Pike Township (part 6 of 20)

Sometime after the close of the Mexican war General Curtis moved to Keokuk, Iowa, and was elected 4n 1856 a representative in Congress, and was reelected in 1858, and again in 1860. He was also a member of the peace congress in 1861. In Congress he strongly urged the building of a railroad to the Pacific ocean, and all other Republican measures.

In June, 1861, General Curtis was commissioned colonel of the Second Iowa regiment, and ordered to duty in Northern Missouri, but soon went to Washington to attend the extra session of Congress. Resigning his seat in Congress in 1861, he entered zealously into the military service to preserve the Union. He served under General Fremont, and subsequently was appointed to command the army destined to operate against the confederates in southwestern Missouri and Arkansas. General Curtis fought and won the important battle of Pea Ridge, March 6, 7, and 8, 1862, upon which he received a major general's commission, establishing his headquarters at St. Louis, December, 1862.

General Curtis was in command at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, during the Price raid in October, 1864, and cooperated in the pursuit and defeat of General Price's army. From August to November, 1865, he served as United States Commissioner to treat with the Sioux, Cheyennes, and other Indian tribes. He was examiner of the Union Pacific railroad from November, 1865, to April, 1866. His death occurred at Council Bluffs, Iowa, December 25, 1866. General Samuel R. Curtis rendered valuable civil and military services to his country, and was an elegant, high-toned, honorable gentleman, of intelligence and probity. He was a brother of Hon. Henry B. Curtis, of Mt.

DALLY, LANE, Hilliar township, farmer, was born in Hilliar township, February, 1842. He is the youngest son of John and Mary A. Dally, zee Walters, who were married in Richland county, Ohio, and in 1834 came to Hilliar and settled in the woods. They had a family of ten children. Mr. Dally died in 1869. His wife still survives him. The subject of this Notice was reared on his father's farm. He was married to Miss Cypha Cumpston, of Licking county, Ohio, December 6, 1866. They have a family of five children.

DALRYMPLE, JACOB, Wayne township, farmer, post office, Fredericktown, born in New Jersey in 1797, came to Ohio in 1809, and was married in 1821 to Phebe Lewis, who was born in Pennsylvania in 1802. They had the following children : Roda, born December 4, 1822; Aaron, August 18, 1824; William, April 7, 1827; Mitchell Y., January 17, 1830; Robert M., june 28, 1833; Sarah S., April 1, 1837; Lafayette, June 16, 1841; Mary E., October 16, 1844.

DALRYMPLE, WILLIAM BRICE, Liberty township, farmer, was born January 22, 1852, in Liberty township. He is the son of Andrew Dalrymple, deceased, who was born in Sussex county, New Jersey, in March, 1810, where he remained until he was about twenty-three years of age. He then came to Ohio and resided near Fredericktown for some years. On April 12, 1838, he was joined in marriage to Mary A. Wolfe, who was born in February, 1821. She is a daughter of Christopher and Phebe Wolfe, zee Rhinehart, pioneers of Knox county, and whose history appears in this work. They had six children, four daughters and two sons, viz: Phebe, wife of Alexander Jackson; Susan, deceased, who married William H. Scarborough; Eliza J., wife of Thomas J. Scarborough; Ella, wife of Winfield Coe; and Squire and William Brice. Mr. Dalrymple died in October, 1871, in Liberty township, where he had resided about forty-three years. He was much esteemed for his many good traits of character. He was a leading citizen, and by his death the community lost a useful man. Mrs. Dalrymple resides on the homestead.

William B. Dalrymple was reared on the farm on which he yet resides. He is a rising young man of the township. He married Miss H. Coleville, of Liberty township, February 18, 1875. They have two children.

DALRYMPLE, SQUIRE D., Liberty township, farmer, was born in Liberty township, April 9, 1854, and is the son of Andrew and Mary A. Dalrymple, of whom mention is made in the biography of William B. Dalrymple. He was reared on the farm, and like the rest of the family, had the advantages of the schools and the instruction of kind and and excellent parents. He is a good farmer, and a young man who is much esteemed. He married Miss Sarah L. Allen December 17, 1874, daughter

DARLING, WILLIAM, farmer, was born April 9, 1814, in Hampshire county, Virginia. He moved to Butler township, Knox county, Ohio, in 1820, and to Jackson township in 1835. He was married to Eliza Melick April 6, 1841. They have had ten children, viz.: Lucy A., James K., Morgan, Louisa, Cyrus, Nan, Sarah E., Avilda, Otto, and Louis. Mr. Darling is an old and respected citizen of Jackson; has served several terms as justice of the peace.

DARLING, JOHN, Berlin township (deceased), was born in New York in 1817; came to Ohio when a young man, and was married in 1842 to Mary Ann Rundle. They had three children - Richard L., Charles T., and James E, Mrs. Mary Ann Darling died in 1852. Mr. John Darling married Lydia Ann Kinney in 1854, who was born in Knox county in 1820. They had three children - James E., born in 1855, Henry M. in 1857, and Alva B. in 1861. The father, John Darling, died July 26, 1876. James E. died in 1843, and James Edson in 1856. Henry Daring was married in 1877 to Mary Vore, who was born in Mt. Vernon in 1857. They have one son, George W., who was born July 26, 1878.

I5, 1857, to Saprona Willis, who was born June 11, 1835, in New York. She came with her parents to Knox county in 1839. They have one son, Herbert Stanton, born January 17, 1862. He is now engaged in the study of medicine in Fredericktown with Dr. S. B. Potter. Mr. William Darling is one of the leading men of this township, and owns a beautiful farm with excellent buildings.

DARLING, NICHOLAS R., Morris township, farmer, post office, Fredericktown; was born in Wayne township in 1830: and married in 1864 to Margaret Ellen Bricker, who was born in Clinton township in 1830. An infant child was left on the porch of their house in a basket (warmly dressed), on the morning of October 7, 1880 (a mystery). They cared for and became: attached to it, named it Eddie V., and were making arrangements to have it adopted, but it died in January, 188r.

Mr. Darling purchased the first threshing machine manufactured by Altman Taylor & Co., Mansfield. They attribute much credit to Mr. Darling for his ingenuity, skill and patience in making many improvements so that the machine became a success. He used this machine for fifteen years. In 1864 they made him a very liberal donation on a new machine.

DARLING, GEORGE W., Hilliar township, clothier, Centreburgh, Ohio, was born near Newville, Richland county, Ohio, January 18, 1845. He -was reared ona farm. He enlisted in the Sixty-fourth Ohio volunteer infantry, company C, in 1861; he participated in the battle of Shiloh and all the battles in which his regiment and company were engaged until after the battle of Stone River, Tennessee, when he was taken with typhoid fever and rendered unable to do service, and was discharged. He returned home and after regaining his health he went to Bloomington, Illinois, where he enlisted in company D, Third Illinois cavalry, and served with them six months; he was then detached on General Saul Meredith's staff as private orderly, and remained as orderly until the war was over, at Paducha, Kentucky, after which he joined his regiment, and was with the expedition to Devil's lake, and thence to Fort Snelling, Minnesota, and there mustered out of service October 10, 1865, having served in the two regiments about four years. His busines life commenced in 1868, in Independence, Richland county, Ohio, in a country store. He bought a half interest in the business of William Severns, his father-in-law. The firm bought produce of all kinds. He was for a time agent of the railroad at that point. In 1873 the firm lost about all their property by fire. After the fire he travelled for some time for a woolen-mill and powder factory. In 1875 he commenced clerking for Mr. Severns, his former partner, and he remained with him until August, 1879, when he purchased a stock of clothing and came to Centreburgh, where he carries a full line of all kinds of ready-made clothing, hats, caps and gentlemen's furnishing goods. He has a growing trade and carries about three thousand five hundred dollars worth of stock. He is a good business man and his customers never find a reason to complain from any misrepresentation, as he confines himself to business principles, truth and veracity. He was married to Miss Delnorta S. Severns, of Richland county, Ohio, January, 1868, and by this union they had four children, three of whom are living.

DARLING, ROBERT D., Wayne township, post office, Fredericktown; born in Wayne township, this county, in 1845, and was married in 1870 to Clotilda Lyon, who was born in Wayne township, this county, in 1846. They have four children, Nellie, born in 1871; Frank, in 1875; Nina, in 1877; and Willie, in 1879. Mr. Darling is a farmer by occupation, and has always lived in this county.

DAVIS, JACOB, Monroe township, was born near Hagerstown, Maryland, April 4, 1800, and came to Mt. Vernon, Knox county, with his father, Henry Davis, in 1815. He married Elizabeth Downs, daughter of George Downs, of Knox county, April 3, 1827, and moved to Monroe township, where he purchased land and erected a saw-mill on Schenck's creek in 1828. Shortly afterward he erected a grist-mill and added a fullingmill and carding machine. Being an enterprising business man he not only ran his own mill but owned an interest in the Monroe mills, Gilcrest's mills, and Shamon's mills. Mr. Davis died September 12, 1837, and was buried in St. John's Evangelical Lutheran cemetery, the ground for which was donated by him. He was the father of nine children, of whom James Woodbridge Davis was the youngest. He was born June 9g, 1849, at the old homestead on Schenck's creek, and reared on the farm. He married Jennie Daymude, daughter of William Daymude, of Monroe township, December 14, 1876, and has two children, Eimer S. and Herman.

DAVIS, THOMAS, Berlin township, farmer, post office, Fredericktown, born in Loudoun county, Virginia, in 1809; was married to Jane Jenkins, who was born in 1815 in Loudoun county, Virginia. They had six children: Sarah, born 1838; John, in 1840; Martha, in 1841; Eliza, in 1844; Margaret, in 1847; Stephen Taylor, in 1859. :

Mrs. Jane Davis died in 1850. Mr. Thomas Davis married again, his second marriage being to Elizabeth Baker, who was born in Wayne township, Knox county, in 1820, They had two children, W. Scott, bornin 1852, and Charlotte Ellen, in 1855.

John Davis was a soldier in the late war. He enlisted in the One Hundred and Twentieth regiment, and continued inthe service until his health failed. After his health was restored he again enlisted, but was again discharged on account of ill

Mr. Davis came to Ohio in 1838, and located ona farm in Berlin township, Knox county. He owns a well improved farm and has been identified with this county for forty-eight years. He has been a Methodist for fifteen years, and has been a Republican since the organization of the party.

