Knox County, Ohio - Biographical sketches, 1881 (part 4 of 20)

Mr. Channell spent his youth on a farm in Licking county. In 1858 he came to Miller township, where he has since resided, being among the most influential and esteemed citizens. In 1843 he married Miss Jane Crusen, a native of Licking county, Ohio. They had five children, three of whom died young. The living are Aaron and Hattie, the wife of Greenbury Sherman.

CHANCEY, JAMES B., Fredericktown, was born in New York in 1834, was brought to Ohio when three years old, and was married to Martha A. Brown, who was born in this county in 1837. They have six children, viz: Cora B., born February 23, 1859; Mary D., November 10, 1861; Joseph H., November 8, 1863; Ellen R., December 10, 1865: Carrie B., November 13, 1867, and Adda F., December 28, 1869. Mr. Chancey is a painter by trade, and has been engaged in that business for twenty years.

James B, Chancey was a soldier in the late war, and a member of company H, One Hundred and Forty-second regiment Ohio national guard. He served out the time of his enlistment, and received an honorable discharge. Mrs. J. B. Chancey's father, Samuel Brown, deceased, was born in Virginia in 1798, and was married to Nancy Carter, who was born in Virginia in 1800. :

They came to Ohio in 1831, and located in Berlin township. They had the following children, viz: Mary E., born in 1829; James, in 1831; Daniel, in 1833; Jefferson, deceased; Martha, born in 1837; Joseph, in 1838; George, in 1842, and Susan, in 1845.

Samuel Brown died in 1847, in Berlin township. He was a farmer by occupation, and a worthy member of the Protestant Episcopal church, and an honored citizen. Mrs. Nancy Brown is now residing with her son, James H. Brown, in Michigan.

CHANDLER, DAVID J., shoemaker, was born in Clay township, August 30, 1841, was married December 5, 1865, to Margaret Finney. They have five children, viz: Susan M., Charles H., Edward F., William M., and James B. He wasa soldier in the war of the Rebellion, being a private in company C, Fifty-first Ohio volunteer infantry, and the only Knox county man in the regiment.

CHAPIN, L. H., mechanic, Howard township, post office, Howard. He was bornin Union township, August 19, 1844. His mother died in 1854, and at this time he went to B. Simmons' in Coshocton county, and farmed there four years. He then returned to Millwood and remained there two years. In 1861 he enlisted under Captain Walker in the Forty-third Ohio volunteer infantry. He was in the battle of Corinth in 1862, and at Iuka, Mississippi. They made-a charge, called the endways charge, on the rebels where a portion of the troops crossed the river on pontoons.

He served his time and received an honorable discharge. In 1869 he was married to Sarah Baker and lived at Spring Mountain a year, then removed to Union township, remained there four years, and then came to Howard. They have five children, Fenton, Elmer, Oliver, Salona, and James.

CHAPMAN, JUDGE STEPHEN, Mt. Vernon, deceased. Among the early settlers of this county, was Stephen Chapman, who in after years became a man of note, and was honored and trusted by his fellow citizens. He was born in Saybrook, Connecticut, on the twenty-fourth of April, 1783. His parents came to Ohio and located at Marietta in 1794, when Stephen was only eleven years of age. Grandfather Chapman was an old and intimate friend of General Rufus Putnam, who induced him to take that step. He was to erect a block-house at Marietta, and was to keep within it nine soldiers for the protection of the settlers in the neighborhood, for which the Government was to reward him by two large tracts of land lying within what is now Washington county. Mr. Chapman complied with the wishes of the general in every respect. For the soldiers he substituted his own sons, nine in number, Stephen making one. The Government compensated him with two tracts of land situated one on Duck and one on Bear creek. In 1806 Mr. Chapman, the subject of this sketch, came to and settled in Mt. Vernon, and opened what was then called a 'trading station,"' keeping a little of everything that could be bartered for a little money, deer skins and furs. The currency at that time was ''mixed."" He wasa friend of the red man, and considerable trading was carried on with them. This station was continued for some time.

December 25, 1808, he married Mary Walker, a sister of Mr. Joseph Walker, one of the proprietors of Mt. Vernon. In 1811 he purchased and moved on the farm on Dry creek, where he resided up to the time of his death, making a continued residence of fifty-eight years. During a part of the War of 1812 he was engaged in collecting and wagoning provisions for the sustenance of the soldiers stationed at Milan and Sandusky.

In 1813 the people of the county became alarmed at rumored Indian raids, and several block-houses were erected in the county. Mr. Chapman aided his neighbors to erect one on Dry creek, on the Hardesty farm, better known in latter days as the Carey farm, to which his family was removed, where they remained a short time for safety and protection.

Judge Chapman was aman of more than ordinary ability and sound judgment, and was honored and respected by his neighbors and acquaintances throughout the county. In 1817 he was elected a justice of the peace for his township, as his commission, signed by Governor Thomas Worthington, and dated February 15, 1817, shows. A vacancy occurring on the associate judges bench of the county, Governor Ethan Allen Brown appointed him to fill that vacancy, and on the thirtieth of October, 1819, signed his commission as associate judge. During the session of the legislature in the winter of 1819-20, he was elected associate judge for a full term, Governor Brown signing his commission on the twenty-sixth of February, 1820. These three old commissions are in a good state of preservation, and are kept as relics of the past by the family. Although by no means a robust man, yet he was a person of strong nerves and athletic, and enjoyed the best of health. He died full of honor and full of years, October 4, 1869, in the eighty-seventh year of his age.

CHAPMAN, DAVID, Milford township, farmer and carpenter; was born in Ashtabula county, Ohio, in 1822. His. father's name was Martin; was a native of New York, his mother (Henrietta Wright) was a native of Connecticut, both being of English descent. They were married in Ashtabula county, Ohio, and remained there six or eight years. They went to Upper Canada, remained about eight years and then returned to Ashtabula county, and thereafter succesively lived in Holmes, Tuscarawas, and Coshocton counties, both parents dying in the latter county. They had a family of twelve children, six yet living. The subject of this notice is the third child. When about nineteen years of age he went to the carpenter trade, and followed it until 1877. In 1844 he married Miss Margaret King, a native of Pennsylvania. At the time of his marriage he was poor, and, as he says, ''his wife no better off." He had also to support his parents principally from the time of his marriage until their deaths. Thus he had to struggle against adverse circumstances. In 1858 he moved to Miller township, and resided there until 1868, when he purchased the farm of one hundred and forty-six acres in Milford township on which he now resides. He went in debt on this farm four thousand five hundred dollars, but by industry and good management he has paidthis amount. Mr. Chapman is a hard working man, a good citizen and neighbor.

By his marriage they had seven children, six of whom are iving, viz.: Alonzo, a carpenter by trade, who enlisted in company C, Forty-third regiment Ohio volunteer infantry, February, 1864, and was with Sherman from Chattanooga to Savannah, participating in all the conflicts in which his company was engaged until their discharge; William B., was a member of the same company, enlisting at the same time, and was also with the company and regiment until its discharge; Julia, married Benjamin Hunter; Jane, married Robert McCune; Mina, and Belle, live at home; Malissa died young.

CHASE, PHILANDER, D.D., deceased. Rev. Philander Chase, D.D., first bishop of the diocese of Ohio, was for a number of years one of the most prominent men of Knox county, He was born in Cornish, New Hampshire, December 14, 1775. He was descended from Aguila Chase, who came from Cornwall, England, in 1640, and settledat Newbury. His grandson, Dudley, father of the bishop, settled on the Connecticut river and founded the town of Cornish, New Hampshire, where the bishop was born. His parents were plain, pious people, living on a farm, devoted members of the Congregational church, and young Philander adopted their religious views early in life. Philander intended to chose his father's vocation, but the course of events, says his biographer in the ''American Cyclopedia," seemed plainly to indicate that a different career was before him. A severe injury to one of his limbs confined him for a long time to the house, and after much reflection upon his position and prospects, he resolved to. prepare himself for college and the ministry of the gospel. He entered Dartmouth college in 1791, and was graduated in 1795. At the time of his graduation Philander Chase was a Congregationalist, but having met with a prayer book of the Episcopal church, he examined and studied it with great care, and was led to the conviction that he ought

Hampshire, he set out for Albany, New York, where he was kindly received by the resident Episcopal minister; and after a course of study in theology, he was ordained in St. George's church, New York, in May, 1798. For several years he devoted himself, amid many privations, to missionary labors in western New York.

Rev. Philander Chase, in 1805, with wife and children, removed to New Orleans, where, for,six years, he was zealously engaged in organizing the Protestant Episcopal church, in which he was successful. In 1811 he returned to the north, and for six years was rector of Christ church, in Hartford, Connecticut. Deeply interested in the 1eligious condition and prospects of the great west, and being full of missionary zeal and enterprise, he, in 1817, went to Ohio, and set about planting and enlarging the Episcopal church in that then young and rapidly growing State.

After a year's labor in Ohio a diocese was formed embracing the entire State, and he was elected its bishop, and was consecrated in St. James' church, Philadelphia, February 11, 1819. Amid many and peculiarly severe trials, says his biographer, Bishop Chase persevered in his work. He established a classical school at Worthington soon after coming to Ohio, and conducted it personally until 1822, when he moved to Cincinnati to take charge of the college then recently established there, and remained about two years, serving as president of said institution.

It soon became evident to Bishop Chase that in order to the successful and permanent establishment of the Protestant Episcopal church in Ohio, and in the west, measures must be taken promptly to educate men on the ground for the service of the ministry. Accordingly, with the approbation of the Protestant Episcopal convention of Ohio, although opposed by many Episcopalians in the older States, he resolved to visit England and solicit donations toward founding a college and theological seminary in Ohio. He embarked in October, 1823, arrived safely in England, and, although he at first met with opposition, soon overcame it, and was unusually successful, collecting about thirty thousand dollars for his object. After his return in 1824, the Bishop purchased eight thousand acres of land situated in Knox county, took the initial steps to establish the projected college and seminary upon it, and perpetuated the names of the two generous Englishmen (Kenyon and Gambier), whose munificent donations so largely aided the bishop in his grand enterprise, by giving the name of the former to the college, and that of the latter to the site of the seminary and college, and which also became the name of the prospective village established there.

