Malta Township (part 2 of 2)

In the early years of Malta it was understood that the squares on the east and west corners of Adams and j Main streets were intended for the courthouse and jail in the event of obtaining the county seat. But in this as in other events disappointments are often advantageous. The East Square is now occupied by a building of more value than a forum for litigation, and the West Square by one more ornamental than windows decorated with iron lattice-work.

The village got along without a schoolhouse until after 1830. The first term of school in the place was taught by a man named Walbridge in 1820 in a small log house situated on the lot now owned by Uriah Brown. There were few schools in the early years, most of the young people who went to school at all attending in McConnelsville. The first schoolhouse, a frame building, was erected about 1838 on the square near where the present school building is, and served until the present house was built.

Brown-Manly Plow Company

In the year 1857 W. P. & John Brown commenced the manufacture of a one-horse double-shovel plow with I iron beams, at Union ville, in this county. The substitution of iron for wood in the main frame work of the plow was a I popular innovation, giving the implement strength, increased durability and a sight appearance, much in contrast with the clumsy character of its progenitor. The work was carried on by a few hands in an ordinary blacksmithshop without the use of machinery, and the product - a few hundred per year - were hauled over the country by wagon and j>edd]ed through this and adjacent counties bv the enterprising proprietors. Finding their location undesirable and that the business could be enlarged under more favorable circumstances, they removed to Malta, in the year 1859, where a building was secured of sufficient capacity to enable them to work twelve to fifteen hands, thus increasing their product so that after the supply of the home demand a surplus was left to l>e sent to more distant points, and wherever the plow went it found friends. The location occupied by their shop at this time was the present site of the new M. E. Church.

In 18d4 James and Frank B. Manly associated themselves with the Browns under the firm name of Brown, Manly & Company, for the continued prosecution of the business on a larger scale. The Manly Brothers had previously been engaged in the manufacture of threshing machines, horsej>owers, wag- j ons, canemills, etc., at Chaney ville, where they had done quite a prosprous business since 1848. In removing to Malta they merged their business into that of the new concern, transferring their machinery, patterns, etc., etc., so that the firm of Brown, Manly tte Co., while making the plow their leading manufacture, gave considerable attention to the specialties of the Manly s.

About this time a purchase was made of a patent that had been taken out on the double-shovel plow some time previously. This proved to be a valuable acquisition, as it enabled the owners to practically control the manufacture of this implement and gave them, in a measure, monopoly of its sale.

The proprietors, finding their quarters too straitened for the volume of their business, purchased the foundry and property of Guthrie & Co., where, after some enlargement and modifications of machinery, the new concern o|>ened out upon an extended scale. The business now went forward prosperously. The plow found ready sale and became a source of considerable profit. The want of capital sufficient to handle the business to the best advantage occasioned some inconvenience, and to broaden the basis of operations, it was resolved to form a joint stock company. In 1870 articles of incorporation were obtained, and the concern assumed the name of the " Brown- Manly Plow Company," with a chartered capital of #loo,ooo, a number of citizens of the county identifying themselves as stockholders.

The officers chosen at the commencement of the organization were as follows: President, Joshua Davis; superintendent, W. P. Brown; secretary, Moses McDaniel ; treasurer, George S. Corner; W. P. Brown, James Manly, Joshua Davis, John Harris, E. M. Stanbery, W. P. Sprague, and Moses Mc- Daniel, directors.

The concern was now launched for a still more prosperous career. The plant was overhauled, ground extended, building enlarged, new shops erected and old ones improved, additional machinery of modern styles was introduced and numerous modifications made to increase the efficiency of the establishment. The company now entered upon the construction of a new article in the schedule of their wares - the wheel cultivator for two horses. This was a more elaborate machine than the doubleshovel and required considerable mechanical skill to bring it to a degree of perfection which would insure success. This, however, was not wanting, as the heads of the concern were all practical mechanics with a good degree of ingenuity and constructive genius. The cultivator proved a success and found a ready market, and swelled very largely the value of the annual product of the works.

The general course of the business from this on was properous. The volume of the trade and the amount of the manufactures was steadily on the I increase, and the factory never closed its doors for the want of orders or failed to supply its o]>eratives with the usual amount of employment. The demand for the goods made has always been up to and sometimes beyond the capacity of the works to produce. The u Malta " goods wherever known are esteemed as good as the best. This has, of course, given them prominence and ready entrance into widely-extended avenues of trade, reaching into twothirds of the States of the Union, and given the village of Malta, the location of the worlds, a wide advertisement in the distant regions of the South and West,

The shops now embrace a ground floor area of 25,000 square feet, and are mostly three stories high with a capacity of working 150 to 200 men, and two 1 warehouses two stories high with ground area of 5,300 square feet. The power consists of twin engines of 00-horse power each. The peisonnel of the concern has undergone some changes within

| corporation. The present officers are j James Manly, president; John Brown, I suj>erintendent ; W. P. Sprague, secre- ; tarv and treasurer ; John Brown, James Manly, Frank B. Manly, W. P. Sprague and U. H. Brown, directors.

When it is considered that the location of this establishment is off the line of any railroad, and dependent wholly upon river navigation for transportation, both in receipt of material and transmission of goods to market, it may excite surprise that they have been able to meet and withstand sharp competition and make a success of the business. To whatever cause this maybe attributed, it must be allowed that while the existence of such an establishment is an honor to the county and of value to its citizens, some credit must be given to the skill, enterprise and management of its proprietors.

Malta Mdhodixt Episcopal, Church - Was organized by Rev. James T. Donahoo in 1X33. The original members I were George L. Corner, Sally Corner, Charles Bryan, James Carlin, Mrs. James Carlin, Catherine Barker, Betsy Stone, Elizabeth Davis, Alex. B. Scott and Michael Wiseman. First church officers were Geo. L. Comer, steward ; Alex. B. Scott, class leader. The succession of pastors has been Revs. Donahoo, Milligan, Shaw, Dodds, Kellogg, Shelton, Reed, Hill, Meyers, Baird, Parker, Scovell. Brown, West, Brown, Cutcheon, Ilalliday, Ellis, Ilalliday, llarvey, Cunningham, Wilson, Munsell, Dixon, Hamilton, Guriev. Hamilton, Hurd, Fleming, Sjiencer, Frampton, Shelton, Frampton, Hooper, Ellis, Felton, Ellis, Kelley, Sheets, Greeg, Barniger, Adamthe ten veal's of its organization as a son, Fink, So wers, Lowe, Woo If e, Jones,

Thomas, Gartner, Thomas, Frampton, Stivers, Thurher, Wakefield, Sites, Naylor, Fry, Carr, Nast, Cochran, Hixson, j Lewis, Sowers and Tibbies. Three of j the above. Revs. Spencer, Fry and Nast, i were during their pastorates elected to ] chairs in universities at Athens, ()., Bloomington, 111., and Cincinnati, O.

