Pike Township (part 17 of 20)

SHULTS, JACOB, farmer, Jefferson township, post office, Danville, was born in Sommerset county, Pennsylvania, February 15, 1808. In 1809 he came with his parents to what was then known as Stark county, Ohio, but by the changes that have been made in the county lines it is now known as Carroll county. He lived with his parents in said county until the year 1836, when he married his wife, Miss Mary Breakler, who was born in Germany, December 16, 1808. In 1809 Mr. and Mrs. Shults moved on the farm where they now live. They became the parents of seven children, who grew to be young men and women. 'Their two sons, Jacob and Christopher, volunteered to defend their country December 8, 1861. Christopher died in Jackson, Tennessee, September 2, 1862. Jacob died at same place, October 28, 1862. Both died of camp disease. Henry also enlisted in the autumn of 1864, in company K, Sixtyninth regiment, Ohio volunteer infantry, and was honorably dischargen in 1865. Mr. Shults how resides in Jefferson township, on the farm he entered September, 1833. He is seventytwo years old and enjoys good health for a man of his age. Their seven children are still living.

SILLIMAN, ALEX, horse dealer, Fredericktown, was born in Beaver county, Pennsylvania, March 30, 1839, came to Ohio when quite small, and was married to L. J. Trayhern, who was born in Ohio. They have seven children, viz.: Alex S., James A., Samuel Ulysses, Susie, Nellie, Mamie, Nannie. Mr. Silliman is engaged in buying and selling horses, and is one of our best judges in this trade.

SIMS, JOHNSON, farmer, was born in Clay township July 8, 1835, and with the exception of four years when he was in Iowa, has resided in Clay township. He was married September 15, 1869, to Miss Hartiet Floyd, who was born January 23, 1842. They have only one chi!d: Hannah May, who was born September 3, 1870, in Polk county, Iowa.

Mr. Sims was a member of company D, One Hundred and Twenty-fifth Ohio volunteer infantry, and was severely wounded at the battle of Chickamauga. They are members of the Presbyterian church of Martinsburgh, and Mr. Sims is a deacon in the church.

SIMMONS, THOMAS, Pike township, farmer, post office, Democracy, born in Worthington township, Richland county, Ohio, in 1850, and was: married in 1873, to. Lorilla Evlyn O'Bryan, who was born in Pike township, this county, in 1855. They have four children: Emerald Alvernon and Sylva Alberta (twins), born in 1873; Samuel Douglass, in 1876; and Estella May, in 1878. Mr. Simmons came to Knox county in 1861.

SIMONS, NICHOLAS, Milford township, farmer, was born in Pennsylvania March 5, 1796, and remained there until about 1825, when he came to Ohio. He worked east-of Mt. Vernon for some time. While there, he made the acquaintance of Miss Hannah Devours, and they were married. She was born July 28, 1815, and is a native of Pennsylvania. Soon after their marriage they came to Milford township, where he has resided ever since. He purchased the farm he now owns, which was a wilderness at the time, and built his first abiding place near the site of his present dwelling.

Mr. Simons has been a hard working, industrious man, honest in his dealings, and by his industry he has made for himself a comfortable home wherein to spend his remaining days. They hada family of thirteen children - those living are: Catharine; Barbara, married to John Blaker; Jacob; Margaret, widow of David Glancy; Henry, Nathaniel, Lavina, Louisa and Sarah; and the deceased are: John, Elizabeth, Solomon and an infant.

SIMONS, M. J., Fredericktown, dealer in dry goods, notions and queensware, was born in Knox county, Ohio, in 1832, and was married in 1855, to Alice Smith, who was born in Canada. They have three children, viz: Charlie, Fred, and Maude. Two died young.

Mr. Simons was engaged in his business in 1852, has the most extensive store in this place, and has been one of the most successful men in the mercantile business here. He has a very large and complete stock, and the best the market affords.

SIMPKINS, BENJAMIN F., Pike township, farmer, post office, Democracy, was born in Monroe township, this county in 1847, and was married November 3, 1867, to Martha E. Hyatt, who was born near Mt. Holly, this county, in 1849. They have one son--Isaac E. - born August 8, 1868. Mr. Simpkins came to Pike township in the spring of 1878, and has builta residence in Amity. During the summer season he engages in farming, and during the winter in manufacturing axe handles. He is a member of a pioneer family.

SIMPSON, JOHN, Howard township, farmer, post office, Howard, was born in Brown township on the second day of pril, 1841, His father died in the year 1846. He lived with his grandfather until he was eighteen years old. He was married in his twenty-first year to Miss Drusilla Clark, and moved to his present farm in 1865. He moved to Union township in 1869, remained there two years, and then went back to his present farm. He has nine children: Slora Jane, Elmer, John, Grant, Olive, Quincy, William, Frank, and an infant.

sevén years old, when they removed to Clearfield county, and located on a farm where he resided fourteen years, and then emigrated to Pittsburgh, Wayne county, Chio, where they lived three. years, and until April 1, 1840. While living in Clearfield young Singer entered the employ of an elder brother and learned the tailoring trade, where he served four years. His first business engagement in his own hehalf was at Pittsburgh, Wayne county, where he started a tailor shop and continued it until 1840, when he came to Mt. Vernon and engaged in the same business, and carried it on until 1852, when he went to Lancaster, Ohio, and engaged as cutter in an establishment there, remaining there two years. On his return to this city he entered the employment of A. Wolff as cutter, which continued eight and a half years, and then two years with Mark Curtis. He then commenced merchant tailoring, and has carried it on ever since. He commenced with a capital of fifteen hundred dollars, and has been doing a business of about twenty thousand dollars per year. He now carries a stock of five thousand dollars, comprising cloths, cassimeres, suitings, overcoatings, and merchant tailoring in ail its branches, and warrants every suit that leaves his establishment.

SLAIGHT, GEORGE, deceased, Union township, was born in Richmond county, New York, June 10, 1796. He worked in the coasting trade as a sailor between New York and Richmond, Virginia, when a young man. In February, 1820, he married Mary D. Winant, born in New London, Connecticut, May 15, 1794. They settled on Staten Island, near New York city, remaining until 1828, when they moved to New York city, where they lived until the spring of 183g. They then came to this county and settled in Jefferson, now Union township, on land now owned by his heirs, where they passed the remainder of their life. They reared four children: Edward T., Henry G., Frances E., and Elizabeth E.; all living.

SLOAN, ROBERT R., deceased, was born February 28, 1815, in Washington county, Pennsylvania, where his early years were spent. He graduated at Jefferson college, Pennsylvania, in 1841. He has been a citizen of Ohio, with the exception of two years spent in Missouri, since the year 1840. He taught during this time in the Ashland academy with Professor Fulton and Miss Jane Coulter, who, in 1843, became his wife.

In 1844 Mr. Sloan opened a boys' school in Mt. Vernon, beginning with one scholar, and increasing to fifty or sixty in four months. At the same time Mrs. Sloan opened a school for girls, which ripened at last into the Mt. Vernon seminary, under charge of Mr. Sloan as superintendent, and Mrs. Sloan as principal and matron. They continued jointly in the management of this seminary until 1867, when they removed to Cleveland.

In 1861 Mr. Sloan was chosen corresponding secretary of the Ohio Christian Missionary society, which position he filled with great credit to himself and efficiency to the society until 1869, when he resigned.

In 1875 he was elected president of the Ohio Christian Missionary society, which position he filled at the time of his death, which occurred July 30, 1877, in his sixty-third year.

SMITH, DEACON JOHN S., deceased, late of Miller township, was born on the ninth day of March, A. D. 1793, in Tyrone county, in the north of Ireland, and came to the United

States with his parents in 17¢6,,who located in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, where the subject of this sketch continued to reside with his parents until after his marriage in December, 1817. In May, 1818, he removed to Knox county, Ohio, and located on the farm where he died, having been a resident of the county nearly sixty years.

Mr. Smith united with the Presbyterian church in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, at about the age of twenty-two years, of which church his parents were members - uniting by letter upon his removal to Ohio with the Presbyterian church in Mt. Vernon, which church was then under the pastoral care of Rev. James Scott. He served in the capacities of deacon and Tuling elder in the church for many years. He was a faithful attendant of the church of his choice until prevented by the infirmities of age, and was greatly attached thereto. He wasa devoted Christian, and always felt his dependence on Christ, in whom he trusted for eternal life. That faith which he so long enjoyed did not fail him in the closing days of his life, for he died with a full and clear view of his acceptance with God, and could exclaim ''I know that my Redeemer liveth."

This good man died at his late residence, three and one-half miles south of Mt. Vernon, on the fifth day of November, 1877, In the eighty-fifth year of his age.

The subject of the above sketch was married to Miss Mary Sterret December 4, 1817. She was of Scotch descent, born in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, June 9, 1801, and died January 26, 1879, on the old homestead. She was a lady of many Christian virtues.

They were the parents of eleven children, viz: Mrs. Eliza Levering, of Gratiot county, Michigan; Mrs. Mary Letts, of Utica, Licking county, Ohio; Moses, farmer near Gambier; Robert, who resides on the old homestead; Sarah, who lives on the farm; Mrs. Emily Bebout, Morgan township; William is a lawyer of St. Louis, Missouri. The deceased: John N., died September 24, 1860, on the farm; Catharine B., wife of A. ae Hyatt, of Brownsville, Ohio, died August 15, 1862; Cynthia Tulloss, died January 20, 1864, in Franklin county, Kansas; Nancy Sims, died December 25, 1878, in Delaware, Ohio.

SMITH, JAMES, Pleasant township, deceased (a native of Ireland), was born in 1798. When but seventeen years of age he emigrated to America, and located in Hunterdon county, New Jersey, where he engaged in the mercantile business, and continued in it a number of years.

In 1825 he married Miss Frances Jones, daughter of Abraham and Catharine Jones, born in New Jersey on the fifteenth day of October, 1801. They settled in New Jersey, where they remained fourteen years. Their union resulted in six children, one of whom deceased young.

