Knox County, Ohio - Biographical sketches, 1881 (part 19 of 20)

teer infantry at Newark, Ohio; belonged to the Fifteenth army corps, First brigade, First division, and participated in the battles of Resaca, Dallas, Kingston, Kennesaw Mountain, Peachtree Creek, Ezra Church, Atlanta, Jonesboro' Lovejoy Station, Siege of Savannah, Columbia, Fayetteville, Bentonville, Raleigh, and all the skirmishes and engagements in which his regiment participated, but one. He was discharged with his regiment at Columbus, Ohio, July 25, 186s, after serving his country faithfully, never shirking any duties that devolved upon him. After his return home he resumed farming. He is a memof the Methodist Episcopal church, and a good and useful ber citizen. He married Miss Louisa Hawkins, daughter of Isaac Hawkins, of Mt. Liberty, August 6, 1871. They have two children, - Charles W. born June 5, 1872, and Mary, March 26, 1877.

WINTERRINGER, BARNETT, Union township, farmer, post office, Rossville, born in Jefferson county, Ohio, November 29, 1804. His father came to Knox county in 1816.

Barnett Winterringer remained at home until 1827, when he was married to Sarah Workman, and settled on his present farm. His wife died April 12, 1859, leaving thirteen children, all of whom have died except three, who are living near their father and doing well. He was married the second time January I, 1861. He has always lived a quiet life. He contributed largely to the Presbyterian church at Millwood, and also a handsome amount to the Wooster university, at Wooster, Ohio.

WINTERRINGER, J. S., Jackson township, was born at Fredericktown, Knox county, Ohio, February 27, 1852. He removed at an early age to Jackson township, where he resided until nine years of age, when he removed to Harrison township, where he received the first rudiments of his education. He was a student at Martinsburgh academy; also at the Ohio university, at Delaware. In the meantime, while pursuing his studies, he taught several terms of school in Knox county. On_the twentieth of May, 1874, he commenced business at Bladensburgh in a hardware and grocery store. In the meantime he has added a general stock of dry goods, etc. Everything necessary for the household can be found in his establishment. His business is large and increasing.

Mr. Winterringer was married to Miss C. T. Hartupee, of Bladensburgh, December 21, 1874. They have had three children - Nettie A., born September 12, 1875; Warren L., July 30, 1878; and Frank R., May 4, 1880.

WISE, JOHN C., farmer, post office, Fredericktown. - He was born in Monroe county, Ohio, in 1825. In 1847 he was married to Louisa Barton, who was born in Noble county in 1824. They had six children - Edward (deceased), Richmond (deceased), Theodore B., Charles W., Felissa Jane (deceased), and Frances Louisa (deceased).

Mr. Wise located in this township in 1872. Theodore B. was married in 1876 to Adelaid Ickes. They have one daughter - Gertrude L. Charles W. was married in 1875, to Belle Merrin. They have two children - Wellington R. and Loetta B.

WITHROW, JAMES, Jefferson township, farmer, post office, Greersville, son of David and Elizabeth Withrow, born in Beaver county, Pennsylvania, May 28, 1804; was brought to Ohio in the spring of 1816, by his parents, his father locating in Columbiana county, where he received his education. In 1823, December rsth, he married Elizabeth Downs, daughter of John Downs, born in Jefferson county, Ohio, August 15, 1807. After his marriage he remained in Columbiana county until 1837. In 1836 he came to Jefferson township and entered forty acres of land, and at the same time bought eighty acres adjoining him on the west. In the spring following he moved with his family to his land, where he has since remained. In 1841 he bought eighty acres adjoining him on the west, making inall two hundred acres. Mr. Withrow was elected justice of the peace in about six months after he came to Knox county, and served five terms, making in all fifteen years. captain of a rifle company for seven years.

elected representative of Knox county for one term. In 1855 Mr. Withrow, in company with Mr. Beeman, established a dry goods store in the town of Jelloway, which they conducted until 1862, when Mr. Withrow sold his interest to James Skilling, after which time the business was conducted by Beeman & Skilling. During the time he was engaged in this business he owned the farm now owned by John Nyhart. Previous to this he owned two hundred acres in Henry county, Ohio, which he sold, and bought one hundred and sixty acres in Marion county, Ohio, which he gave to his sons William and John; and they now live there.

Mr. and Mrs. Withrow are the parents of ten children, viz.: Hugh, Nancy J., Mary, William J., John W., Elizabeth, Carolina B., David C., Hannah E., Fannie A., James F. Seven children are living. William Withrow served one year in the late Rebellion. James Withrow was elected county commissioner in 1842, serving six years; was also elected land appraiser in 1860 and 1870.

WOLFE, CHRISTOPHER, Liberty township, pioneer of Knox county, was born in Roxbury township, Morris county, New Jersey, July 15, 1791. His paternal grandfather was a German Baptist minister. His father's name was John; his mother's name prior to her marriage was Nancy Cassad, who, by descent was Irish. They were both natives of New Jersey, farmers by occupation, and were highly respected citizens. They both died in New Jersey. They had eight children, all of whom grew up, and four of whom are living, viz: Mrs. Elizabeth Yauger; Mrs. David F. Halsey, wife of Squire Halsey, of Clinton township; Mrs. Mary Drake, of Johnston county, lowa, and the subject of this notice.

May 12, 1816, he was united in marriage to Miss Phoebe Rinehart, daughter of Christian and Mary Rinehart. Until November of the same year he remained in New Jersey, when he, with the Rinehart family, emigrated to Ohio. They came by wagon, bringing with them some household goods. After five weeks of travel they landed in Morris township, near Mt. Vernon, where Mr. Wolfe remained until 1821, when he purchased a tract of land in Liberty township, on which there had been a small opening, and some improvements made, but it was almost entirely covered with heavy timber. He, however, by persistent efforts felled the ''giants of the forest,' and beautiful harvests rewarded his labors. In due time the log cabin dwelling was superseded by a fine brick dwelling house, and new barns were erected for his crops. He soon became a leading citizen of the township and county.

Politically Mr. Wolfe is a Jeffersonian Democrat, and always took an active interest in political affairs. In his younger days he was widely known over Knox county as one of the leaders of the party. He served for many years as justice of the peace, and filled the office with very general satisfaction. He wasalso commissioner of the county for six years, and filled that office with credit. In religion Mr. Wolfe is a Presbyterian, having been a member of that denomination for many years.

Mrs. Wolfe died in April, 1868. The couple lived over a half century together, having had fifty years of happy wedlock, They were blessed with eight children, six sons and two daughters, seven of whom are living, and highly respected and influential citizens, showing that they impressed the same traits of character on their children that they possessed, namely, industry, honesty, and economy. 'The names of the children are John D., farmer, Poweshiek county, Iowa; Mary A., wife of Andrew Dalrymple, deceased, of Liberty township; George W., farmer, of Morrow county, Ohio; Lewis R', farmer and stock dealer of Oxford, Johnston county, Iowa; William, farmer and stock dealer, Johnston county, lowa; Thomas Jefferson, farmer, Hilliar township; Eliza, wife of Jacob Myers, deceased, of Liberty township; and Samuel C., the youngest, wl) is deceased. Mr. Wolfe is spending the ''evening of his life" with his daughter, Mrs. Myers, awaiting the summons to join those ''who have gone before."

WOLF, SIMON, deceased, was born in Coshocton county, Ohio, in 1816, and emigrated to Butler township, Knox county, Ohio, when a boy. He was married to Nancy Kemmerer, October 17, 1832, by whom he has had eleven children, viz : - Samuel, Martin, Mary Ann, John, Jacob, Lydia, James, Lemuel, Emanuel, Lorenzo, and Dorcas Ellen.

Martin served as a soldier of the late civil war, being a member of the Forty-third Ohio volunteer infantry, and died at Memphis, 'Tennessee.

WOLFE, THOMAS J., Hillian township, farmer, was born in Liberty township, Knox county, May 20, 1829. His youth was spent on his father's farm. He was married to Miss Sarah M. Hewett, of Knox county, October, 1850, who was born May 30, 1829. She is the daughter of Cyrus and Syrene Hewett. The following year after their marriage they moved to Hardin county, Ohio, where they remained four years, and then moved to Johnston county, Iowa, where they remained two years and returned to Knox county, and about two years after purchased the farm on which they reside. He has improved the farm and added largely to it.

As early as 1858 Mr. Wolf began to deal in stock and ship to the eastern markets. He continued in this for a number of years, and has been successful.

Mr. Wolfe is one of the solid men of Hilliar township. He is judicious, and consequently successful in his undertakings. His principal business as a farmer is the raising of stock. He was elected land appraiser of this township in 1879. He is regarded as a sate counsellor, a man of sound judgment. Mr. Wolf is social in his manner, liberal in his views, and has the esteem of his neighbors, who look upon him as a man whose word is taken at par; in short, he does what he says. He takes an interest in National matters, and can not be moved from the position he takes upon the political issues of the day. He is a Democrat.

His marriage has been blessed with two children, viz.: Squire M., and Samuel F., both at home. In addition to his own family he has two orphan children, Adda Craft and Amanda E. Yough, to whom he and his estimable wife accord the same privilege as their own family.

WOLFE, SAMUEL, Jackson township, farmer, post office, Bladensburgh, was born August 11, 1838, in Butler township, Knox county, Ohio. He removed to Jackson township in 1861, and has resided there ever since. Mr. Wolfe was married in February, 1858, to Miss Mary Jane Hayes, of Harrison township. They have had nine children, viz: Arminda, born February 14, 1859; Lovenia, January 3, 1861; Melvin, June 9,

WOLF, JOHN, is a native of Butler township, born September 13, 1843, and was married to Hannah M. Hayden may 30, 1872. They have had four children, viz: Everett L., Addie Mabel, Simon Virgil, Edith Violet.

Mr. Wolf served during the war of the Rebellion, enlisting in the Forty-third Ohio volunteer infantry, in November, 1861, at Millwood, under Captain Walker, and served in the saine until the twenty-fourth day of December, 1864, when he enlisted in the veteran service and served until the close of the war. He was engaged in numerous battles and skirmishes; among the number were New Madrid, Iuka, Corinth, Island No. to, Resaca, Dallas, Kennesaw Mountain, etc. He also marched with Sherman to the sea, and was present at Johnson's surrender.

