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

Brown, ALEXANDER, retired farmer, Newark. He was born in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, March 25,1811. He came to Morgan county, Ohio, in 1843, and the next year moved to near Asbury, Perry county; here he taught vocal music about six years, and here was married to Mary McCracken, May 6, 1848. She was married in the same house in which she was born, April 19, 1824. About a month after their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Brown moved to Flint ridge in this county, where he bought a farm of thirty-four. acres, on which they lived until the death of Mrs. Brown, July 4, 1877. After this sad event, Mr. Brown travelled through the east a few months; then returned, and attended Mr. Hammond's tabernacle meetings in Zanesville about a month. Mr. Brown has been an active member of the Associate Reformed church forty-seven years, and still, at his advanced age, is a regular and constant attendant upon all the church services. He is also an ardent advocate of temperance. He Is passionately fond of music, and has used his talent to a good purpose. Mr. Brown has three children: John, Margaret Viola and Mary Elizabeth. John is a school-teacher, IS married, and lives on Flint ridge; the two daughters also reside in the same locality.

Brown, S. M., was born in New Concord, Muskingum county, Ohio, June 2, 1854. He is the son of Alexander Brown of the same place, a carpenter, who died July 2, 1871, at the age of sixty years. His mother, Margaret, died August 25, 1863, aged forty-five years. 'The subject of this sketch, when a young man, learned the carpenter trade, at which he worked four years, when he was employed by the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co. from September 14, 1873, to March 16, 1877, when he returned to his former home and remained until October, 1878. He came to Newark September 11th, and commenced work with H. & C. F. Blandy in the foundry business. He continued with them one year and four months. At the age of twenty-four years he became a member of the United Presbyterian church of New Concord, Ohio. In July, 1879, he took his letter from that church and joined the Second Presbyterian, of Newark. His home, at present, is with Mr. T. G. Speers, of Newark.

Brown, SARAH Mrs., was born in Zanesville, June 25, 1834, daughter of James Graig, of that city. She was married to Robert Brown, October 2, 1855. By this marriage she had five children: Harry F., born July 4, 1856; Asa T., born March 25, 1858; Smith T., born December 13, 1860; Charles H., born February 28, 1862; Anna E., born January 11, 1864. At an early day of Mr. Brown's life he learned the milling trade with his father, and later went with the Central Ohio railroad company as baggage-master, afterward as fireman on a locomotive, and later as an engineer. He followed railroading sixteen years. He was killed by an explosion of a locomotive November 2, 1869. Harry Brown is a baker by occupation, and now lives in Dennison, Ohio; Asa is a cigarmaker, and lives in Mansfield, Ohio; Smith isa dealer in stock at Zanesville, Ohio; Charles is clerking in the blind asylum in Columbus, Ohio ; Miss Anna is learning dressmaking with Miss Prompter, of Newark.

Brown, Mrs. Eva, was born in Coshocton, Ohio, February 9, 1843; moved to Knox county with her parents, and remained there until she was fourteen years old. She was married to John Brown, and is the mother of one child, Joseph, born April 9, 1860, who is now running on the Hocking Valley railroad. Mrs. Brown is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Adam Shock, of Coshocton. Her father died when she was six years old; her mother is living in Newark in the Seventy-eighth year of her age. Mr. John Brown was a member of company C, Thirty-second regiment Ohio volunteer infantry, and was killed at Champion Hills.

Brown, Isaiau M., engineer on the Baltimore & Ohio railroad. He has served in this capacity about six years. He is the son of Henry and Caroline M. Brown, and was born January 19, 1850, in Perry county, Ohio. He lived there until he was twenty years of age, when he removed to Indiana, remaining there about three years, when he removed to Newark, where he has since resided. He was married to Anna Reams, of Columbus, October 10, 1878. She was born June

He was a soldier in the late war, in company A, Thirty-first Ohio volunteer infantry, from Perry county. Mr. Brown is the old oldest son of H. and Caroline Brown. He had but one brother, George W. He died in Kansas, November 30, 1879, at the age of twenty-seven, having been absent from home four years.

BrRuBAKER, Mrs. ARABELLA, born in Licking township, January 6, 1818. She was the daughter of William C. Young, who came from Virginia to Licking county in the fall of 1817. The customary way of traveling in those days was on horse back, and in this way Mr. Young brought his wife and all that he had, making two trips for that purpose. He located on the farm now owned by H. Ronan, purchasing fifty acres of land. By industry and economy he had increased his farm to one hundred acres, at the time of his death, which occurred April 12, 1838, at the age of forty-four years. His wife died in August, 1877, aged eighty-four. The subject of this sketch was married to Abram P. Brubaker; April 7, 1836. They have six children: Elizabeth E., born February, 1837; Dorothea, who died August 22, 1845, aged two years and ten months; Peter W., born March 20, 1846; Rebecca, born March 19, 185 it died August 23, 1877. Abram P. Brubaker was born in Page county, Virginia, August 5, 1811; moved to Licking county in the fall of 1829 with his mother, and located on the farm now owned by William Smith, on the Hebron road in Union township. He now lives in South Newark, where he has a very pleasant home, in addition to which he owns a farm of three hundred acres in Union township.

Browne, James M. - Mr.. Browne's greatgrandfather, Peter Browne, owned a farm upon which a part of the city of Camden, New Jersey, is now located. He was a shipwright by trade, and latterly lived in Philadelphia. His grand- ° father, William Browne, was born in Philadelphia, September 10, 1734. The indenture of apprenticeship, dated May 1, 1748, by which he was bound to a shipwright for seven years, is still in the possession of Mr. Browne. During the Revolution he was a member of General Washington's staff, and served his country with distinction. Liberty Jrowne, the father of the subject of this sketch, was born in Philadelphia about half past three o'clock in the afternoon of July 4, 1776; probably the first born free American citizen. He was a merchant and manufacturer of gold and silver-ware, and began business with moncy borrowed from the Franklin loan, a fund set apart by Benjamin Franklin to assist worthy and _ faithful apprentices in starting in business for themselves upon the completion of their apprenticeship. He was paymaster in the War of 1812, was president of the council of Philadelphia for nine years, justice of the peace, and a political orator of note. 'The names of a few of the members of his household indicate a great change during the past century. His name was Liberty, Patience a nurse, Justice a ward, Comfort a servant, and Peace and Plenty that of two dogs. Mr. Browne was born in Philadelphia November 5, 1809, the sixth of a family of ten children, and is a patternmaker by trade. He came from Philadelphia to Zanesville, Ohio, in 1839, and remained there seven years, then moved to Newark, where'he has resided ever since, except two years spent in Louisiana. For twenty-five years he was a member of the volunteer fire department of this city, and was chief engineer for fifteen years. He also served five years in the fire department of Zanesville. In 1859 he was city marshal, in 1869 70 member of the city council, and in 1878 was clected city weight master and market master which position he has retained since. Fle was married in 1833 to Harriet Bradley, of Philadelphia, and has six children living; Nesbitt Liberty, Mary Elizabeth, Franklin Henry, James Madison, jr., Albert B. and Lawrence H. ~

Brick, Dr. Joun J., was one of the early settlers of Newark, and for many years was one of the best known citizens of our county and of central Ohio. His father (William Brice) was a native of Maryland, who, however, removed to Aexandria Virginia, where he was engaged in the milling business and in merchandizing at the time of his death which occurred about the year 1786. He left a widow and five children, of which the subject of this sketch (born int781) was the youngest. Some years after the death of William Brice, his widow, with her five children, removed to western Pennsylvania, where her three daughters were married, and where she died in 1817. Her oldest son, Benjamin J. Brice removed to Harrison county, western Virginia, where he married Sarah, daughter of Colonel Benjamin Wilson, reared a large family, and closed an unusually long, active and useful life.

John J. Brice, by the judicious use of his patrimony, was enabled to acquire a good education, professional and otherwise. He studied medicine with Dr. Mowry of Pittsburgh, and it is said was a medical student, for a time in Uniontown, Pennsylvania. He also attended a course of medical lectures in Philadelphia, and was afterward associated in the practice of his profession with Dr. Mowry, his preceptor, who was a physician of much repute.

Dr. Brice, however, soon decided to make a permanent location in the west, and with that view, travelled in that direction as far as Lawrenceburg, a small town on the banks of the Ohio river, below the mouth of the Big Miami, in the then Indiana territory. On his way back he travelled on horseback through Ohio, and took Newark in his route, where, tarrying for a short time, a great demand existed for his professional services, and he did not leave until the sickness which then prevailed both in town and country had, in a great measure, subsided. This was inthe autumn of 1805 (although it is elsewhere stated on the authority of Dr. J. N. Wilson, that it was probably in 1803), and about the beginning of winter he returned to Harrison county, Virginia, where he, in January, 1806, consummated a previously existing matrimonial engagement with Anne, daughter of Colonel Benjamin Wilson, of said locality. He still intended to locate at Lawrenceburg, and came here shortly after his marriage, to close up his business, by collecting his accounts, and getting ready for the removal. But not being very successful in making collections, he, while thus engaged, was again drawn into practice, and it is quite likely that the longer he remained the less probable it became that he would ever become a citizen of Indiana territory.

Thus the summer of 1806 wore away, also the autumn and a portion of the winter succeeding, when in February, 1807, he brought his wife to Newark, she having until this time remained at her father's, where, on the thirtieth of November, she had given birth to her only son, Benjamin W. Brice, now a resident of Baltimore. The first house, or rather cabin, they occupied stood on the west side of First street, between Main and Church. Dr. Brice practiced his profession in Newark for nearly half a century, and his methods and merits as a physician are presented much at length in liberal quotations from the essay of the late Dr. J. N. Wilson on the diseases and mode of treatment, in early times in Newark and the Licking valley. It may be well to say in addition, that he was a faithful, careful, judicious and successful practitioner - that in the vigor of life he possessed and exercised remarkable skill, care and judgment in his profession, backed by the accumulating and constantly increasing acquirements of a careful student, as well as rigid analysis and judicious deductions from all the notable cases coming under his treatment. His talents, attainments and skill were recognized in high quarters, professional and nonprofessional. Dr. Brice was an eminently practical man in the management of business matters, and it is not'surprising that one so energetic, industrious, and frugal, and of such sound judgment should have accumulated a large estate, so that at his death he was one of the wealthiest men in Licking county. During the last twenty years of his life he was a member of the Presbyterian church, and died in December, 1853, aged seventy-two years.

