Muskingum County, Ohio - Chapter 45, 1892 (part 21 of 31)

Col. Nathan Fleming, the founder of one branch of this family in Muskingum county, was born in Marion county, W. Va., January, 1783, and married Mary Wood, daughterof John Wood, a farmer of West Virginia. To Colonel and Mrs. Fleming were born five children, whom they reared: Margaret, James, Albert, John and Daniel. In the fall of 1804, soon after his marriage, Col. Fleming came to Muskingum county, Ohio, and settled at Irville. He cleared a farm, settled there a few years, sold his land and settled one-half mile east of the town, remaining there many years. He engaged in the mercantile business with Beverly Lemert, under the firm name of Fleming & Lemert, Mr. Lemert retired a few years later and Col. Fleming continued the business several years alone. He was a prosperous business man and one of the early shippers of produce from Zanesville to New Orleans, going frequently on the boats himself. He was commissioned in the militia of the state of Ohio, April 3, 1812, by Gov. Return Jonathan Meigs, and promoted to major, October 29, 1812. He held this office until October, 5, 1818, when he was promoted to lieutenant- colonel. Mary Fleming is the mother of Finley M. Fleming. This is one of the prominent branches of the Fleming family of the county and lineal descendants of the four original brothers who settled in West Virginia. Mathew Fleming was the great-grandfather, and was a farmer of West Virginia, born September 2, 1741. He married Jane Frame, and they were the parents of twelve children, John and Mathew only remembered. Mathew Fleming died inWest Virginia, and his son Mathew was born in Virginia, September 6, 1781. He married in West Virginia, Lydia Fleming, the daugher of Nathan Fleming, the father of Col. Nathan Fleming, one of the original four brothers. To Mathew Fleming and wife were born fifteen children, twelve of whom lived to maturity: Daniel Phoebe, Elias, Beniah, Franklin, Susan, Elihu, Rosena, Archibald, Jane, Mary and Martha, all born in West Virginia, except Mary and Martha Mathew Fleming moved his family to Licking township, Ohio, making the journey with horses and wagons, and settled on a farm, now occupied by our subject, Mary Fleming, October, 1820. He cleared up a good farm, consisting of 140 acres. Himself and wife are members of the Methodist church, and he died at the age of fifty-four years. He was a man of excellent character and had many friends. Daniel Fleming, the father of our subject, was born May 15, 1803, in West Virginia, and received a good common-school education. His father was a school teacher and wrote a clear oldfashioned hand, specimens of which are still preserved in the family. Daniel Fleming was about seventeen years of age when he came with his father to this county. He married Mary Bonham, daughter of Rev. Zachariah and Susan (Hooper) Bonham. The father was of Scotch descent, born in New Jersey, and his father was Rev. Hesikiah Bonham, an old pioneer Methodist minister and a well-known preacher of those early times. Among his children are Robert, Jeremiah, Zachariah Zedekiali, Mary and Rachel. Rev. Zachariah Bonham married Sophia Johnson in Virginia, and they were the parents of seven children: Amos, Robert, Johnson, Hesikiah, Isaac, Elizabeth and Jacob. In 1814 Mr. Bonham settled in Jackson township and had a good farm of 200 acres which he cleared up from the wilderness. He gave up riding the circuit and preached in Irville. His first wife died and he married Susannah Hooper, daughter of John and Sarah Hooper, and to them were born three children: Mary, Rebecca and Sarah A. Mr. Bonham lived to the age of sixty-eight years and died on his farm. After his marriage, Daniel Fleming settled on the old home farm and here spent his life. Mr. and Mrs. Fleming are members of the Methodist Episcopal church, and he was class-leader and trustee for many years. He was a stanch republican in politics and .a strong union man during the war. He died July 23, 1867, at the age of sixty-four years, and left a wife and three children: Elizabeth, Finley M. and Jacob D. Dr. Jacob D Fleming had a good education, was an excellent scholar and taught school several years. He graduated at Hamilton Medical college, Columbus, Ohio, and is now practicing medicine at Frazeysburg. Finley M. Fleming attended school at Utica, Ohio. Mrs. Fleming the widow of Daniel, lives on the old homestead. In 1879 she built a fine residence and managed the farm until her sons were old enough to assist her. Finley M. was born April 13, 1855, and reared on the farm. He married, at the age of thirty-two years, Nellie K. Frazey, daughter of Guy and Kate (Mathews) Frazey. She is the great-granddaughter of the founder of Frazeysburg - Samuel Frazey. Mr. and Mrs. Fleming have two children: Paul D. and Kate. The mother of Mrs. Fleming was the daughter of Alfred Mathews, son of Dr. Increase Mathews, a prominent physician of Zanesville.

One of the most notable mercantile establishments of Nashport, Ohio, is that conducted by William H. H. Francis, who is widely known as a capable, enterprising, and reliable business man. He was born September 3, 1841, in Licking county, Ohio, and is a descendant of one of the ju'ominent families of Virginia. His grandfather, William Francis, was born in Loudoun county, Va., was of an old colonial family, and was a soldier in the Revolution, being present at the surrender of Cornwallis. He was married in his native state to Miss Mary Romine and they became the parents of twenty-four children, eighteen of whom lived to be grown. In 1816 William Francis came to Licking county, Ohio, settled near the west line of Muskingum county, in Hanover township, and became one of the substantial farmers, owning vast tracts of land and giving his children all farms. He died in 1847, when ninety years of age. He was a member of the Old School Baptist church, in which he served as deacon, and he was widely known among the old settlers as a man of sterling character. His was the first log house that was plastered in that part of Licking county. The children, so far as remembered, were: William, Isaiah, Everett, Lenen, James, Samuel, Stephen, Joseph, Maria, Mary A., Rebecca, and Fannie. The son, William, was the father of eighteen children. Samuel Francis, another son and the father of our subject, was born in Loudoun county, Va., January 26, 1798 and received a meager education in the common-schools of that day. He could read aud write well, and had some knowledge of arithmetic. In 1816 he came to the Buckeye state with his parents. He was married to Miss Amy Shadley, daughter of Daniel Shadley, who was one of the original settlers of Licking county. To Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Francis were bom twelve children: Mahlon (died in infancy), Sarah, Mary, Stephen, Hannah (died at the age of twenty-two, a married woman), Basil B., Melissa, David, Rebecca, William H. H. , Daniel T., and Elizabeth. Nine of their children are still living, all married and have families. Samuel Francis received fifty acres of land from his father and to this he added from time to time until lie owned 220 acres, on which he passed the closing years of his life. He was industrious, hardworking and prosperous. He was a member of the Old School Baptist church for more than sixtv-nine years and a deacon over fifty years of that time. In politics he was an old line whig and voted for every president from 1820 up to the present, except for James G. Blaine, having missed that on account of a hard rain and his advanced age, eighty-six years. He voted for William Henry Harrison and lived to vote for the grandson, Benjamin Harrison. On July 14, 1890, when ninetytwo years of age, this good man received his final summons. He had a wonderful constitution, was temperate in his habits, although he used tobacco all his life, and retained his mental faculties to the end. He was a well-known man, and a representative Ohio pioneer. In religious matters ho was particularly active aud assisted liberally with his means to build his church at a time when it needed all the assistance it could get. His son, William H. H. Francis, was born on the old homestead which is still held in the family, and received a good common-school education. At the age of twenty he began learning the mercantile business at Black Hand, Licking county, and continued clerking for two and one-half years, when he returned home where he worked on the farm for one year, two of his brothers being in the army and his father needing help. In 1864 he clerked in a store at Cottage Hill, Muskingum county, but two years later he came to Nashport, where he clerked for N. F. Claypool for six years, after which he embarked in business for himself at that jfiace. In 1884 he bought the building he now occupies, a commodious brick, and has been doing a flourishing business ever since. August 26, 1862, he married Miss Margery E. Drumm, daughter of John and Cynthia (Arter) Drumm, and of Irish descent. John Drumm was of an old pioneer family and was the father of seven children, four of whom are now living: Amanda, Margery E., Sylvanus and Minerva. He died in the sixties. To Mr. and Mrs. William H. H. Francis have been born three interesting children: Orlo D., Ella M. and Charles E. Mr. and Mrs. Francis are members of the Old School Baptist church, and he is clerk in the same. He has the confidence of the people of his township, and has been treasurer of the same for many years. He now holds the office of township trustee. Socially he is a member of the I. O. O. F., and has held the office of secretary, recording secretary, treasurer, vice-grand, noble grand and has been trustee for fifteen years. In politics he is a stanch republican. Mr. Francis takes an active interest in having good schools and has been a member of the board of education for years. He has been postmaster since May, 1887. He stands deservedly high as a citizen and as a reliable business man, and has been notary public for eight years.

Lewis Frazee is the owner of a fertile farm of 355 acres of land in Salt Creek township, aud is otherwise well supplied with worldly goods, the result of many hours of honest toil, and much good management. He was born in Greenbush township, Rensselaer county, N. Y., April 1, 1816, to Nathan and Nellie (Barmeger) Frazee, the former of whom was born in England, and in 1820 came to America, settling after a time in this county, where his death occurred in the year 1865. Lewis Frazee was married on the 19th of March, 1840, to Miss Mary J. Neff, a native of Brooke county, Va. , and daughter of Christian Neff, and to their marriage an interesting family of nine children were born, four of whom are living: Nathan E., in his business affairs, also thrifty and persevering, and his diligence and unremitting toil has been rewarded in the accumulation of an abundant share of this world's goods. He has always supported the men and measures of the democratic party, and in appreciation of his services his party elected him a member of the state legislature from Muskingum county in 1858-59, during which time he proved himself an able and incorruptible legislator. During his busy career he has found time to devote to social pleasures, and he is an honored member of the A. F. & A. M. , and the I. O. O. F. He and his family worship in the Presbyterian church. His original farm, or old homestead, is now the property of his daughter, Mrs. Moore, and in addition to his tine farm of 355 acres, above referred to, he is the owner of large farming interests in Missouri, and is a wealthy and influential citizen.