DAVIS, W. SCOTT, farmer, Berlin township ; post office, Fredericktown; born in Berlin township in 1852, and was married in 1874 to Mary Morriston, who was born in Wayne township, in 1854. 'They have three children: Robertie Bell, born in 1875; Steward, in 1877; Daisy Dell, in 1878. Mr. Davis isa farmer, and resides on the old home farm.

DAVIS, JESSE, farmer, Liberty township, was born in Cecil county, Maryland, October 16, 1812. His father, a native of Ireland, emigrated to the United States when quite young. He served in the War of 1812 under Commodore McDonough, and received a wound. He was a man of considerable attainments, taught a select school for some years, and married a Miss Mary Nebb, a native of York county, Pennsylvania. They had nine sons and one daughter, all of whom are believed to be dead except Jesse Davis, who learned the blacksmith trade, which he followed for some years.

When about twenty years of age he went to Ohio county, Virginia, where, in April, 1835, he married Rosanna Frazier, who was born in Ohio county, West Virginia, January 9, 1808. They remained in Virginia until 1850, when they came to their present home. 'There were born to these parents four children in Virginia, viz: Samuel H., Robert F., Mary, and James W. Samuel H. and Robert F. enlisted in company G, Twentieth Ohio volunteer infantry. Samuel H. was taken sick and died May 30, 1862. While sick he was commissioned second lieutenant, but was never mustered. Robert F. was discharged in the fall of 1863, on account of physical disability. He is now bookkeeper in the First National bank, of Canton, Illinois. Mary and James W. are on the farm.

Mr. Davis was captain of company D, One Hundred and Forty-second Ohio National guard. When the regiment was called out some of the companies were consolidated. Mr. Davis was tiansferred to company A, which company he commanded during his enlistment.

DAVIS, MRS. JOANNA, Liberty township, was born in Milford township, November 30, 1829. She is the daughter of Smith Bishop and Mary Ann Jeffries, of whom mention is made in the history of Milford township. They had a family of eight children, six sons and two daughters, viz: John J., Joanna, the subject of this notice; Henry A., Benjamin F., Gilford D., Allen S., Clark N., and Adaline L., wife of James Ray, who resides near Columbus; Ohio.

Mr. Bishop died in 1866. His wife survives him. Joanna was married to Joseph P. Davis, November 18, 1861. He was: a native of the State of New York, and died in 1877. They had three children, viz: Anna Mary, born July 10, 1862; Cora Estelle, born January 10, 1866, and Ellen Adaline, born September 26, 1868. Mrs. Davis is an estimable lady.

DAVIS, JOHN M., farmer, Miller township, was born in Clinton township, September 28, 1853, is the son of George W. and Margaret Davis, zee Morton. Mr. Davis spent his youth on his father's farm, and, like farmers' sons generally, he

DAVIS, JOSEPH SLOCUM, Attorney at law and secretary of the Cleveland, Mt. Vernon & Delaware railroad company, Mt. Vernon, was born in Pickaway county, Ohio, November 21, 1812. He is the third child of Henry and Avice Davis, zee Towne. His father was born in Cornish, New Hampshire, his mother in Wilkesbarre, Luzerne county, Pennsylvania, where they were married, and came to Ohio in the year 1808, settling in Ross county. After a residence there of three years they moved into Pickaway county, remained there about four years, and then removed to Hillsborough, Highland county, Ohio, where they lived until they died. The father was engaged in mercantile pursuits.

The subject of this notice, when not at school, assisted his father in the store. In 1829 he entered the preparatory school at Gambier and continued two years in that department. He then entered the freshman class in Kenyon college, passed regularly through the several college classes and graduated in 1835. He read law with the late Benjamin S. Brown, of Mt. Vernon, and in the winter of 1836-37 attended the Cincinnati law school, and was admitted to the par in 1837. He commenced the practice of law in company with the Hon. C. Delano, and continued for several years, but after a severe attack of pleurisy his health failed to such an extent that he was compelled to retire.

He was the first editor of the Zrue Whig, a newspaper estsblished at Mt. Vernon in 1848, to advocate the election of General Zachariah Taylot to the Presidency of the United States.

In the winter of 1864-5 he was appointed by President Lincoln paymaster in the United States army - was ordered to Washington city, mustered into the service, and remained there until July after the close of the. Rebellion.

He has always taken a lively interest in the public schools: and has been connected with the city board of education twentyfive years, or since its organization in 1856, is now and has been for the last nine years president of said board.

In 1869 the directors of the Cleveland, Mt. Vernon & Delaware Railroad company elected him secretary of said company, which position he still holds.

Mr. Davis is esteemed as a frank, candid man, of scrupulous integrity, modest and retiring in disposition, affable in his manners, reserved in speech, honorable in his dealings, and a reliable friend, but firm and decided in his opinions, prompt and conscientious in the proper discharge of every public or private trust committed to his care.

Mr. Davis was married to Miss Sarah B. Moore, who was born in Connellsville, Fayette county, Pennsylvania, March, 1813, the only daughter of Doctor Robert D. Moore. They have had four children, two sons and two daughters, all of whom are living. Captain Henry M. Davis resides at Santa Fe, New Mexico. Anna C., married to John W. Hall, lives in Washington city. Mary A. and Rorlin H. are at home.

DAWSON, JAMES, Howard township, farmer, post office, Howard. He was born in Howard township, November 1, 1849. His father, John Dawson, died in July, 1858. His grandfather died at the same place just one week previous. James Dawson was married to Etta Critchfield in January, 1875, and commenced business on the old farm. He has two children: Philip, born February 10, 1870; Catura, May 21, 1878. His mother lives with them.

DAY, STEPHEN, Union township, merchant, post office, Gann. He was born in New Jersey in 1815, and came to Ohio in 1830, and was engaged in farming on what is called the George Freshwater farm, where he remained until his twentyfirst year; then removed to Rochester, Ohio; engaged in the grocery business for one year. He was then engaged in a flouring-mill at Roscoe, in Coshocton county, for one year. He then moved back to the farm and remained there for five years; then to Rochester; then to Oxford, Ohio; then back to the old home, where he purchased the Miller farm, and remained there for about five years. From there he went to Oxford and engaged in the mercantile business for two years, and then to the old home again, where he: remained until he sold it. He then went to Mt. Holly, and bought the Hast farm. He then sold the farm and went to Spring mountain, then returned to Mt. Holly and lived there for a year. Then he purchased the Draper farm, and lived there for five years, and then returned for the last time to Mt. Holly, remained for one year, and then went to Cambridge. April 25, 1870, he started for California in company with his father, mother and wife; remained there for three months. Then he removed to Bloomfield, Davis county, Towa, his wife remaining in California where his sons had settled. After going to a number of places he finally settled in Gann, where he is at present doing business with his younger son, selling dry goods, groceries, clothing, and doing a general mercantile business.

DEAN, BENJAMIN, Wayne township, farmer, post office, Fredericktown, born in Washington township, Richland county, in 1851, and was married in 1873 to Amanda Rowe, who was born in this township in 1848. Their children are James L., born April 2, 1875, and Charlie, October 23, 1878. Mr. Dean came to this county in 1868. He is one of the leading farmers of this township.

DEBOLT, REUBEN, Morgan township, farmer, born in Morgan township, January 19, 1812. His father, Abraham Debolt, was born and reared in Fayette county, Pennsylvania. The family came from Germany, near the river Rhine, but at what time they came to Americais not known. They settled in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, whence a large connection has sprung up. As a class they are industrious and well-to-do, being mostly farmers. The father of the subject of this sketch married Christiana Craiger, of Fayette county, Pennsylvania. About 1805 they came to what is the southeast part of Morgan township, where they lived and died.

The farm on which they first settled is owned by their son, Washington Debolt. They had a family of eleven children, one of whom died in infancy. The names were Isaac, Jacob, Daniel, Mary, Samuel - the above have deceased. The living are Michael, Reuben, Elizabeth, wife of George Clark, Washington, John, Rachel, wife of A. J. Hoten.

The subject of this notice was reared in Morgan township, and has always resided in the community, except nine years, when a resident of Licking county. December 7, 1837, he married Sarah French, who was born in Green county, Pennsylvania, in 1817, and came to Ohio with her parents. They had a family of nine children, viz: Mary, wife of James Vanvoris; William, Margaret E., Rachel, wife of Joseph Herrington; Christiana, Emma H., wife of Samuel Hall, and Della. Sarah J. and David have died.

DELANO, HON. COLUMBUS, Mt. Vernon. Very few, if any persons in Knox county have been so long and so intimately connected with the various business enterprises, the diversified secular interests, the educational, moral, benevolent and religious institutions, or who were more effective in movements that tended to give shape and direction to the affairs of social life, and form the customs, manners, and habits of the people, than Hon. Columbus Delano. For fifty years he has been prominent in the politics of Knox county. Fifty years ago he was admitted tothe bar, and soon attained to the position of an able lawyer and a popular politician.

Columbus Delano was a native of Shoreham, Vermont; born there in 1809. Jn 1817, when a lad of only eight years, he was brought to Mt. Vernon, where his home has since been, a period of sixty-four years. He became a law student before reaching full manhood, having previously been indefatigable at his studies, and diligentin the acquisition of knowledge, and in storing his mind with useful information. In 1831, just half a century ago, he was admitted to the bar, and as his friends predicted, soon became an eminently successful lawyer. His ambition, talents, excellent habits and exemplary deportment gave assurance of success and distinction in his chosen profession, and his early promise as a lawyer was fully realized in after years. He became eminent as an advocate and criminal lawyer, and no less so asacriminal prosecutor, for he became by popular election, soon after he was admitted to the bar, the prosecuting attorney of Knox county. The prosecuting attorney became an elective officer by act of the legislature in 1832, and Mr. Delano, although a Whig, or rather a National Republican, was elected to that office, in a county then decidedly and strongly Democratic, which shows that he was then very popular with both parties.

