Pike Township (part 18 of 20)

THOMAS, HON. JESSE BURGESS, deceased. The Hon. Jesse B. Thomas was born in Hagerstown, Maryland, in the year 1777, and came west in 1799, and studied law with his brother, Richard Symmes Thomas, of Bracken county, Kentucky. During his stay there he married, but was so unfortunate as to lose his wife within a year after their marriage.

Mr. Thomas was full six feet high, florid brown complexion, dark hazel eyes, brown, nearly black, hair, muscular system well developed, and sometimes weighed over two hundred pounds, and was very particular in his personal appearance, having much of the mode and manners of a refined gentleman of the last century.

On the organization of Dearborn county, Indiana territory, March 7, 1803, Jesse B. Thomas located in Lawrenceburgh, the county seat of said county, asa practicing lawyer. The first election of members to the Territorial legislature was held January 3, 1805, and Jesse B. Thomas was elected a member for Dearborn county. The Territorial legislature was called together by proclamation of the governor (General William H. Harrison, elected President of the United States in 1840), to meet in the town of Vincennes, on the first day of February, 1805, to choose members of the legislative council. They chose ten persons and sent their names to Congress, which body selected five of the ten named to serve as members of the Territorial council. After'the council was chosen, and the legislature having been elected as above stated, they were called, by proclamation of Governor Harrison, to meet at Vincennes (the seat of government of the territory), on the twenty-ninth of July, 1805, to discharge their duties as legislators.

At this first session of the legislature of the Indiana territory, Jesse B. Thomas was elected speaker of the popular branch, and Benjamin Chambers, also of Dearborn county, was elected speaker of the council. On the twenty-fourth of August, 1805, Governor Harrison appointed Hon. Jesse B. Thomas as a captain of a portion of the militia of Dearborn county.

Hon. Jesse B. Thomas served as speaker of the first and second sessions of the first general assembly, closing his service as speaker October 24, 1808, having served as such more than three years, when he resigned to accept the position of delegate to Congress, to which he had been elected by the Territorial legislature.

During his term of service in the Territorial legislature, he made the acquaintance of the young and accomplished widow of the late Colonel Hamtramck, whom he subsequently married. He then removed to Vincennes, but remained there only a short time. After serving as Territorial delegate a year, he was appointed in 1806, upon the organization of the Illinois territory, one of the judges of said territory, by the President of the United States, and then removed to Kakaskia, thence to Cakokia, and afterwards to Edwardsville, and served nine years as a Territorial judge.

Judge Thomas was elected a member of the convention to form a constitution for the new State, and was chosen president of said convention. He was elected in the same year, by the first legislature of Illinois, one of the members of the United States

Judge Thomas introduced into the United States senate, the once famous Missouri Compromise, (see Journal of the United States senate of 1820), which he regarded as one of the most prominent members of the cclebrated caucus which nominated William H. Crawford for President of the United States in 1824. Att he close of his term of service in the United States senate in 1828, Judge Thomas and his wife, (they had no children), removed Vernon, Knox county, Ohio, where they had large property to interests. Colonel Hamtramck, who died in 1803, left a son, bearing his father's name, John Francis, born at Fort Wayne in 1797, and who also acquired his father's title, having coimmanded the First Virginia regiment in the Mexican war. The elder Hamtramck had acquired title to four thousand acres of land, adjoining the tract on which Monnt Vernon was afterwards located, and after his death some years, General Harrison and Judge Thomas became trustees for the management of said land, and it has been alleged that they were in no small degree instrumentral in securing the location of the Knox county seat of justice at Mount Vernon.

In this.connection it may be stated that the elder Colonel Hamtramck was born in Canada, in 1757; was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, came out of it a captain, remained in the United States army, reached the position of major in 1789, was lieutenant colonel commanding the first sub-legion in 1793, commanded the left wing under General Wayne, in the battle of the Fallen Timbers, in August, 1794, and became a colonel in the United States army in 1802, having sustained until his death, April 11, 1803, at Detroit, the reputation of a gallant soldier and patriot. j

His son graduated at West Point Military academy in 18109, remained in the army serving on the frontiers under General Taylor, and as Indian agent; and commanded a brigade in 1847, in Mexico, though holdiug only a colonel's commission. He afterwards resigned his position in the army, was mayor of Shepherdstown, Virginia, from 1850 to 1854, and served as one of the justices of the Jefferson county court from 1853 until April 21, 1858, when his death occurred.

In 1829 Judge Thomas took an active part in the organization of St. Paul's Episcopal church in Mt. Vernon, and was a member of the congregation from its inception until his death. He made large additions to Mt. Vernon, laying out lois in the eastern and northern parts of the city.

Judge Thomas, in 1830, took the preliminary steps to make the canvass for a seat in Congress, in the district of which Knox county was a part, but finding that Hon. William Stanbery had a strong hold upon the voters that year, he declined the candidacy before the time of election.

In 1840 Judge Thomas took a lively interest in bringing about the nomination of his old time friend, Governor Harrison, for President, attending the great convention held at Columbus that year, to secure that object, and labored zealously afterwards to effect his election.

various positions of captain of a military company, member of the territorial legislature, speaker of said body more than three years, delegate in Congress, United States judge in Ilinois territory, delegate to a constitutional convention, and its presiding officer, and United States senator from Illinois for ten years, which closed his service of twenty-five years of public life, after having held many positions of responsibility, honor, and dignity.

Mrs. Thomas was a lady of marked and distinguished character. She was a Mackenzie, and her early life was spent in Montreal. When she married Major Hamtramck she was the belle of Detroit, where the major was then stationed in command, and where he died some few years later.

THOMAS, DANIEL, Liberty township, farmer, born in Liberty township, July 7, 1812. His father, Jacob Thomas, was a native of Pennsylvania; he married Betsy Kile, a native of Maryland; he came to Ohio about 1810; they had a family of six children, viz: John, Peter, Sallie, Rosanna, Daniel and Polly. Of these John was drowned at Gains mills, on Owl creek; his father also was drowned at the same time. Jacob Thomas was a soldier of the War of 1812. The subject of this notice married Celina Sisk, a native of Virginia, born in 1818. They had four children. Henry was a member of company F, One Hundred and Twenty-first Ohio volunteer infantry; he died while in service. Mary E., wife of Cornelius McElroy, of Union township; Morgan S., farmer in Milford township; Francis M., born May 21, 1846. He married Miss Anna Belle Davis, February 27, 1879. She was born January 18, 1851, and is the daughter of John and Susannah Davis, residents of Milford township. They have one child, Walter, born September 15, 1880.

THOMPSON, FRANKLIN P. (deceased), Middlebury township. - Abner Murphy (father of Mrs. Thompson) was born in Pennsylvania, in 1777, and was married to Sarah Gattern. They had the following children: Hiram, born in 1800; Robert, in 1802; William, in 1804; Jane. in 1806; Mary, in 188; Eleanor, in 1810; Basil, in 1812; Rachel, in 1814; Sally, in 1817; and Elias, in 1820.

George T. enlisted in the late war in 1862, was a member of the Ohio volunteer infantry; James F. was also in the war, a member of the Ohio National guards, and served his time of enlistment.

Ella O. Murphy was married November 23, 1872, to Franklin P. Thompson, who was born in Richland county. They had the following family, viz: Ora Belle, born November 4, 1874; Alice Belle, February 5, 1876; Karloss, November 4, 1877; and Mabel, August 7, 1879. 5

THOMPSON, ENOCH, Miller township, pioneer, was born in Hampshire county, Virginia, April 17, 1808. His parents, Cornelius and Rebecca Thompson,' zee Baker, came to Ohio in 1809, remained one year in Licking county, and settled in the southern part of Miller township, a short distance west of the Vance settlement. Mr. Thompson died here. His widow subsequently married John Row, and died in the township.

The subject of this notice has always resided in the township, except a very few years. He married Rachel Tush in 1830, who was a native of Virginia. They had eight children, two daughters and six sons. Two died while young. The living are Virgil, Elizabeth (wife of D. W. A. Cunningham), John, Lewis, James, and Thomas.

Virgil was born April 16, 1831, in Miller township. He went to Iowa in 1856, and remained about five years. He subsequently removed to Indiana and remained until 1869, when he again returned to Miller township, where he has since resided, being engaged in farming. He is successful in his undertakings and reliable in his business.

THOMPSON, ROBERT, president of the Knox County Mutual Fire Insurance company, Mt. Vernon, Ohio, was born in county Fermanagh, Ireland, May 5, 1814. His youth was spent ona farm. His parents came to the United States in 1831, when the subject of this sketch was about seventeen years of age. When about twenty-one years:of age he commenced working at the carpentering business, which he followed until about 1850, when he went into the grocery business in Mt. Vernon, and followed that until 1863, when, on account of failing health, he sold out his business. He was very successful in the grocery line. In 1862 he was appointed internal revenue collector of the thirteenth district, (Knox county) Ohio, which he held until 1867, when he resigned. He dealt quite extensively in agricultural implements between 1867 and 1876. In July, 1876, he was elected president of the Knox Mutual, and was also a director of the same company for ten years previous to his election as president. He also travelled for the same

THOMPSON, MATHEW, M.D., Mt. Vernon, was born in Ireland May 10, 1816, emigrated to the United States with his parents in 1831, and located in Knox county. He made a profession of religion, and united with the Methodist Protestant church in 1837. He graduated from the Medical university of New Yorkin 1842, and entered upon the practice of his profession in 1844 in company with Dr. J. W. Russel, with whom self, having established a high reputation as a physician and gentleman. He associated with him in practice, Dr. Smith, deceased, with whom he continued until his death which occured June 19, 1867.

He was married May 15, 1851, to Miss Phebe Veach, of this county, by whom he had a family of four children. Mrs. Thompson was the third daughter of Peter Veach, one among the early settlers of Knox county.

Doctor Thompson, as a physician, was highly proficient and successful, and had the universal esteem and confdence of his brother physicians, and as a man he, in his daily life and conduct, exemplified the Christian character, and was profuse in his liberality to the church in all her various benevolent enterprises, for the advancement of religion and for the amelioration of the condition of man. He was beloved and esteemed by all who knew him.