For a time, says the authority heretofore quoted, everything went on prosperously; but difficulties and disputes having risen between the bishop and some of the clergy about the disposal of the funds received from England, and other matters connected with his administration of the college and the diocese, he resigned his jurisdiction in September, 1831, and the general convention the next year gave their assent to this step, and Bishop Mcllvaine became his successor.

Bishop Chase, now removed to Michigan, seemingly intent upon the life of a pioneer missionary bishop. There he remained until 1835, when he was elected bishop of the recently formed diocese of Illinois. Again he visited England in * half of Christian education in the west, and collected about ten thousand dollars towards purchasing land and founding a college. Jubilee college, at Robin's Nest, Peoria county, Illinois, owes its foundation, in 1838, to this second effort, and here the venerable prelate spent the remainder of hislife. The first commencement of Jubilee college.took place in July, 1847, and its subsequent career has evinced the perspicacity of Bishop Chase in providing for the futuse needs of the Episcopal church in the west.

intuitive knowledge of human nature, great shrewdness, and accomplished an amount of good ten fold greater than many incomparably his superiors in scholastic knowledge. Keenly sagacious in reading character, quick to avail himself of opportunities, full of zeal and determination, unwearied in laboring for the cause of religion and the interests of the Protestant I<piscopal church, Bishop Chase left his impress upon the western country, and deserves honorable mention as the pioneer bishop. He published in two volumes '' Reminiscences of his life and labors,"' '' Plea for the West," '' Defense of Kenyon College," and other works.

Bishop Chase was one of fourteen children, eight sons and six daughters. Dudley Chase, one of his brothers, was long a member and sometimes speaker of the legislature of Vermont; also chief justice of that State, and United States Senator. Another of his brothers was the father of the late Salmon P. Chase. Four of the brothers were graduates of Dartmouth college.

Bishop Chase's first wife was Miss Fay of Bethel, Vermont, who became the mother of two sons (George and Philander) both dead. The latter married a daughter of Hon. Bazaleel Wells, of Steubenville, Ohio, and died young, of consumption. Mrs. Chase died at Worthington, Ohio, in 1818.

Bishop Chase married his second wife, Miss Sophia May Ingraham, of Kingston, New York, at Zanesville, July 19, 1819, Rev. Dr. Morse officiating. Four children were born to them, viz: Dudley, a clergyman of Philadelphia; Henry, in business in Chicago; Philander, deceased, and Mary, wife of Rev. J. S. Chamberlain.

A severe injury, caused by being thrown from his carriage, hastened the aged bishop's decease, anda few days, after he sank quietly to rest. His death occurred at Jubilee college, in Peoria county, Illinois, September 20, 1852, in the seventy-seventh year of his age.

CHAUNCEY, CORYDON, Fredericktown, barber, was born in Berlin township, Knox county, in 1837. He was married in 1865 to Mary Roberts, who was born in Mt. Vernon in 1838. They have three sons, viz.: Frederick E., born in 1866; Charles N., born in 1870; Burr Roberts, born in 1874. Mr. Chauncey is the leading barber of Fredericktown. He keeps everything very neat, and is a type of the perfect gentleman.

CHRISMAN, HARVEY, Milford township, farmer and farrier, was born in Rockingham county, Virginia, February 24, 1828. His father, Benoni Chrisman, came to Knox county with his family, in 1837. He located in Milford township, where he had previously purchased a quarter section of land, and remained there until 1879, when he went to reside in Homer, Ohio. He married Annie Kratzer in Virginia, who died in 1879. Mr. Chrisman died in the winter of 1880. They had ten children. Those living are are Harvey, Joseph, Burtley, George, Reuben, Catharine (wife of Lemuel Buxton), and Sarah. The deceased are Benoni, Martha, and Susan. The subject of this notice was the oldest son, and it therefore devolved upon him to assist his father to clear up the farm, and in consequence his educational advantages were limited; but he acquired sufficient to enable him to transact business: He remained at home until he was about twenty-three years of age. Mr. Chrisman began life with but little aid. He determined to obtain for himself and family a home. About 1851 he came to his present home, and has succeeded in obtaining two hundred and fifty acres of good land, and is one of the leading farmers of Milford township. His farm is under good cultivation. He was married twice. His first wife was Miss C. Hall. His second wife was' Miss Sarah Ic. Jaggers, daughter of Silas Jaggers. They have eleven children, and as they get married he assists each one by giving him one thousand dollars. Their names are [ellen A. (wife of N. J. Coe), Ilora P. (wife of Marcus Riley), Josephine, Oscar Caroline, Emma, Elizabeth, Martha, Frank, Edith, and Mary'

CLARK, ABEL, deceased, Jefferson township, born in Green county, Pennsylvania, November 18, 1792, where he lived until he arrived at the age of eighteen years, when, in company with his brother, came to Ohio, locating in Carroll county about 1810. During the time he remained there, he married Mary E. Burtnett, which event occured in 1815, who was born in Green county Pennsylvania, July 21, 1792. In 1822 he moved with his family to Knox county, locating in Harrison township, where he remained until 1836, when he moved to Jefferson township and there entered a farm of one hundred acres, upon which he erected a hewed log house. He carried on farming for many years. Mr. and Mrs. Clark became the parents of nine children, four of whom died in infancy. The other five children were: Michael Clark, born June 17, 1818, killed at Fort Donelson; Priscilla, born December 3, 1821, died August 24, 1880; Josiah, June 14, 1823, died in 1868; Nancy, January 2, 1825; Amos, January 31, 1834, all of whom have died except Nancy and Amos. Mrs. Abel Clark died August.27, 1851, aged fiftynine years. He married again in 1853, and his second wife died in 1872. Mr. Clafk became the owner of one hundred and sixty acres of land in Jefferson township and died in January, 1870, in the seventy-eighth year of his age.

CLARK, AMOS, Jefferson township; farmer and stockraiser; son of Abel and Mary E. Clark, was born in Harrison township, Knox county, January 31, 1834. In 1836 his father moved to Jefferson township, locating on Military Land lot No. 2, four miles east of Jelloway, where the subject of this sketch was reared and received a common school education. He remained with his father, farming until 1858, when he bought sixty acres of the home place, and continued to farm the balance of his father's farm in connection with his own. This he continued until 1860, and then purchased the balance of the home farm, making in all one hundred and sixty acres. In 1866 he bought one hundred and nine acres of land in Jefferson township, adjoining Ashland county, for the sum of fifteen hundred dollars, which he owned for three years, and then sold it to Conrad Snider for the sum of twenty-four hundred dollars.

October 5, 1856, he married Sarah C. Heyet, a daughter of Jacob H. and Mary E. Heyet, born in Ashland county, December 3, 1839. After his marriage he located on the old farm, which he had purchased of his father, where he remained until 1871, and then moved on a farm of one hundred and forty acres adjoining him, on the southwest, which he purchased in the same year, where he at present resides. May 13, 1864, he enlisted in the One Hundred and Forty-second Ohio volunteer infantry, in company F, under Captain Cummings, and served until the second day of September of the same year, when he was honorably discharged and mustered out at Columbus, Ohio. He then returned home, where he remained until the twelfth day of October of the same year, when he enlisted in the Ninth Ohio cavalry under the command of Killpatrick, where he served until June 7, 1865, when he was honorably discharged and mustered out of service at the United States hospital near

Columbus, Ohio. He then returned home, and proceeded to business as usual. Mr. Clark is at present engaged in the insurance business in connection with farming, being a stockholder in the Jelloway Insurance company, and president of the same. Mr. and Mrs. Clark are the parents of six children, viz: Mary. E., born September 30, 1857, married J. W. Rice September, 1877, and resides one mile west of Greersville; Jesse E., September 12, 1859, and died August 31, 1864; Emma F., June 10, 1862, and died September 6, 1864; William W., August 16, 1866, and died September 26, 1867; Henry W., August 16, 1868; John B., February 21, 1870. Only three children are living,

CLARK, T. L., Mount Vernon, a native of Stuben now Yates county, New York, where he received his education in the district schools, was born June 11, 1811, and when fourteen years old engaged with his brother to learn the millwright trade with whom he served seven years, after which he served four years as a mechinist, and was one of the partners of the firm under the firm name of Clark & Huston, manufacturers of engines and mill machinery, in which he continued until 1836. After this he engaged at the millwright business, which he followed until 1841. He then came to Mt. Vernon where he engaged 'with the firm of C. & E. Cooper as draftsman and machinist. He remained in this capacity until 1848 when he became a partner under the firm name of Coopers & Clark, in which he remained until 1858, when he took charge of the Kokosing Iron Works for C. P. Buckingham for one year, when he went to Detroit and engaged in building grain elevators for Dr. Clark and continued with him until the summer of 1864, when he returned to Mt. Vernon and took charge of the mechanical department of Coopers' establishment in which he remained until 1868. He then went to Kansas City to superintend the State Line machine shops, but not finding things as he expected and as was represented, he returned after a stay of three months. He then engaged with H. & F. Blandy, of Zanesville, as superintendent of their works in Newark where he remained until the spring of 1876, when he leased the Kokosing Iron Works and conducted them two years, since which he has operated in patent grain shovels for unloading cars of bulk grain in elevators. This invention relates to machinery for unloading grain in bulk from ears, and consists of a shaft which extends parallel with the line of cars to be unloaded, and is automatically reversed in its revolutions and to which scoops are attached by means of ropes for drawing the grain from the cars as the shaft revolves in one direction and allowing the 'scoops to be returned as it revolves in the opposite direction. This is a great labor-saving invention, and does its work more expiditiously and successfully than any former invention.

Mr. Clark was married July 20, 1836, to Miss Amanda Blair, daughter of Luther and Emblem Blair, of Massachusetts, by whom he had a family of five children, viz: T. Eugene, infant son, died; Jerome, Alonzo, and John, two of whom, T. Eugene and John, survive, and both are married and reside in Mt. Vernon. T. Eugene' received his preparatory education at Kenyon college and Otterbein university and read medicine with

Dr. E. M. Clark, of Detroit, and graduated at the medical university at Ann Arbor, Michigan, and entered upon the practice of his profession at Middletown, Ohio. In 1863 he entered the years, after which he engaged in practice in this city. in which he continued until recently when in consequence of il health he retired. John is engaged with his father and is a practical draftsman, proficient in his profession.and a successful business man.

