Knox County, Ohio - Biographical sketches, 1881 (part 8 of 20)

The subject of this brief notice remained on the farm until he was nineteen years of age, when he went to learn the carpenter trade. He built a number of the buildings in Knox and Delaware counties. Heis a good workman, and aims to do justice to those who employ him, and is held in high esteem by the community, who know him to be an honest man. He was married to Miss Nancy Hupp, of Knox county, April 5, 1855. His wife died in 1871. They hada family of five children, all of whom are living, viz.: Sarah Jane, married to George Patton; Julia A., Mary Lutetia, Laura, and Robert M., living at home.

HALL, THOMAS J., Pleasant township, farmer, son of Francis and Harriet Hall, born in England, November 7, 1833, was brought to America by his parents in 1836, who located in Connecticut, and remained there until 1849, when they emigrated to Mt. Vernon, Knox county, Ohio. He remained in Mt. Vernon working in the woollen factory two years, and clerked in a grocery store until 1853, when he moved to California, where he remained seven years, then, in 1860, he returned to Knox county, remained a while, then moved to Zanesville, Ohio, and commenced working with H. & F. Blandy, in their machine shop, doing the wood work for machinery.

In 1862 he married Miss Emily Hillier, born in Zanesville, Ohio, October 3, 1836, daughter of Thomas and Sarah Hillier. They settled in Zanesville, remained until 1873, then purchased and moved on the farm where they are now living, in Pleasant township, two and a half miles from Mt. Vernon, on the Gambier road.

HALL, E. M., physician and surgeon, Fredericktown, was born near Delaware, Ohio, October 31, 1845, removed with his parents to Morrow county, Ohio, when a child, and in August, 1862, left school to join the One Hundred and Twenty-first regiment Ohio volunteer infantry, remained with it until 1864, when he was severely wounded in one of the battles before Atlanta, Georgia, and was mustered out in 1865. For the next six years he was engaged in preparing himself for the practice of medicine.

Immediately after graduation, in the spring of 1871, he located in Fredericktown, where he has been engaged in the practice of medicine. He was married in 1874 to Laura B. Nevius, daughter of Aaron and Susan Nevius, who were among the earlier settlers of this county. They have two daughters, Mary and Aletheia.

HALL, JOSEPH K., farmer and dealer in stock; post office, Shaler's Mills; was born in this county in 1853, and was married in 1879 to Mattie W. Knox, who was born in Holmes county in 1859. Mr. Hall is one of the enterprising farmers of this township. He also engaged quite extensively in dealing in stock.

HALL, LANE, Jackson township, farmer, post office, Bladensburgh, is a native of Jackson township, and was born on the ninth of August, 1855. He is a son of Obadiah Hall, one of the pioneers of Jackson township. July 2, 1879, he was martied to Mary B. McCamment, who was born in Clay township on the twenty-first day of January, 1861. Politically Mr. Hall is a Republican.

HALL, WILLIAM B., Berlin township, farmer and stock dealer, post office, Shalers Mills, was born in Holmes county, Ohio, in 1844, came to this county in 1855, and was married in 1868, to Margaret Knight, who was born in Holmes county in 1845. They had two daughters, Leila, born in March, 1874, and Jennie R., in June, 1875. Mr. Hall is engaged in farming, buying and selling stock.

HALL, GEORGE S., Berlin township, farmer, post office Fredericktown, was born in 1846, and married in 1872, to Mira M. Auten, who was born in Berlin township, Knox county, Ohio, in 1852. They have two children: Alice, born in 1873, and Joseph, born in 1875.

HALSEY, D. F., farmer, son of Henry and Elizabeth Halsey, was born in Flanders, Morris county, New Jersey, July 18, 1808. In 1830 he married Miss Lucinda Wolfe, born in New Jersey, in 1807. They settled on a farm in their native county, and remained nine years, then, in 1839, emigrated to Knox county, Ohio, and located in Hilliar township, near Rich Hills. He purchased and moved on a farm, where they lived until 1853, when he purchased and moved on the farm where they are now living, in Clinton township. They reared a family of five children: Henry, Jacob, Lydia A., Mahlon K., and Emeline E. Henry and Lydia A. have died.

Mr. Halsey has made farming his principal business through life. He filled the office of township clerk for three years in Hilliar township, and acted as justice of the peace in the same township one term, being elected in 1849. He also filled the office of county commissioner, from 1869 to 1875.

HAMILTON, REV. J. H., pastor of the Methodist Protestant church; is a son of the Rev. William Hamilton, a native of Virginia, who located in Muskingum county in 1805. He was born in Muskingum county, Ohio, July 23, 1826, andis one ofa family of twelve children, all of whom lived to maturity, and ten of whom were sons who averaged six feet in height and were all men of fine mental and physical development. He received his preparatory education in the district schools, and commenced to preach when but seventeen years of age and has been a faithful aud zealous minister of the cross ever since. He united with the Muskingum conference when eighteen years old and was ordained when twenty-one years, which was in 1847, since wkich he has had the pastoral care of the following churches, viz: Coshocton, Muskingum and Licking, four years; the church at Louets two years, Circleville two years, Steubenville, five years, Newcomerstown one year, McConnellsville two years; after which he served as president of the conference one year. He canfé to Knox county in 1857, and took charge of the church at Fredericktown, in which he remained seven years and during which he took an active part in everything that was conducive to the moral and religious development of the community. In 1860 he came to Mt. Vernon and took charge of the church on Mulberry street, where he has labored zealously ever since with great success. He commenced a series of meetings December 1st and continued until March rst, which resulted in one hundred and fifty-four conversions, and the following spring he administered the ordinance of baptism to thirty-six persons. During his association with the people here he has attended over three hundred funerals, and solemnized more than that many marriages. He was married August 30, 1848, to Miss Charlotte, daughter of Joseph and Mary Rodman, near Zanesville, by whom he has a family of children, all of whom are married and have families.

HAMILTON, WILLIAM, farmer, Morgan township, was born in Harrison county, Ohio, November 26, 1822. His parents, Joshua Hamilton and Jane Craig, were natives of Pennsylvania, and by their marriage had nine children, all of whom are living. Joshua Hamilton died in 1870; his wife still survives him.

The subject of our notice was reared on a farm, receiving a common school education. He remained in Harrison county until 1846, when he came to Morgan township and with his brother purchased land. He sold his interest in the property and purchased the farm on which he now resides, he is one of the leading farmers of Morgan township, an estimable citizen and takes an active interest in the affairs of the county. January 20, 1848, he married Miss Elizabeth Sellers, daughter of -John Sellers, of Morgan township. They had a family of five children, three of whom are living.

HAMMETT, JOHN F., harnessmaker, Pike township, post office, North Liberty, born in 1845, in Ashland county, Ohio, and was married in 1869 to Emily Mix, who was born in Independence, Richland county, in 1848. They had one son, Judson J., who was born in 1870, and one daughter, Emma, born in 1871. Mrs. Emily Hammett died in Independence in 1872. Mr. Hammett's second marriage, in 1873, was to Mary C. Hammond, who was born in Fredericktown, Knox county, in 1856.

mained there until after the death of Mrs. Harnmett - then went to Mansfield, worked with F. Johnson for one year - then came to Fredericktown, remained there till 1876, when he removed to North Liberty. He is engaged in the harness business, he is an excellent mechanic, having an extensive custom business. He is also keeping hotel, the only one in North Liberty, and it is first-class.

The father of Mrs. Hammett, George A. Hammond, was born in Frederick county, Maryland; his parents emigrated to Ohio in 1819; he was married in 1837 to Elizabeth Anderson, who was born in Virginia. They had seven children: Sarah P., Ellen P., Thomas J., Francis E., Louis F., Harriet, and Mary C. Mr. Hammond learned the shoe trade when a young man; he is still engaged in working at his trade; he is now among the oldest business men of Fredericktown.

HAMMOND, JACOB, farmer, Union township, post office, Milwood, born October 31, 1802, in Maryland, and remained there until 1821, then moved to Pennsylvania, remained there three years, then in 1824 came to Knox county and settled in Union township. He married in 1821, and his wife lived with him until April 13, 1869. Six of his ten children are living and four are dead: Eliza, Jonathan, Mary, and an infant have deceased. Those living are: Charles, Henry, Jacob, John, Lydia, and Syltia.

In 1848 he labored to bring about the building of the Methodist Episcopal church. He commenced by trying to raise a subscription, but not succeeding, he became discouraged with that plan and concluded to have a church at all hazards. He made a contract with John Musser to build a church for eight hundrei and fifty dollars. He went to work with him and hewed all the timber for it, and assisted in other matters, but finally he fell sick and was unable to do anything for a year. A building committee and trustees were organized to assist him in this work. But not long after they became discouraged and concluded to sell the building to pay the carpenter. Jacob Hammond would not give his consent and they refused to do anything more. He, not feeling satisfied, concluded to borrow the money. He did so, and paid the debt without any assistance. In 185r he managed to complete the building. He has been an ordained local preacher for forty years. He has preached one hundred and twenty funeral sermons, and conducted over fifty marriages. He is seventy-nine years of age.

HAMMOND, WILLIAM P., Howard township; farmer, was born June 17, 1850, in 3elmont county, Ohio. His father died when he was eighteen months old, and in April, 1855, his mother was married, and removed to Howard township. His step-father died July 26, 1878.

Mr. Hammond was married February 15, 1876, to Mary R. Sapp, and lived on the old farm for two years, with his mother, and then moved to his present farm. He has two children; Lucy, born March 12, 1877, and Rosa, January 30, 1880. Mr. Hammond contributed largely to the building of St. Luke's church, and gave his services as well. He has taught thirty-four terms of writing school in Missouri, Knox county, Ohio; Albion, Ohio; Hardin county, Ohio, and Muskingnm, Ohio.

December 12, 1869, he went to Missouri, and remained there three years engaged as a teacher. From there he went to Texas by the overland route, doing his own cooking along the He remained there three months, and then returned home.