THOMPSON, JOHN D., of Mt. Vernon, treasurer of the Cleveland, Mt. Vernon & Delaware railroad company, was born in the county Fermanagh, Ireland, in 1821, the fourth son of Irvine Thompson, a farmer.

Having emigrated to the United States in 1831, the family proceeded to Ohio and settled in Mt. Vernon. Although far from being a wealthy man, Irvine Thompson had each of his five sons well educated, three of them being fitted at his expense for the several professions of their choice - the ministry, medicine and the law.

The subject of this sketch, having received a fair education, and contented to work on his father's farm, did so until he became a farmer on his own land.

In 1852 he went to California, and returned to this county in 1854, and continued to cultivate his farm. While thus engaged he was nominated and elected county auditor in 1862, a position he filled with credit to himself and profit to the State. He was the first Democrat that had been elected in the county for the previous ten years. He was nominated to this office without his knowledge, and in like manner he was nominated and elected in 1869 to represent the county in the Ohio legislature. In the same year he was appointed to the office he yet fills. At the close of his legislative term he declined a second nomination, and devoted himself to the interests of the company whose treasurer he is.

Something may be learned of Mr. Thompson's activity in business from the number of responsible positions he held. For while he was treasurer of the railroad he was also treasurer of the Knox County Savings bank, the Mt. Vernon Savings Loan and Building association, the Knox County Agricultural society, the Eagle Mutual Fire Insurance company, and president of the Ohio Mutual Aid association.

His great modesty of bearing has caused him to decline nominations for various offices his friends and neighbors sought him to fill, including nominations to represent his district in Congress offered him in 1876, and again in 1878, as one of the staunch supporters of the Democratic party.

Although not a professor of religion, he practices the precepts of Christianity in his daily life, being to all objects and enterprises a liberal contributor, and the true and substantial friend of the weak and of the oppressed.

In 1864 he married Miss Priscilla, second daughter of James S. Banning, of Mt. Vernon, and whose family is one of the oldest and most substantial of the county.

THOMPSON, M. D., SAMUEL C., was born in Cadiz, Ohio, January 21, 1824. His father, Robert C., and his mother, Ann Cochran, were born and married in Washington, now Alleghany county, Pennsylvania. They came to Ohio about 1823. They subsequently returned to Pennsylvania and died in their native county. :

The subject of this notice attended the common schools, and several terms at Du Quesne college, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was clerk on a steamboat on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. At about twenty-one years of age he began reading medicine. He was taken sick, and while confined to his room, his physician, Dr. Sheldon, of McKeesport, Pennsylvania, furnished him with books, which he read. After his recovery he continued reading until he was about twenty-four years of age, then entered the university of Louisville, Kentucky, and graduated in 1849. After he finished his course of lectures he practiced in Louisville; Kentucky, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and New Philadelphia, Ohio. In 1864, he came to Mt. Vernon, Ohio, where he has In 1854 he changed his practice from allopathic to homceopathic. He is one of the trustees and the examining physician of the Mt. Vernon Mutual Aid association. In April, 1869, he married Miss Malinda Ward, daughter of Dr. Truman

THOMPSON, THOMAS, Wagonmaker. He was born in Clearfield county, Pennsylvania, in 1830, and came to Holmes county, Ohio in 1834; remained there till 185s, then came to Brownsville, Knox county, where he engaged in working at wagonmaking. In 1868 he moved to Fredericktown. He married Sarah Robinson, who was born in Muskingum county in 1837. They have two children: Lavisa 'fer born July 7, 1858, and Hattie B., born September 10, 1863. Mr. Thompson is engaged at present in the carriage shops of W. E. Gibson, of Fredericktown, and is a skilful workman. His father, Benjamin Thompson, was born in Union county, Pennsylvania, November 30, 1801, and was married to Sarah 'Ligget, who was born in Centre county, Pennsylvania, October 5, 1798. They had the following family: James, born December 20, 1825; Lavisa, March 17, 1827; George, February 17, 1828; Thomas L. and Davis' (twins), December 5, 1830; Margaret, December 28, 1835; Cyrus, deceased, and Mary M., the last of whom was born June 15, 1840.

Mr. Thompson came to Holmes county, Ohio, in 1835, and remained there sixteen years, then moved to Ashland county, remaining there sixteen years. In 1867 he came to Fredericktown, where he now resides.

THOMPSON, REV. WILLIAM, was born in county Tyrone, Ireland, in 1834, where he resided and received his preparatory education, until about fourteen years of age, when he emigrated with his parents to America and settled at Circleville, Ohio, where he attended school. In 1853 he entered the preparatory department of Kenyon college, at which institution he graduated in 1858. He then entered the seminary, and graduated in 1861. Shortly after he was ordained a deacon and appointed by the bishop to a mission in northern Ohio, where he remained two years. In 1862 he was ordained priest, and in the fall of 1863 was called to the rectorship of St. Peter's church, Gallipolis, Ohio, where he remained three years, when he was called to Kewanee, Illinois, as rector of St. John's church, where he remained three years, when he received a call to Grace church at Galesburgh, Illinois, where he remained two years, when he went to Cincinnatiand took temporary charge of Trinity church one year. In 1872he came to Mt. Vernon and took charge of St. Paul's church.

THRIFT, ABSALOM, Fredericktown, retired, is a native of Loudoun county, Virginia, came to Ohio in 1808, and was married to Amanda Brown, who was born in Charlotteville, Virginia. They had nine children. He has been longer in business here than any other person. For several years he conducted the leading dry goods trade of the place. In March, 1875, his store, building and contents were consumed by fire, by which he sustained a loss of ten thousand dollars, having no insurance. He was elected sheriff of Knox county in 1842, and reelected in 1844. He filled the office with ability and credit. While filling this position he was also deputy United States marshal, and held this position for eight years.

A. B. Thrift, son of Mr. Absalom Thrift, now occupies the same store room, in which he carries on the merchant tailoring business. He is a workman of experience and skill and keeps a full line of cloths, cassimeres, suitings, vestings, gents' furnishing goods, ladies' hosiery, cuffs, collars, etc. His goods and styles will always be found up with the times, and his prices will compare favorably with any similar merchant tailor in this section of the State. He does the leading business of this section, giving employment to three experienced hands, and guaranteeing perfect fits in all cases. His store room is twenty-five by fifty-five feet in size, and located on the corner of Main and College strgets.

Absalom Thrift, though advanced in years, is an active business man, and takes a lively interest in all matters promising public improvement. His father, William Thrift, was born in Fairfax, Virginia, came to Ohio, Knox county, in 1808, and was one of the pioneer Baptist ministers. He preached in Licking, Coshocton, Muskingum and Knox counties, and continued his iabors in the ministry until his death. He was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, entering it at the age of sixteen years.

TILTON, REV. A. H. is the son of Warren Tilton, of Easton, Washington county, New York, and was born March 17, 1808. He remained at home until his twentieth year and received a good school education. At the age of twenty he went to Oneida county and engaged in cabinet-making, which business he followed three years. During this time he determined to devote himself to the ministry, and engaged in the regular course of theological reading prescribed by the bishops of the Methodist Episcopal church. In 1831 he was licensed to preach, and travelled on the Westmoreland circuit.

He was married to Miss H. M. Lovejoy, daughter of Joseph Lovejoy of Cambridge, Washington county, New York, born November 14, 1809, in September, 1833, by whom he had three children: Caroline M. born October 3, 1834; James A., August 8, 1836; George H., December 2, 1842.

In May, 1855, Mr. Tilton came to Mt. Vernon, Ohio, where he has made his home ever since, but has travelled extensively as agent of the American Bible society, preaching on the way. From 1835 until the downfall of slavery Mr. Tilton never lost an opportunity of raising his voice against that institution, and all through the war of the Rebellion was an uncompromising Republican. Of his children, Caroline died May 14, 1860, James A. is general ticket and freight agent on the Cleveland, Mt. Vernon & Columbus railroad. George H. is engaged in merchandising in Mt. Vernon.

TILTON, J. A., Mt. Vernon, was born August 8, 1836, in Onondaga county, New York, and moved with his parents to a number of different places, and at the age of fifteen years he left home and went to learn printing. He was first at Rome, New York, and then went to the office of the Buffalo Christian Advocate, after which he attended school at Lima, New York, and then went to Genessee college, where he remained four years. After leaving school he went to work on the Lima Weekly Visttor for a short time, then came to Ohio and was employed on the Ohzo State Feurnal at Columbus, where he remained about nine months, when he came to Mt. Vernon, where his parents had located. In 1857 he went to Kansas and Missouri, and was foreman in a printing office at West Point, Missouri, where he remained one year, then went to Kansas City and worked on the Kansas City Yournal of Commerce. He then took charge of the Manhattan Express as foreman, where he remained about one year, then came back to Mt. Vernon and established the Knox County £xpress, under the firm name of Agnew & Tilton, in which they continued one year. He then enlisted in company B, Fourth Ohio volunteer infantry for

1862 and engaged in the printing business until 1863. In March he enlisted in comprny E, Twentieth Ohio volunteer infantry and remained until the close of the war, when he returned to Mt. Vernon; was appointed chief clerk of the internal revenue assessor of the thirteenth district; then was appointed assistant, after which he was appointed to the special mail service, in which he remained until the spring of 1874, when he was appointed clerk in the auditor's office of the Cleveland, Mt. Vernon & Columbus railroad, which place he held until 1875, when he was appointed general ticket and freight agent, which position he now holds.

TILTON, DANIEL M., Brown township, farmer, son of Josephus and Sabina Tilton, was born in Jefferson township, this county, August 29, 1838. His education was that obtained in a select school taught by Professor Burns, at Millwood, this county. He taught one term of school in district number four, Brown township, in 1861. -He served in the One Hundred and Forty-second Ohio National guard, one hundred and twenty days in the late war. He has made farming his principal vocation. He has also been engaged in the saw-mill business to some extent.

Mr, Tilton has been married twice, first in 1859 to Miss Caroline Hagaman, of this county, daughter of George and Nancy Hagaman. They settled on a farm one mile anda half west of Jelloway. Their union resulted in seven children - five sons and two danghters. His companion deceased in June, 1870, leaving seven small children to his care. In1871 he purchased and moved on the farm near Jelloway, Brown township, this county, where he now resides.

