Coshocton City (part 11 of 11)

Samuel Ketchum died June 29, 1871, aged about fortythree years. His father was from the State of New York. With good common education, he entered upon active life. He was well known as the treasurer of Coshocton county, and from his difficulties growing out of that position he found rehef only in death. Having plead guilty to the charge of embezzlement, he was sentenced to the penitentiary for five years, and became an inmate of that institution on the Ist of March, 1870. His health rapidly failed him, and in fifteen months he was pardoned, on representations made by the warden and physician, by Governor Hayes, and returned to hishome. While in prison, he professed thorough penitence, and claimed to have little hope for the present life, and none for that to come, save by the mercy of God in Christ Jesus. In the hope of this merey, he passed away - recognized by the world as a man of considerable retinement and of generous impulses, to be pitied, however much blamed. An aged, faithful mother, a wife trne when all else failed, and two children bitterly Jameuted lis death.

Samuel Morrison died in Coshocton on the 20th of August, 1871, in the seventy-third year of his age. He was born in Virginia; was brought to Coshocton county when only two vears of age; he grew up with the county; held seyeral offices of trust, among others that of sheriff. His death was the result of an apoplectic stroke. His wife died some time before he did. Of his children (seven daughters), Mrs. R. W. Thompson is dead; Mrs. Banks in Minnesota; Mrs. Marvin in Michigan; Mrs. Hankins in New York; Mrs. Rev. Robert Beer in Indiana; Mrs. Kepner in Columbiana county ; and only Mrs. W. H. H. Price, of Coshocton, is in the county.

John Morgan died at his residence, a few miles east of Coshocton, September 14, 1866, in the seventy-ninth year of his age. He was born in New Jersey, October 9, 1789. He was among the earlier settlers of Coshocton county, cultivating a farm until old age and illness interfered. He was for twenty-five years a member of the White Eyes Baptist chureh.

Charles S. Barnes was born in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, in 1798. The family removed to Jefferson county, when Charles came to Coshocton county, settling as a farmer in Bedford township, and becoming one of its most highly esteemed citizens. He was probate judge from 1855-1858. He was for many years aclass leader and steward in the Methodist Episcopal church. His death oecurred on the 17th of May, 1866, at his home in West Bedford. Several of his children abide in the township.

William Henderson died at his residence, in New Castle township, in 1866, having been many years a farmer and stock-man in Coshocton county. He was in his seventyfirst year; came from Pennsylvania; was married in 1837 ; connected by the marriage of his children with several of the prominent families in the west part of the county.

George Darling, youngest son of Isaac and Jane Darling, died at Holton, Kansas, October 30, 1870, aged twenty-five years. His mother had gone on a visit to a daughter in Kansas, and was there taken sick with typhoid fever. After a lingering illness, her' recovery was despaired of, and her friends notified. George went to be with her in her last moments, and was himself smitten with the same dissease, and in one week died, the mother following in a few hours. The bodies were brought to the old home, near Warsaw. George had only been married a few months (to Miss Foster), and was a very popular young man, and the circumstances of the death made the event a notable one in his old neighborhood.

Samuel Squire, Sr., died on the 24th of November, 1874, at his residence in Jackson township, in the sixty-eighth year of his age. He was brought as a child to Coshocton county, in 1814, being then eight years of age. His parents came from Rutland county, Vermont. He took possession of the place where he died, in 1832. He was a deacon in the Regular Baptist church. He left children and a large circle of relatives.

Nicholas Bassett came from Mohawk valley, New York, and settled in Linton township, more than forty years ago. He died on the 11th of March, 1875, in the eighty-ninth year of his age. <A friendsays: " He wasa very active and energetic man in the days of his strength; firm in purpose and vigorous in action; a man of noticeable sort in speech and movement. His politics and his. religion (the one Democratic and the other Presbyterian) were two things never lost sight of."

