Thorn Township (part 10 of 11)

Sprincer, Benjamin F., farmer, Saltlick township, post office, Hemlock, Ohio, was born in this township ; son of Ezekiah and Elizabeth (Condon) Springer. Was brought up on a farm, and has followed agricultural pursuits to the present time. When twenty-one years of age, he went to Union county, Ohio, and worked upon a farm. three years, when he returned home and was married, September 1, 1877, to Almira J., daughter of Simeon and Elizabeth J. (Storer) Sanders, of what is now Coaltownship. They are the parents of two children, viz. : Alton J., and Effie B. In about one year after his marriage he moved to Clark county, Iowa, where he remained about three years and _ six months, when he returned and located on his present farm near Hemlock, Ohio.

- STALismitTH, Jonn S., manufacturer of woolen goods, Hemlock, Ohio ; born October 19, 1833, in Harrison county, son of George and Elizabeth (Springer) Stallsmith. Mr. Stallsmith was brought up on @ farm and followed farming until he was twenty-three or twenty-four years of age, when he began working at the carpenter trade, which he followed for about four years. He then enlisted in the army, in 1861, for three years, or during the war, and served up to the holidays of 1863, when he veteranized for three years, or during the war, and

'served up to August, 1865, when he was discharged by reason of the close of the war. Mr. Stallsmith enlisted as a_drummer and refused two proffered promouons to First and Second Lieutenant, as it would have taken him from his iat be V6 but was discharged as First Sergeant. He served in Company A, Thirty-first Regiment, O. V. [., in the Army of the Cumberland, First Division, Fourteenth Army Corps, and was in the following engagements: Mill Springs, Kentucky, January 19, 1862; Siege of Corinth, Mississippi, May, 1862; Perryville, Kentucky, October 8, 1862 ; Shepperdsville, Kentucky, 1862; Cages Ford, Tennessee, November 22, 1862 ; Stone River, December 30, 1882 to January 2, 1863 ; Hoover's Gap, June 26, 1863 ; Tullahoma, June 30, 1863 ; Chickamauga, Sept. 19 and 20, 1863 ; Mission Ridge, 'Tennessee. November 25, 1863 ; Resaca, Georgia, May 14, 1864; 'Pun rel Hill, Georgia, May 8, 1864; Dalton, Georgia, May 12, 1864; Dallas Gap, Georgia, May 27, 1864; Pine Mountain, Georgia, June 19, 18¢4 ; Kennesaw Mountains, Georgia, June 24, 1864; Chatahoochie River, Ga., July 5, 1864; Peachtree Creek, Georgia, July 20, 1864 i Atlan a, Ga., September 2, 1864 ; Jonesboro, Georgia, September 1, 1864 3 Nishville ; Savannah; Averysboro, North Carolina, March 16, 1865; Ben onville, North Carolina, March 19, 1865 ; and on Sherman's March to che Sea. Upon returning home he purchased a store in Millersville, which he owned about six months, when he sold the store and engaged in running a saw-mill for about six years, after which he went into the woolen manufactory which he continued up to 1881, when he quit but again re- sumed,and was the cause of Hemlock being built,by the establishment of the woolen mill. | He is now Justice of the Peace of Saltlick township, and has served several terms as township trustee, and as school director. Mr Stallsmith was married December 29, 1865, to Hannah, daughter of James and Eliza (Veil) Ball, of Coal township. They are the parents of four children, viz.: Eva May, Eliza Helena, William Hermon and Cora Jane. By his first wife he had three children, viz.: Jacob Geo., John W., and Mary Elizabeth. '

STALTER, JosEPH, farmer, post office New Lexington, Clayton township, Perry county, Ohio; born in this county in 1848; son of John and Mary (Stakely) Stalter ; the former died in 1880. Mr. Stalter was married, in 1869, to Miss Mary Snider, daughter of Peter and Ellen (Dean) Snider. They are the parents of seven children, viz.: John P., Lucy, deceased ; William P., Mary E., Gertrude, Thomas V. and Jessie, iiemseal

STEVENSON, JAMES, engineer, Rendville, Ohio; was born August 19, 1838, in Clarion county, Pennsylvania ; son of Samuel and Susan (Kissinger) Stevenson. When a child his parents moved to Lawrence county, Pennsylvania, where he made his home until he became a man, after which he made his home in Ohio and Pennsylvania. He came to his present residence in 1879. Mr. Stevenson was married July 7, 1860, to Miss Eva E., daughter of David and Catharine Kennedy, of Lawrence county, Pennsylvania. They are the parents of two children, viz.: George Me, married to Anne I. George, of Perry county, Ohio, and Laura, who died in infancy.