Millwood, born February 4, 1852, and was married to Miss W. Tracy October 23, 1873. In 1875 he moved to his present farm. His father came from Maryland at an early date. He aad two children: J. L. Hammond and Mary S.

HANGER, REUBEN, Union township, farmer, post office, Rossville, born July 5, 1817. In 1816 his father came here, when they had no neighbors except Indians. He had eleven children, viz: Catharine, Susanna, Betsey, Polly, Reuben, Barbara, Sarah, Jacob, Joseph, John, and Priscilla. Jacob died February 29, 1876; Polly, January, 1878; Barbara, July, 1878. Reuben Hanger married Hannah Lydie, September 1, 1839, and settled on the old homestead, where he still remains. He has ten children, viz: Mirion Jane, William F., George Washington, Leander Sherman, Isaac Newton, Joseph Curtis, Martin W., John Russell, Henry B., and May Elizabeth.

HANGER, JOHN, Union township, farmer, post office, Millwood, born in Union township. In 1810 his father came from Pennsylvania, and lived here until his death in 1851. In 1868 his mother died. John Hanger married Mary Larabell, March 1, 1854, and settled on the old home. They have four children - Lyman, born December 25, 1835; Barnett, November 29, 1857; Seltura, June 27, 1859; and Victoria, November 29, 1865.

His wife was born August 19, 1834. Seltura died when she was seven weeks old. Burnett married Sarah Shafer September 14, 1879, and lives with his parents.

HANGER, LEE, farmer, Union township, post office, Millwood, was horn August 31, 1841, in this township, and remained at home until 1863. He was married to Christina Hyatt in 1865, and settled immediately on his farm. They have two boys - Curtis, born in 1870, and Charles, born in 1873.

HANGER, JOSEPH, Brown township, farmer and stock raiser, a son of Joseph and Elizabeth Hanger, was born in Union township, Knox county, March 3, 1831. At the age of nine years his father died, but he remained with his mother til] he became of age. During that time he controlled and farmed his mother's portion of the farm. He married juliza Winterringer, August 25, 1854, she being a daughter of J. B. Winterringer, born in Union township, Knox county. After his marriage he still remained in Union township, renting and moving on the farm owned by the widow Workman, where he remained about eighteen months, and then rented his father-in-law's farm, where he removed and remained about two years. While there he purchased his brother's share in the old farm, which, with his own share, made him sixty-seven acres. In 1857 he moved on this farm, and remained there ten years, and then sold the farm to his brother Reuben for three thousand dollars. He then purchased the farm known as the John Frost farm, of one hundred and twenty-five -acres, in Brown township, where he moved and now resides, it being a very desirable and pleasant home.

Mr. and Mrs. Hanger were the parents of ten children: Alice C., born June 8, 1855, was married to Hudson Majors, and resided in Rosstown, Knox county, until.her death, July 26, 1878; J. B. Leonard, born February 15, 1857, and died in July of the

HANCOCK, JOHN R., farmer, was born in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, March 23, 1835, removed to Coshocton county, Ohio, in 1856, and to Clay township in 1876. He was married December 3, 1856, to Elizabeth Bradfield. They have had eight children, viz: Joseph L., George W., Maggie A., William, James, Nancy, Arabella, and Ermina. Notwithstanding Mr. Hancock is a second cousin to General Winfield Scott Hancock, Democratic candidate for President'in 1880, he is a strong, life-long Republican. He is the owner of several hundred acres of good land, and is financially in very comfortable circumstances.

HARRISON, AMZI, Miller township, farmer, was born in Morgan township, May 21, 1831. His parents, Timothy and Phebe (Edwards), were natives of New Jersey, where they were married and shortly after came to Ohio and settled in Morgan township, and subsequently moved to Licking county, where they died, near Appleton. They had eleven children, four of whom are yet living.

Mr. Harrison was reared on a farm, and in his youth attended the common schools. He has always followed farming as his occupation; is a careful husbandman and an esteemed citizen. He came to Miller township in 1867. On the twenty-fourth of December, 1862, he married Miss Malissa Callihan, and has three children: Ella May, Charles Wesley, and Frank Wilbur.

HARDEN, COLUMBUS, drayman, Fredericktown, was born in Morrow county in 1840, and married in 1862 Julia Iden, who was born in Sparta, Morrow county. Mr. Harden has been engaged in farming in Morrow county. In 1876 he moved to Fredericktown where he is engaged in draying.

HARDESTY, GEORGE, farmer, Morris township, post office, Mt. Vernon, was born in Williams county, Ohio, in 1857, and was married in 1879 to Sadie Hogue, who was born in Knox county in 1859. They have one son, Austin C., who was born in 1880. Mr. Hardesty has resided in this county seven years.

HARDING, THOMAS, grocer and coal dealer, was born in Yorkshire, England, May 4, 1819, on the old homestead where the Harding family had successively resided for over four hundred years. He. remained on the home place until he was thirtytwo years of age, during which he was engaged in farming. In 1851 he emigrated to America and located in Mt. Vernon. His first engagement was in the employ of i Woodbridge, in the warehouse business, where he remained until October, 1852, when he established a coal yard and office, which was the first in the city, consequently making Mr. Harding the pioneer coal dealer of Mt. Vernon. He has continued in this business ever since, and about three years ago he added to his business that of groceries. In the coal trade he does business to the amount of about twenty thousand dollars per year; in the grocery business he carries a stock of about fifteen hundred dollars, and at the present does a business of about eighteen thousand dollars

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HARIMAN, DAVID, Wayne township, farmer, post office, Fredericktown, born in Knox county in February, 1835, and was married in 1859 to Margaret Sharp, who was born in Knox county in 1837.

HARNWELL, BENJAMIN, merchant, Gambier, Ohio, was born in England in the year 1836. When only six years of age (in 1842) he accompanied his parents, Adam and Leonora Harnwell, to America. His parents located in Geneva, New York, and remained there about one year. From Geneva they removed to Wisconsin, and resided there until the fall of 1844, and then came to and settled in Gambier, this county.

The subject of this brief sketch entered school in that village, and received his education. In 1848 he engaged in the mercantile business as clerk for the late A. G. Scott, thé then leading merchant of Gambier, with whom he remained six years.

in 1854 young Harnwell went to Cincinnati and engaged with George N. Wood & Co., corner of Fifth and Vine streets, with whom he ramained until 1857. From Cincinnati he came back to Gambier, and engaged in the mercantile business in the room he now occupies. In 1859 he left Gambier and went to Nashville, Tennessee, where he only tarried a few months, when he left the city and went to Memphis, Tennessee. and continued there until 1870. While residing in Memphis Mr. Harnwell was engaged in the publishing business. He published the Datly Argus nearly all through the war and after the war. He published Hardie's Tactics, first edition twenty thousand copies, second edition ten thousand copies, and an edition of the Laws of Memphis. He also edited and published the Southern Monthly. He also published many other works. He printed the blanks for the cotton loan for the State of Mississippi for the amount of twenty million dollars. He also published Scott's Grammar. His printing establishment at Memphis was a large one, superior to any other in the Southern States at that time.

From Memphis, in 1870, Mr. Harnwell returned to his old Ohio home in Gambier, and engaged in the mercantile business at his old stand, where he has continued ever since. He deals in general merchandise. He is also agent for the Union I°xpress Company running over the Cleveland, Mt. .Vernon & Columbus railroad.

On December 29, 1863, Mr. Harnwell married Miss Emma Probasco, of Lebanon, Ohio, daughter of Judge John and Susan Probasco, ~ce Freeman. This union has been blessed with three children, two sons and one daughter.

HARPER, HON. LECKY, editor and proprietor of the Mt. Vernon Democratic Banner, was born in the county of Donegal, Ireland, December 29, 1815. His parents, Hugh Harper and Catharine (Long) Harper, with their children, three sons and two daughters, emigrated to the United States in the summer of 1820, and settled in Washington, District of Columbia. The following year his father died of malarial fever, leaving his mother and four young children almost entirely among strangers. The bereft mother, being a woman of Christian 'principles and no ordinary force 'of character, put forth unexpected energy, attending to their wants, their culture, and their education, assisted, however, by the advice of members of a family to whom they bore relationship. Nothing was neglected to prepare them for a project, which the mother kept always: in view, to take them, as soon as practicable, to the

In the month of June, 1826, the little family crossed the Alleghany mountains, and arrived, without any accident, in Jefferson county, where they were met by relatives and friends.

Mrs. Harper died at the residence of her second 'son, in Akron, in 1866, in the eighty-fifth year of her age. Only two children remain, one a well known citizen of Pittsburgh, John Harper, esq., president of the Bank of Pittsburgh, and the third son, Lecky, the subject of this memoir.

Lecky Harper came to Ohio in the eleventh year of his age, with some education, which was increased by such acquisitions as could be obtained in a country school-house amid the hills of Jefferson county in early days. In 1830, young Harper went to Steubenville, and entered asa clerk ina mercantile establishment. After clerking about a year he enteréd the office of the old Fefferson Democrat, for the purpose of learning the 'art preservative of all.arts."" In that office he remained a year, when he found but little could be learned in an establishment where the proprietors were entirely ignorant of the profession. He therefore concluded to enter into an engagement with Judge Wilson, then editor of the Steubenville Heradd, to go with him to Pittsburgh, in 1832, where the judge established the first daily paper in that city, called The Pennsylvania Advocate.