Samuel H. Scott, brother of Matthew elsewhere mentioned, was for some forty years a citizen of Virginia township, engaged in farming. He had been out of health, was coming to his home from Adams' mills, walking on the railroad-track, was overtaken by a freight-train, and miscalculating as to time failed to get out of the way before the train, then "slowed" very much, struck him. The nervous shock in his enfeebled and diseased condition was too much for him, and he died in a few days, his death occurring March 5, 1875. He had been for many years a member and for a few years an elder in the Presbyterian

Dr. W. H. Viekers died in Linton township on the 12th of February, 1875. On the evening of the 11th, he left his home, in Jacobsport, to visit a patient, Mr. M. B. Carr, one mile beyond Linton. He found Mr. Carr very low with pneumonia, who, also, as well as to administer medicine, asked the doctor to write his will. The doctor, after finishing the patient's will, conducted the evening devotions for the family, and was about to retire to bed, about eleven o'clock, when he complained to Mrs. Carr of feeling unwell, and asked for a little water and camphor, which were got for him, and after taking some he went to bed with one of Mrs. Carr's sons in an adjoining room. The next morning he was discovered to be seriously ill, and, having been removed to his home, died about four o'clock in the afternoon. He had established himself very thoroughly in the regards of the community, and was a prominent member of the Methodist Episcopal church.

Thompson Carnahan was born in White Eyes township, April 24, 1841, and died in Adams township (on a little farm -which for some years had been to him a retreat after his work as a teacher was done), July 13,1876. Obtaining the elements of a good education in the district school, he himself commenced to teach in 1860. In the summer of that year he attended the Normal School at Hopedale, in Harrison county, and having taught during the ensuing winter, took. another term at Hopedale in 1862. In the fall of 1862, he went into the army, enlisting in the Ninth Ohio Volunteer Cavalry. He continued in service two years, and having been wounded at Big Shanty, Georgia, returned home and resumed his work as a teacher. In 1866, after attending one term, he graduated at the Poughkeepsie (New York) College. Having taught several of the most prominent of the country schools, and the one at Bakersville, he became the teacher of the grammar school in Coshocton in 1871. The next yearhe took charge of the Ros- coe schools, and continued there until smitten by the disease (paralysis) that laid him low in death. Always somewhat out of health, his conscientious faithfulness led him to unduly tax himself with his professional work, and about a month before his year was up, and some two months before his death, he reluctantly ceased to teach. J>ut the bow had been drawn too far, and the string was already virtually broken. Returning after the school year was closed (his wife having finished his work therein) to his farm near Bakersville, he for a time seemed to improve, but soon sank down in a peaceful death.

Conscientious and carefully trained in the principles of the holy Christian religion from his childhood, he made a protession of his faith in the Presbyterian church, at Bakersville, in 1870, and subsequently was an elder in the Presbyterian church of Roscoe.

With no special advantages of worldly sort and despite poor health he attained a scholarship that had merit above what his modesty disposed him to widely manitest, and showed what industry and conscientiousness may achieve even in comparatively early years. He married, in 1869, Miss Eliza J. Stonehocker, who, having herself been much engaged in teaching, provea a w ortliy help-meet in his sanco! work, as otherwise.

Hunt Index

Bank of Cadiz 148,188 Banking=Coshocton nit Banks, Mrs. nee Morrison 264 Banks, Rolla 219 Bantam, John 17° 195 hs Bantham, Jolm Me 3d Corpe 143 Baptist Churches « Coshocton Coe193 Bar = Coshocton 76 »82 Barcroft, De As 137 Jo Be 137 Barcus, William, Tavern,Roscoe 212 Mrse William 213 Bard & Carr, Warsaw. Goods 14 Barger, Gilbert He 64,80 - Lieuto Go He 447 Dre Valentine 418 Barnes, Dro West Bedford 119 Judge Cy Se 765261 Miss Elizabeth Lo 137 He Bo 137 Henry 130- Wo So 1985199

Conesville 97 Je We yeast 403,104 Beech Hollow bank (coal) 105 Beer, Robert 82 BeLlber, Lewise Brewery 102 Bell, John We ee WS'/ Bells = Coshocton Court House 185 School 153 Bender, Father (Reve) T ee e0t Bennett, Be ; 57

Church 199 Chestnut Ridge Regular Bape. tist Church ean be: Child, Jonas, Keene T ; 38 Chili, laid out 1834 5 Christian Church, Virginia T 201 Christian Union Church: a 230 Christie, Revs William BR. .' (Methodist) .. "20752094214 Christy, Albert 105 James: "203 ~Seth - ; 92 Church, Aaron M. a AOeS76 Be F. | Churches ae Coshocton County - 192 - 231. Churchill, (ee 194. Je: Fe 194, 199 Cincinnati Bridge Coe oni Bais Cigar manufacture he 102 Circuits, Methodist 205 City Hotel 185 Clark's Mill 97

