Knox County, Ohio - Biographical sketches, 1881 (part 6 of 20)

DEWITT, BENJAMIN W., farmer, Brown township, post office, Jelloway, son of Jonathan and Mary Dewitt,, born in Richland township, Holmes county, where he was reared and received a part of his education. He graduated in Madison college, Guernsey county, in his nineteenth year; he then commenced the teaching of school, which he continued for twentyone quarters, teaching seven quarters in one district. He also taught vocal music in connection. On the eleventh day of November, 1847, in his twenty-fifth year, he married Sarah A. Workman, of Knox county, James S. Blair officiating. She was the first daughter of S. C. and Mary Workman, born September 6, 1828. After his marriage he moved upon a farm of his father's in Holmes county, where he remained about one year. While there he taught one term of school in the town of Millersburgh during the winter season; he then moved back to Knox county, Brown township, locating on the farm where he now resides, which was then known as the McCall and Stokley lands. By their marriage they became the parents of fifteen children: Normanda E., born February 5, 1849; Squire E., August 11, 1850; James H., January 31, 1852; Jonathan C., April 1, 1853, and died August 4, 1853; Mary E., October 17, 1854; Solomon H., March 27, 1856; Sarah J., March 27, 1857, and died August 28, 1858; Priscilla S., August 8, 1859; Channing C., October 20, 1860; Benjamin F., July 18, 1862, died August 28, 1862; Osmer B., July 18, 1863; Elma F., Semtember 3, 1865; Harriet L., April 3, 1867; Susannah B., March 8, 1869, now dead; William F., December 8, 1870, died Apri] 15, 1871, Mr. and Mrs. Dewitt and family are members of the German Baptist church.

DEWITT, SQUIRE E., Jefferson township, farmer, post office, Jelloway, was born in Brown township in 1850. He was married in 1873 to Melinda Shambaugh, who was born in Ashland county, Ohio, in 1848. They had'three children - Charles Alpheus, born in 1874; Iva May, born in 1876; John H. O., born in 1879. Mrs. Melinda Dewitt died in 1879, in Jefferson county. Mr. Dewitt is a farmer by occupation and an active and enterprising man.

DETWILER, GEORGE W., Wayne township, farmer, post office, Fredericktown, born in Richland county, Ohio, in 1845, and was married in 1869, to Lydia Cassell, who was born in Knox county. Mr. Detwiler has been a resident of this township ever since he came from Richland county, and is one of its active men. He was a soldier in the war, served out his time of enlistment and received an honorable discharge.

DIAL ISAAC, retired farmer, a resident of Monroe township, this county, anda native of Pennsylvania, was born on the twelfth day of October, 1797, and came with his parents, George and Elizabeth Dial, to Ohio in 1800, who located near Coshocton, and remained about two years. In 1802 they moved to the Shrimplon prairies, near Millwood, this county.

They were living on the prairies when the first assessor came around assessing the property, after Ohio became a State in 1803, where they lived about five years. In 1807 they moved to Howard township, this county, on the land owned by William Hays, remained about one year, then, in 1808, moved on land now owned by T. K. Head, in Harrison township, where they lived during the War of 1812, and for several years afterwards. In about 1817 the father of Mr. Dial moved to Holmes county, Ohio, and remained about two years; in 1820 he returned to this county, and remained a number of years, and then emigrated to Illinois, where he deceased.

Mr. Dial was reared on a farm and has made farming his principal vocation during his life. When he came to this county a small boy, he spent many days at play with Indian boys. He says many a wrestle he has had with the sons of the red man. There were no white boys in the neighborhood that he could have for playmates. Their neighbors were few and far apart. Their nearest mill was at Zanesville, for several years, then the Banning mill was erected.

In 1818, he cut wheat off of the ground where the Theological seminary now stands. Around the building where you now see the trees standing, was at that time a cleared field. He helped to erect the first house for Bishop Chase, which was a hewed log structure, in which Warner Terry lived for several years.

January 20, 1818, he married Nancy Durbin, born in 1794. They settled in College township, where they remained about nine years. In 1827 they moved on the T. R. Head farm, in Harrison township, and remained five years. On March 14, 1832, he purchased the land on which he is now living, in Monroe township, erected a cabin, into which he moved his family the same year. This served them as an abode for many years. He then erected his present frame residence on his farm. His companion deceased May 24, 1873. They reared a family of nine children - Maria, Lewis, William, Elizabeth, Miranda, Benjamin, Matilda, George, and Rhoda E. William and Elizabeth have deceased. Mr. Dial is still living and enjoying good health for a man of his age.

DIAL, JAMES, College township, miller and farmer, son of William and Rebecca Dial, was born in Knox county, Ohio, March 26, 1834. He was reared to manhood on a farm. In November, 1861, he enlisted in company K, of the Forty-third Ohio volunteer infantry, under Captain William Walker. He served three years and nine months and was discharged in August, 1865; after the close of the war, and returned home. In September, 1865, he commenced working in the Gain's grist mill, and remained with them about two years; then, in 1868, he purchased a one-fourth interest in the mill property, and continued in that way about three years. In 1871 he became a onethird partner, and in 1875 he bought a half interest in it, which he retains. October 18, 1868, he married Miss Catharine Lauderbaugh, born in College township in 1847, daughter of John and Catharine Lauderbaugh, and settled where they are now living. They have a family of three children, two sons and one daughter. He followed farming in connection with milling. '

DICKESON, ALFRED J., Gambier, son of Wells and Lucinda Dickeson, was born in Monroe township, this county, on the twenty-eighth day of February, 1842. In August, 1862, 'he married Miss Mary O. Fobes, born in Newcastle, Coshoctor county, Ohio, February 13, 1842, daughter of the Rev. D. L. Fobes. They settled in Gambier, where they now reside. They have three children: Francis H., Luella 4. and Maria G.

In 1862 he enlisted in company B, of the Ninety-sixth Ohio volunteer infantry, and served three years and was discharged in 1865, after the close of the war. He was in the Thirteenth army corps. He is a blacksmith by trade, and is carrying on the business in Gambier. He is the partner in the Hart & Dickeson carriage shops, and has charge of the ironing department. He also gives special attention to horse shoeing, and is a first-class shoer.

DICKSON, JAMES, Wayne township, farmer, post office Fredericktown, born in Knox county in 1846, and was married in 1871 to Mary Bricker, who was born in Knox county in 1850. They have one son, Ray B., born September 14, 1879. His father, Samuel Dickson, was married to Elizabeth Rood. They had a family of six children. They were among the earlier settlers of this county. Mr. Dickson died in this county in 1870. Mrs, Elizabeth Dickson died in 1875.

DISNEY, MRS. HARRIET, was horn July 14, 1806, in Anne Arundel county, Maryland. Her father's name was Jacob Barry, a licensed local preaeher of the Methodist Episcopal church. He was reared on South River, Maryland. His father, Basil Barry, reared four children - Sally, Mordecai, Jacob and Basil.

Jacob and Basil, aged respectively twenty-one and eighteen, went into the army of the United Colonies and were in the first battles fought for American independence. Basil died of the bloody flux while in the Northern army. Jacob was in the army during the whole war, and for a while wasa captain. He received a wound in the under jaw, and about twenty-seven small pieces of bone.came out. At the close of the war he re- Jacob Barry married Miss Mary, daughter of William Disney. They moved up to the Pine Woods and there they reared a family of seven chiidren - Elisha, Basil, Caleb, Mordecai, Jacob, Anna Maria, and Harriet. :

Elisha, Caleb, and Mordecai, were in the War of 1812, and in the camp at Annapolis when Washington-was burned by the British August 14, 1814. Basil and Mordecai were ordained ministers of the Methodist Episcopal church, and were members of the Baltimore conference.

In the fall of 1831 Jacob Barry, jr., with his family, his mother and sister Harriet, moved to Utica, Licking county, Ohio. He'had his wife and three little children, and this left Harriet to care for herself and her now aged mother. She rented a house of Mr. Cornelius Vanausdal, where she and her mother lived. April 25, 1833, she was married to Mr. Frederick J. J.. Disney, by the Rey. Alfred Loraine, of the Methodist Episcopal church.

Frederick was born in Anne Arundel county, Maryland, January 20, 1808. His father was William I. Disney; his mother was Amelison, daughter of Jacob Elliott, and his grandfather was James Disney.

William and Amelison were married in 1806, and reared thirteen children, of whom Frederick was the oldest. In 1826 they, with their family, moved to Utica, Licking county, Ohio.

After Harriet Barry moved to Utica, Ohio, in 1831, she and Frederick were married. In April, 1834, they moved to the eighty acres of land in Milford township, which Frederick had bought, and on which he had cleared about two acres. The log cabin which they moved into was about sixteen by sixteen feet.

They were the first to organize a Methodist class in the settlement, and in their log cabin they had regular preaching, and 'sometimes had a two days' meeting.

In 1840 they moved into the brick house now standing on the northwest corner of the farm, near where the cabin stood. Mr. Disney was a great lover of education and very zealous in pushing forward the educational interests in the settlement and among the first to organize a school and to raise money for the teacher. He was a strong Democrat and took an. active part. in politics. For seven years in succession he was elected treasurer of Milford township. F. J. J. Disney died May 17, 1854, leaving a wife and nine children, the oldest not yet twenty. It was his object to give his children a good education and make of them useful men and women.

The oldest child, Alfred W., was born in the fall of 1834, was educated at Chesterville, Ohio, At the age of twenty-two he commenced the study of medicine under Dr. William Hayes, sr. After completing his studies he went to Amity, Knox county, Ohio, where he opened an office and practiced medicine about one year. At the age of twenty-seven he married Miss Mary A., daughter of Thomas Brown, of Liberty township. Immediately after his marriage he went to La Rue, Marion county, Ohio, where he practiced medicine with Dr. J. Copeland awhile, and then opened an office of his own. "He was a graduate of the Starling Medical college, Columbus, Ohio. In the summer of 1875 he was taken sick, and on the twentieth of September he died of typhoid fever, leaving a wife and three little boys.

