Licking Township (part 29 of 42)

George Rose

For more than a century the name of Rose has figured conspicuously and honorably on the pages of Licking county's history. At the time when the first settlements were made by the white race in this part of the state the ancestors of George Rose located here and as the years have gone by members of the family have taken an active and helpful part in the work of progress and development. George Rose bore his share in the task of transforming the wilderness into a region of fertility, and the usefulness of his life made his death the occasion of deep and widespread regret. He was born September 4, 1820, in Granville, and was a son of Captain Levi and Polly (Stowe) Rose. The father was a native of Granville, Massachusetts, born about 1777. He was there reared to agricultural life and followed the occupation of fanning throughout the period of his manhood. In 1805 he married Miss Polly Stowe, who was born in Granville Massachusetts, in 1780, and the same year they * emigrated westward with the little Massachusetts colony that made their way to Licking county and founded the town of Granville. They located on land now owned by Henry Hobart, on North street, in Granville township, where they remained for six years. In 1811 Captain Rose purchased and removed to the farm now occupied by C. T. Chapin, a son-in-law of William Rose. The following year he enlisted for service in the war of 1812 and became captain of a company. When hostilities had ceased he returned to his farm in Granville township and devoted his remaining days to its development and improvement. The family experienced all of the hardships and privations of pioneer life at a time when the homes of the settlers were little log cabins, when forests were uncut, streams unbridged, and fields uncultivated. There were Indians living in the state, and on a few occasions exhibited active hostility to the white race, but on the whole were peaceable. Wild animals of various kinds were found in the forests, and wild game, including deer, was abundant. As the years went by Captain Rose transformed a portion of the wilderness into a highly improved farm and made his home thereon until his death, which occurred in 1863, his wife surviving until 1865. For several years he filled the office of justice of the peace, and his fair and unbiased decisions "won him golden opinions from all sorts of people." Unto him and his wife were born nine children: William, who was the first white child born of the colony that moved to Granville; Roland; Levi; Betsey; Polly; George; and others who died in childhood.

Reared on the homestead farm, George Rose acquired his education in the old academy of Granville, and in connection with his father he afterward engaged in the salt business in Athens county, Ohio. Later he turned his attention to farming, which he followed until 1857, and during that time lived in the house where occurred the birth of the famous historian, Bancroft. In 1858 he went to Missouri, where he purchased land from the government, and in addition to agricultural pursuits also carried on merchandising at Lamar. Then followed the troublous times of the Civil war, and while bitter sectional feeling was everywhere manifest, his store and home were burned by guerrillas under General Jackson and General Reins. He was taken prisoner and held a captive of war for a time, after which he was given his liberty. Content no longer to remain in a state where hostility was so manifest, Mr. Rose returned to Granville and purchased the old Granville Hotel, which he occupied for about a year. He then purchased Prospect Hill, which he greatly beautified, occupying the property until 1877, when he sold it. He then returned to Missouri to look after his property interests there, and died while in that state, in Barton county, September 27, 1882.

Mr. Rose had been married, July 27, 1854, to Miss Helen AbDott, who was born in 1834, and was a daughter of Hon. Elizur and Clarissa (Munson) Abbott. Her father was born in Wellingford, Connecticut, February 11, 1801, and died in Granville, Ohio, October 4, 1877. He was the eldest of five sons and three daughters, whose parents were Samuel and Lois (Ives) Abbott. He was sixteen years of age when the family removed to Worthington, Ohio. His early education was acquired in the academies of Canton and Hartford, Connecticut, and all through his life he remained a student, his extensive reading and investigation making him a well-informed man. At twenty-two years of age he wedded Miss Clarissa Munson, daughter of Jesse and Hannah Munson, of Granville, where they afterward took up their abode. In 1833 they removed to Marysville, Ohio, and two years later Mr. Abbott was elected associate judge of Union county by the unanimous vote of the state legislature. About the same time he was chosen an elder in the Presbyterian church at Marysville and thus was closely associated with the material, political and religious development of the community. In 1837 he returned to Granville with his family and made his permanent home here. He was called to various positions of public honor and trust, was elected a member of the board of trustees of the Granville Female College in 1840, and soon afterward was chosen secretary of the board, filling the position for nearly three decades. He then resigned because of failing eyesight. For many years he was connected with the Granville Furnace Company and also with the Granville Bank, and in all business affairs his judgment was regarded as sound and reliable, while his commercial probity remained unsullied. In 1850 he was elected associate judge of Licking county, and capably discharged the duties of the position until it was abolished through the adoption of the new constitution. All through his life he remained active and interested in religious work. At the age of fourteen he became a member of the church, and his habits of thought and his actions were at all times under the directing influence of his religious faith and belief. In 1850 he was chosen a deacon of the Congregational church of Granville, and in 1870, at the time of its reorganization as a Presbyterian church, he was elected one of its elders. For more than thirty years he was a teacher in the Sunday school, and his words of wisdom and truth sank deep into many hearts, and in time brought forth rich harvests in consecrated Christian lives. No trust reposed in Mr. Abbott was ever betrayed in the slightest degree. He was the soul of honorable manhood, and his character was one of rare purity, strength and usefulness. His memory remains as an inspiration to those who knew him and a benediction to all with whom he was associated. In the family of Mr. and Mrs. Abbott were the following children: George; Lucius Moore; Lucy; Helen, now Mrs. Bose; Harriet; Mary Ives; all of whom are dead except Mrs. Bose and Lucius M.; and three who died in infancy. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Bose four children were born : Fred and Edward, both deceased ; Clifford Abbott, of Columbus; and Grace Helen. The last named was educated in the schools of Columbus and in the Ohio State University. She afterward engaged in teaching in a school for the deaf, at Wilkinsburg, and also taught in the state of New York. While teaching in Detroit her health failed, and for the past three years she has been with her mother in Granville. Mrs. Bose, too, has made an excellent record in educational circles, acting as matron at the State School for the Deaf, in Columbus, for twenty years. Her work here has been characterized by the broadest humanitarianism, and has placed her name high on the roll of those who are giving their services to the help of the state's unfortunate people. She was also president of the Granville Historical Society from 1905 until 1908, when she resigned. At the present time she is treasurer.

Mr. Bose was a stanch republican in his political views, espousing the cause of the party on its organization. While many years have come and gone since he passed away, he is yet well remembered in the county as a prominent and worthy representative of an honored pioneer family and as a man whose genuine personal worth endeared him to all whom knew him. Mrs. Rose is now very widely known in the county, and her work for humanity has been of the utmost importance. Like her husband, she, too, is a representative of one of the old and prominent families, the names of Rose and Abbott being equally honored in this part of the state.

Abram R. Miller

Abram R. Miller, who for many years conducted the largest stock farm in Harrison township and perhaps in Licking county, and is a well known breeder of trotting horses, is now living retired. He was born on the Walnut Bottom farm, located two miles southeast of Pataskala on the Creek road, where he has always resided, a son of Abraham and Pleasant (Smith) Miller, his father having been a native of Washington county, Pennsylvania, where his birth occurred September 6, 1801, and his mother of Brooke county, West Virginia, where she was born July 28, 1800. They came to Ohio and settled on this farm October 18, 1804, having at that time a family of four children, while the same number were born after they took up their residence in Harrison township. Mr. Miller, before his arrival, purchased eight hundred and eighteen acres of land, which he placed under cultivation but later disposed of part of it and devoted his attention particularly to sheep-raising. He kept on hand an average of one thousand head and for many years was recognized as the leading wool grower in the county. He was an active politician and gave his allegiance to the whigs and later to the republicans and during campaigns was always enthusiastic in working for the success of his party. In educational affairs he took a profound interest and was instrumental in adding many improvements to the school system and at one time was trustee of Otterbein University, to which on one occasion he donated a thousand dollars, while at various times he made other contributions. Mr. Miller was an active member of the United Brethren church, ne reared a large family as follows: Marv A., an oil, crayon and pencil artist, who died September 2, 1906; John S., who died October 24, 1863, at Westerville, Ohio, after being at Camp Chase, while serving as a soldier of the Civil war, and whose wife, Lizzie Ivumler, now deceased, was prominently identified with the United Brethren church and was principal of the female department of Otterbein University; S. Jennie, who died November 1, 1863, a graduate of Westerville College and Otterbein University and principal of Western College at Western, Iowa, and also an accomplished artist ; Lizzie, who died October 15, 1908, an artist and a graduate of Granville Female Seminary, who was brought to this farm on her birthday in 1834 and was also buried on the anniversary of her birth; George W., who departed this life September 23, 1839: Marenda, an artist and a graduate of Granville Female Seminary, and the widow of William Richey, of Pennsylvania : H. Clay, a retired farmer and stock dealer and interested in several banks of this county, whose wife. Eliza D. Aldred, departed this life in 1907: and Abram R., who at one time was a teacher of vocal and instrumental music. All the members of the family taught school at one time or another with the exception of Mary A ., Jolm and Clay. Mr. Miller departed this life in the house in which his son Abram now resides, on May 12, 1891, for seventeen years, surviving his wife, who passed away in the same place.

