Perry County, Ohio - Biographical sketches, 1883 (part 8 of 11)

Pye, Joun, Pleasant township, Rendville post office, was born in Chester county, Pennsylvania, October 3oth, 1815; son of John and Elizabeth (Davis) Pyle. His paternal ancestors were English and _ his maternal ancestors were Welsh, and his parents were both natives of this country. His family came to Muskingum county in 1817. The subject of this sketch came to this county in the year 1849 and _ settled in Pike township, then moved on a farm south of Oakfield, and then, lastly, moved on the farm where he now resides. August gth, 1840, he was married to Miss Nancy A. Tipton, who is of English and Welsh descent. They are the parents of the following named children: Susan, married to Calvin Latta February 22, 1866, and resides in Morgan county ; Nancy, died when three years old; Tipton, died in infancy ; James W., married to Nancy J. Shrigly, who is deceased, and he afterward married Callie Zinsmaster and resides in Zanesville ; Mary E.; Sarah A., died when eleven years old; William A., died when fifteen; Emma E.

PyLe, Grorce W., Pleasant township, Moxahala post oflice ; merchant, of the firm of Shepperd & Pyle, who do a general dry goods and grocery business at Moxahala. He also owns a farm of one hundred and twenty-three acres in the same township. He and Mr. Shepperd are also proprietors of a store in Rendville. The subject of this sketch was born in Muskingum county in 1828, and his parents are both natives of Pennsylvania. He came to this county in 1854, and located on a farm in Pike township, near Whippstown, and followed plastering until within a few years. In 1852 he married Eliza A. Lehen, and they are the parents of the following named children: Edwin W., born December, 1857, and married Adaline McCarty, of this township, who reside on his father's farm; Samuel, married Etty Tolbert, of this township; and Carrie. Mr. Pyle enlisted in the r6oth O. V. I., and was in the service one hundred and twenty days.

Ramso, WiLiiAM, blacksmith ; Pike township, post office, New Lexington, Ohio, was born January 8, 1812, in Muskingum county, Ohio. Is a son of George and Mary (Fist) Rambo, formerly of Pennsylvania. Mr. Rambo went to the trade of blacksmithing with William Calvin, of his native county, in 1825, serving an apprenticeship of five years, and has made this the business of his life up to the present time. He went as a soldier in the late war and was engaged in the battles of Bull Run, South Mountain Gap, and Antictem, participating also in several hard marches, which so disabled him that he was digcharged and returned home, January 29, 1863, having served from January 2, 1861. The Crooks of Zanesville, some of the first settlers, were near relatives of Mrs. Rambo. Mr. Rambo was united in matrimony to Lovenia, daughter of Samuel and _ [Isabelle (Neal) Patterson, of Virginia, March 8, 1832. They are the parents of six living children, viz.: Austin, Josiah, Elizabeth, Martha, Emma and Amanda, and three deceased, George Nelson, Mary Edmonday and Belinda. Mr. Rambo's grandchild, William Rambo, was raised by them, and is now about eighteen years old.

RANDOLPH, IsatAn, deceased; born in Pennsylvania in 1812. Married in 1850 to Miss Maria Ankrom, daughter of John and Nancy (Rinehart) Ankrom. They were the parents of five children, viz. : Angeline, Creighton, Everett, Lizzie N. and Albert, three of whom are married. 'The subject of this sketch died in 1878. lis widow still lives on the home farm, enjoying the fruits of his early industry. Her son Everett was married in 1878 to Miss Susie Clayton. They have two children.

Ranpotreu, PAuL, was born 1827, in Clayton township. Tis father, John Randolph, came from Cumberland county, Pennsylvania. Ie was a carpenter by trade. Paul is a farmer, stock raiser and carries on coal mining. He was married in 1850 to Mary Barker, daughter of Samuel Barker. His sons, Thomas T. and Perry D., Lyman Jackson, Edwin M., Frank M. and Samuel C., are all single and Jiving at home. His daughters, Eliza J. and Rosa B., also are single and reside at home. Paul began life poor ; bought twenty-five acres of land, paid for it, and by farming, teaming, threshing, stock raising and coal mining, has now four hundred and ten acres of land, city and other property. Lis example is that which may be held up for the emulation of the rising generation. His property is clear of mortgages ; he never sued butonce, for a horse that did not fill the bill, but no trial was had, Paul considering it better to pay than to litigate. He is a Methodist in religion and a Republican in politics. He thinks the credit business, except on land purchases, to be a curse rather than a blessing.

Ranvouren, L. H., merchant; Clayton township, post office, Rehoboth; - born inthis county in 1848, son of William and Anna (McEIhany) Randolph, grandson of Joseph and Hlizabeth (North) Randolph. Married in 1873 to Miss M. E. Teal, daughter of Ephriam and Elizabeth (Brown) Teal. They have one child, Minnie D.

Rarick, Simon, was born 1838, in Perry county, Ohio; was reared and bred and still remains a farmer; the son'ot Peter Rarick, late 'of Thorn township. His mother's maiden name was Lydia Weimer, sister of John, a former auditor of Perry county. His grandfather was also Peter Rarick, who was among the earliest and bravest. of the pioneers. Peter, the father of Simon, died in 1880, in his _seventyeighth year, and his mother, many years prior to that date. 'The brothersof Simon are John and Peter, Thornville post oflice, and his sister is Elizabeth, wife of John C. King, whose dwelling is at Glenford

Station. In October, 1863, Simon Rarick became the husband of Miss Eliza, daughter of Samuel and sister of Bernard Mechling, and soon moved to the delightful home they now occupy, overlooking the valley near Glenford, comprising a commodious dwelling, one hundred acres of land and other improvements. 'To this has since been added one hundred and forty-five acres in section twenty-one, Hopewell. He and his wife are Lutheran in religion, both disposed to dispense the most kindly hospitality at their home, and they are blessed with two sons, Murray and Maurice, who are drilled at home in the German language. They are both descendants of old-time, pioneer families, and ambitious to sustain the honorable record of those families achieved in the past.

RaysouLp, SAMUEL, butcher, New Straitsvslle, Ohio; was born August 30, 1849, in Upper Gornal, Staffordshire, England, son of William and Hannah (Frier) Raybold. When Samuel was five years of age his father moved to Lower Gornal, where they remained until he was fourteen years of age, when they moved to Lye Waste, Worcestershire, where his folks still live. After remaining at Lye Waste about four years, Samuel went to Spinnemore, county of Durham, where he remained about one year, when he returned home and _ stayed about eighteen months, when he emigrated to America, setting sail at Liverpool, and landing in New York, August, 1869, from where he went to Bartley, Bradford county, Pennsylvania, and traveled as follows: going to Stoneborough, Pennsylvania, Irish Town, Pennsylvania, remaining only a short time at each of the above named places, engaged in mining. Krom here he went to St. Louis, Missouri, Murphysboro, Illinois, and returned to Stoneborough, Pennsylvania, to see his father, who came to America to visit his sons. From there he went to Nelsonville, Athens county, Ohio, where he bought an interest in a coal mine, remained one year, sold out, and went to Logan, Ohio, where he was married August 19, 1872, to Miss Anna Siddle, born 1849 in Willington, county of Durham, England. They are the parents of four children, | viz.: Samuel, deceased, Emma, Nettie, deceased, and Nettie, now living. After his marriage he came direct to this place, where he built himself a house and lived until 1874, the time of the great miners' strike, when he, leaving his family here, went to Charleston, West Virginia, returned here and went to Brazil, Indiana, and again to St. Louis, Missouri, where his family joined him, and where he remained as foreman of acoal yard for C. Rinecke, at 1700 Clark avenue, for some four years, after which he was foreman of the St. Louis Water Works one year, when he returned to this place and engaged in butchering for about three years. He isnow proprietor of the I. O. O. F. opera house, this city.

Ream, Tostas, born 1800, in the county of Somerset, Pennsylvania ; sonof Christian Ream, who came to Perry county in 1803, and whose wife was Margaret Glessner. His children were John, Jacob, Christian, Solomon, Henry, Tobias and one daughter, Margaret, deceased, who was the wife of Jabez Skinner. They were the parents of John O. Skinner, the famous sign and ornamental painter. Tobias married Mary M. Lidey, sister of the General John Lidey, of Perry. They purchased the ancient homestead, and this famous place is now the property of ve Cramer. Her brothers, the uncles of Mrs. Ream, were George and Daniel Cramer, and their sisters were Elizabeth Rush, Rachel Arnold and Mary Cramer. The name of Ream is linked to the early struggles of the new settlement, and that of Lidey is not only thus linked, also, but is found among the framers of the present Constitution of Ohio.