WOOD, I. & T., brick manufacturers. Isaac Wood, managing partner of this firm, is a native of Yates county, New York, where he was born May 24, 1820, and came to Ohio when about sixteen years old and located first in Licking county, near Hartford, afterward resided in Delaware county, and came to this county in 1845 and located in Mt. Vernon where he engaged in working at the brick business, in which he continued a short time when in 1850, in company with his brother, Thomas Wood, they established the present business, in which they have continued ever since with good success. They were located first north of the fair grounds until 1877 when they removed to their present location where they have all the needful appliances and facilities for the business. They have three kilns, twenty-five by forty feet each, and an extensive yard and four drying sheds, twenty-five by one hundred feet each, and have a ten-horsepower engine for grinding. This firm have facilities for manufacturing one million brick per year, and annually manufacture an average of from six hundred thousand to one million, varying according to the demand, and in which they confine themselves to a first class building brick. This is the largest and longest established brick establishment in the county, and justly deserves commendation as one of the leading industries of the county.

WOOLISON, BYRON, farmer, a native of this county, and son of Reuben D. and Mary Woolison, was born in Monroe township on the sixth day of October, 1832. Reuben Woolson, father of Byron, was born in Berks county, Pennsylvania, in 1789. He married Miss Mary King, born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania.

In 1828 they emigrated to this county and located in Monroe township, where they passed the remainder of their days. His wife deceased in October, 1875; he survived her until February, 1876. They reared a family of seven children: Eliza, William, Charlotte, Byron, David, Mary, and Angeline.

In 1854 Byron Woolison married Miss Mary Hall, born in Licthfield, Connecticut, in March, 1838, and emigrated to this county in 1847, and settled in Monroe township. In 1857 they moved upon the farm where they are now living, in same township, one mile and a half north of Gambier.

Rossville, born in 1803, in Belmont county, Ohio, and in 1824 was married to Hannah Baker. In 1825 he settled onhis present farm. His wife died nine months after their marriage. In 1832 he was again married, but his second wife died June 6, 1375, leaving ten children: Susan, Jerome, Peter, Caroline, Rebecca, James, Samuel, Adeline, Delila, and John. Caroline, Rebecca and James are dead. Samuel married Julia Richards in 1875, and settled with his father. He has two children: Hannah and Amy.

WORKMAN, SOLOMON C., Brown township, farmer and stock raiser, post office, Jelloway, and son of Joseph and Sarah Workman, was born near Frostburgh, Alleghany county, Maryland, January 12, 1807. In 1812 his father, with his family, moved to Ohio, and located in Union township, Knox county, near the present village of Danville, on a farm of one hundred and sixty acres, and there erected a log cabin for his family. In those days the country was thinly settled, wild Indians were seen occasionally, and a block-house was erected upon the farm on which he settled to protect the early settlers from those savages. 'There was also hereabouts in those days plenty of game, such as bears, turkeys, wolves, panthers, foxes, wild-cats and deer. .

On the fourth day of October, 1827, he married Miss Polly Draper, daughter of Isaac and Nancy Draper, born near Morgantown, Virginia, November 7, 1800. Her father was one among the first settlers in Coshocton county, who came from Virginia on pack-horses, and endured all the hardships of frontiersmen. Hedied gt the ripe age of ninety-three years.

Joseph Workman, his father, also endured all the hardships of a frontiersman, and reared a family of fourteen children - eight sons and six daughters, Solomon being one among that number.

Some time after Solomon's marriage he rented his father-inlaw's farm, remaining but one year. In 1829 he purchased two hundred acres of wild-land in Union township, said county, of Hosmer Curtis, for the sum of four hundred dollars to be paid in four years, where he erected a cabin, and moved into it.

In May, 1833, Benedict Peherenbaugh came from Germany - a dealer in brass clocks. Heat once engaged to help sell them for three months for the sum of seventy-five cents per day and one dollar on each clock. When his time expired he engaged the second time for three months on the same terms. He then sold the farm spoken of to said party for the sum of eight hundred dollars, to be paid for in brass clocks at cost and carriage from Germany, which was in 1835.

In the spring of 1836 he gave possession of said lands to Peherenbaugh, moved to Rochester, Coshocton county, Ohio, on the Mohican river, and there commenced the sale of his clocks. He also traded for stock and other articles, particularly notes and obligations, at the same time paying strict attention to military wild lands, and titles and locations, as they were the only wood lands to be purchased, or for sale, as about all were taken up or sold. In the fall of 1836 he secured, of the heirs of Alexander Brevard, a Revolutionary soldier in North Carolina, a title for three hundred acres of land in Brown township, Knox county, located in the Jelloway valley, where he moved in 1837 from Coshocton county, lodging in a cabin built by squatters on said lands, and commenced to improve them. On the first day of January, 1837, he started east in search of land titles, crossed the Ohio river at Steubenville, travelled through a part of Virginia and Pennsylvania, crossing the corner of Maryland, returning home by the way of Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Canton and Wooster, arriving at home the third week of February of the same year. Here he felt it to be his special duty to compliment his friends, Benedict Peherenbaugh and his three brothers, Fadilla, Peter, and Christian Peherenbaugh. From his first acquaintance to the last he found them gentlemen of truth and honesty. He failed to accomplish anything on his first trip, and in May of the same year he made the second journey to the State of Maryland, visiting some of its principal towns, but failed the second time in getting the required and desired information. He then started for home by the way of Pittsburgh, Cleveland, and Canton, arriving at home in a short time in Brown township, and lodged in his cabin in the woods. He then gave his attention to the clearing of the land and erection of buildings, laboring from year to year until the present time, and he has now elegant buildings and a fine farm. He also attends to other matters, such as getting up petitions for roads, securing rights for opening and working the same for the benefit of the whole country.

Roads in early days were few and notin good condition, but as the country settled up they became better by working them thoroughly. 'At one time a tax was levied for the erection of school-houses and paying teachers for instructing the young. Knowing the difficulties a man labors under who has no education in the matter of keeping accounts and in conducting business generally, he, of course, favored those movements.

In 1827, when he left his father's house to go into the world and transact business for himself, he could not read or write, and he very soon saw the necessity of an education. Procuring a few books, slate, and writing paper, making use of them all, in a short time he could read, write, and cipher. Seeing that he could learn as well as others he was not a long time in acquiring thé rudiments of an education.

In early times it was difficult to sell produce for cash, and it had to be hauled to Bristor, Dover, Massillon, or Newark, and then get only from sixty to eighty cents per bushel for wheat, and seldom a dollar.

At the time of the grading of the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne & Chicago railroad, by the way of Loudonville, he had on hand five hundred bushels of wheat, worth from sixty to seventy cents per bushel. Hearing that the Clear Fork mill, situated near Newville, was buying and paying seventy-five cents, he concluded to go over and sell his wheat, but failed, and then went to Loudonville and Wooster and found no market. From there he proceeded to Elyria, Lorain county, but found the market dull. While at the latter place a dispatch came froin the city of New York showing an advance in the prices. He contracted one thousand bushels of wheat, at one dollor per bushel, to be delivered at his barnin Brown township, Knox county, and received five hundred dollars on said contract, to be taken on or before the fourth day of July. He then started home, arriving the next morning, when he changed horses and started out, buying five hundred bushels at a cost of from seventy to seventy-five cents per bushel, to be delivered on short notice, the parties selling receiving one-half of said contract. Wheat declining they failed to take balance, although tendered, but about the first of August of the same year, wheat began to advance, and kept on until it reached one dollar, when the company spoken of made a demand for the wheat, but as they failed to comply with the contract he, of course, declined to let them have it. Wheat continued to raise until October and November of the same year, when he hired teams and hauled it Maszillon and Fulton, and realized one dollar and seventy-five cents per bushel out of this wheat.

May 13, 1868, just at twelve o'clock at night, the lady of the house discovered it to be on fire. Water was applied, with the assistance of neighbors, but without avail, the building soon being burned to ashes, and only a small amount of the household goods saved. He then built the house he now lives in the same year, commencing on the tenth of August, and moved into it on the thirteenth of November.

Mr. Workman has been the owner of one thousand acres of land in the Jelloway valley, Brown township, a part of which he sold, anda part he gave to his children, leaving him the owner of three hundred and twenty acres,

Mr. and Mrs. Workman are the parents of eleven children, six living, and five dead, four of whom died in infancy, one at maturity; grandchildren, total forty-one; deaths, ten, leaving thirty-one living; great-grandchildren fifteen, fourteen living.

In politics he is a Democrat, and in religion a German Baptist. He was elected twice by this church to preach, but declined, not thinking himself a suitable man for a minister; for he believes that a minister should teach by example ag well as words.

WORKMAN, SOLOMON, Brown township, farmer and stock raiser, post office, Danville, son of David Workman, born in Alleghany county, Maryland, May 7, 1813, was brought to Knox county by his parents when a boy thirteen years old, his father locating in Howard township, on Jelloway, where he erected a rude log cabin to shelter his family; then by the help of Solomon, the subject of this sketch, they went to work clearing the land and making it ready for tilling. This they continned until they had a very good and comfortable home.

At the age of twenty-five years he married Mary A. Brandbury, June 8, 1837, she being a daughter of Richard and Mary Brandbury, born in England, February 14, 1818. His father gave him eighty-five acres adjoining him, where he then moved and set up housekeeping, remaining about five vears, when he exchanged said farm with his father fora farm in Brown-township, where he now resides, it being a very pleasant and comfortable home. By their marriage they became the parents of ten children: Elizabeth, born May 27, 1838, died August 17, 1860; Richard, September 23, 1839; David, July 25, 1841; Mary, September, 1843; Barbara, October 14, 1845, died in August, 1880; Jerusha F., Junuary 1, 1848; Marilah H., January 9, 1859; Normanda F., November x6, 1853; Columbus J., July 31, 1856; Amos C., February 22, 1859. Heand his companion are consistent members of the German Baptist church of Danville.

