Knox County, Ohio - Biographical sketches, 1881 (part 7 of 20)

was born in this township in 1826, and was married in 1847 to Mary M. Frizzell, who was born in this township in 1829. They had three children: Ephraim (deceased), born in 1850; Jobn, in 1852; and Joel E., in 1856, now deceased.

Sylvester Fletcher died July ro, 1875, at home in this township. He was a worthy member of the Methodist Episcopal church, also a. member of the Odd Fellows' lodge in Bellville. He was buried by the members of that lodge, the procession at his funeral being the largest that was ever witnessed in this vicinity. In his death this county lost a good citizen, his wife an affectionate companion, and his children a kind father. He died in the triumphs of living faith, giving evidence of the power of religion in death.

FLETCHER, CHARLES, tanner, Pike township, post office Democracy; born in Brown township, this county, in 1847, was married in 1875 to Clara B. Ridenhour, who was born in Washington county, Maryland in 1852. They have one son - Clarence C., who was born in 1877. Mr. Fletcher is a tanner by trade, and resides in Amity, where he has established a good trade.

FOOTE, GEGRGE W., farmer, Berlin township, post office Fredericktown; was born in this township in 1848, and was married in 1876 to Harriet E. Willits, who was born in Berlin township in 1857. They have two children - Herbert W., born in 1878, and Lucy R., in 1880.

FOOT, HENRY R., farmer, post office, Fredericktown. He was born in New York in 1834. He came to Ohio with his parents in 1838, and was married in 1854 to Sarah A. Rowley, who was born in Michigan in 1837. They have three children, Abigail R., born in 1855; Ephraim, in 1848, and James H. in 1860. Mr. Foot was a soldier in the late war, a member of company H, One Hundred and Forty-second regiment O. N. G., and was honorably discharged.

FORSYTHE, JAMES S., Morgan township, farmer; was born in Licking county, Ohio, January 1, 1817. His grandfather, John Forsythe, emigrated from Ireland with his farnily prior to the Revolutionary war, and upon the breaking out of the war he enlisted and served four years. He died in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania. His family moved to Washington county, Pennsylvania. Thomas Forsythe, father of the subject of this sketch, married Mary Hardy in Harrison county, Ohio, and in 1809 settled near Utica, where he resided until 1844, when he moved to where his:son now resides and where they both died. They had four children, all dead except the subject of this sketch. He was reared on a farm, and has always followed farming as his occupation, July 7, 1842, he married MaryJ. McCullough. They had eleven children, three of whom died in infancy - the living are George W., in Iowa; Lovina, wife of James Lahman; Thomas A., James L., William M., Lena, wife of Manly W. Johnson; John Wesley, and Samuel C. Mr. Forsythe is an estimable citizen.

FOWLER, JAMES, Howard township, farmer, post office, Howard; was born in Green township, Washington county, Pennsylvania, in 1812. In 1827 he .moved to Tuscarawas county, Ohio, remained there: until 1853, when he moved to Knox county and settled in Jefferson township. He then moved to Pike township in 1863 and remained there five years. He then came to Howard where he has remained until the present time. He was married in Harrison county, Ohio, February

11, 1830. He has twelve children: Maria, Andrew, William, Hammer, Elizabeth, Margaret, John, Charles, Winfield, Mary, Charles graduated in medicine at Cleveland, Ohio, in 1879 and is doing well. Maria died January rs, 1831, Mary died August 12, 1853. In 1839 Mr. Fowier's services were engaged to build the Holmes church in Tuscarawas county. In 1845 his services were engaged to build another church called Rahabetta. On February 11, 1880, Mr. and Mrs. Fowler gathered a number of their friends together and celebrated their fiftieth anniversary of married life.

FRAZIER, THOMAS J., farmer, post office, Fredericktown, was born in Muskingum county, in 1849, and was married in 1874, to Sarah McKee, who was born in this county. They have three children, viz: Robert E., born in 1875; Edie E., in 1877, and Louis G., in 1879.

FRAZIER, JOSEPH P., farmer, Berlin township, post office, Fredericktown; was born in Muskingum county, in 1852, and was married in 1879 to Mary J. McKee, who was born in this county in 1841. They have one daughter (Dessie Belle), born in 1880.

FRENCH, R. S., a native of New York city, was born in 1827. His father, Robert French, a native of Maryland, was sergeant in the United States army for twenty-five years. His mother, Hellen French, was a native of New York city. Mr. R. S. French came to Gambier, this county, entered Kenyon college in 1845, and graduated in 1849. He studied medicine three years, then purchased two hundred and fifty acres of the college land, and conducted a stock-farm for three years. He was the first man to bring a mowing machine into Knox county. In 1855 he engaged in the mercantile business in Gambier, and was actively engaged at the business for fifteen years. He then left his store in the care of a clerk and became agent for J. H. Gauter & Co., of Jersey City, and continued as their agent for four years, travelling over twenty-six States and territories. In 1878 he retired from all business and has passed his time at his residence in Gambier. November 13, 1851, he married Mrs. Sarah A. Evans, zee Hobb, and sister of Professor Alexander Hobb, late of Kenyon college. The union resulted in four children, two sons and two daughters. One son and one daughter are deceased.

In 1876 he was succeeded by his son, H. H. French, who is still engaged at the business in Gambier, dealing in drugs of all kinds, patent medicines, stationery, ete.

FRIZZELL, EPHRAIM, Brown township, farmer, post office Democracy, son of John M. and Elizabeth Frizzell, born in Baltimore county, Maryland, September 16, 1816, and was of age. His father located in Pike township, Knox county, where he reared his family. At the age of twenty-three years Ephraim Frizzell, the subject of this sketch, married Miss Mary Muntis in 1859, daughter of John and Susan Muntis, born in York county, Pennsylvania, September 10, 1816. After his marriage he remained in Pike township a short time, and purchased a farm in Brown township, where he moved in 1849, and remained until 1853, when he exchanged said farm for a farm and tannery in Amity, Pike township, where he then moved, operating said tannery and farmed in connection with it until 1857. He then sold his property in Pike township, and purchased a farm of one hundred and seventy acres in Brown township, where he then moved and now resides. While living in Pike township he held the office of trustee for four years. By their marriage they became the parents of nine cHildren - George, Allen, Eleorah, Sarah C., Mary A., Susan, John M., Elizabeth. Normanda died May 2, 1862. Mr. and Mrs. Frizzell are members of the German Baptist church of Danville.

Allen Frizzeli, son of Ephraim Frizzell, served four years in the late Rebellion, under Captain A. Cassil in the Sixty-fifth Ohio volunteer infantry, company E.

FROST, JOSIAH, Union township, deceased, was born in Alleghany county, Maryland, July 15, 1790. He married Miss Peggy McNair in 1812, born in Frederick county, Maryland, February, 1795.° They settled in Maryland, where they remained ten years, and in 1822 he, with his wife and five children, emigrated to this county, located in Jefferson township on a farm now owned by J. C. Banbury, two miles northwest of Danville. The land at that time was a dense forest, no woodman's axe had been there except an occasional trespasser. His - first work was the erection of a log cabin, which served them as an abode for five years. In 1825 he erected a hewed log barn. In 1827 he built a hewed log dwelling house. These served them several years, when larger and more commodious buildings were erected. He continued improving his land until, by persistent toil he made his farm to rank among the best improved ones in Jefferson township. His farm contains about three hundred acres. He also owned several hundred acres of land'in Jefferson and adjoining townships. He lived on his first purchase of land until 1864, when he sold it and moved to Millwood, Union township, and lived a retired life until he died, January, 1866.

They reared eleven children, viz: Elizabeth, Ann (deceased), Joseph, Enoch (deceased), Levi William, Nelson, Maria, Josiah (deceased), Susan and Otho, They married and reared families.

In March, 1846, his wife departed this life. In October, 1846, he married Hannah Harris. By this marriage he had one child, Francis A. In 1856 his wife died.

FROST, LEVI, Union township, third son of the above Josiah Frost, was born in Alleghany county, Maryland, July 25, 1821. He was brought to Knox county by his parents in October, 1822. He wasa farmer and followed farming as his vocation many years. In September 1843, he married Miss Keziah Harris, born March 20, 1824, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Harris.

They settled on, land given him by his father, in Jefferson township, three miles north of the home farm, on which he made improvements, and lived until 1854. He then sold his land and purchased a part of the Harris farm, located in the same township, one mile north of his father's farm, where they lived until 1868, when he sold his farm, moved to Danville in the fall of 1868, and engaged in the mercantile business, which business he has since followed. They reared a family of five children, viz: Thomas J., Madison H., John W., Parmenas T., and K. Flora. His companion died October 8, 1874. In September, 1876, he married Elizabeth Butler for his second wife.

He enlisted in company A of the Sixty-fifth Ohio volunteer infantry, October, 1861, served until January, 1865, when he was honorably discharged from the service, his time having expired;. thus having given three years and three months of his time to the service of his country. In 1874, his sons became his partners in the mercantile business, and the firm is now known as L. Frost & Sons, dealers in dry goods, groceries, in fact everything kept in a village store.

FROST, MADISON H., Hilliar township, merchant, Centerburgh, Ohio, was born in Knox county in 1849. His father, Levi Frost, came to Ohio from Frostburgh, Maryland, with his parents about fifty-six years ago and settled in Jefferson township, where Mr. Frost spent his youth, and where he married Keziah Harris, and had a family of twelve children, five of whom are living and doing well.

The subject of this notice clerked for about two years in Gambier. He then assisted his father in the store at Danville, and in 1875, he associated himself with his father, and in 1877 he opened a store at Hartford, Licking county, and succeeded in establishing a good trade. In the spring of 1880 he purchased the store of R. I. Pumphrey, in Centreburgh, which is now known as the store of M. H. Frost & Co. Thus they control three stores, which gives them a special advantage in the purchasing of goods, as they make large contracts and have the advantage of close prices, and can afford to do well by their customers. Their stock is selected with special care, and from the long experience which Mr. Frost has had heis well calculated to carry on a successful business. He is affable and pleasant, always ready to answer all questions relating to his business. He does not misrepresent and will not allow an employe to do so. System is apparent in all departments of his business. He carries a full line of all goods usually kept in a first-class general store. Mr. Frost was married to Miss Arminta Shaw, August 30, 1873. They have a family of three children.

