Muskingum County, Ohio - Chapter 45, 1892 (part 11 of 31)

The history of the real estate business in Zanesville, is different from that of most other American cities in that it is characterized neither by periods when prices were unreasonably inflated, nor by times when property could be purchased far below its actual value. Zanesville, conservative from the very first of its history, has suffered only when the entire country has been demoralized by panic. After the laying out of Zanesville and its sister villages on the opposite bank of the river, the rise in the prices of realty was unusually steady, although slow, until 1836, when the figures reached by property in the heart of the town were almost as high as at present. The terrific panic which swept over the United States the following year, dragged real estate here as everywhere else, to the bott m. Instances are cited where valuable lots in the most thoroughly desirable locations, were sold in 1837, at seventy per cent, less than the prices at which they had been bought twelve months before. The recovery was not rapid, and it was nearly 1850 before property owners could realize anything like the actual value of their town lots. However, after 1851 there was a steady, healthy advance, continuing without interruption until 1866, when property was sold at better prices than ever before in the history of the town. A noticeable feature of this advance was that it affected suburban property as never before. After this time there was little or no increase of the actual selling prices of Zanesville real estate. It held its own, but as practically none had been bought for purely speculative purposes, it was not pushed beyond its real value. In 1873 of course "everything went.'' The recovery of real estate values was slow, it being some time before Zanesville property would bring what it was actually worth. After getting back to the ante-panic figures, there was little if any advance. A good deal of city property was on the market, but sales were not numerous, as owners were not willing to make concessions and buyers were not eager. This state of affairs continued until 1886, the autumn of which year marked the beginning of a new area in local real estate business. The occasion was the first speculation of any magnitude in suburban property, - the platting of the beautiful farm of the Hon. H. J. Jewett, "Fair Oaks," just south of Putnam. The first sale of lots look place in October, and the sales for the single day aggregated $24,000, the lots bringing an average price of $175. Since that the increase of the sales and prices of suburban property has been gratifying. The revival of Putnam property, which began at that time, has continued and still continues. Immediately after this came the advance in property on the Terrace; where in a great many cases lots have doubled, and in some instances trebled, in value. Natchez, also came in for an appreciation in the prices of its lots, with and without improvements. Lots in the higher land in this locality which four years ago brought $350, are now ready sellers at over $500. Property on Marietta street and adjacent has also steadily advanced ; many improvements have been made; and there is less property for sale in this section than in any other part of the city. With the rise of suburban real estate there has naturally come an appreciation of that in the heart of the town. Main street property has slowly and surely advanced and at present there is little or no property on that street in the market. There is also a great scarcity of purchasable property on the streets crossing Main - particularly west of Sixth street. Among the recent advances may be noticed that in the northern part of the city, it having been affected by the bridge now in course of construction at Underwood street. When completed, this bridge is, of course, also bound to cause an increase in values on the Terrace - especially the upper part. It is to be noted that, despite the advances on property here in the past four years, real estate still sold at more reasonable figures than the prices of similar property in other places of Zanesville's size and importance. The recent increases have been from below the real values to the actual worth of real estate - not from its real value to a point above.

South Zanesville, the new manufacturingannex is situated in the broad and beautiful valley immediately south of Zanesville, and is only a few hundred feet from the corporation line of the latter place. The new town was founded by the South Zanesville Land Company in the early spring of 1890, and was platted under the management of W. J. Finley. The first lot was sold in the new town May 10, 1890. Since that time the place has sprung up with magic quickness. Industrial hum, energy and force are witnessed on every hand. New buildings, new methods, new industries are the potent exigencies of the hour. Great care has been exercised in the laying out of streets, alleys and parks. Its lots are large and are generally occupied by cozy cottages, which give an air of comfort and plenty to the place, and bespeak the thrift and prosperous condition of its inhabitants. South Zanesville possesses some of the richest veins of clay to be found in the Muskingum Valley. Numerous veins of shale and potters' clay are found here in abundance. Several good veins of sand, both molding and sharp sand, in most any quantity, coal of the best quality is founu adjacent to the town. The water supply of the place is fine and in keeping with the numerous other advantages. Strictly speaking, South Zanesville is a manufacturing town. Its modern factories are a pride to the place, and constitute the bone and sinew of the village. The leading enterprise in the new town is a large paving-brick works, a stoneware plant, spoke and wheel works, foundry and machine shops, buggy factory, clay specialty works, and soap factory. This large variety of works gives employment to quite a number of hands in different classes of trade. The railroad facilities of South Zanesville are of the very best. The Cincinnati & Muskingum Valley Railway, the Columbus, Shawnee & Hocking Railway and the Zanesville Terminal Railway pass directly through the town, giving direct connection with all the railways diverging out of Zanesville and the large number of roads that cross the southeastern portion of Ohio. Although not an incorporated town, South Zanesville is making giant strides upward and onward. The new town has several enterprising stores, meat market, postoffice, express office, and railroad office. A new graded-school building will be erected in the town thisseason. Telephone connection is had with all the principal places. Taking South Zanesville as a whole, with all her new dwellings, stores, factories and handsome new depot just now in construction, she is a marvel of completeness. The population of the place numbers something over 600 inhabitants.

Tiledale is the beautiful piece of land lying just across River street from the immense new works of the American Encaustic Tiling Company, embracing over seventy acres of land, and will furnish convenient sites for the homes of the employes of these great works. The streets and roadways are now being graded and on and after the 19th day of April, the date of the opening of the tile works, these lots will be offered for sale. Following are a few of the advantages offered to purchasers of lots in Tiledale: They are nearer the tile works than any other lots. They are on sandy and gravel soil, insuring dry cellars and good sewerage. Over thirty acres of them are level and need no grading. The roadways are now being nicely graded. The city water mains, with fire plugs, run along River street, the east front of Tiledale, offering fire protection. The water mains will be extended into the streets of Tiledale. The city gas mains are there also. Tiledale also has beautiful lots on the bluffs, on a level with and connected with the Dresden road, covered with a growth of forest trees, a natural park. The next extension of the Electric street railroad will probably be to Tiledale, along River street. A nicely graded and romantic avenue will be opened through Tiledale, connecting the Dresden road with River street. Tiledale lots will be sold on easy payments. T. F. Spangler & Co. are the sole agents for Tiledale. The real estate dealers of the city, other than the two above mentioned are George Brown, who is pushing Owens' addition to Zanesville which has the Owens' pottery as its nucleus; A. E. Ames, J. H. Gantt, F. S. Gates, H. S. Moody, Homer White and J. B. Wilson.

Zanesville as she stands at this time, surrounded by her limitless wealth of minerals and farming lands; with her network of railroads, leading out in every direction; with her general beauties of broad, well-shaded and well-paved streets; beautiful homes; with her general healthiness; with nearly one thousand manufacturing and mercantile concerns, transacting a volume of trade reaching fully $10,000,000 annually; completely lighted by electricity; having a telephone exchange with five hundred patrons; fine schools; beautiful churches; elegant court house; the finest opera house in the state and the second largest public hall in Ohio, and every line of trade represented by houses of sterling merit and worth; with all these permanent advantages and such bright prospects for her future, can scarcely be eulogized too warmly. To-day she is a handsome city of a goodly population the entrepot and base of supplies for the entire southeastern portion of the state, and her manufactured products find a ready sale throughout the length and breadth of the land. As a rule, the manufacturers and merchants are men who exercise much enterprise in the prosecution of their various ventures. They are men who believe that whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well, and so they cultivate their trade; aim to develop friendly feelings and to secure business to themselves and to bind prosperity, to the city by bands as soft as silk, yet as powerful as steel. They are cultivated, courteous and hospitable, and extend a welcome to industrious laborers, enterprising tradesman and judicious capitalists.

The Zanesville Board of Trade is one of the city's most credible institutions. Several efforts were made in a more or less remote past to establish such an institution, but is was not until in 1886 that anything like a successful organization was secured. In March, 1886, a preliminary meeting was held and a constitution and set of by-laws were drafted, which were formally adopted April 12, 1886. The first officers elected were as follows: President, M. Churchill; first vice-president, Edgar M. Hatton; second vice-president, F. G. Darlington; secretary, William M. Shinnick, Jr.; treasurer, G. H. Stewart. Much good has been accomplished by the organization during their six years' existence. A permanent board of trade room has been established and fitted up, a salaried secretary placed in charge and the organization has moved along swimmingly, gaining with each year a firmer hold upon public respect and confidence. The wisdom of having such an organization in successful operation is best demonstrated when it is remembered that it was largely due to the efforts of this board that the national government assumed control of the Muskingum river and has been making extensive improvements on it; that the board was the chief promoter of the movement for street paving in Zanesville; that to its efforts the citizens are indebted for the Vitrified Sewer pipe works in Fair Oaks; and that it was the board that secured the American Encaustic Tile Co.'s new plant for the city. The various committees of the organization are carefully constituted and discharge the tasks assigned to them most effectively. The officers elected in April, 1891, for the ensuing year were as follows: Geo. R. Fox, president; W. W. Harper, first vice-president; A. E. Starr, second-vicepresident; Wm. S. Bell, secretary; Alex. Grant, treasurer. Directors: Charles Brendel, Rufus Burton, A. O. Jones, Wilbur McCoy, H. C. Van Vorhis, John Hoge, Wm. Kirk, S. A. Baldwin, J. Hope Sutor, A. P. Pinkerton. The organization is composed of Zanesville's leading and most enterprising business men, and is doing a grand work for the city.

Journalism in Zanesville has kept pace with the rapid progress of the city, and there are here a number of live, enterprising newspapers, conducted upon the highest plane of journalistic management. The local papers are vigorous educators of honest public sentiment, ever having the best interests of the people at heart and makingall other interestssubservientthereto. There are at present twelve papers in all, published daily, weekly or monthly. The daily papers are the Signal , Courier, Penny Press and Timcs-Recorder the first three being evening editions while the latter is a morning paper. The Sunday News, Labor Journal, Die Zanesville Post, Weekly Times- Recorder, Weekly Courier, Semi- Weekly Signal, Weekly Press, Saturday Night, and the Political Horoscope, are the leading weekly publications; while the Ohio Farmers' Journal is published monthly. The editorial and business staffs of the dailies are composed of some of the brightest minds in journalism in Southeastern Ohio, and each has a corps of competent special correspondents in various sections of the country. The press of Zanesville and Muskingum maintains the freedom of discussion so peculiarly American, and while in her editorial ranks are found men with all the divergence of political opinions, yet they are among the most fraternal to be found in any community. The important points in the history of Zanesville journalism are included in the history of three of her dailies and weeklies, the Courier, the Signal and the Times-Recorder.