In the district schools Abram R. Miller acquired his earlier education and later attended Otterbein University and Denison University, after which he remained on his father's farm, engaged in agriculture and stock-raising. He has since paid particular attention to the latter and has bred and kept some of the finest trotting horses in the county, among which were: Alert, No. 737, son of Hambletonian, No. 10 ; Penny Pack, No. 2445, son of Mambrino Pilot, No. 29; Vincenzo, No. 5392, son of Electioneer, No. 125; Question, son of Dictator, No. 113; Moka, No. 31506, son of Wilton. This farm is considered one of the finest for agriculture and particularly for stock raising in the county, owing to its natural facilities and location, being situated on the south fork of Licking creek. Aside from breeding horses Mr. Miller has also given much attention to the breeding of shorthorn cattle and to sheep-raising and has dealt extensively in wool. He lived an active life, devoted to general farming and stock-raising on this farm, until two years ago when he retired and now rents out his farm by the field.

Mr. Miller has supported the republican party all his life and was appointed an alternate delegate to the republican national convention at Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1892. He is a stanch believer in the principles of the party and a careful study of them has long since convinced him of the fact that they contain the secret of the nation's financial welfare and permanent prosperity. For the past twenty-seven years he has been efficiently serving the township as justice of the peace, was assessor for eight years and land appraiser for one term. He is a man of excellent executive ability and business judgment, whose upright character and straightforwardness have always won him the respect of his fellow citizens and have greatly contributed to the success with which he has been attended and the prosperity he now enjoys.

When the tocsin of war sounded in 1861, men from all parts of the country flocked to the standard of the Union. They came from the counting house, the office, the work shop and the fields, and rallied under the nation's starry banner, determined to preserve the Union intact. Among the number that Licking county sent to the front was Arthur D. Thompson, and in days of peace he has been as loyal to the best interests of the community, manifesting the same fidelity which he displayed when following the old flag on southern battlefields. He was but a boy at the time he joined the army, for his birth occurred May 29, 1846, on the old farm homestead on Burg street, in Granville township. He is a representative of one of the oldest families of this part of the state. More than a century has passed since the first of the name purchased the land which is still in possession of his descendants and is known as the old Thompson homestead. His parents were William M. and Sarah Thompson. Upon the farm Arthur D. Thompson was reared, working in the fields from the time of early spring planting until crops were harvested in the late autumn. His educational privileges were those offered by the public schools. In the spring of 1862, constrained by a spirit of patriotism, he offered his services to the government and became a member of Company A, Eighty-seventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry, for three months. He saw service in the Shenandoah valley, was taken prisoner at Harper's Ferry, was then paroled and sent home, for his time of enlistment had expired. In the fall of 1864, however, after being exchanged he reenlisted in the First United States Engineering Corps as a member of Company F, and with that command he fought for about a year, or until the close of the war.

When the country no longer needed his aid Mr. Thompson returned home, and in the spring of 1867 went to Illinois, where he spent a year. He then returned and on the 15th of November, 1868, was married in this county to Miss Emma Louise Piper, who was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, September 19, 1848, and there resided until her marriage. Her parents were Dr. William A. and Henrietta (Bibbighause) Piper, whose lives were passed in Pennsylvania, where the father engaged in the practice of medicine. The Bibbighause family came from Germany, the father of Mrs. Piper being the Rev. Bibbighause, who was a native of that country, and a clergyman of the German Reformed church. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Thompson have been born two daughters and a son: Alice, the wife of H. L. Hale, of Kentucky; Maggie, the wife of Albert H. Dillon, of Indiana; and Walter, at home.

After his marriage Mr. Thompson returned to Illinois, where he lived for thirteen years, and then went to Kentucky, where he remained for six years. He afterward spent twelve or thirteen years in Indiana, and then returned to Licking county, purchasing a farm on Burg street, in Granville township, which he later sold, purchasing his present place on the Columbus road, one mile southwest of Granville. He has here twenty-eight acres of productive land, in the midst of which stands a pleasant and commodious home. He has also owned and operated farms in Indiana, Illinois and Kentucky. His life has been a busy one, and he has many sterling traits of character, is genial, cordial and reliable, and therefore enjoys the warm regard of many friends.

Charles II. Stimson, a prominent and successful medical practitioner at Newark, who is now professor of operative surgery in the College of Medicine and Surgery, was born in Albany, New York, in 1857, a son of Dr. Charles Hopkins and Melissa (Dean) Stimson, the latter of Athens, Ohio. The son devoted his early youth to study and closely applied himself to his school work. His preliminary training was supplemented by a course in the Ohio State University at Athens, where he was graduated in 1876. Determining upon the practice of medicine as his life work, he entered the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia, from which he was graduated in 1878, and the following year he attended and completed a course in the Bellevue Hospital Medical College of New York city. Fol- lowing his graduation in the latter institution he accepted the position of house surgeon in the Charity Hospital of New York city, where he remained for eighteen months without pay. The work, however, afforded a large field for experience and thus proved a valuable factor in his preparation for his chosen life work. Returning to Ohio, he located for practice in Newark, where he has remained continuously since and in the lines of both medical and surgical practice he has won distinction through his superior ability. He has been on the surgical staff of the Newark City Hospital since its organization, was for twelve years surgeon for the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company and is now professor of operative surgery in the College of Medicine and Surgery. The profession, as well as the general public, acknowledges his ability and accords him the prominence to which his merit justly entitles him.

On the 7th of November, 1889, Dr. Stimson was married to Miss Etta F. Burner, a daughter of J. Y. and Catherine Burner, of Newark, Ohio. Dr. and Mrs. Stimson are prominent in the social circles of the city, the hospitality of the most attractive homes of Newark being cordially extended them. The doctor has attained high rank in Masonry, being a Knight Templar and Consistory Mason and also a member of Aladdin Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He is likewise a charter member of Newark Lodge, No. 391, B. P. 0. E., and is popular among his brethren of these fraternities by reason of his social qualities aside from any professional relations.

Robert B. Mussulman

Robert B. Musselman, a substantial agriculturist of Newark township, who devotes his attention to general farming on a tract of land of eighty-eight acres, was born in this county, November 26, 1846, a son of Joseph and Lucinda (Wilkin) Musselman, both of whom were natives of Licking county, where they resided until they departed this life, in the years 1893 and 1895, respectively. They reared the following children : Samuel, deceased ; Anna, wife of Henry Dorsey, of Licking county; Ollie, who wedded Frank Gray, of this county; and Robert B. The father, at the time of his death, owned one hundred and fifteen acres of land, which he had highly improved. He was a stanch democrat and throughout his life remained loyal to that party, and, being convinced of the fundamental nature of its principles, was enthusiastic during campaigns in working for its success. The family has resided in this county for many years, the paternal grandfather having located here in 1814, where he lived until his death, in 1882, at the advanced age of ninety-seven years, his wife having departed this life when but six years younger.

After acquiring his education in the district schools, Robert B. Musselman remained at home, engaging with his father in agricultural pursuits until he was twenty-seven years of age, when, upon being united in marriage, he rented the old home place for four years. After the expiration of that time he continued renting for twenty-two years, and then purchased the farm in this township which he now has under cultivation. His property is highly improved, the premises being equipped with a comfortable residence, barns, outbuildings and machinery requisite to the occupation of agriculture, and he has become quite successful in general farming and stock-raising. Aside from taking an interest in general stock-raising, Mr. Musselman gives special attention to raising hogs, of which he has fine specimens. He is a man of remarkable energy and industry, and during the many years he was compelled to rent the property he tilled he resorted to practical economy, and this, reinforced by careful management, enabled him to purchase his present farm, which he maintains by the most advanced methods of agriculture.

Mr. Musselmen was united in marriage to Miss Annie I. Yocum, formerly a school teacher of this county, who was born in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, June 22, 1843, the daughter of Richard and Matilda Yocum, natives of the Keystone state. Mrs. Yocum was married a second time, becoming the wife of Tildon Stunt, a native of England, in 1849. In 1850 they came to this county, here remaining until they departed this life, he on October 19, 1869, and she on March 26, 1906. By her first husband Mrs. Yocum had three children: Sarah, deceased ; Mary, who makes her home with her brother, Robert B. To the second union were born: George C., Minnie, and Ella, wife of Ora Lucas, all residents

Mr. Musselman and his wife are dutiful in carrying out their religious obligations and are faithful adherents of the Presbyterian church. He is a stanch democrat and has always given his political support to that party and, while he has always been enthusiastic during campaigns in assisting the candidates of his party to secure office, he has never sought political preferment for himself, but has been content with confining his interest and labors to his farm, in the cultivation of w'hich, through his unwearied industry, he has attained a measure of prosperity, which now in his declining years enables him to live comfortably and somewhat withdraw from the active duties of life. He is known, throughout the township as a man of moral force who has always endeavored to deal justly with all men and live uprightly, thus winning the respect of the entire community.

