Perry County, Ohio - Biographical sketches, 1883 (part 10 of 11)

TeEDRowW, GEORGE, potter; post office, Crooksville; born in Muskingum county in 1840; came to Perry county in 1853; son of Moses and Mary (Dunifant) Tedrow. He was married, in 1875, to Miss Clara E. Rambo, daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth Rambo. They are the parents of four children, viz.: Blanche, Dora, Charles and Frank.

TEETER, THomAS B., Corning, Obio; was born near Linnville, Licking county, Ohio, September 17, 1841; son of Curtis and Mary (Essford) Teeter. When at the age of ten years, he went to work in the -woolen mills at Newark, Ohio, where he remained four years; then boated two years on the Ohio Canal, after which he dug coal until the r7th of April, 1861, when he enlisted in the Third Ohio three months service, and re-enlisted for three years, and was honorably discharged in the fall of 1864. He was engaged in the battles of Rich Mountain, Cheat Mountain, Green Brier, Perryville, Stone River, Chickamauga, Mission Ridge, and was captured near Cedar Bluftls, Georgia, and held as a risoner at Belle Island, until his exchange at City Point, Virginia. hen he came to Columbus, Ohio, he immediately joined in pursuit of John Morgan, in his raid through Ohio. After his capture, he went South and joined the army of the Cumberland, and marched with General Sherman as far as Kingston, Georgia. [Ile returned tc Perry county at the close of the war, and mined coal. - In 1865 he vent to Haydenville and worked there until the spring of 1871, when he came to Straitsville and mined one year. In December, 1872, he purcnased a lot on the corner of Clark and Railroad streets, in the above town, and engaged in the grocery business, and continued there until the spring of 1881, when he came to this place. Mr. 'Teeter was matried Jan 1ary 9g, 1866, to Miss Nancy A. Jiles, by Rev. Cady, near New Lex ngton, Ohio. They are the parents of six children, viz. : Ida, William J., Edward, Mary E., Samuel J. and Unis H.

TERREL, Jesse, farmer, Monday Creek township, Maxville, Ohio 2 was born January 23, 1812, in Harrison county, West Virginia ; son of Timothy and Elizabeth (Nixon) Terrel. Mr. Ferrel's early 1 fe was spent in hunting, and when game became scarce he went to farming, which he has followed to this time, and by industry and economy, has gained a handsome fortune. Mr. Terrel was married the first time, September 19, 1833, to Nancy, daughter of Ralph Webb. Mrs. Terrel died October 18, 1864. They became the parents of ten children, viz. : Benjamin G., deceased; Leroy S., deceased: Martha J., deceased ; William, Isaac H., Jerome, Mary Ida, deceased; Clara, deceased ; Samuel T. and Frank. He was married the second time, February 21, 1867, to Mariah, daughter of John and Mary (Long) Sykes. Mr. Terrel's grandfather. Matthew Terrel, came from England and settled in Virginia, and was Drum Major in the Revolutionary War. His son, Timothy, father of the subject of this sketch, was the sixth in number of thirteen children born unto him. Timothy came to Ohio in 18-5, in search of game, and located in Monday Creek township. Mrs. (Webb) Terel's father came to Falls township, Hocking county, Obio,in 1817.

Tuarp, Aptsua, miller, Hemlock, Ohio; was born November 25, 1855, in Perry county, Ohio; son of Alfred and Annie (Storrer) Tharp. Mr. Tharp was brought up asa miller, and has followed the business up to this time, except two years he farmed; and has been employed as stated below: Milling in Buffalo Shoals, Wayne county, West Virginia, about ten years with his father; at this place about five months, when he went to Pickaway county, Ohio, and farmed about six months ; returned to Hemlock, farmed one year, and again went to milling for Benjamin Sanders, which he continued about five months, when he, in partnership with Spencer S. Sanders, rented the mill and ran it for one

Tuarp, James M., grocer, Bristol, Pike township, Maholm post office, Ohio; was born December 10, 1857, in Bristol, this county ; son of James and Elizabeth (Lyons) Tharp. Mr. Tharp remained with his father until he was eighteen years of age, when he began teaching school and has taught in the following places: Monday Creek township, District No. 5, four months; Pike township, District No. 7, two months; Pike township, District No. 8, Bristol, four terms, three six months terms, and one four months term; near Somerset, one three months term, and between 'the terms he taught in Bristol. Mr. Tharp's father came from Pennsylvania to Ohio when a boy with his parents, whose father entered land two miles south of this place, and near Bowman Hill iron ore mine, and afterward owned two hundred acres of land now owned by Robert Benrett, and was one of the pioneers of the forest. His son, James, and the father of the subject of this sketch, once owned one hundred and twenty acres of land where Buckingham now stands and afterward owned fifty-three acres near this place, now owned by John McCabe. Upon selling this, he moved to Pickaway county, Ohio where he lived one year, and then into Fairfield county, living one year, when he moved back to this place, where he has since ved. In ihe spring of 1882, James M., Tharp, the subject of this sketch, bought a grocery, where he is now engaged in selling family groceries.

Tuomas, Srmron, farmer, Shawnee, Ohio; Was born July 2, 1842, in Saltlick township, this county; son of Joseph and Jane (Smith) Thomas. Mr. Thomas was raised a farmer, and made agricultural pursuits the business of his life until within the last eight years. Farmed in Perry county, Ohio, with the exception of two vears, when he farmed if Pickaway county, Ohio. Returned to this county in 1873, and engaged at Beard's Furnace until fall of 1876. when he came to Shawnee, and where he Ras remained up to this time. engaged at mining, except one year, when he assisted in building the New York Furnace. Mr. Thomas was married August 28, 1862, to Margaret M., daughter of John and Elizabeth (Worley) Wells. They are the parents of three children, viz.: Jessie M., Elizabeth Jane, and John A., deceased. Mr. Thomas is at this time a trustee of the M. I. Church of this place. Mr. Thomas enlisted in Company B. Seventeenth Regiment, O. V. [., March 12, 1861, the first company enrolled in this county for three months, and served four months; returned home and followed farming until January 12, 1864, when he re-enlisted in Company B, Tenth Regiment, O. V. C., for three years or during the war; served eighteen months, and was discharged in August, 1865, because of close of war. Was under fire nearly every day after going into the service, and saw the hardest battle at Atlanta, Georgia, where he had his horse shot from under him. Was on Sherman's March to the Sea.

Tuompson, GEorGE, was born in the county of Armagh, Ireland, August 20, 1811, and died at Corning, Ohio, May 10, 1882, aged seventy years, nine months and twenty days. The deceased came to America when only ten years old. Nearing the age of manhood, he became an -apprentice to learn the harness-making trade in New York City. June 6, 1834, he was married to Catharine Skinner. Six children were born to them; three of whom now survive, viz.: "Adam, married to Anne Cummiskey ; she is now deceased; John, married to Mary A. Slevin, and Timothy, married to Jennie A., daughter of Colonel James and Catharine (Cook) Dalzell. George Thompson, the subject of this sketch, lost by the Morgan Raid property to the value of eight hundred dollars ; also lost heavily in prospecting for oil in Perry county, Ohio. During his twenty-one years of service as Justice of the Peace, there was never one of his decisions reversed by the higher courts. In 1835 he came to Ohio, and entered eighty acres of land, and laid out the town of Thompsonville ; and, in order to get a post office, the place was named Chapel Hill. He donated an acre of ground on which the Catholic Church and pastor's residence now stands,.and afterward united with this church, continuing a faithful member until he departed this life. He was appointed postmaster under Pierce's administration, and his commission dated January 13, 1860, is signed by J. Holt, Postmaster-General. Having been elected Justice of the Peace for Monroe township, he was commissioned by Governor 5. P. Chase, and he was continued in office until his death.

Tinker, CuHArveEs H., Recorder of Perry county, Ohio, was born June 21, 1847, in Union township, Morgan county, Ohio; son of S. and Mary A. (Blackstone) Tinker. When Charles I. was two years old, his parents located ona farm in Monroe township, where he was brought up. He followed farming until 1875, when he engaged in merchandis- ing at Millertown, where he remained one year; then moved to Junction City, and continued his business there two years. Came to this place in 1879, and clerked two years in a dry goods store. He was elected to his present office in October, 1880. Mr. Tinker was married March 7, 1872, to Miss Hannah, daughter of Samuel Morgan, of Monroe township. They are the parents of four children, viz.: Frank Albert, Lydia Viola, Charles B. and William Leroy.

Tracy, T. J., stone mason, Pike township; post office, New Lexington, Ohio; was born November 29, 1850, in Harrison township, this county; son of William and Elizabeth (Hitchcock) Tracy. _Mr. Tracy was raised in New Lexington, Ohio, and has been a resident of that place nearly all of his life. Was married December 7, 1871, to Emma, daughter of William and Lovenia (Patterson) Rambo, of Grangers' Mills, this county. They are the parents of four children, viz.: Lizzie, Guy, John and L venia, now living. Mr. Tracy has made stone masoning the business of his life up to this time, and has been a contractor for the last eight years, undertaking county contracts at New Lexington, for the bridges near Arnold's Mill over Rush Creek, one near C. & M. V. depot, Rush Creek, two over Fowler's Run, and one over Yager's Run. Out of New Lexington he put in stone work for one near XX Furnace, Shawnee, Ohio ; one near George Deftenbaugh's Honey Creek ; one on Main street in Corning; one near Beard's Shaft, same place, and now has a contract for one over Fowler's Run at New Lexington, Ohio. Mr. Tracy is fourth sergeant in Company A, Seventeenth O. N. G., and was in the skirmish at Corning during the miner's strike in the fall of 1880. :

Trout, WiLiiAM, farmer and stock grazer by occupation, post office Glenford, Ohio ; was born in Hopewell township ; he is ason of George Trout and Francis Cowen, who. were married in 1822. He and his brother, George H. Trout, occupy the ancient homestead in section three. The last named was married in 1863, to Miss Ann Maria Walser, and are the happy parents of four children, named Sarah Frances, John W., George Allen and Martha A. Trout; of these John W., now fourteen, exhibits excellent genius as a draftsman and penman. His uncle William has remained unmarried and has a large and comfortable room of his own in the family home, where he enjoys all the comforts of bachelor life, and where all welcome callers are treated to the hospitalities of a gentleman. William and George H. are the only surviving sons of George Trout. The surviving daughters are Susan, wife of Samuel Cooperider, and Margaret, wife of George Cooperider, post office of both, Brownsville, Ohio. The mother of this family died in 1852, and the father in 1860, in his sixty-second year. When twelve years of age he came with his grandfather, Judge 'Trout, to Somerset, Ohio. His brothers, the sons of Judge Trout, were Jacob, a soldier in the War of 1812, and went to Fort Wayne; John, who settled in Hancock county, Ohio, and laid out the village of Van Buren; Elizabeth, wife of Samuel Parkeson, who moved to Miami county, Ohio; Juliann Sophia, wife of Jacob Brunner, of Somerset; Margaret, wife of Rev. Andrew Hinkel, who with his wife died in Germantown, Montgomery county, Ohio,.and who, though both a Mason and Odd Fellow, was buried by the Lutheran Church; George, the father of William and

