Pike Township (part 12 of 20)

McMAHON, JOSEPH, Wayne township, farmer, post office, Fredericktown, born in College township, July 29, 1845, and was married in 1867 to Eliza Jolly, who was bornin Knox county in 1847, They have the following children: Harry, born in October, 1868; T'annie, in December, 1870; Josie, October, 1873; Helen, June, 1876; Alice, October, 1879.

Mr. McMahon is a farmer, and is fully identified with this county, and is one of its active men. He was engaged in the late war, a member of company C, Thirty-second regiment, Ohio volunteer infantry, and was in the service a year, and received an honorable discharge.

McMAHON, ERASTUS, Wayne township, blacksmith, post office, Mt. Vernon, born in this county in 1845, and was married in 1871 to Amanda Jenkins, who was born in Knox county in 1852. 'They have one son - Harry N. - who was born May ro, 1878.

MCMILLEN, DAVID, farmer, post office, Butler, hichland county, Ohio. He was born in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, in 1805. [In 1830 he was married to Rachel Williams, who was born in the same county in 1807. They had five children: Jesse was born in 1836; Lavena, in 1838; Isaiah; in 1840; James A., in 1842; and Marion, in 1844. The deceased members are: Mrs. Rachel McMillen died in 1880; Isaiah died in Knox county; Lavena died in Wayne county in 1844. They located in Wayne township in 1830.

He settled in Knox county in 1849. He owns a good farm with all the modern improvements. His father, Alexander Mc- Millen, was born in 1779, in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, and was married to Christina Yearian, who was born in the same county. They had five children: Christena, Mary, Esther, Alexander, and David. Mrs. McMillen died in Pennsylvania; Alexander McMillen died in Berlin township in 1864.

Jesse McMillen was married to Louisa Yarger, who was born in Ashland county, Ohio, in 1840. They have three children: Georgia Alice, born May 12, 1876; Bertha Celia, October ro, 1877, and David Franklin, January 9, 1879.

Mr. McMillen is a plasterer by trade, and assisted in plastering the court house in Mansfield. James McMillen was a soldier in the late war, and was a member of the Ohio National guards.

McMILLEN, JOSEPH, deceased, Jefferson township, a native of Pennsylvania, born in 1785. He moved to Belmont county, Ohio, where, in 1809, he married Miss Mary Perry. About 1815 he, with his wife and three children, moved to Union township, Knox county, where he lived a number of years, making farming his vocation. In 1817 Ephriam bought eighty acres of land in Jefferson township. He had nine children, as follows: Hamilton, Ephraim, Ellen, John, Silas, Jane, Robert and Margaret, twins, and Mary. They are all dead except E]- len, who married Thomas Harris, and now lives in Monroe township, Knox county.

McMILLEN, SILAS, deceased, Jefferson township, third son of Joseph McMillen, was born in Jefferson township, Knox county, Ohio, July 15, 1818. His father was one of the pioneer settlers of Jefferson township, and entered the farm now owned by the heirs of Silas McMillen, where he made improvements and passed his remaining days. He reared a family of six children, viz: Hamilton, John, Silas, [llen, Margaret, and Jane, all married and have families except Margaret, who was married but had no children. Only two of the above named children are now living: Hamilton and Ellen.

Mr. McMillen married Elizabeth Hicks, October 17, 1852. She was born in England August 3, 1834, emigrated to -\merica in 1835 with her parents, Andrew and Mariah Hicks, who settied in Jefferson township, Knox county, Ohio, on the McMillen farm, where his wife and children are now living. They reared a family of four children, viz: Alice M., Lorin H., Howard R., and George S., who died September 21, 1879.

McNABB, JOHN, Fredericktown, landlord, was born March 5, 1824, in Coshocton, Ohio, was married in 1849 to Susan Adams, who was born in Bedford county, Pennsylvania, November 4, 1829. They have nine children: Theodius, Joseph, Laura, William, Dora, Florida, Edgar, Georgia, and James.

Mr. McNabb came to Howard, in this county, in 1879, and engaged in the hotel business. In 1880 he took charge of the Commercial house in Fredericktown, and is at present doing a successful and profitable business.

McNAMARA, FRANCIS, Jefferson township, farmer, post office, Danville, was born in county Clare, Ireland, in 1798. In 1850 he emigrated to America, locating in Rochester, New York, where he remained about one year, then moved to Holidaysburgh, Pennsylvania, where he and three of his brothers took a contract ona railroad, which they completed in about two years. In 1838 he went to Uniontown, Pennsylvania, and took a contract for building several miles of the National road. His last contract was near West Alexandria, Washington county, Pennsylvania, where he married Miss Christina Weber in 1835.

Mrs. McNamara was born in Germany in 1812. They settled in Brownsville, Fayette county, Pennsylvania, remaining until in 1840, when they came to Knox county, Ohio, and located in Jefferson township, on the farm where they are now living.

Since his settlement in Jefferson township he has made clearing, farming and stock raising, his vocation. They have had a family of nine children, viz: William, John G., Margaret A., Mary, Francis K., Barbara, Bridget, Matthew, and George G. Barbara and Bridget are dead.

McNARE, ISAIAH, Fredericktown, cabinet-maker, was born in Somerset county, Pennsylvania, in 1826, and came to Knox county, Ohio, in 1847. In 1852 he was married to Mary Sergeant, who was born in Knox county in 1833. They had four children, viz: Ida, Anna, Chancey H., and Mary Blanche.

Mrs. Mary McNare died in Fredericktown in 1867. Mr. Mc- Nare was afterwards married to Mary E. Reed, who was born in Virginia. They have had three children - Frederick N., Rosa, and Nellie.

Mr. McNare learned the cabinet business when a young man, and is now engaged with Hill & Hagerty in the manufacture of furniture. He is an excellent mechanic, and has resided in this place since 1847.

Mr. McWilliams was a farmer and stock dealer during his lifetime. _He was a member and elder of the Presbyterian church of Martinsburgh at the time of his death, and was a much respected citizen. He died July 10, 1875.

McWILLIAMS, JOHN, farmer, a native of Ohio county, Virginia, was born January 31, 1797, removed to Belmont county, Ohio, in 1802, and to Knox county in 1818. He was married September 11, 1817, to Lydia Ierguson. They had nine children, viz: James, William, Mary Ann, Hugh, Phebe, ohn, George S., Sarah Jane, and Charles. All are dead but William, Phebe, and George S.

years. Mr. and Mrs. McWilliams were members of the Presbyterian church for many years, he being deacon forty-one years. He resided on his farm one mile east of Martinsburgh fifty-eight years. He now resides in the village.

MAGERS, NATHAN, North Sandusky street. - Mr, Magers is a native of Montgomery county, Maryland, where he was born August 19, 1793, and when about thirteen years old came with his brother-in-law and located in this county, on land adjoining the present town of Gambier, in the year 1806. He commenced life here by assisting the pioneer settlers in clearing up land and in making rails, which he followed about fourteen years. On September 1, 1812, he went out to guard the frontier, where he witnessed many exciting scenes of that eventful war. Heassisted in the taking of the Greentown Indians, and took an active part in the trying events that took place in this and Richland counties. In 1813 he went out to Sandusky, where he served twenty-one days, and in the fall of the same year he was called to Delaware, where he was a short time. He has witnessed all the changes this county has undergone, from the wild and unbroken forest populated by wild and hostile tribes of Indians, ferocious panthers, wolves, and bears, with deer as plentiful as the sheep of to-day, to its present state of civilization, densely populated with a refined and educated Christian people, where on every hand the eye is greeted with highly cultivated farms, teeming with their crops and stocks, beautiful towns and villages, extensive manufactories and business emporiums, interspersed with churches of all denominations and institutions of learning of all kinds.

In the year 1820 he commenced farming, which he followed about seven years. He then engaged in the hotel business at Danville and Millwood, which he followed about two years, after which he engaged in the milling business, running a sawmill and grist-mill, during which, in consequence of bailing certain parties, he lost all he had earned up to that time, so that he was obliged to commence life anew. He then came to Mt. Vernon and engaged in the brick business, which he followed, in connection with farming, for about ten years.

Mrs. Magers died in 1854, aud he married his second wife, Mrs. Mary Berk (Bell), who was born in 1792, and came to Ohio when quite young, consequently she is one of the early pioneers of the State, and has passed through hardships that would be incredible to the women of to-day. We give space to one incident. In those days they had to manufacture all their wearing apparel from the raw material - first spin, then weave, then cut and make it up for wear. She had no place to put up her loom, her brothers were out in the War of 1812, and she, feeling that all depended on her, shouldered her axe and went to the woods and cut logs for a cabin to weave in. When she had them ready she called in some of the nearest neighbors to raise the building, after which she completed it and set up her loom to make cloth for the family. Such was the indomitable energy of some of the pioneer mothers of our county and State.

MAGERS, CALVIN, city marshal of Mt. Vernon, is a son of Nathan Magers, one of the earliest pioneers of the county. He was born in this county: , and when about eight years old his parents came to Mt. Vernon, where he received his education. He was engaged in various ways until 1863, when he was elected to the office of city marshal, which position he has filled, with the exception of two and a half years, until the present. He was appointed and served as United States deputy marshal in the Northern district for five years, after which he was appointed to the same office in the Southern district in 1880, and in which office he still remains. The above facts are sufficient evidence of his faithfulness and abilities as an officer.

MAGERS, ELIAS, Monroe township, deceased, was born in Maryland in 1806, and while yet an infant was brought to Ohio with his parents, who died when he was ten years old, after which Elias made his home among strangers. He was married to Mary Lybarger, who was born in Pennsylvania. They had six children, viz.: Susannah, Lewis (deceased), Lyman, Martha J., Lucinda E., and Nathan A. Mrs. Mary Magers died in 1854. Mr. Magers married Christina Scoles, who was born in Pike township in 1830. They had one daughter, Clara I., who is living with her mother. Mr. Magers has been identified with this county since 1810. He was reared a Catholic, but when he reached maturity joined the Methodist Episcopal church. He was a very prominent and consistent member of the Pike church.

