Muskingum County, Ohio - Chapter 45, 1892 (part 28 of 31)

William, Harrison V., and Solomon. In 1816 Mr. Slater came to Ohio, bringing his family, which then consisted of his wife and two sons, Sampson and John. He first settled in this couuty five miles north of Zanesville, on the Adamsville road, living here about one year. He bought land in Adams township, which is now owned by Eliza Cowden. This land was covered with heavy timber, and Mr. Slater cut a road from the farm occupied by Peter Wurtz, to get his house-belongings to his farm. He first built a log cabin and later a hewed-log house, and here he lived the remainder of his life, reaching the advanced age of ninety-five years. He was a man of powerful constitution, and possessing a wonderful hold on life. He owned a good farm of 160 acres, most of which he cleared with his own hands. He became a prosperous citizen, was an early justice of the peace, and held the office for twenty-one years. Besides his farm in Adams township he owned 100 acres in Monroe township, and 160 acres in Iowa. He was well thought of by the old settlers, well known as Squire Slater, and respected as an honest and Christian man. Both himself and wife were members of the Lutheran church. Harrison V. Slater, his son, was born January 2, 1828, on his father's farm, in Adams township, in the original log cabin, and well remembers the building of the hewed-log house in which his father passed so many years. Young Harrison received the common-school education of that day, in one of the old log schoolhouses of the pioneers. He became a farmer and married at the age of twenty-four years, October 16. 1851, Jane Walker (born December 8, 1882), daughter of Joseph and Margaret Alice (Hammond) Walker. Col. Joseph Walker was from Washington county, Va. , born June 10, 1799. His father. Robert Walker, was a millwright of Irish descent. His great-grandfather was a native of Ireland, a soldier in the Revolutionary war. By this wife, Joseph Walker became the father of five children: Julia A., John, Agnes, Jane and Eliza. All lived to maturity. August 12, the same year as his marriage, he moved to Ohio, settled in Monroe township, this county, engaged in the tanning business, and this in connection with farming was his work through life. He possessed an unusual degree of intelligence, taking a great interest in political affairs, general and local, and held a number of offices of trust. Politically he was a lifelong democrat. Col. Walkerreceived his military title as an officer of the Ohio militia, August 9, 1838, and was commissioned by Gen. Joseph Vance as adjutant of the Fifth regiment, Second brigade and Fifteenth division of the Ohio militia. His commission and sword he possessed during life, and was always pleased to show them. His daughter, Julia A., married Barton Cone of Otsego; Agnes married Jacob Wheeler, of Monroe township (she is deceased); Jane married H. V. Slater (our subject), and John is a farmer of Caldwell county, Mo. Col. Walker's first wife died August 6, 1843, at the age of forty years. He married again July 6, 1844, Margaret Emler of Monroe township, and they were the parents of six children, all of whom are living: Charles and Robert in Monroe township; Dr. A. E. Walker, of East Plainfield, Ohio, William of Highland township; Mrs. Eleanor , of Cumberland, Ohio, and Mrs. Andrew Jackson, of Wapello, Iowa. The Colonel's second wife died September 7, 1881, aged seventy years. On September 23, 1882, a family reunion was held at his residence, at which were gathered seventy of his descendants, including children, grandchildren and greatgrandchildren. His descendants aggregate up to 100 persons. He died March 22, 1885, at the age of eighty-five years, nine months and twelve days, and was interred at the Otsego cemetery, March 24. Harrison V. Slater, our subject, after marriage settled on a farm in Monroe township belonging to his father, and after four years bought land comprising 160 acres, in Adams township, which he still owns. By industry and thrift he has added to his land until he owned 341 acres, but has given eighty acres to his son Barton. Mr. Slater started with nothing but by his own efforts and the assistance of his faithful wife, after years of hard work and patient self-denial, succeeded in accumulating a handsome property. They are members of the Lutheran church. Mr. Slater has been township trustee, has held the office of justice of the peace for six years, and will always use his influence in the support of the schools and for public improvements. Mr. and Mrs. Slater are the parents of seven children: Susannah (born June 24, 1853, married Charles Gaumer, editor and proprietor of the "Shield and Banner" of Mansfield, Ohio); Margaret C. (born August 17, 1855, married Clark Ramsey, a farmer of Highland township, and they have two children); Salena A. (born January 9, 1858, married Elijah Cowden, a farmer of Adams township, they have one child); Albert B., a farmer of Adams township (born April 22, I860, married Eliza J. Cowden, they have one child); Henrietta (born November 2, 1862, married Allen O. Adams, a farmer of Salem township, they have three children); W. O. (born July 10, 1865 and died February 4, 1880); and Rose (born January 10, 1870, is at home). Politically, Mr. Slater is a democrat.

Anthony Slater was a soldier in the War of 1812, entering service the same day the British burned the capitol at Washington. He was in Baltimore during the attack and siege of that place, and at Fort Henry was one of the advance guards of the American army when the British landed there. In 1816 Mr. Slater moved with his wife to Ohio and first settled on what is now known as Culbertson farm in Washington township, where they lived for about one year, and then moved to the farm in Adams township where the remainder of their lives was spent. They had no neighbors nearer than three or four miles, and the nearest mill or postofiice was at Zanesville, eighteen miles away. They were the first permanent settlers in the territory now included in Adams township, which was then a part of Monroe township. In 1824 Adams township was formed of parts of Monroe and Madison and named in honor of John Q. Adams, who was then a candidate for the presidency. Mr. Slater was the first justice of the peace of Adams township and held the office for twenty-one years in succession. He was also a candidate for county commissioner on the democratic ticket, but was defeated, as the whigs carried the county that year. He had six sons, two of whom are yet living - George W. and Harrison. On July 3, 1878, Mrs. Slater died at the age of eighty-five years. They had been married sixty-six years, and resided together in one place for sixty-one years. They were both members of the New Hope Lutheran church. Mr. Slater was a man of intelligent mind and remarkable memory, retaining his vigor unimpaired up to within two years before his death.

John Smith is one of the leading agriculturists of Muskingum county, Ohio, and was born here in 1844, to Thomas and Malinda (Pringle) Smith, the former of whom was born in Virginia in 1805 and was brought by his father, Edward Smith, to this state in 1808, when, before the encroachment of civilization, wild game was plentiful. In 1809 Edward Smith purchased the farm on which his grandson, John Smith, is now living, which place had been entered by another man a short time before. In payment for this land Mr. Smith gave his horse, saddle and bridle and finished by paying the government a small balance due on the land. At the time of his settlement there was but one house between his place and Zanesville, a distance of six miles, and it was owned and occupied by a Mr. Ecelberry. These two families had many interesting experiences and on several occasions united their forces for protection. The Smith family came from Virginia to Ohio with a wagon and a cart, and Mr. Smith always used horses instead of oxen. He had four head of horses and but very little money and as corn had to be bought, for which he had, to pay $1 per bushel aud the journey to procure it occupied ten days at least, he had at first a hard time to make both ends meet. Three or four days were required to go to mill and, like many other pioneers, they were compelled to undergo many other inconveniences and hardships. Mr. and Mrs. Smith reared a family of ten children - five sons and five daughters - of whom Thomas was the second. Nathan is the only son now living and is a resident of Hardin county. Mrs. Elizabeth Comstock is the only member of this family now residing in this county. The father of these children died in 1859 at the age of eighty-five years, his wife's death occurring on the 30th of October, 1861, at the age of eighty-one. Thomas Smith, the father of the subject of this sketch, was reared on the farm on which the latter now lives, and was educated in the common schools of this county. At the age of twenty years he married and moved immediately to Blue Rock township, where his father had purchased a farm of eighty acres and presented to him, and to this land he afterward added 160 acres, making it one of the finest farms in the township. He took an active interest in the affairs of his section and filled the offices of township trustee and land appraiser. He had the confidence of all who knew him, and was a decided acquisition to the section in which he located, for besides being industrious and thrifty, he was enterprising and always up with the times. He was a strict member of the Blue Rock Baptist church for more than twenty years, and in his death his family lost a kind and affectionate husband and father and a faithful friend, and the community a man true as a die to her interests and a lover of peace and good order. He was an old time whig, but during the latter part of his life voted the democratic ticket. He resided on the farm in Blue Rock township for fifty-five years and died on the 9th of April, 1881, at the age of seventy-six years. His wife survived him until September, 1889, and was buried on her eighty-fourth birthday. She was a kind, gentle and considerate mother, a true friend and an accommodating neighbor. She and her husband reared a family of eight children: Edward, who resides in Blue Rock township; Mary, the deceased wife of Emmer Greenfield ; Elizabeth, the deceased wife of Austin Brothers; George, who was accidentally killed at a house raising, by a log falling on him; W. P., who resides in Blue Rock township; Eliza J. , widow of George Roberts, resides in Blue Rock township; John, the subject of this sketch, and Jedidah, wife of J. E. Shaver, of Blue Rock township. John Smith, whose name heads this sketch, attended the common schools of his precinct, but owing to the fact that his father got crippled, a brother killed and another brother married, the burden of conducting the farm fell on his youthful shoulders and thus deprived him of many a day's schooling. He has always been quite a reader and kept thoroughly posted on all the general topics of the day and may be said to be a well-informed man. At the age of twenty-one he was married to Miss Calista Shaver, their union taking place January 23, 1866, she being a daughter of Levi and Anna (Hale) Shaver, the latter being born on the ocean August 14, 1818. They were shipwrecked on the way to this country from Germany and were landed on one of the Portuguese islands where they remained for one year, or until the ship could be repaired. She had one brother and one sister who died on the voyage and were buried at sea. They finally landed in New York city and Mr. Hale at once made his way to this state and county and engaged in stock dealing and butchering at Chandlersville, but died soon after settling in this section. They reared a family of four sons and one daughter, the last the mother of the subject of this sketch. John resides in Springfield, 111., Alexander resides at Athens, 111., Oscar in Peoria, of the same state, and Joseph in California. The mother of these children lived to be sixty-five years of age, dying in 1861. Mr. and Mrs. Shaver became the parents of eight children. A pair of twin boys died when small; a little girl also died; and those living are: Calista (Mrs. Smith); Jonas E., of Blue Rock township; Nancy and Louisa (twins), the former being the wife of A. F. Cohagin; Louisa, wife of George Davis, and Amanda, wife Samuel Gillogly. Mrs. Shaver died June 5, 1854, but Mr. Shaver is a resident of Blue Rock township, and although seventy-seven years of age is yet stout and active. Mr. and Mrs. Smith are the parents of four children: Levi S., Anna M., Willard T., and one that died in infancy. Mr. and Mrs. Smith are members of the Methodist Episcopal church, and he is at present one of the school directors of his district.

