Knox County, Ohio - Biographical sketches, 1881 (part 18 of 20)

Mr. Trimble has been thrice married. He was first married July x5, 1835, to Nancy G. Drake, by whom he had one child; was married to his second wife Eliza Day, April 14, 1841, by whom he had five children. His third wife was Ruth H. Boyd, to whom he was married May 27, 1872, who still survives to comfort him in his declining days. Mr. Trimble has beena citizen of the county seventy-one years, and of Mt. Vernon forty-six years.

TRIMBLE, SAMUEL, Union township, post office, Millwood; born in Alleghany county, Maryland, February 16, 1804. In 1829 he was married to Susa Hammon; in 1838 he moved to Knox county, Ohio, and lived in Millwood for a year then moved to his present farm in 1840. He has nine children, viz: Mary, born April 22, 1830; John, December 28, 1831; Elizabeth, April 22, 1833; Enoch, September 18, 1836; Henry, April 21, 1839; Solomon, February 27, 1841; Eloyza, April 27, 1843; Mariah, March: 25, 1849, and Josephine, October 25, 1853. All are married except Josephine, who is at home. ' Mr. Trimble's wife was born September 7, 1813, in Maryland. Enoch 'Taimble, his son, enlisted in the late war, from Iowa, in the cavalry; he went with Captain S. D. Bryant's company, served his time, and returned to Iowa where he still resides.

TRIMBLE, JOSEPH, College township, farmer, son of Professor John Trimble, was born in Ireland July 10, 1837. He was brought to America by his parents in 1851, who located in Gambier. His father, Professor John Trimble, accepted the professorship of Latin and Greek, in Kenyon college, which position he filled with honor to himself, and credit to the institution for about twenty-five years. In 1879, on account of failing health and advanced age, he was compelled to resign the position and live a retired life. He died on the twenty-third of April, 1878, leaving eight children to mourn the loss of a kind father, viz: James, John, Sarah, Elizabeth, Mary, Joseph, Mathew, and Anna. Mr. Joseph Trimble married Miss Margaret Sawer October 1, 1863, daughter of James and Sophia Sawer, of Gambier, born November 6, 1836. They settled in College township, where they now reside. He has followed farming, stock raising and dealing in stock as his vocation. At present he is conducting a farm of two hundred acres in College township.

TRUMBULL, E. A., carriage manufacturer, West Chestnut street, residence on West High streét. Mr. Trumbull isa native of Mt. Vernon, where he received his education and made his first business engagement in learning carriage painting, at which he served three years, he then entered the employ of his father, with whom he remained three years, after which he engaged with the firm of C. & G. Cooper & Co; he remained in their employ for four and a half years, during which time, in 1872, he married M. A. Bedell, of Mt. Vernon. In June, 1873, he established the carriage business at his present location, where he has been doing a good business ever since. He manufactures all kinds and grades of single and double carriages and light wagons. He builds from twenty-five to thirty vehicles per year, and does a business in the different departments of about four thousand dollars per annum. He manufactures two grades of work; his first grade is first-class and is not excelled in the county, his second grade is good, substantial work in every way, and far excels the work known as Cincinnati and Columbus buggies.

All work is guaranteed for two years. He carries on all the different departments of the business, wood-work, iron-work, painting, trimming, and silver plating, all of which is done under his immediate supervision.

TUCKER, JONES, deceased, Union township, was born in Somerset county, Pennsylvania, on the twenty-seventh day of December, 1806. He was brought to Knox county, Ohio, by his parents, William and Rachel Tucker. in 1811, who settled in Union township near Mt. Holly or Gann station. William Tucker erected a log cabin which served his family as an abode for a number of years. He followed clearing, farming, hunting, and fishing as his vocation. There weré but few settlers in the neighborhood, and they were far apart at the time of Mr. Tucker's settlement in the township. His wife deceased, leaving him with seven children to care for in their forest home, viz: John, Jones, Obediah, Thomas, Runnicks, James, and Elizabeth, all dead. He married for his second wife a Mrs. Smith, and they moved to Auglaize county, Ohio, where he passed the remainder of his days.

Jones Tucker married Catharine, a daughter of John and Elizabeth Welker, July 27, 1826; she was born May 30, 1809. They settled in Union township, where they lived eleven years, and in 1837, he, with his wife and children, emigrated to IIlinois. They reared a family of seven children - Elizabeth, Barnett, William, John, Wilson, Mary F., and James. His companion died in 1845. After her death, he, with four of the children, Barnett, William, John, and Wilson, returned to Knox county, Ohio, where a part of the children are now living. He served one year in the Mexican war, and was discharged at its close. In 1851 or 1852 he returned to Illinois, where he died in August, 1870. He served two years in the war of 1861 in an Illinois regiment.

His oldest son, Barnett Tucker, was born in Knox county, Ohio, February 9, 1831, and married Miss Margaret M. Meredith, November 27, 1853, daughter of Benjamin and Delila Meredith, born August 6, 1836. They settled in Millwood, where they lived several years. .In 1861 he purchased and moved on the farm where they are now living in Union township. They have two children, daughters. He is a cabinetmaker by trade, and followed that as his vocation, until his settlement on the farm in 1861, and since that time has made farming and stock-raising his occupation.

TUCKER, JOHN, Union township, third son of Jones and Catharine Tucker, was born in Union township, Knox county, Ohio, January 15, 1837. He commenced working at the cabinet trade in 1856, and has made that his principal vocation, carrying on the business in Millwood.

Millwood, where they are now living. They have one child, a son. In 1871 he purchased the hotel stand in which they are now living, and entertain the travelling community. Good accommodations given to travellers, and all who wish to stop with them. The place is known as the Tucker house. His cabinet rooms are in the same building, and prompt attention is given to all work in his line. He has filled the office of justice of the peace two terms, and postmaster at Millwood five years, and also held various township offices.

TULLOSS FAMILY. - John J. Tulloss, the progenitor of the Tulloss family in Knox county, was born in Farquier county, Virginia, September 6, 1783, where he remained until 1807, when he moved to Newark. He made the first brick in the village, was school teacher and farmer, and served as captain in the War of 1812. He returned to Virginia, where in 1815 he married Elizabeth Honey, and returned; locating in Morgan township, where he had purchased some five hundred acres of land. He became an influential and highly respected citizen, and died in 1841. His wife died in 1869. They hada family of nine children, eight of whom grew up, and six are still living, viz: Mrs. Ann Seymour, Mrs. Elizabeth Stevens, Richard S., John J., Susan and Benjamin. The deceased are William, Rodham, and an infant.

Richard S. was born June 13, 1819. He was reared on the farm; and after his father's death took charge of the farm. He was elected to the Constitutional convention of Ohio in 1873, and served on the committees of privileges and elections, on preamble and bill of rights, and on agriculture. He has filled a number of the township offices. He is an influential citizen, and is highly esteemed for his socical qualities and straight forward business transactions.

John J., farmer in Morgan township, was born September 11, 1820. He was reared' on the old homesiead, and has always resided in Morgan township, being engaged in farming. October 24, 1844, he married Miss Caroline Smith, daughter of James H. Smith, who was born April 8, 1826. They hada family of eight children, viz: Emily born August 1, 1845, and died October 24, 1861; Byram L., December 9, 1846, a druggist in Utica; John J:, September 27, 1848, died April 3, 1879; Reese P., October 24, 1852, resides in Putnam county, Ohio; Benjamin F., October 3, 1854, now in Texas; George W., March 21, 1856; Cynthia A., April 3, 1858; Caroine C., August 22, 1861.

TURNER, WILLIAM, Mt. Vernon, secretary of the Knox County Mutual Insurance company, was born in Nortolk county, England, in December, 1813. He spent his youth while in England in farming and milling. He was the first child of Walter and Sarah Turner. He came to America in 1832, with his parents, who purchased land in Coshocton county, on the Walhonding river, where the town of Walhonding now is. He purchased a large tract of land - some four thousand acres. In the crash of 1837 he was carried with it, losing all.

About 1835 the subject of this sketch went into the store of Buckingham & Sturgis, Zanesville (or rather Putnam then), and retained that position for three years. He came to Mt. Vernon in 1839, and opened a store under the firm name of Freeman & Turner, and about a year after the name of the firm was changed to Buckingham & Turner. Mr. Buckingham was president of the Knox Mutual and brother-in-law of Mr. Turner. On the resignation of the secretary of the company, Mr. Turner was elected to fill the place by the board of directors, which position he has held ever since.

He was married to Miss Laura Guernsey, of Rochester, New York, in 1841. They have had four children, three of whom are living - one son and two daughters. His wife died and he afterward married Mrs. Julia Guernsey, zee Palmer.

ULREY, VALENTINE, farmer, post office, Gambier, son of David Ulrey, born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, April 29, 1814, was brought to Knox county, in 1817 when a child three years, old by his parents, they locating in Harrison township, where the subject of this sketch was reared to manhood and received a good common school education; after which he performed labor among the farmers by the day, month and by the job, which he continued about six years.

In 1840 he made a trip to Illinois, where he remained unti] 1843; being engaged in school teaching. Hereturned to Knox county, where he remained a short time, and then purchased a half interest in a grist-mill, located in or near Oxford, Holmes county, which was conducted under the firm name of Thompson & Ulrey. He also followed farming in connection in 1862. He then sold his interest in the mill to John Duncan, but still remained two years in Oxford, continuing to farm. |

In 1848, March 23, he married Elizabeth Bucklew, who bore him one child, a son, Eugene, born April 17, 1855. On the thirtieth of August, 1856, she died, being in her thirty-second year. On the twenty-fourth of June, 1858, he married Lydia A. Close, widow of Maiachi Close, a daughter of Samuel Uhl, born in Holmes county, June 30, 1827. This union of Mr. and Mrs. Ulrey resulted in five children, viz: Mary J., born September 2, 1859; William A., February 28, 186x; LauraS., December 28, 1862; David S., November 11, 1868, and died November 2, 1871; Margaret E., December 28, 1870, and died September 4, 1873, leaving three children living.

In 1864 he sold his farm and property in Oxford and purchased a farm in Knox county, two miles south of Danville, where he then moved with his family and remained four years, when he sold said farm, purchased the old homestead formerly owned by his father, in Harrison township, where he then moved and at present resides.