Among the men gifted alike with energy and enterprise stands Jesse Frazier, the prominent merchant and popular postmaster of Coal Hill, Muskingum county, Ohio. He was born April 1, 1836, and is the son of John and Elizabeth (Atkin) Frazier, his father a native of Virginia, and his mother of Pennsylvania. Jesse Frazier was reared on a farm, attended the district schools until the age of twenty- one, when he began for himself, working by the month for his father. This he continued two years, tilling the soil in the summer, and teaching school during the winter months. On the 27th of October, 1859, he married Miss Eliza James, daughter of John and Huldah James, of Meigs township. Soon after marriage he commenced farming, and continued this occupation with fair success until the year 1873, when he started a general store at Coal Hill, where he has been in business ever since. He is a pleasant, enterprising and honorable business man, practical and reliable, and highly respected by all with whom he has dealings. In 1874 he was appointed postmaster of Coal Hill, and he has filled this position in a satisfactory manner ever since. He has also held the office of township treasurer since 1885, and was elected county treasurer in November, 1891. Mr. Frazier is a member of the Masonic fraternity, and in politics is a stanch republican. He holds membership in the Baptist church.

Among the old settlers whose names and history adorn the pages of the "Memoirs of Muskingum County " none are more favorably known than William Frazier, who was born in Ohio county, W. Va. , near Wheeling, March 7, 1806, a son of Samuel and Eleanor (Robinson) Frazier. On the 23d of September, 1830, Mr. Frazier was married to Nancy Armstrong, a daughter of Rev. Armstrong, and the year following the celebration of their nuptials, they settled on the farm in this county on which Mr. Frazier is now living. He first purchased 120 acres of partially cleared land from Jonathan Carlisle, and to the improvement and cultivation of this and adjoining land since purchased he has devoted the best energies of his life. His union with Miss Armstrong resulted in the birth of the following children: Eleanor, born

February 23, 1832, the deceased wife of George Dutton, her death occurring November 5, 1881; Elizabeth, born January 9, 1834, wife of Dr. Robert George, of Elgin, 111.; Samuel A., born September 9, 1837, and died April 2, 1842; Rosanna, born April 30, 1839, wife of Capt. Henry C. Baughman, of Mona, Kas. ; Margaret Ann, born January 16, 1842, wife of Robert Morrison, of Thomasboro, 111.; William H., born January 23, 1845, and resides in Taylorville, Ohio, and Robert A., born September 22, 1847, is a resident of Nevada, Iowa. Mrs. Frazier died on the 25th of August, 1848. Mr. Frazier's second marriage was celebrated November 6, 1851, Miss Sarah AVhitaker, the daughter of Lemuel AVhitaker, a pioneer settler of Brush Creek township, becoming his wife. She was born March 21, 1818, and died February 13, 1862. Mr. Frazier's third marriage was consummated on the 5th of March, 1863, Miss Kate Weaver becoming his third wife. She was born in Germany, February 2, 1839, and has borne her husband two children: Hattie, wife of Charles U.

Shryock, born January 17, 1864, and Samuel, born December 30, 1867, and died September 19, 1878. The mother of these children died on the 10th of June, 1878. Mr. Frazier has been a member of the Presbyterian church a great number of years, and has always been a consistent Christian gentleman, having the confidence of all with whom he has had acquaintance or business dealings. When he first came to this county he was engaged in sawmilling quite extensively, and manufactured considerable quantities of lumber. The carding and woolen factory formerly located at Taylorville he operated for a number of years, and he yet has an interest in the gristmill at that place, in which he is jointly interested with his son William. Mr. Frazier has, during his long and not uneventful life, been a republican in politics, voting with that party on all questions of national and local importance. In his father's family there were eleven children, all of whom, with the exception of two, are dead: Robert, who resides in Missouri, and the subject of this sketch, who was the youngest of the family. Those deceased are James Robinson, Samuel, Elizabeth(wife of Samuel McCoy), Andrew, Rosanna (wife of Jesse Davis), James, Margaret (wifeof John Bell), David, Hamilton and Robinson. Grandfather Frazier was born August 28, 1776, and died March 31, 1850. His wife was born February 5, 1778, and died July 25, 1850.

Among the prominent farmers and large landholders of Muskingum county must be mentioned Stockton Frazier, Frazeysburg, Ohio. His father was Samuel Frazier. [See sketch of James Frazier.] Stockton Frazier was born January 17, 1829, in Belmont county, Ohio, on his father's farm, and was but seven years of age when his father removed to Muskingum county and settled in Licking township. He received a common-school education and was brought up as a farmer. He married, October 19, 1859, Elizabeth A. McCann, daughter of Maxwell and Margaret (McDonald) McCann. The father was a son of James McCann [see sketch of Orville McCann], and was born in 1800, in Westmoreland county, Penn. , shortly after his father came from Ireland. He received a common-school education, was brought up a farmer, and came to Muskingum county with his father at the age of sixteen years. He married Margaret McDonald, daughter of Joseph McDonald, a native of Virginia, who came to Muskingum county at an early day. Maxwell McCann was the father of seven children: John, Joseph, Martha, James,

Elizabeth A., Sarah and Carolina. Mr. McCann was a prosperous farmer, owning a good farm of 300 acres. He was a member of the Presbyterian church, and has held the office of township trustee. He was a strict democrat, and lived to the age of seventy-five years, dying in 1875. C. E. Frazier now lives on the old McCann homestead, in Cass township, which Stockton Frazier bought some eight years since. After his marriage Stockton Frazier settled on the farm where he now lives and then bought 160 acres of his father, paying for it $3,000. By industry and hard labor, combined with good management, he has increased his property until he now owns 1,300 acres of land. Both Mr. and Mrs. Frazier are members of the Presbyterian church, and Mr. Frazier has been elder for many years, and assisted to build the Muskingum Presbyterian church. In politics he is a stanch republican, and lias held the office of township trustee, but takes little interest in politics besides keeping up with the times. To Mr. and Mrs. Frazier have been born eight children who lived: Alfred A. (a lawyer of Zanesville, educated at Granville and Wooster, Ohio, and at the law school at Cincinnati. He married Emma Clark, and lias two children. He is a successful lawyer and well-known politician of Zanesville); Samuel L. (who also received a good education at Granville and Wooster. He deals in stock and wool, and married Rosa Welch. They have four children, and live at Frazeysburg); Maxwell (is a farmer, of Muskingum township; was educated at Wooster, and married Angie Lemert. They have one child); James H (educated at Wooster, Ohio; is a farmor, of Jackson township, and married Kate

Bennett. They have one child); Charles E. (is a farmer, of Cass township; was educated at Wooster, and married Enna Blizzard. They have one child); Margaret R., Rose E., and Luella J. are young ladies at home, and are receiving good educations. Mr. Frazier is a man well informed on all important subjects of the day, and has a good library. He is interested in educational matters and all subjects for the advancement and good of the county. He has a beautiful home, of brick, two stories high, with everything about it to make it comfortable and pleasant.