George H. Trout, who died in Hopewell township; Henry, who lived in Somerset and vicinity and died there ; Philip, who lived and died in Perry county, and Michael, the youngest, born in 1809, who resides in Germantown, and gee a practicing physician at the age of seventythree years. Judge George Trout, when yet aresident of Pennsylvania, was an irn keeper, as he was also after his removal to Somerset, Ohio. He was one of the first Associate Judges of Perry county, helped to lobby: the bill to organize the county and to establish the county seat at Somerset, donated the ground where the court house now stands, assisted in the entertainment of General Jackson at the hotel of Ben Katon in Somerset, was a Democrat in politics, and old time Lutheran in religion, and an honest man from principle. He died in 1829, in Somerset, universally lamented, in the sixty-seventh year of his life. His wife's maiden name was Margaret Zeigler, who survived her husband many years and died at the age of eighty-two. The relics of Judge Trout, in possession of his grandson, William Trout, in whose possession are also the records of the family, are a cane, the gift of a friend on his departure from Pennsylvania for Ohio; a pair of old time shoe buckles, worn by the Judge at the Jackson supper ; a profile likeness, said to be a good representation of the forehead, nose, mouth and chin of the Judge, black upon white paper, framed in a circular frame about four inches in diameter. The name Sophia came into the family from the Zeigler side, based upon a legend that Sophia, a sister of Mrs. 'Trout, in the haste and confusion of retreat from hostile Indians, somewhere in Carolina, was forgotten, and when her father returned to her rescue, he found her hiding Behind a door of the cabin, crouching with great fear - and mute as a mouse, and she was thus saved from the massacre that drenched the village near by in the blood of innocence. The Trout family fled from Alsace when it fell into the power of the French to avoid submission to the demands of intolerance upon its Lutheran citizens, preferring liberty in the wilds of far off America to home and country and kindred, and patrimony in France. An ancient mound, covering nearly an acre at its base, and rising to a height of perhaps twenty-five feet, is found on the 'Trout farm, section three, Hopewell, and alike mound is seen halfa mile southwest of the first named, in section nine. In size, regularity of shape, and beauty of contour, these mounds present an imposing aspect to the eye and the questions arise, were they created from natural forces, or by the hands of men? For twenty odd years the Trout brothers have devoted themselves to the rearing of the best breeds of sheep. 'They breed from none now that do not bear the test of U. S. sheep register, and they are consequently in the front ranks of sheep husbandry and they have added one hundred and fifty-seven acres to the original homestead range for their flocks in Licking and Perry. ; ;

Turner, Frank N., merchant, Rendville, Ohio ; was born September 30, 1852, in Port Carbon, Schuylkill county, Pennsylvania ; son of Jesse and Ruth T. (Foster) Turner. Mr. 'Turner was raised in the place of his nativity, which remained his home until 1880. Mr. 'Turner attended school at Blair Presbyterian Academy, Blairstown, New Jersey, from which he graduated ; after which, in June, 1873, he entered Lafayette College at Easton, Pennsylvania, from which he graduated in

1877. In the fall of 1877 he entered Princeton Theological Seminary. remaining until 1878, a &6 hich time his health failed him and he: was: obliged to leave off his studies, and return home where he remained until 1880, when he went to Kansas. from whence he came to Rendville. Ohio, in September of same year, and employed with the Sunday Creek Coal Company, remaining with them until April. 1881. He afterward bought out Charles Herring. of the firm of Carter & Herring, andupon May 1, 1881. he formed a co-partnership with Charles Carter the firm being Carter & Turner. which partnership continues up to this time, and has met with good success. Mr. Carter's father 'still resides upon the homestead in Pennsylvania.

Tusstxc, L. A., of the firm of Tussing & Donaldson, attorneys at law, and Mayor, New Lexington, Ohio; was born January 2, 1851, in Monday Creek township, Perry county, 'Ohio ; son of Rev. Samuel C. and Juliet (Marlow) Tussing. Mayor Tussing was educated in the public schools, and at Denison University, Granville, Ohio. Began teaching when about eighteen and taught six years: began reading | aw iu 1876, was admitted to the bar in 1877, and began practice in this place immediately after his admission. In June, 187 8 he for med a partnership with L. J. Burgess, firm name Burgess & Tasting which was dissolved September, 1880, when the present firm was formed. In April of the same year, Mr. Tussing was elected Mavor of New Lexington, Ohio.

UckeEr, JAcos, clerk in New York store, Shawnee, Ohio; was born September 1, 1851, in Hocking county. Ohio ; son of George 'and Theresa (Cabell) Ucker. Was raised a farmer and followed agricultural pursuits until he was twenty-two years of age, when he came to Shawnee in the fall of 1873, and was employed dumping coal one year, as weighmaster two years, since which he has been clerking in the store of the New York and Straitsville Coal and Iron Company, having been with them seven years, inall. Mr. Ucker was married July 2, 1873, to Rachel, daughter of Asbury and Edith (Turner) hae of Hocking county, Ohio. They are the parents of four children, viz.: Ella and Jacob Edward, living ; Charles and John, dead.

VANSYCLE, STEPHEN A., son of Peter A. and Cynthia (Barns) Vansycle, daughter of Rev. Isaac Barns, and grandson of Andrew, who died in New Jersey at the age of ninety. Stephen's father arrived in Ohio and settled on the farm where he died in 1876, at the age of ninetythree. He spent over $800 for the monuments ar fencing of his burial ground, and that of his venerable consort. He reared eleven children to the estate of married life. Among these are Almira, wife of George Pherson, ex-treasurer of the county ; Alice, wife of Law son Teal, Deputy Auditor, and Stephen A., the subject of this sketch, who was mar - tied to Eliza Saffel, deceased, February 24, 1880. Their children are umes Reuben. Isaac Alfred, Mary Jane Swinehart. Lydia Katherine srookhart, now a widow residing with her only child at the home of her sather ; John Thomas, William, Calvin, Ellen Brehm, Elizabeth Poland, Perry Elmer and Frank, the youngest son. Stephen began life a renter, in a few years bought ferty acres near Bristol, and paid $100 on the contract, having time to pay the other $300. He alleges this was the hardest money he ever earned, but he got through and kept on buying until he had one hundred and sixty acres in a body. - He also is of the opinion that the first $1,000 any man carns,is far the most difficult to acquire. He can read-tolerably, but his learning was chiefly acquired in Jeweling the forest and threshing wheat with a flail. He sold out the farm he earned by hard knocks and economy, and bought one hundred and sixty acres in Reading township, prospered there, bought the Cassel farm, and then next to it the beautiful home of the late Judge William M. Brown, in sight of Somerset, where he now lives in comfort, 'and but for the loss of his cherished wife, also in happiness. His first tax receipt was $1.08; Jast year he paid over: $180, and worked twelve days to pay his road tax. His children generally inherit the thrift of their ancestors and have nearly all grown to the estate of womanhood and manhood. He is of German Baptist extraction, never held, or was a candidate for any office, except school director, his church being noncombative and non-oftice holding. He has avoided lawsuits, and except the last sickness of his wife, $100 would pay all his bills for the doctors or medicine, though he has reared a large family.

Ventnc, Georce H., carpenter and contractor, Rendville, Ohio; was born July 24, 1850, in Logan, Hocking county, Ohio; son of Henry and Mary A. (Gregory) Vening. George H. was brought up on a farm near New Lexington, and learned his trade with his father ; came to his present residence in November, 1879. Mr. Vening was married November 4, 1878, to Miss Sophia, daughter of William Newton and Susanna (Dixon) Irwin. They are the parents of two children, viz. : Ethel May and Mary Edna. Mr. Vening has had good success, being one of the best mechanics of the county.

WAGNER, JouN, was born June 3, 1823, in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania ; son of George Wagner and Catharine Ritz ; post office Rushville, Ohio. The family is of German descent on both sides. Father Wagner came to Ohio in 1831, bought the farm on which he died, in 1850, and in the days prior to railroads, kept a regular drove stand and hotel. The sons, who came with him from Pennsylvania, were Simon Peter and George Washington, and the daughter was Mary Elizabeth, wife of Samuel Westall, who died in Lawrence county, Illinois. "Those born afterwards were Susan Catharine, wife of Joel Petty ; Henry M., who married Miss Leach; Jacob R., who married Mary Haines; Anna ane, wife of Moses Petty ; Matilda, deceased, former wife of Daniel Berket, all of whom reside in Lawrence county, Illinois. April 18, 1844, John Wagner was married to Anr Stoltz, who is the mother of eight sons and three daughters now living. These are: George W. married to Jane, daughter of Lewis Combs, post office Rushville : Sie mon Peter, married to Elizabeth, daughter of John Neely ; Henry M., married to Jessie, daughter of Lucretia Baker, a widow near Linnville, Licking county, Ohio: Samuel S., married to Belle, daughter of William Rutherford, post office Rushville, Ohio; Mary Ka. wife of Wesley, son of Samuel Thomas ; Margaret Ann, wile of Asa, son ot. David Dennison, post oflice Rushville, Ohio, and Matilda Jane. wife of Lewis A. Gillespie. post office Hancock, Perry county, Ohio. The children vet single and at home are: John R., 7 haddeus, David Grant and Sherman. The religious connection 1s of the Brethren Church. The home of John Wagner, two miles east of Rushville, ranks among the foremost in the county both in size and value, and is the fruit of that persevering adherance to one occupation, characteristic of the Wagner name.