REAM, S. K., born in 1827, the youngest son of Samuel, Sr., and wife, whose maiden name was Rachel King. This estimable woman was a sister of the late Judge Thomas King, first Representative of Perry county in the Ohio Legislature, the father of no children; but froma Miss Skinner, who was one of his adopted children, itis recorded that he and his motherly wife, reared, educated and sent out into the world eleven orphans, each of whom got a share of the King estate. or was assisted in life's start by the venerable Thomas King and his wife. These two childless, Old School Baptist Christians were of the genuine nobility. The father of S. K. Ream came to Ohio as a prospector, as early as 1801. Two brothers, uncles of S. K. Ream, whose names appear to the church organization papers of Zion Church, in Thorn township, in 1805, died there, but no descendant of either now lives in Perry county, save one daughter, the wife of Philip Crist. Toby Ream and his family are in some way connected with Samuel Ream, 5r., but exactly how is notknown. 'The Reams of Fairfield, George, and_ his sons, Daniel and Abraham, were also distantly connected. As early as 1807 or 1808, Samuel Ream pursued a trail, on horse back, to Marietta, Ohio, solely to introduce into Perry county the first grafted apples and peaches. This happened nine or ten years before Perry county was erected, and eighteen or nineteen years prior to the birth of 5S. K. Ream, who inherited the homestead in Madison township, where all the latter's children were born, where both his parents died, and where the associations of youth and the memories of after life, up to 1882, are left to linger in the memories of the past. Mr. 5. K. Ream had beautified his birthplace with elegant buildings, while his wife had added the attractions of flowers and evergreens, only secondary toa home, where her own presence was the chief delight of its inmates. By death and will of his brother, David Ream, who died childless, the not less attractive adjoining homestead on the pike, became the property of S. K. Ream, but to the faithful female servants, whose hands had kindly smoothed his tottering steps to the brink of the grave, * Uncle Davy," 'as every body delighted to call him, left a handsome allowance, and thus, in his last acts, vindicated a life time of honorable deeds. David Ream was a Baptist in belief, sincere and unassuming in his demeanor ; 'a Whig and a Republican in politics, and the most conclusive proof of his popularity consists in the fact that he was elected County Commissioner on the Republican ticket, in a county then largely Democratic. The office sought him; he never sought any office. 'The other brothers of S. K. Ream, besides David, were William Ream, late of this coun- 'ty,-a stock dealer and farmer of distinguished success, and enviable prominence as a citizen, and whose sons are still citizens of Perry coun- ty; and Andrew, the oldest, deceased long since, and Jamented by all, not only. because of his beneficent nature, but because the sel{-controlling forces of that nature were not at all times equal to the temptations thrown against it by his business as a distiller of liquors. The wife of S. K. Ream was Miss Maria Richey, daughter of the Hon. Thomas Richey, late of this county. The children of S. K. gud Maria Ream, are Edward, a hardware merchant, Somerset, Ohio; Paul, a grocer, and Miss Maria and Robert, who, with Paul, reside with their parents in Van Wert, Ohio, since the spring of 1882. The Northwestern part of Ohio, included within the valley of the Great Maumee, presented to the mind of Mr. Ream attractions for capital so superior, as to induce him to add to the proceeds of the sale of his delightful homestead, in Perry county, the large capital theretofore possessed, and move to Van Wert, Ohio, leaving the farm, obtained from his brother David, by will, in the hands ofa careful tenant, andthe mansion, in part, to the servants of his brother, where they enjoy the favor of the grateful legatee, as they formerly enjoyed that of the benevolent and just testator, who, by virtue of militia commission, was known as Colonel David Ream. 'The neatness of the grounds fronting his dwelling, and the general good order of his farm, characteristic of the Ream family, evinced the thrift, the cultivated taste and industry for which his brothers are also distinguished ; - traits also, which have descended to' their sons.

Ream, Davin, Jr., farmer; born December 31, 1827; son of William and Eliza (McClure) Ream and is of German-Scotch and Irish extraction; a grandson of Samuel Ream. In 1851, April 8th, he was married to Miss Cass Ann, daughter of the late William Williams and his wife, whose maiden name was Mary Wright. David became a member of the Methodist Episcopal church at the age of fourteen, under the administration of Rev. E. Muchner and Rev. Joseph Carper, and to this day maintains his connection with the same church. From him is obtained the very interesting particulars relating to the organization of Zion Church. His taxes have grown from $17 up to an average of $250 per annum. The children of this marriage, are Albert, husband of Sarah, the daughter of James Wilson, post office, Somerset, Ohio ; Wil-. liam W., husband of Miss Mary Guy, daughter of Luther Guy, post office, Sego; Ida, wife of Joseph Hough, post office, Fultonham, Ohio ; Miss Emma C., "Thomas Wright, Maggie Rachel, and David. Those deceased are Harriet and Clara, each less than a year old at death ; Mary and Nora in their fifth year, and Emma C., who was fourteen, and who, prior to her sickness, had became a dutiful member of the Methodist Episcopal church. Though the mother of twelve children, and grief stricken by the death of five of them. Mrs. Ream preserves that peerless glow of health and native cheerfulness which survives earthly sorrow, and clings with the freshness of youth to the consolations of time and the hopes beyond. David Keam, though a Methodist in belief, entertains a sentiment of charity which embraces those of other creeds, and exhibits a hospitality which welcomes them to his home, -and to his benefactions.

was Eliza McClure. Her children were David, Samuel, William M. and John Ream. Samuel was married in 1859, to Miss Sarah E.., daughter of the late Judge William M. Brown, of Perry county, and grand-daughter of Thomas McNaughten, of Fairfield county. She died in 1881, in Somerset, Ohio. leaving two sons, Owen B. and Duke S. Ream. She was a lady universally esteemed, and inherited all the amiable qualities of her honored ancestry. Tler husband, Samuel Ream, began lite for himselfin 1855, on a capital of $3,500. He ranks amony the most successful business men of his county, and is sipposed to be worth, in real estate and personal property, not far from $190,000. He deals in cattle, lands, stocks and mineral 'deposits, carries on the famous mills at Somerset, in connection with Noah Karr, late Treasurer of the county, and has built one of the very finest residences in Somerset, famous alike for its beauty, its architectural taste and its comfort. Reese, Tomas P., collier, Shawnee, Obio, was born August 12, 1830, in Pembrakeshire, South Wales, son of Peter and Dana (Williams) Reese. When he was ten years of age he was employed on the public works at Myrtha Tydvil. Glamorganshire, where he was engaged until 1863, and in August 22, set sail from Liverpool for New York, landing after forty-five days' sailing. After reaching New York he started for Pomeroy, Ohio, going via Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Wheeling, Virginia, and upon reaching Parkersburg, Virginia, he was obliged to remain nine days, on account of the river not being navigable. At this time he purchased an old boat and boated his way down the river to his place of destination, reaching it in October, where he remained until August 24, 1871. engaged in mining, and has been engaged at the following places: From Pomeroy, Ohio, to Syracuse, Ohio, remaining until November, 18, 1874; at Zaleski. Vinton county, Ohio, about two years and nine months, when he moved to Shawnee, where he now lives and is engaged as a miner at the Shawnee Valley mine. Was married December 31, 1853. to Miss Elizabeth, daughter of Samuel and Mary Lewis, 6f Monmouthshire, England. They are the parents of seven living children, viz. : Mary Ann, Thomas, David, John, Sarah, Willie and Ellen, and four children deceased, viz.: William, William, Elizabeth and one died in infancy. Mr. Reese owns his own property, a neat frame dwelling, where he now lives.

Reese, Rocer G., overman and time keeper at New York Furnace, Shawnee, Ohio; was born March 30, 1850, in Gwaencaegurwen, Glamorganshire Wales, son of David and Mary (Reese) Reese. Was raised a collier, beginning at the age of twelve years, and followed it until October, 1876. Mr. Reese came to this country in 1869, leaving Liverpool January 13, and landing in New York January 31, trom whence he went to Minersville, Meigs county, Ohio, engaging as a miner, with V. B. Horton, until August, 1872, when he came to Shawnee, where he mined with the Newark Coal and Iron Company up to October, 1876, when he became weighmaster for that company, holding that position until September, 1878, and then took charge of the burning of iron ore for the New York and Straitsville Coal and Tron Company, and soon after assumed his present duties, having charge of | all the laboring men, keeping their time, ete. Mr. Reese is a'Royal

Rez, Purp, of the firm of Rei & Rickett, undertakers, Rendville. Ohio, was born December 22, 1842, in Columbiana county, Ohio, son of Joseph aud Ann (Rehart) Rei. Mr. Rei was brought up ona farm, and volunteered in May, 1861, in the 17th Ohio Regiment: after serving three months he ré-enlisted in the gth Ohio Calvary and served three years. He was engaged in the battles of Knoxville, Decatur, Atlanta, followed John Morgan through Kentucky and was with General Sherman on his march to the sea. Mr. Rei was married October 4th, 1872, to Cecelia Bennett, daughter of George and Ann Bennett, of Bearfield township, Perry county, Ohio. They are the parents of six children, namely: Annie M., George, Ella, Joseph F., Lizzie and Thomas R. Mr. Rei efficiently fills the office of trustee of Monroe township at this me, and has held the same office a number of terms.

REraxiic, JAMes D., of the firm of Cochran & Retallic, attorneysat-law, New Lexington, Ohio, was born March 17, 1851, in Pike township; son of Francis and Catharine (Fealty) Retallic. At the age of seventeen he went to the stone cutting trade which he followed until he was twenty-three, when he began reading law with Colonel Lyman J. Jackson, of this place, and was admitted to practice August 16, 1876. Mr. Retallic was married October 31, 1876, to Miss Maggie A.. daughter of Timothy and Mary Laven. They are the parents of one child. Mary K.

Raicuarps, WILLIAM, mine boss, Shawnee, Ohio: was born March 22, 1836, in Rasay, Brecknockshire. Wales; son of David and Sarah (Prosser) Richards. Mr. Richards was raised in Rasay, and remained in that place until 1852, when he emigrated to America with his father's family, landing in New York, August 4th, from where they went to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and thence to McKeesport, Pennsylvania, where they lived about five or six years, engaged in mining. From here they went to Johnstown, Pennsylvania, where he remained about two years, and then engaged in business for himself, going to Brookfield, Trumbull county, Ohio, where he remained about five years, mining; and next was employed by D. C. Christy, of Coshocton, Ohio, as clerk in store one year; and then opened what is known as the Miami Coal Mine, for Christy, Spangler & Co., of Coshocton, Ohio, and remained as mine boss with them until 1871, at which time he came to Shawnee, Ohio, where he is engaged as mine boss at the Fannie Furnace mine, which position he has held since the first opening of this mine, except the first year, when it was run by contract, taken by a company of twelve persons, of which he was a member. He has been a resident of Shawnee almost from its beginning. Was married September 4, 1858, to Miss Mary Ann, daughter of David and Catharine Thomas, of McKeesport, Pennsylvania. They are the parents of nine children, viz.: David R., William John, James Alfred, Thomas Edmund, Mamie, Celia, Charlie, Elizabeth, deceased, and Charles Benjamin, deceased. Mr. Richards is Past Grand of the Kincaid Lodge. I.O. O. F., of Shawnee, Ohio. i

16, 1841, in Muskingum county, Ohio, where he was brought up ona farm, until the age of seventeen, when he began the study of medicine with Dr. Reamy, now Professor in Ohio Medical College. He graduated at the Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery, in the spring of 1862, and immediately thereafter began practice at this place. In the fall of the same year, the Doctor was commissioned Assistant Surgeon of the One Hundred and Twenty-sccond Regiment, O. V. I. After serving in this capacity two years, he was commissioned Surgeon of the One Hundred and Twenty-sixth Regiment, O. V. L., and served until the close of the war, when he resumed his practice in this place. Dr. Richards was married November 1, 1866, to Miss Catharine, daughter of Hon. R. E. Huston. His mother's maiden name was Sarah Ann Comly. They are the parents of three children, viz.: Robert Lewis, Clarence Comly, and Hazel Elizabeth.