We Re War 1812 143 William "a5 Clark, Buckalew Brose goods, 140 Claysville. . iliac | Cleveland, Mts Vernon and rs Columbus. Railroad © 59 Cleveland, Tuscarawas Valley. | and Wheeling Railroad 59 Clingan, Rev. John (Metha). ~ 210 Close, Revo HeMe ul Pat |

Crawford, We He Crawford & LeRetilley,Roscoe dry goods 110 Cray, Jacob, Washington T 26 Creig, Mre Jackson T 1179) Creighton, AcEe Pile BOL _Miss-Eliza J. 137 Cresent Camp IeQ-. of Knights : 158 Crismany Reve John (Methe) 211 Crissman, Henry, BethlehemT 18

Robert & Son . Darling Run Regular Baptist . Church,Jeffersén T 198 Thomas 61, 63, 874924236 'Wellington 92 Darnes, Peter He . .. 64 Darr Mill West Bedford. .. 97 Daugherty, - Andrew Dente ey OF

Flagg, Thomas Ws 7851 ae Flax Ford, George ie Mrs. Sarah 227 Forker, oe Pike T oh; se Samuel 33964 : William R339 6lby 924131, Forker & McDonald. Hwdee Forney, Ce 13h Willian i 63,110 Forsythe, Robert © _ 106 Fort, Je. <e tgos Foster, Andrew ie acd Benjamin v 39 David ac ere OO Pee, FES9 Eldredge. peeee> James, Warsawe ~ 110 Moses 39° ; sheet (colored) Les a peeks Thomas : 49,143

Muskingum County = en ! ; County 'cut out of 1811 . 2 Munro, Joseph F.: - 89 Munroe distillery, Wills Creek 97 Muskingum - meaning 162 Myers,Reve JeWe (Lutheran) - 203

Shields,Johns WeBedford mfge x threshing machines etc. 103 Shipman, James W. eh: Shits, Mre =: i) g Shoemaker ,Mre&- Mrée. Joseph 213 Shoemaker Coal bank: 105

Township' Trego,Miss Rebecca Je 137 Trimble, Matthew + 5255 William. Bethlohem Tomship - 18 Triplett, DLe skier He fo Triplett's subdivision of

Source changes here: from Centennial History of Coshocton County, Ohio, by Bahmer, William J, published 1909; 194 words in this source stream.

Foreword

In apportioning the pages of Coshocton County history it has been necessary to keep ever in view a vital Present as well as a vivid Past; to dwell not unduly on the Old, and to treat justly of the New; to sketch the antiquity that was Moundbuilder and the barbarity that was Indian into the civilization which is Coshocton.

There are many books affording means for scientific study of this region and its antiquity. A heap of biology, paleontology, anthropology, archaeology, geology, ethnology and other ologies could be piled higher than our mounds. Should this rough penciling take the reader to the library that will be better than bringing the library into these pages.

The county's most impressive development is in the last fifty years, particularlv the last quarter century. For valuable information grateful acknowledgment is due the press and the citizens who have so fully contributed to the record. In touching upon the social, industrial, economic and political features the cardinal purpose has been to speak true, to judge tolerantly, and above all to keep in mind that wealth is no corollary of worth and success no evidence of character. W. J. Bahmer.

Source changes here: from Centennial History Coshocton County Ohio, by William J. Bahmer, published 1909; 4,251 words in this source stream.

Coshocton City

Life by life, and race by race, You pass through ages strange; Breath by breath, and death by death, You run the links of change. Your tribes have come, your tribes have gone, And those today will go; What Time may bring, as cycles swing, No man of us can know.

Foreword

In apportioning the pages of Coshocton County history it. has been necessary to keep ever in view a vital Present as well as a vivid Past; to dwell not unduly on the Old, and to treat justly of the New; to sketch the antiquity that was Moundbuilder and the barbarity that was Indian into the civilization which is Coshocton.

There are many books affording means for scientific study of this region and its antiquity. A heap of biology, paleontology, anthropology, archeology, geology, ethnology and other ologies could be piled higher than our mounds. Should this rough penciling take the reader to the library that will be better than bringing the library into these pages.