Waker, Rowianp, son of John Walker ; born 1798, in Great Dolby, Leicestershire, England, and grandson of Rowland Skivington Walker. In the childhood of John Walker, his father paid for teaching him to read and write,twelve cents per week, at the same school where the poor were admitted free. The town built the school house. Newspapers cost six-pence, or twelve cents. John served four years as apprentice to a butcher, getting his board, while his father clothed him and paid ten pound ($50) for his tuition. Saturday was the day fixed for beef sales and no other day, in Nottingham, was a sale of beef permitted by retail. As late as 1840 he sold beef, best cuts at fourteen cents per pound, and steak, free from bone, sixteen cents per pound. His maternal grandfather, Mawley, gave him twenty guineas to begin butchering on his own account, and he said he made money at it, or he could not, in 1843, have brought his wife and all the children to the United States. In 1821, he married Sarah Dixon, who came with her husband and six children to Jefferson county, Pennsylvania. Their children were Sarah Ford, who died in Pennsylvania; Rowland, George, Mary, Mrs. Ann Bailey and John, who all came to Perry Co. with their parents in 1864, and settled in Pike township, on a farm one mile from the N.S. & S. R. R., where his wife died in 1877. This farm was sold at $100 per acre, or $16,000, a price due to mineral deposits. After this he bought east of Somerset, and in sight of it, a large tract which he divided between Mrs. Bailey, a daughter, widowed by the loss of her husband in the army, who brought with her from Jefferson county, Pennsylvania, five children; and Rowland, a son who had gone to Illinois, but is now here, and with whom his father is spending the evening of his life, and who has drawn a pencil portrait, both of his father and mother, which do credit to an art taught him in the common schools of England. It was the expressed desire of Mother Walker to have 'the following lines, slightly altered in expression, engraved upon her tomb: :

WALKER, JonN, Jr., farmer, Pike township, New Lexington, Ohio ; was born September 23, 1836, jn Nottinghamshire, New Bedford. England, and son of John and Sarah (Dixon) Walker. Mr. Walker was raised a farmer and followed agricultural pursuits in the summer season and the lumber trade in the winter season for about thirteen years. From the time he was twenty-one years of age until he was twenty-five years of age, he made the handsome sum of $1,700, during the winter season alone with his team. Hewas united in matrimony with Hannah M., daughter of John and Catharine (Vansickle) Grimes. They have no'heirs. Mr. Watker came to the United States with his father in May of 1843, who settled in Jeflerson county, Pennsylvania, where he lived until 1864, when he came to Perry county, Ohio. John Walker, the subject of this sketch, came to Perry county in 1862, and owns two hundred and forty acres of land in Bearfield township, and also fourteen acres in New Lexington, where he now lives an acceptable citizen.

Waker, WILLiAM H., was born September 3, 1841, in the town of Somerset, Ohio. He is the eldest of the sons of Joseph Walker, a native of Maryland, who came to Somerset, in company with his family, in the year 1820, and who, in the year 1836, became the husband of Catharine Miller, daughter of George Miller, the weaver. 'The father of Joseph Walker was William, a blacksmith, and his mother's maiden name was Mary Walters, sister of Jacob Walters, who carried on shoemaking in Somerset. Moved to Zanesville where he died and where his wife still survives him. The grandfather of this Jacob was also William Walters, a maker of leather breeches, who was murdered for his money by aman who confessed the deed on the gallows, and that he got only six cents in cash. The father of this murdered man was a Revolutionary soldier, and lived to the age of one hundred and fourteen ears. He was a native of Holland. In August, 1862, William Llenry Walker, subject of this sketch, was united in marriage with Miss Maria Russell and the same day departed with Company II, Ninetieth O. V. I. forthe war. They .have five sons and two daughters living. As stated in the sketch of W. H. Russell, he began business under the name of Walker & Russell in 1866, and his success in his chosen occupation exceeds the average of business men, who start on far greater capital, and is due to that care, attention, industry, sobriety and perseverance which have distinguished both the partners.

WALLACE, WILLIAM, miner, Shawnee, Ohio, was born May, 1846, in Edinburgh, Scotland. Son of George and Jane (Wallace) Wallace. Was raised in Edinburgh and learned the trade of lamp maker, and was also a miner some eight years in Lanarkshire, Scotland: Mr. Wallace was married September 10, 1869, to Isabel, daughter of William and Margaret (Graham) Keay, of Edinburgh, Scotland. They are the parents of five children, viz.: George, Margaret, Jane, William and Alfred. Mr. Wallace came to America in August of 1872, leaving his family in Scotland, but in 1873 he sent for them and they arrived in this place on May 14, of the same year. - Ie has made mining his business since coming to this country, and is now inside bank boss in the New York and Straitsville Coal and Iron Company's Mines, a position he has held for one year past.

Watt, IsrAEL, farmer and stock raiser, post oflice McLuney. Born in this county in 1825. Son of Joseph and Mary (Hitchcock) Watt. Grandson of Robert Watt. Grandson of fsaac and Susan (Fuller) Hitchcock. Married in 1848 to Miss Rebecca Mitt, daughter of Thomas and Saloma (Reed) Iliff. They are the parents of five children, viz.: John I., Mary S., Thomas, deceased; J. W. and L. D. Mr. Watt's father was a captain in the War of 1812. i ) county, Maryland, in 1809. Settled in Perry county in 1837. Son of Charles Watt, who died in 1833, in Muskingum county. Flizabeth (Longley), his mother, died in 1825. Mr. Watt is a grandson of Richard and Elizabeth Watt, and also grandson of Benjamin and Elizabeth Longley. They are of German and English descent. Mr. Watt's srandfather was married in 1830 to Miss Eliza A. Barnett, daughter of oe and Mary (Owens) Barnett. They are the parents of eight children, viz: Austin G., deceased; Elizabeth, Charles, John W., William H., John J., deceased ; Jonathan, deceased ; and George W., deceased. 'Those living are all married. Mr. Watt had three sons in the late war. George W. enlisted in 1861 in Company D, Thirty-first Regiment, Captain William Free, Army of the Cumberland. He was engaged in the following battles, viz.: Iloover's Gap, Chickamauga, Mission Ridge and Resaca. Austin G. enlisted in 1861, Company II, Sixty-second Regiment, and William H. in Company D, Thirty-first Regiment.

WEATHERBURN, THoMAS, mine boss, New Straitsville, Ohio, was born April 27, 1846, in Saghill, county of Northumberland, England. Son of Thomas and Ann (Robson) Weatherburn. Mr. Weatherburn was brought up as a miner in his native county, where he lived until he emigrated to America, setting sail from Liverpool June 1, and landing in New York June 17, 1870, from where he went directly to Cambridge, Guernsey county, Ohio, and was engaged in mining for two years. From Cambridge he came to this place, February 20, 1873, and has been engaged as follows: Laying track for one year in what was then called the Old Troy mine, now known as the Thomas Coal Company mine; laying track one year in what was then the Patterson Coal Company mine, now W. P. Rend & Company's mine; after which he took his present position of mine superintendent for W. P. Rend & Company. Mr. Weatherburn was married Auust 14, 1869, to Miss Mary Ann Wilson, born January 2, 1848, in Best Cramlington, Northamberland, England, daughter of Robertand Mary (Farrer) Wilson. They are the parents of five children, viz.: Ann, born July 2, 1870, and died August 17, 1872. Mary Hannah, born February 5, 1873. Robert William, born August 28, 1875. Joseph, born August 7, 1878, and Evelyn, born April 19, 1881. Mr. Weatherburn's father was born March 14, 1819, in England, where he still lives. His mother was born June 20, 1822, and is still living. Mrs. Weatherburn's father was born May 14, 1823, in England, and is now livingin this place, where he has resided for the. past ten years. Her mother was born May 8, 1823, in England, and died February Ie, 1873, in Cambridge, Guernsey county, Ohio. ;

WEAVER, GEORGE Capneine partner of the Corning Weekly Times. Was born in Wheeling, West Virginia, November t5, 1835, son of John W. and Julia A. (Sayler) Weaver. Mr. Weaver resided in Virginia and Cumberland, Maryland, until he was seventeen years of age, when he came to Columbus, Ohio, in the fall of 1852, and commenced learning the printing business in the office of the Of7o Statesman, then owned and edited by Samuel Medary. Owing tora strike in 'the oflice, he was offered a better position in the Okzo Stale Fournal office, which he accepted and where he finished a four years apprenticeship, at which time he joined the Printer 's Typographical Union No. 5. In 1856 he went to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he worked at his trade as a journeyman printer. In 1857 and 1858 he attended school at Wasl hington College, W ashington, P ennsylvania, but the panic of that year so affected his father's financial condition that he was obliged to Teave school before graduating, and returned to Columbus in i838. In 1860 he again went to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he was licensed as a local preacher in the Methodist Episcopal Church, which license has been renewed from year to year until the present time. May 23, 1861, he was united in marriage to Miss Mary E., daughter of George and Rebecca Getz. They are the parents of four children, viz.: EL: arry G.. Mary E.., John W alter, and his first born, Charles W esley, who departed ia life in September of 1863. Mr. Weaver came to Perry county, Ohio, July 8, 1881, as agent of the Perry county Auxiliary of the merican Bible Society, and afer hi: wing spent se veral months i in Monroe and Harrison townships, the work having been suspended in October, he returned to Columbus. December to, 1881. he Lam ene work on the Corning 7éwes, and formed A co-parinership with James H. Sopher, including a half interest January 1, 1581, which interest he still holds.

Weaver, Jacos C., Shawnee, Ohio, was born July 15, 1845, in Deavertown, Morgan county » Ohio; son of John VP. and Catharine (Lenhart) Weaver. Mr. Weaver's father is a merchant, and he was raised in Eagle Port, Morgan county, Ohio. until he Was thirteen years of age, when his father moved to Blue ikock. Sluskingum county, Ohio, and remained about eight years, where Jaceb ©. was married, August 19, 1865, to Matilda, dauchter of Hiram "and Matild; \( Larrison) Lucas. Thev became the parents of four children, Jiving, viz.: Tarlon C., Tillie K., Eva J. and Elcie D.: and one deceased; Annie C. After his marri: we he moved to Ga and trom there Lo Roseville, Ohio, where he lived about two years, engaged atmining, and returned to Blue Rock, where he remained five vears at Jarming and then came to Shawnee. Ohio, where he has lived np to this time. Since coming to this place his first wife died September 26, 1677. Mr. Weaver was married again December 18, 1879, to Elcedana, daughter of Anthony and Delilah (Rusk) Townsend, of Perry county, Olio. "VPhey are the parents of one child, Mary S.