Although the Courier only dates its inception to November 11, 1845, when it first made its appearance under its present title, it shows an unbroken lineage which carries it back and shows it to be the ligitimate successor of the Express, which was the first paper published in Zanesville, and first made its appearance in 1810. The Express was the beginning of the Whig organ of Muskingum county, and though in those early days the field was ofttimes uninviting, the editors of the little sheet held title was changed to the Express and Advertiser and J. H. Putnam & Co., the founders of the plant were succeeded by O'Hara & Bennett. Under this management the paper continued until in 1823, when " that old, pioneer politician, Colonel David Chambers," took the editorial chair and Adam Peters became the publisher, and the first number of the Ohio Republic appeared, strongly opposing the election of Andrew Jackson to the Presidency and advocating the Whig doctrines. Occupying this position in the Whig party, the paper continued under various managements to be the exponent of its party until November 11, 1845, when David H. Lyman purchased the establishment, and on that day issued the first number of the Zanesville Courier. Under the control of editor Lyman the Courier became one of the leading journals of the state.

On June 21, 1846, the Zanesville Daily Courier was born, but evidently was born too early as its publishers were forced to abandon it in the fall of 1847 from lack of support, and a tri-weekly sheet was substituted. December 16, 1850, Wo. Daily Courier again made its appearance, and has been making its rounds among the people ever since. In 1858 the Zanesville Gazette , a paper started about 1830 by Uriah Parke, was consolidated with the Courier , and while the daily retained its old name the title of the weekly was changed to the Weekly Courier and Gazette. Up to this time it had never been upon a paying basis, but in June, 1861, Mr. John T. Shryock became sole proprietor and brought the plant on a solid footing. « After the close of the war in 1865, Col. J. C. Douglass, of Cambridge, Ohio, located in Zanesville and, with Gen. M. D. Leggett, his old commander, purchased from Mr. Shryock the Courier plant. They took charge in November of that year, with Col. Douglas as the managing editor. A few months later Capt. T. J. Newman purchased a one-third interest, assuming the business management. Soon after Gen. Leggett sold his interest to J. H. Dodd, and the firm became Douglas, Newman & Dodd.

In 1871 Col. Douglas was appointed postmaster of Zanesville and disposed of his interest in the Courier to the remaining partners. The firm of Newman & Dodd conducted the business until 1876, when R. B. Brown was admitted to the partnership. These three gentlemen remained the owners of the plant until in the summer of 1889, when the Courier Company was organized. Of this company, T. J. Newman was president, L. K. Dodd vice-president, J.H. Dodd, secretary and treasurer, and R. B. Brown

The history of the Democratic press of Muskingum county begins with the Muskingum Messenger , which began its career in 1810, and continued for some twenty-five years to be one of the most prominent journals then published in Ohio. In 1832, however, the journal broke from the main wing of the Democratic party and took sides with Calhoun and the "Nullifiers," and in 1837 closed its career as a Democratic journal. In 1833 the Democratic Union was started to take the place of the Messenger as a Democratic organ, but the title was soon after changed to the Aurora. Under this title the Democratic organ passed through many hands during the stormy years elapsing between 1834 and 1864, and in February, of that year, entirely disappeared; it was not until 1865 that the stock company known as the Signal Printing Company was organized. In August, 1865, this company began the publication of the Zanesville Daily and Weekly Signal , with Mr. D. B. Linn as editor. In 1870, under the management of Mr. J. T. Irvine the daily was suspended and only the weekly published. November 1, 1883, Mr. Irvine sold out his interest to the Gaumer Bros., who ran the paper until May, 1887, when Mr. J. T. Irvine again entered the office, purchasing the interest of T. M. Gaumer, and was identified with the paper until January 16, 1889, when Mr. D. II. Gaumer purchased the entire plant, which he has since owned and edited.

The Signal is a six-column, eight-page, daily edition, and the Saturday edition is a seven-column, eight-page edition. The Semi- Weekly Signal is an eight-column, four-page paper, published Mondays and Thursdays. Under Mr. Gaumer's efficient administration the paper has grown to be the best exponent of its party principles in Southeastern Ohio, and is in a most flourishing condition. Mr. Gaumer has been a member of the state senate for this district and is well known throughout Ohio.

On the first day of September, 1852, Messrs. Jacob Glessner and John B. Roberts, under the firm name of Glessner & Roberts, started the City Times. It was a non-partisan weekly paper, and wasissued from a frame building on South Fifth street, just below where the old post-office stood. It was printed on a steam power press, the first of that kind ever used in Zanesville. In 1853 Mr. Glessner bought his partner's interest in the City Times and continued its publication at the old office until 1857, when he removed the establishment to the building which still stands at the southeast corner of Fifth and Main. In 1864 Mr. Glessner sold out to Messrs. Logan & Dodd, who published the paper for fifteen months, when they disposed of their interest to Messrs. Cooper, Ehrman & Evans. Within, perhaps a year, this firm was succeeded in its turn by Gov." John Greiner, of Whig songs' fame, and very shortly he sold out to one Brown, of Belmont county. After a brief ownership Mr. Brown transferred his interest to W. W. Pyle, of McConnelsville, and subsequently Capt. E. Z. Hayes, now of Coshocton county, became a partner of Mr. Pyle for a short time. Meanwhile the publishers had removed to the Maginnis block, and later to the building at the corner of Court and Fountain alleys.

In the spring of 1876 Messrs. Pyle & Hayes issued a Sunday edition which they called the Sunday Times , discontinuing the Weekly City Times. In November of 1876, the Sunday Times was discontinued and a daily paper launched into existence, which its publishers called the Daily Times. In February of 1877, the establishment at the corner of Court and Fountain alleys burned out and publication ceased until the following June, when, the structure being rebuilt, the paper was again issued by a co-operative company, of which E. R. Sullivan was manager and W. W. Pyle editor. The latter became sole proprietor of the Daily and Weekly Times in 1881, and was succeeded in 1883 by a company composed of Messrs. W. E. Krebs. W. H. Cunningham, Jr., Thomas Campbell and Thomas E. Taylor, who published the Times until January 1, 1885, although Jesse Atwell was practically the owner by reason of a chattel mortgage which he held against the concern. On the latter date Mr. Atwell, Edward Spencer, of Adamsville. O., and Rev. M. W. Acton formed a co-partnership which resulted in merging Mr. Atwell's Daily and Weekly Times , Mr. Spencer's Adamsville Register and Mr. Acton's District Visitor , a Zanesville weekly publication, into the Daily Times-Recorder and the Weekly Times- Recorder and Visitor. This partnership lasted about three weeks, when both Mr. Atwell and Mr. Acton retired, leaving Mr. Spencer sole proprietor.

the entire establishment, Mr. Spencer becoming a stockholder and accepting the post of editor, and D. J. Richards that of business manager. When the Times-Recorder Company took hold of the Daily and Weekly Times-Recorder , the word " Visitor" being dropped, the former was a seven-column and the latter a nine-column (folio) paper, and both faced competitors possessing ample capital and with the prestige of age and success. Under the exceedingly able business management of David J. Richards, aided by the mental force displayed by the editor, Mr. Spencer, the Daily and Weekly Times Recorder immediately entered upon a career of extraordinary growth and success. Month by month and year by year, the Times-Recorder Company has extended the circulation of its publications and the scope of their influence until the Daily Times-Recorder , an eight-column folio, ranks among the brightest, ablest and newsiest of the inland Ohio dailies, while the weekly, now a superb seven-column quarto, is regarded as having few equals outside of those published in the great cities of the country. Mr. Spencer severed his connection with the Times-Recorder about January 1, 1889. Business Manager Richards also retired from active work, though retaining an interest in the establishment, on the 6th of March, 1890, and was succeeded by Thos. W. Lewis, as business manager. June 1, 1892, Mr. Lewis resigned, and was succeeded by Mr. J. F. Halloran, who now has business and editorial charge of the paper.

The Times-Recorder Company occupy their own building at No. 14 South Fifth street. The location is an exceedingly good one, being but a few steps from Main street, in the heart of the city, and their large, new building affords facilities for the operations of their business rarely excelled. The office has a frontage on Fifth street of thirty-four feet, and back of that stands the company's new building, reaching to the alley at the rear, embracing editorial, composing, press and job rooms, and having a floor space of 8,160 square feet. The company recently bought three magnificent new presses and equipped the concern with new type, with a part of which latter their publications were given a new dress, and these additions have placed the establishment in a position to take the head of the procession as publishers and job printers.

The Zanesville Penny Press is the pioneer penny daily of the Muskingum Valley. The first issue, April 1, 1891, was a five-column folio, and it was very popular from the start. In three months another column was added. It is independent in politics, fearless in its advocacy of the right and in denouncing the wrong. The first issue of the Weekly Press appeared April 6, 1892, and is an eight-page paper also independent in politics. W. 0. Munson is the editor and manager of both papers.

The News is the original and at present the only Sunday newspaper of Zanesville, and since its establishment in 1884 has outlived four would-be rivals. It endeavors to occupy the same field filled by the daily on the other days of the week, and it is no exaggeration to say that the News is highly successful in this respect. Since the paper passed under the control of its present proprietor, Chas. U. Shryock, in 1888, a complete job printing department has been added, and the facilities for the execution of this class of work is unexcelled by offices in much larger cities. The present home of the news is at 21 North Fifth street, but the proprietor is making arrangements to occupy his own building at no distant day. Mr. Shryock is a native of Zanesville, where he was born in 1863, and after learning the printer's trade, spent several years in work on metropolitan papers. Returning to Zanesville in 1885, he spent three years in journalistic work on the local daily press, and since purchasing the News in 1888 has stamped prosperity upon that plant in unmistakable characters. His father, John T. Shryock, has been connected with the Zanesville press since 1859, and his name will be found elsewhere in these pages.

The Zanesville Post, issued from 41 and 43 South Sixth street, by A. Schneider, who founded it in 1872, is the only German paper published in Muskingum, Guernsey, Noble, Morgan, Perry and Licking counties. It is a four-page, eight column sheet, independent in politics.