Brick, Mrs. Anng, wife of Dr. Brice, was a daughter of Colonel Benjamin Wilson, a gentleman of wealth and distinction of Harrison county, Virginia, and was born there January 17, 1786.. She was married to Dr. John J. Brice in January, 1806, and became a resident of Newark, Ohio, in February, 1807. 'The beginning of her career here was specially marked by the cheerful resignation and almost heroic fortitude with which she embraced the new life in the west. Reared at her father's home in Virginia, in the midst of abundance, surrounded with every necessary comfort, including a superfluity of house and other servants, never subjected to cares or drudgery of any kind, she was transplanted from that comfortable home in midwinter, with an infant child in arms, a distance of one hundred and seventy miles, for the most part on horseback, through an almost utter wilderness country, to Newark, which was then but the mere beginning of a frontier village. Here she was domiciled in the crudest of log cabins, where the accustomed comforts to which she was used were an impossibility, the means to supply the commonest wants and necessities, not always available. She had to assume the duties and cares of housekeeping under all their embarrassments without the help of a single servant, and with little else to make her situation tolerable. Still, though sorely exercised and grieved in mind by the prospect before her, she never thought of yielding to discouragement, never indulged in repinings, but nerved herself to a cheerful acceptance of the situation, sustained by an unfaltering confidence that the ability, energy and industry of her young husband would command success, and that their many privations and hardships would be but short lived. That hope was not disappointed. Throughout her life she de- voted herself religiously to all her duties as wife, mother and friend, abounding always in sympathetic interest for her neighbors, and ever beneficently open-handed to help those about her who needed help. Mrs. Brice became a member of the Presbyterian church in 1833, and died in July, 1849, in the sixty-fourth year of her age.

Brice, GENERAL Benjamin W. - General Brice was born in Harrison county, Virginia, November 30, 1806; and is the son of Dr. John J. Brice and Mrs. Anne Brice, who brought him to Newark in February, 1807. He attended the common schools of Newark, also the classical school taught by Rev. Thomas D. Baird,.where he had for his associate pupils, Dr. J. N. Wilson, John Cunningham, Elijah Stadden, James R. Stanbery and others. He and the last named were also fellow-students at Bishop Chase's school at Worthington, Ohio, as well as that of Philander Chase, jr., at Zanesville. Both entered the Ohio university, at Athens, Ohio, where the subject of this sketch was a sophomore, when, July 1, 1825, he was appointed a cadet at the United States military school at West Point, and where he was graduated July 1, 1829, and promoted in the army brevet second lieutenant Third infantry. Cadet Brice, as appears from "'Cullom's Biographical Register of the officers and graduates of the United States military academy," (to which we are indebted for the military history of General Brice), served on frontier duty at Jefferson barracks in 1829-30, at Fort Armstrong, upper Mississippi, 1830-31, and on an expedition against the Sac and Fox Indians in 1831 - this being the first Black Hawk campaign under General Gaines. He resigned in 1832 and engaged in merchandizing in Newark. He served as brigade major of Ohio militia from 1835 to 1839; was admitted to the bar in 1845, and elected associate judge of the common pleas court of Licking county in the same year, serving two years; at the begining of the Mexican war in 1846 he was appointed adjutant general. On the third of March, 1847, General Brice was re-appointed in the United States army major of staff paymaster, and placed on duty in pay department at Cincinnati the same year; and in service in the Mexican war at Carmago in 1847, and at Monterey, Saltillo and Brazos Island in 1848, also at Fort Brown, Texas, in 1848-49; disbanded March 4, 1849, by limititation of law. General Brice was re-appointed in the United States army with rank of major staff paymaster February 9, 1852, and served in the pay department in the southern district of New Mexico, with headquarters at Fort Fillmore, New Mexico, from 1852 to 1854. Dur- Ing 1854, '55 °56 his headquarters were at New Orleans, Louisiana, and from 1856 to 1859 at Fort Bliss (El Paso), in the southern district of

New Mexico. He was also on special duty a portion of 1859 in Florida. From 1859 to 1861 he served in the district of "Kansas and the territories," his headquarters being Fort Leavenworth. ° General Brice remained in the service during the first year of the great Rebellion, serving as chief of the pay district of Kansas and the territories, and in 1862 was transferred to the district of Pennsylvania, embracing New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland and West Virginia, with headquarters at Baltimore, Maryland, where he served as chief until 1864. On the fourth of October, 1864, he was placed at the head of the pay department of the army at Washington city, District Columbia remaining in that position until January his own request, under the law of July, 17, 1862, having passed the age of sixty-two years. General Brice was promoted paymaster-general, with rank of colonel, November 29, 1864; brevetted brigadier general United States army, December 2, 1864; also brigadier general staff paymaster general July 28, 1866. General B. W. Brice was brevetted March 13, 1865, major general of United States army for "faithful, meritorious and distinguished services in the pay department during the Rebellion." General B. W. Brice has entered his seventy-fifth year, and with his accomplished and kindly remembered wife, is living leisurely in dignified retirement (oftum cum dignitate), in Baltimore, Maryland, not forgetting, however, to make occasional visits to Newark, Ohio, which he now regards, and has ever regarded, as his home, and where he is always certain of a cordial greeting by his many old-time congenial friends, and to which his urbanity, geniality, intelligence and fine conversational powers justly entitle him.

Bonar, FREDERICK A., cigar maker, was born in Newark February 9, 1851, learning the cigarmaking trade with Fred Burrel. He learned telegraphing at Newark and was employed by the Baltimore & Ohio company, at Lexington, Richland county ; taught school at Johnstown, Licking county, in 1872, and in 1873, taught school in Liberty township, Mercer county, Ohio. He returned to Newark and started the cigar making business for himself in 1876. He was married to Osena Monroe, May 24, 1877, who was born November 1, 1860; his father is one of the old settlers of Licking county, coming to this county in 1825, and is now seventy-three years old. He has forty acres of land inside the corporation of South Newark. The subject of this sketch carries on his business and is living on his father's place.

ingham (an early pioneer settler in Newark, and once a leading merchant), and was born in Newark in 1816, and died at his residence, in Zanesville, March 29, 1876, at the age of 60 years. He wasa well educated gentleman and entered the Presbyterian ministry in early life, and remained in it until his death. Dr. Buckingham was a man of amiable temper and disposition, of many admirable qualities of head and heart, of vigorous intellectual powers, of a logical mind, of excellent pulpit talents, and always manifested a kind, catholic spirit. Many friends deplored his death.

BUCKINGHAM, JEROME, attorney, office southeast corner of Public square, Newark. Mr. Buckingham was born in Wyoming county, Pennsylvania, on the tenth day of June, 1820. He received a common school education, and in the year 1837 he entered Kenyon college, at Gambier, Knox county, Ohio, remaining two years. 'Then in 1839 he went to Hudson, Ohio, where he graduated in the same year he engaged in the study of law in Zanesville, Ohio, under the instructions of Goddard & Converse, with whom he remained about two years. In 1843, he went to Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he attended the Harvard law school one year. In 1844, he applied to the supreme court, at Cleveland, and was admitted to the bar. In the fall of the same year he came to Newark, where he has since been engaged in the practice of law. At this writing there are but three members of the Licking county bar who have been longer in the profession than Mr. Buckingham. In 1869, he was appointed by Governor Hayes, as judge of the common please courts of Licking county. In this capacity he served one year. He has had the honor of being president of the First National bank of Newark since its establishment, in 1865.

BUEHLER, TINNEL, grocery and provision dealer, and manufacturer of carriages, wagons, etc. He was born at Norristown, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, September 11, 1833. Attheage of fifteen he went to Bucks county, Pennsylvania, to learn the blacksmith trade. After learning his trade he left Pennsylvania and came to Ohio. He visited Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, and generally without any means. Finally, he Janded in Newark, in 1854, penniless. He went to work for a man by the name of Tom Owens. He worked a short time for Mr. Owens and left. He was away one summer, and in the fall returned and formed a partnership with Mr. Owens in the blacksmith business. He has remained in Newark ever since, carrying on the carriage and wagon making business with the exception of two years, when he left his family and went to California. He was married to Sarah Britton, September 17, 1856. They have three children; Johanna, born February 15, 1858; William, June 7, 1859, and Franklin, July 19, 1861. On the 28th of October, 1873, while out hunting, he was deprived of the use of his right hand by the accidental discharge of his gun. After suffering for more than a year, unable to do anything at his trade, through the kindness of Mr. William Davis, was employed as night watchman at the rolling mill. He held that position six months, and then started in the grocery and, provision business on the corner of West Main and Union streets, in West Newark, where he is still engaged.

BURNER, JacoB V. - No. 425 West Main street, Newark, wholesale and retail dealer in general hardware. Mr. Burner was born in 1838, in Newark, and is a son of Henry Burner, deceased. He received his education in the Newark schools. In 1865 he engaged in the dry goods and general merchandise business in Newark, and continued in the business until 1875; he then sold his stock of goods and retired. In November, 1877, he purchased the entire stock of hardware owned by the Wells Hardware company, and became their successor, and has. since been conducting it successfully. In 1878 he removed to his present location, where he occupies for sales and general business, a room twenty-five feet wide by one hundred and one feet deep, including basement and room overhead of some size, which are used as depositories; also a room just back of the main building, used for depositing steel and iron bars, doors, sash, etc. His 'rooms are all . well stocked with everything in the line of general hardware, such as nails, iron, steel, carriage goods, window-glass, sash, doors, oils, paints, varnishes, mechanics' tools, Fairbanks' scales, Weir's cultivators, Lancaster double shovel plows, shovels, hoes, forks, and all kinds of steel goods, also barbed fence wire, guns, pistols, and a general line of tripple plated and table cutlery-ware. He has, as employes in his store, five competent young men as salesmen, also one traveling salesman, who sells goods in seven different counties in the State.

