Licking County, Ohio - Biographical sketches (2 of 2 so headed), 1881 (part 11 of 12)

Wituiams, A., farmer, Johnstown, was born December 16, 1828, in the southern part of Munroe township, in what is commonly termed the David Williams homestead; here he has spent his entire life, with the exception of about one year, which he spent in Pennsylvania. He married Mary Stewart, January 27, 1857. She was born in Virginia about 1828. 'They had four children: Frank, born December 21, 1857; Ida, born July 24, 1859; Sanford, born December 8, 1861; Ella, born August 25, 1863. Mrs. Williams died May, 1872. Mr. David Williams and wife, Charlotte, parents of the subject of this sketch, purchased the present Williams farm in the unbroken wilderness, and now it ranks among the best farms in the township. About the year 1850, he, David, with his brother, Thaddeus Williams, started to California, but only reached Panama, where he sickened with the prevailing fever, and soon after boarding the vessel for California, died, and was buried in mid-ocean. Mr. A. Williams is one of those quiet, pleasant men who make one feel at home in their presence. Politically, he is a Republican.

WRIGHT, JAMES N., farmer, post office, Johnstown, was born February 20, 1818, in St. Albans township, Licking county. His father, Simeon Wright, jr., was born March 12, 1772, in Rutland county, Vermont, and was married to Miss Susannah Abbot in 1795. In 1816 they removed to St. Albans township, then having seven children, James and his sister being born after their arrival. Mr. Wright died September 4, 1833, from the effects of being thrown from a carriage by a runaway team. The subject of this sketch endured the usual hardships of a pioneer life, and had the same difficulties to surmount in order to secure an education, but being persevering and strict, he made the most of his advantages in the common schools of this period. After reaching his majority, he attended Denison university at Granville, Ohio, for one year. Since his college life Mr. Wright has been none the less a student, and it is rare, indeed, to find a man who has devoted his life to farming better informed in regard to current events. In 1848 he was ordained by the Reverend G. G. West, a local minister in the Methodist church, and from that time until the present, has always held himself in readiness to perform whatever duties, as a preacher, he was called upon to perform. Mr. Wright was married to Miss Effie Willison, of Monroe township, October 26, 1842, by whom he had seven children: Flora L., born October 26, 1844; Columbia Ann, September 5, 1846; Esther L., May 3, 1849; Miles L., April 3, 1852; Seth I, May 21, 1854; James N., August 6, 1858; Frank P., May 19, 1861. When married, he was engaged in the mercantile business in Johnstown, in which he continued for six years, but preferring a farmer's life, he sold out and moved on the farm where he now resides. Here he commenced with a farm of forty acres, which he has by good management and industry, increased to nearly one thousand acres in the townships of Hartford and Monroe. His great specialty 1s sheep raising, keeping nearly one thousand head, which are among the best in the State. He attends the State and county fairs through, and never fails to secure the first premiums for his exhibits. He is a living example of the success that may be achieved in our county, from what might seem at times the most adverse circumstances,

Witson, G. W., son of John and Rebecca Wilson, was born in Newark township, March 1o, 1806. His parents removed from Hardy county, Virginia, in 1805, and settled in the central part of Newark township. The subject of this sketch remained at home until 1854, when his parents died. He was married January 24, 1835 to Barbara Miller, daughter of Abraham and Margaret Miller. Mr. and Mrs. Wilson had but one child - Harriet, born December 11, 1835, who married William Davis, of Newark, January 1, 1862. Shortly after this marriage they moved to Wisconsin. Mrs. Wilson died August 31, 1838. In 1854 Mr. Wilson married his second wife - Barbara Wilkin, of Mary Ann township, daughter of 'Henry and Magdalene Wilkin, who was born June 7, 1817. By this union they had one child - John M., born August 16, 1860. He lives about two miles north of the public square of Newark, on a farm of one hundred acres.

Witson, THoMAS R., gardener by trade, is located about one mile north of the public square of Newark, on what is known as Cedar Hill. He is the son of David and Amanda M. Wilson, and was born April 7, 1848, in Newark township, near where he now lives. Mr. Wilson's father was born in 1806, in Newark township, north of the city of Newark. He has always lived in the county and been engaged in farming, Mr. Wilson's mother died April 23, 1873. She was born April 13, 1812, in Madison township. She was the daughter of Adam and Elizabeth Seymour. The subject of this sketch is one of a family of five, being the third. He was married to Cordelia Irwin, January 27, 1870. She is the daughter of Hamilton and Catharine Irwin, and was born February 13, 1849, in Franklin township. By this union they have five children - Inez, born November 24, 1870: David A., August 21, 1872; Alice F., February 27, 1874; James A., February 1, 1876; Emma C., July 6, 1879.

Witson, G. W., farmer. - He was born in Allen county, Ohio, September 1, 1841; came to Perry county when quite young, and to Licking county in 1868. Hewas married to Nettie C. Miller in 1872. They are the parents of three children - Ella, Frank, and Mary.

CITY OF NEWARK. WabE, ZEPHNIAH, cooper, was born in Martinsburgh, Virginia, March 5, 1835. When he was six months old he came with his father to Newark, where he has since made his home. He was married September 18, 1856, to Jane Avery. She was born September 1, 1835. They are the parents of ten children: Zephaniah died August, 1858, aged one year; Rozella, born December 25, 1858; Elcy, born March 24, 1861; William, born Lae 27, 1863; John Franklin, born May 19, 1866; Mary Caroline, died November 11, 1868, aged two months; Viola Price, born September 23, 1869; Clarence, born July 23, 1873; Eva, died July 23, 1872, seven days old; Cevilla died September 22, 1877, eighteen months old. At the age of twelve years Mr. Wade learned the cooper trade. He worked at this until September 18, 1864. He then enlisted in company A, one Hundred and Seventy-eighth Ohio volunteer infantry, and served until July 11, 1865. He then went at boiler making, and worked at this until May 7, 1878. He then went at his former business, at which he now works.

Watiacr, HucH M., No. 345 south side of public square, Newark, Ohio, dealer in fancy and staple dry goods, notions, carpets, oil cloths, etc. Mr. Wallace is a native of Ireland, and was born in 1838. He was brought to America by his parents in 1844, who located in Pittsburgh, Pennsyl- _ yania, remained a few years and then moved to Cincinnati. Mr. Wallace was educated in the schools of Pittsburgh and Cincinnati. His first lace, of Cincinnati, as salesman in a dry goods store, where he remained until in 1854, when he came to Newark with Mr. George Wallace, and continued in his employ, as salesman in his store, until 1864, when he commenced in the dry goods business for himself, with an entire new stock of new goods, in a room on the corner of Third street and public square, where the First National bank now stands. He removed to his present location in 1868, generally known as the "Bee Hive store," where he has since been conducting the business successfully. He occupies a large, commodious salesroom, which is well filled with staple and fancy dry goods, motions, oil

Watton, JOSEPH, M. D., a native of England and was born December 9, 1836, in Catterick, Yorkshire. He was educated at Saint Francis academy, and graduated at the old school of medicine in London. "He came to America in the Great Eastern steamship, July, 1863. He witnessed the Irish riot in New York, and the day after he started for Lawrence county, Ohio, on the cars, but could not proceed farther than Belmont county on account of Morgan's raid. He was detained there for three weeks, and at Buffington's island for one week. He arrived at Miller's Landing, Lawrence county, by boat, on the thirtieth of August, 1863. He moved to Columbus in 186s, and engaged in the practice of medicine until 1870, when he removed to Newark, and engaged in the building of houses. Being unsuccessful in this, he retired from the more active duties of life. In June after locating in Columbus, he married Elizabeth House, the youngest daughter of John House, of Hebron. In 1876 Mrs. Walton died, leaving him with two children: Emma J., born November 15, 1866; Adelbert H., born September 20, 1869. At the time of his wife's death he was a member of the Methodist church, having united with this denomination at the age of seventeen. After hearing the doctrine of the Bible preached by the Seventh Day Adventists he became dissatisfied with the Methodist and joined the Adventist in 1877, and became a zealous worker in the cause, devoting his time fully to the building and establishing of a church which was completed and dedicated in December, 1878.

WarD, PRUDEN A., was born in Newark, New Jersey, May 28, 1811. He commenced as an apprentice at the carriage and wagon maker trade, in 1832, in his native town, and served three years as an apprentice. He continued at his trade as journeyman, in Newark, about one year, and then worked in New York city a few months. In September, 1836, he came to Newark, this county, and he in company with Isaac C. Ball (now deceased) established the well known carriage works at Newark, in which he is still a partner. He has been twice married - first to Miss Dorcas C. Ball, in 1839, who died in 1840. His second marriage was to Miss Julia A. Ward, then of Miller township, Knox county, Ohio; she was born in Warren county, Ohio, in 1821. They settled in Newark, where they have since been residing. By this union he has four children: Matilda A., Frederick K., Horatio R., and Charles A. Matilda A. married Franklin James, and is now living in Toledo, Ohio. Frederick K. graduated at West Point, as second lieutenant in cavalry, in 1870, and has since been in the United States service. In 1875 he was promoted to first lieutenant, which

Batt & Warp's carriage and wagon shops, a pioneer institution, corner of First and Church streets, Newark, Ohio. These shops were established in 1836, by Isaac C. Ball and Pruden A. Ward. 'They first erected a small frame building which served them as work shops for several years. In 1849 they erected the present stone structure, twenty-eight by fifty feet, three stories high, which has since been used as their principal work shops. They also built an addition of fifty feet to their first building. Their several shops, as extended and improved, now almost cover a parcel of ground ninety-nine by one hundred and ninety-eight feet, including two excellent show rooms - one for light carriage and buggy work, the other for farm wagons, and each of these departments is kept admirably stocked with some of the finest work possible to be found in the State. They have from twelve to fifteen employes in their establishment, who are all skilled workmen. In 1849 Joseph Ball, brother of J. C. Ball, became a partner, and remained in the firm till 1879, when his interest was purchased by the original owners.