'Racury, Generan Tuomas, deceased. He was amember of Congress when he secured a cadetship for Phil. Sheridan. 'The General must have lived till after the famous ride of Sheridan, in whose success he was ever most paternally enlisted, calling Sheridan '*my boy," The first news from Cedar Creek was bad, and no one mourned the situation more sincerely than old General Tom. Richey.; but imagine his joy when the next day's news brought tidings of Phil's final victory, having snatched the stars and stripes from the disaster of the onset by a rally of troops already on the retreat, turned defeat into victory, and added a new chapter to the annals of warfare; a chapter which relates what was never done before, the achievement of victory in the evening, with troops defeated, demoralized and in full retreat in the morning of the same day. Richey rejoiced, as if it were his own victory, and a final vindication of the sagacity which sent the son of an humble Irish constituent to achieveit. '* They can't whip that boy of mine," he would exclaim, as he rode with all haste from the post oflice to his rural home, answering his neighbors without halting his panting steed: 'I put Sheridan in the army; Lincoln promotes, and the whole world admires him." The father of General Thomas, was James Richey, who came to Ohio as a settler in 1815. His mother, and the mother.of Gideon, the only brother now left in Perry, was Elizabeth Wilson, sister of Thomas Wilson, who died near West Rushville, and whose father and brothers came to Fairfield county in 1800. Her mother was Tester I*ickle, of Scotch descent. Vhe grandfather of Thomas and Gideon Richey, was also named James, whose brothers were John, Gideon and 'Thomas, all bachelors, and George who was married. The only sister was Jane Richey, who nursed Gideon and Thomas, when children. She died a maid, Therefore, of the five sons of grandfather Richey, who was a native of Ireland, and his Irish wife, only George and James, ever married; and the only daughter, Jane, lives unmarried. It is said, on the authority of Gideon, that James, his father, was born on the day his grandmother landed in Baltimore, about the year 1757, and as near as can be reckoned, grandfather Richey was born in Ireland, 1732, the same year that Washington was born in America. Hence the reader may perceive it was the son of one Irishman that aided the son of another Irishman to a cadetship at West Point. All the Richey family were left in Bedford county, Pennsylvania, when in 1815, James, alone

520 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. came to Madison township, Perry county - then Muskingum - and seltled on the farm which some years before had been selected by 'the mother of General Richey, on her last visit on horseback from Pennsylvania to her father, William Wilson, then in Fairfield, carrying Gidion in her arms. This must have been in 1807, as Gideon was born November 28, 1806. Grandfather William Wilson, gave to each of his nine sons and daughters, one hundred and sixty acres of land; and Rachel, the wife of James Richey, and mother of Thomas and Gideon! Selected her own farm, now occupied by Thomas Williams in Madison township. 'This grandfather, William Wilson, traveled on. foot with his faithful rifle on his shoulder, and his dog by his side, while yrandmother Wilson rode horseback, carrying her infant and spinning wheel from Maryland into Pennsylvania, through dense forests. The children of grandfather, James Richey and his wife, Rachel Wilson, in order of birth, were: Ma. 'y, wife of Nathan Melick; Gen. Thomas Richey, whose wile was Henrietta Clemm ; Elizabeth, wife of Robert Wilson: Jane, wife of Thomas Spencer ; Gideon, whose first wife was Jane A. Spencer, sister of Captain William, by whom he became father of four daughters and one son, James Richey, now of Somerset, and whose second wife is Rachel Croskrey , by w hom there are four daughters and one son, Irank Richey, yet single. Next to Gideon was William Wilson Richey, husband of "Mary Coulson, and who died near Rushville, leaving two sons and three daughters ; Colonel John Richey, a former State Senator of this district, now of Omaha, Nebraska, and husband of Elizabeth Ream, who is the mother of two sons and four daughters, one of whom is the wife of Hon. Mr. Taft... M. C.; next were James Richey and Rebecca, twins - the former now a farmer near Stewartsville, Missouri, the latter, widow of the late and much lamented Martin Berkey ; and abe George Richey, who, when last heard of, was in Colorado. He has but one child living. General Thomas Richey was a farmer, and a man of noordinary mind. Kind, generous and hospitable, he was loved by his friends, and rose to distiietiont as' a military officer in the State militia of his time; was for many years Treasurer of Perry county, and served two terms in the Congress of the United States, being elected the last time in 1852. In 1854, he broke his connection with the Democratic party, and died a supporter of Lincoln's administration. His children were: Mahala, wife of Dr. Andrew McElwee, deceased ; Caroline, wife of John McNutt, deceased ; Louisa, wife of Dr. S. Adan, deceased; Maria, wife of S. K. Ream. of Van Wert, Ohio; Dr. James Richer, of Stewardsville, Missouri ; Henrietta, wife of Mr. Robinson, of Greenfield, Ohio: and Capt ain George Richey, who served in that rank in the war of 1861, and whose post office is Stewardsville, Missouri, whither he removed after the peace of Appomattox. General Richey owed much of his physical and intellectual vigor to his mother, who was a heroine in rural life, ready with a remedy for man or beast in sickness: and Gideon Savsaa Castile soap and vinegar, simmered to oil, was mother's favorite 'poultice for all sores and wounds." Confidence in parents and honesty, were the patrimony of the boys. RicHTEr, CHARLES W., farmer and stock dealer. Monroe township ; post office, Corning, Ohio : was born April 13, 1845, in Monroe township; son of John and Catharine (Cuckerly) Richter. - His father was a native of Maryland, but became one of the pioneers of Ohio. Charles W. was married January 4, 1872, to Elizabeth, daughter of Joseph and Catharine (Smith) Rodgers, of Monroe township.

Ricker, Aner, farmer, who has also worked at some of the mechanical trades ; post oflice, Moxahala, Pleasant township, Perry county, Ohio; was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, in 1820; son of John and Sarah (Clark) Ricket. His father was of German, his mother of Welsh and Irish descent. Began work with a nillywrigeht when fifteen ; remained with him one year, and then worked at house carpentering until nineteen, in Carroll county. At twenty he came to Pleasant township, engaged in teaching school two years, then followed the carpenter trade about seven years, and next worked in a machine shop in Morgan county. Ife moved to Morgan county in 1850; returned and located on the farm where he now resides, but continued to work at his trade until the breaking out of the Rebellion, when he enlisted in the zoth O. V. 1., Company D, and remained in the service three years. He participated in all the bates the regiment was engaged in until he left it. After the war closed he devoted most of his time to the management of his farm. February 24, 1842, he married Harriet Ellison. She was of New England ancestry. She died five months after their marriage. In October, 1843, hie married Rachel Minshel. heir children are Ezra I., married; Sarah F., married; Harriet, died in infancy ; Mary I., married; Emma, Walter S.. married ; Enoch H., Albert, deceased ; Charles W., and Bell.

Rickert, Ezra E., carpenter and undertaker, post oflice, Rendville, Ohio ; was born July 13, 1844, in Oakfield, Perry county, Ohio; son of Abel and Rachel Ricket. Abel Ricket was a native of Washington county, Penn, Ezra FE. was brought up ona farm. August 12, 1862, he enlisted in Company H, goth O. V.J., and was discharged June 23, 1865. He followed the fortunes of General Sherman's army in fifteen eneral engagements, without being seriously wounded. At the battle in front of Kenesaw Mountain he had the skin cut across the back. part of his neck by a ball from a sharp-shooter. On his return from the army he engaged at carpenter work, which he has followed to the present time. Ile established his present business in this place in January, 1881. Mr. Ricket was first married March 15, 1806, to Miss Rachel, daughter of Samuel and Mary (Straight) Green. They became the arents of five children, viz. : Mary Ellen, Annie, Charles C., Samuel T., and Leo Parker. Mr. Ricket's second wife was Ittie, daughter of William and Maria (Tharp) Berry. They are the parents of two children, viz.: Albert D. and Laura Bell.

Rickerrs, DANIEL, minister of the Gospel and farmer, post office, McCuneville, Monday Creek township, Ohio; was born December 28, 1812, in Randolph county, Virginia; son of Ignatius and Maryaret (Poling) Ricketts, both of Maryland. Mr. Ricketts was brought: up on a farm, and has followed agricultural pursuits up to this Gime. Mr. Ricketts came to Ohio with his father in the fall of 1816, who lived, during that winter, near Dresden, Ohio, on Wakatomika Creck. The next spring (1817) they moved to near Bremen, Ohio, where they lived some two years, in both Fairfield and Perry counties. At that time ihey moved to the sixteenth section of Jackson township, Perry county, where Daniel, the subject of this sketch, lived until he was thirty-three years of age, when he moved to the twelfth section of Monday Creek township, where he had bought eighty acres of Jand the previous year, and where he has since lived; he was obliged to labor, the Mahe after his marriage, to get sufficient goods to set up housekeeping. pon coming to this farm there were fifteen acres cleared, the remainder he ceated up himself; and it took him thirteen years to pay a balance of three hupdred dollars he owed on the farm. After this he purchased as follows: 40 acres in this township, first section, for $450, about the year 1850; 120 acres in Saltlick township, for $1,500, in 1852; 60 acres for $700, in 1854; 110 acres for $2,300, in Monday Creek township, about 1858 or 1860; 40 acres for $570; 40 acres for $700: 524 acres in Jackson township, of which he inherited two-fifths and took the three-fifths at the appraised valuation of $1,000; 20 acres for $400, about 1865; 50 acres for $1,000, in 1866; 126 acres for $3,000, about 1867: 159 acres in Hocking county, Ohio, southwest of Logan, for $4,500 cash, in 1875 ; a house and lot in New Straitsville, Ohio, for $500, about the same as cash, and at this time owns 539 acres in all. The most of his land is near and adjoining the first 80 acres that he bought. Considering the mineral wealth, this land is worth $100 per acre. Mr. Ricketts has iven $450 to each of twelve families starting in life, and has assisted in building all the churches in the vicinity where he lives. He joinec the Methodist Episcopal Church in his sixteenth vear, and from his twenty-second to his twenty-seventh year was class leader. Was licensed to exhort by Rev. James Gurley, and afterwards to preach by the Rev. M. C. Kellogy, both of the Ohio Conference. Continued as local preacher twelve years, when he entered the traveling connection, in 1852, and has filled the following appointments: Mt. Pleasant circuit, one year; Nelsonville circuit, one year ; Logan circuit, six months ; Nelsonville again, over one year; New Baltimore, one year; Fairview circuit, two years; Amesville circuit, one year; again Nelsonville circuit, one year; again to Amesville circuit, one year; Plymouth circuit, two years ; again at Fairview, two years ; again at Plymouth, one-year ; Maxville circuit, his home, one year; one year did not travel ; Deavertown circuit, two years; New Plymouth, Hocking county, one vear; Straitsville circuit, two years, and built the two churches, one in Straitsville and one in Shawnee; again Mt. Pleasant, one year; again without a charge one year; again New Plymouth, one year; again without a'charge one year; east end of Straitsville circuit, two years ; Asbury circuit, Muskingum county ; and this year at home, now Junction City circuit. Im this work he probably has taken into membership of the church from 3,000 to 4,000 persons. Mr. Ricketts was married January 31, 1833, to Lucy, daughter of Conrad and Lydia (Wicks) Wickiser. 'They are the parents of ten children now living, viz.: Benjamin, who has been class leader in church some ten or twelve years; Jacob W., a local preacher; Francis Asbury, William Cochran, a local preacher ; Matilda, James S., a traveling preacher; Samuel B., a traveling preacher; Thomas M., a traveling preacher ; Sophia Jane, Cyrus B.; six deceased, two of whom lived to manhood, John W., who was licensed to exhort, and 'Daniel W.; four died in childhood, Stephen