Societies And Associations Of Zanesville

incorporated organization. Its officers are James C. Gillespie, president; John C. Stonesipher, secretary; R. D. Schultz, treasurer. Zanesville Masonic Temple, at the northwest corner of North Fourth and Market streets, was erected in 1857. Lodge of Amity, No. 5, F. & A. M. (Symbolic), was chartered June 24, 1805. Stated communications are held Friday evening on or before full moon. Herman Achauer, worshipful master; R. D. Schultz, senior warden; Henry Rockel, junior warden; Charles H. Brendel, secretary; L. Steinfeld, treasurer, and the present officers. Lafayette Lodge No. 79, F. & A. M. (Symbolic), was chartered January 12, 1826. Stated communications are held the first Thursday evening of each month, The officers are William II. Bolin, worshipful master; John C. Mercer, senior warden; Will T. Lewis, junior warden; S. R. Moore, secretary; John P. Ford, treasurer. Zanesville Chapter, No. 9, R. A. M. (capitular), was chartered January 15,1823. Stated communications are held on the first Monday evening of each month. L. Stcinfeld is most excellent high priest; A. E. Allman, king; John Hartmeyer, scribe; Allen Hunter, secretary; James C. Gillespie, treasurer. Zanesville Council, No. 12, R. & S. M. (Cryptic), organized February, 1884, has its stated assemblies on the second Thursday evening of each month. John Hartmeyer is T. I. M.; A. E. Allman, D. I. M.; Thomas Swan, P. C. of W.; John P. Ford, treasurer; H. C. Waterman, recorder; P'rank Meyers, C. of G.; Harry Rockel, C. of C.; Alva B. Stock, steward; George W. Harris, sentinel. Golden Rule Lodge, No. 30, colored masons, was chartered June 20, 1870. Meets first Tuesday evening of each month in the hall at the corner of Main and Second streets. W. H. Pinn is worshipful master; John Bonnett, senior warden; FI d ward Meeford, junior warden; John Hunnicutt, secretary; James Norris, treasurer. Quinn Chapter, No. 15, meets on the second Tuesday evening of each month. Joseph Barnett is high priest; M. Simpson, king; John Hargraves, scribe; Jas. A. Guy, treasurer; John Hunnicutt, secretary. Malta Commandery, No. 1 7, meets on the third Tuesday evening of each month. J. H. Hargraves, eminent comniander; M. Simpson, general; J. B. Reynolds, C. G.; lames A. Guy, scribe; William Finn, treasurer, are the officers. Esther Court, No. 9, meets on the first and third Fridays of each month in the hall at the corner Main and First streets. Sister Alice Green is M. A. H.; Sister Ella Hamilton, Jr. IT; Sister Elizabeth Grant, treasurer.; Sister Lizzie Pinn, secretary; Wm. H.Pinn.F. J.

Odd Fellows. - Muskingum Lodge, No. 28, meets every Tuesday evening in Odd Fellows' Temple, 100 Main street. J. F. Garrett is noble grand; J. C. Illegal, vice grand; Al. E. Gary, permanent secretary; Robert Bowman, recording secretary; Louis F. Smith, treasurer; D. B. Gary Jr., Robert Thompson, George Kerner, trustees. It was chartered May 11, 1844. Moxahala Lodge, No. 144, instituted February 21, 1850, meets every Monday evening in Odd Fellows' Hall, 100 Main street. J. J. Forsythe is noble grand; S. J. Wills, vice grand; Edward Gigax, permanent secretary; John Myer, recording secretary; Charles F. Hearing, treasurer. Woodlawn Lodge, No. 228, instituted March 16, 1864, meets every Tuesday evening at Odd Fellow's' Hall, Putnam avenue, Ninth ward. E. J. Manley is noble grand; J. J. Drake, vice grand; C. W. Johnson, recording secretary; John H. Drake, permanent secretary; David Gobel, treasurer; George E. Williams, James Shaw, John Parshall, trustees. Mechanics' Lodge, No. 230, chartered February 5, 1854, meets every Thursday evening in Odd Fellows' Temple, 100 Main street, C. S. Richardson is noble grand; A. E. Howell, vice grand; J. Id. Coke, permanent secretary; Ambrose Blocksom, recording secretary; W. Dryfus, treasurer; G. R. Humphreys, Robert Atherton, Joseph Purcell, trustees. Mozart Lodge, No. 423, meets every Wednesday evening in Odd Fellows' Temple, 100 Main street. J. Beckhardt is noble grand; A. Berkstein, vice grand; August Miller, permanent secretary ; C. Russe, recording secretary; Philip Hoffman, treasurer. Odd F'ellows' Hall Association, meets on the first Tuesday of each month at Odd Fellows' Temple, at 7:30 p. m. George D. Gibbons is president; Isaac Humphrey, secretary ; George A. Allen, treasurer; George D. Gibbons, Robert Thompson, Edward Gigax, George Kenner, William L. Langton, Eugene Printz, Louis F. Smith. Elizabeth Lodge, No. 26, Daughters of Rebekah, instituted January 12, 1870, meets each alternate Saturday evening in Odd Fel lows' Temple, 100 S. Main street. Mrs. Anna Stinger is noble grand; Mrs. Louisa Harris, vice grand; Mrs. Agnes Herman, permanent secretary; Mrs. Harrington, recording secretary; John IT Andrews, treasurer. Howard Encampment, No. 79, instituted March 31, 1845, meets first and third Eriday evenings of each month in Odd Fellows' Temple, 100 Main street. George A. Murdock, C. P.; John A. Morrow, high priest; W. S. Vogel, senior warden; J. B. Stockdale, junior warden; Wolf Dryfus, treasurer; W. R. Hazlett, scribe. Canton Nova, No. 9, Patriarchs Militant. Regular meeting on the second Friday evening of each month. Drill fourth P'riday evening of each month in Odd Fellows' Temple, 100 Main street. James A. Taylor, commandant; George Williams, lieutenant; Charles Hess, ensign; J. A. Miner, clerk; W. B. Deacon, accountant. The Odd Fellows' Beneficial Association of Muskingum Valley, organized April 26, 1869, has its regular annual meeting on the second Tuesday in January at Odd Fellows' Temple, Zanesville. George Rishtine is president; J.

Grand Army of the Republic. - Hazlett Post, No. 81, meets every Monday evening in G. A. R. Hall, Memorial building, N. Fifth street. It was organized June 1, 1881, with the following charter members: C. C. Goddard, W. S. Harlan, T. J. Newman, A. H. Watts, Andros Guille, R. F. Smart, J. W. Martin, Alfred Ball, D. B. Gary, FYederick Geiger, George A. Gardner, Fenton Bagley, Howard Aston, J. H. Drake, R. B. Brown, A. H. PAans, D. Zimmer, Finos F. Taylor, A. F. Munson, Charles Grant, J. W. Pinkerton, Moses M. Granger, P'rederick C. Dietz, C. W. Potwin, Samuel L. Wiles, M. V.

geant major; Charles F. Willey, quartermaster sergeant; W. S. Maxwell, L. F. Langton, R. J. J. Harkins, trustees. Hazlett Relief Corps, No. 11 (auxiliary to Hazlett Post), meets first and third Thursday evenings of each month in Memorial hall, N. Fifth street. Mrs. Lida Van- Horn, president; Mrs. Lucy Mack, secretary; Mrs. Lizzie Taylor, treasurer.

G. ; C. J. Heckman, deputy. Zanesville Lodge, No. 172, meets every Thursday evening in Castle hall, Main street. Moses Frank is C. C.; Fred F'riesinger, V. C.; Jacob Eppley, Prelate; Charles Spoerl, K. of R. and S.; Simon Tenser, M. of F. Star Lodge, No. 30, meets each alternate Monday evening in the Athenmum. A. P. Cusac is Diet.; C. W. Smith, Vice Diet.; J. Doudna, Past Diet.; L. W. Welling, Asst. Diet.; J. H. Drake, Rep.; W. S. Ball, Fin. Rep.; B. W. Jones, Treas.; W. W. Roach, Chap.; John Huskins, Guide; George W. Grim, Sent.; J. Doudna, John Huskins, T. E. Richards, Trustees. Zanesville Lodge, No. 31 54, instituted March 25, 1885, meets alternate Monday evenings at Athenaeum hall, S. Fifth street. Samuel Hamilton is Diet.; G. F. Kemp, Vice Diet.; E. H. Hamilton, Asst. Diet.; F. C. McCaddon, Rep.; A. P. Clark, Fin. Rep.; H. E. Printz, Treas.; L.

Knights and Ladies of Honor. - Jewel Lodge, No. 322, meets each alternate Thursday in Athenaeum building, South P'ifth street. M rs. C. C. Curtis, Protector; Pill is G. Ivtzler, Vice Protector; W. II. Haworth, Secretary; C. E. Brooks,

Grand United Order of Odd F'ellows. - Guiding Star Lodge, No. 1880, chartered July 30, 1878, meets on the 1st and 3d Monday evenings of each month in the hall at 166 Main street. W. P'. Jones is N. G.; Wm. Grayson, V. G.; T. J. Brown, N. P\; T. M. Tate, Per. Secretary; W. M. Pinn, Recording Secretary; Augustus Carlisle, Treasurer. Zanesville Patriarchs, No. 51, meets on the second Tuesday evening of each month in the hall at 166 Main street. J. H. Hargraves is Capt.; W. F. Jones,

Royal Arcanum - Hope Council, No. 82, instituted April 16, 1868, meets on the 1st and - 3d Monday evenings of each month over the Citizen's National Bank. John L. Smith is Regent; George E. Glossman, V. Regent; John

American Legion of Honor. - Lincoln Council, No. 354, meets on the 2d and 4th Tuesday evenings of each month in citizens National Bank building, second floor. PL E. Lorimeris Com.; Thomas Coulton, Vice Com.; W. Id. Pierpont, Secretary; R. J. Brown, Collector; A. V. Smith, Treasurer.

Ancient Order United Workmen - Zane Lodge, No. 30, meets on the 1st and 4th Tuesday evenings of each month in the hall over the postoffice. T. IL Kerr is MAV.; D. B. Gary, Financier; John McCaslin, Recorder; John Baltsly, Foreman; Howard Aston, Receiver.

A. A. of I. and S. W. - A. A. of I. and S. W. meets at the northwest corner of Sixth and Main streets, in the Curran Block, every other Saturday evening. Wm. R. Matthews is President; Charles Denner, Secretary.

B. P. O. Elks - Zanesville Lodge, No. 114, meets each alternate Wednesday evening in Elks' Hall, Masonic Building. John A. Morrow is Exalted Ruler; S. A. Baldwin, F.st.

