Coshocton City (part 5 of 11)

A vote of thanks for the liberal subscriptions of the community is recorded, and then, among other things, the following: ^^ Resolved, That we accept the proposal of Mr. John Elliott to erect said building for the sum of $2,500, as per contract" - pa3'ing him at the same time $1,099, the amount of subscriptions then obtained.

A complete list of the contributors, with the amounts of their contributions, is also preserved. The men of that time - for we are to remember that all this took place a generation ago - believed in the pay-as-you-go plan. Numerous records of minor subscriptions were made during the four years the church was building; but when it was finally ready for use, little or nothing remained to be paid.

The church was dedicated in the early summer of 1846, during the pastorate of Rev. E. P. Jacob, by Rev. Wesley Kenny, D.D., then of Wheeling, more recently of the Philadelphia Conference, lately deceased. Since that time it has been repaired and improved at ditferent times at an aggregate expense of not less than double its original cost. In 1862, the parsonage property was secured. In the spring of 1863, the Pittsburg Conference held its annual session in it.

Preachers Of Coshocton Since 1860

cuit, we know nothing. The contribution - or, at all events, the allowance - of the entire circuit the first year (1840) for the support of the gospel, was $100 for the preacher and $10 for the presiding elder.

Benevolent collections were of course not thought of, and Sunday schools were yet in the future. The entire membership of that year was about 60. The membership of these two charges, as shown by the conference minutes of 1875, is 640. The amount paid for ministerial support the same j'ear, $2,1 20, and for benevolent purposes, $640. There are also six Sunday schools, with an aggregate attendance of 600 scholars.

The first {Chalfant'' s) meeting-house in Washington township was built in 1811, and the church there is regarded by many as the oldest in the county. There is a good church at Moscow, in that township. In the northwest part of the county the Methodist church was planted at several points in New Castle and Perry townships, concentrating at East Union, at a very early date, largely through the zealous efibrts of Joseph W. Pigman, a famous class leader and local preacher, settled in that locality, of whom mention is elsewhere made in this volume.

Churches were subsequently established at West Bedford and West Carlisle, which, with varying numbers, have always been accounted (especially the former) as among the more important ones in the county.

i^oscoe. - From 1820 to 1826, there had occasionally been a sermon preached in Roscoe (then Caldersburg),in the dining-room of a tavern kept by one William Barcus; but in 1826 two Methodist ministers were appointed by the Annual Conference to the Circuit in which Roscoe was embraced, and in the spring of that year the first class was formed by those ministers (their names were Abner Gongh and H. 0. Sheldon). The persons forming the class were Theophilus Phillips, Mrs. Samuel Brown, James Le Retilley and wife, Mrs. William Barcus, Rachel Le Retilley, and Joseph Shoemaker and wife. Meetings continued to be held in the same tavern until about 1828, about which time Samuel Brown joined, and the meetings were after that held at his house until 1831, in which year they built them a nice little brick church, twenty-four by forty feet. A little incident in regard to Samuel Brown. He was, by his own account, a very wicked man then. There was to be a love feast held on Sunday morning, and he went along with his wife to carry the child, not intending to stay in, but when they got there it was about time to close the door, as it was the custom in those days. So, when he stepped in to hand the child to his wife they closed the door and drew a bench against it, so that he could not get out, and was compelled very reluctantly to remain, and during the exercises he became powerfully convicted, and then and there joined the church.

In 1853, the old church being too small, they concluded to build a larger one. The old one was torn down, and one erected forty by sixty feet; and in March, 1874, it was burned and rebuilt the same year at a cost of $8,000, exclusive of materials out of old building. It is a handsome brick, same size as old one, with brick tower and fine bell. The windows are of stained-glass, and the pulpit and pews are very neat ; manufactured at Richmond, Indiana. It was dedicated December 27, 1875.

The Branch church, some six miles west of Roscoe, has long been associated with that church in a circuit, and takes rank as one of the older and stronger country churches.

Warner Cha'pel, on Bowman's section, three miles south of Roscoe, is a neat brick building, the erection of which was accomplished some six years ago, largely through the

Three miles further south is the Conesville church. Frank Wolf was largely instrumental in securing this church. The building is a good brick one of moderate dimensions.

The Warsaw Methodist Society was organized in 1843, by Rev. Mr. Thatcher, the presiding elder at the time being the Rev. Mr. Yocum. For five or six years meetings were held in the old school-house, still standing on the hill. The first members were Langdon Hogle, Andrew^ Weatherwax and wife, Joseph Meggs and wife, John Hook and wife, William Pancake and wife. The church was built about five years after the society was organized - a frame building worth something over a thousand dollars. Rev. Mr. Thatcher was followed by Rev. Finley Leonard, during whose ministry a great revival occurred, the result being an addition of some forty to the church. The number of communicants at this time is fifty, and the church is in more prosperous condition than for several years.

The Mohawk Village Methodist church was organized in the fall of 1840. In the preceding year a company from Ireland had settled in the Mohawk valley, until that time a comparative wilderness. They were followed the next year by other families of the same connection. The first company embraced James Moore, deceased (father of Robert Moore), James Moore, Sr., John Moore, and William Moore. Those coming the next year were William and James Given, William and James Thompson, and William Moore, all now living. And these families, with Thomas Treadaway and wife, composed the society at its organization. In 1841, there was an addition to the settlement, including, besides others, John Moore and family, and the well-known James and Robert of the present day. For about a year from the organization, the meetings were held in the Whittaker school-house ; then a school-house was built in the settlement, and meetings held in that. In 1849, the church was built - worth some |1,500. Within a few years it has been repaired and very much improved as to its interior. It stands near a refreshing spring of water, and is convenient and attractive in all its appointments and arrangements. The minister first in charge was liev. Mr. Camp. Rev. Leonard Parker succeeded him, and Rev. Henry Whittemore (still preaching in Northern Ohio Conference) succeeded Parker. Under his ministry quite a noticeable number were added to the society. Rev. Homer J. Clark followed Whittemore. Then came Austin Coleman, during whose ministry the church building was erected. Just prior to building the Methodist Episcopal church, he held a protracted meeting in the Baptist church, which had been built the year before. During this revival there were a great many valuable accessions. The history of the society has been marked by great prosperity. The number of members at this time is eighty-seven.

In relation to the church at Keene, two respectful applications, at some months interval, were made to the minister in charge for information. Both were unanswered. An intelligent gentleman was then commissioned to make direct personal application. His answer is in these words : "Nothing can be learned of the early history of the M. E. Church here that can be made available for your purposes. There seem to be no 'records' to refer to, and there is no member to consult who was living here at the time the church was organized. I can get no information from the Rev. Mr. Disney, and succeed no better with his laymen. I can only abandon the fruitless search."* The society is an old one, and the building a good frame.

At Canal Lewisville a very neat frame church was built in 1872, chietiy through the efforts of David Markley. The appointment is one in connection with Kecne, and the congregation has had a pleasant history and enjoyed great prosperity.

The church at Bakersville was organized about 1848, and is now enjoying its second house of worship (dedicated February 7, 1875), the old one having become unadapted to the size and character of the congregation. Making part of this charge are several appointments in the county round about, chief of which is "White Eyes. The number of members at Bakersville at this time is about seventy, and in the whole charge some two hundred and twenty.

The church at Bloomjield was built during the summer of 1871. It was dedicated January 14, 1872. Its cost was about $2,500. The congregation was organized with a membership of twenty. Thirty-three were soon thereafter added under the labors of Rev. A. E. Thomas, the minister at that time in charge. The present membership is about seventy-live. The Sunday-school has ahvays been a most interesting department of this church. It was organized in March, 1872, with E. J. Pocock as superintendent.

The Methodist (Protestant) Church dates its organization in Coshocton county in 1830. The first movement seems to have been at Jacobsport, where to this day probably the strongest organization is found. The building is a commodious frame.

On the plains above Lafayette a church (the appointment was called "Phillips'") was organized at an early day in the histor}' of the denomination, which has always since manifested much vigor. It occupies a substantial brick building.

At Coshocton, some thirty years ago, the M. P. Church was a comparatively strong one, with the best house of worship (the brick on Locust street bet-ween Second and Tiiird) and largest congregation of the place. It soon thereafter began to decline, and for a number of years has

The interest of the M. P. Church about Coshocton has of late years been concentrated at Moore's school-house, two miles below Coshocton, where there is at this time quite a fair congregation.

Besides the points thus far noticed as occupied by this denomination, there are appointments at Littick's, in Franklin township ; at Union Church, in Oxford township ; at "Wolfe's ; at Bird's Run, in Linton.

Among the more prominent ministerial laborers in the advancement of the interests of this denomination have been Cornelius Springer,* N. Sneethen, J. Dolby, William Munhall, Israel Thrapp, Joseph Hamilton, John Baker, D. Truman.

Among those connected with the various organizations in the earlier days were : In Coshocton, David Waggonerf and wife, and Zebedee Baker and wife ; in Franklin township, Isaac Shambaugh and wife, the Litticks, Browning, Bancroft, and Maston ; at Moore's school-house, the Moores, the Porteus', and McBanes; at Jacobsport, John Davis, S. V. Powelson, the Bakers, Chappies, and Magness ; in Lafayette township, the Loozes and Phillips, etc.

It is said that there are some fifteen localities (all south of rivers) at which services under the direction of this denomination are held ; and the number of members in the county is estimated at some five hundred.