MAGERS, LYMAN, Mt. Vernon, farmer, was born in Howard township in 1837, married to Louisa H. Lambert, daughter of Rev. Daniel Lambert, of this county. She was born in Utica, Licking county, in 1835. They had six children, viz.: William S., Romyne A., Daniel M., Alice A., Blanche E., and Mary E. Miss Alice A. departed this life November 17, 1880, having assurances of a blessed immortality. Mr. Magers is one of the official members of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Pike township. He was a soldier in the late war - a member of the Ohio National guard - served out the time of his enlistment and was honorably discharged.

MAGILL, S. W., Howard township, mechanic, post office, Howard, was born in Pittsburgh, April 13, 1836. He enlisted in the late "war, in 1861, in company A, Fourth Ohio volunteer infantry for three months, then re-enlisted for three years; served one and one-half years, and was transferred at Harper's Ferry to battery C, Fourth volunteer artillery. He served till the close of the war; was in nineteen different battles, and only received two slight wounds. February 22, 1865, he was married to Miss Emily Rawly. She was born in Union county, Ohio, September 28, 1843. Then he lived in Mt. Vernon for a time, then in Millwood, in Mt. Holly, and then moved to Howard, where he has since remained, working at his trade and farming. He had eight children - Litta, born August 18, 1866; Lettice, April 18, 1868; Charles, July 27, 1870; Samuel, September 6, 1872; Frank, June 11, 1874; Curtis, July 9, 1876' Emily, April 12, 1878; Mary, April 16, 1880. _ Lettice died January 9, 1875, aged seven years, seven months and two days.

MAGILL, ALEXANDER, farmer, Milford township, was born in Huntingdon county, Pennsylvania, March 14, 1824. About nine years after his parents removed to Washington county, Pennsylvania, where they remained until 1838, when they moved to Monroe county, Ohio, where they settled. They had nine children, five sons and four daughters.

At about nineteen years of age he learned the tanning trade, which he followed for about ten years. In 1855 he came to Knox county, and resided in Harrison and Monroe townships until 1879, when he purchased in Milford township and moved there. His parents are both dead. He married Miss Elizabeth Willoughby, April 23, 1846, who was born February 8, 1827, in

Danville. They had one child, who died in infancy, but have an adopted son (Theodore Magill). Mr. Magill is a good citizen and also a good farmer. The father of Mrs. Magill (Henry Willoughby) lives with her. He was born in Oxfordshire, near Oxford, England, October 3, 1790. He spent ten years of his life-in the English army, three years in marine service, and seven years with the land forces, and passed through many exciting scenes. He was in the English campaign in Spain, and has been in all parts of the world. against the United States. He was discharged from the Thirtyseventh English regiment, January 21, 1816, and the same month came to the United States. His regiment was in Canada. In 1819 he came to Knox county and has resided here ever since. He helped to build Kenyon college, and was well known over the county. He was three times married and by one of his wives (Mariah Furness) he had eleven children, seven of whom are living.

MAHAFFEY, C. M., Pike township, physician, post office, North Liberty, born in Mt. Vernon, Knox county, in 1854, and was educated in the Mt. Vernon public schools; studied medit cine with Dr. J. C. Gordon, of Mt. Vernon, and attended lectures at the Cleveland Medical college. He engaged in the practice of medicine in Brownsville in company with Dr. Hyatt, and continued about eighteen months. From there he went to Mt. Vernon, remained there some time, and came to North Liberty in 1879.

The doctor has established quite an extensive practice; is meeting with good success, and is now classed with one of the leading physicians of this county.

MANN, CLAYTON J., Middlebury township, carpenter, post office, Fredericktown, born in Morrow county in 1854, and was married in 1875 to Lurella Caywood, who was born in this township in 1856. "They have one son - Earl Mann, born in 1877.

MARPLE, HIRAM B., Fredericktown, painter, was born in 1830 in Virginia, and came to Ohio in 1841. He was married to Sarah Phipps, who was born in Morrow county in 1834. They have the following children: Lura, born in 1857; Elroy, deceased; Frank, in 1839; Lincoln, in 1860; McClellan, in 1862; Maca, in 1866; Mary, 1n 1857; Will, in 1869; Gertrude, in 1871; Annias C., in 1873; Birdie, deceased; Ivanna, in 1877.

Mr. Marple has been a citizen of Fredericktown for about twenty-seven years. He wasa soldier in the late war, and a member of the Ohio National guards; served out the time of his enlistment, and received an honorable discharge.

MARRIOTT, MRS. JUDI ANN, Hilliar township, was born in Licking county May 21, 1823. She was the third child of Abraham and Margaret Plumner, who died in Licking county.

The subject of this notice was married to Elisha Marriott in 1845, and about three years after moved to Hilliar township, and settled on the farm on which Mrs. Marriott still resides, and where Mr. Marriott died in June, 1879. They hada family of nine children, six daughters and three sons, seven of whom are living, viz: Mary, married to Harvey Hupp; Jerusha,

MARSH, EBER, deceased, Monroe township, a native of Vermont, born on the twenty-seventh day of February, 1801, was a carpenter by trade, and followed carpentering as his vocation through life. In 1826 he married Miss Sophia Jackson, of Vermont, born June 17, 1807. They settled in Franklin county, New York, and remained about eleven years. In 1837 they emigrated to Knox county, located in Mt. Vernon, and remained two years. 'They then moved to Monroe township, and located on H. H. Young's farm, where they lived about two years, during which time he erected the residence now occupied by his widow and son, Eber P. Marsh, into which they moved in March, 1841. This served him as an abode until! he deceased January 17, 1876. His companion is still living on the home farm, where she has resided since 1841. The farm is now owned by their son, Eber P. Marsh.

They reared a family of eight children, viz: Eber P., Louisa S., Lewis j., EriC., Mary C., Hollis L., Sarah J., and Orlinda O. Allare living except Eri C. and Hollis L., who were killed in the war of 1861. Eri C. enlisted in the Second Wisconsin regiment, and was killed in the battle of the Wilderness on the fifth day of May, 1864. He was a veteran at the time of his death. Hollis L. enlisted in the Sixty-fifth Ohio volunteer infantry, and was wounded at the battle of Stone River, which caused his death in a few days. Eber P. and Lewis J., each served about four months in the same war.

MARSH, A. M., RICHARD BLACKMORE, superintendent public schools, Mt. Vernon, was born August 2, 1835. His father, Moses Marsh, was born in the city of Boston, in 1800, and his mother, Hannah Blackmore Marsh, in Truro, Nova Scotia, in 1820. The subject of this sketch was named for a distant ancestor, Sir Richard Blackmore, a distinguished physician, and a poet of some reputation, who lived in the latter part of the seventeenth century. His early life was spent in New England, from which he removed to Gambier, Ohio, in the winter of 1856, and entered the Kenyon grammar school, then under the charge of Professor H. D. Lathrop. He was poor and friendless, and had a wife and one child dependent upon him for support, which rendered his struggle for an education difficult. Ilis design was to study for the ministry of the Protestant Episcopal church. His vacaticns and half holidays were spent in building fences, putting in glass, and painting for the college. Parts of his fences are yet standing in Gambier. When he had acquired sufficient education to teach, his spare time was employed in assisting students who had to make extra exertion to overtake classes in branches in which they were found deficient.

Mr. Marsh was a good student, intelligent and industrious to a remarkable extent. In 1861 he was appointed tutor in Kenyon grammar school, at a salary of five hundred dollars per year. His success as a teacher and disciplinarian was so marked that he was advised by the bishop and faculty of Kenyon college to devote his life to teaching, and to relinquish his intention of entering the ministry. ;

In 1862, Professor Lathrop resigning, he was appointed principal of Kenyon grammar school, and became a member of the faculty of Kenyon college. The school at this time was small in numbers, the last year having only seventeen students, but number. Notwithstanding his arduous labors and incessant teaching, he continued his college studies and graduated with his class in 1863. He continued as head teacher of the grammar school, kept up the reputation and numbers, and had for years been making a salary of two thousand two hundred dollars, but at the close of the school year, 1867, not being satisfied with the appointment of J. Kent Stone to the presidency of the college, and foreseeing a struggle between the High and the Low church party, in which the former, with whom he had no sympathy, was likely to gain the ascendency, he accepted an invitation to superintend the schools of Mt. Vernon at a salary of one thousand five hundred dollars and house rent, which position, at the same salary, he has continued to hold.

In 1866 he received the degree of A. M. in course from Kenyon college. In 1879 he received a life certificate from the State board of examiners.

Mr. Marsh is an ardent and enthusiastic mason, and was for many years master of Mount Zion lodge, high priest of Clinton chapter, and is al present eminent commander of Clinton commandery Knight Templars. He has devoted some time to the special study of elocution, and has lectured at institutes and normal schools in many counties of the State, and has spent a large part of the Sabbaths of the year in preaching for no pecuniary consideration.

Testimonials from distinguished educators, and from the press of the State, amply manifest the high esteem in which Professor Marsh is held both as an educator and as an elocutionist. A few of these testimonials will suffice:

Professor J. J. Burns, superintendent public schools, speak- -ing of the teacherss' institute, held at Barnesville, Ohio, in August, 1874, says:

'The institute just closed was most successful in number and enthusiasm, and in the interest aroused in the good cause among the citizens. 'These good results are largely due to the earnest and efficient services of R. B. Marsh, Mt. Vernon, Ohio, who, in public and private, has continually labored to sow that seed which must bear fruit in many school-rooms of the county. Professor Marsh's public readings were admirable; fully satisfying the large expectations of his very large audience."

"It was my pleasure to be associated, as colaborer, with Professor R. B. Marsh, superintendent of publicinstruction, Mt. Vernon, Ohio, during the recent session of the Stark county teachers' institute, the largest, perhaps, ever held in the State; and it has seldom been my fortune to meet a more earnest and able lecturer. His special subject is elocution, for which he has arare gift. His evening entertainments, in which he renders some of the most difficult and entertaining pieces, are inimitable. I recommend him to all teachers' institutes and literary associations."