Mr. Tilton's second marriage was with Mrs. Isabella Watson, #e¢ Dunn, of Licking county, Ohio, in December, 1872, by which marriage he has two children - one son and one daughter.

TILTON, ASBURY J., farmer, born in Jefferson township September 22, 1840. Elijah Tilton, his grandfather, was an early settler in Muskingum county, Ohio. By his marriage he had thirteen sons and three daughters, of whom five sons and one daughter are living, and among whom is Josephus S., father of our subject, who was born October 1, 1811, thirteen miles north of Zanesville. In 1812 his father, Elijah, moved north of where Dresden now stands. He moved to Newcastle township, Coshocton county. In 1817 he moved to Jackson township, Knox county.

Elijah Tilton being poor and having a large family, he could not, in those early times, give his children the advantages of much schooling, as their help was needed in clearing up the ground. Thus Josephus S. spent his youth to manhood; and among his earliest recollections was seeing the Indians pass his father's house on their way to Zanesville to trade. He remained at home assisting his parents, until the fall of 1832. Being then twenty-one years old, he launched his bark and commenced life's voyage. His first work for himself was at the mouth of Owl creek, for one Walter Turner, who was cleaning up a large tract of land.

_In the spring of 1833 Mr. Turner put him in charge of his canal-boat Dresden. He remained during the summer on the canal. He clerked fora short time in his brother's store in Newark, and the summer of 1834 worked at various things, and ia the fall took quite an extensive trip through the State on foot. The summer of 1835 he was engaged in clearing land and raising tobacco.

July 6, 1835, he married Sabina Jones. She was born Feb- Tuary 15, 1815, in Muskingum county, Ohio, January, 1835, he moved five miles north of Danville, settling on one of the forks of the Jelloway, where hé purchased a small tract of land. He remained on this land until April, 1880, when he moved to Rosstown. On the farm ten children were born: J. S., D. M., A. J., Mary E., Maria J., Julia A.; M. C., who died when fifteen months old; Sabena, who died in infancy; Rebecca E., who died in her nineteenth year, and J. R.

Mr. Tilton's first vote was cast for Andrew Jackson for President. In 1833 he became dissatisfied with the extension of slavery, and heving read the life and writings of Thomas Jef- He vated for James G. Birney in 1840, and again in 1844, he being the liberty candidate. He suffered much persecution for his political views. He voted with the Republican party in 1856, and still adheres to that party.

In 1862 Mr. Tilton became one of the incorporators of the Farmers' Fire Insurance company, of Jelloway. In 1871 he severed his connection with the company. He organized the Farmers' Home Insurance company, a stock company, was a stockholder and its president for seven years, declining a reelection. He was also an incorporator of the Buckeye Mutual Aid asseciation, of Danville.

Mr. Tilton is a strong advocate of temperance. As early as 1833 he abandoned the use of all intoxicating drinks, and was the first man in the community to do away with the use of whiskey at gatherings.

The subject of our notice, Asbury J., was reared ona farm, receiviug a common school education. Farming has been his occupation. He served in the war, being a member of company F, One Hundred and Forty-second regiment, Ohio National guard. In 1865 he moved from Jefferson township to where he now resides. November 2, 1865, he married Mary E. Doup. They had five children. Mr. Tilton is a man of general information.

TIMS, ANDREW W., Liberty township, farmer, was born in Morris county, New Jersey, September 2, 1835. His parents, James W. and Sarah Tims, zee Cook, came to Ohio in 1849, and settled in Bloomfield township, Knox county, now Morrow county, where they yet reside. They had ten children, six of whom are living. :

The subject of this notice was reared on a farm and attended the schools of the district. Mr. Tims is one of the most systematic and careful farmers in Liberty township, or in fact, in the county. His farm shows judicious and careful cultivation. Mr. Tims is well informed upon all general topics, is a good thinker and a debater of no mean ability.

He married Miss Minerva J. Hewett in April, 1862; she was born in 1843. They have two children: Wilmer A., born October 12, 1863, and Jessie M., August 28, 1867. Mrs. Tims died in the fall of 1880. She was an estimable lady.

TISH, GEORGE W., Berlin township, farmer, post office, Fredericktown, born in Millwood, Knox county, September 25, 1842, and was married in 1866, to Livona Weston, who was born in Fredericktown, Ohio, January 24, 1844. They have two sons: Charlie, born June 13, 1868, and Freddie, January 16, 1876. :

He wa' a soldier in the late war, a member of company B, Ninety-sixth regiment Ohio volunteer infantry, and was in the © following engagements: Chickasaw Bluffs, Mississippi, Decem- ber 28, 1862; Fort Hindman, January 11, 1863; Siege of Vicksburgh, from May 28, 1863, until July 4, 1863; Jackson, Mississipi, July roth to July 17, 1863; Battle of Grand Coteau, November 3, 1863; Siege of Fort Gains, Alabama, from August 3rd to August 9, 1864; Fort Morgan, Alabama, from August gth to August 23, 1864; Fort Spanish, Alabama, fror March 27th to April 8, 1865, and Mobile, Alabama, April 12, 1865. He was honorably discharged, and has resided in Berlin township for a period of eleven years.

During the war he was taken prisoner November 3, 1863, and was paroled December 25, 1863, and exchanged in May, 1864. He was a prisoner five months. He was a corporal of company B, One Hundred and Ninety-sixth Ohio volunteer infantry.

TISH, FRENCH, farmer, post office, Fredericktown, was born in Harrison township, Knox county, Ohio, in 1853, and was married in April, 1875, to Julisa McKinsey, who was born in Brown township in 1847. They have one son: Walter Clinton, who was born November 30, 1876.

TOBIN, MATILDA, Middlebury township, was born in Guernsey county, Ohio. Wesley Tobin, her father, came to this county in 1852. They hada family of nine children, Mr. Wesley Tobin died in this township in October, 1865.. Mrs. Barbara Tobin died in 1863, in this township.

TOMS, WILLIAM, Berlin township, miller, post office, Shaler's Mills, was born in Beaver county, Pennsylvania, in 1826. His parents emigrated to Wayne county, Ohio, when he was an infant, remained there fourteen years, and then came to Ashland county (formerly Richland).

He was married in Richland county in 1853, to Elizabeth Schrack, who was born in Richland county in 1833, daughter of Charles Schrack. They had eight children, James Allen, born in 1853; John K., in 1855; William W., in 1859; Herschel O., in 1860; Sarah Ann, deceased; Lena -May, born in 1865; Charles S., in 1867; and Nina Myrta, in 1871.

Mr. Toms learned the milling business with his father, and afterwards worked in the Schrack mill. He then went to Newville and purchased a farm, and has been engaged at farming eight years. In 1870 he purchased Shaler's mill, and has since been engaged in operating it.

Charles Schrack, father of Mrs. Toms, was born in Pennsylvania in 1790, and married Susannah Kerstetter, who was born in Pennsylvania in 1795. They had nine children - Jacob, born in 1821; George (deceased), in 1824; Margaret, in 1820; Sarah, in 1828; Phebe, in 1830; Elizaheth, in 1832; Catharine, in 1835; John (deceased), and Mary Helen in 1840.

Charles Schrack died in Monroe township, Richland county, December 10, 1860. Mrs. Susannah Schrack resides with her son Jacob in Monroe township, Richland county. They came to that township and settled in 1820, and were among the early settlers and pioneers of that county.

TONENS, JAMES, farmer, Morris township, born in county Donegal, Ireland, December 26, 1828. His ancesters came from Scotland, about 1806. The subject of this sketch was reared on a farm and received a common education. He remained in Ireland until September 10, 1864, when he emigrated to the United States and settled in Licking county, Ohio, where he remained one year, and in 1865 purchased the farm on which he now resides. He married Miss Mary McClure, February 7, 1847. They had eight children, viz: Margaret Ann, married to Alexander Fletcher, of Scott county, Iowa; Frank, it is supposed was abducted at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he had gone to dispose of sheep in 1871; Mary Jane married James R. Stewart; Matilda, Belle, Thomas John, David, and James. Mr. Tonens is a consistent member of the Reformed Presbyterian church, and is an estimable citizen.

TRAHERN, ALEXANDER, Fredericktown, cabinet-maker, was born in Knox county in 1850. He was married in 1871 to Eliza Ball, who was born in Virginia. They have two children - Carrie, born in 1872; Walter, born in 1874.

TRESSEL, MATTHIAS, Union township, mechanic, post office, Danville. - He was born in Prussia, January 30, 1833, and emigrated to America in 1854, and settled in Cleveland, where he remained two and a half years.

During this time he visited Germany, and on his return, in 1858, settled in Mt. Vernon. He was there a year and married Miss W. Smith, of Germany. She only lived about three years, being the mother of two children - Clara and Mary. He married Mary E. Sappin 1861, who was born in Danville. He settled in Danville in 1859 and worked at-his trade. In 1878 he bought and moved upon a farm, where he still lives. He has five children - Clara, born September 29, 1859; Sarah, in July, 1866; U.S. Grant, September 7, 1869; Charles Wilson, September 7, 1873; and Louisa Jane, in 1876.

TRICKLE, JOHN, Fredericktown, blacksmith, was born in this county in 1849, and was married in 1871 to Eliza Jane Kulb, who was born in this county in 1850. They have the following children: Andrew, born in 1873; Samuel R. H., in 1875. Andrew died May 6, 1878.

Mr. Trickle learned carriage-ironing with the firm of W. E. Gibson, and has been engaged at that business, in this town, for about sixteen years.

TRIMBLE FAMILY. - John Trimble, sr., was born near Carlisle, Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, and emigrated to Ohio in the year 1801, and located near Lancaster, Fairfield county. At that time Fairfield county comprised all the territory included in Fairfield, Licking and Knox counties. He resided there until 1809, when in the fall of that year he came and located in what is now Morris township, five miles north of Mt. Vernon, where he attacked the forest to transform it into productive fields. He took an active part in everything that was for the promotion of good and the development and best interests of the pioneers and community, of whom he wasone. He assisted in building the first log cabin in Mansfield. He was a soldier in the War of 1812, where he served with credit to himself. He was also associate judge, and served the people as justice of the peace for many years. He was a staunch Presbyterian, and was an elder in the first Presbyterian church of the county. He died in the year 1845, aged sixty. six years. His wife died in 1865, in the eighty-fifth year of her age.