In 1839; he, with his wife and five children - Mary, Sarah, William I., Frances, and James, emigrated to Knox county, Ohio, and located on the farm in Pleasant township now owned by his son, William J. He then engaged in farming, living on the same farm until his death, which occurred February g, 1856. He owned a farm of two hundred acres. His companion is still living, at the advanced age of seventy-nine years, enjoying good health. She is living with her son on the home farm. Only two of her children are now living, viz: Sarah and William J. Sarah married Reed Setts, and is now a widow, her husband died in 1876. William J. was born in the State of New Jersey, February 7, 1831. He was brought up on a farm and made farming and stock raising his vocation.

In August, 1858, he married Miss Susannah Baker, born in Knox county, February 12, 1832, daughter of Peter and Barbara Baker. They settled on his father's home farm, where they are now living. They have a family of five children, two sons and three daughters. In 1878 he erected one of the finest brick residences in Pleasant township, on the old home farm, in which he now resides.

SMITH, JAMES, deceased. There were none of the earlier settlers of Mt. Vernon more generally known, or more prominently connected with every good work tending to promote the interests of the pioneers of Knox county, than the person whose name heads this article. Mr. Smith was born March 6, 1779, at the family homestead near Harrisburgh, Rockingham county, Virginia. His father died during the minority of James, leaving him, the youngest of a large family, to the care of his widowed mother, by whom he was educated. At the decease of his mother, in the distribution and settlement of his father's estate, he inherited eight negioslaves. He married Miss Rebecca Emmett, daughter of Rev. John Emmett, then of Staunton, Virginia.

Impressed with the truth and justice of the declaration ''that all men are created equal, and entitled to the enjoyment of personal liberty," he emancipated all his, slaves, and with his wife and child, Jane, who afterwards married Colonel Charles Sager, he removed to Ohio. Arriving in Knox county in 1806, he first settled on the Haines farm, one and one-half miles south of Mt. Vernon.

The journey from Virginia to Ohio was no easy matter, as it had to be made on pack-horses, through an unsettled region, without suitable roads or stopping places. It was a tiresome and fatiguing journey for his young wife and infant child. When he reached Knox county he had expended all his money but fifty cents.

He soon removed to the new town of Mt. Vernon. Witha disposition to engage in any honest employment, he was reasonably prosperous; a member of the Christian church, and a local preacher of that denomination, he preached without pay or salary, and his house, for many years, was the stopping place of the ministers of that and other denominations, and especially of the early settlers in other parts of the county visiting Mt. Vernon. .

When the county was organized and courts established, Mr. Smith was appointed clerk of the supreme court and court Of common pleas, a position he filled to the satisfaction of the judges for a quarter of a century.

A season of great financial embarrassment induced the business men of Knox county, as well as of Licking, Richland and other localities, to engage in banking as a means of relief, and the result was the establishment of banks of issue at this and other localities in advance of legislation expressly authorizing the issue of paper money. Mr. Smith, Robert Giffin, John Hawn, jr., Samuel Kratzer, and others, organized ''The Owl Creek bank," of Mt. Vernon, and were induced to loan upon the notes of solvent persons, a large amount of the money issued by the bank, relying upon the payment of these notes, in addition to the capital paid in for their redemption. The makers of these notes combined, and were able to defeat the expected legislation, and refused to pay their notes; the bank, not having been legally incorporated, could not enforce the collection. The bank bills thus loaned were put in circulation by these borrowers, and the bank stockholders compelled to redeem them ; this,

Mr. Smith, and the other stockholders, were compelled to redeem those outstanding bank notes, not being able to legally enforce collection of the notes received, and upon the faith of which they were issued. 'The last payment on the part of Mr. Smith, to redeem those bank bills, required the application of the entire proceeds of the sale of his farm, situated on the Martinsburgh road, near Mt. Vernon. The old case of Luke Walpole vs. Robert Giffin and others, finally closed up this unfortunate banking venture, and virtually ruined most of its stockholders, men 'who never realized a cent of profit out of it. Allusion is made to this matter in justice to all the parties interested, as the facts have not been fully understood by those who refer to the old Owl Creek bank in terms not complimentary to its originators.

Mr. Smith continued to reside in and near Mt. Vernon until the year 1838, when he removed to Madison county, Ohio, where he died in 1841, in the sixty-second year of his age. His death was occasioned by injuries received in being thrown from his horse. His remains were removed to Mt. Vernon, where they rest near those of his wife, who died of cholera in 1832.

All the children of Mr. Smith, except Jane, were born in Mt. Vernon - three girls and three boys. The daughters are all dead save Mrs. Adaline Davis, who still resides in Ohio. The sons, Benjamin, James, jr., and Vispacian, are all citizens of Minnesota, where they have resided since 1856. The desire to ''go west,'' which induced the father to leave Virginia, appears to have, fifty years afterwards, possessed the sons. Whilst they are reasonably prosperous and attached to their homes in Minnesota, they note with pride and pleasure the growth and prosperity of their native town of Mt. Vernon.

SMITH, ISAAC, farmer, post office, North Liberty. He was born in Wayne county, Ohio, in 1814. He was married to Deliah Smith. They had two daughters, Sarah and Maria. They reside in Iowa. Mrs. Deliah Smith died in this county, September 28, 1858. ;

Mr. Smith subsequently married Sarah Wallace, who was born in Dauphin county, Pennsylvania, in 1832. They have six children; Eldaah, born in 1860; Armina A., in 1862; Ettie, in 1864; Mary, in 1866; Charlie, in 1868; Milton, in 1869. Mr. Smith came to this county in 1854, and located in Pike township, where he now resides. He was engaged atthe carpenter trade while in Wayne county. He erected his present residence with his own hands. He owns a good farm and is engaged in farming.

SMITH, BENJAMIN, farmer, Morgan township, was born in Greene county, Pennsylvania, January 27, 1807. His father, James H., was born in Maryland, in 1780, emigrated to Greene county, Pennsylvania, where he married Martha Davis in 1804. In 181z he came with his family to Ohio, and settled in Morgan township, where he purchased a tract of heavily timbered land. He was a soldier in the War of 1812, and died in 1860. His first wife died in 1828. He afterwards married Martha Honey, who died in 1863. By his first wife he had eleven children, five of whom are living. Mr. Smith made a trip to Ohio as early as 1800. The subject of this notice learned blacksmithing with his father and worked at it for some years. January 17, 1833, he was joined in marriage to Miss Sarah Brown, a native of Virginia. She died September 26, 1870. They had two children, viz: Martha, deceased, and Sarah, living at home. Mr.

Smith is a man of general information, well informed upon the issues of the day, and a man of considerable genius. He has always been industrious, and cleared up the farm on which he now resides, and is in comfortable circumstances.

SMITH, THOMAS, deceased. He was born in this county in 1816; he was married in 1840 to Ruth Ann Barnhard, who was born in Frederick county, Maryland, in 1823. They had the following children: Isaac B., was born in 1841; Fidela D., in 1843; Sheldon, in 1845; John F., in 1847; Columbus W., in 1850; Martha Jane, in 1851; Emma L., in 1854; Mary M., in 1856, and Alice M., in 1858. Thomas Smith died in 1858. Isaac B. was a soldier in the Rebellion; he was a member of the Third Virginia cavalry till August, 1863; he reenlisted in the Second Ohio heavy artillery; he continued till he was killed accidently by the cars near Concord, Tennessee, January 29, 1865. He was second lieutenant. His remains were brought home and interred in the Berlin cemetery.

Mrs. Ruth Ann Smith's father, David Barnhard, deceased, was a native of Maryland; he was married to Margaret Walker; she was born in Maryland. They had the following family: Mary, John, Rosanna, and Ruth Ann.

Mr. Barnhard emigrated to Knox county in 1833. He came to his death through an accident; he was engaged in pressing tobacco, when the lever of the press flew back and struck him, and killed him almost instantly.

John F. was a soldier in the late war, a member of company 1, Ohio heavy artillery; he was in a number of skirmishes; he was engaged in the service for two years, and was honorably discharged.

SMITH, JACOB, Pike township, farmer, post office, North Liberty, born in Berks county, Pennsylvania, in 1821, and was married to Maranda Kairger, who was born in Berlin township, this county, in 1825. They have four children: Mary A. was born in 1848; Howard, in 1852; Esther, in 1857; John, in 1862.

Mr. Smith came to Ohio with his parents when he was five years old. They located in Stark county, and forty years ago came to Knox county. Mr. Smith is a farmerand stock dealer.

SMITH, M. D., H. W., was born in June, 1826, in Litchfield county, Massachusetts, and came to Ohio with his parents in 1839; received his preparatory education in Mt. Vernon; read medicine with Drs. Russell and Thompson, and graduated at a medical university in New York city, after which he practiced in that city for twelve years; was also engaged in the drug business. He married Miss Cornelia, daughter of Charles Baxter, of New York city, and has a family of six children,

In 1861 he came back to Mt. Vernon and formed a partnership with Dr. Thompson, which continued until the death of Dr. Thompson, after which he continued the practice alone, and also engaged in the drug business, in which he continued until his death, December 15, 1875. He was a-deacon in the Congregational church for several years.

serve and Amelia Smith, came to Ohio and settled in Milford township. A notice of them will be found under the biography of F. S. Rowley, of that township.

George L. Smith was the second ghild. His youth was spent on his father's farm at the Five corners in Milford township, where he also attended school. In 1850 he was seized with the "gold fever,"' and to the land of gold he went by the overland route, which means he rode and walked alternately. He remained in California five years. The first eighteen months he was engaged in the mines, the remainder of the time he was employed with a pack-train taking provisions to the mines in the mountains. He came home by the way of Nicaraugua, and resumed farming. While in California he saved some money. He commenced poor in life, but he has succeeded in making for himself considerable property. He is a good farmer and an estimable citizen. He enlisted in company A, One Hundred and Forty-second regiment, Ohio National guards, and served out the term of his enlistment. March 5, 1857, he married Miss Mary W. Pitkin, daughter of Rev. John Pitkin, and shortly after moved to his present home.

SMITH, WILLIAM W., farmer, was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, September 16, 1816. On the twentyfourth of April, 1849, he married Miss Elizabeth Guy, born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, October 11, 1828, daughter of John and Mary Guy. They settled in Washington county, Pennsylvania, where they lived until 1854, when they emigrated to Licking county, Ohio, remained there until 1860, when they moved to Clinton township, Knox county, Ohio, and located on a farm three miles from Mt. Vernon, on the Granville road, where he is now living. His wife died January 12, 1873. They reared a family of four children, two sons and two daughters. Farming has been his vocation.