The county's most impressive development is in the last fifty years, particularly the last quarter century. For valuable information grateful acknowledgment is due the press and the citizens who have so fully contributed to the record. In touching upon the social, industrial, economic and political features the cardinal purpose has been to speak true, to judge tolerantly, and above all to keep in mind that wealth is no corollary of worth and success no evidence of character. W. J. BAHMER.

Region

The beginning of everything is the object of a deal of investigation all over the world. Whole libraries are filled with opinions of many scholars'in as many different languages giving as many varying notions regarding the antiquity of human life. In such a discussion our particular spot on the earth cannot very well be overlooked. Much as we may be interested in the pioneer life and the modern Coshocton County there is something in the mystery of the ages that holds us in awe before these hills and valleys where a wonderful procession of mankind issued from Cimmerian night and vanished into pathetic and fathomless silence.

As everyone knows from the pages of geology, there was once upon a time whirling through space a ball of fire whose surface in course of ages gradually crusted, cooling the air until moisture formed and the first rain washed our young world. The waters tore their way through. Explosions and earthquakes shook the new earth in frightful convulsion, while the wild-flaming, wild-thundering train of heaven's artillery swept across inky skies. Upheavals of rock clung into continents. Receding waters became seas. And to this sublime dawn of the earth's creation the geologist has given a name - the Eozoic age - a million years ago, what matter if more or less, a time that no man knows.

The world turned on in the wheel of time and passed through its Palaeozoic age, when life appeared in a tadpole stage, and if you believe in evolution (which you can if you want to) we were those self-same tadpoles along this one-time seashore where

For it is written in geology that the sea covered what is now Coshocton County long enough to form the stratifications, including the shale with its fossil remains of the fish age, and eons later the coal and limestone imprinted with the plant tracery of the carboniferous age. Then the hot lands heaved amain and in Langdon Smith's lines on the Darwinian theory

We were Amphibians, scaled and tailed, And drab as a dead man's hand; We coiled at ease 'neath the dripping trees, Or trailed through the mud and sand, Croaking and blind, with our three-clawed feet, Writing a language dumb, With never a spark in the empty dark To hint at a life to come.

In time came the Mammoth. Remains of huge elephants and mastodons have been found in peat marshes of these valleys, according to C. H. Mitchener, of the New Philadelphia bar, thirty-three years ago in his history of our Coshocton valleys, a rare work even in this day.

As the eons came and the eons went more snow accumulated in the North than summer suns could melt. Then formed that vast mass of slowly moving ice which geologists have decided pressed down from the north pole toward this latitude, similar to the present ice-covered waste of Northern Greenland. In Europe the ancient glacial covering spread over Britain and the Scandinavian peninsula, Western Russia, Northern Germany and the whole valley of Switzerland, and in America as far south as our region and thence southwesterly in a direction of some variableness.

The signs of this ice sheet are traced in glacial scratches on stones. The geologist reasons that the grinding ice leveled the land, and that boulders, drift and rocks carried from the North in the icesheet's freezing embrace were left here when the ice finally melted. There are some, however, who reject the ice evidence that persuades others, and who hold that a flood instead produced all the phenomena.

Coshocton County valleys are lined with gravel terraces, the drift deposit laid down by the swollen streams of the melting glacial years. Much of the city of Coshocton is built upon a glacial terrace. Granitic pebbles from Northern Canada are massed here with local pebbles. Verily, "sermons in stones," and cyclopedias in pebbles.

H. J. Lewis, of Pittsburg, and one-time president of the Society of Engineers of Western Pennsylvania, has an interesting theory regarding the gravel terrace or bench that lines the Tuscarawas valley. He has traced its entire length, and from pebbles found in it near his home town of West Lafayette he is convinced that the waters of the St. Lawrence River once followed this course. These pebbles, he avers, are seen nowhere else except along the shores of the St. Lawrence. According to Professor George Frederick Wright, of Oberlin, among America's eminent archeologists, there were no Niagara Falls and no Lake Erie before the glacial period, while northern rivers found new beds with the retreat of the ice.

It is in such gravel terraces as ours that archeologists are searching today for evidence that man inhabited the earth during the glacial period ten thousand years ago or more, according to various estimates. The attention of the scientific world was drawn to the first discovery of human implements in the gravel terraces near Abbeville, in Northern France, seventy years ago. Later, more implements of a similar type were found in England. In recent years a most important archeological discovery made in America was the finding of paleolithic implements by Dr. C. C. Abbott at a depth of five to twenty feet in the gravel bluff overlooking the Delaware River at Trenton.