Frank H. Southard is one of the leading lawyers of Muskingum county, Ohio, for he makes it a principle of his to perfect his work and calling more and more, to keep thoroughly posted in his profession and to have a thorough knowledge of the current topics of the day. He was born in Licking county, Ohio, October 31, 1840, to Isaiah and Elizabeth (Parnell) Southard, the former having been born in Pennsylvania in 1801 and died in Licking county, Ohio, in 1885. The mother was born in Baltimore, Md., in 1807, and is now a resident of Licking county. The Southard family settled in that county in 1804, and there the early boyhood of Frank H. Southard was spent. He prepared himself for college in the common schools and went through the junior year at Dennison university at Granville, Ohio, being afterward admitted to the senior year in the Wesleyan university of Delaware, Ohio, graduating in the classical course in 1864. The following year he entered the law department of the Michigan university, and in 1866 was admitted to the bar at Mount Vernon, Ohio, entering upon the practice of his profession in Zanesville in the fall of the following year. He has been connected with many important trials. He was married in 1872 to Miss Laura Laughry, and by her has one son - Carl M. Mr. Southard supports the men and measures of the democrat party.

Col. T. F. Spangler, president of the People's Savings bank and a member of the firm of T. F. Spangler & Co. , dealers in real estate, is the son of Benjamin and Elizabeth (Torrance) Spangler, natives of Ohio. The Spangler family is of German origin, and its members were among the pioneer settlers of Maryland. The paternal grandfather, Jacob Spangler, was quite young at the breaking out of the War of 1812, but served as a drummer boy. After growing up he followed agricultural pursuits. He came to Ohio from Maryland and settled in Muskingum county in pioneer days, locating in Wayne township. He subsequently moved to Zanesville, and died there when quite aged. Benjamin Spangler was a farmer in his early days, but is now retired and resides in Zanesville. He was a member of the city council for several years. He had one son and one daughter - Col. T. F. and Mrs. Mary J. Orr, of Columbus, Ohio. Col. Spangler was born in Zanesville on the 28th of March, 1849, and graduated from the high school of Zanesville in 1867. After this, like many of the other prominent men of the county, he began for himself as a school teacher, following this profession for two winters in the country schools. He then entered the law office of A. W. Train and was admitted to the bar in 1873. While studying law he was clerk for the firm of Ball & Train, being the student of the latter, and after his admission to the bar began practicing immediately. He became connected with the building association of the city, and organized the Union Building company, the Mclntire Building Company association, and is now managing the Homestead Building and Savings company, of which he is general manager, secretary and attorney. This company has 1,100 members, and has a capital of over $1,000,000, with $700,000 active stock. He was the senior member of Spangler & Finley, attorneys and real estate dealers, from 1881 to 1887, and this proved very paying. The firm became well known and did an immense business. The People's Saving bank was organized in the fall of 1889, Mr. Spangler being elected a director and its president. The firm of T. F. Spangler & Co. represents the Pennsylvania Railroad company in various ways, and is composed of T. F. Spangler and W. J. Atwell. It represented the land interest and was largely interested in the Cleveland & Canton railroad on its terminus in Zanesville; also the Zanesville Terminal railway, for which this firm has purchased $150,000 worth of land in the Second ward, for which they held the title. Mr. Spangler was appointed on the military staff of Gov. Hoadley in January, 1884, with the rank of colonel, and served in that capacity for two years, during which time the Cincinnati riot occurred. He was in active service for ten days, and afterward received a letter of thanks from the governor for his good service during that time. Upon the election of Gov. James E. Campbell he was appointed to the same position. ' Col. Spangler has been a very active member of the board of trade, and has been a director since its organization. He was also the chairman of a special committee of five men that retained the American Encaustic Tile works. Mr. Spangler has ever been active in promoting the welfare and progress of Zanesville and is one of its representative citizens. He is a member of the I. O. O. F. and a Thirty-second degree Mason. He was married in 1875 to Miss Mary S. Cox, sister of Sunset Cox, so well known. He is the father of four children: Leo! a, Dora, Helen, and Arthur C. He and wife are members of the Market Street Baptist church, leading and popular members of society, and possess social qualities of a high order.

Robert W. Speer, a prominent agriculturist of Muskingum county, Ohio, was born on the farm where he now resides on March 4, 1807, and was the eldest child born to William aud Rebecca (Boggs) Speer. William Speer was born in Adams county, Penn., near the Gettysburg battle ground, on January 19, 1778, and was a son of Robert Speer, who was a native of the north of Ireland. The latter emigrated to the United States about 1760, settled on a farm in Adams county, Penn., and there passed his last days. His wife's maiden name was Agnes Stewart, and they were engaged to be married before he came to this country. After settling in Adams county and getting a pretty good start, he returned to the land of his birth and his sweetheart whom he married and brought back with him. They died in that county in 1813, within three days of each other. William Speer was reared on a farm, and when a young man came to Muskingum county, settling on the farm now owned and occupied by our subject. He took up land about 1804. He had one sister aud six brothers, four of whom came to Ohio and settled in Guernsey and Muskingum counties. William was married in Washington county, Penn., in 1806, and after coming to this country followed blacksmithing until about 1814, after which time he cultivated the soil spending the principal part of bis days engaged in the latter occupation. He reared a family of ten children - two sons and eight daughters: Robert, Sarah, Jane, Mary, Rebecca,

William, Margaret, Eliza, Martha and Nancy. The father died about 1832. His wife, who was a native of Washington county, Penn., was a daughter of James Boggs, who was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, and a friend of Gen. Washington, being appointed to some official position by the latter. He was land agent for George Washington, who gave him a farm in Washington county, Penn., after the war. Mr. and Mrs. Boggs were members of the Presbyterian church and both received their final summons in Washington county, Penn. Robert W. Speer's boyhood days were spent on his father's farm, about one-half mile from New Concord, and from 1814 until 1832 he was in Guernsey county. From the latter date until the present he has been a resident of Muskingum county and one of its most esteemed and worthy citizens. He was married in 1837 to Miss Sarah Jamison, a native of Muskingum county, born in 1817, and one of a large family of children born to the marriage of Elder John Jamison of this township and county. Her parents came originally from Erie county, Penn., and settled in Muskingum county, as early as 1809. The father followed farming. Mr. and Mrs. Speer became the parents of twelve children: Margaret, now

Mrs. Stevenson, resides in St. Louis, Mo. ; Rebecca, now Mrs. Robb, resides in this county and township; Sarah, who married Rev. W. Stevenson, died in Illinois; Rev. James, resides in Wapinitia, Ore.; John a farmer and lumberman, resides at Elk, Mich. ; Lizzie, now Mrs. George, resides at McDonald, Penn.; Cammeron, is a farmer near Elk, Mich.; Flora, Mrs. Thompson, of Washington county, 111.; H. W. , at home, engaged in farming; Hester, at home; Joana, at home; and Lena, also at home. Mrs. Speer passed away at her home in Union township in 1882. She was a member of the Reformed Presbyterian church. Mr. Speer also holds membership in that church. He was formerly a whig in his political views, and although in sympathy with the republican party at the present time, he does not vote. He has a good farm of 100 acres and is one of the foremost planters of the county. He is interested in church and school matters and was a member of the board of trustees of Muskingum college for many years.