The second child, Larkin E., was born in 1836. He received a good education in the district school, and also in the Ohio Wesleyian university, Delaware, Ohio. He studied dentistry with Dr. McBriar, formerly of Mt. Vernon, now of Columbus, Ohio, and in 1862 he went to Coshocton, Ohio, where he commenced practicing his profession. In 1867 he married Miss Anna Spangler, of that place. At the present time he and his wife are in Peabody, Kansas. He is practicing dentistry.

The third child, Basil A,, received a fair education at home, and also attended the school at Delaware, Ohio. He joined the Methodist Episcopal church when very young, and at the age of eighteen he received license to preach. He is a member of the North Ohio conference, and now is stationed at Lorain, Ohio. In 1869 he married Miss Hannah M. Hardee. They have lost two children. He is now translating the New Testament from the Greek to the English. ;

George R. is the fourth child. His education, in the common branches, is good. At the age of twenty-one he married Miss Clamanda E., daughter of Mr. William H. Hawkins, of Milford township. By birth and practice he is a farmer; by occupation, a carpenter. He has one child. His home is in Milford township. ' The next child is Mary A. She attended the district school and received a liberal education. After she was grown she fitted herself for teaching, and taught several terms of school. In October, 1880, she was married 'to Mr. W. H. Orme, of Hawleyville, Page county, Iowa, where she now resides.

He has a good educa- For some time he was a travelling agent for the American Bible society. He canvassed Knox and Coshocton counties, and found many families without even a Testament. In 1874 he married Miss Mary C., daughter of Rev. C. C. Craven, of the North Ohio conference. They have a small family, and are living in Homer, Licking county, Ohio.

The seventh child, Henry B., received some education in the district school. In August, 1867, he went to Baldwin university, Berea, Ohio, where he stayed one year. In the winter of 1868-69 he taught his first school in the district where he once attended. He taught schoo] the next winter, and in the spring of 1870 returned to college. At the close of the year he graduated in the seminary course of the Sunday-school Normal department, besides keeping up with his classes in other studies. He is teaching his eighth term of school in Brandon, Ohio. His home is with his mother.

Emily I., is the next child and the second daughter. She received some education in the district school, and for awhile attended the Union schoolin Mt. Vernon, Ohio. When young she was the pet of the family. She is now at home.

The ninth child, Finley, attended the district school; for nearly a year he attended the normal school under Professor John Ogden, in Worthing, Ohio. In the summer of 1879 he went to the Musical Norrhal school in Youngstown, Ohio, under the direction of Professor N. Coe Stewart, of Cleveland, Ohio. For a number of years he has made the study of music a speciality. He is the author of '' Willie's Farewell," published in 1877, and by it he has the honor of being the first resident of Knox county who composed the words and music of a song and had it published. At present he is with his mother in Milfordton.

Mrs. Harriet Disney is residing on the farm to which she and her husband came in 1834. She joined the Methodist Episcopal church when fourteen years of age, and has ever lived an exemplary life. Her children are all members of the Methodist Episcopal church.

DISNEY, WILLIAM A., farmer, Milford township, was born in Anne Arundel county, Maryland, February 11, 1813. His parents, William I. and A. Disney zee Elliott, came to Ohio with a family of nine children and settled in Miller township, in 1825, where they remained about a year, then moved to Milford, where they both lived and died. Six of their children are living.

The subject of this sketch spent his early life on the farm, assisting his parents. When about eighteen years of age he was apprenticed to learn the trade of blacksmithing, and worked at his trade for a number of years, after which he engaged in farming, and which he yet follows. Mr. Disney's reading has taken a wide range, he is therefore a man of extensive information. He was an ardent advocate of the principles of the Abolition party. In 1836 he cast his vote for James G. Birney, the Abolition candidate for President, and it was the only ballot cast for him in the township. He acted with this party until the forming of the Republican party, when he helped organize that political party, since which time he has acted with it. He married Miss Mary Jane Lampson, October 6, 1836, a daughter of Judson Lampson, a pioneer of Knox She was born October 6, 1818. They had four children: Judson L. was a member of company A, Ninety-sixth regiment Ohio volunteer infantry, and died May 24, 1864, at New Orleans, while in the

DODD, STEVEN B., deceased, was born June 20, 1820, in Washington county, Pennsylvania. He removed to Knox county, Ohio, at an early age, and commenced the practice of medicine in Martinsburgh in 1853. He was a very successful physician. He was a graduate of the Physio-Medical college of Cincinnati, and was married to Miss Sarah Ann Sinkey September 7, 1841. Their children were: Abraham N., Stephen B., Alfred M. and James F., all living except Abraham N. James F. is agent for the Singer Sewing Machine company, and does a good business.

Dr. Dodd died June 30, 1863. He had lived a consistent Christian life, being a member of the Free Presbyterian church, and elder for many years. Abraham Sinkey, father of Mrs. Dodd, was born in Pennsylvania, and was married to Ann Boyd Foster, of Maryland, who was aunt of President James Buchanan and the celebrated poet, Stephen Foster. Mrs. Sinkey died at Martinsburgh at the advanced age of ninetyeight years.

Bladensburgh, was born in Jackson township June 4, 1843. He was married to Miss Sophia M. Houck in August, 1869. They have two ehildren: William, porn May 11, 1871, and Lotta, May 31, 1878. Mr. Donahey has resided in Jackson township the principal part of his life. He went to Illinois in August, 1874, where he was engaged both in school teaching and the mercantile business. He returned to Ohio in July, 1880, locating in Bladensburgh, where he is now engaged in the grocery business, keeping a good stock of groceries and provisions on hand for his many patrons.

DOOLITTLE, S. R., merchant, and son of Philo Doolittle, was born in Fredericktown, this county, in 1838. In 1865 he came to Gambier, engaged in the mercantile business, and has been actively engaged in that business since that time. He constantly keeps on hand a full assortment of every thing in his line, such as dry goods, groceries, notions, hardware, agricultural implements, etc.

DOTY, CHARLES, Pike township, farmer, post office, Democracy, born in Stark county, Ohio, in 1823, and was married in 1854 to Ann Tharp, who was born in Wayne county in 1834. They have two children - Elizabeth and Stanton W. Mr. Doty came to this county in 1841, first located in Jefferson township, and in 1872 came to this township. He is a farmer, owning a good farm in this township.

DOUP, CONRAD, Pike township, blacksmith, post office, Democracy, born in Union township, Knox county, in 1839, and was married in 1866 to Margaret Kirkpatrick, who was born 'in this township in 1847. 'They had six children: John Sherman, born in 1867; Frank W., born in 1869; Ada C., born in 1871, died in 1872; Ava I., born in 1873; Zara Clifton, born in 1876, and Altha M. in 1879. He commenced the blacksmithing business in 1856, with his brother George, and has been engaged in that trade ever since, except during the late war. He enlisted in Captain James Drake's company H, Twenty-third regiment Ohio volunteer infantry, continued in the service for over three years, and was honorably discharged. He is now a resident of Amity, and is one of the leading men of the place.

married in 1866 to Lenah F. Smith, who was born in Johnson county, Iowa, in 1847. They have six children - Martha (deceased), Byron, Elmer, Clara, Nancy, and Laura. Mr. Dour was a soldier in the late war, a member of company H, Twenty third regiment Ohio volunteer infantry, and was engaged wit this company for three years, when it was consolidated with company G. He was in the war four years and three months, and was a valiant soldier. His father, Conrad Doup, was born in Germany in 1805, came to America in 1830, located in Knox county in 1832. He was married to Catharine Best, who died in 1832. His second marriage was to Catharine Hager, who was born in Pennsylvania in 1809. They had nine children - George, Daniel, Solomon, Conrad, Elizabeth (deceased), Louis,

DOUP, FREDERICK, Butler township, was born in Germany, and came to America about forty years ago. . He served in the Mexican war and in the war of the Rebellion, proving a gallant soldier. He is now a prosperous farmer of Butler township.

DOWDS, ELIJAH, Pike township, deceased ; was born in Virginia in 1807. His parents emigrated to Ohio when he was achild. He was first married to Nancy Wilson who was born in 1808. They had nine children, viz: Samuel N., Margaret, Martha A., Elizabeth E., William B., Nancy J., Elijah P., Lucy E., Sophia C., and Mary A. Mrs. Nancy Dowds died in 1855. Mr. Dowds afterwards married Mary Ellen Barber, who was born in this county in 1833. They had seven children, viz: Wilson B., Joseph S., John H., Sheridan G., Charles C., Cornelius K., and Alva A. - Two of the sons were in the late war. William B. was a member of the Sixty-fifth O. V. I. Elijah P. was a soldier in the Twentieth regiment O. V. I., and was killed in the battle of Raymond, Mississippi, May 12, 1863.

Mr. Dowds was an eaily settler of this county ; industrious, economical, and succeeded in accumulating a good property. He died June 7, 1879.

DOWD, SAMUEL N., Monroe township, farmer and stock grower, son of Elijah and Nancy Dowds, zee Wilson, was born in Monroe township, this county, November 4, 1829; was reared on a farm, and has made farming his vocation through life. October 22, 1855, he married Miss Eliza A. Popham, of Pike township, this county, born in 1841, daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth J. Popham. They settled in Monroe township on a farm where they now reside. They have a family of nine children, three sons and six daughters.

DOWDS, WILLIAM B., Monroe township, farmer, son of Elijah W. and Nancy Dowds, zee Wilson, was born in Monroe township, this county, July 4, 1837. He was reared on a farm and has made farming his vocation. In 1859 he married Miss Julia A. Hersh, born in November, 1835, daughter of John and Rebecca Hersh. They settled in Monroe township, remained until in 1863, when they moved to Pike township, this county, where they remained until 1875 or 1876, when he purchased and moved on the farm in Monroe township, where they are now living. They have a family of eight children, two sons and six daughters. He served about thirteen months in the war of 1861, having enlisted August 11, 1862, in company B, Ninetysixth Ohio volunteer infantry, and served until April 3, 1863, when he was honorably discharged from the service, on account of sickness, and returned home. In 1864 he enlisted in company F, of the One Hundred and Forty-second Ohio volunteer

DOWLER, B. F., St. Louis, Missouri, dealer in horses, Nos. 20 and 21 Market street; born in Knox county, Ohio, in 1830, and was married in 1850 to Miss Hannah Rodgers, who was born in Wayne township, this county, in 1830. They have two children, Adelpha and Freddie. Mr. Dowler has been quite extensively engaged in buying and shipping horses from this county to eastern States and cities. He has moved to St. Louis, owns two farms near the city, and still continues shipping horses.