WORKMAN, S. D., Howard township, farmer, post office, Howard. - He was born June 2, 1814, in Maryland, and at the age of thirteen years carne to Howard township. He lived with his father until his twenty-fifth year, when he was married for Loudonville; but while crossing the Clearfork river, just as he was in the centre of one of the spans of the bridge, the stringers gave away, and he with his grain and team fell a distance of twelve feet, the water being about five feet deep, the bridge falling partially uponthem. He was under the wagon bed, but by some good fortune he was rolled out from under it. One of his horses was held under water by a portion of the bridge. The grain was in bags and sank to the bottom of the creek. By some means the alarm was given and the people flocked to the rescue. The most interesting feature of the affair was that all .came out with but slight injuries. Another strange incident was that his vest was lying upon the bags of grain, and when the bridge went down it was carried to the bottom of the river. After reloading the grain they started off. Mr. Workman turned his head to gaze for the last time upon the spot, and by reason of the sun shining brightly, the first thing that he saw was his vest floating down the stream. He commanded his hired man, Mr. Snyder, who was with him to get it, as there was four hundred dollars in it.

Danville. He was born in Union township, Knox county, July 11, 1849. In 1870 he went to Illinois and worked in a mill for two years. In 1872 he returned and married Miss Amanda

Jales, and settled upon a farm the following year. His father has lived in this county since 1830. He came from Maryland at that time, and died March 17, 1873, in his sixty-third year. March 16, 1871, his wife died.

Amos Workman's business has always been farming and raising sheep. He has two children: Donald, born December 10, 1873, and Mary Jane, February 27, 1875.

WORKMAN, THEODORE W., post office, Jelloway, physician and surgeon, son of H. H. and Sarah C. Workman; was born in Brown township, Knox county, September 7, 1855, where he was reared and received a part of his education, after which he attended a few terms of school at Danville, Knox county; he then taught school for about thirteen months. In the spring of 1876 he commenced the reading of medicine under the instructions of Dr. A. J. Hyatt, of Jelloway, and continued three years, during which time he attended two courses of lectures at the Medical College of Ohio, where he graduated in 1879, after which he located in Jelloway, where he at present resides, engaged in the practice of his profession. On January 1, 1880, at the age of twenty-five, he married Flora S. Patten, a daughter of William Patten, born in Brown township, Knox county, July 18, 1857. Their union resulted in one child, a son.

WORLEY, JAMES, residence corner of High and Norton streets, Mt. Vernon. Mr. Worley is a native of Harrison county, Ohio, born four miles south of Cadiz, July 6, 1814; and in the year'1828 he came with his parents to Knox county, and located in Brown township, where they resided one year. They then moved into Pike township. Mr. Worley left the home farm in 1836, and came to Mt. Vernon and engaged in the brick business, in which he continued about eight years. In the year 1844 he engaged with the firm of C. & E. Cooper to learn the moulding trade. After serving his time he remained with them for twenty-two years, and in consideration of his faithfulness and abilities he served twelve of these years as foreman of the moulding department. In the year 1866 he quit the trade and purchased the elegant property where he now resides, opposite the Baltimore & Ohio depot, where he engaged in the hotel and boarding business, in which he has continued for fourteen years.

Mr. Worley has been twice married. His first wife was Mary Ann Harell, daughter of John Harell, of near Leesburgh, Virginia, by whom he had six children, two sons and four daughters. One son died in infancy, and the other, Douglas E., was drowned in the Potomac river near Piedmont. He was a member of company B, Fourth Ohio volunteer infantry. The four daughters are all married, two of whom, Ida and Eva, reside at Council Bluffs, Iowa. Mary E. and Alice J. reside in Mt. Vernon. Mrs. Worley died April 29, 1858, and he was marri2d to his second wife, Mrs. Uphemia Peters, zee Trump, who still survives and shares the joys, cares and responsibilities of life with him.

WORLEY, M. W., farmer, Howard township, post office, Howard, was born in Monroe township, Knox county, Ohio, in 1821. His father came from Maryland, settled in Monroe township, and died July 2, 1835. His mother came from Virginia in 1818, and with her people located in Mt. Vernon, and remained there until the death of her father in 1833. Mr. Worley learned the harness making trade and followed it fourteen years, in different places. In 1848 he was married to Olive Megs, and went to Mt. Pleasant, Illinois, and worked at his trade four years. He then moved back to Monroe township, and lived on a farm until 1855, when he bought and came to his present home. His wife died December 15, 1851. January 1, 1855, he was married to Eliza Patsfield, and shortly after moved to his farm. He had two children: Laura, who died in her second year; and Charles, who remains at home.

WRIGHT, ROBERT, deceased, of Gambier, son of Jonathan Wright, was born in England May 14, 1814. In 1828 he was apprenticed to the carpenter and joiner trade, and served as such until 1835, after which he went to Londonand continued working at his trade. November 27, 1839, he was married to Miss Betsey Edmonds, of London, born October 24, 1823, daughter of Mr. Henry Edmonds of that city. After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Wright settled in Herdfordshire, and remained there until the fall of 1842, at which time they emigrated to America and located in Mount Vernon. His first work in his new home was at cabinet-making in the employ of Mr. James Ralff, with whom he worked some eighteen months. In 1844 he visited St. Louis, where he worked at his trade for some four or five months. On account of sickness he was compelled to return to Mt. Vernon. In April, 1844 he removed to Gambier, where he has remained ever since. Mr. and Mrs. Wright have a family of three children - Henry C., Elvira Emma, and Charles Norton.

After his settlement in Gambier, Mr, Wright at once commenced working at his trade, contracting and building. He built sixty-five dwellings in Gambier and vicinity. He built the Kenyon house and carried on the hotel for about fourteen years. He also built the Neff residence and many otheis of the best houses in the town. When he located in Gambier, he established a cabinet and undertaking warehouse, in connection with his cabinet and joiner shops, and for many years he supplied all calls in the undertaking line, manufacturing the coffins for

In April, 1868, his son, Henry C., became his partner. They are now prepared to dress lumber of all kinds, having in their shops, planers, turning and moulding machines, and scroll saws, all of the best and most approved patterns in the country. In fact their shops are better supplied with approved machinery than any establishment of the kind in Knox county. They manufacture sash, blinds, doors, cornices, and all kinds of mouldings.

The firm are now prepared to attend to all calls in their line of business, such as attending funerals, contracting for buildings, etc. Mr. Wright's letter of recommendation as a contractor and builder was both wide and extensive, embracing his handiwork in nearly seventy tenements, has erected in and around Gambier, both in College and Pleasant and surrounding townships, consisting of dwellings, school-houses and other tenements.

Robert Wright was one of the charter members of old Mt. Vernon Lodge No. 20, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, instituted June 21, 1843, one of the oldest lodges of that order in Ohio. Mr. Wright unfortunately met with a severe accident in his shop lately, in February, 1881. He lingered a few days, dying from the effects of the injury February 24th.

WRIGHT, SR., WILLIAM, a native of Suffolk county, England, was born February 22, 1814; he was reared on a farm. In 1837 he emigrated to America, landing at New York, July 4th. He continued his journey westward until about the eighteenth of July, when he reached Gambier, this county, where he located and engaged as gardner with Bishop Mcllvaine. In October, 1837, he was united in marriage with Miss Mary Ransom, daughter of John and Mary Ransom. Miss Ransom was born in the county of Suffolk, England, January 5, 1820, and emigrated to America with her parents, in 1837. They came over on the same vessel, and reachel Gambier at the time that Mr. Wright -did, where her parents located. Shortly after Mr. Wright's marriage with Miss Ransom, they settled in Gambier. He continued his work with the bishop for four years, In 1841 they moved to Mt. Vernon, remained until 1853, when he purchased and moved ona farm in Monroe township, this county; he then turned his attention to farming. In 1859 he sold his farm and moved his family to Gambier. He leased all of the college farming land for six years, and commenced farming on a larger scale, which he made-a success. In 1850 he moved his family upon the farm where they are now living in College township. At the time of the expiration of his lease of the college land, in 1865, he purchased one hundred acres of the farm on which he was living, from. the college trustees, and has since bought one hundred acres more adjoining his first purchase, which makes him a farm of two hundred acres, one hundred and seventy-five acres of it is first-class bottom land, the remainder being upland. He makes stock-raising a specialty on his farm. He is the father of twelve children, ten of whom are now living, seven sons and three daughters. Two of his sons, William and John, served three years in the war of 1861. William served in the Ninety-sixth Ohio volunteer infantry, and John in the Fourth Ohio volunteer cavalry.

Wilham A. Wright enlisted in the late war, asa member of the Ninety-sixth regiment Ohio volunteer infantry, and died at Milliken's Bend, March ro, 1863.

Daniel P. Wright, in the early part of his life, was a farmer, after which he was engaged in the plastering and stone-mason business. He was also engaged in the mercantile business in Amity for some time, but has retired from the busiuess.

WRIGHT, C. W., harness-maker, Pike township, post office, Democracy, was born in this township in 1828, and was married in 1868 to Amanda Ellen Peeler, who was born in 1840. They have five children: Elsie E., born in 1870; Tima Alice, in 1872; Alta Viola, in 1874; Carl K., in 1877; and Cary Austin, in 1879.

Mr. Wright learned the harness trade in Knox county, and has been in the business for about seventeen years. He isa practical mechanic and is doing general custom work. He was a soldier in the late war, being a member of company I, Second Colorado cavalry. He continued in the service for about three years and received an honorable discharge.

WRIGHT, MRS. PERMELIA, zee Riggle, Hilliar township, was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, August 19, 1829. She was married to Henry B. Wright, April 11, 1847. They remained in Pennsylvania some four years, and then came to Knox county, remaining two years, near Gambier, when they moved from Knox county to Morrow county, where they remained for some time, and then moved to the farm on which she now resides. Mr. Wright died September 13, 1878, and left Mrs. Wright with considerable indebtedness, but by judicious management she has succeeded in liquidating the claims, and thus saved to herself and family a home. She had a family of six children, viz: Jane, born July 6, 1849, died March 16, 1878; Anne Eliza, July ro, 1851; Ellen, May 25, 1856; Alexander H., September 5, 1861; James, July 12, 1864; May, August, 1866. Anne Eliza married John Mahan, and resides in Morrow county, Ohio; Ellen is a sifccessful teacher. The other children are at home.