John Trimble, jr., was but three years old when his father located in this county, consequently he has seen all the important changes this county has undergone. He received such an education as the times afforded, getting most of his education by studying at home by the light of hickory bark. The first school he attended was in a little log stable that was neither chinked or daubed, and when it was cold they had to suspend school. The early part of his life was spent in helping to clear away the forest, and in learning the tanner trade, after which he gave his attention principally to farming until 1834, when he came to Mt. Vernon, having purchased property here in 1831. After his arrival in the city he engaged in the carpenter business and farming, which he conducted for several years. He' then engaged in the chandlery business, in which he continued about seven 'years, and during which he did quite an extensive business. During the last two years of this time he had two shops, one in Mt. Vernon and one at Zanesville, and during these two years he manufactured one hundred tons of candles per year. He had to quit the business on account of his health, after which he engaged in farming.

Mr. Trimble has been thrice married. He was first married July x5, 1835, to Nancy G. Drake, by whom he had one child; was married to his second wife Eliza Day, April 14, 1841, by whom he had five children. His third wife was Ruth H. Boyd, to whom he was married May 27, 1872, who still survives to comfort him in his declining days. Mr. Trimble has beena citizen of the county seventy-one years, and of Mt. Vernon forty-six years.

TRIMBLE, SAMUEL, Union township, post office, Millwood; born in Alleghany county, Maryland, February 16, 1804. In 1829 he was married to Susa Hammon; in 1838 he moved to Knox county, Ohio, and lived in Millwood for a year then moved to his present farm in 1840. He has nine children, viz: Mary, born April 22, 1830; John, December 28, 1831; Elizabeth, April 22, 1833; Enoch, September 18, 1836; Henry, April 21, 1839; Solomon, February 27, 1841; Eloyza, April 27, 1843; Mariah, March: 25, 1849, and Josephine, October 25, 1853. All are married except Josephine, who is at home. ' Mr. Trimble's wife was born September 7, 1813, in Maryland. Enoch 'Taimble, his son, enlisted in the late war, from Iowa, in the cavalry; he went with Captain S. D. Bryant's company, served his time, and returned to Iowa where he still resides.

TRIMBLE, JOSEPH, College township, farmer, son of Professor John Trimble, was born in Ireland July 10, 1837. He was brought to America by his parents in 1851, who located in Gambier. His father, Professor John Trimble, accepted the professorship of Latin and Greek, in Kenyon college, which position he filled with honor to himself, and credit to the institution for about twenty-five years. In 1879, on account of failing health and advanced age, he was compelled to resign the position and live a retired life. He died on the twenty-third of April, 1878, leaving eight children to mourn the loss of a kind father, viz: James, John, Sarah, Elizabeth, Mary, Joseph, Mathew, and Anna. Mr. Joseph Trimble married Miss Margaret Sawer October 1, 1863, daughter of James and Sophia Sawer, of Gambier, born November 6, 1836. They settled in College township, where they now reside. He has followed farming, stock raising and dealing in stock as his vocation. At present he is conducting a farm of two hundred acres in College township.

TRUMBULL, E. A., carriage manufacturer, West Chestnut street, residence on West High streét. Mr. Trumbull isa native of Mt. Vernon, where he received his education and made his first business engagement in learning carriage painting, at which he served three years, he then entered the employ of his father, with whom he remained three years, after which he engaged with the firm of C. & G. Cooper & Co; he remained in their employ for four and a half years, during which time, in 1872, he married M. A. Bedell, of Mt. Vernon. In June, 1873, he established the carriage business at his present location, where he has been doing a good business ever since. He manufactures all kinds and grades of single and double carriages and light wagons. He builds from twenty-five to thirty vehicles per year, and does a business in the different departments of about four thousand dollars per annum. He manufactures two grades of work; his first grade is first-class and is not excelled in the county, his second grade is good, substantial work in every way, and far excels the work known as Cincinnati and Columbus buggies.

All work is guaranteed for two years. He carries on all the different departments of the business, wood-work, iron-work, painting, trimming, and silver plating, all of which is done under his immediate supervision.

TUCKER, JONES, deceased, Union township, was born in Somerset county, Pennsylvania, on the twenty-seventh day of December, 1806. He was brought to Knox county, Ohio, by his parents, William and Rachel Tucker. in 1811, who settled in Union township near Mt. Holly or Gann station. William Tucker erected a log cabin which served his family as an abode for a number of years. He followed clearing, farming, hunting, and fishing as his vocation. There weré but few settlers in the neighborhood, and they were far apart at the time of Mr. Tucker's settlement in the township. His wife deceased, leaving him with seven children to care for in their forest home, viz: John, Jones, Obediah, Thomas, Runnicks, James, and Elizabeth, all dead. He married for his second wife a Mrs. Smith, and they moved to Auglaize county, Ohio, where he passed the remainder of his days.

Jones Tucker married Catharine, a daughter of John and Elizabeth Welker, July 27, 1826; she was born May 30, 1809. They settled in Union township, where they lived eleven years, and in 1837, he, with his wife and children, emigrated to IIlinois. They reared a family of seven children - Elizabeth, Barnett, William, John, Wilson, Mary F., and James. His companion died in 1845. After her death, he, with four of the children, Barnett, William, John, and Wilson, returned to Knox county, Ohio, where a part of the children are now living. He served one year in the Mexican war, and was discharged at its close. In 1851 or 1852 he returned to Illinois, where he died in August, 1870. He served two years in the war of 1861 in an Illinois regiment.

His oldest son, Barnett Tucker, was born in Knox county, Ohio, February 9, 1831, and married Miss Margaret M. Meredith, November 27, 1853, daughter of Benjamin and Delila Meredith, born August 6, 1836. They settled in Millwood, where they lived several years. .In 1861 he purchased and moved on the farm where they are now living in Union township. They have two children, daughters. He is a cabinetmaker by trade, and followed that as his vocation, until his settlement on the farm in 1861, and since that time has made farming and stock-raising his occupation.

TUCKER, JOHN, Union township, third son of Jones and Catharine Tucker, was born in Union township, Knox county, Ohio, January 15, 1837. He commenced working at the cabinet trade in 1856, and has made that his principal vocation, carrying on the business in Millwood.

Millwood, where they are now living. They have one child, a son. In 1871 he purchased the hotel stand in which they are now living, and entertain the travelling community. Good accommodations given to travellers, and all who wish to stop with them. The place is known as the Tucker house. His cabinet rooms are in the same building, and prompt attention is given to all work in his line. He has filled the office of justice of the peace two terms, and postmaster at Millwood five years, and also held various township offices.

TULLOSS FAMILY. - John J. Tulloss, the progenitor of the Tulloss family in Knox county, was born in Farquier county, Virginia, September 6, 1783, where he remained until 1807, when he moved to Newark. He made the first brick in the village, was school teacher and farmer, and served as captain in the War of 1812. He returned to Virginia, where in 1815 he married Elizabeth Honey, and returned; locating in Morgan township, where he had purchased some five hundred acres of land. He became an influential and highly respected citizen, and died in 1841. His wife died in 1869. They hada family of nine children, eight of whom grew up, and six are still living, viz: Mrs. Ann Seymour, Mrs. Elizabeth Stevens, Richard S., John J., Susan and Benjamin. The deceased are William, Rodham, and an infant.

Richard S. was born June 13, 1819. He was reared on the farm; and after his father's death took charge of the farm. He was elected to the Constitutional convention of Ohio in 1873, and served on the committees of privileges and elections, on preamble and bill of rights, and on agriculture. He has filled a number of the township offices. He is an influential citizen, and is highly esteemed for his socical qualities and straight forward business transactions.

John J., farmer in Morgan township, was born September 11, 1820. He was reared' on the old homesiead, and has always resided in Morgan township, being engaged in farming. October 24, 1844, he married Miss Caroline Smith, daughter of James H. Smith, who was born April 8, 1826. They hada family of eight children, viz: Emily born August 1, 1845, and died October 24, 1861; Byram L., December 9, 1846, a druggist in Utica; John J:, September 27, 1848, died April 3, 1879; Reese P., October 24, 1852, resides in Putnam county, Ohio; Benjamin F., October 3, 1854, now in Texas; George W., March 21, 1856; Cynthia A., April 3, 1858; Caroine C., August 22, 1861.

TURNER, WILLIAM, Mt. Vernon, secretary of the Knox County Mutual Insurance company, was born in Nortolk county, England, in December, 1813. He spent his youth while in England in farming and milling. He was the first child of Walter and Sarah Turner. He came to America in 1832, with his parents, who purchased land in Coshocton county, on the Walhonding river, where the town of Walhonding now is. He purchased a large tract of land - some four thousand acres. In the crash of 1837 he was carried with it, losing all.

About 1835 the subject of this sketch went into the store of Buckingham & Sturgis, Zanesville (or rather Putnam then), and retained that position for three years. He came to Mt. Vernon in 1839, and opened a store under the firm name of Freeman & Turner, and about a year after the name of the firm was changed to Buckingham & Turner. Mr. Buckingham was president of the Knox Mutual and brother-in-law of Mr. Turner. On the resignation of the secretary of the company, Mr. Turner was elected to fill the place by the board of directors, which position he has held ever since.

He was married to Miss Laura Guernsey, of Rochester, New York, in 1841. They have had four children, three of whom are living - one son and two daughters. His wife died and he afterward married Mrs. Julia Guernsey, zee Palmer.

ULREY, VALENTINE, farmer, post office, Gambier, son of David Ulrey, born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, April 29, 1814, was brought to Knox county, in 1817 when a child three years, old by his parents, they locating in Harrison township, where the subject of this sketch was reared to manhood and received a good common school education; after which he performed labor among the farmers by the day, month and by the job, which he continued about six years.