William Speer, who is one of the oldest pioneers of the county with which he has been identified since 1832, was born in Guernsey county, Ohio, July 15, 1817, to the union of William and Rebecca (Boggs) Speer, both natives of the Keystone state, the father born January 19, 1778, and the mother in 1784. William Speer Sr., followed blacksmithing during the early part of his life, but later engaged in tilling the soil. At an early day he moved to Ohio, and there his family, consisting of ten children, was reared. They were named as follows: Robert, Sarah, Jane, Mary, Rebecca,

William, Margaret, Eliza, Martha and Nancy A. The father died in Muskingum county, on June 12, 1832. He and wife were members of the Associate Reformed church, and he was a whig in politics. William Speer Jr., remained in his native county until 1831 or 1832, and then moved to this county and settled on his present farm which consists of eightv-four acres. Agricultural pursuits have been his life's calling and lie has met with substantial results in this occupation. In his thirtieth year he married Miss Margaret Pollock, a native of Muskingum county, Ohio, born March 17, 1827, and the daughter of Abraham and Jane (Bigger) Pollock, natives of Pennsylvania. Her parents came to Guernsey county, Ohio, prior to the War of 1812, in which her father served as a soldier, but later moved to Muskingum county, where the father died shortly afterward. The mother died in this county about twenty-three years ago. Mr. Pollock was a member of the Presbyterian church and his wife of the Associate Reformed church. Mr. Pollock was a whig in politics and represented Muskingum county two terms in the legislature. He was a prominent politician at that time. Their children, four in number, were named as follows: Samuel (residing on a farm in this county), Mary J. (died in 1835), Margaret (subject's wife), and Rachel M. (now Mrs. Watson, resides in Guernsey county). Mr. and Mrs. Speer became the parents of seven children: Rebecca J. died at the age of ten years; John B., a farmer of Highland township, this county; William P. died at the age of three years; Sarah M. , residing at home; Mary M., also at home; Anna E., who is now Mrs. Watson and resides in this county, and Robert S. , who resides at home. Mr. Speer and wife are members of the R. P. church, in which he is an elder, and in the past he took a deep interest in church work. The children are nearly all members of the same church.

During his entire life Jason Spencer, farmer, Zanesville, has been a resident of Muskingum county, Ohio, and he enjoys the reputation of being an honest, upright man in every respect, fully deserving the good opinion with which he is regarded by every one. He was born in this county, February 28, 1814, and is the son of Ichabod and Mary (Smith) Spencer, both natives of New Jersey. The parents were married in their native state and as early as 1805 emigrated to Muskingum county, Ohio, settling on the farm now owned by their son, Jason. It was all in the woods then and Mr. Spencer immediately erected a log house and began improving his place. He had traded fifty acres of very stony land for 375 acres in Muskingum county and after arriving here he had but $75 to keep his family until he could clear land and raise a crop. He continued improving his farm until his death, which occurred February 16, 1856. He was a hard-working man and an influential citizen. In clearing his land he would be so late in the season in getting in his crops that he would not take time to plow his ground, but would mark it out and his wife and children would plant. The mother died October 2, 1858. Our subject's paternal grandfather, William Spencer, was of English descent. Jason Spencer was the seventh in order of birth of eight children and is the only one now living. He has always resided on his present property, the old homestead, and has carried on what his father began. He was married in 1840 to Miss Rachel Savidge, a native also of Muskingum county, residing about two miles from the home of Mr. Spencer and her parents were early settlers also, coming here a few years after Mr. Spencer. Mrs. Spencer died on February 26, 1890.

Joseph Spencer, farmer, Frazeysburg, Ohio. Among the well-known pioneer settlers of Muskingum county, Ohio, the Spencers deserve honorable mention, for not only are they classed among the first settlers, but they have ever been respected and esteemed citizens. Mr. Spencer's grandfather, Joseph Spencer, was a native of Maryland, of English descent, and was a shoemaker by trade. He was the father of five children: Foreman,

Edward, William, Sarah and Gracie (who died in Maryland). Grandfather Spencer came to Ohio in fearly life, after the death of his first wife, and after her son, Foreman, had made a start, built a home and married. He lived with his son until his death, when seventy-five years of age. He was a member of the Baptist church and was well thqught of by the old settlers. His son, Foreman Spencer, was born in Maryland, September 1, 1784, secured but a limited education, and there learned the trade of a tanner and shoemaker. He was one of the first settlers of Muskingum county, Ohio, emigrating there, it is believed, about 1800 or 1801, with a family by the name of Tanner, the descendants of whom are now residing in Zanesville. Mr. Spencer entered land which is now the farm of his grandson, John Spencer. Muskingum township was then an unbroken wilderness, and to the best knowledge of our subject there was not a single settler in it. Mr. Spencer first built a log cabin and here resided for a number of years. He had entered his land, but had no money to pay for it. He had a horse, and having some time in which to pay for his land, he mounted that animal and with some provisions and a sack of oats, he visited Virginia to borrow $100 of an uncle. He received the money and returned in time to save the land, consisting of 160 acres. He again returned to Virginia and married Miss Dorothy Wiseman of West Virginia, on the Little Kenesaw river. The fruits of this union were eight children, all of whom lived to maturity: Wilson,

Foreman, Owen, Wiseman, Harriet, Joseph, Elizabeth and Minerva. Mr. Spencer was a great worker and cleared his land of the heavy timber with which it was covered. For many years his nearest neighbor was ten and fifteen miles away, except one family that lived where the covered bridge now is, near Frazeysburg, and he used to go ten miles to a log rolling. He used to goto the falls of Licking river for his grist of meal, horseback, and hitch his horse to the branches of the beech trees, waiting sometimes all night to get his grist ground, and sleeping under the trees. On his way home, he would frequently miss his cabin, although near it, on account of the thick foliage of the trees. Here he labored hard, endured all the privation of pioneer days, and gradually made a fine farm. He cared very little for hunting and did not waste his time that way, well knowing that the farm was the road to success. He used to wrap up his children and lay them under the beech trees while his wife would gather brush to keep up a fire so that he could see to grub up the bushes with his mattock. In this way he worked and delved until he finally owned 600 acres. His sons, as they grew up, greatly assisted him, which he repaid by giving them land. Mr. Spencer built a brick house before 1817, and this was the first brick building in that county. There were none at Nashport, Irville or Frazeysburg at that early day. He got out the timber on his own land, burned the brick on his own farm and they are in excellent condition to this day. He built the house by piece meal and the walls are still standing in good condition. Mr. Spencer gave an acre of land to build the Old School Baptist church on, and this still stands and is occupied by them. The land where Shannon now stands belonged to Mr. Spencer, who founded the town and which at one time had a general store; a physician, and all the different trades were represented. He was the first tanner in this township, or in this part of the county, beginning the business soon after coming here and continuing it for many years. The money he made in that way assisted him in paying for his land. He was very careful and economical, and the household clothing was all raised, spun, woven and made upon the farm. He used to go to Taylor's salt works for salt, paying several dollars per barrel. His faithful wife died at the early age of thirty-seven. She was an Old School Baptist in her religious belief and a devout woman.

About fifteen years afterward Mr. Spencer married the widow of Jesse Crannell, formerly a Miss Margaret Evans, and to them was born one child. Mr. Spencer was one of the foremost men of the township and took an active interest in its advancement. After rearing his children and giving land to each, he sold his property in Ohio, and went to New York city, where he took passage on a sailing vessel for San Francisco. From there he went to Portland, Ore., and settled thirty miles from that city in the Willamette valley on new land which was then a wilderness, and here Mr. Spencer again made a new home in a new country. During the period of the great Civil war about 1861 and 1862, his daughter, Harriet Baxter, with her husband (John Baxter) and seven children, went to Oregon and settled in the home of Mr. Spencer, who was now an old man, and who lived about eight years afterward, dying at the age of eighty-six years. He left a handsome property of over 300 acres in the Willamette valley. Mr. Spencer was very energetic and a good business man, depending more on his business management and not so much on hard work the latter part of his life. He was honorable and upright and his word was as good as his bond. His son, Joseph Spencer, was born in Muskingum county, Ohio, July 8, 1823, and received but a limited education. At an early age he began assisting his father to clear the home place, and worked with untiriug industry on the same for years. At the age of twenty-four he married the daughter of Chaney and Sarah Mendenhall, one of the pioneer settlers of Jackson township, coming from Virginia at an early day. To Mr. and Mrs. Spencer was born one child, Jesse J. , who is now a married man with two children and is living in Kansas on a farm. After his marriage Joseph Spencer lived with his father until he was thirtyone years of age. His wife died three years after marriage, and six years later, at the age of thirtyone, he married Miss Martha Bail who bore him four children, all of whom lived to grow to maturity: Foreman, William H., Thomas C. and

Flora A. After his marriage, and in 1855, he moved to his present farm which his father had given him and which consisted of 128 acres. To this he has added from time to time until he now owns 328 acres, besides having given his sons 120 acres in Jackson township. Mr. Spencer has been successful in farming, and is one of the substantial men of the county. He holds membership in the Presbyterian church and has been trustee of the same for some time. He takes a decided interest in educational matters and has been school director. In politics he is a republican. He has lived all his life in this township, is well known, and is a temperate, moral man. He made a trip to Oregon and Washington territory in 1888 and was much pleased with the Willamette valley.