WRIGHT, LYMAN D., Wayne township, farmer, post office, Fredericktown, born February 27, 1836, was married October 5, 1859, to Ann E. Beers, who was born October 5, 1838. They have two children: V. Adele, born March 23, 1862, and Mary G., born May 19, 1872. Mr. Wright is a farmer, and has always been identified with this township.

The father of Mrs. Ann Wright, John Beer (deceased), was born May 26, 1807, in Sussex county, New Jersey, came to Ohio in 1810 with his parents, and was married to Maria Spurr, who was born January 5, 1811. They had the following children: Daniel, born December 3, 1829; Viola J., September 3, 1831; Amanda, July 18, 1833; Jacob S., March 31, 1835; anc Anna E., October 5, 1838; Daniel died January 31, 1830; Ja cob, born January 2, 1837; Viola, October 24, 186r.

Daniel Beers, deceased, father of John Beers, was born December 29, 1783, in Sussex county, New Jersey, and was married to Elizabeth King, who was born September 29, 1781, they had the following children: Margaret, born February 4, 1806; Azulah, March 16, 1809; Ruth, February 16, 1811; John, May 26, 1807; James, Septernber 24, 1815; Hiram, February 12, 1818; Elizabeth, October 27, 1819; Daniel, December 24, 1821;

WRIGHT, LEMUEL P., farmer, post office, Fredericktown, born in Wayne township, October 25, 1838, and was married July 2, 1868, to Marilla V. Helt, who was born in Morrow county, October 1, 1849. They have three children: Carleton H., born March 25, 1871; Anna P., October 19, 1874; and Mattie Ruth, December 7, 1876.

Mr. Wright owns a weli improved farm with good buildings. He has been identified with this county from his infancy, and is one of its most active and intelligent men. His father, S. Wright, was born in Herkimer county, New York, July 30, 1811, and died October 31, 1878. He was married to Samantha J. Potter, who was born July 12, 1816., 'They had two children: Simon D., born February 27, 1836, and Lemuel P., October 25, 1838. Mrs. Samantha J. Wright is now living with her son.

WRIGHT, WILLIAM H., Liberty township, farmer, Bangs, Ohio, was born in Knox county, May 1, 1842, being the son of William and Mary Wright, zee Ransom. He was born in England in 1813, emigrated to the United States about 1837, and settled near Gambier, Ohio, where he yet resides. He married Mary Ransom, who settled in Knox county at the same time. They had twelve children, ten of whom are yet living. The parents yet reside near Gambier.

The subject of this notice was reared ona farm, and educated at the common schools. He enlisted in company B, Ninety-sixth regiment Ohio volunteer infantry, in 1862, and was mustered out with his regiment in 1865. He served as a wagoner, but was in the battles of Arkansas Post, Grand Coteau. Vicksburgh, Spanish fort, at Mobile, and Yazoo Swamp. After his return home he engaged in farming, which is still his occupation.

He was married to Miss Sarah A. Freeman October 31, 1866; she is the daughter of Asa Freeman, and was born in Knox county, July 27, 1842. They had three children, viz: Alonzo T., born July 9, 1867; an infant; and Albert, born February 26, 1881.

WRIGHT, VANCE WELLINGTON, Milford township, farmer, was born in Burlington township, Licking county, April 8, 1845. He is the son of L. C. and Rebecca Wright, vee Vance; was reared on a farm, received a common school education, and has always followed farming as his occupation. He is a social gentleman, esteemed by the community a good farmer and an estimable citizen, in comfortable circumstances. He was married to Miss Mary M. Beardsley in November, 1867, daughter of Platt G. Beardsley, an early settler of Milford township, and of whom particular mention is elsewhere made.

WRIGHT, JOHN A., Pike township, merchant, post office, Democracy, born in this township in 1847, and was married in 1875 to Inez O'Bryan, who was born in Amity, this county, in 1852. They have one son, Charles E., born in 1878.

Mr. Wright has been connected with the mercantile business from a boy. In 1867 he became a member of the firm of D. P. Wright & Sons, and is now the principal man, conducting and transacting all the business. He has good business qualifications, and keeps constantly on hand a complete stock of general merchandise adapted to his locality, and is having an extensive trade and a successful business.

WYKER, & VINCENT, dealers in drugs, Fredericktown. They established themselves in the drug business in 1878, and keep in stock a complete line of drugs, medicines, books and stationary.

Dr. Vincent was born in England in 1845. He served an apprenticeship for seven years in the drug business in England. He came to America in 1867, engaged in the same business in Cleveland, Ohio, after which he went to Chicago, Illinois, and was engaged with one of the largest houses (drugs and prescriptions), and remained two years and a half, and then came to Mt. Vernon, where he engaged in the same business and remained there till 1878, then came to Fredericktown, formed a copartnership with John Wyker, and they are doing business under the firm name of Wyker & Vincent. They occupy a large and spacious room on Main street.

YAUGER, SAMUEL G., Hilliar township, farmer, was born in Morris county, New Jersey, May 1, 1838. He is the youngest son of Samuel H. and Elizabeth Yauger (zee Wolf), who emigrated to Ohio in the spring of 1839, and settled about six miles west of Mt. Vernon. They remained there about a year and then came to Hilliar township and settled on the farm now owned by Joseph Barker, where he lived until 1850, when he moved to Clinton township, where he died March, 1877, aged about eighty years. His aged wife still survives him at the age of eighty-four years.

The subject of this notice was married to Miss Mary A. Mc- Fadden, of Clinton township, April 27, 1862, and the following spring he moved on the farm on which he now resides. He is a good farmer, social in his manners, and has the confidence and esteem of the community in which he resides. He takes an active interest in the affairs of the country.

YEISLEY, WILLIAM, Middlebury township, farmer, post office, Fredcricktown, born in Belleville in 1843, and was married in 1875 to Nancy Garber, who was born in Richland county. They have three children---Eddie, Milo, and an infant (deceased).

Mr. Yeisley was in the late war, being a member of the One Hundred and Second regiment Ohio volunteer infantry, and He received an honorable discharge, and since that has been engaged in farming.

YOAKAM, JOHN, Liberty township, pioneer, was born in Randolph county, Virginia, in 1801. In the fall of 1810 his parents, Michael and Roselia Yoakam, came to this county, and remained over winter in Clinton township. In the spring of 1811 they moved to near where Mt. Liberty now stands, and where they lived and died. They had twelve children, ten of whom reached adult age - seven sons and three daughters, four of whom are yet living.

In 1823 the subject of this notice was married to Miss Malinda Shinaberry, a native of Pennsylvania. They had ten children - four daughters and six sons, three of whom are living: Ransom, George W. and Nathaniel A., all farmers, and live in Liberty township. His wife died in 1871. He is now spending

At the time his parents came, the following families lived in the township, viz: Joseph Higgins, who came in June, 1810; Alexander Dallas, Francis Hardesty, Francis Elliott, Peter Bricker, Francis Blankery, Thomas Fletcher and George Zinn.

Mr. Yoakam spends his time in reading. He has a clear intellect, and remembers recent occurrences distinctly as well as those of many years ago. He has beena hard worker and a farmer by occupation. At the time he came there many Indians still passed th rough this part of the county. He wasa man of muscular strength. - Politically, he was a strong Democrat.

Nathaniel A. Yoakam was born in Liberty township in 1843. He is the son of John Yoakam,-was reared on a farm, and always followed farming as his occupation. In 1863 he married Miss Rebecca McKinstry. They had three children, two of whom are living: John and Charles (twins).

YOUNG, WILLIAM MITCHELL, jeweler, South Main street, between Vine and Gambier streets. Mr. Young is a native of this county. He was born about two miles west of Fredericktown May 31, 1830. When about ten years of age iis parents removed to Mt. Vernon, and placed their son, William, in the public schools, where he received a thorough education. His first business engagement was with Mr. C. H. Strieby, in the jewelry business, with whom he remained about two years, and then engaged with Mr. Joshua Hyde, with whom he finished his trade, after which he formed a partnership with his late instructor, and for twelve years the business was carried on under the firm name of Hyde & Young. At the expiration of this time (in 1868) he bought out his partner's interest. Since then he has conducted the business as sole proprietor. He carries at all times a full stock of fine gold and silver watches, clocks, jewelry of all grades, and solid and plated silverware. He also attends to watch, clock, and jewelry repairing in a style equal to the best establishments in the State, and on the shortest notice.

Duting his partnership with Mr. Hyde, Mr. Young enlisted in company A, Nineiy-sixth Ohio volunteer infantry, and was commissioned first lieutenant, and served with the regiment about eight months, when he resigned and came home, remaining about eighteen months. He then entered the service again and was commissioned major of the One Hundred and Fortysecond regiment Ohio National guard, Colonel William Cooper commanding, in which he served the full time for which the regiment was called - one hundred days.

On the fourteenth day of October, 1852, Mr. Young was married to Miss R. W. Ward, of Mt. Vernon. Five children were born to them - three sons and two daughters.

Mr. Young is one one of Mt. Vernon's most prominent business men, prompt in all his business engagements, and, in a social point of view, is highly esteemed for his many good qualities. His parents were of the old pioneer stock, who aided in rescuing the county from its wilderness condition.

YOUNG, MICHAEL, Pike township, farmer, post office, North Liberty, born in Stark county in 1842, and was married in 1866 to Mary Eley, who was born in this county in 1831. They have one son, William J., born in 1872.

in Holmes county, and was married 'in 1867, to Eliza Jane Lafever. They had the following children: Clarence Ray, born in 1869; Cora I., in 1871; and Clyde, in 1874.