J. W. Frazier, Frazeysburg, Ohio. Mr. Frazier's great-great grandfather, David Frazier, who was the founder .of the Frazier family in America, was born in Scotland, and was there married to his first wife, who died, leaving him with one child, a son, Samuel. Mr. Frazier's second marriage resulted in the birth of four children - two sons and two daughters. The two sons, James and Alexander, went to Kentucky at an early date, and the daughters married, one becoming Mrs. Craig and the other Mrs. McCoy. The former lived in Middle Wheeling Creek, W. Va., and the latter made her home near Xenia, Ohio, and reared a large family, the descendants of which still reside there. Samuel Frazier, son of David, and the great-grandfather of our subject, was born in York county, Va., but left home when quite young and* went to Shippensburg, Penn., where he learned the tanning business. He married Miss and to them were born four children: Margaret, William, Samuel and David. Samuel Frazier resided for some time in Burkeley county, Va., and here his son Samuel was born. He then moved to Washington county, Penn., thence to Ohio county, W. Va. , and, in company with others, built a fort to protect themselves from the Indians, at what was then called Williamson's Place, near Roney's Point. Samuel Frazier Jr., son of the above, and the grandfather of our subject, was born August 28, 1776, in Berkeley county, Va., and was a farmer by occupation. He was married March 29, 1798, to Miss Eleanor Robinson, who was born February 5, 1778, and who was a daughter of Andrew and Elizabeth (Harrison) Robinson. Andrew Robinson was born in County Down, Ireland, and emigrated to America at a period antedating the Revolution. He was a driver of packhorses at the battle of Brandywine. His wife, Elizabeth Harrison, was born in County Armagh, Ireland, and they were married in Maryland at a place called Head Elk or Elk Foi'ge, in Westmoreland county, Penn. Mr. and Mrs. Robinson were the parents of two children, James and Eleanor. James was born before the family moved to West Virginia, and accidentally shot himself when sixteen years of age, dying with lockjaw. Andrew Robinson and wife died in Ohio county, W. Va., when quite aged. Samuel Frazier and wife, Eleanor Robinson, became the parents of twelve children: James (died in infancy), Samuel, Elizabeth, Andrew, William, R -, James, Margaret, David, Hamilton, Robinson and Robert. Eleven of these children lived to be over sixty-five years of age, no deaths occurring among them for nearly seventy-nine years. Samuel Frazier died March 81, 1850, and his wife died July 25 of the same year. Mr. Frazier was an extensive farmer, owned vast tracts of land, and was a slave owner, although he liberated all his slaves before his' death. He built a flouring mill at Roney's Point and was the owner of a hotel and most of the property of the village. The Fraziers were, for generations, Presbyterian covenanters, and finally United Presbyterians. Samuel Frazier was a good business man, and left at his death a handsome estate. The Robinsons were also wealthy people, and Mrs. Frazier inherited considerable property. Samuel Frazier, the third son of the above, and father of our subject, was born in Ohio county, W. Ya. , June 13, 1800, and received a good practical education. He married, February 11, 1823, Miss Rebecca Brice, daughter of Rev. John and Jane (Stockton) Brice, the former a Presbyterian clergyman, who preached at the Forks of the Wheeling creek, West Alexander, at an early day. He died in 1810. He was tfyice married, first to Rebecca Kerr, who bore him two children, James and Jane, and the second time to Jane Stockton, which union resulted in the birth of these children: John, Mary, Rebecca, Margaret, Sarah and Elizabeth (twins), Alice, Eliza, Francis and Jane A., all now deceased, but leaving many descendants. The Stockton family is scattered all over the FTnited States, and among its members are several Presbyterian ministers. Rev. John Stockton was a noted minister, and preached at Cross Creek, Penn., for fifty years. Samuel Frazier, like his father, was the father of these children: John Brice (died at the age of thirteen), Samuel R. (deceased), Eleanor, Stockton, William H. , James M., Jane A., Elizabeth, James W. , Mary A., Brice, Virginia and Samuel. After marriage Mr. Frazier lived two years in Ohio county, W. Ya., but moved from there to Belmont county, Ohio, about 1824 or 1825, settling on wild land five miles from the county seat, where he cleared a farm and resided twelve years. In 1836-37 he came to Muskingum county, settled on a farm in Licking township, and by his industry and thoroughness accumulated a fine estate of about 1,000 acres in this county. He was a practical and successful farmer and a good business man. He and wife were members of the United Presbyterian church, but afterward the Old School Presbyterian church. In politics he was an old line whig, and afterward a sti'ong abolitionist, although brought up in a slave-holding family. He was subsequently a strict republican and strong Union man during the war. He was one of the early temperance men. and prohibited the use of liquors in the field on his farm. At one time the men refused to work on that account. He was a man possessed of great firmness of character and always took a high stand for the cause of right and justice. He was an elder in the church for about forty years, and in his death, which occurred April 3, 1889, when nearly eighty-nine years of age, the people lost one of their most esteemed and respected citizens. He assisted in building three churches, two in Muskingum township and the Frazeysburg Presbyterian church. He was a true Christian in all that the words imply, and from a long line of distinguished ancestors he inherited his many excellent traits of character. To such men as these, and to such families, we owe the balance of good which makes the Buckeye state so powerful and prosperous. His wife died June 8, 1872, when over seventy-three years of age. James W. Frazier, our subject, was born in Belmont county, Ohio, December 13, 1835, and received a fair education in the common schools. He inherited from his father a love of learning, and added to his stock of useful information by reading good books, newspapers and periodicals, and is a self-educated and exceedingly well-informed man. He is conversant with the leading movements of the time, and has marked opinions of his own upon all important subjects. Coming of a race of agriculturists, farming has constituted his principal business through life, and as a farmer he has always been successful and enterprising. In October, 1862, Mr. Frazier was drafted into the service of the United States as a soldier, and was in camp at Zanesville for two months, after which he hired a substitute for three years, paying therefor $300. One year later he enlisted in the Ohio Home Guards, Company H, One Hundred and Fifty-ninth regiment O. V. I., and in May, 1864, was mustered into the service of the United States, his regiment being assigned to the eastern division of the Army of the Potomac, then operating in Maryland, with which he served 100 days. The climate was unhealthy, and many in his regiment had typhoid fever and died. Mr. Frazier was dangerously ill of this dread disease and did not recover for two months, he and Cornelius Collins, one of his comrades, being the only ones in the compauy whose lives were spared after taking the disease. As it was. Mr. Frazier returned to his home shattered in health, and has never since fully recovered. October 10, 1864, he married Miss Alma Vandenbark, a daughter of Gershom and Mary (Baird)

Yandenbark, who bore him two children: Charles and Bessie M. Soon after his marriage he bought a farm located two and one-half miles north of Frazeysburg, and to the 240 acres in the original tract he has added by subsequent purchases until he owned 640 acres, and upon which he lived until 1890. In religious belief Mr. Frazier is a Presbyterian, as was his father before him, and he was one of the constituent members of the Frazeysburg Presbyterian church. He has been active in all its affairs since its organization to the present time, having served continuously as an elder and as the superintendent of its Sunday school, and the fact that he was one of the building committee who had charge of the erection of its house of worship, will not be without historical interest. Mr. Frazier's first great sorrow was caused by the death of his wife in 1871. This devoted wife and mother, and devout and zealous Christian woman, was an active member of the Methodist church. Her father. Gershom Yandenbark, was a native of New Jersey, of Holland-Dutch descent, who came to Muskingum county with his father, David Vandenbark, who was one of the very earliest settlers in Licking township. In 1873 Mr. Frazier took for his second wife Miss Eliza Gorsuch, a daughter of Joshua Gorsuch. [See sketch.] This lady was one of the original members of the Presbyterian church at Frazeysburg, and was a woman of refined character and exceedingly gentle disposition. She was a true mother to the orphan children of Mr. Frazier, and devoted to them all the tenderness she could have lavished upon her own fieshand blood. Of singularly even temperament, gifted with spontaneous kindliness, it may be said of her that she never became impatient, and was a truly beneficent power in this little household, every member of which remembers her with tender love and affection. Her death, which occurred July 17, 1890, brought to Mr. Frazier his second great affliction. In the spring of 1890 Mr. Frazier removed from his old farm to Frazeysburg and there located on a small place of fifty acres, which he had purchased for a home during his declining years, leaving his son Charles in charge of the homestead. He owns here considerable real estate, and has an interest in the Frazeysburg flourmill and in the tile factory. He takes an active interest in the prosperity of the village, and is a member of the board of health, in that capacity and in other ways exerting a strong influence for good. All his life long he has been deeply concerned in the cause of education, and for many years he held the office of school director in his district. Honesty, industry, prudence and caution have been the leading characteristics of the Frazier family in all generations, and these traits have been manifested always and in a marked degree by Mr. Frazier. As a practical business man his record is excellent, and he is at this time one of the largest land owners in the county. Socially he is popular with all -who know him, and in all respects he is a creditable representative of the sterling stock from which he has descended. His son, Charles W. Frazier, now twenty-three years of age, received a thorough education at the Ada Normal university, at Ada, Ohio, and is now a practical and successful farmer. He was married in 1889 to Miss Nellie Hamilton, and has one daughter named Gracie. Mr. Frazier's daughter, Bessie M., married James Stitt, part owner aud superintendent of the Frazeysburg flouring mill. She has one son. named James F.

Among those prominently identified with the business interests of Muskingum county, Ohio, is John W. Fogle, who occupies the Odd Fellow building at Chandlersville, Ohio, and carries a stock of hardware, stoves, farm implements, etc. His birth occurred at McConnelsville, Morgan county, Ohio, November 15, 1850, and he was the only child born to the marriage of John aud Rebecca (Hamilton) Fogle. The father was a native of Wayne county, Ohio, and of German descent. The mother was of English origin. Both are now deceased, the father dying in 1860, and the mother three years later. In the spring of 1863 John W. Fogle began learning the stonemason trade with an uncle, continued at this four years, but only followed it one year after learning. In the spring of 1872 he married Miss Jennie Allen, daughter of Sam Allen, and their union has been blessed by the birth of two children : Charles and Alice. Mr. Fogle has been in the hardware business for the past two years, and is held in the most favorable repute, owing to his enterprise and to his upright, honorable business methods. Previous to engaging in business for himself, or in 1878, he began traveling for a pump manufacturing establishment, and sold from two to three hundred pumps annually. He remained on the road until January, 1891, when he was obliged to stop to attend his rapidly increasing business. He was at one time a contractor for building work also. He is a member of the I. O. O. F. lodge, and in politics is a democrat. He is a member of the Presbyterian church, a liberal supporter of the same, and is a publicspirited citizen.

George L. Foley, probate judge, Zanesville, is one of the representative men of Muskingum county, Ohio, and as he was born and reared in the county the people have had every opportunity to judge of his character and qualifications. His parents, James and Catherine (Shipman) Foley, were natives of Ohio and Pennsylvania, respectively. The family located in Muskingum county, Union township, village of Norwich, in about 1832, and the father followed the trade of a shoemaker. The latter still resides in Norwich. He is the father of hve sons and four daughters, seven of which are living, and of whom George L. is the eldest son. George L. Foley was reared in his native county, and received his education in the public schools of Norwich. He learned his father's trade and worked at the bench until 1881, being engaged a part of the time in farming, continuing this until elected to his present office in 1881. Previous to this he had held the office of township clerk and justice of the peace of Union township, holding the former position from 1875 until 1882, and the latter from 1875 to 1882, when he resigned both of said positions to accept that of probate judge. He has been elected to his present office four terms successively, which speaks in the highest term of his efficiency and ability in that position. He was married on November 19, 1885, to Miss Flora Buchanan. Socially Mr. Foley is a member of the I. O. O. F., Knights of Pythias, and the Benevolent Order of Elks. In politics has always been a republican.