CLARK, SAMUEL, harness and saddle manufacturer, West Vine street, near Main, Mt. Vernon, a native of Chatauqua county, New York, born September 5, 1821, where he resided until 1838, during which time he received his education, and learned the harness.and saddler trade. His first trip was to Michigan, where he travelled, working as a journeyman, in Michigan, Indiana, and Illinois. He opened a shop at Coldwater, Michigan, and continued in it for one year. In consequence of inflammation of the eyes, he was compelled to retire from business for about two years; after which, in 1842, he went to Mansfield, Ohio, and worked for the firm of Smith & Robinson about eighteen months. He then went to Wooster and engaged with a Mr. Dyerman, and worked about two years. He then travelled for about one year with Mr. Dyerman, after which he enlisted in the United States service for twelve months, joining company A, Third Ohio volunteer infantry, Captain McLaughlin. The regiment was commanded by Colonel Samuel R. Curtis.

With this regiment Mr. Clark went to Mexico, serving some eighteen months. After quitting the service he went to Newark and engaged with Captain Owens. Here he remained only a short time, when he came to Mt. Vernon, and commenced working for the late George W. Hauk. Hecontinued with Mr. Hauk until 1852. He then went to Warrentown, Mississippi, and engaged with his brother, where he worked one year. In consequence of the prevalence of the yellow fever, Mr. Clark with whom he remained till 1858, when his health gave way. From Mt. Vernon he went to McDonough county, Illinois, and engaged in farming. In 1862 he returned to Mt. Vernon, and for a third time was employed by Mr. Hauk, and in 1863 he bought out his employer and commenced business on his own account, and has continued it up to the present time. During part of this time his business has been quite extensive, requiring from three to five hands. At this time he does all the work himself, and has the gratification of warranting all work manufactured in his shop. His work embraces heavy and light-single and double harness. Repairing is done on short notice, and on reasonable terms.

CLARK, JOSIAH, farmer, Middlebuty township, post office Fredericktown, was born in Connecticut, and came to Ohio in 1850, and was married in 1871 to Mary A. Wagoman, who was born in Morrow county. They have two children, Sarah May, and Charlie Russell.

His sister, Betsy Clark, was born in Fairfield county, Connecticut, came to Knox county in 1852, and now resides with her brother, Josiah Clark.

Salina Clark, the mother of Josiah and Betsy, was born in Connecticut in 1778, and came to Ohio in 1852. She remained here till her death, December 29, 1875.

CLAYTON, JACOB, deceased, died at his late residence in Mt. Vernon, February 1, 1881, aged sixty years. The deceased was a native of Maryland, was born at Rising Sun, in that State on the twenty-ninth of December, 1821. He came to Ohio in 1851, and settled in this city, where he has resided ever since. Mr. Clayton was at his work as usual Monday, in the carpenter shop of his brother-in-law, Mr. W. B. Bounds. He went home after work, and complained some of pain about the heart, and at fifteen minutes of twelve o'clock died, it is supposed, of heart disease. He was a kind neighbor,:a good citizen, and an industrious man. He was a member of the masonic fraternity, and held a certificate of membership in the Knights Templar and Masonic Mutual Aid association of Cincinnati, Ohio.

On the sixth day of March, 1836, he married Miss Eliza A. Hammond, born in Maryland, September 17, 1816, and daughter of Francis S. and Mary Hammond. They settled in Gambier, remained there three years, and in 1839 he purchased and moved on the farm in Clinton township, now owned and occupied by his heirs, located three miles southwest of Mt. Vernon, on the Columbus road. He deceased January 5, 1867. They reared a family of ten children, five sons and five daughters. Four of the children are dead, two sons and two daughters. Their son James died in the war of 1861, from a wound received at the battle at the mouth of White river.

CLEMENTS, WILLIAM H., Monroe township, travelling salesman and collector for C. C. Cooper & Co., of Mt. Vernon. Mr. Clements was born in Howard township, this county, January 25, 1829. He is a machinist by trade, having commenced with C. C. Cooper & Co. as an apprentice, in 1852, and remained in the shop as a mechanic about eight years, then in 1860 became their travelling agent, which position he has since filled, travelling over, and doing business for them, in more than half the States in the Union.

In 1847 he married Miss Elizabeth French, a native of Cornwall, England, born in 1826; and emigrated to America in 1845, and located in Mt. Vernon. After Mr. Clements marriage to Miss French they settled in Mt. Vernon, remained until 1874, when he purchased and moved on the farm in Monroe township, where they are now living. They reared two children, viz: John W. and Ada Blanche. John W. Clements was born in Mt. Vernon in 1848, married Miss Didama R. Fresh, of Wayne county, Ohio, in 1870. They settled in Mt. Vernon, where he operated a door, sash, and blind factory about seven years. In 1878 he sold his establishment and moved on the farm with his father, in Monroe township, and is now engaged in the saw-mill business. They have one child, Ada B.

CLINE, JOSEPH, farmer, Union township, post office Millwood, born in Germany in 1840 and came to this country in 1845. He moved to Knox county in 1858. In 1867 he was married to Miss S. M. Winterringer, and moved to a farm where he still remains. He has four children: Mary Jane, Satah C., Joseph, and Manning.

CLOW, ANDREW J., Pike township, farmer, post office North Liberty, born in Holmes county, Ohio, in 1828, and was married in 1854 to Mary Rhodes, who was born in Perry county, Ohio, in 1831. ,They have three children, Ellen S., born in 1858; Joseph C., in 1865; Gertrude M., in 1869. Mr. Clow came to this county. in 1867, located in Brown township, and remained there for eighteen months, then removed to Pike township. In 1862, Mr. Clow fell from a load of hay, and after falling was kicked by a horse in the team, and has not been able to do any labor since. He has suffered a great deal, but is enduring it patiently; is a good citizen, and highly respected.

CLUTTER, JOHN, Morgan township, farmer, born inWashington county, Pennsylvania, September 13, 1804. The name Clutter is German, but at what time the ancestors emigrated to America is not known. The father of the subject of this sketch was born in New Jersey; his parents dying a few years after his birth, he was raised by his uncle. Samuel Clutter, the father of the subject of this notice, married Rachel Denman in New Jersey, and a few years after emigrated to Washington county, Pennsylvania, where he remained, being engaged in farming, until April, 1818, when he came to Knox county, and located near the centre of Morgan township. He lived here until 1853, when he died, aged eighty-eight years and seven months. His wife died in 1855, aged about eighty years. They hada family of ten children. The living are Mary McCollum, living in Washington county, Pennsylvania; William, a farmer of Marion county, Ohio; John James, of Milford township, and Samuel Jackson, of Kansas. The deceased are Joseph, Jane, Eclecta, David B., and Cornelia.

Mr. Clutter was reared on a farm, and has continued farming all his life. He was twice married, his first wife being Sarah Sellers, to whom he was married in 1831. They had ten children, viz: Elvira, now the wife of Daniel Newton, of Wood

Iowa. His first wife dying, he in 1835 married Miss Rachel Marlin, a native of Morgan township. They had twelve children, viz: Celesta, married to William Ewart, has deceased; Zebina Ann, married to William Ewart, has deceased; Van Buren, deceased; Waldon D.; Lucy, married to John Euart, of Morgan township; Samuel Judson, deceased; John A.; Hugh, of Clay township; Nancy Alice; Nora Belle, married to David Bell, and William O. Mr. Clutter is a member of the Baptist church, and has the respect and esteem of the community.

CLUTTER, JAMES, Milford township, farmer, born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, September 29, 1806. In 1818 he came to Morgan township, with his parents, Samuel and Rachel, zee Denman. His paternal grandfather, William Clutter, was a native of Germany, and some time during the eighteenth century emigrated to New Jersey with his parents, and served in the war of the Revolution. He married in New Jersey and died there. They had three children, two of whom grew up: Samuel and Jane, the last of whom married Mr. Karl, and remained in New Jersey. Samuel married Rachel Denman, and about the year 1800 moved to Washington county, Pennsylvania, where he remained until 1818, when he emigrated to Morgan township, Knox ounty, Ohio, with the family, and both died there. They had ten children, viz.: Mary, widow of Moses Mc- Collum, who resides in Washington county, Pennsylvania;

William, a resident of Marion county, Ohio; Joseph, deceased; Jane (deceased), married Thomas Harris; John, a resident of Morgan township; James, the subject of this sketch; Electa (deceased), married Joseph Green; David (deceased); Cornelia (deceased), married to John Miller, of Morgan township; and Samuel J., living in Kansas.

The subject of this notice remained in Morgan township until he was about twenty-eight years of age. He then went to Bennington township, Licking county, thence to Clay township, Knox connty, and thence to Hartford township, Licklng county, and in 1865 he removed to his present farm in Milford township. His first wife was Elizabeth Larason, daughter of Sylvester Larason, to whom he -was married November 12, 1831. They had six children. Orlando, two infants, Sylvester W., and Elizabeth have deceased. Amanda, wife of William Reynolds, resides in Jasper county, Iowa. His wife died July 21, 1841. He was married to Rhoda Myers August 18, 1842, who was born August 3, 1816, in Licking county. They had nine children, eight of whom are living: Troubadour, born July 12, 1845, in Iowa; Emanuel, December 3, 1846, in Iowa; William O. and James A., twins, born Angust 9, 1848; Orilla Z., December 7, 1850; Mary E., July 23, 1852, died June 22, 1855; Phila, October 4. 1856; Manceleta, November 17, 1857; Art, September 10, 1859.

Mr. Clutter's first purchase of land was a tract of one hundred and four acres in Bennington township, on which he paid two hundred and seventy-five dollars, all he had. He now owns a comfortable home and has gained a competency.

CLUTTER, SAMUEL, Morgan township, farmer, was born in Knox county, January 3, 1827. His father, William Clutter, was born in New Jersey in 1798, moved to Washington county, Pennsylvania, and in 1817 to Ohio. He married Miss Eda McKeown. They had ten children, seven of whom are yet living.