Hamilton, Lydia, Levi Bartlett, and an infant. Six of his sons were in the army during the late Rebellion - three in the three years' service ; John W., who died in the army ; Francis A. and William C. ; and three in the one hundred days' service, Benjamin, Jacob W., and James. He also had two sons-in-law in the army ; one, William A. Murphey, in the three years' service, and one, William Terrell, in the hundred days' service. Mr. Ricketts has been a very successful minister, and all of his children, who lived to manhood and womanhood, were' converted from nine years to fifteen years of aye. He certainly has brought up a remarkably useful family, both in the service of the church and of their country. They truly have proved to be an exemplary family.

Ripenour, J. M., school teacher, post office, Maxville, Ohio; was born April 15, 1854, in Jackson township, Perry county, Ohio; son of Michael and Salome (Wolf) Ridenour. Mr. Ridenour was brought up on a farm until he was seventeen years of age, when he went to New Lexington and learned the baker and confectioner trade, after which he worked at that business in New Straitsville, Ohio. At twenty-one years of age he taught school at Junction City. © In his twenty-second year he attended high school in Logan, Ohio, after which he resumed the teacher's occupation, which he has followed ever since. Was married April 15, 1879, to Alice, daughter of Eli and Sarah A. (Ashbaugh) Bell. They have one child, Samuel Winfield. Mr. Ridenour came to Monday Creek township in 1860, and located in Maxville, Ohio. Was elected assessor in 1881, and re-elected in 1882.

RINEHART, JESSE, was born November 26, 1806, in Greene county, Pennsylvania ; son of Simon and Ann (Wise) Rinehart. He was brought up ona farm and followed farming all his life. He came to Ohio in 1832 with his father, who bought eighty acres of land where Abraham Park now lives, and also owned eighty acres that he afterward bought, now joining the Hillis farm, and also owned by A. Parks, but lived on the first eighty acres that he bought up to the time of his death, which occurred January 1, 1853. In 1832 Mr. Rinehart, the subject of this sketch, went into business for himself, buying one hundred acres where his family still lives, and adjoining the first eighty acres owned by his father, and afterward bought forty acres now owned by Simon Keener, and twenty acres now owned by Mary Fickle. There were only ten of the one hundred acres cleared when he bought it, and he cleared the other ninety acres and supplanted the log house by a neat frame dwelling, in which he jived up to the time of bis death, March 1, 1880. Mr. Rinehart was married the first time in 1832 to Miss Elizabeth, daughter of Solomon and Ann Hoge. They became the parents of two children, viz.: Mary Ann and Nancy, living, and three deceased, one infant son, Solomon and Simon. Elizabeth, wife of Jesse Rinehart, died September 20, 1845. Mr. Rinehart was married the second time, April 8, 1849, to Miss Sarah, daughter of Nathaniel and Louisa (Scott) Short. Mrs. Rinehart was born October 14, 1824, in Delaware, and. came to Ohio in 1840 with her parents, who settled in New Lexington, Ohio, and lived in this county about eighteen months, when they moved to Muskingum county, Ohio, where they lived about four last marriage he was blessed with eleven children, viz.: Louilln. deceased ; Dollie, Jesse. deceased ; Charlie Winget, Allie Jackson, Sarah Florence, two infant sons. twins, deceased : Todd, deceased ; Nathaniel and Horace.

Rixker, Wes ry, engineer, Pike township. New Lexington, Ohio ; was born February 30, 1831, in Perry county, Ohio; son of William and Sarah (Chillcoat) Rinker. Mr. Rinker was raised an engineer and has made this the principal business of his life. He was married in April, 1856, to Mary J.. daughter of Jefferson and Jane (Bell) Hitchcock, of pis native county. Thev are the parents of eight children, now living, viz. Elizabeth, Benjamin, Caleb F., John, "Marv E., Sarah, Samuel ei Jennie Bell. Mr. Rinker has been a resident of this county all his life, with the exception of two years he spent in Hocking county, Ohio, running a saw mill, and has been a resident of New Lexington for about iw enty years, past fourteen vears of this time he ran an engine at Arnold's mill. He now owns eight lots in Bastian's addition, upon one of which he has built a good dwelling, where he now lives. He also owns sixteen acres near the fair ground. Thus he is situated to enjoy life.

RissLer, Epwarp T., of the firm of Huston & Rissler, druggists, New Lexington, Ohio, was born January 3, 1831. in Richland township, Fairfield county, Ohio ; son of Thomasand Margery ( Deilv) Rissler, of English ancestry. Edward T. was brought up and remained on the farm until 1866. He followed teaching school in the winter and farming in the summer for about eighteen vears. In 1865 Mr. R. located in Reading township. this county, and came to this place in January, 1876, when the present firm was formed. Mr. Rissler was Auditor of the county in 1871, and re-elected in 1873. Mr. Rissler was married April 14, 1865, to Miss Kate A.. daughter of Samuel and Emily (Keys) Barbee. They are the parents of two children, viz.: Thomas Charles and E. Ross.

RissLer, Tuomas J.. hardware merchant and agricultural implements ; born 1835, in Richland township, Fairfield county Ohio. resiidence, Thornville, Ohio ; son of Thomas Rissler, a native of Pennsylvania, who came to Ohio at anearly day. and died in 1870 in ae seventv- ninth year. His first wife died leaving four children, viz.: Mary,

Dr. Rissler, Newark ; Edward Rissler, New Lexington: C. 'D. Rissler. Oceola. Iowa; Louisa, wife of Joshua Linville: Ella, wife of Dr. Thomas; Nathaniel, Greenville, Ohio, and Thomas J.. who was married in 1860 to Melissa A. Martin, daughter of Ellison Martin : he moved to Thornville in 1872. where he engaged i in business. which has been increasing and profitable. The Rissier name is connected with both political parties. Father Thomas Rissler and family were of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He was distinguished for his honesty and the hospitality of his home was proverbial. C. D. and Nathaniel served in the Seventeenth O. V.J. to the end of the war. Thomas J. and his wife have two sons, Edward, now of age. and Ellison, now thirteen. They have also three daughters, Miss $ Sallie. Miss Bessie and Miss Nellie.

Roberts, Jouyx T.. collier, Shawnee, Ohio, was born September 18, 1827, in Anglesey, North Wales: son of Thomas and Gwen (Ishmall) Roberts. Was married and lived in Anglesey until he was eighteen years of age. working in copper mines from the age, of nine years, after which he was employed as follows: Carmarthenshire, working on railroad tunnel three v cars'; Myrtha-tidvil Glamorganshire, mining iron ore four years. At this time he returned home and was married July 22. 1854, to Cathariue, daughter of Thomas R. and Jane (Jones) Thomas. They are the parents of two children, Vhomas and Jane, deceased. After his marriage he remained in Anglesey about three vears. Worked on breakwater at [ollyhead. that cost $100,000, for about twenty years in building. In Staiiordshire, Muogland, about fifteen vears mining coal, except about two years and six months he spent in Liverpool, where he was employed ia corporation warehouses, At this time he emigrated to America, landing in New York, December 29, 1870. and went to Pomeroy, Ohio, where he mined coal seven months, when he went to Coalton, Kentucky, mined coal about five months and returned to Pomeroy, where he stayed about nine months, and then to New Straitsville, mining about eighteen mouths, when he moved to Shawnee, where he has since remained, employed as a miner, eight years. In Staffordshire, he was leader of a church choir about twelve years and is Jeader of a choir in the Welch church of this place.

Rockuo.p, Jessr, farmer and shoemaker, post oflice, Rehoboth, Clayton township; born in Maryland in 1818. Settled in Perry county in 1854; son of Elijah and Rachel (Hitchcock) Rockhold. Phe former died about the vear 1868; the Jatter about the year i858. Married in April,1854 to Miss Augusta Hitchcock, daughter of Isracl and Cornelia Hitchcock. They are the parents of three children, viz.: Luressa E., Delilah H., one not named: two are dead. Mr. Rockhold's father was in the War of 1812.

Rovcers, Joseru D., real estate, stock and grain dealer, Corning, Ohio; son of Joseph and Catharine (Smith) Rodgers. Joseph Rodgers, Sr., came to Perry county, Ohio, from Wheeling, West Virginia, about the year 1831, with his father, Joseph Rodgers, and located, first on the west side of Monroe township. When Joseph, Sr.. marricd he located about one half mile west of Corning, Ohio. 'The entire town is built on lands formerly owned by him. [le followed agriculture and husbandry, by which 'he acquired an ample competency. Joseph 1D. Rodgers, the subject of this sketch. was married February 29, 1872, to Miss Adaline, daughter of V. W. and Ellen (Vanferson ) Lewis. of Muskingum county, Ohio. They are the parents of three children, viz.: Chester Allen, Sheldon M. and George Lee.

Ropeers, Cuarres M., stock dealer, Valley Falls, Jefferson county, 'Kansas, was born September 6. 1845, in Monroe township, Perry county, Ohio; son of Joseph and Catharine (Smith) Rodgers. Charles M. was broughtup ona farm in his native township : located in Jeflerson county, Kansas. in 1878. where he was married March 7. 1578. to Miss Florence, daughter of EE. 1. and Amanda (Livy ) Watkins. They are the parents of two children. Mettie Dell and Everett Garfield, .