These hatchet-like implements and fish-spears are accepted as paleolithic because found in undisturbed deposits of the glacial age. They are now in the Peabody Museum at Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Indians fashioned similar objects of flint, but Dr. Abbott, who is well known as an investigator of Indian antiquities, describes the paleolithic implements as of argillite or slate, resembling closely what European archeologists call stone axes of the Chellean type.

More recent discoveries of these paleolithic implements have been made in the gravel terraces at Madisonville and Loveland, showing that glacial man was in Ohio. Wherefore Professor Wright enjoins that wherever excavations are being made in these glacial drifts someone should be on the lookout for paleoliths, the discovery of which would interest scientists the world over. Nor should the observer be too easily discouraged, says the professor, because hunting a chipped stone in a great bank of pebbles and gravel is like looking for a needle in a haystack. The writer cheerfully attests to the difficulty after personally satisfying himself by a feverish scramble along the walls of Coshocton's gravel pit, with clawing hands and an archeological stare.

Having evidence that man existed as early as the glacial age, what manner of being was he? Dr. Abbott argues he was the ancestor of the Eskimo, driven northward by the invading Indian, but the paleolithic man's implements no more resemble those of the Eskimo than those of people in the later stone age. Some yet consider glacial man of the same blood as the ancient cave-dwellers of France.

If we accept the view of Henry W. Haynes of the Archzological Institute of America, as set forth in the Narrative and Critical History of America, whatever primitive people may have occupied this region they were at least no mysterious, superior race, and they did not even reach a stage of culture that could properly be called civilization.

This may restrain any ardent local archeologist from asserting this to be the seat of the vanished empire of Atlantis, though several writers have declared their belief it was somewhere in America as an offset to learned commentators who have variously and wildly supported the claims of Sweden, Africa, Spitzbergen, and Palestine.

At any rate it is an interesting tale of Plato's, whether or not we endorse the conservative opinion of Longinus as expressed to his pupils in Alexandria that Plato designed the tradition merely as a literary ornament. As Plato's story runs, when Solon was in Egypt an aged priest said to him, "Solon, you Greeks are all children. You know of but one deluge, whereas there have been many destructions of mankind, both by flood and fire; in Egypt alone is ancient history recorded." And the dialogue goes on to describe the island of Atlantis somewhere off the Spanish coast where a mighty power held sway about as many thousand years ago as when glacial man hunted the mammoth in Coshocton valleys. This power pressed hard upon other nations of the known world to subjugate them all. "Then came

So much for the visions of poets and the theories of philosophers in their ancient guessing at the possibility of such a land, as some today imagine an antarctic continent or an open polar sea. Enough that archeologists generally have settled it in books if not by the spade that glacial man perished before a foreign invasion from Asia or the Pacific islands. How far this theory of an Oriental invasion has gone and to what extent it has fostered the belief that from such early Asiatics were descended the tribes which for ages dwelt in Coshocton County, we will now look into, even if we don't sanction.

The Meeting Of The Centuries In Coshocton Life County

Of the Sixty-ninth Battalion, Ohio National Guard, there were three companies from Coshocton County that became part of the 143d Ohio Regiment. At Washington the regiment was assigned to General Haskin's Division of the Twenty-second Army Corps, and placed on duty in Forts Slemmer, Slocum, Stevens and Totten, north of the Potomac and defending the national capital. June 8th the 143d moved to Bermuda Hundred, was assigned to the Tenth Army Corps, and placed in the entrenchments at City Point, around Richmond and Petersburg. The regiment completed its service at Fort

Company

Stewart, William - Died at Wil- Waters, Richard. son's Landing, Va., 1864; Whittemore, John. grave 115, Sec. C, Glendale, Williamson, John A. Va: Williamson, Ebenezer.

In Sherman's march to the sea the cavalry included the Ninth Ohio of which Company M from Coshocton County was accorded special praise. Our mounted troops saw service in Kentucky and Tennessee during 1863, and the following year in Alabama until attached to General Sherman's army in Georgia. The Ninth Ohio Volunteer Cavalry also took part in the campaign of the Carolinas, 1865. When these troops rode through Nashville the Times of that city described them'as making an admirable showing. The musicians were mounted on cream-colored horses, the first company on black horses, the second on white horses, and the third on bays.