Samuel was reared on a farm. He married Miss Ann Eliza, daughter of Jonathan Brown, in March, 1853, a pioneer of whom mention is made. She was born in March, 1833, in Morgan township. They had six children, viz; Mary A., wife of Lewis C. Rose, Davis county, Kansas; Anis and Alice (twins); Alice died when four years old; Anis married Abram Mason, and resides in Marion county, Ohio; William J., and David.

COCANOWER, SAMUEL, Fredericktown, foreman in planing mills, was born in Bedford county, Pennsylvania, in 1829, emigrated with his parents to this county when a boy, and was married in 1868, to Rachel Pinkley, who was born in this county in 1842. They have one daughter, Mary Ellen, born in 1869. He is foreman in the planing mills of S. S. Tuttle & Co., in Fredericktown.

COCHRAN, MATTHEW, residence West High street, Mt. Vernon. Mr. Cochran was born April 8, 1794, in Straven, Scotland, and in 1798 his parents emigrated to America and located in Philadelphia, where they resided until 1810, and during which Mr. Cochran received his education, and learned the baking business. In the year r814 he went to Baltimore, where he worked at his trade about one and a half years, when he em- _igrated to ohio and located in Liberty township, five miles southwest of Mt. Vernon, in the year 1816. He here took a squatter's claim in the woods, and erected himself a cabin and com- menced to fell the forest. He resided here about seven years, during which he cleared up about twenty acres, and after which he moved about one mile and erected another cabin and commenced a second time in the woods; and by indomitable energy and perseverance he succeeded in changing the gigantic and unbroken forest into beautiful and productive fields, which yielded him an abundant recompense for his labors, and he was thereby enabled to change his cabin for better improvements. He has an excellent farm house and barn and all the necessary out buildings, a good o1chard, and oie hundred and and fifty acres of finely improved fields, and fifty acres of excellent timber The timber of this farm was unusually good. He resided on the farm place until 1869, when he felt that he had fought the good fight asa pioneer and farmer, and that declining years would compel him to resign his place to younger hands. He then came to Mt. Vernon and located on West Vine street, where he resided until April, 1876. He then came to his present location on West High street, where, in his eighty-sixth year, he is enjoying the fruits of his labors and the comforts of a pleasant home. Mr. Cochran has been twice married. He was first married to Nancy Slemmons, by whom he he had three children, one of whom is living - Alexander (deceased), John S., who resides on and manages the home farm, and James (deceased). His second wife was Mary E. Brown, daughter of Matthias Brown, of New York city, who is now his companion in his declining years. ;

COCHRAN, JOHN, deceased, was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, in 1804, and married Mary Oram January 28, 1830. They had eight children: Mary A., born December 1, 1830; Henry O., in 1831; Frances P., in 1832; Albert C., in 1833; Levi C., in 1835; John C., in 1837; Louisa, in 1839; and Esther, in 1840. The deceased members are: John Cochran, died April 10, 1875; Henry O., June 20, 1848; John C., July 20, 1840; Louisa, July 19, 1839; and Esther, February 4, 1842. The following are married: Mary A., married Jesse Penrose; they have eight children: John C., Eli, Mary Elizabeth, Isaac, Benjamin, Frances, William, and Laura; they reside in Marshall, Indiana. Albert C., married Amanda, daughter of Rev. Scoles; they have one daughter: Olive A. Albert received a liberal education, studied medicine and practiced for some time. Being impressed with a higher responsibility, he entered the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal church, and is still engaged in that calling. Francis P. Cochran was born in Pike township, and married Jane Reed, who was born in this county in 1833. They have seven children: Florence G., was born in 1857; John B., 1859; Mary N., 1867; Charlie B., 1864; Sarah A., 1866; Amanda J.. 1871; and Walter R., in 1875. Mr. Cochran isa resident of Monroe township, and a prominent member o the Methodist Episcopal church. His son, John B., is attending the theological institution at Berea, Ohio, preparing for the ministry. The Cochran family are all identified with the Methodist Episcopal church. The father united with the church in 1833, was an official classleader for many years, and an exemplary Christian. Mrs. Mary Cochran is a resident of Fredericktown, and is also a worthy member of the church, and highly respected,

COE, CAPTAIN, CHARLES HENRY, farmer, Hilliar township. He was born near Fredericktown, Maryland, November 5, 1823. His father, Joshua Coe, was born December 21, 1783, in Fredérick county, Maryland. He was married to Mary Bergoon, a native of the same county. She was born

June 7,,1790. They remained in Maryland until 1826, when they emigrated to Licking county and settled near Utica, bringing with them a family of five children. They remained in Licking county a few years, and moved to Milford township, Knox county, where they purchased a farm. They lived and died here. They had a family of eight children, viz: Ephriam; Keturah, married Thomas Wells; Mary E., married James Conrad; Francis, David, Charles H., Thomas D., William J. D. F.; of these Ephriam, Keturah, Mary E. and Francis, are deceased.

Captain Coe, the subject of our notice, remained with his father until he was seventeen years of age, when he went to learn the trade of tanner and currier. He served three years and then set up for himself, and carried it on successfully until 1858. December 10, 1844, he was married to Eliza Ann Conrad, youngest daughter of Joseph Conrad, who came to Ohio in 1805 from Fredericktown, Virginia, and settled in Morgan township. The first building he put up was a hewed log dwelling, which is yet standing. His nearest mill was near where Fredericktown now stands. While at mill waiting for his grist, the inhabitants were suggesting names for the village, but it seems could not agree, so Mr. Conrad suggested the name of Fredericktown, after his native town in Virginia. This name was adopted. Mr. Conrad died on the farm on which he afterwards settled near Utica, at the age of eighty-eight years.

From 1858 to 1860 Mr. Coe was improving and stocking a farm in Kansas and driving sheep to the west. In May, 1861, he was commissioned captain, with orders to be ready to go into camp. July 27th, of same year, he was ordered into Camp Chase, near Columbus. When the men came to be examined there was quite a number rejected, and on account of the rejection there was a consolidation of the different companies, thus requiring less officers. Consequently he was detailed to recruit for the First and Tenth Ohio cavalry. In August, 1862, he was ordered by the department to recruit a company of First Independent Ohio volnteer sharp-shooters at Zanesville, Ohio. On account of the burning of their camp, they were ordered to report to Camp Cleveland, where, by requirement, they were tested by target shooting.

Each man before he was mustered into service as a sharpshooter was required to. make a string of twenty-four inches at two hundred yards range. Those failing were rejected. The captain had the honor of making the best string out of six hundred men. He made a string of seven inches, four of the shots not making over one and a half inches, the last shot making five and a half inches. The company was mustered into service December 20, 1862, and ordered immediately to the front for duty. The captain reported to General Rosecrans at Murfreesborough, Tennessee, and was placed upon his body guard, and was with him at Franklin, Tennessee, Crooked Creek, Tennessee, Liberty Gap, Hoover's Gap, and all the marches and campaigns that his company participated in until December 17, 1864, when he resigned on account of physical disability. After his return home he moved on the farm on which he now resides, which he has improved until it is now one of the best farms in Hilliar township. December 7, 1873, he lost his wife, she dying with consumption. December 13, 1875, he was married to Sarah E. Mills, youngest daughter of Samuel Mills. The captain spends considerable of his time at the hot spring of Arkansas. Hehas an interest in silver mining in Arkansas.

Licking county May, 1825, and ,is the son of Joshua and Mary Coe, of whom mention is made in the sketch of Captain Coe, of Hilliar township. When he was about fourteen his father died and in his will he expressed a wish tu have his two youngest children (the subject of this notice and William J.) to learn trades, so when about sixteen years of age he contracted with Phillip Pierce, of Homer, to learn the carriage and wagonmaking trade. On the fourth day of March, 1842, he commenced his apprenticeship at Homer, and remained there until his trade was learned, receiving as compensation his board and clothes. Mr. Coe next went to Utica, in the same county, and commenced business for himself and remained there six years and six months. Being successful, he purchased a tract of seventy-five acres of land in Monroe county, where he was engaged in farming and fruit-growing. He then purchased a farm in Milford township, upon which he is now living. He thus started in life under discouraging circumstances, but by hard work and economy he has succeeded. He married Miss Mary E. Scribner, daughter of Asa Scribner, a native of Connecticut, who was born in Newark, New Jersey, December, 1830. He had four children, two of whom are living - Norton J., farmer, resides in Milford; Sylvia J., wife of Sprague Hawkins, of Centreburgh, Ohio. The deceased are Ellis W. and Clifton T. ;

Mr. Coe is engaged in the cultivation of choice fruits, consisting of grapes, peaches, apples, and small fruits. He understands fruit growing, and has most excellent orchards.

COE, W. J. D. F., farmer, Milford township, was born in Morgan township, Knox county, Ohio, in 1829; is the son of Joshua and Mary Coe, zee Burgoon, and of whom mention is made in this work. He remained ona farm until about fourteen years of age, when he went to learn the trade of carriage blacksmith in Utica, Ohio. After learning his trade he continued working at it until he was twenty-four years of age. He then farmed for a few years, when by his economy he had saved enough of money to purchase a home. He purchased a farm of sixty-five acres in Licking county, and remained there until the spring of 1865, when he moved to the old homestead where his father settled in 1833, and has resided there ever since. He is a leading citizen of the township, a good farmer, and takes an interest in public affairs.

The Coe family of which Mr. Coe is a member are among the most successful ones of the county. They all started poor in life, and have, by their industry, acquired considerable property, and are among the influential men of the county. Mr. Coe was married in 1856 to Miss Emily Truman, of Licking county. They had four children, one of whom died in infancy. The living are Eddie, Charles Sumner, and Cyntha Ann. Mr. Coe was a member of company A, One Hundred and Thirtyfifth regiment. Ohio National guard, and served his term of enlistment. :

COGGINS, JONATHAN, Pleasant township, was born in Chester county, Pennsylvania, December 25, 1813. He commenced working at the carpenter trade when sixteen years of age, and has made that his principal vocation during life. In the fall of 1835 he emigrated to Ohio and located in Knox county. In September, 1838, he married Miss Louisa Marquand, of Coshocton county, Ohio, born in 1818,

They settled in Knox county, where they lived until 1852, when they moved to Coshocton county, remaining until 1865, when they returned to Knox county, purchased and moved on the property where they are now living, in Pleasant township: about two miles southeast of Mt. Vernon. They have six children, one son and five daughters. Two of the latter are dead.