STEWART, JOHN, born in 1836, in county Doneyal, Ireland ; came to America in 1852; revisited Ireland, England, the isle of Man and Scotland in 1865. His marviage is referred to in the Hammond biography. His brothers are James, George, Hugh, Thomas and Gilbreth. . His sis- - ters are Ann, Jane, Mary and Lucy, all in Ireland. His mother's maiden name was Nancy Meldrem. After learning the blacksmith trade, _and visiting different parts of the United States, and meeting with some thrilling adventures on the frontier, Mr. Stewart married and settled on the Hammond homestead, to which his industry and thrift have added many acres and much improvement. He ranks among the foremost farmers in enterprise and intelligence, and is the founder of a new American house of Stewart.

STEWART, JAMES, miner, New Straitsville ; he was born in Tyrone ' county, Ireland, September 16, 1842; is a son of Hugh and Jane Stewart, natives of Ireland. Hecameto America in 1859, and settled in Schuylkill county,Pennsylvania, where he remained until 1861 ; he then came to Athens county, Ohio. In 1864, he married Mary Duffey, whose parents were natives of Ireland. Mr. Stewart came to New Straitsville in 1871, and began mining coal for the Straitsville Mining Company, by whom he is yet employed. He has, by his industry, accumulated the home where he now resides.

STICKEL, CHARLES, son of Daniel M. Stickel, who was born in Hesse Cassell, Germany in 1798, and died in Somerset, O., in 1861, at the age of sixty-three years ; his wife was Katharine Staffinger. They brought with them three children to the State of. Virginia, in 1833, where they remained about six years. They came to Somerset in 1839. Their sons are John,in Van Wert, Ohio; Daniel and Charles in Somerset, Ohio. The daughters are Emily Parkeson, post office Somerset ; Catharie Parkeson, of Newark ; Maria, of Somerset; Mary Fromm, of Canal Winchester; Nancy Souslin, near Somerset. Charles Stickel was married to Phidelia J. Jones, daughter of Jehu B. Jones. He finished work as an apprentice at the tanning trade in 1867, and now owns the residence and tannery of his preceptor. He volunteered in Company G, Thirty-first Regiment, O.V. I., Captain Jackson in 1861 ; was wounded November 25, 1863, at Mission Ridge; re-enlisted and was honorably discharged July 25. 1865. He has added the Forquair, to the Poorman estate and tannery, works three hands, and his leather is sought for at home and abroad. Heis Lutheran in religion, Republican in politics, ard his career illustrates the rewards of patriotism, sobriety ,industry and plodding perseverance. His mother is yet living at theage of eighty-one, to which advance period of life she has arrived without the aid of snuff or tobacco.

StutLMAN, T. SPENCER, born March 26, 1823, in Weathersfield, Hartford county, Connecticut; son of Deacon Ebenezer Stillman, and the youngest of twelve children. His mother's maiden name was Miss Rhoda Francis, said to be the most handsome woman in her vicinity. The children are Frank, of Hamilton, New York ; Ebenezer, deceased ; pe who died in Mobile, and whose sons were in the Rebel service ; enry, Hartford, Connecticut ; Lewis, Newark, New Jersey ; 'Thomas Spencer, of Somerset ; Mary, widow of John Doubleday, and mother EMiency S. Doubleday, deceased, of Somerset ; Fanny, widow of Frederick S. Moors, of the United States Navy ; Eliza, died at thirty-two years of age; Anna, still living ; Rhoda, widow of C. W. Badger, Newark, New Jersey, and Caroline, died in infancy. TT. Spencer Stillman was married November 14, 1850, to Mrs. Swayzie, a young and beautiful: widow, whose maiden name was Miss Sylvia Dawes, cousin of Senator Dawes, of Massachusets. At first his father was a shoemaker, but soon became owner of several tracts of those rich and beautiful lands bordering on the Connecticut River, near Weathersfield. Thomas was educated as a dry goods clerk, became a clerk of a steamer, plying between Hartford and New York, then a dry goods merchant on his own account in Hartford, thence removed his store to Hamburg, South Carolina, where he was during the Mexican War,becoming acquainted there with Brooks and other celebrities of that State ; sold out in 1848 and embarked in the produce trade in Springfield, Massachusetts, where he was captivated by the charms of his present wife, then became a farmer near Wattherst elds which business he followed for three years, and then March 1g, 1853, came to Somerset to join W. S. French, a cousin, in the sub-contracts on the old Scioto and Hocking Valley Ry., under the chief contractors, Seymore, More & Company, who 'pegged out," as Tom says in his curt reference to those times, ''and left me $9,000 short of money paid out of my private means for labor, but no man can say I owe him a dollar for work done on the railroad. He has judgments in Licking and Perry Courts vs Seymore, More & Co., amounting to over $50,000, but in those days a laborer had no lien on the road his labor and his money constructed. Mr. Stillman, and his amiable wife. have not been blessed with children, but their hearts and hands are open to the unfortunate, and though their ship has met with rude buffetings on the ocean of life they are comfortably moored in its afternoon, and Mr. Stillman as notarv and pension agent, keeps his bank account healthy.