''That a vote of thanks be tendered to Professor Marsh for the masterly manner in which he conducted the elocutionary and reading department, for those ennobling impressions which will not only benefit teachers in life, but go with them through eternity."

Ogden and Marsh. Each in his way is without a superior. This evening Professor Marsh will deliver a lecture on elocution, with recitations, in the Opera House. He has more power and ability in this line than any-man we know in Ohio. It will be a rare treat.

''November 6th - One of the best houses that ever assembled in Canton greeted Professor Marsh at the Opera House on Thursday evening last. He is thoroughly educated and drilled on the subject of elocution. His voice has great compass and power, and his ability to give it the proper tones for deep feeling, or for gay humor, is perfect. In serious, sympathetic pieces he drew tears from many eyes, while in humorous pieces he often convulsed the house with laughter. Professor Marsh has made many friends by his visit to Canton, who will be happy to greet him at future meetings of our teachers' institute.'

The following is from Colonel D. F. DeWolf and signed also by Hon. Thomas W. Harvey: '' Having worked in a teachers' institute with Professor R. B. Marsh, I take great pleasure in sgying that his course of lessons in elocution and reading has been highly entertaining and instructive - indeed, one of the most useful and pleasant courses on this subject that I have ever witnessed in an institute."

Similar tributes might be quoted from the public press at Barnesville, Mansfield, Mt. Gilead, Marysville, Circleville, Coshocton, Marietta, New Philadelphia, Tiffin, and at other cities in the State, but the few quoted will suffice to show the high esteem in which the Professor is held throughout the State.

MARING, JACOB, retired, post office, Fredericktown; was born in Sussex county, New Jersey, in 1800, came to Knox county in 1832, first locating in Fredericktown and engaged in the mercantile business about sixteen years. In 1848 he purchased a farm in Berlin township and has since been a resident here, engaged in farming and dealing in and raising stock. He was elected a member of the Legislature in 1854, which place he filled with credit. He was married in 1833 to Harriet Headley, who was born in Morris county, New Jersey, in 1808. They had ten children, viz: William L., Sarah E., Joseph H., John C., Theodore P., Mary H. (deceased), Ella H., Ann A., Jacob &., and L. W. Mr, Maring is now one of the oldest living settlers of this county. In 1880 he drove the horses to the reaper during the entire harvest.

MARTIN, JACOB, deceased, born in Huntingdon county, Pennsylvania, in 1782, and was brought to Knox county, Ohio, by his parents, George and Sarah Martin, in 1811, who located in Mt. Vernon where his father deceased in 1812; Jacob Martin married Miss Ann Adams about 1813, born in Winchester, Virginia, about the year 1800. 'hey settled in Mt. Vernon, where he died in July, 1870, aged seventy-eight years. His companion is still surviving him at the age of eighty years, and is living in Mt. Vernon where they first settled. He was a cabinet-maker and joiner by trade, and carried on the business in Mt. Vernon for many years. They reared a family of eleven children, viz: George R., Sarah A., Samuel S., John M., Jacob, Benjamin F., Ellen, Joseph, Martha, Albert, and Clara, four of whom died, viz: Sarah A., Jacob, Benjamin F., and Joseph.

MARTIN, GEORGE R.,, oldest son of the aforesaid Jacob Martin, was born in Mt. Vernon, Knox county, Ohio, November 22, 1821. He learned the cabinet-makers' and joiners' trade with his father, and followed that business as his princi- pal vocation until 1853, when he engaged in the saw-mill business, which he has followed in connection with farming as his avocation. In 1844 he married Miss Agnes Shipley. 'They settled in Mt. Vernon and remained there until 1856 when they moved to their present location, on the Granville road a short distance from Mt. Vernon. 'They have reared a family of eight children, four sons and four daughters. His oldest son, Milton P. Martin, served nineteen months in the Third Ohio volunteer cavalry in the war of 1861.

MARTIN, JAMES, Middlebury township, retired, post office, Fredericktown, born in Huntingdon county, Pennsylvania, in 1793, came to Ohio, this county, in 1811, and was married in 1819 to Luhamar Warden, who was born in Chambersburgh, Franklin county, Pennsylvania, in 1798. They had three children - Henry P., born in 1822; William S., in 1825; and Mary, the eldest, born in 1820.

Mr. Martin is the oldest resident yet living in this vicinity. He was a cabinet-maker and worked at that business for some years, but has been a farmer for many years in this township.

Mr. Martin was born in this city, May 31, 1842. He was educated in our common schools. His first business engagement was made in 1857, with the late Adam Weaver, as salesman in his hardware store at Mt. Vernon. Here he continued five years. He then enlisted in company A, Ninety-sixth Ohio volunteer infantry, in which he served three years, and was honorably discharged, July, 1865. He returned to Mt. Vernon, remained at home but a short time only, and then went to Jackson, Tennessee, and engaged in the hardware business, which he conducted for five years with success. His next move was to Frogmore, Louisiana, where he engaged in a general store business, in which he remained three years. He then returned to Mt. Vernon, and went into the hardware store of J. H. McFarland, where he continued three years, and then with C. A. Bopes for one year. For some time after this last clerkship he engaged ina variety of businesses. About a year since he purchased the grain and feed store of J. H. McFarland KRGOo), and the firm of Martin & Park was formed. They carry a full stock of coal, ice, feed, etc., and average in winter, coal to the amount of one thousand six hundred dollars per month, and of feed, lime and cement abuut one thousand dollars. he firm is doing a business of about twenty thousand dollars per annum.

MARTS, JOHN C., Berlin town, farmer, post offlce, I*redericktown, born in Berlin township, in this county, in 1842, and was married in 1867, to Malinda Adams, who was born in Berlin township in this county in 1842. They had three children: Alda M., born in 1868 ; George Sherman, deceased, and Madison Lloyd, deceased. Mr. John Marts was a soidier in the late war, a member of company G., One Hundred and Twenty-first regiment Ohio volunteer infantry, and was in the following engagements - battle of Champion Hills, Chattanooga, Buzzard's Roost, Kennesaw Mountain, Peach Tree Creek, J onesborough, Atlanta to Savannah, and from there to South Carolina. He was wounded, April 10, 1865, near Goldsborough, in the left knec with a piece of shell, which has crippled him far

MASTELLER, JACOB S., Wayne township, farmer, post oftice, I''redericktown, born in Columbia county, Pennsylvania; came to Ohio in the fall of 1844; settled near Mount Vernon and remained there till 1865 ; then came to Wayne township. He was married in 1850, to Sarah Stillery. They had the following children, of whom three are living: Charles F., Minnie B., and Rebecca x. Mrs. Mastellar died in 1869. Mr. Mastellar's second marriage was to Sarah Cassell, who was born in Maryland in 183r.

MATHENY, JAMES W., Pike township, farmer, post office, Democracy, born in Brown township in this county, September 7, 1858. He is engaged in farming in this county, and is an active and enterprising young man.

MATHEWS, JOSEPH B., Hilliar township, farmer, was born in Knox county, March 11, 1824. Heis the son of Henry and Mary Mathews, zee Harris. His father was born in Maryland, and moved to Hilliar township in 1811. He was a soldier of the War of 1812, and during the latter part of his life drew a pension. When he first came to Knox county, he worked for James Houck and in consideration of his work, hg got fifty acres 'of land, on which he now resides. This was about 1818, or perhaps a few years earlier. 'There were ten children in the family, five of whom are still living, viz: Joseph B., the subject of this notice, John W., Isaac, Sarah A., married to Allen Moore, and Caroline M., married to Almind Perfect. Mrs. Mathews died in 1858, and Mr. Mathewsin 1872. Thus passed away two of Knox county's first-class pioneers. The subject of this notice was twice married. His first wife was Miranda J. Kempton, to whom he was maeried December 25, 1855. They had three children, two living. His first wife died September, 1861. His second wife was Jane A. Jones. children, two sons and two daughters. Mr. Mathews is social and pleasant. He has the esteem of his neighbors. Mrs. Mathews died recently.

MAVIS, LINAS, Brown township, farmer, post office, Democracy, son of Samuel and Elizabeth Mavis, born in Coshocton county, January 2, 1845; was brought by his parents whena child to Knox county, his father locating in Howard township, where they remained about seven years. His father then purchased.a farm in what is now known as the Jelloway valley, Brown township, where he lived until he arrived at the age of eighteen years, when he enlisted in the Sixty-fifth Ohio volunteer infantry, in company A, under Captain Cassil, Colonel Harker being the commander of the regiment in which he served three years, during which time he was engaged in a number of battles, among them being Franklin, Tennessee, Pittsburgh Landing, Corinth, Mississippi, Stone River (where he received a wound in the shoulder), Chickamauga, Mission Ridge, Knoxville, Tennessee, and Buzzard Roost, where he received the second wound, and was then sent back to Murfreesborough, Tennessee, where he remained until his time expired; and he received his discharge and was mustered out at Columbus, Ohio. He returned home and went to farming for his father, at which he continued up to February 27, 1867, when he married Sarah J. Norick, a daughter of Jacob and Emily Norick, born in Harrison county, Ohio, June 10, 1846. After his marriage he moved to another township, but soon moved back to Brown, and then to Hilliar township, and again to Brown, locating on the old home farm, where he now resides. Their marriage resulted in six children - Franklin C., Della B., Alverda, Burley M., Samuel, and Ora, all of whom are living.