Ninth Ohio Volunteer Cavalry

- Promoted to Lieutenant. Robert E. Tavener, Corporal. Sylvester A. Ellis, Quartermaster. Alexander Carnahan, Corporal. Thomas Carnahan, Commissary. J. A. Williamson, Corporal. James M. Humphrey, Sergeant. Thomas Richards, Corporal.

Davis, David (Conesville), Co. D, 76th O. V. L, in a charge to retake battery before Atlanta, 1864, surprised and captured alone six rebels in charge of three Union prisoners, and took them all to headquarters.

West Lafayette

Parkhurst, Elisha P., Co. H, 7th Ill. V. C., promoted Corporal for carrying his wounded Captain off Corinth battlefield under fire; detailed under "Chickasaw, the Scout;' captured at Clifton, Tenn.; jumped from moving train and escaped; wounded at Eastport, Miss.

William Webb, a Confederate soldier, of the 61st Tennessee, who died on the train near Coshocton while being transported as a prisoner of war, is interred in Oak Ridge cemetery.

Resistance to the draft in 1863 by a few in Crawford Township caused much local excitement. Men who hid in a barn were discovered, and in the firing that ensued three were shot. Draft rioting in Holmes County started an armed force from here on the march to Napoleon, where effective service was given.

Walnut Street School In Both Arms Of The Service

VOLUNTEERS IN THE SPANISH -WAR - AT FEVER STRICKEN CAMP ALGER - COSHOCTON SOLDIERS IN THE PHILIPPINES - PRESENT REPRESENTATION IN BOTH ARMS OF THE SERVICE.

When the Spanish mine under the waters of Havana harbor sank the United States battleship Maine on the night of February 15, 1808, sending 266 souls into eternity, and war began for the freeing of Cuba from the oppressive rule of Spain, Coshocton County was ready again as she always was in the defense of the country.

Here the American spirit was as strong as in the days of old. Nearly two-score years had passed since the last war - a commercial era in which every efiergy of the community was directed toward the arts of peace. But when the country again called upon her young men the sons of Coshocton responded with all the patriotism which actuated the boys of the sixties.

They went out to endure hardships and they did it like Americans. True they traveled better, while their predecessors rode: in anything in the shape of a car that could be found. But when the boys of '98 reached camp they endured 28-mile practice marching, slender fare, and sleeping on the ground in rain. About the only complaint from our volunteers was that they were not permitted to go where the fighting was.

The Coshocton volunteers went from Camp Bushnell, Columbus, to Camp Alger at Washington, D. C. In that fever-stricken camp where troops of the United States suffered much from the scourge of typhoid there were eighty cases in the Coshocton company. In August Company F went to Camp Meade near Harrisburg, Pa., and remained on duty there a month, when peace followed the short, sharp and decisive victory of the United States over Spain whose navy had been sunk at Santiago and Manila.

County

Bahmer, Charles V., Orderly at headquarters, Point Montauk, Long Island; detailed messenger to General Wheeler; attached to Hospital Corps, Fort Wadsworth, N. Y.

Dr. George W. Crile, the eminent surgeon of Cleveland, who is a Coshocton County product, was in the Porto Rican campaign, commissioned as Major.

In the Philippine service during the period following the Spanish- American War when American troops were engaged in suppressing the native insurrection against the United States government, Coshocton County was creditably represented.

Coshocton -Soldiers Chapter Atit

THE BENCH AND THE BAR - THE ADVOCATE OF YESTERDAY AND THE BUSINESS LAWYER OF TODAY - ADVANCE IN JURY INTELLIGENCE - DISAPPEARANCE OF EMOTIONAL PLEADING.

It is not necessary to go outside Coshocton County courts to note the emphatic distinction between modern methods at the bar and those that prevailed in earlier times.

The advocate of yesterday and the business lawyer of today present widely different types in the professional pages of Coshocton life. For one thing emotional pleading belongs to the past. The change to the more matter-of-fact address may be attributed to the advance in jury intelligence.

Under the present mode of criminal practice, giving the prosecution the closing argument, much is detracted from the commercial value of counsel's emotions, whether real or artificial, and in consequence the safeguards of society have been strengthened.