Wiseman Spencer, farmer, Dresden, Ohio, is an old soldier, and when the country needed his services he did not hesitate to risk his life in its defense. His grandfather, Foreman Spencer, was one of the pioneer settlers of Muskingum county [see sketch of Joseph Spencer] and Wilson Spencer, son of Foreman, was born on the old Spencer homestead near Shannon. In youth his time was divided in attending the common school and assisting his father on the farm, and when grown he was united in marriage to Miss Sarah Cole, daughter of Samuel Cole. The fruits of this union were eight children, four of whom died when small: Samuel, Martha, John, Wiseman, Francis, Louisa, Sarah, and Marshall. Mr. Spencer advocated the principles of the republican party, and during the war he was a stanch Union man. Socially he was a Mason, a member of the lodge at Frazeysburg. He became a substantial farmer, and at the time of his death, which occurred in 1864, when fifty-five years of age, he was the owner of 300 acres of good land. He had two sons in the Civil war, Wiseman and Marshall. The latter enlisted in the Seventy-ninth regiment, Ohio Volunteer infantry, and served in all about four years. He re- enlisted as a veteran and was in many battles. He is now a resident in Frazeysburg. Wilson Spencer was a hard-working, industrious citizen, and was well respected in the vicinity in which he lived. His son, Wiseman Spencer, subject of this sketch, received his scholastic advantages in the common schools, and learned all the details of farm life in early youth. When twenty-one years of age, or on the of 15th September, 1861, he enlisted in the Fifteenth regiment, Ohio Volunteer infantry, Company B, and this was the first regiment to respond to the call for men in Muskingum county. Young Spencer was mustered into service at Mansfield, Ohio, and his first service was in a skirmish at Green river, Ky. Later he participated in a severe skirmish at Liberty Gap, in which his command lost eight men. Shortly afterward Mr. Spencer was taken prisoner, but was only held a few days, when he was exchanged. He was in the great battle of Chickamauga, Tenn. , and was shot through the chest, a minie-ball passing through the lower part of the right lung and lodging in the fleshy part of the back where the ball could be felt. He fell to the ground insensible, but in a very short time became conscious, arose to his feet, and walked about fifty yards toward the field hospital. His comrades then came to his assistance and placing him on a stretcher carried him to the hospital, in which 500 wounded men were lying. The hospital was a log house, and as it was in the line of fire a flag of truce waved from the top. The hospital was full and Mr. Spencer was placed on the outside of the house. That night the confederates capt- ured the hospital. There Mr. Spencer lay for eight days without shelter, with scanty food - principally corn gruel - and as the surgeons were too busy to extract the ball from his back it remained there eight days. He nearly died during that time. At the end of the eight days he was removed to the creek with the other prisoners, the United States furnishing the confederates with tents and surgeons for the wounded. The prisoners were then examined, and those able to walk were taken to Liberty prison, while those remaining were exchanged. Mr. Spencer, being badly wounded, was exchanged about ten days after he was wounded. He was then taken, with others, to the hospital at Chattanooga, remained there one week, and was then taken in an ambulance to Stevenson, Ala. There he remained one month. The ball was cut out at the field hospital, after inflammation set in, and Mr. Spencer still has in his possession the ball that so nearly caused his death. He was in Nashville, Tenn., about a month and was there discharged as permanently disabled; his father coming for him. After reaching home he was sick for a year, but he has never fully recovered, and can not do a full day's work, although a strong and hearty man when he entered the service. He was in active service two years and three months, and receives now a pension from his country. He was a good and faithful soldier and was ever ready for duty. On the 28th of December, 1864, he married Miss Emily Riley, daughter of Samuel Riley [see sketch of Joseph Riley], and afterward settled on a farm where Howard Spencer now lives. There he made his home for eight years and then bought his present farm, which consists of 190 acres of land with good buildings, etc., on which this old soldier expects to pass the remainder of his days. To Mr. and Mrs. Spencer were born nine children: Effie, Minett W., Charles, Annie, Edna, Eliza, Ollie, Mary and Leah. Mr. and Mrs. Spencer are members of the Presbyterian church and he is trustee in the same. He takes an interest in all laudable enterprises and is now holding the office of township trustee. He is active in school matters and is a director. He is a member of the Cass post, G. A. R., of Dresden, and in politics is a republican. He is one of the county's best citizens and is universally respected.

Pliineas P. Sprague, Otsego, Ohio. James Sprague Sr., was from Massachusetts and a soldier in the Revolutionary war. At the age of seventeen years he ran away and joined the continental army and served through the seven years' war. He then returned home and married. His children were Lydia, Anson and Ralph. This wife died in Massachusetts, and he, with several brothers, Jonathan and Nehemiah, joined a company who were the first settlers of Marietta, Ohio, under

Gen. Rufus Putnam. Mr. Sprague was in the fort during the famous defense against the Indians and remembered seeing the celebrated Indian fighter and scout, Lewis Wetzel. Nehemiah and Jonathan Sprague were famous hunters, and while the Indian troubles were still ripe, ascended the Muskingum river in a canoe, and entering the mouth of Wills creek, ascended about five miles and discovered a lake which is now called James Williams pond. Here they hid their canoe carefully from the Indians and hunted. They could hear the Indians .about them and proceeded carefully. One night Jonathan Sprague was bitten by a snake on the head, and he cut out a piece of his scalp as large as- a quarter. They were probably the first white men who saw Wills creek. After a residence of some years at Marietta, Mr. James Sprague married again a Miss Susan Rife from Pennsylvania and of German descent, and by her became the father of eleven children: Samuel, Elizabeth, Jonathan, Eliza, Levina, Elisa, Lucinda, Rosena, William, James and Ralph. Mr. Sprague took his family and moved to what is now Dresden, and what was then known as Old Town. Here he ran a mill for a man named Elbridge. In 1812 Mr. Sprague came to what is now Otsego, and was the first white man to settle in the wilds of what is now Monroe township. He erected a rude hut where Joseph Walker lived. There were only two hours between him and Zanesville. Mr. Sprague was a great hunter, had visited Otsego on some of his hunting excursions and was attracted to settle there on account of the game which abounded. He entered land and lived there from 1812 to 1835. He was a lover of freedom and once sheltered an old Negro female slave who had run away from her master in Virginia. James Sprague and his wife were members of the Methodist church. About 1835 Mr. Sprague and his family went to southern Indiana and settled on the neck where the White river empties into the Wabash. He resided there until 1845, when he returned and lived with his sons. He lived to the great age of ninety-six or ninety-seven years and received a pension from the government for his services in the Revolutionary war. Elijah Sprague, his son and the father of our subject, was born at Dresden in 1801 . He attended school only about two weeks and learned to read and write at home. He became a famous hunter. At the age of thirteen years he shot with his father's rifle a panther ten feet long from tip to tip. One evening when his father and older brothers were away, himself and William, a younger brother, went after the cows, both boys riding a pony without bridle or saddle, and accompanied by two large dogs. They discovered a panther crouched in a tree. They returned immediately to the house, secured a rifle and tomahawk and returned to the scene of action. Dismounting and going to the tree he shot the panther through the neck and down it came struggling to the ground. The large wolf dogs of the family sprang upon it, and young Elijah, seizing the tomahawk from his brother, struck him repeatedly. The tomahawk is still preserved in the family. The boys loaded the panther on the pony's back and in triumph carried him home. Maj. Jonathan Cass, a large landholder of Dresden wanted to present the brave boys with a suit of clothes, but Mr. Sprague would not allow it. He married Elizabeth Palmer, daughter of Phineas Palmer, the father of nine children: Mary, James, Julia, Rachel, Cornelius, Joseph, John, Phoebe and Ann. After marriage Elijah Sprague settled at Otsego. He was the father of five children: Phineas, Emily, James, Margaret A. and Emeline. Mr. Sprague lived all his life in Union township, except one year which he passed in southern Indiana. Both himself and wife were members of the Methodist Protestant church. He lived to the good old age of eighty-six, dying in 1887. Phineas P. Sprague, his son and our subject, was born August 31, 1825, in Washington county, Ohio, where his father resided one year after his marriage. He received the usual limited common-school education, but has always been a great reader. He accompanied his father on many deer hunts, driving the deer to their farm for his father to shoot. He married Margaret J. Elson, daughter of Henry and Hannah (Laughlin) Elson. Henry Elson was from Crawford county, Penn., near Meadville, of German descent and a son of Tunis Elson who came to Ohio in a pirogue with his family consisting of wife and four children: Sarah, Henry, Tunis and James. There were two daughters who remained at Paden's Island, Ya. Tunis Elson proceeded to what is now Marquand Mills where the ripple stopped him. Samuel Sprague moved the Elsons through the woods horseback and they settled there in a log hut, with neither door nor floor, which had been built by James Sprague. Here Mr. Elson made a good farm and built the first gristmill in this vicinity. Henry Elson, his son, was the father of Mrs. Sprague and was a boy when his father came to this country. He married Hannah Laughlin, and died at the age of eighty-two years in this township. He and his wife were the parents of three children: Margaret J. , Charity G., and James G. , who died when young. Mrs. Elson is an old lady of seventy-nine years and still lives on the old homestead where she moved when first married some sixty years ago. Mr. and Mrs. Elson were members of the Methodist church and he has been a member of fifty years' standing. Phineas P. Sprague, after his marriage, settled on the old Elson farm where he has since lived. To Mr. and

Mrs. Sprague have been born eight children: Ransom (died at twenty-three years of age), Elijah (died at eight years of age), Angeline (died at four years of age), Charlotte (died at eight years of age), Melina J. (wife of Charles W. Buker), Viola (died at twenty-three years of age), Elijah (at home on the farm), and Ela D. (a young lady at home). Mr. and Mrs. Sprague are members of the Methodist Protestant church, and in politics he is a strict democrat and is in favor of the alliance movement. He is a practical farmer and has one of the largest apiaries in this county. He is a student of bee-keeping, has made a success of it and now owns more than 100 good swarms. He has been interested in bees ever since he was a boy and now has all the modern improvements and can make his own comb foundations.