MEAD, ALFRED, Hilliar township, brick and tile manufacturer, Centreburgh, Ohio, was born in Newark, New Jersey, May 27, 1845, and is the fifth child of Alfred and Hellen Mead, nee Collins, who came to Ohio about 1848. 'They settled in Jersey township, Licking county, Ohio, where they now reside. Alfred spent his youth on the farm. He enlisted October 27, 1861, in company H, Seventy-sixth Ohio volunteer infantry, for three years. He participated in the battles of Fort Donelson, Shiloh, siege of Corinth, Chickasaw Bayou, Arkansas Post, Jackson, siege of Vicksburgh, siege of Jackson, Lookout Mountain, Mission Ridge, Ringgold, Resaca. He was then appointed third sergeant of the company, and afterward participated in the battles of Dallas, siege of Kennesaw Mountain, Atlanta, Ezra Chapel, siege of Atlanta, Jonesborough, Lovejoy Station, where he was wounded with a musket ball. He also participated in the sieges of Savannah, Columbia, and Rentonville, North Carolina, besides eleven skirmishes. He veteranized at Woodville, Alabama. He served his country for three years and nine months, never failing in the performance of his duty. After his yeturn home from the army he learned the carpenter trade and followed it for about eight years, working in Iowa for some time, and spent some time in the lumber business in Indiana. In the fall of 1875 he opened a brick and tile kiln in Centreburgh. Mr. Mead started in life without the aid of any one, but assisted his parents in life and also succeeded in making for himself a comfortable home, establishing a growing trade. Mr. Mead is highly esteemed by the community, is social and pleasant in his manners, is a good citizen, was a good soldier, and has the confidence of all who know him. He was married to Miss Nichols, of Licking county, November 28, 1867.

MEELICK, GREENBURY, farmer, post Castle, was born in Jackson township, Knox county, Ohio, on the eighth day of October, 1818. He has been thrice married, and is the father of two. children, viz: Lorenzo, born January 3, 1847; Mary Imus, February 6, 1849. His present wife was Mrs. Esther McCrea, widow of Walter McCrea, who had five children, viz: Walter, born January ro, 1852; Robert O., July 23, 1855, and who died December 14, 1862; Leora A., born November 26, 1857, and died November 25, 1862; Eva Esther, born November 1, 1859, and died September 17, 1863; Joseph M., born November 5, 1862, and died December 5, 1862.

MEGINNIS JOHN, mechanic, Howard township, post office, Howard. He was born April 4, 1812, in Franklin county, Pennsylvania, came to this county in 1834, and pursued the business of stone and brick laying, In 1841 he was married to Rachel Lybarger, settled in Howard township, and has remained there ever since. They have five children: Catharine, Maoza, Emeline, Mary, and Henry.

Catharine married John Roberts and moved to Delaware county, Ohio. Maoza married Alexander Newton and settled iu Howard township. Mr. Meginnis has built a large number of stone and brick structures. _ His son, William, is at present with him.

- MELICK, the family of, Jackson township. David Melick, one of the pioneers of Jackson township, was born in Pennsylvania November 2, 1784, and was married to Hannah Haskins about the year 1805. She was born July 4, 1789. He emigrated to Jackson township in the vear 1810. His son, William Melick, was born in Pennsylvania December 1, 1806. He was married November 6, 1828, té Ermina Cooper, who was born June 12, 1809, and who died June 13, 1835. She bore him three children, viz: Daniel, born October 22, 1829; Nancy, born November 30, 1831; Hannah, born November 11, 1833.

MELTON, ROBERT, teamster, Fredericktown, was born in Knox county in 1849, at:d was married in 1878 to Sarah Frasier, who was born in Muskingum county, Ohio. They have one daughter, Sanora May, who was born in March, 1879.

MENDENHALL, E. I., was born in Chester county, Pennsylvania, April 21, 1840, but when about seven years of age his parents came to Mt. Vernon, where he attended school. He was then sent back to Pennsylvania, and attended an academy two years at Kennett square; then returned to Mt. Vernon and entered the law office of General G. W. Morgan, where he remained until he was admitted to the bar, when he opened an office and devoted his time to his profession, in which he has succeeded. After practicing for three years he formed a partnership with Joseph Watson, which continued for two years, then Mr. Watson went to Columbus, and since, Mr. Mendenhall has been alone, having a good practice, and is a highly respected member of the Knox county bar.

MEREDETH, BENJAMIN, deceased, Union township, was born in Coshocton county, Ohio, in 1810. He married Delila Welket, daughter of John and Elizabeth Welket, in 1832. They settled in Union township, remained a few years, then purchased and moved on a farm in Howard township, where they spent the remainder of their days. He died July 4, 1847. and Mrs. Meredith died July the seventeenth, 1855. They reared a family of seven children: Elizabeth J., Margaret M., Sarah E., Mary S., Leander W., Lucinda F., and John S. Elizabeth J. and John S. are dead.

ary 4, 1843. He married Martha J. Dillon, daughter of Thomas and Eliza Dillon, in 1864' They settled in Union township; at present they are living in Rosstown. They have four children; two sons and two daugters.

MERRIEN, ANDREW B., deceased, Morris township, was born in Chester township, Morrow county, Ohio, in 1826, and married in 1850 Margaret L. Rush, who was born in Morris township in 1829. "They have the following children: Anna M., born in 1850; John A.; in 1853; Sarah J., in 1856; Joe Bell, in 1859; Oakley M., in 1861; Jacob, in 1868; Ada B., in 1873; Frederick, in 1875.

Fredericktown. John A. married Mertice J. Lyon. Sarah J. married Charles W. Wise. Mr. Merrien died in Morris township in 1876. He was engaged in the lumber trade near Fredericktown, and was among the active men of the county. In his death the community and family met with a great loss. Mrs. Margaret Merrien still resides in this township.

MERRIN, JOHN C., post office, Fredericktown, teacher, Morris township, Ohio, born in Fredericktown, Knox county, Ohio, February 6, 1840; lived there until the fall of 1848, when his father, the Hon. Jacob Merrin, moved to his beautifnl farm in Berlin township. Lived with his father until 1879; was martied to Miss Zona Ravenscroft, of Henry county, Ohio, June 18, 1879; lived in Fredericktown during the winter of 1879-80, then moved to Morris township, where he now resides. Studied law under his brother, Joseph H. Merrin, one of the leading lawyers of Mansfield (now deceased), and after a rigid examination by the supreme court of Ohio, was admitted to practice law in 1863.

Served in the Union army a short time; was taken dangerously sick at Bermuda Hundred; was removed to the hospital at Fort Schuyler, a few miles above New York city, where he was honorably discharged on account of sickness.

The field of education had far greater charms for him than the practice of law. He has been intimately connected with the educational interests of the ungraded schools of Knox county for many years, probably more so than any other educator in Knox county. Has been president of the teachers' institute of Knox county many years. At the present time he fills that honorable position, He is recognized as one of the leading spirits in the interests of ungraded schools. His life has been devoted, heart and soul, to their progress and prosperity.

He taught his first term in Berlin township, when a mere boy of seventeen, where the township house now stands, and where he had been a pupil for many years. In this place he taught four consecutive terms. Teaching has been his profession ever since. He was appointed county school examiner in January, 1877, to fill a vacancy occasioned by the resignation of Isaac Lefever, jr.; was reappointed in 1877, and again appointed in September, 1880. He is the most experienced member of the present board, and is one of the most efficient examiners Knox county ever had. He has labored hard and successfully to advance the standard of qualification of teachers as fast as wisdom and prudence dictated. He is to-day one of the live educators and unfaltering friends of common schools.

MERRIEN, JOHN M., Morris township, farmer, post office, Fredericktown, was born December 5, 1853, and was married October 3, 1878, to Mertice Lyon, who was born'De-

MERRIMAN, CHARLES:AUSTIN, Mt. Vernon, attorney at law, was born near Chesterville, Morrow county, Ohio, January 20, 1851. He is the oldest child of James H. and Emily Merriman, xce Carey, daughter of Frederick Carey, one of the old settlers of Knox county. He spent his youth on the farm. He worked during the summer and taught school in the winter. While teaching he read law. He attended law school at Michigan State university, during the winters of 1873-4 and 1875-6, graduating, taking the degree of LL. D. Hewas admitted to the bar in Michigan in the year 1876, and the same year was admitted in Ohio. He spent eighteen months in the office of H. H. Greer, esq., in order to get a knowledge of the practice, and on the ninth day of November, 1877, he opened an office of his own, and has been practicing with a steady increase of business. He was married to Miss Emma Clegern, October 17, 1878. They have one child, Bessie L.

MERRIMAN, B.. Waldo, Hilliar township, physician and surgeon, Centreburgh, Ohio, is one of the rising young doctors of Knox county. He was born in Bloomfield township, Morrow county, March 20, 1854. His father was a farmer, and it was on the farm that the doctor spent his youth, holding the plow during the summer and going to school in the winter. He taught for several terms. When about twenty-one years of age he began reading medicine with Dr. F. R. Larimore, of He finished his course of reading with the well known physicians, Drs. Russelland McMillin, of Mt. Vernon, Ohio. His first course of lectures he attended at Columbus Medical college, and his succeeding courses were at the Long Island college, Brooklyn, New York, where he graduated in July, 1878. Hewas a close student, and had the advantages of first-class preceptors, which, coupled with his collegiate medical education, gave him such knowledge of his profession as to enable him to take a high rank with the public and his professional brethren. He first began his practice in Marengo, Morrow county, where he remained for about one year.

The town of Centreburgh opening up a wider field for praclice, he came therein the fall of 1879, and has a growing practice. He is a man of reserved manners, but readily makes friends by his constancy rather than by familiarity. He was married to Miss Eva M. Bird, of Liberty township, July 2s, 1878. They have one child.

MERYHEW, JOHN A., Wayne township, farmer, post office, Mt. Vernon, bornin Mt. Vernon in 1848, and was married in 1874 to Ida Bell Horner, who was born in Mt. Vernon in 1858. They have the following children: Jessie M., born in 1875; Frank H., in 1877; and Laura M., in 1879. Mr. Meyhew is a farmer by occupation.