James Foley Sr. was born in Monroe county, Ohio, on May 8, 1826, and was the youngest but one of six children born to William R. and Barbara (Kinney) Foley. William Foley was a native of the Emerald Isle, and came to this country during the War of 1812, participating in the same. He was married in Chester county, Penn., and afterward removed to Pittsburg, where he assisted in building the first bridges of that city. His wife, who was also a native of Chester county, Penn., was the daughter of Frederick Kinney. SJie remained in her native county until her marriage, and then, in 1824 or 1825, accompanied her husband to Monroe county, Ohio. The fruits of this union were six children: Bartholomew, Eliza, George (who now resides in Chandlersville, this county), Thomas (residing in Smith county, Kas.), James (subject) and John C. (died at the age of about six years). The father of these children died about 1832 or 1833, and the mother received her final summons on August 8, 1880, when eightythree years of age, her birth having occurred on February 10, 1797. She first moved to this county in 1829, and made her home here until her death. She was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church all her life, and was very active in all church matters. Only three of her children are now living, two in this county. Her father, Frederick Kinney, was of German-English descent, and was a soldier in the Revolutionary war. His wife was of German descent. James Foley's early recollections were of Guernsey and Muskingum counties, and he received a limited education in the former county. Thrown upon his own resources at an early age he began cutting cord wood at 25 cents a cord, and in this and other ways made a living. When twenty-two years of age he married Miss Catherine Shipman, a native of Saint Clairsville, Belmont county, Ohio, born July 4, 1827, and one of a family of eight children born to Walter and Ann (Wilson) Shipman, natives of Pennsylvania, and both of German descent. The father was a Revolutionary soldier. Their children were named as follows: George, Charity, Rebecca, Catherine, John, Stephen, Josephine and Zenith, six of whom are living. Mr. and Mrs. Shipman died in Belmont county, Ohio. They had one son in the Civil war. To Mr. and Mrs. Foley were born nine children, seven of whom are living: George (probate judge of Muskingum county), Stephen (married and is a shoemaker in West Virginia), Josephine (was the wife of Davis Haddeu, of this township, and died when twentyone years of age), Mary K. (resides in New Lexington, Perry county, Ohio, and is the wife of B. D. Yow), Jason (died when five years of age), Elizabeth (is the wife of John W. Hadley, of Marion, Ohio), Laura (at home). James F. (traveling salesman for a Columbus drug house) and Henry S. (who is in the iron mills at Martin's Ferry). Mt. and Mrs. Foley are worthy members of the Presbyterian church. He was formerly a whig in politics, but since the war he has affiliated with the republican party. Socially he has been a member of the Norwich Masonic order for forty years, and is a Mason. Mr. Foley is engaged in farming and owns seventy acres of excellent land in the edge of Norwich. He is a public-spirited citizen, and takes an active interest in educational and religious matters, as well as all other enterprises of a laudable nature.

J. P. Ford, painter, glazier and dealer in plate glass of all kinds, was born in Zanesville, Ohio, in July, 1829. His parents, Henry and Lucinda (Piatt) Ford, were natives of England and Ohio respectively. The . father came to the United States when about eight years of age, or in 1815, and located with his parents in Zanesville, where he received his education. He learned the shoemaker's trade and followed this until his death in 1860. The mother had died a number of years previous. This family consisted of five children - two now living: J. P. and Lucinda, the latter residing in Logan, Ohio. J. P. Ford learned the painter's trade in his youth and worked as a journeyman for a few years. He subsequently opened a shop in partnership with G. W. Stark (1854), continued this for two years, and then dissolved partnership, since which time he has been engaged in business alone. He is the second oldest painter in Zanesville, has ever retained the confidence of leading mercantile and financial circles, and is a merchant of the highest standing and soundest judgment, whose success has been developed upon the sure basis of efficiency and integrity. He deals in French plate glass, plate, stained, cathedral and crystal sheet glass, and also does paper hanging and decorating. Mr. Ford is a director of the Home Building and Savings bank. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, has been treasurer of Blue lodge for over thirty years and also treasurer of commandery, chapter and council. He is a stockholder in the Citizen's National bank. He was married in 1852 to Miss Lucinda Brookover, a native of Muskingum county, who bore him three children: Ella, Carrie, and Frank, who is deputy probate judge. Mr. Ford took for his second wife Miss Mattie Lee, and they have three children: Hattie, Lee and John. The family are members of the First Baptist church of which he has been deacon, treasurer and trustee.

Charles H. Fox, a farmer and stock dealer of Wayne township, Muskingum county, Ohio, was born in this county, July 11, 1836, and was educated in the common schools and the schools of Zanesville. He commenced the battle of life at the age of sixteen years as a stock driver and butcher, and successfully followed both or these callings until 1857, when he entered the employ of his uncle, William Fox, as clerk in his grocery, where he remained until April 17, 1861, when lie enlisted in Company A, Fifteenth Ohio Volunteer infantry, three months' service, and was discharged in August. In April, 1862, he went to Washington, D. C. , in the employ of his uncle, and remained until July. In September he went with the Squirrel Hunters to Cincinnati in the Kirby Smith raid. He was married, in 1863, to Miss Celia A. Sloan, of this county, daughter of R. H. and Lois Sloan. In November of the same year he entered into partnership with Mr. Jacob Slack in the grocery business, and in May, 1864, was commissioned cajitain of Company E, One Hundred and Fifty-ninth Ohio Volunteer infantry and mustered in the regular service for 100 days. He was at Maryland Heights, Baltimore and Monocracy Junction; returned to Zanesville and was mustered out of the service August 24. He and Mr. Jacob Slack then bought a two-thirds interest in the grocery of his uncle, William Fox, where he remained until 1870, when he sold his interest in the store and purchased a farm in Wayne township and went to farming and dealing in live stock. To himself arid wife four children have been born: Kate E. , Harry, Mary (deceased), and Maggie. His parents were Asa and Ann Ross Fox. Asa Fox was born in Loudoun county, Va. , and raised in Washington, D. C., coming to Zanesville in 1827. Mr. Fox was a butcher by trade, and was one of the first butchers of Zanesville. He reared a family of six children, five of whom are still living, the subject of this sketch being the eldest: William T., Miranda (deceased), Mary E., George R. and Asa L. William T. at the beginning of the war enlisted in Company A, Fifteenth Ohio Volunteer infantry. After this regiment was discharged, he reenlisted in Company D, Seventyeighth Ohio Volunteer infantry, and was with Sherman in his memorable march from Atlanta to the sea. Their father died in 1869, aged sixtyfive years, loved and respected by all. Ann Ross Fox, mother of Charles H. , was born in 1815, became a member of the First Baptist church when fourteen years of age, and was . married in 1833. She died, January 29, 1884. Elijah Ross, grandfather of the subject of this sketch, came to Zanesville in 1802, where he followed his trade of gunsmith. In the War of 1812 he entered the service and was detailed to repair the boys' flintlocks. After the war he carried on his trade until his death in 1865. Mrs. Charles Fox is the eldest in a family of eight children: William H. (who died in August 1884), Margaret J., Harriet, Charles W., Mi-s. W. H. Allen, Robert (who was killed in the battle of the Wilderness) and Martha.

Charles H. Galigher, farmer and gardener, Zanesville, Ohio, was born in Muskingum county in 1844, and his parents, James and Adaline (Lee) Galigher, were natives also of this county, and of Irish and German parentage respectively. Grandfather and Grandmother Galigher were natives of Baltimore, Md., and came to Muskingum county, Ohio, about 1800, settling near Zanesville, when that city was hardly known. The grandfather followed flatboating from that point to New Orleans, and continued this occupation all his life. He died in Cincinnati of cholera at an early date. He was one of the first settlers, and w'here now are stately residences and cultivated farms, then Indians and wild animals roamed through the wilderness. Many were the hairbreadth escapes and thrilling adventures of those sturdy pioneers who made possible the pleasant homes of to-day. James Galigher, father of our subject, was educated at Zanesville, in a little log cabin with slab seats, and his schooling was fair for that early day. He was always considered a well-educated man. He was married about 1838. After the death of his father he and his brother quit the river, and began learning the hatter's trade, following this for some time after his marriage. He became quite successful in this business, had several pien working for him, and for many years supplied the trade of the county. There are one or more men yet living who worked for him, Jacob Off being one of them. In 1852 Mr. Galigher purchased the farm on which our subject now resides, which then consisted of 219 acres at $32 per acre, and it is now worth $150 per acre. At that time there were about 150 acres improved, and he immediately moved upon it, and there received his final summonsin 1881. To Mr. and Mrs. Galigher were born eight children: Margaret, wife of L. D. Dillon, resides in Knoxville, Tenn. ; Richard, resides on a portion of the old homestead; one died in childhood; Charles H. (subject) ; Bettie Deitz resides on a portion of the old homestead; Ella, wife of David Tipton, resides in Omaha, Neb. ; Annie, wife of Charles Bell, resides in Columbus, Ohio, and Mrs. Ida Burgess is a resident of Columbus. Airs. Galigher was a worthy and exemplary member of the Baptist church at Zanesville, and died in 1873. Mr. Galigher was a member of the A. F. & A. Al., Amity lodge No. 5, Zanesville. The maternal grandfather of our subject, Richard Lee, came to Ohio in 1800, and upon arriving here entered what is now West Zanesville, his family residence standing where the round house of the B. A O. R. R. company now stands. This land was then purchased at $2.25 per acre, and Zanesville was then only a boat landing. Air. Lee became quite wealthy, although he had started a poor man. He reared a large family, and many of his descendants are residing in and around Zanesville. He was with W. H. Harrison against the Indians, and participated in many desperate battles. He died in 1850 at quite an old age. Grandmother Lee died some years afterward at the age of ninety years. Charles H. Galigher was born in Zanesville, and received his education in the common schools, this being about the first of the free school system in Ohio. He has always shown a marked preference for agricultural pursuits, and this has been his principal occupation through life. In 1864 he joined Company E, One Hundred and Fifty-ninth Ohio infantry, and went immediately to the front, participating in the battle of Fredericksburg, Md. He was discharged in Zanesville in 1865, after coming home. He then resumed agricultural pursuits with his father on the home place, and in 1866 was married to Aliss Clara Brenhots, daughter of Louis and Sidney (Patterson) Brenhots, both natives of the Keystone state. Air. and Mrs. Brenhots were the parents of five children: George AV., Charles, Rebecca, Louis (was accidentally killed) and Clara. Mr. Brenhots was one of the first undertakers and cabinet makers of Zanesville, was quite successful, and accumulated considerable property. He died in 1886 at the age of eighty - two. His wife still survives, and is past the age of eighty. Both were reared Quakers. Mr. Galigher' s union was blessed by the birth of two children: Louis F. , at home, and Adelia, attending school. Air. Galigher has filled a number of local positions in a creditable and satisfactory manner, having been township clerk and school director. He and wife hold membership in the Baptist church of Zanesville. Socially Air. Galigher is a member of the I. O. O. F., Aluskingum lodge No. 128, and he is also a member of the G. A. R., Hazel post at Zanesville. Politically he is a republican. His first vote for president was in 1866 for Gen. U. S. Grant, and his last for AY. H. Harrison. Air. Galigher's son, Louis F., is a member of Battery C, First Regiment of Light artillery, National guards, and is gunner and corporal.