DOYLE, JAMES, Mt. Vernon, deceased, a native of Ireland, was bornin the spring of 1806, in the parish of Fernes, town and county of Wexford. In 1833 he entered the Government employ under contracts for building Government wharfs and piers in the different harbors along the Irish coast. On the first day of January, 1836, while in Liverpool, England, he entered the British navy asa volunteer, and was transferred to the royal mail service as a boatman, and stationed at Kingstown, Ireland. A great amount of the work 1equired of him while in the mail service was necessarily performed during the night time. The mail ships that carried the great mail between London and Dublin, made no stop at Kingstown, where he was stationed, and the boat service was sometimes one of great danger. It was often with great difficulty that the boat, in darkness and amidst mountain waves, was enabled to reach the shore. Twice while in this service he received slight bodily injuries. He was discharged from the mail service by the board of admiralty, after serving faithfully for fifteen years, February 20, 1851. The reason assigned for the discharge was that the mail service was transferred by the Government to that of a private company. In all making about eighteen years of his life spent in the service of the British Government.

In 1851 he with wife and family emigrated to America and located in Massillon, Stark county, Ohio, remained about six years, then, in April, 1857, he came to this county and settled in Mt. Vernon, where he passed the remainder of his days. About thirty-three years of his life were spent in performing night duty, including naval and civil life. After his coming to Ohio he was employed asa night watchman, both while living in Massillon and in Mt. Vernon. Asa night watchman at the Buckingham foundry he remained for many years. He married Miss Mary Harney, of Ireland, born in 1817. They had nine children, five of whom were born in Ireland and four in America. The first born died and and was buried in Ireland, and two others breathed their last in America. The other six are still living. Two of their sons. John M. and Philip E. Doyle, served as private soldiers in the late war; John M. was in the Sixty-first Ohio volunteer infantry, served until the close of the war, returned home and is now residing in Mt. Vernon; by trade he is a machinist in the shops of the John Cooper's manufacturing company. Philip E. served about three years in the Eighteenth United States regulars. He returned home at the expiration of his term of service, and now resides in Leadville, Colorado. if?

Patrick, their youngest, is a moulder by trade and is now living in Mansfield, Ohio, having been employed by Aultman & Taylor several years. Mr. Doyle departed this life April 12, 1880. Mrs. Doyle is still living in rigorous old age.

DUNBAR, WILLIAM, attorney, Mt. Vernon, was born in Mifflinsburgh, Northumberland, now Union, county, Pennsy!- vania, January 31, 1806. He came of revolutionary stock. His grandfather was commissary to General Washington at Valley Forge. His parents, with a family of nine children, came to Ohio in 1814, and settled in Columbiana county, where they remained some two years, and then moved to Stark county, Canton, where they lived and died. He is of Scotch and German extraction, his father being Scotch and his grandmother German. He learned the trade of carpenter, at which he worked for some years. He taught school for several terms. He was appointed postmaster at Canton during the administration of Amos Kendall, postmaster general, December 24, 1835. He resigned the office about 1837.

At about that time, 1834, he purchased the Stark County Democrat, and from the work bench he became editor and postmaster. After he resigned the post office he threw his whole energy into the work, and ina short time the circulation of his paper was largely increased. The majority of his party was also increased from one hundred and fifty to nine hundred. He met with exceedingly bitter opposition, but wielded his pen with such force as to rout his enemies. He was elected county treasurer in the fall of 1839, after one of the fiercest struggles in the politics of the county, coming out with eleven of a majority. He was again elected at the expiration of his first term, without opposition. Hesold his paperin the winter of 1839. He commenced reading law while in the treasurer's office, and was admitted to practice in the courts of Ohio in 1842, and in August, 1847, was admitted to practice inthe United States courts. In November, 1847, Mr. Dunbar moved to Knox county and located in Mt. Vernon, and has since practiced his profession. In 1854, during the Know-Nothing epidemic, he was nominated for Congress, but was defeated.

Mr. Dunbar purchased the Mt. Vernon Banner office November, 1847, and was editor and proprietor of the same until the fall of 1852, when he sold the paper to Mr. E. J. Ellis.

When he first came to Mt. Vernon he entered into law partnership with Hon. John K. Miller, which continued until the failing health of Mr. Miller caused him to retire from business, A partnership was also formed with Judge John Adams, and also a law partnership with General H. B. Banning, which continued until the general went into the army.

October 2, 1827, Mr. Dunbar was married to Miss Harriet Tofler, of Canton. They have had eleven children, seven of whom are living, five sonsand two daughters. The living are: Caroline, William B., (assistant treasurer of Knox county); Homer J., at Fremont, Ohio; Edward L., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Robert P., Fremont, Ohio; George M., Mt. Vernon, and Hattie, teaching in blind asylum, Columbus, Ohio. The deceased are: Albina, died in 1862; John E., Limerick, and Julia, died when young.

DUDGEON, SIMON (deceased). The subject of this sketch was born in Ireland, county Donegal, June 3, 1776, where he was reared, and lived until 1802 (being twenty-six years of age), when he sailed for America, landing in the city of New York, he having but one English shilling left, which he soon parted with to have his shirt washed. From New York city he went to the State of Connecticut, where he remained and worked a short time. From there he came back to Delaware county, New York, and hired to perform labor by the month, ona farm, where he remained but a short time, afterwards engaging in the lumbering business, continuing at it until the year 1810, when he came to what is known as Harrison township, Knox county, where he entered three quarter sections of land, and afterwards sold one quarter-section to his brother Moses, in order to get money to improve the balance. After this he went to Washington county, Pennsylvania, and there, in September, 1811, he married Nancy Elliott, daughter of Charles and Jane Elliott, born in Ireland in 1791. After his marriage (in October, 1811) he returned to Knox county and moved upon his land, which was all a dense forest at that time, and erected himself a small tent, covering the same with sheets, to shelter himself and wife from the storm and the wild animals that infested the country at that time. He then proceeded to cut logs and build a cabin, which he and his wife soon occupied. He then proceeded to clearing his land and getting it ready for cultivation. In this labor he was engaged from year to year until he became the owner of a fine farm. In the meantime he kept purchasing land until he was the owner of seven hundred and twelve acres, which at his death was divided among his sons and daughters. There were born to Simon Dudgeon and Nancy Elliott ten children as follows: Jane, Thomas, Charles, Moses, David,g William, Simon, Mary, John, and Andrew, eight of whom are now living.

The subject of this sketch died June 2, 1845, in his sixty-ninth year; his companion survived him till December 14, 1859, when she died, aged nearly sixty-nine years.

DUDGEON, MOSES, farmer and stock-raiser, post office Gambier; fourth son of Simon and Nancy Dudgeon, born in Harrison township, Knox county, January 31, 1818, where he was reared and enured to the hardships of a pioneer life.

The subject of this sketch remained with his father until the age of twenty-six years, when his father gave him a quarter section of land in Allen county, which he owned about three years, when he exchanged it for an interest in the old homestead in Knox county, where he at present resides.

December 26, 1844, he was united in marriage with Hannah, a daughter of Benjamin and Mary Devare, born in Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, where she was reared until at the age of eight years, when her parents both died. She was then brought to Knox county by Daniel Sawyers, with whom she lived.

Mr. Dudgeon is at present the owner of two hundred and forty acres of land, and has also held quite a number of offices of trust in said county and township, being county commissioner, justice of the peace, and treasurer.

DUDGEON, DAVID, farmer and wool-grower, post office Gambier; fourth son of Simon and Nancy Dudgeon, born in Harrison township, Knox county, April 11, 1820. He received an education, and at the age of twenty-one years he went to Allen county, and remained about five years, In 1845, when in Allen county, he purchased two hundred acres of land, then came back to Knox county, and then went to farming for his mother. About a year after returning home he sold his land in Allen county to his brother Thomas, for the sum of nine hundred dollars, and then purchased a share in the home-place, where he continued to remain and farm, purchasing shares in the home-farm. This he continued about eight years, by which time he had become the owner of three hundred and fifty acres. On February 10, 1848, he was united in marriage with Mary J., a daughter of Asa and Catharine Freeman, born in Knox county, Butler township, August 2, 1831. Their union resulted in eleven children, viz: Martha, Eunice, Ann, Lydia, William, Jessie (died May 21, 1863), Andrew, Caroline, Lee, Reuben, and Jane.

In April, 1880, he purchased seventy-four acres in Pleasant township, Knox county, at a cost of three thousand seven hundred dollars, which he deeded to his daughter, and which she now occupies.

DUKE, WILLIAM, marble cutter, Fredericktown, was born in Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, in 1849. He came to Ohio in 1863. He commenced the manufacture of gun stocks with Hoover & Fisher, and worked at that business till 1865. In 1871 he went to Newark, Licking county, and engaged in the manufacture of tombstones. He was married in Newark in 1874 to Emma J. Sasser, who was born in St. Louis. They have two children, viz.: Luther James, born November 22, 1874; Cora Mabel, March 17, 1877. Mr. Duke came to Fredericktown April 1, 1879; and is engaged with John Getz in the manufacture of monuments and tombstones. He isa good mechanic, and an active citizen of the county.

DUN, J., farmer, Howard township, post office, Howard' was born in Wheeling, Virginia. His father came to this county in the early days of his son's life, and died shortly after. Mr. Dun has lived all his life in Knox county. He was married in 1865 and settled in Howard township. He had five children, two of whom died in iufancy, and the other three are still living.

DUNCAN, JAMES, JR., teacher, Fredericktown, was born in Beaver county, Pennsylvania, in 1846; came to Ohio in 1857, and was married in 1871 to Lucy A. Mitchell, who was born in Richland county, Ohio, in 1848. They have two children - Cloyd, born in 1873, and Bessie, born in 1875. Mr. Duncan was educated at Washington and Jefferson college. He is now superintendent of the union schools, of Fredericktown. He enlisted in the late war as a member of One Hundred and Forty-second regiment, Ohio National guard, and served out his time and received an honorable discharge.