BuRRELL, FRED, sR., cigar manufacturer, Birkey's block, West Main street, Newark, Ohio. Mr. 3urrell was born in Broome county, New York, in 1824. At the aye of twelve years he engaged in a cigar factory, worked one year at stripping, then commenced at the trade and remained three years as an apprentice. He continued at his trade as journeyman about eighteen years. He traveled over and worked in nearly every State in the Union. In 1858 he established a cigar factory in Mt. Vernon, Knox county, Ohio, which he conducted successfully about eight years. In 1866 he came to Newark, where he has since been carrying on the business of manufacturing all kinds of cigars except stogies. He moved to his present location on West Main street, in 1874, where he oceupies a room forty by twenty feet on the second floor in the Birkey block. His goods are all manutactured from the best material, such as the Connecticut, Havana, and Yara tobacco. He employs eight efficient workmen, manufactures about four hundred thousand cigars yearly, and pays the government from two hundred to three hundred dollars per month as revenue tax.

Buxton, EARL, was born at Brandon, Rutland county, Vermont, February 7, 1806. He came from Vermont and located in Johnstown in 1832. He was married to Mary Ann Shoemaker, daughter of Christopher Shoemaker, of Johnstown. She was born in that place in 1820. They have two children: Murvin, now living at Homer; Roswitha, now the wife of S. G. Larimore, of New ark. Mrs. Buxton died in 1865. Mr. Buxton followed farming until he was about eighteen years of age; he then commenced travelling as a mustclan, continuing twenty years. through the west and has lived in Missouri and Arkansas. Some twenty years ago he located permanently in this county.

BLaANpb, SILAS, farmer, post office, Perryton, was born in Ohio, near Zanesville, in 1798; came to this county in 1844; was married to Miss Ida Cooksey, who was born in 1807. They have had one child, Joel Hamline, born in 1845. Hamline was married, in 1867, to Miss Marietta Spencer; they had three children: Celestia, Hattie, and Silas Herbert. Silas Bland owns eight hundred acres of land in this township, and is one of its most respected citizens. He was born in a tent on the banks of the Muskingum river, his father not having a house finished at the time of his birth.

Brown, WiLL1AM S., farmer, post office, Perryton, was born in Virginia in 1814, and came to this county in 1834; he was married to Miss Minerva Lemmert in 1837. 'The result of this marriage was three children. In 1863 his wife died, and, in 1865, he was married to Miss Ellen 'Thumwood, who was born in London, England, in 1831. One child was the result of this union: Greeley H. Brown. Mr. Brown owns about four hundred and twelve acres of land, one hundred and_ fifty-four acres of which is located in Licking county; the balance in Muskingum county. His father was born in Scotland, and came to the United States many years ago. Mr. William S. Brown is one of this township's prominent men, attends to his own business, and has plenty of friends among his neighbors.

1801. About 1831 he located in Liberty township, this county, where he remained about fortysix years on the same farm. He married Eliza 'Ramey, February 12, 1831. To them were given eight children, viz.: Louisa, Pencie R., Emeline, Caroline, and two who died in infancy, Maria M. and Lewis. 'The father died September 19, 1879; Louisa, December 22, 1841, and Emeline, January 19, 1864. Lewis W. enlisted in company B, Seventy-sixth Ohio volunteer infantry, February 27, 1864, and participated in the following engagements: Resaca, Dallas, and Kenesaw Mountain. In front of Atlanta, July 22, 1864, and near Atlanta again on the twenty-eighth of July, at Jonesborough, Ship's Gap, and from thence with Sherman to the sea; constituted the city guard at Savannah, and was in several skirmishes, viz.: Columbia and Bentonville. He received his discharge at Louisville, Kentucky, July 15, 1865. He returned home and married Mary E. Severn in 1866. 'They had four children, viz.: Joseph W., Johnny, Sylvester and Olden. Johnny died in infancy. John Barbour, the subject of this sketch, was a faithful member of the Freewill Baptist church at Concord. He was one of those peaceable, quiet men we meet but once in a lifetime. His demise was regretted by the entire communitv. Miss Pencie Barbour and sister are engaged extensively in dress-making, and their reputation is second to none in the county.

Bartiz, ExisHa, blacksmith, wagon and _ carriage manufacturer, was born March 16, 1835, in Baltimore county. His parents, Elisha and Jemima Battie, with their four eldest sons, emigrated to Ohio about September, 1835, locating near Hebron. Elisha, sr., was born January 31, 1798, and died May 31, 1866; Jemima, his wife, was born February 5, 1805, in sight of Bunker Hill monument. Her maiden name was Jemima Stansberry. At eighteen years of age the subject of this sketch began his present trade, at which he has continued nearly all of his time. He was employed by the Government during the fall and winter of 1862 and spring of 1863, building boats at Bridgeport, Alabama. He worked at his trade in Cedar county, lowa, Berlin, Wisconsin, and Fort Scott,

Her parents, Madison and Sarah Gregory, were born, the former in Maryland, the latter in' Virginia. 'They emigrated to Licking county in an early day, locating near Utica. 'The subject of this sketch began life without any help, and, by hard work and strict economy, has won himself a good

BowMaNn, SAMUEL, merchant, was born June 4, 1843, in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, where he received his education. He is well fitted for his calling. His beginning was that of a clerk for Henry Hamilton, of Baltimore, Maryland, in which capacity he continued about seven years, changing localities from time to time. October, 1879, he began with a small stock of groceries, and has added a full line of dry goods and sells about nine or ten thousand dollars worth of goods yearly. The citizens of Alexandria may well be proud of Mr. Bowman as a merchant. He is sociable, hospitable, and ranks among the enterprising merchants of Licking county. He married Martha A. Jordan, December 17, 1874. They have two children : Maud, born January 12, 1876, and Cora, born July ro, 1877.

BuTLer, CHARLES, farmer, was born July 16, 1804, in Blanford, then Hampshire county, Massachusetts. His parents emigrated to Granville December, t805. He spent his early life in Granville township, where he received his education at: the district schools. He is one of the active, energetic pioneers of this county, and took an active part in introducing the common school system. He married Philota D. Pratt, of Berkshire county, Massachusetts, April 25, 1829. They had six children: Martha M., born January 26, 1830; Elias D., born May 22, 1834; Caroline A., born December 17, 1841; Sarah J., born July 4, 1842; William H., born November 19, 1846; Corwin C., born July 26, 1850, all of whom are living and have children. Mr. Butler is a man who is respected by the entire community, and is still an active old gentleman.

Buxton, Mrs. C. A., widow, was born August 13, 1834, inthe Shenandoah valley, Virginia. November 2, 1859, she married David Buxton, who was born October 6, 1799, in Brandon, Rutland county, Vermont. They have one son, Rufus, born July 21, 1864. Mr. Buxton died July 12, 1879. He was a man of reserved opinions, and a consistent member of the Congregational church. He emigrated to Johnstown, Licking county, about 1834, and about one year later came to Alexandria, where he remained until his death.

BEAUMONT, WILLIAM, superintendent of the infirmary, post office, Union station. He was born in St. Albans township June 6, 1831, and followed farming as a business until he was twenty-five years old; he then engaged in the mercantile business in the village of Alexandria, Ohio, continuing for the period of thirteen years. He received the appointment of superintendent of the infirmary February 1, 1880, and at once entered upon the duties of his office with the energy and devotion to business which has heretofore characterized him. Mr. Beaumont was a prominent man in his township, filling offices of importance for many years. He has been master of the St. Albans lodge, No. 491, Free and Accepted Masons, for six years. He is a very pleasant and agreeable gentleman, well calculated for the important place which he fills.) He was married to Miss Laura Webb October 16, 1856, two children being the result of this union.

Burcu, Homer C., merchant, post office, Hebron, was born in. Muskingum county, July 12, 1842; came to Hebron in 1859, and in September of that year, engaged in the milling business, which he followed until the tenth of August, 1861, when he enlisted in company H, Thirty-first Ohio volunteer infantry; he re-enlisted in 1863, and served until the close of the war, the last year being detailed orderly on General Beard's staff; General Beard commanded Third division, Fourteenth army corps; Mr. Burch was wounded at the battle of Resaca, Georgia, and captured at Ringgold, Georgia, but was parolled in a short time; he was married on the tenth of July, 1861, to Miss Kate Smith, a native of this county; they have had six children: Delbert C., fourteen; Harry, twelve; Willie (deceased); Winnie Gertrude, eig] t; Georgie H., six, and Maude, four. In 1878 company K, Seventeenth Ohio national guard, was organized in Hebron, and Mr. Burch was elected captain by acclamation, his commission bearing date December 7, 1878; his company was named Atherton guards when organized, in honor of Gibson Atherton, who represented the thirteenth Congressional district in Congress. 'The company has the reputation of being the finest in the regiment, having won the badge at their first encampment in August, 1879, at Camp Hoagland, Zanesville, Ohio. Mr. Burch deals extensively in groceries and everything pertaining to a first class village store.

Burcu, H. D., grocer, post office, Hebron, was born in Muskingum county in 1846; he was married in 1869, to Miss Candace Ruick, and they had four children: Otto E., Frank C., Rosa L., and Bertie I. He enlisted in 1862, and served three years, going out in company A, Tenth Ohio volunteer cavalry, as private; was promoted to bugler; had his horse captured on two different occasions; has been postmaster here since 1870; 1s first lieutenant of the Atherton guards; he has been engaged in his present business since 1869, and has made it a' success by honorable dealing; he and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church, he having been identified with that denomination for the past twelve years.