N. T. Gant is a wholesale gardener, farmer and dairyman, and is the owner of over 300 acres of land near the city of Zanesville. One hundred and fifty acres, which are located about two and a half miles from the city, are devoted to stockraising as well as to coal mining, the yield being ample to help supply the citizens of Zanesville, as well as the surrounding country with coal. Air. Gant was born in Loudoun county, Va., Alay 10, 1822, his mother, Edith Tolbert, being a slave and the property of John Nixson. Her second husband was a Air. Gant, and in 1844, having been freed by the will of her master, she came with Air. Gant and her son, the subject of this sketch, who also had been freed, to Aluskingum county, Ohio. In Air. Nixon's will it was also stipulated that they should have their expenses paid to some free state. N. T. Gant's mother ooly enjoyed her freedom a short time, for in 1846 she departed this life. Her son was first married in Virginia, Alay 11, 1844, to Aliss Maria Hughes, who was born in Virginia and was a slave of Aliss Jane Russell, from whom Mr. Gant purchased her freedom. She died in this county, October 1, 1877; after having borne her husband twelve children. Elizabeth (wife of Robert Manly), Sarah (wife of Dr. Norton), Alaggie (wife of George AV. Potts), Nelsen T. (at home), being the only ones now living. On January 10, 1879, Mr. Gant was united in marriage to his second wife, she being Aliss Lavenia Neal, a native of the state of ATirginia. To their union one daughter has been born: Lulu. AVhen Air. Gant first came to this county he engaged in gardening for Theodore Converse and for five years remained in his employ, at the end of which time Air. Converse died and Air. Gant began business for himself. AVhen he first came to this county he had only 50 cents in money, but by persistent endeavor and by the exercise of sound business judgment and principles, he is now wealthy. He recently sold twenty acres of land to F. Al. Townsend for $20,000 for a park, which is now one of the finest in the state and is called Gant park in honor of its former owner and one of the county's most worthy citizens. Mr. Gant has always been mindful of his financial interests and has driven many a shrewd and profitable bargain. No man living is more devoted to his family and friends and he has given all his children good collegiate educations and they repaid him by industrious application, his son, Nelson T., being exceptionally bright and promising. His daughters are intelligent women and are well versed in music. He has always been deeply interested in the welfare of Zanesville and has done as much as any citizen in the county to develop her resources and to further her interests. His career points its own moral and has few parallels in the history of "men of mark" among the colored people. He and his wifo and a number of his children are members of the Methodist Episcopal church on South street, Zanesville, and of this church his first wife was also a worthy member.

Fred S. Gates has steadily and surely made his way to the front in the profession of law during the fifteen years of his practice in Muskingum county, and his reputation and record are first class for integrity and trustworthiness in all matters intrusted to him. He is careful and painstaking in all pleadings and court proceedings and for clearness and accuracy the legal instruments drawn up by him can not be excelled. He was born in Zanesville, December 25, 1854, his parents, M. Y. and Mary (Fell) Gates, being also natives of this county, born in the year 1826. The father was a contractor and builder by occupation until five years since and many of the handsomest and best buildings in Zanesville and the surrounding country are monuments to his skill He is now devoting his attention to farming and as a tiller of the soil is no less successful than as a contractor and builder. In the public schools of Zanesville Fred S. obtained a practical education and in 1872 graduated from the high school, after which, for two years, he followed the calling of a pedagogue. He began his legal studies in 1873 in the office of F. A. Seborn and in 1876 was admitted to the bar, and has ever since been a practicing lawyer of this city. The interests of his clients are regarded by him as of the first importance, aDd he is regarded as a conservative and prudent counsellor, whose advice can readily be relied upon. He has a large civil practice and he is regarded as one of the most capable members of his profession in the county. He has always supported the principles of the republican party and in 1887 was the attorney for the city of Zanesville. He has shown his approval of secret societies by becoming a member of Moxahala lodge No. 144, of the I. O. O. F. and Phoenix lodgeNo. 388, of the K. of P., of which he is a charter member. On April 28, 1878, his marriage with Miss Anna Taylor was consummated, the latter being a native of this county. They have two children: Fred S. Jr. and Harold T. Mr. and Mrs. Gates are members of the Trinity Methodist Episcopal church.

Theo. F. Gault, druggist of New Concord, Ohio, and one of that town's successful, enterprising business men, was born in Washington county, Penn., on April 6, 1850. His parents, William and Louisa (Lyle) Gault, were natives of Washington county, Penn., the former born about 1805 or 1806 and the latter about 1811, and they were married in their native county. William Gault was one of six children, who were named as follows: John, Mary, Jane, William, Samuel and

David. Mrs. Gault was the daughter of Moses and Sarah (Kerr) Lyle, natives of Northampton county, Penn., and was the eldest of eleven children born to this worthy couple. They are named as follows: Louisa, Mariah, Ezra, Rucina, Sarissa, Eliza, Harriet, Sarah, Aaron, Ellen and William. Mr. Lyle removed with his parents to Washington county, Penn., when two years of age and there attained his growth and was married. William Gault remained in his native county until grown, was there married and there reared most of his children. In 1859 he emigrated to Muskingum county, Ohio, settled on a farm within a half mile of New Concord, in Union township, and there engaged in merchandising, which he continued until 1862. At that time his son, who was in the business with him, enlisted in the army, and Mr. Gault sold out, subsequently purchasing a large farm near Otsego, this county. He was the owner of this at the time of his death, which occurred in June, 1865, in New Concord. He died very suddenly the night after Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. He was a strong Union man, and was an active supporter of the republican party. In religious and educational matters he was also very active, and was prominently identified with the Presbyterian church. He was prosperous in a business way, and what he accumulated in the way of this world's goods was the result of his own industry and enterprise. He was a well informed man, and was well posted on all the current topics of the day. Mrs. Gault died in September, 1878, in full communion with the Presbyterian church. They were the parents of nine children, who are named in the order of their births as follows: Milton (died in 1874, when about thirty-five years of age), Margaretta (died in 1882), Albert G. (now residing in Columbus, Ohio, and is chief box clerk in the postoffice department), Ada S. (died in 1890), William P. (who is engaged in the drug business in Columbus), Mary (died in 1878), James L. (resides in Zanesville and is a member of the firm of Wilhelm, Speer & Co.), T. F. (subject), Ellen (who died at the age of four years). Two of the sons, A. G. and W. P., were in the Civil war, in the Seventy-eighth regiment Ohio Volunteer infantry, and were in a number of engagements. The former served as lieutenant, and the latter as a private.

Tkefatlier of these children was prominently identified with the affairs of the county, and was well and favorably known all over it. Theo. F. Gault continued in Washington county, Penn. , until about nine years of age when he came with his father to Muskingum county, Ohio, and he supplemented a common-school education by attending the high schools of New Concord. After the death of the father the children took the means that were left and embarked in the drug business, our subject gradually purchasing the business. He was with his brother, W. P. , until December, 1882, when he bought his share, the latter going to Columbus. Early in life Mr. Gault was interested in bands, and was leader of the New Concord Silver Cornet band for some time. He is a wide-awake, thoroughgoing business man, and for the past ten years has been in business for himself. He is not married. Mr. Gault is an active republican in his political views, and has held the office of city councilman. He was a delegate to the Chicago republican convention in 1884, and is at present a member of the county executive committee. He is prominent in the political affairs of both county and state, and is interested in schools and churches, being in sympathy with the Presbyterian church. Mr. Gault's sister, Ada S. Gault, is a lady whose memory will remain green in the minds of the brave "boys in blue" who enlisted from Muskingum county, long after her body has moldered to dust, for she was an indefatigable worker for their interests during the war. Since then she had taken a leading part in all soldier reunions and all public affairs of that kind, and was loved and honored by all. The soldiers of this county will ever remem- Ada Gault. She was born at Cross Creek village, Washington county, Penn., and died on January 25, 1890. She had a class in the Presbyterian Sunday school and was a member of the church, having united with same when quite young. She was a noble Christian woman.