When the War of 1812 was declared, he enlisted in Captain Spencer's company of volunteers, recruited in Licking county. They marchedfrom Granville to Urbana, and from there to Fort Meigs, having to cut their way through the then unbroken wilderness of Northwestern Ohio. From there they went to Detroit, and were among the troops commanded by General Hull, when he surrendered to the British at Fort Malden. After remaining a prisoner of war for a few weeks, he was paroled and returned to his home at Granville. Some time prior to 1825, he went to Utica and engaged in the dry goods trade. August 24, 1825, he was married to Mrs. Martha Silliman, then a young widow lady, of Mt. Vernon, she having two little daughters, one of whom is Mrs. Wareing, of Utica, the other, Mrs. Kelsey, of Mt. Vernon. Mfs. Messenger died at the advanced age of eighty-four years, on the twenty-ninth of September last. Mr. and Mrs. Messenger had three sons: S. B. Messenger, a dentist of Newark; Captain H. C. Messenger, of Jackson, Ohio, who died in the army during the rebellion; and G. B. Messenger, of this city. Davia Messenger was, perhaps, the oldest Mason in this part of the country, having been a Mason in Centre Star Lodge, No. 11, Granville, in 1812, receiving his degrees up to and including the master mason degree there during that year. He had not been engaged in active business for many years previous to his death, which occurred at his home on Friday: January 14, 1881, at the advanced age of ninety years and nearly four months. He died of old age, having no disease, and confined to his bed only a few days. Since the death of his wife, with whom he had lived happily for more than fifty-five years, he has been only waiting and anxious to go.

METHEANY, ISRAEL, retired, Pike township, post office, Democracy, born in Preston county, Virginia, in 1816, and was married in 1840 to Rebecca Dewitt, who was born in this township. They had eight children: Daniel, Simeon, Mary A., Harvey, Rebecca E., Aaron, William, and Emma. Daniel, Aaron, and Simeon have died. He came to Ohio with his parents in 1820, located in Jefferson township, this county, in 1858, and came to Pike township where he has since resided.

His father, Israel Metheany, was born in Virginia; in 1789 he was married to Rebecca Conner. They had twelve children. Mr. and Mrs. Metheany died in this county. They were among the earlier settlers,

METZGER, JOSEPH, Milford township, farmer and stock grower. Mr. Metzger was born in Cambria county, Pennsylvania, June 18, 1819. In 1823 he was brought to Ohio by his parents, who located in Perry county, where they passed the remainder of their days. In 1842, Joseph Metzger married Miss Mary A. Bechtoll, 'of Muskingum county, Ohio, born July 24, 1823. They settled in Muskingum county, remained about two years, then moved to Morgan county, Ohio, and remained one year. In 1845 they moved to this county and located on the farm in Pleasant township now owned by Thomas Hillier, where they remained about two years, and in 1847 they moved to Mt. Vernon, remained until the fall of 1850, then moved on the farm in Monroe township where they are now living. Their union resulted in five children, three sons and two daughters. One of the daughters has deceased. His companion died July 12, 1851, leaving five small children to his care. He remained a widower about five years, then January 4, 1856, married Mrs. Rachel Houck, zee Walker, born September 2, 1832, daughter of Isaac Walker. They have a family of six children; five sons and one daughter.

MEYERS, MAX, Mt. Vernon, Was born November 17, 1843, in. Berlin, Prussia, and came to America in 1865. He stopped in. New York, Cincinnati and Columbus until 1872, when he came to Mt. Vernon, and commenced business as a dealer in glassware, manufacturing of tinware, etc., in which he is still engaged. He has several wagons on the road, and does a business of from four thousand to five thousand dollars per year. He married Sarah Shaw, by whom he has had a family of five children, two of whom only are living.

MILLER, JAMES, deceased, Miller township, was born in Dummerston, Vermont, December 16, 1783, and died September 30, 1844. Miller township was named in honor of this respected pioneer. The family tradition in regard to the circumstances connected with the naming of the township disagrees somewhat with the account given by Mr. Gates in his history of the township.

Mr. Miller invited his neighbors, who then embraced the whole township, to a raising of the first frame barn built in the township. In those days it was customary for the people to turn out for miles around, and assist each other when a cabin or a barn was built. Upon this occasion all the voters of the township happened to be present. It was about the time of the organization of the township, or when the old name - Sycamore - had been dropped, and the inhabitants were casting about fora new name, Mr. Miller entertained his guests very generously at the feast after the raising. Apple toddy and whiskey flowed freely, and when the company was feeling very fine, the question of naming the township came up, and the party unanimously resolved to name it in honor of their generous host. The honor was conferred as mueh too in consideration of the high estcem and respect in which Mr. Miller was held by all who knew him. He was a gentleman of education, and was looked up to for counsel and advice by the settlers for many years.

Mr. Miller emigrated from Windham county, Vermont, with his wife and four children in 1814, and was six weeks making the journey. The story of his emigration is but a repetition of that of other pioneers who left the barren hills of New England and turned toward the virgin soil of the great west.

Mrs. Miller's family - the Warners - had proceeded them several years and settled on the Licking, near Zanesville. They had written letters glowing with praises of Ohio's rich soil and mild climate. It was a great journey to make and had to te accomplished in wagons over mountains and valleys and-across great rivers.

Ohio was then far west, the great unknown, sometimes called the ''new world."" When Mr. Miller reached the Hudson, near Newbury, a rare vision presented itself. The broad expanse of water at that point, the rock bound shores covered with autumnal tinted foliage, excited the wonder of the children. Madison, then a boy of five, exclaimed: ''Oh, mother, is this the new world ?"

The route across the Susquehanna and over the A!leghanies to Wheeling presented rare natural attractions. Near _Zanesville Mrs. Warner, the mother of Mrs. Miller, was on her death bed, awaiting the arrival of her children, praying she might live to see their faces again, but when the emigrants reached Cambridge word came to the sorrowing daughter that the mother had expired. Mr. Miller left his family with the Warners during the winter of 1814-r5 until, he had located his land and prepared a shelter in Knox county, where he removed them in January, 1815.

What a task presented itself to those early pioneers! A square mile of solid timber to 1emove before it could be tickled by the plow and made to bring forth fruit! A man of less energy and will would have quailed at the prospect.

deed is now preserved by Dana Miller, his youngest son. The land was part of a reservation of Congress lands, as distinguished from so called military land, which latter embraced most of this part of the State.

Mr. Miller was not fully satisfied with the title of the military tract, hence sought an original grant from the United States. As stated before, this land was covered by a dense forest. Game was abundant. The boys could shoot deer near their cabin any day. The woods were alive with turkeys. Wolves made the night hideous by their howling, and bears were frequently met with, nor had the red man entirely forsaken these hunting grounds, now encroached upon by fast spreading civilization. One day while the family were at breakfast, with the cabin door open, a powerful savage stepped stealthily in and presented to the affrighted mother and children a spectacle which was truly new, novel, and apalling. He was armed with rifle and tomahawk, and plumed with feathers and beads. Mr. Miller preserved his coolness and arose from the table, addressing the Indian kindly found by signs he had been hunting in the neighborhood and desired something to eat. He was accordingly accommodated with a morsel at a side table, when he grunted thanks and departed.

Mr. Miller performed a vast amount of labor in clearing his farm, and in a few years his boys rendered valuable assistance. The pioneer boys were given axes at an early age, and soon learned to use them effectively. The land, meanwhile, began to produce corn and wheat, but there was no market. Mr. Miller often hauled wheat so faras the lake, and aftewards to Zanesville and Newark, and sold it as low as thirty-seven cents ber bushel. For many years produce would not bring money; the merchants only offering store goods. ' Hides were the only exception; they brought cash. The taxes must be paid in cash, and Mr. Miller considered himself fortunate, in wintering cattle, when enough died to enable him to pay his taxes.

Mr. Miller was of small stature but possessed of wonderful energy. He arose early and stirred up the whole household before the sun that the work might be executed always in season. His industry lasted until the day of his death. He was at that time finishing the brick house where his son now resides, and, conscious of his approaching end, he was careful to attend to every detail, even to paying the laborers each day all wages due, and giving directions for the coming day. He died of a disease of the tongue, which had affected his speech for several yeats, and was buried in the family cemetery near his residence.

James Milier was educated at Williams college, and during the War of 1812 was a member of the company of Captain Hayes, the father of President Hayes. He was married near Wordsborough, Vermont, in March, 1806, to Sarah Warner, who was born in Newfane, Vermont, April 1, 1788, the eldest daughter of Daniel Warner, jr., of Newfane, son of Daniel Warner, sr., supposed to have been from Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, and whose ancestors emigrated from England at an early day. Both the Warners emigrated to Ohio about the year 1807. Sarah Warner's mother was the daughter of the Hon. Luke Knowlton, a distinguished citizen of Vermont during the Revolution, and was a descendant of Thomas Knowlton, of Ipswitch, who lived about 1660 to 1700. Sarah Warner, at the time of her marriage, was an accomplished and educated young lady of rare personal beauty, and seemingly too tender to endure the hardships of pioneer life, but she lived to see the primeval forest on her husband's land 'replaced by smiling and fruitful fields. Besides, she reared a family of eleven children, all grown to manhood and womanhood. She died November 26, 1858, lamented by all who knew her, and leaving memories of a character for sweetness and gentleness that will stand as a shining example for all time. A brother aud sister of Mrs. Miller survive her, and now reside at Newark, Ohio, viz: Luke K. Warner and Mrs. Ie. S. Woods.

The descendants of James and Sarah Miller numbered eighty of which seventy are now living. They had eleven children: James Warner, the eldest, born in Vermont, July 8, 1807, married Mary G. Bryant, and had ten children and twenty-nine grandchildren. He was a prominent merchant in Mt. Vernon for forty years, and now resides iis Newark, Ohio.

Madison, born in Vermont September 12, 1809, died February 25, 1868; married, first, Sarah M. Hill, second, Mrs. Kate Bliss, and third, Mrs. Mary Daily. He had four children - two died young, and two are now living.

Mary M., born in Miller township, November 18, 1816, died November 30, 1846. She married Platt G. Beardslee, and had four children, One died young, Charles was killed in the battle of Atlanta, July 22, 1864, Emily and Mary married and had six children.

Harriet M., born in Miller township, May 5, 1824, married James H. Knox, and had four children, two now living. They reside in Indianola, Towa.

Dana, born in Miller township, April 5, 1833, married Belle A. Ewalt, and had six children. They reside at the old homestead in Miller township.

Lucinda A., born in Miller township, May 12, 1838, and died in Bement, Illinois, May 17, 1872. She married, first, Willlam Ellis, and had one daughter; second, to Robert Fisher.