George and Catharine (Shrader) Weiland. Joseph was brouglhtup on a farm, where he remained until twenty-one years mi oaeew? VV hen about fifteen he began working at the cooper's trade, which he followed during the winters and farmed during the summers until he enlisted in C: >mpany D, Seventeenth O. V. I., in September, 186r, and was dischi rged in July, 1865. He served in the army of the Cumberland and was with General Sherman in his ''March to the Sea.'?) On his return he engaged in his present business at Nelsonville, Ohio, where he remained two yearg and then came to this place in April, 1869. Mr. ~Veiland was married January 11, 1868, to Miss Mary, daughter of James and Catharine (Hoodlet) Edington, of Nelsonville, Ohio. ' They are the parents of four children, viz.: Clara Ida, George J., John E. and

WELLs, Davin, postmaster, Rendville, Ohio, was born April 3, 1840, in Leeds, Yorkshire, England; son of William and [Elizabeth (Fryers) Wells. David went into the mines of [england at the age of twelve years, and worked until 1866, when he came to America, and locatedin Bradford county, Pennsylvania, where he remained about fifteen months. Thence he went to Clinton county, Pennsylvania. Came to Columbiana county, Ohio, in 1868, where he remained until 1876 when he came to Perry county, Ohio, and located at Moxahala and followed his accustomed occupation, mining. He came to Rendville in March, 1880, and was appointed postmaster January 30, 1882. Mr. Wells was married first, January 11, 1862, to Sarah Jane. daughter of John and Anne (Frith) Dyson. They became the parents of four children, viz.: Anne Elizabeth, married to John Smith; Mary Anne, married to Martin Davidson; Susanna and Caroline. Mrs. Wells died in September, 1873. Mr. Wells was married the second time, March 22, 1875, to Mrs. Margaret, daughter of Robert and Mary (Parrot) Bardsley. They are the parents of two children, viz.: William and Robert. Mrs. Wells was married first to John Sykes, by whom she had one child, Mary Anne.

WELLS, JOSIAH, superintendent S. C. Mining Company; post office, New Straitsville. He is ason of Matthew and Jane Wells, of the county of Cornwall, England. He was born in Charleston, St. Austile, January 8, 1842, and when a boy removed with his parents_ about twenty miles east, to Pencilva, near Siskead. His parents had seven children, four of whom died in infancy. The others, the subject of this sketch, and two sisters, are yet living. One sister, Elizabeth, isin Bunly, Lancashire, England; the other, Grace, is in Adelaide, South Australia. Josiah went to work as a miner at the age of fourteen. February 15, 1861, his father died, aged fifty-one years, and three years after, he came to America, leaving his mother in England. He first went to Lake Superior, Michigan, and in the latter part of 1866 he came to Nelsonville, Ohio. Three years after, he was married to Cornelia Galentine, and in 1870 he came to New Straitsville, when there were only three or four houses erected there. In March, 1875, he cast his first vote, and at the same time was elected township and corporation clerk. He filled the former office five years. In 1874 his mother died, at the age of seventy-three years. In November, 1880, Mr. Wells took charge of the Straitsville Central Mining Company's mine as superintendent, which position he still holds) Mr. and Mrs. Wells have had nine children, two of whom are dead. Four boys and three girls now constitute their family.

WELLS, FRANK C., contractor, brick and stone mason, Corning, Ohio ; was born November 28, 1849, in Newark, Licking county, Ohio, son of David A. and Anne (Cunningham) Wells. From his family the town of Wellsburg, West Virginia, derived its name. The Cunninghams are from the Eastern States, of English ancestry. Frank C. was brought up at Hebron, Licking county ; went to his trade at twenty-one and has followed jit to the present time. He came to Corning, daughter of Thomas Owen, a native of Wales. They are the parents of five children, viz.: Mary L., David T., died when about seven years old; Leota B., Orville C., deceased and Nellie C., deceased. Mr. Wells united with the Methodist Episcopal Church when about fifteen and is at present an efficient officer in the church and Sunday school. Mrs. Wells has been a faithful member of the Baptist Church since she was about sixteen years of age.

West, J. L., merchant and liveryman, New Straitsville, Ohio; was born May 2, 1856, in Perry county, Ohio; son of John T. and Sarah (Little) West. Mr. West was raised a farmer and followed agricultural pursuits until 1874, when he came to this place with his parents and attended school about one year, after which he worked at Plummer Hill coal mine for about two months. THe then took charge of and superintended a grocery store about one year for his father, at this time purchasing the store himself, continuing about six months, and added to his business that of general merchandise, which he continues to this time. In November, 1881, he bought his brother's livery stable, and in April, 1882, bought the livery stable of J. Watkins, who had been in the business since the town began its existence. April 28, 1882, he bought the livery of Thomas Raybould, and thus controls entirely the livery business of New Straitsville; and runs a semi-daily hack and mail line to Shawnee and return. March 27, 1879, he purchased a house and lot from Thomas Fuliner for $1,000; May 12, 1882, he also purchased a house and lot from Jane Skinner, for the sum ot $1,000, and owns a lot at Sand Run. Was married January 10, 1881, to Charlotte Harper, born September 11, i861, in Nelsonville, Athens county, Ohio, daughter of Benjamin I. and Mary (Spencer) Tarper. They became the parents of one child, viz.: John Clarence, who was born December 3, 1881, and died May 23, 1882. _Mr. West's parents were born in Ireland and emigrated to America in 1837, and settled in Perry county, Ohio, where his father entered land and cleared the place to set his house. He entered eighty acres of land and added to it by purchase until he owned three hundred and twenty acres, one hundred and sixty acres of which he sold during the coal excitement in this vicinity for $25,000, yet owning the remaining one hundred and sixty acres, which is among the finest coal lands. Ile also owns one hundred and twenty acres of land in Hocking county, Ohio, and invested $12,000 in houses and lots in this village. Mrs. Wes:'s father came to Ohio from Virginia at an early day and married Mary Spencer, of Nelsonville, Athens county, Ohio, and engaged in the business of coal operating, which he followed up to the time of his death, in 1875, in his sixty-first year. Her mother died in 1866 in her thirty-ninth year. In Longstreth's addition to Nelsonville, Ohio, Mrs. West owns twenty town lots at this time.

WESsTALL, Joun W., was born in Reading township, in November, 1832, and, excepting his two sons, Samuel and Frank, is the only one of this name left in the county, save his half brother, residing on the homestead, three miles west of Somerset. [fis great-ancestor, George Westall, was born in London, England, and after a 42 days' voyage, full of peril, landed in Rockingham county, Virginia, in time to serve in the Continental army as a drummer. - He had three sons -

James, who died in Cumberland county, Illinois; Ambrose, w ho was a cripple from an accident in infancy, and Gilderoy, whose children by his first wife, Katharine Lidey, sister of Gen. John Lidey, were Samuel, Joseph F., Eliza. Daniel A., John W., Rachel, Mary, Sarah, and George W., all of whom, except Rachel ie Mary, Bolted in Lawrence county, Ill., these having settled in Whitney county, Ind. John W. Westall was married eed in 1855 to Susannah. daughter of Jacob Petty, Jeaving at her death Samu el M., H. Franklin, and Susannah Katharine, an infant only two weeks ol at the death of her mother in 1861. In April, 1865, he moved to Somerset and started in the grocery trade, which he wound up in 1876, after the death of his second wife, who was a Miss Berkheimer. - His father, Gilderoy, came to Ohio in 1821, when 21 years of age, and was noted AP his skilJ] as a wrestler, a sport not only peculiar to the Virginians, but much practiced in the early part of the present century in Ohio. - His second marriage was to Katharine Montgomery, daughter of Rev. Joshua Montgomery, by whom he became the father of four sons and three daughters, who with their mother reside upon the old homestead.

Wuitrmore, Perer, son of Peter, Sr., was born in Belmont county, Ohio, May 16th, 1801, and when yet an infant came with his parents to Perry county in 1802, and in the following year moved on the farm where he lived 78 consecutive years, to the date of his death in 1881. This period of consecutive residence at one place was not exceeded at the date of his death by any resident of Ohio known to him or the writer in 1879, when the facts and dates of this sketch were obtained directly from Peter Whitmore himself, whose memory was found clear and distinct, the intellectual faculties in full play and the naturally mirthful temperament radiant with pleasing humor. He had seven brothers, all of whom preceded him to the grave. He had then but one sister living, a Mrs. Zellinger, in Piqua, Ohio. His mother's name was Mary Magdalena Overmeyer, an aunt to the venerable Peter Overmeyer. Peter Whitmore picked up chestnuts from the ground where the old Court House in Somerset now stands, met bears in his path through the woods at night when a boy 12 years old, and on one occasion scared away this grizzly denizen of the forest by clapping his shoes together. The bears were hard on pigs, but the worst wild beast and the most uniformly hated was the catamount, or wild cat. He went to German school to one Hartman, and to English school to James Johnson, who taught on subscription, about the year 1812. He never attended a free school. The first mill was Shellenbarger's, below Lancaster. His brother John nearly froze on one trip there, and would have frozen but for the kindly offices of Mrs Binckley, the mother of Geor geen. Peter Whitmore was the sev font child and the third son. He bought 140 acres of the home farm long after his first marriage and prior to his father's death by buving out the interests of his brothers and sisters