(Smith) Rodgers. Nelson L. was brought up in his native township, and was married September 18, 1873, to Miss Margaret, daughter of James and Eliza (Nedgar) Cain, of Homer township, Morgan county, Ohio, of Scotch-Irish ancestry. They are the parents of three children. Granville J., deceased, Lily Viola and Jessie Cloe.

Rocers, NEvSson, retired farmer and stock dealer, Corning, Ohio, was born May 6, 1826, in Wheeling. West Virginia, son of Josep and Elizabeth Rogers, who were natives of Fayette county Pennsylvania. Elizabeth Rogers, named above, was daughter of Captain William Haney. The parents of Nelson Rogers moved to near Rehoboth, Clayton township, Perry county, Ohio, when he was but four months old. Here they remained three vears, then came to Morroe township, where Nelson has made his home to the present time, excepling two years of his beyhood spent in Athens county, Ohio. Mr. Rogers' early life was spcat in real pioneer style. Then the deer, bear, wild hog and wild turkey were abundant in the woods of Monroe township. Game was so plenty as at times to be killed for sport and not used. When young he has gone alone, coon hunting, at night, and caught more coons than he could carry home with him. Ie has lived to see those rough and hardy pioneer times and customs change to the modern advanced customs and Juxuries of the present times. Mr. Rogers has given his attention to agriculture and stock dealing, and by honest iidustry and intelligent economy, he has obtained an ample competence for himself and family. Tle owns two hundred and forty-six acres of the valuable mineral land, situated between Corniug and Rendville, Ohio, and eighty acres of equally as good mineral land situated about one mile from the above tract. Mr. Rogers was married December 28, 1851, to Miss Miram Elma, daughter of Jesse and Epsey (Batton) Sanders. They are the parents of six children, viz.: Sarah Epsey, Kelita Austin, Benj. F., Abish Lincol, David Merchant and Ida May.

Rocers, Kevrra Austin, farmer, Corning, Ohio, was born August 5, 1855, in Monroe township, Ohio, son of Nelson and Miram Elma. (Sanders) Rogers. Austin was brought up on the farm, but has Jearned the carpenter's trade and understands coal mining. . Mr. Rogers was married October 12, 1879, to Miss Hannah, daughter of Avery and Sarah (Taggart) West, of Morgan county, Ohio. They are the parents of one child, viz.: James Delmer.

Rose, Ezexier, Bearfield township, Portersville post office, farmer, born in this township Octobor 25, 1818, son of Ezekiel and Sarah (Thorp) Rose; father of English and mother of Welsh descent. When the subject of this sketch attained manhood he went to Iowa and lived at Fort Des Moines several years. He went to California in 1849. Worked in the mines one year, and the rest of the four years he remained in California he kept store and a butcher shop. He was on the site of Sacramento City, before the first house was builtthere. He then returned to Bearfield township, bought a farm and has resided there ever since. June 26, 1855, he married Adaline V. Skinner, daughter of Amos and Margaret A. (Murrey) Skinner. They are the parents of the following named children: Pleasant A., married to James FE. Stoneburner, of this township; Sadie M., school teacher; Edward J., school teacher; and two died in infancy.

Rowan, E. J., book keeper, school teacher and civil engineer, Shawnee, Ohio; was born December 23. 1830, in county Mayo, Ireland, son of Edward and Catharine (Mulowny) Rowan. Was raised a farmer and followed agricultural pursuits until 1840, when he emigrated to America, landing at New York October 8, 1840; remained near Syracuse, New York, about four years and engaged at farming ; from there he went to Baltimore, Maryland, where he remained two years, working and visiting relatives. He next found his way to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, April, 1846. remaining with his brother about one year, and then went to Rochester, Pennsylvania, where he went into partnership in a general merchandise store with his brother, where he remained about one vear, and went to Steubenville, Ohio, in 1850, where he practiced engineering on the extension of the Pittsburgh and Cleveland Railroad, and was foreman of the survey, which employed him about one year. After this he returned to Pennsylvania and studied surveying with a farmer by the name of Richard D. Hudson, working on the farm to pay for his instructions, and remained about one year. At this time the same railroad that he had been working upon again opened and he was employed as division engineer, with the Honorable Israel Linton, of Ravenna, Ohio, where he remained two years; thence to locate the railroad trom Pittsburgh to Rochester, Pennsylvania, taking him six weeks, and then for four months caleulated tables of quantities. Again at Steubenville, Ohio, working in yards of what was then the Steubenville and Indiana Railroad, and now commonly known as the Pan-Handle Route, about one month ; next he went to Xenia, Ohio, clerking and engineering for the Litue Miami 'Railroad, trom April, 1858, to April, 1859; from thence to Cincinnati, Ohio, still keeping books for the same company, regulating their time, etc. ; continued about two years, during which time he surveyed a road from Richmond, Indiana, to Indianapolis, Indiana, requiring about six weeks ; again returned to Xenia, and from that time until 1872 was with same road; and owned property in Xenia. From Xenia he went to the tunnel on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, Straitsville Division, as watchman, and from there came to Shawnee where he drew maps of the Shawnee Valley mine, Fannie Furnace mine, platted the cemetery, and surveyed the streets and directed their grading of Shawnee. He is now teaching a night select school and a class of four students in eometry and trigonomety. Was married August 5, 1857, to Ann iicties daughter of Thomas and Catharine (Bieen) McCoy, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. They become the parents of eioht children, viz.: Catharine F., Mary Ann, Ellen Agnes, Emily Jane, Edward, ohn Martin, Thomas William, deceased, Anna Jane, deceased. Mrs. hers died December 27, 1874, aged thirty-four years, nine months.

Ruppock, GrorGE, farmer, post office Shawnee, Ohio ; was born April, 1827, in Halcombe, Somersetshire, England ; Son of Solomon and Mary (Taylor) Ruddock. Mr. Ruddock lived with his father untilhe was eighteen years of age and was employed in mines at eight years of age, working in Holcombe about twelve years and in Norton parish ; the balance of the time he remained with his father. At the time of leaving his father's home he engaged with a mining company, ot Monmouthshire, where he remained twenty years and was engaged with Myrtha Coal Company four years, and in mines until 1872, when he emigrated to America, landing in New York in July. 1872. and went to Dudley, Huntington county, Pennsylvania, where he engaged in mining for John Whitehead and Company. for about two years, when be came to Shawnee, Ohio. where he mined about one vear, and since which time he has been tarming, and row is living in Shawnee, where he enjoys his own house, erected in 1881. Was married May, 1857, to Marv, daughter of Samuel and Ann (Dore) Green. They are the parents of seven children, viz.: Elizabeth Ann. William Jonah, Samuei George. Mary Jane, Robert. Martha and Thomas Dore, and one deceased. William.

Russet, W. H.. was born in 1841. in Somerset, Ohio. where he yet resides. [lis father. William Russell, is a native of New Jersey, and lost his father early in life, his mother surviving her husband for some years. He came to Ohio a few years prior io 1840, in which year he became the husband of Elizabeth, daughter of the Jate venerable Drury Harper, of Somerset. She had two brothers in the Mexican War, both having contracted disease there which cut short their lives. She has one sister, Mrs. Trunnell, now of the State of Missouri. W. H. Russell is the eldest of eight sons, all living in Obio, except Edward, now in the State of Texas. There are two sisters of these sons, one the wife of W. H. Walker, and the other of Albert May, both residing in Som erset. W. H. Russell volunteered in Company G, Thirty-first Regiment, O. V. I., in 1861, and served to the close of the war in 1865. 'In 1867, he was married to Miss Katharine Murphy. by whom he became the father of one son and one daughter. - In 1878. this affectionate and estimable Jady was called hence by death, and Mr. Russell has remained a widower since then. His son and daughter tind a pleasant home with their grandparents, where also Mr. Russell himself has established his residence. and where two of his younger brothers remain also. In the year 1866, in partnership with his brother-in-law, W. H. Walker. their business as shoemakers and merchants began on a small capital which each had saved up from his earnings, prior to that date. and which has now so accumulated that. measured by their taxes, which are over $100 a year, Certifies their success. ; \

Rurrer, WALTER, ot the firm of Wilson & Rutter. butchers. New Lexington, Ohio; was born March 25, 1828, in Newton township. Muskingum county, Ohio; son of Benjamin and Sarah (Muse) Rutter, matives of Maryland. At the age of seventeen Walter came to Clavton township, where he followed farming until he was forty-five years of age, when he came to this place and established his present business. Mr. Wilson became partner in December, 1881. Mr. Rutter was married in March, 1850. to Miss Jane. daughter of Samuel and Barzilla (Crogs) Croskey. They are the parents of three children, viz.: Samantha Alice, and Ida, and May, twins, who died in infancy.

Ryan, WitiiaM J.. druggist. Junction Citv. Ohio: son of Roday and Mary (Donley) Ryan; was born August 14. 1831, in this county : began working at the tanning business when sixteen years of age, and followed the same until about the age of twenty-one, then attended school for one' year, after which he went to St. Joseph's College one year, then went to Jackson county, Iowa, and followed farming two years, from there to Knox county, Missouri, aud then April 20, 1861, started for California, driving through with a wagon via Salt Lake. Was three months reaching Virginia City, Nevada; staved there for a time, and then went to California and stayed two years : landed there in Sacramento City, at the time of the flood ; he engaged in the wood trade "while there. Then came to Virginia City, and opencd a tecd stable, in partnership with Mathew Gisborn,and followed it two years ; then went to San Francisco, and from there to New York, via' the [sthinus, and from there to this county ; followed farming, anc serving: nine years as Justice of the Peace ; established himself in the drug business tn Junction City, in April, 1876, and has the largest stock of drugs and notions in town. He was married in 1854, to Helen, daughter of Levi and Aun (Lily) Burgoon ; they are the parents of eleven children, ten living, six boys and four girls, viz.: Mary A., Levi L., Vhomas A., Hlizabeth L.., John F., Mark G., Joseph J., Lucy F., Hiram E., Sarah J. Levi is tu the Indian Territory. Thomas A. is one of the oflicers at the Tnsane Asylum. Mr. Ryan's father and mother were born in Ireland.