DUNCAN, WILLIAM H., mechanic, Union township; post office, Gann. He was born March 7, 1829, in Baltimore, Maryland. At twelve years of age he enlisted in the United States navy, remained five years, and then went to Cincinnati and remained five years. He then went to the Mexican war aud was gone two years. After being discharged, he went to Cincinnati, and then to Baltimore, then to Mt. Vernon, and worked at his trade eighteen months. In 1855 he was married to Miss Swats, and settled in Mt. Holly, and remained there until the Rebellion, when he went out with Colonel H. B. Banning, One Hundred and Twenty-first Ohio volunteer infantry, and remained until the close of the war. Since that time he has paid strict attention to the boot and shoe business. He was married to Miss E. Johnson in 1865, and she only lived about ten years after. In 1877 he married Miss H. Comstock. He has the following children: William, Margaret, Louisa, Margaret, Benjamin, Ira M., Cora Lee, and Lucy Fisher. His' grandchild, Viola Minnie, is living with him.

George died November, 1862; Thomas died in Wayne township January r1, 1861; Albert Charles and Charles Albert died in Pennsylvania; Norris in Ohio.

Mr. James Duncan, sr., was a farmer by occupation, and has lived in this township since 1857. In 1868 he moved to Fredericktown, and has always been one of its enterprising citizens.

DUNHAM, WILLIAM E., Wayne township, farmer, post office, Mt. Vernon, born in Clinton townsnip in 1831, and was married to Martha King, who was born in Knox county. They have the following family: Clarence, born December 25, 1853; Clara, born in 1856; Jefferson, February, 1862; Della, October, 1863, and Alna, January, 1875.

Mr. Dunham came to this township with his parents in 1832, and since then has been a resident of this county. He has accumulated by industry and frugality, a very handsome property, consisting of a fine residence with a well improved farm. He was elected treasurer of Knox county in the fall of 1871 by a large majority, and filled the position with honor and credit to himself and to his party. The vote of his own township, which is Republican by about one hundred majority, gave Mr. Dunham a majority of one hundred and ten.

DUNHAM, JACOB, deceased, a native of New Jersey, and a soldier of the Revolution, was born on the ninth day of October, 1757. He married Miss Sarah Outcelt in 1787, born in New Jersey August 21, 1767. They settled in New Jersey, where they remained until 1820, when he, with his wife and family, emigrated to Knox county, Ohio, and located in Morris township; where they lived about seven years, and then moved ona farm in Clinton township in 1827. In 1829 he purchased and moved on the farm now known as the Dunham homestead, and owned by their son, Jacob Dunham, in the same township, where he deceased July 6, 1839. His wife died in 1859, aged ninety-two years and some months. They reared a family of eight children: Lydia, born in New Jersey July 11, 1791; Jemima, in New Jersey May 6, 1795; John, in New Jersey August 9, 1797; Hiram, in New Jersey March 3, 1798; Jacob, in New Jersey November 6, 1802; Jehu, September 10, 1803; Frederick, in New Jersey February 15, 1807, and Margaret, in New Jersey November 14, 1810.

All of the above named are deceased except Jacob, who is living on the old home farm, at the age of seventy-eight years, highly esteemed by all that know him.

DUNN, JOHN, Brown township, farmer, and a son of George and Alice Dunn, was born in' Licking county, Ohio, March 26, 1834. His early life was spent on a farm. In 1857 he married Miss Elizabeth Divan, of Licking county, and settled there. Their union resulted in one child - a daughter. His companion deceased in 1859.

Miss Mary E. Tilton, of Jefferson*township, in October, 1864, daughter of Josephus and Sabina Tilton, born in 1842. They settled near Jelloway, and remained until 1864, when he purchased and moved onthe farm, where they now reside in Brown townshship, about three-fourths of a mile northeast of Jelloway. They have a family of five children - three sons and two daughters. He has made farming his vocation through bis life.

DURBIN, SAMUEL, Fredericktown, deceased ; was born in Pennsylvania about the year 1780, and married to Rebecca Collins, who was born in 1783. They had the following children, viz: John, Thomas, Elizabeth, Clemency, James, Sarah, Charity, Margaret, and Samuel. He came to Fairfield county at avery early day and afterwards to Morris township, this county, in 1808. He was the fourth settler in this township, and cut his road from Mt. Vernon and cleared and improved the farm (now the Grant farm) in this township. Mr. Durbin died April 22, 1822.

DURBIN HENRY P., Morris township, farmer, post office, Mt. Vernon; was born in Clinton township in 1842, and married in 1864 to Mary Chilcoat, who was born in Pennsylvania, Huntingdon county, December 4, 1837. They have the following children: Thomas E., born January 23, 1866; Jessie A., born September 9, 1870; Rhoda E., born April 9, 1873; Willie R., born November 28, 1874; Miles S., born November 26, 1878. Mr. Durbin has resided on his present farm in Morris township fifteen years.

DURBIN, BAPTIST, deceased, Union township, was born in Maryland in February 1816. He emigrated to Belmont county, Ohio, in 1825, where he married Miss Catharine King, in November, 1825. She was born in Belmont county, Ohio, and is the daughter of John King. They settled in Belmont county; remained until 1832, when they moved to Knox county, and located in Howard township, on a farm two miles north of Howard village, where they passed the remainder of their days.

His wife died in August 1854. He survived her until July 26, 1878. They reared a family of eleven children: John, Benjamin, Jane, William, Mary, Trecy, Sarah C., Margaret, Baptist, Alexander, and Emma C,. All are now living except Baptist who died in 1874.

DURBIN, JOHN, farmer, Union township, the oldest son of Baptist and Catharine Durbin, was born in Belmont county, Ohio, August 26, 1862, and came with his parents to Knox county, Ohio, in 1832.

He was reared a farmer and has made farming and stock raising his principal vocation. He commenced working at the carpenter and joiner trade, at the age of twenty-one years, and has followed that business to some extent in connection with farming. In April, 1852, he married Miss Lucinda Sapp, born in Union township, Knox county, May 11, 1831, daughter of Levi and Mary Sapp, zee Colopy. They settled in Union township on the Sapp homestead, where the lived a few years, and after living on several farms in Union township, he purchased, in 1860, and moved on the farm where they are now living, one-half mile north of Danville. At this time he owns three farms, one in Jefferson township, one in Howard, and the one he is living on in Union township. 'They have ten children, five sons and five daughters. He filled the office of township treasurer four years.

county, Ohio, May 8, 1828. On the nineteenth day of January, 1858, he married Miss Margaret, daughter of William and Bridget McNamara, born October 20, 1833. They settled in Howard township, Knox county; remained until 1864, when he purchased and moved on the farm where they are now living, in. Union township, one-half mile north of Danville. They have four children, one son and three daughters. He was brought up a farmer, and has followed farming and stock raising. At present he owns two farms, one in Jefferson, besides the one he is living on in Union township.

DURBIN, RAPHAEL, Howard township, farmer, post office Howard. He was born October 26, 1834, in Bedford county, Pennsylvania. In 1845 he moved to Knox county and settled in Howard township. He was married April 16, 1861, and a short time afterwards settled on his farm. His father died in 1852 and his mother in 1873. They have nine children, Mary, Anna, Charles, Joseph, John, Margaret, William, Frances and Leo.

DURBIN, PETER, Howard township, farmer, post office Howard. He was born in Alleghany county, Maryland, January 31,1835. His father came to Ohio in 1843 and died in 1852. His mother died in 1873.

They raised ten children, who are settled in Howard township: Marion, Susan, Rachel, Peter, Simeon, John, Margaret, George Benedict, and Pius. They now own six hundred acres of good farming land.

DURBIN (DAWSON), MRS. RACHAEL, post office, Howard. was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, in 1822, and came to Knox county in 1836 with her father, and settled on the L. Pealer farm. She was married to John Dawson April 1, 1846. Mrs. Dawson and her husband 1emained on the old farm nntil 1859 when they came to their present farm. Mr. Dawson died July 1, 1855, and left Mrs. Dawson with two children, James and Louisa, who still remain with her. Mrs. Dawson's father died in 1838, and her mother lived with her until '1869, when she too passed away.

DYE, VINCENT E., blacksmith, Middlebury township, post office, Levering; born in Richland county, June 15, 1841, and was married November 13, 1874 to Ellen M. Smith, who was born September 3, 1848, in Coshocton county, Ohio. They have two children, viz.: Clyde L., born January 30, 1875; Earl W., January 14, 1878. Mr. Dye learned blacksmithing with David 'Paxton, and has been engaged in that business ever since he came to Waterford in 1874. He does custom work and is a first class workman, as all can testify that have employed him.

DURBIN, THOMAS, Howard township, farmer, post office, Howard, was born March 29, 1849, in Howard township. His father, Basil Durbin, was born in Pennsylvania, and came to Knox county in 1830, and moved to the farm where his son now lives, in 1850. He died July 5, 1865, and left his little home to his son Thomas Durbin, who was married to Hattie Porter, October 27, 1879. Thomas Durbin's mother was born in Baltimore county, Maryland, in 1806, and came here in 1826. She still remains with her son, but is very feeble.

DUSENBERRY, WILLIAM, was born in Bethlehem township, Coshocton county, Ohio, November 2, 1840. In 1867 he removed to Butler township. April 4, A. D. 1867; he was married to Matilda A. Schrimplin. They have had eight children, viz: Jackson, born February 24, 1860; Ida Annis, January 24, 1870; Fannie Alice, August 9, 1871; Rose Ellen, October 9,

EBERSOLE, JOHN, was born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, June 10, 1786. He made a visit to Knox county, Ohio, in 1812, to see his parents, who were living here on a farm north of town, in Middlebury township. He then returned to Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, where he engaged in milling. He was married in the fall of 1824 to Miss Mary Ann Johnson, and removed to Ohio in the fall of 1825, and lived in the house with his parents that winter. In the spring of 1826 he removed to his farm in Morris township, containing two hundred acres that his father had purchased for him. He erected a cabin to live in, and a log barn and smoke-house; the latter is still standing. In 1834 his wife died, leaving him with three small children, the eldest eight years of age, viz.: Elizabeth, Matilda, and Rebecca. Elizabeth was born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania. He never married again after his wife died, but removed to his mother's, north of town, and lived there one year, and then returned to his farm, where he spent the remainder of his days. He was industrious, economical and frugal in his habits.