In 1840 he made a trip to Illinois, where he remained unti] 1843; being engaged in school teaching. Hereturned to Knox county, where he remained a short time, and then purchased a half interest in a grist-mill, located in or near Oxford, Holmes county, which was conducted under the firm name of Thompson & Ulrey. He also followed farming in connection in 1862. He then sold his interest in the mill to John Duncan, but still remained two years in Oxford, continuing to farm. |

In 1848, March 23, he married Elizabeth Bucklew, who bore him one child, a son, Eugene, born April 17, 1855. On the thirtieth of August, 1856, she died, being in her thirty-second year. On the twenty-fourth of June, 1858, he married Lydia A. Close, widow of Maiachi Close, a daughter of Samuel Uhl, born in Holmes county, June 30, 1827. This union of Mr. and Mrs. Ulrey resulted in five children, viz: Mary J., born September 2, 1859; William A., February 28, 186x; LauraS., December 28, 1862; David S., November 11, 1868, and died November 2, 1871; Margaret E., December 28, 1870, and died September 4, 1873, leaving three children living.

In 1864 he sold his farm and property in Oxford and purchased a farm in Knox county, two miles south of Danville, where he then moved with his family and remained four years, when he sold said farm, purchased the old homestead formerly owned by his father, in Harrison township, where he then moved and at present resides.

UMPHRYES, IRA, Pike township, farmer, post office, North Liberty; born in Knox county in 1841, and was married to Martha Gower, who was born in this county in 1852. His father, Jacob Umphreys, was born in Virginia in 1801, and was married to Martha Johnson. They had seven children: Margaret, Elizabeth, Catharine, Keziah, Ruth (deceased), Mary Je (deceased), and Henry (deceased). After the death of Mrs. Martha Umphryes, Mr. Umphryes married Mary A. Wallace, and they have had four children: Josephine, Ellet, May, and Ira. Mr. Umphryes emigrated to Licking county, Ohio, in 1804 with his parents, and they remained there a few years, then came to Knox county, and remained here until his death, which took place in March, 1880. He was a good citizen and a stanch Democrat, as are ali his sons.

county, Ohio, June 18, 1820. His parents came to this county in 1828 and located in Middlebury township near Fredericktown where he received his education. He spent several years of his life on the home farm, after which he learned the potter trade, which he fullowed until 1846. He then went to Fredericktown and engaged in the hotel busimess for one year, after which he engaged in the sale of clocks and general collecting in which he continued until 1854, when he came to Mt. Vernon, and that year was appointed deputy sheriff under Lewis Strong, in which he served two years; and in 1856 he was nominated_ and elected to the office of sheriff, in which he served four years and three months. He served three months in consequence of the time of the expiration of said office being changed from October rst to January rst. He was the first one in the county to-respond to the first call for troops, enlisting in April, 1861; he was a member of company A, Ohio volunteer infantry, which was the first company organized in the county, and was assigned to the Fourth Ohio volunteer infantry. He was commissioned first lieutenant, and afterwards made regimental quartermaster, and in 1862 was promoted to captain and was detailed on General Kimball's staff as brigade commissary. In 1863, in consequence of ill health, he resigned and returned home, and in 1864 he, in company with his brother, took charge of the Main Street Exchange hotel of Fort Wayne, Indiana, where he remained one year, then returned to Mt. Vernon and has since been in the employ of different railroad companies as solicitor of railroad stocks, the right of way, etc., etc.

VAIN, BENJAMIN F., Pike township, farmer, post office, Democracy, born in Pike township, this county, on the farm where he now resides, in 1840, and was married in 1864 to Elizabeth L. Hardesty, who was born in Coshocton county, Ohio, in 1841. They had eight children - Theodore E., born in 1865; Jerusha A., in 1867; Marion Jasper, in 1868; Hannah Jane in 1869 (deceased); Millie Blanch, in 1871; Charlie A., in 1874; William Ray, in 1876; and Earnest A., in 1878. Mr. Vain has always been identified with this county, and is a member of a pioneer family.

VANCE, DANIEL, Miller township, pioneer farmer, was born in Miller township July 14, 1813, and is the oldest man now living in the township that was born in it. His father was John Vance, a native of Rockingham county, Virginia, born August 9, 1785. He married Rebecca Van Trump, a native of the same county, Virginia, in 1808. He came to Ohio in the same year in company with his father, whose name was also John, and a soldier of the Revolution. They all settled in what is now the southern part of Miller township, where John Vance, sr., had entered two hundred acres of land, and of which John purchased sixty acres, to which he subsequently added one hundred more. He died on this farm, aged eighty-nine years. His wife died some years previous. They built the first house in the township in 1808-9. It is of hewed logs, and still stands in a good state of preservation. They had eight children, viz.: Lemuel, who was killed in the Burlington storm; Hannah, now Mrs. Houck, who was the first white child born in the township; James, who was also killed in the Burlington storm; Daniel, who had a leg fractured in the same storm; Elizabeth, wife of H. Moore of Delaware county, Ohio; Mariah, wife of William Debolt, near Richwood, Ohio; Rebecca, widow of L. C. Wright; Lucinda, now deceased, married Alex. McFarland.

Mr. Daniel Vance married Miss Elizabeth Daily, January 9, 1840. She was bom February 17, 1818. They had five children, viz.: Harriet (deceased); Rebecca, married J. B. Conway; John Oscar, married Miss Ward; Mary Elizabeth, who lives at home; Emma, died in infancy.

VANCE, JOSEPH W., was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, in 1809. In the spring of 1840 he removed to Mt. Vernon. In 1842 he was admitted to the bar; he rose rapidly in his profession, and soon attained a high position as an advocate. He made a profession of religion and united with the Presbyterian church in 1846. As a Christian and church officér he was intelligent, consistent, and efficient. As aman his individuality was strongly marked. For firmness in what he thought was right, for decision of purpose and persevering energy he was remarkable. His power of will was immense. In fitting himself for his work he had many difficulties to contend with, but he did not despair. He looked at them boldly and grappled with them manfully; he persevered until moutains became plains before him. He had a keen sense of justice, and that which is always asssociated with in a man of principle, incorruptible integrity. As a citizen he was influential. He was not one of that class that simply move along with the current of public opinion; he gave character and direction to that current; he helped mould opinions. On every question that concerned the community in which he lived, or society in general, he had decided views and convictions, based upon an investigation of the subject, and on most questions he was generally in advance of the common sentiment. This was especially true on the subject of slavery. He was one of the first advocates of anti-slavery sentiments in this county. For a time he stood almost alone, and received no little obliquy and censure. But he believed himself in the right, and in that right he was strong.

As a lawyer his strength lay in the force of his arguments in the presence ofajury. Here he won many a laurel. His ardent nature gave to his address an earnestness and fire which many times told with wonderful effect. He had the raie faculty of becoming one with his client, it mattered not who that client was, or what his circumstances in a financial point of view, of identifying himself with all that was fair and good on the side he advocated, which gave him great advantage in doubtful cases, and armed him with unusual power when right lay on his side. Entering thus so ardently into the cause he advocated, sympathizing thus warmly with his client in what there was of truth and justice in his cause, he could press his suit with that sincerity of conviction and earnestness of personal feeling which always have such great weight with men.

He was a true patriot. When his country was assailed he had but one end in view, to uphold his country's honor. In August, 1862, he was commissioned Colonel of the Ninety-sixth Ohio volunteer infantry, and soon thereafter marched with his regiment to the front, and was under General Sherman in the first - attempt to take Vicksburg. At Arkansas Post his regiment was in the thickest of the fight. It was also in the engagement at Jackson, Mississippi, and participated in the final siege and capture of Vicksburg, under General Grant. His regiment was transferred to General Banks' command, and formed a part of his army in the unfortunate Red River expedition. In the battle of Sabine Cross Roads on the eighth of April, 1864, he fell, mortally wounded. He fell at his post, heroically discharging his duty. He died ina noble cause, died the Christian patriot's death, and fills the Christian patriot's grave.

VAN HORN,- WILLIAM, farmer, Union township, post office, Rosstown, was born in Virginia in 1808, and lived there until 1836, when he emigrated to Knox county, Ohio, and settled near Danville, and has remained in Union township until the present time. He married Miss Lucinda Roberson May 24, 1841, and lived in Danville three years. In 1865 he settled on his present farm. He has six children - Francina, Rouseyville, Jasper, John W., William, and Newton. The three last named have died.

VAN HORN, JASPER, farmer, Howard township, post office, Howard, was born in Union township September 25, 1855. Hewas married to Miss L. R. Howell April 9, 1879, and came to his present farm in October, 1879. His father came from Virginia in 1835, to Knox county, Ohio, and settled near Danville, where he died. Mr. Van Horn has been engaged in teaching school in winter and farming in summcr..

VANNATTA, SAMUEL T., Miller township, farmer, was born in Wasren county, New Jersey, September 14, 1835. He is the son of Peter and Sarah J. Vannatta, zee Weller, who were natives of New Jersey. Mr. Vannatta died in New Jersey in 1836. They had two children, one of whom died in infancy, and the subject of this sketch.

Mrs. Vannatta remained in New Jersey until 1840, when she came to Miller township with her father, Philip P. Weller; she and her son Samuel remained with her father until he was about twenty-four years of age, when they purchased a tract of ninety-two acres of land, and moved upon it. Mr. Vannatta, is now one of the leading farmers of the township, owning over three hundred acres of good land. He is systematic in his m ment, and his farm shows more than usual care. He was elected land appraiser of the township in 1879, and has filled a number of offices to the satisfaction of the people. He is a man of good judgment and considered a wise counsellor. His educational advantages were very limited; he, however, obtained a sufficient knowledge of the common branches to enable him to conduct his business. He married Miss Levina Hawkins, January 29, 1864, daughter of Isaac Hawkins, ef whom mention is made elsewhere. They have three interesting children, viz: Frank A., Charles O., and Flora Emeline.

VERNON, AARON, Morris township, farmer, post office, Fredericktown, was born in Muskingum county, Ohio, November 19, 1809, came to Ohio in December, 1821, and was marnied in March, 1831, and had the following family: Jesse, born January 11, 1832; John, November 17, 1833; Jacob L., February 8, 1836; Isaac, January 17, 1838; Francis L., August 19, 1839; Daniel L., October 17, 1841; William Allen, July 38, 1844; Oliver B., August 6, 1846; Samantha M., January 22, 1848; Sarah E., April 28, 1852; Aaron C. G., November 17, 1854. Mrs. Elizabeth Vernon died in this county, February 19, 1878. Mr. Vernon subsequently married Mrs. Elizabeth Lambert, who was born in Greene county, Pennsylvania, in 1827. Jesse Vernon was married February 11, 1852, to Sarah Brawlier, and now resides in Allen county, Ohio; John was married November 4, 1855, to Rose L. Lawrence, and now lives in Linn county, Iowa; Jacob L., was married March 25, 1858, to Elizabeth Hisler, who since deceased; Sarah E. was married to Frances Brawlier, and now lives in Cardington, Ohio; Aaron C.G. was married in Allen county to Barbara Pletcher; they reside in Hancock county, Ohio; Samantha was married to Frank Brawlier.