Samuel F. Van Voorhis

The specific and distinctive office of biography is not to give voice to a inan?s modest estimate of himself and his accomplishments, but rather to leave the perpetual record establishing his character by the consensus of opinion on the part of his felloivmen. Throughout Licking county Samuel F. Van Voorhis is spoken of in terms of admiration and respect. His life has been so varied in its activity, so honorable in its purposes, so far-reaching and beneficial in its effects, that it has become an integral part of the history of his city, and has also left an impress upon the annals of the state. In no sense a man in public life, he has nevertheless exerted an immeasurable influence on the city of his residence; in business life as a financier; in social circles by reason of a charming personality and unfeigned cordiality; in politics by reason of his public spirit and devotion to the general good; and in those departments of activity which ame- liorate hard conditions of life for the unfortunate, by Ins benevolence and liberality. He was born in Muskingum county, Ohio, July 26, 1841, and is a son of Daniel and Jane (Roberts) Yan Voorhis. The father, a native of Pennsylvania, became a resident of Nashport, Ohio, at the age of six years, and remained a resident of this state until his life's labors were ended. He was for many years one of the most prominent and valued residents of Muskingum and Licking counties, and extended mention is made of him on another page of this work.

Samuel F. Yan Yoorhis spent the days of his boyhood and youth on the home farm, there continuing until 1865, when he came to Newark. From early boyhood he had assisted in the labors of the fields as his years and strength permitted, and when crops were harvested in the autumn he entered the public schools and therein acquired a good education to serve as the basis for his business success. In the year 1867 he was married, and located on a farm three miles west of the city, his place comprising three hundred and sixty-five acres of rich and productive land, which he still owns. He at first bought two hundred and thirtyfive acres, while his wife inherited from her father fifty-seven acres, and Mr. Yan Yoorhis later purchased an additional tract of seventy acres. For ten years he successfully carried on general agricultural pursuits and then erected his present beautiful residence at No. 141 West Main street in Newark, in 1877, removing into it on the tenth anniversary of his marriage. Here he has now lived for more than thirty-one years. From time to time he has made judicious investment in other property and is now the owner of considerable realty in Newark, from which he derives a substantial annual income. During his residence here he has been well known as a capitalist, while his activity in financial circles has constituted an element in the business progress and development of the city. He was one of the incorporators of the Security Building & Loan Company, which was merged into the Newark Trust Company, of which Mr. Yan Yoorhis remains a director to the present time. His cooperation has been eagerly sought for the benefit of many public interests as well as in business lines. His opinions always carry weight and his example is a forceful factor in many instances. For fifteen years he has been a member of the Board of Trade, active in its work for the commercial and industrial development of the city. He has also been a director of the Licking County Agricultural Society for a number of years and was its treasurer for several years. No movement or measure calculated to benefit the community in material lines, to promote its charitable work or to advance its intellectual or moral progress seeks his aid in vain. In politics he has always been a stalwart republican, active in the local ranks of the party, and yet the honors and emoluments of office have had no attraction for him. His interest in educational affairs is indicated in the efficient work he has done as a member of the board of trustees of Denison University for about twenty years. As a member of the Baptist church he has contributed generously to its support and been connected with its various activities leading to its growth and the extension of its influence. He has been a deacon of the church for thirty years or longer, is serving on its finance committee, and in August, 1908, was elected moderator of the Scioto Baptist Association. He gives freely to organized charities and also to private benevolent work. He was a trustee of the Licking County Children's Home for many years and was chosen one of its first trustees, serving for a number of years.

Mr. Van Yoorhis laid the foundation for a happy home life in his marriage on the 10th of September, 1867, to Miss Mary E. Fulton, who was born in Newark township, February 12, 1846, and is a daughter of John M. and Rebecca (Young) Fulton, both of whom were natives of this county. The father died in 1875, but the mother is still living in Newark at the age of eighty-nine years. Mr. and Mrs. Van Yoorhis are the parents of four children: Mabel, the wife of T. E. Brown, of Newark; Helen, who died at the age of five years; J. Fulton, a graduate of Denison University, of the class of 1905, and now engaged in the hardware business at Granville as a member of the firm of Jones & Yan Yoorhis; and R. Clay, who completed a course in Denison University by graduation with the class of 1906. Such, in brief, is the life history of S. F. Yan Yoorhis, one of the valued citizens of his native state. He holds friendship inviolable and, as true worth may always win his regard, he has a very extensive circle of friends, his life demonstrating the truth voiced by Ralph Waldo Emerson, that "the way to win a friend is to be one." No plan or movement for the benefit of the city along lines of progress and improvement seeks his aid in vain. The public work that he has done has largely been of a nature that has brought no pecuniary reward and yet has made demand upon his time, his thought and his energies. Opportunities that otheis have passed by heedlessly he has noted and improved to the betterment of the city. He is extremely modest and unostentatious in manner, but all who know him speak of him in terms of praise.

Joseph Atkinson

Joseph Atkinson, prominent for many years as a farmer, stock breeder and banker, in Harrison township, is descendant of a family that came to the United States from England in the sixteenth century and numbers among its illustrious representatives Nathan Hale, the famous patriot of colonial days, who said : "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country." On the farm on which he now resides, located one-half mile south of Pataskala, Joseph Atkinson was born January 23, 1839, a son of Peabody and Marinda (Elliott) Atkinson, the fathei having been a native of Boscowen, New Hampshire, born in 1804, and the mother of Canterbury, New Hampshire. Peabody Atkinson came to Licking county in 1830, in company with Abraham Miller and William and Joseph Baird, and in partnership with them purchased twenty-four hundred acres of land at five dollars per acre from William Hogg, who had secured the property from the government. Mr. Atkinson owned one-third of the entire tract, or eight hundred acres, one-half of which he cleared off and put under cultivation. On this farm he spent his entire life, except three years, and built a sawmill on the south fork of Licking creek, near where stands the home of Joseph Atkinson. This mill, which was operated until the year 1865, assisted greatly in the development of the country. While he engaged in general farming, producing large quantities of hay and grain, he made a specialty of raising sheep and dealt extensively in shipping wool, which he sent to various parts of the country. He sold off much of his property but owned four hundred and sixty-five acres of the original tract and seventy-five acres on the Co- lumbus road at the time of his death, which was due to injuries sustained by a fall while sacking wool. He was prominent in church work and was elder of the Presbyterian church with which he was affiliated. In politics he was a whig and later a republican, and his son Joseph recalls with interest accompanying him to the polls in the year 1852, when the father cast his vote for Winfield Scott, who was then a candidate for president of the United States. In 1831 Mr. Atkinson returned to New Hampshire, where he was united in marriage, and the same year brought his bride here and located on a farm of sixteen hundred acres near Hebron, where he remained for three years and then located on the farm wrhich he bought in this township. His wife, a daughter of Samuel Elliott, departed this life in 1866. They reared the following family : Mary, wrho wredded a second cousin, William E. Atkinson, both of wrhom are deceased ; George J., deceased, who for many years wras an attorney at Columbus, Ohio, and who served throughout the Civil war in the same company with his brother, Joseph, after which te took up the study of law with Governor Denison; Samuel Peabody, who is in the marble business in Champaign, Illinois; and Joseph.

In the district schools of this towmship Joseph Atkinson acquired his early education, and afterwards attended Denison University. He then actively engaged in agricultural pursuits on his father's farm and has since resided there, having under cultivation something over four hundred acres, located in the southwest comer of Harrison township on the creek road, his property being known as the Wool worth Farm. The farm is well improved, being provided with a comfortable residence, barns, outbuildings, and the machinery necessary for successfully pursuing his work. For many years Mr. Atkinson, in association with his father, engaged in general farming, and also made a specialty of sheep raising and carrying on an extensive wool enterprise. However, since the death of his father Mr. Atkinson has considerably curtailed his interests, now' devoting his time to general farming and stock-raising on a small scale and in addition carries on a dairy business and ships his products to Columbus, Ohio. Aside from caring for the interests of his farm he is concerned in a number of financial enterprises, and has been president of the People's Bank of Pataskala since its organization, was president of the Pataskala Banking Company for fourteen years and is also a stockholder in the Millersport Bank, the institutions writh which he is connected being in high financial standing throughout the state.

In 1872 Mr. Atkinson wTedded Julia Ewing, a daughter of Dr. James Ewing, her birth having occurred in Hebron, Ohio, in 1849, and the couple reared the following family : Charles, wrho resides in Pataskala writh his wife, formerly Miss Amy Coons; Florence, who wedded George Newkirk, of Detroit, Michigan; Frank Peabody, a physician of Millersport, Ohio, who wras united in marriage to Miss Farice Klink; Joseph Bernard, who wredded Miss Grace Sutherland and manages the farm for his father; Harry C., a chemist of Columbus, Ohio; James E. ; and Carlton C., a graduate of Wooster University.