During the period of his apprenticeship Mr. Harper spent his leisure hours in reading historical and literary works, kindly loaned him by a valued friend. He made frequent contributions to the Saturday Evening Visitor, a family paper then published in Pittsburgh. In May, 1837, Mr. Harper returned to Stubenville and purchased a half interest in the American Union, the successor of the old Yeferson Democrat. For two years he edited and conducted the Uzzon with marked success. During the session of the Ohio legislature for 1839-40 he re_ ported the proceedings of that body for the Ohio Statesman, then under the management of the late Colonel Samuel Medary, and also assisted in the editorial department of that paper. During his connection with the Statesman a warm personal friendship sprang up between the colonel and Mr. Harper, that lasted until the death of Mr. Medary. During the exciting presidential campaign of 1840 Mr. Harper edited the Crawjord Democrat, at Meadville, Pennsylvania, whilst the proprietor was engaged in taking the census. At that time Mr. Harper had made arrangements for establishing a daily Democratic paper at Pittsburgh, but the unexpected defeat of Van Buren changed the political aspect of affairs, rendering it impolitic at that time to undertake so hazardous an enterprise, and induced him to embark in some other profession. He entered the law office of Messrs. Metcalf & Loomis, and in due course of time he was admitted to the bar of Pittsburgh. During his course of study he edited the Pittsburgher, a weekly Democratic paper. In 1843, after his admission to the bar, he located at Cadiz, Ohio, where he practiced law, and purchased the Cadiz Sentinel, which he edited three years, and then disposed of the paper and returned in 1846 to Pittsburgh, by the invitation of leading Democrats of that city. He bought the Morning Post, then a small paper, with limited circulation, and printed on a hand press. Under the editorial management of Mr. Harper, the circulation of the Post rapidly increased, soon taking rank as one of the leading papers of Pennsylvania. It became necessary to throw aside the hand press and substitute steam power presses. Doing all the editorial work of a daily was too severe a task for a constitution at no time robust; he therefore disposed of the Post, so

During Mr. Harper's editorship of the Post, he was drawn into a very exciting controversy on the labor question. The legislature of Pennsylvania passed a law making ten hours a day's labor in all manufacturing establishments, more especially in factories where children were employed. Previously little children had been compelled to work twelve and even fourteen hours a day, commencing at six o'clock in the morning and laboring until seven or eight o'clock in the evening. Mr. Harper sustained the law, not only because it was the law, but that it was a just and humane enactment. Every other paper in Pittsburgh opposed the law, taking sides with the manufacturers, who claimed that they could not compete with the manufacturers of the east, unless they run the long hours. The Commercial-Fournal at that time was the special organ of the manufacturers, who called to their assistance their attorney, who undertook the task of writing Mr. Harper down and destroy his paper. To accomplish this, it was alleged, he was ruining Pittsburgh's leading industries, etc. This was followed by a movement to induce business men to withdraw their patronage from the paper. But a reaction took place, and for every man that stopped the Pos¢ at least fifty new names were added to the list. The mechanics and working men of the city made the cause their own. The largest meeting ever held in Pittsburgh assembled in the old market square to sustain the Post, and when Mr. Harper appeared at the meeting he was lifted on the shoulders' of the men of toil and carried to the speaker's stand, where he addressed the excited people, advissing them to stand up for their rights and the rights of humanity, but to commit no act of violence. The ten hour law was triumphant.

Finding an opening in Mt. Vernon, Mr. Harper, after disposing of the Post, came here and purchased, in 1853, the Mt. Vernon Democratic Banner, which he has since ably conducted and edited. From being a poorly unsupported institution he soon brought the Banner to the front with a large subscription, and it is now one of the most ably conducted and edited newspapers in the State. A few years since the building in which the paper is published was destroyed by fire, including the entire outfit of type and presses. This calamity required a complete refurnishing of both type and presses, which was accomplished within a space of ten days. 'The Banwer office is now one of the most extensive and complete printing establishments in Ohio, outside of the leading cities. Mr. Harper was president of the Ohio Editorial association four years, and is the president of the Democratic Editorial association, organized in 1880. In 1879 he was elected State senator in the Seventeenth and Twenty-eighth Senatorial districts, composed of the counties of Wayne, Holmes, Knox and Morrow, and is a member of several of the most important committees in that body.

Mr. Harper is one of the oldest editors in the State. From May, 1837, up to the present time, over forty-three years, he has worn the editorial harness, with a prospect of many more years of usefulness before him. As an editor he occupies the highest rank, and as a news compiler he is unequalled; as a citizen, honored and respected; as a neighbor, kind and obliging. ' On the eighteenth of September, 1844, Mr. Harper was united in marriage to Miss Eliza A. Mercer, at Florence, Washington county, Pennsylvania. She is a descendant of General Hugh Mercer, of the American Revolutionary war. From this union nine children were born, the three oldest of whom died in in-

The Harper ancestors went otiginally from England to Ireland, after the Earl of Tyrone's rebellion; and, by purchase, became possessed of a town land named Pollyarnon, of the confiscated estate of the Manor of Hastings. The last of his paternal ancestors, whose remains were laid in Irish soil, was his great-grandfather, Robert Harper, who died March 10, 1780, in the forty-fourth year of his age, according to the monumental inscription in the English churchyard at Castlederg, in the county of Tyrone. His grandfather came to this country at an earlier date than his father, and so also at various times others of the family; some settling in the Shenandoah valley, Virginia, and somein Ohio. Of the latter branch was the late Judge Alexander Harper, of Zanesville, who was his father's cousin. Mr. Harper's baptismal name, Lecky, was derived from the maiden surname of his paternal grandmother, Lillias Lecky, daughter of Hugh Lecky, of Gortumuck. The Lecky family were Scotch Presbyterians - the Harper family belonged to the English church.

HARRIS, HENRY C., Miller township, farmer, was born in Miller township, September 29, 1832, and is the youngest son of Emor Harris, who was born August 1, 1792, near Providence, Rhode Island, and Sarah Sweet, who was born April. 12, 1797, near the same place. They were married in 1814, and came to Ohio in 1817, settling in Millet township, where they permanently located. They were among the best citizens of the township. Mr. Harris was a justice of the peace for nearly twentythree years, and was regarded as a man of sound judgment, and a safe and wise counsellor. He died September 28, 1850; his wife died November 30, 1873. They had eight children, viz: Caroline, wife of R. C. Walker; Emor B.; Sarah; Mary J: widow of Madison Miller; Lydia M., deceased; Betsey and Emily, who died in infancy. Emor B. now resides near Red Oak, Iowa.

Henry C., the subject of this notice, was reared on the old homestead, where his parents first settled. His education was at the district schools. He was captain of company C., One Hundred and Forty-second regiment Ohio National guards, anc served with hiscommand in Virginia. In the spring of 1879 he was elected a justice of the peace. He is e man of comprehensive ideas, and has the esteem of the community. He was married to Miss Dorcas Gates, February, 1856, daughter of Cyrus Gates, anearly settler. She died some years since. They have had four children: Mary W., Cyrus G., Carrie A., and Henry G,

' HARRIS, THOMAS, Monroe township, farmer and stock raiser, was. born in Devonshire county, England, January 1, 1815. In 1840 he accompanied his parents, Thomas and Elizabeth Harris, to America, and located ona farm in Jefferson township, now owned by John Hobbs, where his parents passed the remainder of their days.

In 1849 he married Miss Ellen McMillen, then of Jefferson township, born in Pennsylvania in 1814, daughter of Joseph McMillen. They settled on his home farm, remained one year, then moved to Defiance, Ohio, remained a few years, and then returned to the old home farm again, where they lived until 1867, when he sold the home farm, and purchased and moved on the farm in Monroe township, where.they now reside. Their union resulted in four children, one son and three daughters,

HARRIS, MICHAEL, Liberty township, farmer, was born in Hilliar township May 1, 1841, and is the son of Burr and Catharine Harris, #ee Shaffer.

Burr Harris was born in Licking county, Ohio, removed to Hilliar township, and thence to Bloomfield township, where he yet resides. They had nine children, five of whom grew up.

The subject of this notice was reared on a farm with his parents. In July, 1861, he enlisted in company G, Twenty-fifth Ohio volunteer infantry. The regiment belonged to the Eastern army. He participated in the battles of Green Briar, Mc- Dowell, Cross Keys, Second Bull Run, besides a number of skirmishes. He was wounded slightly while in West Virginia. He was discharged on account of physical disability contracted while in service in 1863, having been almost two years in service.

November 1, 1863, he married Miss Caroline M. Tucker. They have seven children - four sons and three daughters. Mr. Harris is a good farmer, takes an interest in his occupation, and is a good citizen.

HARRISON, J. C., Pike township, post office, North Liberty; born in Jefferson county, Ohio, in 1829, and was married in 1851 to Martha Matthewson, who was born in Holmes county. They had one child, Jerusha (deceased). Mrs. Martha Harrison died in 1872. Mr. Harrison was afterwards married to Cyrene Hathaway, born in Morrow county. They had one child, John, born in 1873. Mrs. Cyrene Harrison died in 1874. Mr. Harrison was afterwards married to Mary Eley, who was bora in Chester county, Pennsylvania, in 1848. They have one daughter, Luella May, born in 1875. His father, B. Harrison, was born in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, in 1804, and came to Harrison county, Ohio, with his parents at the age of eighteen months, and remained there until he reached the age of twenty-four years when he removed to Wayne county, remained there till 1855 and then came to Knox county. He was married to Rachel Caldwell, who was born in Pennsylvania. They had two children, Louisa and James. Mrs. Rachel Harrison died in 1876. Louisa, their daughter, died in 1840.

HARROD, WILLIAM L., Hilliar township, proprietor of Central house, Centreburgh, Ohio, was born in the county August 14, 1835. His youth was spent on a farm until he engaged in the saw-mill business, which he followed until he enlisted in company C, Thirty-second Ohio volunteers, July 20, 1861, and was mustered into service August, 1861. The company left Camp Dennison September, 1861, for Cheat mountain, Virginia. He participated in the battles of Green Briar, McDowell, and in the skirmishes of the Virginia valley, and in the battle of Cross Keyes. He was in the battle of and surrender of Harper's Ferry, and paroled on the field, and was subsequently exchanged at Cleveland, Ohio. His regiment was sent to Vicksburgh, where he participated in the fight at Champion Hills and the Vicksburgh campaign. He then veteranized in 1863, and joined Sherman's army. July 22, 1864, he was taken prisoner at Atlanta and sent to that famed prison, Andersonville, where he was kept until September 22, 1864, when, fortunately, he was exchanged. During 1864 and 1865 he participated in all the various campaigns and marches in Sherman's army, and was at the surrender of Johnson's army. He was first lieutenant of his company the last seven months, thus serving his country faithfully and honestly for foureventful years, never losing a day except whena prisoner. When he returned home he engaged again in the saw-mill business, and subsequently farmed until he came to Centreburgh in the spring of 1880, and became proprietor of the Central house, where he is always willing to wait upon his patrons. In 1858 he was martied to Miss Mary Hayes. They have two children.