The genealogy of James Miller's family is thus narrated: His tamily has ancient and honorable lineage, dating back over two hundred years in America, and ante-dating from its emigration to America into traditional genealogy another century in Scotland.

The Millers, of Scotland, were of Saxon origin, and followed the leadership of Edwin, who conquered the Picts and founded Edinburgh, A. D. 449. The history of the family is rather obscure, until about the .year 1600, when the country was distracted by civil war, assuming a religious character between Catholicism and Protestantism. The Millers took sides with the Protestants, and later with the Presbyterians or Covenanters, when persecuted by James the First, in his efforts to establish Episcopacy. The laws against Presbyterianism were so arbitrary that it led to great disorder and opposition by the inhabitants, and many personal encounters passed between the liberty-loving Scots and the minions of the king, in the enforcement of obnoxious laws. The name of James Miller is found

''The compt of mony resauit in fra sick persones as hes transgrest aganest the statutis and ordenances of the guid toun; the namis of the persones that pay it, and the soun that evrie man pay it, and the occatione whair foir they pay it, begining at Mychelmas, 1608 yiers, till Mychelmas the yier of God, 1609 yiers, the time of thair offices of baill yiers, as follows: James Miller, for being found be the gaird, at twelve hours at even, with one sword drawin at James Harvie, £4. James Miller, for the bluid wyte of Patryk Chalmers, £9 18d.

The oppression of the covenanters led many to seek the shores of America, where they could worship God without restraint, and one senior Miller and his son James (who are the direct progenitors of this family in America), emigrated from Edinburgh about the year 1660. They settled in Charlestown near Boston, and joined the established Presbyterian church at that place.

We find recorded in the Genealogical dictionary of the firstsettlers of NewEngland: ''James Miller, the Scotsman, Charlestown, admitted to First church, December 17, 1676, and made freeman May 23, 1677, and died July 14, 1690. His wife Mary joined church August 5, 1677, being baptized that day with her eight children: James, Mary, Robert, Job, Abraham, Isaac, Mercy and Jane. The record of his father's death August 1, 1688, calls him 'Sen,' an aged Scotsman above seventy."'

Isaac Miller, the son of James, removed to Concord, Massachusetts, and afterwards to Worcester about the year 1718. His son Isaac, born in Concord May 7, 1708, married in Worcester, one Sarah Crosby, and reared a large family. In 1770, the year of the Boston massacre, he removed to Dummerston, Vermont, which town he surveyed and settled. John, the son of Isaac, jr., was born in Worcester December 20, 1756, and lived and died a farmer in Dummerston. His son James who was born in Dummerston December 16, 1783, emigrated to Ohio in 1814, and settled in Knox county, in what is now Miller township, named 1n his honor.

The genealogical order of the six generations as far as authenticated will then stand as follows: First, Sen. Miller, born in Edinburgh, Scotland, about 1613; second, James Miller, born in Edinburgh, Scotland, about 1640; third, Isaac Miller, born in Charlestown, Massachusetts, about 1670; fourth, Isaac Miller, jr., born in Concord, Massachusetts, 1708; Fifth, John Miller, born in Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1756; sixth, James Miller, born in Dummerston, Vermont, in 1783.

Many of the Scotch Millers attained eminence in literature and in science. The ancestors of Hugh Miller, the great geologist, were a seafaring race. Among the great writers wer2 John Miller, of Lanarkshire, professor of law in the university of Glasow; James Miller of Ayr, physician and chemist, and editor of the fourth edition of the Encyclopedia Britianca ; James Miller, professor of surgery in the university of Edinburgh; Thomas Miller, of Glenlee, baron and lord justice clerk of court sessions. ,

The ancient coat of arms of this family, adopted by the various Scotch branches, bears a similarity in the chief points of the field; the only variations appearing in minor objects in the divisions according to the fancy of the bearer, or as conferred by heraldic law. The chief points, as borne by all the scotch families, are: first, the color of the shield (white); second, the Moline cross, which represents the figure of the iron that supports the upper mill stone; third, the wavy bar in the base, and last, the mullet, or rowel ofa spur. A description of the arms borne by the American branch of the family, as near as can be authenticated, and as expressed in heraldic terms, is as follows: Argent, a cross moline, azure. In chief, second, bordure of three cinquefoils, gules, lozenge between two mullets ; sinister chief lozenge between two mullets. In fessee, hand with first and second fingers extended, two arms with hands clasped, moline cross, sable, between four hearts; in base wavy band of vert: crest, lion rampant with moline cross, sable, between paws; motto, Optima Celo, Unione Augetur.

Avery complete record has been preserved of the family of Isaac Miller, jr., the grandson and great-grandson of the Scottish emigrants. He was a staunch Republican in the troublesome times preceding the outbreak of the Revolution. Being a surveyor by profession, he became useful in the settlement of the then new country north of Massachusetts, but his enterprise met with disaster through the machinations of the tools of the king, who had set a mark on all Republicans.

In 1763, he, with others, were granted a township of land in New Hampshire, which they settled and paid for, but by a subterfuge, the British court then in session in Worcester, re-granted it to General Bellows, a Tory. He moved his family in 1770 to Dummerston, Vermont, which town he surveyed and settled. Isaac Miller, jr., had twelve children. Vespatian was a soldier in the old French war, and afterwards followed the sea. Hosea was a farmer. Rosanna married Major Joseph Negus, of Petersham. Among her descendants are Mrs. General R. B. Marcy, Mrs. General George B. McClellan, and Mrs. Major W. B. Russell, of the United States army. Sarah married Silas Wheeler, of Petersham. Joseph was a soldier of the war of the Revolution, and served seven years with distinction, being promoted to the rank of major, and merited the friendship and confidence of General Washington. Isaac was a captain in the Revolution, and was badly wounded early in the war near Boston. Marshall was a farmer and left many descendants.

John, the father of the subject of this sketch, was a Revolutionary soldier, and subsequently became very prominent as a citizen of Vermont. Catharine married a Mr. Knapp and reared a large family. William, the youngest, was a soldier in the latter part of the Revolution and rose to the rank of Major, cember 20, 1756, had eight children: Lewis, James, Levi, Sally, Polly, Rosanna, Susan, and John B. Rosanna and Susan are still living in Vermont, the former eighty-six and the latter eighty-four years of age.

MILLER, MARGARET Mrs., post office, Howard, was born in Northampton county, Pennsylvania, November 209, 1793. She moved to Somerset county, Pennsylvania, in 1795, and remained there fourteen years. She came to Howard township in 1810, and lived with her father until 1814, when she was married to Andrew Miller, and settled on her present farm. Mr. Miller was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, in 1783. He was one of the old veterans of 1812, and was in the Second platoon. He was one of the twelve who were detailed to kill James Burde. Mr. Miller belonged to Captain Sanderson's company, Twenty-seventh regiment United States infantry, and received an honorable discharge. He was enrolled on the pension roll of the Columbus agency. Mr. Miller lived on the farm until his death. .

MILLER, JAMES, deceased. He wasa native of Pennsylvania, and was married to Martha Zerick, who was born in Maryland in 1793. They had one daughter, Zarada, who was born in Knox eounty and-married in 1861 to Adam Kime, who was born in Stark county.

Daniel Zerick located in Clinton township in 1806, when there was one house in Mt. Vernon (so says Mrs. Miller). Mr. Daniel Zerick died in this county in 1851; his wife Martha died in 1836, Mr. James Miller died in Indiana about 1845.

MILLER, JOHN W., Jefferson township, farmer and mechanic; born in Montgomeiy county, Pennsylvania, May 14, 1815; was brought to Ohio by his parents when a child, his father locating in Columbiana county; where he was reared and received a common school education. At the age of seventeen years he contracted with his brother to learn him the carpenter trade, and served apprenticship of three years. He worked at his trade about eighteen years, he then worked one season for Christian Pherenbaugh at the plastering business, and since that time has conducted said business on his own responsibility, making it his principal vocation. In the winter of 1838 he came to Knox county, locating in Jefferson township near Greersville, and there commenced to work at his trades. May 13, 1847, he married Miss Sarah Burtnett, daughter of John Burtnett, born in Coshocton county May 14, 1826. After his marriage he purchased eighty acres of land in Jeffererson township northwest of Greersville two and a half miles, where he then moved and now resides: Mr. Miller has held the offices of trustee and assessor. Mr. and Mrs. Miller are the parents of five children, viz: Cinderella L., born June 27, 1850; John B., August 18, 1855; Effie A., April 13, 1861; Mira J.. April 28, 1866. Four are living and one died in infancy.

MILLER, ISAAC (deceased), Wayne township, born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, in 1817, and was married in 1868 to Sarah Fuller, who was born in Knox county, Ohio, in 1838. They have two children: William Eugene, born in 1870, and Daniel Oscar, in 1871. Mr. Miller died in 1872, in Green Valley, Wayne township, this county. Mrs. Sarah Miller, with the family, is still residing here, and is educating her children liberally.

Rhode Island. She was twice married. Her first husband was Dorton Daily. They had four children, viz: Sarah H., martied to William R. Rowland, of Mt. Liberty; Carrie A., deceased, who was married to John Hayes; Wildmina, died when about a year old, and Dorton L. Mr. Daily died, and she then married Madison Miller, son of James Miller, a pioneer. They had a son named Charles. Mr. Miller has deceased.

MILLER, JOSEPH M., farmer, Middlebury township, post office, Fredericktown, was born in Fayette county, Pennsy]- vania, in 1826, came to Ohio in 1830, and was married in 1848 to Terry Cecill, who was born in Harrison county, Ohio, in December, 1827. They have the following family: Ann Maria, born February 1, 1849; John Benjamin, October 31, 1850; Margaret Jane, February 27, 1853; Jacob, July 8, 1855; George, January 21, 1859; Francis, January 31, 1861, and David, July 16, 1864. The following have deceased: Jacob died September 13, 1856, and Ann Maria March 14, 1860.

John Benjamin was married to Elmyra Denman, now of Chesterville, Ohio. Mr. Joseph Miller located in Middlebury township in 1869. He owns a well improved farm with good buildings.