RyvLanpv, Cuarves H., Justice of the Peace and farmer, post office Roseville, Muskingum county, Ohio; born in Cumberland, Maryland, in 1843; came to Perry county, in 1874; son of Samuel and Mary A. Ryland. Married in 1868, to Miss Mattie E. Melick, daughter of William and Anna Melick. They are the parents of two chitduent= vizes Eva A. and Stephen M. Mr. Ryland is at present serving as Justice of the Peace of Harrison township.

SAFFELL, Mary R., farmer's wife, Pike township, Lexington, Ohio ; was born November 22, 1818, in Frederick county, Maryland; daughter of Thomas H. and Melinda (Harrison) Miller. Mrs. Saflell was raised a farmer's daughter and has lived on a farm all her Iife. ler father brought her with the rest of his family to this. State in/ an early day, when there yet remained a few Indians, to be seen occasionally. She was married January 11, 1838, to Samuel, son of Amos and Mary (Lemon) Saffell,- who died and left her a widow, Mrs. Sailell has Jived in this.county since her marriage,and is now living on the Josiah Grimes farm, that she is having farmed at this date. She has seventeen children by her only marriage, as follows: Mary J., Martha, Rhoda, thant Louisa, Caroline, Reuben, Harriet Anu, William Horace, Char: otte M., (with twin sister, who died in infancy), James C., Samuel H., Silas A. and Rebecca E., are living, and*Reuben, Jno. 'Thomas and Velinda C. are dead. Mrs. Saffell's father, Thomas If. Mills, is now living with her, and is ninety-four years of age, and one of the oldest residents in the county. ;

SatrsMAn, Maria, Pike township, New Lexington, Ohio; was born Januar 26, 1832, in Somerset, this county ; was married in 1851, to Andrew ehtamace of Jefferson county, Ohio. "They are the parents of two children, who are living, Charles Wesley and Nancy Jane. Mrs. Saltsman has always been a citizen of her native county, and has lived in New Lexington, Ohio, for the last ten years of her life, apd lived on a farm during her married life previous to her going to this city. Ter husband enlisted in the three years service during the late Rebellion, and died in the hospital of typhoid fever in 1864. IIer son enlisted some nine years ago, from whom she has not heard up to the present time. By cconomy she now enjoys a pleasant home of her own on Railroad street, where she now lives with her daughter and son-in-law. Few can boast of so much patriotism of their family as can Mrs. Saltsman, all of her support having been given that could be offered by her.

Sanpers, Brxyaurn, farmer, Monroe township, JIemlock, Ohio; was born January 5, 1823, in Columbiana county, Ohio; son of Jesse and Epsie (Batton) Sanders. Ile was brought up on a farm and followed agricultural pursuits until he was twenty-three or twenty-four years of age, when he went to Ringold, Morgan county, Ohio, and engaged in the mercantile business, in which he remained about five years. Mr, Sander's father brought him to this county when he was about seven years of age, and bought forty acres. and entered cighty acres of Jand at the same time, but sold out in about six months atterward and went to Morgan county Ohio ; after remaining in Morgan county about eighteen months he returned to this county, and again took possession of the same farm because of the man who purchased it being unable to meet the payments. After returning he made this his home as long as he lived, and increased his possessions to five hundred acres of land, a part of which is now owned by his son, Benjamin, who lived with him until he went to Morgan county, Obie, where he went into the mercantile business. Sold out in Morgan county in 1831, and returned to this county, buying a part of his father's farm; engaged in agriculture and stock dealing, for about twenty years. He then bought the grist mill at Sulphur Springs and moved it to Hemlock. Tas been the manager of a store in Hemlock for the past four years,which be owns, Tas also been postmaster in Hemlock for the past five years. He now owns about three hundred acres in Saltlick and Monroe townships, and formerly owned about five hundred acres, selling part of the same to the Ohio Central Coal Company, that Buckingham is now built upon and where shaft No. 19 is now being operated. He was married to Susanna (Wood) Smith, of Belmont county, Ohio, who was a resident of this county at the time of her marriage. | hey are the parents of nine living children, viz.: William M.,C. T., Spencer S.,_

Sarah, Emeline, Elma, Almeda, Viola and Etta, and three dead, Epsie, Cynthia and Louvina Alice. "iT i SANDERS, TromAs M., proprietor of dry goods and family grocery store, near depot, New Lexington, Ohio. Mr. Sanders was born February 28, 1835, in Pike township; son of John and Mary (Fealty) Sanders, natives of Pennsylvania. Thomas M. was brought up on a farm, but followed various occupations. He railroaded in Wisconsin and Minnesota, being employed in the latter State when she repudiated her railroad bonds. Mr. Sanders began his present busiriess in 1873, at Rehoboth where he remained about four and one-half years, after which he came to his present location, where he is doing a good business. Sanpers, WiLL1AM Mitrs, merchant, Hemlock, Ohio; was born, February 25, 1843,in Perry county, Ohio; son of Benjamin and Susannah (Smith) Sanders. Was brought up on a farm, and followed agricultural. pursuits until 1861, when he enlisted in Company C, Seventeenth Refiment, O. V. I.; served his term of enlistment in Virginia, and was honorably discharged at Zanesville, Ohio. He then re-enlisted in Company D, Thirty-first Regiment, O. V. I., for three years or during the war, and served until September, 1862, when he enlisted at Nashville, Tennessee, in Company M, U. S. Cavalry, for three years, from which service he was discharged at San Antonia, Texas, December 18, 1865. While in O. V. I., he was engaged in the following battles: Mill Springs, Siege of Corinth, Perryville, Shepherdsville, Cage's Fords battle of Stone River. While he was in the cavalry service, he was in the following engagements: Chickamauga, and was on Sherman's march to the sea; and fell back to Nashville, and was in the batile between Hood and Thomas; and in Wilson's famous cavalry raid. His regiment captured Andersonville, took, Wertz, the commander, prisoner; was captured April 18, and was held a prisoner at Libby for six days, when he was paroled, and in about one month rejoined his company, with which he remained until he was discharged, excepting one month, when he was put on detached duty as escort for General Corse, to carry dispatches from Nashville, Tennessee, to a point three huncred miles up Red River. Upon his discharge from the service, he returned home and remained four weeks, when he went to New Pittsburg, Indiana, where he was married, August 31, 1866, to Miss Elizabeth A., daughter of Allen Fowler. They are the parents of four children, viz.: Spencer E., Martin L., Rasilla V., and Benjamin A., all born in Clark county, Iowa. In the fall of 1866, he went to Clark county, Iowa, where he purchased a farm, upon which he lived untl 1877, when he went to Johnson county, Nebraska. In the following year he again moved to Rushgounty, Kansas, remaining until January, 1880, and returned by wagon to St. Louis, Missouri; then by boat to Cincinnati, from where he drove home in a wagon to the old homestead, reaching his destination August, 1880. In the following September he 'purchased his present store. Mr. Sanders was the Greenback candidate of this county, in the fall of 1881, for Representative.

Sanpers, SPENCER Smiru, miller, Saltlick township; post office, Hemlock, Ohio; was born March 18, 1847, in Monroe township, this county; son of Benjamin and Susannah (Smith) Sanders. Mr. Sanders was brought up on a farm, and followed agricultural pursuits until about four years ago, when he took charge of the Hemlock mill, to which he has given his attention up to this time. In the fall of 1864, Mr. Sanders enlisted in Company G, Twenty-fifth Regiment, O. V. L., for one year, and was in the battle of Honey Hill, where he received a flesh wound inthe arm, which disabled him for three months, when he was in general hospital. Upon his recovery he rejoined his regiment, served out his time and was discharged, by reason of expiration of term of enlistment, when he returned home and engaged in. farming, until as above stated. He has served his township as trustee about four years. Mr. Sanders was married August 29, 1867, to Victoria, daughter of Reuben and Hester Ann (Cannon) Primrose, of this township formerly, but was a resident of Nelsonville, Athens county, Ohio, at the time of her marriage, where she was living with her brother, Isaac P. Primrose. They are the parents of five children, viz. : Anna Laura, Franklin Geddis, Edwin L., Olive Clyde, and Mattie M.

who first settled in Montreal, Canada, where they abode some thre¢ years, when they came to the United States of America, settling near Cuimberland, Alleghany county, Maryland, living at this place until about 1857. At this time he went to Piedmont, Hampshire county, West Virginia, where he learned the machinist's trade, serving three years; and where he was at the time of the breaking out of the Rebelion, when he enlisted with the Eleventh Regiment, Indiana V. I., and served during the three months' service, for which he received no pay ; and afterward enlisted with the Second Regiment, Maryland V. I., for the term of three years, and served two or three months over his time, in the armies of the Potomac and West Virginia, at which time he received an honorable discharge and returned home. During this service he was once wounded at Snickers Gap, but which left no permanent injury. Yet he contracted a disease, which has since proven to be varicose veins of the :imbs, and it so much disables him, that he is now unable to do much of any kind of business. He enlisted as a private, and was discharged as first lieutenant. Upon receiving his discharge, he returned home, and soon after he moved to Bedford county, Pennsylvania, where he engaged in farming, for about three years, and then moved to Clearfield county, Pennsylvania, and was engaged as clerk in a coal company's store, and as weighmaster for about two years and six months. At this time he came to Shawnee, Ohio, and employed as weighmaster and shipping clerk for the Shawnee Valley Coal and Iron Company, from 1873 to 1881, when he was appointed postmaster at this place. Was married June 5, 1867, to Mary E., daughter of Samuel and Lucinda (Harden) Close. They are the parents of six children, viz.: Samuel R. P., Elizabeth H., deceased; George T., Ida M., Charles W., and John T. .

Sawyer, Cuarves H., tonsorial artist, Corning, Ohio; was born December 24, 1836, in Gillford county, North Carolina ; son of William and Merina (Mitchell) Sawyer. Charles H. was brought up on the farm until fourteen years of age, when he went to his trade ; and has worked. at it in most of the principal cities of Indiana and Ohio, also in the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He came to his present location in May, 1880. Mr. Sawyer was married November 25, 1857, to. Miss Eva C., daughter of William and Mary (Ludington) Townsend, of Oxford, Butler county, Ohio. They are the parents of three children, viz.: Ida B., Calvin, deceased, and Dora L.

