carpenter trade while in Wayne county. He erected his present residence with his own hands. He owns a good farm and is engaged in farming.

SMITH, BENJAMIN, farmer, Morgan township, was born in Greene county, Pennsylvania, January 27, 1807. His father, James H., was born in Maryland, in 1780, emigrated to Greene county, Pennsylvania, where he married Martha Davis in 1804. In 181z he came with his family to Ohio, and settled in Morgan township, where he purchased a tract of heavily timbered land. He was a soldier in the War of 1812, and died in 1860. His first wife died in 1828. He afterwards married Martha Honey, who died in 1863. By his first wife he had eleven children, five of whom are living. Mr. Smith made a trip to Ohio as early as 1800. The subject of this notice learned blacksmithing with his father and worked at it for some years. January 17, 1833, he was joined in marriage to Miss Sarah Brown, a native of Virginia. She died September 26, 1870. They had two children, viz: Martha, deceased, and Sarah, living at home. Mr.

Smith is a man of general information, well informed upon the issues of the day, and a man of considerable genius. He has always been industrious, and cleared up the farm on which he now resides, and is in comfortable circumstances.

SMITH, THOMAS, deceased. He was born in this county in 1816; he was married in 1840 to Ruth Ann Barnhard, who was born in Frederick county, Maryland, in 1823. They had the following children: Isaac B., was born in 1841; Fidela D., in 1843; Sheldon, in 1845; John F., in 1847; Columbus W., in 1850; Martha Jane, in 1851; Emma L., in 1854; Mary M., in 1856, and Alice M., in 1858. Thomas Smith died in 1858. Isaac B. was a soldier in the Rebellion; he was a member of the Third Virginia cavalry till August, 1863; he reenlisted in the Second Ohio heavy artillery; he continued till he was killed accidently by the cars near Concord, Tennessee, January 29, 1865. He was second lieutenant. His remains were brought home and interred in the Berlin cemetery.

Mrs. Ruth Ann Smith's father, David Barnhard, deceased, was a native of Maryland; he was married to Margaret Walker; she was born in Maryland. They had the following family: Mary, John, Rosanna, and Ruth Ann.

Mr. Barnhard emigrated to Knox county in 1833. He came to his death through an accident; he was engaged in pressing tobacco, when the lever of the press flew back and struck him, and killed him almost instantly.

John F. was a soldier in the late war, a member of company 1, Ohio heavy artillery; he was in a number of skirmishes; he was engaged in the service for two years, and was honorably discharged.

SMITH, JACOB, Pike township, farmer, post office, North Liberty, born in Berks county, Pennsylvania, in 1821, and was married to Maranda Kairger, who was born in Berlin township, this county, in 1825. They have four children: Mary A. was born in 1848; Howard, in 1852; Esther, in 1857; John, in 1862.

Mr. Smith came to Ohio with his parents when he was five years old. They located in Stark county, and forty years ago came to Knox county. Mr. Smith is a farmerand stock dealer.

SMITH, M. D., H. W., was born in June, 1826, in Litchfield county, Massachusetts, and came to Ohio with his parents in 1839; received his preparatory education in Mt. Vernon; read medicine with Drs. Russell and Thompson, and graduated at a medical university in New York city, after which he practiced in that city for twelve years; was also engaged in the drug business. He married Miss Cornelia, daughter of Charles Baxter, of New York city, and has a family of six children,

In 1861 he came back to Mt. Vernon and formed a partnership with Dr. Thompson, which continued until the death of Dr. Thompson, after which he continued the practice alone, and also engaged in the drug business, in which he continued until his death, December 15, 1875. He was a-deacon in the Congregational church for several years.

serve and Amelia Smith, came to Ohio and settled in Milford township. A notice of them will be found under the biography of F. S. Rowley, of that township.

George L. Smith was the second ghild. His youth was spent on his father's farm at the Five corners in Milford township, where he also attended school. In 1850 he was seized with the "gold fever,"' and to the land of gold he went by the overland route, which means he rode and walked alternately. He remained in California five years. The first eighteen months he was engaged in the mines, the remainder of the time he was employed with a pack-train taking provisions to the mines in the mountains. He came home by the way of Nicaraugua, and resumed farming. While in California he saved some money. He commenced poor in life, but he has succeeded in making for himself considerable property. He is a good farmer and an estimable citizen. He enlisted in company A, One Hundred and Forty-second regiment, Ohio National guards, and served out the term of his enlistment. March 5, 1857, he married Miss Mary W. Pitkin, daughter of Rev. John Pitkin, and shortly after moved to his present home.