SMITH,. EBER, Milford township, physician, post office, Lock, was born in Delaware county, Ohio, August go, 1821. His parents were pioneers in Delaware county, locating there about 1810. They were Pennsylvanians by birth.

Dr. Smith is the only son of seven children, was reared on a farm and his early education was that of the common schools. At about the age of twenty years he obtained sufficient education to teach a common school, and he taught several terms, then attended an academy at Westerville, Ohio. He decided to enter the medical profession, but being poor he was obliged to teach in order to obtain funds with which to attend lectures, receiving fifteen dollars per month.

SMITH, WILLIAM K., farmer, post office, Pipesville, son of William J. and Elizabeth Smith, born in Holmes county, May 17, 1831, where he continued to reside most of the time until 1860. On the twenty-first of June, 1860, he married Susan Kinsey, a daughter of Samuel and Susan Kinsey, born in Coshocton county, December 27, 1835. After his marriage he

Mr. Smith is an industrious and enterprising farmer; at present the owner of one hundred and forty-six-acres of land. He is the father of two children, one of whom is living, Nortis D., born November 24, 1874.

SMITH, MRS. SARAH, was born December 27, 1835, in Franklin county, Ohio, and came to Knox county iu: 1864; was married to A. R. Funk in October, 1856, from whom she has lately been divorced; has seven children - Mary Jane, Julia C., Finley, Elliott H., Franz F., Allison R., and Lyman B. Mrs. Smith is owner of the new seminary building.

SMITH, WILLIAM H., Liberty township, justice of the peace and stock and wool buyer, Bangs post office, was born in Milford township, June 10, 1836. His paternal grandfather, Henry Smith, wasa captain in the War of the Revolution. William H. Smith, his father, was born in Ohio county, Virginia, October 17, 1799.

In 1823 Mr. Smith came to Ohio and bought a tract of land in Milford township. In 1828 he married Esther J. Dill, of Ohio county, Virginia, who was born September, 1811. They had a family of eight children, six of whom are yet living. He worked at tanning for some years. In 1843 he was nominated by he Democrats of Knox county and elected to the legislature, and reelected in 1845. In 1847 he was defeated for the nomination for senator by one vote. This concluded his active political life. He .remained on the farm the remainder of his days. He died Mayg, 1871.

The subject of this notice was reared on a farm and received the education of the common schools. He taught for several terms, He moved to Bangs, Ohio, in 1873. In April, 1858, he married Hannah J. Milligan. They have had eleven children, seven of whom are living, Mr. and Mrs. Smith are estimable people.

SMITH, ROBERT R., farmer, Berlin township, postoffice, Fredericktown, was born in Coshocton county, Ohio, December 24, 1837, and was married first to Eliza E. Gouser, who was born in Knox county. They had one child, John Henry, deeeased. Mrs. Smith died in Harrison township, this county, May 22, 1864. Mr. Smith's second marriage, in 1867, was to Ellen E. Lybarger, who was bornin Harrison township in 1846. They had two daughters - Rosa May, born June 30, 1868; and Della R., November 25, 1870. Mr. Smith has been identified with this county since 1853. He united with the Presbyterian church at Millwood, October 6, 1866, and was a ruling elder while he remained there. He is now a member of the Presbyterian church of Fredericktown, and is one of the official members of that seciety. Mr. Robert Smith was elected justice of the peace of Berlin township in 1878.

-His father, John Smith, (deceased) was born in Jefterson county, Ohio, September 17, 1809, and was married October 6, 1836, to Sarah Crouch, who was born in Harrison county, Ohio, March 30, 1813. When they started housekeeping they located in Coshocton county, and remained there until September 14, 1853, when they moved to Knox county, settled in Harrison township, and moved from there to Union, and to Berlin township in March, 1875, where he died February 2, 1880. He was a worthy member of the Presbyterian church, and attended church in Fredericktown.

of Grundy county, Iowa; Rebecca A. and Sarah E. (married to J. M. Cliffton). They reside in Danville, Knox county. During his membership he was a ruling elder at Millwood, this county.

SMITH, JOHN T., farmer, post office, Howard. He was bern in Howard township, September 16, 1849. -In 1870 he went to Brown township, and lived there two years. In 1873 he married Sarah Jones, who died in 1874. He then went to Franklin county, Ohio, clerked in a store two years, then married Olive Jones. After a year he came to Howard township, where he has remained. He has one child, Dortha.

SMITHHISLER, MICHAEL, farmer, Union township, was born in France, May 15, 1824, and was brought to America by his parents, Philip and Mary Smithhisler, in 1828, who located in Baltimore, Maryland, remained until 1835, then emigrated to Holmes county, Ohio, and settled in Knox township, two miles northeast of Greersville, where Michael's father died, January 4, 1873. Mrs. Smithhisler survived her husband until May 1, 1874. She died in Knox county, Ohio, near Danville, at the home of her son, Michael. They reared a family of four children - Magdalene, Michael, Anthony, and Philip.

Michael married Mary Milless in 1844, who was born in Alsace, France, June 11, 1827, emigrated to America in 1835, daughter of Jacob and Catharine Milless. After his marriage to Miss Milless they settled in Knox township, Holmes county, Ohio, remained until 1847, then moved to Knox county. He now owns a farm near Danville, Union township, on which they are living. They have a family of eleven children, eight sons and three daughters.

SMITHHISLER, GEORGE, Howard township, farmer, post office, Howard, was born in Holmes county, Ohio, March 18, 1850, moved to Knox county with his parents in 1855.

SMOOTS, HARRISON K., Miller township, farmer, was born in Shenandoah county, Virginia, May 26, 1822. His parents came to Licking county about 1824, and purchased a farm, where he lived and died. His wife survives him. The subject of this sketch is the oldest child of the family, and was reared on the farm, and worked, as boys usually do, in the summer and attended school during the winter. About 1852 he moved to Miller township, where he has since resided, being exclusively engaged in farming. Mr. Smoots is an enthusiastic advocate of any principle which he espouses; is a leading Democrat of the township. He is affable and pleasant, and esteemed for his many good qualities.

He married Miss Christiana Smith, daughter of Benjamin Smith, of Miller township, born May 13, 1857. They had seven children, one of whom died in infancy. The living are Joseph Willard, Nancy E., married to Hiram Fishburn; George Franklin, Charles W., Mary Emily, and Justice Douglass.

SNIDER, CONROAD, Jefferson township, farmer, post office, Greersville, son of Peter Snider, born in Pennsylvania, April 29, 1813; was brought to Ohio when a child by his parents, they locating near Marietta, and afterwards removed to Muskingum county, where he grew to manhood. In 1841, October 18th, he married Miram Watson, of Knox county, a daughter of George Watson, born in Miltontown, Indiana, and brought to Knox county when a child. After his marriage he located in Zanesville, Ohio, where he remained three years, and then moved back to Knox county, locating in Jefferson township, purchasing a farm of forty-one acres, near Danville, where he remained until 1847, when he sold his farm and purchased another of one hundred acres, in Jefferson township, adjoining Ashland county, where he then moved and now resides, owning one hundred and twenty acres. Mr. and Mrs. Snider are members of the United Brethren church.

SNIDER, JONATHAN, Howard township, farmer, post office, Howard, was born in Somerset county, Pennsylvania, June 27, 1817. In 1850 he removed to Howard township. In 1845 he was married to Sarah Johnson, who was born in Knox county in 1816. They had three children - Hannah Jane, born in 1848; Samuel, in 1853; Angelina, in 1858. She died in 1876.

SNIDER, CHRISTIAN E., Brown township, farmer, was born on the seventeenth day of June, 1840, in Richland county, Ohio. His father, Philip Snider, was a native of France. His mother, Mary Snider, was a native of Stark county, Ohio. In 1850 he came to this county with his parents, and located on the farm in Brown township now known as the Snider homestead. In 1864 he married Miss Ann Hall, daughter of James Y. and Lydia Hall. They located in Brown township and have since resided in the same township. At present they are living on Solomon Workman's farm. He ownes a half interest in the old Snider farm. They have six children - three sons and three daughters.

SOCKMAN, H. A., Fredericktown, physician, post office, Dunkirk, Hardin county, 'is the son of Washington and Esther Sockman, of Green Valley, Knox county, Ohio, and was born May 26, 1854. After having completed his common school education, he attended college at Mt. Union, Ohio. After leaving college, he commenced the study of medicine with Dr. S. B. Potter, of Fredericktown. After his office course he attended lectures at the Jefferson Medical college, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and graduated at that institution in 1879. He commenced the practice of medicine in Dunkirk, Hardin county, Ohio, and is regarded as one of the leading physicians of that place. Hewas married to Miss Lura Marple, of Fredericktown, Knox county, Ohio, August 9, 1880. She was born in Fredericktown February 8, 1856, and is the daughter of Hiram and Martha Marple, who are still residents of Fredericktown.

SPEARMAN, WILLIAM, Liberty township, farmer and boiler-maker, was born in Devonshire county, England, May 16, 1835. His father, William Spearman, was born in 1799, came to the United States in 1844, and remained in Mt. Vernon seven years. In 1821 he married Ann Brock. They had ten children, five of whom are living. Mrs. Spearman died on the farm.

The subject of this notice spent his youth attending school. He learned the blacksmith trade and boiler-making, which trade he has followed for a number of years. He married Anna Moore, with whom he had two children. His second wife was Mary Maginnis, who had three children.

SPEELMAN, DAVID H., Milford township, farmer, was born in Licking county, Ohio, August 23, 1835. His father, William Speelman, was born in Frederick county, Maryland, March 26, 1806. He came to Greene county, Pennsylvania, with his parents, about 1817. '1hey moved to Fayette county,

March 18, 1832, he married Letitia Long, and shortly afterward came to Ohio, locating three miles west of Homer. He remained there about seven years, and in 1838 he purchased a tract of land in Milford township, which was unimproved, but is now a comfortable home. By his marriage he had a family of nine children, seven of whom are living.

Mr. D. H. Speelman was raised on a farm, and assisted his father. He enlisted in company B, One Hundred and Fortysecond Ohio National Guards, and served his time. At the same time he had a substitute serving inthe army, and was not, therefore, obliged to serve.