ZIMMERMAN, FREDERICK J., of Mt. Vernon, was born in Hagerstown, Maryland, on the twenty-fourth day of June, 1807, and died in Mt. Vernon. Early in the fall of 1816 his father and family removed to Mt. Vernon and settled in a log house, then situated where the residence of Mrs. John Irvine now stands, in the second ward. His father, Mr. Gotleib Zimmerman, died in this city February 22, 1845. For many years old Mr. Zimmerman kept tavern where Mr. T. B. Mead's grocery store now is. This old tavern building was removed, and Mr. Montgomery Brown erected a large brick building on its site. No doubt many old citizens remember the ''Zimmerman tavern." Like others of the old gentleman's nationality, Mr. Zimmerman dearly loved his pipe or a good cigar. At that early day tobacco was a luxury not easily obtained; but the old gentleman was equal to the emergency, as his son Frederick vouched for, as he had made many a horseback trip to Lancaster, an older setuicment, to procure the weed his father loved so well. At the time the Zimmerman family came to Mt. Vernon, 1816, there was only one brick house in the village. That one now forms a part of the pleasant family residence of Mr. Joseph M. Byers, corner of Gay and Vine streets. The brick house on the corner of Mulbeiry and Vine streets, now occupied by Mr. O'Connor, was at that time in the course of erection, its walls having reached the second floor. That was the second brick house erected in Mt. Vernon.

Mr. F. J. Zimmerman was a saddler and harness-maker by profession. He was postmaster in this city for some five years, under the administrations of Pierce and Buchanan. Mr. Zimmerman in 1846 built the house on East Front street, and dwelt therein up to the time of his death. He was married July 7, 1835, to Miss Sarah Colopy, of this city. Miss Colopy was born in Virginia. Her parents came to Ohio, and settled in Miller township, and afterwards removed to Mt. Vernon. Seven children were born unto Mr. and Mrs. Zimmerman, six of whom are still living. 'Three reside in this city, one in Jackson, Michigan, oné in Chicago, and one in Mt. Holly, this county.

ZOLMAN, JACOB, Midddlebury township, deceased, born in Frederick county, Maryland, February 16, 1783, and was married July 20, 1806, to Elizabeth Kerbe, who was born in Frederick county, Maryland, November 5, 1782. They had four children born to them in Maryland, viz: Mary, born July 22, 1807; Aryann, January 16, 1809; Ephraim, August 14, 1811; and Susannah, born February 4, 1814. They came to Ohio about 1815, where the following children were born, viz: John Zolman, born January 1, 1816; Jacob, October 3, 1818, and Philip, October 3, 1818, being twin brothers; David, February 3, 1820; Philip, July 11, 1822; Lewis, August 18, 1827; Elizabeth, April 8, 1831. The following have deceased: Philip died April 15, 1820; John, December 15, 1835; Jacob, June 14, 1860; Mrs. Elizabeth Zolman died January 20, 1863; Mary Ann Zolman died January 20, 1876, at the residence of her brother, Lewis Zolman.

office, Fredericktown, born in Knox county, August 18, 1827, and married to Abigail Curtis, who was born June 5, 1827. They had the following family: Lafayette, born October 12, 1850; Susan, June 3, 1852; Deborah, October 25, 1854; Jacob, October 23, 1856; Mary E., July 29, 1859; Lodema, July 19, 1861; Louisa, September 29, 1863. Susan, died December 28, 1863; Abigail Zolman died March 2, 1877, in this township and county. Deborah Zolman was married to Baskin Bailes, now of Morrow county, Ohio; Lafayette married Lavina Mowery. Mr. Zolman has been for years one of the energetic men of this township.

ZOLMAN, JAMES, Berlin township, farmer, post office, Fredericktown, born in Berlin township in 1853; was married in 1877 to Mary Norris, who was born in Ashland county in 1857. They have one daughter, Sylvia Belle, born April 29, 1878. Mr. Zolman has always been identified with this township and is an enterprising farmer. His father, Jacob Zolman, was born in Middlebury township, in 1818, and was married in 1838 to Mary Ann Heron, who was born in Pennsylvania in 1813. They had six children, viz: Rebecca, born in 1839; Ephraim, in 1841: Nancy Jane, in 1843; Samuel, in 1846; Jacob (deceased), in 1850, and James L., in 1853. Rebecca was married to David Richard, and they reside near Bangor; Ephraim resides in Morrow county.

Mr. Zolman worked on the Baltimore & Ohio railroad when it was graded and was superintendent of a working force. He wasa soldier in the late war, being a member of the Sixth Michigan battery. In an engagement that took place about half a mile from Atlanta he was wounded in the right leg, and still carries the marks of the wound with him. He served nearly four years in the army and was honorably discharged in the State of Michigan. He was in forty-seven conflicts and engagements, his last battle being at the British Cross Roads, where he had a very narrow escape.

Addenda Election, Mt. Vernon, 1880

Calvin Magers, marshal; Colonel William C. Cooper and Dr. B. Scott, board of education ; Otho Welshymer, street commissioner; Samuel H. Peterman, First ward; J. H. Branyan, First ward; H. Y. Rowley, Second ward; W. C. Culbertson, Third ward; John H. Ransom, Fourth ward; John Moore, Fifth ward, members of the council.

The German Baptist church, Dunkard, of Berlin township, 1s located near Anknytown, Knox county, Ohio. It was organized about November 22, 1824, by John Moltzbaugh, elder. The following were some of the first members: Abe Leedey and wife, Jacob Leedey and wife, Daniel Leedey and wife, Daniel Hetrick and wife, Joseph Hetrick and wife, John Long and wife, Jacob Frederick and wife,

About 1842 Henry B. Davey and Abraham H. Leedey were elected to the ministry. Since that time the following have been elected and preached in the church: Henry Keller, Henry Hess, Abner Fiddler; William Murray, son of James Murray, who came here from Stark county.

They built a frame church, forty by sixty feet, in 1858. It was neat, comfortable and convenient, but everything plain, nothing extravagant in finish, although they are abundantly able, but humble people. It was dedicated by Elder John Moltzbaugh, assisted by H. P. Davey and Daniel Hetrick.

in North Liberty, Pike township. They have bought a lot, and intend to build a church this summer, (1881). The present membership is about one hundred and sixty. It is known as the Owl creek congregation of the German Baptist church. The church building cost about twelve

The present elders of this church are William A. Murry and Henry Keller. They have never adopted a salary system, but are a generous and hospitable people, are always ready to assist their needy. In this respect they are an example to many other churches and Christians.

ACKERMAN, L. B., insurance and notary public, was born n Middlebury township; reared on a farm, attended district school until fifteen years of age, then attended a select school at Chesterville, Ohio, taught by Professor J. B. Selby, after which he was a student at the Fredericktown high school for one year; he then engaged in teaching, his first term was in Rerlin township; he continued teaching for a series of terms; he taught in Johnsville, Waterford, and Fredericktown; in the latter town he was superintendent for one year. In 1879 he engaged in insurance, notary public, and collecting; in these he has been very successful. Mr. Ackerman has taken quite an active part in local politics; he has always been identified with the Democratic party; he is not a selfish party man, but promulgates the true principles of the party. He was married in 1871 to Miss Ella Cook, of Dalton, Wayne county, Ohio. They have four children, viz: Ida C., William A., Ernest Virgil, and Edith E. Mr. Ackerman moved to Fredericktown in 1877. He purchased property here in 1879, located on Sandusky street.

His grandfather, John Ackerman, sr., was born in Bedford county, Pennsylvania, in 1756; he came to Knox county, Middlebury township, in 1811. He was married to Amy Barton; they had four children - John, Abraham, Catharine, and Mary. He was a soldier in the Revolutionary war. His son, John, was married in 1829, to Ida Cook. They had nine children - Stephen C., Morgan, Rachel, Louis B., Amy Ann, Leander, James Harvey, and two deceased. The Ackerman family were among the eafly settlers of this county.

ADAMS, JOHN, common pleas judge, was born on December 11, 1824, at Mt. Vernon, Ohio. He wasa farmer's son, and the experience of his boyhood and youth were such experiences as befall almost any farmer's boy whose father has only the wealth that comes of hard toil, in every day, in every season. He ''learned to labor and to wait;" for as soon as he was old enough he took part in the labors of the farm, and for the fulfilment of such hopes and aspirations as come to the ambitious and capable boy he had to wait until the opportunity for gratifying them could be made. He attended school first at Martinsburgh, and afterwards at Kenyon college. Subsequently he entered Jefferson college, in Washington county, Pennsylvania, and graduated there in the spring of 1847.

After leaving college he commenced the study of law, reading with Hon. John K. Miller, at Mt. Vernon. In 1850 he was admitted to the bar in Mt. Vernon, and at once commenced the practice of his profession there. At first he practiced alone, but at the end of a year he formed a professional partnership with Mr. Dunbar. Eventually this partnership was dissolved, and subsequently he associated himself with his former preceptor, Hon. John K. Miller. He prospered well in his profession and gained a practice that was large and lucrative.

In politics he is a Democrat, and has acted steadily and consistently with that party. In,1871 he was a candidate, on the Democratic ticket, for judge of the court of common pleas for the district of Mt. Vernon, and was elected by a large majority. He took office in 1872 for a term of five years. His course while on the bench has fully vindicated the wisdom of those who elevated him to the position. To high abilities and fine attainments he joins the strictest integrity, a judicial impartiality which nothing can swerve, and a regard for principle which all recognize and appreciate. At the expiration of his first term, in 1876, he was again nominated and reelected to the position he so eminently adorns, by a respectable majority. He is honored and esteemed as the right man in the right place; and the fact that his high and responsible station was awarded to him because of the sterling characteristics belonging to his nature, and the high attainments which he acquired through his own almost unaided exertions, isa fact that must be gratifying to himself no less than encouraging to all men who are struggling and aspiring within the circle of his influence. He was married on the sixteenth of May, 1860, to Julia Huxford, of Fort Wayne,

BANNING, ANTHONY, deceased. - Among the old settlers whose names have figured conspicuously in the history of Knox county, was Anthony Banning. Connected with the business» the growth and prosperity of the county at every period of its history after the first, and concerned as he was in various industrial pursuits, in commercial operations, in temperance movements, in church affairs, in political actions; as his name has been widely known in legal history, his memory is worthy of more than a passing notice.

"Judge" Banning .s he was called more frequently than "Parson," notwithstanding his monument states that he was a Methodist preacher sixty years, was born in Talbot county, Maryland, May 13, 1768, and was the only son of James Banning, a proprietor of much consideration and influence, who had but two children - the son, James Mansfield Anthony Banning, and a daughter who married Benjamin Chew, of Philadelphia, chief justice of the State of Pennsylvania, a lawyer of much distinction and a man of great wealth, who was a bosom friend of Washington, and whose family were his most intimate associates.