WARNER, GENERAL WILLARD. - General Willard Warner was a native of Granville, this county, and was born September 24, 1826. He lived in Muskingum county from 1830 to 1849. General Warner received a classical education, graduating from Marietta college in' 1845. In February, 1849, he went to California, by way of the Isthmus of Panama, in company with Dr. Horace Smith, George Howell, A. Brimagin and Jones Reily, all of whom died, except himself, he returning in 1852. He was engaged in the wholesale grocery business in Cincinnati in 1852-3. General Warner then went into the Newark machine works as treasurer, and became general manager in 1856 or 1857, and continued such until December, 1861, when he entered the Seventy-sixth regiment of the Ohio volunteer infantry as major. He was with the regiment at Fort Donelson and Pittsburgh Landing; also at the siege of Corinth, in the Vicksburgh and Jackson campaigns, and at the capture of the steamer Fairplay. Being promoted lieutenant colonel, he led the regiment from Vicksburgh to Chattanooga, and through the battles of Lookout Mountain, Mission Ridge and Ringgold. At the latter place, with two hundred men, he broke General Patrick Cleburne's lines, strongly posted. In this engagement he lost onethird of his men in half an hour, being either killed or wounded. Subsequently, in April, 1864, General Warner was appointed by General Sherman, Inspector general on his staff, and served as such through the Atlanta campaign and on the pursuit of Hood until Allatoona was reached, when he accepted the.colonelcy of one of the new regiments. General Sherman upon relieving him from duty, thanked him in special orders for his zealous and intelligent service, and complimented him "on his good sense in preferring service with troops to staff duty." General Warner joined his new regiment, the One Hundred and Eightieth Ohio volunteer infantry, at Dechard, Tennessee, and in January, 1865, was ordered to North Carolina. After the capture of Fort Fisher [see Ohio in the war], he participated in the engagement at Kingston, and upon the occupation of the capital of the '"'old North State," he was made provost marshal of the city. After the surrender of Johnson's army he was placed in command of the post of Charlotte, North Carolina, and continued in that position during the remainder of his term of service. Upon the recommendation of his corps and department commanders, Generals Sherman and Schofield, he was brevetted brigadier general in July, 1865. Shortly after this he was mustered out of the service, with the additional honor of brevet major general, for '" gallant and meritorious conduct during the war," to rank from March 13, 1865.

After the war closed he returned to Newark, and at the election in October, 1865, was elected to the State senate of Ohio, of which body he was an efficient member. General Warner had previously been the active and efficient manager of the Newark Gas company, which, under his management, laid two miles or more of gas pipes in Newark. In 1867 General Warner removed to Alabama, where, having previously purchased a plantation, he engaged in the cultivation of cotton. During the next year (1868) he was elected a member of the lower branch of the State legislature, where he zealously supported and ably advocated the Thirteenth and Fourteenth amendments to the Constitution of the United States, and which were on his motion adopted by the Alabama legislature. In July, 1868, General Warner was elected a member of the United States Senate, and served in that body until March 4, 1871. General Warner was a delegate from Ohio to the Chicago convention in 1860, and voted twice for Salmon P. Chase, and on the third and last ballot for Abraham Lincoln. He was also a member of the National Republican convention in 1868, from Alabama, which nominated General Grant; and also of the convention which met in Cincinnati in 1872, and nominated General R. B. Hayes, he voting for B. H. Bristow. And he was also a member of the Chicago convention of 1880, which nominated General Garfield, he voting generally for Hon. John Sherman. General Warner was appointed collector of customs at

Mobile, Alabama, in July, 1871, and served as such until February, 1872, when he was appointed governor of New Mexico, which, however, he declined, as he did also the position of minister to the Argentine Republic, of South America. General Warner has been uniformly a Republican, voting for Chase for governor of Ohio in 1855; for Fremont for President in 1856; for Lincoln for President in 1860, and 1864; for General Grant in 1868; for Horace Greely in 1872; for General Hayes in 1876; and for General Garfield in 1880. In 1873 General Warner organized the Tecumseh Iron company, situated in Cherokee county, Alabama, and has acted as president of the company and as general manager since that time. General Warner has always opposed slavery, and manifested his devotion to principle; when on coming into possession of his patrimony, he gave freedom to such slaves as came into his possession. General Warner's political friends in Licking county always had the utmost confidence in his integrity and ability. He was from 1856 to 1861 their chosen leader, serving during that time as chairman of the Republican county central committee. General Warner still frequently visits his numerous friends in this county, and no man receives a more cordial greeting when he makes those visitations.

Warner, L. K., Third street, between Canal and Walnut streets, Newark, Ohio. Mr. Warner was born in Brattleborough, Vermont, March 9, 1805, and when he was about two years old his parents came to Ohio, and located in Muskingum county, nine miles from Zanesville, near the location of the Spring Valley station. He received his education in the district schools, and spent his boyhood days on the home farm, where he remained until his mothers death, after which he made his home with his eldest brother, Lyman, who resided near Roseville, assisting on the farm until 1828, when he came to Newark, and engaged with his brother, Willard, in running a stage line, in which he continued until 1831, when he embarked in the grain business in a warehouse that stood on the northwest corner of Third street, on the south side of the canal where, instead of an elevator and other modern improvements, all the grain handled had to be drawn up hand over hand by means of a rope that run over a large wheel attached near the roof - most arduous labor where there was so much grain handled, as he purchased grain from all parts of this county and all the adjoining counties. In 1836 he associated with himself in the business Mr. Oren Smith, and in 1839 they built the warehouse now occupied by Jewett & Miller, in which they did an extensive business; he purchased Mr. Smith's interest, after which he did business in company with different persons until 1865, when he sold out the business to Samuel Updegraff and C. D. Miller. In the year 1858 he had, in company with Willis Robins, built the Warner and Robins block, and in 1861 they associated with them L. B. Wing, and engaged in the banking business, in which he continued until 1876. In September, 1876, he engaged in the queensware business, and in which he still continues. He was married February 9, 1839, to Miss Sarah McDougal, daughter of the late Stephen McDougal, of this city; and the same year they took possession of the Warner mansion, where they have reared their family, and have resided during the past forty years. They have had a family of eight children; two daughters - Mrs. Fred H. Wilson, and Mrs. C. A. Updegraff - and six sons: George L., Willard, Charles L., Frank S., and Stanley ; of these, two, Charles L. and Stanley, are dead

1856 ; she was born October 8, 1836. They have eight children, Enoch, born January 12, 1857; Catharine, March 29, 1858; Mary, September 13, 1862; Ellen, May 18, 1864; Laura, January 2, 1866; Elizabeth, July 18, 1871; David, August 9, 1873; Margaret, December 11, 1876. Mr. Watkins came to Newark in August, 1870; worked at farming before coming'to Newark. He worked in a rolling-mill and at painting in Newark. Enoch is a printer in the employ ,of the Newark Ameztcan.

Watson, Moses H.;.he has been in the laundry business for some time past. He was born March 25, 1822, in Putnam, Muskingum county. He came to this county and settled in Granville, remaining there two years, when he removed to Newark, where he has lived ever since. He married Matilda Allen, of Zanesville, January, 1854; she was born in Virginia May 14, 1833. She is the daughter of Wilson and Eliza Allen. Mr. Watson is the son of Thomas and Jane Watson, of Virginia.

Werant, W. S., coal merchant, successor to the Newark Coal company, from whence the best and cheapest fuel is supplied, and contracts may be effected to an advantage unobtainable elsewhere. The most extensive enterprise in this direction, within the city limits, was the establishment, 1n 1872, of the coal tipples on Clinton street, near the railroad track, by the Newark Coal company, who invested something over-four thousand dollars in their construction. But that corporation only operated them about three years. In 1876 Mr. W. S. Weiant succeeded them, and has since been conducting them with good success In 1877 he opened his branch office on the corner of Second and Main streets, proving a step in the right direction. In the fall of 1879 he opened another office and yard on the corner of Second and Canal streets, at- which place he has had a substantial platform erected to protect the coal from the ground. Having tried a number of different kinds of coal in this market, Mr. Wieant finds that the Bristol coal, from Perry county, gives by far the most general satisfaction, being equally adapted to house burning as well as for steam purposes. It is a sound, clean, free-burning coal, and is much sought after on account of its not being expensive. He keeps three of his own horses and carts constantly engaged in delivering coal, sending out, upon an average, from fourteen to fifteen loads per day, though in winter often as high as thirty loads a day. Prompt attention is given to all orders.

We cu, Liovyn, a farmer, was born in New Lisbon, Amoramo county, Maryland, January 13, 1816. county, when he was fifteen years old. He was married to Sarah Warden, August 24, 1842, who was born April 6, 1821, and was a resident of Granville. Her parents came from Vermont, and were among the pioneers. After their marriage they moved to Monroe township, four miles from Johnstown; lived there fifteen years and then they moved to Sunbury; lived fhere about a year and then moved to Granville, and from there to West Newark, where they now reside. They had nine children - Mary Ann, born December 10, 1843; Arravesta, born November 29, 1845; Ellalora, born October 28, 1847; Henry, born January 11, 1850. Silas, born September 8, 1851; William, born March 29, 1853; Caroline, born March 3, 1855 (deceased December 18, 1870); Martha, born July 7, 1856; and Albert, born December 29, 1861. They were all born in Monroe township but Albert, who was born in Sunbury. Mary, Artavesta, Henry, and William are married. Mary lives at Dunkirk, Hardin county, Ohio; Arravesta lives at Kirksville, Adams county, Missouri; Henry lives at Granville, Licking county, Ohio; and Wilham lives in West Newark. The remainder of the family remain at home.