FRY, JACOB, Pleasant township, deceased, was born near Strasburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1796. He was a tanner, and followed tanning as his vocation for many years. He then engaged in farming which he made his business during the remainder of his life. He married Miss Catharine Bowers, born nearStra sburgh, Pennsylvania, in1795. They remained in Pennsylvania until 1836, when he, with his wife and seven children, emigrated to Knox county, Ohio, and located on a farm in Monroe township, which he owned until his death. September 19, 1877, his companion departed this life, aged eighty-two years. December 31, 1877, he deceased in his eighty-first year. They had eight children: John, Jacob, Wesley, Maria, Eliza, William, Simon, and Philip, only four of whom, John, Simon, Maria, and Philip, are living.

FRY, PHILIP, Pleasant township, farmer, son of the aforesaid Jacob and Catharine Fry, was born in Knox county, Ohio, June 18, 1838. On the eleventh day of October, 1859, he married Miss Minerva Taylor, born in Knox county, December 6, 1847, daughter of John G. and Nancy Taylor. They settled in purchased a farm in College township, and remained upon it until 1877, when he purchased and moved on the farm in Pleasant township, where they are now living. They have a family of eight children, three sons and five daughters.

FRY, HENRY, was born in Bedford county, Pennsylvania, on the twenty-sixth day of March, r80r. At the age of fifteen he emigrated with his father, John Fry, to Ohio; was married to Darcy Huffman, January 20, 1830. They had nine children, viz: Amarian, Samuel, Christopher, Charlotte, William, Elizabeth, Priscilla, Jane, and Mary. Mr. Fry died inthe winter of 1880-1.

FULLER, DANIEL, Wayne township, retired farmer, post office Mt. Vernon, was born in Lehigh county, Pennsylvania, February 19, 1790, was brought to Ohio at the age of thirteen years, and has been a resident of this county for seventy-eight years. September 29, 1814, he was married to Margaret Rose, who was born July 3, 1795. They had the following children: David, born March 7, 1816; Elizabeth H., December 15, 1818; Hannah, March 6, 1820; Ruth M., August 25, 1824; John, April 25, 1826; Job J., June 26, 1829; Maria, March 6, 1831; Miriam J., September 22, 1833; and Sarah A., August 21, 1838. Mr. Fuller died September 22, 1838. Mrs. Margaret Fuller died August 7, 1867, at the age of seventy-two years. John Fuller and Job J. were in the late war. Mr. Fuller resided in Harrison township, and has been identified with this county about seventy-eight vears. He is one of the pioneers of this county, having come here when it was a howling wilderness, infested by wolves, bears, wildcats and Indians. He has done much to improveit, and to advance every good cause and work.

FULTZ, JOSEPH J., now of Mt. Vernon, Ohio, born April 26, A. D. 1845, on the banks of the Schuylkill, near Morristown, in Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, is the oldest of five children - Joseph Jackson, George Washington, Jacob Pierce, Albert Buchanan, and Elizabeth A. - all living. His parents, Joseph E. and Mary A. Fultz, zee Millington are descendants of the earliest pioneer settlers of Pennsylvania; emigrated to Ohio in the year 1850, locating on the banks of the Ohio below Pomeroy, now Middleport, in Meigs county, where they now reside, and where their eldest children secured their early education, trudging some two miles or more, winter and summer, to an old log school-house of ye olden kind, where split logs, with sticks for legs, constituted the seating capacity of the backwoods structure dedicated to the cause of education, and where the domine's teaching qualities were best shown in his ability to handle the rod - in fact, his best hold - upon the boys, J. J. coming in for his full share of said ability, if not more. Anon, and during the years 1859-60, he attended a normal school for teachers under the management of H. C. Watterman, at Middleport, and in the winter of 1860 began his first term of many as a country school-teacher, at Carr's run, in said county of Meigs, where, among the big boys, he was the smallest among several, luckily getting through the term without being ducked in the stream running near by, as was his predecessor of the winter before.

After the close of the late war, and during the fall of 1865, he went south, visiting the States bordering on the Ohio and Mis- Sissippi rivers, crossing over into Texas, making the trip in a little more than one year. Returning home he engaged with and took charge of the mathematical department of a commercial school then located at Pomeroy, Ohio. From there he went to Tiffin, Ohio, engaging with the same parties in the management of a branch school. During the winter of 1869 he came to Mt. Vernon, where he has since resided, and where, with J. W. Oldham, he opened a commercial college, of which, by the departure of his said partner, he was soon in entire control. This school was successfully managed until 1871, when it was disposed of to R. G. Dildine and W. P. Harrison, and soon closed for repairs.

In May, 1871, he was married to Mary E. Calkins, (whose grandfather, Lewis Young, built the first frame house in Knox county), only child of Edward and Sarah M. Calkins, zee Young. During the same year he engaged with Judge C. E.

Critchfield as deputy probate derk, and securing a contract under the judge compiled and arranged an alphabetica! abstract of the probate court records from the origin of said court, which, for accuracy and completeness, has not its superior in the State.

Leaving Judge Critchfield he engaged for a time with Max Leopold, in the clothing trade, until the year 1875, when he was a candidate for, and received the nomination, for clerk of the court of common pleas, at a Democratic delegate convention, receiving the nomination on the first ballot, with four competitors in the field, a compliment of which he was deservedly proud. Owing, however, to the strong anti-temperance feeling that had been created by the women's crusade that had raged throughout the country the previous winter, as also the fact that he had ever been recognized as an advocate of temperance (although not radical), he was defeated by the Republican candidate.

After his defeat he turned his attention to, and made a specialty of, insurance, in which field he has been more than successful. In 1879 he organized a company, associating with him such well known men as Hon. John D. Thompson, Colonel W. C. Cooper, General George W. Morgan, and David C. Montgomery. And almost alone in the working thereof, he (in four months) organized the Eagle Mutual Fire Insurance company, with a capital of over fifty thousand dollars in premium notes, which has already grown to a net capital of over two hundred thousand dollars.

destined to be far-reaching in its benefits, and already numbering its members by the thousands, and represented in several States of the Union.

As secretary and general manager of both companies, he has shown much executive ability, and, without clerical assistance, has labored early and late to bring both to their present solid, fast-growing condition, , A. D. 1881.

GAMBLE, JOHN R., deceased, was born in Pennsylvania, September 27, 1796. His father, William Gamble, having emigrated from county Antrim, Ireland. He was of Scotch-Irish lineage, having been obliged to flee the country for his democratic principles, and on account of a personal collision with one of the king's officers. He settled in Pennsylvania, near Philadelphia, where John R. Gamble was born. He came to Delaware county, Ohio, about the year 1810. He was married in 1825, to Miss Lovina Collins, who still survives. The fruits of this union were six children, viz: William, George W., Horatio"N., Sarah Jane, Constant, and John R., of whom William, George W., Jane, and Constant, still survive. Mr. Gamble subsequently resided in Columbus, Newark, Tuscarawas, and Coshocton counties, removing to Butler township in 1836, where he resided until the time of his decease, which occurred in 1857. Mr. Gamble was a public spirited citizen, a prominent Democratic politician, and was much respected for his sterling qualities.

GANN, GEORGE, deceased, was born in Lycoming county, Pennsylvania, January 24, 1810. While residing in Pennsylvania he was married to Miss Sarah Bridgen, in November, 1831. He came to Jefferson in 1834, locating in the southwestern

Mr. Gann was many years an influential citizen of Knox county, and of Jefferson township. By the detaching of a portion of Jefferson in 1876, and its annexation to Union, he became a citizen of Union township. He took an active part in the locating of the Cleveland, Mt. Vernon & Pittsburgh railroad at Mt. Holly, and in consideration of his services the Station and village were named Gann. He was the owner of four hundred acres of good farming land at the time of his decease, which occurred September 7, 1877.

GANN, JACOB, Union township; farmer; post office, Gann, was born in Pennsylvania October 3, 1832, and came to this county in 1835. In 1844 he settled on the farm, where he now resides. He married Myrtiila Maxfield in 1866, and settled on the Gann homestead, where he has remained until the present time. He has two children: George W., born March 7, 1867, and John, January 13, 1871.

His father's will granted him one hundred and sixty-seven acres including the old house. This is to be divided between the children at the time of his death. His wife was born

GANTT, STEPHEN H., Hilliar township, farmer, born in Loudoun county, Virginia, February 16, 1818. His ancestors were Virginians. His father had been a soldier in the War of 1812, and served for some time in Norfolk, Virginia.

In 1835 the parents, Samuel and Mary Gantt, zee Andrews, came to Ohio, and settled in Morris township, where they remained about seven years, then came to Hilliar township, and settled near where their son Stephen now resides, and where they spent their lives, being respected and honored citizens. They had a family of eight children, six of whom are living.

The subject of this short sketch remained at home until he was about twenty-two years of age. In 1840 he came to where he now resides, and which was some time before his parents came.

'There was no improvement, woods covered the land, and Mr. Gantt was compelled to do like the early pioneers, build his cabin first: for a habitation, and then clear the land of the "giant oaks." He remained in his cabin for about twelve years, enjoying his life as well as ever he did, happy and contented with the result of his labor. He then built his present substantial and comfortable dwelling. He started in life poor, but by industry he has made for himself a competence. He is an intelligent and careful farmer, and an estimable citizen, and has the confidence, respect and esteem of the community. He is social in his manners, and hospitable to strangers.

Mr. Gantt has been twice married. His first wife was Miss Eliza Loveridge, to whom he was married May 14, 1840. They had a family of six children, three of whom are living, viz: Martha, married to Elmer Burgoon, farmer, and resides in Hilliar township; Cynthia; married to Henry Motley, farmer, Hilliar township, and Mary Jane, married to Charles Sager, farmer, in Union county, Ohio. Two children died in infancy. Mahlon died when about sixteen years of age.

to Miss Emily Barker. As a result of this marriage they havea family of four children, viz: Lucy Ellie, married to Charles Corwin, and resides in Morrow county, Ohio; Orlin, Flora Elsie and Alvah live at home.