Presbytekian Churches

f Residing just out of Coshocton, in the southeast. lie is a son of Phillip Waggoner, elsewhere mentioned as one of the first settlers in Oxford township ; now in his seventy-sixth year.

the oldest, it being in fact a twin church with that at Keene. Ministers traveling to, or living in the counties west and south, occasionally preached in the town from 1812 until 1818. In the latter year, Rev. James Cunningham, then living in Utica, Licking county, supplied what was denominated " the congregation of Coshocton and Mill creek," in which were fifteen communicants. The separation of the congregation seems to have occurred about 1833, about which time Rev. Geo. Warner was preaching to the church. Rev. i^athaniel Conklin followed him. The first elder at Coshocton was James Renfrew, and a little later John Elliott was elected. The former had served as an elder in the united church of Coshocton and Mill creek, and the latter had served at Keene before removing to Coshocton. The services were held at first in private houses, and then in the court-house. In 1824, James Renfrew started a Sunday-school. It was held in the currying-shop of the tannery on the northwest corner of Second and Walnut streets. In April, 1834, the county commissioners gave Samuel Lee, William K. Johnson, John Porter, and their associates, a lease of a site for a church on the southwest quarter of the public square, and the congregation, by a great and protracted effort, put up a substantial frame building, thirty by forty-two feet. It stands at this writing on the northeast corner of Fourth and Main streets - used for stores. Rev. Joseph S. Wylie, the first pastor of the church, began his labors in 1835, and remained pastor about six years, passing to Apple creek in Wayne county, and afterward to Florence, Pennsylvania, where he died. Eight members made up the original organization of the Coshocton church. There was a steady increase until 1838. In that year fourteen members withdrew, and were organized into a second Presbyterian church. Rev. Addison Cofley, coming from Lebanon, Ohio, began preaching to the old church as stated supply, August 8, 1841, and was installed pastor in 1843. Shortly before Mr. Coff"ey came, Jacob Elliott and Jonathan Fiske* had been ordained elders, and in his pastorate (ending September 2, 1847), David Noble, Samuel Wheeler, Eolla Banks, J. F. Traxler, and Wm. Loder. From 1847, when Mr. Cofiey removed to Peoria, Illinois, to the fall of 1851, the church was supplied by Eev. H. K. Hennigh and Rev. R. Robe, now in Oregon. Rev. Prosper H. Jacob (now of Knoxville, Iowa) was pastor from 1851 to 1854. In his pastorate, "Wm. Sample, Wm. Laughead, and Jos. K. Johnson were installed elders. Rev. T.J. Taylor (who died in Illinois, 1867) supplied the church for a few months in 1855-6.

Wm. E. Hunt (licensed by Steubenville Presbytery), the present pastor of the church, became such May 14, 1857, having supplied the churches of Coshocton and Keene from the July preceding. At that time there were fifty-six members of the church. At the time of Mr. Hunt's installation the Johnson Brothers (John, Joseph K., and Wm. K.) proposed to give lot 314 (on Main street) and the house then on it for a parsonage, provided the rest of the congregation would build an addition, all of which was done. In 1866, the brick church (forty-three by seventy feet, two towers, steeple one hundred feet, slate roof, frescoed walls, stained glass windows, etc.), corner of Fourth and Chestnut streets, was begun and finished in spring of 1868, at a cost of $15,500"* The synod of Ohio met in it that fall. In May, 1867, T. S. Humrickhouse, T. C. Ricketts, and James R. Johnson were installed elders.

The second church was organized January 12, 1839, and in the following spring Rev. E. Buckingham, from Newark,! became the pastor. Samuel Lee and A. R. Hillyer were the first elders. Mr. Buckingham remained until April 22, 1846. During his ministry, eighty-four were added to the fourteen original members of the church, and a frame house of worship was erected on Fourth street between Main and Chestnut streets, now " Equity Building."

Rev. H. Calhoun (now of Ironton, Ohio), was stated supply of the church for eleven years from April, 1846, and was followed for brief periods by Reverends Mussey, John Henderson, and "Wm. Bridgeman. From IN'ovember, 1861, to November, 1865, Rev. C. W. Wallace (recently of Monroe ville, Ohio), supplied the church.

A. D. Denman and Josiah Glover were elected elders September 23, 1860; Chester Wells, September 13, 1862; and W. H. Robinson and Dr. S. H. Lee, March 11, 1863.

A temporary arrangement was entered into July 1,1867, by which the first and second churches were to worship together under the ministry of Rev. Wm. E. Hunt, pastor of the first church, each church retaining its organization. This arrangement continued until the formal union was accomplished in virtue of the action of the General Assemblies, under which the churches had respectively been. This was consummated September 11, 1870. The united church took as the corporate name " The Presbj^terian Church of Coshocton," and engaged Rev. Wm. E. Hunt as pastor. At the time of union, there were on the roll of the first church one hundred and twelve names, and on that of the second church seventy-four. In 1871, the brick parsonage next the church was built at a cost of about $5,000. The old parsonage was sold for $2,500, and the second Presbyterian church building was sold in 1873 for $3,000.

The elders at this time are William Sample, A. D. Denman, T. S. Humrickhouse, S. H. Lee, T. C. Ricketts, W. H. Robinson, Josiah Glover, and James R. Johnson. The number of members in April, 1875, was one hundred and seventy. A large proportion of the funds for the new brick church was raised through the instrumentality of the " Ladies' Society - they having in the outset purchased the lot, costing $1,000.

county, as early as in 1818, occasionally preached to what was denominated the Congregation of Coshocton and Mill Creek, The prominent members of the congregation (in which were fifteen communicants) were James Renfrew and Samuel Lee, of Coshocton, and Timothy and Jacob Emerson, in the neighborhood of Keene. Services were held in pleasant weather under the trees of the forest, standing on the site of the present church of Keene. The church probably became the church of Keene distinctively in 1833. The oldest sessional record now accessible is dated July 14, 1827. On that day the Rev, Thomas Barr preached, and fifteen members were received into the church. The elders were Timothy Emerson and James Renfrew. The church was supplied during 1828 and 1829, Rev. James Culbertson and Rev. J. B, Morrow, among others, preaching. Rev. George Warner then " supplied" for two years. In 1832, Rev. Wm. Cox preached, and the session received ten members. Rev. N^, Conklin was stated supply for two years ending June 1836. Rev. J. S. Wylie followed Mr. Conklin, and served for three years. Both Mr. Conklin and Mr. Wylie also served at the same time the Coshocton church, and these churches have frequently been associated in ministerial charge. Rev. B. I. Lowe followed Mr, Wylie, remaining as stated supply for two years. From 1841 until 1843, the church was supplied by Presbytery. Rev. John B. Whitham was installed pastor July 7, 1843. In 1844, a division occurred, and a New School church was organized. After a little time this was reorganized as a " Free Presbyterian " church, which, after a feeble life, protracted through a dozen years, became extinct.

Of the old church Rev. J. W. Knott became pastor, June 28, 1845, remaining in charge until October, 1847. Rev. Samuel Hanna (son of Rev. A. Hanna, of Wayne county) became pastor, November 11, 1848, and continued his labors un|il his death, in 1850. His memory is still among the people as " ointment poured forth." Rev. John Trubit, Rev. William Edgar, and Rev. C. C. Bomberger supplied the church from 1850 until July, 1856. At that time Rev. William E. Hunt began to preach, and continued until the next year, when, beiug invited to spend the whole time at Coshocton, the Keene church called Rev. li. W. Marquis, then preaching in the Linton and Evans creek churches. He was installed i^oveniber 14, 1857, and continued as pastor until his death, in May, 1875, and is now gratefully recalled as " the faithful 'pastor.'" Since his death, the church has been supplied by Kev. A. Cone. In 1832, John Elliott and Nathan Shannon were added to the session. John Elliott was afterward dismissed to Coshocton. Timothy Emerson died in 1874. The present elders are ISTathan Shannon, Joel Glover, Robert McClure, Liverton Beall, James Leggett, and W. H. Crawford. Rev. I. N. Shannon, pastor of the church of Terre Haute, Indiana, and also of Mt. Vernon, Ohio, was a child of this church, his father, Nathan Shannon, having long been an honored elder in it, and his own body rests in its grave-j^ard.

The church building, standing on a gentle acclivity, embracing several acres, dotted with young forest trees, is a large frame structure, most substantially built. It was erected in 1834 by Charles Farwell. The number of communicants in 1875 was one hundred and twenty-eight.

West Carlisle Church. - This church was organized on the first day of November, 1828. Rev. James Cunningham (originally from Washington county, Penn., first settled near Marietta, afterward at Utica), had been preaching occasionally in the neighborhood, for some time, and continued to preach for the church until 1834. Rev. Jacob Wolf then served the church for about a year, and after he left Mr. Cunningham again preached for the congregation a couple of years. In 1838 and 1839 the church was supplied by Rev. Enoch Bouton and Rev. Nathaniel Conklin. Rev. J. Matthews seems to have been the first pastor - installed November 11, 1840. Until 1846 he gave it half his time, and then the whole time until 1853. During Jiis time the church building still in use was erected. In 1853, C. C. Bomberger was ordained and installed pastor, giving to this church half his time. During the war the congregation was greatly distracted, and finally divided, Mr. Bom- berger and a considerable portion of the congregation j^utting themselves in connection with the Presbytery of Louisville (Declaration and Testimony), and the new church coming afterward under the care of the Presbytery of Central Ohio in connection with the Synod of Kentucky. After several years of embarrassment, with only occasional supplies, John Foy was ordained and installed in 1870. During his pastorate the church rallied to a considerable extent, and the house of worship was repaired and improved at a cost almost equal to its original cost. Mr. Foy removed, in 1874, to Martinsburgh, Knox county, and the church since has been supplied chiefly by Rev. S. Mehafiey. At its organization the number of members was twenty-four. In 1860 there were eighty-six ; in 1874, one hundred. The first elders were Thomas McKee, James Crawford, and Adam Gault. Subsequently the folloAving have served : A. II. Lyons, Christopher Crothers, John Lyons, Jas. McKee, Robert Crouch, Wm. Harvey, Geo. McKee, D. D. Johnson, Lewis Bonnett, and Thomas McKee. Those in italics compose the session at this time.