He is a hard-working, honest, npright man, and has the esteem of the public. He commenced poor in life, but by industry and economy he has made for himself a good farm and home. He married Miss Deborah B. Kinsey, December 11, 1858. They hada family of three children: Ida Alice, wife of J. H. Neible; William Lewis; and Eliza Effie.

SPERRY, ISAAC N., farmer, a son of Jacob and Mary Sperry, was born in Morgan township, Knox county, Ohio, on the sixth day of October, 1819. He was brought up on a farm, and has made farming and stock raising his vocation. On November 5, 1844, he was united in marriage with Miss Louisa Letts, born in the county, September 14, 1827, daughter of Caleb and Maria Letts. They settled on a farm in Morgan township, in this county and remained until 1870, when they moved on the farm in Clinton township, where they are now living. The farm is located on the Newark road one mile and a halffrom Mt. Vernon. 'They reared a family of ten children, two sons and eight daughters, all living.

SPINDLER, N. J., Howard township, farmer, post office, Howard. He was born in Howard township October 12, 1850. His father came from Pennsylvania in 1812, and lived and died in Howard township. He was sixty-three years of age at the time of his death. His business was farming and cattle dealing. Mr. Spindler's mother was sixty-one years old at the time

SPRAGUE, E. H., general manufacturer, and repair shop, corner of Chestnut and Mulberry streets, Mt. Vernon. Mr. Sprague is a native of Attleborough, Bristol county, Massachusetts, and was born May 31, 1807. He afterwards resided at Hampshire, where he learned the machinist trade, and then at Berkshire, where he worked at his trade on cotton machinery. In the year 1834 he went to New York''city, where he was engaged in manufacturing, which included an endless variety of tools, implements, fixtures, instruments &c., in which he was engaged about two years; after which he went to Allegheny City, where he engaged in the manufacturing of iron fencing, railing, ballustrading, cresting, and erecting doors for safe vaults, to which was added a general line of jobbing and repairing. He continued in this until the year 1872, when he went to Columbus, where he engaged with Peter Hayden, contractor at the Ohio State prison, where he took charge of prison labor, in manufacturing, and in which he continued until 1846, then entered the employ of J. Ridgeway & Co., builders of steam engines, with whom he was engaged on the contract for weights and measures for the different counties of the State of Ohio. In 1849 he went to McConnelsville, and engaged in the machine shop of James L. Gage, as superintendent, in the manufacture of engines; after this he served the firm of D. Rolf & Co., manufactures and builders of engjnes, of Harmar, Washington county, one year. He then went to Beverly, where he engaged in the general manufacturing and repairing of engines, in which he continued until 1853. After this, he went to Zanesville, working for the Central Ohio road (now the Baltimore & Ohio), the firm of H. F. Blandy & Co., builders of locomotives and the firm of Douglas Smith & Co., builders of cars. He then came to this county and engaged at Fredericktown with the firm of J. & T. Craven, manufacturers of saw-mill engines, where he remained until 1859, when he came to Mt. Vernon, where he has been engaged in various ways, and with different firms, and was engaged with the firm of C. & G. Cooper & Co. at different times, until the year 1866. He then established his present shop, where he is engaged in the manufacturing of and repairing of all kinds of novelty work, which consists in part of gunning, filling, and repairing all kinds of saws, and all kinds of light machinery, manufacturing of all kinds of patent models, and light novelty repairing, including everything that mecahical skill can accomplish. Mr. Sprague is a mechanic of fifty-eight years' experience, and as has been noticed has had practical experience in all kinds of mechanical work, in addition to his great natural mechanical talents, which warrant us in saying, that he is one of the most proficient mechanics in the State.

SPROULE, JOSEPH, grocer, Mt. Vernon, was born in county Fermauagh, Ireland, in 1834, came to America in 1852, and settled in Mt. Vernon, then being about eighteen years of of age, under the firm name of Sproule & Watson engaged in the grocery business. By the judicious use of printer's ink and the use of an unique advertisement that attracted the attention of the reading public, the firm soon built up a lucrative trade. By square dealing and attractive goods they retained all their first customers and gained many new ones, which they retained. Said partnership being dissolved Mr. Sproule continued the business, all of which he, in time, sold, and engaged in farming in Liberty township, which he continued for two years. On his return to the city he entered into partnership with Mr. Samuel A. Trott, and opened a new and extensive grocery store in connection with the shipping business, and purchased the block on the northwest corner of the public square, part of which they occupied. When the partnership dissolved Mr. Sproule retained the business, and has since continued it alone.

Mr. Sproule has been married twice, his first wife being Miss Maria, daughter of John Craft, of Green Valley, this county. By this union three children were born - two sons and one daughter. The two sons are both dead, dying within a short time of each other, aged respectively nine and eleven years. The daughter, Miss Iva, a young lady of fine mind, is now finishing her education at Oberlin college.

SQUIRES, OLIVER, Miller township, pioneer farmer, was born in the town of Pittsford, Rutland county, Vermont, January 20, 1812. His parents, Phineas and Esther Squires, nee Rowley, came to Ohio with'a family of six children, in the fall of 1812, and settled near Dresden, where they remained about two years, and then came to Miller township, being among theearly pioneers. About the year 1834 they removed to Chesterville, Morrow county, where he died. During the time of his residence in Miller he was engaged in farming and clearing land. He would purchase a piece of land in the wilderness and erecta cabin and commence clearing a farm, when he would sell and purchase another piece in the wilderness, and commence again to make a farm; and this he continued during the time he lived in this township, performing as much hard labor as any man living in this country. They had twelve children, all of whom are now dead, except the subjeect of this notice. Eleven of these children lived to the years of manhood.

Oliver Squires was reared to hard labor. As soon as old enough he was put to work picking brush and other hard labor- His advantages for education were limited. The old log school. house, with its puncheon floor and clapboard roof, with weightpoles, its window of six lights, eight by ten, and the log fire, was the kind he attended for a few months each winter. He remembers their old home in what is now the village of Brandon. The huge log house; the large fireplace; are distinctly remembered. After he left home he learned the cooper's trade, which he followed for several years, but farming has been his principal business.

He was married to Mary Colopy, daughter of William Colopy, an early settler, October 18, 1841, and in 1842 he removed to his present home, where he has resided to the present time. They have five children, viz: Earl O., farmer; Timothy C., farmer; Ellen, who married Jasper Hall; Emma, who married R. Shepperd; Fulton, and Douglas.

Mr. Squires is a man who acts honestly and independently when he is conscious that he is right, he trusting to his own judgment, and acts without fear or favor. In politics he was formerly a Democrat, but when he became fully satisfied that the measures advocated by that party would beinjurious to our public welfare, and having no confidence in the Republican party, he became an honest advocate of the principles held by the Greenback party. In religion he is Liberalist, freely granting to others the rights and privileges he claims for himself. He is a kind and affectionate husband and father, and a kind neighbor and worthy citizen.

STAATS, ISAAC, Pike township (deceased), born in Knox county, December 15, 1819, and was married in 1844 to Rebecca Giffin, who was born in Coshocton county in 1821. They had three children - Louisa, born in 1846; William Alonzo, in 1848; and Joseph, in 1851. William was married to Elizabeth Doty, and resides on the old homestead.

Mr. Staats died October 10, 1853, at his home in Knox county, Ohio. His occupation was farming, and he owned a good farm in this county. Mrs. Staats still resides on the home place in Pike township.

STAATS, JOHN, Jefferson township, farmer and _ stock raiser, post office, Jelloway, son of Joseph and Catharine Staats, born in Butler township, Knox county, March 18, 1827; he received a common school education and continued to farm for his father until 1849, November roth, when he was united in marriage with Miss Rosannah Horn, a daughter of Jacob Horn, born in Butler township, Knox county, April ro, 1826. After his marriage he remained in Butler township for about nine years, and then moved to Jefferson township, and there purchased a farm of one hundred and twenty acres, where he then moved with his family, and devoted himself to farming, which has been his vocation all his life.

Mr. and Mrs. Staats became the parents of six children, viz; Sarah J., Jacob la le Joseph L., Calvin F., Edward S., one of whom died in infancy. Vive are still living. Mrs. Rosannah Staats, his wife, died August 20, 1863, aged thirty-seven years. On the tenth of March, 1864, he married Miss Hannah Berry, daughter of Joseph and Matilda Berry, born in Wayne county, January 20, 1838. By their union they became the parents of five children, two of whom are dead and three are living, viz: Carrie B., Carresie B., Charles B.

STADLER, A. M., clothier, Kirk block, corner of public Square and Main street, Mt. Vernon. This firm was established in 1877 in Kirk's block.

Mr. Stadler is a native of Champaign county, Ohio, born August 28, 1852. His first business engagement was with Max Stadler, wholesale and retail clothier in New York, where he had charge of the manufacturing department, in which position he was retained five years. After this he came to Mt. Vernon and established the present firm. He carries a large stock, consisting of ready-made clothing, hats, trunks, valises, and gents' furnishing goods. This stock is one of the best in the city, and is conducted strictly on the one price system.