HARVY, JAMES, blacksmith, Fredericktown, was born in Jeromeville, Ashland county, in 1830, and married Gracie Hicks, who was born in England, in 1838. They had a family of seven children, named as follows: Elizabeth, Philena, Amanda, William, Carrie, Dollie, and Charlie.

Mr. Harvy learned the blacksmith trade in Mt. Vernon with Stephen Bishop. He came to Fredericktown in 1849; started in business and still continues. Through his industry and economy has secured a good home, and is otherwise in comfortable circumstances.

HART, WILLIAM T., Gambier, son of John D. and Margaret Hart, was born near the Hopewell church, Pleasant township, Knox county, Ohio, September 18, 1840. John D. Hart, a native of Fayette county, Pennsylvania, was born March 13, 1816, married Miss Margaret Taylor, June 5, 1834, who was born in Fayette courity, Pennsylvania, May 17, 1816.

In 1835 they moved to Richland county, Ohio, and remained one year. In 1836 they moved to this county and located in Pleasant township, near the Hopewell church, where they lived until 1853, when they migrated to Noble county, Indiana, where they passed the remainder of their days. His companion died November 17, 1854. He survived her until October 1, 1864, leaving a family of eleven children to mourn their loss, viz: Mary A., born May io, 1835; Nancy, born May 14, 1837; Matthew, born December 4, 1838; William T., born September 18, 1840; James, born May 4, 1843; Samuel, born January 12, 1845; Sarah F., born October 12, 1846; George W., born May 30, 1848; John, born August 29, 1850; Margaret, born May 14, 1852; Susannah, born June 4, 1854. Samuel and Margaret have died.

William T. Hart married Miss Mary A. Wright, December 28, 1865, born in College township, this county, June 29, 1840, daughter of William and Mary Wright. They settled in Gambier, where they are now living. Their union resulted in three children, viz: Lewis E., Eva M., and Frederick W. Eva M. is dead.

Mr. Hart is a carriage-maker by trade and is carrying on the business of manufacturing all kinds of carriages and vehicles of every description in Gambier. He is also engaged in undertaking, and is doing a first class business. In April, 1861, he enlisted in the three months' service in company B, Fourth Ohio volunteerinfantry. June sth, of same year, he reenlisted in same company and regiment for three years, or during the war. His time expired June 5, 1864, and was discharged from the service June 23d, same year. February 16, 1865, he enlisted as a veteran and served until the close of the war. He received two wounds, the first was at the battle of Chancellorsville, the second at North Anna river, on the twenty-third day of May, 1864.

HART, WILLIAM R., carriage painter, Mt. Vernon, is the second son of father Abel Hart, sr., who is now in the eightysixth year of his age. William was born June 1, 1828, in the city of New Bedford, Massachusetts, and when about seven years of age came to Ohio with his parents, who settled in Mt. Vernon in 1835, where they have continued to reside. His mother died in 1864. He received such an education as the schools of that day afforded. His first business engagement was made with Mr. Noah Hill, where he learned the chair making and painting trades. With Mr. Hill he worked four years, and then engaged with Mr. John A. Shannon, as carriage painter, where he worked some eighteen months. The following six years he spent in travelling and working. He worked as journeyman painter in different places in the State, and in 1855 returned to Mt. Vernon. He worked for the different firms in the city up to 1874. That year he established his present business, which consists in the getting up of a fine grade of single and double carriages and buggies. Carriage painting is a specialty in all its branches. He does none but first class work.

Mr. Hart became a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows in 1850, and joined a lodge of the order in Tiffin, Ohio, a member of lodge No. 20, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, on card. In 1875 he was elected grand junior warden in the grand encampment branch of the order, In 1878 he was elected in the same branch grand high priest. In 1879 he was elected most worthy grand patriarch of the encampment branch in Ohio. Mr. Hart is the only member of the order in Knox county who has attained to the honor of these offices. He has also served as representative of both the grand lodge and the grand encampment. Mr. Hart has represented his ward in the city council.

HART, ABEL, SR., Mt. Vernon was born at Little Compton in the State of Rhode Island, on the twenty-second of September, 1794. His father, Noah Hart, was a soldier in a Massachusetts regimeht in the Revolutionary war. He raised twelve children, all of whom lived to a good ripe age, and a number of whom are still living. His ancestors settled in Massachusetts about the year 1634.

The subject of this sketch came to this part of the country in the year 1817. He first lived with his brother Isaac, who had previously lacated on the Mohican, twenty miles east of Mt. Vernon. After remaining in Ohio a few years, he returned to the east, and in the year 1834 removed to Mt. Vernon with his family, and in the year 1835 built a house on East Gambier street, where he has resided ever since.

Mr. Hart was madé Master Mason at Parkersburgh, Virginia, in 1820, and is now, perhaps, the oldest Mason in Knox county. He was one of the charter members of the Knox Mutual Insurance company, and was one of its directors for over twenty years. Heis the only charter member now living. Hr. Hart was one of the military escort that accompanied General Lafayette, when he visited Boston in the year 1824. He was well acquainted with General Andrew Jackson. Mr. Hart raised a family of four children, all of whom are living.

HART, ABEL, JR., Mt.Vernon, attorney at law, is the youngest son of Abel Hart, sr., and was raised in Mt. Vernon. He had a common school education, and learned the carriage making trade. The subject of this sketch read law with Dunbar & Banning, and after that firm dissolved, finished his studies with John Adams, now judge of the court of common pleas. He was admitted to the bar at the March term of the supreme court at Columbus, Ohio. In the year 1868 he was a candidate for prosecuting attorney of Knox county, and was defeated by four votes. In 1870 he was a candidate for the same position, and was elected, and in 1872 was reelected. In 1875 he was elected representative, and reelected in 1877.

the best and most extensive undertaking establishments in the county, opened in 1878 by Mr. W. 'T. Hart, who keeps on hand first-class burial material of all descriptions. He is also prepared to embalm bodies, and can respond to a call on short notice. Special attention is given to this branch of undertaking. He has for his use one of the best and finest hearses and teams in the county. His success in the business has been beyond his most sanguine expectation, He has calls from and attends funerals in a territory of more than ten miles around Gambier. Within thirty months he has received ninety-three calls, and has promptly attended' the same. His past experience in that line is a guarantee that the work in the future as in the past will give equal satisfaction to the bereaved.

HART & DICKESON, proprietors carriage shops, Gambier. Messrs. Hart & Dickeson in 1873 established their manufactory, from which they have succeeded in supplying the wants of the community with remarkable success. They manufacture buggies, light and heavy farm wagons, phzetons, and all vehicles necessary to the wants and luxury of man. They also do all kinds of repairing at short notice, and what is more to the point, they warrant every vehicle manufactured by them, and every repair job that leaves their shops. Horseshoeing is a specialty with them, and in which branch they acknowledge no superior in the county.

In their shops they have recently built one of the finest hearses in the county, which is now used by Mr. William T. Hart, the undertaker at Gambier. The people of the county will find Hart & Dickeson enterprising gentlemen, always ready to attend to the wants of their customers.

HARTMAN, WILLIAM (deceased), a native of Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, born December 20, 1807, and a son of Casper Hartman. March 5, 1833 (at the age of twenty-five years), he united in marriage with Sarah Ramsey, a daughter of Thomas Ramsey, who was born in Berks county, Pennsylvania, May 14, 1808. After their marriage, he, in company with his wife, came to Ohio, locating in Wayne county, where he remained about four years, and then moved to Knox county, locating in Harrison township, on a farm of one hundred and eleven acres he purchased, where he raised a family of eight children, six sons and two daughters. His death occurred November 29, 1879, in his seventy-second year. Mrs. Hartman, his companion, survives him in her seventy-second year.

HASSON, MARVIN FREW, Hilliar township, station agent of Cleveland, Mt. Vernon & Columbus railroad at Centreburgh, was born in Venango county, Pennsylvania, April 13, 1844, is the second child of William and Rachel Hasson, zee Black, who were born and married in Venango county, Pennsylvania, and still reside near Utica, Pennsylvania.

The youth of Mr. Hasson was spent on a farm, and attending the schools of the vicinity. He also attended an academy at Utica, and was preparing for college, but when the late war broke out he went with the three months' men, but the quota being full he was not mustered into service. He returned home and resumed his studies until August, 1862, when he enlisted in company I, Sixty-fourth Pennsylvania volunteers, and participated in many of the hardest struggles on the field during that ever memorable conflict. He carries the scars of two wounds. At High Hill bridge he received a wound in the knee which kept him in the hospital for about two months and a half, and he was again wounded at Dinwiddie Court House, being struck on the forehead with a minnie ball. He was in the battle of An- tietam, Maryland; Fredericksburgh, Virginia; Brandy Station, Virginia; Gettysburgh, Pennsylvania; Sulphur Springs, Virginia; Kilpatrick's raid; Malvern hill; Deep Bottom; Wyatt's farm, and Stony creek, besides twenty-two smaller engagements. He never missed roll-call nor duty until he was wounded. After his return home he worked at carpentering and teaching school. While teaching he learned telegraphy. About 1871 he came to Ohio and was engaged in Akron in telegraph and railroad service. In 1873 he came to Mt. Vernon, and in the fall of the same year was appointed agent at Centreburgh, for the Cleveland, Mt. Vernon & Columbus railroad. From his quick busineas habits and his systematic regulations he has given general satisfaction to the business and travelling public. He is a positive man, being governed by principle; is decisive in his opinion and convictions. He was married to Miss Hattie I'. Rinehart, November 30, 1873. They have a family of three children, viz: Jessie, born September 27, 1874; Emma G., March 10, 1876; and John W., April 12, 1879.