Jefferson Church. - This is situated in Jefterson township, about one mile south of Warsaw. Among those chiefly interested in the organization of the church were the Elder family, and the building was located on a site given for the purpose on the farm of old John Elder. The church was organized August 19, 1837. A colon}' was sent out for the purpose from the West Carlisle Church, with which it has nearly always been associated in making a pastoral charge.* The principal ministerial labor has been rendered by Reverends Matthews, Bomberger, John Moore, and Foy. It had, at the outset, twenty-four members - had, in 1875, about seventy. The elders first elected were Thomas Lower}', Isaac Skillman - subsequently Wm. McCullough, James Anderson, James Douglass, Matthew Elder, Wm. Crouch, J. V. Stevenson, John 31cCliiggage, Cyrus Elder, D. E. Laughlin. Those in italics constitute the session at this time.

Clark Church. - The Clark (township) church was organized March 22, 1834. Rev. N". Conklin and others had occasionally preached in the region, a number of Presb3^terian families having therein settled. John P. Kerr and Thomas Guthrie were the first elders. There were twelve members.

The services, for three years, were held in the house or barn of Wm. Craig. The first church building was erected in 1837, by Geo. Weatherwax. Cost, about $200. The site of the building originally donated was deeded to trustees May 19, 1846, by Wm. Craig and wife, in consideration of one dollar. In 1867, a new edifice was erected - a good-sized and neatly-built frame structure.

The elders : John P. Kerr, Thomas Guthrie, Robert Huston, George Weatherwax, Thomas Shannon, Wm. Weatherwax, Geo. R. Altman, James Endsley, Jr., and John T. Crawford. Those in italics composing the session at this time.

The original membership was almost wholly from Western Pennsylvania. There were twelve members at the organization; in 1876, one hundred and fifteen.

Linton (township) Church. - Was organized August 15, 1833. Ten persons presented certificates from other churches (most of them from the church on Island creek, Jefferson county), and five persons asked to be received into the church on examination, among them John Glenn, afterward an elder. The church was supplied by Revs. N. Conklin, N. Cobb, J. Matthews, D. Washburn, S. Hanna, Wm. Lumsden, and Robert Robe, for nearly nineteen years. Rev. R. W. Marquis was the first pastor ; settled April 10, 1852, and remained in charge until the fall of 1857. The church was then supplied for a time by Rev. J. B. Akey.

In 1860, Rev. John Moore, D.D., became pastor, and continued as such for some two years. Rev. G. W. Fisher was the next pastor, 1864-68. After being supplied for two years, the church called to the pastorate Rev. J. B. Stevenson, and he was in the place more than a year. Rev. W. B. Scarborough, the present pastor, took charge in 1872.

The first elders were Alex. Matthews, Sr., and Alex. Matthews, Jr. Being unacceptable to the congregation, they were soon removed. Eldredge Foster, J. Fort, John Glenn, and "Wm. Love were in the ofiice. All dead.

The congregation is using its second house of worship. The first was an old wagon-maker's shop, repaired and refitted. The present is a very neat frame building, erected in 1868.

Evans' Creek Church. - The first house of worship stood on a hill, about a mile out of Bakersville, overlooking the creek. It was a log one. The present is a neat frame structure, in Bakersville, built in 1861. The church was organized April 29, 1833.

During almost its entire history, it has been associated with the Linton church, having the same pastors, except iu the case of Rev. John Moore, D.D.

The elders have been: James Jones, David Walters, Wm, Shannon, Robert Lyons, John Buck^ David G. Miller, and John Miller. Those in italics are the present session.

Eoscoe Church. - The Roscoe church was organized April 25, 1847. Rev. II. Calhoun supplied it for eleven years, and it received a part of the time of Revs. Henderson, Wallace, and other pastors of the Second church of Coshocton. At the oreranization there were fifteen members. Under the care of Mr. Calhoun, and also at a later day under the labors of Rev. C. W. Wallace, Rev. S. P. Hildreth, and Rev. H. C. McBride, considerable accessions were received to the church ; but it has, at this writing, hardly as many as when first organized. The elders have been James Hill, George Bagnall, T. Carnahan, S. Sayre.

In 1847 a church was organized at "the Valley," on the road from Coshocton to Newark, six miles west of Coshocton, and a squared-log church built. Rev. P. H. Jacobs, of Coshocton, and Rev. C. C. Bomberger supplied it from 1847 to 1860.

The neighborhood had at first a few Presbyterian families, but death and removal to the west soon effaced these, and as the territory was occupied from the start by other denominations, this retired from the field.

In 1863, the old organization having become extinct, a second efibrt was made, but with no better success than the first. To this second congregation, Rev. John Moore, D.D., while settled in Jefierson church, ministered. In the first organization, William Crooks was an elder; in the second, John McCluggage. The church never numbered a score of members.

After "the split" of 1838, attempts were made to start " New School " churches at Linton and Keene, but there was no success at either place.

United Presbyterian

chief friends were the Campbells, Daughertys, McFaddens, Funks, Smiths, and Warrens. The principal ministerial service was rendered by Rev. D. F. Reed, the congregation being associated with Millcreek. A house of worship was built about 1840, but it was many years ago burned, and the church became, after a time, extinct.

The United Presbyterian Congregation of Amity, Keeue township, is composed of the Associate Reformed Congregation of Millcreek and the Associate Congregation of Keene, which occupied substantially the same territory.

The first members of the A. R. Church came to Keene township during the summer and fall of 1817, of whom Robert Boyd was the first, who came May 4, 1817. He was an educated man, and w^as considered by some of his friends as at one time the best scholar west of the mountains. His wife was a sister of Rev. Gilbert McMaster, D.D., of the Covenanter Church, father of Rev. E. D. McMaster, of the 0. S. Presbyterian Church. He came from Ireland when quite a young man. His father, William Boyd, was au elder in Rev. Kerr's Church, Cookstown, Tyrone county, Ireland, father of Revs. Joseph and Moses Kerr, of Pittsburg, Pa. The first preaching they had was in the summer of 1818, by Rev. George Buchanan, of Steubenville. He preached occasionally afterward; and Robert Boyd and George Ford, formerly elders in his congregation at Steubenville, acted as a session here. George Ford said there was no other organization between this and Steubenville. After 1822, Revs. David Proudfit, David Norwood, and Moses Kerr supplied occasionally.

The first communion was held in the fall of 1828, by Rev. Samuel Findley, D.D. The members at that time were Robert Boyd and wife, George Ford and wife, John Wilhams and wife, Thomas Hamilton and wife, Joseph Marshall and wife, Robert Boyd (Jr.) and wife, Mrs. Xaucy Foster, Mrs. Sarah Ford, et al.

Robert Boyd died I^ovember 25, 1826. George Marshall died September 30, 1834 He was a solid farmer, and the father of Colonel William Marshall.

Rev. D. F. Reid settled as first pastor in 1841, in connection with Millersburg and White Eyes, and labored with a good degree of success for about sixteen years.

The Associate Congregation of Keene was organized August 26, 1838. Robert Boyd and Robert Karr were ordained elders. Rev. Samuel Irvine officiated. Members : Robert Boyd and Elizabeth, his wife, Robert Karr and wdfe, William Boyd, John Karr and wife, Sarah Boyd, John Boyd, John Elliott and Martha, his wife, Robert Tidrick and w^ife, John. Williamson and wife, James Johnson, Samuel Boyd and Nancy, his wnfe, and John Loder.

Revs. S. Irvine, Joseph McKee, Samuel Hindman Mc- Cleans, and others, supplied occasionally. In April, 1845, Rev. James M. Henderson was settled as pastor, one-fourth of his time in connection with Northfield and Claysville. He labored thus one year and nine months with a good degree of success, w^hen he was released from this part of his charge. He was a strong advocate of temperance and opponent of slavery. The most striking instance of his labors here was a sermon that he preached from the text " Thou shalt not surely die." A Universalist preacher, by the name of Eaton, was making quite an excitement, and drawing a number of influential and enthusiastic followers after him. Mr. Henderson gave four weeks' notice that he would preach on the subject in the Keene 0. S. Presbyterian Church. There was a large audience to hear him, and he handled the subject in such a man ner that Uuiversalism has had a quietus on it in these parts ever since. August 26, 1853, James T. Boyd and James Boyd were ordained and installed elders.

In November, 1854, Rev. John P. Scott was settled onethird his time in connection with Millersburg and labored one year and nine months with success, when he was released from this branch of his charge.

September 4, 1858, the A. R. Congregation of Millcreek and the Associate Congregation of Keene formally went into the United Presbyterian Church.

Pursuant to a notice given on the last Sabbath in April, the congregations of Millcreek and Keene voted unanimously to consolidate into one congregation and session, under the name of Amity. This " action was ratified " by Presbytery, October 15, 1861.

The session was Rev. W. A. McConnell, George Ford, John Irvine, William Richie, Richard Richie, James T. Boyd, John Williamson, and James Boyd.

Mr. McConnell 'labored Avith ability and success until some difficulties arose. He resigned his charge at the meeting of Presbytery, June, 1864, on the ground that he had not got the encouragement and support to harmonize the charge he was led to expect. He left on the 13th of September, 1864. At that time Amity had one hundred and thirty members. Amity has had no settled pastor since. The membership at present is forty-seven.