MILLER, DANA, Miller township, farmer, was born in Miller township, April 5, 1833, and is the son of James Miller, a pioneer of this township.

The subject of this notice (Dana Miller) was reared on the old homestead, and attended the common schools and two terms at an academy. He was a member of company C, One Hundred and Forty-second regiment Ohio National guard. Mr. Miller is a close and thoughtful observer, and is well and favorably known in the community in which he lives for his integrity, generosity, intelligence and kindness of heart.

He was married to Miss Isabella A. Ewalt, daughter of Samuel Ewalt, of Clinton township, December 29, 1858. They had six children, viz: Mary Warner, born December 27, 1866; Lizzie E., born March 24, 1870; Frank K., born November 16, 1871; Clara, born January 27, 1877; Fannie G., born November 28, 1878. The oldest (a son) died in infancy. -

MILLER, WILLIAM A., Middlebury township, laborer, post office, Fredericktown, born in Missouri, August 3, 1844, and was married January 2, 1866, to Eliza Stoughteagle, who was born in Knox county, in April, 1836. They had the following children. Charles R., born May 7, 1869; Mary Alice, November 16, 1870; and Sadie Della, July 12, 1876, Four o their children died.

William A. Miller enlisted in the war December 3, 1863, in the One Hundred and Second regiment Ohio volunteer infantry. After the regiment was discharged he was transferred to the One Hundred and Eighty-ninth regiment Ohio volunteer infantry. He was engaged in the service till the war closed.

MILLER, THOMAS, Fredericktown, barber, was born in Bourbon county, Kentucky, in 1852; came to Ohio in 1866, and located in Fredericktown April ro, 1877. He was married in 1875 to Elsie Swartz who was born in Licking county, Ohio. They have two children, viz.: Myrtie May, born October 27, 1877; Robert Lee, born January 1, 1880.

was born in Knox county, June 26, 1836, and was marnied May 18, 1860, to Eliza Rankin, who was born in Licking county, July 5, 1834. The have two sons. James I., was born in Illinois, February 18, 1862; John Gay, born in Fredericktown, December 22, 1868.

MISER, PETER, who was born in the province of Hamberg, Holland, came to New Netherlands, now New York, in 1623 with Cornelius J. May, afterwards lieutenant governor of New Netherlands. He returned to Holland in 1634, and in 1637 again came to New Netherlands, where he remained until the French and Indian war commenced, when he removed to the province of Pennsylvania. There: his son, John Conrad Miser, was born.

At the urgent solicitation of Quagnant, a chief of the Mohawk nation, he went with him to his country to acquirea knowledge of the Mohawk language. Having mastered the language he returned home, and was occasionally employed as an interpreter. In 1729 he married and settled in Tulpahocken valley, and located a half mile east of the present site of Wolmesdorf, Berks county, Pennsylvania.

Conrad Miser, as occasion demanded, acted in various capacities, both public and private. Governor Gordon, in 1731, appointed him interpreter. Soon afterwards Governor Thomas appointed him justice of the peace. Governor Morris commissioned him as colonel of a regiment of volunteers for Berks county. Hespent more than a quarter of a century in the service of his country. He closed his eventful life July 13, 1760.

Conrad Miser had a son, Henry, born November 6, 1758, on Tulpahocken creek, who was grandfather of Dr. Thomas B. Miser, of Martinsburgh, Knox county, Ohio. At the age of six months his father removed to Northumberland county, Pennsylvania, and settled on Mahantango creek, where he was reared. He was married to Margaret Drucker Miller in 1794, but came to Ohio before his marriage to see the country. -He returned to Pennsylvania and afterwards removed to Ohio in 1802 and settled on sections thirty-two and thirty-three, township three and range ten of the Northwest Territory, now Jefferson county. He laid out Salem or Annapolis in Jefferson county: He had six sons and three daughters, viz.: John, Henry, Mary, Samuel, Barbara, David, George, Margaret, and William.

William was born April 5, 1815, in Annapolis, Jefferson county, on the farm his father settled on when he first came to Ohio; was married to Jane McDowell January 1, 1837. They had seven children, viz.: 'Thomas B., Robert H., George A., Mary M., Margaret I., William J., John S., and Dilla J.

T. B. Miser was born in Annapolis, Jefferson county, Ohio, on the seventh day of February, 1839; received the first rudiments of his education at district schools, and afterwards went to Carrollton academy, at Carrollton, Ohio, remaining about two years, when he went to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, attending a select school for young men, where'he completed his education. He then commenced the study of medicine with Drs. Hammond and Montgomery, of Annapolis, Ohio, and was with them about two years, when Dr. Hammond removing to Steubenville, went with him, still pursuing his studies for about two vears longer. He attended lectures one term at the Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery, afterwards graduating at Louisville Medical university.

He also received a diploma from the Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery. After graduating at Louisville be went to Missouri and practiced his profession. The war breaking out he was conscripted in the rebel army and was assigned to the Fifteenth regiment, Confederate States of America, George Law, colonel commanding. After serving two or three months he succeeded in making his escape to the northern States, went into the service of the Union as acting assistant surgeon, United States army, Magazine hospital, Louisville, Kentucky. He remained there during the fall and winter, and then came home and located in Martinsburgh, Knox county, Ohio, July 13, 1863, where he was about a year, practicing in partnership with Dr. D. H. Ralston, when he was appointed assistant surgeon Twenty-ninth regiment Ohio volunteer infantry; after serving six months was promoted to surgeon of the regiment. He went with Sherman on his '' March to the Sea," and was appointed brigade surgeon at Savannah, Georgia. He remained until the close of the war, when he was appointed surgeon in charge of hospital at Camp Cleveland, Ohio, since that time has practiced medicine in Martinsburgh.

MISHEY, J. K. P., Pike township, merchant, post office, North Liberty, born in Knox county, in 1847, and was married in 1868, to Aminda M. Crunkilton, who was born in Wayne county, Ohio, in 1849. They have three children: Clara Etta, born in 1870; Sherman Scott, in 1875; Frank Herd, in 1877.

Mr. Mishey engaged in the mercantile business in North Liberty, in 1867, and is still in business there. He is a practical business man, has a stock of goods consisting of dry goods, boots, shoes, groceries, and drugs, and constantly keeps a fresh supply on hand direct from manufacturers.

MISHEY, A. W., Pike township, merchant, post office, North Liberty, born in Pike township, this county, in 1854, and was married in 1877, to Alvina Spayde, who was born in Washington township, Richland county, in 1859. Mr. Mishey received a very liberal education and engaged in teaching for sometime. In 1879 he located in North Liberty, and engaged in mercantile business, making a specialty of hardware and groceries, keeping constantly on hand a good supply to meet the demand. He is the postmaster of North Liberty, the post office being in his store room. Mr. Mishey isa young man of good business ability; has the confidence of this community, and by his honesty and uprightness has gained the high esteem of all. He is a worthy member of the Evangelical church, and has a bright future before him. Mr. 'Mishey is one of the leading men in this township.

MITCHEL, WILLIAM, JR. - His father, William Mitchel, sr., Was a native of Sussex county, New Jersey, and was married to Phebe Southard in 1789. In 1796 or 1797 they located about twenty-five miles from Pittsburgh, on the Monogahela river, where they resided until 1808 when they came to Ohio and located one and one-half miles southwest of Fredericktown, where, with the assistance of his family he cleared up a farm, and also engaged in making brick. He hada family of eleven children, viz.: Jacob, born September 21, 1790; Nathaniel, May 6, 1792; Abigail, May 5, 1794; Mary, August 15, 1796; Hannah, October 8, 1798; Naomi, December 26, 1800; Sarah, January 7, 1803; John, May 19, 1806; Margaret, May 25, 1808; William, jr., July 15, 1811; and Silas, April 20, 1814. Of this large family all lived to maturity, and al! except one were married and had families, and were all members of the church. Only five survive, viz.: Hannah, Naomi, Margaret, William, jr., and Silas. William, jr., the tenth member of this family, received such an education as the days of his childhood afforded, after which he learned the axe trade with his brother-in-law, J. L. Young, which he followed closely for twenty-five years, and has worked at it occasionally since. In 1839 he went to Logan county, Illinois, where he followed his trade, together with farming, for seven years. In 1846 he went to Morrow county where he lived five years; then moved to Knox county, where he has since resided. He was married May 23, 1833, to Miss Lucy, daughter of Anson Brown, of this county. They have had a family of seven children, three of whom are living, viz.: L. Y. Mitchel, R. C. Mitchel, and Luella Mitchel.

MITCHELL, ALMON, Milford township, farmer, was born in Licking county, March 30, 1816. His parents, Sylvanus and Betsey Mitchell, #ee Knox, were natives of Massachusetts, and came with the Granville colony to Licking county, Ohio, in 1805, where they lived until 1822, when they moved to Milford township, one mile west ef Lock, where they lived and died. 'They had ten children, six sons and four daughters. Three only of this family are now living, viz: Albert, Almon, and Olive. The latter married Daniel Patterson, who resides in Pulaski county, Indiana. Those who are dead are Orrin (who was a Methodis minister), Cornelius, James, Lawrence, Spencer, Fannie (married to Joseph Morey), Lucina (married to Emer Hawkins), and Mary (married toS. Mead).

The subject of this notice was reared ona farm, and during the winter months attended the schools of those days and assisted on the farm. In Qctober, in 1837, he married Miss Margaret Hawkins, a native of Milford township, who was born May 2, 1818. She is the daughter of Harris Hawkins, a pioneer of Knox county, of whom mention is made among the pioneers of Milford township. After Mr. Mitchell was married he remained on his father's farm about four years, when, in 1842, he moved to his present farm, which he had previously purchased. When he moved on his farm the cabin stood near the site of his present house. Mr. Mitchell had the usual experience of early settlers. He persevered, however, and as a reward of his efforts he has added considerable to his first purchasc, until he is one of the substantial farmers of Milford township.