GANTT, WILLIAM F., grocer, Jones' block, West High Street, Mt. Vernon, is a native of Knox county, and was born near Fredericktown. At the age of fifteen he went into the dry goods store of his uncle, E. R. Gantt, Centreburgh, as a salesman, where he continued three yéars. He next entered the employ of James Johnson, Fredericktown, and clerked for thirteen years. His next engagement was with the late George B. Potwin, grocer and provision dealer, Mt. Vernon, where he served four years. On the first of February, 1869, with A. B. Tarr as partner, they commenced the grocery business. In the spring of 1871 Mr. Gantt purchased the interest of Mr. Tarr, and continued the business in his own name. He has done business in the same room for eleven years. On the sixth of January he sold his business to Mr. Trott. Shortly after this sale Mr. Gantt formed a partnership with J. M. Roberts, and rented the room in the same block formerly occupied by N. Whittington & Son, and filled it with a large stock of groceries and provisions, and opened out on the sixth of March, 1880, where they may still be found ready to wait upon old friends and new ones. This gives Mr. Gantt a businéss of thirty-two years - half a lifetime. Their stock embraces a full line of staple and fancy family groceries and confectioneries. Their stock is valued at'about two thousand dollars, and is frequently renewed to supply the demand. They have a successful and a daily increasing trade. Their establishment is one of the first-class family grocery houses in the city.

GARDNER, W., S., physician, Union township, post office, Rosstown. He was born in Mt. Holly, Knox county, and was taken to New Jersey when he was small, and remained about three years, then he commenced his medical education as well as his literary. His mother died in New Jersey. After his father's second marriage he went to Philadelphia and finished his medical education, -and commenced practice in the city. His health failed him there and he removed to Bladensburgh, Ohio, where he met and married Emma M. Gardner, in 1874. He practiced there for five years and built a good little home. He came to Rossville in 1879, where he has settled and is pleased with his success.

GATES, LYMAN W., Miller township; born in Miller township, September 21, 1819. His father, Cyrus Gates, wasa native of Rutland, Vermont, emigrated to Ohio in 1814. In the month of September, 1815, he purchased of the United States Government a quarter section of Jand in the west part of Miller township. In the month of September, 1816, he married Elizabeth McKee, a native of Pennsylvania, who came to Ohio in 1795, with her parents, who settled at Marietta. In 1802 she removed to Zanesville, where she lived until after her marriage. In the month of December, 1816, they removed to Miller township, then nearly an unbroken wilderness, with probably not more than fifteen families within the present limits of the town-

. ship. Then commenced the hardships of pioneer life in a howling wilderness. They lived to see the fruits of their labors. The farm was cleared, and by industry, economy, and frugality, acquired a competency. Both sank to rest ina good old age. Cyrus Gates died August 21, 1867, aged seventy-five years, Elizabeth Gates died June 16, 1876, aged eighty-four years. They both died on the old homestead first purchased by Cyrus Gates. By this marriage there were ten children; six dead and four living. Of the dead, the first child died in infancy; Roena, Cyrus, Elizabeth, Dorcas (married Henry C. Harris), and Charles B. The living are: Lyman W., Lewis, Sallie, widow of A. G. Simons, and Loranoy, married to J. W. Baxter, and all reside in Miller township. Lewis owns the old homestead farm, and with Sallie Simons resides on the farm which has been owned by some of the family since 1815.

The subject of this notice was reared on a farm. He had the advantages of the common-schools of those days, which were very different from those of the present day. The first schoolhouse in which he attended school, was located on his father's farm, situated on a small eminence near the road-side, on the west bank of the brook. Jt was probably ahout fifteen feet square, and built of round logs, and covered with split oak boards four feet long, with poles placed on them to hold them in place. The door was on the south side, next to the road; one window of six lights, with eight by ten inch glass; no ceiling of any kind overhead, except the roof; the floor was white ash split slabs, and placed so near together that the children would not be in danger of falling through the floor, yet it was very rough. There were two seats, about ten feet long, made by splitting an inch log about one foot in diameter and boring two holes near the end of each piece, then pins of wood were inserted for feet. This done, the house was completed. This building was erected in the spring of 1825. Cyrus Gates was the principal superintendent of the building, and it occupied his time nearly three days. There were residing in the neighborhood, at this time, nine children, of school age, that attended school in this house. The first school was taught by Miss Sophia Hillard and a sister of J. M. Hillard, who now resides in Miller township. The price paid was fifty cents per week of five and one-half days, or about nine cents per day. Schools were taught in this house only in the summer season, for five summers. In 1830 a district was organized and a more commodious school-house built of hewed logs, with a large fireplace at one end of the room. A Mr. Hall taught the first winter school at twelve dollars per month, or fifty cents per day.

The subject of this notice has some striking (?) recollections of the teachers of those days, and the teachers generally had some striking (?) qualifications for teaching. The prices paid teachers in those days were generally governed by their striking (?) qualifications, varying from eight to twelve dollars per month in winter, and from sixty to seventy-five cents per week in summer, In those days no teacher was required to obtain a certificate of qualification to teach acommon-school. Reading, writing, and arithmetic, were the common branches taught.

At the age of twenty-one years he had acquired the necessary qualification to teach a common school, which business he followed in the winter seasons for thirty-seven years, teaching thirty-five terms. He learned the carpenter's trade, and worked at his trade dming the summer seasons. He has lived all his life in Miller township, now sixty-one years. He served as township clerk sixteen years, and as justice of the peace six years; was elected county commissioner in the year 1867, by the Republican party, and served three years; and was nominated again in 1870 for the same office, but the Republican ticket was defeated that year in the county. He now holds the office

He served in the late war against the Rebellion, in the One Hundred and Forty-second regiment, in the summer of 1864, most of the time in front of Petersburgh, Virginia.

He always openly and fearlessly defended what he believed to be right, and was always ready to condemn whatever he believed to be wrong, either morally, politically, or in matters of religion. Slavery he believed to be an evil and a wrong in every sense of the word, and he was recognized as one of the few Abolitionists as early as 1842, yet voting with the Whig party until 1848; then united with the Free-soil 'party until the Republican party was organized, in 1856, with which party he has acted to the present time. He has never failed to vote at every county, State, or Presidential election in forty years, and never failed but twice to vote at township elections in the same time. He never uses intoxicating drink of any kind, and is a zealous advocate of temperance.

In religion he isa liberalist, freely granting to others the right and privilege of expressing their own religious opinions; and at the same time asks the same rights and privileges for himself that he so freely grants to others. He was married April 14, 1841, to Miss Prudence Hooker, whose parents were also pioneer citizens of Miller township.

By this marriage they have ten children. Three died in infancy; seven are living, viz: Caroline, married to Henry Robinson; Orlinda E., married to William H. Taylor, of Palmyra, Otoe county, Nebraska; Lucretia, married P. W. Mason; Lorancy married J. C. Hartsock; Jennie married M. B. Rouse; Omar C. and Howard are the remaining two.

GATES, LEWIS; Miller township, farmer, was born October 16, 1825. He is the son of Cryrus and Elizabeth Gates, nee McKee, of whom mention is made under the biography of L. W. Gates.

The subject of this.notice spent his early days on his father's old homestead, and at the common schools of the district. He remained in the community until April, 1862, when he enlisted in company A, Fourth Ohio volunteer infantry, for three years, and participated in the skirmish at Front Royal, Virginia. He was taken sick in Virginia, and was discharged, after being in the service five months. Hewasin the quartermaster's department as carpenter at Nashville, Tennessee. He travelled in Missouri, Kansas, and the west for four years. He has beet: suceessful in life. In religion he is a liberal, and accords to others the same privilege he claims for himself. He now resides on the old homestead, where he was born.

GAY, JOHN F., Mt. Vernon, ex-sheriff of Mt. Vernon, was born in Wesmoreland county, Pennsylvania, June 10, 1845. His paternal grandfather, Peter Gay, emmigrated to the United States from Wales prior to the Revolution, and settled in western Pennsylvania, where he became a leading citizen, and represented the county of Westmoreland in the legislature of the State. He married in Pennsylvania, and had a family of five children, two sons and three daughters.

William Gay, the father of the subject of this notice, was born in r8r5 and died in 1866. He was a farmer by occupation, and a leading citizen. He married Martha S. Speer, of Fayette county, Pennsylvania. They had a family of eight children, all of whom are living but Peter, who was a member of the Eleventh regiment, Pennsylvania volunteer infantry, and died from wounds received at Gettysburgh, Pennsylvania.

and there reared, attending «he common schools and several terms at an academy at Mt. Pleasant, Pennsylvania. He received an appointment to the naval academy at Annapolis, Maryland, where he remained eight months, and on account of sickness returned home.

In 1866 he came to Ohio and engaged in the dry goods business, in Fredericktown, Knox county, as clerk for M. J..Simmons, with whom he remained for three years, when he became one of the firm. About 1871 he engaged in business for himself in Fredericktown, where he remained two years, when he was burned out. He then came to Mt. Vernon and clerked successively for J. W. Miller and D. W. Mead. In 1876 he was nominated for the office of sheriff by the Democratic convention, without his personal solicitation, and at the ensuing election received a majority of one hundred and twenty-six. He made a very efficient and acceptable officer, and was again nominated in 1878, running largely ahead of his ticket, receiving a majority of one thousand five hundred and sixteen. Mr. Gay is an accurate business man, and by his pleasant manner has succeeded in making many friends. He was married to Miss Mary A. Nevius. They have been the parents of four children, two of whom are living. Mr. Gay is now in the dry goods business, having connected himself with the well known house of G. W. Mead, of Mt. Vernon.