UMPHRYES, IRA, Pike township, farmer, post office, North Liberty; born in Knox county in 1841, and was married to Martha Gower, who was born in this county in 1852. His father, Jacob Umphreys, was born in Virginia in 1801, and was married to Martha Johnson. They had seven children: Margaret, Elizabeth, Catharine, Keziah, Ruth (deceased), Mary Je (deceased), and Henry (deceased). After the death of Mrs. Martha Umphryes, Mr. Umphryes married Mary A. Wallace, and they have had four children: Josephine, Ellet, May, and Ira. Mr. Umphryes emigrated to Licking county, Ohio, in 1804 with his parents, and they remained there a few years, then came to Knox county, and remained here until his death, which took place in March, 1880. He was a good citizen and a stanch Democrat, as are ali his sons.

county, Ohio, June 18, 1820. His parents came to this county in 1828 and located in Middlebury township near Fredericktown where he received his education. He spent several years of his life on the home farm, after which he learned the potter trade, which he fullowed until 1846. He then went to Fredericktown and engaged in the hotel busimess for one year, after which he engaged in the sale of clocks and general collecting in which he continued until 1854, when he came to Mt. Vernon, and that year was appointed deputy sheriff under Lewis Strong, in which he served two years; and in 1856 he was nominated_ and elected to the office of sheriff, in which he served four years and three months. He served three months in consequence of the time of the expiration of said office being changed from October rst to January rst. He was the first one in the county to-respond to the first call for troops, enlisting in April, 1861; he was a member of company A, Ohio volunteer infantry, which was the first company organized in the county, and was assigned to the Fourth Ohio volunteer infantry. He was commissioned first lieutenant, and afterwards made regimental quartermaster, and in 1862 was promoted to captain and was detailed on General Kimball's staff as brigade commissary. In 1863, in consequence of ill health, he resigned and returned home, and in 1864 he, in company with his brother, took charge of the Main Street Exchange hotel of Fort Wayne, Indiana, where he remained one year, then returned to Mt. Vernon and has since been in the employ of different railroad companies as solicitor of railroad stocks, the right of way, etc., etc.

VAIN, BENJAMIN F., Pike township, farmer, post office, Democracy, born in Pike township, this county, on the farm where he now resides, in 1840, and was married in 1864 to Elizabeth L. Hardesty, who was born in Coshocton county, Ohio, in 1841. They had eight children - Theodore E., born in 1865; Jerusha A., in 1867; Marion Jasper, in 1868; Hannah Jane in 1869 (deceased); Millie Blanch, in 1871; Charlie A., in 1874; William Ray, in 1876; and Earnest A., in 1878. Mr. Vain has always been identified with this county, and is a member of a pioneer family.

VANCE, DANIEL, Miller township, pioneer farmer, was born in Miller township July 14, 1813, and is the oldest man now living in the township that was born in it. His father was John Vance, a native of Rockingham county, Virginia, born August 9, 1785. He married Rebecca Van Trump, a native of the same county, Virginia, in 1808. He came to Ohio in the same year in company with his father, whose name was also John, and a soldier of the Revolution. They all settled in what is now the southern part of Miller township, where John Vance, sr., had entered two hundred acres of land, and of which John purchased sixty acres, to which he subsequently added one hundred more. He died on this farm, aged eighty-nine years. His wife died some years previous. They built the first house in the township in 1808-9. It is of hewed logs, and still stands in a good state of preservation. They had eight children, viz.: Lemuel, who was killed in the Burlington storm; Hannah, now Mrs. Houck, who was the first white child born in the township; James, who was also killed in the Burlington storm; Daniel, who had a leg fractured in the same storm; Elizabeth, wife of H. Moore of Delaware county, Ohio; Mariah, wife of William Debolt, near Richwood, Ohio; Rebecca, widow of L. C. Wright; Lucinda, now deceased, married Alex. McFarland.

Mr. Daniel Vance married Miss Elizabeth Daily, January 9, 1840. She was bom February 17, 1818. They had five children, viz.: Harriet (deceased); Rebecca, married J. B. Conway; John Oscar, married Miss Ward; Mary Elizabeth, who lives at home; Emma, died in infancy.

VANCE, JOSEPH W., was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, in 1809. In the spring of 1840 he removed to Mt. Vernon. In 1842 he was admitted to the bar; he rose rapidly in his profession, and soon attained a high position as an advocate. He made a profession of religion and united with the Presbyterian church in 1846. As a Christian and church officér he was intelligent, consistent, and efficient. As aman his individuality was strongly marked. For firmness in what he thought was right, for decision of purpose and persevering energy he was remarkable. His power of will was immense. In fitting himself for his work he had many difficulties to contend with, but he did not despair. He looked at them boldly and grappled with them manfully; he persevered until moutains became plains before him. He had a keen sense of justice, and that which is always asssociated with in a man of principle, incorruptible integrity. As a citizen he was influential. He was not one of that class that simply move along with the current of public opinion; he gave character and direction to that current; he helped mould opinions. On every question that concerned the community in which he lived, or society in general, he had decided views and convictions, based upon an investigation of the subject, and on most questions he was generally in advance of the common sentiment. This was especially true on the subject of slavery. He was one of the first advocates of anti-slavery sentiments in this county. For a time he stood almost alone, and received no little obliquy and censure. But he believed himself in the right, and in that right he was strong.

As a lawyer his strength lay in the force of his arguments in the presence ofajury. Here he won many a laurel. His ardent nature gave to his address an earnestness and fire which many times told with wonderful effect. He had the raie faculty of becoming one with his client, it mattered not who that client was, or what his circumstances in a financial point of view, of identifying himself with all that was fair and good on the side he advocated, which gave him great advantage in doubtful cases, and armed him with unusual power when right lay on his side. Entering thus so ardently into the cause he advocated, sympathizing thus warmly with his client in what there was of truth and justice in his cause, he could press his suit with that sincerity of conviction and earnestness of personal feeling which always have such great weight with men.

He was a true patriot. When his country was assailed he had but one end in view, to uphold his country's honor. In August, 1862, he was commissioned Colonel of the Ninety-sixth Ohio volunteer infantry, and soon thereafter marched with his regiment to the front, and was under General Sherman in the first - attempt to take Vicksburg. At Arkansas Post his regiment was in the thickest of the fight. It was also in the engagement at Jackson, Mississippi, and participated in the final siege and capture of Vicksburg, under General Grant. His regiment was transferred to General Banks' command, and formed a part of his army in the unfortunate Red River expedition. In the battle of Sabine Cross Roads on the eighth of April, 1864, he fell, mortally wounded. He fell at his post, heroically discharging his duty. He died ina noble cause, died the Christian patriot's death, and fills the Christian patriot's grave.

VAN HORN,- WILLIAM, farmer, Union township, post office, Rosstown, was born in Virginia in 1808, and lived there until 1836, when he emigrated to Knox county, Ohio, and settled near Danville, and has remained in Union township until the present time. He married Miss Lucinda Roberson May 24, 1841, and lived in Danville three years. In 1865 he settled on his present farm. He has six children - Francina, Rouseyville, Jasper, John W., William, and Newton. The three last named have died.

VAN HORN, JASPER, farmer, Howard township, post office, Howard, was born in Union township September 25, 1855. Hewas married to Miss L. R. Howell April 9, 1879, and came to his present farm in October, 1879. His father came from Virginia in 1835, to Knox county, Ohio, and settled near Danville, where he died. Mr. Van Horn has been engaged in teaching school in winter and farming in summcr..

VANNATTA, SAMUEL T., Miller township, farmer, was born in Wasren county, New Jersey, September 14, 1835. He is the son of Peter and Sarah J. Vannatta, zee Weller, who were natives of New Jersey. Mr. Vannatta died in New Jersey in 1836. They had two children, one of whom died in infancy, and the subject of this sketch.

Mrs. Vannatta remained in New Jersey until 1840, when she came to Miller township with her father, Philip P. Weller; she and her son Samuel remained with her father until he was about twenty-four years of age, when they purchased a tract of ninety-two acres of land, and moved upon it. Mr. Vannatta, is now one of the leading farmers of the township, owning over three hundred acres of good land. He is systematic in his m ment, and his farm shows more than usual care. He was elected land appraiser of the township in 1879, and has filled a number of offices to the satisfaction of the people. He is a man of good judgment and considered a wise counsellor. His educational advantages were very limited; he, however, obtained a sufficient knowledge of the common branches to enable him to conduct his business. He married Miss Levina Hawkins, January 29, 1864, daughter of Isaac Hawkins, ef whom mention is made elsewhere. They have three interesting children, viz: Frank A., Charles O., and Flora Emeline.

VERNON, AARON, Morris township, farmer, post office, Fredericktown, was born in Muskingum county, Ohio, November 19, 1809, came to Ohio in December, 1821, and was marnied in March, 1831, and had the following family: Jesse, born January 11, 1832; John, November 17, 1833; Jacob L., February 8, 1836; Isaac, January 17, 1838; Francis L., August 19, 1839; Daniel L., October 17, 1841; William Allen, July 38, 1844; Oliver B., August 6, 1846; Samantha M., January 22, 1848; Sarah E., April 28, 1852; Aaron C. G., November 17, 1854. Mrs. Elizabeth Vernon died in this county, February 19, 1878. Mr. Vernon subsequently married Mrs. Elizabeth Lambert, who was born in Greene county, Pennsylvania, in 1827. Jesse Vernon was married February 11, 1852, to Sarah Brawlier, and now resides in Allen county, Ohio; John was married November 4, 1855, to Rose L. Lawrence, and now lives in Linn county, Iowa; Jacob L., was married March 25, 1858, to Elizabeth Hisler, who since deceased; Sarah E. was married to Frances Brawlier, and now lives in Cardington, Ohio; Aaron C.G. was married in Allen county to Barbara Pletcher; they reside in Hancock county, Ohio; Samantha was married to Frank Brawlier.

Mr. Vernon was here at a time when the county was covered with timber. He was quite a hunter, having in his time killed two deer with one shot, a feat not many can boast of.

VERNON, DANIEL L., Wayne township, farmer, post office, Fredericktown, born in Pike township in 1840, and married in 1860 to Sarah A. Erion, who was born in Ohio. Their children are: Florence, Alfred B., Frank E., and Ellen. 'They came to Wayne township in 1867, afterwards emigrated to Iowa, remained for three years, and then returned to this township.