Bett, WILLIAM, sR., Utica Ohio. - He was born in Green county, Pennsylvania, June 9, 1809, and came to Knox county with his father in 1816, and located on the farm joining the one on which he now lives. He married Nancy R. Hanger, November 11, 1830, daughter of Jacob Hanger, of Knox county. She was born January 29, 1813. They went to housekeeping in the house now owned by Robert McFarland, where they lived some three years, then moved to the vicinity of Martinsburgh, lived there one year, then moved to Licking county, where he has been living forty-five years. He now owns fifty acres of land, where he has lived for thirteen years; also forty-eight acres adjoining, in Knox county. They have eight children - Amanda, Hiram, Phidelia, Irene, Mary E., Catharine H., Alvira. and David G. Amanda was married to George Hughes, and died September 8, 1865, leaving four children. Hiram is now living in Knox county, Ohio. Phidelia was married to Peter Crumrine, and died December 5, 1860. Irene now lives in °

Utica, and is the wife of John McFadden. Mary E. lives in Utica, and is a widow. Catharine is now living in Wisconsin, and is wife of Felix Bennett. Alvira lives in Utica, and is the wife of C. C. Hughes. David G., is now teaching school in Knox county. His home is in DeKalb county, Indiana, where his wife and one child are living. The subject of this sketch is one of the early settlers, and remembers the Indian squaw being shot and her thigh broken by John McClane. She was taken to Mr. Bell's father's and cared for. Mce- Clane was sent to the penitentiary for twenty years, The squaw, after remaining at this place two days, was carried by Indians to Mt. Vernon on a hammock made of bark. this wound some two weeks after going to Mt. Vernon. McClane, after serving ten years of his time died in the penitentiary. Cortland McPeek, husband of Mary E. Bell, was a soldier in the late war for three years.

CARVER, RANDOLPH, farmer, Bennington township, was born in 1852, in this county. His father, J. W. Carver, was born in New Hampshire county, New Jersey, in 1805. He came to this county in 1812 with his father. He was married in 1827 to Miss Mary Livingston, daughter of Peter Livingston, of this county. She was born in 1805. Mr. Carver died in August, 1879. Mrs. Carver died in October, 1879. They were the parents of thirteen children, eight of whom are living: The subject of this sketch was married in 1874 to Miss Eliza Moore, daughter of V. R. Moore, of this county. She was born in 1855.

CoopERIDER, GEORGE, Bowling Green township. John Cooperider emigrated to Licking county from Fayette county, Pennsylvania, in 1815. He had twelve children: John, Andrew, Emanuel, Peter, David, William, Jacob, Philip, George, Lewis, Abraham and Anna Margaret, settled in Licking, Perry and Fairfield counties. His son, Emanuel, preceded his arrival here by one year, having previously married Elizabeth Shelly, of Lancaster county, Pennsylvania. Six children resulted from this union, three of whom died in early life. The remaining three, Anna Margaret, wife of George Bixler, John, and George, the subject of this sketch, reside in this township. George was born February 25, 1818, in this township, is a farmer by occupation, and has always lived here. He married Margaret Trout, of Perry county, April ro, 1845. They are the parents of ten children: Sarah E. (died); Emanuel W., living in Perry county; Joel, a physician in Petersburg, Mahoning county, Ohio; George, a Lutheran minister in Baltimore, Maryland ; Martha, Martin L., John H., Charles, Noah and Herman.

CONARD, JOSEPH, farmer and stock-dealer, was born in 1819, in this county. His father, Nathan Conard, was born June 5, 1779, in Loudoun county, Virginia. He was married in 1800 to Miss Hannah Butcher, of Hampshire county, Virginia. She was born January 7, 1779, in Hampshire county. They came to Fairfield county, now Knox county, in 1805. They came to what is now Licking county in 1807. He died September '20, 1854. She died January 28, 1871. They were the parents of ten children: John, born June 28, 1801, died August 28, 1861; Jonah, born January 1, 1804, died April 20, 1866; Sarah, born December 24, 1805, died September 20, 1877; Mahlon, born February 28, 1808; Amos, born April 20, 1810; Elizabeth, born February 16, 1812; Anna, born July 18, r814; Nathan, born July 21, 1817, died July 6, 1880; Joseph, born August 7, 1819; Cyrus M., born February r8, 1823.

Conarb, C. M., farmer and stock-dealer, Burlington township, was born in 1823, in this township. His father's name is Nathan Conard. C. M. Conard was married in 1846 to Miss Phoebe Long. She was born in 1826, in this county. She died April 4, 1859. They were the parents of three children. He again married, in 1860, Miss Sarah Kinsey, of Knox county. She was born in Coshocton county in 1830. They are the parents of nine children.

experience what it was to live in the wilderness, and to endure the toils and, to some extent at least, _the privations incident to life on the frontiers. She was highly esteemed as a wife and mother, and as one of the oldest and best of the pioneers of

COLVILLE, JAMEs W., was born in Shenandoah county, Virginia, April 30, 1795. He was a soldier in the War of 1812, and came to this county in 1826; was married to Leah Baker in 1827, and soon thereafter settled on the farm in Eden township, where he lived fifty-one years, and where he died after a protracted illness, November 7, 1878, in his eighty-fourth year. He was a son of Major Colville, who, in the valley of Virginia, had attained some distinction by his military and civil services, and by his integrity and intelligence as a magistrate and legislator. Rev. Peter Schmucker, who was also from Virginia, was the officiating clergyman on the occasion of Mr. Colville's marriage, July 26,1827. Mr. Colville was an acting justice of the peace of Eden township upwards of twenty years, and was highly esteemed by his neighbors, and by all who had the pleasure of his acquaintance, which was not by any means a limited number. He was a man of considerable information, a patriotic man, a useful, industrious citizen, an accommodating neighbor, an upright, just magistrate, a kind husband, an affectionate father, an honest man, a warm-hearted friend.

ConineE, Jacop F. esg. - The death of the subject of this sketch took place at his residence in Etna township June 6, 1880, at the age of seventyseven years. Squire Conine was born in Morris county, New Jersey, July 10, 1803, came to this county in 1840, served a year asa soldier in the Mexican war, doing duty as a member of Captain John R. Duncan's company of rangers on the Rio Grande line. He was a gentleman of extensive information, conscientious, patriotic, intelligent, and always exerted a favorable moral influence. Squire Conine had acquired a good degree of scholarship, and had written some acceptable historical papers for the Pioneer society.

county, Ohio, June 29, 1836. He intermarried with Eleanor, youngest daughter of the late Jordan Hall, esq., November 8, 1866. He now lives in Fallsbury township, where he has lived thirteen years, having served as justice of the peace for six years. Squire Colville has devoted himself industriously and successfully to agricultural pursuits and stock raising; he has also been engaged, more or Jess, for sixteen years at school teaching, and filling positions in his township involving more or less responsibility. His ancestors, paternal and maternal, were immigrants to Licking county from the Shenandoah valley, in Virginia, where his grandfather, Major John Colville, was a prominent man for many years, being a representative in the Virginia legislature, and occupied other positions of prominence. His relatives of old were also active in the Revolutionary war. He is a grandson of Aaron Baker, one of the veteran pioneers of Licking, who moved to this county from Rockingham county, Virginia, in 1803, and settled two miles north of Newark. His mother, Leah Baker, was then only three years old, and is still living in this county, at the age of erphty years. She was who courageously encountered the toils, hardships and privations incident to life on the frontiers, and who is now, after a life of great activity, energy and industry, calmly and resignedly near its close.

Cooper, JAMES. - Mr. Cooper, the son of Henry and Elizabeth Cooper, was bern in Marshall county, West Virginia, January 15, 1820. His parents were farmers, and James adopted this as his avocation, following it in his native place until 1868, when he came to this county, :living six years near Brownville, then removing to this township, where he has since resided. He was elected justice of the peace for Franklin township in April, 1879, and is a member of the orders of Odd Fellows and Masons. Mr. Cooper has been twice married. His first wife was Drusilla Linville, of Washington county, Pennsylvania, whom he married April 20, 1848, and by whom he had five children. Of these only Elizabeth V., and Mary B. survive. His wife died December 31, 1859. His second marriage was with Jane Buchanan, of Marshall county, Virginia, solemnized May 15, 1860. Of his eight children by this marriage, five are living: Flotilla Ann, Ella Jane, Carrie Spencer, John Henry, and James Buchanan.

CONNEL, JoHN. - Mr. Connel was born in Madison township, April 2, 1830. When he was six or seven years old his parents moved to Newark. He there learned the carpenter trade and worked at it in Newark until 1878, when he purchased the farm upon which he now resides, and removed to the country. Mr. Connel was married to Mary E. Goodwin, of Newark, January 1o,

CouLTEer, Presron F. - Mr. Coulter was born in Franklin township, October 21, 1827. His father, John Coulter, was a native of Washington county, Pennsylvania, where he was born, December 19, 1796, and when only one or two years old his parents moved to Butler county, Ohio, and alterwards, in 1810, to Licking county. His mother, Matilda Pumphrey, was a Virginian by birth. He was married May 30, 1851, to Lydia E. Dodd, of Belmont county, Ohio, who is one year and seven days his junior. His children are, Horace M., born July 3, 1852; Eva M., born July 13, 1854; Mary A., born May 1, 1857; John C., born March 18, 1859, and died February 28, 1862; Lorin, born September 8, 1861; May, born October 14, 1863; Rollin, born May 30, 1866; Edwin Stanton, born June 9, 1868; Frank H., born March 20, 1870, and Howard E., born August 29, 1875. Since his marriage Mr. Coulter has resided the early settlers of this county, was born in this township March 13, 1832. His early life was active and varied. He taught school at seventeen and the next year attended school at the Ohio Wesleyan university, Delaware, Ohio. He was telegraph roads in this State and in Indiana. He next went west with a flock of sheep and remained there two years when he returned to Licking county. He remained here five or six years and then spent two years along the Ohio river in Scioto county, Ohio. In 1860 he returned to this township and has remained here since. In 1855 he married Catharine Irwin, of this township. He has two children, Lenora and Ella M. Mr. Coulter is an extensive sheep grower, and has imported a valuable stock of sheep from Vermont into this county.