STARR, BARTON, "deceased, late of Pleasant township, Knox county, was born in Bedford county, Pennsylvania, on the twentieth day of November, 1816. He emigrated to Massillon, Ohio, remaining there a few years, and then went to Oberlin, Ohio, and graduated at the Oberlin college in 1846. His intentions were to prepare for the ministry, but the failure of his health compelled him to give up the idea of going into the ministry and seek some other vocation. In 1847 he came to Mt. Vernon and in the following year he engaged in the nursery business. His first nursery was on a farm which he rented, situated on the Wooster road, one and a half miles from Mt. Vernon, where he continued in the business until 1854, of the Mt. Vernon nursery, where he continued the business, making it a success until his death, which occurred April 2, 1874. In 1849 he married Miss Sarah J. Marquis, daughter of Edward and Llizabeth Marquis. Mr. Marquis was a native of Pennsylvania, migrated to Ohio and located in Knox county in 1817, where he deceased in 1860. Miss Marquis was born in Monroe township, this county, June 26, 1824. His union with Miss Marquis resulted in four children, viz: Newton, Devella, Mary E., and Edward E. Mrs. Starr and <i are still living on the nursery farm and carrying on the business. STAUFFER, JOSEPH, of the firm of J. Stauffer & Son, clothiers, Mt. Vernon, was born in Columbiana county, Ohio, on the fifteenth day of July, 1817, and resided in that county until he was seventeen years of''age. He then removed to Price's Mills, Trumbull county, Ohio, and engaged in selling goods for William Porter, where he remained nearly three years, and then took a stock of goods for Mr. Porter to the village of gaged about nine moths, and then went back to Price's Mills and remained some six months. He then went to Greene village, Columbiana county, and engaged in the grocery business, and continued in this branch of trade for one year. April 17, 1839, he removed to Knox county and purchased a farm in Monroe township, which was all in woods, having only ten acres deadened and five acres grubbed. On this farm he remained about six years, which time was spent in clearing up his farm and farming. After this he went to Monroe Mills, and engaged with Mr. Henry Boynton as salesman in a dry goods store. Here he continued ten years. He then came to Mt. Vernon, and sold goods for Mr. Mark Curtis, with whom he remained seven years, and then Mr. Curtis established a clothing department, and Mr. Stauffer conducted that branch as salesman for some three years. In 1868 Mr. Stauffer bought out the clothing department and engaged in conducting that branch of trade for himself, in which he has continued ever since. He commenced with a stock of six thousand three hundred dollars. He has been doing a successful business, which is constantly increasing in value. The firm always keep on hand, and increase as trade demands, a full and well selected stock of clothing and gentleman's furnishing goods. To the establishment has been added a merchant-tailoring department for all who desire home-made clothing, having for that speciality one of the best cutters in the State in their employ.

This house has met with good success from the beginning. Their annual sales amount to about thirty-five thousand dollars. They now carry a stock valued at about nineteen thousand dollars. This house is the original ''one price clothing house." The firm consists of Messrs. Joseph Stauffer, A. J. Stauffer, and R. C. Mitchell.

STAUNTON, JOHN H., Pike township, blacksmith, post office, North Liberty, born in Augusta county, Virginia, in 1850, and was married in-1873, to Catharine A. Rolfe, who was born in Nova Scotia in 1853. They have three children: Marshall C., born in 1874; Albert, in 1875, and Charles, in 1877.

Mr. Staunton came to Ohio in 1871, located in Mt. Vernon, remained about four years, and then went to Brownsville. He remained there three yeais. Hecame to North Liberty in 1878, where he now resides. He is a skilful mechanic in all the branches of his trade, horse shoeing being a speciality.

STEELE, J. & H., Fredericktown, liverymen, established the livery business some two years ago, and keep good horses and conveyances. They are good business men, obliging and accommodating, and always ready to wait on those who will give them a call.

STEELE, ISRAEL, Fredericktown, livery, born in Frederick county, Maryland, in 1822, came to Ohio in 1848, and was married to Hannah Runkles, who was born in Carroll county, Maryland, in 1822. They had the following children: Richard V., born in Maryland, and drowned at Cape May in 1877 James J., in Maryland, and died in Knox county in 1865 Albert T., in Columbus, Ohio, and died at that place in 1850, John L., in Ohio, resides in Boston, and is a travelling salesman, and Mary Alice was married to J. A. Bennett, who now resides at Chicago Junction.

Mr. Steele came to Knox county in 1860, located on the farm where they now reside, is engaged in farming and has been successful in accumulating property. He was a prominent, member of the Presbyterian church in Fredericktown; and a worthy Christian. He died at his home, August 31, 1874.

William Patterson, father of Mrs. Steele, was a native of Fayette county, Pennsylvania, and was married to Rebecca Findley, a native of the same county. They had seven children: Ebenezer F., deceased; Jane, deceased; Matilda, deceased; Margaret, James, Rebecca, and Martha.

Mr. Patterson died in Wayne county, Ohio, in 1854. Mrs. Patterson is a resident of this township, living with her daughter, Mrs. Steele. They are all members of the Presbyterian church.

STEMM, JOHN W., miller, Fredericktown, born in Adams county, Pennsylvania, in 1830, came to Ohio with his parents, who located in Seneca county, remained there some years, then moved to Indiana, remaincd there several years, and then removed to Maryland. He was married in Virginia to Laura V. Smoot, who was born in that State in 1840. They had eight children: William H., Laura V., Mary B., Harriet E., John R., Samuel J., Herenden, deceased; and Jacob, deceased.

After marriage Mr. Stemm located in Altoona, Pennsylvania, erected a flouring-mill, and was engaged at that business several years. He then moved to Wooster, Ohio, engaged in the milling business for seven years, then moved to Wyandotte county, and was engaged there at the same business for three years. He then removed to the Rocky Fork mills, near Mansfield, then to Lucas for one year. From there he went to Ashland county, and engaged in the Charles mill. In 1875 he purchased the Mound City mills, has been successful in doing merchant and custom business. He has a good reputation as a miller.

STEPHENS & SCOTT, carriage works. The business was originally started in 1865 by Messrs. White, Stephens & Barker, who continued five years. After this the firm became Stephens & Co., and continued as such until December, 1879, when the present firm was organized. They have very much improved, remodeled, and made new additions to the works. They have a woodwork department, ironwork department, painting and trimming department, and wareroom in addition to the repository building for the display of finished work.

This company manufacture and keep on hand fine carriages, single and double buggies, barouches, phzetons, spring and platform wagons, and every style of farm wagons. The remarkable perfection in the execution and finish of their work, as well as the substantial materials which they use, enable them with confidence to invite those who contemplate buying tocall and examine their stock before purchasing elsewhere. They feel able to satisfy all of the justice of their claim - that their vehicles are made of the very best material in use, and put together by workmen of skill and experience. They use in their gearing the best second growth hickory; in Lodies, the best poplar and ash; the wheels are the genuine Sarvern pattern, second growth hickory; the springs are Forest City; axles number one; tubular bow sockets, trimmed with good leather, rubber, or flock as customers may desire. Their painting speaks, to all who see it,

Mr. Stephens is a thoroughly skilled workman of large experience, and a gentleman who stands high in the community, both in business and social circles.

Mr. Scott is a young man completing and perfecting himself in the business under the most advantageous circumstances, and with his skill, natural ability, and business qualifications will eventually take a prominent position in the field of business activities. Each of these gentlemen are natives of this State.

STEVENSON, WILLIAM, carpenter, residing in Martinsburgh; was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, January 18, 1807; removed to Mt. Vernon at an early date, residirg there until 1861, when he removed here. He was married December 27, 1836, to Christiana Graham. They were the parents of eleven children: Thomas A., John G., William F., Emeline, Anna M., Frank, and Fred A.; the others dying in infancy. John G. and Anna are now the only surviving children. Mr. S. is a member of the Presbyterian church of Martinsburgh.

Mr. Stevens is a native He resided in that State until he was about ten years old, when his father emigrated to Ohio, locating on a farm near Chesterville, Morrow county, where he resided about ten years. From the farm near Chesterville the subject of this sketch went to Missouri and engaged in the drug and dentistry business in the town of Cameron. Here he remained about four years. From Cameron he came back to Ohio and for one year resided in Mansfield, and then went to Belleville, where he engaged in the dry goods business. In this business he remained some two and a half years. His next remove was from Belleville to Bucyrus, where he engaged in egg and butter packing, with his father and brother. Some two years were thus spent, when he and his brother came to Mt. Vernon and engaged in the same business, to which was added the purchasing and shipping of hides, pelts and furs. The firm of W. A. Stevens & Co. is well established and is doing a large and a steadily increasing business. During the first year their business amounted to twenty thousand dollars, and for the year just past amounted to thirty-five thousand dollars, and from the favorable commencement, this year's trade will exceed the amount last mentioned.

STEWARD, DAVID, farmer, Brown township, post office, Jelloway, son of John Steward, born in Brown township, Knox county, May 27, 1827. He remained with his parents until he arrived at the age of thirty-eight years. In 1865 he married Miss Martha J. Workman, a daughter of S. C. and Mary 1 Workman, born in Brown township, Knox county, December 25, 1841. During the time he remained at home he made a purchase of the old homestead, containing one hundred and sixty acres, where he remained after his marriage, it being a very pleasant and inviting home. He also owns one-half of eighty-four acres in Brown township, known as the widow Wolfard farm, making in all two hundred and two acres. By their marriage they became the parents of three children: Solomon C., born November 29, 1867; Clinton M. C., May 22, 1871; Mary E., January 31, 1878.

STILLWELL, OBADIAH, Middlebury township, deceased, born in Pennsylvania, and was married to Sarah Whaford, who was born in Bedford county, Pennsylvania, March 7, 1782. They came to Ohio in 1818. They had the following children, viz: Josiah, born December 29, 1804; Charlotte, February 1, 1806, now deceased; John, deceased; Rachel, July 6, 1811; Jackson, January 18, 1815; Arthur, January 9, 1817; Josiah, October 1, 18109.

Obadiah Stillwell died April 8, 1850. Mrs. Sarah Stillwell is still living on the old homestead, with her great-granddaughter, Olive S. Blackford, who was born February 24, 1862.

STILLWELL, JOSIAH, Middlebury township, farmer, post office, Levering, born in this township October 1, 18109, was married in 1849, to Mary Levering, who was born in Mcr- Tow county, April 7, 1825. They had the following children: Zantha, born November 6, 1852; Zoe, August 13, 1856; Mary, November 29, 1859; Lee V., April 28, 1863; Jay W., June 15, 1866; Jennie L., October 6, 1869.

STIVES, JOSHUA N., was born in Guernsey county, Ohio, January 31, 1840, and came to Butler township, Knox county, in 1872. Hewas married February 16, 1862, to Rosan Smith, who was born July, 1844, in Guernsey county. They have had eight children, viz: Minnie May Bell, born November 11, 1862; Charles W., April 25, 1865; Lillie F., born April 13, 1867; Theudas E., September 14, 1870. Samuel Martin, August 28, 1872, James D., September 25, 1874; John R. Hancock, May 27, 1876; Joshua L., June 7, 1880; all are living except Minnie, who died February 13, 1863. Mr. Stives was a member of company H, Sixteenth Ohio volunteer infantry, served three months and reenlisted in the Ninety-seventh Ohio volunteer infantry.