Homer L. Stamets, furniture dealer of Frazeysburg, Ohio, is from a family distinguished in both Prussia, the country from which the family originally sprung, and America, where the great-grandfather of Homer, Philip Steinmetz, settled at the beginning of the Revolutionary war. The name has assumed a number of different forms among the Pennsylvanians. Philip Steinmetz was born in the province of Schwabruken, near the city of Schwabruken, Rhein Baiern, Prussia, southeast of Antwerp, Belgium. He was professionally a soldier, and was lieutenant of hussars in the army of the Empire, belonging to the illustrious family of whom we have the genealogy of six generations of military men, the late Gen. Steinmetz of the Prussian army being one of the number. Philip was of a negative disposition, but his descendants show bold, resolute and defiant qualities when once thoroughly espousing an opinion or cause. He was finely educated, and an ardent republican, he was hated by the sycophants and tools of monarchy, and among other petty offenses to the same he, with some companions, was guilty, while hunting, of starting and killing some game belonging to the king. The penalty was several months' imprisonment and forfeiture of pay. Steinmetz defied the officers and escaped, leaving his companions in custody. He made his way to the French frontier and securing protection, took passage for America, arriving at Philadelphia on the eve of the great Revolution. He fought with distinction in the continental army and at Germantown, which was one of the many battles in which he participated, he was wounded. He served under Washington, to whom tradition shows he was warmly attached, as captain of a Pennsylvania company of light-horse. He was promoted for some gallant service to higher rank, which at the close of the war he was still holding. He was at one time reluctantly induced to fight a duel with a British officer, who had the reputation of killing every Prussian that ever en- countered him. He met his foe on horseback, vanquished him, severing his head from his body. He was of medium hight, but of powerful physical stature. He was of a mechanical turn of mind, and was sober and temperate save in the habit of smoking. He was a devoted member of the Lutheran church, and politically was a follower of Thomas Jefferson. He penetrated the wilderness from Lancaster county, Penn. , where some of his older children were born, and settled three miles east of the present city of Greensburg, Westmoreland county. After some years he removed from Greensburg and purchased 500 acres of land, the site of which ancestral seat is one of the most beautiful and picturesque in Pennsylvania. Philip Steinmetz was a great lover of horses, and even in his advanced years trained his horse to leap, with him on his back, over fences and gates, and holding his hat in his hand he would exclaim: " So geht du alte hussar ." The helmet that he wore is still preserved. He had a soldier's land grant, and selected land on which a part of East Liberty, four miles in the rear of Pittsburg, now stands. After his death, which occurred in 1807, on the 4th of February, his heirs were notified that an immense fortune of $7,000,000 was due them. They were tardy in investigating proceedings, and it was not until the year 1840 that claim was made to the property. In that year the venerable John Schneider, of Wilkinsburg, grandson of Philip Steinmetz, employed counsel to prosecute the matter. They ascertained the certainty of the inheritance but were unable to prove to the satisfaction of the German government the identity of Philip Steinmetz. and the fortune is lost to his descendants. Philip Steinmetz lies buried at Harold Church, Penn., and the G. A. R., each memorial day, places floral tributes on his grave. He had three sons that bore commissions in the War of 1812; Philip, Jacob and John. The two former were distinguished as Indian fighters during that war. Philip Steinmetz, Sr., was the father of twelve children: Philip. Jacob. Susannah, George, Peter, Leonard, Catherine, Mollie, Hannah, John, Anna and Christopher. Their descendants are now numerous. George Stamets (or Steinmetz) was the grandfather of the subject of this sketch, and was born in Westmoreland county, Penn., afterward moving to Muskingum county, Ohio. He was among the early pioneers here and for a number of years ran the Mendenhall mill, which was one of the first in the county. About 1822 he settled on land one mile north of Frazeysburg, which at that time was covered with heavy timber, and like so many of the pioneers of that day

He resided on this farm until his death, which occurred at the age of eighty two years. He was married in Pennsylvania and was the father of twelve children: John, George, Evan, Harrison,

Leah, Malinda and Harriet, being the only ones known. Mr. Stamets was a devout member of the Church of Christ, and throughout life was a man of strict integrity of character and is still well remembered by the old pioneers of the county. His son, John, lives near Marysville, Ohio; George resides at Brownsville, Penn., and a son of the latter, who also bears the name of George, is at the head of an immense co operative store at Braddock, Penn., and is a prominent business manager and friend of the great capitalist, Andrew Carnegie. George Jr.'s brothers are John, Evan and Harrison. The sisters are Ruth, Mary, Amy, Sarah and Amelia. Evan P. Stamets, son of George, and the father of the subject of this sketch, was born in Muskingum county, Ohio, in 1818, received a common-school education and was brought up to the life of a farmer. He was married to Miss Sarah E. Slaughter, daughter of Samuel and Margaret Slaughter [see sketch of Samuel Dunn], and to their union were born seven children: Harriet,

John, Homer L., George E., Sarah E., Lydia A. and Amelia C. Mr. Stamets resided on the old homestead and added to it until he became the owner of 145 acres, and lived on this farm all his life. He and his wife were members of the Church of Christ for about twenty-two years. He made horse-raising his chief business, and was a substantial farmer and a man of great integrity of character. He was a democrat in politics, and during the Civil war was a stanch Union man. Homer L. Stalnets, his son, was born Murch 22, 1845, received a good common-school education in his youth and learned the carpenter's trade, at which he worked from the time he was twenty-one years of age until 1889, eight years of which time were spent as a contractor. A part of this time he was with David McNaught and John Kipp. As a contractor Mr. Stamets built the flouring mill at Frazeysburg and the Methodist Episcopal church at Frazeysburg, also many residences. In 1889 he began dealing in furniture in Frazeysburg, and has built up a good trade. He was married on December 20, 1866, to Miss Nancy E. Wilson, daughter of William C. and Mary G. (Prior) Wilson, the former of whom is a farmer of Irish descent. His father, Matthew Wilson, came from Ireland and settled in Muskingum county on Irish Ridge. Mr. and Mrs. Stamets are the parents of three children: Emmet L. , William E. and Oscar

B. Mr. Stamets has been a lifelong member of the Church of Christ, and since 1884 has been an elder. He is a man who has the respect of all who know him, and is an active member of the town council and the school board and one of the directors of the Building and Loan association. He has been successful in business and stands high as an honorable business man. Politically he is a democrat with prohibition principles. The Stamets family has furnished officers and privates for every war, save the Mexican, from the time of the Revolution until the present, and in the 120 years of the family's residence in America it has not furnished a solitary criminal, but on the other hand honest and useful citizens.

Austin J. Starrett, a native of Muskingum county, Ohio, was born in Newton township in 1835, the son of George and Mary A. (Pierce) Starrett. The father was the son of Joseph and Ann (Morrison) Starrett. Joseph Starrett was born in Ireland, and was one of three brothers who came to Muskingum county in 1816, and settled in Rich Hill township. These three brothers were John, James and Joseph, all married and had families. Of John's family none are left, of James a few are living in this county. Joseph married in Washington county, Penn., and had six children when he emigrated to this county and settled on a farm in Rich Hill township, about three miles from Chandlersville, here he died in 1864, at the age of seventy-eight years, from an injury received by a train on the B. & O. R. R., at the S. M. Hadden crossing. He was the father of fifteen children, all who lived to maturity except one. He was one of the successful and honest farmers of the county and a member of the Associate Reformed church, and in politics his sympathies were with the whig party. His wife, Ann Morrison, was a native of Washington county, Penn., and their children are named as follows: Charles, Mary, George, Anna, James, Jennie, Samuel, Elizabeth, John, Hannah, Margaret, Ellen, Sarah, Nancy, and Joseph who died at six years of age. Of this family all but Hannah and Ellen reared families, and John. Sarah (Mrs. Knight), and Nancy (Mrs. Stitt) are still living. George, the father of our subject was one of the six born in Pennsylvania, and was a young boy when his parents settled in Rich Hill township. He attended the subscription schools of the county, and when he was eighteen years of age learned the carpenter's trade, and followed that all his life. He located in Taylorsville, and in 1834 married Mary A. Pierce. He was a member of the Associate Reformed church and died in January, 1840, when only twenty- eight years of age. He was a whig in politics. His wife, Mary A. Pierce, was born in Pennsylvania, and was a daughter of Nicholas Pierce and Margaret (Moody) Pierce. The father was born in New Jersey and was a son of James Pierce, a native of that state. Nicholas married in Pennsylvania, and two children were born there. He moved to Newton township, this county, in 1807, and entered a farm upon which he lived until his death, in 1838. In politics he was a whig; a man well posted on all public matters, honest and hard working, and reared a family of eight children. His wife died in Newton township about 1853. Their children were Mary A. (subject's mother), Samuel, Andrew, Robert, Elizabeth, James, Alexander, Steven, all deceased. Mary A. was born in Pennsylvania, in 1805, and was but two years of age upon coming to Ohio. She attended the schools here, was here married and was the mother of three children: Austin J., Homer T. and George P., all living. Austin and Homer were both in the late war. At the death of George Starrett, his widow, in 1844, married Samuel Woodard, a native of Newton township, Muskingum county, Ohio, and the son of Amos Woodard. This union was blessed with five children: David, Hester A., Emma, Martha and Olive, all living except David who died in 1869; the rest are living in Iowa. Our subject's mother, in 1865, aged sixty-four years, settled in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where she died in 1873. She was a member of the Presbyterian church. Homer T. Starrett, a brother of Austin J., is living in Zanesville in the coal business. He was a soldier in the late war and served six months; is married and the father of three children: Minnie, George and Irwin.