GEARHART, SMITH, Milford township, farmer, was born in Hilliar township, December 17, 1843. He is the son of Whitefield and Harriet Gearhart, who was a daughter of Jesse Smith. 'She was bornsin Rhode Island in 1820, and in 1833 came to Ohio with her parents who settled in Liberty township. Mr. Smith came to Ohio at a much earlier date and purchased a tract of land, then returned to Rhode Island, where he married Mary Jenks. By this marriage there were six children, Mrs. Gearhart being the oldest of the family. Mrs. Smith died in 1865. Some time after his wife's death he went to Iowa, where he yet resides, aged eighty-five years. Harriet was married to Whitefield Gearhart March 1, 1838. They had nine children, six of whom are living, viz.: George, Mary, (married to John Spearman), Smith, Charles, Mary (married to John New), Aaron W. Mr. Gearhart died in 1874, aged fifty-nine years. Mrs. Gearhart still resides on the farm in Liberty township. The subject of this notice, Smith Gearhart, was reared ona farm. In 1862 he enlisted in company F, One Hundred and Twenty-first regiment Ohio volunteer infantry for three years, and participated in the battle of Perrysville, Kentucky. He was taken sick and discharged on account of physical disability contracted while in service. He was out about eight months. After his return home, and upon the recovery of his health, he engaged in farming, which he has followed ever since. He is one of Milford township's best citizens, and a good farmer. June ro, 1865, he married Mary L. Brokaw, who is a daughter of John A, and Caroline Brokaw, of Mt. Liberty, Ohio.

GEORGE, JAMES, deceased, late of Clinton township, was a native of England, having been born in Somersetshire, May 4, 1809. His early years were spent in and around his old home, for which he had up to his last sickness a veneration that made him somewhat restless, and he often expressed a desire to return and spend his remaining days with the ''old folks at home." So great was this desire to be at ''home" once more, as he often expressed himself, that on three different occasions he braved the dangers of the mighty deep to gratify the yearnings of his heart. On his first return home, in 1844, he acknowledged things looked changed, they were not as his fond wishes hoped to find them - a reaction took place. In 1859 was his next return, the old desire to visit England being too great to resist. Again disappointment met him at every place he visited - old scenes had vanished, and new scenes had taken their place - the people were also new and strange. Again he returned to America - it appeared better to him than before. In 1867 the old homesickness again seized him - the terrors of the ocean stood not in his way. So again we find him ''going down to the sea in ships'" - Somersetshire the objective point. Greater changes than before met him face to face. He took sick almost unto death. His devoted wife was sent for - she crossed the waters - nursed him to convalescence, and cared for him on his fourth voyage to America.

In July, 1833, Mr, George, then in his twenty-fourth year, made his initial voyage to America, landing in New York. From New York he went to Portchester, where he remained two years. Here he met, wooed and won Miss Catharine A. Brown, of Portchester, and on the fourth of March, 1855, they were united in marriage. Miss Brown was born in New York, October 25, 1811. Shortly after his marriage Mr. and Mrs. George, in May of 1835, removed to New Rochelle, and remained there until November, when they came to Ohio, locating in Coshocton county, and made that county their home for one year. In 1836 they again broke up their home and settled in Columbus, Ohio, where he engaged in the baking' business. Mr. George erected the building known as the Buckeye block, now occupied by Mr. William Taylor. Ho also increased his business by entering into the wholesale and retail grocery trade, which he conducted with great success up to 1849. He then sold his stock of goods and part of his real estate property in Columbus and purchased and moved upon a farm near Fredericktown, this county. Until about 1852 he followed farming, when he and his family came to Mt. Vernon, where he engaged in the mercantile business. This he continued for a number of years. ''Indeed," says Mrs, George, ''during his residence in the city, he was never idle - being always employed either in selling goods, erecting houses, improving property, or farming." In 1875 he purchased and moved to asmall farm, one mile west of Mt. Vernon, on the new Delaware road. Here he lived until June 25, 1879, when his last sickness terminated in his death.

Mr. George was a good citizen, an affectionate husband, and an indulgent father, honest to the heart, and liberal to a fault. His death was a loss to all.

Unto Mr. and Mrs. George five sons and one daughter wer: born; four sons and the daughter are still living, viz: James, William, John, Thomas, and Mary. The sons are living in Mt. Vernon and engaged in business. The daughter, Mary, the widow of the late George Fay, is a resident of Tama City, lowa.

GERHERT, W. P., Fredericktown, dealer in groceries, provisions and notions; was born in Columbus, Ohio, in 1850, and was married in 1870 to Liscettie Chronester, who was born in Mansfield, Ohio, in 1849. They have the following family, viz: Curtis, born in 1871; Jennie, born in 1874; John B., born in 1877.

GETZ, JOHN, Fredericktown, marble and monument manufacturer; was born in Germany in 1845, emigrated with his parents to this country in 1846 and located in Berlin township, Holmes county, Ohio. He was married to Maggie Culler, who was born in Pennsylvania. They had six children: Edwin W., Anna Mary, Grace Geneva, Erma, John and an infant.

Mr. Getz learned the marble cutting trade in Holmes county, and worked at it in the same county. He came to Fredericktown in 1879 and established marble and monumental works. He is doing business on quite an extensive scale, giving employment to a number of hands, and has the best material in the market, employs the best workmen, is a practical mechanic himself, and is prepared to meet all competition of larger towns in prices and quality. He is establishing a good trade, and it is increasing rapidly, as his establishment compares favorably with those of Mt. Vernon and Mansfield.

John Getz enlisted in the late war in 1862, and was a member of company F, One Hundred and Twenty-fifth regiment O. V. I. He continued until the close of the war, and was in the following engagements: Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, Resaca, Kennesaw Mountain, Peach Tree Creek, at Atlanta (several engagements), Jonesborough, Franklin and Nashville, besides a number of smaller engagements. He was honorably discharged.

GHRIST, JAMES F., tailor, Fredericktown, was born in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, in 1829, and was married in 1854 to Sarah L. Latimer, who was born in the same county in 1829. They have three children: Thomas E., born in 1856; Clara M., in 1858; and Orlando P., in 1872.

Mr. Ghrist learned the tailor trade in Galion, Ohio, remained there four years, and then returned to Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania. .He there engaged in the same business, and remained in that State for twenty-five years.

He was a soldier in the late war - a member of company K, Two Hundred and Sixth regiment, Pennsylvania volunteer infantry, and was engaged in the service one year. He returned to Richland county, Ohio, in 1876, and engaged at his trade in Independence and Bellville.

In 1878 he located in Fredericktown, and is doing a custom trade. Mr. Ghrist is a first-class mechanic, and makes cutting @ specialty, doing quite an extensive business.

GIBSON, SAMUEL (deceased), was born in Frederick county, Maryland, and was married to Ruth Elliott, who was born in Montgomery county, Maryland, in 1815. They emigrated to Jefferson county, Ohio, and remained there until the spring of 1818, when they came to Knox county. He bought one quarter section in Richland county.

They had nine children: George W., Sarah, Hannah, John, and Hiram - all born in the State of Maryland. John died in infancy; Ann, who was born in Jefferson county; William, born on the Farquahar farm; Mary (deceased) and Ruth, who were born on the farm where Joseph Crane now resides. Ruth was married to Joseph Crane.

William Farquahar and Henry Roberts settled on the farm where Nicholas Darling resides, in Morris township. They had to cut the road through from Mt. Vernon. They raised corn at that time in that neighborhood fourteen feet high. Basil Farquahar, when fourteen years of age, climbed a stock of corn, which incident is still remembered by some of the older citizens.

GIBSON, GEORGE W., was married to Mary Garrett; they had one daughter, Abigail, who was married to Issachar Gregg. Mr. G. W. Gibson subsequently married Frances Green. There are three of their children living, viz.: Caroline, now Mrs. John Wagner, of Middlebury township; Eliza, now Mrs. Dove; Hiram M., a resident of Berlin; George W., resides on the farm with Hiram M.

GIBSON, HIRAM M., farmer, Berlin township, post office, Fredericktown, was born in Richland county, in a cabin, in 1845, and was married in 1874 to Clara Comfort, who was born in this county in 1851.

GIFFIN, LAURISTON, farmer, post office, Shaler's Mills. He was born in Worcester county, Massachusetts, in 1809, and came to Ohio in 1838, purchasing land in Berlin township, this county. He was married to Lucia F. Willis, who was born in Pittsford, Vermont, in 1812. They had four children: Arminta M., deceased; William C., Emma E., and Mary Alice.

William C. Giffin was married in 1864 to Amy Gower, They have five children living: Mattie May, Charles H., Emma A., Mary L., Herbert L., Lucia J., and Loretta A. The deceased members are Emma A., and Herbert L.

Mr. W. C. Giffin was a soldier during the late war, a member of company H, One Hundred and Forty-second regiment Ohio National guard. He is engaged in farming, threshing, and during the winter is running a mill for grinding feed, which is located at Fredericktown.

Mary Alice was married in 1872 to Columbus W. Smith. They have three children: Burton G., born in 1873; Fannie W., in 1876; and Carl C., in 1879. Mr. Smith is residing with Mr. L. Giffin and farming the home place.

Mr. L. Giffin, when he first came to Knox county, was a citizen of Fredericktown for about eighteen months. He was engaged in manufacturing hair cloth for sofas and chairs.

It was in the days of Judge Ayers. The judge would get Mr. Giffin to break his wild colts that no one had the courage to handle. Judge Ayers positively claimed that Mr. L. Giffin was the champion horseman. :

Mr. Giffin moved on his farm in Berlin township in 1839. He built the first frame house on the street where he now resides. He kept a public house to accommodate the travelling public. Mr. and Mrs. Giffin are very hospitable, and are well remembered by many that shared their hospitality.

GIFFIN, ROBERT, SR., was born in Virginia, November 21, 1813, and came with his father, William Giffin, to New Castle township, Coshocton county, Ohio, at an early age. In March, 1838, he removed to Butler township, and has since resided here. November 16, 1837, he was married to Miss Martha Busenberg, who was born February 11, 1821, in Butler township. They have had eight children, viz: Louisa Giffin, born March 28, 1839; Sarah Catharine, September 16, 1841; Amanda J., March 20, 1843; William B., June 28, 1844; Mary Elizabeth, August 9, 1847; Charles Francis, September 20, 1850; William Monroe, June 5, 1853; Martha Ellen, June 5, 1853. Louisa Giffin died October 2, 1840; William Monroe Giffin, August 14, 1855; Charles Francis Giffin, August 29, 1855; Martha Ellen Giffin, September 9, 1860.

GILBERT, JOHN, son of Samuel and 'Thompson Gilbert, was born in England, March 23, 1836. In 1850 he came with his parents to America, and located in Mt. Vernon. In 1851 he commenced an apprentice at the blacksmith trade in Mt. Vernon, and remained one year; then, in 1852, he came to Monroe Mills, where he finished his apprenticeship in 1854 with Stephen Parmenter. He at once commenced business for himself, purchased Mr. Parmenter's shop and accouterments, in which he worked until 1861, when he erected his present shop at Monroe Mills, in which shop he has since carried on the business of blacksmithing in all its branches.