Mr. Atkinson has been a lifelong republican, voted for Abraham Lincoln in 1860 and has since been loyal in his support of the presidential candidates of his party. In this county he has been very prominent in political circles and received nominations at various times for county offices but, his party being in the minority, he has never been successful in securing election. He has also served as delegate to a number of state conventions. In 1864 he enlisted in Company D, One Hundred

Thirty-fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, as second lieutenant under Captain Beard, and was honorably discharged five months later. He is now a member of Baird Post No. 653, G. A. R., of Pataskala. Mr. Atkinson belongs to the Presbyterian church, of which for many years he has been a faithful member and of which he is now an elder. He is a man of high moral character, enjoying the respect of the entire community and, having industriously applied himself during his younger days, he is now in a position which enables him to leisurely enjoy somewhat of life's comforts after a long life of unremitting energy and honest endeavor.

Henry Gieseck

In a history of the agricultural development of Licking county mention should be made of Henry Gieseck, who, for many years, was closely associated with the farming interests of Lima township and was also known as a practical and progressive agriculturist. He was born in the district of Hildesheim, Hanover, Germany, November 25, 1829, and his life record covered the intervening years to the 5th of August, 1888, when he passed away in Arkansas. The days of his boyhood and youth were spent in the fatherland and then, hearing favorable reports concerning the business conditions and opportunities in the new world, he sailed for the United States, landing on American shores on the 2d of June, 1852. He was entirely without capital but he possessed a stout heart and willing hands and with these to serve as a ground work for success he continued steadily on, year after year, until he laid the foundation for a comfortable fortune. He was employed as a section boss on the Central Ohio Railroad, at Columbus, at the time he was married. He wedded Fredericka Krumm, who was born in Franklin county, Ohio, November 3, 1836, and is a daughter of Martin and Mary (Younger) Krumm, of wdiom mention is made elsewhere in this volume, in connection with the sketch of Philip Krumm.

For some time after his marriage Mr. Gieseck continued to work on the railroad and was road master when he finally severed his connection with railroad interests. He carefully saved his earnings as the years passed until his capital was sufficient to enable him to purchase a farm and in March, 1863, he brought his family to the place in Lima township upon which his widow now resides. It is pleasantly and conveniently located about a mile and a half north of Wagram. He first bought ninety acres and with characteristic energy began its development and improvement. As the years passed he added to this until he was the owner of about five hundred acres of rich and productive land, which responded readily to the care and labor he bestowed upon it. He built a fine brick dwelling in 1874 and from time to time added other substantial buildings, until his farm was well equipped with all the barns and outbuildings necessary for the shelter of grain and stock. He used the latest improved machinery in tilling his fields and everything about his place indicated his progressive spirit and practical methods. A part of the home place was timber land when he took possession of it and he had a saw mill built, cut down the trees and sawed up the timber. He also at one time had a tile factory on his farm and operated it for a number of years.

He also superintended the work of furnishing timber to the railroad, cut out ties for the building and repair of the road and also wood for the engines, for at that day such fuel was used in the locomotives. He lived a life of intense and welldirected activity, working earnestly year after year to provide a comfortable living for his family, until he became one of the substantial agriculturalists and successful business men of Licking county. Prior to his death he divided his land among his children. In the latter years of his life he purchased a large tract of timber land in Arkansas and with his son, Charles, went to that place. They took with them a saw mill outfit, it being the fathers idea to set his son up in business there. They arrived in Arkansas in October, 1887, and on the 5tli of August, 1888, the father passed away, while on the 18th of January, 1889, the son, Charles, died, being at that time twentv-four years of age, his birth having occurred on the 24th of February, 1865.

Mr. and Mrs. Gieseek were the parents of six children: William Henry, who died leaving a wife and six children ; David L., who passed away leaving a wife and two children; Franklin J., who died leaving a wife and nine children; Christiana, the wife of Ross Robinett, of Lima township, by whom she has four children; Henrietta Josephine, the wife of Doss Wickliff of Lima township, by whom she has four children ; Charles, who died in Arkansas.

Mrs. Gieseek retains the old home, which her husband erected, together with fort}r acres of land surrounding it. Mr. Gieseek took an active interest in local polities and held a number of the township offices, giving his political support to the republican party. He was reared in the Lutheran church and was always a man of upright principles, who never infringed on the privileges of others nor was known to take advantage of another in business transactions. He is yet remembered by many who knew him and who valued his friendship while he was still an active factor in the affairs of life.

Frank C. Bartholomew

Frank C. Bartholomew, passenger agent for the Baltimore & Ohio railroad at Newark, was born July 20, 1871, in the city where he still resides, his parents being Lewis D. and Cornelia (Smucker) Bartholomew. The father was born near Lancaster, Ohio, and in his boyhood days came to this county with his father, Charles Bartholomew, who settled in Newark when it was a small and unimportant town, while the surrounding country gave every evidence of being a frontier district. Entering the employ of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company, L. D. Bartholomew gradually worked his way upward, and for thirty-two years remained as a trusted employe, occupying the position of passenger agent here at the time of his death, which occurred July 7, 1899. His wife was born in Newark, and was a daughter of Andrew Smucker, a pioneer settler and a member of a very prominent family. She died May 3, 1902.

While spending his boyhood days under the parental roof, Frank C. Bartholomew pursued his education in the graded and high schools of Newark. He then entered the Baltimore & Ohio railroad service as assistant passenger agent under his father, whom he succeeded at the latter's death, having now filled the position for ten years. His connection with railroad service throughout his entire business career indicates in unmistakable terms his trustworthiness and fidelity.

Mr. Bartholomew is the secretary of the Licking Oil & Gas Company, treasurer of the Central Railway Club and a prominent member of the order. He also belongs to Acme Lodge, A. F. & A. M., and to the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. Pleasantly situated in his home life, he was married August 6, 1902, to Miss Geitrude Goldsborough, a native of Bradford, Pennsylvania, and a daughter of J. R. Goldsborough, who came to Newark to organize the Newark Iron & Steel Company. He was well known among the oil people of Pennsylvania and was a prominent business man. Mr. and Mrs. Bartholomew have two children: Thomas Hayward, bom May 31, 1906, and William West, December 1, 1907. The parents are Episcopalians in their religious faith and are well known socially in Newark, having a circle of friends almost coextensive with the circle of their acquaintance. Mr. Bartholomew has proved a popular and efficient officer in railroad circles and has gained high regard by reason of his uniform courtesy and obliging spirit.

George E. Garl1Nghouse

George E. Garlinghouse is a prominent representative of the farming and stock-raising interests of Monroe township. His success, especially in the raising of fine stock, has largely made him an authority on the questions pertaining thereto and he is justly classed with the prominent agriculturists of the community. A native of the state of Iowa, he was born June 4, 1858, of the marriage of William and Elizabeth (Huff) Garlinghouse. In 1862 his father joined the Oregon emigrants and in the same year the mother removed with her family to Delaware county, Ohio, where she remained.

George E. Garlinghouse in his boyhood days engaged in such work as he could find to do, mainly assisting in the labors of the farm. He secured his education in the district schools and in the school of experience has learned many valuable and practical lessons. On the 3d of July, 1877, he was united in marriage to Miss Gallic Knorr, a daughter of Christian and Rose (Brown) Ivnorr, who came to Ohio from Germany when young people and settled in Delaware county, this state, where the father engaged in general farming. Three children have blessed the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Garlinghouse: Florence, now the wife of Ray Adams, a resident of Columbus; Glen and Rose E., who are at home.

Following his marriage Mr. Garlinghouse engaged in farming in Delaware county until 1885, when he purchased the farm upon which he now lives in Monraising, making a specialty of fine draft horses. His reputation as a breeder of roe township, Licking county. Here he has since devoted his time and energies to the cultivation of the cereals best adapted to soil and climate and also to stockthis class is more than local. In 1901 he gained wide reputation bv entering a yearling French draft mare in the general sweepstakes class at the Ohio State Fair. This class was open to all breeds and ages - any animal could be entered - but among a large number of entries the yearling French draft mare of Mr. Oar- linghouse won first prize. Subsequently the same animal took six other prizes in the general sweep-stakes contest. Mr. Garlinghouse has also bred and raised other high-grade horses and the sales of his stock have brought him a most gratifying income. In all of his business affairs he is energetic, determined and reliable, and moreover, he has a genius for devising the right thing at the right time, joined to every-day common-sense, which is too often a factor lacking in the business development of man.

Always a progressive man, Mr. Garlinghouse has been an advocate of good roads and other public improvements. He was the first man in Licking county to circulate a petition for the improvement of roads under the law of 1900. This petition asked for the improvement of Sunbury and Johnstown road, better known as "the Garlinghouse pike," and the same is now under construction and will be completed within the year 1909. It is a graded road, with crushed lime stone dressing, and is a fine specimen of road building. Mr. Garlinghouse is now acting as superintendent of construction under appointment of the county commissioners and the county surveyor. He has, furthermore, been a member of the school board for several years and the cause of education has found in him a helpful and stalwart champion. He is now serving his second term as township trustee and in all public positions is found loyal to the trust reposed in him, his record being a most commendable one. He is a member of the Johnstown lodge K. P., gives his political allegiance to the democracy, belongs to the Methodist church and is an active and influential citizen in every way.