Rev. Spencer has for many years been consul at Geneva and other Euroj>ean cities. The first church edifice was , built in 1843; it was of brick, and cost $1,500.

The present church was erected in | 1883. In size it is 30x30 feet, and cost 1 $7,000. Its architecture is pleasing, and | it is the most elaborate and commodious church structure in the county. The present membership is 233, with a Sabbath-school attendance of 81)0.

Christ lan Church of Malta. - The Christian Church of Malta was first organized in 1850 by Elders Asburv Gardner and Enoch Dye. Services were regularly held until about 1831, when the society was fora time broken up. April lo, 1835, the church was reorganized with the following members : Susan Tanner, Elizabeth Townsend, Eli Smith, Ellen Smith, Leithey Smith, Thomas Sheridan, Edith Sheridan, A. P. Sheridan, Matilda Shook, Philip Strahl, Rhoda Stralil, Daniel Rusk,)Martha Rusk, Susan Riley, J. M. Rusk, Jacob Power, Elizabeth Palmer, Marv Phillips, Marv Paterson, Samuel Miller, Margaret Miller, Alex. Miller, June Ilann, Isaac Iloopes, Keziah Ilarding, Ann Harding, T. B. Fouts, Mary Fouts, Enoch Dye, Eliza Dye, Catherine Dunlop and Bicy Daniels.

The first elders were: Thomas Sheridan and Samuel Miller. Deacons: T. B. Carter, W. J. Sheridan, A. J. Miller. One year from the last organization J.

The church has a membership of 55, with a Sabbath-school attendance of !>etween 40 and 50. The church employs no regular pastor, but is under the su]>ervision of the eldership. They are assisted in their lal>ors by an evangelist. A. R. Pickens has officiated in that capacity since 1883. The present officers are : Elders, J. H. Wheeler, Samuel Miller and W. A. Dunn; deacons, William Benjamin, T. B. Fouts, A. J. Miller and Charles Morin ; A. P. Sheridan, clerk.

Yalky IahUjc. - Valley Lodge No. 145, F. A. M., was organized November 13, 1843, with the following charter members: James Cornelius, Joshua

Davis, Milton Seaman, Iliel Dunsmoor, Allen Daniels, J. S. McCuskey, H. C. Grimmel, J. G. Shoch and T. I). Cheadle. The first officers were James Cornelius, W. M.; Joshua Davis, S. W.; Milton Seaman, J. W.; Allen Daniels, treasurer ; Iliel Dunsmoor, secretary; J. S. Mc- Cuskey, S. D.; II. C. Grimmel, J. D.; T. D. Cheadle, tyler. Of the charter members only Joshua Davis, Allen Daniels and T. D. Cheadle survive. The lodge is in a prosperous condition, and had seventy members in December, 1885. The officers at that date were Israel Iloopes, W. M.; Charles A. Miller, S. W.; J. W. McKee, J. W.; Janus Manley, treasurer; J. W. Beckwith, secretary; Frank C. Miller, S. L).; S. M. Gillespie, J. I).; W. M. Green, tyler.

with the following charter members and first officers: William Sillery, N.G.; Samuel Swasey, V. G.; W. II. Blundon, Rec. Sec.; Geo. E. Ilallidav, Per. Sec.; Peter Pricker, Treas.; Geo. Weitzell, James Walter, Isaac Walter, George Cain, Jacob Holt ami James A. Gilles])ie. Since organization, 1st* members have been admitted. The present membership is 85 and the Lodge is in a prosj>erous condition, having cash and investments to the value of #l,t>00. Among the positions held bv members of this Dnlge, II. E. Miller was a representative to the Grand Lodge of Ohio from the 20th district; C. B. Coulson has served as District Deputy Grand Marshal. The officers-elect ( J une 1886) were J. D. Iloopes. N.G.; P. F. Konev, V. G.; G. M. Black, K. S.; II. E. Miller, P. S.; H. A. Davis, Treas.

William Shkrwooo

Zurial Sherwood, the progenitor of the Slier wo<Ki family in Morgan County, was born near Hartford, Conn., in that memorable year, 1770. When a young man he moved to Pennsylvania, settling on the Susquehanna River. There he married Lucy Keeler and for some time kept a tavern and operated a ferry ten miles below Tunkhannock, in the present county of Wyoming. In December, 1809, he decided to remove to Delware, Ohio, to which place a brotherin-law, the Rev. Jacob Drake, had preceded him. Accordingly, with his family, consisting of bis wife and four children, and his household goods, he started on his journey. They traveled with a span of horses and a yoke of oxen through a wild region, and arrived at their destination without accident. At Delaware they stopjxxl with Mr. Bigsbv, who was the founder of the town.

At the outbreak of the war of 1812, the inhabitants of Delaware became alarmed fearing an attack of Indians, and many of them fled in quest of a place of safety. Mr. Sherwood and his family started out without any definite idea of where his stopping place would l>e. He passed the site of the present city of Columbus, and between that point and Worthington, met the army of General Harrison. The sight of the army brought a feeling of safety, and advancing to Putnam, Muskingum County, Mr. Sherwood decided to locate there for a time. During the war he engaged in the transportation of army supplies and kept tavern. In 1814 he l>ought what was known as the Moore farm in the present county of Morgan, to which he removed with his family in the fall of 1818. He was a pioneer salt-maker, and the salt-well which he bored on his farm is believed to have been the first in the county. He continued the business many years. Mr. Sherwood died at the extreme old age of ninety-five. He was the father of nine children: - William, Raymond, Asa (who died young), Nancy (Conaway), Keeler, Polly (Wells), Sarah (Atchison), Eliza (Robb) and Lucinda \Purgoon).

William Sherwood, a venerable pioneer, and one of the most worthy citizens of Morgan County, was born in Pennsylvania, October 1, 1801. As will be understood from the foregoing sketch, he had his full share of pioneer experiences and hardships. Possessed of a keen, discriminating mind, he was an apt scholar, and made the l>est use of his limited opportunities. He was reared on the farm, and in the winter of 1818-10 engaged in teaching a school on Oil Spring Run. By various kinds of labor he became possessed of a few hundred dollars, which he invested in goods and engaged in the mercantile business in Malta about 1825. After being in trade several years he engaged in salt-making on quite an extensive scale, which he followed successfully. The active business career of Mr. Sherwood covered a period of more than forty years. During that time he was largely interested in mercantile business, salt-manufacture, farming and dealing in real estate. For a time he was also the largest producer of petroleum in this section. In company with G. C. Devol, for some time he handled nearly all the salt manufactured on the river.