He added 44 acres to 'this purchase and erected a fine brick house in 1840. His barn is also a superb structure, and his vines and orchard, the best in quality and care of selections. In the last few years of his life his passions for good fruit led him to buy and plant liberally. | He found for some years past that sheep paid better, than wheat, but he had not tried the fertilizers now in general use. He w as reared a Lutheran ; ; did not believe in close communion or consubstantiation, and, therefore, with three brothers left that church and joinedthe M. E. Church, to which, as also his present wife, he continued to adhere. In 1824 he voted for Clay, in 1828 for Jackson and other Democratic nominees for President and for Pierce in 1852, for Fremont in 1856 and Republican candidates since. '* My father's tax reached $5.50, and we all thought it prodigious. I now pay $65, and we still think it is too much. First saw Zanesville in 1814, when I was twelve years of age. It looked to me then like a big city. Salt was $4.50 per bushel in 1807, so a Jarge company was organized to visit the Kanawha salt works, in Virginia. It consisted of axmen, huntsmen, pilots with compass in hand, horses, pack-saddles, oats bags, camping attachments, etc., etc. They cut a trail from here to Logan and from there they found one already blazed. The Whitmore ancestry came to this country 150 years ago from Switzerland. My father, Peter Whitmore, Sr., was born in 1760. Ile was a soldier in the Revolution tor three years, and came to Belmont county. Ohio, several years prior to his arrival in Perry, 1803." Peter Whitmore was first married to Miss Lizzie Darsham, a_ sister of the late Jacob Darsham, of this county, in the year fe 2a} Their children were Isaac, who married Catharine Stoltz (a daughter of Henry) and died on the home farm leaving two daughters. Dr: Allen, married Lovena Turner, daughter of Joseph Turner, of Rushville, and they had_ three sons and iwo daughters living. Atter the death of this first wife, Dr. Whitmore was married to a daughter of David Brown, and has resided in Thornville for near 30 years, as a practitioner of medicine. The last marriage produced no children. Hannah, the only daughter, wife of John Wise, Newark, Ohio. - Benjamin, a grocer of Somerset for near 25 years, whose first wife was a Miss Thomas, daughter of David Thomas, now of Rushville, to whom one dauehter, Laura, was born. The second marriage was to Miss Mary Kishler, to whom two daughters and one son were born. He is very prosperous and successful in business. Michael, died when four years old. Adam, married a daughter of Jacob Bugh, and resides in Milton Station, Coles county, Illinois, and a farmer by occupation. David, who was not heard from for 23 or 24 years. He is now in Washington Territory. Thomas, was married to a daughter of Mr. Andrew Baker, of, this county, and a sister of ex-sheriff Martin's wife. He is in the hardware trade at Topeka, Kansas. _ He has five children, and wasin 55 battles of the Rebellion where his comrades fell. Frank, was in the late war from first to last, and went to Arizona, where he was killed by a mine explosion. - William, was married to a Miss Baltzer, in Miami county, Ohio. He resides in Topeka, Kansas, ° where he is chief clerk in the post office, at a salary of $85 per month. He also saw service in the late war, 9 John, was married to a daughter of Ellison Martin, and resides on the home farm. This marriage produced two beautiful twin daughters, now over twelve years of age, since which one more daughter was born. - Ile was also in the war and the only one of six brothers who was wounded. Randolph was married in Topeka, Kansas, where he is in service as a freight agent. He was also in the war. The second marriage of Peter Whitmore was to Miss

Mary Davis. The children by this marriage ware George, who died in his fourth year; Daniel, now married to a Miss Dorris, and devoted to agricultural pursuits, and Miss Mary, who with her mother, reside in the ancestral home, hallowed by athousand recollections of the Jeet the beautiful homestead of Peter Whitmore, Sr., and Peter, Jr., whose names and memory it embalms and commemorates.

Wuirmore, Rev. SAMUEL, minister in the United Brethren Church ; born November 8, 1821, in Richland township, Fairfield county. He is a son of George Whitmore, and a nephew of Peter Whitmore, Jr., now deceased. His grandmother was an Overmeyer, a sister of Peter Overmeyer, Sr. His mother was Sarah Miller, a native of Pennsylvania. In 1842, Samuel Whitmore was married to Miss Susannah, daughter of George Bowman, the first of this name in Perry county, and who had a brother, Daniel, the father of Michael Bowman, now of Somerset. The wife of George Bowman, Susannah Rugh, was a sister of Solomon, Peter and Michael Rugh, of Vairtield county. Samuel had five brothers - Andrew, Solomon, Peter , Isaiah and George , and one sister, now Mrs. iWalnaiees of 'Phorn, formerly Mrs. Jonathan Palmer of Richland township. His mother was married to a second husband, Mr. John Brown, of Richland; and by this marriage he has two half-sisters, one a Mrs. Isabella Yaney, the other a Mrs. Sarah Ann Miller. He and his goodly wife have but two daughters, a Mrs. Isaac Mechling and a Mrs. Daniel Needy, both of Somerset. Rev. Mr. Whitmore has served his church in the capacity of Presiding Elder, a dignity which he supported with satisfaction to his district and Superior officers. On the maternal side, he traces his ancestry to that of John George Obermeyer, who was born in Baden n, in 1727, and in testimony of whose honest service and praiseworthy conduct, especially in his knowledge of Evangelical Lutheran religion, the Rev. John Christian Ebersoie, pastor of Blachenloch, most cheerfully certifies." in 1751. After sailing four weeks on the Rhine, landing at Amsterdam on June 20, he set sail for England, and on the 22d set sail for America. These facts are preserved in German manuscript, kindly translated by Rev. M. Walter, of the Lutheran Church, now residing in Somerset.

Wauirr, Rev. JAMEs, is a native of Muskingum conttnt Ohio, and was born January 17, 1832. Ie is one of sixteen children - eight sons and eight daughters, who all grew to womanhood and manhood. Ilis father, John W.. . White, was a native of Pennsylvania, of Scotch-Irish descent, and came to Ohio in 1802 or '03. His 'entire fainily are Presbyterian, except one brother. Of the sixteen children, six brothers and _ six sisters are still living in 1882; all are married, and all have homes of their own. Father White was a farmer, and died at the age of seventy ce in Muskingum county. Jlis wife, the mother of Rev. James White, yet living, : at the age of eighty-one years, and it was on occasion of illness in 1882, that caused a visit from James, all the way from New York, to smooth the pillow of her affliction. Growing better in a few weeks, he returned to his home, grateful for the restoration of his aged parent. Those who know Rev. James White best, need not be told of that command which enjoins upon us all to " Honor our parents, that our days may be long in the land." The maiden name of this aged mother was Hannah Guthrie. The mother of her husband was a Ham-

HISTORY OF PERRY COUNTY. 583 ilton, and a relative of the great Alexander Hamilton, of whora Daniel Webster said while speaking of him as the finance minister of Washington: '* The rod of his genius smote the rock of our dried up resources, and forth came floods of revenue." The history of Rey. James White begins with his education at Muskingum College, New Concord, Ohio, where he also served two years as Professor of Mathematics. Ile was licensed to preach in April, 1861; was Chaplain of the One Hundred and Sixty-ninth Ohio National Guards: served as pastor of Jonathan Creek U.P. Church for eighteen vears, near where he founded the Madison Academy, of which he served as President during the last ten years of his pastorate. This academy still flourishes, and, itis believed, will stand as an enduring monument to his memory. In 1879, Rev. White received a call from the Charles Street U. P. Church, of New York City. This church has not less than five hundred ana twenty members, and they pay a salary of $2,500, furnish a study, well lighted and warmed, and other emoluments, making the station one of the first in rank and dignity ; and no man conld fill it more gracelully or ably. He celebrated his silver wedding September 21, 1882. Tis estimable

Rev. William Wallace, of Cambridge, Ohio. The children of Rev. White by this marriage are, the wife of Mr. Edward Ream, a prosperous and highly esteemed hardware merchant of Somerset, Ohio, and her brother, John P. White, now of New York.

WuitE, Hamirtron, liquor dealer, New Straitsville; was born in 1842, in Scotland; is a son of Hamilton and Margaret White. In 1504 he came to America, stopping a short time in Pennsylvania. From there

~he went to Illinois, and in Chicago enlisted in the Ninth Illinois Cavalry. He was mustered out of the service in Selma, Alabama, and returned to Illinois. In 1872, hecame to New Straitsville, and was married to Ann McBride, daughter of John and Ann McBride, natives of

WictTon, J. H., farmer and stock raiser ; post office, Roseville, Muskingum county. he father of the subject of this sketch, was born in Muskingum county in 1817. Was married in 1842. to Miss Sarah Horner. They had nine children, of whom J. H. is one. Their names were: J. H., Elizabeth, Ellen, Mary J., Margaret A., deceased ; Alice C., Mattie M., J. C., W. W., deceased; one married. The father died in 1873.

James, Sr., who was an Engiish soldier ; and in consequence of severe wound in one of the battles of the Revolution, never again returned to his native country, but remained in Virginia, where he married a Highland Scotch wife, who became the mother of an only child, James Wilkins, Jr. This James was by tradition entitled to an estate in Hi giand, which was lost by the slackness of the laws then in force, and the infancy of the only heir in America, which heir perhaps was entuely unknown, on the false supposition that James, Sr., had died withor t heirs. The father of John Wilkins was a soldier in the War of 1812; the husband of Hannah Roberts, whom he married about the beginnin,s of the present century; a superintendent of a large Virginia plantation, at a good salary for many years; the owner of a few slaves there, at the death of one of whom, John cried hitterly as having lost a kind nurse. In 1830 the Wilkins family came to Perry county. and a few years Jater to Muskingum county, where James, the father, died. at the age eighty-five vears He was a man of remarkable physical endurance and in his cightieth year, could plow, sow and reap. ee Wilkins survived her husband only afew years. Her children were Nancy, the wife of Joseph, and the mother of Nathan Plank. who wae the death of her husband became the wife ot Joseph Snyder, and died as such in Hopewell township; Charles and Mary, of Lawrence county. Ohio: William, White Cottage, Ohio; Joseph, Lytlesburg. Ohio: Vheodore. Lima, Olnot Rev. Llewellyn, of the New 'Light belief: and two children, deceased, in Muskingum county. In 1839, Johu Wilkins was married to Mary, daughter of John Bowser. He soon settled where he now lives, section thirteen, Tlopewell, and where some ot the soil on his farm tee been under ae ation for sixty consecutive vears, and the

Jast crop of corn measured over one hundred bushels to Peng dots that thus supports its fertility by alluvial deposit, and by its natural strength.

Their children are eight in number, all living, except Mary. deceased wife of Samuel Bowman, Arcola, Illinois ; Leroy, farmer, post office same; James, John J. Eliza, wife of Samuel Bowman, and Abraham, post iGices Mount Perry, Gris: Ann Maria. wite of Daniel Siberds, and Emanuel, post office, North Manchester, Indiana. These sons and" 'daughters are all comfortably situated, and some of them growing wealthy. Five of the sons weigh 1,160 pounds, the lightest of whom is nearly 200. The mother was a large, handsomely sized woman; thefather has weighed 180 pounds ; lead twenty-two and one-fourth inches: health good, habits temperate, but not abstemious from stimulants. After the death of his wife in 1879, Mr. Wilkins was married to Mrs. Delilah Stine, in 1881, whose maiden name was Dollings; of Scotch and English parentage, and whose father was a native of Virginia, and whose mother was a native of Kentucky. By her first husband, John Creighton Stine, she had two sons. both married ; one a teacher And the other a potter by occupation. She alleges that her grandfather, Slover, was a Tory in the Revolution. and that her father fought on the American side, in 1812. At this second marriage, she and her children were welcomed to the Wilkins home by all of Mr. Wilkins' sons and daughters, who reside in the vicinity.