Early Reminiscences Of Henry A. Montgomery

Collected and written by Nelle Montgomery Johnson during the winter of 1908 for her own gratification and published in the Licking County History at the request of Judge Brister.

My earliest recollection is of being told to stand on a mound of earth in front of my father's house and halloo my loudest for Adams for the benefit of some of our neighbors, who were on their way to vote for Andrew Jackson. This was in the fall of 1828; John Quincy Adams was a candidate for a second term as president of the United States, and it was the first election in which a decided spirit of partizanship was shown - the whig and the democratic parties becoming distinct political bodies at that time.

As an older boy, I was greatly interested in and made every effort to be present on "muster" days. The men of each township formed themselves into companies, officers were chosen, and on the appointed days they came together to drill. County musters were called when all the townships joined their forces, making, as it seemed to my boyish fancy, a most imposing sight. I recollect, also, seeing a state muster which was held in that portion of Newark west of North Fifth street and north of West Church, all a common at that time.

It was on one of these muster days that, as I stood about with my boyish companions, I saw a coin in the dust. It proved to be a silver piece. I considered myself lucky and at once decided I should go to an animal show that was soon to come to Newark. Thinking to put my money in a safe place, I pushed it between the logs of our spring house. On the day of the show, it was necessary for brother Charlie to use the ax in order to recover it for me. The show grounds were at that time where now stands the Hotel Sherwood.

A log school house, near my birthplace, the Reid farm on the Mary Ann Furnace road, was the first school to enroll me among its student body. The general make-up of this crude structure was in keeping with the rugged times. The windows were of greased paper, the seats were heavy, hewn slabs of wood : holes were bored into the log beneath the greased paper windows and in these holes large wooden pegs were inserted with slightly downward slant, while on these pegs other slabs were laid, which served as a place for the practice of writing, to which a large portion of the time was given, good penmanship being a much coveted accomplishment. Pens, at that time, were manufactured from the quills of the goose, the ink was a home manufacture of maple bark boiled with gun powder. Red ink was as easily made by extracting the juice from the pokeberrv.

I studied arithmetic and geography and spelling from a Webster spelling book. I first learned to read from a little primer, then my reading was from the New Testament almost entirely. When somewhat older I had a book called the "Columbian Orator," which was a compilation of extracts from the speeches of the prominent patriots of the revolutionary period.

Township schools were open three or four months in the year, during the winter season; subscription schools were supported by those who were ambitious for better opportunities for their children and these were often held during the summer for the younger children. The teacher boarded about among the subscribers, the more children in the family, the longer the stay of the teacher ; he was with us a large portion of the school term. The teacher of that day was stern and relentless; he flogged unsparingly for all classes of offenses. One winter 1 attended school in a log building where now stands the Weiant country home ; we were taught by a Mr. Hughes from Hughesville, Virginia, who was a student of Denison College and had accepted the short term of the district school as a means of assisting him in his coliege course. He was an excellent teacher and the one from whom I am certain I learned the most. Another teacher, who left behind him the kindliest recollections, was a Mr. Westervelt, a theoolgical student from Oberlin, of whom I last heard in Iowa. These two were of irreproachable character, a virtue I can scarcely attribute to every teacher whose school I attended ; their Monday morning dispositions testifying to the intemperance of the day before.

The Ohio canal and the boats on it were the never ending source of interest. It must have been between the years 1830 and 1835 that ex-President John Quincy Adams came to Newark to lecture on "Education." He came by stage to Portsmouth and by canal to Hebron, where he was met bv a number of Newark citizens, and by them escorted on canal boat to Newark. His lecture was delivered in the First Presbyterian church.

Passenger packets on the canal were lightly built, prettily painted, carpeted and furnished. The horses towing them went at a trot and were changed at a distance of each ten miles. In pleasant weather the passengers rode on deck and as there was no smoke, cinders or dust, it made a very nice, clean way to travel.

and was at once recognized as having many advantages over stage coach travel. The Zoarite settlement at Zoar, Ohio, was often the objective point of the many people wishing to make a canal trip; comfortable provision could there be made for a stay of several days, so that was an excursion often made.

When I was fourteen, my father talked strongly of apprenticing me to John I. Mooney, an excellent cabinet-maker of Newark. Many splendid pieces of furniture of his construction are owned in and about Newark today. However, there was much that a boy of my age could do on a farm, so father kept me with him while -

I recall very distinctly one day in September, when I was about fifteen, John and I were returning from brother Sam's, at Johnstown, where we had been sent on an errand. They had put something like a half bushel of turnips in the wagon for us to bring home. When we arrived in Newark, school had just been dismissed in the building which stood in the rear of the First Presbyterian church. As the boys rushed out, we recognized Dan and Will Darlington. We knew them well, as they often had visited us. We therefore gave each a turnip. Uve looked upon scraped turnip as well worth eating. With that, the rest of the boys demanded turnips. We knew that we hadn't enough for them and have any left to take home, so we drove off. Then they began to pelt us with stones. That made me mad, so I got down from the wagon and ran every one of them into a yard around the old brick house that stood on the present site of the John Swisher home. I dared any one of them to come out, but they did not venture.

The following spring, brothers Clark, John and I went to the reservoir, now known as Buckeye lake. We drove there in a big wagon hitched to two horses. Two other young fellows joined us at Newark. We reached our destination in the afternoon and at once started to try our luck, the Newark boys for frogs, we for fish. It was not long before we had nearly filled the tub we had brought with us with cleaned fish. We placed it under the wagon and went away some distance to try another place. Upon our return we found, to our dismay, that some hogs had made their appearance and eaten all our fish. We regretted having placed the tub under the wagon rather than in it. I was discouraged, but John, having greater patience, set about catching more, so that we had a few to take home, after all. That happened sixty-four years ago, and I did not again visit the reservoir until within the last four years. Upon my first visit the canal portion only was free from timber.

A great many of the early settlers in the country east of Newark had emigrated from Virginia. My father came with his brother Henry and their father from Staunton in 1810. Through the third brother, Samuel, who was a circuit preacher of the Baltimore conference, traveling in Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia, Henry had heard of the Grimes family of Greenbrier, Virginia. Having laid his plans to go west with his father and brother, Henry started in advance of the wagons, his purpose being to visit the Grimes family. He traveled on horseback, following the emigrant road to the source of the Greenbrier river, where he turned into a mountain bridle path which brought him, after a hundred-mile journey, to the home of Felix and Catherine Grimes, where he presented an introductory letter from his brother Samuel, their pastor. They looked upon him favorably and he was able to persuade Mary, the second daughter, to become his wife and journey with him to share the trials and perils of a home on the frontier. Both on horseback, her dower of household goods in pack saddles, they returned the way he had come, two of her brothers accompanying them to drive her four cows. They met my father and grandfather, and then together the four took up their journey over the Alleghenies, crossing the Ohio river at Marietta, following the Muskingum to Zanesville, and the Licking to Newark, then but a very small village. They had expected to continue up the North Fork of the Licking to where Utica now stands, as they had friends there who had preceded them from Virginia, but finding the stream swollen and learning that corn was scarce there, they decided for the time to rent a log cabin of Mr. John Channel, on the south side of the Licking.

There we can picture this brave woman in her new home, meeting its discomforts and privations with true pioneer spirit. Fortune, however, favored their efforts, and at the end of three years, with the combined accumulation of the father and two sons, a tract of land was purchased on the Bowling Green, four miles east of Newark.

The year preceding war had been declared against the British^ and news of it came as regularly as the irregular mail service would permit. The greatest anxiety was felt for fear of Indian raids, as reports had reached them of their depredations at Fort Dearborn. It was my delight, as a small boy* to have father tell how he removed the clapboard on the roof of their cabin and kept his gun by his head, thinking in case the Indians came they could make their escape through the roof.

William Montgomery, my father, enlisted in the war during the summer of 18 Id. His company toiled through the dense forests of northern Ohio to Sandusky, where they had been but a short time when news of Ferry s victory was received, which virtually ended the war. So they saw no active service, but marched back by the way they had gone, to Mount Vernon, where the company disbanded, and those who lived in Newark, not caring to take the circuitous route of the highway, made their way through the woods "straight as the crow flies'* and were soon at their homes. It was in October of that year that mv father returned to Virginia and presented himself at the Grimes home and found favor with the youngest daughter, Margaret. When his visit was over, and he turned his face to the west again and rode out into the bright October sunshine, he had his life companion at his side.

It is easy to picture the reunion of the sisters and to understand the close friendship that then existed, and always has, between the two families of ten and eleven children, respectively.