While so extensively engaged in business Mr. Sherwood did not neglect matters of public import. He has always been found willing to encourage and assist every worthy enterprise. In 1852 he was a candidate for member of the constitutional convention. He was also nominated for State senator in 1875, but unfortunately the party to which he belongs has usually been in the minority. He was active in the building of the McConnelsville and Malta bridge, and has ever been in favor of public improvements. He organized the first county agricultural society, and for many years was its president.

Mr. Sherwood was married in 1823 to Rachel Palmer, daughter of William Palmer, one of the pioneers of Malta. It is a fact worthy of mention that this age:l couple are now living on the spot where they first met over sixtyfive years ago. They have reared a family of five children, all of whom are still living - Edwin, Permelia (Potter), Jane (Mortley), William Oscar and Mary (Gage),

Edwin Sherwood

Edwin Sherwood, son of the venerable William Sherwood, is a well-known citizen and a leading farmer of Morgan County. He is a native of the county, having been bom in Malta Township, November 28, 1823. Reared in the then new country, he had only the advantages for education afforded by the inferior schools of that period. After working on the farm until a young man, he entered the store of Henry Dawes, in Malta, where he acted as a clerk for about two years. In 1843 he became a clerk in the store of his father, who was then doing business in Malta in partnership with Milton Seaman. He continued this employment until 1847. His father having purchased the Union Salt Works, he then moved to them and took an interest in the business. In 1852, the salt industry being dull, he went to California, where he remained for two years mining and working at other business. In 1854 he returned and purchased his father's interest in the salt works. He conducted the business from that time until 1875, having also a farm and a store besides. He has always been a hard-working man, and often worked day and night about the salt works. Having purchased a part of the Leggett property (about 200 acres), in 1867 he bought the Alexander McConnel farm of 500 acres. His land, which is equal to any in Morgan County in point of excellence, lies together upon the Muskingum River in the southern part of Morgan Township. Mr. Sher- | wood is one of the largest and most successful farmers and stock-raisers of the county. He is a man of excellent business capacity, and withal is self-made. He has the satisfaction of knowing that he has earned what he has - and sucl\ industry as lie has shown richly merits success. He is a liberal man, a genial friend and neighbor, and much respected. Mr. Sherwood is a republican. He has adopted no religious creed, but believes in doing right and doing good. He is a friend to every religious denomination and to the cause of temperance. He has never sought office, yet has served as infirmary director and as president of the Morgan County Agricultural Association. He was married June 2, 1843, to Margaret G. Simpson, daughter of David Simpson. She was born in Loudon County, Va., and came to Morgan County with her parents when young. Mr. and Mrs. Sherwood have six children - Arthur L., William, Eva (Lovell), Charles W., Oscar T. and Edwin M.

Daniel Davis, the father of Joshua, was of Welsh descent. He was born in Maryland, and resided in that State and Pennsylvania until his removal to Ohio. He was chiefly engaged in farming, though he learned the tailor's trade and worked at it for a few years. He was married in Washington County, Pa., to Sally Carrol, by whom he was the father of five sons and one (laughter, all born in Washington County. Mrs. Davis died in Pennsylvania, but all the children settled in Ohio. Mr. Davis died in Union Township in this county in 1850.

Joshua Davis, who has been prominently identified with the business interests of Morgan County for many yeai*s, was born in Washington County, Pa., June 17,1808. His early life was passed upon a farm and he attended the common schools, having fair opportunities for obtaining an education until he was

! and for six years he did not see the inj side of a schoolhouse. At the age of sixteen he engaged, in Barnesville, Belmont County, in learning the tanner's trade, at which he served until he | attained his majority. In July, 1829, he came to Morgan County and for a short time attended school in McConnelsville. Thus ended his school education; but by reading and reflection, aided by keen observation and sound | judgment, his mind has become stored ! with a great variety of facts and valuable information.

I In the spring succeeding his arrival in Morgan County, Mr. Davis entered the store of Francis A. Barker in Malta, where he acted as clerk for a year and a half. In the fall of 1831 he rented a tannery in Union Township, which lie purchased in the following year and conducted until 1837. Soon after going to Union Township he taught a winter school of sixty scholars. This was his only experience in teaching.

In 1 837 Mr. Davis moved to Malta, where he has since resided. He engaged j in the mercantile business, in which he | had a successful and honorable career until his retirement therefrom in 1879. Aside from the mercantile business Mr. Davis has had a prominent part in other industrial and commercial enterprises. He was one of the organizers of the Brown-Manly Plow Company, and served as president of the company | until 1883, when he sold his interest. He helped to organize the First National Bank of McConnelsville and was a , member of the fii*st board of directors of that institution. He also assisted in organizing the Malta National Bank, of which he has been a director from the beginning. He has ever been found among the encouragers of public improvements, always ready to promote the best interests of his town and county. In 1855 he was elected to the office of County Commissioner, in which he served for sixteen years. In his extensive business career he has formed a wide circle of friends and acquaintances among whom he has maintained the highest reputation for uprightness and integrity of character. lie was formerly a whig, but has been a member of the republican party since its formation. He is a prominent member of the Methodist Episcopal Church to which he has belonged for over fifty years.

Mr. Davis was married July 18, 1832, to Nancy Williams, daughter of John Williams, an early settler of McConnelsville. She died in 1863, having borne nine children - Catherine, who died young; Perley B., a minister of the Ohio Conference of the M. E. Church; Edwin P., who died at the age of twenty ; Oscar, died, aged three years; Sarah E., died when five months old ; Henry A., now a prominent merchant of 'Malta ; Mary E., wife of Rev. Frank G. Mitchell, of the Cincinnati Conference of the M. E. church ; John Francis, of Corner, Walker & Davis, Malta; and Charles W., engaged in the manufacture of spices at Wichita, Kan. March 10, 1864, Mr. Davis was married to his present wife, Mrs. Lucy Woodmansee {nee Corner).