SMITH, WILLIAM W., farmer, was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, September 16, 1816. On the twentyfourth of April, 1849, he married Miss Elizabeth Guy, born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, October 11, 1828, daughter of John and Mary Guy. They settled in Washington county, Pennsylvania, where they lived until 1854, when they emigrated to Licking county, Ohio, remained there until 1860, when they moved to Clinton township, Knox county, Ohio, and located on a farm three miles from Mt. Vernon, on the Granville road, where he is now living. His wife died January 12, 1873. They reared a family of four children, two sons and two daughters. Farming has been his vocation.

SMITH,. EBER, Milford township, physician, post office, Lock, was born in Delaware county, Ohio, August go, 1821. His parents were pioneers in Delaware county, locating there about 1810. They were Pennsylvanians by birth.

Dr. Smith is the only son of seven children, was reared on a farm and his early education was that of the common schools. At about the age of twenty years he obtained sufficient education to teach a common school, and he taught several terms, then attended an academy at Westerville, Ohio. He decided to enter the medical profession, but being poor he was obliged to teach in order to obtain funds with which to attend lectures, receiving fifteen dollars per month.

SMITH, WILLIAM K., farmer, post office, Pipesville, son of William J. and Elizabeth Smith, born in Holmes county, May 17, 1831, where he continued to reside most of the time until 1860. On the twenty-first of June, 1860, he married Susan Kinsey, a daughter of Samuel and Susan Kinsey, born in Coshocton county, December 27, 1835. After his marriage he

Mr. Smith is an industrious and enterprising farmer; at present the owner of one hundred and forty-six-acres of land. He is the father of two children, one of whom is living, Nortis D., born November 24, 1874.

SMITH, MRS. SARAH, was born December 27, 1835, in Franklin county, Ohio, and came to Knox county iu: 1864; was married to A. R. Funk in October, 1856, from whom she has lately been divorced; has seven children - Mary Jane, Julia C., Finley, Elliott H., Franz F., Allison R., and Lyman B. Mrs. Smith is owner of the new seminary building.

SMITH, WILLIAM H., Liberty township, justice of the peace and stock and wool buyer, Bangs post office, was born in Milford township, June 10, 1836. His paternal grandfather, Henry Smith, wasa captain in the War of the Revolution. William H. Smith, his father, was born in Ohio county, Virginia, October 17, 1799.

In 1823 Mr. Smith came to Ohio and bought a tract of land in Milford township. In 1828 he married Esther J. Dill, of Ohio county, Virginia, who was born September, 1811. They had a family of eight children, six of whom are yet living. He worked at tanning for some years. In 1843 he was nominated by he Democrats of Knox county and elected to the legislature, and reelected in 1845. In 1847 he was defeated for the nomination for senator by one vote. This concluded his active political life. He .remained on the farm the remainder of his days. He died Mayg, 1871.

The subject of this notice was reared on a farm and received the education of the common schools. He taught for several terms, He moved to Bangs, Ohio, in 1873. In April, 1858, he married Hannah J. Milligan. They have had eleven children, seven of whom are living, Mr. and Mrs. Smith are estimable people.

SMITH, ROBERT R., farmer, Berlin township, postoffice, Fredericktown, was born in Coshocton county, Ohio, December 24, 1837, and was married first to Eliza E. Gouser, who was born in Knox county. They had one child, John Henry, deeeased. Mrs. Smith died in Harrison township, this county, May 22, 1864. Mr. Smith's second marriage, in 1867, was to Ellen E. Lybarger, who was bornin Harrison township in 1846. They had two daughters - Rosa May, born June 30, 1868; and Della R., November 25, 1870. Mr. Smith has been identified with this county since 1853. He united with the Presbyterian church at Millwood, October 6, 1866, and was a ruling elder while he remained there. He is now a member of the Presbyterian church of Fredericktown, and is one of the official members of that seciety. Mr. Robert Smith was elected justice of the peace of Berlin township in 1878.