COLE, THOMAS F., Liberty township. An ancient and very extensive family of British origin, to be distinguished from the German name Kohl by the method of spelling.

Henry Cole, D. D., dean of St. Paul's, preached the condemnation sermon when Thomas Cranmer, archbishop of Canterbury, suffered martyrdom under Queen Mary, 1555.

To the female side of this family was allied Nicholas Ridley, bishop of London, burned for his religion at Smithfield, London, 1555, a full-sized portrait of whom, in a sitting position is preserved in the family homestead of a branch of the family in Downham, Isle of Ely, Cambridgeshire, England. This homestead, intimately connected with the branch of the family now in the United States, was built some five centuries ago. Its massive dining-table of princely proportions has been an object of curiosity for many years and is suggestive of

'The banquet waits our presence, festal joy Laughs in the mantling goblet, and the night, Illumined by the taper's dazzling beam, Rivals departed day - "

The designs of the tapestries hung upon the walls of its dining hall have long puzzled visitors from all parts of the kingdom, some believing them to represent the pains of purgatory, and others, the torments of the damned. The portraits of the mistresses of the house in due succession (among them a fairhaired Hollander), for a period of nearly three hundred years, still (or did a few years ago) adorn its walls.

Inseparably associated with the history of this family is a tree known in the annals of Downham as the ''Old Oak," which, until 1833, stood a few paces from the homestead door. Such was its age and proportions that an extensive ball-room had once been erected among its branches. Its fall will probably be best illustrated by a quotation from a letter written July 22, 1833, by Francis Cole to his brother Michael, in this State: ''Our dear old father is in good health as ever I saw him. A serious accident, however, had like to have befallen him at the fall of the Old Oak Tree, which had liked to have killed him. We employed John Wall to take it down. Its fall was sudden, owing to the decay of its roots. At the time of its fall there were several children playing about it; three met with instant death, and Robert Walsham had his thigh broken, and several others were slightly hurt.'' The history of this tree and other curiosities of the Isle of Ely, were found in a book owned by C. Baely, M. D., of Brownsville, Fayette county, Pennsylvania.

There is one character connected with the family of Michael Cole, late of this county, which we would fain notice, 7. e., Miss Jennie Hancock, having been present at his birth, and at the birth of each of his brothers and of his sister, and continually interesting herself in their welfare, they learned to regard her almost as one of themselves. In her latter years she was called the wise woman of England, and was accounted a witch. One pious cottager averring that he saw her and the knobbed cane she carried pass through the key hole of his street door. Another ascribed the shower of pins and needles which fell upon his table while the family were at breakfast to her malignancy.

curdled before reaching the house after milking. Strange sicknesses came upon those who dared to anger her, and all the absurdities usually ascribed to witchcraft were imputed to her. A gratuity, however, appeased her wrath, and an apron full of cabbage, or a donation of half a crown, was presumed to have averted many calamities. Her death, which occurred at an extreme old age about the year 1841, was extensively noticed, and her life and sayings commented upon by the newspapers of the United States, as well as by those of England and the continent,

Thomas.Cole, who died about the year 1760, left two sons, Thomas and Ridley. Ridley died young. Thomas inherited the ancestral home at Downham, and married Ann Stubbins. His death occurred March 8, 1836. His wife, Ann Stubbins Cole, died upoft the birth of their seventh child, Michael, December 12, 1794. Seven children were born to them: Thomas, Ridley, Francis, Ann, Robert, and Michael, of whom four, Thomas, Robert, Ridley, and Michael, emigrated to America and settled in New York State. To Thomas were born two daughters, who are still living near Ithaca, New York.

Two of Ridley's sons, Ridley and Thomas, and two of Robert's sons, James and Thomas, went to lowa and settled Colesburgh, in Delaware county.

Of Francis, John, and Ann, who remained in England, Francis became engaged in government works, and purchased the old homestead. He reared a family of four children, three of whom, daughters, remain in England. His son, Michael, is now in Colesburgh, Iowa.

Ann, when very young, married James Luddington, of Littleport, England, and became the mother of a family distinguished for their wealth and culture.

Michael was born December 12, 1794. His schoolmaster was John Aspland, grandfather of the winner of the international belt, 1880. He was married to Mary Utteridge May - , 181s, with whom he embarked for America on Good Friday, April 17, 1832, settling in Chautauqua county, New York; where he invested all his.means in a farm, the title to which proving imperfect he found himself penniless. In 1835, with wife and child, he removed to Butler county, Pennsylvania; thence, in 1836, to Allegheny City, now a part of Pittsburgh. During the following sixteen years the family removed twelve times, finally starting from Brownsville, Fayette county, they left the Keystone State and arrived in Knox county, Ohio, in March, 1852, settling in Green Valley, on the farm now owned by G. L. Cochran, esq.; after one more remove they rested upon the farm in Liberty township, which they called Mt. Airy, and on which they now reside. :

On the thirteenth day of October, 1867, in her sixty-seventh year, the mother was called to her eternal rest, and on the eleventh day of February, 1879, Michael Cole, having been counted among the people of God for more than seventy-five years, and successfully braving every vicissitude of fortune, calmly slept the sleep of death, leaving one son.

Thomas Francis, the subject of the present sketch, who was born October 1, 1834, in Chautauqua county, New York, was partially educated in Allegheny City, Pennsylvania; removed with his parents to Knox county, Ohio, in 1852; was married to Charity, daughter of W. O. Phillips, Esq., July 4, 1855. Six children were the result of this union:

Michael Francis, born March 24, 1856, married to Sadie' daughter of J. L. Jackson, esq., May 24, 1876, to whoma daughter, Maud, was born March 10, 1877. He is now farming near Mt. Vernon.

S. P. Chase, born September 24, 1857, married Etta Hull, daughter of James Hull, esq., July 3, 1878, to whom was born, April 16, 1879, a son, Thomas Francis Cole. Chase is, now living at Bangs engaged in teaching.

Robert, born September 7, 1865; Mary, February 28, 1870; Alice, March 24, 1873. The last three we found with their parents at Mt. Airy in 1880.

"COLE, WILBERT E., Berlin township, farmer, post office, Fredericktown, was born in Connecticut in 1811. He came to Zanesville, Ohio, in 1815, and to Rerlin towhship in 1819, where he still resides. He is the oldest settler of Berlin township now living. He was married in 1839 to Mary A. Woodruff who was born in Knox county. She died in 1875 after a protracted illness of four years, with a cancer. Mr. Cole's second marriage was to Sarah Pritchard, who was born in Maine in 1833, and came to Ohio in 1838.

COLE, SILAS, was born February 5, 1836, in Devonshire, England, where he remained until 1867, learning the trade of ship blacksmithing. In 1867 he came to America and settled at Mt. Vernon, Ohio, where he engaged with the firm of Buckingham, Gutherie, Taylor & Hupton, whom he served about one year; afterwards worked a short time in Newark and in Cincinnati, when he established himself in Mt. Vernon in the blacksmith trade, which he has carried on successfully ever since. In 1879 he added to his shops and commenced making iron bridges, the first ever made in Knox county. He is doing a good business in every department at this time. He was married to Miss Mary Ann May, daughter of Thomas May, April 5, 1867, and is the father of eleven children, three of whom are living.

COLE, WILLIAM M., farmer, post office, Council Grove, Morris county, Kansas. He was born in Berlin township, Knox county, Ohio, in_1840; was married in 1861 to Elizabeth M. Hunter, who was born in Pike township, this county, in 1840. They have eight children, namely: Lydia E. born in 1862; Mary E., in 1864; Lavina A., in 1866; Frank E., in 1868; Charlie E., in 1870; John H., in 1872; Martha A., in 1874; and William A. in 1879. Mr. Cole and wife were identified with this county till the spring of 1881. They sold their farm and have emigrated to Morris county, Council Grove, Kansas.

COLE, RACHEL, widow, Berlin township, post office, Shalers Mills, was married first to Hugh McBride and had one son, Ambrose, now a resident of Richland county. Mr. McBride died in Pike township in 1842. Mrs. Rachael McBride was afterward married to Thomas D. Brown, and had a son - Thomas D., a resident of Berlin township. Mr. Thomas D. Brown died in Knox county. Mrs. Rachael Brown's third marriage was to Isaac B. Cole, of Berlin township. They had one daughter, Hannah, who was born in 1854, and was married in 1872 to Levi Grubb. They have two daughters, Nettie A., born November 25, 1872, and Bertie A., December 17, 1875. Mr. Grubb is a carpenter and farmer.

COLE, WHEELER W., farmer, Berlin township, post office, Fredericktown, was born in Berlin township, this county, in 1852, married in 1877, to Alice R. Auten; who was born in this

COLOPY, JOSEPH, farmer, Union township, post office, Gann, born in Maryland, June 3, 1802. In 1804 he was taken to Virginia, and remained there until 1813, when he came to Knox county and settled south of Mt. Vernon. In 1825 he married Delila Sapp, and settled on the farm which he now owns and occupies. When they came here it was all timber land, but they cleared it up and now he owns a good little farm. His wife died in 1861, and left nine children. The oldest son died in California, and two of the daughters died later. He was married afterward to Mrs. E. Myers in 1868. She was a daughte: of Mr, Chase, who is a second cousin of Governor S. P. Chase. She was the first white girl born in Massillon. Joseph and Levi Colopy remain at home on the farm. Joseph was married to Jennie Durbin in 1871. They have one child, Bessie, born in 1878.