John Ebersole (Uncle John, or Dutch Johnny, as he was called by us boys since about 1840) was a very peculiar man. His greatest peculiarity was his being strictly honest and considering everybody so until he found them otherwise. He was an easy man to do business with as long as there was no deception practiced on him; but the man who would decieve him once never would have an opportunity to do so again, as he would never do business with him again on any terms. If he wasa man's friend he was a firm one; if he was not his friend, he would have nothing to do with him. He was a man of few words. We venture to say that no man ever lived in Morris township as many years as he did, who had the power of speech, who talked less than he did. The writer has been in his company for hours that he did not speak. We remember going to see him once on business, and seeing him in a field near the road whetting his old Jerusalem-bladed scythe, we hastened on to get there before he started in. We accosted him - ''Good morning, Uncle John; I came down to see about " "He 'said' not' a word; stuck his whetstone into its place and swung his broad bladed scythe into grass, and all we had to do was to wait patiently until he mowed across the field and back, when he attended to the business without further ceremony. Another time we visited him on business and addressed him as usual and told him our business just as he laid up a sheep to shear it; as soon as that sheep was sheared we got an answer, and a favorable one, as no man granted favors more readily than he did to those who treated him as he deserved.

EBERSOLE, WILLIAM, farmer, Morris township; post office, Fredericktown; was born in Knox county in 1831, and married in 1866 to Matilda Ebersole, who was born in this county in 1827. Mr. Ebersole owns an improved farm, with good buildings. He enlisted September 11, 1862; was a member of company G, One Hundred and Twenty-first regiment,

His father, John Ebersole, deceased, was born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, in 1786, and was married to Mary A. Johnson, who was born in the same county, same State. They had three children - Elizabeth, Matilda, and Rebecca. John Ebersole died in 1873. His wife, Mary, died in, 1832. They located in this county in 1812.

EBERSOLE, JACOB C., farmer, Fredericktown, was born in Wayne township, this county, June 1815; was married November 23, 1837, to Harriet Worthington, who was born in Virginia. They had four children to-wit: Elizabeth, born September 8, 1838; George W., March 7, 1840; John D., February 10, 1844, and Sheridan O. Mrs. Harriet Ebersole died August 15, 1850. Mr. Ebersole was afterwards married to Caroline M. Stevens, who was born in New York.. They have two daughters, viz: Sarah E., born November 29, 1851, and Harriet B., February 16, 1855.

Mr. Ebersole settled on an improved farm where W. Coursen now resides, in Middlebury township. He moved to Fredericktown in 1854; has been street commissioner in this place twentytwo years, and is a member of one of the pioneer families of the county.

EBERSOLE, DAVID, farmer, Wayne township; post office, Fredericktown; born in Knox county in 1834, and was married in 1863 to Elizabeth Kreider, who was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, in 1828. They have the following children: Rosalia E., born November 19, 1865, and Charles D., June 23, 1873.

His father, John Ebersole, was born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, in 1788 and came to Knox county, Ohio, in 1814. He was married May 5, 1812, to Elizabeth S. Kreider, who was born in Dauphin county, Pennsylvania, in 1796. They had the following family: Jacob C., born June 18, 1815; Eliza, December 14, 1818; John E., July 12, 1820; Joseph D., February 15, 1823; Emily, December 11, 1826; Jefferson, May 14, 1828; William, July 26, 1831; David, August 19, 1834, and Henry, November 19, 1837. William Ebersole was a soldier in the late war - a member of company G, Ohio volunteer infantry, and received an honorable discharge.

EDWARDS WILLIAM E., physician. He is the son of Moses and Catharine Edwards, he was born near the town of Union Bridge, Carroll county, Maryland, in 1827, came to Ohio with his father's family in 1842, lived in Coshocton county four years, came to Knox county in 1836. He was married to Sarah Paulina Heath, of Richland county. His father died when he was young. He supported the family until twenty-five years of age; he then engaged in the study of medicine with Dr. Aaron Edwards and attended lectures at the University of Michigan, commenced practice in Putman, Muskingum county, in the spring of 1855, came to Fredericktown in the fall of 1859, removed to Amity, this county, remained there twelve years, then returned to this place with his family, two sons and one daughter. He joined the Methodist Protestant church, afterwards united with the Methodist Episcopal church and is still a member; also a member of the Independence Division Sons of Temperance, also Ellicott Lodge 267, I. O. O. F., also No. 170 F. & A. M.

thirteenth day of March, 1856; removed to Amity, this county, with his father's family, when in his third year, in 1859; remained there twelve years and returned to this place in 1871. In the spring of 1872 he went into the office of the Fredericktown Independent to learn the printing business, under the direction of W. S. Ensign, now of the Cardington /dependent. He continued in that office when it passed into the possession of Dr. C. W. Townsend, and until the paper suspended, when he went to Cincinnati, where le remained a few months, and in 1875 he returned io this place, purchased the material of the dependent office, and on the twelfth day of June, 187s, he issued the first number of the Fredericktown Free Press, starting in business in his nineteenth year, a poor boy, without influence, money, or more than a common school education. As a journalist he was complimented by his patrons and brother journalists as a success. He continued to issue his paper until September 24, 1880.

On the twenty-eighth day of September, 1876, he was married to Ada J., daughter of>Abram and Mary Stephens, of this place. On the twelfth day of June, 1877, they were given a son, William Morris Edwards. On the nineteenth day of March, 1878, his wife died of consumption. In 1876 he was converted and joined the Methodist Episcopal church, under the labors of, Rev. J. A. Kellam, but he wandered from his father's house and fell among thieves, and they stripped him and left him for dead; when he ''came to himself," and discovered his destitution, he started back, and the father met him while yet a great way off, and he fell on his neck and kissed him, and his end was peace.

EDGAR, J. K., deceased, Pike township; born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, in 1818, and was married in 1846 to Elenor Chiddister; who was born in Wayne county, Ohio, in 1826. They had five children: Orlando P., born in 1847; Wil_ liam M., in 1848; Auretta J., in 1851; Miranda O., in 1856, deceased; and Frank C., in 1860.

Mr. J. K. Edgar was a soldier in the late war, a member of company B, Ninety-sixth regiment Ohio volunteer infantry, and remained in the service until his health becameimpaired. While in the war he contracted a disease of which he died at his home in Amity, January 18, 1865, at the age of forty-six years and six months. He was a brave soldier and a Christian, and was highly respected by all who knew him. He was a member and an exhorter in the Methodist Episcopal church, but afterward joined the Disciple church, and was an official member of that church until his death. His widow, with her son, Frank C., lives in Amity.

EDWARDS, C. -W., Fredericktown, dealer in stoves, tinware, and job work, was born in Fredericktown, Ohio, in 1838, and was married in 1869, to Emma Rinehart, who was born in Knox county. They have two children, viz: Clemmie, born 1871; Willie E., in 1877.

Mr. Edwards has always been identified with this county. He was a soldier in the late war, a member of One Hundred and Forty-second regiment Ohio National guards. He served out his time of enlistment and received an honorable discharge. He established his business in 1874, and has built up quite an ex- 'tensive trade. Mr. Edwards is a practical mechanic, and a live business man. He is taking the lead in this branch of trade, and all who wish anything in his line will do well to call and gey

EGGLESTON, EUGENIO R., M.D., Mt. Vernon, was born in Portage county, Ohio, July 28, 1838. He is of English descent. When about fifteen years of age, young liggleston began clerking in a store in Munson, Ohio, and continued there until September, 1861, when he enlisted in company G, Fortyfirst Ohio volunteer infantry, and was with the army of the Cumberland. He was appointed orderly sergeant of the company, and sergeant major, and in June, 1862, he received a second lieutenant's commission in the same regiment, and in 1863 he was commissioned first lieutenant, and appointed adjutant of the regiment, and in 1864 he was brevetted captain, with others, for meritorious conduct. He resigned in October, 1864, and returned home. He commenced reading medicine with Dr. T. H. Sweeney, of Chardon, Ohio, and graduated in February, 1874, at the Cleveland Homeopathic college. He came to Mt. Vernon, Ohio, in the fall of 1875, and has since been practicing with eminent success.

Dr. Eggleston was twice married. His first wife was Anna M. Davis, of Geauga county, to whom he was married in September, 1862. They had one child, now living. His wife dying, he married, June 17, 1876, Mrs. Abbie A. Darby, zee Thompson. His wife is also a physician of the same school, having graduated at the same college in 1876.

EGGLESTON, BYRON, M.D., was born near Chicago, IIlinois, September 29, 1836, in an Indian tent of the Cherokee tribe; received his education at Utica, Ohio, and read medicine with his father, Hiram Eggleston, M.D., and attended lectures at Springfield, Illinois, after which he commenced practicing, and has been located at several different places, but now at Mt. Vernon, where he expects to remain; was married May 27, 1860, to Miss Elizabeth Ann, daughter of John Hearns, of Mt. Vernon, by whom he has had four children, three of whom are living. Amanda Ann, born November 21, 1862; John Hiram, January 7, 1865; Carey Evan, August 9, 1868; Adella, October 10, 1872, Amanda Ann died May 15, 1870.

ELLIOTT, JOEL (deceased), Berlin township, was born in Frederick county, Maryland, in 1775, and was married in 1807 to Hannah Gibson, who was born in Maryland in 1779. They have the following children, viz: Gideon, Amos, and Mary.. Mr. Elliott died in 1849, and his wife, Hannah, died in 1852.

Mr. Elliott came to Belmont county, Ohio, in 1827, and in 1828 came to this county, settled in the woods in this township, built a cabin and lived in pioneer style. Amos and Mary are living on the home place.

ELLIOTT, MRS. MARTHA, one of Mt. Vernon's early settlers, died at her late residence on East High street, December 3, 1879, in the eighty-first year of her age. Mrs. Elliott, whose maiden name was Miller, was born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, September 16, 1799. Her father, the late Reuben Miller, sr., wishing to better the condition of himself and family, concluded to remove to the western country. With his wife and children he started from Philadelphia in the fall of 1805, and after a tedious journey of twenty-two days, he arrived at Pittsburgh, then a town of less than four thousand inhabitants. Here Mrs. Elliott was reared, and received a good education, and April 11, 1816, she was united in marriage to Samuel Elliott. They remained in Pittsburgh until April, 1829, when her husband:concluded to remove: to Mt. Vernon, where he formed a partnership with his, brother, Alexander Elliott, in the mercantile business. Mrs. Elliott was the mother of ten children, of whom four were born in Pittsburgh and six in Mt. Vernon.