Samuel Montgomery, the oldest brother, came to Licking county with the third Grimes sister in 1820. He continued to preach during the forty-seven years that he resided in this community. His eyesight completely failed him fifteen years before he died, but he had been such a student that his mind had been richly stored, and no one drew larger congregations than he.

My father and mother returned to Virginia to visit in 1819, taking with them brother Charlie, a baby of nine months. To make this journey they drove in a wagon to the Ohio river, taking their saddles with them, and the remainder of the trip was made on horseback. They returned by the same method.

Again to the subject of the eariy settlers. Among other Virginians were Solomon and Jonathan Wood. Solomon brought with him his bride, who was said to have been a descendant of Chief Justice Marshall. Their sister, Mary Wood, married Nathan Fleming before leaving Virginia, and they settled at lrville and were the parents of my wife's mother, Margaret Fleming.

Colonel Nathan Fleming was born in Marion county, West Virginia, January, 1783. He was in the mercantile business in lrville, one of the early shippers to New Orleans, frequently going to that place himself. He was commissioned in the militia of Ohio April 3, 1812, by Governor Return Jonathan Meigs, and promoted to major October 29, 1812. He held this rank until October 15, 1818, when he was again promoted, this time to the rank of lieutenant colonel. His daughter, Margaret Fleming, married Beverly Lemert, whose mother, Elizabeth Glasscock, laid out the village of Elizabethtown. Lewis Lemert, father of Beverly, had power of attorney from George Washington to collect his rents on certain tracts of Virginia land. The document, made out by General Washington's own hand, is still intact.

Others that I remember well were James Stump and Levi Claypool, Cornelius Sidle and Eliphalet Vandenbark, all men of great integrity, cleverness and hospitality. Their homes were built of hewn logs and contained large fireplaces and chimneys. Having brought considerable means with them to this new country, they lived well for that day. They had pieces of furniture made by local cabinetmakers and would also occasionally have china and furniture brought from the east. These articles were spoken of by their less fortunate neighbors as "far sought and dear bought," but the appreciation shown at the present day of these antique articles proves at least that they were a good investment to hand down to their posterity.

Every man in those early days devoted considerable time to hunting. It was not a mere matter of passing the time, but a necessity. The rifle was kept in a convenient place at all times and frequently used. During my boyhood many deer were killed at the salt licks along the Licking river. The hunter would hide all night, as it was in the early morning that the deer would come for their salt.

I recall a story repeatedly told me in my boyhood, of some white men and Indians who were hunting near Black Hand, and their supply of lead having become exhausted, the Indians requested the white men to wait ; that they would procure more. After several hours they returned, bearing lead ore. There was much speculation as to where the ore was procured, and repeated search was made for it. One man, Tom Moody by name, with others, devoted days to the search for it, and, failing to find it, they were inclined to the belief that it might have been found in the bed of the creek.

A "husking" was one of the prominent social episodes and, as well, a decided bit of assistance to the host with his work. It was held in the early fall, on a moonlight night. The corn having previously been hauled in and dumped into a large half circle, captains were chosen who alternately chose their side until the crowd was halved. The half circle of corn was divided into two portions equal in quantity, and each lot of participants, under the leadership of their respective captains, proceeded to husk. As the corn was husked it was tossed to the center in a pile, and the first side to complete its task proceeded to fall upon the opponents, man for man, in one grand wrestling match. "Bully" men were so called because of their reputation as wrestlers and huskers throughout the neighborhood. Other profitable pleasures were log rollings and quiltings, of which descriptions are numerous.

In 1844 I went into the mercantile business at Elizabethtown. My stock of goods had to be transported from Baltimore, where I went to select it. To go to that city I went by stage from Zanesville to Cumberland, Maryland. The Baltimore & Ohio railroad was completed from Baltimore to that point and it was not then thought possible to build it further over the mountains. M}' purchase of goods was brought to Cumberland via the Baltimore & Ohio railroad. It was carried by wagons across the mountains to Brownsville, Pennsylvania, and put aboard a steamboat on the Monongahela river, which went to Pittsburg and from thence down the Ohio river to Marietta, and from that place up the Muskingum to Zanesville, where the goods were again placed on wagons and hauled twenty miles to their destination. The freight rate, now fifty cents per hundred from New York to Newark, was then two dollars and fifty cents per hundred pounds from Baltimore to Zanesville. Calico sold at from twenty-five cents to thirtyseven and one-half cents per yard. On the other hand, we paid but six cents per pound for butter, three cents for ham and from three and one-half cents to five cents per dozen for eggs, and many a dozen of the latter have I relegated to the garbage pile, having been unable to dispose of them at any price.

The country was full of produce for which there was no available market, and as cold storage was then an unheard-of institution, the risk of handling perishables is clearly evident. I attempted to handle butter in quantity, shipping to Cincinnati by hauling to Zanesville and thence by boat to the larger city. I shipped one hundred kegs of butter, each keg containing one hundred pounds, for which I had paid six cents per pound, to Cincinnati by the route described. The product not selling readily, I went overland, driving over the National road to Springfield, which was the terminal for a railroad out of Cincinnati. All of my efforts to dispose of mv stock of butter were without avail. I returned here and it was not until February, four months after having shipped to Cincinnati, that I disposed of the stuff, needless to say at a loss, selling it as grease to be refined into oil for lighting purposes.

The store room occupied by me in Elizabethtown was afterward familiar to the younger children as Aunt 'Dithas? house, one door west of the Methodist church. Notwithstanding such experiences as above related, I conducted this business for a period of five years at a modest profit, but, estimating at the expiration of that time, my most valued asset acquired while in business was my wife.

I met my wife after her return from the Granville Female Seminary in the spring of ?4C>. We were married on the 12th day of January, 1847, my mothers birthday. Those who witnessed the ceremony were Ely Beckwith and Rebecca Smith, the latter a sister of William Phillip's wife, who were our attendants; ray brothers, Charlie and Clark; a brother-in-law, James Taylor; a sister, Emily; the wives of Abner and Leroy Lemert; Elizabeth, the next younger sister, who came home from the Granville seminary to witness the ceremony, and the younger brothers and sisters. The only surviving witness of the ceremony is Mrs. Julia Lemert Brad field.

We had expected to make a trip to Columbus via stage from Newark, but the roads having thawed and then frozen during the week just preceding our marriage, I decided, after driving from Elizabethtown to Newark and return, the Sunday preceding our marriage, that it would not be a comfortable or pleasant journey. We came directly to my mother's house, which was located where Cary Montgomery now lives. At the dinner that day, given in our honor, were present Mr. and Mrs. Thomas O'Bannon, Mr. and Mrs. William Seymour, sister Nancy and husband, brother Sam, wife and daughter, Mary Jane, and Mr. and Mrs. William Moore, the latter a Darlington.

We went to housekeeping opposite the present Methodist Episcopal church in Elizabethtown and lived there while we built on the hill opposite, now the parsonage, and into which house we moved the following October. Our first baby was born there in November. Its life was a short one, dying the following June. In the spring of 1849 we moved to Newark. At this time, had I a better education, it would have been my desire to study medicine. It is a source of satisfaction that our son, Edward, born on the 15th of May of that year, inherited my ambition and has reached a degree of success far beyond the ken of my then limited vision.

At the time we came to Newark there was great excitement concerning the discovery of gold in California. I seriously considered becoming one of a party under the leadership of Ben Brice to go to California to seek my fortune. This project was abandoned, however, though quite a number from this community really did go. Cholera menaced the health and peace of mind of Newark's population throughout the two years that we resided there, in consequence of which business was much affected, for which reason, together with our own fear of the disease, we returned to our former neighborhood in the eastern part of the county. The physicians of the town, together with the town council, gave directions as to diet, and advised, where possible, moving out on to the hills surrounding the town. Dr. Cooper, who built the house now occupied by Charles Follett, died of cholera, as did Joshua Mathiet, a prominent attorney and former mayor of the city, in whose office Jerome Buckingham had but lately entered for the study of law.

I bought three acres of ground on the Granville road, having a frontage of two hundred feet, later built upon by the late Daniel Wilson. We lived in a house which, strange to say, still stands on Granville street, unchanged in any way, notwithstanding the fifty-eight years that have elapsed. This we rented of Mr. and Mrs. Ells, who lived across the street, and were the grandparents of Mrs. Charles Hempstead. Other neighbors were Mr. and Mrs. Colemen, grandparents of Dr. William Baldwin. I recall the names of still others who moved away, and I know of no connections of theirs now living in Newark at present.

The Sandusky, Newark & Mansfield railroad was completed while we lived here, and I well remember taking my wife to see the first engine in Newark, which I believe was made in New York and brought here by canal boat. It was a great curiosity to the majority of the inhabitants. I have previously spoken of my first railroad ride, which was from Cumberland to Baltimore. I took my wife to Mount Vernon as soon as the road was in running order, that she, too, might have the experience of being carried in this novel manner.