He was a soldier in the war, a member of company H, One Hundred and Forty-second regiment, Ohio volunteer infantry, and remained in the service until he received an honorable discharge.

VINCENT, S. M., Brown township, attorney, post office, Jelloway, ason of Robert and Jane Vincent, zee Miller, was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, on December 16, 1821. Heaccompanied his parents to Ohio in 1830, they locating on Dowdy creek, in Holmes county, where they lived about eight years. In 1838 they-moved to this county and located in Howard township, remaining until 1856, when they moved to Pike county, where they passed the remainder of their days. Mrs. Vincent died in September, 1863, Mr. Robert Vincent surviving his companion until February, 1865.

Mr. S. M. Vincent, the subject of this sketch, is a self-educated man. In 1847 he commenced the study of law under the instructions of S. W. Shaw, attorney. In 1850 he was admitted to the Knox County bar, and in 1859 he was admitted to practice inthe Supreme court. At present he is located at Jelloway, Knox county, Ohio, and practices in the courts of Knox, Holmes, Ashland, and Richland counties. He is the attorney for the Home Fire Insurance company, and the Jelloway Mutual Aid Insurance company, both located at Jelloway, and does business for them in about twenty counties in the State.

In 1847 he married Miss Rosanna Lybatger, born in Knox county in 1825, daughter of Jacob and Sarah Lybarger. They settled at Ashland, Ohio, and remained one year, and then returned to this county. In 1850 they moved to Jelloway, where they have since resided.

They reared a family of six children: Sarah J., married B. W. McKee; Victoria, married Lyman Workman; John Fremont Vincent was born February 2, 1857, and died September g, 1880; Martha A., married John L. Hildebrand; Jessie Q., and Lincoln are at home with their parents in Jelloway.

WADDELL, JAMES P., Howard township, farmer, post office, Howard, was born October 2, 1826, in Union township, Knox county. Until 1833 he lived in Danville, when he moved to a farm in Brown township, and lived there twelve years, and continued farming until he was drafted in the late war; but on account of ill health was rejected. He was drafted the second time and sent a substitute.

He was married March 22, 1879. He engaged in shoemaking, following ita year. He then moved to the old farm, and remained there a year and then moved to the farm on which he now resides.

He was married to Catharine Brown, who was born in Pennsylvania, and died in January, 1848. Mr. Wages was again married June 6, 1849, to M. W. Drake, who was born in Tuscarawas county, Ohio, in 1822. They had six children, viz: Catharine, born in Cctober, 1849. She is married to O. F. Crall, and resides in Ashland, Ohio; Paxton' (deceased); Martha J. is married to F. Marble, and lives in Michigan; Clara B., and Mary E. are dead; Clement was born in March, 1867.

WAGNER CHARLIE, Fredericktown, retired, was born in Northampton county, Pennsylvania, July 6, 1805, and was married in 1826, to Anna Allbach, who was born in New Jersey in 1804. They had the following family, - Sarah, Nathan, deceased, Grace, deceased, Jemima B., John and Colwell. Mrs. Wagner died April 3, 1865, in Waterford, Knox county, Ohio. Charlie Wagner came from New Jersey to Knox county September 10, 1838, located in Waterford, Middlebury township, and kept hotel twenty years. He was engaged in the tailoring business a number of years, then removed to Fredericktown and engaged in keeping hotel, and continued in that about fourteen years. His name is still continued with the Wagner house, which has given it character and influence.

WAGNER, GEORGE, Middlebury township, farmer, post office, Fredericktown, was born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, March 16, 1811, and was tnarried December 25, 1850, to Catharine Henry, who was born July 22, 1822, in Bedford county, Pennsylvania. They have the following family: Francis, born July 9, 1852; Catharine, August 14, 1856; Florence, February 5, 1859; George, November 28, 1861; Hattie B.. October a1, 1864; and Mary I., August 7, 1869. Florence was married to Samnel A. Stretey, April 18. 1880, and now resides in this township.

Mr. Wagner has resided in this county ever since he came from Pennsylvania. He was a soldier in the Mexican war, and is one of the active men of this township.

WAGNER, HENRY, Middlebury township, post office, Fredericktown, was born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, January 11, 1822, and was married March 5, 1846, to Sarah A. Jeffreys, who was born in Wayne township, this county, December 22, 1825. They had six children: Susan M., born January 9, 1848; George P., January 1, 1851; Sarah E., March 8, 1853; William H., November 8, 1856; John L., January 22, 1863; and Mary E., April 16, 1868. The latter died December 28, 1868.

The following members of the family are married: Susan M. married January 6, 1870, to Sylvester Caywood; Sarah E. to Robert Martin; George P. to Susan Lyons; William H., April 20, 1878, to Sarah E. McDonalds.

Mr. Henry Wagner was brought by his parents to Ohio at the age of two years, who settled in this township in April, 1824. They improved the farm where' he now resides, which is one of the most beautiful farms in Knox county. Through industry and frugality he has accumulated a competency that enables him to retire and enjoy the fruit of his labors.

1851, and was married October 24, 1872, to Susan Lyon, who was born in Wayne township, May 3, 1856. They have three children: Louis B., born July: 11, 1875; Corliss, February 24, 1877; and an infant, April 7, 1880. Mr. Wagner is engaged in farming in this township, and is one of its active and enterprising men.

WAIGHT, JOHN B., attorney and counsellor at law, Mt. Vernon, was born in New Market, Harrison county, Ohio, May 14, 1853. He is the third child and only son of George H. and Biddy (zee Gordon) Waight. He spent his youth in attending school, and graduated from the New Market college in 1870. He then commenced reading law with Lewis Lewton, esq., of Cadiz, Ohio, and was admitted to the bar at Carrolton, Ohio, September, 1873. He taught school in New Comerstown, Ohio, in 1872. In January, 1874, he opened an office in Mt. Vernon, where he has since been practicing. He was nominated on the Republican ticket in 1874 for prosecuting attorney, but was beaten by eighty majority; the county went over four hundred Democratic. January, 1880, he was appointed city solicitor, and at the following April city election he was elected solicitor.

WALKER, WILLIAM, deceased, Pleasant township, was born in Virginia in 1800; was brought up on a farm, and made farming, stock raising and dealing in stock his vocation through life. He emigrated to Ohio and located in this county in 1835. In 1837 he married Miss Mary A. Smith, daughter of Samuel and Phoebe Smith, who was born in Muskingum county, Ohio, in 1820, and came to this county in 1834. They settled on the farm in Pleasant township now owned by his widow. Their union resulted in ten children, viz: Sarah, Charles, Minerva, Harrison, William, Emeretta, Emeline, Harriet, Olive, and Joseph A. Two of the number, Harrison and Harriet have died; Mr. Walker is-also dead.

WALKER, ALEXANDER, farmer, Middlebury township, post office, Fredericktown, born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, in 1833, and married in 1857 to Sarah M. Gault, who was born in Ashland county, Ohio, in 1837. They have the following children, viz: Mary E., born in 1857; Lizzie J., 1859; William H., (deceased) 1861; Orie A., 1863; Carrie E., 1865; James C., 1867; Edwin M., 1869; Hettie B., 1871; and Theodore F., 1875. Mr. Walker is engaged in farming, and owns a well-improved farm with good buildings.

WALKEY, WILLIAM, farmer, Pike towship, post office, Democracy, born in Pike township, Knox county, in 1837. He was married in 1859 to Nancy Lewis, who was born in Monroe township in 1838. They have one child, Eva Jane, born in 1860. Mr. Walkey was elected justice of the peace in Pike township in 1870, and reelected in 1873. He filled the office with credit and satisfaction. He is now notary public.

His father, John Walkey, was born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, in 1796. He was married in 1818 to Rebecca Bensinger, who was born in 1801. They had seven children: Elizabeth, born in 1819; Daniel, in 1822; Maria, in 1825; Margaret, in 1829; Susan, in 1830; John, in 1833; William, in 1837. Maria was married to Samuel Shira. They reside in Messer county, Missouri. Margaret married Fuller Lambert. They reside in Cass county, Iowa. Susan married James Shipley; she died in 1878. Daniel died in 1834; came to his death by an accident. Mr. Walkey is engaged in a saw-mill. He is one ot the leading and respected citizens of the township.

WALLACE, CHARLES, Howard township, farmer, post office, Howard, was born in Washington county, Pennsylyahia, in June, 1815. In 1837 he came to Knox township, Holmes county, and in 1858 removed to his present farm in Knox county.

He was-married to Nancy Hardisty, October 18, 1858. They had the following family: lizabeth, Thomas, Charles, and Nancy. Thomas enlisted in the late war, in 1864; served his time out and received and honorable dischaige.

WALLACE, DAVID, Morgan township, farmer, was born in county Armagh, Newtown-Hamilton, Ireland, September 30, 1815. His parents, David and Mary Wallace, wee Glenny, were natives of Ireland; their parents were Scotch, or the grandparents of the subject of our sketch were Scotch. His parents immigrated to the United States in 1819, with a family of three children, and settled in Burlington township, Licking county, where they subsequently purchased a farm, and lived and died there. They had a family of six children, five of whom are living, viz: David, Margaret, married William Wiley; Henry, Robert, of Mansfield; Mary Ann, married Burgess Helphrey; Eliza Jane, married a Mr. McFarland.

The subject of this notice was reared on a farm, and received a common school education. In 1847 he moved to Morgan township, where he has since resided. He was married to Miss Mary Dunlap, May 5, 1847; she isa native of Muskingum county, Ohio. Her parents were of Scotch-Irish descent. They had nine children, viz: Mary E., wife of John T. McKee; Elizabeth J., Maggie E., Sadie A., wife of James R. Boyd; Wylie D., and Loretta A. The deceased are: Anna M., Maudna A., and William H., who died of diphtheria.

WALLACE, JOHN, Pike township, butcher, post office, North Liberty, born in Wayne county, Ohio, in 1842, and was married in 1864, to Jane Blakely, who was born in 1848. They have the following family of children: Eva Estella, born in 1864; Edna Luella, in 1867; Verna May and Bertha Day, in 1873; Winifred, in 1875; Anna Bell, in 1876, and Ida Arivilla, in 1880. Edna Luella died in 1872, and Bertha Day, in 1873.