Success continued to crown Mr. Delano's career as a lawyer until 1844, when he became a candidate for Congress in the district composed of the counties of Knox, Licking, and Franklin. The Whig party had nominated Hon. Samuel White, of Licking, as their candidaee, who had accepted the candidacy and canvassed a portion of the district, before his death occurred. After due deliberation and consultation among the leaders of the Whig party, it was decided to place Columbus Delano on their ticket in place of their deceased candidate, Samuel White, who had been regarded as the most popular Whig, as well as the ablest, in the district, which was generally conceded to be Democratic by a few hundred majority. Colonel Caleb J. McNulty was the candidate of the Democratic party, and was considered the ablest political campaigner of his party in the district. He and his competitor, White, were well matched as orators before promiscuous'assemblies. They were, indeed, both men of remarkable force and ability as stump orators, and the Whigs regarded it of paramount importance to select the ablest man they had »in the district to conduct the campaign against McNulty. The canvas was fierce and of doubtful issue, as was natural enough in so close a district, and the result was not known until after the last township in the district was heard from. Colonel McNulty, it turned out, did not carry the entire vote of his party, and Mr. Delano received, by some hundreds, more than the full Whig vote of the district. and was elected a member of the Twenty-ninth Congress by the central or capital district of Ohio, by a majority of twelve votes. The popularity of Mr. Delano will appear more fully in the light of the fact that the district, at the same election gave to Governor Tod, the Democratic candidate, nine thousand six hundred and six votes; to Governor Bartley, the Whig candidate, eight thousand, nine hundred and ninety votes, and to L. King, the Abolition candidate, five hundred and twentyseven votes; giving Tod six hundred and sixteen majority over Bartley, and eighty-seven majority over both the Whig and Abolition candidates.

Hon. Columbus Delano served on the committee on invalid pensions, and made a vigorous speech against the Mexican war, which was widely circulated.

In 1846 Mr. Delano came within two votes of receiving the nomination of the Whigs for Governor or Ohio, William Bebb being his succsseful competitor in the convention, and whu was also successful by a small majority.

Hon. Columbus Delano was a delegate to the National Convention at Chicago in 1860, which nominated Abraham Lincoln for President, and in that memorable campaign rendered yeoman's service in bebalf of the martyr President and the Republican party generally.

In 1861 Mr. Delano was appointed commissary general of Ohio, and filled the office with great success until the General Government assumed the subsistance of all State troops. In 1862 he was a candidate for United States Senator, and on one of the ballots in caucus lacked only two votes of the nomination. In 1863 he was elected to the house of representatives of Ohio, and was a prominent member of that body, taking a leading part in shaping the important legislation of the State during the last two years of the war.

Hon. Columbus Delano was a member of the National Republican convention held in Baltimore in the year 1864, serving as chairman of the Ohio delegation, and zealously supporting President Lincoln's renomination, and the nomination of Andrew Johnson for Vice-President. In the same year he was elected a member of the Thirty-ninth Congress, and served as chairman of the committee on claims. In 1866 Mr. Delano was a delegate to the Loyalists' convention, held in Philadelphia. He was also a member of the Fortieth Congress, taking his seat after a successful contest before the House of Representatives.

After his election to Congress in 1864 Mr. Delano relinquished the practice of his profession, and became extensively engaged in sheep husbandry, agricultural pursuits, and in the business of banking.

Mr. Delano, after the close of his service as a member of the Fortieth Congress, was appointed by President Grant commissioner of internal revenue, and in 1870 he received the appointment of Secretary of the Interior, succeeding Governor J. D. Cox, thereby becoming one of President Grant's cabinet. He tendered his resignation of this office in 1875, after a service of five years, which was accepted by the President with expressions of satisfaction with the manner in which he performed the duties

Since Mr. Delano's resignation of the honorable position of Secretary of the Interior, he has lived in comparative retirement among his early friends in Mt. Vernon, which for sixty-four years he has called his home. There, amidst the elegance, the quiet, the contentment of a well ordered home, among cherished friends of earlier and later times, he enjoys the philosophic composure, the otium cum dignitate, the sage-like dignity, the leisure, the retirement becoming one whose years of activity, of success, of honor, have so largely outnumbered those of mankind gener. ally; whose ''ways of life'' have been such as that his retrospections would be pleasurable, be recalled with delight, and cherished with complacency.

Mr. Delano has led an active, useful, busy, laborious life, and has merited and enjoyed success and prosperity in a large measure. In peace and in war he has been patriotic; especially was he the friend of his country in the perilous years of the great Rebellion. Always the friend of Freedom and the enemy of slavery, none more zealously supported emancipation. Temperate, and the friend of temperance; the supporter of education and good morals; the schools, colleges and churehes always found in him an advocate. His recent large gift to Kenyon college was the liberal act of a noble man.

DENNIS, ABRAHAM, deceased, Berlin township, was born in New York; came to Knox county in 1865; he died in 1874. He had four children: William H., Martha, Laura E., and Philip H. Dennis. William died in Guernsey county, and lef a family of eight children. Martha died in Knox county in 1875. Laura E. Dennis and her nephew, Willard, are living on 'the home place.

DENNY, JAMES A., was born in Jackson township April 4, 1840; he was married February 3, 1865, to Mary Ann Dugan. They have had eight children, viz.: Leona, Leota, Maude, Guy, Edith E., Downey E., Leroy, one infant not named. Leona, born November 22, 1865; Leota, November 22, 1866, Maude, January 15, 1867; Guy, July 2, 1870; Leroy, July 23, 1876; Edith E., June 26, 1878; Downey E., April 2, 1880; infant not named, April 21, 1874. Mr. Denny was a member of company I, Eighty-fifth Ohio volunteer infantry, and company F., One Hundred and Twenty-fifth Ohio volunteer infantry.

DEVER, BENJAMIN F., retired, Fredericktown, was born in Knox county April 17, 1833, and was married November 20, 1859 to Sarah Pollock, who was born in Washington county, Virginia, July 4, 1837. They have the following children, viz. . Franklin H., born February 2, 1858; Alfred D., July 17, 1860; Eddie, August 19, 1862; and Robert R., April 9, 1865. Mr. Dever has resided in Fredericktown for twenty-four years, and has been engaged in buying and selling horses, he has also been adrayman. Franklin H., has been engaged in the drug business for about six years, and isa good practical druggist. He has been elected marshal of the town two terms and is now constable of Morris township.

DEVOE, SAMUEL J., Pleasant township, son of Samuel and Mariam Devoe, was born in Richland county, Ohio, November 20, 1817. He came to Mt. Vernon in 1837, and commenced working at the carpenter and joiner trade, with Blake & Armstrong, and continued at his trade until 1856 or 1857; he then engaged in the manufacture of doors, sash and blinds, at Shannon's old buggy factory, which he operated successfully 'by horse power, until about 1866, when he attached an engine to his machinery and continued in the business until 1870 when his factory was destroyed by fire, and since that date he has been engaged in farming. On the twenty-sixth of February, 1842, he married Miss Hannah Files, of Richland county, Ohio, who was born in 1821. In the spring of 1843, they settled in Mt. Vernon where they remained until 1866, when he purchased and moved on the farm, where they are now living, situated on the Gambier road, about one and one-half miles from Mt. Vernon. They have a family of seven children, three sons and four daughters.

DEWITT, BENJAMIN W., farmer, Brown township, post office, Jelloway, son of Jonathan and Mary Dewitt,, born in Richland township, Holmes county, where he was reared and received a part of his education. He graduated in Madison college, Guernsey county, in his nineteenth year; he then commenced the teaching of school, which he continued for twentyone quarters, teaching seven quarters in one district. He also taught vocal music in connection. On the eleventh day of November, 1847, in his twenty-fifth year, he married Sarah A. Workman, of Knox county, James S. Blair officiating. She was the first daughter of S. C. and Mary Workman, born September 6, 1828. After his marriage he moved upon a farm of his father's in Holmes county, where he remained about one year. While there he taught one term of school in the town of Millersburgh during the winter season; he then moved back to Knox county, Brown township, locating on the farm where he now resides, which was then known as the McCall and Stokley lands. By their marriage they became the parents of fifteen children: Normanda E., born February 5, 1849; Squire E., August 11, 1850; James H., January 31, 1852; Jonathan C., April 1, 1853, and died August 4, 1853; Mary E., October 17, 1854; Solomon H., March 27, 1856; Sarah J., March 27, 1857, and died August 28, 1858; Priscilla S., August 8, 1859; Channing C., October 20, 1860; Benjamin F., July 18, 1862, died August 28, 1862; Osmer B., July 18, 1863; Elma F., Semtember 3, 1865; Harriet L., April 3, 1867; Susannah B., March 8, 1869, now dead; William F., December 8, 1870, died Apri] 15, 1871, Mr. and Mrs. Dewitt and family are members of the German Baptist church.

DEWITT, SQUIRE E., Jefferson township, farmer, post office, Jelloway, was born in Brown township in 1850. He was married in 1873 to Melinda Shambaugh, who was born in Ashland county, Ohio, in 1848. They had'three children - Charles Alpheus, born in 1874; Iva May, born in 1876; John H. O., born in 1879. Mrs. Melinda Dewitt died in 1879, in Jefferson county. Mr. Dewitt is a farmer by occupation and an active and enterprising man.

DETWILER, GEORGE W., Wayne township, farmer, post office, Fredericktown, born in Richland county, Ohio, in 1845, and was married in 1869, to Lydia Cassell, who was born in Knox county. Mr. Detwiler has been a resident of this township ever since he came from Richland county, and is one of its active men. He was a soldier in the war, served out his time of enlistment and received an honorable discharge.

DIAL ISAAC, retired farmer, a resident of Monroe township, this county, anda native of Pennsylvania, was born on the twelfth day of October, 1797, and came with his parents, George and Elizabeth Dial, to Ohio in 1800, who located near Coshocton, and remained about two years. In 1802 they moved to the Shrimplon prairies, near Millwood, this county.

They were living on the prairies when the first assessor came around assessing the property, after Ohio became a State in 1803, where they lived about five years. In 1807 they moved to Howard township, this county, on the land owned by William Hays, remained about one year, then, in 1808, moved on land now owned by T. K. Head, in Harrison township, where they lived during the War of 1812, and for several years afterwards. In about 1817 the father of Mr. Dial moved to Holmes county, Ohio, and remained about two years; in 1820 he returned to this county, and remained a number of years, and then emigrated to Illinois, where he deceased.

