Knox County, Ohio - Biographical sketches, 1881 (part 1 of 20)

Biographical sketches

ABBOTT, JOHN S., farmer, was born in Luzerne county, Pennsylvania, June 18, 1826. In 1855 he emigrated to Knox county, Ohio, locating in Mt. Vernon. In the fall of the same year he purchased the farm on which he is now living, in Clinton township, located on the Granville road, two miles from Mt. Vernon, and has since made farming his occupation. February 15, 1865, he married Miss Mary E. Johnston, born in Clinton township, Knox county, Ohio, March 11, 1842, daughter of James and Mary J. Johnson. They moved on his farm, where they are now living. Their union resulted in one child, a daughter.

ACKERMAN, L. B.,-insurance agent, Fredericktown, was born in Knox county, Ohio, August 17, 1839, and was married September 20, 1871, to Ella Cook, who was born in Wayne county, June 12, 1848. They have four children, viz: Ida C., born July 8, 1872; William A., December 26, 1873; Ernest Lee, March 13, 1875, and Edith E., March 31, 1879. Mr. Ackerman received a liberal education and has been engaged in teaching, having taught school twenty-three years. He was principal of the Fredericktown union schools during the years 1877 and 1878, and has the reputation of being one of the ablest instructors of Knox county. He is at present engaged in the insurance and collecting business. He has been a citizen of Fredericktown for three years, and is one of the intelligent and enterprising men of this township, and has done much to promote the standard of education in Knox county. He has also taken quite an active part in political matters.

ACKERMAN, HARVEY, Middlebury township, farmer, post office, Levering, born in Middlebury township, July r4, 1850; married in 1872 to Ara Smith, who was born in Coshocton county, Ohio, in 1852. They have two children - Blanche, born January 10, 1874, and Carle, born July 2, 1877. Mrs. Ara Ackerman died April 2, 1878. Mr. Ackerman has been engaged in teaching school about ten'years.

ADAMS, JAMES, Monroe township, deceased, son of John and Ann Adams, was born in Frederick county, Virginia, November 22, 1792. He accompanied his parents to this county in 1811, who located near Mt. Vernon, where they deceased - Mrs. Adams in 1827, and Mr. Adams in 1829. James Adams was reared on a farm, and followed farming as his vocation through life. October 10, 1815. he married Miss Eleanor Newell, daughter of Hugh and Margaret Newell, who was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, July 27, 1798, and came to Knox county with her sister Mary, wife of Judge McGibeney, in 1820. Mr. and Mrs. Adams settled on a farm in Monroe township, known as the Hunt farm, and remained until 1836. They then moved on farm in the same township, located on Schenck''s creek, now owned by their son, Allison Adams, where he deceased April 1, 1838. His companion survives him at the age of eighty-two years, and is living on the home farm with her son Allison. He served in the War of 1812. He filled the office of justice of the peace in Monroe township about ten years. He was the father of three children: John, born August 5, 1816: Allison, born November 6, 1818; and Mary J., born November 12, 1820. John and Mary J. have deceased. Allison Adams married Miss Phebe A. Paige, of Monroe township, who deceased October 10, 1854. He was then united in marriage with Miss Elizabeth E. Dowds, in November, 1855; born December 27, 1834; daughter of Elijah Dowds, deceased. They settled on the Adams homestead, where they are now liying. They havea family of six children - three sons and three daughters. He has made farming and stock raising his vocation. He owns a large farm in Monroe township. He enlisted in company H, of the Sixty-sixth Ohio volunteer infahtry, and served about ten months in the war of 1861. He was in the battle of Stone River December 31, 1862. He has served the people of Monroe township as justice of the peace since October, 1865.

ADAMS, GEORGE, deceased, was born in Redgrave, a village in Suffolk county, England, March 16, 1797. He came to America in 1853, first settling in Gambier, where he lived one year, and then removed to Mt. Vernon, where he resided up to the time of his death, which occurred about noon on Thursday, December 4, 1879, in the eighty-third year of his age. Mr. Adams was twice married. By his first wife he had thirteen children, seven of whom are still living - five sons and two daughters - Mr. Adam Adams, of the firm of Adams & Rogers, hardware merchants, being the eldest. Besides these, he leaves twenty-four grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren, Mr. Adams' death was sudden. He had been engaged in wheeling tanbark from the street in to his lot, and at dinner time his wife found him in the front yard, lying on his back, dead. Apoplexy is supposed to have been the cause of his death.

ADAMS, JACOB, Berlin township, farmer, post office, Fredericktown, was born in Bedford county, Pennsylvania, in 1822, came to Ohio when fourteen years of age, and was married in 1850 to Sabra Brown, who was born in this township in 1830. They have six children, viz: Annetta, born in 1854; Alice M., in 1856; Sabie C., in 1858; Mary E., in 1860; Duddie, in 1863,

ADAMS, ARTHUR, blacksmith and horseshoer, Mulberry street, between High and Vine strects, Mt. Vernon, Ohio. Arthur Adams is a native of Mt. Vernon, and was born November 6, 1848, and received his education in the public schools of the city. He learned his trade, blacksmithing, with his father, Mr. Adam Adams. tice, he worked one year after instructions in his father's establishment. He then opened a shop in Fredericktown and worked two years. He then returned to" Mt. Vernon and entered into partnership with his father for some two years, and then took charge of the shop for himself, which he still conducts. The business amounts to about two thousand dollars per year. Horseshoeing is a specialty, he having a thorough knowledge of the theory of shoeing truck and draft horses, and of all departments of shoeing. Fle took the first premium at the Knox County Agricultural society's fair in 1873. His father, with whom he learned his trade, also took a first premium from the State Board of Agriculture at the fair held at Cleveland some years ago. He does all kinds of repairing on short notice, and for reasonable terms. <All his work is warranted to be firstclass. Mr. Adams in 1863 enlisted in company R, One Hundred and Twenty-first Ohio volunteer infantry, in which he served until the close of the war. M. Adams has represented his ward in the city council.

ADAMS, REV. MORTON D., pastor of the Disciple church, was born at Vincennes, Indiana, May 24, 1856, and received his preparatory education there, and at Butler university, Indianpolis, and completed at Vincennes university, from which he graduated in 1875. In 1876 he entered upon pastoral duty at Vandalia, Illinois, where he remained one year, and then went to Massillion, Ohio, and served the church there one year. In 1879 he came to Mt. Vernon and took charge of the Disciple church of this place, in which he has served with acceptance to the present, and during which the church has been greatly revived and built up, having had forty additions during his pastorate.

ALER, CHARLES E., travelling agent, post office, ,Fredericktown. He was born in Virginia in 1850, and came to Ohio in 1877. He was married in 1875 to Kugenia B. Linfield, who was born in North Carolina in 1855. They have two children: Margaret V. was born in 1877, and Claudia I. in 1879. Mr. Aler has been a very successful book agent, and is still engaged at that business.

ALLEN, ASAHEL, farmer, was born in East Bridgewater, Massachusetts, November 18, 1803. [In February, 1804, his parents, Asahel and Rhoda Allen, vce Fillson, moved to Benson, Rutland county, Vermont, where he was reared to manhood. In September, 1833, he, in company with two sisters, Salome C. and Rhoda A., and his father and mother, emigrated to Knox county, Ohio, located in Mt. Vernon for the following winter, and in the spring of 1834 they purchased and moved on the farm now owned by him, one and a half miles southwest of Mt. Vernon, on the Columbus road, in Clinton township. There was a log cabin on the farm, which served them as an abode until 1835, when he erected the brick dwelling, which is now used as a tenant house. Rhoda Allen deceased June 19, 1848 His father, Asahel Alien, died April 22, 1850, aged eighty years' Rhoda, wife of Asahel Allen, and mother of Mr. Allen, Re. departed this life December 1, 1857, aged eighty-six years and six months.

Wing. Miss Wing was born in Queensbury, Warren county, New York, November 10, 1812, and emigrated with her parents to Mt. Vernon, Knox county, Ohio, in 1817. .\fter the marriage of Mr. Allen to Miss Wing they settled on the Allen homestead, where they are now living. In 1843 he erected their present residence, which is a frame structure.

They reared a family of four children, Belinda I¢., Alice ae Charles R., and Henry A. who are all living. He has followed farming and stock-raising as his vocation. His sister, Salome (,, married, and is now living at Mt. Vernon.

ALLIEN, W. P., was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, March 7, 1817, where he remained until twenty-three years old; was reared ona farm and was educated at the district schools. In 1840 he came to Ohio and settled in Pleasant township, Knox county, where he followed farming for twelve years, when he traded his farm for another in Clay township, where he remained for five years. moved to Martinsburgh and dealt in stock until the fall of 1865. In the spring he commenced dealing in agricultural implements in which he has since been engaged. He came from Martinsburgh 1n the spring of 1871 to Mt. Vernon, where he now lives, and has been engaged in his present business for fifteen years, and has done a business of ten thousand dollars per year. He at present represents Whitely, Fassler, & Kelley, of Springfield, manufacturers of reapers and mowers; J. A. Case & Co., of Racine, Wisconsin, manufacturers of engines and separators, and a number of other prominent manufacturing firms in his line.

ALLEN, JAMES, farmer, Middlebury township, post office, I'redericktown; born in Monroe county in 1832, married in 1855 to Mary E. Devore, who was born in Belmont county, Ohio, in 1836. 'Ihey have the foilowing family, viz: Josephine C., born January 17, 1857; Adalaide V., June ro, 1864; Jennie A., February 7, 1867, and Lillie I., July 29, 1870. Mr. Allen came to Knox county in 1867, and located in Middlebury township. He owns a well improved farm, and is one of the active and energetic men of the township.

ALLEN, FRANCIS M., farmer and stock raiser, was born in Liberty township, August 26, 1852. He is the son of William and Joanna Allen zee Coffing. H2 was raised on a farm, and attended the public schools of the district. He was married to Miss Carrie Coleville, daughter of William and Hannah Coleville, September, 1875. They have one child.