Jonathan Gaumer. In the space allotted in this volume it would be impossible to give a detailed account of the career of this gentleman, but it is only just to say that in his walk through life his course has been marked by honesty, industry and a manly, independent spirit. He is a native of Washington township, Muskingum county, Ohio, born June 24, 1822, and was the eleventh child born to Daniel and Hannah (Boughman) Gaumer, the father a native of Yirginia, born April 10,1781, and the mother of Pennsylvania, born in 1785. The paternal grandfather, Jacob Gaumer, was a native of Germany and came to this country at an early day. He served under Washington in the Revolutionary war and was drum-major in the army. Daniel Gaumer, father of subject, was a soldier in the War of 181 2. He had passed his youthful days in Somerset county, Penn., but in 1809 he moved to Washington township, Muskingum county, and settled seven miles above Zanesville on a farm ou the Muskingum river. In 1824 he moved to Salem township and here died in September, 1859, The mother, who was of German descent also, died in Salem township in 1874. They were the parents of the following children: Lydia (deceased), was the wife of David Shirer; Catherine (deceased), was the wife of V. Shirer; William (deceased); Esther, the widow of Y. Shirer, resides in Adams township, this county; Jacob (deceased); Gideon (deceased); Rebecca (deceased), was the wife of John Wimer; Daniel Jr. (deceased); Lebanon, who is residing in Guernsey county, this state; George is now living in Mercer county, Penn., and is a Lutheran minister at Greenville, that county; Jonathan (subject); Charles, residing in Douglas county, Ivas., Jesse residing in Illinois and Anthony, who died in the army. The parents of these children were worthy members of the Lutheran church. The father was a democrat at an early day but later became a whig. He was an honest, upright citizen, and a man universally respected. He was in comfortable circumstances and at his death left a good farm. Jonathan Gaumer was educated in the district schools of Salem township and in 1840 he started out to make his own way in life. He taught school for about five years but afterward worked at the carpenter's trade and ran a carding mill for some time. After this he began farming and continued to till the soil until 1888, when he sold out and settled in Adamsville, where he now resides, retired from the active duties of life. Mr. Gaumer was married in 1846 to Miss Mahala Barrett, daughter of John and Rachel (Heskett) Barrett, and a native of Adams township, Muskingum county, Ohio, born July 6, 1824. She was the third in order of birth of six children: Amelia A.,

Hannah J. , Thomas, Nancy J. and John. Mr. Barrett was a native of Loudoun county, Ya., but settled in Adams township, Muskingum county, in 1821. His wife, who was also a native of Loudoun county, Va., died November 26, 1853, and Mr. Barrett followed her to the grave in 1862. They were members of the Baptist church. During the War of 1812 Mr. Barrett served as captain of a company. Mr. and Mrs. Gaumer are the parents of eight children - three sons and five daughters: Thomas M. is married and has three children, all sons, (he is now editor and proprietor of the "Cham pain Democrat," Urbana, Ohio); Charles N. is married and resides at Mansfield. Ohio, (he is editor and proprietor of the Richland county " Shield and Banner," Mansfield, Ohio, and is serving a second term as representative from Richland county Ohio); Hannah J., now Mrs. Buker, resides in Monroe township; Rachel V., now Mrs. D. R. Palmer of Zanesville; Daniel H., a well-known resident of Zanesville and the editor and proprietor of the semi-weekly and daily "Signal" (he served one term as representative in the Ohio legislature from Muskingum county, and one term as senator from the Muskingum and Licking counties senatorial district) ; Martha and Mary (twins), the former the wife of J. M. Dean, of Xenia, Ohio, and the latter a teacher in the Orphan's Home at that place; and Cidda A., who is now Mrs. S. H. Barr, of Zanesville. Mr. Gaumer has given his children every advantage for a good education and all of them have taught school except one. Mr. Gaumer had three brothers in the Civil war: Lebanon, Jesse and Anthony. Jesse was wounded twice. Mr. Gaumer was formerly a whig in politics but he is now a democrat. During Cleveland's administration he held the office of postmaster at Adamsville, and he has held other positions in his township. He and Mrs. Gaumer are members of the Lutheran church and are esteemed and respected citizens. They have a fine residence in the town of Adamsville.

Hon. Daniel H. Gaumer was born on a farm near Adamsville, Muskingum county, Ohio, November 11, 1857. His forefathers were among the pioneer settlers in that part of the county, where both his father and mother are yet living. His grandfather, Daniel Gaumer, came to Zanesville from Somerset county, Penn., in 1809, and chopped his road through the woods from Zanesville to Washington township, where he entered from the government a farm, on which Mr. Gaumer's father, Jonathan Gaumer, was born, June 24, 1822. He afterward moved to Salem township with his parents, and now resides in the village of Adamsville. Educated in the district and village schools near and at Adamsville, and living his earlier years on the farm, in early manhood Mr. Gaumer took up the occupation of school teacher. He rapidly rose to good rank as an educator, his last years as such having been put in as superintendent of schools at Marseilles, Wyandot county. Having accumulated a little capital, the savings from his salary as teacher, and having a desire to enter journalism, in February, 1882, purchased a halfinterest in the Xenia "Democratic News," at the same time naturally turning his attention to politics. During his comparatively short residence in Xenia, his services as a political manager were recognized and highly appreciated by the leading democrats of Greene county. In 1883 he sold the "Democratic News," and acquired an interest in the Zanesville daily and weekly " Signal." January 16, 1889, by purchase of the interest in that newspaper concern of James T. Irvine, he became sole proprietor and editor of the "Signal." Oi several occasions he served on the democratic executive committee of Greene and Muskingum counties, and was a presidential elector on the Cleveland ticket in 1884. In 1888 he was an alternate delegate to the St. Louis convention. In 1887 he was elected representative from Muskingum county to the sixty-eighth general assembly. He was a working member of the house, and represented the democracy of Muskingum county so creditably that in 1889 he was nominated for state senator from the joint fifteenth and sixteenth districts composed of Delaware, Licking, Muskingum and Perry counties, and elected by a good majority, of which the respective counties gave the following: Licking, 1,438; Muskingum, 240; Percy, 308; total 1,986, reduced only by Marshall's majority of 353 in Delaware county to 1,633, the largest majority given any candidate from this district since the war. He was renominated for state senator in the same district in the campaign of 1891, and through a loss of democratic votes to the people's party and democratic stay-at-home votes the result showed him but one plurality on the face of the returns. The two members of the election board of Licking refuse to certify to the returns for senator from that county, and as a result no certificate of election was issued to either candidate, and his competitor, Hon. George Iden, from Licking county, was sworn in as the representative from the district, his party having the majority in the state senate. Mr. Gaumer's record both as representative and senator is one which has made him known throughout this and adjoining states, and is a subject of pride to his friends and constituents. Mr. Gaumer is a democrat from the crown of his head to the soles of his feet, and personally and through his journal one of the ablest exponents of democracy in Ohio. He is honest, aggressive and reliable, popular both as a friend and foe, for as a fighter he is open and outspoken, and it is this very frankness that makes everybody like him. He is one of the most successful men who ever entered the political arena in this county, and that he is deservedly popular at home is attested by his rapid official and business advancement. December 24, 1882, he married Miss Emma Kennedy, of Marseilles, Wyandot county, Ohio.

Daniel G. Geyer is counted as one of the prominent farmers of Union township, Muskingum county, Ohio, residing about two miles from New Concord. He was born in Highland township, the son of Daniel and Charity (Bond) Geyer, and the seventh of a family of ten children named as follows: Peter (who died in the fall of 1891. His family live in Highland township); Ruth (deceased); Martha (deceased); Joseph (deceased); Steven (deceased); James (who is living in Highland township); Daniel G. (subject); Elizabeth

(deceased); Sophia S. (the widow of William Grumrnon, see sketch); aud Samuel J. (living in Highland township). The father settled in Union township, this county, when only twelve years of age, but was a native of Pennsylvania. The family records can be found at the home of Samuel J., in Highland township. He lived in Union and Highland townships and held a membership in the Methodist Episcopal church, dying in 18 - . Daniel G. Geyer, his son, was born November 2, 1833, and attended the Bloomfield schools. At the age of twenty-five he started out for himself, and shortly after married Mary Hatfield, the daughter of William and Jenneat Hatfield. Mary was reared by her uncle, Andrew McDonald, of Concord, and died eleven months after her marriage at the age of twenty-three years. Our subject's second marriage occurred in 1863, and was to Mary C. Hines, they are the parents of a large family. In 1864 he enlisted in Company D, One Hundred and Sixtieth Ohio Volunteer infantry, and was attached to the Army of the Potomac with Sickles as commander. Some of his principal engagements were at and near Parkersburg. He suffered much from exposure, and was discharged September, 1864, at Zanesville. The same year he settled near New Concord with his wife, on a farm of 128 acres, and upon which he yet resides. He is the seventh owner of the place, it having been opened by a man named Reasoner, at an early day. He is busily engaged in farming and stockraising, and has built a comfortable house and barn on his farm. Mr. Geyer is a republican in politics; socially he is a member of the G. A. R. Hanson post No. 168, Ohio, division of New Concord, and holds a membership in the Methodist Episcopal church. He takes a very active part in all church and school work and has been school director of Fox Creek. Mrs. Geyer was a daughter of Nathan and Delia (Brelsford) Hines. The father was a native of Virginia, born in 1803, and lost his parents at the age of twelve years. He grew to maturity and married in his native state, then moved to Ohio and settled at Marquand Mills, where he reared his family. About l850 he moved to Rich Hill township, went from there to Illinois, three miles from Peoria, but remained there only six months when he returned to Muskingum county, Ohio, and settled on the farm that was known as the St. Clair farm. There he resided until his death, April 1, 1886. He was a worthy member of the Methodist Episcopal church and held the office of deacon. He was greatly interested in politics and voted the republican ticket. Mrs. Geyer' s mother, formerly Delia Brelsford was born in 1799, and died October 9, 1871. She was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church and a hard worker in the same, and was the mother of seven children, five now living: Samuel L. (is a farmer of Rich Hill township, and married Nancy Cabean); William B. (who died in 1889, was a man of family and left a wife and three children. His first marriage was to Sevilla Childs and his second to Mariah Gregg. Two of the children are from the first wife); Margaret (who is the wife of