John K. Thomas

John Thomas, the father of the immediate subject of this biography, was bom in Wales, England, and came to this country in the same vessel that brought Gen. La Fayette. He settled in Virginia, where he married Miss Sarah Partridge. They resided in Charlestown, Virginia, where John E. was born in 1808. Mrs. Thomas was a daughter of one of the prominent men of that section and a slave-holder. This fact in connection with business disasters induced them to emigrate to Ohio, hoping that in the new country they might be able to retrieve their shattered fortunes. John E. was a lad of eight years at the time of the family's emigration, and still retains a vivid recollection of the struggles of his father in the new country. Just as better times began to dawn, the mother died (1820), and about two years later the father also died leaving their children to care for themselves. At the age of fifteen John E. was apprenticed to the trade of a woolen manufacturer, with the provision that he was to have three months schooling each year. After the expiration of his term of apprenticeship (five years and six months) he engaged in business with his brother in New Lexington where they operated a grist and woolen mill. In 1835 Thomas E. came to McConnelsville where he formed a co-partnership with General Robert Mc- Connel in the business of manufacturing woolen goods. They continued in business for nine years. He next purchased the Malta Mill in company with Messrs. Stone and Brown. Two years afterward Mr. Thomas sold his interest and in company with Mr. Seaman engaged in the dry goods machinist, of Bernham, Me., when they removed to Portsmouth, Ohio, where, after a residence of eleven months, Charles T. - their only child - was bom. They very soon afterward removed successively to Malta and Zanesville, Ohio, remaining a comparatively brief period at each, when the mother went into a decline and - like innumerable others who had gone before and still others who will follow her - came to the parental roof to die, which she soon after did, of consumption. Their son remained with his grandfather (Dunsmoor) until his majority, at whose home his children and grandchildren ever found without stint a haven of rest and that open-handed and unremitting hospitality for which he was widely noted ; the " father followed the example of thousands of others and, at his country's call for volunteers, enrolled his name in the 62d (). V. I., in 1861, and was one of those brave boys who made the night attack on Fort Wagner, was wounded in the shoulder by a Minnie ball but recovered." The remorseless hand of consumption was also lain on Susannah - Mr. Dunsmoor's wife - and she died, November 1st, 1853. In the contemplation of the aggregate of his bereavement caused by consumption, Mr. Dunsmoor was led to exclaim (I give his own words, as I have twice before in this sketch since the record of his marriage, and will once or twice again after the present quotation), "thus in a few years' time, with that fell disease consumption, have I been deprived of a dear wife and four children, leaving me none except my son Ephra- ! im of all my family. Could the fact I have been made known to me that in so short a time death was to deprive me so nearly of all my family, it seems to me that it would have dethroned my reason ; still 4 the back is prepared for the burden ' and man submits to the Divine will ; these oft dispensations of Providence convince us that this is not our abiding place. I feel that I have treasures in heaven and will shortly be there with them." On June 26, 1854, Mr. Dunsmoor was again married to Miss Lucy Atwood, of Union Village, Broome County, N. Y., "daughter of a farmer named Stephen Atwood, who wras a descendent, in a direct line, of the Pilgrims who came to Plymouth, Mass., in the Mayflower." When about twenty-one years of age he walked from Massachusetts to his previously-mentioned home, carrying with him all of this world's goods he then possessed, being preceded, however, by what he doubtless valued more than pulseless mammon - a comely young woman with whom he had previously formed an acquaintance which had evidently been mutually pleasing, for they were married soon after his arrival at what was ever afterward his home. The house he built - or had built - for himself about sixty years ago to take the place of his first rude log one, is yet standing and in good preservation, being occupied by one of his several children yet living - and prosperously - in the same neighborhood. The house is somewhat peculiar in appearance, being shingled on the sides (the original shingles) as well as on the roof. " This - like Mr. Dunsmoor's first marriage - was one of domestic happiness." Nobly has the second Mrs. Dunsmoor filled the office of wife, mother and grandmother, for her husband, his children (what were left) and grandchildren ; in fact the latter have almost - perhaps entirely - known no other in her place.

Side by side with her noble husband she has uniformly with grace, good sense, sincerity and generosity, welcomed and entertained relatives and friends as becomes a wife of a leading and honorable citizen. She has by the same side performed that nobler office - wept with the sorrowing and had an unvarying smile and helping hand to welcome and encourage the broken in health and spirit and for their orphans. Mr. Dunsmoor commenced his business career as a farmer immediately after his marriage ; moving on his farm, he worked on it in the summer and taught school - and very successfully - in the winter. This - until he got his farm cleared - perhaps three or four years, when he sold his farm, moved to Brown's Mills, Washington County, Ohio, and engaged in the mercantile business, having bought his brother-in-law - II. Gard's - goods, the latter having previously been engaged there in the same business. While thus engaged he took in his brother Abner as a partner, when they enlarged their business by engaging to some extent in old-time flatboating, i. e , buy or get made a boat of the style then in vogue, buy country produce (pork, bacon, flour, potatoes, etc.) sufficient to load it, and when this done, and at a proj)er rise of the river, one of the partners, assisted by about three men, would embark, generally for the Crescent City, though they would generally "coast as they went," i. e ., sell to the natives at towns and large plantations at different points on their way down, tarrying at each as they found it to pay, winding up each trip generally at New Orleans bv selling the boat and its remaining contents, when - after seeing the sights of the city - they would return home on a steamboat. Of the latter, however, there were few yet running compared with the present. Mr. Dunsmoor at this time and after he removed to Malta, Ohio (of latter more particulars farther along), made quite a number of these trips personally for himself and partners, meeting with various adventures as he naturally would, some of which were exciting and dangerous. In after years it was a favorite and muchasked-for treat for his children and grand-children to hear him " tell stories of when he was down the river." Lack of space forbids the narration of any of them here except one briefly outlined. Mr. Dunsmoor at the termination of one of these trips was sauntering along a street in New Orleans when he was attracted by one of the oft-read-of slave auctions. He approached and became a spectator. He saw among other sales a mother and her little child of perhaps three years put on the block and sold to different masters, and when the child was ordered taken away, the mother clung to it until the planter who had bought the child raised his cane seemingly to strike her. She then fell in a swoon and the child was removed from her arms, likely never again to nestle there in this world. Mr. Dunsmoor (to use his own words) quit the scene, and as he walked away exclaimed in the fullness of his heart, " My God ! is this the boasted land of liberty i is this the asylum for the oppressed of

1 After continuing in businass in Brown's Mills some two or three years, (in 1837) he removed to Malta ; also his militia experience ended about this time or a little before. On arriving at mustering age (18 years), he had joined a company, raised, it is understood, in Barlow, Wesley and Roxbury townships, of which he was soon elected or appointed a subaltern officer, in which capacity he served a short time, when he was appointed by his colonel, Ephraim Palmer, an officer of his staff - adjutant lstReginlent, 1st Brigade, 3rd Division Ohio Militia, in which capacity he served until the regiment was disbanded, which was caused by important changes in militia laws. Upon removing to Maltc, Mr. Dunsmoor entered into partnership with William and Edward Mellor, and again carried on mercantile business for perhaps about three years, when he sold his interest to one or both of the Mellors. He next (in 1840) formed a partnership with John Timms, and yet again carried on merchandising and flatboating in connection - more of the latter here than when he was in the same business at Brown's Mills. (For further detail regarding this latter business see former mention of business done at latter point). This firm continued in business about three years, when it closed out, the immediate cause of which well illustrates Mr. Dunsmoor's incorruptible honesty under trying circumstances. Therefore it will be briefly narrated here: In 1843 he and Mr.