Mrs. Joanna Alien was born in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, 1810, where she was reared. Her maiden name was Coffing. In 1832 she married William Allen, who was born in England, November ro, 1805, and about 1819 came to the United States with his parents, who settled in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, About 1835 Mr. and Mrs. Allen came to Ohio and settled on the farm on which he died, February 20, 1877. They settled in the woods, and of course had almost the same experience as pioneers. Mr. Allen became one of the influential citizens of the township. He was regarded as an exemplary man. They had a family of seven children, six of whom are living. Mrs.

AMOS, JOHN F., farmer, Middlebury township, post office, Fredericktown, was born in Perry township, Richland county, in 1850, and was married in 1874 to Mary E. McNutt, who was born in Stark county in 1856. He came to Middlebury township in 1867. Mr. Amos owns an improved farm, with good

AMOS, F. A., farmer, Middlebury township, post office, Fredericktown; born in Hartford county, Maryland, in 1809, came to Richland county, Ohio, in 1836, and removed to Knox county in 1867. He was married twice and had a family of six children, viz.: Joshua, John F., Freddie P., Amanda, Mary Elizabeth, and Albert (deceased). Mr. Amos owns one of the finest farms (with excellent buildings) in Middlebury township.

AMSBAUGH, CHRISTOPHER, C., farmer, Berlin township, post office, Shaler's Mills; born in Richland county, Madison township, Ohio, in 1835, and was married in 1867 to Sarah Adams, who was born in Berlin township, Knox county, Ohio, in 1840. They have the following children: Sheridan M., born March 22, 1868; John F., March 5s, 1869; Wilson C., April 9, 1870; Nathan M., June 23, 1872; Mary A., February 18, 1874; Alice L., November 5, 1877; and Sadie E., April 6, 1880. Mr. Amsburgh was a soldier in the late war, a member of company E, Sixty-fourth regiment Ohio volunteer infantry, and was in the following engagements: Stone River, Chickamauga, Peech Tree Creek, Jonesborough, Kennesaw Mountain, and Franklin. He was wounded at Chickamauga September 20, 1863, and was detained from service eight months and sixteen days. He was engaged in the service for three years and was honorably discharged. Mr. Amsburgh was elected justice of the peace in 1873, was reelected in 1876, and also in 1879, and has filled the position with credit to himself and satisfactorily to the people. He is identified with the Republican party and is always ready to promote every cause that is calculated to promote the welfare of the public. He came from Richland county to Knox county February 29, 1868.

ANDERS, WILLIAM P., Morris township, farmer, post office, Fredericktown, born in Ohio, and married to Martha M. (daughter of Joseph Ebersole), who was born in Knox county. They have one son- - ~Webster J. Mr. Anders is a farmer, owns a beautiful farm on the Vernon road, with good buildings and under a good state of cultivation.

ANDERSON, W. B., Howard township, farmer, post office, Howard, was born in Pleasant township, Knox county, August 3, 1852; married June 2, 1877 to Mary F. Cory. They had one ehild born March 19, 1878. He built a fine little cottage on his farm in 1879, in which he now resides. His father was born in Franklin county, Pennsylvania, January 12, 1811; and became a widower March 24, 1875.

ANDREWS, LORIN, LL. D., deceased. The subject of thls sketch was not an early settler, nor a long resident of Knox county, but holding the position of president of Kenyon college from 1854 until 1861, he naturally became prominent, and ranked as a man of commanding influence.

President Andrews was born in Uniontown, then a small villege of Richland county, but its name was afterwards changed to Ashland, in compliment to Henry Clay, the great statesman of the West (whose country seat, near Lexington, Kentucky, bears that name), and is now the county seat of Ashland county, Ohio. The date of President Andrews' birth was April 1, 1879. Lorin attended the district schools of the village, says Dr. Hill's History of Ashland county, and made rapid progress in the branches taught at that period, giving evidence of that mental force and talent for which, in after years, he became so noted. He was much beloved by his schoolmates because of his amiable disposition, sprightliness of manner, and acuteness. His first public literary or oratorical effort, of which we have authentic information, was a fourth of July oration, delivered near Ashland in 1836. Dr. Hill says it.was delivered with a coolness and self-possession that astonished the assemblage. It had been carefully prepared, well studied, and delivered with an ease of manner and grace of gesticulation that was pronounced admirable, and its young and promising author was complimented with the publication of his highly creditable and rhetorical oration.

A bright future was predicted for the youthful orator, and his father was induced to send him where his ambition, as a student, could have a better field and be more fully gratified. He at once entered the grammar school of Kenyon college, where he commenced a thorough course of instruction. He remained in the grammar school about two years, and entered college, but during the junior year, in 1840, owing to financial embarrassments, was withdrawn from college. In a few months after his return to Ashland, he, by invitation of the trustees, took charge of the Ashland academy, as principal, aided by several able assistants, in the male and female departments. Under his superintendence, says Dr. Hill, the school was in a most flourishing condition; students from every part of this State, and from distant States, came in by the hundred and enrolled their names. Not having completed his collegiate course, Professor Andrews was compelled to continue his studies in advance of his students. Having applied himself with great industry he was enabled to keep well in advance of his most advanced classes, acquiring a thorough knowledge of the branches taught, and a readiness in recitation that was really surprising. His manner, as an instructor, was agreeable and well calculated to win the esteem of his students. He had a peculiar faculty of enlisting the sympathy, respect and confidence of all with whom he was brought in contact. He was frank and pleasing in his address, and his scholars honored and loved him. When compelled to enforce, with apparent severity, the rules governing the academy, it was done in such a way that the student respected him for his impartiality and evident intention to do justice. As an instructor Professor Andrews evinced his deep insight into human nature, and often succeeded in taming the ferocity of the worst students, and changed the whole current of their lives. With him ''kind words can never die."

Professor Andrews was a fluent conversationalist, unselfish, and very kind and gentlemanly in his manners. It is therefore not at all surprising that he had a flourishing school, and was always popular among the students and the people. If he found a student struggling to obtain an education, teaching in the winter and attending the academy in the summer, he would not exact tuition, but insist that his pupil should go ahead, and pay him when he could. '

As a speaker, Professor Andrews was not an orator, unless we define oratory to be the ability to please and hold an audience. His addresses at school institutes, and lectures before his classes, were all delivered, continues Dr. Hill, in a conversational style. He talked remarkably well, and could hold an audience or an institute for hours. There was a fascination about his manner that invariably made his audience feel friendly towards him, while the lucidness of his ideas enlisted their whole attention. As a lecturer before institutes, county and State school conventions and associations, societies and meetings convened to promote educational interests, Professor Andrews was widely known throughout the State, and probably exercised as much or more influence than any other teacher or educator in

Between the years 1848 and 1852, many of the towns and cities of Ohio adopted the union school system, and established graded and high schools. Professor Andrews was largely instrumental in accomplishing that result. His lectures and addresses in many of the county seats of Ohio, in favor of the now popular union school system, were influential and effective, and well entitle their author to honorable mention.

Professor Andrews, in 1850, accepted the position of superintendent of the union schools of Massillon, tendered him by the board of education of that place. He remained at the head of the Massillon schools for about three years, during which time they were very efficient and popular. Professor Andrews was the agent and missionary of the Ohio Teachers' association in 1851-52. In 1853 he received the endorsement of said association as a candidate for State school commissioner, and in 1854 he was its president.

At the height of his reputation and influence in the cause of general education, near the close of 1854, Professor Andrews was chosen to the presidency of Kenyon college. He was the first lay member of the Episcopal church, who had been invited to fill that position. To be selected to preside over such an institution was indeed a flattering compliment. His- high educational attainments added to his purity as a man, made him the worthy recipient of such an honor. The condition of the college, said Bishop McIlvaine, demanded just the qualities for which he was so distinguished - the talent for administration, a very sound judgment, a prompt and firm decision, united with a special drawing of heart toward young men in the course of their education. All the highest expectations of his administration were more than fulfilled. 'His presence in the college," says Dr, Hill, ''acted like magic - his friends from every part of the State began to look toward Kenyon as an appropriate place new life, and energy and prosperity were diffused through every department. Students began to fill the classes, and everything betokened a prosperous future for the institution."

Some months after Professor Andrews had been inaugurated president of Kenyon college, the honorary degree of LL. D. was conferred upon him by Princeton college, New Jersey. This was a high distinction and well deserved, because of his remarkable success as an educator. President Andrews, A. M., LL. D., served Kenyon college as president, from 1854 to 1861, which embraced the period of its greatest prosperity - the intermediate years were those of its success, its achievements, its triumphs - and Lorin Andrews was entitled to the honor of securing those successes and triumphs.

In Whitelaw Reid's Ohio in the War, it is said of Lorin Andrews that he '' was one of the earliest and costliest offerings of Ohio to the war. He was not permitted to develop fully his military ability, but there was no reason to doubt, from his known character, and his zeal in the distinguished positions he had filled, that as a soldier he would have reached as high a rank as he had already won in civil life.'' Of his entrance into the military service Bishop' MclIlvaine says: ''When the first call of the President of the United States for quotas of volunteer troops from the several States was made, he was the first man in Ohio whose name Governor Dennison received. He did it for an example. He sought no military distinction. wiie led to the camp a company of his neighbors, expecting only to

He was commissioned colonel of the three months' organization of the Fourth Ohio infantry. When, in June, the organization was changed to a three years' regiment, he was retained His faithfulness in whatever position he was placed, united with his ability to master whatever he chose to learn, made him very soon an able and efficient commander and disciplinarian. He went with his command to western Virginia, where he soon fell a victim to the exposure incident to camp life. In the beginning of his sickness he could not be prevailed on to leave the camp, saying, ''my place is with my men; but as he grew worse he was at last removed to Gambier, Ohio, where, amid the scenes of his labors, in the best years of his life, and among his weeping friends, he breathed his last, September 18, 186t.