Only once in recent years did a member of the Coshocton bar indulge in emotional pleading to the extent of calling on God to strike him down then and there if he were not telling the truth, and as the speech frothed from his lips he sank to the floor, and soon after went to his grave.

That most trying feature in litigation - the law's delays, against which the centuries have protested as far back even as in Shakespeare's day - may discourage the citizen seeking justice, but even a more grave condition confronts the people in the affirmation by a Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court at the banquet this year of the Coshocton Bar Association, that the rule in the State Supreme Court at times may set aside a just verdict or sustain an unjust decision because of technical considerations! In other words, the bench gives us, not justice, but technicalities. Such things do not deepen veneration for our modern judicial system.

The bar of this county has a creditable record in its representation on the bench, among the most creditable in Ohio. High ideals maintained in the profession have conferred the ermine on very able members. Judge J. C. Pomerene and Judge R. M. Voorhees of the Circuit Court rank among the most distinguished in the service. Judge Voorhees, now on the Circuit bench, by temperament and vigorous mental organism is described as among the best qualified judges in the State. Neither abrupt nor impetuous in manner, but uniformly gracious, moderate and equitable, he is esteemed by the bar for his personal qualities and admired for his abilities. As lawyer, facing the strain of an uphill fight in court, he has always had in reserve an indomitable quality of endurance and firmness, the staunch character that endured in the defense of his country through her darkest years. Judge Voorhees served from 1899 to 1905, and is now entering his second term.

Judge Pomerene, who served from 1893 until his death in 1808, is remembered for his devotion to his profession, his careful address, his pleasant demeanor. The law was his life-work.

Striking individuality is noted in members of the Coshocton bar who have attained the Common Pleas bench. Puritanical sedateness characterized the first, William Sample, who served from 1857 to 1867, and was a member of the Constitutional Convention in 1874. Emphatic personality distinguished John D. Nicholas who went on the bench in 1887, serving ten years. A tribute to his character is the statement that he had not an iota of sycophancy. He was eloquent and forceful as a speaker.

As pronounced a personality is that of Judge S. H. Nicholas, who won his spurs as lawyer in association with Attorney W. S. Merrell. He began his present term on the Common Pleas bench in 1907. Thoroughly sensible of the popular attitude toward defects in the present-day judicial system, Judge Nicholas is not given to regarding judges as any more than human; nor does he aver that infalli-

The fact that such discussion may strike some with a sort of horror, as though it sounded of sacrilege, only indicates that there are too many who have fallen into a habit of thought more becoming to subjects than to citizens. They have come to look upon their courts as far apart and above them - which is a state of mind that some one has well said is not to be encouraged in a government whose safety depends upon the intelligence and character of its citizens. The intelligence that is prone to slavishness and the character that bends its knees too reverently in the presence of power are the reverse of democratic. Respect for the courts is praiseworthy - provided the courts deserve it. But when the courts cease to be just tribunals and sacrifice truth on the altar of technicalities, the day has arrived that, in the words of Charles Sumner, the blood of martyrs crying from the ground summons them to judgment.

The Circuit is the Fifth, embracing the fifteen counties of Ashland, Coshocton, Delaware, Fairfield, Holmes, Knox, Licking, Morgan, Morrow, Muskingum, Perry, Richland, Stark, Tuscarawas and Wayne.

And Mayors Of Coshocton

COUNTY OFFICIALS - REPRESENTATIVES IN CONGRESS AND STATE LEGISLATURE - COSHOCTON MEN IN VARIOUS PUBLIC OFFICES - POSTMASTERS AND MAYORS OF COSHOCTON.

In the seyenties Warsaw presented arguments in favor of making it the seat of county government. There was talk of building a new courthouse in Coshocton. Opposition to this came from Warsaw, and the county voted against a new building. Representative Blackburn, from this county, fathered a bill in the Legislature, providing for the collection of taxes to pay for the $90,000 courthouse which was finally erected in Coshocton in 1875, but it cost Mr. Blackburn his re-election.

The County Infirmary, two miles east of Coshocton, was provided in the forties. Four hundred acres were bought for $5,500, and the buildings erected thereon cost several thousand dollars. 'There are fifty inmates at present.

At first the treasurer received five per cent. of the taxes collected, then three per cent., amounting to about $60 a year before 1818. It was customary then for county funds to be loaned to responsible citizens.