I. Bell, of Norwich); John N. (who died at the age of twenty-one years); Mary C.; Emma (who is the wife of Jacob Galliglier, of Union township. They have one child. Her first marriage was to

Walker L., and Nathan T. Her first husband died in 1870, and she married the second time in 1873); and Nathaniel W. (who lives in Sandusky). Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Geyer were the parents of seven children: Charles, Anson W. (who married

Jenetta White, daughter of Alexander White, of Highland township, now deceased, his widow is living in Barnville. They have one daughter, Grace May); Logan, Eugene (who married Lena Blair, of Cambridge, Ohio. He is a school teacher and attended Muskingum college: They have one son Harold F.); Maggie D., (at home); Carry A. and Harry H. Mrs. Geyer is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, is very charitable and interested in all church work.

John Milton Given, a popular druggist of Chandlersville, Ohio, well known for his honesty, energy and intelligence, was born in Muskingum county, Rich Hill township, Ohio, October 15, 1847. He was the third in order of birth of five children born to Andrew and Jane (Dixon) Given, the father a native of Washington county, Penn. The latter came with his parents to Muskingum county, in 1814, when but four years of age, and with them settled in Rich Hill township. After growing up he became a farmer and followed that occupation all his life. He was of Scotch-Irish descent. His death occurred in 1872, and his worthy companion followed him to the grave in 1880. John M. Given grew to manhood on the farm, secured a fair education in the common schools, and began business for himself as a druggist in 1872. This he has followed ever since aud with unusual success. His stock is valued at $1,500, and embraces everything in the line of pure drugs, chemicals, medicines, cigars, etc. Special attention is paid to the prescription department, and all orders in this line are filled with the utmost care and accuracy. In March, 1879, he was married to Miss Alice Crumbaker, daughter of O. H. P. Crumbaker, and the fruits of this union are two children: Kenneth James Cary, Florence Mary. Although a democrat, Mr. Given is not a strong partisan, and votes for the man regardless of party. He has a pleasant home and is surrounded by the comforts of life. He is a member of the I. 6. O. F. lodge.

Zanesville, Ohio, was born March 26, 1836. He was admitted to the bar April 15, 1857, at the age of twenty-one years, and graduated from the Harvard law school, Cambridge, Mass., in July, 1861. September 20, following, he was appointed captain in the Seventeenth United States infantry. He resigned his commission May 26, 1864. In January, 1871, he was appointed aid-de-camp on the staff of Gov. Thomas L. Young. He is also United States commissioner. He is the possessor of the finest law library in the city, left him by his father, Hon. Charles B. Goddard, who for forty-seven years (1817-64) was a member of the Muskingum county bar. Charles Backus Goddard was a native of Plainfield, Conn. His father, Calvin Goddard, lived the greater part of his life at Norwich, Conn., and was a judge of the supreme court of that state. Charles B. Goddard came to Ohio in 1817. He traveled from Pittsburg to Marietta in a small, open rowboat; stayed a few weeks in Marietta, and then, by the advice of Mr. David Putnam, selected Zanesville as his home. He went to Gallipolis, in company with Thomas Ewing, and was there admitted to the Ohio bar. Settling in Zanesville, he married Harriet Munro Convers, daughter of Daniel Convers, June 6, 1820. He soon acquired a large practice in the Muskingum valley, and continued in active professional labor to near the day of his death, which was February 1, 1864. In 1838-39 he represented Muskingum county in the house of representatives of Ohio, and from December, 1845, until the spring of 1849, in the Ohio senate, of which last named body he was speaker during the session of 1847-48. He was a major-general of Ohio militia for a number of years. He was well read, both in general literature and in law; indefatigable in work; dignified and forcible as an advocate; he relied more on reasoning from principle than precedents. A competitor of Ewing, Stanbery, Hunter, and others of like repute, he was "a foeman worthy of their steel." He possessed a high sense of honor and ever sought to elevate the ethical standard and esprit du corps of the profession. He was generous and hospitable. He outlived all his early associates and rivals in the Muskingum bar; was in continuous practice much longer than any other, and for years he was a leader worthy of the regard and respect of the whole community. An accurate portrait of him hangs in the library of the Zanesville athenaeum.

Thomas Goff of the Globe Hotel of Frazeysburg, Ohio, belongs to one of the old families that carne to Muskingum county, Ohio, in 1806. Thomas Goff, the father of the subject of this sketch, was of English descent, born near the border of Wales. He was a bricklayer and mason and came to America before the War of 1812. His family consisted of his wife, nee Martha Thumwood, and six children: Sarah, Betsy, Mary J. William, Thomas and Samuet-^Mr. Goff lived a few years in Philadelphia, where be followed his trade, but in 1806 came to Zanesville and continued to follow his trade for twenty years. He died in that city when about seventy-five years of age. He was a substantial man and accumulated a goodly property, becoming well known as a respectable, honest, industrious man. The only one of his family now living is Samuel, now eighty- four years of age, living with a son in Indiana. In a letter to one of the children of the subject of this sketch he says: "When I was a boy, I learned to chew tobacco and smoke and when I got to be a man I quit it at the age of thirty-two and signed the old Washingtonian pledge. I am now in my eightythird year and never spent one cent in a saloon in my live and have'nt had three days' sickness since 1828, and I attribute my health to my manner of living. I am a prohibitionist, but never voted for the third party." Thomas Goff, son of Samuel Goff, was the father of the subject of this sketch. He was born in the city of Ludlow, Schropshire, England, February 18, 1794, and died August 19, 1868. This record is from the old Goff family Bible. He received a limited common-school education, learned the bricklayer and mason's trade and came with his father's family to America in 1797 and here worked at his trade and became a contractor. He was married in Zanesville to Miss Mary A. Mart, who was also of English descent, her people being residents of Zanesville before the Goff family. Her brothers and sisters were as follows: Lydia, Eliza, Alice, Thomas, George and John. Mr. Mart was from a very wealthy family and engaged in no business in this country, receiving remittances from England. It is said, that money belonging to the Mart heirs is yet in existence. The Mart children received legacies from England after their father's death which occurred at Zanesville at the advanced age of eighty-three. They were members of the Church of England, and in this country were Episcopalians. Thomas Goff Sr. and his wife became the parents of seven children: William L. B., Mary A., Martha B., James T., Thomas, Rosetta and Marietta. After his marriage, the father of these children purchased a farm near Zanesville on which he resided until 1838, when he traded the farm for one, consisting of 320 acres, in Jackson township, on which he moved with his family. He cleared this land from timber, built a double log house, afterward erected a good frame house in which he lived until his death, which occurred in his seventy-fourth year, August 19, 1868. Both Mr. and Mrs. Goff, were members of the Episcopal church at Dresden, and in politics he was first an old line whig and afterward a republican. He served this country as a soldier in the second conflict with Great Britain - the War of 1812 - and had a great antipathy for the English although himself an Englishman. Owing to the fact that he was born on English soil he was considered a citizen of England, and had he been captured while bearing arms against the English would without doubt have been hung. He was in several important battles, among them Lundy's Lane and did not forget the famous war cry, "Remember the river Thames." He was captured by the British and condemned to be hung but being confined in a log cabin he managed to make his escape during the night by tunnelling through a huge snow drift. He served in this war for one year and received for his services a land warrant for 160 acres in Iowa near Cedar Rapids, which he afterward sold for $2,200. He was the only mason in his section of Muskingum county and the most of the buildings put up in those early days were erected by him. He was a straightforward and honorable man, whose word was as good as his bond. He had the respect of all who knew him, was genial, kind hearted and affectionate in his family. Thomas Goff, his son and the subject of this sketch, was born in Jackson township, May 19, 1838, and was named for his father. He received a common-school education, and in early boyhood was made familiar with the duties of farming. July 19, 1860, he married Miss Mary A. Clements, daughter of Andrew Clements and Margaret Clements, the former of whom was born in the north of Ireland about 1797, and was there married, becoming the father of one child, William, who was born in that country. Mr. Clements came to America about 1819 or 1820, leaving his wife and child in Ireland and being an expert weaver of fine goods secured employment in Pittsburg. After a few years he sent for his wife and child, meeting them at New York, and returned to Pittsburg where they remained some time. They then came to Jackson township, Muskingum county, Ohio, and entered some heavily timbered land. By diligent effort he cleared it and made a good home for his family, becoming the owner of about 400 acres of land. He was physically very strong and possessed great endurance and throughout his entire life was sick but very little. He and his wife were members of the Episcopal church and politically he was a republican. He lived to be eighty-nine years of age and up to the last retained his strength to a wonderful degree. He was a man who possessed much determination, and having no educational advantages in his youth, he learned to read and write after he was married, attending school after he came to Jackson township, and often carrying one of his children on his back to and from school. He would frequently in his young days, walk to Zanesville, a distance of twenty miles, to pay his taxes, returning the same day. He was well known among the old settlers as a man of strict integrity and liberal in his dealings. His wife lived to the advanced age of eighty-eight years. They were the parents of seven children: William, Margaret (who died young), Jane, Margaret, George (died young), Elizabeth and Mary. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Goff, directly after their marriage, came to Frazeysburg where they still reside. Mr. Goff owned a farm near the town, and for thirteen years followed the occupation of farming, but in 1875 traded his farm for the "Globe Hotel" in Frazeysburg, but this was burned to the ground in 1879 and was a total loss. He immediately rebuilt and since that time has conducted the hotel as before. In 1864 he enlisted in the Civil war, Company H, One Hundred and Fifty-ninth regiment, Ohio Volunteer infantry, and served 110 days, principally in Maryland. Mr. Goff is a member of the Presbyterian church, the G. A. R., Griffe post, No. 321, and the I. O. O. F., Olive Branch lodge, of Newark, Ohio. Mr. Goff is widely known throughout this county as he has been in the hotel business for many years. He has always kept a good and reliable house and the traveling public is well pleased with their entertainment,for the food is well prepared and abundant, and the rooms are comfortably and tastefully furnished. Mr. Goff makes an admirable host and in his efforts to conduct a first-class hotel is ably seconded by his wife. They are the parents of five children: Ida M., Mary A., Thomas, Carrie A. and Bessie J. Politically Mr. Goff is a republican.