HAWKINS, ISAAC, Liberty township, a successful farmer and stock raiser; was born in Hampshire county, Virginia, May 31, 1821. Joseph Hawkins, his father, was born in Hampshire county, Virginia, January 18, 1789, married Sarah Larimore about 1811, and remained in Virginia until about 1829, when they came to Ohio, remaining three years in Licking county and then removed to Milford township, Knox county, where Mr. Hawkins died August 11, 1870. Mrs. Hawkins died there also. They had a family of ten children, viz: John, born June 23, 1812, died in Tazwell county, Illinois, and left a large family; Margaret, born in 1815, died in infancy; Harriet, born November ig, 1817, married Charles Hall, and died November 12, 1859, left a family; James, born March 2s, 1819. He is an influential] farmer in Licking county near Lock; Isaac, the subject of this sketch; Elizabeth, born December 16, 1824, married Edward Wilson. She is deceased, left a family; Joseph, born June 26, 1826. He is a resident of Milford township; Sarah Jane, born June 29, 1828, married Henry Row. She died August 9, 1877, left a family; Thomas H., born September 6, 1831; he is a resident of Mt. Vernon, Ohio; William D., born December 28, 1833.

The parents of this family were of the renter class; they owned no land, and hence their sons and daughters were in early life under the necessity of making for themselves: almost their own way. They all became substantial and useful citizens in after life. Indeed it might be truthfully said that there are few families who had started in life in moderate circumstances that did so well. The subject of this sketch spent his youth at home until he was about nine years of age. thirteen he was ona farm away from home. He then returned to assist his parents on the farm, as his older brothers were doing for themselves. He aided in keeping his younger brothers and sisters at home. He remained at home until January 24, 1841, when he married Miss Pennennah W. Huddlestun, a native of Virginia who was born November 4, 1822. From this time he began for himself. The following summer he farmed with his brother James, and in the fall sold his shareof the crops for seventy-five dollars out of which he paid sixty dollars of debts, leaving fifteen dollars as net gain for a summer's work. He then went to Licking county, near Granville, and put out a wheat crop, and when the crop was sold he had fifty-one dollars clear of all expenses.

started, the way he obtained his first smoothing-iron. Wishing to have that necessary article in the house, and not having the money to buy it, he contracted to split two hundred and fifty rails, for which he was to have a smoothing-iron made at Porter's foundry, near where he then lived. This iron he still possesses, as a reminder of his early start. He remained over three years at Granville, sold out his crops, and had two bhundred and sixty dollars in money. Tle returned to Milford township, Knox county, and five years after, he purchased ninety head of ewes and thirty lambs for one hundred dollars. This was his beginning in sheep-raising, and in which he has been eminently successful. He purchased a farm of one hundred and twenty-eight acres for two thousand three hundred dollars. He had cight hundred dollars in cash, which he paid as hand money. On the balance he had seven years' time, but was able to pay for it in four years.

The first buying and selling of stock was commenced on the farm, and carried on with eminent success until 1877. In 1868 he moved from his farm to Mt. Liberty, where he has since resided.

Mr. Hawkins, it will be remembered, commenced life with no aid. His advantages for education were limited. In fact, he never learned to write, and it was not until in after years that he learned to read. This was no fault of his, as his time was so occupied in his youth that it was impossible for him to acquire any education. Ife was kept at work early and late, and when evening came he needed rest. He has been successful in life. He worked under the disadvantage of having no education. He is naturally a business man. His judgment has in some degree made up for his lack of education. But had he been so fortunate as to have had the advantages of education, he would have added much more largely to his property. He deserves more than passing notice in thus overcoming the many obstacles which met him at every turn, Ife has given largely to each of his five children as they were married. He made it a point to give them five thousand dollars' worth of real estate, besides an outfit of at least a thousand dollars extra, making at least thirty thousand dollars.

The children are, Ievina, martied to S. T. Vannatta, of Miller township; Mary, married to J. 'I'. Robertson, of Hilliar townsnip; Ann, widow of J. L. Evans; Louisa married W. A, Wintermute, of Milford township, and Charles O., married to Ella Snyder.

HAWKINS, WILLIAM H., Milford township, brick mason and farmer, Milfordton post office, was born in Rhode Island, near Providence, April 26, 1814. His parents, Stephen and Sallie Hawkins, ce Belknap, came to what is now Milford township in 1818. They came in a three-horse wagon, bringing with them their three sons - I¢mor B., William H. and Joseph S. :

Emor B. and Joseph S. have died. There were three more children born to these parents in Milford township, viz.: Stephen, Sallie Ann, and Laura M,. Of these Stephen and Laura M. are dead.

The subject of this notice recollects very distinctly when his. parents went to locate the site of the cabin. His mother, when she saw the dense forest, and the recollections of her former eastern home filled her mind, she wept bitterly. This site was on the farm on which Mr. Hawkins now resides on the Mt. Vernon and Hartford roads. Here Mrs. Hawkins diedin 1841. Mr. Hawkins' second marriage was with Mrs. Petitt, by whom

William H. spent his youth in the cabin, When old enough he assisted his father in clearing up the land. At about the age of eighteen years he learned brick laying with his brother, Emor B. He has built many of the brick dwellings in Milford and surrounding country. He frequently made the brick and contracted for the dwellings. Heis an estimable citizen. He was married to Miss Emily Beach January 25, 1838. They have one child, Emily C., born September 26, 1844, wife of George Disney.

HAWKINS, THOMAS, Liberty township, was born in Licking county, September 6, 1831. He is the son of Joseph and Sarah Hawkins, of whom mention is made in the biography of Isaac Hawkins.

The subject of this notice remained with his parents until about eleven years of age. From eleven until twenty-two he was with his brother James. In the fall of 1854 he went to Tazwell county, Illinois, where he remained until the fall of 1860, engaged on a farm. On October 11, 1858, he married Miss Mary A. McClees, who was born in Tazwell county, Illinois, April 12, 1839.

In the fall of 1860 Mr. Hawkins returned to Licking county, where he remained six years, being engaged in farming, when he moved to Knox, and farmed one year, and then moved to Mt. Liberty. In 1872 he engaged with J. P. Wintermute in huckstering, at which he has since been engaged. He is an efficient salesman and was instrumental in building up a large trade, which he still holds. He enjoys the confidence of the trading public.

His marriage has been blessed with a family of four children: Joseph W., born September 2, 1858; Mary E., wife of Emmett M. Ramey, born March 11, 1860, married November 25, 1880; Emma, born February 24, 1862; and Thomas Clifford, born July 5, 1871.

HAWKINS, WILLIAM D., Liberty township, farmer, was born in Licking county, Ohio, December 28, 1833, is the son of Joseph and Sarah Hawkins, of whom mention is made in the biography of Isaac Hawkins, of Mt. Liberty.

The subject of this notice was raised on a farm, and has continued farming as his occupation. In his younger days he drove stock. east, and upon several occasions he took entire charge, and was successful.

Mr. Hawkins has held a number of offices in the township and has always filled them to the satisfaction of the citizens generally. In 1879 he was elected land appraiser.

HAWKINS, JAMES, jr. Milford township, farmer and sheep raiser, Lock post office, was born in Knox county, in January, 1850, is the oldest child of Joseph and Ann Hawkins, of Milford township. August 24, 1871, he was married to Theresa M. Coe, who is the daughter of David Coe. They have four children, viz: Mallie, Burton, Edward, and Elizabeth Ann.

Mr. Hawkins, from his experience, fully understands the raising of first class sheep. His flock consists of choice registered rams and ewes. His first sheep were eight ewes numbered in Vermont register, volume second, Nos. 178, 182, 185, 225, 221,

One of the largest clips from one sheep in this county was from ram W. S. Grant, shorn by Torrence Mitchell, Lock, Ohio, second fleece, April 1, 1880; weight of fleece, twenty-six and onefourth pounds. His weight, after beiug shorn, was one hundred and thirty pounds - his age two years.

Mr. Hawkins has a flock of pure Spanish merinoewes. He is determined not to be outdone by any sheep raiser in the county, and makes sheep raising a special business, Those who contemplate purchasing would do well to call upon him. He resides near Lock, Ohio.

HAWN, G. B., Howard township, farmer, post office, Howard, - He was born February 22, 1809, in Mt. Vernon. In 1827 he came to Millwood, Union township. At an early day his father came to Millwood and bought large tracts of land. He surveyed and laid out the lots in Millwood. The work was done in 1825, and he built a flouring and carding mill, as well as a distillery, and conducted his farm besides. G. P. Hawn was married to Hattie Gifton, May 20, 1830, and settled in Millwood. They had eleven children - Louisa, Charles, Hattie, Sarah, John, Marion, Rebecca, George, Catharine, Robert and Lola. John enlisted in the late war in 186r, for three years. At Lookout Mountain he was taken prisoner, and was in the hands of the rebels three months. He was taken to Atlanta to be exchanged, but a misunderstanding came up among the officers in regard to the exchange, and he was started back; but by some good fortune he, with another of the prisoners, escaped from the trail while they were returning. Marion enlisted in the same company, and died in the hospital, in 1863. G. B. Hawn's grandfather was in the Revolutionary war and his father, John H., was in the War of 1812, serving as quartermaster. His brother, John H., was orderly sergeant in company B. in the Mexican war. His son John served in the late war. It appears from above statement that a John Hawn represented each of the three generations past, one serving in each of the wars of our country. G. B. Hawn's wife died March 27, 1870. He is now cared for by his children.

His parents were natives of Maryland, and moved to Virginia in the spring of 1823. In May, 1835, they came to this county, and located in College township, near Gambier, and remained sixteen years. In 1851 they moved to the State of Indiana, where Mrs. Head deceased, in February, 1877, aged eighty-two years. Mr. Head, father of Thomas R., is now living in Mt. Vernon, aged eighty years.

They reared ten children, viz: Nathan, Mary A., Thomas R., Hannah, Joseph, Sarah A., Nancy J. Penelope, John, and Benjamin F. Only four of the number are now living, viz: Mary A., Thomas R., Hannah, and Benjamin F.