ELLIOTT, JAMES, of Monroe township, a retired farmer, was born in Armstrong county, Pennsylvania, September 24, 1808. He was the second child of William and Elizabeth Elliott, zee Eaton. His parents immigrated to Ohio in 1816, with a family of five children. They settled in Mt. Vernon. Being a miller by trad2 required him to change residence from place to place, wherever he could procure employment. He died near Fredericktown in June, 1840. His wife survived him for some years.

The subject of this notice learned the milling trade with his father; he also learned the carding business, and followed carding and milling for some years. He has been principally engaged in farming since 1835. He has been successful in all his undertakings, making his own way in the world, until he now has a competency in life. He was married to Miss Hannah B. Perry November 11, 1830, who was born in Knox county March, 1811. By this union they had eleven children, six sons and five daughters, eight of whom are living. His wife died in April, 1875. He was afterward married to Miss Mary E. Martin, in April, 1877. Of the children of Mr. Elliott, Joseph, a farmer, resides in Liberty township; William, farmer, in Monroe township; Rose, married to Jacob Young, farmer, Monroe township; Orange H., farmer, Monroe township; Elizabeth; James B.; Alice May, married to Leander Farquhar, Gambier.

ELLIOTT, GIDEON, Fredericktown, mayor, was born in New Market, Frederick county, Maryland, March 9, 1811, came to Belmont county, Ohio, in 1827, and in 1828 located in Berlin township; remained there fifty years and then removed to Fredericktown, where he has remained ever since. He was married in 1835 to Rebecca Roberts, who was born in Knox county, Ohio, in 1815. They had a family of four children, viz.: Henry R., born in December, 1835; Ellen, born in 1837; Charles, now deceased; Edwin, in July, 1844, who was a soldier in the late war, a member of the Ohio National guard, died during the service in Virginia, July 15, 1864.

ELLIOTT, HENRY R., Berlin township, farmer, post office, Fredericktown, born in this township in 1835, and was married in 1859 to Elma Willits, who was born in this township in 1837. They have two daughters, Lamyra W., born in 1860, and Mary E., in 1862. Mr. Elliott is one of leading and farm, a part of the Ellicott section, and has the best buildings in this township, built after the modern style. He has done much to promote the general interest of the county; is enterprising, liberal and honest in all his dealings.

ton county, Ohio, January 13, 1842. He was born and raised on a farm, attended the public schools, and has followed farming as his occupation.

In 1872 he moved to Harrison township, Knox county, and subsequently to Jackson township. In the spring of 1880 the directors of the county infirmary appointed him as a competent and trustworthy man to take charge of that institution., He makes a worthy officer, being kind but firm to the inmates, and judiciously manages the affairs of the farm and institution to general satisfaction. He was twice married, his first-wife being Miss Theresa Blue, of Coshocton county, to whom he was married in 1865. They had one child, Milton. In 1872 his wife died. In 1877 he married Miss Olive Myers, of Perry township, Coshocton county. She is an efficient governess.

EMERSON, J. W., Wayne township, farmer, post office, Fredericktown, born in Loudoun county, Virginia, in 1823, and was married to Charlotte McCaron, who was born in Columbiana county, Ohio. They had the following family - Ida and Frank W. Ida Emerson was married to Noble Gray. They have one daughter, Stella May, who was born in 1878. They reside on the homestead.

Mr. Emerson came to Ohio in 1846, and located in Wayne township, this county. "For thirty-four years he has lived on the same farm. Thomas Emerson, his father (deceased), was born in Ireland in 1760, and came to America in 1800. He was married in the United States to Margaret Craven, who was born near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They had two sons - James, born in 1821; John W., 1823: Thomas Emerson died in 1866 at the age of one hundred and one years. Mrs, Margaret Emerson died in 186r.

ENGLE, MARTIN, Howard township, farmer, post office, Howard. He was born January 21, 1823, in Howard township. His father, Elias Engle, came from Pennsylvania in 1805, settled in Butler township, remained there-a few yearsand then removed to Howard and built and conducted a distillery twenty years. He was married in 1853 and settled in Howard township, where he still lives. He has had the following family of children: Rosa, John, Mary, William, and Artance. Rosa died when six months old, John early in life, and Mary in the seventeenth year of her age, in 1873.

ENGLISH, A. U., Fredericktown, painter; was born in Coshocton county in 1854, and was inarried in 1877 to Elizabeth E. Shaffner, who was born in Knox county in 1857, Mr. English learned the carriage painting in Fredericktown; commenced in 1870. He is a skilful workman, and is now engaged with the firm of Stephens & Scott.

EVANS, THOMAS, Mt. Vernon, is a native of Berks county, Pennsylvania, where he was born July 24, 1797. When about fifteen years old his parents moved to Catawissa, where he resided until 1818, when he went to Milta.to learn the trade of plasterer, and there he remained pntil 1841 working at his trade. He married Miss Martha Doubler, by whom he had two children, one son and one daughter. Mrs. Evans died April 15, 1825. He married his second wife, Phebe Nevins, in 1826, by whom be had three children who died in infancy and five who are still living. In 1841 he came to Knox county and settled three miles northwest of Mt. Vernon in Morris township, and engaged in farming. On November 25, 1843, he lost his wife and married his third wife, Mrs. Ann Rogers, zee Cooper, by whom he had one sbn._ His third wife died October 25, 1854, and the following year he married his fourth wife, Mrs. A. Young, zee Mitchell, who is still living. She is a daughter of William Mitchell, one of the earliest settlers. Mr. Evans came to Mt. Vernon to live in 1849, and remained about four years. He then bought a farm one mile west of town where he lived twenty years, and then moved back to Mt. Vernon to spend the balance of his days in retirement.

EVANS, DAVID (deceased), Hilliar township, was born June ro, 1813, died March 11, 1873. He was born in Green county, Pennsylvania, where he remained until about the year 1845, when he emigrated to Ohio and settled in Hilliar township, on the Columbus road, where he remained until his death. He married Miss Elizabeth Lemley, of the same county. She died January 19, 1873. They had ten children, viz: Harriet, wife of M. B. Weaver, of Milford township; Ruhamah married Jacob Annett, and died in Illinois; Barzillai was a member of company F, One Hundred and Twenty-first Ohio volunteer infantry, died while in service; Martha Ann (deceased), wife of Russell Bird; James L., deceased; George L., deceased; Oliver C., farmer, resides on the homestead; Emma V., wife of Timothy Squires, of Miller township; Sarah M., deceased ; Louisa E. resides on the homestead. Five members of this

EVANS, OLIVER, farmer, Hilliar township, was born in Knox county, March, 1854; is a son of David and Elizabeth Evans, zee Lemley, who were born in Green county, Pennsylvania, June ro, 1813, and October 12, 1816: They were married in Pennsylvania, and about 1848 came to Ohio, settling in Hilliar township. They had a family of ten children, four of whom are living, viz: MHarriet,.married to B. Weaver; Annie, married to Timothy Squires; Oliver and Louise, who live at home.

Four of the family died within a few months of each other; the first to be taken was the mother, who died January, 1873; death soon after claimed James and George, and March 11, 1873, the father followed those who had ''gone before.'' One of the family, Barzillai, died while in the army, and Ruhamah, wife of Jacob Annett, died in the west, thus leaving but four remaining. Oliver, at the age of nineteen, was left in charge of the farm, and has succeeded in carrying it on successfully.

EWALT, JOHN, deceased, a native of Pennsylvania, was born in 1760. About 1790 he married Miss Elizabeth Bonnett. They emigrated to Knox county, Ohio, in r8r5, and located on land now owned by their son Isaac, in Clinton township, about two miles west of Mt. Vernon.

The erection of a brick dwelling house had been commenced on the land prior to his purchasing it, which he completed, and used as a residence during the remainder of his days. August 19, 1828, he deceased, his companion surviving him until in February, 1844.

- They reared a family of eleven children: John, Sophia, Henry, Anna, Richard, Sarah, Isaac, James, Samuel, Robert, and Eliza; all have died except Sarah, Isaac, and Samuel.

EWALT, ISAAC, farmer, fourth son of John and Elizabeth Ewalt, was born in Bedford county, Pennsylvania, on the twenty-third day of February, 1806. In 1815 he came with his parents to Knox county, Ohio, and located in Clinton township. He was reared on a farm, and has followed farming and stock raising as his vocation.

Tn 1829 he married for his first wife Miss Margaret Rinehart, born in 1807, daughter of Christian and Mary Rinehart. They settled on the old homestead, where he is now living. They reared one child, a son, John, who is married and lives in Hilliar township, this county. In 1834 his wife died. In April, 1836, he married Miss Eunice Rush, by whom he had eight children; four sons, Samuel, Benjamin, Joseph, and Robert, and four daughters, Martha, Margaret, Eunice, and Alice. In 1869 he erected and moved into his present residence on his father's home farm, where he and his wife are now living.

EWALT, SAMUEL, farmer, sixth son of John and. Elizabeth Ewalt, was born in Bedford county, Pennsylvania, October 18, 1810, and was brought to Knox county by his parents in 1815. He was reared a farmer and has made farming his avocation through life.

On the sixth day of January, 1836, he married Miss Elizabeth Johnson, daughter of Nathaniel and Isabella Johnson, zee Adams. Miss Johnson was born in Hampshire county, Virginia, August 2, 1809.

They settled on the Ewalt homestead, Clinton township, remained about five years and moved to Mt. Vernon, where they lived three years, then returned to the home farm again, remained one year, then, in 1846, they moved on a part of the Johnson homestead, in same township, where they are now living. They reared a family of five children, viz: Isabella A., Isaac N., Manley J., Emma J., and William B., all living.

EWALT, MRS. ELIZA, zee Ridell, was born in Wayne county, Ohio, December 25, 1819, where her father had located in 1813. She was married to Robert Ewalt, August 4, 1836.