In 1856 he married Miss Phoebe E. Lybarger, born in Knox county, November, 1838, daughter of Jesse Lybarger. They settled at Monroe Mills, where they now reside. Their union resulted in four children, two sons and two daughters. In May, 1864, he enlisted in company F, of the One Hundred and Fortysecond Ohio volunteer infantry, and served until the close of the war. He was then discharged from the service, returned home and again engaged at his business, which he has since been following.

GILBERT, WILLIAM H., farmer, Liberty township, was born December 28, 1848, near Fredericktown, and is the son of Samuel and Joanna Gilbert zee Hicks.

Samuel Gilbert was born in Devonshire, England, and when about nineteen, came to the United States with his brother John. He remained in New York city two years, and then emigrated to Wayne township, subsequently to Clinton and Hilliar townships, where he died in September 1875. He was twice married, his first wife was Joanna Hicks, who had two children, William H. and Mary E. His second wife was Mrs. D. Marshall, with whom he had four children. She is yet a resident of Hilliar township.

The subject of this notice was reared ona farm, and has always followed farming. November 23, 1872, he married Miss Mary Ann Sharpnack, who is the daughter of Daniel Sharpnack, who was born in Greene county, Pennsylvania, January 23, 1804. He married Miss L. Coleman in Fayette county, Pennsylvania. She was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, August 30, 1803. They came to Ohio about 1838. They are both dead. They had ten children, four of whom are living. Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert have one child, Mary L., born September 25, 1875.

GILMORE, FRANCIS, farmer, Pike township, post office, North Liberty, born in Pike township, this county, July 9, 1839, and was married January 25, 1864, to Mary Jane Loney, who was born in Pike township, this county, September 6, 1844. They have the following children: Mary, born April 12, 1867; John L., January 26, 1874; Blanche, July 21, 1876; William Calvin, April 24, 1879. He owns the old homestead and has resided on it since his marriage.

GILMORE, JOHN, Pike township, farmer, post office, North Liberty, born in Knox county, and was married to Maria Clawson, who was born in Belmont county, Ohio. They had four children: Lovena, Eddie, Willie (deceased), and Walter. Mr. Gilmore is a farmer hy occupation, and has a beautiful farm in Pike township, with all the modern improvements, his buildings being among the very best in this county, and he is a model farmer.

office, Jelloway, was born in Alleghany county, Maryland, November 19, 1804, and remained with his parents until hearrived at the age of twenty-five years, when he was united in marriage with Elizabeth Pierce, who was born in Jefferson county, Ohio, December 2, 1804. After his marriage he moved with his family to Knox county, locating on a farm of one hundred and sixty acres, in Brown township, which he had entered previous to his marriage. There he commenced life ina cabin he had erected previous to coming to said farm. Tle cleared the land, made it ready for the plow, and soon hada fine farm. Said farm is located on the headwaters of Bear run, and is a very pleasant home. He now lives there and is enjoying himself in his old days. By their marriage they became the parents of four children: Elizabeth S., born March 7, 1831, now resides in Mt. Vernon; Rebecca J., November 11, 1833; Mary M., April 23, 1836, now lives in Fredericktown; Jacob H., November 11, 1838, died September 11, 1840.

GLASGOW, JOHN W., Pike township, farmer, post office, Democracy, born in Pike township in 1855, and was married in 1876 to Mary Guthrie, who was born in Pike township in 4853. They have two children, John, born in 1876, and Edith Rachel, in 1878.

GLASGOW, JAMES JR., Pike township, farmer, post office, North Liberty, born in Pike township, this county, September to, 1860, and was married by Rev. W. Ferguson, in Mt. Vernon, September 16, 1880, to Miss Kittie Hively, who was born September 16, 1861. They reside in Knox county, Ohio. His father, James Glasgow, sr., was born January 10, 1809, and was married in 1833 to Nancy Robinson, who was born in 1817. They had four children: Isabella, born in 1835; Nancy, in 1837; Eliza A., 1839; Margaret J., 1842.

Mr, Glasgow subsequently married Alice A. Petterson, born in 1807. They had two children, Robert and James, deceased. Mrs. Alice Glasgow died in 1850. His third marriage was in 1850 to Mary Jane Armstrong, who was born in 1824. They had eight children: Emma, born in 1851; Abigail, in 1853; John, in 1855; Mary, 1858; James, jr., 1860; Robert, 1863; Harvey, 1866, and Elizabeth, 1869. Elizabeth died in 1875. The following are married: Isabella and Samuel Ruby, Nancy and Newton Blair, Eliza and William Reed, Margaret and Nelson Hushberger, Emma and William Dunmire, John and Mary Guthrie, Abigail and [liza ,Guthrie, James, jr., and Kittie Hively.

GLENN, DAVID (deceased), Pleasant township, was 'born in Carlisle, Penneylvania, July 9, 1788. On May 13, 1813, he married Miss Jane McConnell, of Pennsylvania, born in 1792. They settled in Pennsylvania, where they lived until 1847, when, with his wife and ten children, he moved to Ohio, located for one year in Wayne county, then moved to Ashland county, remained two years, and in 1850 moved to Knox county, locating on a farm in Green valley, four miles west of Mt, Vernon. In 1852 he purchased and moved on the farm now owned and occupied by his heirs. February 27, 1869, he died here, aged eightyone years. He was one term in the legislature, and filled the office of justice of the peace for many years, in Pennsylvania. August 27, 1875, his companion died, aged eighty-four years. They reared a family of ten children, viz. : Eliza J., John, James M., David, Nettie E. and Mary A. (twins), George W., Samuel

BROWN, JOSEPH C., farmer, Pleasant township, was born in Cork county, Ireland in 1827, where he grew to manhood. In 1856 he emigrated to America and located in Clermont county, Ohio. In 1861 he came to Knox county, Ohio, where he martied Miss Mary Clark, of College township, March 31st of same year. They returned to Clermont county, where they lived a year; then, in 1862, they moved to this county and located for three years in College township, and in 1865 he purchased and moved on the farm in Pleasant township where they are now living. They have a family of seven children, three sons and four daughters. He has followed farming as his vocation. Miss Clark was born in county Cork, Ireland, November 23, 1833, daughter of Thomas and Mary Clark. She emigrated to America in 3852; lived in Hamilton county, Ohio, three years, and in 1855 came to Knox county.

GLOSSER, LEROY, Fredericktown, carpenter, was born in Fredericktown in 18546, and married in 1874 to Clara Castner, who was born in Woodbury, Pennsylvania, in 1852. They have one son, George E., born August 4, 1878.

Mr. Gordon is engaged in the hardware business in Waterford. He began there in the spring of 1880, and carries 'a general stock of hardware, keeping the stock well supplied, and is ever ready to compete with larger towns in this line of goods. All who need anything in his line will do well to call and see him.

His father, William G. Gordon, was born in Manchester, England, September 17, 1772. He came to America in 1802, and was married in New Jersey September 25, 1809, to Mary Hedden. He now resides in Chester township, Morrow county, Ohio.

GORDON, JOSEPH M. D., Mt. Vernon, was born in Chester county, Pennsylvania, March 6, 1841. His father, Silas Gordon, is of Scotch extraction, and a native of Pennsy]- vania. He married a Miss Coffmam, of the same county. They had a family of ten children, eight of whom are living. In 1853 Mr. Gordon with his family, emigrated to Knox county, Ohio, and located near Mt. Vernon. where they remained some years, and then removed to near Fredericktown, where they yet reside. They are estimable citizens, by ocupation farmers.

Ths subject of this notice spent his youth with his parents on the farm, obtaining his education mostly at the schools of Fredericktown, after which he taught school for several terms. In August, 1861, he enlisted in company A, Twentieth regiment, Ohio volunteer infantry, and participated in the battles of Fort Donelson, Shilo, Corinth, Iuka, Chatahoochie, Savannah, Atlanta, Champion Hills, Marietta, Jonesborough, Kennesaw Mountain, Port Gibson, Jackson, Boliver, Ackwood, Vicksburgh, Raymond, Black Creek, Grand Junction, Goldsborough, Fayetteville, besides numerous minor engagements. He was discharged in the fall of 1864. He began reading medicine in the spring of 1865 with Dr. Russel. After his course of reading he graduated at the Jefferson Medical college, of Philadelphia in 1868, and remained for a short time in New Jersey. He then came to Mt. Vernon, where he began practice, and soon succeeded in building up an excellent reputation. He is president of the Knox County Medical society, and clerk of the board of education. He married Miss Clara L. Corey in 1871. They have three children, viz: Mary P., Lula M., and Stella S.

GOWER, SAMUEL, Pike township; farmer; post office, North Liberty, was born in Washington county, Maryland, in 1817, and came to Ohio in 1824. He first settled in Stark county, and remained there till 1840, when he came to Pike township, Knox county. He was married in 1841, to Elizabeth Jane Kirkpatrick, who was born in Harrison county, Ohio, in 1822. They have seven. children, viz: Mary, born in 1842; William, in 1844; Amy, in 1846; Nancy, in 1847; Washington, in 1849; Martha, in 1852, and John, in 1855.

Samuel Gower's father, Jacob Gower, deceased, was born in Virginia, in 1785, emigrated to Maryland, and was married to Mary Swope in 1815. They had three children, viz: Samuel, Martha and an infant child. Mr. Gower settled in Pike township in 1840, and remained there until his death in 1869. Mrs. Mary Gower died in 1871. They were among the earliest setlers. Mr. Jacob Gower was a soldier in the War of 1812.

GOWER, WASHINGTON, Pike township; farmer; post office, North Liberty, born in Pike township, Knox county, Ohio, in 1849, and was married in 1879, to Mary E. Cutman, who was born in Switzerland. They have one daughter: Alice Ardella, born in 1879.