Mr. Dial was reared on a farm and has made farming his principal vocation during his life. When he came to this county a small boy, he spent many days at play with Indian boys. He says many a wrestle he has had with the sons of the red man. There were no white boys in the neighborhood that he could have for playmates. Their neighbors were few and far apart. Their nearest mill was at Zanesville, for several years, then the Banning mill was erected.

In 1818, he cut wheat off of the ground where the Theological seminary now stands. Around the building where you now see the trees standing, was at that time a cleared field. He helped to erect the first house for Bishop Chase, which was a hewed log structure, in which Warner Terry lived for several years.

January 20, 1818, he married Nancy Durbin, born in 1794. They settled in College township, where they remained about nine years. In 1827 they moved on the T. R. Head farm, in Harrison township, and remained five years. On March 14, 1832, he purchased the land on which he is now living, in Monroe township, erected a cabin, into which he moved his family the same year. This served them as an abode for many years. He then erected his present frame residence on his farm. His companion deceased May 24, 1873. They reared a family of nine children - Maria, Lewis, William, Elizabeth, Miranda, Benjamin, Matilda, George, and Rhoda E. William and Elizabeth have deceased. Mr. Dial is still living and enjoying good health for a man of his age.

DIAL, JAMES, College township, miller and farmer, son of William and Rebecca Dial, was born in Knox county, Ohio, March 26, 1834. He was reared to manhood on a farm. In November, 1861, he enlisted in company K, of the Forty-third Ohio volunteer infantry, under Captain William Walker. He served three years and nine months and was discharged in August, 1865; after the close of the war, and returned home. In September, 1865, he commenced working in the Gain's grist mill, and remained with them about two years; then, in 1868, he purchased a one-fourth interest in the mill property, and continued in that way about three years. In 1871 he became a onethird partner, and in 1875 he bought a half interest in it, which he retains. October 18, 1868, he married Miss Catharine Lauderbaugh, born in College township in 1847, daughter of John and Catharine Lauderbaugh, and settled where they are now living. They have a family of three children, two sons and one daughter. He followed farming in connection with milling. '

DICKESON, ALFRED J., Gambier, son of Wells and Lucinda Dickeson, was born in Monroe township, this county, on the twenty-eighth day of February, 1842. In August, 1862, 'he married Miss Mary O. Fobes, born in Newcastle, Coshoctor county, Ohio, February 13, 1842, daughter of the Rev. D. L. Fobes. They settled in Gambier, where they now reside. They have three children: Francis H., Luella 4. and Maria G.

In 1862 he enlisted in company B, of the Ninety-sixth Ohio volunteer infantry, and served three years and was discharged in 1865, after the close of the war. He was in the Thirteenth army corps. He is a blacksmith by trade, and is carrying on the business in Gambier. He is the partner in the Hart & Dickeson carriage shops, and has charge of the ironing department. He also gives special attention to horse shoeing, and is a first-class shoer.

DICKSON, JAMES, Wayne township, farmer, post office Fredericktown, born in Knox county in 1846, and was married in 1871 to Mary Bricker, who was born in Knox county in 1850. They have one son, Ray B., born September 14, 1879. His father, Samuel Dickson, was married to Elizabeth Rood. They had a family of six children. They were among the earlier settlers of this county. Mr. Dickson died in this county in 1870. Mrs, Elizabeth Dickson died in 1875.

DISNEY, MRS. HARRIET, was horn July 14, 1806, in Anne Arundel county, Maryland. Her father's name was Jacob Barry, a licensed local preaeher of the Methodist Episcopal church. He was reared on South River, Maryland. His father, Basil Barry, reared four children - Sally, Mordecai, Jacob and Basil.

Jacob and Basil, aged respectively twenty-one and eighteen, went into the army of the United Colonies and were in the first battles fought for American independence. Basil died of the bloody flux while in the Northern army. Jacob was in the army during the whole war, and for a while wasa captain. He received a wound in the under jaw, and about twenty-seven small pieces of bone.came out. At the close of the war he re- Jacob Barry married Miss Mary, daughter of William Disney. They moved up to the Pine Woods and there they reared a family of seven chiidren - Elisha, Basil, Caleb, Mordecai, Jacob, Anna Maria, and Harriet. :

Elisha, Caleb, and Mordecai, were in the War of 1812, and in the camp at Annapolis when Washington-was burned by the British August 14, 1814. Basil and Mordecai were ordained ministers of the Methodist Episcopal church, and were members of the Baltimore conference.

In the fall of 1831 Jacob Barry, jr., with his family, his mother and sister Harriet, moved to Utica, Licking county, Ohio. He'had his wife and three little children, and this left Harriet to care for herself and her now aged mother. She rented a house of Mr. Cornelius Vanausdal, where she and her mother lived. April 25, 1833, she was married to Mr. Frederick J. J.. Disney, by the Rey. Alfred Loraine, of the Methodist Episcopal church.

Frederick was born in Anne Arundel county, Maryland, January 20, 1808. His father was William I. Disney; his mother was Amelison, daughter of Jacob Elliott, and his grandfather was James Disney.

William and Amelison were married in 1806, and reared thirteen children, of whom Frederick was the oldest. In 1826 they, with their family, moved to Utica, Licking county, Ohio.

After Harriet Barry moved to Utica, Ohio, in 1831, she and Frederick were married. In April, 1834, they moved to the eighty acres of land in Milford township, which Frederick had bought, and on which he had cleared about two acres. The log cabin which they moved into was about sixteen by sixteen feet.

They were the first to organize a Methodist class in the settlement, and in their log cabin they had regular preaching, and 'sometimes had a two days' meeting.

In 1840 they moved into the brick house now standing on the northwest corner of the farm, near where the cabin stood. Mr. Disney was a great lover of education and very zealous in pushing forward the educational interests in the settlement and among the first to organize a school and to raise money for the teacher. He was a strong Democrat and took an. active part. in politics. For seven years in succession he was elected treasurer of Milford township. F. J. J. Disney died May 17, 1854, leaving a wife and nine children, the oldest not yet twenty. It was his object to give his children a good education and make of them useful men and women.

The oldest child, Alfred W., was born in the fall of 1834, was educated at Chesterville, Ohio, At the age of twenty-two he commenced the study of medicine under Dr. William Hayes, sr. After completing his studies he went to Amity, Knox county, Ohio, where he opened an office and practiced medicine about one year. At the age of twenty-seven he married Miss Mary A., daughter of Thomas Brown, of Liberty township. Immediately after his marriage he went to La Rue, Marion county, Ohio, where he practiced medicine with Dr. J. Copeland awhile, and then opened an office of his own. "He was a graduate of the Starling Medical college, Columbus, Ohio. In the summer of 1875 he was taken sick, and on the twentieth of September he died of typhoid fever, leaving a wife and three little boys.

The second child, Larkin E., was born in 1836. He received a good education in the district school, and also in the Ohio Wesleyian university, Delaware, Ohio. He studied dentistry with Dr. McBriar, formerly of Mt. Vernon, now of Columbus, Ohio, and in 1862 he went to Coshocton, Ohio, where he commenced practicing his profession. In 1867 he married Miss Anna Spangler, of that place. At the present time he and his wife are in Peabody, Kansas. He is practicing dentistry.

The third child, Basil A,, received a fair education at home, and also attended the school at Delaware, Ohio. He joined the Methodist Episcopal church when very young, and at the age of eighteen he received license to preach. He is a member of the North Ohio conference, and now is stationed at Lorain, Ohio. In 1869 he married Miss Hannah M. Hardee. They have lost two children. He is now translating the New Testament from the Greek to the English. ;

George R. is the fourth child. His education, in the common branches, is good. At the age of twenty-one he married Miss Clamanda E., daughter of Mr. William H. Hawkins, of Milford township. By birth and practice he is a farmer; by occupation, a carpenter. He has one child. His home is in Milford township. ' The next child is Mary A. She attended the district school and received a liberal education. After she was grown she fitted herself for teaching, and taught several terms of school. In October, 1880, she was married 'to Mr. W. H. Orme, of Hawleyville, Page county, Iowa, where she now resides.

He has a good educa- For some time he was a travelling agent for the American Bible society. He canvassed Knox and Coshocton counties, and found many families without even a Testament. In 1874 he married Miss Mary C., daughter of Rev. C. C. Craven, of the North Ohio conference. They have a small family, and are living in Homer, Licking county, Ohio.

The seventh child, Henry B., received some education in the district school. In August, 1867, he went to Baldwin university, Berea, Ohio, where he stayed one year. In the winter of 1868-69 he taught his first school in the district where he once attended. He taught schoo] the next winter, and in the spring of 1870 returned to college. At the close of the year he graduated in the seminary course of the Sunday-school Normal department, besides keeping up with his classes in other studies. He is teaching his eighth term of school in Brandon, Ohio. His home is with his mother.

Emily I., is the next child and the second daughter. She received some education in the district school, and for awhile attended the Union schoolin Mt. Vernon, Ohio. When young she was the pet of the family. She is now at home.

The ninth child, Finley, attended the district school; for nearly a year he attended the normal school under Professor John Ogden, in Worthing, Ohio. In the summer of 1879 he went to the Musical Norrhal school in Youngstown, Ohio, under the direction of Professor N. Coe Stewart, of Cleveland, Ohio. For a number of years he has made the study of music a speciality. He is the author of '' Willie's Farewell," published in 1877, and by it he has the honor of being the first resident of Knox county who composed the words and music of a song and had it published. At present he is with his mother in Milfordton.

Mrs. Harriet Disney is residing on the farm to which she and her husband came in 1834. She joined the Methodist Episcopal church when fourteen years of age, and has ever lived an exemplary life. Her children are all members of the Methodist Episcopal church.

DISNEY, WILLIAM A., farmer, Milford township, was born in Anne Arundel county, Maryland, February 11, 1813. His parents, William I. and A. Disney zee Elliott, came to Ohio with a family of nine children and settled in Miller township, in 1825, where they remained about a year, then moved to Milford, where they both lived and died. Six of their children are living.