Cummins, Mrs. Saran A., was born December 8, 1821, in Guernsey county. She married John Cunmins November 28, 1841, who was born in Rockingham, Virginia, August 30, r814, and was the son of 'Thomas Cummins and Mary Bowers. Mr. Cummins was a farmer and a member of the United Brethren church. He died September 4, 1858. Mrs. Cummins' parents are from Cumberland valley, Pennsylvania. Her father, William McVicker, was born April 5, 1778; her mother, Sarah A. Lisney, was born March 18, 1786; her brothers and sisters are Jonathan C., born April

11, 1802; James, born August 21, 1803; William, born March 3, 1806; Alexander, born December 25, 1809; Aaron, born August 11, ToL2es Achor, born December 2, 1813; Samuel F., born April 3, 1816: Rebecca, born February 21, 1819; John C., born February 13, 1824; Stephen, born March 4; 1827; Mary, born May 3, 1829. Her children are Mary Jane, wife of Harrison Moore, of Kansas ; Sarah T. (deceased); Lora H., wife of William Griffith, of Lima township ; John, William T. (deceased), David, Martha Ann (deceased), Sylvester, and Rena May. Mrs.Cummins is a member of the Presbyterian church.

Courson, James S., was born August 24, 1843, in Bowling Green township. His father, Alexander, and his grandparents, Isaac and Jane Courson, came from Pennsylvania. He was born and bred a farmer, but during the last seven or eight years, has followed stone masonry as a trade, Until within a few months he has resided in his native township. His brothers and sisters living, are: Ananias, of this county; Cornelius, living in Memphis, Tennessee; Charles W., who resides in Missouri; Mary Ann, wife of John Abraham, of Oskaloosa, Iowa; Nancy, married to Harvey Dusthimer, of this township, and Martha J., the wife of Abram Eby, living in Bowling Green township. Mr. Courson was married November 27, 1879, to Rachel Irwin, daughter of Hamilton and Catharine Irwin. Mr. and Mrs. Courson are members of the Methodist church.

Batty, L. B.,Concord, Hancock county, Iowa. His father, John B. Bailey, came from New York to Ohio in 1837, locating near Granvilie. He went to Wisconsin in 1861, and to Iowa in 1864, where he died in 1875. He was the parent of four sons, one of whom, Rolla, was killed by lightning in 1876. Smith was a farmer on the Pacific

Cask, Grove, was born in Connecticut January 20, 1800. He was brought te Licking county, Ohio, in 1807, by his parents, Major Grove and Cinderilla Case, who settled in Granville, where they deceased. He died in 1836 or '7, aged fiftysix years. His wife survived him until January, 1867, aged eighty-seven years. Major Case built the well-known house in Granville, in which he kept hotel from 1810 until 1814 or'15. He served as major in the War of 1812; was at Fort Meigs when besieged. He, in company with Silas Wincbell, erected the first grist-mill in Granville town-

All of the children are living, except Norton, who deceased in March, 1879. Mr. Case was reared a farmer, and has followed farming and He married Laura Carpenter, of Delaware county, Ohio, May 15, 1821; born October 10, 1797; daughter of Nathan Carpenter, a soldier of the War of 1776. They settled on North street, Granville township, Licking county, Ohio, on the farm now occupied by his grandson-in-law. He erected the residence, now In use, in which they lived for fifty-six years. In

1876. 'Their residence is a fine brick sturcture. They reared a family of three children: Lucius A. married Polly Rose, in 1844, daughter of Levi Rose. and he deceased July 3, 1866; Laura J. died at the age of seventeen years; Lucy C. married

Ciousr, Rev. Noan. - The parentage of Mr. Clouse was on the father's side, High Dutch, and on the mother's side, English, who settled in New- England in very early times. One of his grand. fathers served seven years inthe Revolutionary war, The place of their nativity was Washington county. Pennsylvania, where they lived to an advanced age. The subject of this sketch, Mr. N. Clouse, was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, on the first of October, 1813. He received a moderate select schcol education while young - good for these days. Having attained his majority, he moved to Ohio, and !ocated in Tuscarawas county in the spring of 1835. On the twenty-third of October, 1835, he was united in marriage to Miss Rebecca Ashbrook, whose parents came of the old English and Dutch nationalities, and settled on the borders of the States of Virginia and Pennsylyania, where her parents were born. From thence they removed to Washington county, Pennsylvania, where they were blessed with a family of two sons and four daughters. Mrs. Rebecca Clouse mee Ashbrook was born in Washington county, Pennsylyania, July 4, 1806, and is still living, enjoying an active, old age. The religious life of Mr. Clouse began at the time of his conversion at the age of fourteen years, and continued in a special call to the ministry of the Baptist denomination in the year 1841, when he was licensed to preach by the Dover Baptist church, and was subsequently ordained in the same church in the year 1343. During these calls to preach, the exercise of his mind led him to seek the means of a better education for the duties involved. He studied as the means of qualification, the Latin, German and Greek languages, with other essential helps under private tutors. For several years he served Sugar Creek, Magnolia, New Jefferson and White-eyeplains churches. In the fall of 1847, he removed to Licking county, Ohio, under a call from the Newark Baptist church, with whom he labored about sixteen months. Following this pastoral he supplied, and was the pastor of the following churches, viz: Alexandria, Union, Homer, Liberty, Johnstown, Fredonia and Welsh Hills, aggregating a period of ministerial labors equal to and over thirty-six years. 'The close of this record leaves him in possession of much vigor of life and good prospects of future usefulness in the ministerial funcuon for many years to come,

CHEEK, ADALINE, daughter of William and Elizabeth Priest, was married October 20, 1836, to George Cheek. She was born August 15, 1812, in Culpepper county, Virginia. At a very early day she, with her parents, moved to Muskingum county, settling in Hopewell township, where she lived until 1875, when she removed to Licking county and settled in Hanover township. Mr. Cheek died September 1, 1854, leaving her with nine children - William Elsie, born July 3, 1838; Sarah Elizabeth, born December 11, 1839; George Andrew, born July 18, 1841; James Henry, born March 29, 1844; John Robert, born November 10, 1845; Thomas Jefferson, born September 14, 1847; Franklin Howard, born February 11, 1851; Perry Streeper, born November 25, 1852; Harvey Allen, born January 3, 1855. Of these, John Robert and 'THomas J. are dead, having died while in the late

Cheek with one child - Joseph, born October 27, 1861. About five years after Mrs. Cheek's death Mr. Cheek married his second wife - Elizabeth Loughman. By this marriage they are the parents of five children - William Henry, Jacob Franklin, John Robert, Sarah Adaline and Harvey Allen. John McFarland, of Muskingum county, married Sarah October 9, 1866. They have four children - Adaline, born July 7, 1867; James Henry, born January 30, 1869; Amanda, born September 18,

1870; Perry Milton, born January 9, 1873. Amanda died February 25,1871. Howard was married August 1, 1877, to Julia A. Drum. She died January, 1880, leaving him with one child - Cecil Celista. James Henry married Sarah A. Vansikle, August 8, 1878. They have one child - Mary Etta. Perry S. and Harvey Allen are not married. They are living in Hanover township.

Perry county, Ohio, in 1837. In 1859 he was married to Miss Cyntria H. Hillier, of Muskingum rounty. They have had ten children - Edmund R., John W., Myvard B., Charles A., Anna E., Louie Bell, Frank P., Emma J., Ora and Samuel M. (deceased). His father and mother were born in Virginia in 1810, and came to this State in 1834. His mother's maiden name was Rector. The subject of this sketch lives about a quarter of a mile south of Hanover, on the Woodbridge farm.

Conpit, Isaac, deceased, was born in Essex county, New Jersey, November, 1798. He wasa carpenter by trade, and followed that business for a number of years. He then turred his attention to farming, which he made his principal vocation, after his settlement in this county. In 1822, he married Miss Jane R. Dobbin, of Essex county, New Jersey, born in 1802. 'They settled in Essex county, remained until 1835, when he, with wife cated in Harrison township, on the farm now owned by their son, Joseph B. Condit, where they passed the remainder of their days. His companion died January 3, 1878. Hedied May to, 1878. They reared a family of nine children: Mary, George, Matthias, William D., Joseph B., Sarah, Frances, Pheba, and Theodore. Two of the above named children are deceased, Pheba and Theodore.

Conpit, WiLtiam D., son of the aforesaid Isaac Condit, was born in Essex county, New. Jersey, February 7, 1831, and came with his parents to this county in 1835. He is a carpenter by trade, and followed that as his vocation a few years, when he turned his attention to farming, in which business he has since been engaged. December 28, 1854, he married Miss Martha Charles, daughter of Jesse and Nancy Charles. Miss Charles was born in Harrison township, this county, March 10, 1834. They moved on the farm in Harrison township, where they now reside, in April, 1856. They have a family of ten children, five sons and five daughters.

CastNER, Epwin S., farmer and sheep breeder, born in Jefferson county Ohio, in 1844, came to this county in 1870. He was married in 1868, to Miss Mary J. Stone of the same county. She was born in 1850. They are the parents of three children, two are dead, and one, Earnest, living. Mr. Castner lived in this county from 1870 to 1874, when he removed to Knox county, where he resided six years. He again came to this county in the spring of 1880. He has been engaged in the breeding and shipping of registered merino sheep for the last five years; he has on hand sixty-five thoroughbred sheep. Mr. Castner 1s a member of the board of directors of the Hartford Agricultural

Co.eman, JosePn, hotel-keeper, born in Coshocton county, Ohio, in 1825; removed to Knox county while a child, and at the age of eighteen he came to this county, living at Johnstown two or three years, when he removed to Hartford, where he has since lived. He was married, in 1847, to Miss Sarah E. Williams, of this county ; she was born in 1826 in this county; she died in 1875. They were the parents of three children, one of whom, Charley, is living. He again married, in 1879, Miss Sarah A. Warner, of Essex Junction,

Vermont. She was born in 1842 in Paw Paw, Michigan. Mr. Coleman has held several positions of trust and profit, having been township treasurer ten or twelve years, and trustee two terms. He is at present a member of the town council and amember of the Hartford Agricultural society.

CUNNINGHAM, J. Ross, farmer, born in Jefferson county, Ohio, June 16, 1835; married Emily M. Ross of the same county. Mrs. Ross was born in 1839. Mr. Ross came to this county in 1870, purchased a fine farm of two hundred acres in the northwest part of the township, and now has one of the finest farms in the township. He is essentially a sell-made man, and Is one of the substantial citizens of the county.

Curry, GEORGE, farmer and breeder of thoroughbred sheep. He is a breeder and shipper of Spanish merino sheep, which are registered in the Vermont and United States registeries. He has a fine flock of eighty head on hand at present.