GRAHAM, SAMUEL,, Mt. Vernon, deceased, a native of Pennsylvania; was born September 23, 1794, and came to Ohio in company with two of his brothers in 1808 and located near Newark, Licking county. On the eleventh of September, 1817, he married Miss Eliza Curtis, daughter of Zarah and Phalley Curtis and sister of our worthy townsman Henry B. Curtis. Miss Curtis was born in the State of New York June 30, 1794, and came to Licking county, Ohio, with her parents in 1810, who located near Newark. Mr. and Mrs Graham settled on a farm in Newark township, same county, where he followed farming for many years. They had eight children. The oldest child, Marion, deceased when very young; Maria' died at the age of sixteen years. In 1839 he, with wife and six children, moved to this county and located ona farm in Clinton township, where he deceased June 21, 1842, with what was then known as milk sickness. Three of the children, William H., Ralph O. and Curtis G., died with the same disease within one week after their father's death, leaving the mother and three children, Samuel H., Sarah J. and Eveline C., to mourn their loss. Mrs, Graham remained in the county until 1854, when

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Samuel H. Graham died at Chicago, Illinois, April, 1877; Sarah J. married Roland Beach, and is now living near Mt. Vernon in Clinton township; Eveline C, married William Carey and now lives in Liberty township, this county.

GRANDLE, MANUEL, farmer, Milford township, was born in Licking county, in 1833. Jacob Grandle, his father, came from Virginia about 1824, and settled in Licking county. He married Elizabeth Conard, and they had a family of eight children, five of whom are living. The subject of this notice was reared on a farm, and has always followed farming as his occupation.

In 1859 he went to Iowa in a two-horse wagon, and located in Linn county, where he remained twelve years, and then returned to Ohio, settling in Milford township, where he has resided ever since. He is one of the leading men of the township. His farm is well improved, and gives evidence of careful Management. He married Miss Rachel Ann Jaggers, in 1859, who was born April 30, 1834. She is the daughter of David and Ann Jaggers.

David Jaggers was born in New Jersey, September 20, 1803. He married Anna Brown August 3, 1833. She was born in Knox county, August, 1809. Mr. Jaggers died in 1844, and Mrs. Jaggers died in December, 1876. They had five children, Mrs. Grandle being the only child living. Mr. and Mrs. Grandle had three children born to them, two of whom are dead. Frank A., a promising boy, born November 9g, 1867, is their only living Child.

GRANT, BENJAMIN, general business agency, Weaver block, Mt. Vernon. Mr. Grant is a native of Orleans county, Vermont, where he was born January 2, 1823, and resided there thirty years, during which time he received a good education in the Derby Literary institute, and was engaged in the mercantile business.

In the year 1853 he emigrated to Ohio, and located in Mt. Vernon, where he engaged in the grocery and dry goods business, which he followed for three years. From 1856 to 1861 he was engaged in general business, travelling in most all parts of the country. He was appointed, August 19, 1861, assessor of internal revenue, in which he was retained until October 1, 1866. He then engaged in the boot and shoe trade, which he conducted until 1870, and was also appointed deputy collector and assistant assessor in 1866, in which he remained until 1873. Since then he has been engaged in general business up to the present.

Mr. Grant has the necessary talents and judgment to enable him to successfully conduct or transact any kind of business without an extended experience; but, in addition to these advantages, he has had about thirty-three years of practical business experience in an unusual variety of different kinds of business, many of which were of the most difficult and complicated kind. But he has invariably succeeded in rendering entire satistaction to the parties interested. His natural abilities and past experience in various business operations in the country are a sufficient guaranty that any business entrusted to him will receive prompt attention, and will be in safe and competent hands.

GRAY, REV. ]. H., pastor of the Methodist Protestant church of Mt. Vernon, was born June 11, 1854, in Zanesville, where he was educated. He is.a son of Rey. H. L. Gray. He became a member of the church when fifteen years of age; at seventeen he was licensed to exhort, and at the age of twentyone years was licensed to preach, and was appointed by the conference at Zanesville to the Page circuit in Morgan county , where he rema ned one year. He then went to Attica, Seneca county, Ohio, where he organized a congregation and erected a house of worship; remained three years and then came to Mt. Vernon and took charge of the Mulbery Methodist Protestant church, where he is now located.

GREAR, SILAS, Union township, farmer, post office, Gann, born July 25, 1822, in Jefferson township. In 1849 he was married to Amanda Bradfield, and settled in Coshocton county, Ohio, where he was engaged in the mill business until 1856, when he sold the mill property and bought one hundred and twenty acres of land near the same place, and lived here until April 1, 1860, when he moved to Mt. Holly and engaged in the mercantile trade until 1865. Then he bought a farm ino Union township, where he now lives. He had the following children: Winfield, born in 1849; Cecelia, 1852; Clementine, 1855; Francis, 1857; Clifford, 1860; Newton, 1863; Charming, 1866, and Murtilla, 1869. Francis died December ro, 1862; Clementine November 9, 186:.

GREAR, E. D., Howard township, farmer, post office, Howard, was bornin Maryland, July 31, 1842. He went to Stark county, Ohio, in 1855, and worked at farming five years, but not liking it changed his occupation and engaged in the sale of agricultural implements. After three years he left this business and commenced herding cattle on the Mexican plains for Mr. Jacob Sager at sixty dollars per month, expenses paid. But this was connected with much exposure and many hardships, and he began to think that the old farming business, though slow, was sure, and so, December 25, he married and settled in Knox county, Ohio, on a rented farm, and in 1869 he came to his present home. He had three children, two of whom are now living, Mary and Johnny.

GREGG, ISSACHER, farmer, Berlin township, post office, Shalers Mills, was born in Loudoun county, Virginia, in 1832. He came to Ohio with his parents when a child, and was married'to Abigail Gibson, who was born in Richland, near the line of Knox county. Her mother died when she was two years of age; she then went to live with her grandparents, Samuel and Ruth Gibson. Mr. and Mrs. Gregg have two sons, Charles Allen and Albert Sherman. Mr. Gregg was a resident of Richland county for about two years, at the end of which time he came to Berlin township. He is a farmer by occupation. *

GREEN, WILLIAM, farmer, Monroe township, is a native of England, and was born in Kent county, July 13, 1810. In 1830 he engaged in butchering in London, and continued in it for about five years. In 1835 he emigrated to America, locating in Rochester, New York, where he again engaged in the butchering business, which he continued about six months, after which he engaged in farming. In 1837 Mr. Green returned to England for the purchase of some Southdown and Leicester returned to America with the sheep he had purchased while absent. He settled at Rochester and engaged in sheep raising. In September, 1837, he was united by marriage to Miss Mary

Mr. and Mrs. Green remained in Monroe county, New York, for two years. In 1839 they came to Ohioand located in Monroe township, Knox county, on the farm now owned by Thomas Harris. He still continued at sheep raising, having brought with him thirteen of his Southdown and Leicester sheep,' they being the first sheep of the kind ever brought into Knox county. Mr. Green remained on the Monroe township farm for about two years, when he purchased and removed to a farm in Delaware county, Ohio. On this last named farm he remained about six years. In 1847 Mr. Green purchased the farm in Monroe township now owned by him, where he and his family have resided ever since. Their first residence was a hewed log house, twenty-four by thirty, which stood on the north side of the road from where his present residence stands. The old log house served them as an abode until 1859, when he erected his present frame residence.

Mr. Green continued in the sheep raising business until 1867, when he sold his sheep and gave his attention to feeding cattle. This business he has since followed in connection with farming. He owns about two hundred and fifty acres of land in Monroe township. He has cultivated his land, and enriched it so highly, that he can raise forty bushels of wheat, and seventy bushels of corn to theacre. He has everything arranged for convenience on his farm. He has an engine, a corn-sheller, a French burr, on which he grinds his own feed for his cattle. He also has a saw mill, which he runs by the same engine, and it is so arranged that it furnishes the power for threshing his grain. In fact it is one of the most convenient arrangements that can be found in the county for farm use. '

Mr. Green is known all over the county as being one of the leading farmers. He is the father of four children, William H., Maria, Mary, and Charles, all of whom are living and married.

GREEN, CHARLES, farmer, Berlin township, post office, Fredericktown; was born in this county, May 26, 1827, and was married in 1854, to emily Ewers, who was born in Virginia, April 15, 1826. Her parents emigrated to Ohio when she was five years of age. They have one son (Wilson), who was born April 3, 1857. He is married to Laura White, and lives in Palmyra.

GREENLEL, ARCHIBALD, notary public, lredericktown; was born in Belmont county, Ohio, July 3, 1807; was married in April, 1832, to Margaret 1°. Bonar, who was born in Knox county, February 3, 1812. 'They had the following family, viz: Mary A., born May 21, 1834; James, born November 16, 1838. Barnett B., born December 5, 1842; Charles, born September 11, 1846; Margaretta, born October 5, 1849.

Mrs. Margaret Greenlee died December 25, 1852, in Mt. Vernon. Mr. Greenlee was again married to Catharine Beaver, who was born in Union county, Pennsylvania, January 25, 1819. They had the following family, viz: Thomas B., born December 29, 1855; Lizzie, born November 15, 1861; also two deceased children.

Mr. Greenlee came to Knox county in 1833. He was engaged in the furniture business for some years. He afterwards became an attorney at law. He has been a justice of the peace in Wayne township over thirty years. He stands fully identifed with the public interests of Knox county, and has done much to promote the advancement and improvement of society. He is one of the active men of this county, although he is now living a more retired life, and ¢ommands the confidence and esteem of the community. He has been a member and elder of the Presbyterian church forty-eight years.

GREER, ROBERT (deceased), Jefferson township, born in the county of Antrim, Ireland, March 12, 1806; when at the age of twenty years he sailed, in company with his mother, two brothers, and four sisters, for America, landing in Baltimore, Maryland, August 22, 1826, where they remained until 1827, when they moved to Jefferson township, Knox county, locating on the place now owned by Thomas Greer. Here he remained with the family two years. On the sixteenth of April, 1829, he united in marriage with Sarah Severns, daughter of Joseph and Mahala Severns, born in Monongalia county, Virginia, April 14, 1803. After his marriage he moved on the farm now owned by Levi Butler, where he remained about five years, during which time he purchased a farm of one hundred and sixty acres southwest of and adjoining the village of Greersville, where he then moved, and remained until 1841. During that time he laid out the village of Greersville, which was in 1836, from whom it derived its name. In the spring of 1841 he opened a dry goods store in Greersville, and continued to do business, and farming in connection, until 1857; he then moved back on the farm, where_he remained until his death, which occurred March 13, 1865, aged fifty-nine years ten months and one day. Sarah Greer, his companion, died in 1869, aged sixty-six years six months and twenty-seven days.