ANDREWS, JAMES M., grocer, Mt. Vernon, Ohio. Mr. Andrews is a native of New Jersey, was born in Franklin, Warren county, on the thirteenth day of December, 1823, and there resided until the vear 1846. His education, although derived from the common schools of that day, was thorough and complete. At the age of twenty the subject of this sketch was apprenticed to the blacksmithing and machine work, and as such served for three years, and for two years thereafter worked asa journeyman with his old employer. In the year 1846 his father and family, of which James was one, emigrated to Ohio, and located in Clinton township, Knox county, and continued there up to the time of his death, which occurred on the thirtieth day of October, 1867, aged seventy-eight years. The first year of his residence in Ohio, young Andrews spent in travelling, with the exception of a few months in which he worked at his trade with his old employer. From 1847 to 1853 Mr. Andrews was principally engaged in farming, working upon his father's farm. In 1853 he came to Mt. Vernon, and engaged in the grocery and provision business, in which he has continued up to the present day, making his the oldest continuous grocery house in the city. He is doing a successful business, and it is increasing daily. His present store room is one of the neatest in the place, and was erected by himself in 1876. His stock is always of the first. class, consisting of family groceries, confectioneries, flour, feed, and choice liquors of the best brands.

On the tenth day of June, r852, Mr. Andrews was united in marriage with Miss Harriet Wing, a daughter of Mr. John Wing, Mrs. Andrews being a native born of this county. From this marriage four children have been born - three fair daughters and one intelligent son - all of whom start out with a fair prospect of living useful lives.

ARMENTROUT, SIMON, Pike township, retired, post office Mt. Vernon; born in Rockingham county, Virginia, December 16, 1810, and was married in 1833 to Rachel Phillips, who was born in Baltimore county, Maryland, June 5, 1816. They had the following children - Rebecca P., born November 18, 1834; Sarah E., September 23, 1836; Lucinda P., December 12, 1838; George W., March 27, 1841; Lyman W. September 14, 1844; Smantha J., April 14, 1840; Mary O., May 29, 1852; William P., December 9, 1854; and Simon F. July 2, 1857. The deceased members are Martha J., James O., Rachel, and Rebecca. The married members are Rebecca P., married Febin the same command.

Tuary 17, 1853, to Lawrence Arnold, who resides in Shelbyville, Shelby county, Missouri. Sarah E. was married September 23, 1860, to Stephen Chapman, now resident of Mt. Vernon. Lucinda was married Feb. 20, 1857, to John McGinley, who resides in Porter county, Indiana. George W. Marriedto Sarah E. Smith, February 20, 1868, now residents of Jasper county, Iowa. Lyman W. was married Novy. 3, 1871, to Maria Tullis,. now residents of Bellville, Ohio. Smantha J. was married in Septemver, 1867 to George Mahaffy, now residing in Shelbyville, Missouri. Mary O. was married in August, 1870, to Cyrus Hunter, and resides in this township.

Lyman W. studied medicine with Dr. Russell, of Mt: Vernon, attended medical college at Ann Arbor, Michigan, also at Detroit. He commenced the practice at Centerburgh, this county, remained there a short time then located in Bellville, Richland county, in 1870, and has an extensive practice. He is also a partner in a drug store.

Mr. Armentrout has resided on the same farm since his marriage, and all the children were born at the old home in this townsnip. He sold his farm in 1880 and removed to Mt. Vernon. Mr. and Mrs. Armentrout have been worthy members of the Methodist Episcopal church since 1848. His father, Philip Armentrout. was born in 1770, in Rockingham county, Virginia, was married to Mary M. Flook, who was born in Maryland December 25, 1785. Philip Armentrout died January 15, 1858. He was a soldier inthe War of 1812, serving as orderly sergeant.

ARMENTROUT, ROBERT M., Pike township, farmer, (post office Democracy), was born in Pike township, Knox county, Ohio, in 1853, and was married in 1878 to Eluetta Marshall, who was born in Brown township, this county, in 1859. They have one daughter, Julia Cleona, born November 18, 1879. Mr. Armentrout has always been identified with this township. He is a member of a pioneer family, and is a farmer by occupation.

ARMSTRONG, ELIPHLET, was born May 6, 1810, in Frederick county, Maryland, but when quite young his parents moved to Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, where they remained two years; then coming to Ohio they settled in Richlend county, where they spent the remainder of their days. Mrs. Armstrong died in 1825; Mr. Armsirong died in 1850.

Our subject came to Mt. Vernon January 11, 1830, being twenty years old, and went to work with Richard House to complete learning his trade (carpenter). Mr. House had a contract to build the court house, on which Mr. Armstrong worked. He has been engaged at his trade ever since, mostly in Mt. Vernon, and built most of the best buildings in that city, many of which will be monuments of his mechanical skill for years to come. He was married March, 10, 1836, to Miss Tacy Irwin, by whom he had three children, one daughter and two sons, all living, and have families living in Knox county.

ARMSTRONG & MILLER, grocers, southeast corner of Main and Gambier streets, Mt. Vernon. Mr. J. M. Armstrong, senior member of the above firm, was born in Monroe township, Knox county, in 1839, where he resided until he had reached his thirteenth year. After that period his time was occupied in attending school and acting as salesman for different mercantile establishments in this city. His first engagement as salesman was with George M. Fay, grocer, and then with Messrs. Swetland & Bryant, dry goods house. In this employment he remained until the party with which he affiliated placed him in nomination for and elected him to the honorable position of sheriff of his native county. This wasin the year 1873. After the expiration of his first term he was elected for the second, thus serving four years.

In 1877 Mr. Armstrong purchased the stock of Mr. John Ponting, and formed a partnership with Mr. J. M. Tompkins. In 1878 Mr. Tompkins sold his interest to Mr. Miller, since which time the name of the firm has been Armstrong & Miller. They commenced with a capital of about eighteen hnndred dollars, and their stock was increased so that at present they carry a stock of goods to the value of about four thousand dollars, consisting of staple and fancy groceries and confectioneries. Their stock is rapidly increasing in value. Their house is located on the southeast corner of Main and Gambier streets.

ARMSTRONG, WILLIAM A., Fredericktown, was born in Brown township, Knox county, in 1840. He was married to Nancy Ross, who was born in Knox county in 1842. She died October 1, 1860. Mr. Armstrong afterwards married Sophronia M. Hardgrove, who was born in Ohio in 1842. They had two children, viz; Hema E. and Adella, both now dead. Mr. Armstrong has resided in Fredericktown since 1870, and is one of the leading men of the county.

ARNHOLD, ADAM, Jefferson township, farmer; son of Michael Arnhold, born in France December 19, 1822; brought to America by his parents in 1840, landing in New York. From there they came to Loudonville, Ohio, where they remained a short time, when his father purchased a farm in Brown township, Knox county, about one mile northeast of Jelloway, where he then moved his family, and where Adam, the subject of this sketch, was raised and educated.

On the twenty-fifth of January, 1847, at the age of twentyfive years, he married Mary A. Heyd, daughter of Jacob H. Heyd, who was born in Wayne county November 17, 1828. After his marriage he located on a farm of eighty acres, east of Jelloway, which he had purchased previous to his marriage, and where he now resides. In 1851 he purchased a tract of fifty acres more, known as the Messmore farm. In 1856 he bought seventy acres more; in 1859, fifty acres; in 1868, eighty acres, making in all three hundred and thirty acres.

ASH, JAMES, Clinton, a native of Donegal county, Ireland, was born in January, 1777, and emigrated to America in 1784, and located first in Washington county, Maryland. About the year 1812 he moved to Jefferson county, Virginia, where he resided until the year 1833. During his stay here he went back to Ireland and was married to Jane Chambers, after which he returned to Maryland and resided there some time, when he brought his family to Ohio and located in Clinton township, where he followed agricultural pursuits the rest of his life. He dred years seven months and cleven days. Mrs. Ash died in 1878 in the seventy-fifth year of her age. They reared a family of six children, viz: Robert, Elizabeth, Maria, Chambers, Margaret, and James, all of whom lived to maturity, and at present all are deceased except Chambers, who resides in Clinton township, and is the fourth member of the family. He was married March 27, 1838, to Miss Louisa Resley, daughter of Jacob Resley, one of the early pioneers of this county, by whom he has a family of eight children, seven of whom are living, viz: Jacob, Robert, Elizabeth, Margaret, Anna, Maria, and Russel.

ASHTON, MRS. ELIZABETH, deceased. At the time of the death of Mrs. Elizabeth Ashton, she was supposed to have been the oldest person within the bounds of Knox county. Though of small stature and frail, she was, up to the time of her great affliction, blindness, remarkably lithe and active in all her motions, and with a voice like Cordelia's, ''ever soft, gentle and low," she made life pleasant to all within the sphere of her influence.

Mrs. Elizabeth Ashton, zee Miss Elizabeth Palmer, was born in Devonshire, England, on the twenty-seventh day of May, 1780. She married Mr. John Ashton in r801. In 1847 she, with a part of her family, emigrated to the United States and took up her residence in the Fifth ward, Mt. Vernon, where she resided with her eldest son, Philip, up to the time of her death, which occurred on the twentieth of April, 1880, making her age one hundred years lacking one month and seven days, making her the oldest person in Mt. Vernon, and probably in Knox county.

Mrs. Ashton was the mother of ten children, four sons and six daughters. One of her daughters, the wife of William Tathwell, died a few years since in this city. Two of the four sons are dead. Two of her children reside in London, England; one in another part of England; one in the city of New York; one in Gambier, Ohio; one in Georgia, and Philip, her oldest son, in Mt. Vernon. The last named was born in England in the year 1802, and is now past his seventy-eighth year, and with his daughter, Mrs. Eliza Cooper, and her husband, have been interested in caring for their recently deceased relative during the last eight years of the closing part of her history, which to her was a memorable one, for those eight years were spent in darkness, her sight having failed her. She was reconciled to the loss, and waited patiently for the great and final change to come. She was baptized and confirmed in the Church of England in early life, and lived the life of an earnest Christian woman.