WELLS, Mrs. Fannik, was born in Newark, October 2, 1842. She is the daughter of Ira Abbott, who died at Newark in 1863, at the age of fifty years. Her mother lives on Main street, aged sixty-three years. Mrs. Wells was married November 27, 1861, to John James, of Newark He was born in London, England, November 27, 1838. She has one son, John Wallace, born November g, 1862, Mr. James came to Newark at the age of nineteen years; he enlisted in company G, Fortyfifth Ohio volunteer infantry, in August, 1862; he served fifteen months, during which time he was a prisoner of war seven months; three months of this time at Libby prison. Twelve days after being discharged from prison he died, April 28, 1864, from the effect of being starved while there. Mrs. Fannie James was again married to David A. Wells, December 22, 1864, who was born in Wellsburgh, Virginia, May 26, 1816. He was a tailor, at which he worked for many years in Newark. He was a member in good standing of the order of | Odd Fellows. He died March 28, 1879. John W. is working at the tailor trade in Newark.

Wire, JOsEPH, liveryman, sale and feed stable, Church street, Newark. Mr: White is a native of Newark, where he was born, November 29, 1815. He received his education in the common schools of Granville township, and at Martin's academy, at Granville, attending the latter school about threeyears, making civil engineering his principal study. After leaving school in 1831 he engaged as rodman with his brother, John White, in the construction of the Hocking canal, through Fairfield, Hocking, and Athens counties, Ohio, which he followed several years. In 1845 he took charge of the Ohio canal as chief engineer, which position he held until 1851. He then engaged in the manufacturing of brick, and supplied all the demands for brick in the town of Newark for a number of years. In 1854 he engaged in the livery business in Newark, which business he has since followed. In 1859, in connection with his livery, he engaged in the coal business, operating the Coal Port coal bank in Coshocton county, boating the coal, to Newark, and supplying all the calls for coal in the city of Newark about six years. In 1868 he constructed a bridge across the Scioto river, six hundred and forty feet long, near Chillicothe, which took one year to complete. In October, 1875, he was elected commissioner of Licking county, and served one term. During his term of office he superintended the building of the present court house. In 1841 he married Miss Sarah Drake, a native of Knox county. She was born in 1820.

. They settled in Newark, where they have since resided. They reared a family of four children - Hanson, Angeline, Leander and Freddie. Angeline married C. F. W. Yergens, moved to New York city, where she died in 1874. Mr. White is the youngest child of a family of nine children, and is the only one of six brothers now living. His father, Samuel White, sr., settled in Newark in 1810 and remained in this county until his death.

WILkIy, R. B., son of Daniel and Barbara Wil-- kin, was born September 5, 1833, in the city of Newark, where he has lived ever since. Mr. Wilkin's father was one of the old settlers in the county, coming into it in r8r5. Mr. Wilkin is a carpenter and joiner by trade. When he was twenty-two years of age, he completed his trade with his father. He was married October, 1857, to Miss A. E. Phillips; of Newark. They have seven girls, the oldest of whom is a teacher in the public schools of Newark. Mr. Wilkin resides in the house where he was born on Fifth street.

WILLIAMS, GEORGE, grocer, was born in Pennsylvania in 1837; moved to Jacktown in 1850; was married to Anna Beck September 1, 1860. She was born in Hebron May 15,1841. They are the parents of eight children: Lucinda, born October 5, 1861; John, who died August 16, 1865, aged seven months; Lewis, who died March 8, 1876, aged ten years and eight months; Edward, born May 15, 1865; Harry, born January 5, 1870; Daisy M., born December 12, 1872; Katie, born December 14, 1875; George B., born December 27, 1878. Mr. Williams moved to Newark in September, 1875. Heis carrying on grocery trade and city meat market.

WILLIAMS, ALDRIDGE; son of F. and K. Williams, was born July 22, 1829, in Fauquier county, Virginia. He, with his parents, came to this county in 1837, and settled in Bowling Green township, where he resided until he was about twenty years of age, when he removed to Green county, remaining there about two years, when he returned to Licking county, and about three years after, he married Mary Dodd. She was born October 23, 1832. In 1869 they removed to Franklin county, remaining four years, when they returned to Licking county, and have been here since. They have nine children: Jennie, born July 16, 1854; Hamline, September 6, 1856; Ella, September 6, 1858; Belle, September 14, 1861; Byron, March 21, 1863; _ Anna, October 3, 1867; Daisy, March 12, 1869; David, January 27, 1872; Jessie, June 26, 1875; Jennie died April 16, 1873; Hamline died September 3, 1859; Anna died January 8, 1872; David died when a babe. Granville street.

Wituiams, A. H., proprietor of Licking county bindery and blank book manufactory, plain and ornamental binding done in good style, at reasonable rates. Mr. Williams' bindery is located on West Main street, in Felt's block, over C. D. Myers' harness store. He has had twenty-two years experience in the business, and will warrant satisfaction given on all his work.

WiLuaMs, GEORGE M., grocer and dealer in fresh meats, Woodbridge block, south side of the park. He was born in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, June 10, 1835, and in early life learned the carpenter trade, which he followed in that county until 1854, when he came to Ohio, lo- cating at West Wheeling, where he worked at his trade until 1859. He then came to Jacksontown, this county, where he continued in the carpenter business until 1859, when he engaged in the butchering, which -he conducted until 1864, when he enlisted in company D, Tenth Ohio volunteer cavalry, in which he' served until the close of the war, after which he returned to Jacksontown and resumed butchering, which he followed there until 1875. He then came to Newark, and conducted the business here until 1879, when he engaged in the grocery business in connection with butchering, since which he has been conducting both with good success. He occupies commodious rooms, twenty by eighty feet, with a spacious basement, twenty by fifty feet, in which he carries a large first-class stock of staple and fancy groceries, confectionery, queensware, glassware, wood and willow wate, stoneware, sugar-cured, smoked and pickled meats, dried and fresh meats of all kinds. He also conducts a meat market on the corner of Fourth and Main streets, where he keeps a large stock of all kinds of fresh and dried meats.

Witson Famity. - -The founder of this tamily in America was William Wilson, who was born in Ireland, November 16, 1722. He was the son of David Wilson, of Ireland, who was the son of David Wilson, of Scotland. William came to America with a relative named White, about the age of fifteen years, settling near Winchester, Virginia. He is found in the Shenandoah valley in 1744-5, where he marritd Margaret Blackburn in 1746. He was the progenitor of the Wilsons of the Shenandoah valley, and of most of those who subsequently settled in Licking county. Little is known of him after he settled on his lands located in what is now Hardy county, Virginia, except that he was industrious and prosperous, owning a good farm, a grist-mill, a distillery, blacksmith shop and "weaving house," making his household somewhat independent, after the custom of well-to-do farmers of that day. He resided here until his death in 1801; his widow survived him a few years, dying in December, 1806. Both were buried on that portion of the farm owned by their son, Solomon, in a place near a church, in what was known as "Wilson's graveyard." Their tombstones are still standing, together with that of their son, Moses, who died in infancy, in the year 1760; the inscriptions upon them being still perfectly legible, as has been recently ascertained. The following register gives the time of the birth and death of each of the sons and daughters of William and Elizabeth Wilson, one of whose sons (Archibald), with many grandchildren, settled in the valley of the Licking: Benjamin Wilson, born November 30, 1747, died December 2, 1827; Archibald Wil-

WiLson, COLONEL BENJAMIN, was the oldest son and first born of William and Elizabeth Wilson. He was born November 30, 1747, in that portion of Frederick county, Virginia, which is now included in Shenandoah county.. The county of Frederick, at the time of Benjamin Wilson's birth, was bounded on the east by the Blue ridge, on the west by the western boundary of the State, and embraced most of the northern portion of the Shenandoah valley, extending nearly a hundred miles southwardly from the Potomac, its northern boundary. In 1772 the southern portion of Frederick county was formed into the county of Dunmore, named in honor of Lord Dunmore, then governor of the colony of Virginia. The governor taking the side of England against the colonists, in the opening year of the Revolution, became exceedingly unpopular with the Virginians. Fearing their vengeance he fled from the city of Williamsburgh and took refuge on the British fleet in the harbor of Norfolk, in August, 1775, and on the first day of the year 1776 he ordered the bombardment of the town by said fleet, which resulted in the destruction of the greater part of the business portion of Norfolk. By way of retaliation for his act of barbarity, the legislature of 1777 changed the name of Dunmore county to Shenandoah, which it still retains. Within its present limits, as before stated, the subject of this sketch was born.

But little is known of Benjamin Wilson during his minority, except that he made himself useful to his father, on his farm on "Trout run," sometimes as a miller, again as a distiller, then again as a general farm laborer. Educational facilities were quite limited in the new settlement in which he grew into manhood, but Benjamin Wilson made good use of his leisure hours, by dedicating them to studies which fitted him for a prosperous business career. These he pursued eagerly by the firelight of the mill and distillery, as well as by the lamplight and pine knot light of the farm house.

From the family record we find that he entered into the married relation with Anne Ruddell on the fourth of September, 1770. Soon after his mar- riage we find him a resident of Tygart's valley, west of the Alleghany mountains, in what 1s now Randolph county, West Virginia. An incident in his life on the frontiers, by way of illustrating the hardships and perils of the pioneers among the Alle-. ghanies, is not without interest, and will bear relating in this connection.