The subject of this sketch spent his early life on the farm, assisting his parents. When about eighteen years of age he was apprenticed to learn the trade of blacksmithing, and worked at his trade for a number of years, after which he engaged in farming, and which he yet follows. Mr. Disney's reading has taken a wide range, he is therefore a man of extensive information. He was an ardent advocate of the principles of the Abolition party. In 1836 he cast his vote for James G. Birney, the Abolition candidate for President, and it was the only ballot cast for him in the township. He acted with this party until the forming of the Republican party, when he helped organize that political party, since which time he has acted with it. He married Miss Mary Jane Lampson, October 6, 1836, a daughter of Judson Lampson, a pioneer of Knox She was born October 6, 1818. They had four children: Judson L. was a member of company A, Ninety-sixth regiment Ohio volunteer infantry, and died May 24, 1864, at New Orleans, while in the

DODD, STEVEN B., deceased, was born June 20, 1820, in Washington county, Pennsylvania. He removed to Knox county, Ohio, at an early age, and commenced the practice of medicine in Martinsburgh in 1853. He was a very successful physician. He was a graduate of the Physio-Medical college of Cincinnati, and was married to Miss Sarah Ann Sinkey September 7, 1841. Their children were: Abraham N., Stephen B., Alfred M. and James F., all living except Abraham N. James F. is agent for the Singer Sewing Machine company, and does a good business.

Dr. Dodd died June 30, 1863. He had lived a consistent Christian life, being a member of the Free Presbyterian church, and elder for many years. Abraham Sinkey, father of Mrs. Dodd, was born in Pennsylvania, and was married to Ann Boyd Foster, of Maryland, who was aunt of President James Buchanan and the celebrated poet, Stephen Foster. Mrs. Sinkey died at Martinsburgh at the advanced age of ninetyeight years.

Bladensburgh, was born in Jackson township June 4, 1843. He was married to Miss Sophia M. Houck in August, 1869. They have two ehildren: William, porn May 11, 1871, and Lotta, May 31, 1878. Mr. Donahey has resided in Jackson township the principal part of his life. He went to Illinois in August, 1874, where he was engaged both in school teaching and the mercantile business. He returned to Ohio in July, 1880, locating in Bladensburgh, where he is now engaged in the grocery business, keeping a good stock of groceries and provisions on hand for his many patrons.

DOOLITTLE, S. R., merchant, and son of Philo Doolittle, was born in Fredericktown, this county, in 1838. In 1865 he came to Gambier, engaged in the mercantile business, and has been actively engaged in that business since that time. He constantly keeps on hand a full assortment of every thing in his line, such as dry goods, groceries, notions, hardware, agricultural implements, etc.

DOTY, CHARLES, Pike township, farmer, post office, Democracy, born in Stark county, Ohio, in 1823, and was married in 1854 to Ann Tharp, who was born in Wayne county in 1834. They have two children - Elizabeth and Stanton W. Mr. Doty came to this county in 1841, first located in Jefferson township, and in 1872 came to this township. He is a farmer, owning a good farm in this township.

DOUP, CONRAD, Pike township, blacksmith, post office, Democracy, born in Union township, Knox county, in 1839, and was married in 1866 to Margaret Kirkpatrick, who was born 'in this township in 1847. 'They had six children: John Sherman, born in 1867; Frank W., born in 1869; Ada C., born in 1871, died in 1872; Ava I., born in 1873; Zara Clifton, born in 1876, and Altha M. in 1879. He commenced the blacksmithing business in 1856, with his brother George, and has been engaged in that trade ever since, except during the late war. He enlisted in Captain James Drake's company H, Twenty-third regiment Ohio volunteer infantry, continued in the service for over three years, and was honorably discharged. He is now a resident of Amity, and is one of the leading men of the place.

married in 1866 to Lenah F. Smith, who was born in Johnson county, Iowa, in 1847. They have six children - Martha (deceased), Byron, Elmer, Clara, Nancy, and Laura. Mr. Dour was a soldier in the late war, a member of company H, Twenty third regiment Ohio volunteer infantry, and was engaged wit this company for three years, when it was consolidated with company G. He was in the war four years and three months, and was a valiant soldier. His father, Conrad Doup, was born in Germany in 1805, came to America in 1830, located in Knox county in 1832. He was married to Catharine Best, who died in 1832. His second marriage was to Catharine Hager, who was born in Pennsylvania in 1809. They had nine children - George, Daniel, Solomon, Conrad, Elizabeth (deceased), Louis,

DOUP, FREDERICK, Butler township, was born in Germany, and came to America about forty years ago. . He served in the Mexican war and in the war of the Rebellion, proving a gallant soldier. He is now a prosperous farmer of Butler township.

DOWDS, ELIJAH, Pike township, deceased ; was born in Virginia in 1807. His parents emigrated to Ohio when he was achild. He was first married to Nancy Wilson who was born in 1808. They had nine children, viz: Samuel N., Margaret, Martha A., Elizabeth E., William B., Nancy J., Elijah P., Lucy E., Sophia C., and Mary A. Mrs. Nancy Dowds died in 1855. Mr. Dowds afterwards married Mary Ellen Barber, who was born in this county in 1833. They had seven children, viz: Wilson B., Joseph S., John H., Sheridan G., Charles C., Cornelius K., and Alva A. - Two of the sons were in the late war. William B. was a member of the Sixty-fifth O. V. I. Elijah P. was a soldier in the Twentieth regiment O. V. I., and was killed in the battle of Raymond, Mississippi, May 12, 1863.

Mr. Dowds was an eaily settler of this county ; industrious, economical, and succeeded in accumulating a good property. He died June 7, 1879.

DOWD, SAMUEL N., Monroe township, farmer and stock grower, son of Elijah and Nancy Dowds, zee Wilson, was born in Monroe township, this county, November 4, 1829; was reared on a farm, and has made farming his vocation through life. October 22, 1855, he married Miss Eliza A. Popham, of Pike township, this county, born in 1841, daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth J. Popham. They settled in Monroe township on a farm where they now reside. They have a family of nine children, three sons and six daughters.

DOWDS, WILLIAM B., Monroe township, farmer, son of Elijah W. and Nancy Dowds, zee Wilson, was born in Monroe township, this county, July 4, 1837. He was reared on a farm and has made farming his vocation. In 1859 he married Miss Julia A. Hersh, born in November, 1835, daughter of John and Rebecca Hersh. They settled in Monroe township, remained until in 1863, when they moved to Pike township, this county, where they remained until 1875 or 1876, when he purchased and moved on the farm in Monroe township, where they are now living. They have a family of eight children, two sons and six daughters. He served about thirteen months in the war of 1861, having enlisted August 11, 1862, in company B, Ninetysixth Ohio volunteer infantry, and served until April 3, 1863, when he was honorably discharged from the service, on account of sickness, and returned home. In 1864 he enlisted in company F, of the One Hundred and Forty-second Ohio volunteer

DOWLER, B. F., St. Louis, Missouri, dealer in horses, Nos. 20 and 21 Market street; born in Knox county, Ohio, in 1830, and was married in 1850 to Miss Hannah Rodgers, who was born in Wayne township, this county, in 1830. They have two children, Adelpha and Freddie. Mr. Dowler has been quite extensively engaged in buying and shipping horses from this county to eastern States and cities. He has moved to St. Louis, owns two farms near the city, and still continues shipping horses.

DOYLE, JAMES, Mt. Vernon, deceased, a native of Ireland, was bornin the spring of 1806, in the parish of Fernes, town and county of Wexford. In 1833 he entered the Government employ under contracts for building Government wharfs and piers in the different harbors along the Irish coast. On the first day of January, 1836, while in Liverpool, England, he entered the British navy asa volunteer, and was transferred to the royal mail service as a boatman, and stationed at Kingstown, Ireland. A great amount of the work 1equired of him while in the mail service was necessarily performed during the night time. The mail ships that carried the great mail between London and Dublin, made no stop at Kingstown, where he was stationed, and the boat service was sometimes one of great danger. It was often with great difficulty that the boat, in darkness and amidst mountain waves, was enabled to reach the shore. Twice while in this service he received slight bodily injuries. He was discharged from the mail service by the board of admiralty, after serving faithfully for fifteen years, February 20, 1851. The reason assigned for the discharge was that the mail service was transferred by the Government to that of a private company. In all making about eighteen years of his life spent in the service of the British Government.

In 1851 he with wife and family emigrated to America and located in Massillon, Stark county, Ohio, remained about six years, then, in April, 1857, he came to this county and settled in Mt. Vernon, where he passed the remainder of his days. About thirty-three years of his life were spent in performing night duty, including naval and civil life. After his coming to Ohio he was employed asa night watchman, both while living in Massillon and in Mt. Vernon. Asa night watchman at the Buckingham foundry he remained for many years. He married Miss Mary Harney, of Ireland, born in 1817. They had nine children, five of whom were born in Ireland and four in America. The first born died and and was buried in Ireland, and two others breathed their last in America. The other six are still living. Two of their sons. John M. and Philip E. Doyle, served as private soldiers in the late war; John M. was in the Sixty-first Ohio volunteer infantry, served until the close of the war, returned home and is now residing in Mt. Vernon; by trade he is a machinist in the shops of the John Cooper's manufacturing company. Philip E. served about three years in the Eighteenth United States regulars. He returned home at the expiration of his term of service, and now resides in Leadville, Colorado. if?

Patrick, their youngest, is a moulder by trade and is now living in Mansfield, Ohio, having been employed by Aultman & Taylor several years. Mr. Doyle departed this life April 12, 1880. Mrs. Doyle is still living in rigorous old age.

DUNBAR, WILLIAM, attorney, Mt. Vernon, was born in Mifflinsburgh, Northumberland, now Union, county, Pennsy!- vania, January 31, 1806. He came of revolutionary stock. His grandfather was commissary to General Washington at Valley Forge. His parents, with a family of nine children, came to Ohio in 1814, and settled in Columbiana county, where they remained some two years, and then moved to Stark county, Canton, where they lived and died. He is of Scotch and German extraction, his father being Scotch and his grandmother German. He learned the trade of carpenter, at which he worked for some years. He taught school for several terms. He was appointed postmaster at Canton during the administration of Amos Kendall, postmaster general, December 24, 1835. He resigned the office about 1837.