Mr. Vernon was here at a time when the county was covered with timber. He was quite a hunter, having in his time killed two deer with one shot, a feat not many can boast of.

VERNON, DANIEL L., Wayne township, farmer, post office, Fredericktown, born in Pike township in 1840, and married in 1860 to Sarah A. Erion, who was born in Ohio. Their children are: Florence, Alfred B., Frank E., and Ellen. 'They came to Wayne township in 1867, afterwards emigrated to Iowa, remained for three years, and then returned to this township.

He was a soldier in the war, a member of company H, One Hundred and Forty-second regiment, Ohio volunteer infantry, and remained in the service until he received an honorable discharge.

VINCENT, S. M., Brown township, attorney, post office, Jelloway, ason of Robert and Jane Vincent, zee Miller, was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, on December 16, 1821. Heaccompanied his parents to Ohio in 1830, they locating on Dowdy creek, in Holmes county, where they lived about eight years. In 1838 they-moved to this county and located in Howard township, remaining until 1856, when they moved to Pike county, where they passed the remainder of their days. Mrs. Vincent died in September, 1863, Mr. Robert Vincent surviving his companion until February, 1865.

Mr. S. M. Vincent, the subject of this sketch, is a self-educated man. In 1847 he commenced the study of law under the instructions of S. W. Shaw, attorney. In 1850 he was admitted to the Knox County bar, and in 1859 he was admitted to practice inthe Supreme court. At present he is located at Jelloway, Knox county, Ohio, and practices in the courts of Knox, Holmes, Ashland, and Richland counties. He is the attorney for the Home Fire Insurance company, and the Jelloway Mutual Aid Insurance company, both located at Jelloway, and does business for them in about twenty counties in the State.

In 1847 he married Miss Rosanna Lybatger, born in Knox county in 1825, daughter of Jacob and Sarah Lybarger. They settled at Ashland, Ohio, and remained one year, and then returned to this county. In 1850 they moved to Jelloway, where they have since resided.

They reared a family of six children: Sarah J., married B. W. McKee; Victoria, married Lyman Workman; John Fremont Vincent was born February 2, 1857, and died September g, 1880; Martha A., married John L. Hildebrand; Jessie Q., and Lincoln are at home with their parents in Jelloway.

WADDELL, JAMES P., Howard township, farmer, post office, Howard, was born October 2, 1826, in Union township, Knox county. Until 1833 he lived in Danville, when he moved to a farm in Brown township, and lived there twelve years, and continued farming until he was drafted in the late war; but on account of ill health was rejected. He was drafted the second time and sent a substitute.

He was married March 22, 1879. He engaged in shoemaking, following ita year. He then moved to the old farm, and remained there a year and then moved to the farm on which he now resides.

He was married to Catharine Brown, who was born in Pennsylvania, and died in January, 1848. Mr. Wages was again married June 6, 1849, to M. W. Drake, who was born in Tuscarawas county, Ohio, in 1822. They had six children, viz: Catharine, born in Cctober, 1849. She is married to O. F. Crall, and resides in Ashland, Ohio; Paxton' (deceased); Martha J. is married to F. Marble, and lives in Michigan; Clara B., and Mary E. are dead; Clement was born in March, 1867.

WAGNER CHARLIE, Fredericktown, retired, was born in Northampton county, Pennsylvania, July 6, 1805, and was married in 1826, to Anna Allbach, who was born in New Jersey in 1804. They had the following family, - Sarah, Nathan, deceased, Grace, deceased, Jemima B., John and Colwell. Mrs. Wagner died April 3, 1865, in Waterford, Knox county, Ohio. Charlie Wagner came from New Jersey to Knox county September 10, 1838, located in Waterford, Middlebury township, and kept hotel twenty years. He was engaged in the tailoring business a number of years, then removed to Fredericktown and engaged in keeping hotel, and continued in that about fourteen years. His name is still continued with the Wagner house, which has given it character and influence.

WAGNER, GEORGE, Middlebury township, farmer, post office, Fredericktown, was born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, March 16, 1811, and was tnarried December 25, 1850, to Catharine Henry, who was born July 22, 1822, in Bedford county, Pennsylvania. They have the following family: Francis, born July 9, 1852; Catharine, August 14, 1856; Florence, February 5, 1859; George, November 28, 1861; Hattie B.. October a1, 1864; and Mary I., August 7, 1869. Florence was married to Samnel A. Stretey, April 18. 1880, and now resides in this township.

Mr. Wagner has resided in this county ever since he came from Pennsylvania. He was a soldier in the Mexican war, and is one of the active men of this township.

WAGNER, HENRY, Middlebury township, post office, Fredericktown, was born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, January 11, 1822, and was married March 5, 1846, to Sarah A. Jeffreys, who was born in Wayne township, this county, December 22, 1825. They had six children: Susan M., born January 9, 1848; George P., January 1, 1851; Sarah E., March 8, 1853; William H., November 8, 1856; John L., January 22, 1863; and Mary E., April 16, 1868. The latter died December 28, 1868.

The following members of the family are married: Susan M. married January 6, 1870, to Sylvester Caywood; Sarah E. to Robert Martin; George P. to Susan Lyons; William H., April 20, 1878, to Sarah E. McDonalds.

Mr. Henry Wagner was brought by his parents to Ohio at the age of two years, who settled in this township in April, 1824. They improved the farm where' he now resides, which is one of the most beautiful farms in Knox county. Through industry and frugality he has accumulated a competency that enables him to retire and enjoy the fruit of his labors.

1851, and was married October 24, 1872, to Susan Lyon, who was born in Wayne township, May 3, 1856. They have three children: Louis B., born July: 11, 1875; Corliss, February 24, 1877; and an infant, April 7, 1880. Mr. Wagner is engaged in farming in this township, and is one of its active and enterprising men.

WAIGHT, JOHN B., attorney and counsellor at law, Mt. Vernon, was born in New Market, Harrison county, Ohio, May 14, 1853. He is the third child and only son of George H. and Biddy (zee Gordon) Waight. He spent his youth in attending school, and graduated from the New Market college in 1870. He then commenced reading law with Lewis Lewton, esq., of Cadiz, Ohio, and was admitted to the bar at Carrolton, Ohio, September, 1873. He taught school in New Comerstown, Ohio, in 1872. In January, 1874, he opened an office in Mt. Vernon, where he has since been practicing. He was nominated on the Republican ticket in 1874 for prosecuting attorney, but was beaten by eighty majority; the county went over four hundred Democratic. January, 1880, he was appointed city solicitor, and at the following April city election he was elected solicitor.

WALKER, WILLIAM, deceased, Pleasant township, was born in Virginia in 1800; was brought up on a farm, and made farming, stock raising and dealing in stock his vocation through life. He emigrated to Ohio and located in this county in 1835. In 1837 he married Miss Mary A. Smith, daughter of Samuel and Phoebe Smith, who was born in Muskingum county, Ohio, in 1820, and came to this county in 1834. They settled on the farm in Pleasant township now owned by his widow. Their union resulted in ten children, viz: Sarah, Charles, Minerva, Harrison, William, Emeretta, Emeline, Harriet, Olive, and Joseph A. Two of the number, Harrison and Harriet have died; Mr. Walker is-also dead.

WALKER, ALEXANDER, farmer, Middlebury township, post office, Fredericktown, born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, in 1833, and married in 1857 to Sarah M. Gault, who was born in Ashland county, Ohio, in 1837. They have the following children, viz: Mary E., born in 1857; Lizzie J., 1859; William H., (deceased) 1861; Orie A., 1863; Carrie E., 1865; James C., 1867; Edwin M., 1869; Hettie B., 1871; and Theodore F., 1875. Mr. Walker is engaged in farming, and owns a well-improved farm with good buildings.

WALKEY, WILLIAM, farmer, Pike towship, post office, Democracy, born in Pike township, Knox county, in 1837. He was married in 1859 to Nancy Lewis, who was born in Monroe township in 1838. They have one child, Eva Jane, born in 1860. Mr. Walkey was elected justice of the peace in Pike township in 1870, and reelected in 1873. He filled the office with credit and satisfaction. He is now notary public.

His father, John Walkey, was born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, in 1796. He was married in 1818 to Rebecca Bensinger, who was born in 1801. They had seven children: Elizabeth, born in 1819; Daniel, in 1822; Maria, in 1825; Margaret, in 1829; Susan, in 1830; John, in 1833; William, in 1837. Maria was married to Samuel Shira. They reside in Messer county, Missouri. Margaret married Fuller Lambert. They reside in Cass county, Iowa. Susan married James Shipley; she died in 1878. Daniel died in 1834; came to his death by an accident. Mr. Walkey is engaged in a saw-mill. He is one ot the leading and respected citizens of the township.

WALLACE, CHARLES, Howard township, farmer, post office, Howard, was born in Washington county, Pennsylyahia, in June, 1815. In 1837 he came to Knox township, Holmes county, and in 1858 removed to his present farm in Knox county.

He was-married to Nancy Hardisty, October 18, 1858. They had the following family: lizabeth, Thomas, Charles, and Nancy. Thomas enlisted in the late war, in 1864; served his time out and received and honorable dischaige.

WALLACE, DAVID, Morgan township, farmer, was born in county Armagh, Newtown-Hamilton, Ireland, September 30, 1815. His parents, David and Mary Wallace, wee Glenny, were natives of Ireland; their parents were Scotch, or the grandparents of the subject of our sketch were Scotch. His parents immigrated to the United States in 1819, with a family of three children, and settled in Burlington township, Licking county, where they subsequently purchased a farm, and lived and died there. They had a family of six children, five of whom are living, viz: David, Margaret, married William Wiley; Henry, Robert, of Mansfield; Mary Ann, married Burgess Helphrey; Eliza Jane, married a Mr. McFarland.