While making a horseback journey over the Alleghany mountains in winter, the weather suddenlyy durning very cold, and_ the ground being covered with snow, so retarded his speed as to throw him much behind time in reaching his destination. He was following a path in which the snow was probably not much broken, and when it became dark he was still some miles distant from the mountaineer's cabin in which he intended to spend the night. But seeing safety in perseverance only, he pushed along until he became so much benumbed from the cold as to almost lose consciousness, and dropped into the condition of drowsiness which usually precedes death by freezing. Soon sleepiness overcame him, and, yielding to his feelings, he got off his horse, and, taking the sheepskin on which he rode, with him, placing it upon the snow he laid down with it under his head. After being in this perilous condition a few moments, having dropped asleep, he dreamed that his life was in danger from a pack of wolves, and that they were then pulling the sheep-skin from under his head. This frightful dream so thoroughly araused him that he suddenly sprang to his feet to defend himself against the wolves, but hearing or seeing none he at once realized his condition, and how narrowly he escaped death in the woods that night by freezing. He, therefore, by an almost superhuman effort, sprang upon his horse and pushed forward on his lonely path until he reached his destination, where a large fire, a warm supper, and a good sleep fully restored him. Thus was a valuable life providentially preserved for many years of activity and usefulness.

Benjamin Wilson served as a lieutenant in the Dunmore war, as it was called, which was an expedition against the Indians in 1774. While negotiations with the Indians were going on at Camp Charlotte, now near Westfall, Pickaway county, Ohio, Lieutenant Wilson served as aide to Lord Dunmore, the commander in chief; and it is not unlikely that he held the same position until the army was disbanded. He is said to have '"acquired by his zeal and attention to duty, the confidence of his superior officers."

Karly in the Revolution Lieutenant Wilson was appointed a captain in the Virginia forces, and rendered essential services, principally on the frontiers. During the war he was the organ through which most of the military and civil business of parties of Indians, who had made incursions into _ the settlements on the frontiers, and had stolen the horses, burned the cabins and murdered the _ helpless women and children of the settlers in the wilderness, or carried them into captivity. In December, 1777, the Indians, in considerable force, entered the upper extremity of Tygart's valley, and killed Darby Connoly and his wife and three children, and John Stewart and his wife and child, besides making prisoners of four members of those families. With great promptitude Captain Wilson raised the requisite number of men, who took the trail and pushed forward in pursuit of the savages. He also commanded the volunteers raised to pursue the Indians that murdered and scalped Lieutenant John White in Tygart's valley, in the following year. In these expeditions Captain Benjamin Wilson was prompt, influential, and conspicuously courageous, as well as prudent and _ judicious.

The late Elias Hughes, the first settler of Licking county, was frequently in the pursuing parties under command of Captain Wilson, and always bore testimony to his good sense, sound judgment, skill and bravery.

Colonel Wilson was a member of the legislature of Virginia from Monongalia, several sessions, previous to the year 1784, in which year the county of Harrison was established, and at the organization of the county he became the clerk of the county court. The duties of this office did not, however, withdraw him entirely from the theater of politics, although he retained it very many years, even well along until near the close of his long life.

Colonel Wilson was elected and served as a delegate in g&the convention of Virginia in 1788, which ratified the Constitution of the United States. In politics he was a Federalist, and was one of the acknowledged leaders of the Federal party in western Virginia, until after the close of the War of 1812, when party lines were obliterated, party names abolished, and parties themselves dissolved, the consummation being the election of Colonel James Monroe to the Presidency of the United States, whose administration for eight years (two terms) was sustained by almost the entire people, without distinction of party. » of two and a half miles square, and designated on the surveys as the northeast quarter, section one, township two, and range twelve, of United States military lands. This eventuated in a sort of family purchase, whether so intended or not, for it is authentically ascertained that twenty families, that were the descendants of William Wilson, have lived upon this celebrated 'Wilson section," the southern boundary of which was within a few rods of the northern out-lots of Newark. Among the Wilsons who settled upon it were three of the children of Colonel Wilson, viz: Cornelius, Elizabeth (Mrs. Martin), and General Thomas W. Wilson, now deceased. Mrs. Ann Brice, Dr. Noah L. Wilson, Mrs. Julia Robinson, and Mr. Daniel D. Wilson are four other children of Colonel Wilson who settled in Licking county, the two latter being still residents.

Colonel Wilson's wife died after a married life of nearly a quarter of a century, having given birth to twelve children. He thereupon formed a second matrimonial alliance on the fifteenth of December, 1795, with Phebe Davidson, who became the mother of sixteen children, making twentyeight by the two marriages, twenty-four of whom reached adult age. Twenty-four of the twentyeight children of Colonel Wilson were living at the time of his death, which occurred December 2, 1827, two days after he had closed the eightieth year of his useful, honored, eventful life. Not only honors, but wealth came to him in profusion, so that he made liberal provision for his large family of children. © The posterity of Colonel Wilson, living at the time of his death, consisted of twentyfour children, seventy-three grandchildren, and one great-great-grandchild, making a total of one hundred and thirty-six! And the number has been greatly augmented since. The names of Colonel Wilson's children are as follows, given in the order of their birth: Mary, born July 9, 1771; William, January 23, 1773; Stephen, October 21, 1775; Benjamin, June 13, 1778; Sarah, September 11, 1780; Ann, January 17, 1786; John, July 5, 1788; Archibald, July 25, 1790; Cornelius, April 7, 1795. In addition to these three others were born who died in infancy, and all were children of the first wife. The children of the second wife were: Josiah, born October 12, 1796; David, February 18, 1798; Edith, November 9, 1799; Elizabeth, October 18, 1801; Thomas W., May 12, 1803; Margaret, March 26, 1805; Deborah, October 17, 1806; James, June g, 1808; Daniel, January 30, 1810; Phebe, August 29, 1811; Martha, January 23, 1813; Phillip, June 29, 1814; Noah L., March g, 1816; Julia Ann, September 28, 1817; Harriet, November 13, 1818, and Rachel, July 20, 1820. Of these children two died in Licking county, viz.: Ann, wife of the late Dr. John J. Brice, and mother of General B, W

Colonel Benjamin Wilson was a man of affairs, of extensive information, of large experience, of keen observation, of genial temper, of mild disposition, of much knowledge of human nature and of the world, of excellent conversational powers, of sound judgment and good sense, of most dignified bearing, of stately deportment, of stalwart person, of vigorous intellect, of courage, energy, enterprise, of generosity and hospitality, of the adventurous daring becoming a frontiersman, of undoubted patriotism, of unimpeached and unimpeachable integrity of character, of fine address, of commanding presence, of high toned morality, and of the elegance of manners that characterized the true "Virginia gentleman of the old school," which he was. In 1810 the late Hon. William Stanbery spent a number of days in Clarksburgh, at the residence of Colonel Wilson, who had then reached the full maturity of his intellect, the dignity that characterized him in his more advanced years, and the elegant manners for which he was so distinguished. The young and accomplished Ohio lawyer, having letters to Colonel Wilson, soon made his acquaintance, and in a late conversation the writer had with him, he remarked that in dignity, address, appearance and manners, Colonel Wilson reminded him more of General Washington than any person he had ever seen. It is well also to observe of Colonel Wilson that he was not unmindful of the claims of religion upon him, but sustained, to the close of his life, an irreproachable Christian character, and by precept, and not less by his example, exerted a large influence in behalf of Christianity. Being an influential leader among those who formed public opinion, it is readily inferred that the interests of sound morality, and of religion were greatly the gainers from his life and example, and correspondingly the losers by his death.

WiLson, ARCHIBALD, was the second son of William, Wilson, and was the oldest brother of Colonel Benjamin Wilson, the subject of the preceding sketch. He was born in the Shenandoah valley, near Winchester, Virginia, on the thirteenth of June, 1749. Comparatively little is known of his early life. There is now a book in the possession of his youngest, and only surviving, son (Enoch), entitled '"Cocherel's Arithmetic," which bears an English imprint. Upon the blank leaf of this centenarian family relic is found this record, claimed to be in Archibald Wilson's hand writing: 'Archibald Wilson, his book, bought of James Cam. Doud, at his store on Old street, in Winchester, August 14, 1771, I. say bought by: me, Archibald Wilson." This fact brought to view in the early life of the subject of this brief sketch raises the presumption, at least, that at the above date, when he was twenty-two years of age, he had got so far along in his studies as arithmetic. His education, like that of most of the young men of his day, in that then frontier country, was most likely obtained in an irregular, piece-meal manner, and by no means thorough - rather "pickedup" than systematically acquired. As Archibald Wilson was a farmer to the close of his life, it is highly probable that he spent the years of his minority upon his father's farm, assisting in farm work principally. In 1774 Archibald Wilson joined the Dunmore army, and proceeded with it on the famous expedition against the Indian towns on the Scioto. At Camp Charlotte, near the Scioto, Dunmore attempted to unite all the Indians in a treaty, but the A/imgos declined, so a force o - about three hundred men was organized anc placed under the command of Major Crawforc (who was afterwards burnt on the Sandusky plain: by the Indians), to destroy one of their villages uy the Scioto, and to otherwise chastise them for thei obstinacy. Archibald Wilson was in this expedi tion. He says that few Indians were to be seer when they arrived at the Mingo village, one war rior and a squaw, however, were shot and a fev prisoners taken. While in the pursuit of the savages he endeavored to capture an Indian boy who, however, was on the alert, and for some time dodged his pursuer in the woods. Under the excitement of the chase Archibald raised his tomahawk to strike him, but fortunately, before the blow was made, the young savage sprang into a tree-top, lying upon the ground, when he was easily captured. It was in after years, and to the close of his life, a matter of rejoicing with Archibald Wilson that he had done no injury to the Indian boy. This scene "'came-off" near where is now the village of Franklinton, in Franklin county. The killing of the squaw, who was not a beligerent, was an un-soldier-like, brutal act, but it was alleged to have been unintentional. She was killed by a shot fired by a man named Vance, who, at first sight, took her to be a warrior.