Knights of Labor - Buckeye Assembly, No. 2444, meets every Tuesday evening in Trades and Labor Hall, at the corner of Main and Fifth streets. J. J. Roll is M. W.; Jas. A. Panton, W. F. ; Jos. A. Bauer, R. S.; P'red P'actor, Treasurer. Mayflower Assembly, No. 469, meets every Thursday evening in Knights of Labor Hall. Samuel Campbell is M. W.; Charles Coverdale, W. F\; E. T. Roberts, R. S.; John McDonald, F. S.; Rufus Chidester, Treasurer. Zane Assembly, No. 2688, meets every Monday evening at Labor Hall; Henry Vogt is M. W.; Frank Long, W. F.; Charles Akerson, R. S.; George Spangler, F. S.; John Purcell, Treasurer. Cigar Makers' International Union - Zanesville Union, No. 173, meets the 1st Monday evening of each month; A. Wharton is President; P. D. McCann, Vice- President; P. A. Carr, Secretary; M. McCabe,

E. F\ McGovern, James McCarty, P. A. Carr, Board of Trustees. The Muskingum County Undertakers' Association meets on the second Monday of each month at Arnold & Bateman's undertaking rooms. J. L. Reed (White Cottage), President; F. F. Mader (Zanesville), Treasurer; W. M. Bateman (Zanesville), Secretary.

every Thursday evening in Painters' Union hall, Main street. Wm. Wells is P. P.; Wm. H. Tanner, president; J. Crooks, vice president and M. of F. and S.; Benj. Highfield, recording secretary; S. C. Scott, financial secretary; C. E. Maneely, treasurer; Wm. Wells, chaplain; D. P. Mercer, W. M. Wells, John Henderson, trustees.

The National Union. - Putnam Council, No. 162, meets on the last Wednesday of each month over the Citizens' National Bank, Main street. H. L. Anderson is president; T. W. Lewis, vice president; Ed. Gigax, secretary; Thomas Scott, financial secretary; H. Limbacher, treasurer.

The Ancient United Order of Druids. - ConcordiaGrove.No. 13, instituted May 3, 1858, meets every Tuesday evening in Athenaeum hall, 32 South Fifth street, Jacob Paulus, N. A.; Edmund Ritzer, V. A.; Adam Pfeifer, secretary; P'rank Kaechele, treasurer; Charles Brendel, David Goodman, August Shaum, trustees.

Rechabites. - Banner Tent, No. in, instituted August 12, 1880, meets Thursday evenings in the hall over post-office. FJdwinBall is D. R ; Geo. Vaughn, recording secretary. Excelsior Tent, No. 80, instituted March 21, 1879, meets every Friday evening in Athenaeum hall, South Fifth. W. C. Hager is recording secretary. Lily of the Valley Tent, No. 27, meets each alternate Friday evening in the hall over the post-office. Miss Allie Lampton, recording secretary. Matthews Junior Tent, No. 12, meets every Wednesday evening in Athenaeum hall, South Fifth street. David Matthews, recording secretary. Peerless Tent, meets every alternate Saturday evening, in Athenaeum hall, South P'ifth street. Mrs. Harris is recording secretary.

Mary and Martha Society. - Meets in the basement of the chapel of St. Thomas Church, every fourth Sunday in each month. Miss Maggie McCarty, president.

Knights of St. Thomas. - Meet the firstSunday in each month at 1 130 o'clock, P. M. in their hall on the corner of Main and Third streets. Jas. McCarty is president, P. D. Mc- Cann, vice president; P. A. Carr, secretary; M. McCabe, PL F. McGovern, Jas. McCarty, P. A. Carr, board of trustees.

Zanesville City Guards. - Co. B. 17th Regiment, Infantry, O. N. G. meets every Monday evening at the armory, in Memorial building, North Fifth street. Joseph Beckhart is captain; Chauncey Ogle, 1st lieutenant; Chas, H. Booz, 2d lieutenant; Charles H. Taylor, Sergeant. Zanesville Light Artillery. - Battery C., 1st Regiment, Light Artillery, O. N. G. is officered thus: H. A. Leslie, captain; D. H. Gaumer, 1st lieutenant; C. F. Brendel, 2d lieutenant; C. F. Atwell, Sergeant. St. Joseph Benevolent Society organized July 25, 1878, meets in St. Nicholas hall. J. N. Steiner is president; John Schiele, secretary. The German Benevolent Society, meets at Horn's hall. Simon Linser is president; J. N. Steiner, secretary.

Building and Loan Association. - The Buckeye Building and Loan Co., of Zanesville, Ohio, has a capital stock of $1,000,000. B. Wheeler is president; T. W. Lewis, vice-president; H. A. Sharpe, treasurer; F. Bagley, secretary and attorney. The Equitable Building Co., Zanesville, incorporated October 27, 1887; capital $1,000,000 is thus officered: F. C. Dietz, president; A. W. Richards, vice-president; George Brown, secretary; A. V. Smith, treasurer; George Brown, attorney. The Farmers' Building and Loan Co., of Zanesville; incorporated June 8, 1889; organized June 18, 1889; has a capital stock, $1,000,000. Howard Aston is president; Wm. M. Bateman, vice-president; G. A. Allen, secretary; F. C. Dietz, treasurer; Henry R. Stanbery, attorney. The Homestead Building and Savings Co.; incorporated February 28, 1884; has assets aggregating

$214,479.89. Robert Silvey is president; Geo. D. Gibbons, vice-president; Alex. Grant, treasurer; T. F. Spangler, secretary and attorney. The Young Men's Christian Association rooms are at 51 N. 5th Street. A. P. Pinkerton is president of the local association, which was organized November 11, 1867; C. S. Harkinson, vice-president; O. L. Martin, recording secretary; John S. Derwacter, treasurer; PL H. Pierce, general secretary. The Young Women's Christian Temperance Union meet in the Y. M. C. A. rooms. Miss M. Bird is recording secretary ; Miss May Wildman, treasurer. St. Nicholas Association, organized in 1854, meets in St. Nicholas School hall. J. N. Steiner is president; Theodore Dosch, secretary. The Ohio Bible Society met in Zanesville, Sept. 3, 1818. It was its sixth annual meeting- The following officers were elected for the ensuing year: General Isaac Van Horne, president; Rev. J. Culbertson and Rev. J. Wright, vice-presidents; Rev. S. P. Robbins, corresponding secretary; Edwin Putnam, recording secretary; David Putnam, treasurer; Revs. L. Harris, S. P. Robbins, J. Culbertson, J. Moore, J. Wright, W. Gould, Levi Whipple and W. R. Putnam, trustees. It would be interesting, could it be done, to trace the further history of this society.

The Old Settlers' Association was organized at Odd Fellows' hall, August 30th, 1867. At a meeting, September 13, 1867, a constitution was adopted and signed by the following persons: G. M. Crooks, Sr., born 1795, came into the county in 1798; I. B. Brookover, born 1790, came 1806; David Gibson Porter, born in Zanesville in 1806; John Dulty, born 1791, came 1811; Frederick A. Seborn, born 1813, came 1820; Elijah H. Church, born in Zanesville in 1809; A. C. Ross, born in Zanesville in 1812; Amasa Van Horne, born 1795, came 1815; Valentine Best, born 1816, in what is now a portion of Zanesville; Silvers Porter, born in Newton township in 1817; Peter H. Morgan, born in 1805, came 1817; Stephen Burwell, born 1803, came 1816; John Wolf, born 1789, came 1837; William I. Green, born 1804, came 1814; Benjamin F. Leslie, born 1812, came 1820; Cecelia C. Beatty, born in Zanesville 1820; John Church, born in Zanesyille 1816; John Greiner, came 1835; Margaret A. Porter; L. H. Dugan, came 1817; David Johns, born 1807, came 1819; Christian Grim, born 1800, came 1828; I. H. Sullivan; I. Belknap, born 1792, came 1816; James Granger, born 1788, came 1816; James Hocking, born 1788, came 1830; Elijah Sullivan. John Peters was the first president and L. H. Dugan the first secretary, to organize. The first duly elected officers for the year ending May 1, 1868, were Rev. Cornelius Springer, president; Col. Elias Ellis, first vice-president; John Peters, second vice-president; Col. John Crooks, third vice-president; L. H. Dugan, corresponding secretary; F. A. Seborn, recording secretary. This society met as late as November 16, 1867, but no record is extant of any subsequent organized activity. The aged citizens of Muskingum county assembled at the court house at 10 A. M., May 21, 1886, for the purpose of organizing a historical society to be composed of the elderly ladies and gentlemen of said county, and organized temporarily by calling John Sims, of Rich Hill to the chair, who appointed William Gray, of Falls, secretary. The following were appointed a committee on permanent organization: Samuel Pollock, of Rich Hill, Joshua Butler of Muskingum, C. Id. Trimble of Blue Rock, Jacob Worts of Salem and John G. McConnell of Brush Creek. This committee reported Thomas Me Lees for president and B. F. Swingle for vice-president. On motion of Joshua Butler it was decided that all persons of the age of fifty years and over be eligible to membership in the society. Following is the roll of members as it appears in the record of

Abraham Cooper, William Gray, Jefferson Honnold, James Colvin, Joseph Lyons, LaFayette Baker, James Platt, Jason Spencer, Joshua Butler, George Welch, David Stokeley, Chauncey Ford, J. G. Jones, John Sims, Llewellyn Warne and wife, William Williams, George Peairs, Joseph Peairs, Solomon Rees, Samuel Hadden, S. W. Moore, M. B. Robertson, William Dunn, Joshua Downard, Balser Dietrick, Albe Showers, Thomas Showers, William F. Swingle, Solomon S. Baughman and wife, Mrs. Jason Spencer, Marshall Stultz, C. N. Trimble, JohnM. Bell, Cynthia Moore, R. Slack, J. Worts, Samuel Conns, Precilia Sims, Jacob Bannister, Pierce Warne, James S. Moore, Thomas Williams, Captain William C. Tanner. The original idea, as advocated by Thomas McLees and others, was to make only those eligible to membership who were at least fifty years old and were owners and occupants of the homes, in Muskingum county in which they were born. A more accommodating rule was adopted and in time all old residents of the county were made eligible without regard to place of nativity. At the second meeting, held at Zanesville, August 21, 1886, President McLees in the chair, William Gray was elected secretary. This organization had a continuous existence until it was superseded by the present Pioneer and Historical Society of Muskingum County, a history of which appears elsewhere in this volume.