-His father, John Smith, (deceased) was born in Jefterson county, Ohio, September 17, 1809, and was married October 6, 1836, to Sarah Crouch, who was born in Harrison county, Ohio, March 30, 1813. When they started housekeeping they located in Coshocton county, and remained there until September 14, 1853, when they moved to Knox county, settled in Harrison township, and moved from there to Union, and to Berlin township in March, 1875, where he died February 2, 1880. He was a worthy member of the Presbyterian church, and attended church in Fredericktown.

of Grundy county, Iowa; Rebecca A. and Sarah E. (married to J. M. Cliffton). They reside in Danville, Knox county. During his membership he was a ruling elder at Millwood, this county.

SMITH, JOHN T., farmer, post office, Howard. He was bern in Howard township, September 16, 1849. -In 1870 he went to Brown township, and lived there two years. In 1873 he married Sarah Jones, who died in 1874. He then went to Franklin county, Ohio, clerked in a store two years, then married Olive Jones. After a year he came to Howard township, where he has remained. He has one child, Dortha.

SMITHHISLER, MICHAEL, farmer, Union township, was born in France, May 15, 1824, and was brought to America by his parents, Philip and Mary Smithhisler, in 1828, who located in Baltimore, Maryland, remained until 1835, then emigrated to Holmes county, Ohio, and settled in Knox township, two miles northeast of Greersville, where Michael's father died, January 4, 1873. Mrs. Smithhisler survived her husband until May 1, 1874. She died in Knox county, Ohio, near Danville, at the home of her son, Michael. They reared a family of four children - Magdalene, Michael, Anthony, and Philip.

Michael married Mary Milless in 1844, who was born in Alsace, France, June 11, 1827, emigrated to America in 1835, daughter of Jacob and Catharine Milless. After his marriage to Miss Milless they settled in Knox township, Holmes county, Ohio, remained until 1847, then moved to Knox county. He now owns a farm near Danville, Union township, on which they are living. They have a family of eleven children, eight sons and three daughters.

SMITHHISLER, GEORGE, Howard township, farmer, post office, Howard, was born in Holmes county, Ohio, March 18, 1850, moved to Knox county with his parents in 1855.

SMOOTS, HARRISON K., Miller township, farmer, was born in Shenandoah county, Virginia, May 26, 1822. His parents came to Licking county about 1824, and purchased a farm, where he lived and died. His wife survives him. The subject of this sketch is the oldest child of the family, and was reared on the farm, and worked, as boys usually do, in the summer and attended school during the winter. About 1852 he moved to Miller township, where he has since resided, being exclusively engaged in farming. Mr. Smoots is an enthusiastic advocate of any principle which he espouses; is a leading Democrat of the township. He is affable and pleasant, and esteemed for his many good qualities.

He married Miss Christiana Smith, daughter of Benjamin Smith, of Miller township, born May 13, 1857. They had seven children, one of whom died in infancy. The living are Joseph Willard, Nancy E., married to Hiram Fishburn; George Franklin, Charles W., Mary Emily, and Justice Douglass.

SNIDER, CONROAD, Jefferson township, farmer, post office, Greersville, son of Peter Snider, born in Pennsylvania, April 29, 1813; was brought to Ohio when a child by his parents, they locating near Marietta, and afterwards removed to Muskingum county, where he grew to manhood. In 1841, October 18th, he married Miram Watson, of Knox county, a daughter of George Watson, born in Miltontown, Indiana, and brought to Knox county when a child. After his marriage he located in Zanesville, Ohio, where he remained three years, and then moved back to Knox county, locating in Jefferson township, purchasing a farm of forty-one acres, near Danville, where he remained until 1847, when he sold his farm and purchased another of one hundred acres, in Jefferson township, adjoining Ashland county, where he then moved and now resides, owning one hundred and twenty acres. Mr. and Mrs. Snider are members of the United Brethren church.