WILLIAMS, Joun L., was born the 18th of June, 1813, in Berkley county, Virginia. His brother, H. T., lives in Vi irginia. At the age of fifteen he went to the tailoring trade, receiving a freedom suit and his boarding and clothing for a term of five vears. He attended subscription school, and for those days became a fair scholar in reading, writing and arithmetic. About this time his father died and he went howe and conducted the farm.for about two years, when in 1836 he landed in Somerset, Ohio, where he had a brother-in-law by the name of William Wright, a Saddler, whose sister Mr. Williams had married prior to his removal to Ohio. He was there married December 19, 1835. to Jane Ellen Wright. By this union eight children were born, the eldest, Sarah, i in Virginia, the others in Somerset, whose names occur according to date of birth : Sarah, Rebecca, Elizabeth, Mary, Kitura, John,

Jane and Charles. Of these, only Rebecca and Charles are now living, Rebecca in Somerset, and Charles in Lancaster. Tle has, at this date, eleven grandchildren living. On his arrival in Somerset, he began the tailoring business, which he carried on to the time of his appoinimentas postmaster in 1861, which position he has maintained to this date, twenty years or more. Prior to his service as postmaster, he was elected eight consecutive years as clerk of the township, which, considering the fact that the township was strongly opposed to Mr. Williams' politics, exhibits his popularity and the esteem otf his fellow citizens. He was never beaten for this office, and it was not until he declined being a candidate that his successor was chosen. He joined the Methodist Church in 1841, and has maintained his membership ever since. His taxes, and those of his second wife, who was Elizabeth C. Rho. les, still living, amount to $70 a year. _ His success in life is due to his upright dealing, his sterling honesty, his unflagging industry, his genteel deportment, and his inborn politeness and urbanity, which even now, at the age of sixty-eight, adheres to his manners. Only two men are now living who were here when Mr. Williams first came to Somerset. These are William Jackson and David Brunner. Jle has belonged to the Masonic fraternity since 1839. His son, John, died at Nashville, a member of the Ninetieth Ohio Regiment. [lis remains are lying in the cemetery in Somerset. He corresponded for the Lancaster Gazelle while in the army, and his bosom companion, Tom 'Valbot, while beaying the colors at Atlanta. fell a sacrifice on the altar of his country's cause. Just this year a Post of the Grand Army of the Republic was instituted in Somerset under the name of '* Tom 'Talbot Post," a fitting compliment to the youthful hero, and to the memory of daring deeds and undying affection. = .

Witiiams, Evitas Davin, collier, Shawnee, Ohio; was born May 15, 1836, in Aberystwyth Cardiganshire, Wales; son of David and Catharine (Evans) Williams. Mr. Williams remained in his native place working in lead mines, until December, 1863, when he emigrated to America, landing in New York, from whence he went to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he remained four years and six months and thence to Irondale, Jefferson county, eighteen months, and then to Coshocton, Ohio, where he superintended the Home Company's coal mine two years, and then came to his present locality, being the second family that located in the place, and is now engaged by the Upson Cou Company, where he has been successful, being one of the free-holde s of the place. Mr. Williams was married in December,-1855, to Ann, daughter of John and Jane (Rollins) Edwards. They are the parents of eight children, viz.: Jane, Kate, Mary, David, Ann, John, Maggie and William, living and seven deceased. Jane is married to Evan O. Jones, Kate to Charles E. Davis, both of Shawnee, Ohio; Mary to William Davis, of Orbiston, Ohio. Mr. Williams is now deacon in the Welsh Presbyterian or Calvinistic Methodist Church.

WILLIAMS, Epmonpv D., collier, Shawnee, Ohio; was born March 28, 1837, in Monmouthshire, Wales; son of Daniel and Ann ( Harris) Williams: was raised a farmer and followed agricultural pursuits in connection with mining until he was twenty-eight years of age. The farm his father rented and upon which he was born, had been rented by the Williams family for over two hundred vears, and in his day the rent was only half as much as neighboring farms. The owner, Windham Lewis. said that the rent should not increase while it was rented by the Williams family. His great grandfather raised a family of fifteen children; his grandfather a family of twelve children, and his father a family of ten children, all upon this farm of three hundred and fifty acres, only thirty of which are arable. the remainder being pasture land. The farm was rented last by his brother Daniel, who lived until February 25.1879. But the farm changed hands some four vears previous to his death. After being engaged upon the farm he w 'ent to Mountain Ash, remaining two vears as a miner. trom whence he came to America in June of 1868, and has been engaged at the following places: Youngstown, Ohio, three months. farming : Oak Hill, Mercer county, Pawiech vania, short time: Orangeville. nine months, mining: Monongahela River, mining ; Pan- Handie Railroad, tour vears, mining : Illinois, mining; S..E. Railroad, mining two vears: Springfield, Illinois, mining ; Cairo, Arkansas and Texas Railroad. three months, railroading ; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, about two years, mining; Pan-Handle Railroad, six months, mining; Shawnee, where he has been engaged in mining to the present time, coming to this place in the fall of 1880. He was married September 20, 1881, to Ann, daughter of James and Esther (Jenkins) Driver. They became the parents of one child that died in infancy.

WiviraMs, Joun R., blacksmith. Shawnee. Ohio: was born June 18, 1837, in Llantachreth parish, county of Anglesey, North Wales; son of Robert and Mary (Jones) Williams. At the age of fourteen he went into his father's shop to learn his trade., His grandfather was also an iron worker. At the age of twenty. John R. came to America and located in Pomeroy, Meigs. county, where he remained until 1872. when he came to this place, and worked for the Shawnee Valley Coal and Iron Company seven years. In 1879 he established his present shop in which he is prepared to do all kinds of general caipeice Mr. Williams was married in the spring ot 1866, to Miss Mariah. daughter of Henry and Anne (Williams) Davis, of Gallia county, Ohio. They are the Peat of nine children, four of whom are deceased, and five living, viz.:_ Annie, Henry, Robert, Sarah and John.

WILLL AMS, WILLIAM Ee tinner and sheet iron manufacturer, Shawnee, Ohio; was born November 21, 1845, near Llamlly, Carmarthinshire, Wales; son of William and Anne (Ev ans) Williams. At the age of eleven vears William E. went to work in the coal mines of Scotland, and worked two years. Then he successively worked in the tin shop, fonndry and coal mines, until May. 1869, when he sailed for America, locating firstin Schuylkill county, Pennsylvania, and tollowed mining there, and at the following places : Pomeroy and Shawnee, locating here in 1872; established his present business in 1876. Mr. Williams was married May 12, 1867. to Miss Elizabeth, datehter of John and Margaret Thomas. They became the parents of three children, viz.: Mary and Anne, deceased, and John, living with Daniel Lewis, whom Mr. Williams has employed to care for his son. Mrs. Williams died May 26, 1869, and is buriedin the Welsh cemetery, at Minersville, near Pomeroy, Ohio.

WiuuiaMs, Tuomas W.,, collier, Shawnee, Ohlo; was born April 5,.2840, in Carno, Monmouthshire, Wales; son of Thomas and Mary (Williams) Williams. Mr. Williams was raised in Carno until he was about twelve years of age, when he emigrated to America, landing in New York after a seven weeks' voyage, when he went to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and remained at Charter's Creek near Pittsburgh about nine months, engaged in coal mining, and has been employed as follows. Weatherfield, Trumbuil county, Ohio, until about 1864, coal mining while there, and during the time he made that place his home ; he was at Minersville, Ohio, Michigan, Iinois, Mosourt. Was married March 1, 1867, to Mary, daughter of William and Mary (Daniels) Morgan, of Minersville, Ohio. They are the parents of six children, viz.: Mary Ann, Catharine, Hannah, William, deceased ; 'Vhomas, deceased ; and Lizzie, deceased. After his marriage he has been engaged as follows: |Weatherfield four months ; Brookfield, Ohio, six months; Mason City. Virginia, about three years ; Coalton, Kentucky, until 1873; Mason City three months, and then moved to Shawnee, where his family has remained up to this time, but he was employed a short time in mining in Coshocton, Ohio. He owns a neat and comfortable home in this place.

WiuiaMs, Davin S., mine boss for W. P. Rend and Company, Rendville, Ohio; born August 28, 1840. in Wales; son of David 5. and Elizabeth (Roberts) Williams. At the age of seven years he went into the mines in Wales and worked there until 1860, when he came to America and located in Trumbull county, Ohio, and engaged in mining. He remained there about fifteen years, then went to Hlinois and filled the position of mine boss at Streator, Lasalle county, for two years. He then returned to this State and was mine boss for Maple Till Coal Company about three years. He came to Rendvillein November, 1881, and took charge, as mine boss, first at number three, then at number two, accepting his present position in August, 1881. Mr. Williams was married December 23, 1858, to Elizabeth, daughter of Wiliam and Elizabeth Abram. They are the parents of ten children,. viz.: Elizabeth, married to Louis S. Howbrie ; William S., Mary Ann, Catharine, Minnie Jane, David D., Margaret, Thomas, Lucy, deceased ; and Lewis, deceased. Mr. Williams has had a very extensive experience in mining and fully understands the business, having been mine boss since he was eighteen years of age.

~Wiutams, Tuomas J., farmer, Madison township, post oflice Sego. He is a son of William and Mary (Wright) Williams, and was born August 8, 1828. He is an agriculturalist, which vocation he has always followed. He came to this township in 1836, and was married May 1, 1855, to Mary, daughter of William and Mary (Boone) Cullum. They have four children: Howard H., Charles A., Mary B. and Elmer E.