After their marriage they located on a farm about two miles west of town, upon which they lived until 1869, when they moved to Mt. Vernon and located on East Gambier street, where she still lives. They had four children, two of whom are living: Rebecca, who lives at Valparaiso, Indiana, and Anna E., who lives in Chicago.

EWALT, WILLIAM D., farmer, and a leading citizen of Liberty township, was born in Morris township, February 21, 1828, and is the son of Richard D. and Phebe Douglass. Mr. Ewalt was born in Bedford county, Pennsylvania. The Douglass family came to Ohio in 1805; the Ewalt family in 1816.

The subject of this notice spent his youth on the farm and had the advantages of the common schools of those days. In 1850 he went to California by way of the Isthmus, and remained there about eleven months, but on account of sickness he returned to Ohio and resumed farming. He has resided in Liberty township about forty-five years. He is well situated, owning a well-improved farm whith he has made by his industry. He has held the office of township clerk for seventeen years and has made an acceptable officer. Politically Mr. Ewalt is a Democrat, and takes a great interest in the success of the principles that are advocated by his party. He is well known ky the leading men of his party all, over the county, for his great zeal in what he consider to be right. He is an esteemed citizen, and has the confidence of the public.

He married Rispah Moxley, a native of Maryland. They had thirteen children, ten of whom are living, viz: Cassius R., Stepen D., Frank L., Dallas R., Clement V., Allen W., Columbus, Flora Ellen, Cora E., and Hattie M.

EWALT, JOHN, Hilliar township, farmer, was born in Clinton township January 8, 1830. His grandparents were among the early settlers of Knox county. His grandfather, John Ewalt, came from Bedford county, Pennsylvania, in 18rs, and settled in Clinton township, purchasing about one thousand had a family of eleven children. Three are yet living: Isaac, father of the subject of this notice, who lives about one and a half miles from Mt. Vernon, and Sarah Kenton, who resides in Wayne county, Ohio,

The subject of this sketch spent his young days on a farm in Clinton township, with his father. In 1854 he came to Hilliar township. He was manied in August of the same year, to Miss Elizabeth Henry, and the young couple began life in a log cabin on the farm, on which he now resides. The cabin was so open that, to use his own words, he could throw a cat through the openings. Things went well, and in this cabin they lived until 1856, when they erected their present pleasant dwelling. The old log cabin isno more, but memory still gives it a pleasant place in life's voyage.

When Mr. Ewalt first came to his farm, there was but little improvement. Those who see the farm now, and saw it twentysix years ago, can truthfully say: ''Whata great change!" Industry did it.

Mr. Ewalt isa social and pleasant gentleman. He has the esteem of those who know him, and the confidence of those with whom he deals. His marriage has been blessed with two children: Aaron O., at home, and Ida Mary, married to James Huddleson, farmer, of Delaware county.

EWALT, J. M., was born May 7, 1840, in Clinton township, Knox county. After finishing his education he taught school until the opening of the war in 1861. He enlisted in August, 1862, incompany A, Ninety-sixth, Ohio volunteer infantry, in which he served about eight months, when he returned home and worked on the farm until 1871, when he was elected tothe office of county auditor, and reelected in 1873. In 1875 he took his present position - cashier in the bank.

office, Fredericktown, born January 22, 1815, and was married August 7, 1845, to Amanda Fidler, who was born November 5, 1826. They have the following family of children: Rebecca Jane, born September 19, 1846; Lafayette, March 19, 1850; Abner, September 12, 1852; James Fenton, February 16, 1856. _ Deaths - Rebecca J:, September 12, 1850; Lafayette, March 19, 1861; Abner, January 18, 1855; Arminda. August 4, 18 - ; Martha, mother of John Ewers, March 2, 1836, aged fortyseven years five months and two days.

EWERS, WILLIAM, farmer, post office, Fredericktown, was born in this county in 1817. His father, Robert, was born in Pennsylvania; came to Ohio in 1812 and entered land in this township, and returned to Pennsylvania. In 1815 he came back to Ohio and located on his land. They had twelve children, six of whom are now living.

EWERS, DAVID, Middtebury township, farmer, post office, Fredericktown, born in Middlebury township, December 23, 1819, was married in 1842, to Almina Johnson, who was born in Wayne township, March 19, 1819. They have one daughter, Frank, born November 23, 1848, and was married to Leander Caywood, and at present resides in this township. Mr. Ewers is the owner of a well improved farm in this township, with good buildings. Mr. and Mrs. Ewers are both members of pioneer families.

EWERS, GEORGE J., Middlebury township, : farmer, post office, Fredericktown, born in Knox county, in 1848, and was married in 1877, to Annetta Adams, who was born ih Berlin township. They have one son, Frank, born August 31, 1878.

EWERS, ROBERT S., Middlebury township, carpenter, post office, Fredericktown, born in Middlebury township. He is a son of Thomas Ewers, and is engaged at the carpenter trade, and is a skilful mechanic.

FADELY, L., farmer, Milford township, was born in Shenandoah county, Virginia, March 3, 1815. His parents came to Ohio in the fall of 1823, and settled in the northeast part of Morgan township, where the father died, his wife surviving him a number of years. The subject of this notice remained at home until he was twenty years of age. He then began life for himself. He worked at whatever was offered; was saving, laying up a little at a time, until he had earned two hundred dollars. He then bought a forty-acre tract of land, leaving a balance of four hundred dollars to be paid. He succeeded in paying this amount; was industrious and economical, and has succeeded in obtaining his first object, a farm. He is nowa leading farmer of the township, and for his industry and integrity has the esteem of the people of the community. In 1835 he was married to Miss Catharine Warrick. They have six children living, viz: Mary Jane, married John W. Myers; Thomas P., druggist in Richwood, Ohio; Elizabeth, Matilda married A. Moreland. His second wife was Angeline Atherton, and have one child, Charles R.

FAIRCHILD, JOHN L., retired, Fredericktown, was born in Woodbury, Litchfield county, Connecticut, in 1818; came to Mt. Vernon, Ohio, and was married in 1849 to Lucinda B. Runnian, who was born in Mt. Vernon in 1823. They had two children, Mary, born in 1851; John, 1853.

Mrs. Fairchild died in Mt. Vernon in 1877. Mr. Fairchild's occupation has been a tinner, and sheet-iron smith He was engaged in Mt. Vernon in this business for some years, has lived in this county for over forty years, and at present is residing with his son in Fredericktown.

John was married to Sabra E. Talmage, who was born in Morrow county, Ohio. They have one daughter, Stella S., born 1879. Mr. John Fairchild is engaged in the insurance business.

December 4, 1843, where he resided until 1865. During the earlier part of his life he was engaged on the home farm and attending school at Oberlin. For two years after leaving school he was engaged as book-keeper in a dry goods house in Oberlin. At the expiration of those two years, 1865, he came to Mt. Vernon, and was engaged by the firm of C. &. J. Cooper & Co., as book-keeper, where he remained until January z, 1868, when he was admitted as a member of the firm, in which he still remains.

FARMER, VAN B., farmer, post office, Millwood, was born in Harrison township, Knox county, July 5, 1828, a son of Nathan and Esther Farmer, by whom he was reared and educated. On the twentieth of November, 1850, at the age of twenty-two years, he married Catharine Staats, a daughter of Joseph and Catharine Staats, who was born in Butler township, Knox county, July rz, 1829. After his marriage he remained one year on the home place with his father. He then moved to Butler township, on a farm owned by his mother-in-law, where he lived one year. He then moved back to Harrison township, and soon after purchased a farm of forty acres in Brown township, where he then moved and remained four years. He then sold said farm and bought a small farm near Millwood, and at the same time bought a share in the home place, located in Harrison township. "He lived on the farm near Millwood about six years, and then sold it and moved on a part of the home farm, where he at present resides. Mr. Farmer made a business of teaching school during the intermission for eight winters,

In 1862 he was drafted for nine months, and was the only one that went into the service out of thirty-two that-were drafted at the same time. He served his time, got an honorable discharge, and came home. Mr. Farmer is the owner of one hundred and eighty acres of land, all under good cultivation. Mr. and Mrs. Farmer are the parents of nine children - six sons and three daughters - seven of whom are living.

FARQUHAR, MOSES, Berlin township (deceased), born in Frederick county, Maryland, in 1789, and was married to Massey Pusey, who was born in the same county. They had the following children: William H., George (deceased), Edwin, Ruth P., Mary B., Francis P., and Sarah Ann. They emigrated to Ohio in 1822, located in Berlin township, bought a part of quarter section ten, range thirteen, township eighteen. There was a cabin erected and a small patch cleared. They built the first saw and chopping millin thistownship. The first mill stones (buhrs) that were used in this county was in this mill, and can still be seen at the old home farm, where Edwin resides. Moses Farquhar assisted in organizing Berlin township, and was the first clerk, and fenceviewer of this township as long as this office continued.

He was an active member of the Society of Friends or Quakers. He assisted in erecting the present brick church in Middlebury township (Owl creek quarterly meeting).

In early life he wasa prominent and active member of the Free Masons; he assisted to organize a number of societies and build halls tor their meetings. He was a member of the joint stock company, known as the Fourier Phlanp, in Clermont county, Ohio. Through this enterprise he lost one thousand dollars. November 1, 1878, he departed this life at his home after a short illness.

FARQUHAR, EDWIN, Berlin township, was married to Margaret E. Gibson, daughter of Hiram E, and Elizabeth Gibson. 'They had three children - Flora L. Laura Ek. and Emma. The mother departed this life in 1866. He isa millwright and worked at this trade for many years.

FARQUHAR, BASIL, Middlebury township, farmer, post office, Fredericktown, was born in Frederick county, Maryland, in December, 1796, and came to Knox county in 1807, locating inthis township. In 1824 he was married to Susan Wright, who died in 1843. In 1852 he was married the second time to Eimer M. Farquhar.

Amos Farquhar, father of Basil, waS born in 1775, and was married to Jane Moor. They had a family of five children - Basil, Mary, Phebe, Elizabeth, and Abraham. Amos Farquhar died in 1851, Jane Farquhar in 1856, and Phebe in 1836. Abraham resides in Missouri. The Farquhar family are among the earlier settlers, pioneers who came when the country was all new, and cleared up and improved several farms, among them being the Burkholder farm. They were prominent pioneers of Knox county.