Shortly after this the Morse magnetic telegraph line was put up through the country from New York to St. Louis by way of Newark and Granville. It was one of the wonders of the day, and as we were living on the line of its construction, I remember well the curiosity it aroused and the doubts expressed as to the success of the undertaking.

In June of 1850 P. T. Bamum's Great Renowned Show pitched its tents on the commons where now stands Mrs. Kennedy's home. The parade formed on Granville street, in front of our house. A feature of the show was the famous Tom Thumb, whose beautiful little carriage, drawn by Shetland ponies, the outfit a gift from Queen Victoria, wras standing in front of our gate. I had our baby, Edward, in my arms and asked permission of the driver to place him in the little satin-lined cab, which was graciously granted. After a ride of a few yards the baby strenuously objected to being removed therefrom.

When I left Newark I bought a farm one-half mile south of Elizabethtown, which was on the line of the famous underground railroad. From that time until the opening of the Civil war it was no unusual sight to see negroes secretly transported north. The title of this farm was defective, and involved me in a lawsuit and the loss of the greater part of the farm. The case had so many unusual features that it has been placed on the Ohio records of the supreme court.

Granville College, later called Denison, for one of its early contributors, passed through a period of struggle and vicissitude, and as a means of contributing to its support an extensive canvass was made at that time for subscriptions, on payment of which a scholarship was issued which was to extend to the donor's children and grandchildren. Mv father-in-law, Beverly Lemert, gave the sum of two hundred dollars. Mr. Lemert asked me to go with him to Granville at the time this amount was paid. We drove there from Elizabethtown on a day in October, in a Rockaway buggy drawn by two horses. The twenty- five miles were made in comfort and good time.

The college was then on the Columbus road, two miles from town. We drove directly there, where we were received very cordially by the president, Rev. Jeremiah Hall. After our business was transacted w'e were urged to stay for supper with him, and I remember especially well the peaches and cream that were served us. A well cultivated faim was then in connection with the school.

We returned to the village and went to the Buxton House to spend the night. We sat through the evening in the bar room and I distinctly recollect that the topic of conversation was the recent encounter of a prominent citizen with a rattlesnake. This particular man had a great antipathy for snakes, and a few days before, coming upon one suddenly and without warning, he exclaimed, "God damn the snake!" The question discussed was, did he sin in saying these words? and after much argument it seemed to be the opinion of the majority that he did not.

We spent a night not altogether undisturbed. Mr. Lemert shook his clothes in the morning, saying that he did not care to take anv of "those" home with him.

On the strength of the scholarship mentioned, Thomas and Nathan Lemert attended Denison one and two years, respectively, and my son, Edward, was graduated. As there was no provision preventing these scholarships being transferred, they were in a great many cases rented, which was a violation of the original idea in issuing them. Their recall was asked about 1880, and almost every one was willing to return them to the institution which is now so firmly established.

In 1858 I purchased the Beverly Lemert farm, one mile and a half northeast of Perry ton, from which mv children went out and to which they returned with their children and friends for forty-eight years - certainly the scene of many happy gatherings.

In 1864 I went to Illinois to pay for cattle that John Montgomery and 1 had contracted for by mail. I carried with me seven thousand dollars, four thousand dollars in New York drafts and the remainder in bills, all in a case encircling my waist, made for the purpose. I arrived in Columbus about seven o'clock in the evening and was obliged to wait until eleven for a train west. 1 walked up High street, and, seeing a theatre, I paid my admission and took a rear seat. At the same moment another man took a seat directly across the aisle lrom my own, and throughout the evening 1 was annoyed by the consciousness that this man was watching me. I left the theatre in good time to catch my train and hurried down High street, which was then enclosed by a high board fence, while the railroad station stood in the woods. I took the place allotted me in the sleeper. When 1 awakened in the morning and sat pulling on my boots I was startled to see in the next berth to my own the very man I had seen in the theatre on High street the night before. I very promptly said to him, "It strikes me very forcibly that I saw you in the theatre, sir." I saw no more of him after we left the train. Perhaps the consciousness of the money upon my person made me more suspicious than I otherwise would have been, but at the time I was firmly convinced that the man had a design in following me.

On another occasion I got off a train from Pittsburg, where I had just sold stock to the amount of twenty- five hundred dollars, all of which amount I had with me. Money was not trusted in banks nor checks accepted freely at that time. I had come through on a fast train, and it was only after much persuasion that the conductor consented to slow up at Black Run. He followed me to the platform and told me when to jump. The station waiting-room was closed, as it was nearly midnight, so I started immediately up the lane toward the Bald Hills. I had walked but a short distance - a few rods possibly - when a man slid down from the fence, upon which he had been sitting, and walked along with me. I managed to keep a step or two behind him, hoping that when the foot of the hill was reached he would take the cross road, but much to my disappointment he continued up the hill. The thought occurred to me that he must have his accomplices. I had no weapon other than a stout stick, but I was on the alert and assured myself that 1 was equal to him. When we reached the top of the hill, much to my relief, he turned off into a little lane which I afterwards learned led to his home. He had been sitting with a sick neighbor and was on his way home when, seeing the train coming as he reached the track, he waited to see it pass.

It was at the time of the numerous Blackburn robberies. I was returning from Frazeyburg on horseback. I had been there counting election ballots, and it was nearly twelve o'clock when I started for home. I had quite a little money with me at that time. As I came up a hill, wooded on either side, the mare I was riding stopped with a snort, and I, peering ahead, saw in the bushes at the side of the road what looked to he three men in their shirt sleeves. I debated in my mind whether or not it would be best to turn back, but knowing my horse, and that it could he depended upon for swiftness, I decided to dash by; so, tightening the rein, I gave her a hard cut with the whip, which sent her forward like a flash - to find my fright had been occasioned by a cow so striped that, as she lay among the bushes, I saw in her my three highwaymen.

In September, 1862, I was one of four to enlist from Elizabethtown at Governor Tod's call for protection for the borders of the state of Ohio. Fletcher Seward, Clay Lemert and my brother-in-law, Thomas Lemert, made up the number. Having already three brothers-in-law in the service, our going took the only remaining menfolk in Margaret Lemert's family. The word was brought to us in the afternoon. We at once set to work molding bullets, making haversacks and preparing three days' rations, and were on our way to Newark before the break of the next day. John Follett, a younger brother of Judge Follett, and later a successful attorney in Cincinnati, was made our captain and organized the company. We went to Covington, Kentucky, where we stayed two weeks. Earthworks were thrown up and preparations made to meet the rebel general, Kirby Smith. The guns we used were not the regulation guns provided for the army, but the lighter hunting rifle such as might be found in every family. On account of our guns and the fact that it was the squirrel season, we were called the " Squirrel Hunters." The governor recognized these services by issuing lithographed discharges to which were appended his signature and the seal of the state.

In May, 1864, my company, H, of the One Hundred and Fifty-ninth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, was called out to serve for one hundred days. We went to Baltimore, where we were detailed to guard Patterson Park hospital, containing four or five thousand sick, wounded and convalescent soldiers, dividing the time between that station and a fort on the Fredric road to Baltimore.

My leaving home at that time of the year left the management of the summer work of the farm for my wife and Mr. Tracy, a trusty man past middle life. We had six children at this time. Edward, the oldest, was fourteen, and so filled with the war spirit that it took much argument to convince him that he was much more useful at home than at the front. My wife proved her generalship in my absence. Twenty acres of new ground, plowed before my going, were planted in corn. To do this the ten-months-old baby was placed in the shade of a tree and amused bv the small children, while those who could lent a hand to help their mother, Tracy and the hired girl to plant and cover the corn. The sheep wTashing and shearing was accomplished, wool reaching a profitable figure that summer, bringing ninety-nine cents a pound.

I have had a natural inclination - a craving, I might say - to read. While I was in the store at Elizabethtown I read Rollins' Ancient History. During the winters on the farm, when I was much of the time in the house, I read and reread Gibbon's Rome, Macaulay's History of England, Thier's History of the French Revolution, Plutarch's Lives, the writings of Josephus, Thackeray, Dickens and various works of fiction as they came to my hand.

The growth of this country, the inventions and improvements that have been made during my period of observation, are wonderful indeed. I w'ell remember my first sight of a cradle in the wheat field. Up to that time the grain was cut with a sickle. After our men had watched the working of the cradle for some time, they returned to their sickles, saying that a cradle might do well on the hillside or in light grain. The cradle soon succeeded the sickle, while the reaper and binder and other more complicated machinery have replaced the cradle - such has been the story of improvements and invention in every line of industry.

William S. Loyd

William S. Loyd, well known as a representative of the farming interests of Granville township, wras born in the city of Newark, Ohio, February 18, 1855. Like many of the valued residents of the community, he is of Welsh lineage, his parents, Robert and Mary (Davis) Loyd, having been natives of the north and south of Wales, respectively. In her girlhood days the mother came with her parents to the United States, the family home being established in Alexandria, this county, where she was reared. Robert Loyd was thirty-five years of age when he came to Licking county, and, locating in Newark, he turned his attention to the teaming business, while later he became a farmer. His death occurred in Newark, August 25, 1893, when eighty-one years of age, while his wife passed away in the county seat, in October, 1863. They were parents of six children: Elizabeth, now living in Newark; Thomas D. and Mary J., who reside with their sister Elizabeth; William S., of this review; John D., of Alexandria; and Persis Hammond, also a resident of this county.