STOFER, ABRAHAM, Pike township, retired, post office, North Liberty, born in Northampton county, Pennsylvania, in 1807; came to Ohio in 1834, and was married in 1836, to Barbara Bearinger, who was born in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, in 1814. They had fourteen children: Flora, born in 1837; Joseph, in 1838; Jane, in 1839; Rachel, in 1840; Jacob, in 1842; Nancy, in 1844; John, in 1845; Samuel, in 1847; Allen, in 1848; Harriet, in 1852; Eli, in 1855; Amanda, in 1857; and George, in 1859. The deceased are: Flora, Jacob, Jane, Nancy, and Allen:

Mr. Stofer, after marriage, returned to Fayette county, Pennsylvania, and remained about three years and then came to Knox county, and located in this township. He has improved and cleared a farm, and by industry and economy has accumulated a competency. He has reared a large and respectable family, and is one of the reliable and respected citizens of this township, everybody esteeming him highly.

North Liberty, born in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, in 1838, and was married in 1869 to Margaret Swank, who was born in Franklin county, Pennsylvania, in 1838. They have four children living - Amanda, born in 1870; Arminda, in 1871; Alfred, in 1877; and John A., in 1879. The deceased members are infant twins, and Rosa.

Mr. Stofer resided in Indiana from 1864 to 1866, then returned to Pike township, Knox county. He owns a farm in a good state of cultivation, and is a leading active citizen of this township.

Mrs. Margaret Stofer's father, Gabriel Swank, was born in Franklin county, Pennsylvania, in 1795, and was married to Catharine Stone, who was born in the- same county in 1797. They had ten children - Henry, born in 1818, was a resident of Richland county, and came to his death by the falling of a tree, which occurred in 1876; Lenah was born in 1820; Zachariah, Elizabeth, Susannah, Christena, Mary, Sarah, Margaret, and Catharine.

Mrs. Catharine Swank died in Franklin county, Pennsylvania, in 1856. They came to Ohio in 1866, first to Richland county. In 1878 came to Knox county. Mr. Swank resides with his daughter, Mrs. Joseph Stofer.

STOFER, JOHN J., Pike township, post office, North Liberty, born in Pike township in 1845, and was married in 1873 to Sarah E. Hipsley, who was born in Berlin township in 1849. They had two children - Jesse L., born April 5, 1874, and died April 24, 1875. Cora May was born April 28, 1876.

Mr. Stofer is a farmer, owns a well improved farm, with good buildings, and has been very successful in his occupation, haying accumulated rapidly. He bought the farm on which he resides, and made most of the means to pay for it upon the farm.

STOW, HARRISON N., Pike township, carpenter, post office, North Liberty, born in Crawford county, Pennsylvania, in 1827, came to Ohio in 1836, locating in Holmes county, and remained there a year; then came to this county and was married in 1851 to Louisa Johnson, who was born in this township. They had six children, four of whom died in infancy. Ampuda Winton and Cora May are living in North Liberty. Mrs. Louisa Stow died at their residence in this township, July 4, 1879.

Mr. Stow is a carpenter engaged in working at his trade in this and adjoining townships. He is a skilful workman and the leading carpenter in this neighborhood. Ampuda W. Stow is engaged in carrying the mail from North Liberty to Independence, three times per week, and is a promising young man.

STREETER, FREDERICK, Union township, teamster, post office, Rossville, was born in Jackson county, Michigan, in 1843, and remained there until his twenty-sixth year. He was then married to Ella A. Howell, who was born in Coshocton county, Ohio, in x840. In 1864 Mr. Streeter and his wife settled in Harrison township, Knox county, and lived there two years; then moved to Jackson county, Michigan, for two years; then to Columbus, Ohio, for one year; then back to Harrison township for two years, and once more to Jackson, Michigan, for a year, and from there to Rossville, where he has bought a piece of land and is making a permanent home. He has one child, Samantha B., born in 1866.

STRONG, LEWIS, Fredericktown, farmer, was born in Frederick county, Maryland, in 1815, came to Ohio in 1830, and was married in 1839 to Susannah R. Cone, who was born in

New York. They have one son, Clayton Strong, who was born in 1847. He is now married and resides in Meadville, Pennsylvania. Mr. Strong is a dealer in stock.

STRONG, NORMAN M., Middlebury township, farmer, post office, Fredericktown, born in Middlebury township in 1832, and was married in 1856 to Sarah A. Farquhar. They have five children - Wilbur T., Charles F., Edwin Franklin, and Eddie. Mrs. Sarah A. Strong died in March, 1871. Mr. Strong married Ruth P. Farquhar, who was born in Knox county. Mr. Strong owns an excellent farm, with buildings in a fine condition. His father, Truman Strong, was born in Vermont; came to Ohio in 1811; was engaged in the War of 1812, under General Harrison, and was among the earliest settlers of this county. When it was all in woods he settled in Middlebury township, cleared up a farm, and was engaged in preaching in the Universalist denomination, and was very conscientious and zealous in his religious faith, He had a charge in Huron county several years, and was familiarly known by many of the early settlers. In 1870 he died in this county, at an advanced age,

STRONG, REV. P. B., was born in Medina county, Ohio, May 3, 1842, and received his 'preparatory education at Baldwin university, at Berea, Ohio, after which, in 1861, he enlisted during the first call for troops, in company H, Eighth Ohio volunteer infantry, in which he served three months. He then enlisted in company H, Ohio volunteer cavalry, in which he served about twenty months, when he was honorably discharged in consequence of disability. After his return he engaged in the study of law at Elyria, Ohio, where he remained two years, and was admitted to the bar August 29, 1864, but did not engage in practice. He then entered the ministry in the travelling connection of the North Ohio conference, and was ordained to deacons orders in 1867, at Tiffin, Ohio, and was ordained elder by Bishop E. S. Janes (deceased) at Norwalk, September 12, 1869. His first charge was Republic circuit, where he remained one year, then East Townsend, two years, Milan, three years, Fairfield, one year, Troy, two years, Ashland, two years, Sandusky City, three years, and at present is laboring on the Mt. Vernon station. He was appointed presiding elder of the Mt. Vernon district by the conference held at Norwalk in September, 1880, Bishop J. T. Peck presiding.

STRUBLE, JOHN D., Berlin township, deceased, was born in Sussex county, New Jersey, in 1792, and was married in 1822 to Mary Hadley, who was born in Norris county, New Jersey, in 1802. They had nine children- - -Rebecca, born in 1824; Headley, in 1826; Daniel, in 1828; William J., in 1831; John S., in 1834; Charles S., in 1836; Oscar, in 1839; David W., in 1841; and Edwin Dallas, in 1845.

Mr, Struble located in Fredericktown in 1832. He was an extensive land holder, owning over four hundred acres,-and a very active and successful business man, engaged in different enterprises, such as the sale of merchandise and the milling business, superintending all himself.

In 1874 his mill property was destroyed by fire. He did much to improve Fredericktown, and wasa prominent member of the Baptist church. He departed this life May 21, 1875.

married in 1866 to Anne Cummings, who was born in Richland county in 1844. He was a soldier in the late war, a member of company B, Second New York cavalry, and was in the service over three years.

STUDER, DAVID, Morris township, farmer, post office, Fredericktown, was born in Bedford county, Pennsylvania, in 1825; emigrated with his parents to Ohio in 1830, and was married in 1858 to Rebecca Ebersole,. who was born in this county in 1833. Théy bave three children - Byron, born in 1859; Albert, in 1864; and Castilla, in 1866,

Mr. Studer's parents first located in Fairfield county, Ohio; also resided in Holmes and Wayne counties, and then came to Knox county. He has since been a resident of this county, and owns a beautiful farm in this township, with fine improvements.

STULL, MARTIN, farmer and stock raiser, Miller township, was born in Greene county, Pennsylvania, August 2, 1828. He is the son of George and Elizabeth Stull, deceased, who came to Ohio in 1833, and resided for about seven years in Milford township, when they came to Miller townthip. They had ten children, viz: Mary, Elizabeth, Catharine, Abram, Martin, Philip, Isaac, Sarah Ann, Lucinda, and Lucina, of whom Mary, Elizabeth, and Philip have since died. Mr. Stull was reared on a farm, and was educated at the district shool. In April, 1861, he enlisted in company H, Fourth Ohio volunteer infantry, and was in several of the engagements in West Virginia, and in the army of the Potomac. He suffered considerable while in the army from chronic diseases, which greatly impaired his health. He was discharged with his regiment. Mr. Stull entered the army upon patriotic principles. Nothing can deter him from expressing his sentiments on the political issues of the day. He is a Democrat from. principle, and is well informed upon the policies of the two great parties. Mr. Stull started in life peor, but with a determination to succeed; he has gained the object of his determination. He is aman of strict integrity, and his word is regarded as ''good as gold." He hasa beautiful home. He was married to Miss Magdalene Ilgenfritz, December 10, 1867. They had seven children, three of whom died in infancy.

STULL, PHILIP, was born in 1840 in Millwood, Knox county, Ohio. He was married to Melissa Darling on the seventeenth of November, 1865. Mrs. Stull was born in 1847. They have had five children, viz: William, born July 13, 1866, and died July 23, 1866; Ida May, born July 4, 1867; Sherman, born October 2, 1869; Eliza D., born October 15, 1871; Samuel, born February 4, 1874, and died July 6, 1874.

Mr. Stull was a member of company F, One Hundred and Twenty-first regiment, Ohio volunteer infantry, enlisting in 1862, and served about three years and until the war was over. Mr. Stull was wounded at Perryville, Kentucky; he was also in the engagements at Crab Orchard, Kentucky; Campbellsville, Kentucky; Chickamauga, Kennesaw Mountain, also in Sherman's march to the sea.

STURGES, FRED D., cashier of the First National bank of Mt. Vernon, was born in Zanesville, Muskingum county, June 1, 1833, where he received a preparatory education, entered Marietta college, and graduated in 1851; came to Mt. Vernon in 1853, and engaged in banking, where he has since lived. He was formerly engaged in a bank at Zanesville and at Newark.