The congregation of Arondalew^^ organized autumn of 1873, Rev. Andrew McCartney ofliciating. Elders Robert C. Warren, Claudius Hamilton, James T. Boyd, and John

Protestant Episcopal

Bishop Mcllvaine preached in Coshocton in the old Presbyterian church, standing on the square while it was not yet quite completed, 1835. Several unsuccessful movements have been made looking to the organization of a congregation of the P. E. church in Coshocton. For more than a year, preaching by a minister of that church was kept up in Roscoe. Rev. C. Sturgiss lived for some time, about 1844, in Keene, conducting an academy and preaching to a little flock at '' the Knob," in Millcreek township, where, through the influence of John Mitchell and others, a church was organized about forty years ago. There is, at that place, a neat little stone church, but only a few members, and there has been no service for nearly two j^ears.

A movement was made for a church of this order at jN'ewcastle, and services were conducted for some time by the professors at Gambler, but little headway was made.

Rev. J. D. Nunemacher is preaching to a congregation (without organization) composed mainly of Lutherans, in Coshocton, following in a line of work carried on for twenty years. There is also a congregation of similar sort at Helmick, in Clark township.

At " Ramur Meeting-house," in Keene township, there is gathered a " Christian Union " church - a denomination growing out of the late war, proclaiming as one of its cardinal doctrines, " no politics in the church."

Another organization of same kind was organized in East Union, in 1866, and numbered over a hundred members. Still another church of this order is on Severns' Ridge in New Castle township.

United Brethren

ing-house in Keeue township, but during the late civil war it was so divided and distracted as to become practically extinct, and was supplanted by the " Christian Union " church, now worshiping in same building.

It is understood that there are two respectable congregations of United Brethren in the east part of the county, one in White-eyes and one in Crawford township, but no detailed accounts of them have been obtained.

Brief Biographical Sketches

Charles Williams, the first white settler in Coshocton county, was unquestionably one of the most remarkable of its citizens. He was born near Hagerstown, Maryland, in 1764. In his boyhood, the family removed to "Western Virginia, near Wheeling. He married there Susannah Carpenter, ''and moved to the neighborhood of the salt works on the Muskingum, ten miles below Coshocton, and subsequently to " the forks of the Muskingum." Of hardy stock, he grew up in the severest discipline of pioneer life. He was a successful trapper, hunter, Indian scout, and trader, and held every office (being almost all the time in some) in the county possible for a man of his education, from road supervisor and tax-collector to member of the legislature. He was famous as a tavern-keeper, and in that and other capacities became very popular. Clever, genial, naturally shrewd, indomitable in purpose, not averse to the popular vices of his day, and even making a virtue of profanity, he was for forty years a controlling spirit of the county, and for twenty-five, the controlling spirit. He died in 1840 (in his seventy-sixth year), leaving a considerable number of relatives, many of whom are still in the county. Two of his children were burned to death by the destruction by fire of the cabin built by him when he first settled at Coshocton. It is said that one of his daughters (the mother of C. H., Matthew, and Wm. A. Johnston), when twelve years old, was in the habit of doing the milling for the family, taking the grain on horseback to Zanesville, and bringing back the flour. The family was emphatically of the Pioneer sort.

oldest son of Eev. Joseph Kue, of Pennington, New Jersey - a well-known Presbyterian minister. He came to Coshocton county in 1811 ; a little later, went to New Orleans, coming back the overland route. He married Miss Fulton, and for some years gave himself to the management of a large tract of land (since known as the Rickett's lands) near Coshocton, acquired by that alliance. Afterward he was engaged in trade with C. Van Kirk. He died in Roscoe, February 17, 1871 (aged eighty-eight years), at the house of Dr. M. Johnson, who had married his only child. He was a brother of Joseph W. Rue.

James Benfrew^ one of the earliest merchants in Coshocton county, and for a few years county treasurer, and otherwise connected with public affairs, was born at Lisburn, county Antrim, Ireland, in 1767. He brought to America a healthy bod}^, a strong mind, and a little of this world's goods, which were steadily increased until his death. He commenced keeping store in Coshocton about 1815. In 1820, while in Pittsburg, whither he was in the habit of going for goods, he married Mrs. Johnson, a widowed sister of old Dr. Kerr, of the A. R. Presbyterian church in that city. The children of this woman found in Mr. Renfrew a most worthy step-father. He was an admirable counselor and helper while living, and a generous friend when dying. Both himself and his wife were most zealous Presbyterians, and sought to have all connected with them honor the Lord. Beside the Johnsons (John, Jos. K., and Wm.), Robert Hay was an object of Mr. Renfrew's interest and business training, and always spoke in highest terms of him. Wm. Renfrew (quite prominent as a merchant and otherwise) and James Renfrew, Jr., were children of Mr. Renfrew by a connection formed prior to his coming to Coshocton. He had no children by the widow Johnson. Mr. Renfrew died in 1832, being in his sixty-fifth year.

in the century near New Comerstown. Abraham learned his trade of cabinet-making at Marietta, and set up in Coshocton in 1814. He was for some time a justice of the peace, and also coroner of the county. He died September 22, 1869, in his seventy-sixth year. His widow, now about his age at death, resides in Coshocton with her son B. F. Sells.'

Dr. Samuel Lee was for more than sixty years a resident of Coshocton. He was born, and spent his boyhood, on a farm near Pultney, Vt. Having studied medicine at Castleton, Vt, he came to Ohio in 1809 on invitation of, and along with, Rev. Timothy Harris, of Granville, Licking county, who was then minister of the church of Granville, and had gone to visit his friends in the east, and act as a sort of emigration agent. The trip to Ohio was made on horseback. The Doctor was always specially interested in horses, and once remarked that the first thing he ever owned was a horse, and he guessed it would be the last thing he would give up. After he had been in Granville about two years (in which time he married Miss Sabra Case, who was an help-meet indeed, and who preceded him to the grave some three years), he came to Coshocton on the hunt of an estrayed or stolen horse. The town was then a mere hamlet, and wanted a physician, and he removed at once. Practice was then no play. A ride of forty miles in visiting a patient was of common occurrence. The perils and exposures of the new country gave the Doctor plenty of work, and his originally vigorous constitution and active habits were heavily taxed, and drafts made upon them bearing heavily upon his later years. For years before his death he was much crippled and very hard of hearing. He died at the house of his son, Dr. S. H. Lee, on the 19th of March, 1874, having completed within four days his eighty-ninth year.

Dr. Lee had undoubted adaptations for his time and place. The roughness and freedom and economy of pioneer life did not misfit him. He was very genial ; could tell a good story, and crack a joke with tlie jolliest of the men and women of his day. He used to tell with zest how he had taken aback some old ladies who had been summoned to attend a young unmarried woman who had been " unfortunate," and was then in straits, by proposing very gravely " a corn poultice," a favorite application of that day, and pretending that he did not understand the case, being misled by the fact that the woman was an unmarried one.

His patriotism and philanthropy are pleasant things in the remembrance of his friends. Although holding public office but twice - that of county treasurer, in ver}^ early days, and that of State senator in 1826-27 - he was always interested in public affairs. While an intense hater of the system of slavery, he was anything but bitter to those who were entangled, by their birth and surroundings, in that system. There are abundant evidences of his friendly disposition in his readiness to go on their official bonds, and otherwise stand for his neighbors. His conscientiousness and diligence in his profession none have questioned. He had a quick-wittedness and strong common sense that often stood in lieu of profundity of attainment. Among those with whom he had to do, he could, with a lancet and a little calomel, and jalap and a corn poultice, effect all that many now-a-days can do with the nicer instrumental appliances and amply furnished apothecary shops. He was not what might be called a scholarly man, but always the friend of intelligence. The first school-house built in Coshocton was on a site granted to Dr. Lee and his associates. By industry and economy he always lived comfortably, and at his death left a considerable portion.

He really reared two sets of children - his own and those of his daughter who married Robert M. Lamb - beside having some care over the children of another daughter, Mrs. Jamieson.

The Doctor, at an early day, owned almost the entire square bounded by Fourth, Fifth, Main, and Walnut streets. He had a farm just east of town ; but his residence was for the most of his life in the brick house at corner of Fourth and Main streets.

His shrewdness and strict honesty in business transactions were prominent features in his character. His creditors were generally few, and debtors many.

Before leaving his ]^ew England home, Dr. Lee openly committed himself to the service of God, and espoused the religion that stood him in stead unto the last.

For adherence to his convictions of duty in a religious wa}', he was well knt3wn ; and in exhibiting gave and bore much. For thirty-five years he was an elder in the Presbyterian church.

Feeble in body and failing in mind^ for some time in latest years, he never forgot the Bible and his family worship, and wanted to he reckoned a child of God.

James BoUnson came with his father's family into the locality now known as Franklin township, Coshocton county, then the JNTorthwestern territory, in 1801. He was born in Clarksburg, Harrison county, Virginia, in 1787. He served one term as associate judge, and two terms in the legislature ; but he seems to have taken most interest in his broad acres, and to have been chiefly famed as a large land-holder and enterprising farmer. He was also very actively interested in the Methodist Episcopal church, being chiefly instrumental in the planting of the Bethany church, where his descendants still worship. He died May 7, 1856.

Thomas Barling was born in Hardy county, Virginia, N'ovember 7, 1799. His father brought the family to the Walhonding valley (near Warsaw) in 1806. The journey was made on horseback, the mother having an infant on the horse before her, and the httle boy, Thomas, holding on to her, as he rode behind.