His parents died when he was very young, and he was consigned to the care of an uncle, Henry Banning, a bachelor, who was a sea-captain and took Anthony with him several voyages: The family were members of the Episcopal church, but in his fourteenth year Anthony joined the Methodists. When about eighteen he went to preaching as a circuit rider in Greenbrier, Virginia, and the wilderness mountain region. In consequence of the great length of his name, and its inconvenience in writing, he dropped a portion of it in early youth.

July 30, 1791, he married Mrs. Sarah Pierce, daughter of one of the first settlers on Redstone, near Uniontown, Pennsylvania, who was also a native of the eastern shore of Maryland, and had been reared near Ellicott's Mills. The children by this marriage were Sarah, wife of Daniel S. Norton; Jacob M., who died in 1835, and whose widow and children reside in Hardin county; Rachel, wife of Rev. Elmathan Raymond; James S.; Mrs. Mary Caswell; Elizabeth, Mrs. Bronson; Priscilla; and Anthony.

Priscilla Banning was born May 1, 1807, and on November 2, 1875, married Sewall Gray, of Massachusetts, who was born April 9, 1806, and died of paralysis, at Mount Vernon in May, 1862, without issue.

After his marriage Mr. Banning settled in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, and resided for several years near Mount Braddock and Connellsville, where he preached the Gospel, having been ordained by Bishop Asbury in 1791, carried on a tanyard, kept store, officiated as justice of the peace, from 1791 until 1799, traded in stock of every description and navigated the western waters.

He made several trips up the Muskingum with goods and wares from 1808 till he moved out in 1812. After he had bought lands in the county he traded a lot of iron, leather and saddlery to Samuel Kratzer, esq., for the principal part of his interest in the town of Mt. Vernon, and then took up his residence here. During his long abode he was engaged, as elsewhere, in a diversity of pursuits; and by reason of his remarkable energy, industry, prudence and business tact, prospered in all, and enjoyed to a very great extent the confidence of the people. He was for the greater part of his life concerned in merchandizing at Mt. Vernon, Tymochtee and Danville - carrying on his mills at Clinton and his tanyard, farming extensively and preaching.

His name is found as president of the first Clay meeting ever held in this county; he was all his life an ardent admirer and friend of that great statesman and patriot. In principle, politically, he was a Whig - religiously, a Methodist - strictly moral and temperate - in all the relations of life a good example.

He was honest and conscientious - liberal and kind hearted - determined and resolute - never disguised his sentiments or harbored unkind thoughts; was not a fanatic in temperance, morals, politics or religion; but by his well balanced mind and daily walk exerted a great influence for good.

Among other public positions held by him was that of commissioner to select the premanent seat of justice of Clermont county, under an act of the general assembly, January 25, 1823, associated with John C. Wright, then of Jefferson, and James Clark, of Stark. He served as one of the associate judges of this county from 1827 to 1834.

In every public enterprise and work calculated to benefit the town, county and people he was active, liberal and useful. Among the many incidents of his life the following most clearly shows the liberality of his mind: In 1836 he set about erecting a church near his residence, and upon his own land. The neat brick edifice had been inclosed and about completed, when the Right Rev. Bishop Purcel visited Mt. Vernon for the first time, and there being no Catholic church the followers of that denomination, of whom there were but two or three families then in the place, to wit: David Morton's, William Brophy's and Timothy Colopy's requested the use of one of the churches for the bishop to hold service in on the forenoon of a certain Sunday. The favor was denied. An effort was then made to procure the use of the court-house, and that, too, was refused.

The writer, then a small boy, having heard the circumstances on his way home, stopped in at Judge Banning's and stated what had occurred, when he at once buttoned up his vest and coat, took his cane, went up to David Morton's, where the bishop was Staying, and tendered the use of the Banning chapel for Catholic service. The offer was most gratefully and graciously accepted, and the first Catholic discourse ever delivered in this town was pronunced at the Banning chapel. This, in the eyes of many bigoted and intolerant minds, was a very great sin; but the religion of grandfather Banning was of that catholic spirit which enabled him to do acts of kindness and pour out heart offerings as becometh a true Christian.

in the dam of the Clinton Mill company, while attempting to cross upon the ice to his farm. His body was soon recovered and great efforts made to resuscitate it, but in vain. The bold spirit that left its impress on this world had gone to explore the mysteries of another. He was in the seventy-sixth year of his age, and remarkably vigorous in mind and body.

BANNING, GENERAL HENRY B., attorney at law, Cincinnati, Ohio. - The subject of this sketch was, on his father's side, of Maryland stock, and his mother's family were Virginia people. Shortly before the Revolutionary war both his father's and his mother's families emigrated from their native States and settled near old Fort Redstone, in Fayette county, Pennsylvania. They were pioneers in that then new country.

In 1812 the Rev. Anthony Banning, a pioneer Methodist preacher, the grandfather of General Banning, settled on the banks of the Kokosing, having traded a lot of iron, leather and saddlery for an interest in the then small village (now prosperous town) of Mt. Vernon. James S. Banning, the father of General Banning, was then twelve years old. When he grew to manhood he revisited his native town of Connellsville, Pennsylvania, and married Eliza Blackstone, the mother of Henry. The Banning family has been actively and conspicuously identified. with the growth and prosperity of Knox county from its organization. In religion they are all Protestants. His mother was one of the principal organizers of St. Paul's Episcopal church, of which sect she was then a commuicant, although at her death she was a member of the denomination known as Christian. In politics the Bannings were originally Jackson Democrats, afterwards Whigs.

Henry B. Banning was the sixth child of his parents and was born November 10, 1836. His childhood was passed at Banning's Mills and on the old Banning farm at Clinton. He first attended school at the Clinton school-house, in 1842, when Father Mott was the teacher.

Among the children attending that school with him were the Coopers, the Curtises, the Drakes, the Lovages, the Johnsons, the Brookses, and the Montises.

After leaving this school he attended Hull Bigsby's private school at Mt. Vernon, and Sloan's academy. He was examined and admitted to Kenyon college, but never attended.

At the age of seventeen he commenced the study of law in the office of Hosmer, Curtis & Devin, in Mt. Vernon, and was in due time admitted to the bar, and began the practice. He became the partner of William Dunbar, esq., the firm being Dunbar & Banning, at Mt. Vernon. He soon established and maintained a large practice, and was succeeding finely when the war began in 1861. He was one of the first to volunteer to put down the Rebellion, almost before the President had issued his call for seventy-five thousand troops. He was at once elected captain by his company, which afterwards became company B, Fourth Ohio volunteer infantry, a regiment which made one of the most gallant records of the war.

He was afterward, upon the recommendation of General Shields, appointed major of the Fifty-second Ohio volunteer infantry, but never joined that command, being placed in command of the ighty-seventh, a three months' regiment. At the expiration of the term of this latter regiment, he was made lieutenant colonel of the One Hundred and Twenty-fifth Ohio volunteer infantry, and \served as such until the spring of 1863, when he was made colonel of the One Hundred and Twentyfirst Ohio.

This regiment was in a badly demoralized condition, but the new colonel soon restored the espr/¢ de corps, gained the confidence of the officers and men, and by a thorough system of discipline made it one of the best drilled 1egiments in the service.

It took part in the Chickamauga and Atlanta campaigns, showing such signal instances of gallantry in action as to call forth frequent mention in the official aud unofficial reports of its engagements. At the battle of Chickamauga, in a bayonet charge, the regiment under lead of Colonel Banning, captured the battle-flag of the Twenty-second Alabama regiment, the only Confederate colors taken by our troops upon that bloody and disastrous field. At the battle of Kennesaw Mountain an eye witness in describing the fight said:

"Yesterday was a bloody day for the One Hundred and Twenty-first Ohio, more bloody in numbers than Chickamauga. More than one-third of her gallant sons were killed or wounded. History's page will recall the deeds of her fallen heroes; and the command of the gallant Banning: 'Iie down, One Hundred and Twenty-first, and don't retire one inch until I order you,' when the storm of battle was at its highest, will make for him an imperishable record, and the stubbornness with which the regiment obeyed the order, unsupported, and exposed to a galling fire from both flanks and front, of artillery and small arms, for more than four hours, will be rehearsed in story and in song in after years."

In the spring of 1865, after the fall of Atlanta, on the recommendation of General Jeff. C. Davis, approved by Major General George H. Thomas, General Banning was promoted to be a brevet brigadier general, for gallant and meritorious service during the Atlanta campaign.

After Atlanta had been taken, General Banning, still in command of the One Hundred and Twenty-first, accompanied General Thomas and the Army of the Cumberland, and took a gallant and conspicucus part in the fierce and decisive battle of Nashville.

In the spring of 1865 he was placed in command of the One Hundred gnd Ninety-fifth Ohio infantry, and served in the valley of Virginia. He was commander of the post of Alexandria, Virginia, until December, 1865, when he was mustered out of the service with the rank of brevet major general, a rank which his gallant conduct had won for him, enlisting as a private in 1861.

In the fall of 1865, while he was still in the service, the people of his home elected him to represent Knox county in the general assembly. Stepping from the field to the forum, he became a leading spirit in that legislative body. He was made chairman of the house committee on military affairs. He devoted his attention to the wants of the laboring classes, and through his efforts much good was accomplished for them. After the expiration of his term in the general assembly, General Banning removed to Cincinnati, where he resumed the practice of law, with his usual success.

In 1872 he was nominated by the Liberal Republican convention as the candidate to represent the Second district in Congress. His opponent was R. B. Hayes, now ex-President. After an exciting canvass General Banning was returned by a handsome majority. He was reelected twice to the same office as a Democrat, beating successively Job E. Stevenson in 1874, and Stanley Mathews in 1876. In 1880 he was again a candidate, but was defeated by a small majority.

representative of American' manhood of the highest type; modest in assuming responsibility, but when assumed firm, faithful and energetic in the execution of a trust. In all his career, both public and private, there is not an act can sully his name or stain his honor. <A good son, a good husband, a good father, a gallant soldier, a faithful and industrious representative, in alla worthy citizen, he is one of the sons to whom Knox county can point with pride as a part of her history.