Zanesville Hospital Association. - These articles of incorporation of the Zanesville City Hospital Association, witnesseth, that we the undersigned, all of whom are citizens of the state of Ohio, desiring to form a corporation not for profit under the general incorporation laws of said state, do hereby certify: First, the name of said corporation shall be "The Zanesville City Hospital Association," Second, said corporation shall be located, and its principal business transacted, at Zanesville, in Muskingum county, Ohio. Third, the purpose for which said corporation is founded is: 1st, to provide medical and surgical aid and nursing for sick and disabled persons, free of expense to those unable to pay, and at a cost to those who are able to pay the amount to be determined by the trustees; 2nd, to instruct and train suitable persons in the duties of nursing and attending upon the sick; 3rd, to carry into execution such other purposes and objects, incidental and kindred to those above set out, as the trustees may from time to time prescribe; 4th, this corporation is not created for profit, but will rely for its establishment and support,

In witness whereof, we have hereunto set our hands this 19th day of February, 1888, (signed) C. W. Potwin, James Buckingham, John C. Sullivan, Moses M. Granger, C. Stolzenbach, T. F. Spangler, N. T. Gant. Signed and sealed by Alfred A. Frazier, notary public, Muskingum county, Vincent Cockins, clerk of court, Muskingum county, James S. Robinson, secretary of the state of Ohio.

The foregoing charter was obtained February 19, 1888, by the aforesaid signers. The organization was never perfected and, therefore, no work was done under the charter. When the Zanesville City Hospital Association was effected April, 1890, it was decided to take up the work under the original articles of incorporation obtained in 1888. Article first of the by-laws reads as follows: Section 1, the incorporated name of this organization shall be the Zanesville City Hospital Association; section 2, the object and purpose of this Association is to establish and maintain in the city of Zanesville, Ohio, a hospital for the care and treatment of sick and disabled persons, without regard to creed, color or condition; section 3, the management and control of the property, business and concerns, shall be and are invested in the board of trustees, with power to fill until next annual election, all vacancies which may occur in the board and with power to organize a medical board for hospital, and to appoint the matron and such assistants, nurses and servants as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of the association, and to take such other action consistent with law, and the character of the assocaition as in its judgment shall tend to promote the objects thereof and increase the efficiency of the organization; section 4, the officers shall be a president, two -vice-presidents, (1st and 2nd,) treasurer and secretary; section 5, the regular meetings of the board of trustees shall be held on the second Tuesdays of April. June, August, October, December and February of each year. Special meetings may be called by the president and secretary at any time and shall be so called upon the written request of any two members."

The hospital buildings were dedicated and formally opened on Thursday, January 22, 1891. The committee on arragements consisted of Mrs Fenton Bagley, Mrs. J. C. Harris and Mrs. J. W. Pinkerton. They appointed Rev. F. Richards to arrange the programme and to make the dedicatory address. The following, from the address of the president contains the history of the institution to that date: " In March, 1890, the matter was once more brought to the front by a few ladies, and a called meeting of all persons interested in the work resulted in a most enthusiastic gathering in the parlors of the Young Men Christian Association. An organization was effected which, after careful investigation, and in strict conformity to law, resulted in the present organization, which is known as the Zanesville Hospital association, and consists of a board of twelve trustees and twenty-four managers, all ladies, and an advisory board of four gentlemen. The trustees were elected and took the oath of office on the first day of May, 1890. Then began the active work to secure the needful funds to give the idea definite form and purpose - in other words, to get a suitable building for a hospital. The price of membership was placed at $1.00, so that none might be debarred from its privileges. There are now something over 450 members. We want 2,000 more. Subscription papers were circulated and many very generous donations made - not only by residents of our own city, but by many former citizens, and some by friends who have never lived here. One donation of #1,000 came from an unexpected source, and entirely without solicitation. The donator was a woman, Mrs. Curran Blue. The mid-summer carnival, so well planned, so successfully carried out, played no small part in our financial aid. In August the trustees found on their subscription books the amount of #9,000. After much anxious thought, and with the consent and encouragement of our advisory board, we decided to risk the debt that would be incurred, and pur-( chased this - the Peabody homestead, for #10,000, paying at the time of purchase #4,400. In September a payment was made of #1,500, and in October #1,000. We have in bank today #823 and some unpaid subscriptions. The details of the work done since need not be given here. When it was decided two weeks ago to get this building ready to open to-day, there were some heavy hearts among us, as the thought of the expense loomed up before us. They are lighter to-day. Look around you all through the house and see what generous people have done. Every article here and all the expense of changing has been donated, and many others have come asking what can we do? What arc our hopes for the future? In view of all that has been accomplished in three months less than a year, have we not a right to indulge in very large hopes? While much has been done, much remains to be done. To those who desire to help in this good work, we would say there is room for work in furnishing the free wards on this floor. Do not let us stop now till all is complete."

Herdman; first vice-president, Mrs. James Buckingham; second vice-president, Mrs. F. J. Terry; secretary, *Miss Mattie A. Taylor; fMiss Jennie T. Ball; treasurer, *Ellen M. Gattrell, fW. H. Pierpoint.

Board Trustees, 1891. -Elected at the Annual meeting, April 13th, 1891; elected for three years: Mrs. James Herdman, Mrs. F. J. Terry, Mrs. James Buckingham, *Mrs. W. E. Guthrie; elected for two years: Mrs. C. C. Goddard, Mrs. F'enton Bagley, *Mrs. Julius Frank, Mrs. W. W. Harper; elected for one year, Mrs. James Peabody, Mrs. D. I. Jones, Mrs. T. B. Townsend, *Mrs. T. J. Maginnis, fMrs. Willis Bailey.

The Board of 1891 organized by electing the following officers: President, Mrs. James Herdman; first vice-president, Mrs. James Buckingham; second vice-president, Mrs. T. F. J. Terry; secretary, Mrs. P'enton Bagley, treasurer, W. H. Pierpoint.

Hospital Medical Staff, 1891.- - January and February - Dr. J. T. Davis and Dr. PL C. Logsdon. March and April - Dr. T. J. Barton and Dr. J. M. Fassig. May and June - Dr. FI. T. Sutton and Dr. J. C. Crossland. July and August - Dr. Lenhart, Sr. and Dr. J. Jordan. September and October - Dr. C. M. Lenhart and Dr. O. M. Wiseman. November and December - Dr. J. Holden and Dr. A. J. Parker. Consulting physicians: Dr. A. E. Bell, Dr. Z. C. McElroy, Dr. J. S. Haldeman. Consulting surgeons: Dr. J. G. F. Holston, Dr. Jno. F\ Kennedy, Dr. E. C. Brush. Specialist - eye and ear: Dr. L. R. Culbertson.

Churches Of Zanesville

IN his paper, "Pioneers of Putnam - Who The circuit was also divided and P'airfield were They and What did They do?" read be- formed, to which Putnam was attached. In fore the Pioneer and Historical Society of 1808, James Watts was sent to Wills Creek cir- Muskingum County, and by authority of that cuit. He took Zanesville into his plan and society placed at the disposal of the compiler formed a class there. This took from us our of this work, Z. M. Chandler writes as follows: members on that side of the river, but we con-

"The Methodist Fipiscopal church was the first church organized in Putnam or Zanesville, and probably the first in the county. Unfortunately, some twenty years ago, all of its records up to that time were burned. Thus, much tinued to prosper and increase in members. In 1809, Levi Whipple, Esq., gave us a lot and we built a little frame meeting house 24x30 feet. The first Methodist meeting house in Zanesville was built in 1813. It was also frame.

of its early history is lost, amongst other mat- Continuing to prosper in 1829 and 1830, we ters of interest the names of its members. Mr. built another house on the same ground. It Goshen, however, in his reminiscences, has pre- was a brick building 40x50 feet.' Mr. Goshen served much that is interesting. He says: gave a list of elders and pastors who had 'When I came here in 1805, I found no church charge of the church between 1805 and 1843 organization or regular preaching of any kind, with the date of their appointment. There are, The Hockhocking circuit of the old Ohio dis- however, thirteen years of the time which he trict, Western conference, took in, as far as I can remember, Lancaster, Franklinton, Mansfield, Mt. Vernon, and appointments on the river below Coshocton, the name not now remembered, Hog-run, Bolingreen, thence back to Lancaster. In addition to these appointments, there were several other intervening apleft blank, doubtless because he had no records from which to fill them. I copy this list without the dates. Presiding elders: Wm. Burk, pointments, the names of which I cannot now James B. Findley, John Clingan, William Dickrecall. At that time William Burk was pre- son, Ruark, Abner Goff, J. A. Waterman, siding elder of the Ohio district, and James J. Hooper, John Tivis, Thomas A. Morris (after- Quinn preacher in charge of Hockhocking cir- wards bishop), Cornelius Springer, James Gurcuit. I found a few Methodist families here ley, Joseph Carper, Hand, James T. Donand formed a class. Of that class I know of ahon, James C. Taylor, John M. Trimble, James self. At the annual conference that year ( 1805 ) Edward D. Doe. Added from my own recollec- John Sale was appointed presiding elder, and tions: Presiding elders: Leroy Swarmstedt,

John Meeks, James Axley and Peter Cartwright, Jacob Young, J. M. Jamison, Robert O. Spencer, preachers on the Hockhocking circuit. Soon James B. Findley; preachers: Michael Ellis, after conference, James Vickers and I had an Samuel Hamilton, Henry S. Fernandis, David interview with John Meeks, the preacher in Whitcomb, James Courtney, James Gilruth, charge, and requested him to put Putnam into JohnW. Stone, Winter R. Davis. This list, conh is plan when he came near. He did so, gave taining the names of forty-four ministers is, of us a week-day appointment and appointed me course, very incomplete. Besides the blanks leader. In 1806 Hockhocking circuit was that Mr. Goshen left, he often gave only the divided and Knox circuit set off, Putnam re- name of the preacher in charge of the circuit, maining in Hockhocking. In 1807, the circuit There were always two and at one time, at was divided and Muskingum district was set off least, there were three. The list, however, is about as nearly correct as it can be made unless access could be had to the records of the Western and Ohio conferences for the period covered. Of all these nine presiding elders and thirty-five other preachers who traveled the district and circuit of which Putnam was a part, I think there are but three living - J. M. Trimble, J. M. Jamison and Winter R. Davis.