WiiuraMs, Reese E., mine boss, Shawnee; was born December 4, 1842, in Breconshire, Wales; son of Thomas and Rachel (Williams) Williams. Mr. Williams was moved to Monmouthshire at the age of four years, where he remained until he was twenty-one years of age, and was engaged in Wales as follows : Glamorganshire about live or six years, as foreman in a mining shaft. At this time he emigrated to

America, landing in New York ; and has remained here up to the present; engaged as follows: At Habbard, Trumbull county, Ohio, three months ; 'Thomastown. Summit county, Ohio. where he was attacked by typhoid fever, from which he narrowly escaped with his life; mining in this place in the winter season and at Talmage in summer season, for about four years. During the time he was engaged at this place he was married, July 3 3, 1871. to Elizabeth, daughter of Philip and Sarah (Williams) Thomas. They became the parents of one child, viz.: Elizabeth, who only lived fifteen months. Mrs. Williams dearted this life February 8, 1872, aged nineteen vears and a few days In 1872 Mr. Williams came to Slawade) where he has remained to this time, in his present position, which he took in June of 1872. Mr. Williams' second marriage took place May 22, 1881, to Mary E., daughter of John and Elizabeth (Harris) Harris, of Glamorganshire. Wales. They are the parents of one child, viz.: Celia. Mrs. Williams was educated in Wales for a school teacher, where like a tradesman, they are obliged to serve an apprenticeship of five vears before they can be employed, upon their own application, by a school board. After entering upon their appranticeship they can only be released by the payment of ten pounds or giving six month's notice. After serving out an apprenticeship they are then granted what is known as a Queen's certificate ; after this still, ther require improvement upon the part of teachers, by which they are graded every two years as long as they continue to teach, and it would be well also to state that this apprenticeship includes, '* Household and domestic economy, pastry, etc."" Mrs. Williams taught in Wales eight years and employed her vacations in visiting some of the prominent places of interest in England and Ireland. She went across Milford Haven to Waterford and Kilkenny, through Limerick; to the lakes of Killarney and through Cork.

Witson, JAMEs, farmer and hotel keeper, Maxville, Ohio; born in Hopewell township, Perry county, Ohio, March 24, 1821, son At Isaac and Margaret (Rison) Wilson. Spent early boyhood on a farm, and in 1838 cane to Monday Creek township with his tather, where he has ever since resided. Mr. Wilson was among the early settlers of that township and has always been one of its most highly respected citizens, having served in the capacity of trustee of that township tor two terms. He was, at one time, extensively engaged in quarrying and burning limestone, but is now quietly residing on his farm and keeping hotel in the village of Maxville. He was married February 8, 1844, to Eliza, daughter of David and Sarah (Larimer) Haggerty, of Fairfield county, to whom was born one child, Isaac, who died at the early age of three months. Mrs. Wilson died on the anniversary of her marriage, in 1845, having been a bride but one vear. Mr. Wilson was mar ried the second time to Margaret, daughter of Robert und Margaret (Rav) Larimer. January 2, 1850.

Witson, Thomas, farmer and stock raiser, post office Roseville, - Muskingum county ; born in Muskingum county in 1814; came to Perry county in 1828; son of Zedick and Elizabeth (Stewart) Wilson ; grandson of Matthew 'Wilson, yrandson of' Pozy and Prudence Stewart. Married in 1842 to Miss Christie A. Wylie. daughter of John and Hannah (McClain) Wylie. They are the parents of eight children, viz.: Harriet, John, deceased; Zadock, George, Marion, deceased; Luther, Clara, Thomas. Zadock served in the last war in the One Hundred and Fitty-ninth Ohio Volunteers.

Wirson, WILLIAM, formerly of the firm of Wilson and "Rutter, butchers, New Lexington. Ohio; was born October 11, 1841, in Falls township, Hocking county ; son of Ezra and Elizabeth (Burgess) Wilson. William was brought up on the farm and has followed agriculture. husbandry and butchering tothe present time. He came to this county about the year 1857, and located in Clayton township, at his present residence. The present firm was formed November 5, 1881. Mr. Wilson was married March 1, 1864, to Miss Rachel C., daughter of George White and Harriet (Richards) Moore. 'They are the parents of seven children, viz.: Sorata Bell, Malcome Everett, deceased ; Edward Beecher, Howard Franklin, George Morris, Jesse Heber and Valus Wilma. ;

Witson, Joun, collier, Shawnee, Ohio; was born February 21, 1848, in Cockfield, county of Durham, England; son of Jobn and Elizabeth (Wanless) Wilson. Mr. Mason's father moved to Crook, soon after his birth, where he was raised and employed at brick making and mining until he was about the age of twenty years. At nineteen years of age he took the position of weighmaster and timekeeper, which he held about five years, and again for three years was employed in the mine, and a second time was weighmaster and timekeeper for one year, at which time he emigrated to America, leaving Liverpool September 22, and landing in New York October 3, 1879, from where he came to this place where he has lived to the present time, and enjoys his own home. Was married June 28, 1873, to Hannah, daughter of Judge and Isabel (Richardson ) Scott, in county of Durham. Mr. Wilson is a local preacher and class Jeader in the Pawnive Methodist Church of this place.

Winter, W., post office Crooksville ; merchant ; born in Muskingum county, in 1851. He came to Perry county in 1878. He is a son of Wickum Winter, who died in 1856. His mother, Elizabeth, died in 1857, leaving Mr. Winter to do for himself at a very early age. At the aye of seven he engaged in the pottery business with 'Squire Crook, of Crooksville ; serving with him till the age of twenty-one years. He then went to Iowa, being there some eighteen months. He then returned and engaged in shipping stone ware, till he engaged in his present business, that of dry goods and grocery trade. Mr, Winter was married, in 1877, to Miss Sarah McKeever, daughter of Samuel and Hannah McKeever. They are the parents of three children, viz.: Francis A., Samuel G. and Thomas M.

WISEMAN, JUDGE JOSEPH G., was born December 6, 1801, in Moproe county, now West Virginia ; post office Salem. By occupation in early life a bricklayer and later, a farmer, also. He is ason of Rev. John Wiseman, who came to section twenty-nine, Thorn township, Perry county, Ohio, in 1818, and grandson of Isaac Wiseman, who died in Virginia, at the age of ninety-two. 'The brothers of Judge Wiseman were James G.. John R., Isaac, Philip S. and Jacob G. Wiseman ; all gone. His sisters were Elizabeth, wife of John Brattin: Mar- garet, wife of Aaron Morgan; aud Ann, wife of George Stinchcomb ; all._gone. His mother's maiden name was Sarah Green, a native of Rockingham county, Virginia, and a niece of Hugh McGarey, an Indian fighter, of Kentucky, a companion of Daniel Boone. The memory of these brave men is preserved in a poem by Bryant. |The father of Judge Wiseman was with Washington at Valley Forge; died in 1842, in his eighty-second year, and rests in the Methodist Episcopal cemetery, at Salem. He was a local preacher, regularly ordained, and solemnized marriages. Judge Wiseman was married in 1827 to Miss Susan, daughter of John Manley. - Four of her six children still survive. In 1844, after the death of his wife, he was married to Mrs. Katharine Parr. In 1855, after the death of his second wife, he was married to Miss Nancy J. Melick, sister of Alexander Melick, of Madison township. His children are: Louisa, wife of N. H. Crouch, of Newark; Minta S., wife of H. F. Winders, Findlay, Ohio; J. Manly Wiseman, married to Caroline Baker, sister of Andrew Baker, and Katharine, wife of Charles Kelsey, post office Salem; one son aud three daughters. His son, Theodore, went into the Seventeenth Ohio Volunteer Jnfantry at the beginning of the war, lost his health, and died at the age of twenty-three. Joseph G. Wiseman became Associate Justice on the Common Pleas bench of Perry county and served six years. He was a Filmore elector in 1856, aud a Bell elector in 1860, and served six years as Justice of the Peace. He supported the war policy of Lincoln and has since voted with the Republicans. He has acquired a handsome estate by plodding industry and honest labor, enjoys a pleasant home, and the respect of his neighbors, and except Elijah Kemper and Jonas Groves, has voted longer in Thorn township than any other man. He always was a great reader and patronized literature.

Worr, Lewis, Superintendent of the German miners at Buckingham,'Ohio; was born April 22, 1840, in Knox township, Columbiana county, Ohio; sonof Henry and Margaret (Stoffer) Wolf. Was brought up on a farm where he remained until twenty-one, when he engaged in mining iron ore, at which he worked about five years. He then superintended the mining of iron ore and coal, and prospecting for iron ore and coal until 1877, when he came to Moxahala, and in the spring of 1880 came to his present residence. Mr. Wolf was married in the spring of 1861 to Miss Emma, daughter of William McLaugblin, of Georgetown, Columbiana county, Ohio. They are the parents of seven children, viz.: Luander, William, Emerson, Charles, George, Leora and Gertrude. Mr. Wolf has devoted the greater part of his life to mining and prospecting for iron ore and coal, by which he has acquired a very useful experience.

Wo tr, GEORGE, Jr., dealer in hides, fur, sheep pelts, at Junction City, Ohio; son of William D., and Susans (Chidester) Wolf. Was born March 10, 1842, in Ewing, Hocking county, Ohio. He stayed on the farm till the age of nineteen, after which he went to the saddler trade and served three years apprenticeship ; then worked as journeyman for a few years, a part of the time running a shop of his own. He started a saddle and harness shop in Junction City in 1871, which he carried on until1879 ; since that time has been engaged in his present business, dealing in wool in the summer season. Mr. Wolf was married in January of 1871. to Cathuine. daughter of John and Chrisuna Fil- ) ing. They are the parents of one child. Lizzie Idela. Spent one winter with the Osage Indians. being at that ume connected with a trading - post. be

Woop, J. E., shoemaker. post office. Moxahala, Pleasant township ; born in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania. Jett home when eleven years old. went to Pittsburgh, obtained work on the boat ** Metropolis" for five years: then learned the shoemaker trade at Pittsburgh; then went to New Orleans: from there to Galveston, Charleston, Augusta, Nashville ; then worked in several towns in Kentucky. "Then he went back to New Orleans and through the southwest. Mexico, Texas, and the Indian Territory ; lived with the Comanche Indians a while: rescued a white child from the Comanches. brought it east. and his mother raised it. He enlisted in 1561 in the Eighteenth U.S. Infantry : was_ captured at the first Fredericksburg fight, remained a prisoner on- Bell Island four months; he was then exchanged, returned to Camp _ Chase and did guard duty for eight months, and was then sent forward again and joined his regiment. Je was in the battles of Slaughter Pen, Spotisylvania, and Cold Harbor: was wounded there and taken - to City Point Hospital: was then transferred to Emery Hlospitel: then | to Little York, and then discharged. Since then he has made his | home in Clayton township.