BLAKE, WILLIAM, deceased. The subject of this sketch was one of Knox county's pioneers. He was born in Ireland in 1761, migrated to America, located in New York, remained several years, and from thence went to Connecticut, where he married Miss Hannah Sprague, born in Connecticut in 1778. They moved to Knox county, Ohio, in 1812, and located in Clinton township, on the farm now owned by John Guy, where they passed the remainder of their days. He died in 1848, aged eighty-seven years. His companion survived him until 1850, when she died, aged seventy-two years and five months.

They reared a family of seven children - Sarah, Hannah, William, Mary, Richard, James, and Emily J, Two of the children, Hannah and Richard, are dead. When Mr. Blake came to Clinton township, it was comparatively a forest, and settlers were few and far apart.

BOSTWICK, NATHAN, Newark, Ohio, was born November 2, 1819, in Pike township, Bradford county, Pennsylvania; emigrated to Ohio with his parents in 1830, landing in Newark, and living the first winter in McKean township, Licking county. In the spring of 1831 the family moved into Milford township, Knox county, and settled on a farm then covered with a dense growth of hardwood timber, as were all farms in those early days in Knox county. The immense labor of making a home out of the wilderness can only be fully understood by the pioneers engaged in the work.

Nathan Bostwick was married in 1840 to Adaline A. Beardslee. They had seven children, all boys, as follows: Julius C., George F., Henry C., William W., Burr W., Harmon R., and John A. - all living but Julius C. _

All the boys who were old enough became soldiers. Julius C. enlisted first in the three months' service, in the Eighth Indiana regiment, and served out his time, then reenlisted for three years in a company his father was recruiting for the Twentieth Ohio regiment. He was in delicate health and died on the battlefield of Shiloh, of hemorrhage of the lungs, April 9, 1862.

George F, (Fayette as he is better known), also enlisted in his father's company in the Twentieth, and shared in the hardships, battles and glory of his company and regiment until the army reached Atlanta, where he was desperately wounded July 22, 1864, by a canister shot through the thigh, and with his father, fell into the hands of the enemy, and was taken to Andersonville prison pen. He had before been a prisoner for a month, and had been exchanged at Vicksburgh, having been captured ina fight with Wheeler's cavalry, near Middleburgh, Tennessee. He made his escape from Andersonville in October, and hiding in swamps and bayous was pursued with bloodhounds, but finally secured a skiff and paddling down the Ocomulgee river, réached the Federal gun-boats in safety.

This young man suffered terribly from his wounds and prison life, a complete history of which would make an interesting volume; but he lived to see the end of the war, and to return home. He is now residing near Mt. Liberty, this county.

young, became a soldier, enlisting in company A, Ninety-sixth regiment, under Captain Mitchell, of Mt. Vernon. Joseph Devin, a patriotic citizen of Mt. Vernon, had offered a prize of fifty dollars to each of the first two men who should enrcll their names in this regiment. Henry Bostwick and Henry Hildreth were first to enlist, and received the money.

Henry was with the regiment at the battle of Arkansas Post, followed its fortunes through the Vicksburgh campaign, but was taken sick during the operations at Vicksburgh, and brought home. He was unable to again enter the service and was discharged. He is now a merchant in Newark, Ohio, engaged in the jewelry trade.

William W. Bostwick was a mere boy when the war began, but before it closed he enlisted, at the age of sixteen, in the One Hundred and Forty-second Ohio National guards, under Colonel Cooper, and was with it during its one hundred days of service in the rear of Grant's army. William is also in the jewelry trade in Coshocton, Ohio.

Nathan Bostwick went into the army as recruiting officer October 18; 1861, at Columbus, Ohio, with the rank of second lieutenant; was attached to company G, Twentieth regiment, which was sent, with three other companies of the same regiment, to Warsaw, Kentucky, in January, 1862, where they settled some trouble between the Union men and rebels of that place.

Company G remained in Warsaw until in February, when it returned to Cincinnati, and soon after joined the expedition against Fort Donelson, and was in the last day's battle at that place.

After the battle, Captain John N. Cassil and Jieutenant Bostwick, with their company, were detailed as guard for rebel prisoners, and escorted eleven hundred of them to St. Louis, from which place, in company with a portion of company C, of the same regiment, they escorted all the officers captured at Fort Donelson to Camp Chase, at Columbus. Lieutenant Bostwick came home from this place, sick with typhoid fever, but his company went on to Boston with the field and staff of that capture.

Upon his recovery from his very severe illness, he rejoined his company-at Bolivar, Tennessee, in June, 1862, and in September took command of company C, Twentieth regiment, with rank of first lieutenant. He continued in command of this company through the Vicksburgh campaign, the captain of company C having resigned. He was commissioned first lieutenant May g, 1862, and was with Grant during all the operations of the army for the capture of Vicksburgh; the first battle of that campaign in which the regiment was engaged being at Thompson's Hill, fought immediately after the battle of Grand Gulf. He was also in the battle of Raymond and that of Jackson immediately following it; also the battle of Champion Hill, where he received a sunstroke, from which he yet suffers. 'The siege of Vicksburgh lasted forty-seven days, during which he was on duty almost incessantly, day and night, fighting and working in the trenches. After the surrender the Twentieth remained in camp until Sherman marched to Meridian, Mississippi, in February, 1864.

Lieutenant Bostwick was promoted to captain, January 30, 1864, and transferred to the command of his old company, G, accompanying Sherman to Meridian.

Captain Bostwick came home on veteran furlough. The furlough having expired, the regiment rendezvoused at Cairo, Illinois, going thence by boat up the Tennessee river to Clifton, Tennessce, where it landed and marched over the Sand mountains, a distance of three hundred miles, joining Sherman at Ackworth, Georgia, shortly after engaging in the siege and battle of Kennesaw Mountain. Captain Bostwick was in the charge made by his division at this place.

The next desperate battle in which he was engaged was that before Atlanta, July 22, 1864, where his division, under Gencral Leggett, surrounded by Hood's forces was attacked in front and rear, and engaged in some of the hardest fighting of the war. Captain Bostwick says their division moved across their breastworks five times during the day, fighting first on one side then on the other. He was wounded twice in this action - with a sliver from a ball in the left eye, and a piece of shell in the left knee - and fell into the hands of the enemy. The brigade lost about half of its number in this bloody battle, in which it was frequently engaged in a hand-to-hand conflict.

After his capture Captain Bostwick was robbed of two hundred and thirty dollars in money, and most of his outer clothing, except his boots, which, being a fine, heavy pair, he refused to give up except with his life, and when a rebel captain approached for the purpose of taking them, he received such a ended his life. Captain Bostwick expected to be riddled with rebel bullets for this act, as the guards were all around him, but, probably from admiration of his pluck, they did not molest him. The rebel officer, however, after regaining his breath and his feet, again approached him the intention, no doubt, of running him through with his sabre, but just before attempting the cowardly act, he discovered a small Masonic emblem attached to the captain's waistcoat. This stopped him, and turning to the guards he ordered them to take the belligerent captain away. 'There is no doubt but that this mystic sign of Masonry saved his life at that time. He was takento the stockade at Macon, Georgia, and subsequently to Charleston, South Carolina, and placed in prison. He was again taken sick and remained for some time in the hospital, being treated by Dr. 'Todd, a rebel and brother of Mrs. Lincoln. From there he was taken to Columbia, South Carolina, October 6, 1864. Here ha was outrageously treated, being sick with chills and fever and compelled to lic on the ground, without shelter or medical attention for three wecks, and came near dying, being reduced to a skeleton. He was then put into a tent hospital, and treated by a doctor named LaGrone, a Frenchman, from whom he received much attention. December 1, 1864, he made his escape in company with Captain McFadden, of the Fifty-seventh New York, and H. C. Payne, a sergeant of the Twentieth Illinois. They travelled twenty-seven nights through the smoky mountains of North Carolina, travelling only in the dead of night, aided, fed, and piloted on their way by the negroes, and reached our lines at Knoxville, Tennessee, December 27, 1864. Here he reported to General Carter, provost marshal at that place, who ordered clothing for the starved and ragged prisoners, forwarding them to Chattanooga, and thence to Nashville. After being ordered to various places Captain Bostwick obtained a leave of absence and came home, remaining, however, only a short time when he went by way of New York to join Sherman, and then on the march through the Carolinas.

olina. After Lee's surrender he asked permission of his brigade commander, General R. K. Scott, afterward governor of South Carolina, to resign, believing the war over, and his health being poor he wished to return home. His resignation being accepted he went to Washington, settled with the Government, and was there at the time of the assassination of President Lincoln, after which he came home to his farm in Knox county.

He subseqnently sold his farm and spent some time travelling in the west; living a short time near Fredericktown, Ohio, Charleston, Illinois, and Mt. Vernon, Ohio.

This brief biography, merely touches upon the military life of this gallant soldier. The story of his capture, prison life, sufferings, and subsequent escape, would make a very readable volume of many pages, and would verify the fact that ''truth is stranger than fiction." He tells of his continual but many times unsuccessful efforts to escape; of sickness, exposure, hunger, and the horrors of prison life; of his escape in a strange manner with two confederates; of their hiding in the swamps and mountains; of exposure and starvation; of being tracked by bloodhounds who came suddenly upon them in a darke gorge in the mountains, compelling them to fight for their lives, which they did, and came off victorious; of capturing a rebel picket that was in their way, killing one man and taking two others prisoners; of continual hairbreadth escapes, and incessant danger, and above all, of the faithfulness of the blacks, who never once betrayed them, but fed and guided them on their way at the peril of their own lives.

People scarcely realize that they have intheir midst living, walking heroes, before whose deeds of daring and suffering the most intricate combinations of fiction pale and become commonplace.

CONDON, DAVID W., shoe merchant, was born in Maryland, Frederick county, in 1831. He came to Ohio in 1851, and was married May 8, 1862, to Melinda J. Royce, granddaughter of Amos H. Royce. She was born in Berlin township, this county. They have three children: Frank R. was born April 17, 1863; Jennie M., November ro, 1865, and Mary E., June 18, 1873.