CARTER, FREDERICK C., born in Franklin county, September 30, 1830; his father, Havilah, settled near Newark, on Jasper Sutton's place, about 1819, emigrating from Loudouncounty, Virginia ; two years after he moved to Franklin county; his mother, Mahala Starkey, was a native of Hampshire county, Virginia. In 1847 his father's family came to St. Albans township, where he remained till the spring of 1880, when he removed to his present farm home. His grandfather was a Quaker, and _ his father, though not a member of this society, possessed its virtues, and was noted for his scrupulous honesty in his dealings with men. Mr. Carter married Amanda, daughter of Martin and Lucy (Johnson) Brooks, June, 1863. Her parents were early settlers in this county; her fathér hailing from Maine, her mother from Vermont. Frank B. is their only child.

Coorer, Eut, farmer, New Way, was born September 7, 1830. August, 1847, he came to Bennington township, this county. In the spring of 1877 he moved into this township, locating in the village of New Way, where he now lives. He married Elizabeth Fulk, March, 1858. 'They have two children: Sarah M., born November 29, 1859; Leroy, born October 27, 1861. He owns one hundred and twenty-five acres in one body, and thirty acres in another. He is a successful farmer.

COFFMAN, REUBEN, was born July 6, 1824, in Page county, Virginia. He was the son of Peter and Rebecca Coffman. Peter came to this county in 1809; remained here till 1818; then returned to Virginia again, and was married to Rebecca Lanum, of Page county, Virginia. Returned to this county in 1828, and located in Newton township. He was the father of eight children - four living at present: Wesley, Reuben, Mary and Philip are married, and living in this county. Reuben, the subject of this sketch, was married March, 1846, to Susanna Bullock, of this county, the daughter of Samuel and Nancy Bullock. They have had seven children - six are living. Mary Jane was born January 1, 1847. She was married to John Grove, of this county, a farmer. Julia Ann was born March, 1848; died April, 1848. Lewis was born February 2, 1849; is single, and lives at home; is a farmer. William was born June, 1851; is single, and lives at home; is a farmer. P. A. was born February, 1853; is single, and, at present, is a law student in John D. Jones' office at Newark. Isaac was born August, 1855; is single, and lives at home; isa farmer. Rebecca V. was born November, 1857; married George Swartz, of this county, a farmer, and lives south of Jacksontown. Peter Coffman died January, 1867, aged sixty-eight years. He was a farmer and carpenter. Rebecca Coffman died June, 1873, in Newton township. She was a member of the Old School Baptist church of Lost run. Reuben Coffman located in Licking township in 1853, on the farm where he now lives, having some five hundred and forty-five acres of land in Licking township, and ninety-two in Newark township. He 1s an extensive farmer and wool grower; is a very influential and highly respected man in Licking township. He is a natural mechanic, which is characteristic of the family.

Crompton, FRANCIS, post office, Pataskala, was born in King's county, Ireland, January 14, 1821. In 1848 he emigrated to the United States and settled in Licking county. In 1876 he went west, settling in Putnam county, but remained only one year, returning to Licking, where he has since resided. Mr. Crompton has been twice married, his first wife being Miss Mary Wickliff, who lived but a few years, he afterwards marrying Mrs. Roberts, the widow of Samuel Roberts, who died while in the army.

ConiNrE, RICHARD, farmer, post office, Pataskala, was born in this county, October 28, 1852, a son of Richard and Hester Conine, the former of whom came from New Jersey with his parents and settled on the farm on which the subject of this sketch now lives. He was born near Newark. He remained at home until he was twenty-two years old, when he went to Fairfield county, and from thence to Franklin county; and in 1876 he came to this county and settled on his present farm. He was married in the winter of 1873 to M. E. Valentine, of this county. His father, Richard Conine, was among the first that ever came in the county and took an active part in the setilement of the same.

Capa, Mowry, was born in 1802 ir Rhode Island; was the son of Sylvester and Sadie Cada. He was married in 1833 to Abigal Barber, of Vermont, who was born in 1815 in Vermont. They had four children. A. J. Cada was born in 1834, in Massachusetts, and with his parents came to this county in 1836; located in McKean township on the farm where he now lives. He was married September 25, 1860, to Mary A. Conard, of this county, who was born November 19, 1840, in this county. 'The result of this marriage was three boys; Joel M., born June 15, 1861; Edwin J., born November 29, 1864; Charles G., born January 19, 1872. Phoebe C. Cada was born April 7, 1837; was married, in 1863, to Frederick Smith, of this county, who is a farmer and lives in McKean township. Sabra C. Cada was born January 30, 1845; was married November 8, 1874, to Andrew Morgan, of this county, a farmer. Mr. Morgan died and his widow is living in Indiana. They had one child, Mary F., born September 20, 1849; died January 20, 1851. Mr. Cada's grandfathers were both soldiers of the Revolutionary war; were under General Green.

CLARK, ABSALOM, was born December ro, 1819, in McKean township; was the son of Fleetwood and Sarah Clark, who came to this county in 1814, from Huntingdon county, Pennsylvania. The journey being made by wagon. 'They located in Newton township, and came to McKean in 1815, where they remained until death. 'They were the parents of eight boys and one girl. Absalom, John, William, and Jesse are yet living. Fleetwood

Clark died in 1851, aged sixty-one; Sarah, his wife, died in 1835, aged forty-five years. Absalom, the subject of this sketch, went to California in 1853, by way of the isthmus; was there about twenty months. He married Matilda Walker, of Delaware county, who was born in 1835. 'The result of this marriage was nine children. Those living are George W., Caroline L., Absalom, Mary, Sarah, Charles, Eunice, John B., and Emma... George was married to Christenia Stevens, of this county, in 1879, and lives in this township. Caroline was married to Samuel S. Fry, of Newark, and is now living in Westerville. The others are single and live at home. Mr. Clark has always had his home in McKean township, on the old homestead where his father first located, when the country was all woods. Mi. Clark has always been a weli-to-do farmer, and is esteemed by all his acquaintances.

CLousk, SUSAN, farmer, postoffice, Johnstown, Ohio, was born in the extreme northern part of Fairfield county, October 18, 1828; is a daughter of William and Sarah Hendrickson. Mr. W. Hendrickson was born August 30, 1741, in New Jersey, and died August 30, 1859, in Monroe township, Licking county,Ohio. He married Sarah McClain, about 1820, and had eight children: John, born about 1821, and died when about two years of age; Catharine, born April 13, 1823, and died August 20, 1855; William, born October 15, 1826, and served in the Mexican war about two years. When civil war was declared in the United States, he enlisted in an Illinois regiment, served out his time went home only to veteran. During one of the sieges was shot through the lungs, from the effects of which he is a constant sufferer at the present time. The next in order is the subject of this sketch, Susan. Elizabeth, born August 4, 1830; Elenor, born March 21, 1832; Jacob, born June 21, 1834. Mrs. Clouse came to this county with her parents about 1832, where they have remained. She married Jacob Clouse, December 8, 1849, and moved to where she now lives March, 1850. She had six children: Leuzerne, born September 29, 1850, died May 3, 1869; Ellen, born August 7, 1852; John, born October 16, 1855; Amanda, born February 18, 1858, Lincoln, born February 25, 1861; Frederick, born August 6, 1864. Jacob Clouse was born April 13, 1828, within a quarter mile of where they now live, and where he died February 19, 1879. Mrs. Clouse says he never was further from home than Brownsville, Bowling Green township, this county, not to exceed thirty miles, ahd she has been to Gibsonville, Hocking county, Ohio, a distance not to exceed sixty miles, and made the trip on horseback, to attend the funeral of a relative; that neither of them rode a mile in the cars. They began life with but a very few dollars, and by frugality and hard work have made for themselves a comfortable home.

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which he engaged with W. P. Kirkpatrick, druggist at Utica, Ohio, as salesman, whom he served four years. He then went to Philadelphia and entered the Pharmaceutical college, from which he received his diploma in the spring of 1875, after which he entered the employ of French, Richards & Co., wholesale druggists and manufacturing chemists, with whom he remained about five years. On May 1, 1880, he returned to Newark and bought out the firm of Seymour & Co., at the old Fullerton stand, which was established in 1844, three doors south of the American house, on the west side of the public square, where he occupies very pleasant and commodious rooms, eighteen by eighty, as salesroom with prescription case and laboratory, and a ware-room up-stairs eighteen by eighty, and cellar eighteen by forty, in which he caries a large first-class stock of pure drugs, chemicals,. patent medicines, toilet articles, fancy goods, trusses, shoulder braces, supporters, Whitman's confectionery. Also special attention given to the compounding of physicians' prescriptions, and the wholesale and retail manufacture of pharmaceutical preparations. This is a special department, and a leading feature of the business; and this is the only drug establishment in the city that employs a night clerk, and is under the immediate direction of a graduate in pharmacy.