Austin J. Starrett is the eldest grandson on both his father's and mother's side. He was educated in the schools of Union township and was there married, in 1856, to Martha C. Elliott, a daughter of Simon Elliott, born in 1837. After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Starrett settled on a farm in Union township, later in Highland township and in 1881 moved to the farm upon which they now reside. It consists of sixty-two acres, upon which Mr. Starrett is engaged in general farming and sheep-raising. In 1864 he enlisted in Company D. , One Hundred and Sixtieth Ohio Volunteer infantry, and was a soldier in the Shenandoah valley. June 15 he was in a battle at Newdon, Va., and July 7 and 8 at Harper's Perry. After that he was on post duty and in a number of skirmishes. Himself and wife are the parents of six living children: George L., married Mary L. Smith, of Cambridge, and they are living at Newark; Mary S., died at the age of ten years; Nancy M., at home; Phillip S., a store-keeper at Wills Creek, Coshocton county; Simon E., in business at Newark; Wilber W. ; Charley I. (on the farm); and Riley (died in infancy). Mr. and Mrs. Starrett are members of the United Presbyterian church of Norwich, Ohio. In politics Mr. Starrett is a republican and interested in political matters. He has held some offices in the township and is very active in school and church

George H. Stewart, cashier and director of the First National bank, Zanesville, and one of the organizers and long a director of the Zanesville board of trade, was born at Londonville, Ashland county, Ohio, in 1849, a son of George H. Stewart, Sr. His father a native of Pennsylvania, came to this state at an early day and, locating in Richland county, there engaged in business. He was for several years one of the most prominent of the earlier merchants of Mansfield. In Ashland county he became prominent and well known among the leading and most influential citizens, and was entrusted with several important public offices, among them that of associate judge of the court of common pleas and deputy provostmarshal, filling the latter important position during most of the period of the late war of the states. Politically he was a stanch republican. He died full of honors in 1883, deeply regretted by all who had known him. George H. Stewart Jr., is a self-made man, and a successful one at that, for though he has never achieved nor sought any conspicuous political preferment, as an every-day man of affairs, in his own chosen walk of life he has attained such a measure of success as marks his as one of the leading business spirits in this growing city. He grew to manhood and received his education in public schools of his native town, and in 1869 at the age of twenty years, came to Zanesville to accept the responsible position of teller in the financial institution with which he has since been more and more prominently identified. In 1873 he was made assistant cashier, and in the absence of a cashier ably and satisfactorily performed the duties of this position. Immediately after the panic of 1873, he was elected cashier in fact, and has ably administered the important affairs coming within his jurisdiction since. At that time he was but twenty-four years of age and was one of the youngest bank cashiers in the state. Since that time he has even more and more closely identified himself with Zanesville's most vital commercial and financial interests, and at this time takes rank with the most useful and prominent business men of the city. In 1877 Mr. Stewart married the youngest daughter of the late W. C. Cassel, long a leading and most enterprising manufacturer of Zanesville, mention of whom will be found elsewhere in these pages.

For a period of nearly twenty years Wilson Stewart has been engaged in the grocery and general merchandise business in New Concord, conducting his business from the first on the cash system, and during the entire time intervening to the present, has been stoadily increasing his hold on public favor and patronage. He owes his nativity to Washington county, Penn., where his birth occurred in 1842, and he is the eldest of three children born to John and Nancy (Stormont) Stewart, both natives of County Antrim, Ireland. John Stewart was born in the year 1811, and was one of nine children (seven of whom came to this country), born to Allison and Elizabeth (Wilson) Stewart, both of whom died on the Emerald Isle. John Stewart came to America in 1832, and landed at Quebec at the time of the great cholera scare in this country. He was quarantined there for some time. From there he went to New York city, and, having learned the shoemaker's trade in bis native country, followed that for five years. In 1837 he moved from there to Washington county, Penn., became the owner of a shoe store, and followed his trade for many years. He was married in that county in 1841 to Miss Stormont, and reared three children: Wilson (subject); David Boyd, who is engaged in the oil business in Allegheny city, Penn. ; and Nancy J., who is now in Union township, this county. She married Mr. Thomas Stewart, a prominent farmer in that township, of which he is a native, and the son of George Stewart who was one of the first settlers in Union township. In the year 1864 John Stewart emigrated to Muskingum county, Ohio, settled on a farm two miles from New Concord, and there tilled the soil for nine years. From there he moved to the town of New Concord and made his home there until 1887, when he went with his son to Kansas, where he received his final summons the same year. Mrs. Nancy (Stormont) Stewart, mother of subject, was one of twelve children (five of whom came to this country) born to David and Nancy (Boyd) Stormont, natives of County Antrim, Ireland. She died in New Concord in 1879. Mr. and Mrs. Stewart were both members of the Reformed Presbyterian church. David Stormont came to the United States in 1825, and located in Washington county, Penn. Wilson Stewart passed the early scenes of his life in Washington county, Penn., but in the fall of 1864 he came to Muskingum county, Ohio, Highland township, and there followed agricultural pursuits for seven years. After that he went to Mansfield, Allegheny county, Penn. , and clerked in a store in which his brother was a partner for nearly two years, and then returned to New Concord, where, with the -exception of a short period in 1887 and 1888, he has been engaged in merchandising ever since. In the spring of the former year he went to Wabaunsee county, Kas. , but only remained there a short time, and then returned to New Concord, where he resumed business. Mr. Stewart was married in 1879 to Miss Mary A. Wallace, daughter of David and Flora (Jamison) Wallace, who were early settlers of Union township, and the fruits of this union have been live children - three daughters and two sons: Anna F., Jennie R., Ella M., David W. and John W. Mrs. Stewart was born in Union township, Muskingum county, Ohio, in 1848, and was one of ten children. Her paternal grandfather, Rev. Robert Wallace, was a pioneer preacher of this part of Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Stewart are members of the Reformed Presbyterian church, and he is a deacon in the same. They are classed cmong the county's most respected and esteemed aitizens and are active in all good work.

Rev. Robert Wallace, the grandfather of Mrs. Stewart, was born in Ireland, married there, and several of his children were born there. In 1812 he came to the United States and settled in New York city, later coming to Utica, Knox county, Ohio. He was one of the tirst Reformed Presbyterian ministers in this part of Ohio and west of Pennsylvania. He preached in tents and barns or wherever he could, and was very prominent in church work. He died in 1845, and by his first marriage reared a family of three sons and three daughters: Eliza; John, who is a minister of the Reformed Presbyterian church; David, Margaret, Nancy, and James; all deceased except Margaret, who is the wife of Samuel Stevenson, of Iowa; and Nancy, now Mrs. Campbell of Monmouth, 111. After the death of his wife Rev. Wallace married Mrs. McCartney, the widow of Henry McCartney. They had no children. David Wallace, his son and the father of Mrs. Stewart, was born in Ireland in 1806, and at the age of six years came to this country with his father. He was reared principally in Knox county, and was a young man when his parents moved on a farm in Union township, this county. Here he engaged in farming, was a poineer of the abolition party, in this part of Ohio, and his home was a depot for the underground railroad. He made a number of speeches on the anti- slavery question, and came near losing his life a number of times. He was an active member and elder in the Reformed Presbyterian church and a great temperance man. After settling in Muskingum county he married Flora Jamison, a daughter of John Jamison [see sketch of Robert W. Speer], To this union were born six sons and four daughters: Margaret, was the wife of David Stormont, and died in 1856; James B., died in 1853, having just left college; Robert, who is living in Delaware county, Iowa, a farmer and man of family; John C., died when young; Rebecca J. , died in 1865; Sarah E., married Mr. Ardrey, of Rich Hill township, and died in 1871; John C., is a farmer on the home place in Union township, was a soldier in the late war in which he served three years; David, died in 1859; Mary A., the wife of Wilson Stewart;

Rev. Samuel R., a Reformed Presbyterian minister of Syracuse, N. Y., where he has been preaching some years. David Wallace, the father of this family, died August, 1888, and his wife, September 9, 1872. The latter was born in 1807, and was a small child when brought to Muskingum county, here reared on a farm northwest of New Concord. She was a lifelong member of the Reformed Presbyterian church, and an active worker in the same, and held it as her special duty to care for the sick and assist all in trouble.

