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

Younxin, FE. P., Pleasant township, Moxahala, carpenter, born September, 1842, in Bearfield township; son of John and Margaret (Trout) Younkin, both natives of Pennsylvania. His father came to this State in 1818, entered a farm in Beartield township and became one of the wealthiest farmers in that township. [le was in the War of 1812, and died July 12, 1881, aged go years. When the subject of this sketch grew up to manhood he went to Illinois, remained there nineteen months and the rest of the three years he spent in the west he lived in lowa; he then returned to Perry where he remained one year, then came back to Moxahala, where he still resides. June 7, 1873, he married Miss Agnes McCall, daughter of Matthew and Levina (Gaddis) McCall, of Morgan county, and of Scotch descent.

Yost, A. R., dealer in general hardware and agricultural implements, Somerset. He was born in 1839, in this county. Vis father, Isaac Yost, was born in 1807 in Mifflin county, Pennsylvania. | They came to this county in 1808, settling in Reading township. John, grandfather of A. R. Yost, died in 1854; his grandmother, in 1859. ~ They were the parents ofseven children. The father of the subject of this sketch was the oldest. He was married in 1834-to Miss Elizabeth Pherson, ot Clayton township. She was born in 1815. Ile removed to Clayton township in 1834 and lived there until his death, May roth, 1881. His wife diedin 1874. They were the parents of eight children. A. R. Yost is the third. | He was married in 1864, to Miss Olivia Leiter, of Stark county. She was born in 1841 in Mansfield, Richland county. 'They are the parents of three children, Charlie, Mary and Laura. In 1869 he came from the farm and engaged in the dry goods line with his brother Albert. Went outof that in 1876. © Began the hardware business in 1878, buying an entire new stock. He is, also, the patentee of an axle oiler.

ZARTMAN, WiLLiAM F., was born in 1845, 0n the ancient homestead of Peter Zartman, his grandfather, and of Peter, his father, section 24, Thorn. The mother of William F. Zartman was, in her maidenhood, named Sarah Binckley, daughter of Jacob, who now lives with her, Ti ninety-three years, and a grand-daughter of Christian Binckley.

is three sons, who came with him from Pennsylvania the same year, were John, Adam and Henry, all dead and all among the early pioneers. 'The grandmother's maiden name was Elizabeth Reid The great ancestor, Mr. Peter Zartman, must have come into Thorn township in 1805, or thereabout. He was prosperous, and gave homes to his six sons, Samuel, Solomon, David, Franklin, Washington and Jackson, who all moved to Miami county, Indiana, and to his three daughters, Sally, wife of David Mohler; Polly, wife of John Shroyer, Palmetto, Kansas, and Mary Ann, wife of A. Springer, Neptune, Ohio. Peter Zartman, the father of William F., is the only son, and Mrs. Mohler the only caughter that remained in Perry county, of this large and influential family, and Peter died in 1882, at an advanced age, leaving but one child behind him as his survivor. The only brother of William F., was Levi Franklin, who joined the Seventeenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and gave up his life in the service of his country. The religion is Lutheran. William Francis Zartman was married in 1864, to Te Clara, daughter of Valentine Weirick, the name being of English extraction, while that of Zartman is German. The surviving children of this marriage are Elmer, Lizzie and Elsie. 'The first born,

CartTER, CHARLES, merchant, Kendville, Ohio; was born November 10, 1852, in Pleasant township, Perry county, Ohio; son of Charles and Rachel (Tharp) Carter. Mr. Carter was brought up on a farm and followed agricultural pursuits until he was twenty years of age, at which time he went to school; attending the New Lexington high school one year; one summer at Granville, Ohio, and one summer at Lebanon, Ohio, graduating in a business course at the latter place. During the years he was attending school, he taught in the winter season and for five years afterward followed teaching. In March of 1881, he opened a store of general merchandise, in partnership with Charles Herring, at Rendville, Ohio, which partnership only continued about one month under the firm name of Carter & Herring, when Herring sold out to Frank N. Turner, and the firm of Carter & Turner was established, and has continued up to this time, meeting with good success. Mr. Carter was married September 22, 1876, to Miss Mary, daughter of James and Sarah (Horner) Wigton. They are the parents of two children, viz.: James and Sarah.

Hammonp, WivviaM, farmer, Pike township, New Lexington, O. ; was born February 15, 1843, in Clayton township, Perry county, Ohio ; son of Nicholas and Susan (Davidson) Hammond. Mr. Hammond was raised a farmer, and has made agricultural pursuits, together with fine sheep breeding of the Merino stock, his business up to this time. The mines of the Nuget Coal Company are excavations of his farm. He was married October 15, 1872, to Margaret, daughter of Thomas and Julia (Wright) Selby.

Kuirstine, Parip, farmer, Corning, Ohio ; was born on the 12th day of August, 1820, in Greene county, Pennsylvania ; son of William Klipstine and Nancy (Sherman). Was raised on a farm; lived in Tyler county,Va., and when 22 years of age came to Monroe township.

[Since Mr. Colborn's history was printed, reliable information develops the faci that the first settlement in the county was as early as 1801, instead of 1805, as he has given it; also, that the first Lutheran Church at Overmyertown, now New Reading (a log building), was erected in 1805, which was, no doubt, the first public house of worship in what is now Perry county. | - Tur Purrisurr.

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