Charles Gorsuch, farmer, Zanesville, Ohio. The Gorsuch family in America originated from three brothers, Thomas Talbot, Charles and Lovelace, who left England to come to the United States four generations back. The first named returned to England and there died. Norman Gorsuch, grandfather of Charles Gorsuch, and a descendant of one of these brothers, was born on a farm in Baltimore county, Md., May 10, 1756, and was the founder of the family in Ohio. He was married in Maryland to Miss Katura Gorsuch, who was born October 10, 1765, and who was of the same name but no relation. To them were born nine children: Charles, Eleanor, Nicholas. Margaret, Joshua, Achsah, Rachel, Abarilla and Mary, all born in Maryland. Norman Gorsuch settled on a farm in Baltimore county, Md., and there remained until fifty-nine years of age. He was a large land and slave owner. In 1815 he emigrated to Muskingum county, Ohio, and settled in Muskingum township, on land now occupied by his grandson, Charles Gorsuch. He brought his family with him in a covered wagon, relics of which are seen on the old homestead at the present time. He en- tered a quarter section of land, which was denselycovered with heavy timber, and on which he soon made a clearing and erected a log cabin. He resided there for about thirteen years, after which he moved to another part of the township, and there died, on September 3, 1828. His wife survived him until January 25, 1841. Mr. Gorsuch brought from Maryland one slave girl, Hagar Dorsey, who grew up and is still living in Zanesville, having been reared by the family. The remainder of the slaves were set free after a certain time. Mr. Gorsuch had about 360 acres of land, all of which he gave to his children. His son, Joshua Gorsuch, and the father of Charles Gorsuch, was born April 4, 1798, in Baltimore county, and was fairly educated in the common schools. When seventeen years of age, he came with his parents to Muskingum county Ohio, and early in life became inured to the hardships of pioneer life. The woods teemed with game of all kinds - deer, bears, wolves and wild turkeys - and young Gorsuch became a noted hunter. He was married, on January 22, 1829, by Rev. James Fleming, to Miss Philander Thrap, daughter of Joseph and Jemimah (Van Camp) Thrap. Mr. Thrap was a native also of Baltimore county, Md., and his father, Robert Thrap, who was of the same county, married Elizabeth Hilton, and was the father of ten children: Robert, James, John, Joseph, William, Sallie, Betsey, Nancy, Ellen and Polly. All of these children came to Muskingum county at an early day, and each reared a family. RobertThrap settled on a farm in Muskingum county, andthere passed his last days. Joseph Thrap, his son, was married in Virginia, where the family lived for some time, and became the father of twelve children: Adaline (died in infancy), Philander, Israel, Lucinda, Julia A., Harriet, John, Joel, Marcus, James, Ellen and Martha A. In the spring of 1804 Mr. Thrap settled near Hanover, Licking county. He put in his crops, and the same fall moved his family from Virginia. His father, Robert Thrap, came with his family about the same time. Joseph Thrap settled in the southwest corner of Muskingum township in 1809, and here passed the remainder of his days. The county was a wilderness when he first settled here, and he was one of the pioneers. He was a member of the Methodist church, a devout man, and meetings were held regularly at his house before there were any churches. He became a local preacher and followed his ministerial duties for many years in the wilderness. He united in marriage many of the early settlers. He was ninety-one at the time of his death, and his wife lived to be eighty-seven. He made many converts and was a great factor in establishing the Methodist church in the backwoods country. He would work six days in the week on his farm and then preach Sundays. He was a stanch Union man during the war, and sixteen of his grandsons served as soldiers, three as captains. After the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Joshua Gorsuch they settled on the old home farm, and here Mr. Gorsuch passed the closing scenes of his life. His venerable wife still resides in the old home. Their family consisted of nine children: Charles, Cynthia, Joseph T., Emeline, Jane, Norman W., Eliza E., Mary A. and Margaret E., all of whom lived to be grown except Emeline, who died in infancy. Eliza died July 17, 1890, aged fortyseven years. Seven of the children are still living. Mr. Gorsuch was an excellent citizen, a successful farmer, and was liberal in his methods of dealing. He died December 5, 1883, and was nearly eightysix years of age. He gave each of his children a good education, and spent his means liberally to further all worthy movements. He was loyal to the Union, during the war, and one of his sons, Joseph T., was in the famous Ninety-seventh regiment, Ohio Volunteer infantry, Company G. He enlisted as a private and was promoted through the different grades until he held the rank of captain, in which capacity he was serving when he was shot through the hand, at Kenesaw mountain. He was at home but one week, when he rejoined his regiment. He served four years, and was in all the battles of his regiment. Capt. Gorsuch is now a resident of Zanesville, and one of the proprietors of the glass works. He is a prosperous business man. The old Gorsuch homestead was built in 1849. The mother is now eighty-five years of age, and still retains her memory and mental faculties to a wonderful degree. She has lived through the settlement and progress of this part of the Buckeye state, and well remembers the old pioneer days. She reared a large family of children, to whom she was indeed a counselor and guide. Her son, Charles Gorsuch, was born October 10, 1829, on the anniversary of his Grandmother Gorsuch's birth, and on the farm where he now resides and where he has passed over sixty-two years. This old farm has been in the Gorsuch family for seventy-six years. Charles Gorsuch received a good, practical education, and became one of the prominent and successful agriculturists of the county. He has held the offices of township clerk, treasurer, and supervisor, and has been interested in school matters, holding the office of school director for some time. He now. controls 420 acres of fine farming land, and is a raiser of fine stock, horses, cattle, hogs, etc. In politics he affiliates with the republican party. He is a man of intelligence, and is a great reader of books and papers, of which he keeps on hand a goodly supply. His brother, Norman W., is engaged in the cattle business in Texas, and is successful at this. Mr. Gorsuch is a representative Ohio farmer, industrious, honorable ami straightforward ; he takes a decided interest in all laudable enterprises. His sister, Margaret, married James R. Gilkey, of Adrian, Mich., and became the mother of two children: Jennie and Alberta. Cynthia married John Welsh, a farmer, of Licking county, and has four children; Edmond, Laura, Joseph and Rose. Mary A. married George B. Vandenbark, a farmer, of Muskingum county, and they have three children: Harry, Fred and Weldon. Eliza married J. W. Frazier, of Frazeysburg, Ohio. She is now deceased. Jane, another sister, is at home.

William A. Graham, banker, of Zanesville, Ohio. Zanesville, Ohio, is constantly enlarging the scope of her influence and the volume of her commerce and industries, and has need for additional capital and financial facilities. This fact was apparent for some time and resulted in the establishing of the First National bank, of which William A. Graham was one of the organizers, and of which he has been a director since 1864. In July, 1878, he was elected president of the bank, succeeding Peter Black, whose death occurred the same month and year, and he is recognized as an authority in banking and finance, is a vigorous exponent of the soundest principles governing the same, and under his guidance the bank has an ever-widening career of usefulness and prosperity. Mr. Graham was born in New York state January 9, 1821, and received his education in the Mount Pleasant academy. At the age of eighteen years he entered a drug store in New York city, conducted by his father and brother, in which he was actively employed for a number of years. In the spring of 1845 he came to Zanesville and purchased a half interest in a drug establishment owned by the late David Maginnis, for, owing to the failing health of the latter in 1850, he was compelled to retire from tbe business, and Mr. Graham immediately purchased his interest and conducted affairs on his own account for many years. He at different times admitted as partners in the concern several of his clerks, and the same store is at present owned and conducted by his son, Clarence Y. Graham, and Kennedy M. Baush, under the firm name of Graham & Co. For a number of years past Mr. Graham has devoted his attention to the banking business, and his success is as substantial as it is well merited. Mr. Graham has never been identified with politics more than to vote for the men of his party, but has devoted his attention entirely to his business affairs, and his efforts have been crowned with success. He has taken a deep interest in almost every public enterprise that has arisen in the interest of Muskingum county, and has been connected with nearly every railroad entering the county in some way or other, and is now a director of the C. & M.