Mr. Wallace came to this county in 1858, and was engaged in farming fora number of years. For the last ten years he has been engaged in butchering in North Liberty. Anna Bell died October 13, 1880.

WALTER, GEORGE A., salesman, was born in Morris township, Knox county, in 1842, and was married in 1870, to Mary L. Smith, who was born in Fredericktown in 1851. "They have one son: Carleton C., born March 14, 1872, in Mt. Vernon.

Mr. Walter learned the carpenter trade when a young man, in Mt. Vernon, continued to work at his trade till 1872, when he was engaged in the butchering business with S. Wirby, afterwards with M. P. Minteer, and in 1880 was engaged with Braddock & Hurst.

WALTERS, JOHN, Union township, farmer, post oftice, Howard, born in 1821 near Steubenville, Ohio; came to Knox county in 1835, and settled upon the farm he now owns. He was married to Miss M. C. Johnson in April, 1843. They have five children - George, Sarah, Mary Jane, Harriet, and lrances. He has generally worked at farming, but has done some blacksmithing.

in Loudoun county, Virginia, in 1833; came to Ohio in 1835, and was married in 1858 to Mary EX. Wagner. He had the following family: Charles, born in 1859; Edward, in 1865; Ilattie, in 1867; and Frank, in 1873.

Mrs. Mary Waters died in 1861. Mr. John Walters was afterwards married, in 1863, to Susan Baxter, who was born in 1844 in Middlebury township.

WARD, RUFUS, Miller township, deceased, was born June 22, 1801, in Pittsford, Rutland county, Vermont. In 1816 he came with his parents to Zanesville, and in 1818 moved to Knox county aid resided in Mt. Vernon, for some years after which he moved to Miller township, where he purchased a farm and became one of the large land owners of the township, and a leading man of the community. He held the office of justice of the peace for twenty-one years, to the satisfaction of the public.

He was a self-made man - began life without any aid - but by industry and economy was successful. He was a farmer, and his farm presented evidence of careful tillage.

Mr. Ward died September 10, 1879; his wife died September 12, 1870. They had nine childern, viz: Laura E. (married to Newton Ic. Chambers); Mary E. (married to Douglass Bricker) Emma E. (married to Alonze Chapman); Lavina A. (married to Oscar Vance); Nellie A. (married to William Turner); Rose B. married to Rollin Hyatt). The sons are Rufus D., John F., and Fred L.

WARD, TRUMAN, was born July 19, 1805, in Rutland county, Vermont, caine with his parents to Zanesville, Ohio, in 1813, and lived there until 1815, when they came to Miller township, Knox county, and.lived there until November 1, 1827, when he came to Mt. Vernon. He was married on the same day to Eliza Maxheld, anative of Vermont. They have had a family of nine children, six of whom are living. After his marriage he spent a number of years in the cooper business. He commenced reading medicine in 1847, and graduated at the Willoughby Medical college in 1849, after which he practiced a short time in Mt. Vernon; also in Sunbury, Delaware county, after which he engaged in the drug business, in which he was successfuily engaged until November 7, 1878, when in consequence of bad heaith he sold out and retired from business.

WARD, L. B., was born in Brandon, Vermont, April tro. 1808. His father, Rufus Ward, was a native of Massachusetts His parents emigtated to Zanesville, Ohio, in April, 1814, where they remained two years, when on January 1, 1816, they came to Knox county and located in what is now Miller township. When they came te Ohio they came by team as far as Olean, New York, where they exchanged their team for a flatboat and floated down the Allegheny river to Pittsburgh, then down the Ohio to Marietta, where they hited a keel-boat to take them to Zanesville.

When he first settled on the farm he had a family of eight children, all of whom, but one, lived to see three score and ten years. At this time four are living, whose ages aggregate three hundred and twenty-four years. All of the family were married and had families, and all lived in Knox county but one.

Mr, Ward, sr., died in 1834, in the seventy-sixth year of his age. His wife died in 1848, at the age of cighty-five years. Mr. Ward followed farming until 1842, when he engaged in the mercantile business until 1864, when he sold his store and went back to his faim. In 1874 he opened a jewelry store in company with his son, in which he is now engaged.

He was married to Mary Freeman, daughter of Luther Freeman. then a resident of Knox county, by whom he had five children, all llving, and all married, and all live in Knox county.

WARD DENNIS, Miller township, farmer, was born in Miller township August 15, 1858, and is the son of Rufus Ward, of whom mention is made in this work. He was married to Miss Jennie E. Hildreth October 9, 1879, daughter of Arnold Hildreth of Miller township, mentioned elsewhere. The subject of this notice was reared on his father's farm and received a common school education, and is a social and pleasant gentleman.

WARREN, J. B., blacksmith and general jobber, Mechanic street, between High and Chestnut streets, Mt. Vernon. Mr. Warren was born in Ontario county, New York, November 10, 1833. When about three years of age his father emigrated to Ohio, and located in LaGrange, Lorain county. Here the family resided for seven years, and then removed to Kirkland township, Lake county, where they remained for twelve years, following the avocation of a farmer, in which he was assisted by his son, the subject of this sketch. The father and family then removed to Van Wert county, the son making that his home till 1867.

In 1861 J. B. Warren enlisted in the first call for three months, but on examination was rejected. He then engaged as salesman with Casto & Hartsock. This position he retained until July, 1864, when he again enlisted and was accepted. He entered company H, Fifteenth Ohio veteran volunteer infantry, First brigade, Third division, Fourth corps. In this company he served until May 27, 1864, when he was wounded at Pickett's mill, near Dallas, Georgia, and 'in consequence of this wound was discharged from service August 25, 1865. He returned to Van Wert county and engaged in mercantile pursuits, in which he continued for about eighteen months, when he took up his residence in Mt. Vernon. He entered into the Kokosing Iron Works as a mechanic in general work where he remained for two years. He then engaged with C. and C. G. Cooper & Co. as boltmaker. At this he worked for eighteen months then served eleven and a half years on saw-mill work. After this he established his present business in which he has been engaged about seven years. Mr. Warren does business of about one thousand dollars per year, and does all kinds of job work, horse_ shoeing, etc. On the tenth day of December, 1868, he married Miss Abbie R. Smith. Mrs. Warren died on the third day of January, 1880. He hasa family of one son, C. Warren, and one daughter, Dora FE. The son assists his father in his business,

WATKINS, THOMAS, was born in ''The Hay," Wales, in the year 1812, where he remained until 1822, when he came with his parents to America and settled at Steubenville, Jefferson county, Ohio, where he remained-for a number of years. He was married to Miss Eliza Brown, daughter of Hervey Brown. She was born February 13, 1822. They reared a family of two sons and two daughters. They left Steubenville and located in several different places, but did not remain long.

Mr. Watkins died August 7,°1857. The family settled in Mt. Vernon, on Cemetery avenue, in 1868, where they still live. The children are ail living,

WATKINS, WILLIAM J., Middlebury township, farmer, post office, Fredericktown, born in Knox county in 1828, and and was married in 1863 to Mary A. Zedaker, who was born in Morrow county in 1840. They have two children - Frank, born in May 3, 1864, and Eva, November 14, 1873.

WATKINS, DALLIS, Middlebury township, farmer, Post office, Levering, born in this county December rz, 1843, and was married in 1866 to Mary Martin, who was born in Knox connty, November 25, 1845. They have the following family, viz: Isaac, born August 1, 1867; Phebe Bell, October 11, 1868, Luella, May 8, 1872; Gladys, September 1, 1875; and Maude, August 21, 1878.

WATSON, ABRAHAM, Pleasant township, deceased, was born in Pennsylvania, in 1770, of Irish parents. He was a blacksmith by trade, and followed that business as his vocation for many years.

In 1803 he married Miss Elizabeth Rivers, of Maryland, born in Washington county in 1781. They settled in Maryland, remained until 1834, when he with wife and eight children, emigratad to Knox county, Ohio, travelling the whole distance of over three hundred and fifty miles in a one-horse wagon, being almost four weeks on the road. They located in Miller township, where they passed the remainder of their days.

They had a family of eight children, viz: Maria, Matilda, David, Abram, John, Catharine, Elizabeth, and Amanda. Two of them (Maria and John) have died.

WATSON, DAVID, farmer, son of the aforesaid Abraham and Elizabeth Watson, was born in Washington county, Maryland, January 22, 1814. He came with his parents to Knox county in 1834,

In 1840 he married Miss Sarah Muck, born in Pennsylvania. April 17, 1824, and came to this county in 1839. They settled in Miller township, this county, remained until 1874, when they purchased and moved upon the farm in Pleasant township, where they are now living. He still owns the farm in Miller township, on which they lived from 1842 to 1874. They reared a family of nine children, four sons and five daughters.

WATSON, JOSEPH, Attorney, of Mt. Vernon, was born March 1, 1827, in the town of Ballyreagh, county Fermanagh, 'Treland. He was married in Ballinamallard, on the seventh day of July, 1848, to Miss Rebecca Sproule, daughter of John Sproule, of Aultamulen, county Tyrone, and emigrated to America in August, 1849. In April, 1852, he settled in Mt. Vernon, and engaged in the grocery business, in which he continued until 1859. In 1861 he was admitted to the bar to practice law, and has continued at his profession ever since. In April, 1880, he opened an office in Columbus, Ohio, and was there admitted to practice in the United States courts. Mr. Watson has reared a family of six children - William B., Isabella, John S., Joseph H., Matthew O., and Frank C. - all living. John married Stella, daughter of James Stockwell, of Sunbury, Delaware county, Ohio, and has had two children. Isabella was married

WATSON, J. S., merchant, Hilliar township, post office, Rich Hill, was born in Mt. Vernon in 1856, is the third child of Joseph and Rebecca Watson, zee Sproule. He attended the schools of Mt. Vernon, and clerked in a store for about one year anda half. At the age of nineteen he purchased the Subury Spectator, a weekly published at Sunbury, Delaware county, Ohio. He edited and published this paper for about four years and a half in Sunbury, and then moved it to Centreburgh, Knox county, where he continued to publish it, changing the name to The Mirror, for about six months, and sold out. He was successful in the newspaper enterprise, and after he sold his paper he purchased the stock of the general store of M. Roberts, of Rich Hill. He ''stocked up," and now carries a full line of dry goods, groceries, boots and shoes, queensware, hardware, glassware, and such goods as are carried in a general line. Mr. Watson is a careful business man, prompt in his dealings, pleasant in address, and well calculated to do well. He was married to Miss Stella Stockwell, of Sunbury, Delaware county, September, 1876. They have one child.