_ After the Dunmore army had reached the Ohio river, on their homeward march, Archibald Wilson and John and William White (his cousins) were discharged, at their own request, preferring to take their own time, and to pursue their own chosen route for their homes in the Shenandoah valley. They thereupon left the army at the mouth of the Hock-Hocking, crossed the Ohio river, and passed up it, on the Virginia side, to near the mouth of the Little Kanawha, where they found some beautiful bottom land. They thereupon improvement" for each one, which was done by blazing the trees and cutting their initials and date upon them. They intended at some future day to occupy those lands, as such titles were valid under the laws of Virginia at that time. But John White, who was appointed a lieutenant, and operated against the Indians, was killed by them at Tygart's valley, in 1775, and William White was killed near Fort Buchannon, in West Virginia. Just as these -young heroes completed there tomahawk claims they came across some fresh signs of Indians, whereupon they struck out for the mountains, and towards their homes; but fearing to fire their guns, on account of the probable nearness of hostile Indians, to kill game, and being unable to procure food otherwise much of the distance, they almost starved sometimes on their homeward journey. The other Whites that were related to the Wilsons emigrated to Kentucky soon after the Revolution. Archibald Wilson and Ann Claypool were married at the house of Cuthbert Harris, June 21, 1775, in Dunmore county, the officiating clergyman being the Rev. Peter Muhlenburg, who was at this time a Lutheran minister in Woodstock, the shire town of Dunmore, now of Shenandoah county, who the next year entered the Revolutionary army, and served with distinction to its close, when he took rank as a major general. The issue of this marriage was six children, named Abraham C., Archibald, Margaret, Jane, and two that died in infancy. Mrs. Ann (Claypool), Wilson died May 6, 1788.

On the twentieth of January, 1776, Archibald Wilson was commissioned as lieutenant of the militia of Dunmore county, by the committee of safety of the colony of Virginia, which was composed of Edmund Pendleton, John Page, Thomas Ludlow Lee, Dudley Diggs, W. Cabell and P. Carrington, all of whose names are attached to Lieutenant Wilson's commission, which remains in the hands of his son, Enoch. The following is a copy of this commission :

The Committee Of Safety For The Colony Of Virginia

««By virtue of the Power and Authority invested in us, by the Delegates and Representatives of the several Counties and Corporations in General Convention assembled, we, reposing especial Trust and Confidence in your Patriotism, Fidelity, Courage and good Conduct, do, by these Presents, constitute and appoint you to be Lieutenant of a Company of the Militia of the County of Dunmore; and you are therefore carefully and diligently to discharge the Trust reposed in you, by disciplining all Officers and Soldiers under your command. And we do hereby require them to obey you as their Lieutenant. And you are to observe and follow all such Orders and Directions as you shall from Time to Time receive from the Convention, the Committee of Safety for the time being, or any superior Officers according to the Rules and Regulations established by the Convention. | company was present at the taking of Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown in Virginia, in October, 1781, but he was absent on account of sickness in his family. The chief service of his company was to keep the Tories in check, who were very troublesome in his section of the State, and on the South Branch. Having been a magistrate "under the Crown," Captain Wilson had to take an oath of allegiance (a copy of which is still preserved) before he assumed military authority.

Captain Archibald Wilson contracted a second marriage, which was consummated with Nancy Newman, on the thirty-first of August, 1791. She was of English parentage. As the fruit of this marriage six sons and two daughters were born, named respectively, in the order of their birth, as follows: Benjamin, George, Elizabeth, David, William B., John N., Winnefred Ann, and Enoch. Of the eight sons and four daughters only the last named is living. They all attained to adult age. Abraham C. was born June 20, 1776, and died on his farm near Newark, June 8, 1830. He was in the army that subjugated the "whiskey boys" in 1794, and also, as well as his three next younger brothers, served a tour of duty in the War of 1812. He was universally regarded as a most excellent man. Abraham C. Wilson never married. Archibald was the first merchant of Newark, having sold goods here in 1804. He was well educated, and served for a term on the staff of General Gaines during the War of 1812; and was also clerk of the first board of commissioners of Licking county. He was born October 18, 1781, and died in Newton township in 1835. School teaching had been his profession. Margaret married Levi Cooper,* and died August 8, 1828. Jane married Rey. James Scott, the pioneer Presbyterian preacher of Mt. Vernon, Ohio, where she died, August 6, 1852. Benjamin was born July 9, 1791, and died in Petersburgh, Illinois, November 4, 1847. George also married, and had sons and daughters, who, with himself, removed to Illinois, where he died, September 3, 1872. He was born October 31, 1795. Elizabeth married Andrew McMillen, and died in Ramp Creek valley, Licking county, July 3, 1863. David never married, and died in Dresden, Muskingum county, Ohio, October 21, 1833. He was born December 9, 1797. William B. married a daughter of the late Colonel John Stadden, raised a large family, was very successful in the acquisition of property, and died in Newton township, October 22, 1862. He was born March 18,

1800. John N. was born November 21, 1802; entered the medical profession in 1828, and pursued it with energy and success, until within a few years of his death, which occurred October 8, 1872, aged seventy years. Winefred Ann, was the wife of Isaac McMillen. She was born May 17, 1805, and died some years ago.

Witson, Davin, born September 8, 1751; was the third son of William Wilson, the progenitor of the Wilsons that settled on the Wilson section near Newark, Ohio. On the twenty-fourth of September, - 1778, he entered into matrimony with Mary Miller, Rev. A. Moffitt being the officiating clergyman. In the summer of 1805, he, with his son, George, visited the Licking valley for the purpose of making arrangements for an early settlement upon his land, he having previously bargained for a portion of the Wilson section. On their homeward journey both father and son were taken sick. When they reached the residence of Archibald Wilson in Wood county, Virginia, George was so ill that he could go no further, and there he died on the thirtieth of July. The stricken father then pursued his journey to Clarksburgh, Harrison county, Virginia, where, at the residence of his also died. His youngest son, Enoch, also deceased while the father and his brother, George, were in Ohio. David Wilson was the father of twelve children, eleven of whom were living when he left home. The death of two of them, during this summer, still left nine, most of them in their minority, and to be cared for by their widowed mother. The following record gives the names and time of birth and death of each of the children of David and Mary Wilson: John, born November 15, 1779, and died September 6, 1834, near Newwark, Ohio; Jacob, born September 15, 1781, and died October 11, 1827, near Newark, Ohio; Elizabeth, born January 27, 1784, and died in infancy; George, born March 19, 1785, and died July 30, 1805, in Wood county, Virginia; Job, born October 15, 1787, and died November 14, 1812, near Newark, Ohio; Isaac, born January 6, 1790, and died April 1, 1851, near Newark, Ohio; Barbara, born February 20, 1792, and died February 2, 1822, in Licking county, Ohio; Sarah, born October 8, 1794, and died October 13, 1872, near Newark, Ohio; Margaret, born April 18, 1797, and died May 1, 1866, in Wayne county, Ohio; Abel, born March 21, 1799, and died April 14, 1870, near Utica, Ohio; Jesse, born October 3, 1801, and died December 16, 1827, in Morgan county, Ohio; Enoch, born October 21, 1803, and died July 4, 1805, in Hardy county, Virginia. In the autumn of 1805, the widow of David Wilson, with her minor children, moved from Hardy county, Virginia, and settled upon the portion of the Wilson section, purchased by her late husband. Her house stood between the Mount Vernon road and the North fork. John, the oldest son, located on the eastern part of the section, where his son, George, now lives. Job, next oldest to Jacob, settled on the Mount Vernon road, on what is now known as the Dickinson farm. Isaac settled on the adjoining farm upon which his widow lived until November, 1880. Barbara intermar ried with John Thompson, Margaret with James Robinson, of Wayne county, and Sarah became the wife of the late David Moore, one of the original proprietors of Mary. Ann furnace, and an early, enterprising, successful business man, as well as a respectable and most highly esteemed citizen. The widow of David Wilson, and mother of the foregoing children, Aunt Molly, as she was generally called, was a woman of wonderful adaptation to pioneer life. She met with genuine heroism the privations, labors, hardships and trials incident to widowhood, and to life on the frontiers, and had her reward in the respectability, the usefulness, the honor and virtue of her large family of sons and daughters. Highly esteemed was she, while living, for her many excellencies and matronly virtues, and the memory of such heroic pioneer women should

WILSON, THE PIONEER. - Jacob, second son of David, was "the pioneer Wilson" in the Licking valley. He came, accompanied by Evan Payne, in the spring of 1803, and settled upon the " Wilson section." He built his cabin near the big spring, where James Haggerty lives, east of the North fork, about a mile north of Newark. He brought with him a willow switch, cut on the Alleghany mountains on the way out, which he stuck into the ground at the "big spring," and which grew into a large tree and is still flourishing. After raising a crop of corn, which he did on the open land in the North fork bottom, he returned to Hardy county, Virginia, where his father then lived. . In March, 1804, he consummated a matrimonial contract, in pursuance of a previous agreement, with Nancy Colville, of Shenandoah county, Virginia, and immediately brought her to his cabin at the aforesaid "big spring," where the "bride of the valley" entered upon her career of life in the wilderness. Here she witnessed, experienced, endured, and enjoyed all the varied phases of pioneer life, for a period of almost a quarter of a century of married life, and for twenty years of widowhood dying April 16, 1848. She was the mother of eight children, all of whom survived. They were religiously trained, and have led lives of respectability, usefulness, and honor. The names of the sons are David, James H. and Benjamin W., of Licking county; John, of Iowa; and Job, of Franklin county; and Mrs. Milligan, wife of Robert Milligan, of Newark; Mrs. Stout, of St. Louis- |

The "Pioneer Wilson" commenced here in the wilderness while everything about him was in a imitive state. Nature had not yet been despoiled y the hand of man, The native savages were still lingering in a scattering condition, feeble, small in numbers, and by no means desirable neighbors. Birds of prey, venomous reptiles, marauding animals, and ferocious beasts of the forest abounded. These natural enemies of man were more or less troublesome, and by frequent raids on the poultry yard, the chicken-coop, the pig-sty, the sheep-pen, and the barn-yard, rendered it a precarious business to raise poultry, sheep, and calves. The foxes, minks, weasels and skunks called for our pioneers poultry, as well as the hawks and owls - the wild-cat and the bear were fond of their young pigs, the sheep were called for by the wolf, and the panther very naturally took to his half-grown swine and tender calves. subject of this sketch was suddenly called to his cabin door, one morning in the autumn of 1805, by a great noise and commotion among his pigs, one of which had been seized for a breakfast, by a huge panther. The pig's noisy demonstrations had very promptly drawn the attention of the 'dogs to his case, who came to the rescue successfully, and not only relieved him, but treed the panther. Just at this crisis the pioneer hunter reached his cabin door, and spied the beast upon the tree, the faithful dogs surrounding it, holding him in check. Of course the first impulse of the backwoodsman was to bring his trusty rifle into use, which he did instanter, and the panther fell among the dogs at the first fire.