The subject of this notice was reared on a farm, and received a common school education. In 1847 he moved to Morgan township, where he has since resided. He was married to Miss Mary Dunlap, May 5, 1847; she isa native of Muskingum county, Ohio. Her parents were of Scotch-Irish descent. They had nine children, viz: Mary E., wife of John T. McKee; Elizabeth J., Maggie E., Sadie A., wife of James R. Boyd; Wylie D., and Loretta A. The deceased are: Anna M., Maudna A., and William H., who died of diphtheria.

WALLACE, JOHN, Pike township, butcher, post office, North Liberty, born in Wayne county, Ohio, in 1842, and was married in 1864, to Jane Blakely, who was born in 1848. They have the following family of children: Eva Estella, born in 1864; Edna Luella, in 1867; Verna May and Bertha Day, in 1873; Winifred, in 1875; Anna Bell, in 1876, and Ida Arivilla, in 1880. Edna Luella died in 1872, and Bertha Day, in 1873.

Mr. Wallace came to this county in 1858, and was engaged in farming fora number of years. For the last ten years he has been engaged in butchering in North Liberty. Anna Bell died October 13, 1880.

WALTER, GEORGE A., salesman, was born in Morris township, Knox county, in 1842, and was married in 1870, to Mary L. Smith, who was born in Fredericktown in 1851. "They have one son: Carleton C., born March 14, 1872, in Mt. Vernon.

Mr. Walter learned the carpenter trade when a young man, in Mt. Vernon, continued to work at his trade till 1872, when he was engaged in the butchering business with S. Wirby, afterwards with M. P. Minteer, and in 1880 was engaged with Braddock & Hurst.

WALTERS, JOHN, Union township, farmer, post oftice, Howard, born in 1821 near Steubenville, Ohio; came to Knox county in 1835, and settled upon the farm he now owns. He was married to Miss M. C. Johnson in April, 1843. They have five children - George, Sarah, Mary Jane, Harriet, and lrances. He has generally worked at farming, but has done some blacksmithing.

in Loudoun county, Virginia, in 1833; came to Ohio in 1835, and was married in 1858 to Mary EX. Wagner. He had the following family: Charles, born in 1859; Edward, in 1865; Ilattie, in 1867; and Frank, in 1873.

Mrs. Mary Waters died in 1861. Mr. John Walters was afterwards married, in 1863, to Susan Baxter, who was born in 1844 in Middlebury township.

WARD, RUFUS, Miller township, deceased, was born June 22, 1801, in Pittsford, Rutland county, Vermont. In 1816 he came with his parents to Zanesville, and in 1818 moved to Knox county aid resided in Mt. Vernon, for some years after which he moved to Miller township, where he purchased a farm and became one of the large land owners of the township, and a leading man of the community. He held the office of justice of the peace for twenty-one years, to the satisfaction of the public.

He was a self-made man - began life without any aid - but by industry and economy was successful. He was a farmer, and his farm presented evidence of careful tillage.

Mr. Ward died September 10, 1879; his wife died September 12, 1870. They had nine childern, viz: Laura E. (married to Newton Ic. Chambers); Mary E. (married to Douglass Bricker) Emma E. (married to Alonze Chapman); Lavina A. (married to Oscar Vance); Nellie A. (married to William Turner); Rose B. married to Rollin Hyatt). The sons are Rufus D., John F., and Fred L.

WARD, TRUMAN, was born July 19, 1805, in Rutland county, Vermont, caine with his parents to Zanesville, Ohio, in 1813, and lived there until 1815, when they came to Miller township, Knox county, and.lived there until November 1, 1827, when he came to Mt. Vernon. He was married on the same day to Eliza Maxheld, anative of Vermont. They have had a family of nine children, six of whom are living. After his marriage he spent a number of years in the cooper business. He commenced reading medicine in 1847, and graduated at the Willoughby Medical college in 1849, after which he practiced a short time in Mt. Vernon; also in Sunbury, Delaware county, after which he engaged in the drug business, in which he was successfuily engaged until November 7, 1878, when in consequence of bad heaith he sold out and retired from business.

WARD, L. B., was born in Brandon, Vermont, April tro. 1808. His father, Rufus Ward, was a native of Massachusetts His parents emigtated to Zanesville, Ohio, in April, 1814, where they remained two years, when on January 1, 1816, they came to Knox county and located in what is now Miller township. When they came te Ohio they came by team as far as Olean, New York, where they exchanged their team for a flatboat and floated down the Allegheny river to Pittsburgh, then down the Ohio to Marietta, where they hited a keel-boat to take them to Zanesville.

When he first settled on the farm he had a family of eight children, all of whom, but one, lived to see three score and ten years. At this time four are living, whose ages aggregate three hundred and twenty-four years. All of the family were married and had families, and all lived in Knox county but one.

Mr, Ward, sr., died in 1834, in the seventy-sixth year of his age. His wife died in 1848, at the age of cighty-five years. Mr. Ward followed farming until 1842, when he engaged in the mercantile business until 1864, when he sold his store and went back to his faim. In 1874 he opened a jewelry store in company with his son, in which he is now engaged.

He was married to Mary Freeman, daughter of Luther Freeman. then a resident of Knox county, by whom he had five children, all llving, and all married, and all live in Knox county.

WARD DENNIS, Miller township, farmer, was born in Miller township August 15, 1858, and is the son of Rufus Ward, of whom mention is made in this work. He was married to Miss Jennie E. Hildreth October 9, 1879, daughter of Arnold Hildreth of Miller township, mentioned elsewhere. The subject of this notice was reared on his father's farm and received a common school education, and is a social and pleasant gentleman.

WARREN, J. B., blacksmith and general jobber, Mechanic street, between High and Chestnut streets, Mt. Vernon. Mr. Warren was born in Ontario county, New York, November 10, 1833. When about three years of age his father emigrated to Ohio, and located in LaGrange, Lorain county. Here the family resided for seven years, and then removed to Kirkland township, Lake county, where they remained for twelve years, following the avocation of a farmer, in which he was assisted by his son, the subject of this sketch. The father and family then removed to Van Wert county, the son making that his home till 1867.

In 1861 J. B. Warren enlisted in the first call for three months, but on examination was rejected. He then engaged as salesman with Casto & Hartsock. This position he retained until July, 1864, when he again enlisted and was accepted. He entered company H, Fifteenth Ohio veteran volunteer infantry, First brigade, Third division, Fourth corps. In this company he served until May 27, 1864, when he was wounded at Pickett's mill, near Dallas, Georgia, and 'in consequence of this wound was discharged from service August 25, 1865. He returned to Van Wert county and engaged in mercantile pursuits, in which he continued for about eighteen months, when he took up his residence in Mt. Vernon. He entered into the Kokosing Iron Works as a mechanic in general work where he remained for two years. He then engaged with C. and C. G. Cooper & Co. as boltmaker. At this he worked for eighteen months then served eleven and a half years on saw-mill work. After this he established his present business in which he has been engaged about seven years. Mr. Warren does business of about one thousand dollars per year, and does all kinds of job work, horse_ shoeing, etc. On the tenth day of December, 1868, he married Miss Abbie R. Smith. Mrs. Warren died on the third day of January, 1880. He hasa family of one son, C. Warren, and one daughter, Dora FE. The son assists his father in his business,

WATKINS, THOMAS, was born in ''The Hay," Wales, in the year 1812, where he remained until 1822, when he came with his parents to America and settled at Steubenville, Jefferson county, Ohio, where he remained-for a number of years. He was married to Miss Eliza Brown, daughter of Hervey Brown. She was born February 13, 1822. They reared a family of two sons and two daughters. They left Steubenville and located in several different places, but did not remain long.

Mr. Watkins died August 7,°1857. The family settled in Mt. Vernon, on Cemetery avenue, in 1868, where they still live. The children are ail living,

WATKINS, WILLIAM J., Middlebury township, farmer, post office, Fredericktown, born in Knox county in 1828, and and was married in 1863 to Mary A. Zedaker, who was born in Morrow county in 1840. They have two children - Frank, born in May 3, 1864, and Eva, November 14, 1873.

WATKINS, DALLIS, Middlebury township, farmer, Post office, Levering, born in this county December rz, 1843, and was married in 1866 to Mary Martin, who was born in Knox connty, November 25, 1845. They have the following family, viz: Isaac, born August 1, 1867; Phebe Bell, October 11, 1868, Luella, May 8, 1872; Gladys, September 1, 1875; and Maude, August 21, 1878.

WATSON, ABRAHAM, Pleasant township, deceased, was born in Pennsylvania, in 1770, of Irish parents. He was a blacksmith by trade, and followed that business as his vocation for many years.

In 1803 he married Miss Elizabeth Rivers, of Maryland, born in Washington county in 1781. They settled in Maryland, remained until 1834, when he with wife and eight children, emigratad to Knox county, Ohio, travelling the whole distance of over three hundred and fifty miles in a one-horse wagon, being almost four weeks on the road. They located in Miller township, where they passed the remainder of their days.

They had a family of eight children, viz: Maria, Matilda, David, Abram, John, Catharine, Elizabeth, and Amanda. Two of them (Maria and John) have died.

WATSON, DAVID, farmer, son of the aforesaid Abraham and Elizabeth Watson, was born in Washington county, Maryland, January 22, 1814. He came with his parents to Knox county in 1834,

In 1840 he married Miss Sarah Muck, born in Pennsylvania. April 17, 1824, and came to this county in 1839. They settled in Miller township, this county, remained until 1874, when they purchased and moved upon the farm in Pleasant township, where they are now living. He still owns the farm in Miller township, on which they lived from 1842 to 1874. They reared a family of nine children, four sons and five daughters.