Timms took their hist boat down south ; it was loaded with pork, bacon, etc., but finding a poor market at New Orleans this time, they, by the advice of authority they deemed entirely trustworthy (and likely it was) forwarded the cargo to a commission firm in New York to dispose of. They in due time received advice from the firm that their goods were sold and to draw on them ! kk$t sight," which they did, but the [ paper was protested and they lost the entire amount, which, being a valuable cargo, left Mr. Dunsmoor worth $1,500, less than nothing; but he (in 1845) commenced business again, this time that of selling clocks on commission, Allen Daniels furnishing the capital. He continued in this business until 1848 or a little after, operating in the states of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, when, though he had been quite successful, he was forced to quit the business, the chills and fever having fastened themselves upon him, which was a fnore serious matter in those days than now. He had, however, by this means been enabled to pay all his debts dollar for dollar, which he did without his creditors having recourse on him in any way. He was very jealous of his reputation for honesty, and ever after this occasionally with great comfort of mind reverted to this incident in and part of his business career and to the fact that he had been enabled to pay in full, "no man ever having lost a cent by him." . The same year he quit the clock business, he engaged with David Dickerson in the foundry business. He continued with Mr. Dickerson until 1850, the firm name being Dunsmoor & Dickerson. In 1851 the firm name changed to Dunsmoor, Guthrie & Co., but it is not known who, besides Mr. Dunsmoor and Mr. Guthrie composed this last firm, which continued the business until 1856 or 1857, when Mr. Dunsmoor sold his interest to Messrs. Guthrie and Seaman, and was the same year appointed secretary of a projected railroad known as the Pittsburgh, Maysville and Cincinnati Railroad, of which he was also a director. He continued secretary of this corporation for several years after work was stopped on the road. He since, at different times, ha$ been prominently connected with other railroad projects, by which it was hoped to develop his county and furnish a reliable communications for its citizens with the outside world. Lack of sufficient financial support has, however, heretofore prevented all these ho]>ed-for improvements from being completed. In 1858 Mr. Dunsmoor bought the furniture establishment of Jackson Palmer, which business he energetically (as he did whatever he engaged in) carried on until his death, enlarging and improving the establishment from time to time, and eventually taking in as a partner a worthy nephew, Augustus, son of his brother Abner, which nephew he had raised as he would a son (he not being a son, nor an adopted one, as supposed by many), his mother, as will be remembered, having died when he was but about two years of age. Three of his little orphan grandchildren met with the same benignant treatment, and as has been said before, his hospitable doors and great heart were always open to all of them to come and go as they listed. But the children designated, being orphaned at a tender age, had his more particular attention. Mr. Dunsmoor, during his life time, was by his fellow-citizens elected, and he served many terms as justice of the peace (than which there are few more honorable positions among men, if elected, as he was, and the office filled as it was by him). He was frequently called upon to fill various other honorable and responsible positions being one of those men always looked to by his neighbors for the management of their public affairs of moment, when wisdom, recognized character, and business tact were needed. Mr. Dunsmoor became a Master Mason in the McConnelsville Ohio Lodge,

February 2, 1846. He was instrumental in organizing Malta Lodge, of which he was a meml>er at the time of his death, and the last of its charter members. He had filled the several higher stations in the lodge most acceptably. A good many years before he died he became a Royal Arch Mason, which he was in good standing ever after. He was a member of the llniversalist church for fifty years, also one of the original members of the McConnelsville church. He died October 28, 1883, having attained the age of seventy-six years. His wife, Lucy A., survives him. They had no children. Iliel Dunsmore, besides having the characteristics heretofore indicated, was a shrewd judge of men and their motives, of ndble presence and dignified bearing, and " to a character of sterling worth united (as can be well said of his surviving wife) a genial, hearty temperament which rejoiced in the society of friends and found a chief pleasure of life in their companionship. A good talker, he possessed a fund of anecdote and reminiscence which together made him excellent company."

Mrs. Dunsmoor was born in Union Village, N. V., April 8, 1825, and came to Morgan County in June of 1853, and was married to Mrs. Dunsmoor the following year. Her father, Stephen Atwood, was born in 1785. Ilis father, Samuel Atwood, was a native of Massachusetts, and was bom in 1754. Stephen married Miss Lucy Briggs in 1811. He was a fanner by occupation. In 1820 the maternal grandfather of Mrs. Dunsmoor (Briggs) came to -Chesterfield, where he died in 1821.

George L. Corner

Morgan County, one of the most deserving of a place in these biographical sketches is George Lowe Corner, a man of unobtrusive disposition yet of generally recognized worth and influence.

The succession of events which determined his settlement in the county is ancestral history, interesting to quite a large family connection living in this region of Ohio, while having an appropriate place in this memoir.

George Corner and Martha (Dumbill,) Corner, his grand parents, were well-todo people of the middle class of Cheshire, England, where they acquired by purchase a tract of some eleven hundred acres of land in the wilds of Kentucky, with a view to emigration and settlement there. Accordingly, soon after, in the early part of the year 1795, they sailed for America, bringing with them all their immediate descendants, embracing a number of grandchildren.

A tedious voyage brought them to Baltimore, Md., and though here some of their party were smitten with yellow fever, they pressed toward their intended home, crossed the mountains, descended the Ohio River, and in August of the same year arrived at Marietta, O., leaving, however, one of their number, a victim of the fever, buried in the woods of Pennsylvania, near the u Big Springs" of the Juniata.

At Marietta, learning that their lands were far beyond and distant inland from the river, they concluded to remain for a time under the protection of the stockade there, and the elder Corner entrusted the title papers to their lands to Herman Blannerhassett, then a noted lawyer of the vicinity, for the purpose of perfecting their claim by such further measures as might be required. Before this was accomplished, Blannerhassett's house was burned and with it the title to their Kentucky purchase.

George, the grandfather and George, his son, (whose wife was Ann (Clark) Corner) settled on Wolf Creek, within the bounds of what is now Windsor Township, Morgan County, where to George and Ann was born, October 23, 1797, their fourth child, George L., believed to be the second white child born within the present limits of the county.

In 1802, the father being an invalid, removed to New York City to avail himself of medical skill, but in the winter 1804-5 the family returned to their Wolf Creek home, leaving the husband and father buried on the banks of the Monongahela in a cemetery near Cookstown, Pa. On their return they found the grandfather had also deceased. The widowed mother, with her young family, had then and there to buffet with the hardships and privations of pioneer life. George L. remained with her on her little farm, acting his part as a good and dutiful son, till, at the age of sixteen years, he was apprenticed to a Mr. Currier, of Athens, ()., to learn the tanning and currying trade.