STYERS, JACOB, of Mt. Vernon, was born in Greenwich township, Warren county, New Jersey, October 31, 1813, about two miles from Easton, Pennsylvania, the Delaware river being the boundary line between the two States. His education was received in the common schools of that day. He has been a hard worker from his youth up to old age, enjoying good health through life. At the early age of nine years he left his father's house and commenced work on the farm of Mr. John Lance, with whom he continued six years. His father, John Styers, was the father of ten children, eight sons and two daughters, Jacob, the subject of this sketch, being the second child. All are living except two of the sons, one of whom died while quite young, and the other was drowned in Wisconsin. The parents are both dead.

In 1832, after leaving the Lance farm, Mr. Styers went south and engaged with his brother Daniel, a carpenter, who had been employed by a New York company to erect houses in the town of St. Joseph, located by them on St. Joe's bay, Florida. Here he remained about one year, when he returned to his father's home in New Jersey. On May 31, 1838, he married Miss Elizabeth A. Andrews, daughter of Mr. Jacob B. Andrews, of Warren county, New Jersey, by whom he had three children: Sarah Ann, who married William A. Rose; Jacob M., who married Miss Callie C. Reed, to whom one child was born, a daughter, and James W., who married Miss Olla Jadden, to whom three children have been born.

Mr. Styers came to Knox county with the family of his fatherin-law, Mr. Andrews, September, 1846. Mr. Styers engaged with the late Samuel F. Voorhies to work on his farm in Clinton township, now owned by the heirs of Jacob B. Andrews, where he worked one year when Mr. Voorhies sold the farm and came to Mt. Vernon, retaining Mr. Styers in his employ with whom he remained six years. Mr. Styers' next employment was at the foundry of General C. P. Buckingham as general teamster, where he remained for six years and until 1859. For the last few years Mr. Styers has been in the employ of Mr. Charles A. Bope, an extensive coal merchant.

SUTTON, GIDEON, Hilliar township, retired farmer, was born in Licking county, December 24, 1807. His father, Jehu Sutton, was born in Uniontown, Fayette county, Pennsylvania, September 8, 1777. He was married in the year 1801, and in 1804 came to Licking county, being among the early settlers.

He was lieutenant of a company of soldiers during the War of 1812, and went to Upper Sandusky to protect the frontier from the devastations of the Indians. He was esteemed by all who knew him.

He was a consistent member of the Old School Baptist church for many years, and died at the ripe old age of nearly eighty-eight years. His aged companion died some years later, at the age of ninety-six years. Thus passed away two of Licking county's first and most influential settlers.

They did not live in vain. They left their impress on the minds and hearts of their family, who grew up to be useful and influential citizens.

Gideon. was one of their sons. We learn from him that he spent his youth on his father's farm. After leaving home he engaged in cutting stone' for the National road, which was then being built. He subsequently contracted for stone work in Newark and surrounding country, in which he was successful.

and the following spring he moved on the farm he now occupies. His first abode on the farm was a cabin near his present dwelling. This he occupied until 1839, when he built his present dwelling. He has been succe$sful in making for himself a competence.

He was elected justice of the peace in 1841, and held the office until 1847. He is a man of good judgment, social and congenial, and makes all who call upon him feel at home.

We are indebted to him for an article entitled Centreburgh, its Past and Present, which he had written some years previous, and which he kindly lent us.

He was married to Miss Eliza Shaver, of Licking county, March 8, 1832. They have therefore been together for over forty-nine years. They had four children born to them, viz: Rebecca, married to David N. Potter; Jasper N., and Joseph S., and-Samantha A., married to Dr. W. S. Pollard.

SUTTON, DAVID A., Hilliar township, farmer, was born in Licking county, Ohio, December 31, 1826. His parents were Elijah and Nancy Sutton, zee Gillespie, born respectively July 24, 1802, and January 8, 1799. They were married Feb- Tuary 12, 1824. They had two children, one of whom died when young. Mrs. Sutton dying, he married Sarah Stonebraker, June 4, 1829. They had six children. Mr. Sutton died November 12, 1872, his wife dying some years previous.

Mr. Sutton was from Greene county, Pennsylvania, came to Ohio with his parents, and was a stone-cutter by trade. The subject of this notice, after the death of his mother, and when about eighteen months old, was taken by his grandfather, David Gillespie, and by him reared 'until about eighteen years old, when he went to his Grandfather Sutton's, where he remained several years. June ro, 1851, he was married to Miss Sarah Emery, and in 1853 they moved to Hilliar township, where he purchased the farm on which he now resides. Mrs. Sutton was born in Greene county, Pennsylvania. Mr. Sutton is a good farmer, a man of fine social qualities, and is respected by the community. They have had three children, all sons, viz: Elijah, Ellmore, and Allen K.

SWANK, GEORGE, Pike township, farmer, post office, North Liberty, was born in Pike township, Knox county, in 1825, on the same farm he now resides. In 1851 he was married to Nancy Gilmore, who was born in Pike township in 1829. They had the following children: Christain, born in 1854; Mary Ellen, in 1856; Eliza Alice, in 1858; John, in 1866, and Amanda, in 1868.

Christian Swank was married in 1880 to Irena Garber. Mary Ellen Swank was married to 'Simeon Betchel in 1877. Mr. and Mrs. Swank are both members of pioneer families. He now owns the old homestead, a farm that was improved and cleared up by the Swank family.

SWETLAND, H. C., dry goods merchant, corner of Main and Gambier streets, Mt. Vernon, was born in Morrow county April 7, 1855, where he resided until he was sixteen years old, and during which he attended school, and assisted his father who was a merchant in the store. He then came to Mt. Vernon, and entered the employ of J. C. Swetland as salesman, where, in appreciation of his abilities and faithfulness, he was retained until 1880, when he bought out his employer, and has since been conducting the business himself. He commenced with a stock of about fifteen thousand dollars, and has been doing a successful business. He now has a stock of about sixteen thousand dollars, consisting of foreign and domestic

Mr. Swetland is a young man of character, energy and ability, and his prospects for the future as a citizen and a business man are most flattering, as he commands the respect of the public generally.

SWETZER, ALLEN, Berlin township, farmer, post office, Fredericktown, was born in Richland county in 1833, came to this township when a child, and was married in 1862, to Mary Ann Pound. They had three children, viz: Charles M., born in 1865; Marion, in 1867, and an infant, deceased. Mrs. M. Swetzer died in 1867.

SWITZER, JACOB, deceased, Berlin township, was born in Berlin township, this county, in 1836, and was married in 1857, to Alvira Hughes, who was born in Berlin township, this county, in 1839. They had four children: Hiram M., born in 1858; Clayton, in 1860; Freddie, in 1862, and Willie A., in 1865, and died January 24, 1864.

Mr. Switzer studied medicine with Dr. Ring, of Fredericktown, and attended lectures in Cleveland. He engaged in the practice of medicine in Sparta, Morrow county, and in 1836 located in Fredericktown, where he remained until the time of his death. He was a member of the Disciple church.

SCHINDLER, JACOB, owner and proprietor of the Danville Carriage and Wagon works. These works were established in 1875, in the Collins building, where he carried on the business of blacksmiting, carriage and wagon making, until 1877, when he erected his present shop, in which he is manufacturing all kinds of wagons, carriages, sleighs, etc. Prompt attention given to repairing of all kinds.

TABOR, CHARLES R., Middlebury township, farmer, post office, Fredericktown, born in Rutland county, Vermont, in 1820, came to Fredericktown in 1824, and was married, in 1858, to Eliza Tooman, who was born in Pennsylvania. They have the following children: Alonzo A., born December 25, 1862; Mary J., November 22, 1860; Erie Smeadley, March 16, 1865; Charles R., jr., March 11, 1867.

Mr. Tabor left this county in 1852, and settled in Cedar county, Iowa, remained there eleven years and then returned to Middlebury, and has continued to make that his home ever since. His father, Alanson Tabor, was born in New York, and came to Fredericktown, Knox county, Ohio, in 1824, remained there for one year, and then moved to Berlin township, where he died at the age of eighty-three years.

TAFT, H. C. & SON, booksellers, stationers, and circulating library, Main street, between Vine and Gambier streets, Mt. Vernon. Mr. Taft isa native of Northbridge, Massachusetts, born April 12, 1815. In 1830 his parents moved five miles south, to Uxbridge, where he resided with them ten years. He was married June 12,"1839, to Miss Catharine Grout, daughter of Colonel Moses Grout, of» Westborough, Massachusetts. They had a family of four children, one only of whom is living, J. Grout Taft, born June 11, 1846. Mr. Taft, in consequence of his health failing, emigrated to Georgia in 1854, and located at Hawkinsville, where he engaged in the mercantile business, in which he continued four years. Finding his health considerably improved, he sold out and returned home; and finding his wife's health rapidly declining, he took her west, with a view of her recuperation, but the seeds of death were too deeply rooted, and she died at Chicago in 1850. Mr. Taft brought her back, and her body was interred in the family tomb.

In 1854, failing health again compelled him to seek a warmer climate, and he returned to Georgia and located at Millidgeville, where he remained two and a half years. After which, in April, 1856, he emigrated to Ohio, and located at Mt. Vernon, being attracted thither by the educational advantages afforded by Kenyon college, he having a son, Cheney Taft, that he wished to educate. The boy attended Kenyon college about three months, when he sustained injuries in a game of foot-ball which led to a disease that proved fatal January 5, 1857.

Mr. Taft married Miss Sophia Parkman, daughter of Hon. Charles Parkman, of Westborough, Massachusetts, by whom he had two children, one of whom, C. Parkman Taft, is living, and was born in Mt. Vernon, July 11, 1856. Mr. Taft engaged here in the cultivation of market produce, in which he continued eleven years. He then engaged in the book business, under the firm name of H. C. Taft & Son, J. Grout Taft being the junior member. He has always been his father's assistant in business, and is a young man of energy and ability. Although he was so unfortunate as to lose his left arm some years ago, it is interesting to see with what dexterity and expedition he manages to wait upon their large custom. The second son, C. Parkman Taft, is of a classical turn of mind, and is preparing for the ministry. He graduated at Racine college, Wisconsin, in the class of 1877, 'taking the highest honors, being selected to deliver the valedictory for his class. Messrs. Taft & Son have an extensive business, and carry a large stock of miscellaneous books, all of which are of a high grade of literature, and are the productions of the best authors. They keep in stock a large assortment of school books, pictures, picture frames, musical instruments, sheet music, brackets, and all the latest and most popular periodicals of the day. They have also a circulating library of about one thousand three hundred volumes, which consists of the most interesting and instructive miscellaneous publications of the period, among which every lover of reading will find that which will be pleasing to them, and at a very trifling expense. Their entire stock is first-class, and their circulating library is the only one in the city.