Putnam church were destroyed. Therefore there is only memory upon which I can depend for its history and the names of its earliest members. Of these I can distinctly recall only the following: John Goshen, James Vickers,

Henry Miser, Samuel Seamans, Sr., William H. Moon, Gilbert Seamans, Samuel Chapman, Manning Putnam, Thomas Reese, William Perry, YVinthrop Robinson and Elias Vickers and their wives, and John Russell, Mrs. John Kirk, Mrs. Jessie Smith, Miss Hattie McCauly and Samuel Seamans, Jr. I know there were many more who united with this church within eight or ten years after its organization, whose names I would gladly add to this roll if I could remember them. * * * From 1818 to 1835 was detached from the circuit and made a separate station. * * * I append a list of pastors from that date until 1864, twenty years, from Mr. Goshen's papers, which is probably correct: John W. Stone, William Langare, B.

W. Stewart, D. D. Mather, S. M. Merrill (now bishop), John Gregg, Ph W. Kirkham, Charles C. McCabe, John Sowers, W. Benner, B. F. Thomas. Recently they have changed the name from Putnam to Moxahala avenue. The old time-honored, name would never have disgraced them." So much of the early history of this organization has been given. The following is derived from the statements of Messrs. Luther Adamson and Z. M. Chandler. The Putnam circuit comprised the following circuits of a later day: Philo circuit, Deaver town

The present church edifice was erected in 1863 at a cost of about $8,000. Capt. William Israel, Perry Wiles, Luther Adamson and others aided greatly toward this building. Rev. F. M. Stanley was pastor in charge. It is related that when he first spoke to the congregation of the possibility of erecting a new church, he said: "We want to build a suitable church in the city of Zanesville. If there is any one present who believes we can do it we want him to talk, and those who do not think we can build a church we want to keep silent for six weeks." An old subscription paper of some years previous was hunted up, and Mr. Stanley read the names of the several subscribers and the amount of the subscription of each, and asked every one present if he or she would stand by the old promise. Not one refused, and the project was carried to a successful issue. This church has always been prosperous, and the Sunday-school, which was organized in 1830, has ever since been a great success in every way. Under the pastorate of Rev. William Porter there was a series of revival meetings which ran through 100 consecutive days and resulted in the addition of 100 members to the church roll. The present pastor is Rev. Benjamin H. Stubbins.

"Before the year 1800," wrote John W. King,* "there was no preacher here, and we have no means of knowing who were the members" [ of the Second street Methodist Episcopal church J. "In that year the Western conference, which included all the territory west of the Alleghany Mountains, sent John Stoneman to work on the Muskingum and Hocking rivers. His field of labor was some 300 miles wide. He was followed in 1801 by J. P. Chenowort, who was succeeded in 1802 by N. B. Mills, and he in 1803 by William Reed. In 1804 the Ohio district of the Western conference was formed, with William Burk as presiding elder, and George Askins was appointed to the work in this part of the state. Mr. Askins was followed by James Quinn and John Meek. They were succeeded in 1806 by Luther Taylor, and in 1807 came that man of wonderful life, Peter Cartwright. In 1808 there is a doubt as to who labored in this field, but it is believed that Isaac Quinn and William Patterson were here. In 1809 the Muskingum district was formed out of part of the Ohio district, and James Quinn was appointed presiding elder, and James Watts and Ralph Lotspeedf were appointed to our part of the district. In 1810 William Sale was presiding elder, with no change made in the preachers. The following year came John Stronge and Jacob Mills. In 1812 James B. Finley [above and elsewhere spelled Findley] was appointed, and this was thought a promising field.

appointment, which is as follows: 1813, presiding elder, David Young; preacher, John Clingan. 1814, presiding elder, David Young; preacher, William Dixon. 1815, presiding elder, David Young; preacher, John Kinkead. 1816, presiding elder, Jacob Young; preacher, William Knox. 1817, presiding elder, Jacob Young; preachers, John Waterman, Thomas Carse. 1818, presiding elder, Jacob Young; preachers, John Tivis, Samuel Glaze. 1819, presiding elder, Jacob Young; preachers, Thomas A. Morris, Charles Elliott. 1820, presiding elder, Jonathan Stamper; preachers, Thomas A. Morris, Samuel C. Brockemier. 1821, presiding elder, Charles Waddle; preachers, James Hooper, Archibald McElroy. 1822, presiding elder, Jacob Young; preachers, Leroy Swormstead, Moses M. Hinkle.

"The next year the Zanesville station and the Zanesville circuit were constituted distinct, separate appointments in the Lancaster district, with Jacob Young as its presiding elder, and John P. Durbin sent to Zanesville as its first Methodist Episcopal preacher, during its first year as a station. * * * 1824, presiding elder, Jacob Young; preacher, L. Swormstead. 1825, presiding elder, Jacob Young; preacher, James Ouinn. 1826, presiding elder, Jacob Young; preacher, David Young. 1827, presiding elder, David Young; preacher, Joseph Carper. 1828, presiding elder, David Young; preacher, W. B. Christie. 1829, presiding elder, David Young; preacher, Nathan Emery. 1830, presiding elder, David Young; preacher, Nathan Emery. 1831, presiding elder, L. Swormstead; preacher, Absalom D. Fox.

"The next year Putnam was made a preaching place, and James Gilruth and Abner Goff were appointed there. In 1832 L. Swormstead was presiding elder, and Zanesville had J. M. Trimble. In 1833 the Zanesville district of the Ohio conference was formed, and the appointments were as follows: 1833, presiding elder, L. Swormstead; preacher, J. M. Trimble. 1834, presiding elder, L. Swormstead; preacher, Absalom D. Fox. 1835, presiding elder, J. Faree; preacher, David Whitcomb. 1836, presiding elder, D. Young; preachers, David Whitcomb, James Courtney. 1837, presiding elder, D. Young; preacher, William Simmons. 1838, presiding elder, D. Young; preacher, William H. Lawder. 1839, presiding elder, Robert O. Spencer; preacher, William II Lawder. 1840, presiding elder, Robert O. Spencer; preachers, Uriah Heath, John W. Stone. 1841, presiding elder, Robert O. Spencer; preachers, Uriah Heath, W. R. Davis. 1842, presiding elder,

This year the South Street Mission church was established with A. H. Windsor, preacher in charge. 1867, presiding elder, T. H. Phillips; preacher, D. H. Moore. 1868, presiding elder, William Porter; preacher, Thomas R. Taylor. 1869, presiding elder, William Porter; preacher, Thomas R. Taylor. 1870, presiding elder, William Porter; preacher, Isaac Cook. 1871, presiding elder, William Porter; preacher, Isaac Cook. 1872, presiding elder, L. Cunningham; preacher, Isaac Cook. 1873, presiding elder, L. Cunningham; preacher, J. W. Peters. 1874, presiding elder, L. Cunningham; preacher, J. W Peters. 1875, presiding elder, L. Cunningham; preacher, J. W Peters. 1876, presiding elder, M. T. Harvey; preacher, O. J. Nave. 1877, presiding elder, M. T. Harvey; preacher, O. J. Nave. 1878, presiding elder, M. T. Harvey; preacher, James Hill. 1879, presiding elder, M. T. Harvey; preacher, James Hill; 1880, presiding elder, James Hill; preacher, W. M. Mullenix.

"In the beginning they worshiped and held meetings in the court house. Several buildings have been built on the church lot. * * * The first church was begun in 1813. It was a one-story frame, 40x60 feet, with gable end toward Second street, with two doors in that end, each opening into an aisle. In the center, between the aisles, was a partition; the men sat on one side and the women on the other. It had for a long time no floor, because the builders, Thomas Moorehead and William Craig, were unable to get seasoned lumber to finish it up with. This was borne with patiently, as many hours had been spent happily by our fathers and mothers in log cabins, with earthen floors. The lumber for the floor was ricked up in the west end of the building to season, and on it a four legged sewing stand served as a pulpit; behind it was the preacher's unpainted but well seasoned wooden chair. The people sat on the flat upper surface of the sills of the building. There were four large hewed posts in the room to support the ceiling and roof. Gilbert Blue finished up the inside of the house the next spring, and James Gur- 1 e y * * * presented the society with two chandeliers, which were swung on pulleys from the ceiling. The doors were hung by strap hinges, and opened by wrought iron thumb latches. This building was in use until 1830, when the second house was erected, which was of brick, and stood in front of the old frame. James Millis took an active part in its erection. The church was one-story anti had a regular old-fashioned meeting-house look four windows on the north side, and four on the south, and two in the west end, with the pulpit between; and though very plain was comfortable. * * * The present house, which was the third, was built in i860. During the time of its erection, the congregation occupied the old church (Radical) on South street, the present A. M. E. church. The plan was obtained by a committee appointed for the purpose, in Washington city. It is commodious and in good taste, a credit to the committee, and a very satisfactory church, with neat and comfortable sittings and a fine pipe organ.

"The first record of the title papers by which the property is held is found P'ebruary 2, 1814, Record 'D,' page 314, and is as follows: 'Jonathan Zane and Hannah his wife, John Mclntire and Sarah his wife, to Christian Spangler, Samuel Frazey, Jesse Miller, James Vickers, Joseph Hawkins, John Spry, Barney Monroe, trustees, and their successors. Consideration $100.00 specie. Lot 8 rods east and west and 8 rods north and south, and being Lot 8, in Square No. 3, in the present plat of the city of Zanesville.' * * * following is a provision by Rev. David Young for erecting a church on this ground. The will bears date October 3, 1857, and was admitted to probate in Muskingum county, November 13, 1858. He gave his books to the trustees of this church to hold in trust for the benefit of the ministers in charge; he gave $12,000 to the trustees to be immediately expended in the erection (on the ground described in the deed by Zane and wife and Mclntire and wife) of a good, substantial, neat house of worship, having a basement story entered above ground, for the use and occupancy of the M. E. church, by the ministers and members according to the discipline, usages and regulations thereof. 'The seats in said house of worship to be forever free; and any departure from this requisition as to free seats shall work a forfeiture of the whple of said sum of $12,000. And the trustees in office at the time of the occurrence of any such forfeiture shall be individually liable to refund to his heirs at law the whole of said $12,000.' It was furtheremore provided that if any additional sum over said $12,000 be needed to build said church, it should be raised on bonds, so that no debt should be on the house at its dedication. And further provided that if Daniel Brush should be alive at the time this church was to be built, that he should design the form and proportions of the house. He appointed as executors Daniel Brush, John Dillon, Jr., N. Gauttrcll, John Taylor, Jr., and Austin Berry.