David Stokely (deceased) was the founder of the Stokely family in Muskingum county, Ohio, but he was born in Delaware and in his youth was apprenticed to the shoemaking business, at which trade he served his full time. About 1795 he immigrated west and first settled at Marietta, which was then nothing but a fort, and there he was married July 3, 1799, to Abigail Hurlbut, a daughter of Benoni Hurlbut, who was killed and scalped by the Indians September 29, 1791. He had built a cabin before he was married but had not laid the floor yet. Immediately following the event of their marriage they packed their effects on a horse and started for Muskingum county, both walking the entire distance. Upon arriving at Putnam they set to work to erect a habitation, his young wife using the grubbing hoe in leveling the ground, while he with a stronger but not more willing arm, felled the trees for their cabin home. They soon had a small tract of land cleared, upon which they began raising vegetables, and boarded the hands of a sawmill that stood on the banks of the Muskingum where the present C. & M. Y. R. R. crosses the river. In 1804 Mr. Stokely entered a quarter section of laud on the south fork of Jonathan creek in Newton township, upon which he settled in 1805. This land he cleared, im proved and lived upon the rest of his natural life, and in connection with tilling the soil he followed his trade for quite a number of years. After a short service in the War of 1812 he was discharged on account of over age. He was a member of the Christian church and his wife was a Methodist. Seven children were born to their union, three of whom grew to mature years: Benoni P., Elizabeth and David, the latter being the only surviving member of the family. Benoni Hurlbut was a Revolutionary soldier of note and the Stokelys have in their possession official documents dated April 10, 1770, which guarantee to the loyalty of Mr. Hurlbut and to the fact that he was in every way worthy of confidence. Thejr also have the deed of aland grant of 100 acres dated October 27, 1769, and another dated June 19, 1771. During the Revolutionary war Mr. Hurlbut commanded a small detachment of troops on the lakes and was a brave and fearless soldier, devoted to the interests of the struggling colonists. He was located at Marietta, and during this time, as above stated, was killed by the Indians. The paternal grandfather, Prettyman Stokely, was the commander of a vessel during the Revolutionary war and did his country good service in preying upon the English merchantmen. David Stokely. whose name heads this sketch, died on August 31, 1847, at the age of seventy-nine years, and his wife, who was born August 4, 1777, died March 31, 1847. David Stokely, the son of David and Abigail (Hurlbut) Stokely, was born on the farm on which he is now residing, October 29, 1810, and his youth was passed in a manner common to all pioneer boys. He was married January 18, 1835, to Miss Lydia, daughter of Samuel and Eunice (Emerson) White, after which he settled on the farm where he now lives where his six children were born, only three of whom are living at the present time: Rufus Putnam, David Edwin and Benoni P. Those deceased are Abigail Hurlbut, Eunice Emerson and Arminta Sybilla. Rufus P. enlisted in Company A, Sixty second Ohio Volunteer infantry, as a private in 1861, and passed through the various grades of promotion to first lieutenant and at the close of the war was brevetted captain. He was wounded in the right arm at Fort Wagner and in the mouth by a spent ball at Chapin's farm, and at the close of the war was honorably discharged. David Edwin enlisted in Company G, Thirty-second Ohio Volunteer infantry, as a private, and during his term of service was in many hard-fought battles, but escaped without being wounded. He was taken prisoner at Maryland Heights, was paroled, exchanged and afterward re-enlisted in the service, in which he remained until the war terminated. Benoni served as a private in Company A, Sixty- second Ohio Volunteer infantry, and was taken prisoner the day of Lee's surrender, but was immediately paroled and a few days later was discharged and returned home. David Stokely and his wife are members of the Presbyterian church, of which he has been a ruling elder since joining, forty- three years ago. He was formerly a whig in politics, but since the birth of the rejiublican party has supported its measures. His undertakings have been prospered throughout life, he has always enjoyed good health, and he is now well preserved for one of his years. He has in his possession a small wooden box in which his father carried his shoemaker's kit, and it is now considerably over one hundrod years old. It is of cypress wood, the nails are of smith make and it is still in a state of good preservation. His father, after his settlement in Putnam, returned to Marietta in a canoe for a barrel of pork he had pickled in salt for which he paid $10 a bushel. This brine he preserved and used during his entire life and it descended to his son, the subject of this sketch, who still has it in use. Samuel White, the father of Mrs. Stokely, was born in Barnard, Vt., in the year

White, who were also born in the Green Mountain state. Thomas White was a son of Rev. David White, a Presbyterian minister of Massachusetts, a native American. Elder John White came to America twelve years after the landing of the Pilgrim Fathers and founded the family in this country. Samuel White removed to Ohio in 1800 and settled in Washington county, where he spent the rest of his days. His wife was a daughter of Asa and Eunice (Foster) Emerson, which family also came from Vermont, taking up their abode in Ohio about 1805, their home being at Windsor in Morgan county. Asa Emerson was a ruling elder of the Presbyterian church. He was of Scotch origin. To Samuel White and wife the following children were born: Mary, Susannah and Roxana (deceased), and Lydia, Abigail and Asa living. Mr. White died October 23, 1823, and his wife, who was also a Presbyterian, in 1839. Mrs. Lydia Stokely was born in Morgan county, Ohio, March 2, 1816.

Samuel T. Storer, A. M., M. D. , New Concord, is one among the foremost of the professional men of Muskingum county, Ohio, and as a practitioner of the healing art he has won for himself golden opinions. His cheerful countenance, encouraging words and advice, and his thorough knowledge of his profession, which only long and continued practice can give, has placed him upon the highest pinnacle of success, and his services are sought over a large scope of territory. He was born on the old homestead (which he now owns), one-half mile south of the village of New Concord, December 18, 1832, where he spent his early life in rural pursuits, receiving his education in the common schools of the village, and later entered Muskingum college, from which institution he graduated with honors in 1853. He was the eldest of seven children born to Isaac and Mary (Snodgrass) Storer, all now deceased except our subject, and Mary A. who is the wife of Rev. W. S. Harper, a minister of the United Presbyterian church and a resident of Beaver, Penn. Those deceased were Richard A., Martha (who was the wife of Rev. Robert W. Hill who is also deceased), David (who died when young), John- (died on his return from the army at the age of twenty-one) and James (whose death occurred from a kick of a favorite colt when fourteen years of age). Isaac and Mary Storer, the father and mother of these children were both natives of Allegheny county, Penn. The father was born on December 1, 1807, and the mother on March 5, 1811. The mother died on December 4, 1872, and the father followed her to the grave on January 22, 1875. Both were members of the Presbyterian church, and he was a ruling elder in the same. He was a great church worker, and for many years was superintendent of the Sunday school. Politically he was a lifelong democrat. Agriculture was his chosen occupation, and by industry, economy and perseverance he succeeded in educating his family, contributing freely of his means to all benevolent and praiseworthy objects, leaving an ample inheritance to his children. He was much interested in educational matters, and served as a member of the board of trustees of Muskingum college for twenty-five years. He was an excellent neighbor, a respected and public-spirited citizen, and not only taught but practiced the " golden rule."

Dr. Storer's paternal great-grandfather, Thomas Storer, was the father of ten children: John, Samuel, Stacy, William, Thomas, Ezekiel and Richard (twins), Rebecca, Margaret and Elizabeth. The Doctor's paternal grandparents were Richard and Hannah (Frazier) Storer. Eight children were born to them in the following order : Thomas, John, Ezekiel, Richard, Elizabeth, Frazier, Isaac and Hannah, all of whom are now deceased except the latter, who is eighty-three years of age, and is a resident of the state of Missouri and is the mother of fourteen sons and two daughters.

Richard Storer, the Doctor's grandfather is a native of New Jersey, after marriage settled near Warren, Trumbull county, Ohio, where he got into trouble with the Indians, killing one with his rifle, for theft and for abusing and threatening his family; on this account he was obliged to leave the state, and located in Allegheny county, Penn., near Elizabeth, where he principally reared his family.

Dr. Storer's maternal grandparents Col. Samuel and Mary (McKinney) Snodgrass were natives of Allegheny county Penn. , near Pittsburg, both were of prominent families, and unto them were born seven children James McK., Mary, Elizabeth, Matthew, Nancy, Rachel and Ann, all of whom are deceased except Elizabeth (S. ) Mills of Braddock, Penn., and Nancy (S.) King of New Lisbon, Ohio. Dr. S. T. Storer, after taking his degree of A. B. in Muskingum college, spent one year traveling and sightseeing; then located in Chicago 111., in 1855, and remained three years clerking in a wholesale mercantile house. Chicago was then a small city not exceeding 50,000 inhabitants, and was located in a marsh; no sewerage and not a street paved save part of one; which was Lake street; it was covered with plank from Dearborn street to Lake street bridge. It was no uncommon thing to see in the spring of the year stakes on the principal streets with boards attached, labeled " no bottom." Old Fort Dearborn stood on the south bank of the river near the lake; it was constructed of hewed logs with port holes for rifles, also near it stood the old stone stuccoed lighthouse, to guide vessels into the mouth of the river. Chicago sprung up like a mushroom, and it was generally believed that it would be short lived and a poor place to make investments; hence he concluded to pack his trunk and return to the place of his nativity, thinking he was lucky to make his escape from that wicked city. After time and due deliberation the Doctor decided that medicine was his calling, and in the year 1858, went to Cleveland, Ohio, and commenced reading medicine with Dr. Thayer, professor of surgery in Cleveland Medical college, graduating from the same in i860; shortly afterward he commenced the practice of medicine and surgery in Leavenworth, then Kansas Ter., remained there until the spring of 1861, when he returned to his home and shortly afterward enlisted in Company A, Fifteenth Ohio Volunteer infantry, for three years; was chosen second lieutenant and served in that capacity for nine months, resigned his commission, and was appointed and commissioned assistant surgeon of the Ninety- ninth Ohio Volunteer infantry, Army of the Cumberland, and joined his regiment then stationed at Murfreesboro, Tenn. , remaining with the same until April, 1864, when it was consolidated with another regiment, and all supernumerary officers were mustered out, giving him the opportunity of returning to private life, and to "marry the girl he had left behind him.'' During the Doctor's army life he participated in the battles of Shiloh, Chickamauga, Lookout Mountain and Mission Ridge, besides several smaller engagements; received an injury in the battle of Lookout Mountain, from which he has never fully recovered.