His life was mainly given to farming. He was, however, a public-spirited citizen, and for a number of years served the county as a commissioner, the record of which service appears in another part of this volume. In later years, he was much interested in blooded cattle, and introduced some valuable stock into the valley in which he lived. He

He married Miss Demie Butler, and reared a considerable family ; and bis family connections enter largely into the social fabric of the Walhonding valley, as well as extending into other localities.

Benjamin Ricketts was born near Cumberland, Maryland. Learning his trade as a hatter in that town, he afterward opened a shop at Marietta ; still later, had one in Zauesville. Giving up his shop, he set up a store in West Zanesville. He commenced selling goods in Coshocton in 1818, and in the spring of 1820, brought the family to the town. His successful prosecution of business was most clearly apparent in the accumulations attending it. He became a large land-holder and well-known citizen.

He served one term as county commissioner. He and the opposing candidate were " tied " on the vote, and by lot the office devolved upon Mr. Ricketts. He was never much enamored of public office, and, it is understood, never held any except this one.

Like many, indeed nearly or quite all, of the successful and prominent men of Coshocton county, Mr. Ricketts was greatly aided in all his life's work by his wife, who, at the good old age of nearly eighty-five years, is still living in Coshocton. She was from Hampshire county, Virginia ; was married when about sixteen years of age, in 1807.

Mr. Ricketts died July 1, 1857. His descendants and connections are many, and few families have been better known " in the gates " than his.

He was born near Dresden ; learned the tanner's trade in Zanesville; came to near Roscoe (one mile north) about 1821, and set up a tannery. He was also in mercantile line

Early in life, identified himself with Baptist church, and was steadfast in the faith. Was an enthusiastic Sundayschool man ; and, as none of his own views were in the place, co-operated zealously with the Alethodist Episcopal and Presbyterian schools.

James Le Hdilley was born in the Isle of Guernsey, in 1788. He came to this country in 1806, settling in Guernsey county, where was a settlement of people from the island of the same name. Removing to Muskingum county, at a point about ten miles below Coshocton, he engaged in the manufacture of salt, along with George Bagnall. They made about six bushels a day at three dollars a bushel, or exchanged a bushel for twelve bushels of wheat. Their salt was carried to remote points, some of it by canoes and pirogues up the Killbuck almost to Wooster. In 1825, the Kanawha and lower Muskingum salt coming into market, largely rendered the business of lietilley & Bagnall unprofitable, and they removed to Caldersburg (Roscoe). Retilley and William Wood set up a dry-goods store (in a log-cabin), the first in the place. After a few years Wood retired, and the firm became Bagnall & Retilley, and for years was very prominent in trade circles, doing a very large business.

Mr. Retilley was one of the associate judges of the county, and an active adherent of the Methodist church in Roscoe. He died in December, 1850, aged sixty-two years. He was twice married. His second wife (the daughter of T. Emerson of Keene), now resides in Granville. His descendants are still well known in the land.

Thomas Johnson, by the documentary history of the county, and the concurrent testimony of survivors, was one of the most prominent and spirited citizens. He was born in the parish of Glentubert, Monaghan county, Ireland, on the IGth of March, 1783. Early in youth he manifested a great desire to go to America, and urged his father to emigrate. He, being a very quiet, unobtrusive man, with quite a family of young children, could not think of bringing them to the wilds of America. Thomas remained with his father until he was twenty-four years of age, and had brothers grown up. lie then told his father he was determined to go to the new world, and urged his suit with so much ardor that his parents could no longer withhold their consent. He left Ireland in 1806, and landed in ISTew York with but one sovereign in his pocket. He there met with Joseph T. Baldwin, of Newark, New Jersey, who offered to employ him. He remained with Mr. Baldwin for three years. In 1808, he married Sarah Parker. About this time his parents and three brothers, Richard, William, and Robert, and his only sister, Margaret, joined him in Newark. Thomas then determined that Newark was not the ^place for his father's family to settle, and in 1808 he and his father's family came to Coshocton county, where they bought a quarter section of land from Esaias Baker, on which now stand the old homestead and also the village of EastPlainfield and cemetery, in which his first son, William, was the first to be buri'ed. In 1812, he and his brother, Richard, were in the army under General Harrison. He held the ofiice of justice of the peace, and was long an associate judge of the Court of Common Pleas. He and Jacob Waggoner built the first mill of any note on Will's creek, of four run of burrs, that tapped a radius of twenty miles. From 1820 to 1830, he ran several flat-boats to New Orleans and other points south. He nearly lost his life the first cholera season. In running the dam at Zanesvillc one time he and two of his oarsmen were thrown out of the boat by the oars striking the pier of the bridge. Mr. Rankin, being a good swimmer, got out, William Smith was drowned, and he was rescued from the water by the exertions of sheriff' Daniel Brush. Once, finding yellow-fever prevailing in New Orleans, and markets dull, he concluded to coast out his load of provisions, and poled his boat up the Tennessee as far as Florence, where muscle shoals prevented his further passage. He had large contracts on the Ohio canal. Owing to the higli banks and mud bottoms, there was a difficulty in fording Will's creek at his mills, and the commissioners being unable or unwilling to assist in bridging said stream, he petitioned the legislature, in 1834, to authorize him to build a bridge and collect toll. This was the first bridge spanning Will's creek in Coshocton county, and remained a tollbridge about twenty years, when his son made a free-will offering of the bridge to the county commissioners, they agreeing to repair and keep it up. He was connected with the building of the bridges that span the Tuscarawas and Walhonding rivers between Coshocton and Roscoe. From 1838 to 1840 he had heavy contracts on the Walhonding canal. In 1812, the pioneer Methodist preacher founded this settlement, and the Johnson family were the first to unite in church fellowship. " Thomas was appointed leader of the class, and also steward, which office he held to the day of his death. His house was always the preacher's home. About 1835, he built the largest meeting-house iu the vicinity, on his land and principally at his own expense, giving it by will to the trustees of Coshocton circuit, and their successors in office. After a protracted sickness, which first made itself manifest while attending court in Coshocton, he died, August 20, 1840, in full resignation and in great peace. widow survived him almost twenty-two years, dying at the old homestead, March 29, 1862. His father also survived him eighteen days, dying September 7, 1840, in the eighty -first year of his age. Robert Johnson, his youngest brother, moved from near Plainfield, twenty years ago, and settled in Colwell county, Missouri, being in his seventyeighth year, and the only survivor of the old stock.

Joseiph jBMr??s. - His father, Samuel Burns, removed from Waynesburg, Augusta county, Virginia (where Joseph was born), to Ohio, iu 1815. The family were about a year in New Philadelphia, and then came down the river in a pirogue, or large canoe, to Coshocton, making their location in this county in 1810. Joseph was at that time about sixteen years old, having been born March 11, 1800. Favored by nature with a good appearance and great affabil- ity of manner, and being skilled in the art of penmanship, he was soon a young man of note in the neighborhood. His first appearance in public capacity was probably in 1818, when he served as clerk at an election in Tuscarawas township, at which his father was one of the judges. In 1821 he was run by his friends for the office of auditor, and perhaps that time and once afterward, when he ran for a second term in Congress, were the only occasions in which he did not secure the coveted position. This work, under the heads of "County Oflicers" and "lielations to State and N^ational Governments," will show the ofiices of public sort filled by him. Except a brief period in his youth spent in farming, and another in his maturer life spent in keeping a drug-store, his whole active life of more than fifty years was spent in public work. Never very exacting as to fees, and always free with his purse among his friends and fellow citizens, he left at the end of his days only a moderate portion. Many men with more of greed, or less honest or frugal in general habits, would have amassed great wealth with his opportunities. The afl'ection of the large Virginia and Marjdand elements in the population of the county for him was something worthy of study. The stock of which he came was the old Scotch-Irish, so largely prominent in the whole history of the country. His parents were Presbyterians, and his philosophy and faith partook of the old Covenanter cast. He always had some taste for military aftairs, and was a major-general of the militia.

He was twice married - his first wife was Rebecca Price, and his second was Mrs. Alex. Hay. One of his sons was educated at West Point, and was during the war a brigadier-general, and another was clerk of the United States District Court of Iowa for some years. He had in all six sons and two daughters, and these with his widow survive him.

His latter days were rendered distressful by tlie nature of his disease - dropsy of the chest; but he continued, until within a few hours of his death, to transact at his home such of the business of his office (that of probate judge) as must receive his personal attention. Rising from his bed.

and essaying to take a few ste[)S, he sank to the floor, and in a moment was done with the burdens and honors of life, which he had received so largely and borne so bravely. lie was a little more than a month beyond his seventy-fifth year.

John Burns Avas born in Waynesburg, Augusta county, Virginia, in the year 1807. He moved with his father's family to ISTew Philadelphia, Tuscarawas county, in 1815, and in April, 1816, they moved to Coshocton county, as has been detailed in connection with the sketch of his brother, Joseph Burns. He remained with his father until 1828, when he went to Chillicothe as a clerk with his brother-inlaw, John Smeltzer, and remained there one year. He then came to Eoscoe, and clerked in the dry-goods store of John Smeltzer and his successors (Medbery & Ransom) until 1838, when he became a member of the firm, under the name of Medbery, Burns & Co. In 1840 he dissolved his connection with Aledbery, and formed a connection with Samuel Moifitt for the sale of dry goods, under the firm name of Burns & Moflitt. He continued in said firm until 1845, when Moflitt retired, and the firm was changed to Burns & Retilley, and remained so until 1860, when he bought Retilley out, and continued in business in his own name until his death. He died July 31, 1871, aged sixtyfour years.

His good sense and integrity were marked qualities. Thoroughly interested in public affairs, and always a zealous partisan, and ready to help his friends to oflice, he never had any desires in that direction for himself, ai\d it is believed never held any ofiicial position. He was a painstaking and successful business and family man.