Upon completion of his indentures he found work, near Wheeling, Pa., upon the National Pike, then being built. By rigid economy and industry he saved money enough to make the first payment on a quarter-section of land, which he located in Union Township and upon which he built a yabin ancl made a little clearing, and again started out in quest of work to secure, what was then so scarce and yet so necessary to hold, the purchase-money for his deferred payments. After long and diligent search he found employment at his trade at Georgetown, Brown County, ()., where he remained and wrought till his savings were sufficient to meet the payments on his lands and then returned to devote his energies, quite successfully, to establishing a tanning business and the improvement of his property.

As a citizen of Union Township he took a prominent position in its affairs for several years prior to his removal to Malta, in 1833, serving as justice of the peace to general acceptance. He was especially useful in harmonizing and adjusting suits and disputes amongst his neighbors. By reason of his sound sense, good judgment and strict integrity his advice was sought in many affairs in the circles of his business and social acquaintance.

The business career of Mr. Corner has been so thoroughly outlined in the chapters of this history devoted to Union and Malta Townships, that it is not deemed necessary to reproduce it here. From 1833 until his decease he was successfully engaged in merchandising. For his first store building, at Malta, he went into the woods, felled the trees, and hewed the timbers.

He was held in high and general esteem for his solid, manly character, distinguishing traits of which were benevolence, candor, and a high sense of justice. Envy or malice had no place in his heart, and he preferred always to speak good rather than ill of others. In manner he was considerate, kind and engaging; calm, prudent and self-possessed under adverse circumstances. His public spirit was attested by the liberal aid he gave to every enterprise that tended to promote the welfare of the county.

His educational opportunities, were of course, very limited, but he possessed good natural ability, and by attention to such opportunities as he had, he attained intelligence above the average. An earnest Christian, he practiced in his daily life the tenets of his belief. He was one of the founders of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Malta, and for many years its main stay and support.

His useful life closed August 11, 1857. His departure was widely lamented and the inquiry was frequently made, " who is there to take his place i "

Mr. Corner was married November 28, 1822, to Miss Sarah W. Hart, then of Athens County, an estimable Christian lady of New England parentage, who survived him about three years. There were born to them nine children, May, Emily, Lucy, Eliza A., Sarah, Martha, Marcus L., George S., and Newell.

This township was the latest formed in Morgan County. It was set off in 1839, its territory being principally taken from Morgan Township, with the addition of a few sections from Deerfield. On the list of pioneer voters in Morgan Township, given in Chapter XVIII, will be found the names of : many whose locations were within the | present limits of Malta Township.

I Edward Miller, who was born in 1805, and who came to the township in 1806, says that they were few settlers until after fhe close of the war of 181g,

Then for a few years land was taken up rapidly and it was not long before all the most desirable tracts had been entered. Some of the old-time pioneer hunters alarmed at the encroachment of the settlers upon the territory where they had been for years engaged in their pursuit unmolested, left their little clearings, and with guns and axes upon their shoulders departed to the westward in search of regions where game was plentier and neighbors were fewer. But to those who had formerly enjoyed the comforts of civilization and who loved the companionship of their fellow-men, it was many years before their surroundings appeared otherwise than wild, desolate and forbidding. Indeed, as late as 1835, the aspect of the township was that of the primitive forest, broken here and there by a small clearing in the midst of which appeared a small log cabin. Many people now living can recall the time when deer abounded in the woods, and some yet survive who in their earlier years were not unaccustomed to the sight of the bear and the wolf.

The Indian trail from the north to the Ohio River led along the ridge a mile or more back from the Muskingum. This route was frequently used by the red men even after the country was settled by the whites. The Indians were accustomed to call upon the settlers with baskets and trinkets which they sought to trade for wnisky, tobacco and other articles. At the house of Edward Miller, Sen., now the home of William Sherwood, they were frequent visitors, as Miller had hunted with them when a boy and understood something of their language and customs.

ness was occasionally enlivened by an exciting hunt for bears and wolves. At one time a party of men found a bear on Oil Spring Run and closely pursued him until he took refuge inside a hollow sycamore tree. One of the number, a man named Briggs, arranged I a prop against the tree and climbed up to the place where the bear was supposed to have taken refuge. He then cut a hole with an axe, but seeing nothing of the bear, inserted his head to reconnoiter. His face met the damp nose of the bear; his head was withdrawn very suddenly and he descended to the ground in the quickest possible time, leaving to his companions the 1 task of securing the bear. As the | county paid a considerable bounty for I each bear killed, hunters missed no opportunity of destroying these animals whenever it was possible, so that it was not many years until they disappeared altogether.

| Most of the early settlers of this part of the county found their way to their new homes by means of canoes and pirogues, transporting their goods upon the river either from Marietta or Zanesville. The river was the principal | thoroughfare in the early years. Roads j and horses and wagons belong to a i later period.

J Reuben Porter settled about 1815 | where his descendants still live. His son Reuben is still living in the town- | ship at an advanced age. i Thomas Risen settled in 1816 where j George Warren now lives. His sons i John, Joseph and Amos, still living in | the county, are among the old residents.

Rufus P. Stone, who was quite a prominent man in the early years of the county, lived on the present John E. Thomas farm in 1818. lie came here from Washington County and resided here until his death. On the river below Stone, lived Henry Snyder and Theophilus Caton.

Benjamin Beckwith, whose descendants are still here, was an early settler on the school section. His son-in-law, John Wesley Johnson, was an early settler on the farm adjoining the Porters. He died in 1831 and the farm has since changed owners several times.

Hon. William M. Dawes, one of the early associate judges of the county, settled in the township as early as 1817. He had quite a large family. In connection with his sons he carried on distilling and tanning, kept a store and ran a carding machine. Ilis son Henry moved to Malta where he became a prominent merchant. Judge Dawes sold out to Humphrey Rusk.

Edward Miller, Sen., settled on the present Sherwood farm in 1806 and resided there till 1816. Previous to his settlement John Lockhart had made a small improvement there.

Simeon Pool, one of the founders of Malta, was among the earliest settlers in* the township. The present John Miller farm was included in his land. Samuel McOune, an early settler, lived on the next farm above Pool's.

Mrs. Clemans, of Penn Township, was one of the pioneer women of Malta. In 1810 her mother, Nancy Stone, in company with her uncle John Eveland came from Wilkesbarrc, Pa. They made the trip over the mountains in a wagon containing their household goods and five children, arriving in Zanesville they completed their journey by river to what has since been known as the Moore farm where they settled. Eveland did not remain long, however, emigrating to Missouri. Mrs. Clemans passed through many hardships. She states that at one time the family were without bread for six weeks, subsisting entirely on corn and potatoes. Salt was obtained from "over the mountains" by packing it on horses. In 1817 she was married to John Clemans a Virginian. He died in Malta. He was a millwright by trade.