ATHERTON, JOHN, Pike township; farmer; post office, Democracy; born in Pike township in 1836, and was married in 1858, to Mary Ann Spry, who was born in Monroe township in 1834. They had seven children: William W., born in 1857; Sarah, in 1859; Mary Ellen deceased; Julia, born in 1863; Margaret Alice, in 1866; Merinda Jane deceased, and Hallie May, born in 1873. Mr. Atherton has always resided in this township. He has been engaged in running a threshing machine for about thirty years. He is also a farmer. His father, Andrew Atherton, deceased, was born in Vermont. He was married to Sarah Sargeant, who was born in Pennsylvania. They had two children: Johnand an infant (decased). Andrew Atherton and wife both died in this county.

ATWOOD, HARRISON, Mt. Vernon, was born December 22, 1815, in Plymouth county, Massachusetts, where he: remained until twenty years of age, when he went with William Wright, of New York, to Mobile, Alabama, to clerk in the Starr hotel owned by Mr. Wright. He remained there about four years, and witnessed the great fire and yellow fever scourges of 1839. After leaving Mobile, he located in Orleans county, Vermont, ona farm where he remained about twelve years, then moving to Trumbull county, Ohio, and settled in Bristol in the mercantile trade, in which he remained but a short time, and then engaged in real estate business, speculating in western lands for twelve years. He came to Mt. Vernon in 1865, and went into the office of B. Grant, internal revenue assessor, where he remained a short time; then going to Cleveland, he entered the employ of N. O. Fauster, a queensware merchant, for whom he was general manager for over two years, when he returned to Mt. Vernon, and engaged in the boot and shoe trade with B. Grant under the firm name of B. Grant & Co, In 1867 Mr. Grant sold his interest in the business to Mr. Bowland, and the firm name was changed to Atwood & Bowland, which association continued for about four years, when he sold his interest to his partner. He then established his son in the boot and shoe business at Canton, Ohio, under the firm name of H. W. Atwood & Co., who are now doing a good business, Mr. Atwood employs his time in the real estate business. He was married in October, 1838, to Miss Washburn, and has reared a family of four children, all of whom are living. Mrs. Atwood died in May, 1862.

AUTEN, HENRY M., Berlin township, farmer, post office Fredericktown, born in Columbia county, Pennsylvania, in 1816, came to Ohio in the Spring of 1836, and was married in Knox county in 1863, to Matilda Fink, who was born in Trumbull county, Ohio. 'They have the following children: Sarah Ann, married to John C. Williams, living in Crawford county. Ohio, Thomas B., Louisa Jane, and Rebecca. Mrs. Auten died in Knox county January 23, 1854. Mr. Auten subsequently married mary Ann Wood, who was born in Knox county, Ohio, They had one son, Charlie H., who still remains at home. Mrs. Mary Ann Auten died in Knox county in 1862. Mr. Auten's third marriage was to Sarah Jane Masteller, who was born in Columbia county, Pennsylvania, in 1825. Mr. Henry Auten has been a resident of Knox county, most of the time in Berlin township.

AUTEN, WILLIAM A., Berlin township, farmer, post office Fredericktown, born in Pike township, this county, in 1846, and was married in 1874 to Ida M. Steele, who was born in Wayne county in 1855. They have two children - Gracie R., born in 1876, and Emery C., in 1879.

His father, Jacob C. Auten, was born in Columbia county, Pennsylvania, in 1813, and was married in 1837 to Rebecca Colley, who was born in the same county in 1817. They had eleven children - Henry C., Alexander C., Mary E., Sarah L., Jacob W., William A., John S., Elmina M., Rebecca R., Emma L., and James F. The deceased members are Henry C., Sarah L., and James F. Mr. Auten emigrated from Pennsylvania in 1838, located in this township, and has since been a resident. He learned the carpenter trade when a young man, and that has been his principal occupation. He owns a good farm in this township, and is one of its enterprising citizens.

AUTEN, J. W., Berlin township, farmer, post oftice Fredericktown, was born in Berlin township in 1844, anc was married to Mary Pealer, who was born in Columbia county, Pennsylvania, in 1849. They had three children, viz, Myrtle Belle, Anna

E., and George W. Mrs. Auten died in 1875, and he was married to Caroline Love. They had one child, Robert. Mrs. Caroline Auten died in March, 1880.

AUTEN, THOMAS B., Berlin township, farmer, post office Fredericktown, born in Liberty township, this county, September 12, 1847, and was married October 11, 1877, to Lucretia L. Foote, who was born in this township September 12), 1858. They have one daughter, Eva Dell, who was born April 4, 1879. Mr. Auten came to this township with his parents at the age of four years, and has since lived here.

AUTEN, HENRY, deceased. He was bom in Columbia county, Pennsylvania, November 5, 1837. His parents emigrated to Ohio when he was a child. He was married in 1864 to Mary J. Hasbin, who was born in Guernsey county, August 17, 1842. They had one son, Bryant E., born December 4, 1867. Mr. Auten died April 6, 1870. He was a worthy member of thc Methodist Episcopal church.

AUSTIN, B. D., Fredericktown, ticket agent, was born in Knox county in 1857.. He is now engaged at the Baltimore & Ohio railroad office at Fredericktown.

AXTELL, J. M., Fredericktown, dealer in groceries and country produce of all kind, was born in this county September 12, 1832, and was married in 1857 to Almira J. Hellis, who was born in this county August 20, 1835, and died February 6, 1880. They had one daughter, Eliza Bell, who was born May g, 1859, and died August 12, 1859. Mr. Axtell established his business in 1879. He is a practical business man, having been identified with business interests for many years in this county. Combined with experience he has superior qualifications, and is fully prepared to meet all competition. All who wish anything in his line will do well to give him a call.

BAILE, URIAH, farmer, Middlebury township, post office, Fredericktown; born in Frederick county, Maryland, October 11, 1812; came to Ohio in 1845, and was married July 15, 1838, to Susanna Nicodemas, who was born June 26, 1816; they have the following children, viz.: Sarah E., born September 1, 1839; Abraham O., March 3, 1842; Augustus E., February 25, 1844; Emory R. September 7, 1845; Charles W., July 1, 1848; Martha C., November 18, 1851; Bascom C., September 21, 1854; Morgan, April 27, 1856; and Eugene E., July 1, 1860. The following have deceased: Sarah E., died August 22, 1840; Charles W., June 26, 1851; Abraham O., February 3, 1863. Abraham was a soldier of the late war, a member of the One Hundred and Twenty-first regiment, Ohio volunteer infantry. His death occurred from sickness contracted in the army. Augustus and Emory R. reside in Louisville, Kentucky. Martha was married to Albert Tobin, and lives in Republican county, Kansas. Bascom C. was married to Deborah Zolman; they reside in Morrow county, Ohio. Mr, Baile owns a well improved farm with excellent buildings.

BAILEY, WILLIAM R., farmer, Jefferson township, post office, Jelloway; son of John R. and Mary A. Bailey, born in Jefferson township, Knox county, November 10, 1846. He was educated by his parents, and on the twenty-third of March,

E. Whitney, third daughter of Ebenezer J., and Sarah A. Whitney, born in Brown township, Knox county, June 5, 31844. After his marriage he located on a farm in Jefferson township, owned by J. R. Bailey, his father, two and a quarter miles east of Jelloway, where he now resides. He has made farming a specialty all his life. He is now holding the office of trnstee in said township. Mr. and Mrs. Bailey are the parents of four children, viz.: William A., born January 12, 1871; Whitney J., June 5, 1872; Herry C., February 10, 1875; Oliver E., July 5, 1879; all of whom are living. Mrs. Bailey is a consistent member of Wesley chapel, of Jefferson township.

BAKER, JAMES W., farmer and stock-raiser, Jefferson township, post office Greersville, son of Philip and Sarah Baker; born in Jefferson township, Knox county, December 7, 1841; was raised by his parents, and received a common-school education. Soon after he arrived at the age of twenty-one years he purchased a portion of the home place, where he now resides, and is the owner of four hundred and seventy-five acres of land - three hundred and seventy-five acres in the home place. Mr. Baker has held quite a number of township offices viz: Clerk, assessor, and land appraiser, and is now justice of the peace. He was also census enumerator for 1880.

BAKER, PHILIP, (deceased), Jefferson township; born in Pennsylvania, September 22, 1794. In 1808 he was brought to Ohio by his parents, who located near Danville, Knox county, where he was married July 19, 1821, to Miss Sarah Butler, a daughter of John Butler, born in Virginia, March 20, 1800. After his marriage he located in Jefferson township, one mile north of Greersville, on the farm now owned by James W., his son, where he raised his family, consisting of ten children, viz: Allen R., born July 6, 1822; Druzilla, August 5, 1824; Hester, April 29, 1826; Oliver, April 1, 1828; John, September 4, 1832; infant, a girl, June 22, 1834; Caroline, December 26, 1835; infant, a girl, September 19, 1838; Jackson, August 27, 1839; James W., December 7, 1841; four of whom, namely, Oliver, James W., Hester, and Caroline, are still living.

BAKER BROTHERS, druggists, Mt. Vernon. George R. and S. L. Baker, sons of Samuel Baker, were born near Uniontown, Muskingum county, and devoted the early years of life in working on their father's farm. George R. enlisted in the Ninth Ohio cayalry, and was in the service during the war, serving part of the time in the capacity of hospital steward, After his return from the army he engaged in the drug business at Tarlton, in which he continued until he came to Mt. Vernon. S. L. Baker enlisted in the Ohio National guard, and after the close of the war engaged in general mercantile business in Adamsville, in which he continued until he came to Mt. Vernon,

In 1874 they formed a partnership, and have ever since been doing business under the firm name of Baker Brothers. They carry a stock of from five to six thousand dollars, consisting of pure drugs, chemicals, toilet articles, and fancy goods.

BALCOM, ELISHA S., Gambier, retired, was born in Rhode Island on the third day of June, 1803. In 1824 he engaged in the mercantile business as clerk, and continued about two years. In 1826 he was engaged by Stanley Mann, in the counting room of his factory, and remained with him one year. In 1827 he commenced working at the cabinetmaking business, which he followed as his vocation about five years. In 1832 he engaged in farming, and continued in that business about twenty years. In 1852 he worked in a boot and shoe factory about four or five months, and then moved to Vermont, where he spent three years as clerk in an iron manufactory. In 1855 he emigrated to Ohio and located in Gambier, this county, where he at once commenced work again at his trade as cabinetmaker, and continued in the business until 1877, when he retired from business and is living a quiet life in Gambier.