COLOPY, JACOB, Union township; retired farmer, was born near Baltimore, Maryland, June 3, 1802. With his father, Timothy Colopy, he came to Knox county in 1812. He first settled in Miller township, five miles south of Mt. Vernon, and resided there until he was twenty-two years of age, when he removed to the southern part of Jefferson township, now included in Union. He was married September 18, 1825, to Delila Sapp, who was born August 23, 1804. Their children were: Timothy W., born October 31, 1826; Jonathan A., July 17, 1828; Sarah C., February 27, 1830; George E., March 12, 1832; Joseph H., December 1, 1834; Levi F., December 31, 1838; Delila A., July 7, 1841; Mary M., July 29, 1844, and Sarah C., April 29, 1849. Timothy died in California in about 1851. First Sarah C. died in about 1849, and second Sarah C. died June 5, 1855. Mrs. Colopy died May 109, 1861.

Mr. Colopy was married second time, September 15, 1867, to Mrs. Emily V. Myers, who was born in Massillon, Ohio, September 20, 1822. When he removed to Jefferson. it was almost a wilderness. Deer, wolves and wild animals were numerous. Possessing an indomitable spirit, he went to work with a determination to succeed, and by dint of perseverance and hard work he was at one time the owner of seventeen hundred acres of excellent farming land.lying in Jefferson and Union townships. Owing to his advancing years and loss of health and strength, he divided this among his children some years since. He voted at the first election held in Jefferson township, and is the only one living of those who voted at that election. Hehas been a life long member of the Catholic church, and has always voted the Democratic ticket.

-COLOPY, MRS. HULDA, Miller township, was born in this township February 12, 1817, and was daughter of Alpheus Chapman, who was born in Vermont in 1786, served in the War of 1812, was taken prisoner at Malone, New York, and was confined in Montreal, Canada, during the winter. His father wasa soldier of the Revolutionary war. After Mr. Chapman was discharged from the army, he went to Vermont, where he remained for some time, and then came to Miller township, where he married Emma Ward, daughter of Rufus Ward, a pioneer of Miller township, about 1816. They remained some time in Miller township, and then went to Licking county (Homer), where Mr. Chapman died in 1832. His wife survived until 1839. They had a family of five children, viz: Hulda, the subject of this notice; Lucinda, married to James Stone; Julia, married to

Hulda married John Colopy October, 1842, tive of Virginia, born in 1812, and died in 1871. Farming and raising sheep was his principal business. He kept hotel in Brandon for a number of years, and was widely known. They had three children, viz: Albina, married to Charles J. O'Rourke; William C., and Emma C., wife of Shelton R. Butcher. Albina and William C. have deceased.

Mrs. Colopy taught school for a number of terms, and is a woman above the average in intelligence. Her father, A. Chapman, was a commissioned colonel, and took an active interest in military aftairs.

COLOPY, TIMOTHY, Miller township, farmer, was born in Miller township, March 8, 1823. His father, William Colopy, was a native of Ireland, who emigrated to America a few years prior to the War of 1812. He married Mary Fitzpatrick, in Baltimore, Maryland, a mative of county Limerick, Ireland, and in the spring of 1813, the young couple came as far west as Wheeling, Virginia, where they remained a few years and then came to Miller township. Mr. Colopy died on the farm now owned by his son, on the Granville road. His wife still survives him (December, 1880). They had seven children; the living are: Catharine, widow of Elijah Colony; Mary Ann, wife of Oliver Squires; Timothy; Ellen, widow of Jacob Row; and Sarah J., wife of T. L. Marquand; John, and Thomas have died.

The subject of this notice was reared on a farm, and has followed farming as his occupation. He enlisted in company F, First battalion, Eighteenth United States infantry, October, 1861, at Mt. Vernon, Ohio, and served with the armies under Generals Buell, Rosecrans, and Thomas. He was in the battles of Chickamauga, Mission Ridge and, Buzzard's Roost, besides a number of skirmishes. He was taken sick and discharged on account of physical disability, after serving about two years and eight months. He was slightly wounded at Mission Ridge, on the chin. He married Miss Theresa Doyle, daughter of James Doyle, deceased, of Mt. Vernon, Ohio. They have five children, viz: Mary A., James W., Francis T., Nellie M., and John P.

COLOPY, JONATHAN, farmer and stock-raiser, Brown township; post office, Democracy; son of Jacob and Dedlila Colopy; born July 17, 1828, in Jefferson township, Knox county, Ohio, where he was reared, receiving a common-school education, after which he remained with his. father until the nineteenth of February, 1856, when, at the age of twenty-eight years, he was united in marriage with Sarah J. Berry, daughter of James and Lucy Berry, born in Guernsey county, October 1, 1832. He afterwards located in Brown township, Knox county, on a farm of eighty acres, given him by his father-in-law, James Berry. Three years afterward, in the spring of 1859, he bought, adjoining him on the west, forty acres; and in 1861, two, hundred and seventy-five acres adjoining on the south and southwest; in 1868, ten acres on the west; in 1871, eighty-two acres on the north; in 1872, twenty more on the north; in 1878 and 1880, forty-five acres on the southeast, making in all five hundred and ninety-two acres, where he_now resides. He is also the owner of three hundred and eighty acres in Union townsbip, Knox: county, making a total of one thotisand acres. Mr. -Colopy also owns a share in the woollen mills at Gann; is also the owner of a portable saw-mill. He is considered an energetic and shrewd farmer. i

Notwithstanding all his losses, he has accumulated a large amount of property. From 1877 to 1880 he paid ten thousand dollars security money, but is nevertheless at present erecting a very fine dwelling house at a cost of five thousand dollars. The union of Mr. and Mrs. Colopy resulted in three children, viz: James E., born December 6, 1856; Lucy B., born October 13, 1858; who, on the seventh day of October, 1879, married Louis G. Welker, of Howard township, Knox county, where she at present resides on a farm given her by her father; Mary A., born May 3, 1864, all of whom are living. Mrs. Colopy died September 17, 1864, aged thirty-two years. Mr. Colopy at present remains a widower. He and his family are members of the Catholic church, located near Danville.

COLOPY, JOSEPH H., farmer, Union township; post office, Gann; was born in Jefferson township, Knox county, in 1837, and married in February, 1871, to Jennie Durbin, and settled on the old homestead. He has one child, Bessie, born August 29, 1873. His business is farming and raising stock.

COLVILLE, JAMES (deceased), Pleasant township. He was born near Winchester, Virginia, in 1767. When a young man he emigrated to Washington county, Pennsylvania, remained there until 1803, when he came to Knox county, Ohio, and located on land now owned by his sons in Pleasant township, a short distance from Mt. Vernon. He at once commenced to improve his land by clearing away the forest, erecting a cabin, and tilling the soil. His cabin was erected as early as 1805, in which he and another man lived, for some months prior to November, 1806. He assisted on the survey. of the military land of Knox county. In the fall of 1806 he returned to Washington county, Pennsylvania, and on the twentyseventh day of November, of same year, he married Miss Mary Jackson, born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, October 3, 1781, daughter of James and Nancy Jackson. Ina short time after his marriage he returned with his wife to his forest home in Knox county. His log cabin served them as an abode until about 1824, when he erected a hewed log house, which, with an addition of a frame, erected in a few years, served them as a residence until his death. He filled the office of associate judge, in Knox county, for a short time. He deceased February 7, 1837. His companion survived him until May 17, 1851. Thusended the lives of two of Knox county's earliest pioneers. They reared a family of eight children, viz: Martha, Joseph, Nancy, James, John, Thomas, Robert M., and Mary ake Two of the number (Martha and Mary J.). have died. Joseph is now living in Iowa; Nancy is in Wisconsin, and the other four brothers are living on the home farm. James and John are not married. Thomas was born in Knox county, Ohio, November g, 1818; he married Miss Sarah Patrick in 1847, born in Mt. Vernon in March, 1825, daughter of Uriah and Delilah Patrick. . :

They settled on his father's home farm, where they are now living. They have five children, three sons and two daughters. He has filled the office of justice of the peace in Pleasant township since April, 1875. Robert M. was born in Pleasant township, Knox county, Ohio, July 16, 1821. He married Miss Hannah J. Patrick in 1854, daughter of Uriah Patrick, born in Pleasant township, Knox county, February 3, 1831. They settled on a part of his father's home farm, where they are now living. They have four children, three sons and one daughter.

county, Ohio, and settled on a farm in Pleasant township (now owned by his sons), a short distance east of Mt. Vernon. His log cabin was built as early as 1805. November 27, 1806, he married Miss Mary Jackson, who was born jin Washington county, Pennsylvania, October 3, 1781. He aided in surveying the Military lands in Knox county. He was one of the associate judges of the county in 1808. Mr. Colville died February 7, 1837, aged seventy years, and Mrs. Colville on the seventeenth day of May, 1851, also aged seventy years.

COLWILL, SIMON, retired, Monroe township; a native of England, and son of Thomas Colwill, was born in September, 1810. He began working at the wagon making trade as an apprentice in 1826; served three years as such, then worked six years as a journeyman at his trade in England. On the twenty-ninth day of March, 1835, he married Miss Ann Heard, of England, born May 28, 1812, daughter of John Heard. On the third day after their marriage, April tst, they sailed for America, landing in New York, on the sixteenth day of May, and from thence to Gambier, this county, arriving at the end of their journey June 7th. He at once engaged at his trade, and carried on a wagon shop in Gambier for twenty years. In 1848 he purchased and moved on the farm where they are now living, in Monroe township, one mile north of Gambier. He continued in his business in Gambier until 1855, when he erected a shop on his farm, in which he carried on his trade until 1874, when, on account of bad health, he quit business and is now living a retired life. They reared a family of nine children, viz.: Mary J., William H., Daniel, Elizabeth, John T., Emma L., Frances E., Simon A., and Charles G. William H. Colwily served one year in the war of 1861, and died at Vicksburgh July 30, 1863. Daniel Colwill, served about eighteen months in the war of 1861, and was wounded at the battle of Stone River December 26, 1862, and died from the effects of his wounds January 3, 1863.