Infirmary Directors

Coshocton County has been in various Congressional districts, and at present is in the Seventeenth with Tuscarawas, Wayne, Holmes and Licking. Five Coshocton representatives have been sent- to Washington: David Spangler, 1833-37; James Matthews, 1841-45; John Johnson, 1851-53; Joseph Burns, 1857-59; and John W. Cassingham, I9OI-04.

Sale Senators

The county is in the joint 18th-19th Senatorial district, with Tuscarawas, Guernsey, Monroe, except part of Benton and Bethel townships, and Rinard's Mills precinct, and Noble County, except part of Beaver, Buffalo, Enoch, Marion, Seneca, Stock, Wayne, Center, Elk and Jefferson townships, East Union and part of Dexter precinct.

A. L. Cass, 1858-59. The salary of members in the State Legislature is $1,000 a yea, with allowance of twelve cents a mile, limited to two trips a month.

Spate Representatives

Coshocton County citizens filling State offices include R. A. Crawford, Building and Loan Inspector; C. H. Geidel, Canal Superintendent; C. L. Cassingham, of State Mining Commission; Miss Mary McClure, Workshop Inspector; E. L. Lybarger, of Commission investigating election of U. S. Senators by vote of the people - was formerly member of the State Board of Public Works, State House

George A. Hay was a member of the State Board of Penitentiary Managers during Governor McKinley's administration, a member of the commission investigating convict labor conditions, and at present on the Board of Review adjusting tax valuations in this county. W. M. Smith and George Ayres are members of this Board. J. M. Comp-

Captain E. Z. Hays was a member of the Vicksburg Monument Commission; J. P. Forbes of the Ohio Centennial Commission; L. K. Anderson of Governor Bushnell's staff; James Gamble of the Board of Public Works, 1863, James Moore, 1864-69, Leander Ransom, 1836-45; John C. Fisher of the Fish Commission, 1875; J. W. Dwyer, Superintendent of Internal Revenue for the Northern District of Ohio, and afterward Pension Agent at Columbus; W. A. Johnston, Deputy U. S. Internal Revenue Assessor; John Frew, James Dryden, Dr. J. H. Lee and C. A. Lamberson, Deputy Collectors of Internal Revenue; William E. Mead and George Hill, Canal Superintendents; Joseph L. Morris, State Inspector of Mines, 1886-89; C. A. Marden, Electrician of Penitentiary.

For anyone with the inclination or leisure to go into the details of modern Coshocton County politics there is much to interest, to amuse, to edify, and to mystify. It would fill a separate volume to tell the story of Democratic and Republican politicians, the county conventions and the caucus methods now abandoned for the later system of nominating candidates and party committeemen by whole vote of the people, a nominating system which like others may develop unforeseen defects, but which is hailed as an advance over the caucus-stuffing, convention-packing and vote-buying of corrupt politicians.

From the time that Senator Foraker knew the usefulness of a subservient press and included Coshocton among the newspaper rivets in his State machine, he has filled the Coshocton postoffice with his creatures. To their pie-counter vision the Standard Oil Senator appeared always white as the driven snow. The climax came when the oil and railroad statesman could not resist having his name come before the Chicago convention for President in 1908. No one apparently wanted the job of naming him, and the Coshocton delegate who made the attempt may yet live it down. The vote for Foraker was too small to remember.

Afterward the Standard Oil statesman's hopes for reelection to the Senate were blasted. His expected leader in the fight for him on the floor of the Legislature did not go back to Columbus. The Coshocton County Republican convention decided that he had better 'Stay at home.

The business of the Coshocton postoffice is an index to the increasing importance of this city in the commercial world. From annual receipts of $11,000 in round numbers a dozen years ago the office now receives $25,000 in a year, while the money-order business amounts annually to $80,000. Nearly four million pieces of mail pass through the office yearly. The present force besides the postmaster includes assistant postmaster, two dispatchers, two general delivery and stampwindow clerks, one money-order and register clerk, five city carriers, seven rural carriers, one substitute clerk, two substitute carriers, and one special delivery messenger.

Among Coshocton's mayors George A. Hay, Republican leader who for many years actively devoted his energies to the party's interest, holds the record for longest service. Nominated each time by acclamation he was elected four times. The village incorporation dates back to 1833, but the loss of early records deprives us of the names of the early mayors.