Jacob died at fifty-six years of age, upon the farm which, from a wilderness, he had by industry, energy, and much hard labor, converted into fruitful fields. And it is dueto the just man's memory to 'say that none of our pioneers ever died more universally regretted than Jacob Wilson. None more uniformly practiced the virtues that constitute a good citizen, an upright man and faithful Christian. None among us more faithfully discharged his duties in the varied relations of life. Jacob Wilson's church relations and Christian character are presented at more length in pioneer paper No. 32, and in pioneer pamphlet No. 1, written by Rev. H.

eight children, four sons and four daughters. In his old age he lived in Belmont county, Ohio, where he died at the advanced age of ninety-seven years. He was a man of equable temperament, social, boyish, mild, good disposition, musical, and happily adapted to the enjoyment of life - always contented and happy. The notes from which we write represent that when heard from in his old age he was playing the violin to his grand and great-grandchildren.

John was the fifth son of William Wilson. He married Mrs, Mary Westfall, a widow, and was the father of nine children, five sons and four daughters. His widow was. still living in September, 1869, being then nearly ninety years of age. She was born April 2, 1780. Her name was Mary, usually called Mollie. John Wilson died at Philippi, Barbour county, West Virginia.

James was the eighth son of William Wilson. He married Harriet Jimeson, and had eight children, five sons and three daughters. The sons were named in the order of their birth: William, Harvey, Presley, Vastine, and Isaac Newton, James Wilson continued to reside on a_ part of the old homestead until 1814 (after the decease of his parents), when he sold out and removed to Hamilton county, Ohio, where he remained three years, and then removed to Palestine, now Crawford county, Illinois, and- died there in 1822. William, Harvey, and Vastine died in Crawford county, Illinois. Presley died in California in 1850, and Isaac Newton is living in Olney, IIlinois. The three daughters married respectively, Jacob Sperry, Guy Smith, and J. D. Shepherd. Mrs. Sperry died at Utica, Licking county, Ohio. Mrs. Guy Smith removed to Iowa and died there.

Solomon was the ninth, and youngest son of William Wilson. He married and had two children. He lived on one end of the farm of his father, and died in Virginia, probably on the old ancestral homestead.

| entered into the married relation with Abraham Claypool, who died May 5, 1845, she outliving him nearly four years. 'They had ten children, six sons and four daughters, namely: Solomon, Jacob, Ann, Peggy, Newton, Wilson, Abel, Isaac, Sallie B, and Maria E. Four of the foregoing have died, to-wit: Solomon, Peggy, Newton and Isaac. Abraham Claypool and Elizabeth, his wife, lived in Randolph county, West Virginia, where also he died. In the paper which announced his death it was stated that

Margaret Wilson, eleventh child and second daughter of William and Elizabeth Wilson. - She married Cornelius Ruddell and removed to Kentucky, and from thence into Iudiana, settling at Madison, or near it, in said State, probably while it was yet the territory of Indiana. It has not been ascertained certainly where she died, but it was probably in Indiana, and perhaps near Madison,

Names. Sons. Daughters. Total

The children of William and Elizabeth Wilson died in the following places: Benjamin died in Clarksburgh, Harrison county, West Virginia; Archibald died near Newark, Licking county, Ohio; David died in Harrison county, West Virginia; William died in Belmont county, Ohio; John died at Philippi, Barbour county, West Virginia; Moses, first, died in Hardy county, Virginia; Moses second, died in Hardy county, Virginia; James died in Crawford county, Illinois; Solomon died in Virginia, probably on the old homestead; Elizabeth probably died in Randolph county, West Virginia; Margaret probably died in the State of Indiana.

Witson, Dr. Joun N. - In concluding this family history it is but an act of simple justice to the memory of the late Dr. John N. Wilson to say that he collected most of the facts presented in the foregoing pages. He also wrote the first seventeen pages of manuscript, when he became so ill as to be unable to finish it according to his plan. It was his own conception, and for several years he was engaged, by correpondence and otherwise, in the collection of the information necessary to carry out his plan. As he had thus interested himself in the history and genealogy of the branch of the Wilsons, with which he and many others in the Licking valley were identified, it is meet and proper that a more extended notice be given of him. 'To him are the descendants of their progenitor, William Wilson, indebted for the preservation of the facts presented herewith, and for their publication, which he contemplated. By another pen the concluding pages were written - the same

The late Dr. John N. Wilson died at his residence in Newark, Ohio, October 8, 1872, after an illness that extended through many months. During the closing weeks of his protracted illness he endured much suffering, which he bore patiently and with philosophic composure. Dr, Wilson was the son of Captain Archibald Wilson, and was born in Shenandoah county, Virginia, November 21, 1802, and was, therefore, near the close of his seventieth year when he died. Sixty-six of those years were spent in Newark and its vicinity, his father having settled near the North fork, adjoining the then very small village of Newark, in 1806, Here he grew into manhood, and here our deceased friend, during the years of his early manhood, acquired those habits of industry, energy, and enterprise in business pursuits, which so prominently characterized his laborious, useful, successful professional career. He qualified himself for the practice of medicine, under the direction and instruction of the late Dr. John J. Brice, and after attending a course of lectures in one of the medical colleges of Cincinnati, he entered upon the practice of his profession. This he pursued energetically, successfully, persistently for more than thirty years, having had a widely extended practice during all that time. Dr. Wilson entered upon his professional career with a hopeful, promising future. He had had some educational advantages denied to most of the young men who grew up with him. He was a member of a class that pursued the study of Latin, under the able instruction of Rev. Thomas D. Baird, with whom also he was engaged in studying other branches of learning. His opportunities in professional studies were also favorable, and moreover, being endowed with fair intellectual powers, with sound judgment, and excellent common sense, it is not surprising that he attained the position and success that were the objects of his ambitious aspirations.

Dr. Wilson was one of the most public-spirited citizens, and never failed to interest himself in any movement that promised to ameliorate the condition or promote the welfare of the people. In educational enterprises he always took an active part, and it is most probable that his influence and efforts tended largely to their success. It is due to his memory to say that his influence was always found in favor of good morals, and that he recommended the practice of the virtues which elevate and dignify mankind, upon the young men _especially who were willing to recognize him as their mentor.

played during the Rebellion. Eminently patriotic, he, as a member of the "military committee," was active in securing the enlistment of Licking county's quota of soldiers, his only son being of the number. And generally, throughout the whole war, he was active in promoting the interests of the government of the country. And none did more to give success to our "sanitary fair" than Dr. Wilson; and it may be justly said in this parting tribute to his worth, that we have had none more truly, more patriotically devoted to the interests of our country during the perilous years of the Rebellion, or who had its interests more at heart.

Dr. Wilson was mainly instrumental in establishing, many years ago, the '* Medical and Philosophical society, of Licking county," an association whose meetings were of great interest to those of philosophical tastes. Atheneums, lyceums, lecture associations, reading rooms, library companies, advancement of knowledge, invariably found in him a patron and friend. He, too, was one of the founders of the "Pioneer Historical and Antiquarian society," in 1867, and labored much in its behalf. A number of the most interesting and valuable of the published papers of the society, in which he brought matters of great historic and antiquarian interest under review, were the production of his pen. Archzology, geology, and ethnology were the most attractive studies. Integrity of character, candor and devotion to truth, together with those requisites of a successful physician already mentioned, were his predominating characteristics. _He had an extensive fund of information, acquired from books and from personal intercourse with intellectual and intelligent men. His reading, during the latter part of his life, was rather confined to his profession and to those sciences that incidentally related to it. In early life it was more varied. His knowledge had a wide range, embracing a great variety of subjects, other than the natural sciences, which, during the closing years of his life, were favorites with him. Dr. Wilson, in social life, had popular qualities, being a good conversationalist, and always cheerfully imparted information to those that desired. He had a logical mind, good reasoning powers, and enlargement of thought. He was outspoken, frank, faithful to his convictions, never professing faith in anything falsely, nor professing belief in anything, without arriving at such belief by investigation and thorough examination. He was an acknowledged leader among us in the investigation of scientific truth; and as a student of nature, and of nature's works and laws, he had made fair progress. His companionship and conversation were, therefore, attractive to those of similar tasies; and his presence was always desirable among the respectable, intelligent, and most enlightened of social circles, 'The small circle, especially, of his

-chosen friends, with whom in. almost daily companionship for many years so much of pleasure ~ was enjoyed, highly appreciated him, and greatly

Dr. Wilson entered into the marriage relations with Belinda, daughter of the late Judge Holmes, who, however, died soon thereafter. His second marriage was with Sabra Newton, of Greenfield, Massachusetts, who deceased. June 1, 1871. A son and a daughter survive their parents. The death of Dr. Wilson created a vacancy in this community in which he led so active and prominent a part for so many years, that will not soon be filled. He is greatly missed, and his death is sincerely mourned by endeared relatives, and numerous acquaintances and friends.

Dr. Wilson was honored with an unsolicited membership in the "American Philological society," and also of other associations having in view the promotion of literature and science. He also had the distinction of being a member of that time-honored institution, the "American Antiquarian society." In literary, antiquarian, historical, and scientific circles, Dr. Wilson's intelligence and attainments made him an ever welcome associate.