Bill Hughes is said to have built the first cabin within the present limits of the village of Malta. Abe settled north of the town a little later and afterward moved west a few miles. Bill moved to the vicinity of Bald Eagle. Later both quitted the country. They were from Georgia and excellent types of the roving squatter characters, once familiar in nearly every part of the county.

Above the John Miller farm was a hundred acre tract entered at an early day by Captain Olney, an early settler of Washington County, whose son-inlaw occupied it for a few years. This farm passed into the hands of James A. Gillespie in 1820, and about the same time he bought the one hundred acre tract above it of Gilbert Olney. The latter tract was first occupied bv Samuel McCune, probably as early as 1812. lie sold out to Gilbert Olney, from Washington County. The latter was not related to Captain Olney.

James A. Gillespie engaged in the manufacture of salt in 1820. He and Zurial Sherwood were then the only salt makers on the river between Malta and Eagleport. Gillespie's well proved a good one ami his success was such as to lead ot hers to embark in the business and in a few years salt-furnaces were numerous along the river. The industry was an important source of revenue to the pioneers. Salt was one of the very few products of the county that could be sold for cash, and a ready market was found for it in Cincinnati and other cities. Many men were employment about the furnaces, in the cutting of wood, and in the transportation of the product to market, and thus salt-manufacture became an important interest.

James Alexander Gillespie was of Irish parentage. He was born in Maryland, and came from Harford County in that state to Ohio. After a short time spent in Licking County, he moved to Muskingum County in 1814, and for four years plied his trade - that of a cooper - at John Matthews' mill at Moxahala, at the mouth of John's Creek. During this time he saved money with which he entered land in Morgan County. In 1818 he embarked in a pirogue with his family and goods, and landed at Malta. There being no wagons in the country, his effects were transported with sleds to the place that was to become his home. The land entered by him was a quarter-section, now occupied by the Barkhurst and Gillespie families. Mr. Gillespie followed his trade in connection with farming, and the articles manufactured by him found sale in Putnam. He was the principal cooper in the neighborhood. About 1827 he engaged in distilling, which he followed for about two years. His first distillery was on Oil Spring Run, but the following year he ran one located above McConnelsville, on the east side of the river. In 1829 he engaged in salt-making, in which he was interested until his death.

He died in 1838. He was then engaged in keeping tavern in McConnelsville on the spot where the Koons House now stands. He was a prominent man and served as justice of the peace. His wife was Margaret McLeary, of York County, Pennsylvania. They had nine children, eight of whom grew to mature years - Jane (Kincaid), John McLeary, James, Mary A. (Fouts), Nancy (Fouts), William Thomas, Samuel Martin, Hily (who died young), and Margaret (Martin). Of these John M., James, Martin and Margaret are living.

John M. Gillespie, an old resident of Morgan County, was born in Maryland in 1812, and has resided in Morgan County since 1818. He was engaged in farming and salt-making until 1853, when he bought of Thomas, Stone & Brown the woolen factory in Malta, which he ran until 1877. He now resides in the village of Malta. In 1831 he married Elizabeth, daughter of Allen Fouts. Children - Nancy J., James A., Solomon, Elizabeth, Clarissa and John M., all living.

William Thomas Gillespie married Nancy Hedges and lived on the old homestead, where his widow yet resides. He was born in 1822 and died in 1883. His children are George A., Samuel, Martin, Silas and Belle.

Zurial Sherwood, a native of Connecticut, settled on the present Moore farm in 1818. He was the pioneer salt manufacturer of Morgan County. (See biography of William Sherwood.)

Lydia (Miller),' in McConnelsville ; Emeline (Montgomery), in Jefferson County, O. ; Sarah A. (Reed), in Windsor Township; Lorena (Smith), in Andrew County, Mo. ; and Rebecca (Bagiev), in Deavertown.

William Henderson, Jr., was born in Brooke County, W. Va., April 27, 1824, and came to Morgan County with his father when two years of age. He married Nancy Glass. They have five children : Mary E. (Timms), of Malta ; Margaret, of McConnelsville; Nancy E., of Malta ; Martha G., of McConnelsville, and Florence A., of Malta. Every member of both of the above families was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and Jaiiies was a minister of the gospel and presiding elder for four years.

Thomas A. Osbum was bom in Winchester, Va., in 1797. He came to Morgan County about 1825 and married Lois Beckwith. They had nine children, seven of whom are living: Eliza (Wiseman), resides in Malta; William, Page County, la.; George, in Malta; Rebecca (Patterson), in McConnelsville; Mary (Scott), McConnelsville; Martha (Arnold), McConnelsville, and Wesley, Page County, la.; Ilenrv and Nancy (Cope), deceased. Mr. Osburn served as infirmary director nine years. George Osburn was born in Malta township, January 16, 1831. He married Mary Buchanan. They have two children, Albert and Cora. Mr. Osburn is a member of Valley Lodge No. 145 F. & A. M.

Thomas Risen came from Virginia to Morgan County at a very early day. He married Sarah Kennedy. Their children were John, of Malta Township; Ellen Wright (dead); Betsey and Polly, unmarried ; Joseph, residing in

Malta Township; Jonas, in Deerfield; Martin (dead); Elizabeth J. (Gillespie), residing in Brownsville, Ohio, and Lvdia A. (Shellhammer) dead. Joseph Risen was born in Deerfield Township June 19, 1813. He married, first, Marriet Pidcock. Two of their children, Sarah E., of Browneville, and Hiram G., of California, are living. One died in infancy. For his second wife he married Catharine Tanner. They have three children living. Margaret A. (Jennings) resides in Kansas ; Harriet (Long) in Parkersburg, W. Va., and Irena M. in Malta Township. Mr. Risin h an undertaker by trade. He and his wife have been members of the Wolf Creek Christian Church many years. In politics he is a republican.

William Barrel was born in New Jersey, where he married Abigail Sedwich, and came to Morgan County in 1828. There are five children living: John, in Malta Township; Henry, in Corning, Ohio ; Hannah (James), in Deaverstown; Susan (Smith) and Matilda (Taylor), in Malta John, William, Mary, Eliza, Cornelius S. and Mary J. (Risen) are dead. The mother of William Barrel (Elizabeth Ilyce), was captured by the Indians when about seven years of age and held captive until the age of fourteen, when the old chief, in a drunken frenzy attempted to kill her; but his squaw hid her for three da vs, and then took her to French Town to her parents.