WATSON, JOSEPH, Attorney, of Mt. Vernon, was born March 1, 1827, in the town of Ballyreagh, county Fermanagh, 'Treland. He was married in Ballinamallard, on the seventh day of July, 1848, to Miss Rebecca Sproule, daughter of John Sproule, of Aultamulen, county Tyrone, and emigrated to America in August, 1849. In April, 1852, he settled in Mt. Vernon, and engaged in the grocery business, in which he continued until 1859. In 1861 he was admitted to the bar to practice law, and has continued at his profession ever since. In April, 1880, he opened an office in Columbus, Ohio, and was there admitted to practice in the United States courts. Mr. Watson has reared a family of six children - William B., Isabella, John S., Joseph H., Matthew O., and Frank C. - all living. John married Stella, daughter of James Stockwell, of Sunbury, Delaware county, Ohio, and has had two children. Isabella was married

WATSON, J. S., merchant, Hilliar township, post office, Rich Hill, was born in Mt. Vernon in 1856, is the third child of Joseph and Rebecca Watson, zee Sproule. He attended the schools of Mt. Vernon, and clerked in a store for about one year anda half. At the age of nineteen he purchased the Subury Spectator, a weekly published at Sunbury, Delaware county, Ohio. He edited and published this paper for about four years and a half in Sunbury, and then moved it to Centreburgh, Knox county, where he continued to publish it, changing the name to The Mirror, for about six months, and sold out. He was successful in the newspaper enterprise, and after he sold his paper he purchased the stock of the general store of M. Roberts, of Rich Hill. He ''stocked up," and now carries a full line of dry goods, groceries, boots and shoes, queensware, hardware, glassware, and such goods as are carried in a general line. Mr. Watson is a careful business man, prompt in his dealings, pleasant in address, and well calculated to do well. He was married to Miss Stella Stockwell, of Sunbury, Delaware county, September, 1876. They have one child.

WEAVER, JONATHAN was born at East Greenwich, Rhode Island, February 12, 1816, removed to Ohio with father and mother and one sister, and settled in Ashtabula, Ashtabula county, about the year 1822, receiving and concluding his education at the high school of that place. His father and family removed from Ashtabula, and settled in Worthington, Franklin county, Ohio, in 1834. In about one year after, J. Weaver left Ashtabula and came to and lived at Worthington, Ohio, and for two months was engaged in the dry goods store of B. Comstock (in which business he had three years previous experience with John Booth at Ashtabula). Onleaving Comstock's, he engaged with Champion & Lathrop, wholesale dry goods dealers, of Columbus, Ohie, southwest of High and Broad streets, afterwards with Comstock & Buttles, forwarding and commission merchants and pork packers, Columbus, Ohio. In the spring of 1839 he engaged in the grocery business in Columbus with Frank Stewart under the firm name of J. Weaver & Co. In May, 1844, he commenced a grocery business with H. Hollister at Newark, Ohio.

The following October the firm removed to, and continued a wholesale and retail grocery business at Mt. Vernon, under the firm name of Hollister & Weaver, until the fourth of March, 1846, when J. Weaver bought out H. Hollister, and associated himself in business with Dr. M. W. Stamp (a resident of Mt. Vernon) under the firm name of J. Weaver & Co., wholesale and retail grocers. This firm continued business until the first of May, 1850, when it was mutually dissolved, and the business continued by J. Weaver (Dr. Stamp uniting with the firm of C. P. Buckingham & Co. in the building of Kokosing foundry in Mt. Vernon).

During the year 1851 J. Weaver closed up business in Mt. Vernon, and was engaged in business with H. H. Curtis at Keokuk, Iowa, fora few months, after which he returned to Mt. Vernon, and engaged again in the grocery business with James George. This firm continued one year, and was mutually dissolved, J. Weaver continuing the wholesale and retail grocery business from that period until May, 1876 - a period of twentyfour years at Mt. Vernon.

was married by Rev. James Muenscher, to Miss Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Samuel J. Updegraff, esq. (an early resident of Mt. Vernon), who now have living two sons and two daughters, and two granddaughters, having lost two grandsons, children of Howard and Anna Harper, residents of Mt. Vernon.

WEAVER, JOH N, Liberty township, farmer, born in Liberty, February 22, 1831. He is the fourth child of Leonard and Mary Weaver, zee Zent. His youth was spent on the farm on which he now resides, and on which he has spent all his life except six years. He enlisted in company A, One Hundred and Forty-second regiment Ohio National guards, for one hundred days.

He married Miss Frances M. Coyle of Morrow county, in 1856. They had two children: One died while young; and Emarine, wife of Samuel Bricker.

Leonard Weaver, the father, was born in Rockingham county, Virginia, March 31, 1804. His parents came to Ohio at an early day, and remained in Fairfield county until 1814, when they removed to Jefferson township, Richland county, where they lived and died, being pioneers. He remained with his parents until 1823. About 1825 he moved to Liberty township, and purchased a tract of land, which was heavily timbered. He had the usual experience of early settlers. Hard work and economy, however, overcame the disadvantages. He is a good citizen, and has the esteem of the community. He was married August 28, 1823, to Miss Mary Zent, by whom he had seven children. His wife dying, he married Harriet Farreson. He resides on the farm on which he settled in 1825.

WEBSTER, EDWIN P., Gambier, was born in Summit county, Chio, December 6, 1849. He was educated at the Bissell institute, at Twinsburgh. In 1872 he accepted a position at Dawson, Fayette county, Pennsylvania, as night telegraph operator, which position he held about six months. In February, 1873, he came to Gambier, this county, and accepted the position of agent and operator in the office of the Cleveland, Mt. Verron & Columbus railroad company, which position he is now filling.

In 1875 Mr. Webster married Miss Sarah R. Cheyney, of Dawson, Fayette county, Pennsylvania. They settled in Gambier, where they are now living. They have three children, all daughters.

WEEKS, WILLIAM, Monroe township, farmer, a native of England, and son of Matthew Weeks, was born May 25, 1824. He migrated to America with his father aud located in Gambier in 1842. His father deceased in about two years after their arrival at Gambier.

In October, 1844, Mr. Weeks married Miss Nancy Ayers, born in Wayne county, Ohio, March 4, 1824. 'They settled in Tefferson township, this county, remained a few months, and in June of the same year they moved to Gambier, lived one year in the village, and then moved to Monroe township, where his companion deceased in June, 1859, but he is still living in Monroe township. Their union resulted in seven children, only two of whom are now living. He served one year in the war of 1861. His son, John H., died in the service of his country during the late war.

WELKER, DAVID (deceased), Union township, was born in Somerset county, Pennsylvania February 28, 1787. He emigrated to Knox county, and located in Union township in 1809, on the farm now owned by his son, John D. Welker. In

1810 he married Sarah McMillen, who was born in 1791, daughter of Robert and Nellie McMillen. He erected a log cabin on his land, which served them as an abode for a number of years. He lived on the farm and followed farming as his vocation until he died, November 16, 1853. His companion died in March, 1857. They reared a family of seven children: Paul, David, Sarah, John D., Eleanor, Simon, and Mary - all of whom married and reared families.

WELKER, DANIEL, Howard township, farmer, post office, Howard, was born in Union township, Knox county, December 5, 1812. He remained here twenty-eight years. He was married in 1840, and removed to Howard township, where he has remained ever since. He has six children: Shiply, Curtis, Edith, Maria, Dillon, and Elizabeth. Curtis died at the age of two years, three months and nine days; Dillon died at the age of twenty-one years, eleven months and fourteen days.

WELKER, PAUL, Howard township, farmer, post office, Howard, was born in Union township, Knox county, September 16, 1813. He remained in this township until the thirtieth year of his age, when he removed to Howard township, and settled on the farm which he now owns and occupies.

He was married in 1838 to Crysta M. Ankeny. They had four children: George, David, Sylvester, and Belle. David died July 24, 1874, at the age of thirty-three years and twenty days; Sylvester is at present (June, 1880) assessor of this township.

WELKER, M. D., A. D., Gambier; a native of Knox county, and son of Elliott and Rachel Welker, was born in Howard township on the twenty-second day of October, 1847. He is a self-educated man, studied medicine with Dr.'s McMahon, Coleman and Moffett, of Millwood, this county. In the fall of 1870 he entered the Louisville Medical college, at Louisville, Kentucky, and graduated February 29, 1872. On the fifteenth day of the following April he came to Gambier and began the practice of medicine, where he has since been engaged in his profession, meeting with good success. In September, 1870, he married Miss Louisa White, of Howard township, this county, daughter of Anthony White. Their union resulted in two children, daughters. Mrs. Welker died August 22, 1875. His second marriage was with Miss Fannie Colwill, in 1878, daughter of Simon Colwill. By this union he has one child, a son.

WELKER, GEORGE A., physician, Berlin township, post office, Shalers Mills, was born in Union township, Knox county, in 1839. He received a preparatory education in the common schools, and attended the Ann Arbor Medical college in Michigan. He also attended lectures at the University of Wooster Medical college, located at Cleveland, and graduated in 1875. He commenced the practice of medicine in Greersville; remained there for two years, then located in Millwood, where he 1emained two years and six months. In 1866 he moved to Ankenytown, where he has since been engaged in the practice of his profession. He now has an extensive practice, and stands high in his profession. He was united in marriage to Miss Emma Giffin, of Berlin township, who was born in 1845, daughter of Lauriston and Lucia F. Giffin. They have two children - Nina Belle, born in 1868, and Harry B., 1870.

WELLS, G. W., Fredericktown, baker and grocer, was born in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, in 1832, and came to Ohio with his parents in 1835. He was married in 1858 to Anna E. Logsdon, who was born in Knox county in 1834. They have three sons: William, born February 22, 1859; David, born November 28, 1860; and Freddie, born March 27, 1869.

Mr. Wells began business in,this town in 1867, where he has built up a good trade. Heis a first-class baker, and is prepared to meet the wants of the public in his line.

WELLS, JOSEPH, Middlebury township, deceased, born in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, and married Sophia E. Noble, who was born in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, in 1842. They have two children: George W., born February 22, 1859, and Joseph M., August 30, 1860. Mr. Joseph Wells died August 13, 1872.

WELSH, JOHN, farmer, oldest son of William and Rebecca Welsh, zee Budd, was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, March 19, 1814. He received a good common school edncation, was reared on a farm, and has followed farming as his principal vocation. October 7, 1834, he married Miss Sarah J. Beall, daughter of Zephaniah and Mary Beall, zee Purcell. She was born near Beallsville, Washington county, Pennsylvania, December 25, 1818.