He has been married twice; first in 1829, to Miss Lydia Jillson, of Cumberland county, Rhode Island, who was born January 13, 1808. Their union resulted in two children - one son and one daughter.

Mrs. Balcom died November 25, 1832. His little daughter died a few months prior to the death of its mother, and the son died afew months after. The death of his wife and two children occurred within the space of nine months' time.

They remained in Vermont until 1855, when they emigrated to Gambier, this county, where she deceased November 8, 1879. Their union resulted in one son, Roger, who graduated at Kenyon college, and is now engaged as an Episcopal minister at Norwalk, Ohio.

BALL, DAVID, (deceased), He was a native of Essex county, New Jersey, a descendant of Timothy Ball, born in 1756, and came to Ohio in 1803; purchased a military section of land (one thousand acres), of Lemuel Cobb, for three shillings per:.cre. He came to Ohio in company with a Mr. Douglass on horseback and landed at Zansville. The only road from Zanesville to Sandusky was was an Indian trail. He met and conversed with the chief of the Wyandot Indians, and asked him if he would allow his boys tocome here; he answered, ''yes, if they behave themselves."

David Ball was married January 12, 1779, to Mary Baldwin. They had four sons, Hiram, Cyrus, Zenasand Timothy. Zenas Ball was born November 15, 1792, and was married March 16, 1820, to Sarah Taylor, who was born May 24, 1796. They had two sons, Aaron T., born December 19; 1820, and David, born July 5, 1829, and died June 25, 1830.

Zenas Ball came to Ohio in 1819, and made arrangements to have some land cleared, on the farm where his son, Aaron T., now resides. He was a soldier in the war of 1812, serving over three months.

Mr. Ball was a strong advocate for the cause of temperance, and had the first fog rolling in the neighborhood where they dispensed with strong drink. Several of the neighbors became offended and returned home without supper, but Mr. Ball was temperance all the same.

The first Sabbath-school organized in Morris township was at his house, superintended by his sister Lydia, who was a great worker in church, and a poineer missionary. She is yet living and resides in Newark, New Jersey, aged ninety years. There were two married women who learned to read at this Sabbathschool.

BALL, AARON T,, farmer, post office, Fredericktown. - He was born in Morris township, December 19, 1820, and has always resided here, on the same farm where he was born; he was married in 1846 to Miss Sydney Ann Clay, who was born at Newmarket, Frederick county, Maryland, April 2, 1820. They have nine children, all living and enjoying good health, viz: Webster C., Nellie S., Nettie A., Walter L., Anna M., Julia Z., Oliver T., Willard E. and F. Grant.

taught by Professor R. R. Sloap. After completing his education he engaged in teaching for five terms. Mr. Ball and family are active members of the Methodist Episcopal church. He has been identified with the Republican party since its organization.

Webster C. resides in Cleveland, Ohio, and is engaged in the wholesale arrd retail jewelry business at No. 233 Superior street. He was married October 15, 1879, to Miss Florence I. Young, of Kenton, Ohio. They have one son, Sidney, born September 19, 1880.

Mr. Aaron T. Ball has always resided in this township, is a farmer by occupation, and owns a well improved farm, which was owned and improved by his father. His father, Zenas Ball, (deceased), was born in Essex county, New Jersey, November 15, 1792, and was married March 19, 1819, to Sarah Taylor, who was born May 24, 1796. They had two children: Aaron born December 19, 1820; David, born July 5, 1829 (died June 29, 1830.

BALL, UZZIEL, Morris township (deceased), was born May 8, 1790, in Morris county, New Jersey, and was married November 9, 1816, to Peninah Lyon, who was born January IO, 1797, in Morris county, New Jersey. She was a daughter of Simeon Lyon. Mr. Ball came to Knox county in 1814. Mrs. Ball came with her parents in 1806. They had the following children: Martha, Amanda, Eliza, Mahlon, Susan, Albert Judson. The following are dead: Amanda, Eliza, Mahlon. Uzziel Ball died in Morris township, Knox county. Mr. Bal was justice of the peace of Morris township about fourteen years ago. He was a worthy member of the Baptist church, and has done much for the general improvement of this county. He was an honest and upright man, through his industry, economy and frugality he acquired considerable property.

Mrs. Ball has a clear recollection of pioneer life. She remembers quite distinctly of seeing Johnny Appleseed, also many Indians, and well understood their ancient customs. She remeinbers about the forts or block-houses, into which they would flee for refuge in time of danger. She also remembers the first Methodist, Baptist and Episcopal churches of this county.

BALL, ANDREW J., Morris township, farmer, post office, Mt. Vernon; born in Morris township, this county, in 1832, and was married in 1858, to Rebecca McFadden, who was born in Mt. Vernon, in 1831. They had six children: Henry, born January 19, 1860; Elmer E., October 16, 1861; William C., August 19, 1863; Minnie Blanche, July 13, 1865; Charles, September 5, 1867; Ida May, January 7, 1869; Fred. Clifiton, August 25, 1870; and May Frances, February 5, 1874. The following are deceased: Elmer E., Charlie, Ida May, and William C.

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John Ball; father of Silas, was born February 14, 1746, and had the following children: John, Uzziel, David, Daniel, Silas, Elias and Mahlon.

BECHTEL, SIMON, farmer, post office, Shaler's Mills, was born in Berlin township in 1854, he was married in 1871, to Mary Ellen Swank, who was born in Pike township in 1856; they have one son living; Dora, born in 1878, and Sylvia B. (deceased). Dr. Bechtel has always been identified with this township; he is a model farmer.

BALL, SCHUYLER C., Wayne township, farmer, post office Fredericktown; born in Knox county in 1840, and was married in 1865 to Diana Ink, who was born in Knox county in 1839. They have one daughter, Stella, who was born in Septernber 1869.

BALL, THOMAS J., Fredericktown, brickmaker; was born in Loudoun county, Virginia, in 1840. He came to Ohio with his parents in 1850, and was married in 1866 to Margaret Brawner, who was born in the same county in 1844. They have one daughter, Effiie May, who was born in 1867.

Mr. Ball is engaged in burning brick, and supplies the brick that are used for building purposes in Fredericktown, owning the only brick yard in this vicinity. He was a soldier in the late war, being a member of company B, Ninety-sixth regiment O. V. I. under Colonel Vance, and continued in the service for three years, participating in the engagements at Arkansa Post, Vicksburgh, Jackson, Mississippi, Sabine Cross Roads, Grand Coteau, Louisiana, Fort Morgan, Fort Gaines, Fort Spanish, and Mobile and was honorably discharged.

BANBURY, RICHARD, deceased, Jefferson township; was born in Devonshire, England. in 1791. He married Miss Mary Cornish in 1814, who was born in Devonshire, England in 1795. He, with his wife and four children emigrated to America in 1832, and located in Jefferson township, Knox county, Ohio. His first purchase of land was from William Starner, June 26, 1832. The farm is now owned by his three sons, Charles, Richard and John C. By the new township line that was run a few years since, the farm is now in Union township. He lived on the same farm and followed farming and stock raising as his vocation until his death. Mr. Banbury and wife raised a family of six children, four born in England, viz: Charles, Mary A., Elizabeth and Richard. Two were born in Jefferson township, Knox county, Ohio, John C. and Hannah. All are living, married and have families.

Mr. Banbury was father of six children, grandfather of fortytwo children, and great-grandfather of forty-two children. He departed this life in 1875, aged eighty-four years. His companion survived until July 3, 1877, when she died, aged eightyone years.

BANBURY, CHARLES, Jefferson township, farmer, post office, Danville, oldest son of the aforesaid Richard Banbury, was born in Devonshire, England, October 17, 1815. He emigrated with his parents to America in 1832, who located in Jefferson township, Knox county, September 16, 1841. He married Miss Barbara Robeson, born in Union township, Knox county, Ohio,

January 18, 1819, daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth Robeson. They settled in Jefferson township on a forty acre tract of land, where they lived a few years, when Mr. Banbury purchased and moved on a seventy acre lot of land in the same township, remaining five years.

In 1853 he purchased and moved on the farm where he is now living. He has made farming and _ stock raising his vocation. They raised a family of nine children, viz.: Sarah A., Solomon, John R., Mary E., Richard, Martin F., Martha F., Charles F., and Albert L. All are living. Solomon served three years and three month in the civil war. He enlisted in company A, Sixty-fifth Ohio volunteer infantry, in October, 1861, and was honorably discharged in January, 1865.

BANBURY, JOEUN Cy Jefferson township, farmer, post office, Danville, son of Richard and Mary Barnbury, was born in Jefferson township, Knox county, Ohio, October 11, 1832. He lived with his parents, in said township, until 1852, when he married Miss Eliza Caldwell, who was born in Germany in the year 1831, and emigrated to America in the year 1843. Mr. and Mrs. Banbury became the father and mother of twelve children, all of whom yet survive. Mr. Banbury is now living about one mile north of where he was born.

BANNING, JAMES S., Morris township, deceased, was a son of the Rev. Anthony Banning, who emigrated from Connellsville, Fayette county, Pennsylvania. He was born in 1800. In 1822 he returned to his native town, where he found the little girl, Eliza A. Blackstone (with whom he had played when a child at the foot of the mountain, on the banks of the river), grown to be a beautiful and accomplished woman. Mr. Banning, then only twenty-two years of age, wooed and won the heart of his early playmate, then only seventeen years of age. The were married on the morning of March 12, 1822. The same day they started on horseback for their new home in Mt. Vernon, distant more than two hundred miles. It was a novel wedding trip, far different indeed from the modern bridal trips. It was eight days' hard horsehack riding, across a new country, with such entertainment as the country tavern afforded in that early day; but it was bravely performed by this delicate and refined lady, who, with her true and noble husband, journeyed to their new home, where they lived a life of usefulness.