Sawyer, E. Ocpen, M. D., Corning, Ohio; was born November 29: 1851, in Cincinnati, Ohio; son of Joseph O., and Mary Elizabeth (Stephens) Sawyer. The doctor was brought up in St. Louis, Missouri, until the age of fourteen, after which time he resided in Cincinnati and Columbus, Ohio. He began the study of medicine April 1, 1878, with Dr. Halderman of Columbus, Ohio, and was graduated at Starling Medical College, at Columbus, Ohio, in the spring of 1880. Practiced first in Richmond, Indiana. Came to this place, January, 2, 1882. Dr. Sawyer was married April 28, 1880, to Sarah R. Hall, M. D., of Salem, Columbiana county, Ohio. She isa graduate of the Friends' Seminary at Mt. Pleasant, Ohio; also attended two courses of lectures at the Woman's Medical College at Philadelphia. Pennsylvania; and is at present physician at the Girls' Industrial Home at Delaware, Ohio.

ScCALLON, 'Lnomas, born 1821, in Washington, D. C., where his father, James, and his mother, Mary Scallon, arrived in 1819, from Wexford county, Ireland. THis mother was a daughter of Patrick Redmond, and the sister of George Redmond, former Treasurer of Perry county, and of John Redmond, for many years a Justice of the Peace in Muskingum county. Her sisters are Bridget and Ann, now the wife of George Brehm, and Catharine, the deceased wife of the late venerable Miles Cluney ; and Peggy, widow of the late John Dittoc. The children of Mrs. Scallon are Thomas and Mrs. Mary Aun Echenrode, late of this county, and the mother of Thomas and Mary Echenrode, her only children. Thomas Scallon was married in 1843, to Miss Mary, daughter of John Dittoe. His children are: Mary; James, a plasterer by trade, post oflice, Lancaster; Rev. Thomas, « Dominican priest at St. Joseph's; Helen, a nun of St. Francis De Sales, Newark, Ohio, aud known there as sister Genevieve; Miss Anna, and George, post office, Somerset, Ohio. Thomas Scallon came to Perry county in 1829, when only eight years of age, and has resided on the same farm over filly years, occupying the ancestral acres of his father, James Scallon, who deceased seven years after his settlement thereon, in sight of Somerset. He has improved the old homestead with excellent buildings ; served for many years as township assessor, several times performing all the work himself; so that faithfulness in office and to his duties as a private citizen, are amony the virtues unanimously accorded to him.

ScuneEipEr, Louis, Bearfield township; post oflice, Portersville, Ohio. He is a farmer now, and followed merchandising thirteen years at Portersville. He was born in Baden, Germany, in 1825; son of Francis P. and Mary (Euhert) Schneider. Ile emigrated to this country in 1854; located at Portersville ; stayed in his brother's store the first winter, and then he went into business for himself. Mr. Schocider now owns four hundred and ninety-six acres of land, being one of the wealthiest and most successful farmers in the township. In 1855, he married Mary C. Reimond, of Deavertown. They are the parents of the following named children: William I*., Annie L., deceased; Prank J., Leo L., George Otto, and Charles Reimond. Ilis wife died in 1872. He married Ellen Cunningham, of Muskingum county, in 1873. Vhey have one child, Michael A.

Scorr, Martin F.. merchant; born in Ohio county, West Virginja, in 1812. Son of Mathew Scott, born in Kilkenney ; and Mlizabeth Lacy Scott, born in Wicklow county, Ireland; came to this country in 1800. His father was an officer in the English Army, and was present at the trial of Robert Emmett, an incident of his life to which he ever after referred to with emotions of sorrow. Ile began mercantile life in Baltimore, Maryland, and about the year 1808, removed to Whiceling, West Virginia, bought a farm on the Ohio side of the river, but resided on the Virginia side, where Martin was born. This careful, cautious, honest and successful man was bred to the mercantile life, which he yet pursues in his old age. Ie came to Somerset in 1838, after the death of his mother in 1837, intending to go to New-Orleans, He changed his course to Jowa, intending to purchase land, and. turn his occupation to that ofa farmer. In the Des Moines valley he called ata house ; a woman with a child in her arms responded. Ile inquired of her if there was any land to enter in this beautiful part of the State. '"'Are you one of those Jand grabbers ?"' was the greeting. '* What does ¢hat mean, madam?" ¢ One of those speculators who buy large tracts here and prevent the settlement of the country." '' No," said Mr. Scott, '*J intend settling here if I buy." And then, eyeing the woman more closely, he said, '*your name was Johnson and [ sold you your wedding dress." '*Then your name is Martin Scott," exclaimed the lady, as she rushed forward to we!come him. He selected a section of land. Nothing but gold and silver and Missouri bank notes would be received at the land oflice ; scores of buyers were there waiting for. the sales to open. Plowing around one acre and Jaying down four logs made a squatter's claim, and many made these claims, sold out and then moved an. The land sales were postponed, and Mr. Scott says, '*That act of Van Buren's administration turned my feet back to Somerset, and he shall have the blame or the honor of my being here.'' While yet a Jad he was sent from Belmont county to St. Joseph's in Perry county, to learn his catechism, the distance being over one hundred miles, and the road from Somerset to the church, a path cut through the woods. He was united in marriage with Cecelia Dittoe, daughter of Peter Dittoe, of Mt. Harrison, May 3, 1842. Their children are, viz.: Albert, bred to the law, and who died at his father's residence, June 5, 1880, leaving a widow anda son, Albert. both now in Washington, D. C. ; Thomas, commercial traveler, single; Lewis, married, residence Chiwa-hua-hua, Mexico, (pronounced Che-wah-wah), merchant, banker and miner; Philip, clerk, at home, single. The daughters are, Mary, Lizzie and Dora, all single and at home. The family has had excellent opportunities for education, and all his sons exhibit commendable traits of business.

Scorr, Joun W., collier, Shawnee, Ohio; was born April 13, 1860, in Caxhoe, county of Durham, England; son of George and Isabel (Richison) Scott. Mr. Scott was raised in his native county, and remained there until he was nineteen years of age, when he emigrated to America, landing in New York October 3, 1879, and came direct to Shawnee, where he mined eight or nine months, when he went to Straitsville, and mined about one year, and from thence to Floodwood, remaining a short time, after which he' went to Rendville, where he has been employed up to the present time, and is now engaged at Beard's shaft. His parents still live in Crook, county Durham, England.

Secrist, ALEXANDER, engineer, Shawnee, Olio; was born July 12, 1845, at Bloom Furnace, Lawrence county, Ohio; son of George and Mary Jane (Woodruff) Secrist; was brought up about a furnace, and has made furnace work the business of his life. At theage of nine years, he ran an engine at the old Jackson Furnace, Jackson county, Ohio, where he was engaged for five years. At this time he enlisted in Company I. Fifth Regiment Virginia Volunteer Infantry, as fife Major, remaining three years, and was taken prisoner between Winchester and Bunker Hill, and was taken to Currantstown, above Winchester and confined in an old mill, where he remained about six days, when he slipped out of a hole, caused by some siding being broken off, unobserved by the guard, and went down under the water-wheel, where he remained until ten o'clock at night, when he passed out of the. camp,

: over some of the sleeping enemy and traveling till near morning, when he hid under some hay ina barn. The enemy took hay from thé'same mow that day, but did not discover him. The next night he went to a house to get something to eat, when he discovered two Rebel officers inside; he beat a hasty retreat and hid under a siraw stack until the next night, and for four days he only had blackberries and roasted corn to eat. Upon again traveling, he reached North Mountain, and wandered night after night, often coming to camps and shunning them until he reached the Union lines. The first meal he got to eat, after getting away from the mill, was given to him by a negro woman wiio came to milk near a straw stack where he was hidden. When hereacehd North Mountain a'bushwhacker showed him the way across the mountain, where he was captured by the Union forces, suspected as a Rebel, and imprisoned at Cumberland for some length of time, when he was sent to Harper's Ferry, wherehe remained until a part of his sompany was brought there to receive their discharge, and; as he was looking out of the prison window, he was recognized by his old comrades, identified, and discharged with them. Returning home, he located at Jackson, in 1866, and has since ran an engine at Jackson, Bessimer and Shawnee, where he now remains. Mr. Secrist was married May 2, 1872, to Miss Mary Ann, daughter of Felix and Rebecca (Jones) Nash. They are the parents of three children, viz.: Edward

Secrist, WILLIAM, engineer; Shawnee, Ohio; was born January 10, 1854, in Jackson county, Ohio; son of George and Mary Jane (Woodruff) Secrist ; was brought up in the county of his nativity, where -he remained to the age of twenty years. Wiiile a youth he learned the trade of engineering, at first engaging with George Hoop, at Jackson, running a grist mill engine eighteen months, and then to Orange Furnace, in same town, running the engine for three years. Since having learned his trade, he has been engaged in the following places: In Lawrence county, Ohio, at Olive I-urnace, running engine one year ; Iron Valley Furnace, Vinton county, Ohio, dug ore and ran engine eighteen months; Hocking county, Ohio, mined coal five or six months ; New Plymouth, Vinton county, Ohio, running portable sawmill engine. one year; Gore furnace, [locking county, blacksmithing and running engine about three vears ; in Straitsville, as furnace top filler, three months, and in this place, at Fannie Furnace, since, running engine for about three years past, in turn with his brother. He was married October 11, 1874, to [liza, daughter of Jonathan and Mary Jane (Decker) Moody. 'They are the parents of four children, viz.: Charles M., Minnie May, George A., and an infant not named. Se.sy, Tuomas, farmer, Pike township, ?. O. New Lexington, Ohio ; was born November 12, 1804, in Anne Arundel county, Maryland ; son Eli and Ruth (Shipley) Selby. Mr. Selby was raised a farmer, but learned the blacksmith trade with Jacob Knowls, of Somerset, Perry county, Ohio, serving four years as an apprentice, which business he followed for thirty years, turning by forge many an ax, long before the introduction of the patentax. Mr. Selby was united in marriage with Julia A., daughter of Thomas and Margaret (Ankney ) Wright, February 10,1831. They are the parents of the follwing children, viz.: John

N., Eli M., Jeremiah B., Joshua F., Eliza Ann, Margaret M., Harriet Lx Alpheus Bs William Cook, and three dying i in infancy. Mr. Selby came to Perry county in March, 1814, with his father, who settled in Pike township, entering three quarter-sections of land, the same that is now owned by Thomas, the subject of this sketch, and his heirs, who own six hundred acres of land. When the settlement was made, bears and wolves were plenty, and the land a desolate wilderness. In 1843, Mr. Selby supplanted his log cabin by a fine, large brick mansion, which he now lives in. He has been a successful and an enterprising business man, raising at one time the best sheep that were ever raised in Perry county, one that sheared thirty-three pounds of wool at one clipping. He now, in his old age, takés delight in raising thoroughbred cattle, and at one time Saned ac calf ninety -five days old, that weighs three hundred and eighty-five pounds, gaining a little over three pounds per day.