At about that time, 1834, he purchased the Stark County Democrat, and from the work bench he became editor and postmaster. After he resigned the post office he threw his whole energy into the work, and ina short time the circulation of his paper was largely increased. The majority of his party was also increased from one hundred and fifty to nine hundred. He met with exceedingly bitter opposition, but wielded his pen with such force as to rout his enemies. He was elected county treasurer in the fall of 1839, after one of the fiercest struggles in the politics of the county, coming out with eleven of a majority. He was again elected at the expiration of his first term, without opposition. Hesold his paperin the winter of 1839. He commenced reading law while in the treasurer's office, and was admitted to practice in the courts of Ohio in 1842, and in August, 1847, was admitted to practice inthe United States courts. In November, 1847, Mr. Dunbar moved to Knox county and located in Mt. Vernon, and has since practiced his profession. In 1854, during the Know-Nothing epidemic, he was nominated for Congress, but was defeated.

Mr. Dunbar purchased the Mt. Vernon Banner office November, 1847, and was editor and proprietor of the same until the fall of 1852, when he sold the paper to Mr. E. J. Ellis.

When he first came to Mt. Vernon he entered into law partnership with Hon. John K. Miller, which continued until the failing health of Mr. Miller caused him to retire from business, A partnership was also formed with Judge John Adams, and also a law partnership with General H. B. Banning, which continued until the general went into the army.

October 2, 1827, Mr. Dunbar was married to Miss Harriet Tofler, of Canton. They have had eleven children, seven of whom are living, five sonsand two daughters. The living are: Caroline, William B., (assistant treasurer of Knox county); Homer J., at Fremont, Ohio; Edward L., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Robert P., Fremont, Ohio; George M., Mt. Vernon, and Hattie, teaching in blind asylum, Columbus, Ohio. The deceased are: Albina, died in 1862; John E., Limerick, and Julia, died when young.

DUDGEON, SIMON (deceased). The subject of this sketch was born in Ireland, county Donegal, June 3, 1776, where he was reared, and lived until 1802 (being twenty-six years of age), when he sailed for America, landing in the city of New York, he having but one English shilling left, which he soon parted with to have his shirt washed. From New York city he went to the State of Connecticut, where he remained and worked a short time. From there he came back to Delaware county, New York, and hired to perform labor by the month, ona farm, where he remained but a short time, afterwards engaging in the lumbering business, continuing at it until the year 1810, when he came to what is known as Harrison township, Knox county, where he entered three quarter sections of land, and afterwards sold one quarter-section to his brother Moses, in order to get money to improve the balance. After this he went to Washington county, Pennsylvania, and there, in September, 1811, he married Nancy Elliott, daughter of Charles and Jane Elliott, born in Ireland in 1791. After his marriage (in October, 1811) he returned to Knox county and moved upon his land, which was all a dense forest at that time, and erected himself a small tent, covering the same with sheets, to shelter himself and wife from the storm and the wild animals that infested the country at that time. He then proceeded to cut logs and build a cabin, which he and his wife soon occupied. He then proceeded to clearing his land and getting it ready for cultivation. In this labor he was engaged from year to year until he became the owner of a fine farm. In the meantime he kept purchasing land until he was the owner of seven hundred and twelve acres, which at his death was divided among his sons and daughters. There were born to Simon Dudgeon and Nancy Elliott ten children as follows: Jane, Thomas, Charles, Moses, David,g William, Simon, Mary, John, and Andrew, eight of whom are now living.

The subject of this sketch died June 2, 1845, in his sixty-ninth year; his companion survived him till December 14, 1859, when she died, aged nearly sixty-nine years.

DUDGEON, MOSES, farmer and stock-raiser, post office Gambier; fourth son of Simon and Nancy Dudgeon, born in Harrison township, Knox county, January 31, 1818, where he was reared and enured to the hardships of a pioneer life.

The subject of this sketch remained with his father until the age of twenty-six years, when his father gave him a quarter section of land in Allen county, which he owned about three years, when he exchanged it for an interest in the old homestead in Knox county, where he at present resides.

December 26, 1844, he was united in marriage with Hannah, a daughter of Benjamin and Mary Devare, born in Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, where she was reared until at the age of eight years, when her parents both died. She was then brought to Knox county by Daniel Sawyers, with whom she lived.

Mr. Dudgeon is at present the owner of two hundred and forty acres of land, and has also held quite a number of offices of trust in said county and township, being county commissioner, justice of the peace, and treasurer.

DUDGEON, DAVID, farmer and wool-grower, post office Gambier; fourth son of Simon and Nancy Dudgeon, born in Harrison township, Knox county, April 11, 1820. He received an education, and at the age of twenty-one years he went to Allen county, and remained about five years, In 1845, when in Allen county, he purchased two hundred acres of land, then came back to Knox county, and then went to farming for his mother. About a year after returning home he sold his land in Allen county to his brother Thomas, for the sum of nine hundred dollars, and then purchased a share in the home-place, where he continued to remain and farm, purchasing shares in the home-farm. This he continued about eight years, by which time he had become the owner of three hundred and fifty acres. On February 10, 1848, he was united in marriage with Mary J., a daughter of Asa and Catharine Freeman, born in Knox county, Butler township, August 2, 1831. Their union resulted in eleven children, viz: Martha, Eunice, Ann, Lydia, William, Jessie (died May 21, 1863), Andrew, Caroline, Lee, Reuben, and Jane.

In April, 1880, he purchased seventy-four acres in Pleasant township, Knox county, at a cost of three thousand seven hundred dollars, which he deeded to his daughter, and which she now occupies.

DUKE, WILLIAM, marble cutter, Fredericktown, was born in Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, in 1849. He came to Ohio in 1863. He commenced the manufacture of gun stocks with Hoover & Fisher, and worked at that business till 1865. In 1871 he went to Newark, Licking county, and engaged in the manufacture of tombstones. He was married in Newark in 1874 to Emma J. Sasser, who was born in St. Louis. They have two children, viz.: Luther James, born November 22, 1874; Cora Mabel, March 17, 1877. Mr. Duke came to Fredericktown April 1, 1879; and is engaged with John Getz in the manufacture of monuments and tombstones. He isa good mechanic, and an active citizen of the county.

DUN, J., farmer, Howard township, post office, Howard' was born in Wheeling, Virginia. His father came to this county in the early days of his son's life, and died shortly after. Mr. Dun has lived all his life in Knox county. He was married in 1865 and settled in Howard township. He had five children, two of whom died in iufancy, and the other three are still living.

DUNCAN, JAMES, JR., teacher, Fredericktown, was born in Beaver county, Pennsylvania, in 1846; came to Ohio in 1857, and was married in 1871 to Lucy A. Mitchell, who was born in Richland county, Ohio, in 1848. They have two children - Cloyd, born in 1873, and Bessie, born in 1875. Mr. Duncan was educated at Washington and Jefferson college. He is now superintendent of the union schools, of Fredericktown. He enlisted in the late war as a member of One Hundred and Forty-second regiment, Ohio National guard, and served out his time and received an honorable discharge.

DUNCAN, WILLIAM H., mechanic, Union township; post office, Gann. He was born March 7, 1829, in Baltimore, Maryland. At twelve years of age he enlisted in the United States navy, remained five years, and then went to Cincinnati and remained five years. He then went to the Mexican war aud was gone two years. After being discharged, he went to Cincinnati, and then to Baltimore, then to Mt. Vernon, and worked at his trade eighteen months. In 1855 he was married to Miss Swats, and settled in Mt. Holly, and remained there until the Rebellion, when he went out with Colonel H. B. Banning, One Hundred and Twenty-first Ohio volunteer infantry, and remained until the close of the war. Since that time he has paid strict attention to the boot and shoe business. He was married to Miss E. Johnson in 1865, and she only lived about ten years after. In 1877 he married Miss H. Comstock. He has the following children: William, Margaret, Louisa, Margaret, Benjamin, Ira M., Cora Lee, and Lucy Fisher. His' grandchild, Viola Minnie, is living with him.

George died November, 1862; Thomas died in Wayne township January r1, 1861; Albert Charles and Charles Albert died in Pennsylvania; Norris in Ohio.

Mr. James Duncan, sr., was a farmer by occupation, and has lived in this township since 1857. In 1868 he moved to Fredericktown, and has always been one of its enterprising citizens.

DUNHAM, WILLIAM E., Wayne township, farmer, post office, Mt. Vernon, born in Clinton townsnip in 1831, and was married to Martha King, who was born in Knox county. They have the following family: Clarence, born December 25, 1853; Clara, born in 1856; Jefferson, February, 1862; Della, October, 1863, and Alna, January, 1875.

Mr. Dunham came to this township with his parents in 1832, and since then has been a resident of this county. He has accumulated by industry and frugality, a very handsome property, consisting of a fine residence with a well improved farm. He was elected treasurer of Knox county in the fall of 1871 by a large majority, and filled the position with honor and credit to himself and to his party. The vote of his own township, which is Republican by about one hundred majority, gave Mr. Dunham a majority of one hundred and ten.

DUNHAM, JACOB, deceased, a native of New Jersey, and a soldier of the Revolution, was born on the ninth day of October, 1757. He married Miss Sarah Outcelt in 1787, born in New Jersey August 21, 1767. They settled in New Jersey, where they remained until 1820, when he, with his wife and family, emigrated to Knox county, Ohio, and located in Morris township; where they lived about seven years, and then moved ona farm in Clinton township in 1827. In 1829 he purchased and moved on the farm now known as the Dunham homestead, and owned by their son, Jacob Dunham, in the same township, where he deceased July 6, 1839. His wife died in 1859, aged ninety-two years and some months. They reared a family of eight children: Lydia, born in New Jersey July 11, 1791; Jemima, in New Jersey May 6, 1795; John, in New Jersey August 9, 1797; Hiram, in New Jersey March 3, 1798; Jacob, in New Jersey November 6, 1802; Jehu, September 10, 1803; Frederick, in New Jersey February 15, 1807, and Margaret, in New Jersey November 14, 1810.