WEAVER, JONATHAN was born at East Greenwich, Rhode Island, February 12, 1816, removed to Ohio with father and mother and one sister, and settled in Ashtabula, Ashtabula county, about the year 1822, receiving and concluding his education at the high school of that place. His father and family removed from Ashtabula, and settled in Worthington, Franklin county, Ohio, in 1834. In about one year after, J. Weaver left Ashtabula and came to and lived at Worthington, Ohio, and for two months was engaged in the dry goods store of B. Comstock (in which business he had three years previous experience with John Booth at Ashtabula). Onleaving Comstock's, he engaged with Champion & Lathrop, wholesale dry goods dealers, of Columbus, Ohie, southwest of High and Broad streets, afterwards with Comstock & Buttles, forwarding and commission merchants and pork packers, Columbus, Ohio. In the spring of 1839 he engaged in the grocery business in Columbus with Frank Stewart under the firm name of J. Weaver & Co. In May, 1844, he commenced a grocery business with H. Hollister at Newark, Ohio.

The following October the firm removed to, and continued a wholesale and retail grocery business at Mt. Vernon, under the firm name of Hollister & Weaver, until the fourth of March, 1846, when J. Weaver bought out H. Hollister, and associated himself in business with Dr. M. W. Stamp (a resident of Mt. Vernon) under the firm name of J. Weaver & Co., wholesale and retail grocers. This firm continued business until the first of May, 1850, when it was mutually dissolved, and the business continued by J. Weaver (Dr. Stamp uniting with the firm of C. P. Buckingham & Co. in the building of Kokosing foundry in Mt. Vernon).

During the year 1851 J. Weaver closed up business in Mt. Vernon, and was engaged in business with H. H. Curtis at Keokuk, Iowa, fora few months, after which he returned to Mt. Vernon, and engaged again in the grocery business with James George. This firm continued one year, and was mutually dissolved, J. Weaver continuing the wholesale and retail grocery business from that period until May, 1876 - a period of twentyfour years at Mt. Vernon.

was married by Rev. James Muenscher, to Miss Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Samuel J. Updegraff, esq. (an early resident of Mt. Vernon), who now have living two sons and two daughters, and two granddaughters, having lost two grandsons, children of Howard and Anna Harper, residents of Mt. Vernon.

WEAVER, JOH N, Liberty township, farmer, born in Liberty, February 22, 1831. He is the fourth child of Leonard and Mary Weaver, zee Zent. His youth was spent on the farm on which he now resides, and on which he has spent all his life except six years. He enlisted in company A, One Hundred and Forty-second regiment Ohio National guards, for one hundred days.

He married Miss Frances M. Coyle of Morrow county, in 1856. They had two children: One died while young; and Emarine, wife of Samuel Bricker.

Leonard Weaver, the father, was born in Rockingham county, Virginia, March 31, 1804. His parents came to Ohio at an early day, and remained in Fairfield county until 1814, when they removed to Jefferson township, Richland county, where they lived and died, being pioneers. He remained with his parents until 1823. About 1825 he moved to Liberty township, and purchased a tract of land, which was heavily timbered. He had the usual experience of early settlers. Hard work and economy, however, overcame the disadvantages. He is a good citizen, and has the esteem of the community. He was married August 28, 1823, to Miss Mary Zent, by whom he had seven children. His wife dying, he married Harriet Farreson. He resides on the farm on which he settled in 1825.

WEBSTER, EDWIN P., Gambier, was born in Summit county, Chio, December 6, 1849. He was educated at the Bissell institute, at Twinsburgh. In 1872 he accepted a position at Dawson, Fayette county, Pennsylvania, as night telegraph operator, which position he held about six months. In February, 1873, he came to Gambier, this county, and accepted the position of agent and operator in the office of the Cleveland, Mt. Verron & Columbus railroad company, which position he is now filling.

In 1875 Mr. Webster married Miss Sarah R. Cheyney, of Dawson, Fayette county, Pennsylvania. They settled in Gambier, where they are now living. They have three children, all daughters.

WEEKS, WILLIAM, Monroe township, farmer, a native of England, and son of Matthew Weeks, was born May 25, 1824. He migrated to America with his father aud located in Gambier in 1842. His father deceased in about two years after their arrival at Gambier.

In October, 1844, Mr. Weeks married Miss Nancy Ayers, born in Wayne county, Ohio, March 4, 1824. 'They settled in Tefferson township, this county, remained a few months, and in June of the same year they moved to Gambier, lived one year in the village, and then moved to Monroe township, where his companion deceased in June, 1859, but he is still living in Monroe township. Their union resulted in seven children, only two of whom are now living. He served one year in the war of 1861. His son, John H., died in the service of his country during the late war.

WELKER, DAVID (deceased), Union township, was born in Somerset county, Pennsylvania February 28, 1787. He emigrated to Knox county, and located in Union township in 1809, on the farm now owned by his son, John D. Welker. In

1810 he married Sarah McMillen, who was born in 1791, daughter of Robert and Nellie McMillen. He erected a log cabin on his land, which served them as an abode for a number of years. He lived on the farm and followed farming as his vocation until he died, November 16, 1853. His companion died in March, 1857. They reared a family of seven children: Paul, David, Sarah, John D., Eleanor, Simon, and Mary - all of whom married and reared families.

WELKER, DANIEL, Howard township, farmer, post office, Howard, was born in Union township, Knox county, December 5, 1812. He remained here twenty-eight years. He was married in 1840, and removed to Howard township, where he has remained ever since. He has six children: Shiply, Curtis, Edith, Maria, Dillon, and Elizabeth. Curtis died at the age of two years, three months and nine days; Dillon died at the age of twenty-one years, eleven months and fourteen days.

WELKER, PAUL, Howard township, farmer, post office, Howard, was born in Union township, Knox county, September 16, 1813. He remained in this township until the thirtieth year of his age, when he removed to Howard township, and settled on the farm which he now owns and occupies.

He was married in 1838 to Crysta M. Ankeny. They had four children: George, David, Sylvester, and Belle. David died July 24, 1874, at the age of thirty-three years and twenty days; Sylvester is at present (June, 1880) assessor of this township.

WELKER, M. D., A. D., Gambier; a native of Knox county, and son of Elliott and Rachel Welker, was born in Howard township on the twenty-second day of October, 1847. He is a self-educated man, studied medicine with Dr.'s McMahon, Coleman and Moffett, of Millwood, this county. In the fall of 1870 he entered the Louisville Medical college, at Louisville, Kentucky, and graduated February 29, 1872. On the fifteenth day of the following April he came to Gambier and began the practice of medicine, where he has since been engaged in his profession, meeting with good success. In September, 1870, he married Miss Louisa White, of Howard township, this county, daughter of Anthony White. Their union resulted in two children, daughters. Mrs. Welker died August 22, 1875. His second marriage was with Miss Fannie Colwill, in 1878, daughter of Simon Colwill. By this union he has one child, a son.

WELKER, GEORGE A., physician, Berlin township, post office, Shalers Mills, was born in Union township, Knox county, in 1839. He received a preparatory education in the common schools, and attended the Ann Arbor Medical college in Michigan. He also attended lectures at the University of Wooster Medical college, located at Cleveland, and graduated in 1875. He commenced the practice of medicine in Greersville; remained there for two years, then located in Millwood, where he 1emained two years and six months. In 1866 he moved to Ankenytown, where he has since been engaged in the practice of his profession. He now has an extensive practice, and stands high in his profession. He was united in marriage to Miss Emma Giffin, of Berlin township, who was born in 1845, daughter of Lauriston and Lucia F. Giffin. They have two children - Nina Belle, born in 1868, and Harry B., 1870.

WELLS, G. W., Fredericktown, baker and grocer, was born in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, in 1832, and came to Ohio with his parents in 1835. He was married in 1858 to Anna E. Logsdon, who was born in Knox county in 1834. They have three sons: William, born February 22, 1859; David, born November 28, 1860; and Freddie, born March 27, 1869.

Mr. Wells began business in,this town in 1867, where he has built up a good trade. Heis a first-class baker, and is prepared to meet the wants of the public in his line.

WELLS, JOSEPH, Middlebury township, deceased, born in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, and married Sophia E. Noble, who was born in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, in 1842. They have two children: George W., born February 22, 1859, and Joseph M., August 30, 1860. Mr. Joseph Wells died August 13, 1872.

WELSH, JOHN, farmer, oldest son of William and Rebecca Welsh, zee Budd, was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, March 19, 1814. He received a good common school edncation, was reared on a farm, and has followed farming as his principal vocation. October 7, 1834, he married Miss Sarah J. Beall, daughter of Zephaniah and Mary Beall, zee Purcell. She was born near Beallsville, Washington county, Pennsylvania, December 25, 1818.

Mr. Welsh remained in Washington county about two years after his marriage to Miss Beall. In the fall of 1836 he came to Knox county, Ohio, and located in Clinton township, about three miles south of Mt. Vernon, on the Columbus road, remained there one year, then, in 1837, he purchased and moved on the farm, in the same township, one mile west of Mt. Vernon, where they are now living. He bought the land of Benjamin Keller. The dwelling house consisted of a double log cabin, which served them as an abode until 1847, when they erected their present brick residence.

Their union resulted in eight children - William, Mary, Zephaniah B., Reasin, Rebecca, Lucretia, Joseph, and Sarah J. - two of whom are deceased, Mary and Joseph. Mary died at the age of four years.

Joseph enlisted in company B, Ninety-sixth Ohio volunteer infantry, under Colonel Vance, in March, 1864, and died in the service on the steamer J. H. Groesbeck, on his way home from New Orleans, September 22, 1864.

Mr. Welsh taught several terms of school in Clinton and adjoining townships, making that his vocation during the winter months, for a few years after his arrival in this county. He taught his first term in the county in the winter of 1836-7. He understood surveying, and did a great amount of that work in different parts of the county. He also followed contracting and building to some extent, having made some fine improvements in Mt. Vernon for himself and others.