SNIDER, JONATHAN, Howard township, farmer, post office, Howard, was born in Somerset county, Pennsylvania, June 27, 1817. In 1850 he removed to Howard township. In 1845 he was married to Sarah Johnson, who was born in Knox county in 1816. They had three children - Hannah Jane, born in 1848; Samuel, in 1853; Angelina, in 1858. She died in 1876.

SNIDER, CHRISTIAN E., Brown township, farmer, was born on the seventeenth day of June, 1840, in Richland county, Ohio. His father, Philip Snider, was a native of France. His mother, Mary Snider, was a native of Stark county, Ohio. In 1850 he came to this county with his parents, and located on the farm in Brown township now known as the Snider homestead. In 1864 he married Miss Ann Hall, daughter of James Y. and Lydia Hall. They located in Brown township and have since resided in the same township. At present they are living on Solomon Workman's farm. He ownes a half interest in the old Snider farm. They have six children - three sons and three daughters.

SOCKMAN, H. A., Fredericktown, physician, post office, Dunkirk, Hardin county, 'is the son of Washington and Esther Sockman, of Green Valley, Knox county, Ohio, and was born May 26, 1854. After having completed his common school education, he attended college at Mt. Union, Ohio. After leaving college, he commenced the study of medicine with Dr. S. B. Potter, of Fredericktown. After his office course he attended lectures at the Jefferson Medical college, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and graduated at that institution in 1879. He commenced the practice of medicine in Dunkirk, Hardin county, Ohio, and is regarded as one of the leading physicians of that place. Hewas married to Miss Lura Marple, of Fredericktown, Knox county, Ohio, August 9, 1880. She was born in Fredericktown February 8, 1856, and is the daughter of Hiram and Martha Marple, who are still residents of Fredericktown.

SPEARMAN, WILLIAM, Liberty township, farmer and boiler-maker, was born in Devonshire county, England, May 16, 1835. His father, William Spearman, was born in 1799, came to the United States in 1844, and remained in Mt. Vernon seven years. In 1821 he married Ann Brock. They had ten children, five of whom are living. Mrs. Spearman died on the farm.

The subject of this notice spent his youth attending school. He learned the blacksmith trade and boiler-making, which trade he has followed for a number of years. He married Anna Moore, with whom he had two children. His second wife was Mary Maginnis, who had three children.

SPEELMAN, DAVID H., Milford township, farmer, was born in Licking county, Ohio, August 23, 1835. His father, William Speelman, was born in Frederick county, Maryland, March 26, 1806. He came to Greene county, Pennsylvania, with his parents, about 1817. '1hey moved to Fayette county,

March 18, 1832, he married Letitia Long, and shortly afterward came to Ohio, locating three miles west of Homer. He remained there about seven years, and in 1838 he purchased a tract of land in Milford township, which was unimproved, but is now a comfortable home. By his marriage he had a family of nine children, seven of whom are living.

Mr. D. H. Speelman was raised on a farm, and assisted his father. He enlisted in company B, One Hundred and Fortysecond Ohio National Guards, and served his time. At the same time he had a substitute serving inthe army, and was not, therefore, obliged to serve.

He is a hard-working, honest, npright man, and has the esteem of the public. He commenced poor in life, but by industry and economy he has made for himself a good farm and home. He married Miss Deborah B. Kinsey, December 11, 1858. They hada family of three children: Ida Alice, wife of J. H. Neible; William Lewis; and Eliza Effie.

SPERRY, ISAAC N., farmer, a son of Jacob and Mary Sperry, was born in Morgan township, Knox county, Ohio, on the sixth day of October, 1819. He was brought up on a farm, and has made farming and stock raising his vocation. On November 5, 1844, he was united in marriage with Miss Louisa Letts, born in the county, September 14, 1827, daughter of Caleb and Maria Letts. They settled on a farm in Morgan township, in this county and remained until 1870, when they moved on the farm in Clinton township, where they are now living. The farm is located on the Newark road one mile and a halffrom Mt. Vernon. 'They reared a family of ten children, two sons and eight daughters, all living.

SPINDLER, N. J., Howard township, farmer, post office, Howard. He was born in Howard township October 12, 1850. His father came from Pennsylvania in 1812, and lived and died in Howard township. He was sixty-three years of age at the time of his death. His business was farming and cattle dealing. Mr. Spindler's mother was sixty-one years old at the time