COLWILL, WILLIAM, Liberty township, farmer, was born in county Cornwall, England, December 27, 1831. His parents, William and Harriet Colwill, zee Harris, came to the United States about 1842, settling in Jefferson township, and purchased a tract of two hundred and eighty acres of land, and were among the best citizens of that section. They have both deceased, Mr. Colwill died on the farm, and his wife survived him some time, and died at Gambier. They had seven children, William being the only son. He was reared on the farm, attended the district schools and select school, and also an academy at Loudonville. He taught school and worked on the farm until the death of his father. He sold his property in Jefferson township, and in' 1865 removed to Liberty, where he purchased a farm, and where he has continued to reside. He was superintendent of the building of the Rossville flouring mill, and was secretary of the company, and one of the partners. He isa direcjor of the Farmers' Insurance company, of Jelloway, and collecting agent, which position he has held since the organization of the company. Mr. Colwill is a man of general information, an accurate and good business man, and is one of the leading men of the township. He was married to Miss Hannah Danbury, of Jefferson township. They had seven children " - two sons and five daughters. .

CONDON, D. W., Fredericktown, shoe merchant, was born in Frederick county, Maryland, 1831. He emigrated with his parents to this county in 1851, and was married in 1862 to Melinda Jane Royce, who was born in this county. 'They had three children, Frank, Jennie and Mary. Mr. Condon learned the shoe trade with his father, and has since worked at that business. He is a member of the firm of D. W. Condon & Co., boot and shoe dealers. He was a soldier in the late Rebellion, was brave, rendered good service, and was' honorably discharged.

CONGER, DANIEL, deceased, Wayne township, born in New Jersey, December 24, 1787, and was married to Mary Burch, who was born in Brooke county, Virginia, in May 1802. They had the following children: Elizabeth, born October 28, 1826; Catharine, January 8, 1828; Jane, October 31, 1829; Mary D., January 31, 1832; Daniel L., September 27, 1833; Hannah, December 27, 1835; Martha E., Mr. Daniel Conger died November 4, 1845, and Catharine, September, 28, 1835. They came to Knox county in 1825. Mrs. Conger is still residing in this township.

CONKEL, JOHN, farmer, Howard township, post office Howard. He was born June 6, 1844 in Union township. In 1866 he was married to Miss Charlotte Hammon and settled on the farm where he nowresides. They had three children, Laura, Charles and Birchfield.

His father was born in Pennsylvania and came to Ohio at an early day. His mother came from the old country. His father has been dead twenty-five years. His mother is still living on the old homestead.

COOK, SAMUEL N., painter, Fredericktown, was born in Wayne county, Ohio, in 1846, and was married in 1872, to Mary E. Johnston, who was born in 1849. He was a soldier in the late war, in the Ninth Ohio volunteer cavalry, and served three years. Mr. Cook received a liberal education. He has been correspondent for several popular daily newspapers, such as the Cincinnati 7zses-Star, New York Dramatic News, and Mt. Vernon Republican. He has written and produced a number of dramatic pieces. "The Mayor's Daughter, has been rendered publicly in this city, and highly commented and applauded. Two other of his productions, entitled The Wanderers Return, and Paul Black, (a war drama), are popular. Mr. Cook is engaged in the carriage factory of Stephens & Scott, as painter.

COOK, STEVEN, deceased, was born August 19, 1789, in Washington county, Pennsylvania; removed to Knox county about 1814, was married to Susanna Elston October 29, 1810. Their children were Elston, Elizabeth, Sarah, Phebe, Isaac Newton, Oliver Cromwell, Emeline - four, Sarah, Phebe, Isaac and Emeline, still living. At the time of Mr. Cook's coming to Knox county wild animals of all kinds abounded, and he found it necessary at times to keep fires burning in order to protect his flocks from the ravages of the wolves. Mr. Cook was a hard-working pioneer, partially clearing up three farms in the forests of Morgan and Clay townships in those early times. He was elder in the Presbyterian church many years, when becom_ ing dissatisfied with the attitude of the church on the slavery question joined the Free Presbyterians. He died at his home in Martinsburgh May 20, 1870. Phebe, daughter of Mr. Cook, was married May 3, 1853, to Joseph Moore, two children being born unto them, Susan and Edmund L., the son dying April 3, 1863. Mrs. Moore was born on the farm on which ske resides and has resided for the past sixty-two years, and is a very intelligent Christian lady, being with her husband a member of the Presbyterian church.

COOPER, MRS. REBECCA, Hilliar township, was born in Green county, Pennsylvania, December 20, 1808. Her parents came to Ohio in 1810, and settled in Morgan township on the farm now owned by the brother of Mrs. Cooper (John Roberts). They settled in the woods and cleared up the farm. There were nine children in the family, five of whom are yet living. The parents both died on their favorite spot, the old farm. They were among the early settlers of this county. Rebecca was married to John Cooper June 4, 1842. As a result of this union they had a family of children, two of whom are living: Adaline, at home, Sarah B., married to Alonzo R. Hubbell and resides on the farm. Mr. Cooper died November 23, 1855. Mrs. Cooper recollects many of the early events of the county. Her mind is unimpaired and she can recollect dates with distinctness. She has the esteem of all who know her.

COOPER, CHARLES, the senior member of the firm of C. & G. Cooper & Company, is the son of Carey Cooper, who emigrated from Butler county, Pennsylvania, and located in Knox county about the year 1806. Charles and John are the only living sons of this early settler. Charles Cooper was born ona farm a few miles south of Mt. Vernon, January 2, 1811. He received such an education as the schools of that day could give. He was employed during the early part of his life on the home farm. In 1818 his parents moved on a farm three miles northwest of Mt. Vernon, where his father died in 1831. He remained on this farm until he moved to the Hamline farm, near Zanesville (now a part of that city), and engaged in the coal trade and dairy business, in company with his brother Elias. In this business the brothers continued for two and a half years. In 1834 they gave up their Zanesville farm and returned to Mt. Vernon. Shortly after their return to this county they engaged in the foundry business on a scale suitable to their finances. Their first efforts were devoted mainly to manufacturing plows and hollow-ware, and such castings as were mostly in demand in that day. In 1840 they commenced to manufacture threshing machines. In 1842 they added to their business the manufacturing of engines and saw-mills, and in 1850 they added to their list of specialties the manufacture of boilers.

Mr. Elias Cooper died in 1848. The business was conducted by Charles Cooper alone until 1849, when he sold a one-third interest to Mr. Thaddeus L.. Clark, and the business was conducted under the firm name of Cooper & Clark until 1851, when Charles sold a one-third interest to his brother, John Cooper, when the firm was changed to that of Coopers & Clark. Under this last name the business was conducted until 1857, when the brothers bought the interest of Mr. Clark, changing the name of the firm to C. & J. Cooper, which remained intact up to 1866, when they sold a small interest to Mr. Frank L. Fairchild, and also a small interest to Mr. I. Douglass Maxwell. The firm name was then C. and J. Cooper & Company. In the spring of 1869 the firm of Coopers & Rogers, proprietors of the Kokosing Iron Works was consolidated with the firm of C. and J. Cooper & Company, by which action Colonel George Rogers and Mr. C. Grey Cooper became members of the firm. Messrs. C. & E. Cooper established this firm on a capital of about eight hundred dollars, and their business amounted to between eight thousand and ten thousand dollars per year. The firm of C. and G. Cooper & Company, the successors to C. & E. Cooper, now do an annual business amounting to four hundred thousand dollars. P by eighty feet. The machine shop is two-story, thirty by sixty feet, built in 1842. In 1850 the firm erected a three-story building in the form of an L, eighty-eight feet on Sugar street, one hundred and thirty-two feet on Sandusky street, and forty feet in width. In 1852 they built on the west side of Sandusky street a blacksmith shop forty by one hundred and twenty feet, a wood shop, forty-two by one hundred and twenty feet, a boiler shop, thirty-eight by one hundred and twenty feet. In 1866 they built an engine house thirty by thirty-five feet. In 1868 they built an erecting room thirty by eighty feet. In 1872 the firm added a two-story warehouse forty-eight by one hundred and twenty feet. In 1879 they built another warehouse, sixty by one hundred and thirty-six feet, on the corner of Sugar and West streets, and rebuilt their boiler shop, changing it from thirty-eight by one hundred and twenty feet to forty-five by one hundred and twenty-five feet, and also enlarged the engine house from thirty by thirty-five feet, to forty-five by sixty-five feet.

The motive power employed in this immense establishment now, and that used in its pioneer days, shows a remarkable improvement, from a mere shed in 1834, to its present palatial appearance in 1881, after forty-six years of changeful existence. In 1834 the original proprietors performed their work with an old horse and wooden gearing. In 1842 they put in an eight-horse engine; in 1846 an upright engine with a capacity of sixteenhorse power; in 1852 the motive power of an upright engine of twenty-horse power was required; in 1866 a forty-horse power was demanded; and now, in 1881, their immense business requires an engine of ninety-horse power. Such is the result of perseverance and tact.

At present the force employed is two hundred men in the various departments, as follows: Four clerks, ten foremen, forty in moulding room, forty-five in boiler room, twenty in blacksmith shop, twenty-five in ,paint shop, thirty-one in wood shop, twenty-five in pattern shop.

COOPER, COLONEL WILLIAM C., Mt. Vernon, lawyer, was born December 18, 1832, in Mt. Vernon, of American parentage, and of Scotch-Irish lineage. His parents were from Washington county, Pennsylvania. His father followed agricultural pursuits through Ilfe, and was a man of influence in the county, and filled the office of mayor of the city.