TARR, JOHN H., was born in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, February 14, 1801, and was married to Miss Hannah Price in 1824, and reared a family of nine children, seven of whom are now living.

Mr. Tarr emigrated to Ohio in 1850, and settled in Liberty township, Knox county, on a farm, where he lived until 1868, when he retired from business, but still made that his home until his death, May 9, 1872.

Mrs. Tarr is still living. Alexander B., the seventh member of the family was born in December, 1837; was educated at the district school, after which he followed farming until 1869, when he came to Mt. Vernon and engaged in the grocery business. In consequence of bad health, after being four years in

Alexander B. was married October 31, 1867, to Miss Maria Hyatt, by whom he has a family of three children, two sons and one daughter - Alexander P., born September 7, 1871; Rizpah N., June 21, 1876; and Philip H., June 15, 1878.

TAVENNER, GEORGE N., farmer, Fredericktown, born in Loudoun county, Virginia, May 25, 1813, and was married January 26, 1836, to Elizabeth Jane Hann, who was born in Loudoun county, Virginia, December 24, 1823. They had eight children - Joseph H., born June 21, 1840, and was married to Linda Rummel, and now lives in California; David, October 2, 1842, and died July 9, 1863; Jerome B., born in Virginia, March 15, 1844, and was married November 25, 1873, to Louisa Auten, and resides in Wayne township, this county; Richard D., born August 15, 1847, and was married January 1, 1874, to Rebecca Auten, and resides in Berlin township; William C., born October 15, 1849, and died May 16, 1867; Rosa E., born March 14, 1853, and was married to James A. Knapp, and resides in Marion, Ohio; America, born August 13, 1856; and an infant that died February 28, 1861.

Mr. Tavenner removed to Fredericktown, Knox county, March 28, 1855, and since then has resided in Hardin and Logan, but is now residing in Fredericktown.

TAYLOR, SAMUEL, Mt. Vernon, was born April 16, 1800, at Troy, New York, where he remained until June, 1840, when he came to Mt. Vernon, Ohio, having previously made arrangements to take charge of cue coopering shops of J. & J. Slocum, where he remained one year when the firm failed and he established a business for himself, in which he was very successful, doing a very large business. He employed about six hands, and manufactured barrels, meat tubs, butter "kegs, etc. In 1870, qn account of his age, he gave his son charge of the business. He was married to Catharine Balson in 1825, by whom he had fourteen children, six of whom are living. Losing his wife, he married November 27, 1853, Isabella Bumpus. Mr. Taylor was one of the oldest citizens of Mt. Vernon, having lived here forty-one years and being eighty-one years old.

TAYLOR, STOUGHTON L., of Mt. Vernon, was born in Saratoga county, New York, March 6, 1822. He was born on a farm. He commenced to work on the farm at quite an early age. His father emigrated to Ohio when the subject of this sketch was about fifteen years of age, and settled in Licking county, where he resided up to the time of his death, his wife surviving him for some years. In 1838 Stoughton went to clerk in a store in Homer, Licking county, and shortly after to Utica, same county, where he remained until 1843. He continued clerking up to 1846, when he commenced business for himself, which he continued for a short time. He went from Utica to Logan county and engaged in business, and also acted as agent for the Knox Mutual insurance company for some nine years. He came to Mt. Vernon and engaged in business here. In 1870 he was elected by the board of directors of the Knox Mutual Fire Insurance company as general agent and adjustor for the company. He has been a member of the board of directors for several years.

Mr. Taylor has been twice married. 'His first wife was Miss Elizabeth T. Browning, to whom he was married in June, 1849. She was a daughter of the late George Browning. Mr. Browning was born in a block-house in Marietta. He was the son of adaughter of Rufus Putnam. Mr. and Mrs. Taylor had six

TAYLOR, ALEXANDER, farmer, Middlebury township, post office, Fredericktown, was born in Greene township, Ashland county, May 8, 1838, and was married April 13, 1862, to Elizabeth Heck, who was born near Holmes county, Ohio. March 30, 1836. They have six children: David W., born January 25, 1864; John R., November 26, 1866; Carrie B., March 10, 1868; James, March 19, 1870; Millie Maud E., August 8, 1872; and Eva M., born September 3, 1875.

Mr. Taylor is a son of David Taylor, esq., of Richland county. In 1821 he settled in Greene township, now Ashland county. They first came to Monroe township and remained there till 1844, when they moved to Worthington township. Mr. D. Taylor has been commissioner of Richland county for two terms of three years.

Alexander Taylor came to Middlebury township, Knox county, Ohio, April 25, 1871, and remained there till the fall of 1880, when he sold out and moved to St. Clair county, Missouri, his post office being Lowery City, St. Clair county, Missouri. Mr. Taylor has been a worthv citizen of this county.

TAYLOR, THOMAS N,., farmer, Pleasant township, was born in Logan county, Ohio, August 14, 1844. He was reared a farmer and has made farming his vocation. In 1872 he married Miss Mary E. Bowman, of same county, born in 1854. They settled in Logan county, where they remained until 1876, when they came to Knox county, purchased and moved on the farm where they are now living in Pleasant township, known as the old Park farm, two miles east of Mt. Vernon.

TAYLOR, JOSEPH W., Mt. Vernon, physician and surgeon, was born in Wayne county, Ohio, near Wooster, in December, 1849. He remained in the family until about fourteen years of .age, when his parents removed to Mt. Vernon. He read medicine with Dr. Jacob Stamp, of Mt. Vernon, for three years - 1869, 1870 and 1871. He attended two courses at the medical department of Wooster university, located at Cleveland, from which he received his diploma. He returned to Mt. Vernon, and practiced with Mr. Stamp in 1871, 1872 and 1873. He then purchased the drug store of Mr. L. Rowley. After the erection of the Curtis house, in 1877, he moved his store to the room in building where he has since remained.

He came first to Mt. Vernon about 1866. He attended school at Kenyon about one year. He was deputy auditor under Colonel Alexander Cassil for two years.

TEETER, GEORGE L., Brown township, was born in Pike township, Knox county, August 11, 1852, being the eldest son of John L. and Elvina Teeter.

In 1854 his father removed to a farm in Richland county, remaining there until 1864, when he sold it and purchased one in Berlin township, known as the Moltsbaugh farm, where he at present resides. George remained at home assisting his father on the farm during the summer and attending school during the winter until he was twenty-one. By the advice of his friends he adopted school teaching as his profession, teaching in the winter and working by the month during the summer, in the meantime purchasing books and reading them so as to better qualify himself for teaching, so that he is new competent to teach all branches commonly taught in common schools, and is well

In 1877 he united with the Dunkard church, of which he and his wife are still members. In the summer of 1874 he came to Brown township in the employ of Mr. Elisha Ross. On the third of January, 1878, he was united in marriage with Miss Priscilla Dewitt, daughter of Benjamin and Sarah Dewitt,, and granddaughter of S. N. C. Workman, since which time he has resided in Brown township. Two children have resulted from his marriage - both daughters. The first was born May 11, 1879, and died the same day. The second daughter, Laura, was born June 28, 1880. In the spring of 1880 he purchased a small tract of land, being a portion of the Moomaw lot near Jelloway, on which he now resides.

John L. Teeter, the father of George, was born in Bedford county, Pennsylvania, February 26, 1824. His parents remained in Pennsylvania until 1830, when they emigrated to Ohio and located on the farm now owned by the Wallace family, in Pike township.

On the second day of September, 1851, John L. Teeter was united in marriage with Elvina Cramer, who was born near Philadelphia, May 30, 1831, being the daughter of George L. (deceased) and Elizabeth (Henry) Cramer, late of Worthington township, Richland county.

Jacob Teeter, grandfather of George, was born in Maryland in the year 1782. In 1863 he died, and his remains were interred by the side of those of his wife in the Wallace graveyard, Pike township. John Deeter, great-grandfather of George, was born in Maryland, as was also his father.

The original surname of the family was Deitrich. Near the beginning of the eighteenth century a family of the last mentioned name emigrated, some s'y from Ireland, while others assert that they came from Switzerland, and located in the present State of Maryland. The family, if not German speaking when they came to America, became so afterward. The name Deitrich became corrupted into Deeter in some localities, Deetery in others, Teeter in some places, while a large number of the descendants of the family still retain the original name. The above mentioned facts render it extremely difficult to obtain any accurate information concerning the family.

TERRY, WARNER, deceased. Mr. Terry was born in Cecil county, Maryland, November 18, 1796. During the War of 1812, he served six months, being stationed on Chesapeake bay. Early in the fall of 1826 he removed with his family to and superintended the clearing of the land and making arrangements for the foundations of Kenyon college and other buildings on the college Jands. When the ground on which Kenyon college now stands was prepared for digging to lay the foundation, Mr. Terry threw out the first shovel full of earth, the bishop desiring him to take a hand in the great work. Shortly after this he removed to a farm nine miles north of this city, where he remained until the year 1831, when he moved his family and personal effects to the house on East Chestnut street, where he resided up to the hour of his death, a period of nearly half a century. Mr. Terry was not a professional man, but since his residence in Mt. Vernon, turned his attention purely to mercantile pursuits, having been engaged the greater part of the time in the grocery trade. Three years since he was obliged to give up his business on account of an affection of the kidneys, which disease has kept him closely confined to' the house. The deceased reared a large family of children, six of whom are still living, viz: Mrs. Emily T. Shipley, residing near Portland, Oregon; Mrs. M. L. Hood, formerly postmistress of this city; Miss Johanna Terry, of this city; Mr. Edwin W. Terry, of this city; Mr. Brook L. Terry, of Columbus, Ohio, and Miss Caroline Warner Terry, of this city. Mr. Terry was taken suddenly worse on Sunday with hemorrhage of the kidneys, and at an early hour on the morning of July 13, 1880, breathed his last. The funeral services were held in St. Paul's Episcopal church.