Woopvcock. Join W., Sr., of the firm of Woodcock, son & Co., | New Lexington, Ohio: was born' July 16, 1815, in Licking Creek, Bedford county, Pennsylvania: son of Bancroft and Elizabeth (Giles) Woodcock. John Giles, grandfather of Mr. Woodcock, joined the British Navy when eleven vears ot age. and served eleven years. He was in the engagement between the Rodney and De Grace, and received a wound in the leg by a spike which he pulled from the wound with his teeth. At the age of sixteen years John W. went into his father's foundry. The first cupola west of the Allegheny Mountains was put up by him. The blast was produced by a large bellows, worked by horse power. In 1838 the father and son, moved to Wheeling. West Virginia. and continued business there until 1849. From there John W.came to Brownsville, Licking county. Ohio, where he conducted the foundry business until 1873. when he came to this place. Mr. Wood- ' cock made the first coke at Mt. Pleasant. Pennsylvania. produced west of the Allegheny Mountains. Bancroft Woodcock was the patentee of the celebrated ** Self sharpner " piow. This plow came into use in 1832, and has continued to be used to the present time. Samuel J.. the youngest of John W.'s family, is the inventor of the mill manufactured, by the Woodcock firm in this place. This is believed to be the best feed grinding mill now in use. Mr. John W. W codcock, the subject ot this sketch, was married March 4. 1541, to Miss Mary Elizabeth. daughter of George and Jane (Miller) Abel, of Belmont county, Ohio. They are the parents of the following children, viz. : Jane Elizabeth. George B., John C., Irene E., Hattie, deceased, and Samuel J.

Woopwarp. Rosert Bruce, M. D., was born March 4. 1839, in Newton township, Muskingum county. Ohio: son ot David Woodward, a highly respectable farmer, who was a native ol Bradtord township, Chester county, Pennsylvania. His mother's maiden name was Susan

592 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. German, a native of Hopewell township, Muskingum county, Ohio. Of six sons, only Samuel D. and John T. Woodward survive. Two daughters, Elizabeth, wife of Timothy Bowden, and Isabel, wife of Lovd F. Croft, are living. Evans, Harrison and Amos, brothers of~Dr. R. B. Woodward, are deceased. October 14, 1869, the doctor was married to Miss Ella, daughter of the late venerable James Combs, of Reading township, Perry county, Ohio. The children by this marriage are: Robert Edmund, Charles D., and an infant daughter, Adelle. Dr. Woodward, when yet in his minority, devoted himself to books, using all his spare time from work upon the farm, in acquiring knowledge ; became a teacher in the common schools of his native county ; read medicine with Dr. Cushing, and afterwards with Dr. Beckwith, both of Zanesville, Ohio. Graduated February 14, 1867, at Cleveland Medical College, at the head of his class of twenty-eight, in anatomy and materia medica; practiced some time in Zanesville, and March 25, 1869, located in Somerset, where he devoted himself with assiduity to his chosen profession. He soon rose in public esteem, not only as a valuable physician, but as an exemplary citizen. He was three times elected Mayor of Somerset, and to his faithful service the town owes its first delivery from the machinations of rowdyism and disorder. He volunteered in Company G, One Hundred and Ninety-sixth Regiment, O. V. I., and served to the end of the War of the Rebellion, being honorably discharged September, 1865. Was Representative to the Grand Lodge of Ohio, I. O. O. F., two sessions. His industry, devotion to his profession, and his scrupulous attention to every duty assigned to his charge, has won for him golden honors, and such a share of public confidence as seldom falls to a man of his age. fis practice of medicine has become so extensive as to make large drafts on time, both day and night, and its burdens are so great that none but an iron constitution and an unflagging energy could equal the demands upon his professional service.

WorstTaL_, Tuomas D., cigar manufacturer and tobacconist, New Lexington, Ohio; born June 28, 1859, in Putnam, Ohio; son of Dudley R. and Anne Lucy (Berkshire) Worstall. Young Worstall learned his trade with his father, who has been engaged in the same business for about thirty years. Thomas D. established business in this place in 1881, and is building up an active trade.

Wricut, Jackson, farmer, Pike township; post office, New Lexington, Ohio; was born February 2, 1826, in this township, aud on the farm where he now lives; son of Thomas and Margaret (Ankney) Wright. Mr. Wright was brought up on a farm, and has followed agricultural pursuits up to this time. He lived with his father until he was twenty-four years of age, when he was married December 26, 1850, to Rebecca Groves, born August 16, 1830, in Reading township, this county; daughter of Lewis and Ellen (Huston) Groves. They are the parents of six living children, viz.: Burrel B, James Horace, Lewis Alexander, Maggie Caroline, Mary Ellen, Thomas A., and one deceased, William Jackson. Soon after this marriage, he moved into the old homestead, where his father had bought one hundred and sixty acres of land, and lived there for five years, when he moved into the new frame dwelling by which his father had supplanted the log cabin of yore in

1843, where he still lives. Mr. Wright's father came from Somerset county, Pennsylvania, to Ohio in 1812, moving by a four-horse wagon, It rained upon him every day but one while upon his journey. In 1813 he bought one hundred and sixty acres of land, and soon after that purchase, entered three hundred and twenty acres; and as opportunity afforded and fortune blessed him, he bought two farms of one hundred and sixty acres each, near New Lexington; one of one hundred and sixty acres, lying just west of the land he had entered ; and one of one hundred and sixty acres, where Patrick Sherlock now lives ; owning all of this land at one time. He lived to see his eighty-first year, and died July 1, 1865. His wife survived him, living until March 30, 1881, and was in her ninety-second year at the time of her death. Mr. Wright, the subject of this sketch, became the support of his parents in their dedling years, and from the time he moved into his present dwelling until they died, he cared for them. His father gave -him one hundred and seventy-one acres of the home farm, to which he afterward added eighty acres, buying forty acres from his brother-in-law, William Storts, and forty acres of his brother, Calvin; also eight acres off of what is now the James McDonald farm; and at his father's death he received seventy-eight acres by will. He has since sold thirty-one acres to Burrel, forty-seven acres to James, and forty acres to Lewis, his sons, and yet owns two hundred and nineteen acres. Mr. Wright has served several terms as township trustee, and is a prosperous farmer.

Yaka, Mrs. Marcaret, Pike township; post oflice, New Lexington, Ohio; was born December 21, 1816, in Mansfield, Ohio; daughter of Samuel and Drusilla (Creig) Croskrey. At the time of Mrs. Yaka's birth there were but few cabins im Mansfield. She was married to Henry, son of Mark and Elizabeth (Davidson) Yaka, of Loudon county, Virginia, October 23, 1842. They are the parents of five children, viz.: Mary E., Samuel, Wm. B., Catharine, and John Ifenry. They also adopted a child, Sarah J. Twoand the adopted child - Mary E. and William B., are now living. Mrs. Yaka has lived a farmer's wife since her marriage, and now lives near New Lexington in her own house. Her grandfather Croskrey came to this State in an early day, and entered four quarter sections of Jand, that is now the present site of Mansfield city, and her father built the first house in that city ; but on account of her mother's health, he moved from that place, and finally settled in Perry county, O., where he lived until his death. Mr. Henry Yaka, husband of the subject of this sketch, died June 11, 1880.

YARGER, JAcoB, SR., farmer, Clayton township, Perry county ; post office, New Lexingtén ; born in Huntington county, Pennsylvania, in 103; came to this county with his father in i811; son of John and Elizabeth (Auker) Yarger; the former died about the year 1853, the latter about the year 1823. Mr. Yarger was married in 1828, to Miss Susan Keister, daughter of John and Mary M. (Hunts) Keister. They are the parents of eleven children, viz. : John, deceased ; David, Jacob, Peter. Daniel, Elizabeth, deceased ; Samuel, Adam, Henry, Mary, Joshua, are aii deceased. '

YARGER, JACOB, JR, farmer, Clayton township, Perry county ; post office, New Lexington: son of Jacob and Susannah (Keister) Yarger. The latter died in 1864. Grandson of Johnand Elizabeth (Auker) Yar-

Yarcer, Davin, farmer; post office, New Lexington, Perry county ; born in this county in 1829; son of Jacob and Susannah (Keister) Yarger; grandson of John and Elizabeth (Auker) Yarger. The latter died in 1864. Mr. Yarger has been twice married; first, in 1857, to Miss Sophia Kokensparger. This union was blessed with seven children, viz.: William H., Frederick D., Sarah A., Samuel, Noah E., John, Charles. Mr. Yarger was married again in 1871, to Miss Mary Barker, daughter of William Barker. They have one child, viz.: Allie.

Younker, Joun L., blacksmith, Maxville, Ohio; born in the Kingdom of Wurtemberg, Germany, November 16, 1838; son of Leonard and Christina (Wittman) Younker. His father was very desirous that his son should become master of the sciences, and in early boyhood he attended school at Limbach, Germany ; and at the age of 14 years entered Temple Hof Academy in the same kingdom, and made such progress, that at eighteen years of age, he was permitted to enter the famous Erlangen University, in the Kingdom of Bavaria. Ue had only remained here two years, when the death of his parents threw him upon his own resources, and he was compelled to give up his college life, and at once emigrated to America, landing in New York City, September 21, 1858, and at once went to Circleville, Pickaway county, Ohio, and apprenticed himself to the machinist trade, and continued to apply himself at this trade for about eighteen months, when he also began to work at the blacksmith trade. On the 31st day of March, 1862, he enlisted in Company A, Twelfth Regiment, United States Infantry, serving as corporal, and participated in all the battles of the Army of the Potomac, until he was taken prisoner at Coal Harbor, Virginia, June 11, 1863. He was at once taken to Richmond, and from there to Andersonville, Georgia, where he endured all the tortures and sufferings of that infernal rebel prison ; was taken from Andersonville to Florence, thence to Charleston, South Carolina, where he was paroled December 11, 1864, having been a prisoner exactly eighteen months. After being paroled, he returned to Annapolis, Maryland, and rejoined the army, and served until the expiration of his term of enlistment as hospital steward. He was honorably discharged from the army at Fort Hamilton, New York Harbor, March 31, 1865, and immediately returned to his home in Circleville, Ohio, and resumed the trade of blacksmithing, which employment he has ever since followed. In the autumn of 1877, he rernoved to Webb Summit, Hocking county, and remained three years, removing to Maxville, Perry county, Ohio, in 1880, where he has ever since resided. In the spring of 1881 he was elected Justice of the Peace, which olfice he still continues to hold. Was married in Circleville, Ohio, December 9, 1860, to Loisa, daughter of George and Phoebe Schlicher, of Perry county, Ohio, to whom were born six children, viz.: Frank, Mary, Emma, Rose, Maggie and Philip M.; the oldest, Frank, died in infancy. Mr. Younker is considered one of the best read men of the township in which he resides, and is a first-class mechanic and a good citizen.