Mr. and Mrs. Greer became the parents of one child, a son, Alexander W., born February 7, 1830, who now lives on and owns the old farm formerly owned by his father.

GREER, ALEXANDER W., farmer, post office Greersville, son of Robert and Sarah Greer, was born in Jefferson township, Knox county, February 7, 1830, where he was reared and educated. On the eighteenth of May, 1856, at the age of twenty-six years, he was united in marriage with Miss Caroline Baker, a daughter of Philip and Sarah Baker, who was born in Jefferson township, Knox county, December 26, 1835. In 1857, after his marriage, he located in the town of Greersville, where he engaged in the mercantile business, in which he continued about three years, when he sold his store to A. C. Tuttle. He still remained in town and farmed his home place for his father until 1863, when he purchased a new stock of dry goods and opened a new store in the town of Greersville, where he continucd to sell goods eleven years, in connection with farming, when he sold the store to J. J. Freiermuth. Mr. Greer is at present giving his attention to farming. He is.a good farmer, and now resides on and owns the old farm formerly owned by his father, and is among the most desirable farms of Jefferson township.

GREER, RICHARD, Jefferson townnship, deceased, was born in 1810, October roth, in county Antrim, Ireland, near Belfast. In 1827 he came to America, and was married September 20, 1838, to Lydia Remmington, who was born Novem- ber 27, 1814, in Coshocton county, Ohio. Richard and Lydia Greer became the father and mother of three children, viz: William E., Thomas E., and Robert A. Thomas E. is the only child who yet survives. »Robert A. enlisted in the late war, November, 1861, and died near Corinth, Mississippi. He belonged to company K, Forty-third Ohio volunteer infantry.

Richard Greer was sick for years with inflammatory rheumatism, of which he died December 14, 1878, in his sixty-eighth year. His companion survives him in her sixty-sixth year, living with her son Thomas, on the farm formerly owned by her husband. Mr. Greer held the office of township treasurer. Mr. Greer was a member of the Wesleyan church, of Greersville. Mrs. Greer is also a member of said church.

GREER, THOMAS, farmer, post office, Greérsville, a son of Richard and Lydia Greer, born in Jefferson township, Knox county, January 5, 1842, where he was reared and received a common school education. After he became of age he still remained at home and farmed for his father. This he continued until May 2, 1864, when he enlisted in the One Hundred and Forty-second Ohio volunteer infantry, company F, under A. B. Cummings, of Jelloway, where he served until the second day of September of the same year, when he was honorably discharged and mustered out of service at Columbus, Ohio. He then returned home and assumed his old business of farming, which he has since continued. In 1867, January 2oth, he married Miss Minerva Shrimplin, daughter of Absalom and Priscilla Shrimplin, born in Knox county, Butler township, December 6, 1840. Their marriage resulted in three children, viz: Robert A. Greer, born January 9, 1868; Charles E., September 8, 1869; Fordyce F., June 5, 1876; all of whom are living. Mr. Greer has held the office of trustee of said township.

GREER, ALEXANDER, deceased. - Mr. Alexander Greer was one of the pioneers of Jefferson township. His parents were natives of Antrim county, Ireland, and about the year 1800 emigrated to America and settled in Washington county, Pennsylvania, where, on the eleventh of March, 1805, the subject of this sketch was born. In r811 John Greer, father of Alexander, moved to Knox county and located in its eastern portion, at or very near the site of the present village of Rossville, in Union township. There they remained a few years and then settled upon an improved tract of land situated about two miles north of the present village of Danville, where Alexander spent the years of his minority, working industriously in clearing land and in farm labor generally. He attended school in winter and managed to secure a limited education. He was a young man of good mind and excellent habits. Of quick perceptions, he early became familiar with the practical affairs of life. He was of studious habits, a careful reader and close observer; his mind was soon stored with useful knowledge, and an unusual fund of information for one of his years and limited opportunities.

In August, 1826, Alexander Greer entered into the married relation with Margaret Robeson, who is still living. He settled upon a tract of woodland he purchased of the Government, situated a little more than a mile north of the present village of Danville, and had there the usual experiences, hardships and privations incident to pioneer life. _ Here, being industrious, frugal and temperate, he made life a success, and acquired more than a competency. He had the well merited reputation of a man of integrity, and of one who favored educational enterprises and whatever tended to promote good morals, religion,

Mr. Greer served as justice of the peace of Jefferson township for twelve years, deciding about one thousand cases. Few appeals were taken from his deeisions, and none were reversed. In 1859 he was elected treasurer of Knox county, but his health failed him and he had to discharge its duties by deputy, consequently he was not a candidate for reelection.

Alexander Greer's death took place March 24, 1868, at the age of sixty-three years, his widow and some children surviving him. He reached the end of a well spent life in philosophic composure and Christian resignation, and was mourned by many surviving neighbors, friends and acquaintances, who knew him as one who had been faithfulin all the varied relations of son, brother, husband, father, magistrate, friend, neighbor, patriot, and Christian.

GREER, HENRY HARRISON, Mt. Vernon, lawyer, was born in Knox county, Ohio, July 22, 1837. He spent his youth on a farm. He attended school at Millwood, Haysville, and Denrison university, and commenced reading law with Messrs. Delano, Sapp & Smith. The firm dissolving, he finished his course of reading with Walter H. Smith, esq. He was admitted to the bar May 8, 1860. His father having been elected treasurer of Knox county, he (Henry) entered the office as deputy treasurer.

In 1861 young Greer was nominated by the Republican party as their candidate for treasurer, and waselected. He continued in that position until 1864. He declined nominaticn for another term. He commenced the practice of law with the Hon. W. R. Sapp in 1865, and continued with him until April, 1869, when he took charge of the Hon. W. H. Smith's practice, and found about one hundred cases on the docket. Since that time he has practiced alone.

Mr. Greer was married to Miss Josie I. Gaines, of Knox county, September 18, 1860. Two children are the issue of this union - a daughter and a son. The daughter, Millie G., was born September 12, 1863, and the son, Robert, was born April 15, 1867.

The great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch was Major Alexander Greer, who emigrated to America from County Antrim, Ireland, about the year 1785. He settled in Washington county, Pennsylvania. He had three children, one of whom was Colonel John Greer, the grandfather of Henry. Alex_ ander Greer (Henry's father) who was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, in 1805. He came to Knox county, Ohio, in 1810 or 1811, and settled in Union township, and was one of the very early settlers of the county. He remained in Union township two or three years, when he removed to Jefferson township, where he resided up to the time of his death, which event occurred in 1849. Mr. Alexander Greer had been twice married.

GRIFFITH, B. L., farmer, Pike township, post office, North Liberty; born in Chester county, Pennsylvania, in 1839, and was married in 1867 to Rachel Hiner, who was born in Ashland county, Ohio, in 1844. They have two sons: William M., born November 22, 1868; and Calvin J., born May 23, 1870. Mr.

and was married in 1870 to Mary E. Mishey, who was born in this township in 185r. They have one daughter, Ella Lizzie, born December 24, 1874. Mr. Griffith emigrated with has parents to Wayne county, Ohio, in 1855, and remained there one year then removed to Pike township, this county. He isa farmer, and an active and honorable citizen.

GRUBB, DANIEL H., retired, post office, North Liberty, was born near Hagerstown, Maryland, in 1799; his parents emigrated to Huntingdon county, Pennsylvania, and remained there until 1830; he then came to Ohio and located in Pike township. He was married in 1823 to Elizabeth Broombaugh, who was born in Woodbury township, Bedford county, Pennsylvania, February 25, 1807. They had 'thirteen children, viz.: Anna, born in Pennsylvania February 19, 1826; Samuel, November 8, 1827; Elizabeth, September 11, 1829; Mary Ann, born in Pike township December 13, 1831; Henry, December 4, 1834; Daughter, November, 1836; Daniel B., December 13, 1838; Esther, December 5, 1844; Levi, April 14, 1843; Catharine, April 4, 1845; Joseph, May 26, 1847; Lncinda, June 2, 1849; Isaac, June 7, 1851; and Lavina, August 1, 1853. Mrs. Elizabeth Grubb died June 25, 1870, aged sixty-three years, three months and twenty-nine days. Anna died in Pennsylvania August 8, 1830, and Mary A., December 9, 1832.

Mr. Grubb learned the tanner trade in the east; he built the first tannery in this part of the county; he tanned by the old process, which made the very best leather; his reputation as an honest man was extensively known. He and his wife were members of the German Baptist church. He is a pioneer of this township, and has reared a large and respectable family, most of whom are married and have left the paternal roof. He still survives, has a good memory and health; he resides with his son, Daniel B.

GRUBB, SAMUEL, farmer, Pike township, was born in Bedford county, Pennsylvania, in 1824, and was married in 1845 to Mary Zook, who was born in this township in 1824. They had seven chiidren - David, born in 1846; Joseph, in 1848; Sarah Elizabeth, in 1849; Daniel, in 1852; Mary Ellen, in 1860; Ezra, in 1862; and Amanda, in 1864. Mary Ellen died in 1861, and Ezra in 1864. David is married to Mary Jane Silcot; Joseph to Elizabeth Moore - both families living in Mt. Vernon, Sarah E, is married to Isaac Hess, and lives in Richland county; and Daniel to Maggie Cunau, of this township.

Mrs. Grubb's father, David Zook, was born in Bedford county, Pennsylvania. He was married in 1817 to Nancy Mock, who was born in Adams county, Pennsylvania, in 1795. They had the following children: John, born in 1818; Catharine, in 1819; Elizabeth, in 1821; Jacob, in 1822; Joseph, in 1823; Mary, in 1824; Alexander, in 1826; Louisa, in 1828; Hannah, in 1829; Lydia, in 1831; Sally, in 1833; and David, in 1835.

GRUBB, JOSEPH, farmer, post. office, North Liberty, was born in this township May 26, 1847. He is a son of Daniel H. Grubb, and is engaged in farming on the David Leedy farm. He is a young man of good habits.