Cavut, JoHy. - He was born at Dillmon's Falls, Muskingum, county, Ohio, June 25, 1836. He came to Newark in 1854. He was married to Melvina Walker October 16, 1862; had two children, one of whom died in infancy. Joseph Benjamin died in March, 1870,.in the sixth year of his age. Mr. Caul moved with his father to the blast furnace, in Mary Ann township, in 1844. He worked some five years at this furnace. In 1854 he came.to Newark, working at anything he could by the day until in the fall of 1861, when he went on the canal; remained in that business until 1877. He then engaged in teaming, which is his present occupation; has a comfortable little home on Seyenth street in Newark. He has a sister, Valsory Eastman, living in Hocking county; Clara A., in Hocking county; a brother Henry, living in Mlinots. His father died in the seventy-second year of his age. 7

CuAmMpeErs, Dr. W. B., surgeon-dentist, Clinton street, two doors from Locust. Dr. Chambers was born in Marshall county, western Virginia. He received his preparatory education in the district schools of Marshall and Ohio counties, after which he attended an academy at Alexandria, Washington county, Pennsylvania, and took a course at the Pennsylvania college, Philadelphia. In 1858 he commenced reading with Alexander Reed, M. D., physician and surgeon, also a practitioner of dental surgery, of West Virginia. In 1865 he came to Newark and entered upon the practice of the dental profession, to which he devoted his entire attention unti] 1872, when he returned to Philadelphia and completed his dental studies at the Pennsylvania college of dental surgery, from which he graduated in 1873. On his return he purchased a lot at his present location, on which he has erected a handsome brick residence, which he has furnished and fitted up with heating, gas and water fixtures of the most modern design and is unexcelled in the city. His office is also of brick, one story high and neat design, in which he has an elegant suite of rooms consisting of a reception room eighteen by twelve and a half feet, which is fitted up with good taste and has everything necessary for the comfort and entertainment of waiting patients, an operating room fourteen by ten feet which he has furnished with all the modern facilities and appliences fur the successful operation of his profession, by means of which the usual excruciating operations of dentistry are made comparatively pieasant; a private office and consulting room twelve by twelve feet, a laboratory eighteen by twelve feet which is furnished with everything necessary for the operating of mechanical dentistry, also a commodious room eighteen by ten feet for the chemical and metalurgical department. Dr. Chambers has spared no expense to secure everything adopted in the profession. In the operating department he uses only the safest and purest and most effective esthetics, and administers almost painless treatment. He was married March 31, 1870, to Miss Augusta Smucker, youngest daughter of Honorable Isaac Smucker of this city.

CHAMBERLAIN, Mrs. Mary A., was born in Philadelphia Pennsylvania, August 16, 1816. About the age of nine years she moved, with her father, to Cleveland, Ohio. Her father, Samuel Murdock, was a farmer by occupation, and died in Licking county, Iowa, at the age of ninety years. She was married to Mr. Austin Chamberlain, of Cleveland, Ohio, July 14, 1838, and was the mother of three children, all dead. Mr. Chamberlain, in early life, followed boating ; after moving to Newark, in 1838, he followed carpentering until he died in 1870, aged sixty-one years. Mrs. Chamberlain

Cnasr, Gro. W., photographer. Mr. Chase was born in Oswego, New York, March 15, 1839, and was educated at Nunda, New-York. Hecame to Ohio in the fall of 1858, locating at Zanesville, where he took charge of the omnibus and stage lines which he remained in charge of until 1861, when he was the second man in Muskingum county to respond to the first call for troops. He enlisted in company H, First Ohio volunteer infantry, in which he served several months when he was put on recruiting service and the organizing of regiments and staff duty, during which he was promoted to first lieutenant and was honorably discharged as brevet captain, in 1863, in consequence of expiration of his term of service. He came to Newark in 1864 and engaged in the photo art in which he has been engaged with good success ever since. He occupies a large and excellent suit of rooms in the Franklin block, consisting of parlor eighteen by eighteen ; two operating rooms sixteen by forty and seventeen by forty-five; printing room, eleven by twenty ; toilet, six by twelve ; frame and moulding room, eight by sixteen, where all kinds of photos are produced in a high degree of perfection, also enlarging of photos, etc. He also keeps a large first class stock of albums, velvet goods, frames mouldings, etc.,, etc.

CHERRY, Harriet, daughter of Jesse and Isa. bella Taylor, was born April 4, 1812, in Frederick county, Virginia. When she was seventeen years old she removed, with her parents, to Lancaster, Ohio, where they remained two years. Then they removed to Fairfield county, Ohio, and lived there seven years, during which time she was married to James Cherry, of Fairfield. 'Two years after their marriage they removed to Indianapolis, Indiana, and remained there for thirty years. Mr. Cherry was a farmer, and followed this occupation during their stay in Indiana. In 1865 they returned to Fairfield county, and located in Millersport, Mr. Cherry engaging in the dry goods business until his death, February 7, 1873. The family remained in Millersport three years after the death of Mr. Cherry, when they removed to Pataskala for a short time, when they removed to Newark, where they have lived ever since. 'The family consists of five children - all girls - Belle, born May 1, 1837; Mary E., born June 12, 1840; Hattie, born April 30, 1842; Katy, born November 3, 1846; Emma, born November 26, 1852. They are all married but Katy, who lives with her mother.

Ciark, Mr, ANson. - The subject of this sketch | was a native of Granville, Massachusetts, where he was born December 29, 1796, and came with his father's family to Granville (then in Fairfield | county), Ohio, November 18, 1807, after a weary journey of forty-seven days, performed with oxteams, that being one of the methods of crossing the Alleghanies in "the days of the pioneers." Mr. Clark acted well his part as a pioneer, as a citizen of the Commonwealth, as a Christian. He was a friend of freedom, of emancipation, of human liberty. Mr. Clark was theoretically and practically an ardent, zealous, consistent advocate of temperance, all his life, having joined the first temperance society organized west of the mountains, more than, fifty years ago, and was always faithful to the pledge then taken. His church membership dates back to 1828, and he ever afterwards to the close of his life, sustained honorable church relations. Mr. Clark was an upright, intelligent, industrious, honest man, and had endeared to him many sympathizing friends. He was distinguished for integrity of purpose, and for devotion to the interests of the poor, the oppressed, and especially to the down-trodden, the crushed slaves. His influence was always exerted 1n behalf of what he esteemed to be truth, justice, right and good morals. The aim of his life was to make his conduct harmonize with the golden rule. The venerable pioneer died July 19, 1877, and was gathered to his fathers at the ripe age of eighty years, six months and twenty-two days.

CLaRK, Hon. A. B. - Mr. A. B. Clark is the son of Anson Clark, and was born in Granville township July r1, 1825. He is essentially of New England origin, his father and mother both being born there, the former in Granville, Massachusetts, and the latter in Burlington, Vermont. In 1835 his father removed to Hartford township, and there gradually opened up a farm aided. by the subject of this sketch, until he reached maturity, meanwhile enjoying the benefits of such schools as then existed in the remote township of this county. To these limited advantages were superadded, during the closing years of his minority, the privileges of aselect school in the village of Hartford. In the meantime he constantly received valuable moral instruction from his father, who impressed upon his mind the infinite importance of a life of purity, honor and virtue, and of faith in Christianity, His father was not unmindful of the importance of the current periodical literature of the times, and furnished his household weekly with the reading of the Oberlin Evangelist, the Mew York Tribune and the National Era. The library of the family was rather limited, and confined chiefly to the style of books of which '"Baxter's Saints' Rest," 'Pilgrims' Prooress," "Hervey's Meditations among the Tombs," and 'Allein's Call to Unconverted Sinners" were fair representatives. This was a style of literature to which an ambitious youth and still less a full grown, young man could scarcely be expected to confine himself, and the subject of this sketch found his remedy in the free use of a tolerably extensive library owned by a neighbor and friend to whose generosity and kindness he was indebted for the opportunities it afforded of acquiring a wider range of information than were afforded by the home library, and it will probably be conceded by those who have made the acquaintance of the then young man of Hartford that he did not permit his opportunities to go unimproved. The desire for mental improvement and the acquisition of knowledge, thus early indulged and cherished, soon became a habit which he has not sought to change, but which has 'grown with his growth, and strengthened with his strength" with each passing year. Mr. Clark entered October 1, 1846, into a life partnership with Miss Mary E. Durant, then a young lady fresh from the green hills of Vermont, whose father had settled in Hartford township. After his marriage he engaged in mercantile pursuits as well as in farming, and served for some years as a justice of the peace, signalizing his official term more as a neighborhood pacificator than by endeavors to mutliply the cases on his docket. He was trained in the school of the early Abolitionists, and was always ready to advocate their peculiar views, and more than willing to assist in giving force and effect, and if possible, success to their measures. Until 1848 heacted with the Abolitionists politicially, then and until 1856 with the Freesoil party, and:in 1856 and ever since with the Republican party. With a taste for literature, and a natural bent for literary labor, he early fell into the habit of writing for the press; it was therefore the most natural thing in the world that he should drift into the editorial chair. Accordingly, in the spring of 1868, he purchased an interest in the Newark American, and since that time, has done the principal editorial work on that paper; and that he is a writer of "pith and point," all who are familiar with the American, will admit. Mr. Clark was postmaster of Newark for eight years, serving from 1869 to 1877; he was also the chosen standard bearer in 1880, of the Republican party, by unanmous nomination, in the Thirteenth Congressional district of Ohio, and was supported by the full vote of his party. Mr. Clark is not only a writer of force and elegance, but also a public speaker of ability and power, and his contributions to the poetical literature of the day possess more than ordinary merit. And, most of all, it can be said of his literary productions, whether poetry or prose, and whether on political topics, temperance, or whatever subject, that their tendency is to edification, to instruction, to enlightment, to mental improvement, to moral elevation. And no less true is this of his elocutionary efforts or public speeches and addresses.

CocKRAN, 'THOMAS; son of Joseph and Susan Cockran, was born April 22, 1831, in Coshocton county. He left his home when but sixteen years of age and went to Mt. Vernon, Knox county, and there learned the plastering trade. He remained there about nine years, then removed to Delaware, Ohio, then to It. Wayne, Indiana, then to Bloomington, Lllinois, then to Iowa City, then to Kansas, then to Arkansas, from here he went into 'Texas, hence to L'lorida, then back to Kansas City, and moved about from place to place fifteen years, and finally settled in Newark in 1875, where he has been living ever since. In 1862 he volunteered in the service of his country's welfare in company I, One Hundred and Twenty-first Ohio volunteer infantry, under Colonel Reed, of Delaware. He received his discharge September 16, 1863. Mr. Cockran was married February 22, 1857, to Angeline Wilcox, of Marysville, Union county. By this marriage they have seven children, six of whom are living: After Mr. Cockran left his home he did not return until he was forty years of age, and since that time he has been to see his folks only three times.

CorrMAN, JOsePH, retired, learned the brickmason trade when about twenty years of age, and has made that the principal occupation of his life. He was born in Page county, Virginia, May 11, 1803, and came to Licking county in September, 1807. He says "the trip was made on horseback, and that he had to ride between two boys, and that he cried frequently during the route." After coming to the county, his father rented a farm and set him, in company with his brothers, to work. Mr. Coffman was married, JJecember 25, 1825, to Maggie Connell, who lived until 1872. They had twelve children. Mr. Coffman married his present wife, Dorcas S. Youse, July 1, 1875.