William attended the Mt. Vernon academy and other private schools until he was nineteen years of age, working on the farm during vacation. He then commenced the study of law with Colonel Joseph W. Vance and James Smith, jr., and was admitted to the bar when twenty-two years old. He afterwards became associated with one of his preceptors, Colonel Vance, and practiced his profession in that connection until 1864; when the firm was dissolved by the death of Colonel Vance on the battlefield. During the continuance of this copartnership they had the largest practice in Mt. Vernon. At the outbreak of the war the junior partner had enlisted in the Fourth Ohio volunteer infantry, and was elected first lieutenant of company B. He served with that command until January, 1862, when he resigned and returned home to take charge of his business. In 1864 he was appointed colonel of the One Hundred and Fortysecond regiment, Ohio volunteers, and served at Petersburgh during the period of one hundred days' service; this was immediately after the death of Colonel Vance. He then returned to Mt. Vernon, where he passed a year in real estate operations,

He afterwards associated himself with Henry T. Porter, with whom he practiced two years, when Lewis H. Mitchell was added to the firm, the name and style of which became Cooper, Porter & Mitchell. This copartnership was dissolved in June, 1875, since which time he has practiced alone, and enjoys an extensive and lucrative practice. He has filled several offices, having been elected prosecuting attorney in 1858 and reelected in 1860, his term expiring in 1862. In 1860 he was also elected mayor of Mt, Vernon, and reelected in 1862, his official term expiring in 1864. In 1871 he was elected a member of the Ohio legislature, where he served two years, but declined a reelection. In political views he is a Republican, and was chairman of the Republican State central committee for the years 1876, 1877, and 1878. He is now a member of the National Republican executive committee, a position he has held since 1876. He was a delegate to the National Republican convention at Philadelphia in 1872, also Chicago in 1880. In February, 1877, he was appointed judge advocate general of the State of Ohio, with the rank of brigadier general, which position he held until January, 1878, when he was succeeded by General Samuel F. Hunt, of Cincinnati. In January, 1880, he in turn succeeded General Hunt in the same office, which he now holds. He has been repeatedly importuned by his political friends to be a candidate for Congress, but has refused to abandon his large business, which has for years been the leading practice in the county.

Mr. Cooper was married January 8, 1864, to Eliza, only daughter of Dr. John W. Russell, of Mt. Vernon. They have two children: Eliza R. and Sarah C.

COOPER, C. GREY, Mount Vernon, of the firm of C. & G. Cooper & Co., son of Elias Cooper, one of the founders of this firm, was born December 11, 1846, in the city of Mt. Vernon, and received his education in the public schools of the place. His first business employment was with the firm of Coopers & Rogers in the management of the Kokosing iron works, originally established by General C. P. Buckingham, which the firm of Coopers & Rogers conducted three years. Mr. C. G. Cooper became connected with the firm of Coopers & Rogers in the fall of 1866, in which he continued until the two firms were consolidated in 1869.

COOPER, AARON, farmer, Wayne township, post office Fredericktown, was born in this township December 27, 1825, and was married in 1851, to Jane B. Morrison, who was born in Beaver county, Pennsylvania, in 1821. They had two children: Hattie, born in 1853, and Phebe, in 1861. Phebe died in 1862. Mr. Cooper has always resided in this township, and owns an improved farm, with good buildings. Their daughter, Hattie Cooper, was married to Raymond G. McClenland, and resides in Andover, Massachusetts.

CORCORAN, DENNIS, wholesale and retail dealer in malt liquors, cigars and tobacco, Corcoran block, West Vine street, Mt. Vernon. Mr. Corcoran was born in Kings county, Ireland, August 4, 1822. When nine years of age his parents emigrated to America and located at Columbus, Ohio, where they resided until 1848. Young Corcoran, during his residence, obtained his education and learnt the carriage business. In 1848 he settled in Mt. Vernon and commenced the carriage business, in which he continued until 1870. He then engaged in the liquor business, which he still continues, as a wholesale and retail dealer in malt liquors, cigars and tobacco. He is also sole agent for Wainwright's ale, and Born & Company's lager beer,

CORNELL, JOHN T., carpenter. - He was born in Clark county, Virginia, February 8, 1839. He was married in Knox county, January s, 1868, to Margaret J. Davis, who was born in Berlintownship. They have five children. Edwin was born April 5, 1869; Nettie B., May 21, 1871; Willie C., April 5, 1875; Charlie, October 31, 1878, and Jane, November 5, 1879. Mr. Cornell came to Knox county in 1859. He was a soldier in the late war, a member of company G, One Hundred and Twenty-first Ohio volunteer infantry, afterward a member of the Ohio National guard.

COSFORD, DAVID, was born in Ireland, August 15, 1831, where he grew into manhood. In 1851 he emigrated to America, and located in the northern part of Ohio, where he remained until 1857, when he came to Gambier, this county, where he engaged at work on a farm. In August, 1861, he enlisted in company A of the Thirtiéth Ohio volunteer infantry, and served until March, 1864, when he reenlisted as a veteran in company A of the Thirtieth Ohio volunteer infantry. On receiving a furlough of one month to enable him to visit his friends, he married Miss Mary Troutman, April 21, 1864, daughter of John and Elizabeth Troutman. On the first day of May heleft home again for his regiment which was at Kingston, Georgia. Ina few weeks after his return to the regiment they were marched to Kennesaw Mountain, where while engaged in battle on the twenty-seventh day of June, 1864, he received three musket balls - one in his thigh, and two in his left arm which caused his arm to beamputated. He was taken to the hospital, and remained until discharged from the service in June, 1865, reaching home on the nineteenth day of the same month. While in the service, he fought in several fierce engagements, viz: Carnifex Ferry,.West Virginia; Antietam, Maryland; South Mountain, the seige of Vicksburgh, Jackson, Mississippi, and Kennesaw mountain, which put an end to his soldiering. After his return home from the army, he moved upon the farm in College township, where he is now living, and is engaged in tarming.

COTTON, EMMETT, W., was born in Mt. Vernon, Fayette county, Pennsylvania, September 8, 1808, and is a son of Harris Cotton, a native of Virginia. Mr. Cotton, sr., settled in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, about 1804 or 1805, and died there in 1815. E. W. Cotton, and his brother, Harris Cotton, settled in Bloomfield township, Knox county, in 1823, bringing their mother and three unmarried sisters with them. The balance of the family were married and remained in Pennsylvania. He worked for different. persons at clearing land, chopping wood, etc., for about eight years. His mother died in 1848, in her eighty-fourth year. He continued to support his sisters until their marriage. In 1833 he commenced teaching school; taught select schools in Mt. Vernon about five years, during which time he read law and was admitted to the bar in 1836, but finding law did not suit him, after practicing five years, he quit. In 1842 he was elected justice of the peace, in which office he served for fifteen years, and during this time he read medicine, but never attended lectures. In 1846 he was elected to the legislature and returned for a second term, after which, in consequence of bad health, he retired from politics. He has been an amateur surveyor for forty-seven years, and deputy of every county surveyor since 1833, except the present one. In 1870 and 1871 he was assistant engineer of the Cleveland Mt. Vernon & Columbus railroad. He cast his first and last vote in Knox county, and has been a voter of this township for forty-seven and one-half years; was married to Miss Sarah Merrill, daughter of Thomas Merrill, of Massachusetts, who: came to Ohio in 1807 or 1808. Mrs. Cotton was born February 11, 1811. They were married January 21, 1830, and have had ten children, five of whom are living. All of his father's family came to Ohio, and three are living at this time.

COTTON, J. BENT, is a son of Hon. Emmett W. Cotton, one of the pioneers of Knox county, was born in Mt. Vernon, November 21, 1841, and received his preparatory education at the public schools of the city. When about sixteen years of age he served an apprenticeship to a carnage blacksmith, and followed this trade until 1862, when he enlisted in the Ninetysixth Ohio volunteer infantry, and went into camp at Delaware. Upon his arrival at Columbus, Ohio, he was appointed recruiting agent, with commission of second lieutenant, after which he helped recruit a company and was assigned to the One Hundred and Twenty-first Ohio volunteer infantry, in which he served as second lieutenant until 1863, when he received wounds at Perryville, Kentucky, which disabled him, and he was discharged. Upon returning home he worked at his trade until 1874, during which all his leisure moments were spent in reading medicine. He is now practicing as veterinary surgeon with success, and continues to read medicine, having been a student of Dr. Gordon since 1875.

COTTON, EMMETT &., farmer, Liberty township, was born in Bloomfield township, Knox county, now Morrow, July 3, 1828. His father, Harris W. Cotton, was born in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, emigrated to Ohio and married Abigail Craig, daughter of James Craig, a pioneer of Mt. Vernon, Ohio. They had a family of four children. He died in 1836. His wife married Jeremiah Debolt. She is now deceased. The subject of this sketch (E. S. Cotton) was raised on a farm and has always followed farming as his vocation. His schooling was that of the district schools. Mr. Cotton is one of Liberty township's best citizens, and is highly esteemed for his many good qualities. He married Miss Martha Ewalt, December, 1869, daughter of Isaac Ewalt, by his second wife. They have two interesting children: Frank E., born May 9, 1871, and Alice, January 19, 1876.

CONDON, J. T., farmer, Wayne township, post office, Fredericktown; born in Maryland, October 16, 1842, and was married in 1866 to Rosalia Berry, who was born in Knox county, Ohio, July 24, 1844. They have one son: Freddie B., born in Morrow county, June 25, 1870. Mr. Condon is a resident of Wayne township, and emigrated with his parents from Indianna to Ohio in 1851. He was a soldier in the late war; he enlisted August 19, 1861, in the Twentieth regiment Ohio volunteer infantry. He was in the Sherman march and rendered faithful service until the close of the war, and received an honorable discharge.

COUTER, JACOB, carpenter, Berlin township, was born in Franklin county, Pennsylvania, in 1839, and came to Ohio with his parents when he was young. He was married in 1861 to Sarah E. Davis, who was born in Virginia in 1837. They have five children: William Franklin, born in 1866; Charles Edgar, in 1868; Winfield Scott, in 1872; James Finney, in 1874; and Robert Alexander, in 1880. Mr. Couter was a soldier in,the late war, a member of Company .A, 'Twentieth regiment Ohio volunteer infantry; he served four years and received an honorable discharge. He is a carpenter by trade, a skilful mechanic, and a good citizen.

COVER, W, H,, farmer, Middlebury township, post office, Levering; born in Richland county, Ohio, in 1841, and was married in 1865 to Mary I. Courson, who was born in Richland county. He enlisted in the late war; was a member of company B, One Hundred and Sixty-third regiment Ohio volunteer infantry; was engaged about four months. improved farm with excellent buildings. He isa dealer in stock and is a very prominent citizen of this township.

COX, WILLIAM, (deceased), was born in Hartford county, Maryland, in the year 1776, of English parents. At the age of twenty-five years he moved to Frederick county, Maryland, and engaged in mercantile business. While there he married Hannah, daughter of Solomon and Susannah Shepherd, and reared a family of three children, Charles, William Baines and Ann Elizabeth.