All of the above named are deceased except Jacob, who is living on the old home farm, at the age of seventy-eight years, highly esteemed by all that know him.

DUNN, JOHN, Brown township, farmer, and a son of George and Alice Dunn, was born in' Licking county, Ohio, March 26, 1834. His early life was spent on a farm. In 1857 he married Miss Elizabeth Divan, of Licking county, and settled there. Their union resulted in one child - a daughter. His companion deceased in 1859.

Miss Mary E. Tilton, of Jefferson*township, in October, 1864, daughter of Josephus and Sabina Tilton, born in 1842. They settled near Jelloway, and remained until 1864, when he purchased and moved onthe farm, where they now reside in Brown townshship, about three-fourths of a mile northeast of Jelloway. They have a family of five children - three sons and two daughters. He has made farming his vocation through bis life.

DURBIN, SAMUEL, Fredericktown, deceased ; was born in Pennsylvania about the year 1780, and married to Rebecca Collins, who was born in 1783. They had the following children, viz: John, Thomas, Elizabeth, Clemency, James, Sarah, Charity, Margaret, and Samuel. He came to Fairfield county at avery early day and afterwards to Morris township, this county, in 1808. He was the fourth settler in this township, and cut his road from Mt. Vernon and cleared and improved the farm (now the Grant farm) in this township. Mr. Durbin died April 22, 1822.

DURBIN HENRY P., Morris township, farmer, post office, Mt. Vernon; was born in Clinton township in 1842, and married in 1864 to Mary Chilcoat, who was born in Pennsylvania, Huntingdon county, December 4, 1837. They have the following children: Thomas E., born January 23, 1866; Jessie A., born September 9, 1870; Rhoda E., born April 9, 1873; Willie R., born November 28, 1874; Miles S., born November 26, 1878. Mr. Durbin has resided on his present farm in Morris township fifteen years.

DURBIN, BAPTIST, deceased, Union township, was born in Maryland in February 1816. He emigrated to Belmont county, Ohio, in 1825, where he married Miss Catharine King, in November, 1825. She was born in Belmont county, Ohio, and is the daughter of John King. They settled in Belmont county; remained until 1832, when they moved to Knox county, and located in Howard township, on a farm two miles north of Howard village, where they passed the remainder of their days.

His wife died in August 1854. He survived her until July 26, 1878. They reared a family of eleven children: John, Benjamin, Jane, William, Mary, Trecy, Sarah C., Margaret, Baptist, Alexander, and Emma C,. All are now living except Baptist who died in 1874.

DURBIN, JOHN, farmer, Union township, the oldest son of Baptist and Catharine Durbin, was born in Belmont county, Ohio, August 26, 1862, and came with his parents to Knox county, Ohio, in 1832.

He was reared a farmer and has made farming and stock raising his principal vocation. He commenced working at the carpenter and joiner trade, at the age of twenty-one years, and has followed that business to some extent in connection with farming. In April, 1852, he married Miss Lucinda Sapp, born in Union township, Knox county, May 11, 1831, daughter of Levi and Mary Sapp, zee Colopy. They settled in Union township on the Sapp homestead, where the lived a few years, and after living on several farms in Union township, he purchased, in 1860, and moved on the farm where they are now living, one-half mile north of Danville. At this time he owns three farms, one in Jefferson township, one in Howard, and the one he is living on in Union township. 'They have ten children, five sons and five daughters. He filled the office of township treasurer four years.

county, Ohio, May 8, 1828. On the nineteenth day of January, 1858, he married Miss Margaret, daughter of William and Bridget McNamara, born October 20, 1833. They settled in Howard township, Knox county; remained until 1864, when he purchased and moved on the farm where they are now living, in. Union township, one-half mile north of Danville. They have four children, one son and three daughters. He was brought up a farmer, and has followed farming and stock raising. At present he owns two farms, one in Jefferson, besides the one he is living on in Union township.

DURBIN, RAPHAEL, Howard township, farmer, post office Howard. He was born October 26, 1834, in Bedford county, Pennsylvania. In 1845 he moved to Knox county and settled in Howard township. He was married April 16, 1861, and a short time afterwards settled on his farm. His father died in 1852 and his mother in 1873. They have nine children, Mary, Anna, Charles, Joseph, John, Margaret, William, Frances and Leo.

DURBIN, PETER, Howard township, farmer, post office Howard. He was born in Alleghany county, Maryland, January 31,1835. His father came to Ohio in 1843 and died in 1852. His mother died in 1873.

They raised ten children, who are settled in Howard township: Marion, Susan, Rachel, Peter, Simeon, John, Margaret, George Benedict, and Pius. They now own six hundred acres of good farming land.

DURBIN (DAWSON), MRS. RACHAEL, post office, Howard. was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, in 1822, and came to Knox county in 1836 with her father, and settled on the L. Pealer farm. She was married to John Dawson April 1, 1846. Mrs. Dawson and her husband 1emained on the old farm nntil 1859 when they came to their present farm. Mr. Dawson died July 1, 1855, and left Mrs. Dawson with two children, James and Louisa, who still remain with her. Mrs. Dawson's father died in 1838, and her mother lived with her until '1869, when she too passed away.

DYE, VINCENT E., blacksmith, Middlebury township, post office, Levering; born in Richland county, June 15, 1841, and was married November 13, 1874 to Ellen M. Smith, who was born September 3, 1848, in Coshocton county, Ohio. They have two children, viz.: Clyde L., born January 30, 1875; Earl W., January 14, 1878. Mr. Dye learned blacksmithing with David 'Paxton, and has been engaged in that business ever since he came to Waterford in 1874. He does custom work and is a first class workman, as all can testify that have employed him.

DURBIN, THOMAS, Howard township, farmer, post office, Howard, was born March 29, 1849, in Howard township. His father, Basil Durbin, was born in Pennsylvania, and came to Knox county in 1830, and moved to the farm where his son now lives, in 1850. He died July 5, 1865, and left his little home to his son Thomas Durbin, who was married to Hattie Porter, October 27, 1879. Thomas Durbin's mother was born in Baltimore county, Maryland, in 1806, and came here in 1826. She still remains with her son, but is very feeble.

DUSENBERRY, WILLIAM, was born in Bethlehem township, Coshocton county, Ohio, November 2, 1840. In 1867 he removed to Butler township. April 4, A. D. 1867; he was married to Matilda A. Schrimplin. They have had eight children, viz: Jackson, born February 24, 1860; Ida Annis, January 24, 1870; Fannie Alice, August 9, 1871; Rose Ellen, October 9,

EBERSOLE, JOHN, was born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, June 10, 1786. He made a visit to Knox county, Ohio, in 1812, to see his parents, who were living here on a farm north of town, in Middlebury township. He then returned to Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, where he engaged in milling. He was married in the fall of 1824 to Miss Mary Ann Johnson, and removed to Ohio in the fall of 1825, and lived in the house with his parents that winter. In the spring of 1826 he removed to his farm in Morris township, containing two hundred acres that his father had purchased for him. He erected a cabin to live in, and a log barn and smoke-house; the latter is still standing. In 1834 his wife died, leaving him with three small children, the eldest eight years of age, viz.: Elizabeth, Matilda, and Rebecca. Elizabeth was born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania. He never married again after his wife died, but removed to his mother's, north of town, and lived there one year, and then returned to his farm, where he spent the remainder of his days. He was industrious, economical and frugal in his habits.

John Ebersole (Uncle John, or Dutch Johnny, as he was called by us boys since about 1840) was a very peculiar man. His greatest peculiarity was his being strictly honest and considering everybody so until he found them otherwise. He was an easy man to do business with as long as there was no deception practiced on him; but the man who would decieve him once never would have an opportunity to do so again, as he would never do business with him again on any terms. If he wasa man's friend he was a firm one; if he was not his friend, he would have nothing to do with him. He was a man of few words. We venture to say that no man ever lived in Morris township as many years as he did, who had the power of speech, who talked less than he did. The writer has been in his company for hours that he did not speak. We remember going to see him once on business, and seeing him in a field near the road whetting his old Jerusalem-bladed scythe, we hastened on to get there before he started in. We accosted him - ''Good morning, Uncle John; I came down to see about " "He 'said' not' a word; stuck his whetstone into its place and swung his broad bladed scythe into grass, and all we had to do was to wait patiently until he mowed across the field and back, when he attended to the business without further ceremony. Another time we visited him on business and addressed him as usual and told him our business just as he laid up a sheep to shear it; as soon as that sheep was sheared we got an answer, and a favorable one, as no man granted favors more readily than he did to those who treated him as he deserved.

EBERSOLE, WILLIAM, farmer, Morris township; post office, Fredericktown; was born in Knox county in 1831, and married in 1866 to Matilda Ebersole, who was born in this county in 1827. Mr. Ebersole owns an improved farm, with good buildings. He enlisted September 11, 1862; was a member of company G, One Hundred and Twenty-first regiment,

His father, John Ebersole, deceased, was born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, in 1786, and was married to Mary A. Johnson, who was born in the same county, same State. They had three children - Elizabeth, Matilda, and Rebecca. John Ebersole died in 1873. His wife, Mary, died in, 1832. They located in this county in 1812.

EBERSOLE, JACOB C., farmer, Fredericktown, was born in Wayne township, this county, June 1815; was married November 23, 1837, to Harriet Worthington, who was born in Virginia. They had four children to-wit: Elizabeth, born September 8, 1838; George W., March 7, 1840; John D., February 10, 1844, and Sheridan O. Mrs. Harriet Ebersole died August 15, 1850. Mr. Ebersole was afterwards married to Caroline M. Stevens, who was born in New York.. They have two daughters, viz: Sarah E., born November 29, 1851, and Harriet B., February 16, 1855.

Mr. Ebersole settled on an improved farm where W. Coursen now resides, in Middlebury township. He moved to Fredericktown in 1854; has been street commissioner in this place twentytwo years, and is a member of one of the pioneer families of the county.

EBERSOLE, DAVID, farmer, Wayne township; post office, Fredericktown; born in Knox county in 1834, and was married in 1863 to Elizabeth Kreider, who was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, in 1828. They have the following children: Rosalia E., born November 19, 1865, and Charles D., June 23, 1873.