On the twenty-first day of October, 1849, Mr. Head was united in marriage with Miss Angeline Derby, daughter of Rufus Derby. Miss Derby was born in the State of New York, July 17, 1826, and came with her parents to Morrow county, After their marriage they settled in Gambier, where they have since resided. Mr. Head engaged in butchering and dealing in stock, having made the former his principal vocation for twelve years. In 1861 he gave up the butchering business, and turned his attention to farming, stock raising and dealing, which he has been actively engaged in since, for twenty years. At present he owns a large farm in Harrison township, this county.

HEADINGTON, J. N., Mt. Vernon, surveyor of Knox county. . Burder, in his history of all religions, in speaking of the Roman church, says ''the first important movement in gaining a footing in the United States was made by Lord Baltimore. In 1832 he reached the shores of the Potomac with about two hundred gentlemen of rank and fortune." In the company were two young unmarried men named Headington. They married and located at Gunpowder falls, a few miles above Baltimore, and from there as far as known descended all the Headingtons in the United States.

This introduction is not to establish nobility of birth, for the per cent. of this gentility or ranking blood remaining, after being reduced with geometrical rapidity through a series of eight or ten generations, would be too small to estimate. He therefore lays no claims to gentility except that resulting from poverty; or to greatness, except the essential part of it - goodness.

In 1820 Nicholas Headington, from Baltimore county, Maryland, located in Pike township. James, the eldést, who has since gained considerable celebrity as an auctioneer, married Ruth Hardesty, of the same township, in 1835. The family were among the earliest pioneers on Dry creek, and were from Virginia, near Wheeling. She proved a model wife and a good mother. Mr. Headington started in ''the free for all" October 10, 1842, in the unsubdued forests of Delaware county. Six months later his father moved to Centerburgh and engaged successively in staging. grocery and hotel, until 1854, when finding himself with a family of five children, among them three sons with sufficient muscle to perform farm labor, purchased and moved on a farm one mile from the village where the old folks are still at home.

Thus, for the first eleven years of his life, Mr. Headington had the benefit of all the opportunities usually -afforded by villages for the moral training of boys. From this period he performed farm labor, and during the winters attended the district school and Centerburgh union school until 1863 when he passed from parental authority and entered the ''go as you please." He served in the quartermaster's department at Nashville during the campaign of 1864.

During the winters of 1864-5 and 1865-66, and the spring of 1866, he taught school at Newport, Indiana, farming the intervening summer. Returned home and taught the following winter at Warsaw, Indiana. During the summer and fall of 1867 he rode the prairies of central Iowa, engaged in fire insurance. The following winter he attended Holbrook's celebrated National Normal school, Lebanon, Ohio. Fora year anda half he had figured as principal in an enterprise that would not pay cash dividends, but absorbed all his remaining resources so carefully husbanded for educational purposes. He was compelled to leave school and returned to Iowa in March, 1868. It was the dark hour. The outlook was not flattering. A fielder in the pools, he reengaged in insurance with increased efforts, and in August, one week befure the beginning of the schoo year at Lebanon, he had regained his entire loss - six hundred dollars. After one day's visit at home he reached the school for roll call, entering the junior class of seventy members. His first address before the class appeared in a public journal, which gave him a high reputation as a writer and speaker, which was maintained during the course. He was assigned the highest position upon the programme, and the significant subject, ''Debating an Element of Mental Discipline," for his graduating oration. He maintained his record. On the stage, at the close of his performance, he received the congratulations of the principal, and most of the faculty and members of the class; an honor never before accorded to one of the graduates of this school.

Mr. Headington taught the Centreburgh school during the winter of 1869-70, and spent the summer and fall of 1870 at Warsaw, Indiana, and Union county, Ohio, teaching at the latter place. He took charge of the schools at Centreburgh again during the winter of 1870 and spring of 187z, and during the summer assisted in atlassing Knox county. From November, 1871, he taught six months at Monticello, Illinois, and one day and a half from the close of this engagement was working on the atlas of Columbus and Franklin counties. He continued here until the winter, when he took charge of the Bridgeport schools. Before their close he was employed as chief engineer of an atlas corps located at Bucyrus, Ohio, beginning in the spring of 1873 and serving until the winter, when he began business for himself as principal of the Champaign County Atlas company, which work was delivered in the winter of 1874. There being no available territory Mr. Headington continued in the business asan employe of an eastern company, operating in Athens county until the summer of 1875, when he received the nomination for surveyor at the Democratic county convention of Knox. Tired of being a child of the world this nomination was quite acceptable. He was elected by three hundred majority, and reelected in 1878 by seven hundred majority.

He filled the position of county school examiner one term. He is a trader in real estate. In politics he is a Democrat. It is but just to say that Mr. Headington is self-made; it might telieve other powers of accountability. This sketch, as far as it goes, is literally true; yet there is much unwritten, but those who know Mr. Headington best will have no difficulty in drawing upon their imaginations to supply the omissions.

'HEATHCOT, JOHN H., retired farmer, Liberty township, was born in the county of Cheshire, England, August 23, 1790. His father was a farmer and manufacturer of cloths. The subject of this notice, when quite young, was put at the same trade. He remained in England until about 1821, when he emigrated to the United States, working at his trade in Connecticut and Pennsylvania, until 1834, when he came to Ohio and purchased a farm on Granny's creek. He remained in Ohio until 1839, when he went to York county, Pennsylvania, and worked at his trade until 1844, when he again came to Ohioand traded his first farm for the one on which he now resides, in Liberty township. Mr. Heathcot is a man of fine physical form. His mind is clear for a man of his age; he is a good citizen and has the esteem of the community. He was married to Miss Mary Chandler, a native of New Castle, Delaware, about 1824. She died April 24, 1880, aged eighty years. They Matthew, who resides in Morrison, Illinois; Alice A., wife of Thomas J. Stone, Sioux City, Iowa, and Elizabeth, widow of Samuel Tarr. She has one son, John W., who married Emma Barton, November 13, 1879, and resides on the farm.

For nearly two years Mr. Henegan was confined more or less to his house by disease beyond a physician's healing art. A short time prior to his death he visited Olathe to close up some business in that place. He lived to finish that business, and then passed away from earth as calmly and as quietly as a child slumbering the sleep of innocence, During the last few days of life he named many of his Mt. Vernon friends, wishing they were with him to soothe and cheer him in his declining moments, the end of which he knew was fast approaching.

From early youth Mr. Henegan devoted himself to railroading. The last of such work was on the Cleveland, Mt. Vernon & Columbus railway, to the interest of which many years of his life were devoted.

In 1867, in company with his father, he took the contract of constructing a canal around the Des Moines rapids, one of the greatest undertakings of the kind in America. Other hands have just completed this great work.

In the fall of 1874 he commenced work upon the new infirmary building, and brought it nearly to completion. ing is the most substantial of the kind in the State, and an honor to the county, and also to the State.

At the age of sixteen years, the subject of this sketch, with his father and mother, together with the rest of their family, left Glasgow, Scotland, September 16, 1849 - Liverpool, England, September 18th, and arrived at New Orleans, United States of America, on the twentieth day of December following; thus the voyage, between the port of departure and the port of disembarkation, appears to have been thirteen weeks and four days in duration. To vary the interest, and to add to the perils of those ''who go down to the sea in ships,"" the vessel, upon whose deck the lives and fortunes of the hardy emigrants were placed, was cast away in a storm, and thrown upon the shores of an island now called Concon, situated near the barren coast of Yucatan, Central America. The passengers and crew were detained twenty-eight days upon that desert island.

During their forced residence upon the island, the passengers and crew, imitating the people of the country in which most of them were seeking a new home, organized a government and made laws for their own protection, and unanimously elected Mr. William Henegan the first governor of the State of Concon, Central America. The necessity of this organization was soon apparent

The island of Concon, for its favorable and safe harbors, was one of the favorite rendevous of the piratical vessels making those waters their cruising grounds. One of those sea rovers passing the island, the captain seeing the wrecked ship of the emigrants, determined to take position, and rob it of all the rigging and stores left upon it, (the passengers and crew, while waiting for rescue, living in tents upon the shore).

To allay suspicion, the pirates also Janded, and pitched their tents a short disstance from the shipwreck, as though they wished to rest awhile from their bloody and murderous career. One of the crew of the wrecked ship, wandering over the island one day, being weary from his long and difficult tramp, threw himself down behind some rocks and fell asleep. How long he had remained in that unconscious state he knew not. He was finally awakened by hearing voices in conversation, apparently immediately above him. Listening for awhile, he gathered enough of their conversation to convince him that the voices belonged to some of the crew of the piratical vessel, and that the rascals were detailing to themselves their plans for attacking the unfortunate voyagers and sacking the wrecked vessel. After the departure of the loquacious pirates, the sailor made his way to his own camp, and detailed the plot of the pirates to Governor Henegan.

After a consultation with his council, the governor formed his plans for retaliation, which were to capture the pirate vessel, and put to sea with his little colony. This was ''carrying the war into Africa,'" with a vengeance, yet, under the circumstances, was perfectly justifiable.

The governor's plans were well laid, and would have been successfully carried out, had not one of the passengers betrayed the governor's plans to the pirate chief. The pirates immediately struck their tents and began their retreat to their boats, and thence to their vessel. In the melee that ensued, the pirate captain was wounded so severely as to compel his crew to take him upon their shoulders. In this condition, with their helpless captain, the pirates reached their boats and made for their vessel. When upon her deck, they hoisted sails and put out to sea, leaving the shipwrecked in possession of their diminutive republic.

HENDRICK, LYMAN, tanner, Fredericktown, was born in Sunbury, Delaware county, December 19, 1819; was married to Rhoda Runnian, who was bornin Knox county, in 1827. They had one daughter, Mary I., who was born in 1862. Miss Rhoda Hendrick died in this county. Mr. Hendrick was afterwards married to Mary Hodges, daughter of Joshua Hodges.