WELSH, J. W., Union township, mechanic, post office, Rosstown. - He was born in Mt. Vernon, Knox county, Ohio, August 31, 1858. His father and mother both died in Fredericktown when he was eight years old. He returned to Mt. Vernon, remained five years, then moved to Rossville, where he now lives and works at his trade. '

WERTZ, GEORGE, deceased, Morris township, was born in Somerset county, Pennsylvania, May 25, 1809; was married to Amanda Myers October 1, 1835, who was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, May 31, 1817. They had the following children: Jacob, born June 9, 1837; Anderson, May 8, 1851; Azariah, September 5, 1843; Theophilus, June 16, 1845; George H., July 3, 1852; Sarah Ann, December 25, 1838; and Mary E., September 19, 1847.

Jacob married Maria L. Koch, June 25, 1858; they reside in Crestline, Obio. Sarah married J. Madisun Rood, December 16, 1858. Azariah married Leppe Greenland January 28, 1868. Mary married Frank Foster. Theophilus married Lucinda Baughman; they reside in Scott county, Iowa. George Henry married Anna Mullen January 10, 1875. tha Vernon in 1874; they have two children: George, borii March 6, 1875; Louis, August 15, 1878.

WERTZ, ALBERT, Middlebury township, farmer, post office, Levering, born in Licking county, in 1851, and was married in 1875 to Deliah Fidler, who was born in Morrow county. They have three children: Emery E., born November 27, 1875; John H., November 16, 1877; and an infant born in 1880. Mr. Wertz has resided in this township three years, and owns a farm with all the modern improvements.

WESTON, HIRAM, Fredericktown, mason, was born in Rutland, Vermont, in 1816, and came to Ohio in 1836. He was married in 1843 to Eliza Hodges, who was born in New York in 1823. They have the following family: Livonia, born in 1845; Harriet, in 1848; Eleanor, in 1851; Anice and Alice, in 1855; Amasa and Amy, in 1859; Ada, born in 1861, and died in 1869.

WHITE, THOMAS, College township, deceased, a native of Maryland, was born in 1779. About the year 1802 he married Miss Winnie Logsdon, of Maryland. They migrated to Ohio and located in the county near the Indian fields about 1804 or 1805, remained a few years, then moved on a farm in College township, near Gambier, where they deceased.

They reared a family of seven children--Anthony, Nancy, Lewis, Joseph, David, James, and Lydia. Only four of the number are now living, namely: Lewis, James, David and Lydia.

WHITE, LEWIS, College township, farmer, son of the aforesaid Thomas and Winnie White, was born in College township, this county, on the twenty-eighth day of October, 1811,

In 1831 he married Miss Rebecca Welshhammer, born in 1809. They settled in College township, a short distance south of Gambier. They have six children - Amanda, Matilda, Norman H., William H., Ellen, and Charles J.

WHITE, GEORGE BERKELEY, postmaster, Mt. Ver. non. Mr. George B. White, the present postmaster of Mt. Vernon, Ohio, was born on the seventh day of July, 1814, in Derby, New Haven county, Connecticut. Mr. White is a descendant in a direct line from Elder John White, one of the first setlers of Cambridge, in Massachusetts; of Hartford, in Connecticut, and of Hadley, in Massachusetts. The elder was born in england, about the year 1795. He sailed from London, england, on the twenty-second day of June, 1632, and arrived at Boston, in Massachusetts, on Sunday, the sixteenth day of September following, after a tedious voyage of eight weeks. He died in the winter of 1683-4. He had six children, four sons and two daughters. From the- second child, Nathaniel, the subject of this sketch descended. Elder White was a man of great prominence in his day, and held many important public trusts.

When about twelve years of age George B. White went to New York city, and engaged as a salesman with Folgar, Lamb & Co., where he remained about five years. In 1835 he came to Gambier, Ohio, and engaged in the mercantile business with his brother Mardenbrough, now a resident of Gambier, under the firm name of M. & G. B. White, and continued in business there until 1838, when they closed up their business in Gambier and came to Mt. Vernon and entered into the same line of business, and under the old firm, which they conducted until 1841. His brother returned to Gambier, and Geoige engaged in mercantile pursuits of various kinds from 1841 to 1872; the most important branches were the boot, shoe and leather business, with his brother-in-law, T. Ewing Miller, for twelve years; and the queensware, crockery, and house furnishing goods for some three years. In 1872 he was appointed inspector in the internal revenue department and stgtioned at Cleveland, Ohio, where he remained eighteen months. He then went to Washington city, where he had been appointed to the special service division in the pension office. This position he held for six months, when, in consequence of ill health, he resigned and returned to his home.

He was appointed postmaster at Mt. Vernon, Ohio, and entered upon the duties of said office on the first of May, 1874. He was reappointed to the same position in 1878, in which he still continues.

For some fifteen or more years Mr. White represented his ward in the city council, and was its continued president from the time he took the oath of office until he voluntarily retired from the service of the city.

On the tenth day of October, 1839, he was married to Miss Clara Miller, daughter of the late Judge Eli Miller, of Mt. Vernon. Ileven children were the issue of this marriage, five sons and six daughters, all living but twe of the sons.

Mrs. White passed away from earth a few years since, loved by her immediate family, and esteemed and respected by her numerous friends and acquaintances.

WHITE, DAVID, Gambier, retired; son of, Thomas and Winnie White, was born in what is now College township, this county, December 21. 1816 He was reared a farmer, and has followed farming as his Vocation. In 1838 he married Miss

Elizabeth Majors; they have had one son, Emanuel, who was killed near Lagrange, Mississippi, in the war of 1861. His companion deceased January 16, 1851. He was urfited in marriage with Margaret Howard, who deceased in 1877. His last marriage was with Catharine Gorsuch, who is now living with him in Gambier.

WHITE, JOHN A,, farmer, was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, about 1820. He remained in Pennsylvania until 1840, when he came to Liberty township and remained a year, then went to Noble county, Ohio, and engaged in cultivating tobacco. While in Noble county he made several trips to Liberty township. In 1866 he removed to the farm on which he now resides and which he had purchased the fall previous. Mr, White, although not having an education, has been successful in making for himself and family considerable property. He began poor in life, but by his industry and good management overcame all obstacles, and is now one of the leading farmers of the vicinity, and is esteemed by his neighbors for his uprightness of character. He married Elizabeth Craft, of Guernsey county, Ohio. They had eleven children, ten of whom are living. 'They are an industrious family.

WHITE, WILLIAM J., wagon-maker, Fredericktown. Lieutenant White was a member of company G, One Hundred and Twenty-first regiment, and was engaged in the service about three years, attaining to the position of lieutenant. He was born in Franklin county, Pennsylvania, in 1823. He came to Ohio with his parents in 1829, and located in Knox county. He was married in 1845, to Amnnda Lambert, daughter of Rev. Daniel Lambert. She was born in 1826. daughter, Sarah C., married to W. L. Merrin. Newark, Licking county.

WHITFORD, JAMES. W., travelling salesman, Fredericktown, was born in Maryland in 1826, came to Ohio in 1844, and located in Richland county. He was married in 1855, to Margaret Rankins, who was born in Licking county in 1823. They have the following family: Rankin born in 1856; James, in 1858; Hattie, in 1860; Jefferson, in 1862; Ralph, in 1870; William H., in 1873. Mr. Whitford settled in Fredericktown in 1845. He has good business qualifications, and is one of the enterprising men of Fredericktown. He has been engaged with the firm of H. M. Weaver & Co., of Mansfield, since 1871, and has the reputation of a successful salesman.

WHITNEY, DUDLEY C., Brown township, farmer, post office, Danville, son of Ebnezer and Sarah A. Whitney, born in Brown township, Knox county, August 16, 1846. He remained with his parents until February 13, 1873, when he was united in marriage with Miss Maria F. Tremble, daughter of Samuel and Susan Tremble, born in Union township, Knox county, on the twenty-fifth day of March, 1849. After his marriage he built a house on the old home place, where he then moved, and where he has since remained, farming for his father. He is at present a justice of the peace in Brown township.

WHITNEY, E. J., farmer, post office, Danville, son of Thomas Whitney, born in Orleans county, Vermont, December 6, 1806, where he was reared by his parents until he arrived at the years of manhood. In the year 1830 he was united in marriage with Sarah A. Boardman, born in Norwich township, Windsor county, Vermont, July 13, 1806. After his marriage he located in Hartford, Vermont, where he engaged to work in a foundry, and did so until October, 1837, when he moved with his family to Ohio, locating in Brown township, Knox county, where he made a purchase of afarm of one hundred and nine and a half acres of land in the Jelloway valley, where he erected a rude log cabin, and moved his family into it. He cleared his land and at present has a very pleasant home.

Mr. Whitney has filled a number of offices of trust while living in said township. In 1850 he erected a saw-mill on his farm, which he operated a number of years. His marrige resulted in eight children, as follows: Edward E., born November 5, 1833, and died January 26, 1879; Virginia C., August 4, 1835, and died February 25, 1849; Victoria P., November 29, 1839; Girdon B., November 2g, 1839, and died in Portsmouth, Virginia, August 4, 1864; Lucy E., June 5, 1844; Dudley C., August 16, 1846; Luella M., November 21, 1850; Helena, April 19, 1853.

WHITTINGTON, NEHEMIAH, grocer and confectioner, North Sandusky street, Mt. Vernon, Ohio. - Mr. Whittington is a native of Caroline county, Maryland, where he was born September 29, 1808, and where he resided until 1834, when he came to Ohio and located in Licking county, where he resided one year. He then came to Mt. Vernon and engaged in draying, in which he continued several years, and after which he engaged in the manufacture and sale of tinware, which he conducted about two years. He then engaged with the firm of C. and E. Cooper, to do stove mounting, which he followed several years, when he was given the position of shipping clerk, and in consideration of his faithfulness and abilities he was retained with this firm in all twenty-eight years. In the year 1872 he established himself in the grocery business, in which he has since been engaged., He carries a good stock of staple and fancy groceries and confectioneries, flour and feed.