James S. Banning was a native of Connellsvill, Fayette county, Pennsylvania. He came to Mt. Vernon in 1812, and resided in that vicinity until his death. In former years he carried on the mercantile business, but latterly he attended to farming and milling, a short distance north of Mt. Vernon. He was a useful and enterprising citizen, a kind and peaceful neighbor, and an affectionate husband and father. His death occurred at an early hour Wednesday May 22, 1867, at his residence near Mt. Vernon.

Mrs, E. B. Banning died in 1878 in the seventy-ninth year of her age. She was born in Connellsville, Fayette county, Pennsylvania in 1804, and was married in 1822. She lived in Mt. Vernon fifty-six y2ars, and was identified more or less with every interest in the growth of this city. She was a woman of fine culture and more than ordinary attainments. Her home was for many years the popular resort of the literary and musical peqple of the place. She was of a modest and retiring disposition; always ready to assist in every good work. She was specially devoted to her family, yet endeared herself to her neighbors, and was characterized by true Christian deportment. She was one of the early, if not one of the original members of St. Paul's church, but afterwards hearing and learning the gospel presented by the Disciples, she severed her connection wiih the Episcopal church and united with the Disciple church, and continued faithfully until her death. She was the mother of ten children, all of whom are now living except Anna, who died ir infancy. The others are as follows: Sarah, who resides at the old home; Blackstone, of Clinton; Anthony, of Pennsylvania; Priscilla, wite of J. D. Thompson, of Mt. Vernon; William D., a farmer north of town; Hon. Henry B., of Cincinnati; Eliza, wife of William Brown; ex- Mayor Thomas D., who resides on the old place; Mary, wife of Frank Watkins - all of whom are good and respected citizens, and owe much of their success in life to their excellent parental training.

BARBER, C. C., Pike township, merchant, post office Democracy, born in Monroe township, this county..in 1853, and was married in 1876 to Jennie C. Patten, who was born in Brown township, this county, in 1854. He has been engaged in the mercantile business from boyhood. Since the death of his father he has taken charge of the store, which compares favorably with those of larger towns. He keeps constantly in stock a complete line of goods, consisting of dry goods, groceries, boots and shoes, etc. Mr. Barber was appointed postmaster of the Democracy post office in 1873. He is a popular man in this vicinity, and is transacting the business of the post office very satisfactorily. He is a young man, enterprising and ambitious, and is meeting with success in business.

His father, Thomas Barber, was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, in 1829, and was married in 1848 to Mary A. O'Bryan, who was born in Frederick county, Maryland, in 1828. They had five children: Frances L., deceased, born in 1850; Arminta B., deceased, born in 1851; Cornelius C., born in 1853; Eva E., deceased, born in 1860; and John T., born in 1864.

Thomas S. Barber died in 1872. He came to Ohio in 1830, was engaged in farming till 1861, then moved to Amity and engaged in the mercantile business, in which he continued until his death. :

BARKER, HENRY, Monroe township, farmer and stockgrower, born in Monroe county, New York, February 19, 1815. In 1837 he emigrated to Ohio with Asa Patterson and family, and located on the farm in Monroe township where is now living. In 1839 he married Lovina Pealer, born in Columbia county, Pennsylvania, May 8, 1820, and came to this county with her parents, Jacob and Eleanor Pealer, in 1824, who located in Pike township, near Amity.

Mr. and Mrs. Barker settled on the farm where Mr. Barker had located when he came to this county, where they have since resided. In 1861 they erected their present frame residence. They reared a family of six children, five sons and one daughter. Their son, Patterson Barker, died during the late war at Memphis, Tennessee, July 31, 1863. He had served one year in company B, of the Ninety-sixth Ohio volunteer infantry.

BARKER, JOHNSON A., Fredericktown, grocer, was born in Morris township in 1836, and was married in Mt. Vernon in 1857, to Sarah A. Little, who was born in Stark county in 1831. They had five children, all of whom have deceased.

Mr. Barker learned the carriage trade and worked at that business for twenty-three years. He was for a time a member of the firm of White, Stephens & Co. His health became impaired and he was compelled to abandon the carriage business.

He then engaged in the grocery trade, continued for seven years, and then went to New York and attended the Eastern Business college. In 1880 he returned to Fredericktown and resumed the grocerytrade. He occupies a room in King's block, and hasan entire new stock of every variety of goods in his line. His past experience and ability qualify him to make a success of business, and he is known in this community as an honest and upright man.

BARKER, JOSEPH N., city barber; shop, cigar and news department, Peterman block, first floor, Main street, two doors north from Gambier street, Mt. Vernon.

Mr. Barker is a native of Delaware county, Ohio, born on the ninth day of October, 1841, and when eight years old his parents removed to Fredericktown, in this county. Joseph remained with his parents until 1861. When sixteen years of age he engaged in learning the blacksmith trade, which he followed until the commencement of the great Rebellion. On the nineteenth of October, 1861, he enlisted in company B, Fourth Ohio volunteer infantry, Colonel Lorin Andrews, in which he served for three years. At the close of his term of service he returned home and remained a short time, and then went to Nashville, Tennessee, and engaged in blacksmithing for the Government, but in consequence of his health failing, he quit the business and engaged in barbering for a short time, and then in cooking for the Planter's hotel for a while, and then went to Atchison, Kansas, where he stopped about eight weeks, and then engaged with Howe & Byram, of Atchison, in hauling Government freight to Fort Union, New Mexico. He then engaged with the Government at blacksmithing for one year, when he returned home in 1867. In consequence of his mother's poor health, he started a barber shop in Fredericktown; and continued the business there a short time when he came to Mt. Vernon and bought out the business of Otto Martin, and continued it until 1872, when he went to Mansfield and engaged in the same business for one year. He then opened shop at Newark, ane continued there two years and a half. In 1876 he returned to Mt. Vernon and established his present business. He runs four chairs, and makes hair cutting a speciality. He is alsoa dealer in fine tobacco, cigars, etc. He has lately added to his business a news department, in which he keeps all the leading daily papers as well as the city papers. His shop does an average business of forty dollars per week in barbering and hair dressing, and about ten dollars per week in tobacco and cigars, thus making his establishment the most extensive and complete in the city. All his appointments are first-class, and his business is rapidly increasing.

BARNES, HENRY, Mt. Vernon, retired, son of Henry Barnes, deceased, was born in Franklin county, Pennsylvania, December 24, 1807, and was brought to Ohio by his father in 1817, who located in Coshocton county. He was reared on a farm, and has made farming his principal vocation through life. In 1833 he came to Martinsburgh, this county, and made his home with an older brother for a few years. In October, 1837, he married Miss Grace A., daughter of Simon and Ann Sitzenberg, then of Morgan township, this county. Miss Sitzenberg was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, October 8, 1813, and came to this county with her parents in 1829. Mr. and Mrs Barnes settled on a farm in Morgan township, this county, anc remained on the same farm until 1873, when they sold it and moved to Mt. Vernon, where they are now living a retired life. Three children were born to them - Melissa A., Hiram P., and

Charles E. Melissa A. deceased July 23, 1872. Hiram P. mar- Tied Miss Julia Huntington, of Cleveland, Ohio, and now resides in Portage county, Ohio. Charles E. married Miss Rose Robinson, of Akron, Ohio, and is now living in Plymouth, Ohio. He served about four months in the Ohio National Guard during the late war.

BARRINGTON, JOSEPH, Middlebury township, (deceased) was born in Ireland in 1804, married to Elizabeth Sharp, who was born in York county, Pennsylvania. He died in July, 1878, in Middlebury township.

George A. Palmer (born in 1844) from a child eighteen months old made his home with and was raised by Joseph Barrington. He was martried to Mary Farquhar, and they had one child, Joseph, born in in October, 1867. Mrs. Mary Palmer died in in 1873. Mr. Palmer's second marriage was to Lavina Painter. They had three children - Rosa (deceased), George, born February, 1877, Louis, born February, 1879. Mr. Palmer was engaged in the late war in the One Hundred and Forty-second regiment Ohio National Guard.

BARRON, JAMES, Brown township, son of William and Elizabeth Barron, was born near Zanesville, Muskingum county, Ohio, March 11, 1820. His father, a farmer, was born in Washington county, Pensylvania, 1784, and was of Scotch descent. His mother was born in Ireland in 1784, and emigrated to New York with her parents when she was fifteen years old. The parents of the subject of this sketch being of the pioneers of Ohio, and his youthful years passing at a time when the school-houses were built. of round, unhewed logs, seated with puncheons or slabs, his education was comprised of a fair knowledge of the three R's, ''readin', 'ritin', and 'rithmetic." In 1836 he removed with his parents from Muskingum to Knox county, where they located on the farm on which he still resides - known as Willow Spring farm. In 1850 he married Louisa Jane, daughter of William and Nancy Hall, the fruit of their married life being two daughters, Ella - now Mrs. R. S. Shipley, M. D., of Lindsey, Ohio, and Dora, and one son, John M, White, yet a young man. Mr. Barron spent several years as salesnian in the mercantile houses of G. B. Potwin, and others, of Mt. Vernon, but has for the last thirty years engaged in farming, stock-raising, and shipping stock, at which he has been em_ inently successful. Mr. Barron has always taken an active par; in politics. He identihed himself with the Liberty party in 1841, and represented his county in the first Liberty State convention, held at Columbus in 1842. This party becoming the Freesoil party, Mr. Barron became an untiring worker in that party, and since received the nomination for State treasurer at the convention held at Cincinnati. He continued in the party, frequently stumping his county when it took a man of nerve to be an Abolitionist, until the Freesoil party was merged into the Republican party in 1856, since which time he has been identified with that party. Mr. Barron's connection with the church dates from the organization of the True Wesleyan connection - now the American Wesleyan - in 1843, since which time he has been an earnest worker in the church. Mr. Barron has always been an avowed temperance worker, and has identified himself with all the important reforms of the day. He has filled the office of treasurer of the Farmers' Insurance company, now of Howard, Ohio, and of the Farmers' Home Insurance company of Jelloway, Ohio, with credit to himself and profit to the companies. , sale stables, West Vine street, Mt. Vernon. Mr. Bartlett was born in Luzerne county, Pennsylvania, January 27, 1810, and when about eight years old his parents emigrated to Ohio, stopped awhile in Zanesville, and theh located onafarm in Delaware county, where they resided ten years, and then came to Knox county and settled on a farm on Granny's creek, three miles from Mt. Vernon.