WILson, ENocu, yet living in Newark, is the youngest of the children of Captain Archibald Wilson, and the only survivor. He is the custodian of the Revolutionary commission of his father, a copy of which appears above. He is the father of two children, a son and a daughter, both deceased, though they have left a number of children. The daughter married Captain Wallace. Enoch Wilson was born May 4, 1810, and was, therefore, but four years old at the time of his father's death, in 1814, and was the youngest of a large family of children thus left without a father. But the mother was one sense, sound judgment, and many excellent qualities was admirably adapted to meet the crisis, the trying emergency she encountered, occasioned by her husband's death. She met the crisis courageously, discharged her duties, highly responsible as they were, with great fidelity and success, trained her children to the practice of the moral virtues, so that they became industrious, useful, upright, honored men and women. All honor to the memory of "Aunt Nancy," whom the writer knew so well, and venerated sé much, and to.all such heroic pioneer mothers! Mr. Enoch Wilson has lived in Newark and the vicinity, nearly all his life, the ex- ceptions being a short residence in Dresden, Muskingum county, and a few years that he resided in the Wabash valley, Indiana. He is one of our best known citizens, possesses intelligence and integrity of character, has always been patriotic, public spirited, and a promoter of what he supposed would tend to advance the public welfare. Mr. Wilson has been often chosen to occupy positions of trust and responsibility, and always discharged the obligations that devolved upon him with fidelity and honor. One of those public trusts which demands integrity and honor, quite recently conferred upon him unsought, is that of a member of the board of trustees of our Children's Home.

In 1804 Captain Archibald Wilson, with his whole family, removed from his home on Cedar creek, in the northern portion of Shenandoah county, Virginia, to the county of Wood, on the western borders of the same State, and near to where he made his "tomahawk claim," thirty years before. Here he remained two years when, in March, 1806, he removed to the Licking valley and settled upon the portion of the '"'Wilson section" nearest the then four-year-old village of Newark, having previously purchased a few hundred acres of said section from his brother, Colonel Benjamin Wilson. In the previous autumn Abraham C. Wilson, his oldest son, and his daughter Jane, came to the Licking valley and spent the winter preparing for the reception of their father's family the ensuing spring. Captain Wilson's effects, in part, and Mrs. Wilson with the smaller children, were brought up the Muskingum river to Zanesville in a pirogue, which narowly escaped wrecking on Duncan's Falls. By the slipping of the pole of one of the boatmen, the bow of the boat was whirled out into the rapidly flowing current, and soon turned down stream with great speed, being entirely beyond control. Before reaching the foot of the falls it passed by and barely escaped a large rock, which, if it had struck squarely, going with such great speed, would inevitably have wrecked it, and most likely have resulted in the drowning of most on board. The family were then taken around the falls by land. Their narrow escape, and the incidents connected with their passage, by pirogue up the Muskingum, were oftentimes, in after years, the subject of remark in the family circle.

A negro boy, a slave, named Ben Wilcox, the property of Captain Wilson, accompanied him from the Shenandoah valley to Wood county, and from thence to Ohio. Ben and his o wner had previously arranged that if he (Ben), who was then twenty years of age, would serve faithfully until he was twenty-four years old, that he should then be set free. Ben served faithfully - was a member of Captain Wilson's family, in fact - and at the stipulated time not only became a free man, but for many years after continued to make the Wilson homestead his headquarters, although at work elsewhere. He was attached to the family, especially the children, and they liked him. He received some schooling, and when free had a fair outfit of good clothes.

The late Dr. Wilson related the following facts in connection with the journey from the Ohio river to the Licking valley. He said that all the family were on the pirogue except his brother George, his sister Margaret, Ben Wilcox and himself, who came on horseback. He, being only four years old, generally rode behind George, sometimes behind Margaret. When their destination was reached he was riding with Margaret. His sister, Jane, who came the previous autumn, ran out of the cabin, and took him off the horse, and carressed and made a great ado over him. The house was small into which they entered; there was but a small clearing around it, enclosed by a low fence; there were woods and swamps all around in full view. All this he remembered, and also that the impression these surroundings produced upon his youthful mind were decidedly unpleasant. He further remarked that what he saw on this occasion, and the impression produced, remained distinct on his mind through life, while he remembered no event in his life before that time, nor for a year after.

Captain Wilson entered courageously upon pioneer life in the Licking valley, after he had passed the meridian of life, being then fifty-seven years old, and of-course he and his family shared largely in the laborious work of clearing up the land and converting the wilderness into fruitful fields. He displayed much skill, energy and enterprise as a pioneer, and was distinguished for his early efforts in the erection of school-houses, and employing teachers, and generally in the promotion of educational interests.

Captain Wilson, upon the organization of Licking county, in 1808, was elected one of its first commissioners, and continued to serve with fidelity and acceptability in said office until his death. His widow, who was a woman of rare excellence and piety, survived him twenty-two years. Being left a widow, with a large family of children, some of them young, ample opportunities presented themselves for the display of those superior qualities which characterized many of our pioneer women, and for the practice of the womanly virtues which are the glory of the sex. Mrs. Nancy Wilson was one of the most excellent of women, and has an honored memory that is still tenderly cherished. The fragrance of gentleness, kindness, charity, always pervaded her home circle - it was ever redolent of matronly virtues, and of Christian graces. She was one of the early members of the Presbyterian church of Newark, and died in ifs age. Captain Wilson was a man of sound judgment, of integrity, and of great usefulness. The impulse of patriotism with him was strong - his sense of justice and right was keen, his discrimination accurate. He was an upright and faithful public officer, a good neighbor, a just man, an intelligent citizen, a first-class pioneer. Captain Wilson was public-spirited, enterprising, and much given to taking the lead in movements tending to subserve public interests. He died, greatly regretted, at his home near Newark, March 27, 1814, in the sixtyfifth year of his age. But few, if any, of the early time settlers of Licking county had deceased before him, whose death was deemed so great a public loss, for he commanded the confidence and respect of the community, and deservedly, too,.to a large extent. Captain Archibald Wilson, having borne himself worthily and honorably throughout his eventful career, and having faithfully discharged the duties that devolved upon him in all the relations of life, it could not be otherwise than that he should be esteemed while living, and mourned in death.

Witson, Mrs. Hattie, was born in Liberty township, Licking county, December 15, 1843. She was married to Charles B. Wilson, June 23, 1870. He was born in Newark, and died March, 1, 1876, aged forty years. Mrs- Wilson has three children - Alice, born March 30, 1871; Winniefred, December 26, 1873; Charles C., December 8, 1875. Her parents, Mahlon Conard and wife, of Newton township, are living, and are pioneers of the county. Her husband learned cabinet making, expecting to make it his future business, but, on account of ill-health, was obliged to give it up. He then went with his father in the grocery business, in which he was engaged about fifteen years prior to his death. His father and mother, Enoch Wilson and wife, are now living on Locust street. Mrs. Wilson has a pleasant home at No. 62 Mt. Vernon street.

Witson, Hon. James F. - Hon. James F. Wilson is a native of Ohio, born in Newark, Licking county, October 19, 1828, where he continued to reside until April, 1853, when he removed to the then recently organized State of Iowa, locating at Fairfield, Jefferson county, and where he still resides. He studied law in Newark, first in the office of William B. Woods, esq., recently appointed as sociate justice of the supreme court of the United States, in place of Judge Strong, resigned; and completing his law studies in the office of the late

Hon. Lucius Case, with whom he subsequently formed a law partnership. This partnership continued until 1852, when for another year he continued the practice of his profession in the courts of Licking county. On settling in Iowa in 1853 he immediately entered upon the active and successful practice of law. He was elected a member of the convention for the revision of the constitution of Iowa in 1856. In 1857 he was elected a member of the lower house of the general assembly of the State; and in 1859 he was elected a member of the State Senate, of which body he was chosen president fro fem. The governor of Iowa had meanwhile (in 1857) appointed him assistant commissioner of the Des Moines river improvement. In 1861 Hon. James F. Wilson was elected a member of the Thirty-seventh Congress, to serve out the unexpired term of the late General Samuel R. Curtis, who had resigned to enter the army. He served as a member of the judiciary committee. He was re-elected a member of the Thirtyeighth, Thirty-ninth, and Fortieth Congress, serving throughout as chairman of the judiciary committee. He also served as chairman of the committee on unfinished business, and as a member of the committee on the Air Line railroad to New York. Mr. Wilson was also one of the managers of the impeachment trial of President Johnson. In March, 1869, President Grant tendered him the position of Secretary of State, which he declined. In the same year the President appointed him a commissioner for the Pacific railroad. He accepted this position, and at the same time entered upon a course of active business pursuits and the practice of his profession, a line of policy which he has steadly pursued to the present time, uniformly and persistently declining official position, Hon. James F. Wilson is a gentleman of ability and decided talents, and always acquitted himself handsomely in whatever public stations he has occupied. He sustained the war measures and the policy of the Republican party generally, while a member of Congress, with much ability, and held a high rank in that body as an outspoken, earnest patriot, and as astatesman of more than ordinary shrewdness and foresight. As a thinker he is cool, deliberate, judicious, profound, philosophic. In argument he is logical, and able to present the strong points in all questions of law or politics, that he has fully considered. It is but truth to say of Hon. James F. Wilson, that he is a good lawyer, a close thinker, a writer of ability, a philosophic statesman, a good speaker, a man of integrity, and a conscientious politician, who, on all suitable occasions, gives free utterance to his convictions.