They have fourteen children, seven sons and seven daughters: Harris, deceased when young; Emer H., who lives in Piatt county, Illinois; Charles Lewis; Alice Amanda, who married Monroe Crego; Betsey Clarinda (deceased), who married Dempsey Conaway; Stephen Albert; Harriet Weltha, who married Thomas Wade; Torrence; Maria; Isabella; Willie H.; Laura Lucina, who married Emer Harris; Dana A., and Mary O.

MITCHELL, A. T., of the firm of C. Mitchell, planing mill, Sandusky street, Mt. Vernon, was born in Richland county, Ohio; near Ontario, June 19, 1828, where he resided up to 1845. He then came to this county, and resided with his uncle, Mr. Thomas Mitchell, four miles west of Mt. Vernan, and worked on the farm for five years. He then went to carpentering and wagonmaking, which he followed for twelve years. Hethen moved to Mo:row county, and purchased a steam saw- and grist-mill which 'he ran about two years. In 1864 he came to the city, and engaged in the grocery business, which ke continued about four years. He then went to Sparta, Morrow county, and opened a general store under the firm of Mitchell & Robinson. He remained in Sparta only about six months, when he went to Mt. Vernon. He again went into the grocery business. This continued about one year. He then entered into business with Mr. Kelly, and did business under the name of Mitchell & Kelly, which continued about one year. May 1, 1877, he purchased the planing-mill of Clements & Reed. Recently, he disposed of the planing-mill, and at present is engaged in running a saw-mill.

MOODY, WILLIAM, Miller township, retired, farmer and minister of the Disciple church, was born in Licking county, Ohio, December 8, 1813. His father, William Moody, was an only son of James Moocy who died in Newfoundland.

William Moody, sr., married Mary Stadden, who was born in Northumberland county, Pennsylvania, in 1771, and there married. They emigrated to Licking county, Ohio, about 1805, and located in Madisen township, on the Bowling Green, four miles east of the town of Newark in 1807, where they resided until the death of William Moody, which occurred August 28, 1828, in the fifty-seventh year of his age. The subject of this sketch at that time was fifteen years of age. He continued to live with his mother and younger sister until March 24, 1835, when he married Miss Laura A. Wells, daughter of Osmond Wells, of Hanover township, Licking county, Ohio. She was born February r1, 1817.

Selling his interest in the homestead, he moved in 1837, to Richland county, Ohio, where he remained until 1852, when he sold and purchased one and a half miles west of Millwood, on Owl creek. Here his mother died in 1855, having lived with him since 1851. She was aged eighty-four.

Mr. Moody continued to reside here until 1865, being engaged farming during the week, and the ministry on the Sabbath. He then sold his farm, and gave his attention entirely to the ministry, and by the blessings of the. Lord many were added to the churches where he labored. In 1874 his health failed so as to prohibit active duties in the ministry. He still resides on the small farm in Miller township, which he purchased in 1865. He is esteemed by all who know him for his many Christian virtues. He is the only survivor of nine children. There were born to this couple eleven children - five are dead, and six areliving. The living are: John, a physician at Centreburgh, Ohio; Elisha, farmer, Delaware county; Mrs. Emma Hunt and Mrs. Laura Jewelin Delaware county, Ohio; Mrs. Mary Johnson in Miller township, and Mrs. Rachel Barker in Missouri. They had twenty-four grandchildren, all but three of whom are living.

MOODY, JOHN REED, Hilliar township, physician and surgeon, was born in Mansfield, Ohio, November 22, 1839. His father, who is now a minister in the Disciple church, came to Knox county and settled on a farm. It was here where John When about seventeen years of age he entered the grammar school at Kenyon college, with a view of taking a full collegiate course. He got on well with his studies and had entered the sophomore class, when the call for volunteers was made in 1861. He enlisted in company A, Fourth

Ohio, for three months. He served the three months, and shortly after his return home he went to New York and enlisted in the Fifty-ninth regiment. He was appointed hospital steward for the regiment. he regiment belonged to the Army of the Potomac, and was through the different campaigns, until after the battle of Antietam, when it veteranized. His term of enlistment having expired in the Fifty-ninth New York, he came,hhome and in a few days enlisted in company A, Ninety-sixth Ohio volunteer infantry. He was in all the fights with his regiment from Haine's Bluff, in the rear of Vicksburgh, until the surrender of Mobile, Alabama. He served his country faithfully and honesty for over four years, receiving two wounds as the price of his patriotism. On his return. home he concluded to read medicine with Dr. George W. Barnes, of Mt. Vernon, Ohio. After his course of reading he went to the Western Homeopathic college at Cleveland, and graduated there in the spring of 1866: After leaving college he practiced one year in Newark, Ohio, and one year in Somerset, Ohio. 'lhe faculty of the college recognizing his ability appointed him demonstrator of anatomy, which position he held for seven years, to the satisfaction of the management of the college. His health not being good he resigned his appointment, and opened an office in the city, where he remained ten: years, doing a large business. His practice being arduous and confining in the city, he concluded to relinquish it there and go where he conld have more out-door work. He accordingly came to Centreburgh in 1877, where again he has been successful in building up a good practice. He was married to Endorah A. Brown, January, 1876.

MOORE, FRANK R., attorney, Mt. Vernon, was born in Richland county April 16, 1852. His parents were natives of Maine, emigrating from their native State to Richland county, Ohio, and in 1857 they came to Mt. Vernon, where they yet reside.

The subject of this sketch attended the public schools, and while so doing was twice appointed to the United States Military academy at West Point, New York, from his congressional district, but on account of the objections of his parents he did not go. He graduated at the Mt. Vernon schools in June, 1871. He learned and worked at the carpenter trade, and upon the surveying of the Columbus and Mt. Vernon railroad he was a membher of the engineer corps, as assistant. He read law with Cooper, Porter & Mitchell, and was admitted to practice at the June term of 1875. After the dissolution of the firm Mr. Moore continued with Colonel Cooper until the fall of 1878, when he was elected to the office of prosecuting attorney, and again in 1880, running some three hundred ahead of his ticket. In politics he isa Democrat. He was for several years a member of the county board of school examiners. He was joined in marriage November 6, 1880, to Miss Blanche Struble, daughter of Daniel Struble, of Fredericktown, Ohio.

MOORE, A. C., baker and confectioner, East Gambier, between Main and Gay streets, Mt. Vernon. Mr. Moore was born in Harrison county, Ohio, February 28, 1836. When quite young his parents removed to Holmes county, where he remained until he reached the age of twenty-one years, during which time he attended school, worked on a farm, and served an apprenticeship at cabinet-making with J. Taylor at Millersburgh. He worked at his trade at Loudonville for a short time, when he commenced the manufacture of Dulcimers, which he continued for four years. In 1861 he engaged in the baking busines in Ashland county, and served an apprenticeship of two and one-half years, after which he went to Fredericktown and run a bakery for three and one-half years. He then commenced with Sargent & McKnear, cabinet-makers, and worked four years. He then came to Mt: Vernon and opened his present bakery in the old George bakery stand, East Gambier street, in which he still continues. He uses about one hundred and twenty-five barrels of flour per year, and does a business of about twelve hundred dollars per annum.

MOORE, D. M., merchant tailor, Woodward block, Vine street, Mt. Vernon. This firm was established March 1, 1880, andis a branch of the firm of D. M. Moore, of Newark, Ohio. The business here is conducted by J. C. Hartley, who is also cutter. They carry a large stock of goods.

Mr. Hartley is a native of Alliance, Ohio, and was born June, 1851. His first business engagement was with Hugh Bleakley, grocer, as salesman, where he served two years. He then engaged in tailoring, in which he has since been engaged, and has had seventeen years experience in the business.

MONTGOMERY, DAVID CARTER, attorney at law, president of Eagle Mutual Fire Insurance company and treasurer of the Ohio Mutual Aid association, of Mt. Vernon, was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, January 25, 1816. His father, David Montgomery, with his wife and family, came to Ohio in April, 1823, and settled in Knox county. © His father was twice married. His first wife's maiden name was Hannah McDowell, by whom he had six children, two of whom are now living. Upon the death of his wife he was inarried to Hannah Coleman, zee Carter, by whom he had one son and two daughters. Of these three children, two are living, viz: Mrs. Isaac Irwin, of Knox county, and the subject of this sketch. His father, by unfortunate flour and whiskey speeulations on the lower Mississippi, lost his mills and farm on Ten Mile, Pennsylvania, and remained in very humble circumstances during his after life. He followed teaching principally while in Pennsylvania, and on coming to Ohio he continued in that avocation. In the fall of 1838, the father was elected recorder (being seventy years of age, March, 1838), and was reelected at the expiration of his first and second terms, thus serving the people in that capacity for nine years. David's early life was spent on a farm. At the age of twenty-two he began to help his father in the recorder's office, and remained with him two years. He was deputy sheriff under William Beam, and also under Absalom Thrift, with the two over six years. In October, 1846, he was elected sheriff, and in October, 1848, he was reelected, thus serving two terms. While in the different offices of the county, he read law. He paid attention to farming about four years. He removed on the farm in November, 1853. In 1854 he rented the farm and returned to Mt. Vernon, and through advice of friends he reviewed his law studies. In the fall of 1856 he was put on the ticket for sheriff, but was defeated on account of Know Nothingism. Afterwards he was nominated for probate judge, and was defeated on account of political Know Nothingism. Mr. Montgomery was admitted to the barin 1858, and has since been engaged in its practice. He was married to Miss Jane Pratt, January 7, 1845. They have had four children - all died in infancy. He was twice placed on the Prohibition ticket for supreme judge. He was appointed provost marshal in 1862, and served until all apprehension of resistance and revolt against the draft of that year had passed away, when he resigned.

MORGAN, REUBEN H., attorney at law, has been a resident of Martinsburgh about four years. He was born in Muskingum county, Ohio, June 25, 1844. Mr. Morgan was probate judge of Muskingum county, and at the present time is justice of the peace, township clerk, and mayor of Martinsburgh; was married May 10, 1871, to Miss Angie Harris; has three children: Minnie V., Edith E. and Frankie; is a leading local Republican politician and member of the county central committee.