CorrMan, Davip T., contractor and builder, was born in Newark, Licking county, September 14, 1836; commenced to learn his trade with his father in 1851. His father, Joseph, came to Newark in 1807; is still living, and one of the pioneer settlers of this county. The subject of this sketch was married to Harriet A. Pease, December 19, 1858. They have eight children: Thomas P., born October, 1859; William J., September 29, 1861; Elnora L., November 13, 1863; Harry J., June 25, 1866; Annie M., September 21, 1868 ; Charles R., May 4, 1871;

Mary S., August 25, 1873; Ella D., February 109, 1878. Mrs. Coffman's father was justice of the peace in McKean township, and was elected county treasurer, which office he held four years, and died at the age of fifty-two; her mother is still living, and resides with Mr. Coffman. She was born in 1819. Mr. Coffman remafned in Newark, carrying on the business of building, until the spring of 1865, when he moved to Marshaltown, Marshall county, Iowa; remained there until spring of 1867, when he returned to Newark ; remained in Newark until the spring of 1872, and moved to Jefferson City, Missouri, remaining there until 1875, when he returned to Newark, where he now resides. on the corner of West Main and Pine streets, West Newark. He built the foundation for the Licking county court house.

CorrmMan, THOMAS C., carpenter, was born October 7, 1838, in Newark. His father, Michael Coffman, came to Licking county, with his parents, from Shenandoah county, Virginia, in 1809. He was born in 1806. He remained in Newark, fol lowing the millwright and carpenter business, and was married to Sarah Raymer. There were five children, of whom three died. Hiram H. was born October 7, 1831, 'Thomas C., October 7, 1838. His wife died, and February 14, 1849, he married the second time, Sarah Strous, who was born October 30, 1806, and had one child, Abram, who was born April 17,1850, and died April, 1863. His mother is still living. The subject of this sketch at the age of thirteen went to Indiana, remained about a year, and returned to Newark; remained in Newark some time, and went to Indiana and learned his trade, came home and enlisted in the Third Ohio volunter infantry for three months. He was. the third man that enlisted in company H. He was taken sick and sent to the hospital and mustered out of service at Columbus. He returned to Newark and renlisted in company G, Seventysixth Ohio volunteer infantry for three years; was mustered out after two years, came home, and soon after he went to Illinois. He was married to Susan had seven children. Genere F. was born June 17, 1864; Freddie E. was born March 14, 1867, died February 15, 1870; Wilbert H. was born February 26, 1871, died April 12, 1872; Ruby L. was born March 4, 1873, died in infancy; Jessie L. was born June 20, 1874,; Arthur Z. G. F. was born September r1, 1877; George W., born February 22, 1880. Mr. Coffman remained in Dallas City, Illinois, until 1869, when he returned to Newark where he has since resided.

falo, New York, and afterwards moved to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, then to Zanesville, Ohio, at which place they are now living. His father, Henry C. F. Cook, was born in Germany, May 30, 1814. His mother, Hannah C. L., was born in Germany May 10, 1818. Mr. Cook, when about fourteen years of age, learned the cabinet-makers' trade, and has followed this ever since, and is now in the employ of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad company. In 1875 he came to Newark. He was married to Miss Ida Victora Sessor, daughter of the late Thomas F. Sessor, who was a soldier of the Seventy-sixth Ohio volunteer infantry, and died December 17, 1863, aged thirty-five years, from the effects of a soldier's life. His wife is yet living in Newark at the age of forty-six years. Mrs. Cook was born in Newark, May 7, 1853. She has three brothers and one sister living in Newark.

Cooper, Mrs. SARAH, was born in Zanesville, Ohio, April 2, 1834. She is the daughter of Eliza Brown, now living in Zanesville. She was married to Daniel H. Cooper, November 19, 1857. He was born in Zanesville, July 23, 1833; by occupation he was a railroad engineer - this he learned when quite youug and followed up to the day of his death December 14, 1873; he was killed by the explosion of an engine at Columbus, Ohio. He was the father of four children: Harry C., born November 13, 1858; Fred, born December 29, 1860; Nellie, born April 20, 1867; Cora, born March g, 1873. Mr. Cooper was a soldier in the late war, but on account of ill health was discharged after serving only one year. Mrs. Cooper is one of a family of four sisters and one brother, all living; her mother is aiso living in Zanesville, Ohio. Harry is time-keeper in the Baltimore & Ohio railroad office; Fred is learning the trade of machinist.

ConLey, RICHARD, railroader, was born in Newark, February 12, 1843. When* eighteen years of age he enlisted in company E, Twelfth Ohio volunteer infantry, under Captain Legg, of Newark. He received his discharge July 18, 1864, after serving his term of enlistment - three years. discharge he served a term in the Ohio State prison as a guard. When his term expired at Columbus he returned to Newark and engaged in the railroad business. This occupation has consumed the greater part of his time ever since. He received severe injuries in 1869, occasioned by a colision of a train and engine. Mr. Conley was married July 7, 1868, to Margaret S. Horn, of Newark. They have three children: Mary, Christian M., and William M.

railroad, and has given entire satisfaction to both companies. He has been engaged as an engincer for twelve years. He was born in Brooklyn, New York, August 31, 1847, at 58 Sand street, and came to this county in 1869, settling in Newark, and has lived here since. He was married in 1872 to Margaret S. O'Hare. They have four children; three living and one dead; two boys and two girls. He resides on Canal street.

Coucu, R. B., carpenter and joiner, was born in Linnville, April 15, 1847. He was the son of Eli Couch, of that place. His father died in 1849, in the fortieth year of his age, and his mother died in 1848 at the age of forty years. After his father's death he made his home with J. H. Hupp, with whom he lived until he was thirteen years of age; he then made his home with Jerry Grove, south of Newark. In 1876 he came to Newark. He was married to Ida B. Barber, October 23, 1878. She was born September 20, 1860. They have one child, Jesse, born August 24, 1874. Mr. Couch worked on a farm until 1876; he then learned the carpenter trade and now takes contracts for build ing. He owns the steam saw-mill on West Mill street.

CRANE BROTHERS, No. 119, west side of public square, Newark, dealers in millinery, notions, and dress goods. This firm was established September 1, 1873, by F. A. and O. W. Crane, who have since been conducting the business with success Their business room is eighteen feet wide by one hundred feet deep, which is stocked to repletion with a-variety of attractions that in elegance defy the descriptive genius of the veriest fashion critic. The notions and fancy goods department occupies about one-half of their extensive room, where is to be seen an array of goods simply immense. Hosiery, gloves, ties, sets, collars, cuffs, buttons, lace work, while black dress goods, black colored or fringed silks, fine kid gloves, zephyrs, and Germantown wools seemed to be made a leading specialty. The other half is the millinery department, where are a large stock of hats, trimmed and untrimmed, neat, rich, elegant and beautiful, Bibbons of all kinds and colors. Delicately tinted tips, feathers, plumes, flowers, ornaments, and trimmings by the thousands of all kinds used in a millinery store. Miss F. Ball, a lady of wide experience and excellent taste has charge of the trimming department, conducted in a room thirtytwo by ten feet, where they employ from six to ten ladies. They also employ six efficient salesmen who are always willing and ready to wait on and

Frederick. Maryland, August 27, 1837; went to Baltimore where he learned his trade. Was married to Margaret C. Creager, June 22, 1858. They lived in Baltimore until April 27, 1874, when they moved to Newark. By this marriage they, had three children, Ida, born May 17, 1859; Kate, January 18, 1861; James G., October ro, 1865. Since coming to Newark, Mr. Crum has followed railroading as locomotive engineer.

CurTis, GENERAL SamuEL R. - Samuel R. Curtis lived in Licking county from 1807, the year of his birth, until 1826, when he was admitted as a cadet to West Point military academy. He had been for some time a clerk in the office of the clerk of the court. In 1831, he graduated; was appointed a lieutenant, but resigned his position in the army in 1832, and studied law and practiced his profession for some time. He was chief engineer in the-construction of the dams and public works of the Muskingum, from 1837 to 1840, and afterwards superintended public works in Iowa and Missouri, and served under General Taylor in the Mexican war as a regimental commander and also acted as military governor of a number of towns in the valley of the Rio Grande. General Curtis was elected three times a member of Congress from Iowa; but on the breaking out of the rebellion in-1861, he resigned his seat in Congress and became a major general in the Union army, in which he served with credit and honor. General Curtis was also chosen a member of the Peace congress, and held other honorable positions. He died at Council Bluffs, Iowa, December 25, 1866 in the sixtieth year ot his age.

CUNNINGHAM, PATRICK, AND OTHERS. - Patrick Cunningham was a Scotch-Irishman, born in the Province of Ulster. When quite a young man he emigrated to Maryland, and espousing the cause of his adopted country he served in the Reyvolutionary war. A few years before his death, having met with reverses in fortune, he succeeded in obtaining a pension from the United States government. He was an educated gentleman of the old school, very reticent in his disposition, particularly neat in his dress and person, and from his persistence in wearing gloves, knee breeches, and buckels, was considered very eccentric by his pioneer neighbors. He was married three times, and died about the year 1835, and was, at the time of his death, supposed to be over eighty years of age. His first wife was killed by the upsetting ofa sleigh. By her he had but two children, viz.:_ William and Thomas Cunningham. From his second marriage there were four children, viz: John, sr., Joseph, Ann and Polly. After the death of his second wife he again married, from which marriage there were no children.

CUNNINGHAM, WILLIAM, son of Patrick and father of John, jr., married Elizabeth Moore and with his family, consisting of his wife and one child (John, jr.), removed from Carlisle, Pennsylvania, to Newark in 1811. He enlisted in Captain Spencer's rifle company and served in the War of 1812; was present at Hull's surrender, and subsequently re-enlisting, died in camp at Franklinton, Franklin county, Ohio, in March, 1814. A letter written by this pioneer soldier upon a drum-head, by the light of a camp-fire, at the time of the surrender, and yet in the possesston of his son, John Cunningham (who is now eighty years of age), is a fine specimen of composition and penmanship.