GRUBB, ISAAC, teacher, post office, North Liberty, was born in this township, and received a liberal English education in the common branches. He engaged in teaching district schools a number of terms, and in the spring of 1881 he started in a theological course in the Ashland college. He is a prominent member of the German Baptist church, and in some future day will be a minister of that church.

GRUBB, HENRY, farmer and stock raiser; son of Daniel H. and Elizabeth Grubb; was born in Pike township, this county, December 4, 1834. In 1856 he married Miss Mary A. Jeffries, born in Stark county, Ohio, September 15, 1835, and came with her mother in 1841 to this county. Mr. and Mrs. Grubb settled in Pike township, remained two years, then moved to Morris township where they remained until 1874, when they purchased and moved onthe farm in Monroe township where they now reside. They have four children, three sons and one daughter.

GRUBB, DANIEL B., Pike township, farmer, post office, North Liberty; born in Pike township, Knox county, in 1838, and was married in 1874 to Catharine Betchel, who was born in Bedford county, Pennsylvania, in 1847. They have one son, Lawrence E., who was born in 1876.

GUTHRIE, DAVID, Pike township, deceased; born in Pennsylvania in 1796, and was married in 1820 to Mary Ann Kirkpatrick, who was born in 1802. They had six children: Jane, Ann, Elizabeth, Hugh, Samuel, and Sarah. Mrs. Ann Guthrie died in 1833. Mr. Guthrie was afterwards married to Sarah Parish, who was born in Trumbull county, Ohio, in 1812. They had ten children: William, David C., Francis M., Rachel, Jane, John, Elza, Nancy, Mary, and Nathan. Mr. Guthrie died in 1870.

GUTHRIE, JOHN N., farmer; post office, Democracy. He was born in Pike township on June 1, 1847. He is a member ofa pioneer family. He is a carpenter.

GUTHRIE, JOHN, farmer, Berlin township, post office, Shaler's Mills, was born in Knox county, in 1845. He was married, in 1873, to Rachel Cole, who was born in Berlin township, in 1851. They had five children: Marilla, born in 1874; James'A., born in 1875; infant (deceased); Arabella, born in 1878; Maude, in 1880.

GUY, JOHN (deceased), was born in Chester county, Pennsylvania, on the twenty-fifth day of January, 1792. He emigrated to Washington county, Pennsylvania, where he married Miss Mary Woodburn, in 1819, a native of Ireland, born in 1790, and migrated to America in 1810. They settled in Washington county, Pennsylvania, near Alexander, and remained there until in 1853, when he sold his farm and moved to Utica, Licking county, Ohio, remained about one year and a half, when, in 1855, he purchased and moved on the farm now owned by his son John, in Clinton township, Knox county, where they passed the remainder of their days. His wife deceased March 19, 1863, aged seventy-three years. He deceased April 1, 1876, He served in the War of 1812. They reared a family of five children: Joseph S., John, Martha J.. Elizabeth, and Margaret. Only two of the above named are now living, John and Martha.

GUY, JOHN, farmer, second son of John Guy, deceased, was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, October 28, 1822, and came with his parents to Knox county, Ohio, in 1855. He married Miss Emeline Lafever in 1859, daughter of Thomas P. and Eliza Lafever, who was born in 1836. They settled on his father's home farm, where they are now living. Their union resulted in two children (daughters). He has followéd farming as his vocation.

HADLEY, ISAAC, of the First ward, Mt. Vernon, is a New Yorker by birth. From the age of fifteen he has been a resident of Mt. Vernon, and has been honored by his fellow cititens, not only with their confidence and respect, but he has been placed in offices of profit as well as of honor, and faithfully and honorably has he discharged the duties of his several posts.

Mr. Hadley was born in the town of Willsborough, Essex sounty, New York, January 14, 1795, within sight of the waters of Lake Champlain, since made famous' by Commodore Mc- Donough's victory, September 11, 1814. In 1810 Mr. Hadley's father, with his family, came to Ohio, and settled in the county of Knox. His father, Mr. Smith Hadley, was born August 14, 1765, and died February 4, 1850, aged eighty-five years, five months, and twenty days.

November 9, 1825, Mr. Isaac Hadley was married to Miss Sarah Davidson, of Mt. Vernon. She was born in Knox county, November 22, 1805, and deceased January 16, 1873, in the sixty-ninth year of her age. To Mr. and Mrs. Hadley were born seven children, six of whom are still living. Four reside in this city, one in Iowa, and one in Bellaire, Ohio.

Mr. Hadley's public life has been a remarkable one, having, for twenty-four years, held commissions, either from the President of the United States, or from the Governor of Ohio. Mr. Hadley acted as sheriff and postmaster, at the same time, four years.

April 28, 1830, he received the appointment of deputy United States marshal, and served as such four years. During that time he took the census of Knox county, and in the discharge of that duty he visited every house and every family at that time within the limits of the county.

August 12, 1831, Postmaster General Barry appointed him postmaster at Mt. Vernon. He served in that capacity about nine years. In 1832 he was appointed by General Bevins, deputy sheriff. In 1834 he was elected and commissioned sheriff of Knox county, and in October, 1836, he was reelected, without opposition; thus, with his own four years, he was acting as sheriff six years.

Mr. Hadley was appointed clerk of the court of common pleas April 13, 1839, and served seven years, that being the constitutional limit. In 1834 Governor Robert Lucas commissioned him as paymaster of the volunteer brigade of Knox county, with the rank of major.

April 30; 1863, he was appointed and commissioned by the President of the United States, commissioner, with the rank of major, for the Thirteenth Ohio Congressional district, composed of the counties of Knox, Licking, Muskingum, and Coshocton, and served as such until the close of the rebellion, and was honorably discharged.

'Notwithstanding his fourscore years, few men in the prime of their manhood can compete with Mr. Hadley in the discharge of the duties of every-day life.

HAGERTY, MORRIS, Fredericktown, merchant, was born in New Jersey, 1844; came to Ohio in 1869; located in Fredericktown, and was married in 1873 to Anna Adams, who was born in Knox county, Ohio: They have one son, Hugh, who was born in 1875.

Mr. Hagerty is a member of the firm of Hill & Hagerty, dealers in hardware, established in 1872. They carry a complete stock, and an extensive line of goods in the hardware

HAGERTY, WILLIAM H., Wayne township, carpenter, post office, Mt. Vernon, born 'in Muskingum county, August 22, 1845, and married August 26, 1877, to Alice King, who was born.in Mt. Vernon, July 18, 1850. They had the following children: Bessie F., born June 19, 1872; Nellie, September 27, 1873, and Edna, August 17, 1877, who died June r2, 1878.

HAIDEN, JOHN K., farmer, was born in Hilliar township, in March, 1838. His father, David Haiden, was born in Pennsylvania. His mother was a Virginian by birth, and when quite young went to Pennsylvania. His father came to Morgan township about 1832 and purchased a tract of land, and then returned to Pennsylvania and married Miss Sarah Bottenfield, and the following year moved to Ohio and remained in Morgan township until March, 1837, when he came to Hilliar township and purchased a farm on the Parker section. He built his cabin and began to clear the land and make for himself and family a home, a future dwelling place. He died on the old homestead August 6, 1859, aged about fifty-five years; his wife survived him until March, 1878, aged near seventy-four years. Thus ended all that was mortal of two of Hilliar township's most esteemed and respected citizens. They have passed away, but left their impress on the minds and hearts of those they left behind. ;

In the ''old cabin" the subject of this notice was born. He was an only child, and was reared with solicitude. His home training, by Christian parents, was kind but firm; his youth was thus spent. He assisted on the farm during the summer and attended school during the winter.: He attended a select school at Centreburgh, and made fine progress in his studies. He never availed himself of a collegiate course. He is self educated to a great degree; studied at home, searched tor the 'fountain of knowledge" by himself; he delved deep and revealed the hidden treasure; is a ready and impressive speaker; deals in facts rather than rhetoric; is a good debater, a close observer, and a deep thinker; a well informed man. He is unassuming, affable and pleasant in his manners, and social in his habits, and a leading member of the Cumberland Presbyterian church. ;

HAIR, OSCAR, Middlebury township, farmer, post office, Fredericktown, born in Utica, Licking county, September 15, 1842, and was married in 1865 to Emily Rapp, who was born in Knox county in 1844. They have four children, viz.:, William L., born August 30, 1867; Charles W., born December 7, 1870; Wiley E., born July 22, 1872; Clara B.,, born January 14, 1874; Mr. Hair has been a citizen of this township about fifteen years, and owns a good farm.

HALL, JOSEPH W., Berlin township, farmer and stock dealer, post office, Shaler's Mills, was born in Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, in 1812. In 1815 his parents emigrated to Holmes county, Ohio, and lived for some time in a mile from his house. He has the water conducted through stone pipes to his house and barn, and has a beautiful foyntain in the front yard. The water is cool, pure and inexhaustible. Mr. Hall has been a very extensive dealer in stock, and in shipping horses and cattle to the eastern States. In Ohio and other States he is widely known as a man of superior judgment in business affairs. Mr. Hall was married in 1838 to Rachel Waddell, who was born in Belmont county, Ohio, in 1816. Their children are James M., born in 1838; David F., in 1841; Phillip C., in 1842; William A. B., in 1844; George W. S., in 1846; Susan S., in 1849; John W., in 1850; and Rigdon P., in 1855. The deceased members are James W., who died September 22, 1847; David F., August 3, 1855; Susan (Mrs. Phillips), died in Berlin township.

HALL, JOHN M., farmer and stock dealer, post office, Shaler's Mills. He was born in Holmes county, Ohio, and was married to Amanda Durben, who was born in Knox county. They have one daughter, Nellie. Mr. Hall devotes most of his time to buying, selling and shipping horses and cattle. In this he is very successful.

HALL, J. N., Hilliar township, carpenter, Rich Hill post office, was born in Chester county, Pennsylvania, August 20, 1829. Ten years later his parents, George and Jane Hall, nee Cherry, came to Ohio, and remained one year in Guernsey county, and then moved to Delaware county, purchasing a tract of one hundred and forty acres of land. The parents both died on the land on which they settled in 1840. The father died in 1858. The mother survived her husband until 1876.