Rev. D. II. Moore, a three month's revival meeting was held which resulted in the conversion of nearly 200 souls. "The first class meeting was held in a cabin built on the ground where Jones & Abbotts' foundry (on Third street) now stands. This was in 1805 and was led by Father John Goshen. * * * *

" this church was incorporated under the state laws of Ohio, and its board of trustees authorized. * * * The church property, including the parsonage, is valued, according to the minutes, at $23,000."

Again taking up Mr. Chambers' narrative of Putnam, it appears that " in the year 1807 a Congregational church was founded in Putnam, consisting of five persons, namely Col. Benjamin Tupper, Mrs. Martha Tupper, Dr. Increase Mathews, Mrs. Betsy Mathews and Mr. Levi Whipple. Soon after Captain Daniel Warner united with them. The little church was organized by Rev. Mr. Potter, of Steubenville.* They had no settled pastor, but the Rev. Mr. Robins, of Marietta, and others preached occasionally for them. In the year

1809 there were a few Presbyterian families in Zanesville, but like the Congregationalists in Putnam, they were unable to support a pastor. An agreement was made, therefore, to organize a church under the name of the " United Presbyterian Church of Zanesville and Springfield." The Rev. William Jones was called to the pastorate, accepted, and was installed on the 26th of December of that year. The services were held in the stone academy in Putnam. The Rev. Samuel P. Robbins, of Marietta, and the Rev. Jacob Lindsley, of Athens, officiating. The first elders were Benjamin Sloan, Moses Boggs and John Thompson. From that time till 1817 or 1818 the services were held alternately in the court-house in Zanesville and the academy in Putnam. In August, 1812, Mr. Jones resigned to accept a call to Circleville. Ohio. The Rev. James Culbertson was called to succeed Mr. Jones, and was ordained and installed pastor of the United church, December 23, 1812, the Rev. John Wright and the Rev. James Scott officiating. Four years after the installation of Mr. Culbertson, the church, having in the meantime increased in members and influence, took measures for the erection of a suitable church edifice. In selecting a site, reference was had to the convenience of the members of the congregation on both sides of the river. The northeast corner of South and Fourth streets was agreed upon as the most suitable and central that could be obtained. Here a large, and for that day imposing, church was built. There have been different dates published of the finishing and dedication of this church. One account says that it was dedicated on the 24th of August, 1817, and that President Monroe and his suite attended divine service there on the next Sunday, the 31st of August. Now I know the president did attend service in August, for I was there and saw him. I have a file of papers printed in 1818 and 1819, which settles the date. It quotes from the National Intelligencer of March 31, 1819, an article saying that the president left Washington on the day before for his Southern and Western tour. It also gives the route of travel, the object of the tour, etc. Then this paper, from week to week, gives the progress of his journey, his receptions, escorts, etc. The error in the statement referred to consists in placifig the date of the president's tour, and the dedication of the church one year too close together. According to my recollection, supported by some other circumstances, the dedication took place in the year 1818. * * * The church stood ten feet above the level of that street. This bank has been graded down since the removal of the church. It had two high stories; the first containing the pews and aisles, and the second the galleries, which were on both sides and the east end of the building; broad, and so raised from the front toward the walls that the speaker in the high pulpit at the west end could be seen from every seat. There was no spire or bell. The old court-house bell did service for all the churches and schools of that day. On the west end there were two doors, from which aisles extended to the east end of the room. There was another aisle in the center of the room, called the broad aisle. * * *

" The plan adopted for raising the funds to build the church was a rather unusual but successful one. A plan or draft was made of the first floor and pews. The pews were sold out at auction and the purchasers became the owners, the same as of any other property so far as occupancy and transfer were concerned. Many persons bought two or more pews, according to their ability or liberality, for which transferable deeds or certificates were given. The seats in the galleries were all free, except the front of the east gallery, which was reserved for the choir. * * * About 1827 the bass became pastor of this United church, there were thirty-two members. The increase in the population of Putnam, and other circumstances led many to the conclusion that the time had come when a church of that (Presbyterian) denomination should be established on that side of the river. A meeting of the members and friends of the church was, therefore, called in March, 1833. At that meeting it was unanimously resolved that the erection of a house of worship, with the blessing of God, would greatly advance the cause of Christ in the place. A committee was appointed at the same time to secure the necessary funds. This object having been speedily accomplished, another meeting was held in the same month, and a committee appointed to proceed with the erection of the building at once.

" On the first of January, 1835, the Presbyterian Church of Putnam was organized with thirty-eight members, of whom twenty-eight were pioneers and children of pioneers. Others continued to follow until finally nearly all living on the west side of the river were gathered into the new church. By the organization of this church, the United Presbyterian church was practically dissolved, and each of the branches became independent. The separation was not at the time in accord with the wishes and feeling of the pastor or the members of the old church on the other side of the river. Mr. Culbertson was deeply pained by

" There is some doubt," Mr. Chandler continues, "as to whether Zanesville or Putnam was entitled to the honor of having established the first Sunday school. Mr Church said in his published papers that the Zanesville school was commenced in the year 1816. The Muskingum Messenger , however says, in a commendatory notice published a year and a half after the school was commenced, that it was opened in March, 1817. I think ours was the first, Put- * * * can't prove it. * * * Mr. Harry Safford was one of the earnest and most zealous workers in the Sunday school cause in this section of the country. Dr. Kingsbury, in his memorial sermon, calls him the father of the institution. * * * As early, I think, as

1815 or 1816, he opened his school in the academy. It was called a ' Union school,' because teachers and pupils were drawn from the different denominations. Amongst the first teachers were Mr. Levi Whipple, Judge Edwin Putnam, Maj. Horace Nye, Mr. George Warner Mrs. Whipple, Mrs. Leavins and Mrs. Chandler. * * * We had but few of the

Besides our bible lessons, recitations and singing from 'Watt's Hymns for Children,' we had, each Sunday a short talk about good manners, manly deportment, or moral conduct. * * *

In 1820 the Putnam Sunday school united with the Zanesville Union school, in the new Presbyterian church, corner of South and Fourth streets. In 1828 it was brought back again to Putnam. Here for many years, under the late Mr. A. A. Guthrie, the best equipped superintendent I ever knew, it was in every respect a model school. The work that he did lives after him, and it is still a good school. In the year 1828 the Methodist church organized a separate school. In the meantime the Baptists having established schools in Zanesville, both of these Putnam Sunday schools became practically denominational." * * *

The Zanesville portion of the United church now demands more particular attention. In 1807 or 1808, Rev. John Wright, for many years pastor of the Presbyterian church of Lancaster, Ohio, passed through Zanesville and was induced to remain over Sabbath. There were seven Presbyterians here: Mr. and Mrs. Moses

Boggs, Mr. and Mrs. James Perry, Mr. and Mrs. James Richie and Robert Culbertson. These he assembled in the old tavern that stood then on the site of the Clarendon, and after preaching to them administered the Lord's supper to them, and it is thought probable this sacrament had never been administered here prior to that date. These seven persons were subsequently participants in the organization of a church. Gen. Isaac Van Horne took an active part in the United church, and was an active elder from 1827 until 1834, when he died. Rev. Mr. Culbertson performed the duties of a pastor until, in the summer of 1844, failing health compelled him to recommend the church to call an assistant. Rev. Simeon Brown was called soon after, but was not installed until May 7, 1845. Mr. Culbertson preached but once after Mr. Brown became assistant, and that was in November, 1844, though he was always able to attend public worship, and until within a few weeks of his death he officiated at marriages, baptisms and the Lord's supper. He offered the closing prayer of the service on the last Sabbath but one previous to his death. He died, aged 61 years, February 23, 1847, as the result of paralysis. With Mr. Brown originated the board of deacons, and the following persons were elected deacons August 16, 1845: Samuel C.

Haver, Edwin Burlingame, Robert P. Robinson, J. B. Allen and William Winters. Mr. Brown was identified with the literature of the church. Before coming here he had published at Fredericktown, Ohio, the Calvinistic Monitor , at the time the only "old school" paper issued in the state, and Rev. William Dunlap, of Marion, Ohio, was its associate editor. Subsequently it became the Presbyterian of the West , published first at Springfield, later at Cincinnati. After his settlement here, Mr. Brown began the publication of The Colportciir. This was continued until January 8, 1848, when the Family Quarto appeared, which he edited until June 28, 1850. In July of the same year he resigned his pastorate and accepted the agency of the board of publication of the Northwestern states.

Mr. Brown's successor, Rev. Moses A. Hoge, began his pastorate June 26, 1851. Rev. James M. Platt came as pastor July 24, 1853 and was ordained on the gth of the following October. His pastorate continued until April, 1867. He was followed by Rev. George H. Webster, who was installed October 5, 1867, and resigned his pastorate in 1872. Rev. W. P. Shrom was called November 9, 1872, and entered upon his work during the succeeding month. In 1884 he was succeeded by Rev. J. C. Holliday, the present pastor.

This church may be regarded as the mother of the Putnam church, the Newton church and the Second Presbyterian church of Zanesville and, through those organizations, of the Presbyterian denomination in this county. This church purchased the lot now occupied by the Second Street church building and exchanged it for the lot now occupied by its own building, which was erected at a cost of between $14,000 and $15,000 and was dedicated on the fourth Sunday in December, 1841. The pastor was assisted by Rev. Mr. Wylie, of Newark, and Rev. Dr. Hoge, of Columbus, the latter preaching the dedicatory sermon.

The statement of the late E. H. Church, who was one of the first pupils, is to the effect that the first Sunday school in Eastern Ohio was organized in the old court house (at that time used by the Presbyterians as a place of worship) in 1816, by Matthew Findley, Joseph Church, F. Morehead and Mr. Dale. It was a union school in which all Protestant denominations had a part. During the following year it was more thoroughly organized, some fifteen or more ladies canvassing the town for scholars. It was removed to the new Presbyterian church, at the corner of Fourth and South streets, in 1819, and was after that date a school of that church.