He has been twice married. His first wife was Sarah Gradless, by whom he had two children, one of whom, a daughter, is living. His second wife was Lovica Hindens, by whom he has a family of six children - three sons and three daughters - all of whom are living, and all but one of whom are married and reside within the limits of this county. His daughter by his first wife is matried and resides at Cardington, Ohio.

WHITWORTH, A. T., Howard township, farmer, post office, Howard, was born in Maryland, July 27, 1818. His father died when he was five years of age; he lived with his mother and took care of thcir little farm. In 1831 they sold their farm and moved to Jefferson township, Knox county, remaining there five or six years, and then removed to Howard. In July, 1839, he was married to Rosa Clute, of Mt. Vernon. His mother died in 1856 at sixty-four years of age. He had three children: Joseph, born September 10, 1841, and died in 1850; Sarah, September 12, 1845, and died in 1850; Susanna, September 15, 1849, and is now living in Michigan.

WIER JOHN, Monroe township, farmer, son of Noble and Ann Wier, was born in Ireland in 1818. In 1833 he accompanied his parents to Amerita, who located in Monroe township, Knox county, on a farm now owned by Robert Marshall's heirs. 'They remained a few years in Monroe township, then in

1838 they moved to Liberty township, this county, where they died. Noble Wier, father of John, died in 1874; his companion survived him until 1876.

In 1839 Mr. Wier married Miss Mary A. McClelland, daughter of John and Sarah MecCleliand. They settled in Monroe township and have lived in the same township since their marriage, except about two years that they spent in Morrow county, Ohio. They moved on the farm on which they now reside in 1860, and have a family of nine children, two sons and seven daughters. through life.

WILKINSON, C., Mt. Vernon, was born near St. Clairsville, Belmont county, Ohio, November 27, 1842. He passed his early life on a farm. In 1862 he entered the army as a volunteer in the Ninety-eighth Obio volunteer infantry. In the battle of Perrysville, Kentucky, he was wounded by a rifle ball passing through his left leg, rendering him unfit for service. In 1863 he was discharged from duty. After returning home he entered the Ohio Wesleyan university at Delaware, Ohio, and graduated from that institution in 1866. After graduating he spent three years teaching in the public schools of Lancaster and elsewhere.

In 1870 he purchased the Belmont Chroxécle, published at St. Clairsville. The Chronicle was the Republican party paper of Belmont county, which he edited for two years. moved to Fostoria, Ohio, where he published the Fostoria Press for a time. In the fall of 1876 he purchased, in partnership with Mr. S. S. Knabenshue, the Mt. Vernon Repudlican. In September, 1878, he purchased Mr. Knabenshue's interest on the Repudlican, and continued the publication of the same until May 6, 1880, when he sold the Kepudlican to Armstrong & Co. At present Mr. Wilkinson is engaged in farming near Mt. Vernon.

WILLIAMS, MILTON B., Berlin township, farmer, post office, Fredericktown, born in Wayne township, Knox county, in 1827, was married in 1851 to Elizabeth Roberts, who was born in Berlin township in 1831. They have two chiidren - Bryant and Jesse. Mr. Williams has resided in Berlin township for forty-three years. He owns a well improved farm with all the modern improvements, and is a model farmer.

Mr. Williams resided in Richland county one year, and was engaged in a saw-mill before he removed to Knox county. His father, Daniel Williams, was born in Frederick county, Maryland, in 1792, and emigrated to Ohio at the age of twentytwo years, with his parents, and first located in Fredericktown. He bought the first mill property of Mr. Carr, also a large quantity of land. He died in Knox county in 1876.

WILLIAMS, ADAM, Miller township, blacksmith, at Brandon; was born in Miller township, December 14, 1834. He is the fourth child and the third son of a family of five children. His parents, Jacob and Sarah Williams, zee Litzenberg, were natives of Pennsylvania, and were married there and came to Ohio about the year 1828. 'hey both died in Miller township, this county.

The mother of the subject of this notice died when he was about four years old, and was therefore in early life deprived of her fostering care. He remained with his father on the farm until about the age of twelve years, when his father discontinued housekeeping, when Mr. Williams was placed with his aunt, Mrs. Susan Jackson, where he remained about a year, and then resided with his uncle, David W. Litzenberg, with whom he re- mained about a year. His father again going to housekeeping he returned to the place of his birth, and remained with his father until his death. Some few months after this, and when about seventeen years of age, he was bound to Boyles & Coleman, of Brandon, to learn the trade of blacksmithing. He remained about two years in Brandon, then went to Mt. Vernon with William Sanderson to finish his trade. He remained about two years and then went to Mechanicsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he remained six months and again returned to Mt. Vernon, where he remained about two years working at his trade. In the fall of 1858 he came to Brandon and entered into partnership with Aaron Boyles, which continued for some two years, when he purchased his partner's interest, and for the first time commenced business for himself.

He worked at his trade until November, 1861, when he enlisted in company C, Forty-third regiment, Ohio volunteer infantry, command by Colonel Smith. He participated in the engagements of New Madrid, Missouri, and Island Number Ten. At Corinth he was appointed sergeant, and at Decatur, Alabama, he was appointed color-bearer. He was at Resaca, Georgia; Kennesaw Mountain, Atlanta, thence on the Sherman campaign to Savannah, and thence to Washington, District of Columbia. He received a second lieutenant's commission about two months before he was discharged. He thus served his country three years and eight months, participating in all

Mr, Williams was discharged with his regiment at Columbus, Ohio. After his return from the army he resumed his trade, at which he has since been engaged. He has been successful in his business, and has the esteem and confidence of the community in which he lives. He takes an active interest in public affairs. He joined the Methodist Episcopal church in the fall of 1861, and has been a consistent member.

Mr. Williams was married to Miss Caroline Baughman, July 14, 1858. She was born March 14, 1840, and a daughter of Christian Baughman, sr.. of whom mention is made in this volume. They had a family of five children - -Leonora L., born April 23, 1859, who married Henry Bunnell; Albert W., deceased when six months old; Stanley A., born June 14, 1862; Elmer C., April 8, 1867; and Rosa May, July 30, 1872.

WILLIAMS, GRAFTON, farmer, post office. Levering. - He was born in Maryland in 1841; he came to Ohio with his parents. He was married to Armina Fiddler (widow), who was born in Licking county.

Tennessee; the ball entered in the centre of his breast, came out under the right shoulder blade. He madea very narrow escape. He is drawing a pension.

WILLIAMS, BRYANT B., farmer, post office, Fredericktown. Hewas born in this township in 1854. He was married September 31, 1880, to Sadie E. Steele, who was born in Wayne county in 1858.

WILLIAMS, A. H., Newark, Ohio. Mr. Williams is proprietor of the Licking county blank book manufactory. His establishment is located on West Main street, in Felt's block,

WILSON, DEXTER, Morris township, farmer, post office, Mt. Vernon, was born in this county in 1826, and married in 1850 to Sarah Love, who was born in this county in 1830. They have four children, viz: Oscar W., born in 1852; Philittia J,, in 1853; Frank M., in 1864; and Minnie Bell, in 1870.

WILSON, HODGSON, school teacher and farmer, was born in the county of Durham, England, March ro, 1847. He removed to America in 1852, residing for a short time in Cleveland, Ohio, and removed the same year to Butler township. He received the first rudiments of his education in the district schools of this township. He afterwards attended select school at Millwood, taught by Professor Jones, a graduate of Kenyon college, and also the Northwestern Normal school at Fostoria, Ohio. Mr. Wilson, although a strong Republican, is one of the justices of the peace of the Democratic township of Butler.

WILSON, JOHN, farmer, Wayne township, post office, Fredericktown, born in Wayne county, January 15, 1831, and was married December 12, 1858, to Harriet Mcl'elow, who was born in Wayne county, October 27, 1841. They had the following children - Arabel, born July 7, 1859; William Elmer September 28, 1864; Laura Etta, June 4, 1877, and Agnes May, April 17, 1879. They were all born in Knox county except the first, who was born in Wayne county. Mr. Wilson came from Wayne to Knox county in 1856, located on a farm and is one of the leading men of this township.

WILSON, JOHN B., was born in Belmont county, Ohio, on the twenty-ninth day of July, 1835. He removed to Washington county, Ohio, at an early age. From there he emigrated to Butler township, Knox county, in 1856, remaining there a short time when he came to Clay township, where he has since resided. He was married October 27, 1861, to Miss Rhoda M. Rice, who bore him one child - a son, named Marion, who was born June 1, 1862. Mrs. Rhoda M. Wilson died March 29, 1871. He .subsequently married, September 26, 1872, Miss Elanor Mckee, by whom he has had oneson, Harry Leslie, born July 31, 1878.

John M. Wilson, father of John B., was born in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, January 16, 1800. He removed to Ohio, settling in Belmont county when a young man. He was married to Anna Mason, of that county, April 12, 1830. They had five children, viz: John B., William B., Joseph M., Sarah A., Samuel H. John M. Wilson died December 28, 1869.

WILSON, E. J., M. D., Mt. Vernon, office over Eagle drug store, Main street, Mt. Vernon, Ohio, Dr. Wilson was born near Granville, Licking county, Ohio, on the ninth day of August, 1853, and was educated at Dennison university in Granville. On the nineteenth of April, 1875, he commenced the study of medicine with Dr. Larimore, of Mt. Vernon, During the winter of 1877-8, he attended his first term of lectures at the Columbus Medical college, and graduated on the twenty-third day of June, 1879, at the Long Island college hospital, at Brooklyn, New York. He was appointed resident surgeon of the hospital after a competitive examination, which position he filled with much honor to himself, until July 1, 1880, when he returned to Mt. Vernon, and accepted a partnership with his former preceptor, Dr. F. C. Larimore, with whom he is now actively engaged in the practice of his profession.

WINDOM, HON. WILLIAM. - The present Secretary of the Treasury, Hon. William Windom, was, during his childhood, youth, and early manhood a resident of Knox county. He was a native of Belmont county, Ohio, where he was born May ro, 1827. In the autumn of 1832, his father"with his family removed to Middlebury township, this county, and coutinued to reside there until 1848, when he removed to Illinois, William went into the law office of Judge Hurd, of Mt. Vernon, as a law student, having previously received an academic education. He was admitted to the barin 1850, and the next year, 1851, became a partner of Judge Hurd, who, in 1852, on being elected judge of the court of common pleas, surrendered his practice to William Windom and D. S. Norton, two young lawyers, the last named being his brother-in-law.