Mr. Condon learned the shoe trade with his father in Maryland, and has always been engaged in that business. Heisa member of the firm of D. W. Condon & Co., leading shoe merchants of this city. Mr. Condon was a soldier in the late war. He first enlisted April, 1861, under Captain H. B. Banning. They went to camp Jackson. They elected Professor Andrews (of Kenyon college) colonel. Whei. they came to organize their company they had too many men, consequently Mr. Condon was relieved. He enlisted in the spring of 1864; was a member of company H, One Hundred and Forty-second regiment Ohio National guards, under Captain Cochran and Colonel W. C. Cooper; he served four months and was honorably discharged. Mr. Condon has always been identified with the Reputlican party, and is one of the loyal men of Fredericktown.

DONAHEY, P. N., was born June 4, 1843, in Jackson township, Knox county, Ohio. He was married to Sophia M. Houck, August 31, 1869. They have had two children, viz: Willie J. and Lotta. Willie J. was born May ts, 1870; Lotta was born May 31, 1878. Mr. Donahey is engaged in the grocery business at Bladensburgh.

HOLLIBAUGH, JOHN F., shoe merchant. He was born in Richland county, Ohio, December 7, 1832; he was married November 8, 1857, to Louisa M. Hughes, who was born September 6,-1837 in Berlin township jn this county. They have seven children; Lee Porter born August 31, 1858; Delphene, 1860, March 14, 1864; Estella Lute, December, 16, 1866; Frederick Roston, July 16 1871; Wilbert Alton, June 5, 1874; Ethel, November 11, 1878. Mr. Hollibaugh learned the shoe trade in Fredericktown, and has been engaged at that business since; he is a member of the firm of D. W. Condon & Co., leading shoe merchants of this city, and has been identified with the business interests in this place for some years. Mr. Hollibaugh was a soldier in the late war; he enlisted 'n the spring of 1864. He was a member of company H, One Hundred and Forty-second regiment Ohio National guard under Captai~ ochran and Colonel W. C. Cooper. He served out the time of his enlistment, and was honorably discharged.

HORN, ABRAHAM, was born January 2, 1813, in Washington county, Pennsylvania, and was married March 16, 1837, to Miss Rebecca Staats, who was born January 28, 1818, in

Butler township. They have had ten children, viz: Catharine, Jacob, Louisa, Joseph S., Maria, Mary M., Magdalena, Selonia Alice, Rebecca Jane, William Osborn, Benjamin

Franklin; all living except Joseph S. and Benjamin Franklin. Joseph S. was wounded at Big Shanty, Georgia, June 22, 1864, and died the following day. Benjamin F. died September 30, 1862; Catharine married William J. Withrow, April 22, 1860; Jacob was married to Isabella Withrow, June 22, 1861; Louisa was married to Jacob Delong January 15, 1863; Maria to Robert B. Giffen, June <1, 1869; Mary M. to Reason Lovett, February 7, 1869; Rebecca J. to Benjamin Ross, October 6, 1872; Jacob, married (second wife) Lydia Hall, September 23, 1873; W. O. to Alvila Bailey, November 2, 1878. Mr. Horn is owner of two hundred and ten acres of good farming land in Butler township, and three hundred and fifty acres in Jefferson township.

HORN, MARTIN C., deceased, was one of the wealthiest farmers of Clay township, owning about five hundred and thirty-seven acres of good tillable land at his decease. He wasa native of Knox county, was born April 9, 1823, and married to Jane Crumrine November 11, 1847; six children being born unto them; three, Laura, Lennie, and Emma, are living. Mr. Horn was a highly respected citizen, very ambitious and industrious, and was census enumerator for the present census. He died at his home, near Martinsburgh, July 25, 1880.

HYATT, R., farmer, Liberty township. He was born in Liberty township, September 11, 1848, and is the son of Mescheck and Elizabeth Hyatt. He spent his youth ona farm, and has followed farming as his vocation. He spent four years inthe Western States. He married Elizabeth Ann Bryan, November 19, 1871. They have one child, named Maggie A.

JOHNSTON, SAMUEL K., deceased. He was born in Morris township in 1820; was married to Susan A. White, who was born in Franklin county, Pennsylvania, in 1825, and came to Ohio in 1825. They had five children - Williard W., Mary E., Edwin F., Charles C., and Lee R.

Marth was born in Holmes county in 1840; married J. B. Nixon. The have three children - Luella J., Nettie B., and Maggie K. They reside in Johnson county, Indiana.

Walter, George

Mr. Walter learned the carpenter trade in Mt. Vernon, and continued to work at it until 1872, when he engaged in the butchering business with S. Kirby, and afterwards with M. P. Minteer. In 1880 he engaged with Braddock & Hurst as clerk and salesman, and is one of the active and enterprising men of thistown. He was a soldier in the late war. His father, Samuel Walter, was born in Frederick county, Maryland, in 1809; came to Ohio in 1836; married Mary Ann Clay, born in the same county in 1818. They had eight children - Jesse, deceased; George A., John W., Martha J., Mary E., Charles R., Orpha, deceased, and Sarah G.

George Smith, father of Mrs. George Walters, was born in Franklin county, Pennsylvania, in 1824; was married to Abigail Tirrill, who was born in New Hampshire in 1826. They had two children - Mary and Ophelia.

ALVERSON, THOMAS, farmer, deceased, Middlebury 'ownship, was born March 19, 1807, in the town of Guilford, Windham county, Vermont. His early ancestors were from Holland, and later in affinity with the English. In early childhood he was taken to Moriah, Essex county, New York. His widowed mother being poor he was obliged to live with other families. By hard labor and strict economy he secured sixty acres of land, which he improved, and on which he built suitable buildings. He was baptized by immersion in Lake Champlain. In his conviction of duty he had a very remarkable dream, in which he saw the Savior, with outstretched arms, standing in the sun.

t') re untll the fall of 1837, and then moved to western New York, near Middleport, and remained there until the fall of 1839, when they moved near Medina, Michigan, to his brother, Oliver Alverson, and in the month of February, 1840, he emigrated to Ohio and settled.near the Quaker brick meetinghouse, known as the Owl Creek settlement. In 1845 he purchased one hundred acres of land on the ridge, four and a _ half miles northwest of Fredericktown, in Middlebury township. Here his property increased to over six thousand dollars in addition to his real estate, which he loaned out. He had seven children, all of whom are living except the youngest - James T., born March 1, 1834; Sophia, November 4, 1836, and married to J.. N. Talmage, living near Chesterville, Morrow county. Ohio; Emma, October 3, 1838, married to Miller Mendenhall, now lives in Green Vally, Knox county; Sarah, November 14, 1839, married to John Disman, now living in Lima, Allen county, Ohio; Byram, Janu:ry 19, 1843, now a resident near Lone Star post office, Gentry county, Missouri; Louisa, May 3, 1844, now Mrs. Witliam Schroeder, of Knox county, Ohio; and John P., May 4, 1849, died in infancy.

Thomas Alverson became a strong Abolitionist, voting for the first candidate for the Presidency nominated by the Aboli_ tion party - James G. Birney.

Mr. Alverson was powerful in his reasonings and arguments in favor of freedom and equal rights to all. He afterwards acted with the Republican party.

In September, 1865, during a season of tent-meetings at Fredericktown, Ohio, held by Elders Vanhorn and Lawrence, he embraced the doctrines of the Seventh-day Adventists, and became an ardent advotate of its faith, giving liberally to it, institutions and missionary work. The subjects ''Man's Nature and Destiny,"' ''The Bible," ''Seventh-day Sabhath," and the ''Soon Coming of Christ," were his happy themes of conversation and work.

The last year of his life was the happiest, during which time he visited relatives and friends in the east - Vermont, Boston, Massachusetts, and the Round Lake camp meeting in Maine, and then to his brother, Samuel H. Russell, of Crownpoint Essex county, New York, where he died September 11, 1878, at the age of seventy-one years, five months and twenty-two days. He leaves nineteen grandchildren and. three great-grandchildren. Mrs. Lucinda Alverson died December 28, 1864, and was buried in the Salem cemetery.

James T. Alverson, post office, Fredericktown, Chio, born in Essex county, New York, came to Knox county, with his parents in childhood. Through industry, in teaching and laboring, he accumulated means to purchase one hundred and sixty acres of western Jand. He became a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, and for a time a faithful worker. He was married August 1, 1861, to Miss Rebecca Price, daughter of John and Barbara Price, of Morrow county, Ohio. She was an amiable and Christian lady. After their marriage they purchased nearly seventy acres of land in Morrow county, still retaining the one hundred and sixty acres of western land. Her useful life ended November 25, 1864, and her remains were interred in Bloomfield cemetery, near Sparta, Morrow county, Ohio. a} T. Alverson is left with one daughter, Luella J., now Mrs. Olmstead, and one son, James T., jr.

In early life Mr. Alverson was a Methodist in faith, but by reading and investigating the Bible he changed his religious views June 23, 1877. He kept the Bible Sabbath, the seventh day of the week, endorsing fully the Bible doctrines of man's nature and destiny, the seventh day Sabbath as in the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus Christ and his soon coming at the completion of his work as priest of the heavenly sanctuary; then the gathering home of all the saints, both dead and living, in the first resurrection; and finally, after the resurrection and destruction of all the wicked, enjoying the Sabbath with the redeemed in Christ in the earth made new. So August 27, 1877, he took a letter from the Methodist Episcopal church, being in good standing.

FIDLER, THOMAS, retired, post office, Fredericktown, was born in Bedford county, Pennsylvania, in 1804. His parents emigrated to Belmont county, Ohio, when he was a child. He came to this county in 1824, and was married to Rebecca Shuman. They had one daughter, Arminda; she married John Ewers, and is now dead. Mrs. Fidler died in Richland county.

Mr. Fidler was married (the second time) to Jane Dehart, who was born in New Jersey. Their children are: Marinda, now Mrs. James, a resident of Morrow county; Emily, deceased; Mary, deceased; Louis, deceased; Samuel A., deceased; Henry, married Mary Smith; he died in 1877; Anna, deceased; Deliah J., now Mrs. Wertz; Hannah L., now Mrs. Burson; they reside in Morrow county. Mrs. Jane Fidler died in 1872.

Mr. Fidler is now living with his daughter, Mrs. Wertz. He has been a successful farmer, and has accumulated considerable wealth, and has a competency for old age. Uncle Tom, as he is familiarly called, is one of the best citizens of Middlebury township.