BlockMuskingum County, Ohio - Chapter 9: Schools, 1882 (part 2 of 2)
From 1794. History of Muskingum County, Ohio, with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Prominent Men and Pioneers, published 1882. 343 words, reproduced complete and unedited. Source changes inside the text are labelled in place.
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He always takes a lively interest in literary and political matters. Is a frequent contributor to several scientific, medical, and pharmaceutical journals, and is a welcome contributor to the columns of the several newspapers of Zanesville. For several years past he has taJjen an active interest in municipal political proceedings. For six years he was a valued member of the Board of Education, was snbsequently a member of the village Council of Putnam, and became prominent as an able advocate of the annexation of Putnam to the city of Zanesville - an. event which was brought about in a great measure through his earnest and well directed labors. After the accomplishment and ratification of that annexation, the members of the dominant party elected him on the Republican ticket to represent them in the City Council for two years. After the expiration of his first term he has been continued as a member of the City Council to the present, with the exception of one year. During his long service as a member of the Council he has been presiding officer three terms successively, and during the fierceness of political debate, when excitement ran high, his decisions were characterized with deliberation and fairness. He conceived the idea of beginning the City Parks, and at once gave his conceptions shape, and planted out the trees on Putnam Hill, known at this time as Putnam Hill Park. So devoted was he to the development of this park that the newspapers of the day dubbed him the " Daddy of the Park."
During the exciting times of what was known as the Temperance Crusade, he had the moral courage to write an ordinance, and work for the repeal of the prohibitory ordinance which was then in force. He thought by so doing he was materially lessening the evils resulting from the stringency of the prohibitory ordinance.
He was married April 2d, 1856, to Elizabeth Jane Irvine, who died in 1859. June 7th, 1860, he was again married to Mary L. Eansom, of Coshocton, Ohio, who still lives.
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