In 1852 William Windom was elected to the office of prosecuting attorney of Knox county. He was the candidate of the Whig party, and succeeded by more than three hundred majority, although the county generally gave the Democratic ticket a larger majority than that.

Mr. Windom was a young man of excellent talents, good habits, exemplary deportment, and ranked well among the promising young lawyers of Mt. Vernon. He took a deep interest in the celebrated Main Law campaign, as it it was called, in 1853, making many speeches in all sections of Ohio in favor of temperance legislation. Mr. Windom was widely and favorably known as.a zealous and able advocate of temperance in general and of laws prohibiting the sale of intoxicating liquors. He held a high position in the ranks of the temperance hosts of the State, and while yet quite young was chosen the chief officer of an order known as the Sons of .Temperance, in which position he served not only acceptably but also quite efficiently, making many public addresses, and in various ways laboring to promote temperance and good morals.

In September, 1855, Mr. Windom removed from Mt. Vernon and settled in Winona, Minnesota, and there, in company with his law partner, Daniel S. Norton, esq., entered upon the practice of his profession. Both gentlemen were possessed of decided talents, and as a law firm were successful.

Mr. Norton was elected a member of the Senate of Minnesota four times, and in 1862 was elected a member of the lower branch of the State legislature; and in 1865 he. was elected a member of the United States Senate for a full term of six years, ending in 1871, but died in Washington city July 1, 186 - , before his term had expired.

Hon. William Windom was elected a member of the Thirtysixth Congress in 1859, and served as a member of the committee on public land, and also as a member of the special committee of thirty-three. He was also elected a member of the Thirty-seventh Congress, serving on the committee on public expenditure; and of the Thirty-eighth Congress, serving as chairman of the committee on Indian affairs, and of the special committee to visit the Indian tribes of the west in 1865,

Mr. Windom was also elected a member of the Thirty-ninth Congress, serving on the committee on the death of President Lincoln. He was again at the head of the committee on Indian affairs, and also served as chairman of a special committee on the conduct of the commissioner of Indian affairs. He was meanwhile a delegate to the Philadelphia Loyalists' convention of 1866. He was elected to congress for the fifth time in 1866, and through the Fortieth congress served on the same standing committees as in the immediately preceding years.

of ten consecutive years, was appointed by the Governor in 1870, to serve out the unexpired term of Hon. D. S$. Norton in the United States Senate, and was soon thereafter elected to the Senate of the United States for a full term of six years, beginning March 4, 1871, and ending March 4, 1877, during which time he served as chairman of the committee on enrolled bills, and on the committee on transportation, and also served as a member of the committee on appropriations. Before the expiration of his term in 1877, he was again elected for another full term of six years, which would have terminated March 4, 1883, had he not tendered his resignation as United States senator March 1, 1881. He has thus served his State, with credit and honor, for a period of a little more than ten years, as a member of the United States Senate, making a period of more than twenty consecutive years of service in the National councils.

Hon. William Windom has taken an active part in the legislation of the country during the last twenty years, a period that may well be called the most eventful in its history - a period that embraced all the years of the civil war. He kept abreast of the times - took a part in all the discussions of the great war measures that demanded consideration and deliberation in the councils of the Nation. He was always patriotic - always willing to vote for more money and more men to put down and crush out the great rebellion - always voting like a patriot, a philanthropist, a philosopher, a statesman when questions

By 'selection of President Garfield, and by the unanimous vote of the members of the United States Senate, Hon. William Windom is now (April, 1881,) Secretary of the Treasury. And in that appointment the country yields general acquiescence. It was an appointment eminently fit to be made. He has many friends and few enemies. Mr. Windom was his own State's first and almost only choice as the candidate of the Republican party for President of the United States. Where best known he is most highly appreciated.

Hon. William Windom married Miss Ellen Hatch, daughter of a Congregational minister. She had been a popular and successful teacher in the Mt. Vernon Female seminary, conducted by the late Professor R. R. Sloan. They are the parents of three children.

WINELAND, JOHN, Pike township, farmer, post office, North Liberty, born in Bedford county, Pennsylvania, in 1824. He came to Ohio in 1827, and was married in 1850 to Joannah Biddle, who was born in Wayne county, Ohio, in 1828. They have seven children - George Wineland, born in 1851; Jacob, in 1853; Sindrilla, in 1855; Clarvina, in 1857; Mary Elizabeth, in 1862; Emma Etta, in 1864; Sarah L., in 1866; Iona, born in 1869. Jacob Wineland died in 1866, in Pike township, Knox county, Ohio.

Mr. John Wineland has always resided on his present farm. He has been elected to different township offices, and has held the office of township trustee for a number of years.

Mr. Wineland is a native born of this county. He was born January 1, 1854, being a New Year's gift from his mother to his father. When quite young he went to Fulton county, Ohio, where he resided about sixteen years, where he was engaged in attending school, after which he returned to Mt. Vernon and engaged in the barber business with Phil. Schwikert, where he remained a short time, and then entered the employ of Albert & Shoper, where he remained until January 1, 1880, when he bought out the firm and has conducted the business ever since. He runs four chairs, and has two bath-rooms. He has one hundred and seventy-five regular customers, besides accommodating transient visitors, and does an average business of about forty-five dollars per week. Hair-cutting a specialty. He does the largest business in this line, and has the most commodious and best accommodations in the city, a place where every visitor will be comfortable, and will be waited upon in first-class style.

WING, MELVIN, was born in Warren county, New York, July 8, 1804, and caine to Ohio with his parents in the fall of 1816, and located in what is now Milford township, Knox county, where they commenced in the unbroken forest to clear up ahome. Mr. Wing, sr., was of rather delicate constitution and young Melvin being the oldest son, a great portion of the work fell upon his shoulders, but being energetic and of great physical endurance it was not long until the forest had given way and inits stead fine fields of grain were to be seen. They resided on this farm until 1822, when they sold and rented a farm for one year. The following year they bought one hundred and four acres, one mile south of Mt. Vernon, where his parents spent the remainder of their days. His father reared a family of six children, and died April 10, 1865, in his eightysixth year; his mother died December 25, 1867. Melvin martried Miss Elizabeth H. Ash, daughter of James Ash, and reared a family of four children, one daughter and three sons. Mrs. Wing died March 17, 1874. His daughter Maria J. died March 17, 1879. His three sons, viz: W. C., James A., and W. R., are all married and live in Clinton township.

Melvin Wing is one of the pioneers of the county, and has lived to see a great many changes take place. In consequence of severe injuries, caused by a horse running away, he is nowin feeble health and has retired from business to enjoy the balance ot his days in peace and quiet.

WINTERMUTE, JACOB PERRY, merchant, Mt. Liberty, Ohio, is the third in descent from George Wintermute, or Windemuth, as originally spelled, who was an emigrant from the old country, settling in Sussex county, New Jersey, in the early part of the last century, and from whom has descended an extensive family connection, now scattered over all the northern States, territories and Canada.

His son George, who died in 1837, in the ninetieth year of his age, was married to Nancy Arason, a descendant of Jeptha Arason, who was commissioned and sent over by one of the King Georges' to do some surveying, receiving for his services a large tract of land in the northern part of New Jersey.

His son George, the father of the subject of this sketch, was born in Sussex county, New Jersey, April 28, 1787, was married to Anne Wintermute, zee Lanterman, October 24, 1807, and at once removed to Fayette county, Pennsylvania, where he followed his trade of blacksmithing, removing from there to Trumbull county, Ohio, in 1809, where he, with an elder brother, was drafted and served in the War of 1812. After the close of his term of service, the times being very hard in that then new country, he moved back to Fayette county, Pennsylvania, in 1814, where he remained until the year 1825, when he again moved to Ohio, this time settling in Muskingum county, ten miles west of Zanesville, which place he made his permanent residence until the date of his death, January 4, 1862. His widow died February 1, 1871, at her daughter's, near the old homestead. They hada family of six sons and one daughter, as follows: Arason, John Ogden, Asahel Wells, Sarah Ann, Ashfordby, James, Frey, and Jacob Perry, all of whom are living with the exception of the second son, who died in Grayville, Illinois, April 3, 1876.

The subject of this sketch, the youngest of the family, was born in Hopewell township, Muskingum county, Ohio, December 15, 1852, and remained on the farm until his sixteenth year, when he went to Zanesville in the fall of 1848 to learn a trade with his brother, remaining with him four years, after which he engaged in daguerreotyping, following the business in various parts of the State about seven years.

On the last day of December, 1857, he was united in marriage, in Zanesville, Ohio, by the Rev. David E. Thomas, to Ettie A. Buckmaster, who was born in Muskingum county, February 7, 1837, and who was a daughter of C. W. Buckmaster, whose biography appears in another part of this work. This union resulted in a family of two sons and two daughters, as follows: Robert Corbin, born June 27, 1861; Nina, October 14, 1863, both in Norton, Delaware county, Ohio; William Edward, April 4, 1869, and Pearlie, April 9, 1876, both in Mt. Liberty, Knox county.

After a residence in Zanesville of a little more than one year he removed to Norton, Delaware county, Ohio, and engaged in mercantile business with his brother, remaining there five years, when he changed his location to Mt. Vernon, and became one of the firm of J]. W. Purviance & Co. Just after the date of this move - May, 1864 - he was called into the service of his country, being orderly sergeant of company C, One Hundred and Forty-fifth regiment, Ohio National guard. The regiment did garrison duty on Arlington Heights, Virginia, the whole term of their enlistment.

In the spring of 1867 he changed to his present location and engaged in mercantile business alone, where, by steady persistence and careful management, he has made his busines$ a success.

At the present time he holds the honorable and responsible position of grand worthy patriarch of the Grand division Sons of Temperance, of Ohio, having been elected thereto October 28, 1880.

WINTERMUTE, WELLINGTON ASHFOURDBY, Milford township, farmer, was born in Licking county, Ohio, June 2, 1845. The Wintermute family are of German extraction, a history of which will be found in the history of Liberty township. The subject of this sketch is the son of Arason and Virenda Wintermute, zce Wayland, and was reared on a farm.