1812; came to Newark in 1839, and was married to Mary Cordelia Sites, April 12, 1842. Mrs. Wilson was born in Harrisonburgh, Rockingham county, Virginia, March 27, 1821. They have five daughters - Amanda H., born April 8, 1843, who is now the wife of George Markley, furniture dealer in Newark; MalindaS., born October 16, 1845, died May 25, 1853; Anna E., born December 31, 1847, now the wife of Warren Wright; Mary Effinger, born June 17, 1850. Mrs. Wilson is the daughter of William Sites, an old pioneer of Licking county, who died when Mrs. Wilson was but fourteen years old. Her mother is yet living with Mr. Thomas Sites, on Locust street, at the age of seventy-eight years,

Wine, Hon. Lucius B. - Mr. Wing, born in Wilmington, Vermont, November 15, 1852, is the son of Bane and Thirza Flint Wing. He came to Newark in 1855, was married to Mary M. M. Mayhew, of Charlemont, Massachusetts, May 31, 1855, and has three children - Charles M., Mary La Salle, and Julia M. Mr. Wing is one of our most active, energetic, enterprising business men, now engaged very extensively in agricultural pursuits, chiefly in Illinois, where he has large landed interests. He has also been many years engaged in the banking business, his partners at present being Willis Robbins and D. C. Winegarner. His tastes being largely in the line of agriculture, he has often been elected to the office of director or president of the Licking County Agricultural society; he has also been, for a number of years, serving as a member of the Ohio State board of agriculture, is now the president of the board, a position he has occupied for a year, discharging its onerous and responsible duties energetically and successfully, and with general acceptability. Hon. Lucius B. Wing is one of our most judicious, intelligent, publicspirited business men, ever ready to lend a helping hand to any movement that promises to promote the public welfare. He is a gentleman of varied and extensive information, of generous impulses, of unexceptionable habits, genial and popular socially, of undoubted integrity of character, and exemplary in all the relations of life.

WotvertTon, N. S., dyer and scourer, No. 125 Fourth street, between Main and Canal streets. - He was born in Mt. Vernon, Ohio, March 1, 1844. His father, Clement B. Wolverton, came to Ohio some time in 1830. He was a native of Northumberland county, Pennsylvania. He married Miss Louisa Lauderbaugh, by whom he had three sons and four daughters, two of whom are yet living, John B. and the subject of this notice. The parents died near Gambier, Knox county, Ohio. Mr. Wolverton lived on a farm until he was eighteen years of age, when he commenced his present

Woops, EzeKIEL S., was among the oldest citizens of Licking county. He was born in Washington county, Kentucky, December 25, 1791. At that early day schools were very few and young Woods grew up deprived of the educational privileges of the present more favored period. The greater part of his life was spent in the avocation of a farmer. In May, 1818, he came by himself to Newark, Ohio, where he engaged in general merchandise, which business he followed for some eighteen years. On September 11, 1823, he married Sarah J. Burnham, of Zanesville, Ohio, who was born November 20, 1800. By this marriage he had four children - William B., Charles R., Mary B., and Eliza W. Mrs. Woods died April 17, 1841. She was devotedly attached to the church of her choice - the Second Presbyterian of Newark - of which she was a faithful member. She was distinguished for her benevolent nature, for her kind attentions in the sick chamber, and for her charities towards the poor. Her loss was deeply felt in her family circle, which comprised four children, the oldest being only seventeen. In 1836 Mr. Woods closed out his mercantile business, and was employed in superintending his farming interests and in dealing in real estate. For quite a number of years he, paid considerable attention to the raising of blooded stock, which was always with him a favorite employment. In May, 184~, Mr. Woods' second companion was Mrs. Harriet Munson, of Granville, whose maiden name was Warner. She was a native of Vermont. Mary B., the oldest daughter, married George W. Manypenny, of Zanesville, and is now a resident of Columbus. He was for many years one of the Ohio canal commissioners. Eliza W. became the wife of Mr. Willard Warner, of Newark. Mr. Warner was once a member of the United States Senate. Mrs. Warner is now deceased. In the late war Mr. Woods was represented by his two sons, William B. and Charles R., and also by one son-in-law, Mr. Warner, the three families of whom he took care of while the husbands were in the army. He died February 7, 1880.

*Woops, JupGe WILLIAM B., was born in Newark, Ohio, graduated at Yale college in 1845, was admitted to the bar in Ohio on November 3, 1847, and commenced the practice of law at Newark with S. D. King, esq., under the firm of King & Woods. Was elected mayor of Newark in April, 1856, and re-elected in 1857. In October, 1857, was elected to the Ohiohouse of representatives from Licking county. On the assembling of the legislature, in January, 1858, was elected speaker of the house, and served as such during two sessions. In October, 1859, was re-elected to the house of representatives, and served to the final adjournment of the legislature, in May, 1861. In September, 1861, was appointed lieutenant colonel Seventy-sixth Ohio volunteer infantry, taking rank from November 4, 1861. On August 22, 1863, was commissioned colonel Seventy-sixth Ohio volunteer infantry. Brevetted brigadier general, to date from January 12, 1865, for faithful and continued service as an officer in the Atlanta and Savannah campaigns. Promoted to full rank of brigadier general May 3, 1865. Brevetted a major general, to rank from March 13, 1865, for gallant and meritorious services during the war. During the war he served at the battles of Fort Donelson, Shiloh, Arkansas Post, the sieges of Vicksburgh and Jackson, Mississippi; was engaged in the campaign against Atlanta, marched with Sherman to the sea, and from Savannah, through South Carolina, to Raleigh, North Carolina, when the surrender of Lee and Johnston put an end to the war. Marched with General Sherman to Washington, and commanded the advance brigade of his army in the great review in May, 1865. Soon after was ordered to Mobile on military duty. Remained there until February 17, 1866, when he was honorably mustered out of service. In 1868 he was elected chancellor of the middle chancery division at Alabama; served as chancellor until December 22, 1869, when he was appointed United States circuit judge for the fifth circuit, comprising the States of Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas, which position he has held with marked ability; and it is generally conceded that no better appointment could have been made. As an officer, he commanded the respect and confidence of his regiment, and was brave and fearless in the defence of the Union. Judge Woods is now in his prime. He is a man of marked ability, of the strictest integrity, of courteous manners, and is an honor to the county which claims his birth. He was appointed in 1850 one of the associate judges of the supreme court of the United States.

* Woops, GENERAL CHARLES R., is the second son of the late Ezekiel S. Woods, esq., of Newark, Ohio, of which place he is a_ native. His boyhood was passed upon his father's farm. When about seventeen years of age, he was placed under the instruction of Rev. R. K. Nash, of Worthington. At the age of nineteen, he entered the West Point Military academy as a cadet, where he graduated in June, 1852. Since that time to the latter part of 1874 Mr. Woods has been engaged in the United States military service. He began as second lieutenant in First infantry regular service, in 1852, was promoted to captain of the Ninth on April 1, 1861, and to major of the Eighteenth on April 20, 1864, to lieutenant colonel of the Thirty-third July 28, 1866, and to colonel of the Second on February 18, 1874. Brevetted lieutenant colonel on the fourth of July, 1863, for gallant and meritorious services at the capture of Vicksburgh, Mississippi; colonel November 24, 1863, for gallant and meritorious services at the battle of Chattanooga, Tennessee; brigadier general March 13, 1865, for gallant and meritorious services ia battles before Atlanta, Georgia; and major-general March 13, 1865, for gallant and meritorious services at the battle of -Bentonville, North Carolina. He was mustered into service as colonel of the Seventy-sixth Ohio volunteer infantry, on October 13, 1861, and as brigadiergeneral of volunteers August 22, 1863. Brevetted major-general November 22, 1864, for long-continued services, and for special gallantry at Griswoldsville, Georgia. Mustered out of volunteer service September 1, 1866. Retired from regular service December 14, 1874. On the second of August, 1860, General Woods was married to Miss Cecelia Impey, eldest daughter of Robert and Frances Impey, of Newark, Ohio. She was born March 1, 1842. Her mother was a daughter of Hon. William Stanbery, of Newark. General Woods has had a family of three sons and one daughter: William E., born in Philadelphia May 5, 1861; Robert I., born in Newark, Ohio, September 28, 1862; George H., born in Newport, Kentucky, May 28, 1866; Frances B., born at Fort Wallace, Kansas, March 13, 1870.

WotTRING, JONATHAN, M. D., was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, on the first day of September, 1828. He is the son of Abraham and Elizabeth Wotring, and the third child of a family of eleven children, all of whom are now living. Mr. Wotring received his education in the Washington college, at Washington, Pennsylvania, where he graduated in 1848. He commenced the study of medicine with Dr. F. J. Lemoyne, of Washington, Pennsylvania, with whom he read several years, and then graduated at the medical university of Pennsylvania, in 1853. He began the practice of medicine in his native county a short time after his graduation, where he remained ten years. In 1863, he was commissioned assistant surgeon of the Eighty-third Pennsylvania regiment, which position he held about six months, Then, on account of bad health, he was cgmpelled to resign his position and return home. In the fall of 1864 he went to Wisconsin, and after regaining his health, he again commenced the practice of medicine in Prairie du Sac and Sauk City, Wisconsin, where he remained about nine years. Then he moved to Negaunee, Michigan, in 1873, remained about three months, and then returned to his native home, where he remained a few months. In the spring of 1874 he moved to Newark, where he has since been. engaged in his profession. In 1874 he received the appointment of United States examining surgeon for Licking county, which position he is now holding. He has been medical director of the Union Life association, of Newark, since 1878. In 1861 he was united in marriage with Miss Mary E. Dille, of Newark, daughter of Israel Dille. They have three sons and one daughter.

WuLrxHoop, JOHN, drayman. - He was born in Germany, May 12, 1843, and went to New York city when he was seventeen years old; was married July 21, 1871, to Matilda Finch. They are the parents of four children - John, born April ro, 1872; Henry, who died July 8, 1876, aged fourteen months; Annie, who died May 22, 1877, aged two days; Carl William, born September 7, 1878. Mr. Wulthoop came to Newark, May 25, 1876, and has followed draying ever since. His wife's mother is living in New York city, in the seventy-ninth year of her age.