John Johnson was a prominent citizen of Coshocton county for nearly half a century. He was born in county' Tyrone, Ireland ; came to America in 1816, and to Coshocton about 1820. Under the direction of his stepfather, James Renfrew, and after the manner of his time, he learned the tanner's trade. He was a member of the well-known mer- chandising and banking firm, AV. Iv. Johnson k Co. For some years, about 1840, he resided at Walhonding, He represented Coshocton district in the upper house of the Legislature, and was also a member of the lower liouse in Congress. He was a member of the State Constitutional Convention 1850-51. Ilis health was not firm for some years before he died, and on this and other accounts he was not so much engaged with public affairs in his later years as in earlier ones. With limited education, his industry and native shrewdness and caution enabled him to achieve a considerable degree of business and political success. He was averse to display, and believed in "solid" things. He was a devout adherent of the Presbyterian church, in the faith of wiiich he iiad been thoroughly trained. He died February 5, 18G7. His wife was Miss Harriet Humrickhouse, and he died without issue.

Willinm K. Johnson was born in County Tyrone in Ireland, and when only seven years of age was brouglit to America. The famil}-, after a .brief stay in Baltimore, came to Pittsburg, where a brother of Mrs. Johnson (Rev. Dr. Kerr) was living. About 1820 Mrs. Johnson was married to James Renfrew, then doing business in Coshocton, and the Johnson children thus and then came to Coshocton. At first a clerk, and then a partner in the mercantile business, and afterward in banking and in real estate opei-ations. William K. Johnson was for many years regarded as a representative business man of the county. He had the confidence of the whole community, and his name was a synonym for integrity, sobriety, diligent application to business, and great prudence. By all the sons of the Emerald Isle, especially, he was looked to as a wise counselor^ His approbation of any matter of town and county interest was regarded as quite important in order to its accomplishment. His views and actions have very largely shaped the social and business affairs of the region where for nearly forty years he lived and labored. He was for many years a member of the board of education and of the town council of Coshocton. He was postmaster for some fifteen years, lie was connected with the Steuben ville and Indiana raih'oad, as a director, from its organization until his death. lie was one of the most regular attendants and spirited supporters of the Presbyterian Church. In the earlier years of its history, he superintended the Sabbathschool, and led the congregational singing. For a number of years he served the County Bible society as its treasurer and depository. While not uninterested in political affairs, he had little ambition in that line.

He married, in 1836, Miss Elizabeth Humrickhouse, who, with six children, survived him. His death occurred in comiiaratively early years, he being about fifty years old. He died Monday (having been in his place of business on Saturday), December 10, 1860.

Bohert Hay was born in County Derry, Ireland, in February, 1801. He came to America in 1817, and was employed in stores in Pittsburg for two years, and then came to Coshocton in the employ of James Renfrew. After a clerkship of a few years, he became a partner with Mr. Renfrew, and subsequently with William- Renfrew. For fifty years he was in business. He was in his store when taken with his last illness. No man ever stood higher in the community for truthfulness, honesty, promptitude, and careful application to business. Trained in the old school of merchants, he was a strict disciplinarian, and despised all trifling and trickery. He always was himself to be found at his business in business hours, and expected a conscientious devotion to his interest on the part of his employes, whom he always regarded with kindly interest. For the worthy poor he had always much sympathy, and was especially ready to help them to help themselves. He served the county for several 3^ears as county treasurer, but w'as never inclined to public station. In the regular prosecution of his business as a merchant and distiller, he steadily increased his worldly estate, and by the vast accretions in connection with the excise tax in the earlier part of the war, left at his death the largest estate ever administered upon in Coshocton county.

He married Miss Mary Corbin, of Granville, 0., in 1858. She and one child preceded him to the grave, and two children survived him. He died, after a few days' illness, May 3, 1869, at the house of his brother James, which for some time he had made his home.

John Mlliott, for many years commonly designated as " Deacon Elliott," belonged to a family of mark, all winning considerable fame, despite what would be accounted an unfavorable condition at the start. The family came from Ireland. The mother's piety seems to have been as strong a determining force in the children as the hard sense of the father. One of the sons, Samuel Elliott, was associate judge of the county; another, Charles, became a very prominent minister in the M. E. Church. The deacon was thrown, in early life, into Presbyterian surroundings, and, though not favorably aftected at first, after thorough study, adopted that form of Christian faith, and held to it through all his life with notable pertinacity. He united with the church under Rev. Elisha McCurdy, of Western Pennsylvania. After learning thoroughly the carpenter's trade, he spent some time in erecting mission buildings - church, school-house, and dwellings - for the use of the Presbyterian missionaries among the Sandusky Indians. He was a citizen of Coshocton county about forty years. The tirst Presbyterian Church of Coshocton and the Methodist Episcopal Church of same place, and some others in the country, were built by him. About 1855 he went to Iowa, with the purpose of making that his home, but in a few years returned to Coshocton, and, after working a few years, ended his days in August, 1860. Strong sense and steadfast piety were characteristics of the man. Indifferent as to personal appearance, and exceedingly blunt in expression, he compelled the respect and regard of all who became to any extent acquainted with him. He was one of the two first chosen elders of the Presbyterian Church of Coshocton, and an almost never-failing attendant upon the church prayer-meetings, which he always found time to attend.

lived only a few years, and left one son (John B. Elliott), at whose home the old deacon died, September 2, 1868, being sixty-eight years old.

Dea. Taliafero Vickers was a leading citizen in Washington township. He was born in Prince William's county, Virginia, on the 22d of September, 1789. He came to Coshocton county in 1827. Early in life, he identified himself with the Baptists, and he died in the Wakatomika Baptist Church on Sunday, Februar}- 19, 1863. He had gone to the church in his usual health, and his last utterance was an " amen " spoken while the minister was reading Rev. 1:18. A moment after, the attention of the congregation was drawn to him, and those going to him found him dead.

Wm. Brown was for eighteen years, from 1822 to 1840, a merchant and general business man in West Carlisle, of which town he was one of the original proprietors. He was born in Franklin county, Pennsylvania ; spent a few years, before coming to Coshocton county, at St. Clairsville, Belmont county. His parents were from Germany, spelling their name Braun. His wife was Scotch-Irish. B}' the combination of the virtues of the two races, the Browns won for themselves great consideration in their neighborhood, and, though starting in their wedded life with very little, amassed quite a respectable fortune. Mr. Brown was for man}^ years a justice of the peace and postmaster under Monroe, J. Q. Adams, Jackson, and Van Buren, although he was a very decided Adams and Clay man. He was an excellent horseman, and' skilled in the use of the rille, and these things helped him greatly in the state of society found in his day in the region of West Carlisle. In public movements and proper s[)orts, he was never lacking, and was often recognized as a leader, and made the object of a good deal of " backwoods homage."

And yet, with all his activity in business and interest in the social life of the people, Mr. Brown is represented as having been a verv earnest and faithful man in his relisfious duties. Family worsliip was on no excuse intermitted ; the Sabbath was sacredly regarded ; and when, as before and after a communion in the church, there was preaching, the store was shi)t, although he loved business, and avowed his intention to give himself steadily to it, and to make money for his family. His house Avas the " minister's hold,'' and he was one of the most active members of the Presb^'terian church from its organization, contributing largely of his means to it, and especially in the erection of the building still in use by the congregation.

In 1840, he removed to Logansport, Indiana, and there died March 4, 1859. His wife, inheriting a considerable estate from her father, gave it all to foreign missions. One of the sons, Wm. L. Brown, Acting Brigadier-General of the Indiana Infantry, was killed at the second battle of Bull Run. Three sons became Presbyterian ministers. J. C, who died while pastor at Valparaiso, Indiana ; Hugh A. was a missionary to Cliina, and has been for many years pastor of a church in Virginia ; and Frederick T. (the only child born in Coshocton count}', and who even yet glories in being a Buckeye), wlio had charge of a church in Cleveland, then of one in Alexandria, J). C, then was in St. Paul, Alinn., and is now at Ann Arbor, Mich.

Alexander Renfrew came from Union county, Pennsylvania, where he was born August 18, 1801, to Coshocton county in 1826, and remained therein until his death on his farm in Keene township, February 13, 1872. He married Miss Carnahan in 18-33, who, with three chiklren, survives him. Starting in life Avitli little, he, by a life of inclustr}^ and frugality, anuissed a very considerable estate. Public life had little attractions, and his record is that of a quiet citizen, a successful farmer, and a busy man, manifesting the virtues of domestic and business life.

Eli Nichols was for forty years a well-known citizen of Coshocton county. He was for many years, ending with his death, the largest land-owner in the county, being in occupancy of the quarter townshi[) of Xcw Castle, now

His death occurred at his home, after an illness of only two days. His age was seventy-two years. His wife preceded him to the grave but a few months.

He was born and reared in the Quaker church, but in after years disavowed the religious principles of that body, and repudiated the Bible as an infallible book. In early manhood, he took an active part in the operations of the Colonization Society, but soon abandoned it, and henceforward gloried in being an "Abolitionist."

His gentleness of nature made him patient amid whatever reproach he encountered in this, as in other lines of thought and action ; and it is claimed for him that, whatever his antipathy to the system of slavery, and his sympathy with the oppressed, he was always wonderfully lenient toward the slave-holder.

In his later years, he became much interested in " Spiritualism," and much of his time in his declining years was given to study of this, and he became a full believer in it, continuing in this faith unto the last of earth.