Mr. Bartlett came to this city in 1838. In his early life he followed farming, and then engaged in the carpenter and joiner trade, in which he continued for twenty-five years. He then took up peddling drugs, medicines, dry goods, and notions, which he followed with great success for seven years. In 1853 he engaged in the livery business in which he still continues. He carries an average stock of three thousand dollars, comprising twelve head of horses, and ten vehicles, consisting of single and double carriages, buggies, sleighs, etc.

BARTLETT, JOHN D., Fredericktown, carpenter; was born in Pennsylvania in 1813; came to Ohio with his parents in infancy, and to Knox county in 1831, locating in Mt. Vernon. In 1855 he removed to Fredericktown. He was married to Anna Conger, who was born in Knox county. They had three children, all of whom died in infancy. Mrs. Anna Bartlett died in 1854, in Mt. Vernon. Mr. Bartlett afterwards married Sophronia Page, who was bornin Knox county.

Mr. Bartlett has been identified with this county for sixtyseven years. When he was a young man he learned the carpenter business, and has been engaged at that several years; he was also engaged in the drug business in Fredericktown seven years. He has always taken a great interest in hunting and shooting, and makes an annual visit to the hunting grounds in northwestern Ohio. He is still a resident of Fredericktown, and is engaged in selling farming implements.

BARTLETT, E. H., Morris township; farmer; post office, Mt. Vernon, was born in this township in 1833, and married in 1860, to Anna Eliza Randolph, who was. born In Mt. Vernon in 1836. They have two children, namely, Jennie E, born in 1863, and Willie R., in 1868.

BARTLETT, WILLIAM, Monroe township; farmer; a native of Knox county, andson of David Bartlett, was born in Morris township on the twenty-seventh day of October, 1816. He has worked at several trades, viz: carp:enter and joiner, and cabinetmaker, but the most of his mechanical work has been on threshing machines and plows. In 1848 he married Miss Evaline Evans, daughter of Thomas Evans, of Mt. Vernon, They settled in Mt. Vernon, and remained several years. In 1871 they purchased and moved upon the farm in Monroe township, where they are now living. He then turned his attention to farming, in which business he has since been engaged.

"BARTON, CHARLES P., Berlin township; farmer; post office, Fredericktown, was born in Loudoun county, Virginia, in 1841; came to Ohio in 1850, locating in Richland couhty, and remained there till 1857, when he came to Knox county, and located in Morris township. He afterwards moved to Iowa, and remained four years. He then returned to Ohio, and carried on farming in Wayne township. In 1877 he purchased eleven acres of land in Morris township, and remained there three years; then sold it, and purchased twelve acres in the same township. He lived on that land two years.

Mr. Barton was married in 1868, to Jane Silliman, who was born in Beaver county, Pennsylvania, in £841. They have two children: Allie Belle, born January 4, 1877, and Ann Luella, January 24, 1880. He has also an adopted son - Samuel R. born June 15, 1870, andis a studious boy.

BAUGH, JACOB, farmer, Brown township. Among the early pioneers of Brown township, though not the earliest, was Jacub Baugh, yet living, and in his eighty-sixth year. He is a native of the Old Dominion, born in Fauquier county in the year 1795, and removed to eastern Ohio, and settled fifteen miles west of Wheeling, in the year 1810, and from thence to Knox county in 1834.

He is a genuine Virginian with western education, proud of his birthplace, jealous of her honor, and full of admiration "' of her great name." At the time of his settlement here there were few better scholars (outside of Kenyon college) in the county, and perhaps with one exception, no person in it, who was his superior. Tall, active, muscular, and sinewy, he was equal to the requirements of western pioneer life, being a fearless hunter, a good woodsman and a crack shot.

For many winters he taught school in the rude log shanties with puncheon floors above and below, huge fireplace, with mud and stick chimney at one end, and oiled or greased writing paper for window glass.

In these primitive academies he soon raised the standard of acquirement in common schools from a very meagre acquaintance with spelling, reading, writing, and arithmetic, as far as the rule of three to a thorough acquaintance with Jess. Walsh, Daboll, Bonnycastle, Playfair, Morse, and Lindley Murray, and other authors of that day, in their respective fields, and soon no more was heard the school-boy's favorite and oft repeated doggerel:

Soon the counties and townships were districted under a new scbool.law, and more commodious school-houses began to be built. Under the law every township had a board of school examiners, and a certificate of qualification from that board gave license to teach any school within the township. Mr. Baugh was a member of the board. In that capacity he accomplished much in building school-houses in the township, raising the qualifications of teachers, and awakening a healthy interest in schools among the people of the township.

Next to schools the opening of roads and bridging of streams were objects of his solicitude and concern, and to a certain extent continues still to be, though nearly four score and ten years have abated his ardor and tempered his zeal, but have not extinguished his desire for the success of the objects he so ably and earnestly championed in the vigor of his manhood.

BAUGHMAN, CHRISTIAN, farmer, Miller township, was born in Adams county, . Pennsylvania, April 27, 1807. His parents, Christian and Elizabeth Baughman ee Bair, emigrated from Pennsylvania about 1811, and came to Muskingum -county, Ohio, settling about seven milea south of Zanesville, where they lived and died. They came to this county in a onehorse wagon. They had thirteen children, eight of whom are living, one died in infancy. The children were named John (deceased), Jacob (murdered August 28, 1863, in Muskingum county), Christian, Joseph (deceased), Adam (deceased), Samuel,

Elizabeth (married to Isaac Logan), Solomon, and Jesse. Mr. Baughman, the subject of this notice, was reared on a farm and commenced to assist his father when quite young to clear land. His' schooling was limited as his parents needed his services and there was but three months' school taught in each year.

Mr. Baughman remained in Muskingum county and followed the occupation of farming until February, 1850, when he removed to Miller township, Knox county, where he purchased a farm of one hundred and seventy-six acres, and has resided on this farm to the present time. Previous to his coming to Knox county he had earned the money to pay for this farm. Since he has lived here he has purchased considerable more land, and is now one of the largest land-owners in the township. He is a good farmer, and his farm shows the work of care and experience.

He was married three times. His first wife being Sarah Willis, his second was Mary France, and his third wife was Susan Groves. His family consisted of fourteen children, six by his first wife, namely: Lucinda (married Thomas Osborn), Elizabeth (married Thomas Tarman), David (died in infancy), Jane (married Clem Barber), William (died in infancy), and Caroline (married Adam Williams). By the second marriage there was one child, Mary C., who died in infancy.- By the third marriage there were seven children, viz: Christy, Clara (married Henry Hildreth), Eunice I., Emma (died in infancy), Willie (died.in youth), Melissa (married Frank Miller), Louisa (married Decatur Daily).

Mr. Baughman has always been a man of temperate and laborious habits, and now, at the age of seventy-four, he enjoys good health for a man of his years.

BAXTER, JOHN W., farmer, Miller township, was born in New York city August 13, 1823. His father, John Baxter, was a native of Boston, Massachusetts, where he studied medicine, and subsequently practiced his profession in New York city. In 1834 he came to Miller township where he purchased one hundred and twenty acres of land. He continued in the practice of his profession when called upon in the community, and hada supervision of his farm. He was original in his ideas, a man of independent thought, and weighed all matters thoroughly before arriying ata conclusion. He was firm in his opinions, strictly temperate in his habits, not even using coffee or tea; in politics he was an Abolitionist of the most pronounced type. In business he was straightforward and reliable; he was quiet in his deportment and manners, and was esteemed for his kindness of heart and his liberality of views; he accorded to others the same right he claimed. He was three times married; his first wife was Miss Lucy Wainwright, by whom he had two children, one of whom, J. W. Baxter, is living; the other died in infancy. Mrs, Baxter died in New York city. Mr. Baxter's second wife was Miss Ruth Hodges, who died without issue. His third wife was Miss Cassandra' Hodges, by whom he had three children, viz.: Ruth (deceased), Thomas M. (produce dealer in Chicago), and Harris H., a practicing physician in Cleveland. He died on his farm in Miller township February 3, 1848. The subject of this notice, J. W. Baxter, remained in New York city until 1835, when he came to Miller township, and was with his father on the farm, and attended the schools of the district. He purchased the interests of the heirs in his father's farm, and subsequently purchased other property, until he is now one of the successful men of the township. He is a careful, conservative man, of good judgment, and has the esteem and confidence of the community. He was married three times; his first wife was Anna E. Beech, with whom he had four children, viz.: Lucy W. (married to John M. Davis), Mary M., John, and Don Carlos; his second wife was Laura Rowley, daughter of Daniel Rowley, who had one child, which died in infancy; his third wife was Lorancy Gates, who was the mother of three children, viz.: Charles Chase, Harris M., and Anna Laura.

BAXTER, J. B., farmer, Fredericktown; was born in Middlebury township in 1848. He was married in 1877 to Ollie Gleason, who was born in Morrow county in 1855. They have one daughter, Laura, born in 1878. Mr. Raxter is one of the leading citizens of Fredericktown.

BEACH, BENNETT, deceased, was born in Rutland, Connecticut, in 1774. He married Miss Sallie Sweet in 1796, of the -sameS tate, who was born in Rutland in 1774, and was the daughter of Bennett Sweet. They remained in Connecticut a few years then moved to Vermont, and in 1824 they emigrated to Knox county, Ohio, purchased and moved on a farm in Liberty township, now owned by Mr. Flack, where they passed the remainder of their days. He deceased May 25, 1850, aged seventy-six years. His companion survived him until February 3, 1853, when she died, aged seventy-nine years. They were constant members of the Presbyterian church for many years. He followed farming as his vocation. They reared nine children: Lauren, Abigail, Warren, Allen, Bennett, Esther, Sarah, Martin and Rollin, four of whom are now living, Esther, Bennett, Martin and Rollin.