FERENBAUGH, JOSEPH, farmer, post office, Millwood, was born in Union township, Knox county, February 17, 1836 - a son of Fidel and Eliza Ferenbaugh. his father, and remained with him until he was thirty-five years old. On the third of January, 1874, he was united in marriage with Susanna Stillinger, a daughter of John Stillinger, of Union township, born October 8, 1834. After his marriage he located in Howard township, where he remained two years; he then moved to Union township, where he remained a short time; from there to Harrison: township, Knox county, where he purchased a farm, and at present resides. Mr. Ferenbaugh served as land appraiser in 1870. Mr. and Mrs. Ferenbaugh are the parents of two children, one of whom only is living~-a son, George H., born November 20, 1875. In 1877 Mr. Ferenbaugh purchased a hardware store in Rossville, where he did business for about eighteen months.

FERENBAUGH, MRS. ELIZA, post office, Rossville, was born September 6, 1813, in Knox county, Ohio. Her father was born in Virginia, and came to Knox county in 1805 with a wife and one child. Not long after his wife died, and he was again married. In 1866 he died, in his eighty-eighth year. Eliza Ferenbaugh married F. Ferenbaugh May 14, 1835, and bought her present farm. June 29, 1875, her husband died and left five children - Joseph, born February 17, 1836; Mary, born October 28, 1840; Leo, born October 20, 1843; Edman, born November 25, 1848; and Franklin, born September 20, 1856. Edman died September 8, 1878. Leo and Joseph are married and settled in Knox county.

FERENBAUGH, PETER, Union township, farmer, post office Rossville, was born in Germany, January 1, 1810. He -came to America in September, 1831, with his brother, his father being dead. He came to New York, then to Buffalo, then to Cleveland; he then settled in Fairfield county for a few years, then came to Knox county, Ohio, and settled on his present farm.

In 1845 he was married to ena Whehond. They have five children: Rosinda, born December, 1848; Priscilla, August 24, 1851; Eliza Ellen, October 24, 1855; Manvilla, July 7, 1858;

Peter Ferenbaugh learned to make clocks in Germany, and after coming here he sold them all through the country, especially in the Scioto valley and Kentucky, and all over the State of Ohio. After they had established a good trade in this sort of merchandise, they shipped their clocks from Germany in large lots. One day a vessel was about to land which contained about eight thousand dollars worth of clocks for them, It struck a barge which stove in the bottom of the ship, and all sunk- - ship, cargo, clocks, and all. The clocks were under a partial insurance, and after a long litigation they managed to obtain a portion of the value of their goods. But this crippled them in such a way as to destroy their clock trade, and they lost about three-fourths of their capital, and could not fulfill their engagements. After this disaster Peter Ferenbaugh was compelled to preempt his piece of land which he had cleared for a home.

FERRISS, HARRISON, Wayne township, farmer, post office, Fredericktown, born in Wayne township, and was married in 1867 to Sarah Darling, who was born in Knox county in 1843. They have five children: Willie, born November 28, 1868; Minnie, March 28, 1871; Norma, October 7, 1873; Jennie, deceased, and Emery, March 26, 1880.

Mr. Ferriss was in the late war, being a member of the One Hundred and Twenty-first regiment, Ohio volunteer infantry, and continued in that service two years and ten months. He is now acitizen of Wayne township.

FIDLER, DANIEL, Middlebury township, farmer, post office, Fredericktown, born in this county in 1832, and was married in 1862 to Mary J. Cross, who was born in Richland county in 1843. They had the following family: Willie, born in 1863; Bertha D., in 1866; Ida R., in 1868; Elmina, in 1872; Minte E., in 1874, and Walter D., in 1878.

Mr. Fidler was in the late war, a member of the One Hundred and Forty-second regiment, Ohio National guard, and served out the time of his enlistment., He is one of the active and prominent men of this township.

FIDLER, CHARLES, Middlebury township, farmer, 'post office, Fredericktown, born in Middlebury township in 1833, and married in 1864 to Melisse Needham, who was born in Guernsey county January 20, 1832. They have the following family, namely: Milo E., born November 12, 1865; Lovilla, born June 30, 1867; Howard, born January 22, 1877, and died February 21, 1877.

FIELDS, THOMAS, Pike township, deceased, born in 1826, and was married in 1851 to Sally Gooddale, who was born in Monroe township in 1830. They had the following children: Ellen, born in 1852; Joseph, in 1853; George, in 1854; Permelia, in 1856; Thomas, in 1857; Robert, in 1858; Mary, in 1859, and Charlotte, in 1861.

FISH, JOSEPH A., Middlebury township; farmer; post office, Fredericktown; born in Morrow county September 29, 1838, and married October October 13, 1859, to Mary Finfrock, who was born in Richland county June 11, 1840, They have two children, viz: John F, born October 23, 1860, and Miles J., August 30, 1864.

FISH, CHARLES H., Brown township, farmer, was born in Beverly, New Jersey, on the twenty-second day of February, 185i, and was reared by his mother till he arrived at the age of twelve years, when he was brought to Cleveland by his uncle, While there, he attended school one year. He then lett his uncle, and commenced working at whatever he could get to do. This he continued until he arrived at the age of nineteen years, when he enlisted in the regular army for the term of five years, where he remained one year, when he was discharged. He then came back to Cleveland, where he re- but a short time. He came to Mt. Vernon, Knox county, and then went to Howard, where he was engaged to clerk for John McFarland in a grocery store, remaining about eight months. On December 25, 1872, he was uited in marriage with Catharine Arnold, born in Brown township, Knox county, March 24, 1851. After his marriage he moved to Loudonville, Ashland county. While there, he performed labor for deacon Taylor, but remained only a short time, soon entering into the service as brakeman for the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne & Western railroad company. He remained. about three years, during which time he moved his family to Crestline. From there he moved back to Knox county, near Jelloway, where he has since remained.

In August, 1880, he purchased a small home in Jefferson township, Knox county. Their union resulted in five children, four of whom are living.

FINK, W. H., Mt. Vernon, was born in 1836 in Seneca county, Ohio. He was married in 1856 to Miss Mary J. Tryon, of Ottawa county, Ohio, -by whom he had a daughter, Ida, and ason, Frank. Mr. Fink was married a second time to Miss Angeline Conley, of this city, in 1879.

Mr. Fink is a fancier of rare birds, of which he has an extensive and beautiful aviary. He is now employed with C. Mitchell, his former employer, in the planing mills.

FIRST NATIONAL BANK northeast corner of Main and Vine streets, Mt. Vernon. This bank is one of the solid monetary institutions of Ohio, and the foremost of the county, and as such is recognized by the best business men of the State. It was first organized and established as a private bank by Russel, Sturges & Co. in 1853, J. W. Russel, M.D., president, and Fred D. Sturges cashier, and continued to do business under that firm name until 1862, when it was reorganized under the name of the Mt. Vernon Bank, and had for its officers, J. W. Russel president; Fred D. Sturges cashier, and for directors Hon. Columbus Delano, J. W. Russel, M.D., Fred D. Sturges, Mathew Thompson, and W. H. Smith. This firm continued until 1865, when it was reorganized under the banking law of the United States and took the name of the First National bank, with Hon. Columbus Delano president, J. W. Russel vice president, Fred D. Sturges cashier; and as directors, Hon.

sand dollars, and the volume of busipess for the same year was about five million or six million dollars. There has been but one sale uf stockin this bank since itwas organized, and it does a straight general banking business, has always loaned, and continues to Joan all its moneys at the legal rate of six per cent. Its officers are among the most respected and wealthy gentlemen of the county, against whom the breath of suspicion has never blown; consequently this is one of the most solid, safe, and reliable organizations of this county, and where everything in the banking line will receive prompt and faithful attention.

Richland county. He was married to Mary Carey, who was born in Sandusky, Ohio. They have one son, H. W., who was born in Palmyra. He has been engaged in farming and working at the cooper business, but has retired from labor, and is enjoying the fruit of his labor. He has in his. possession twenty-six rattles that came from one rattlesnake, which was killed by him and his father in their house. He also has four pieces of continental money, and three silyer dollars - one piece handed down from his great-grandfather, dated 1735; another dated 1791, and the third dated 1807. They have been carefully preserved. He is now the oldest living citizen of Palmyra.

FISHBURN, HIRAM, Milford township, farmer, was born in Dauphin county, Pennsylvania, February 10, 1843. His father, Samuel Fishburn, was a native of the same county, born September 5, 1803. Lewis Fishburn, father of Lewis, and grandfather of Hiram, was a soldier of the Revolution. He married Catharine Grimm. They had ten children, Samuel being the only one living. He married Elizabeth Muma in 1825. She died in September, 1876. They remained in Dauphin county, Pennsylvania, until 1852, then emigrated to Ohio, and settled in Miller township. Mr. Fishburn now resides in Dauphin. He married Mrs. Margaret Brackbill. By his marriage they had ten children: David, Amos, Catharine (married Henry Shupe), Jacob, Daniel, Elizabeth (married Peter Beinhour) Mary (married James Chambers), Josiah and Hiram. has deceased.

The subject of this notice, Hiram Fishburn, was raised on a farm, and remained with his father on the home farm until he was about twenty-seven years of age. He married Miss Nancy E. Smoots, daughter of H. K. Smoots, of Miller township, October, 1868. In 1870 he removed to Milford township. He is a good farmer, and a good citizen. They have two children: Mary Estell, born January 17, 1871, ana Olive Odell, born January I, 1875.

FLAGG, WILLIAM C., Wayne township, farmer, post office Fredericktown, born in Washington county, Ohio, April 8, 1842, and was married to Dora Littimer, who was born in Indiana, October 31, 1850. They have the following children: Eva L.; born February 21, 1869; Jennie C., October 13, 1871; Dora V., September 29, 1872; Minnie M., March 12, 1873; Charlie C., June 14, 1876; and James L., June 18, 1879. Mr. Flagg was a soldier in the late war, being a member of company G., Ninety-sixth regiment Ohio volunteer infantry; was in a number of engagements, and was taken prisoner and kept three months, when he was exchanged. He was in the service three years, and received an honorable discharge.