According to Rev. Dr. Kingsbury, a movement which had been begun as early as March, 1833 toward an independent Presbyterian congregation, Putnam culiminated January 1, 1835, in the organization of the Putnam Presbyterian church. The names of the constituent members ( from the United Church of Zanesville and Putnam (were recorded thus in the sessional record: Levi Whipple, Eliza Whipple, Eliza Tucker, Lucy R. Whipple, Sarah Sturges, A. A. Guthrie, Amelia Guthrie, Lucy Sturges, Pamelia Guthrie, Edwin Putnam Patience Leavens, Eliza Stannas, Anne Buckingham, Mary Russell, Betsy Mathews, Eunice Buckingham, Sarah E. Safford, Ann D. Brown, S. A. Guthrie, George N. Guthrie, Eliza Silvey, Margaret Silvey, Horace Nye, Lucinda Nve, Catharine Leavens, Mary Leavens, Mary A. Sturges, Peleg Mason, Olive Mason, Sarah Mathews, Susan Mathews, Mary Mathews, Mary Stickney, A. G. Allen, Nancy Stickney, Margaret Weaver. The church begun in 1833 had now been completed, and it was dedicated in February, 1835, by Rev. William H. Beecher, a member of the Presbytery of Cincinnati, who began preaching here soon after the organization of the church. The first elders were A. A. Guthrie, Levi Whipple and Edwin Putnam. Mr. Guthrie was chosed stated clerk of session, and held the office until the end of his life. The last entry in his handwriting bears date September 2, 1873. The church was duly incorporated March 7, 1835. Mr. Beecher accepted a call to the pastorate, and was installed November 25, 1835, serving successfully until January 18, 1839. Rev. Addison Kingsbury, D. D., succeeded him January 1, 1840, and after a pastorate of nearly forty years gave place to Rev. George F. Moore, whose successor was Rev. David R. Wortman. Rev. E. E. Rogers, the present pastor, was installed in 1889.

The church was thoroughly repaired in 1866 and remodeled and in many ways modernized. The bell was presented by Frank Sturges, of Chicago, who spent his boyhood here. A baptismal font was presented by Mrs. Elizabeth Hardenbaugh in 1871. The foundation of the parsonage was laid in the autumn of 1848. The walls were put up the following summer. The "Buckingham manse," as it was called, cost about $3,700, of which $1,500 was bequeathed for the purpose by Miss Eunice Buckingham, on condition that the congregation raise in cash an equal amount, which they did. Alvah Buckingham superintended the erection of the building and paid the additional expense above the estimated cost. The brickwork was done by John Randall and Benjamin Tuttle, the woodwork by John Metcalf and Joseph Collins.

St. James' parish is the oldest Episcopal church organization in the diocese of Southeastern Ohio, which includes the southern half of the state, and, with perhaps a single exception, the oldest in Ohio. It was organized at the court house, Zanesville, October 17, 1816, at a meeting called for that purpose, at which Dr. Horace Reed presided and John Gordon was secretary. Rev. Joseph Doddridge, M. D., was elected rector and the following named officers were chosen: Wardens, Horace Reed, M. D., Seth Adams; vestrymen, Jeffery Price, Moses Moorehead, PL B. Merwin, Calvin Conant; treasurer, A. Harper; lay reader, Samuel Burnham, M. D. The parish was incorporated January 31, 1833.

The public religious services of St. James' parish seem to have been held at first in the court house; but in June, 1817, and for some time after that date they were held in the Methodist church. Inly 17, 1831, the first church edifice of the parish was consecrated - a small, plain brick structure at the southeast corner of South and Sixth streets, the locality of the present St. John's English Evangelical Lutheran church, in 1835 it was nearly doubled in size and seating capacity, and six years later it was sold, as a step toward the erection of a new house of worship. During the period 1841-1843, services were held in the "Senate Chamber'' of the old court house. The present Gothic edifice of sandstone was begun in 1841, and the corner stone w'as laid June 24, that year. It was finished temporarily and occupied by the congregation Easter day, 1843. The basement and audience chambers were completed in 1853, and the church was formally consecrated September 7, 1854, by Bishop

Mcllvaine. The church tower was not completed until 1874. The bell, weighing upwards of a ton, a gift from Mrs. C. W. Chandler, of Germantown, Pa., formerly a member of this parish, was at that time swung in place. The stained glass windows were donated a few years earlier by the late James R. Cooper. The organ was introduced in 1851. The rectory, on north Fourth street, was purchased in i863-

Next in order is the history of the first Baptist church of Zanesville, Ohio, by Rev. Wm. Sedwick, A. M., which brings the record down to 1866: -

"The circumstances that led to the gathering in and organization of this church are thought worthy of record. In the fall of 1820 Elder George C. Sedwick left Winchester, Va., for the purpose of exploring the West. Taking Zanesville in his route, he stopped a few days, and preached as often as opportunity offered, and passed on to Kentucky and Indiana, spending a short time in each state, and receiving several invitations to settle with strong churches, with the offer of agood salary. But his mind was fixed upon Zanesville, though there was no church there, and only one man who was known as a Baptist. So strong, however, were his impressions of duty that he returned and commenced his labors there in the beginning of 1821. Having no house of worship, the court house and private dwellings were occupied for preaching and church meetings. On the nth of February, 1821, three persons were baptized, viz.: Isaiah Miller, Thomas Sheppard and J. Johnson; these were the first fruits of his ministry in this new field. Baptisms are also mentioned as having occured in April, May, and June, on the 16th of which month the church was constituted. Elder George C. Sedwick was, on the same day, chosen pastor, and Joseph Sheppard and Jeremiah Dale, deacons, Thomas Sheppard, clerk. They agreed at this meeting to unite with the Muskingum Association; which met on the 22nd of August following. At this meeting they reported 37 baptized, four received by letter; - total 41. The second report to the Association, in August, 1822, they returned 39 baptized, 12 received by letter, 6 dismissed- - total, 83. In their last report to this Association, in 1825, they state a total of 104, there having been baptized up to that date 105. In as small a town as Zanesville was at that time, and considering the disadvantages under which they labored, having no meeting house for some two or three years, and other societies having so far the start, this was considered a good beginning and an evidence of the former leadings of Providence in planting the Gospel standard in this place. Their house of worship, which had been in process of erection for some time, was ready for use in the fall of 1823, and was dedicated November 15th. On the 15th of December following the church meeting was held, for the first time, in the new edifice. This house was built of brick, 40x60 feet, one story high. In that day this was considered a noble structure, fully equal to any in the town. In May, 1826, the Ohio Baptist State Convention was organized in this house, where it held its first three annual meetings. So far as is known, the writer is the only minister now living in the state who was in that organization, if not the only individual. The day after the convention closed its first session the Meigs Creek Association was constituted, with seven churches and 409 members, at the Brookfield church, now in Noble county. This church was one of the seven which formed this body. Previous to this there had been no association east of the Muskingum river, except a small body called "Still Water,'' located in the north part of Guernsey and Belmont counties, which, about this time, had become extinct, having been carried away by the influence of what was called Campbellism. The church of which we are speaking appears to have traveled on in peace and harmony for eight or ten years, and a good degree of prosperity attended their mutual efforts for good; many were added every year. But when the number of the Disciples had multiplied, there arose murmurings and contentions among them, causing the church and pastor a world of trouble. This unhappy state of things continued for some years, and finally terminated in the withdrawal of some twenty one members at one time. This restored peace and quietude to the church, and they moved on for some years in harmony and love. Elder George C. Sedwick, having served the church about sixteen years, felt it his duty to resign his pastorate, which he did in July, 1836. The church remained without a settled pastor for about a year, when they extended a unanimous call to Elder Wm. Sedwick, who accepted and entered upon the discharge of his duties in July, 1837. His connection with the church was of the most pleasing character. A good degree of prosperity attended their mutual labors during the two years of his pastorate. Some valuable accessions were made to the church, and here we beg to notice one of the mysterious providences of God. Just at the close of Elder Sedwick's second year, and after arrangements had been made by the church for his continuance, Elder William Spencer, of the Salem township church was very suddenly, and to the great grief of the church, called away by death. Elder Sedwick was called to preach his funeral sermon - and by the earnest request of the church, after a few weeks' reflection, he resigned the care of the church in Zanesville, and removed to Adamsville, where Elder Spencer had labored as pastor for twenty one years. Elder S. S. Parr was now called by the church in Zanesville to become theirspiritual guide, and commenced his labors with them in December, 1839. He was an eloquent man, and might in truth be called a Boanerges. His stay with the church was short but prosperous; many were added under his ministry during the eighteen months of his pastorate. After his resignation and removal, in April, 1841, Elder John M. Courtney was chosen as his successor. lie was a good pastor, and enjoyed the entire confidence of the church and community during the seven years of his ministry with them. The church was greatly strengthened and enlarged under his faithful labor. It was but a few years after his removal from Zanesville that he was taken by death to a better world. We all loved Brother Courtney, and deeply lamented his early death. Brother David E. Thomas succeeded Brother Courtney in the pastorate of this people. He was publicly installed in this office in December, 1849. The exercises were conducted by Elders George C. Sedwick and Abel Johnson. Brother Thomas was a native of Wales, and could speak as fluently his native tongue as the English; possessed a strong mind, and was generally warm and animated in his public addresses. But few were his equal in debate, possessing, as he did, a peculiar talent in that direction. He served the church for six years, up to the close of 1855. Many were added to the church during his ministry, and the present church edifice was erected while he was their pastor, though it was not entirely finished for some years after his removal, perhaps not till after his death. He died at his home, near Piqua, Ohio. After the resignation of Brother Thomas, Rev. J. B. Conyers was called to the oversight of the church, and continued in office about three years, during which period the church experienced serious troubles, - which troubles were the outgrowth of difficulties that were engendered before Brother Conyers became pastor, - which finally terminated in the withdrawal of some sixty four of its members who ganized another church on the opposite side of the street, called the Sixth Street church. This body subsequently united with Market Street church of Zanesville. In December, 1859, Rev. D. F. Carnahan was inducted into the office of pastor and continued his labors for three years. During his ministry the church appears to have moved on in peace. He resigned his office as pastor and entered as an officer into the army. After his resignation Elder Smith, of Virginia supplied the church for a short time, when Brother George W. Young, of Pennsylvania, was chosen to take the oversight of the flock. His mission was of short duration. Hccontinued as theirspiritual guide a little less than a year, when he was suddenly called away by death on the 12th of November, 1864, in the 46th year of his age. This unexpected event was deeply lamented by the church and congregation as well as by his family and more immediate connections; all mourned their loss, even as a household would that of a beloved brother, for a good man had fallen at his post. After the death of Brother

Young, the church extended a call to Brother J. B. Sharp, who appears to have entered upon the discharge of his duties as pastor in February, 1865. Quite a large addition of members were received by baptism during his ministry. But unfortunately, serious and sad difficulties followed, and scenes occurred in and out of their meetings which should never have transpired among the professed children of God. This, like other difficulties that have occured, in years past in this church, has terminated in a separation of some 77 members, of whom about 65, - very largely young people, - were brought into the church during Brother Sharp's pastorate. The old ship now seems to be sailing once more over a smooth sea. * * *