His father, John Ebersole, was born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, in 1788 and came to Knox county, Ohio, in 1814. He was married May 5, 1812, to Elizabeth S. Kreider, who was born in Dauphin county, Pennsylvania, in 1796. They had the following family: Jacob C., born June 18, 1815; Eliza, December 14, 1818; John E., July 12, 1820; Joseph D., February 15, 1823; Emily, December 11, 1826; Jefferson, May 14, 1828; William, July 26, 1831; David, August 19, 1834, and Henry, November 19, 1837. William Ebersole was a soldier in the late war - a member of company G, Ohio volunteer infantry, and received an honorable discharge.

EDWARDS WILLIAM E., physician. He is the son of Moses and Catharine Edwards, he was born near the town of Union Bridge, Carroll county, Maryland, in 1827, came to Ohio with his father's family in 1842, lived in Coshocton county four years, came to Knox county in 1836. He was married to Sarah Paulina Heath, of Richland county. His father died when he was young. He supported the family until twenty-five years of age; he then engaged in the study of medicine with Dr. Aaron Edwards and attended lectures at the University of Michigan, commenced practice in Putman, Muskingum county, in the spring of 1855, came to Fredericktown in the fall of 1859, removed to Amity, this county, remained there twelve years, then returned to this place with his family, two sons and one daughter. He joined the Methodist Protestant church, afterwards united with the Methodist Episcopal church and is still a member; also a member of the Independence Division Sons of Temperance, also Ellicott Lodge 267, I. O. O. F., also No. 170 F. & A. M.

thirteenth day of March, 1856; removed to Amity, this county, with his father's family, when in his third year, in 1859; remained there twelve years and returned to this place in 1871. In the spring of 1872 he went into the office of the Fredericktown Independent to learn the printing business, under the direction of W. S. Ensign, now of the Cardington /dependent. He continued in that office when it passed into the possession of Dr. C. W. Townsend, and until the paper suspended, when he went to Cincinnati, where le remained a few months, and in 1875 he returned io this place, purchased the material of the dependent office, and on the twelfth day of June, 187s, he issued the first number of the Fredericktown Free Press, starting in business in his nineteenth year, a poor boy, without influence, money, or more than a common school education. As a journalist he was complimented by his patrons and brother journalists as a success. He continued to issue his paper until September 24, 1880.

On the twenty-eighth day of September, 1876, he was married to Ada J., daughter of>Abram and Mary Stephens, of this place. On the twelfth day of June, 1877, they were given a son, William Morris Edwards. On the nineteenth day of March, 1878, his wife died of consumption. In 1876 he was converted and joined the Methodist Episcopal church, under the labors of, Rev. J. A. Kellam, but he wandered from his father's house and fell among thieves, and they stripped him and left him for dead; when he ''came to himself," and discovered his destitution, he started back, and the father met him while yet a great way off, and he fell on his neck and kissed him, and his end was peace.

EDGAR, J. K., deceased, Pike township; born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, in 1818, and was married in 1846 to Elenor Chiddister; who was born in Wayne county, Ohio, in 1826. They had five children: Orlando P., born in 1847; Wil_ liam M., in 1848; Auretta J., in 1851; Miranda O., in 1856, deceased; and Frank C., in 1860.

Mr. J. K. Edgar was a soldier in the late war, a member of company B, Ninety-sixth regiment Ohio volunteer infantry, and remained in the service until his health becameimpaired. While in the war he contracted a disease of which he died at his home in Amity, January 18, 1865, at the age of forty-six years and six months. He was a brave soldier and a Christian, and was highly respected by all who knew him. He was a member and an exhorter in the Methodist Episcopal church, but afterward joined the Disciple church, and was an official member of that church until his death. His widow, with her son, Frank C., lives in Amity.

EDWARDS, C. -W., Fredericktown, dealer in stoves, tinware, and job work, was born in Fredericktown, Ohio, in 1838, and was married in 1869, to Emma Rinehart, who was born in Knox county. They have two children, viz: Clemmie, born 1871; Willie E., in 1877.

Mr. Edwards has always been identified with this county. He was a soldier in the late war, a member of One Hundred and Forty-second regiment Ohio National guards. He served out his time of enlistment and received an honorable discharge. He established his business in 1874, and has built up quite an ex- 'tensive trade. Mr. Edwards is a practical mechanic, and a live business man. He is taking the lead in this branch of trade, and all who wish anything in his line will do well to call and gey

EGGLESTON, EUGENIO R., M.D., Mt. Vernon, was born in Portage county, Ohio, July 28, 1838. He is of English descent. When about fifteen years of age, young liggleston began clerking in a store in Munson, Ohio, and continued there until September, 1861, when he enlisted in company G, Fortyfirst Ohio volunteer infantry, and was with the army of the Cumberland. He was appointed orderly sergeant of the company, and sergeant major, and in June, 1862, he received a second lieutenant's commission in the same regiment, and in 1863 he was commissioned first lieutenant, and appointed adjutant of the regiment, and in 1864 he was brevetted captain, with others, for meritorious conduct. He resigned in October, 1864, and returned home. He commenced reading medicine with Dr. T. H. Sweeney, of Chardon, Ohio, and graduated in February, 1874, at the Cleveland Homeopathic college. He came to Mt. Vernon, Ohio, in the fall of 1875, and has since been practicing with eminent success.

Dr. Eggleston was twice married. His first wife was Anna M. Davis, of Geauga county, to whom he was married in September, 1862. They had one child, now living. His wife dying, he married, June 17, 1876, Mrs. Abbie A. Darby, zee Thompson. His wife is also a physician of the same school, having graduated at the same college in 1876.

EGGLESTON, BYRON, M.D., was born near Chicago, IIlinois, September 29, 1836, in an Indian tent of the Cherokee tribe; received his education at Utica, Ohio, and read medicine with his father, Hiram Eggleston, M.D., and attended lectures at Springfield, Illinois, after which he commenced practicing, and has been located at several different places, but now at Mt. Vernon, where he expects to remain; was married May 27, 1860, to Miss Elizabeth Ann, daughter of John Hearns, of Mt. Vernon, by whom he has had four children, three of whom are living. Amanda Ann, born November 21, 1862; John Hiram, January 7, 1865; Carey Evan, August 9, 1868; Adella, October 10, 1872, Amanda Ann died May 15, 1870.

ELLIOTT, JOEL (deceased), Berlin township, was born in Frederick county, Maryland, in 1775, and was married in 1807 to Hannah Gibson, who was born in Maryland in 1779. They have the following children, viz: Gideon, Amos, and Mary.. Mr. Elliott died in 1849, and his wife, Hannah, died in 1852.

Mr. Elliott came to Belmont county, Ohio, in 1827, and in 1828 came to this county, settled in the woods in this township, built a cabin and lived in pioneer style. Amos and Mary are living on the home place.

ELLIOTT, MRS. MARTHA, one of Mt. Vernon's early settlers, died at her late residence on East High street, December 3, 1879, in the eighty-first year of her age. Mrs. Elliott, whose maiden name was Miller, was born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, September 16, 1799. Her father, the late Reuben Miller, sr., wishing to better the condition of himself and family, concluded to remove to the western country. With his wife and children he started from Philadelphia in the fall of 1805, and after a tedious journey of twenty-two days, he arrived at Pittsburgh, then a town of less than four thousand inhabitants. Here Mrs. Elliott was reared, and received a good education, and April 11, 1816, she was united in marriage to Samuel Elliott. They remained in Pittsburgh until April, 1829, when her husband:concluded to remove: to Mt. Vernon, where he formed a partnership with his, brother, Alexander Elliott, in the mercantile business. Mrs. Elliott was the mother of ten children, of whom four were born in Pittsburgh and six in Mt. Vernon.

ELLIOTT, JAMES, of Monroe township, a retired farmer, was born in Armstrong county, Pennsylvania, September 24, 1808. He was the second child of William and Elizabeth Elliott, zee Eaton. His parents immigrated to Ohio in 1816, with a family of five children. They settled in Mt. Vernon. Being a miller by trad2 required him to change residence from place to place, wherever he could procure employment. He died near Fredericktown in June, 1840. His wife survived him for some years.

The subject of this notice learned the milling trade with his father; he also learned the carding business, and followed carding and milling for some years. He has been principally engaged in farming since 1835. He has been successful in all his undertakings, making his own way in the world, until he now has a competency in life. He was married to Miss Hannah B. Perry November 11, 1830, who was born in Knox county March, 1811. By this union they had eleven children, six sons and five daughters, eight of whom are living. His wife died in April, 1875. He was afterward married to Miss Mary E. Martin, in April, 1877. Of the children of Mr. Elliott, Joseph, a farmer, resides in Liberty township; William, farmer, in Monroe township; Rose, married to Jacob Young, farmer, Monroe township; Orange H., farmer, Monroe township; Elizabeth; James B.; Alice May, married to Leander Farquhar, Gambier.

ELLIOTT, GIDEON, Fredericktown, mayor, was born in New Market, Frederick county, Maryland, March 9, 1811, came to Belmont county, Ohio, in 1827, and in 1828 located in Berlin township; remained there fifty years and then removed to Fredericktown, where he has remained ever since. He was married in 1835 to Rebecca Roberts, who was born in Knox county, Ohio, in 1815. They had a family of four children, viz.: Henry R., born in December, 1835; Ellen, born in 1837; Charles, now deceased; Edwin, in July, 1844, who was a soldier in the late war, a member of the Ohio National guard, died during the service in Virginia, July 15, 1864.

ELLIOTT, HENRY R., Berlin township, farmer, post office, Fredericktown, born in this township in 1835, and was married in 1859 to Elma Willits, who was born in this township in 1837. They have two daughters, Lamyra W., born in 1860, and Mary E., in 1862. Mr. Elliott is one of leading and farm, a part of the Ellicott section, and has the best buildings in this township, built after the modern style. He has done much to promote the general interest of the county; is enterprising, liberal and honest in all his dealings.

ton county, Ohio, January 13, 1842. He was born and raised on a farm, attended the public schools, and has followed farming as his occupation.