Rev. Nathaniel Conklin was for many years a most zealous and successful minister of the Presbyterian Clmrch in Coshocton county. He studied at Princeton, iSrew Jersey ; preached for some ten years at Frankfort, Sussex county, in that state, and came to this county about ISS-t. He labored at Coshocton, Keene, Clark (where he organized the church), West Carlisle, and near Warsaw (where he organized the church), in the days of the feebleness of all the churches in this region.

After leaving Coshocton county, about 1844, he labored for a time at Muskingum church, near Dresden. He then removed to Indiana, taking charge of the Covington church in that state. Broken by his missionary labor, he returned to his old home state, and, as he was able, supplied some churches there.

He died in 1866. His wife died in 1837, and lies in the Keene chnrchyard ; and a son, born while he labored at Keene, Rev. IST. W. Conklin, is now pastor of a large and vigorous church in ISTew York city.

G. W. Silliman was the son of a lawyer (Willys Silliman) practicing at Zanesville, and a nephew of Lewis Cass. He pursued his academical studies at Ohio University, and afterward at the military academy at West Point. Having read law with his father in Zanesville, he was admitted, and soon thereafter came to Coshocton (about 1830). He was sent as bearer of dispatches to C. P. Van Il^ess, minister from the United States to Spain. He returned to Coshocton in 1833 ; was soon elected prosecuting attorney, and by re-election continued in the oiRce for ten years. In 1843, he went on a voyage to Europe for his health, but was not greatly beneiited, and on his return voyage grew rajiidly worse, and died at sea. His remains were brought to New York, and interred in Greenwood Cemetery.

In 1834, he married Miss Ann Johnson, who survived him many years, dying in 1864. There was one child, Willys Cass Silliman, who survived the father only about two years. Mr. Silliman's reputation is that of genial, scholarly gentleman.

Robert 31. Lamb was from Eastern Virginia. He came to Coshocton, and was employed as miller in the Coshocton Steam Mill, about 1834; afterward, as one of the Union Mill Co., was concerned with the building and running of the Union Mill, in lower Poscoe. He went to California in 1849, and died of cholera in San Francisco the next year» in the forty -first year of his age.

He married a daughter of Dr. S. Lee, and by her had three children, two of whom, Mrs. J. M. Thompson and Miss Emily, are residents of Coshocton ; the third, Mrs. Barse, living at Michigan City, Indiana.

Here the father established himself in trade as a blacksmith, and David, as his age and strength admitted, was a helper, and continued at the forge and anvil for years, learning lessons of patient toil, and endurance, and self-reliance of vast advantage in later years. Subsequently, the father engaged in mercantile business, and in this, as in the other, David, as the eldest son, was his chief assistant. Study, however, was not neglected, and David prolited diligently by his opportunities in that line, limited as they were.

When twenty-five years of age, he commenced the study of law with Alex. Harper, and was admitted to practice at a term of the Supreme Court of the State, held in Cleveland in 1824. lie commenced practice in Zanesville. In I80O, he was nominated for representative for Muskingum county in the legislature, and polled far more than his (Whig) party vote, though not elected. In 1832 he came to Coshocton. Professional business poured upon him from the start, and beside he soon was taking a leading part in politics. In the fall of the same year in which he came into the county, he was nominated for representative from the Twelfth (then) Congressional District, and such was the esteem and popularity in which, as a law3^er riding the circuit, that he was elected by a round majority, although the district (composed of Cosliocton, Knox, Holmes, and Tuscarawas counties) had been hitherto in the hands of the opposite party. He was re-elected by the same constituency in 1834, by a still more decisive vote. Mr. Spangler was thoroughly satisfied with the political experience thus had, and proclaimed his determination to give his whole attention thereafter to professional practice. In 1844, his party, then in the ascendancy in the state, nominated him? b}^ convention asseml)led at Columbus, for Governor, but "he declined the nomination, insisting upon his tastes for private life, and his need of attention to professional business, and the claims of his family, especially those of his two sons, then in course of education. While in Washington city in his first term as congressman he was admitted to practice in the United States Supreme Court, arguing a case carried up from Ohio, and prevailing for liis client. From 183l) to 1856, in which year he died (October 18), his office and home, his neighljors and friends, received the whole of his time and attention. For some years before his death his health was far from vigorous. He was, it will be observed, about two months less tlian sixty years old.

His parents were members of the M. E. church, as was also the lady wdiom he married (December, 1829), Miss Elizabeth Grafton Etherington, of Baltimore, Md., and he was always awake to the interests of that body and exceedingh' helpful to it, although never a member. In the heaviest of his business and height of his fame, he would give active aid in the Sabbath-school and in the musical department of the church.

He was initiated into the Masonic body about the time tie attained his majority, and served in the cajtacity of "Worshipful Master, Representative to Grand Lodue, of which he was S. G. Deacon, Grand Orator, and Deputy Grand Master. In 1846, the Lodge formerly established having become defunct, he, in connection with others, secured a dispensation for a new Lodge (Xo. 96), of which, for many years, he was W. M.

His sympath}' and readiness to associate freely with the masses - his great industry and energy - and his keen insight of human nature and ready wit were qualities giving him his place and power in public life. And with this is our present ^concern. He used to joke with his friends about his growth in popularity when a candidate, stating that in one township he doubled his vote - the fact subsequently coming from him that the lirst time he ran he got in that township (a Democratic stronghold) one vote, and the second time tioo. A 3'oung lady came to his office to have him commence proceedings for " rape." After hearing the story, he said it was important he should know the case, and informed her that there was an offense called "rape," and one calknl " rapee," and that the hitter covered the case of the mildest possible resistance. She con-

A minister of his church once undertook to deliver a learned controversial discourse, having very much to say about '= the original." Coming out of church, he quietly observed to a prominent lawyer of the place, of another faith, " That was a remarkable discourse ; remarkable, sir ; remarkable, sir; and especially remarkable, because neitherthe preacher (as he knew) nor any of his hearers had any knowledge of that original language."

Teter Humrickhouse was only a few years a resident of Coshocton county, but as the paternal ancestor of one of the most prominent families of the county, may well find brief mention here. He was born in Germantown, Pa., August 26, 1783. His father soon after moved to Hagerstown, Md. After the manner of his time, he learned a trade, that of carriage-maker. In 1814, he removed to Brownsville, Pa. He came to Coshocton in 1834, and here died, August 23, 1839. He was the father of Thomas, and John, and Wm. Humrickhouse, and also of the wives of John Joseph K. and Wm. K. Johnson, of John G. Stewart, and James Irvine, all being resident in Coshocton. Mrs. Kincaid, of Greenfield, Ohio, is also his daughter.

Arnold Medberry was born in I^Tew Berlin, Chenango county, iSTew^ York, March 24, 1806. He came to Iloscoe in the fall of 1832, and remained a citizen of that })lace until his death, August 12, 1861. During this time he was one of the most prominent business men of the region. His farming, milling, merchandising, and connection with the public works, were features of the locality where carried on. Indomitable energy and ceaseless activity were his characteristics. He was undaunted before that which would have made many quail. He thought nothing of taking his buggy, riding thirty miles to Mt. Vernon, and then taking the cars, thus reaching Cleveland in a few hours. Losing two flour-mills by fire, he within a few hours had amtters all arranged for building yet a third. A zealous politician, he yet had little desire for office. He was, however, postmaster of Roscoe for many years, and was also county commissioner. When the public works of the state, with which from the first he had been thoroughly acquainted, were offered for lease, he was one of the principal lessees, and continued in that relation until his death. A single anecdote illustrates his keen discernment and disposition to have the best in ever}' line attainable. A wagon-maker having built him a wagon, called for his inspection and acceptance of it. He discovered, by close examination, a few places stopped up and made to appear smooth and good by putty. The wagon-maker protested that there was no real defect ; that in fact the parts where the putty was, were as strong as any, and would do just as good work. " Very good, then," said Medberry, with his accustomed twinkle of the eye, "just you keep this wagon, and make me another all out of putty, and we will then see whether putty is as strong as oak." Severe requirement Avas the rule with him in his relations to his employes, and what he thus demanded he was ready to yield to those having rightful claims.

His wife, who had been Miss Phoebe Dcnman, survived him several years, dying at the home of her daughter in Kansas. His two sons died in each case as they were approaching manhood. Two of his daughters are living in Kansas, the other in Columbus.

Matthew Scott was born in county Donegal, Ireland, in 1795. He came to America in 181G, but lived at Cumberland, Maryland, until 1833, when he came to Coshocton county, settling in Virginia township, near Adam's mills. As the owner and cultivator of a considerable body of land ; as a man of diligence and integrity, of more than ordinary intelligence, and of fair education, Mr. Scott was long had in repute in the region where he dwelt. As an enthusiastic son of Erin, and a most earnest and liberal adherent of the Presbyterian church, he was known l)y tlionaands. In 1856, he made a visit to the old hind. He was for several years a director of the Western Theological Seminary at Pittsburg. lie was a member of the general assembly of the Presbyterian church, meeting in Peoria, Illinois, 1863. lie was always a w^arm friend of the colored people, and was chiefly instrumental in establishing a school for the education of colored girls, called " Scotia Seminary," in ISTorth Carolina. Having no children, and his wdfe having died before him, he gave almost his whole estate - of some $25,000 - for educational, missionary, and other benevolent purposes, in connection with the Presbyterian church, a large part going to the support of the little church in which he had long been an elder, and in which his kindred hold yet a large place. For some time before his death, Mr. Scott had been in poor health. Early on the morning of the 13th of September, 1872, the family of the brother with whom he had been staying for some days, w^ere alarmed by his absence from the house and the appearance of his forsaken bedroom, and search having been made, his dead body was found, after some hours, in the Muskingum river, which flowed through his lands.