Dr. Storer was mai'ried November 16, 1864, to Miss Naomi H. Finley, of Newark, Del., where she was born January 5, 1889. She was the third daughter of Samuel C. Finley in order of birth of five children; Priscilla, Mary E., Rachel E., and Edgar A. After his marriage he returned to New Concord, opened an office, and there remained several years; moved to Cleveland, Ohio, in the fall of 1869, took a post-graduate course in the Cleveland Medical college, and from there removed to Darwin, Clark county 111., practicing his profession for five years with unprecedented success. After his father's death he was obliged to return to New Concord, and has been a resident of the same ever since, meeting with unusual success in his profession. He is a man interested in the public welfare, and while he pays strict attention to his private affairs, he shrinks from no duties as a loyal citizen. Dr. and Mrs. Storer are comfortably situated in a beautiful home of their own planning, in the quiet and picturesque village of

New Concord, with but one child, a daughter (Ida M.), to enjoy it with them. She is a graduate of the New Concord High School, also a graduate of music in Muskingum college and leads the choir in the church. Dr. Storer and family are associated with the Presbyterian church, and he is a ruling elder in the same. He is active in politics and in war or peace has always been loyal to the democracy. At present he is a member of the town council. Socially he is a devoted and enthusiastic Free Mason, has filled with acceptance all the offices in the Blue lodge, is now and has been filling the office of secretary for nine consecutive years in Malta lodge No. 118, Norwich, Ohio; has been identified with the order thirty-four years. He is a member of Cambridge chapter No. 53, R. A. M. , and was a charter member of Cambridge commandery No. 47, K. T., Cambridge, Guernsey county, Ohio.

Samuel Stover (deceased) was another of the early settlers of Muskingum county, Ohio, and a man universally respected. He was a native of the Keystone state, born December 29, 1785, and was the first one of the family to settle in Muskingum county. He was married September 3, 1807, to Miss Mary Deitrick, and in 1809 he emigrated to Ohio, settling in Newton township, near the present site of Stovertown, where he built the first sawmill in 1813. In 1828 or 1829 he built a gristmill and operated these mills in connection with farmiug. becoming very successful. To his marriage were born the following children: Elizabeth (born June 2, 1808), Sarah (born December 23, 1809), Baltser (born May 15, 1811). David (born March 9, 1813), Mary Ann (born January 22, 1816), Mary M. (born March 31, 1820), Susan (born May 23, 1822), Ann M. (born March 9, 1824), William (born February 26, 1826), Lucinda (born January 19, 1828,) and Samuel (born November 26, 1829). The mother of these children, who was born December 20, 1786 died February 12, 1839. The father met a violent death on the " Y " bridge at Zanesville in 1837. His body was found on the rocks below the bridge, cold and stiff, and the supposition was that robbery was the incentive, as he usually carried considerable money on his person. Suspicion pointed to no one, and his death remains a mystery.

Jacob Studor, Adamsville, Ohio, is a member of one of the prosperous families of Adams township, Muskingum county. Jacob Studor Sr., the father, was born in Alsace, France (now Germany), received a common-school education and could read both French and German. He was brought up as a farmer, and at the age of of twenty-one years drafted into the French army and served five years. While in this service his father emigrated to Canada and settled on a farm. He was a stonemason by trade. He had married three times, his first wife being the mother of Jacob and Elizabeth, now residing in New York. After his service in the French army expired Jacob married, in Alsace, Barbara Earhart. They soon came to America and settled in Coshocton county, Ohio, on a farm in Franklin township, in 1837. To this worthy couple were born seven children: Madelina, Jacob, Elizabeth (deceased), Catherine, Carolina, John and Mary. On this farm Mr. Studor spent the remainder of his days and died at the age of eighty-five years, a member of the Lutheran church and a respected and honorable farmer. Jacob Studor, his son, was born in 1837, and was six weeks old when brought by his parents to the farm in Coshocton county. He received but little schooling and was brought up to work on the farm. March 25, 1861, he married Louisa Lapp, born March 20, 1840, and the daughter of Henry and Madelena (Zimmer) Lapp. Henry Lapp was born in Wiirtemberg, Germany, in 1804, here he received a common-school education, was a carpenter by trade, and came to America in 1832, settling in Adams township, Coshocton county, Ohio. Here he married, spent the remainder of his life and became the father of twelve children, nine of whom lived to maturity: Michael, Elizabeth, Margaret, Catherine (deceased), Solomon, Abner, Henry (died at nineteen years of age), Mary and . Mr. Lapp was a member of the Lutheran church, was a hard-working man, accumulated 420 acres of land and brought up a large family. He died in 1882 at the age of seventyeight years. After his marriage Mr. Studor settled on a farm in Adams township, where he remained about ten years. He then moved to a farm in Coshocton county, lived there three years, when he returned to Adams township and settled on the farm which he now occupies, consisting of 318 acres of good land, with excellent buildings and a fine residence. Mr. and Mrs. Studor are the parents of six children: Ada A. (born March 8, 1862), Arabella C. (October 17, 1864), Flora E. (June 22, 1867), Lilly D. (September 17, 1868), Henry A. (October 12, 1873), Estella M. (August, 12, 1875). All these children are members of the Bethesda Methodist church, and Mr. and Mrs. Studor are members of the Lutheran church, of which he has been a deacon. Mr. Studor is a man who holds the respect of the people, has been a township trustee, takes a great interest in education and has been school director. His daughter, Belle, married John Lettick, a school teacher of Kansas, and they have two children. Lettie married Albert Long, a farmer of Madison township, and has three children.

county, was born in Pennsylvania, January 14, 1822, and is of German descent. He was but four years of age when he was left fatherless, and he was brought up by his grandfather, Peter Ault. His mother's maiden name was Elizabeth Ault. About 1826 Mr. Ault came to Coshocton county, Ohio, settled on land two miles west of West Carlisle, and was one of the pioneer farmers. Here the mother of our subject was married to Alpheus Taylor and became the mother of these children: George, William, Freelove, Julia, Mary, Amanda, Lucinda and Peggy. Noah was the only child by the first marriage. Alpheus Taylor resided on a farm near West Carlisle, Coshocton county, Ohio, and there our subject made his home until fourteen years of age, when he began learning the carpenter's trade in East Union, Ohio. He was bound out to Andy Ault, an uncle, for four and one-half years and served his time out. After this he went to work for another uncle, Frederick Ault; remained on his farm two years, and then came to Dresden where he worked in a cabinet shop for one year. A few months were then spent in Missouri, after which he returned to Dresden, and worked at his trade for thirty years. In April, 1865, he came to his present farm, which he bought, and is now the owner of 250 acres and is a substantial farmer. He is an example of what energy, perseverance and economy can accomplish, and the property he now owns is the result of his own honest toil. He first worked for Mr. Jones in the cabinet shop, and received 50 cents a day. Later he worked in Dresden for $1 a day, and in this manner saved sufficient means to buy 160 acres, for which he paid $4,600 in ready cash. In December, 1848, he married Miss Frances S. A. Eveland, daughter of Jacob and Jane Eveland. Mr. Eveland came from Virginia to Ohio at an early date and lived to be an old man, dying in Muskingum county. He was the father of nine children: William,

Rachel, Betsey, Peggy, Polly, Frances S. A., James, Mildred and Catherine. After marriage Mr. Stull settled in Dresden and there followed his trade until he moved with his family to his farm. His union was blessed by the birth of two living children: Charles L. and Emma F. Mrs. Stull died

June 28, 1876, and Mr. Stull has never remarried. His wife was a member of the Presbyterian church, and he holds membership in the same. In politics he is a democrat. Mr. Stull's half brother, William Taylor, was in an Ohio regiment during the Civil war and died at Bowling Green, Ky. At one time Mr. Stull owned about 300 acres of land, but he has given considerable of it to his children. He is entirely selfmade, and now in his old age he can enjoy the fruits of his labor, being in very comfortable circumstances. For five years Mr. Stull worked at carpentering and millwright work, and during that time did not lose a half day.

John P. Sturtz, Adamsville, Muskingum county Ohio. Among the prosperous pioneer families, substantial farmers and valuable citizens of this part of the state we find the Sturtz family. Christian Sturtz, the great-grandfather of our subject, was born in Pennsylvania, and a farmer of Somerset county. His father came from Germany with his parents when but four years of age. A tradition in the family relates that his parents both died at sea, on the passage to America, and their son, the father of Christian, was sold to pay his passage to Philadelphia, as was the custom in those days. He finally settled in Somerset county, Penn., and for many years the family were residents of that county. Christian Sturtz, his son, married a Miss Shoemaker, was a successful farmer of Somerset county, owned about 300 acres of land, and here passed the remainder of his days. Jacob Sturtz, his eldest son, and the grandfather of John P., was born in Somerset county, Penn., in 1787, and of Pennsylvania Dutch stock. He received a commonschool education in German, was reared a farmer, and married Susan Gaumer, the daughter of Jacob Gaumer, a Revolutionary soldier from Reading, Penn., who settled in W ashington township, this county, in 1808, the families coming together. Jacob Sturtz settled, the same year, on land now owned by Mr. Lovett. To himself and wife were born ten children: Daniel (born in Pennsylvania, and died soon after coming to this county), Charles (born in Washington township, this county), Lucinda, Catherine, Adam, Andrew, Lydia, Martin, Solomon and Margaret. All lived to maturity, except the first. Jacob Sturtz was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, served as a rifleman, under Capt. Robert McConnell, and lived in Washington township eight years. In 1818 he settled in Adams township, on land now owned by George W. Bell, and here died, December 24, 1834. He was very handy at almost any work. He was a blacksmith, gunsmith and carpenter, and very often built houses. Among other things he prepared gunpowder and charcoal, and was considered one of the best hunters of the time in his county. He was a member of the Lutheran church in Salem township, held the office of church trustee, and assisted in the building of this church. When he died he was but forty-seven years of age.