BEACH, ROLLIN, farmer and gardner, youngest child of the aforesaid Bennett and Sally Beach, was born in Vermont, November 7, 1817, and came with his parents to Knox county, Ohio, in 1824. He married for his first wife Miss Mary Bricker, in 1840, born in Knox county in 1818, and daughter of Solomon Bricker. They settled on his father's home farm in Liberty township, which he purchased at his father's death. In 1861 he sold his farm and purchased the property where he is now living, near Mt. Vernon on the Columbus road. Formerly he followed farming as his vocation, but since living near Mt. Vernon, he makes gardening his principal business. They have had one son, John S. His wife deceased February 5, 1852. In 1853 he married Miss Sarah Graham, born in Liberty township, Knox county, in 1825. By this marriage he had six children, four sons and two daughters; one of the sons has deceased. His son John S., served four years in the Eleventh Ohio volunteer cavalry in the war of 186r.

BEACH, THOMAS, farmer, post office, Millwood, was born in Harrison County, Ohio, February 13, 1815, isa son of Joseph Beach, was brought to Coshocton-county when a child, where he was raised, remaining at home farming on the shares, for his mother, until her death, which occurred in 1841. He then became the owner of the old homestead farm, where he remained until 1853, when he sold it and purchased a farm in Harrison township; Knox county, where he then moved, and at present resides. During the time he lived in Coshocton county he married Margaret J. Moar, October 12, 1858. She was a daughter ot John Moar, and was born in Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, December 22, 1822. They have nine children, as follows: Camella, Elmer J., Charles H., Mary E., Milo, Gehiel,

Ohio, July, 1816. She is the fourth child of James and Mary Murphy, who came to Hilliar township about 1830, and settled near where the village of Centreburg is now located. When the Murphy family came there was no house within the limits of the present town. The first house which was built was by a Mr. Hendricks, and used for a number of years as a hotel. About the same time there was also another house built near the first one, and it was also used as a hotel. They were both frames, and are yet standing. The first not occupied. In this family were twelve persons - ten children and the two parents. The parents died where they first settled. Thus Mrs. Beach saw the site of Centreburgh when it was but little marred by the hand of the settler. Mrs. Beach has spent her days near where she now resides, and it was here that she was married to William Beach, May 10, 1845, who was a native of Jersey City, New Jersey. As a result of this marriage they had two children, both of whom are living. Mrs. Beach is an early settler, having been in the vicinity a half century. Mr. Beach died some years ago. :

BEACH, ALLEN J., Mt. Vernon, was born in Livingston county, New York, September 23, 1830, and is a son of Allen and Amanda Beach zee Root. He received his education in the common schools of Knox county, and was early trained in habits of industry. When twenty years of age he began business on his own account as a butcher and victualler, and carried it on very successfully for twenty ycars.

He has taken a great interest in political matters, and has been an unwavering and consistent Democrat, serving as a member of the county Democratic committee for a number of years, and has repeatedly been a delegate to various conventions of that party. In 1862 he was elected sheriff of Knox county on the Democratic ticket, and was renominated in 1864, but failed of an election. In 1868 he was again nominated, and received a majority of the votes cast, and was reelected in 1870, thus serving in that office for the period of six years in all. In 1873 he was elected to the lower branch of the State legislature, and during the sessions of that body served on the committee on Federal Relations, and also on that of the Penitentiary, being chairman of the latter. His earnest manner and sterling honesty gained him many friends, and he had a decided influence in the House while he was a member. In the winter of 1876 he was elected sergeant-at-arms of the house of representatives, and served for two years.

BEAL, MICHAEL, farmer, Butler township, post office address Zucks; born in Southampton township, Somerset county, Pennsylvania, March 9, 1821. He was married February 5, 1842, to Margaret Albright, who was born in Londonderry township, Bedford county, Pennsylvania, October 27, 1823. Hecame to Butler township in 1842. Their children were Edward, born July 22, 1845; Charles H., born July 2, 1847; Levi, born February 22, 1849; George, born July 29, 1850; Mary M., born October 12, 1852; Martha E., born August 31, 1854; Lucy, born April 12, 1856; Christian, born July 6, 1860; Sarah J. born February 20, 1863; Michael, born February 12, 1865, and two children still-born. Edward died March 29, 1851; George died March and was married in 1854 to Leah Rhodes, who was born in Pennsylvania in 1832. They have seven children - Jacob, Asa R., Charles, Harvey, Ellen, Ida, and John. Mr. Beal is a farmer, who came to Knox county in 1870.

He was born in Richland county in 1854, he was married in 1876 to Mary E., daughter of Rev. H. Keller, of Pike township; she was born in 1856. They have two children: . Linney Viola, born August 9, 1877, and Howard M., born May 3, 1879. . Mr. Beal received a liberal education, engaged in teaching school in Richland county. In 1876 he came to North Liberty, engaged in the mercantile business, continued till 1879, then came to Ankenytown, and opened a new store. He is duinga successful business. He is ticket, express, and freight agent for the Baltimore & Ohio railroad at this station.

BEAM, WILLIAM, Mt. Vernon. His father, John Beam, came from Green county, Pennsylvania, to this county in 1807, locating in what is now Morgan township, where he resided several years, and where his son, William, was born. When he was about eight months old his fa.her moved to a farm he had purchased in Clinton township, about three miles south of Mt Vernon

When the War of 1812 came Mr. Beam served in the army under General Harrison, asateamster. William received as good an education as the schools of that date afforded; but by diligent study fitted himself for teaching. He assisted his father on the farm, and followed the same occupation until 1838, when he was elected sheriff, and served two terms. He then engaged in the wholesale grocery business, establishing the first wholesale house in Mt. Vernon. When he sold his interest in this business, he went to Buffalo and Oswego in the interest of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad. Quitting this, he engaged in the dry goods trade several years; then in the business of patentrights, and in various pursuits until the present. :

William Beam was married in 1836, to Miss Emeline Willett. They are the parents of eight children, six of whom (four daughters and two sons) are now living.

BEAM, J. W., manufacturer of tinware and dealer in glassware, West High street, Mt. Vernon, Ohio, is a native of this city, born February 28, 1847, and was educated in the city public schools. He enlisted in August, 1862, in company A, Ninety sixth Ohio volunteer infantry, Captain Mitchell, being but fifteen years old when he enlisted; served until February, 1863, when he was honorably discharged. He again enlisted in May, 1864, in the Ohio National guard, where he served during the full term of service, after which he came home and engaged to learn the tinning business with Byers & Bird, and completed the trade with H. Everett, after which he engaged in business for himself, in which he continued a short time, when he travelled and did journeymen work for different firms in various parts of this State. In the spring of 1877 he established his present business, in which he has been successful. He manufactures all kinds of tinware in his line, also deals in table glassware, which is sold from wagons, four of which he keeps on the road. He trades his goods for scraps .and produce, doing a business of from four to six thousand dollars a year.

BEAM, FRANK L, queensware goods, South Main street, Mt. Vernon. Mr. Beam is young man of promise; although scarcely past his majority he has manfully started out in the race of life, and at an age, too,sthat is usually frittered away in seeking bubbles. Mr. Beam is a native of this city, born November 14, 1858, and has not yet reached his twenty-second birthday. From our efficient public schools he received a thorough education. His first business engagement was with Bogardus & Co., hardware dealers, with whom he served six years. On the twenty-second of March, 1880, he opened the business he is now engaged in. He carnesacomplete stock of crockery, chinaware, glassware, lanterns, lamps, looking glasses, house fnrnishing goods, wall paper, window shades and fixtures, pocket and table cutlery, plated ware, etc., etc. He is located in a part of the old Woodbridge property, now Rogers' Arcade, South Main street, east side.

BEARDSLEY, JOHN, pioneer of Milford township, was born September 26, 1792, in Fairfield county, Connecticut. He came of Revolutionary stock, his father having served during fhe war, and was at the Battle of Stony Point. While in the service he received an injury which caused the loss of his hearing. His mother's father, Burns by name, was a marine during the war. His parents had seven children, and so far as is known he is the only one living. He was raised on a farm. At about the age of fifteen he learned cabinetmaking, and worked at 1t while in Connecticut. In 1812, he was a member of a militia company and stood guard along the shore of Long Island. In 1818 he started for Ohio, came by boat to New York, thence on foot to Bristol, Pennsylvania, thence to Philadelphia by boat on the Delaware river, from thence to Pittsburgh on foot; from thence by way of Wheeling to Knox county, where he entered one hundred and sixty acres of land in what is now Milford township. He paid the balance, or onehalf on another piece of one hundred and sixty acres of land which another man had entered, which gave him two hundred and forty acres. In the spring of 1819 he returned to Connecticut, and in September, 1822 he was united in marriage to Miss Fitch in Connecticut, and shortly started for Ohio in a one horse wagon, coming by the way of New York city, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Wheeling and Zanesville. In coming over the Allegheny mountains he was upset and came near losing his horse and effects. After six weeks' journey he arrived at his destination. He remained with his brother William Beardsley, who came some time previously, until he built hiscabin. He cleared up the land and made for himself and family a pleasant home. He was one of the organizers of Milford township. He worked at cabinetmaking considerably, and there are many pieces of his handiwork in the county yet. He is spending the evening of his life in his comfortable home, respected and esteemed for his many good qualities. By his marriage they had six children ; of these Elizabeth and Malissa are deceased, George is in Illinois, Charles is in the Treasury department of the United States, Henry in Nebraska, Mary A. lives at home. Mrs. Beardsley was born October g, 1800; died August 13, 1879.

BEARDSLEY, PLATT G., Milford township, pioneer farmer, was born in Massachusetts, August 6, 1806. He isthe son of Willian; Beardsley, who was born March 20, 1783, at Old Stratford, Connecticut. He married Miss Eunice Gardner, a native of Massachusetts, who was born July 18, 1786. They had nine children - Platt G., Mary G., born March 3, 1808 ; Job G., September 10, 1810; Betsey M., August 12, 1812, died July 21, 1813, William B., born September 3, 1814; Betsey, July 20, 1818; Catharine M., July 24, 1820; Adaline, January 11, 1823! John B,, February 20, 1825; Mary G. (deceased,