Joshua Hodges was born in Massachusetts April 2, 1780, and married Sophia Jones, who was born in Connecticut April 25, 1786. They had the foilowing family, viz: Hiram Chapman, born in 1812; Harrison S., born in 1815; Julia, born in 1817; Clinton, born in 1819; Levi, born in 1821; Eliza, born in 1823; Mary, born in 1825; Harry, born in 1827, and Sarah, in 1829. Mr. Hodges came to Knox county in 1837, and died in Mt. Vernon, in 1864. Mrs. Sophia Hodges died in Morris township, this county, in 1871.

HENRY, DANIEL, carpenter, Union township; post office, Gann, was born in Pennsylvania March 25, 1834, and came to Knox county in 1858, and settled in Jefferson township. He enlisted in company B, Ninety-sixth regiment Ohio volunteer infantry; went to the south in 1862, and returned at the expiration of his time, in 1865. In 1875 he was married to Miss Grear. They had one child that died in infancy.

HENWOOD, JOHN, deceased, Monroe township, a native of Washington county, Pennsylvania, was born February 22, 1800; married Miss Jane Taylor in 1825, of same county, borh in 1798. They settled in Washington county, Pennsylvania, and remained until 1840, then emigrated to Ohio and lacated in Monroe township, this county, on the farm now owned by their son, John Henwood, jr., where they passed the remainder of their days. He deceased August, 1870. His companion survived him until August, 1874.

They reared a family of six children - Mary A., Jobn, Samuel C., Flora J., Taylor, and Amanda, all living except Samuel C., who enlisted in the fall of 1861, in company A, Sixty-fifth regiment Ohio volunteer infantry, served two years as a private, and was then promoted to second lieutenant, which position he filled until he fell a victim to the enemy's bullets, at the battle

HERDMAN, FRANK, Fredericktown, blacksmith, was born in Utica, New York, in 1845, and came to Ohio in 1870. He was married to Mary E. Cochran, who was born in Knox county. They have three children viz: Isabella, born in 1874; Harry, in 1877; and Frank, in 1879.

Mr. Herdman learned the blacksmith trade in Detroit, Michigan, and is now engaged in doing custom work. He is a firstclass mechanic, accommodating and obliging. All who wish work in his line will do well to give him a call.

HESKITT, BENJAMIN F., deceased, was a minister of the Methodist Episcopal church from 1856 till his death, January 4, 1863. He was captain in the Fifty-frst Ohio volunteer infantry, and was wounded at the battle of Stone River, and lived but two days. Rev. Heskett was born in Loudoun county, Virginia, February 2, 1823, and was married September 17, 1857, to Miss Almira V. Chandler, of Martinsburgh. One son, Stanley F., was the issue of this marriage.

HESS, MICHAEL, Berlin township; retired; post office, Shalers Mills, was born in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, in 1817, and married in 1837, to Elizabeth Hare, who was born in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, in 1819. They had ten children: David, born in 1838; Lewis, in 1841; Israel, in 1843; Catharine L., in 1845; Jacob C., in 1848; Wilson S., in 1850; John S., in 1853; Ezra J., in 1855; Francis M., in 1858, and James P., in 1859. The deceased members are Jacob C., Ezra J. and James P. The following are married: David Hess, married to Mary McDaniels, now deceased, and resides in Floyd county, Iowa; Lewis Hess, married to Harriet Mishey; Israel Hess, married to Isabella Welker; Catharine Hess, married to George Ankney, deceased.

Mr. Hess emigrated from Pennsylvania to Berlin township, Knox county, in 1839, and purchaseda farm from Alfred Hampton. He remained upon the farm over eleven years. In 1850 he purchased a part of the Ellicott farm of G. Shafer, and remained there till 1879, when he moved to Ankneytown. Mr. Hess was elected infirmary director in Knox county in 1875, and reelected in 1878, an office that he filled with credit to himself and satisfaction to the public. He was elected justice of the peace in Berlin township for one term, at.d positively refused to accept the second term. Mrs. Hess isa member of the German Baptist church.

HESS, DAVID, Union township; farmer; post office, Gann, was born in Adams county, Pennsylvania, in 1808. In 1837 he came to Jefterson county Ohio, and lived there until 1842, when he removed to Knox county, Ohio, where he still remains. The same year he commenced to erect a grist-mill in Howard township, and he was six years building it, doing all the work himself. At this time he sold the mill, and moved to Millwood; remained there two and a half years, and came to his present farm in 1850. In April, 1829, he was married to Miss M. E. Clingar, who lived with him until 1877, when she died, leaving him ten children. They are all married except Elizabeth, who stays with her father. Milling and building mills is his business.

HESS, REV. MARTIN L., itinerant minister, Jefferson township, son of Henry and'Prudence Hess, born January 30, 1830, in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, was brought to Knox county, by his parents, in the spring of 1847, who located in

During that time he was ordained for the ministry by the United Brethren in Christ, and has labored twenty-five years. On the twenty-fifth day of September, 1866, he united in marriage with Miss Elender Kelley, born in Holmes county, October 18, 1837. After his marriage he remained in Holmes county about three years, when he removed to Jefferson township, Knox county, where he remained one year. He then moved to Coshocton county, remaining there two years. After making a journey to the west he located in Jefferson township, Knox county, on the old homestead formerly owned by his father, two miles east of Jelloway; there he has since remained, engaged in the ministry.

HESS, J. T., M. D., Mt. Vernon, was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, February 16, 1830. His parents were born and married in the same county, and emigrated to

Ohio with a family of four children, in May, 1830. His father settled in Jefferson township, Knox county. He was educated at the common and select schools in Mt. Vernon. Dr. Hess read medicine with Dr. Shannon and Professor Smith, of Philadelphia. He attended the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, and graduated in the spring of 1857. He first practiced in Bloomfield, Morrow county, Ohio, and a short time in Fredericktown. August 14, 1862, he was commissioned assistant surgeon of the Ninety-sixth O. V. I., served one year with the Thirteenth regulars, General Sherman's regiment, when he was commissioned surgeon and assigned to the Ninety-sixth Ohio, Colonel Vance's regiment. He was in charge of the United States hospital at Fort Gaines during the summer of 1863. April, 1864, be was taken prisoner at Sabine Cross Roads, and was held three months, until June, and then took charge of the hospital at Carrollton, Louisiana. He returned to his regiment and was with it until the close of the war. He was division surgeon from early in the spring of 1865 until the close of the war. He amputated hundreds of limbs. On his return he took up the practice of medicine in Delaware, Ohio, where he remained until the spring of 1877, when he took up his residence in Mt. Vernon. He married Miss Sophia C. Colwill August 1g, 1850, She is the daughter of William Colwill, deceased. She was born in England, near London, October 12, 1830. They had three children, Emma D., wife of E. C. Emley, of Centreburgh, an infant and Agnes I.

HESS, MICHAEL W., Wayne township, farmer, was born in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, October 25, 1832, came to Ohio at the age of five years, and was married in 1860 to Agnes C. Deakins, who was born in Brown township, January 6, 1842. They had the following children: Alice A., born August 29, 1861; James W., April 12, 1863; Martha J., October 4, 1866; Louella, January 3, 1869; Florence M., January 6, 1872; John R., December 9, 1875; and Freddie C., May 6, 1879. Mrs. Hess died May rr, 1879.

HESS, FRANK P., was born October 10, 1834, in Jackson township, Knox county, Ohio. He was married to Maria Melick, daughter of Daniel Melick, an old pioneer of Jackson township, on the third of April, 1856. Mrs. Hess was born in Jackson township January x, 1833. They have had five children, viz; Evaline, born April 17, 1859, and who died November 16, 1876; Mary B., born February 14, 1859; Thomas Jefferson, born January 28, 1862; Isodore J., born May 3, 1864; and Laura Iona, born June 15, 1867.

HESS, GEORGE W., Hilliar township, foreman of the Cleveland, Columbus & Mt. Vernon railroad, was born in Frederick county, Maryland, March 14, 1842. When he was five years of age his parents, David and Mary E. Hess, came to Knox county, Ohio, and settled in Howard township, where Mr. Hess built a mill on the Little Jelloway, which is yet standing. The subject of this sketch learned the milling trade with his father.

In May, 186r, he enlisted in company F, Sixteenth Ohio volunteer infantry, three months' service. Shortly after his return from the three months' service he enlisted in company I, Ohio volunteer infantry, (September, 1861,) for three years, and participated in the battles of Perryville, Stone River, and Chickamauga, after which he veteranized, and was in the battles of Mission Ridge, Resaca, Kénnesaw Mountain, Siege of Atlanta, Franklin, and Nashville, besides numerous skirmishes. During the Atlanta campaign he was under fire for sixty-three consecutive days. He was discharged at Louisville, Kentucky, October 19, 1865, having served his country four years and three months.

The following year after his return he went west and was with a surveying party for mail service. In 1872 he was engaged on the railroad, and in June, 1878, he was given section number nineteen. He is held in esteem by all who know him, and is an efficient and trusty fireman.

He was married to Miss Mary E. Sapp, daughter of Robert Sapp, of Union township, Knox county, December 20, 1868. They had three children, two of whom are living - Thomas C. and Charles E.

HESS, LEWIS, Berlin township, farmer, post office, Shaler's Mills, born in Knox county in 1851, was married in 1863 to Harriet Mishey, who was born in Pike township, this county. They have three children - Olie W., born in 1864, Ida E., in 1868, and J. Clifford C., in 1871. Mr. and Mrs. Hess are both members of pioneer families.

HESS, HENRY, farmer, post offica, Shaler's Mills. - He was born in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, in 1823. In 1839 he came to Ohio, and located in Berlin township. In 1844 he was married to Sarah Frederick, who was born in Ohio in 1824. They had six children. Isaac was born in 1845, Amanda, in 1849, Eli, in 1851, Jacob, in 1853, Martha, in 1858, and Sarah A., in 1861. Mrs. Sarah Hess died with cancer, in 1876; was buried in Owl Creek cemetery. She was a worthy member of the German Baptist church. Mr. Hess located on the farm where he now resides, and which he owns, in 1854. He is a prominent and official member of the German Baptist church. His sons are liberally educated. Eli is teaching vocal music. Jacob is engaged as salesman in the Gregor store.