Ilenrv Taylor married Matilda Barrel in 1857. Ten children are living: William, in Morgan ville; Emma (Rothrock), Malta; George, Malta; Eva (Risen), Kansas; Cornelius, Carlos, Ilenrv, Myrtle, Jessie and Edward at home.

County, near Cumberland, Ohio, in 1827. He came to Morgan County in 1850. He married Miss Sarah Simpson, of Penn Township. They have four children. E. G. resides in Zanesville; Oscar, Frank R. and William S. in Malta Township. Mr. Miller served as county commissioner from 1877 to 1880. In politics he is a staunch republican.

Manassa Kaiser was born in York County, Pa., in 1814 and came to Morgan County in 1888. lie married Elmira Mellor. They have three children living. William resides in Nebraska; Emma (Spencer) and Nettie B. Bailey, in Malta Township. The family are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

John Newman was born in Pennsylvania, and came to Malta Township in 1833. He married Millie Walker. They have reared seven children : Eliza resides in Adams County; William, in Madison County; John, in Adams County ; Josiah E., in Malta Township; James, in Illinois. Eli and Matilda are deceased. Mr. Newman resided in Morgan County from 1833 to 1860, when he moved to Adams County, where he now resides. Josiah E. Newman was born in Muskingum County in 1832, and came when one year of age with his parents to Morgan County. He married Miss Sarah Milton, and has three children - Milton L., Charles II. and Lucy. Mr. Newman is now living with his second wife, Hannah Mercer, also of Morgan County.

Reuben Riley was born in Jefferson County, Virginia, and came to Morgan County, Ohio, at quite an early day. He married Jane McCarty. Five of their children are living - John W., in Malta Township; Zacharia T., in Hock- !

ing County; James II., in Illinois; George W., in Windsor, and Mary A., in Malta Township. Joseph and Richard are dead. Mr. Riley has been a member of the Methodist Episcopal church over half a century. In politics he is a democrat.

Humphrey Rusk was born in Belmont County, Ohio, where he married Margaret McDonald, of Ohio County, West Virginia. He removed to Union Township about 1824. His family consisted of nine children, four of whom are living: Mary (King) resides in Kansas; II. A., in Malta Township; William, in Missouri, and Perley, in Illinois. David, 'Archibald, Eliza J. (Buldridge), Christiana (Anderson) and Wilson S. are dead.

Humphrey A. Rusk was born in Union Township, 1831. He married Mary Parr. They have three children - Archibald, residing in Columbus ; James W., in Malta Township, and Mary (Taylor), in Morganville. Mr. andMrs. Rusk have been members of the Presbyterian Church at McConnelsville about forty years.

David Finley was born in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, where he married Jane Aulton, and removed to Malta Township, 1837. They had six children, only two of whom, David and James, are now living. Robert, John and Samuel are dead.

James Finley was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, in the year 18 17, and came with his father to Malta Township in 1837. He married Marv Pennell, and five children comprise their family: Jane (Moore) resides in Union Township; Isaac, Joseph and Thomas A., in Malta Township, and Mary Ellen (Smith), in Plain City, Ohio.

Presbyterian Church since 1838. Mrs. Finley also united with the same church in her youth, and remained a consistent member until her death, which occurred in 1875. In politics Mr. Finley is a democrat.

William Scott was born in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, October 2, 1797. When seven years of age, his father, Andrew Scott, emigrated to Muskingum County, where lie resided until 1817, when they came to Union Township, Morgan County. January 5, 1826, he married Catharine Nelson. They had nine children, all living - Martha J. (Williams), Nelson and Sarah (Hotchkiss), in Malta Township ; Davis D., in Union Township; William, in Guernsey County, Missouri; Andrew, in Union Township; Priscilla (McKitrick), in Wisconsin; Charlotte (Buchanan), in Missouri, and Amos, in Union Township. Mr. Scott was a pious man, but never made an open profession of his faith until about 1850, when he united with the Baptist Church at McConnelsville. Mrs. Scott was also a member of the same church. Nelson Scott was born in Union Township, April 10, 1828. He married Harriet Hainsworth. One son, Luther, was the fruit of this union. Mrs. Scott died in 1862. His present wife was Nancy J. Triplitt. Mr. Scott is a staunch republican.

George Parker was born in Pennsylvania and came to Morgan County at quite an early day. He married Margaret Holst. The only representative of their family now residing in Malta Township is Mrs. Sarah J. Warner, who first married J. M. Reed. They had three children, two of whom - Francis M. and Chas. W. - are now living in Malta Township. Joseph A. is dead.

James Forsythe was born in Ireland in the year 1791. He served there during the war of 1812 and soon after came to Marietta, Ohio, where he married Eliza Dugan. After remaining there a short time, he moved to Brush Creek, Muskingum County, where he remained five years, then came to Malta Township in 1821, locating where his son J. B. now resides. The family consisted of five children - Eliza (Tanner), resides in Union Township; J. B., in Malta Township; Jane (Anderson), Matilda (Bricker) and William are deceased. Mr. Forsythe was a democrat. J. B. Forsythe was born in Malta Township, November 9, 1830. He married Mary J. Shaw. They have five children - Eliza J., William A., Andrew, Elizabeth and Almeda.

J. D. Miller was born in Malta Township in 1 855. He married Rachel Glass. They have three children - Charles D., John C. and William B. Mr. Miller is a staunch republican. He and Mrs. Miller are members of the Pleasant Valley Methodist Episcopal Church.

John S. Price was born in Pennsylvania in 1799. When quite young he came with his parents to Deerfield Township. He married Susanna Laughlin, of Deerfield. They had ten children, seven of whom are now living : Nancy (Moody), residing in Homer Township ; J ohn L., in Hocking County; Violet (Bell), in Kansas ; A. J., in Homer Township; William, in Malta Township; Susanna, in Deerfield, and Margaret (Armentraut), in Virginia. William Price was born in Deerfield Township in 1833. He married Henrietta Walter. They have three children -

Isaac Raney was bom in Guernsey County, Ohio, in 1809 and came to Morgan County in 1829, locating on the | northeast quarter of section 29. He married Sarah Smith of Fayette County, Pa. There is only one child - Eli A., living; Elizabeth (Williams) and Levina (Earich) are deceased. Mrs. Raney came to Morgan Count)" with her !

parents when three years of age, locating in Penn Township. They were both consistent members of the Christian Church. Mr. Raney died January 11, 1802. Eli A. Ranev was born in Malta Township, December 25, 1853. He married Laura Thompson, of Union Township. They have three children - Sadie Estella C., and Bessie. They are both members of the Christian Church. Mr. Raney has been engaged in teaching more or less since twenty years of age. He is now a Prohibitionist.