William S. Loyd was reared in Newark and in this city he remained until nineteen years of age, when he came to Granville township, where he has since made his home. Following his marriage he purchased his present farm, comprising one hundred and twenty-six acres on Columbus road, adjoining the corporation limits of the village of Granville. Here he has erected a fine dwelling a large and substantial barn, and made every modern improvement, and the Crystal Spring Farm, by which name the place is known, is one of the valuable and attractive farm properties of the county, proving one of the most interesting features of the landscape. Everything about the farm is kept in good condition and an air of neatness and thrift pervades the place.

In 1881 Mr. Loyd was united in marriage to Miss Sarah E. Powell, who was born in Granville township, in 1856, and is a daughter of Rev. John and Mary (George) Powell, the former a native of Wales, and a minister of the Welsh Congregational church. Mrs. Powell was born in Morrow county, Ohio, October 10, 1823. Rev. Powell died in October, 1856, and his wife died in 1894. Rev. Powell came to the United States when a young man and located in Licking county. He was actively engaged in the ministry from the time of his arrival until his death. Rev. and Mrs. Powell were the parents of five children: William R.; Rees S.;

Rachel M. ; Mary A. and Mrs. Loyd. The home of Mr. and Mrs. Loyd has been blessed with three children: William Franklin, John Ernest and Mary Edna, all yet under the parental roof, the family circle being unbroken by the hand of death.

In his political views Mr. Loyd is an earnest republican, believing that the basic elements of the party are essential to good government. He belongs to the Methodist Episcopal church, in the work of which he takes an active and helpful interest, serving now as steward and as a member of the finance committee. He is never neglectful of his duties of citizenship, and is interested in all that pertains to the material, intellectual and moral progress of the community. He deserves much credit for what he has accomplished in a business way, for he started out in life empty-handed and lias worked upward until he is now numbered among the leading and prominent farmers of the county.

John Lewis Miller

John Lewis Miller, deceased, who devoted his attention to farming and stockraising in Etna township, and who was highly respected for his useful and industrious life, was born one mile east of Wagram, December 5, 185b, on the farm on which he died April 29, 1902, after having spent his entire life in this township. His parents were Isaac and Sarah (Knepper) Miller. His father, who was a native of the Shenandoah valley of Virginia, came to this township when he was twentyone years of age in company with his brother Alexander and settled in the woods in a one-room log cabin of the primitive type, having a clapboard roof with poles laid upon it to keep the boards from being dislodged. At that time only about one acre of the farm on which they located had been cleared and consequently its cultivation did not afford them sufficient sustenance but fortunately there was plenty of wild game, particularly turkeys and deer, so that they had an abundance of substantial food. However, little by little they cut away the forests and in course of time transformed the once thickly wooded tract into fertile fields from which they have since reaped many a bountiful harvest. Of the original tract Isaac Miller retained one hundred and sixty acres, the remainder reverting to his brothers widow. He endured many privations and was compelled to be content with very few of life's comforts during his earlv career. Many a time he cradled wheat for fifty cents a day which instead of being paid to him in coin was delivered in fat bacon at five cents a pound, but by hard work and perseverance he gradually bettered his condition until at his death lie left considerable means and a fine farm of one hundred and sixty acres, provided with an elegant residence and substantial barn and other buildings. He was a strong supporter of the democratic party and for forty years voted no other ticket. His religious convictions were in accord with the teachings of the United Brethren church, of which both he and his wife were members and in the work of which they were leading factors.

Shortly after arriving in this township Isaac Miller was united in marriage to Sarah Knepjxu-, who was born in Fairfield county, Ohio, April 15. 1816. He died January 7, 1887, and she entered into rest, January 8, 1897. She was a daughter of Jacob Knepper, a native of Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, who at an early date came to this part of the state and entered one hundred and sixty acres of land for each of Ids fourteen children, the claims having been taken up in Licking and adjoining counties. "Mr. and Mrs. Miller reared a family of thirteen children, two of whom died in infancy, the names of the remaining ones being: Alexander; Henry: Jacob, a veteran of the Civil war, who served two years: John Lewis; Sarah Ault; Mary; Lucinda; Andrew, a veteran of the Civil war: George; John ; and "William.

On the home farm John Lewis Miller was reared, working in the fields under the supervision of his father and during the winter season acquiring his education in the district schools. After completing his studies he remained on the old home- stead, actively engaged in farming, until he departed this life. The farm contains ninety-six acres - a part of the original tract of one hundred and sixty acres belonging to his father - and here in addition to providing for himself and family he also took care of his parents during their declining }^ears until they entered into rest. Mr. Miller was considered one of the most careful and prosperous farmers in this vicinity, taking great pride in the appearance of his premises and was always solicitous to keep his buildings and fences in repair so that his farm indicated the thrift and enterprise of its owner. He made stock the principal feature of his farm and in this was very successful. Since his death his family have engaged in running a dairy, keeping for this purpose nine cows, all registered stock.

On December 11, 1884, Mr. Miller wedded Hester A. Miller, a native of Fairfield county, Ohio, where her birth occurred July 6, 1863, and where she resided until she was united in marriage. Her parents were Peter and Katherine Miller, the former a native of Fairfield county, now residing in Pickerington, and the latter, who is deceased, a native of Belmont county, Ohio. They reared a family of ten children, seven of whom survive. To Mr. and Mrs. Miller were born: Orpha, wife of Howard Cooper, living at Pataskala ; Edgar Allen, who received a teacher's certificate when he was fourteen years of age, taking charge of classes at the age of sixteen years and now a student at the Ohio State University, in Columbus; May, who teaches in the home schools; Stanley and Guy, pupils in the high school; Hazel, Raymond. Walter, Russell and Lester and Chester, twins, all in school.

Mr. Miller was on the democratic side in politics and took an active interest in the educational affairs of the township, having served for many years as a member of the board of education. He was frequently called upon to become a candidate for a number of local offices but he repeatedly declined. In everything purposed for the good of the community he took an interest and having been a progressive man he was in favor of the promotion of all measures which in any way would add to the general welfare of the township. Aside from having been identified with an organization for the promotion of farming interests he was also a strong supporter of the Evangelical church to which he was a liberal contributor. He was a man of excellent character and of modest Habits and his relations in the home, as husband and father and in the world, as an associate and business man, commended him to the highest respect and confidence of all who knew him.

Levi William Roley

Levi William Roley is the owner of Highland Home, one of the finest farms of Granville township, comprising one hundred and ten acres of arable and valuable land. It is equipped with all modern accessories and conveniences and in its midst stands a large and beautiful residence. The appearance of the place indicates careful and practical supervision on the part of the owner who, in all of his life work, has so directed his labors as to win honorable and gratifying success.

Mr. Rolev is one of Licking county's native sons, his birth having occurred in Franklin township May 28, 1850. His parents were Jesse and Elizabeth (Christ) Roley. The father, a native of Virginia, was born in 1825 and in 1830 was brought to Ohio by his parents, Thomas and Hannah (Hitt) Holey, who located in Perry county near Thornville, and after a few years came to Licking township, Licking county. Here Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Roley spent their remaining days and there they reared their family, numbering six children : William, John, Lewis, Mary, Jane and Jesse. The last named spent almost his entire life in this county and also followed the occupation of farming, finding it a congenial and profitable pursuit. He did not seek to figure in public life, but all who knew him respected him for his genuine worth and unassailable business integrity. His death occurred in Licking township in 1878. His wife was born in that township in 1830, a daughter of Frederick and Mary (Lones) Christ, who were natives of Pennsylvania and became pioneer residents of Licking township. Mrs. Roley still survives and now makes her home with her daughter, Mrs. B. M. Irwin, whose husband is postmaster of Jacksontown. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Rolev were born five children: Levi W. ; Mary, the wife of John Stotler, of Licking township; ing county ; and Ida, the wife of Joseph Tavender, of Hebron, Union township. Rebecca, the wife of B. M. Irwin; Hannah, the wife of Dr. G. W. Berry, of Hock-

Levi William Roley spent the first eleven years of his life at Amsterdam where he was born, and in 1861 his parents removed to Union township, locating south of Hebron, where he lived until twenty-six years of age. He was then married on the 5th of September, 1876, to Miss Clara A. Bounds, who was born in Licking township August 18, 1858, a daughter of George and Lavina (DeBolt) Bounds, the former a native of this county and the latter of Lasalle county, Illinois. For many years they resided on a farm a mile west of Jacksontown and there they passed away. They had three children: Mrs. Roley; Nelson, who is living on the old homestead in Licking township; and Harry, a practicing physician of Carroll, Fairfield county, Ohio.