HESS, GEORGE, Pike township, farmer, post office, Democ- Tacy, was born in this county, Union township, in 1851, and was married in 1876 to Emeline Gressling, who was born in Wayne county in 1850. Mr. Hess is engaged in farming in this township. He is an enterprising and good citizen.

neer of Miller township, is a son of William and Ruth Hildreth, of whom mention is made in biography of Arnold Hildreth. He was born August 5, 1808, in Hartford county, Connecticut; came with his parents, in 1814, to Ohio, and in 1817 came to Miller township, where his youth was spent, and where he has resided ever since, being engaged in farming. He now lives, and for more than three score years has lived, at the old home. stead. Heis a man of social habits, strong convictions and honesty of purpose.

June 9g, 1832, he was married to Miss Emeline Eddie, a native of Connecticut, who was born November 9g, 1808. They had one son, Albert E., born April 12, 1834. Mrs. Hildreth died December 18, 1874. Albert was reared on the old homestead, educated at the common schools, and is one of the substantial men of the township. April 20, 1853, he married Miss Jennie, daughter of Samuel Cake. They have one son, viz: Frank E., born April 19, 1868, who is an intellectual, promising boy.

HILDRETH, ARNOLD W. (pioneer), Miller township, was born in Hartford county, Connecticut, December 27, 1803. His parents, William and Ruth Hildreth, came to Zanesville in 1814, and remained there until 1817, when they camé to Miller township, where Mr. Hildreth had previously become owner of one hundred and sixty acres of land in the northwest part of the township. When Mr. Hildreth came to Ohio he had a family of five sons, viz: John, William, Samuel, (who have deceased), Epaphroditus, and Arnold. The parents died on the old homestead.

The subject of this notice was reared on a farm and had the advantages of such schools as the district afforded.- He was twice married. His first wife was Miss Mary Beardsley, daughter of William Beardsley, a pioneer of Milford township. They had nine children, viz: Angeline, Alfred B., Platt G., Wells A., Hellen, Emeline, William, Henry, and Harrison. He contracted a second marriage with Miss Amanda Stanton, who became the mother of two children, viz: Charles R., and Jennie. Mr. Hildreth isa good citizen and aman of general intelligence. He still resides on the old homestead, where sixty-three years ago his parents located.

HILDRETH, WASHINGTON, Milford township, merchant, Lock post office, was born in Monroe county, New York, in 1829. In 1835 he came to Richland county, Ohio, and subsequently to Brandon, Knox county. From twelve to fifteen years of age he was in the family of Hon. Columbus Delano, and attending school in Mt. Vernon. At about fifteen years of age he entered the store of Freeman & Ward, of Mt. Vernon, and was with them for some years. He was next employed by George W. Potwin, who sent a stock of goods to Danville and placed Mr. Hildreth in charge.

In 1852 he purchased this stock of Mr. Potwin and remained in Danville tvo years, and then removed to Brandon, where he remained until 1856, when he removed to Lock, where he has since carried on the business of merchandising. Mr. Hildreth started business with but a few hundred dollars, going in debt for the greater part of his stock, but by prudent management amount. He is practically a self-made man, and has been successful in building up a good trade, understands the business of merchandising, and from his well selected stock he can sup- His trade increased so that it became necessary to have a more commodious business room. In 1871 he built his present room, a model of good taste and judgement. It is fifty by twenty-five feet, two story, with an addition of twelve by twenty-five feet, one story. The second story is for alodge room. Mr. Hildreth isa business man in every sense of the term. He is reliable, allows no misrepresentation, has the confidence of the public, and is one of the leading men of the community. In 1860 he was appointed postmaster, and has held the office ever since. He was twice married, his first wife, Hattie B. Harder, to whom he was married March 20, 1855, was the mother of four children, two of whom are living: Ida E., wife of W. H. Mitchell, who isa son of Almon Mitchell, of 'Milford township, and Hattie B. The deceased are Ellsworth and Edward, who died young.

HILL, NORMAN NEWELL, Mt. Vernon, Ohio. His father, Aaron Hill, was born in Charlestown, near Boston, Massachusetts, in 1782, and subsequently removed to Com. wall, Addison county, Vermont, where he married Sarah Newell about 1801, and where the subject of this sketch was born September 28, 1803. In 1807 Aaron Hill removed to Pennsylvania, where he remained two years 'and then moved to Zanesville, Ohio, with his family, in company with Mr. Gideon Mott: and family. His funds gave out before arriving at Zanesvillle, and he borrowed, of Mr. Mott, fifty cents to liquidate a hotel bill, thus arriving at his new home pennyless and with a family on his hands. He appears to have understood the blacksmith trade, and probably found work in Zanesville, where he reremained until 1811, when he came to Mt. Vernon, his future home. Here he found shelter for his family in a cabin on the southwest corner of Gay and Chestnut streets, now known as the Dr. Burr lot. At that time the forest extended almost up to the door. Here the family remained two years, when they removed to the southwest corner of High and Mechanic streets, now known as the Anthony Banning lot. Land was cheap and Mr. Hill, by his industry, was soon enabled to purchase a farm in Miller township, to which he removed, and where he remained about two years, when he purchased a quarter section in Milford township, upon which the family lived about fifty years. These farms were in the woods, as were all farms in those days, and had to be cleared of timber by great labor.

The Milford township farm is located on what is known as Bishop street, and subsequently passed into the hands of his son David, whose family occupied it untill 1866,

In their declining years Aaron Hill and wife made their home at the residence of his son, N. N. Hill, in Mt. Vernon, where they died in 1870, within a few days of each other, aged eightyeight and eighty-six respectively.

At the age of sixteen Norman N. Hill left his father's farm and took up his residence with the family of Samuel Mott, in Mt. Vernon, Mr. Mott being at that time a leading lawyer and merchant of the place. Mr. Hill received the rudiments of his education in the old log court house that then occupied the public square, and was used, as were such buildings generally in those days, for courts, schools, and public meetings. At the age of twenty-nine he entered Mr. Mott's store as clerk; soon made himself master of the business and became managing clerk. About 1832 he purchased the stock, and began a mercantile career on his own account, which was successfully continued about forty years.' Six yearsof this time he owned and conducted a large wholesale establishment in Cincinnati.

various business enterprises in Mt. Vernon, in all of which he has been quite successful, and has amassed considerable wealth. He wasa stockholder and director in the old Knox County bank, and still continues a stockholder and director of the Knox County National bank, his connection with these institutions covering a period of twenty-eight years. For nineteen years past he has been a director in the Knox county Mutual Insurance company.

When the Springfield, Mt. Vernon & Pittsburgh railroad was in process of construction he was made secretary and treasurer of the company. About 1845 he erected the large brick building at the foot of Main street, formerly known as the Mt. Vernon woollen mills, but for many years past occupied as a warehouse. Here for nearly two years he was engaged in the manfacture of woollen fabrics, and did a large and successful business.

During all his business career he has been extensively engaged in the purchase and shipping of wool and other products, During the early days of his mercantile career, that business was conducted very differently from what it is to-day. Exchange was the rule, money the exception, and the merchant was compelled to buy all the produce of the farm and the chase if he did business. -

Mr. Hill was a large shipper, to various markets, of hogs, cattle, sheep, horses, etc., and often accompanied his shipments and superintended the sale. He remembers with lively satisfaction an occasion of thiskind. He had purchased some three hundred head of hogs and driven them to Huron (now Sandusky city), the only market then convenient. Quite a number of merchants were, at that time, doing a pork-packing business at Huron; and, although the market was lively, prices high, and merchants anxious to buy, yet when they found Mr. Hill on the ground with three hundred hogs, which they were aware he must sell at some price, or be at considerable expense in feeding and attending to them, they rather leagued together, concluding they had the advantage of him, and would compel him to sell at their own prices.

Compretending the situation, and being well known at Huron as a merchant of considerable means and good credit, he determined not to be imposed upon, and therefore announced that he would not only slaughter and pack his own pork, but would buy and pack all the pork that came to that market that he could get - in other words, he would become a competitor in the pork-packing business - and with that end in view made arrangements at the warehouse of Jenkins & Tracy for receiving and paying for pork that he might purchase on the street. This brought the Huron pork-packers to terms, and before night of the day he had determined upon becoming a competitor in the business, he had sold all his pork at the highest market price, the packers being glad to get him out of town so easily.

street. February 12, 1833, he married Mary Shaw, a daughter of John Shaw, a prominent citizen of the county. Mr. Shaw was elected sheriff in 1815, reelected in 1817, and again, for a third term, in 1828, In 1817 and 1824 he was also county collector. In 1821-2 he represented Knox and Richland counties in the Ohio senate, and in 1825 was a member of the Ohio house of representatives. In 1807 he came to Mt. Vernon from Maryland. His wife was a daughter of Michael Cramer.

here, At the date of her birth her father occupied a small tenement house on the lot now owned by Mr, John Boyd, east side of Mechanic, and south of Vine street. From there he moved to a small two-story log dwelling on the lot now occupied by Dennis Corcoran's store, on the south side of West Vine street.

Of the three children of Norman and Mary Hill but one is living, John S., who resides on a farm in Morris township, about three miles from the city.

Sarah Newell, the mother of N. N. Hill, was the daughter of Riverius Newell, a well known and well remembered pioneer of Knox county, a Revolutionary soldier, who had fought at Bunker Hill and suffered at Valley Forge. He was also in the War of 1812.

Sarah Newell was a woman of great strength of mind, cheerful disposition, and a model pioneer mother. During the War of 1812, when the Indian raid was expected, she was living in the great woods, ina cabin on the Miller township farm, and remained at home alone many days and nights, with her children, while her husband was working at his trade in Mt. Vernon. N.N. Hill says they had scooped out a hole under the puncheon floor of their cabin large enough to admit a straw bed, and when bed time came a puncheon was raised, the mother and children descended into this underground bed-room, and carefully replacing the puncheon, remained there during the night. Many nights were thus passed in those early days.