John Lockard died near Chili, September 20, 1868, in his eightieth year. He was a native of county Donegal, Ireland; emigrated to America in 1819; settled near Steubenville, but after a few years removed to Coshocton county.

Sharon Williams died at his residence in Keene tow'nship on the 19th of August, 1868. He emigrated from Virginia in 1812, and resided in the same vicinity until his death, being a period of fifty-six years.

Isaac Darling died at his residence in Jeflferson township, March 26, 1869. He was born in Eastern Virginia in 1796, and emigrated with his parents to Ohio in 1806, settling at his manhood upon the place on which his early life was spent, and remaining there till his death. He was for many years a prominent member of the Jefi'erson Baptist church.

Matthew Trimble died at his home in Perry township, March 13, 1871. He was a native of Donegal, Irehiud; had been many years in Coshocton county, lie was sixtysix years of age. Was a devout member of the Protestant Episcopal church.

William Pancake died May 26, 1867, in "Warsaw. He was born in Harrisburg, Pa., and in early life removed to Columbiana county, and thence, after a few years, to Coshocton county, where he mai-ried, and became a permanent resident. He was in his seventy-fifth 3'ear. Had been many years a member of the Methodist Episcopal church.

Reuben B. Whltfaker, for more than forty years a resident of Coshocton county, died on his farm, in Jeflerson township, on the 11th of April, 1868, in the sixty-eighth year of his age.

JRev. James W. Pigman was born near the town of Cresap, Allegheny county, Md., in 1806; settled in Coshocton in 1810. His connection with the Methodist Episcopal church commenced in 1837, and he continued as a local preacher rfiitil 1866, when he became a minister in the Christian Union church, and so continued until his death, which occurred in Perry township October 26, 1869.

Samuel Brilhart died at his home, in Monroe township, September 23, 1870, in his sevent3^-sixth year. He emigrated from the State of Virginia in 1836 ; was one of the pioneers of Monroe township. He was a member of the Nazarene Baptist church, and left quite a large family.

Mattheio Ferguson, a well-known resident of Roscoe,'died of apoplexy on March 4, 1871, in the eightieth year of his age. He was born in Pennsylvania in 1792, lived for a time in Zanesville, then ten years in Coshocton, passing thence to Roscoe, where was his home for thirty-seven years. He was a hatter by trade. He was several times elected a justice of the peace. He married Miss Mary Smeltzer in

Jolin C. Tldball was born June 5, 1801, in what then was Allegheny county (now Lawrence), Pa. He graduated at Jeft'erson College; was ordained a minister in the Presbyterian church, in 1826, at Island Creek, O. He subsequently preached at Morrisville, Belmont county. His unquestionable ability was connected with a certain measure of eccentricity which frequently involved him in more or less of trouble, often leading to expostulations on the part of his brethren in the ministry, under which he grew somewhat restive. While in Belmont county, he became more and more dissatisfied with the position of his own and also of kindred churches upon the matter of slavery. Meanwhile his health was quite impaired. In this state of things, he turned to the law, and having read with Carlo C. Carroll, of Belmont county, was admitted to the bar, practically demitting the ministry. He came to Coshocton in 1848, and practiced more or less until his death. His keen insight and earnest and impassioned deliver}' were marked features in his practice; but calm investigation and cool judgment were not always so apparent, and Ifis success in business was only moderate. His thorough classical education made him a valuable man in school matters, and to his efforts must, in some considerable amount, be attributed the deepened and enlarged interest in education apparent in the town of Coshocton soon after he came into it. He connected himself with first the one and then the other of the Presbyterian churches of Coshocton, and maintained his position as a Christian man unto the last. He had in earlier days paid no little attention to medical matters, and was ready on all occasions to visit the sick, and make himself useful in times of affliction. He was a very zealous politician - intensely anti-slavery. He had, however, little dis[)Osition to carry his partisanship into his social relations, and was in every way a kind neighbor and clever citizen. He had a large vein of humor, and keenly relished the ludicrous. His power of facial expression was

In the summer of 1863, he got word of the serious illness of a son, then in the army at Vicksburg, and against the counsels of his friends he went to visit him. The son recovered before the father reached the place ; but the old gentleman took sick, struggled back home, and died in a few days, on the 11th of August, 1863.

While preaching at Island Creek, he married Miss Hunter, who, with her children, N. R., Haddasah, and W. S. Tidball, still live in Coshocton. Theophilus Tidball, of Bedford township, is a foster-child, adopted when an infant.

Joseph B. Crowley was, as the son of an old citizen (John Crowley), much in public service, as a soldier in the Mexican war, and for his manly appearance and social habits very highly esteemed by a large circle of acquaintances. He was born October 24, 1837, and died in the prime of his manhood, being at the time of his death fairly entered upon his thirty-seventh year. He married, in 1855, Miss Louisa Williams, who, with one child, survived him.

Clark Johns was born in New Castle township, and died in Coshocton, in his young manhood, June 13, 1863. The " lot " having designated him for a soldier, he, taking his privilege, enlisted in one of the companies which had gone out from Coshocton, where his home and business had been for some time. He was soon promoted to be lieutenant ; was taken sick, sent home, and died in a few days, on date above given. He married the daughter of John Burt, and left her and one child.

C. C. Nichols, son of Eli Nichols, of New Castle township, died in hospital at Clifton, Tennessee, January 14, 1865. He was forty-two years of age, and held the rank of captain in the 183d regiment of Ohio volunteers. His remains were finally placed in the home cemetery. " He was," says a friend, " the child of ups and downs." He was present at the lirst sack of Lawrence, Kansas, and gave his aid in making that state a free state. He afterward spent some time in Colorado, and took an interest in laying out St. Charles, which afterward became Denver City. He undertook the opening of an expensive gulch, and spent all he had on it, without avail. In the fall of 1863, he entered the military service, continuing therein till his death.

Wm. B. Glover w^as born in Clark township, April 26, 1832. While teaching school in Indiana he enlisted in the 21st Indiana regiment, and afterward became a lieutenant in heavy artillery service. "While engaged in the siege of Port Hudson he was taken sick and placed in hospital. Thence he was brought by his father to his home in Coshocton county ; and here, after being home some three weeks, died, on the 18th of June, 1864.

Joel Clark Glover^ brother of the above, was born December 6, 1846; and, having enlisted in the army, died in September, 1864, at Wilson's Landing, near Richmond, Virginia.

Many noble young men like these fell, as they, during the late war of the rebellion, but few families have such a noticeable record as that of which they were members. At one time no less than six sons were in the militarj' service, and two others w^ere represented by substitutes.

Thom.as Carroll, Jr., M. D., was born in Keene, in 1838. After attending medical lectures, he commenced practice in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Entering the medical department of the army, he was stationed in Washington City, and afterward in Philadelphia. He died while acting assistant surgeon at Jackson Barracks, New Orleans, Louisiana, April 23, 1867. His remains were brought to Keene.

listed in Capt. Wm. MarslaaH's company of the Eightietti regiment, O. V. I. He was wounded at Mission liidge and captured, and for fourteen months sultered all the horrors of Andersonville, whereby he was made a mere skeleton, although when he enlisted being six feet two inches in height and weighing 200 pounds. At length being exchanged, he was brought to Savannah and there detained by military movements. He afterward laid sick for a mouth at Annapolis. In the summer of 1864 he reached his home, receiving an honorable discharge at end of term of enlistment. For many months he sought to recover his health, at his home and in a health institute in New York State, but in vain. He died at home, January 26, 1866. He was one of that great company of victims of the selfish ambition, greed, and cruelty which possessed the men who brought about the terrible " "War of the Rebellion."

Asa G. Dimmock was well known to the people of Coshocton county, as being for ten years editor and publisher of the Coshocton Democrat. He was also, for two terms, prosecuting attorney of the county, and at that most important era in its history, the robbery of the county treasury, made his mark in that capacity. He was the son of a Baptist clergyman, was bred to the newspaper business, and was connected largely with the press, editing or publishing papers in Harrison, Holmes, Wayne, and Erie counties. He was in the Ohio State Senate as a member and also as clerk. He also served several years as warden of the Ohio penitentiary. In 1867 his health very seriously failed him, and on May 17, 1869, he died at the house of his sister, in Montrose, Penn., in the fifty-sixth year of his age. Of exceedingly pleasant manner, shrewd in management, and exceedingly self-sacrificing, he was always popular, commonly poor. He was twice married - had one child by first wife. His surviving widow resides at Alillersburg.

farm, at school, in teaching, and in reading law. He was for several years deputy clerk of the court and county school examiner. In 1863, he was elected probate judge, and subsequently re-elected, keeping, it is said, the records of the office in unusually neat and correct manner. Before his second term expired, his health was greatly impaired. Having spent some months in vain efforts to re-establish his health, he at length died at the house of his father-inlaw in Newark, on the 12th of July, 1870, in the thirtysixth year of his age.

He was a man of more than usual talent, literary taste, and social excellence. He married a daughter of Judge Wm. Sample, and by her had one son.

Samuel Ketchum died June 29, 1871, aged about fortythree years. His father was from the State of ISTew 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 relief 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 1st 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 his home. 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 mercy, he passed away - recognized by the world as a mau of considerable refinement and of generous impulses, to be pitied, however much blamed. An aged, faithful mother, a wife true when all else failed, and two children bitterly lamented his death.

Samuel Morrison died in Coshocton on the 20th of August, 1871, in the seventy-third year of his age. He was boru in Virginia ; was brought to Coshocton county when only two years of age ; he grew up with the county ; held several 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 l^ew York ; Mrs. Eev. Robftrt Beer in Indiana ; Mrs. Kepner in Columbiana county ; and only Mrs. W. H. H. Price, of Coshocton, is in the county.