Sevpy, S.F*., farmer and stock dealer ; post office, New Lexington, Ohio ; born i in Pike township, Perry county, in 1837; son of Thomas and Julia A. (Wright) Selby ; grandson of Eli and Ruth (Shipley) Selby, and Thomas and Margaret (Ankney) Wright. He was married in 1873, to Miss Elizabeth' Koots, daughter "ot Ephriam and Eliza (McKeever) Koots.

Sevciters, UW. P., farmer, and breeder of thoroughbred Atwood sheep, registered in Vermont Atwood Club. Post oflice, New Lexington ; Clayton township, Perry county, Ohio; born in Perry county in 1842 ; ; son of Jacob and Julia E. (Reem) Sellers, grandson of John and Margaret (McMullen) Sellers. Married June 29, 1870, to Miss Harriet Roberts, daughter of H. H. and Carrie Roberts. They have four children, viz.: Stilla L., Herbert C., W. L. A.. and Whitfield.

SHEARER, SAMUEL, was born in 1815, on the farm where he now resides, the place never having been out of the Shearer ownership. It lies in sight of Somerset, and the land maintains a reasonable state of fertility. At the age of nineteen he went to work at the carpenter. trade, and in the winter worked at cabinet making, and from there on to the age of forty-five years pursued this occupation exclusively. gt the age 'of 'forty-two he changed his bachelor life by his marriage to Sarah A. Brandt, whose maiden name was Sarah A; Cann, and who was the mother of one son, named James Brandt, at_the date of her second marriage. The Sane by this marriage are, Emma E., Mary Cs, Laura T.., 'Sallie E. , all of whom are living except the first named. He was never clamorous for the eight hour law when working at his trade - he worked from sun to sun. When working by the month his wages, after his apprenticeship, ranged from eighteen to twenty-four dollars. He was counted a superior workman, and the Moeller corner, now the Brown corner, in Somerset, stands a witness to the skill which took the wood from the stump and fashioned it therein. After his marriage he worked on his farm and occasionally at his trade; the demand for his services often withdrawing him from the farm. His cutting box costing $6, dispensed with the old rake and knife and cuts by hand, utilizing an old scythe for a knife, and one man, in a single hour, can easily cut enough hay or fodder to feed three cows fora week. He feeds his beeves on chopped feed, and a sorrel mare, now thirty years old, looks and acts so much as if hardly half this age, as to testif¥ to the value of a good and cheap cutting box on the barn, and to the kindness and humanity of her owner. This celebrated animal will not. even now, bear a whip. or allow angry, loud words to be spoken to her. Mr. Shearer is an honest, honorable citizen, who prefers to speak well of others or remain silent. Lis lite and successful management is a beautiful eulogy upon the sphere he fills in society and the institutions of his country. J*rom early years, in consequence of sickness. his hearing is impaired, but not so much as to exclude him from social and conversational enjoyment. He is a firm triend of education tor usefulness, and all his children have enjoyed, or are enjoying, the blessings of domestic and literary training. "pe

Suearer, Joun EL., was born in Perry county, Ohio, in the vear 1816, and though trained to life on the farm to the age of nineteen, he has, since 1836, devoted his life to the business of printing and publishing newspapers, comprising a period of forty-six years, and thus establishing his claim to being the oldest printer and editor now ving in Ohio. He isa son of Daniel Shearer, who emigrated to Ohio as carly as the vear 1805. His mother's maiden name was Martha Miller, who dates the citizenship of her father in Ohio back to 1806. In 1836 John Shearer began learning his trade as a printer in the Wesfera Post office in Somerset, with McAfee as proprietor. Jn 1839, having completed his apprenticeship, he became half owner with that gentleman, who, in nine months after. sold his half to Alexander Miller, and again, in 1841, A. T. M. Filler bought the interest of Miller, which he held until S44. Mr. Shearer then bought out Fillers half and became sole proprictor, and so ran the oflice until 1846. when he rented the establishment to J. W. Shirley for three years. In 1849 Mr. Shearer resumed sole control and changed the name to the Somerset Pos/. Tn 1855 he sold out to Mr. E. S. Colborn, and the Posi became merged with Mr. Colborn's paper, and both took the name of the Perry County American. Ini 1857 the oflice passed back to Mr. Shearer. and its name was changed to Somerset /eevicze. About this ime Mr. Shearer became invelved as surety for Otloe IL. Miller and others, and sold out the 7terice to Judge R. F. Wickman. All the accumulations of the previous twenty vears of his voung and vigorous manhood were swept away, together with real estate that cost him $2.809. sacrificed at $800 to pay bail debts. It was a terrible blow. but not to his faith in God or his hope of ultimate recovery. In August. 1858. broken in heart and: fortune, he vistted Marvsville. Ohio, and bargained for the Zr7dine office, by which he bound himself to pay $500 within a vear. balance when he could, and in October of the same vear took possession, and, atter the removal of his family, found only $9 left in his pocket-book to start his business and face a strange community. Luck, backed with uitlagering energy and the favor of friends, enabled him to pay ooo on the contract, Ww hon his old creditors began to grow clamorous, - [Te informed the bite Elon, C. S. Hamilton of the situation, as he had done at the beginning, "Phis gentleman (afterwards killed by an insane sou) replied: Stop paying me, and pay your Perry county creditors." These were noble words, uttered from a noble heart. John Shearer pulled through, paid all claims against him, and became sole owner of the Marysville 777hune, which is valued at $10,000, being the best equipped county office in Ohio, and which, added to his real estate and other assets, itt a reasonable estimate, allows him $27,000 for the last twenty years service, and turns the frowns of: 1357 ail the sacrifices of 1858 into the smiles and "lie ae of life's afternoon. The first twenty-three years of his prints life were ended by the destruction of his fortune, and the last twencece have not only recovered all that was lost by the first, but added hundred-fold. and, in the evening of his days, assigned him to the front rank as a successful printer and editor, and command his history to be preserved in the annals of his native county, and his example to cheer all those overtaken by financial reverses. He was first married to Miss Matilda Ream, who died in 1865, leaving one son, Willie O. Shearer, and one daughter, Lorietta, now the widow of Dr. A. F. Zeigler. Columbus, Ohio. The second marriage was in 1868, to Mrs. J. A. Johnson, of Delaware county, Ohio, who died in 1881, leaving one son, John H. Shearer, Jr., now twelve vears of age.

Sureran, Tuomas, cutter in Peter Dutley's merchant ti uloring room, New Lexington, Ohio; born January 6, 1852, in Pike township; son of James and Mary (Sharkey) Sheeran. Young Sah ran was brought up on a farm, where he remained until about fifteen years old, when he learned the plasterer's trade, and followed it about ae years, then, in company with his brother rank, established a merchant tailoring store at Athens, Ohio, where they remained about one year. He then learned his present tr ie Came to this place about the year 1867: Ile en gaged in his present position in 1878. Mr. Sheeran was married January 1, 1878, to Miss Margaret I., daughter of Anthony and Eflen (Greene) Daugherty. They are the parents of three children, viz. : Frank, deceased; Mary, aa Margaret Elen.

Sure RN, Pius, farmer, post oflice, New Lexington, Pike township, Perry county, Ohio; was born March 15, 1848, in this township; son of James and Mary (Shirkey) Sheern. Was raised a farmer, and followed agricultural pursuits until 1863, in December of which year he' enlisted in the army, in Company D, goth O. V. I., for three years, or during the war, and served until June 5, 1865, when he was discharged by reason of the close of the war. Was engaged in the following battles: Dallas, Georgia ; Kenesaw Mountain, "Georgia ; Nicojack Creek, Georgia ; Adanta, Georgia ; Jonesborough, Georgia; Savannah, Georgia; charge of Fort McAllister, Georgia, under General Hayes, and Waynesburg, North Carolina. After being discharged he returned home and engaged in farming until 1874, wheh he went to Colorado, and where, in 1875, he enlisted in the regular army for five years, and served three years and four months, being discharged at his own request. 'The hazardous task of carrying a dispatch from Bluff Creek to Camp Supply on the frontier became urgent, and as an inducement for some one to volunteer, the officer agreed that, to the man who would carry it, should be eranted any request he might make upon his return. Mr. "Sincerent performed the feat, and upon his return asked for his discharge, which was Ban: During this service he waited upon Col. Lewis at the time he was wounded, who was Colonel commanding the 19th United States Infantry. Was engaged in the battle of Sand Hill, one year previous to enlisting in the army, but was unsuccessful in his undertaking. Upon receiving his discharge he returned home, in 1879, and again engaged in farming, whieh he has followed up to this time. Was married September 23, 1879, to Ellen, daughter of Mdward and Biddie Maloy, of this township. They are the parents of one child, Henry.

SHERIDAN, Joun L., was born in Somerset April 2, 1837, and is oue of the three surviving sons of John and Mary Miner Sheridan. Tle was admitted to the bar in 1866, and the same year united in marriage to Miss Katharine Gallin, «a daughter of the late venerable and lamented James Gallin, and sister of Mr. John Gallin, now in active and successful business in Somerset. He visited Texas and Mexico, immediately after his marriage, and beheld the setting sun of Maxamilian on the west and the rising sun of Reconstructed Union on the east of the RioGrande. He served as register of the land oflice at Fairplay, Colorado. Was one of the speakers sent by the Republican State Committee of Ohio, in 1868; Republican candidate for State Senator in the district composed of Perry and Muskingum counties, and is now employed at Fort Supply, Indian Territory, returning home frequently to visit his family, consisting now of his mother, wife and two daughters. His homeward visits 'include a call at Chicago, where his brothers, General Philip Sheridan and Colonel M. V. Sheridan have their headquarters. Eminently social, and sometimes even convivial, the conversational powers of John L., make him the centre of social life, and no son of Somerset is more heartily welcomed to her precincts by his friends and acquaintances.