Sriru, Joun, farmer, post office Rushville: born in 1813; is the eldest son of the late Rev. Elder Jesse Stith, of the Baptist Church, and his wife, Polly Graham. The Rev. Elder was born in North Carolina, and was only in his nineteenth year when his son John was born, on a farm bordering on the Reservoir in Walnut township. Elder Stith and his wife became Baptists when quite young, and their devotion to the church often impelled them to travel on foot from Walnut township to the Pleasant Run Church, and carry their children, then too small to be left at home. Their sons were John. Henry, James, Jesse' and William Baker Stith; the daughters were Amy Trovinger, now a widow, and Nancy Grey, now dead. 'The sons are all living except Jesse,who volunteered in the army and fell a sacrifice on the bloody field of the Wilderness while a member of the One Hundred and T'wenty-sixth Regiment, and the Sixth Corps, whose gallantry won unfading laurels. John was married to Delilah, daughter of the venerable Isaac Hite, September 6, 1835. Her mother was Magdalena, daughter of John and sister of the late Henry Bretz, who were of the early settlers, and distinguished not only for their thrift, but for their piety and respectability in Fairfield county. After six years residence on the ''Refugee," Etna township, Licking county, John purchased the famous farm where he and his dutiful wife now reside, in Richland, Fairfield county, since 1842. In 1880 their house took fire and burned to the ground, the in-- surance covering only a part of the loss. Ina few days not less than twenty teams were in line from Pleasantville loaded with material for the grand country structure, which now adorns the premises, and these were only twenty testimonials of sympathy for a deserving neighbor and an honest man. Theirchildren are Mary, wife of Joseph Puffner, post office Rushville ; Isaac, who was last heard from in California, whither he went with his uncle Levi Hite: Amy, wife of Levi Saum, post office Rushville; Katharine, single; Levi, married to Katharine . Nagle, Lancaster ; William Allen, married to Amanda Louis; Lizzie, ~ single, residing with her aunt, Levina Hite; Phebe, wife of Davia Henderson, post office Salem ; John, married to Ella Spohn; Nancy, single ; Levina, wife of John Holliday, Bushe's Station; Jonas, single ; Jesse, married to Phebe Ann Stoltz, Delphos, and Ruth, wife of William Bull, of Hickman's Mills, Jackson county, Missouri - fourteen in all - the youngest lacking but one year of being of age. This interesting family is not only remarkable for its size, but also for its robust health, not one of whom ever doubted their capacity to paddle his, or her, own canoe. Grandfather Stith began to preach before he could read his text, but he soon not only could read, but rose to the front rank as a speaker in his church, while his sons and daughters all grew to be men and women, noted for their success in life and for the generous hospitality, which kindles happiness around the old Baptist hearthstone.

Stropss, CATHBERT, miner, New Straitsville; was born in New Castle, North England, January 12, 1847; is a son of Ralph and Catharine (Clark) Stobbs, natives of England. At the age of sixteen he came to America. He was married at Pomeroy, Ohio, November 15, 1867, to Mary, daughter of Hughey and Esther Williams, natives of Wales. They are now the parents of six children, two of whom were born in Pomeroy, and four in New Straitsville.

Stottz, Lewis, Jr., was born in 1843, in Jackson township, a few months after the death of his father, Lewis Stoltz, Sr. He had five brothers and three sisters. Lewis went into the Forty-sixth Regiment, Company F, Captain Henry H. Giesy. Three of his brothers joined the One Hundred and Fourteenth Regiment, Company G, Captain Ephraim Brown, two of whom lost their lives. Ife was wounded on the same day and at the same battle where General McPherson fell. He and his wife, who was Miss Margaret Petty, were married November 24, 1867, and have succeeded to the ownership of the Petty homestead, where she was born, and where she grew to womanhood ; and where, surrounded by the associations of childhood, and blessed with a kind husband, their beautiful home maintains the generous welcome toits friends, which was so often met there in days of I*ather Petty.

STONEBURNER, JosIAH, farmer; post oflice, Crooksville ; was born in Muskingum county in 1820. Settled in Perry county in 1860. Son of Jacob and Margaret (Hartsell) Stoneburner. The former died in Muskingum county in 1831, the latter in Morgan county in 1845. Mr. Stoneburner's parents emigrated from Maryland in a very early day, and settled in Clayton township, Muskingum county, Ohio. Mr. Stoneburner was one of a family of eleven children, six of whom are still living. He was married in 1838, to Miss Sarah A. Williams. They are the parents of ten children, viz.: N. H., Josiah, deceased ; Mararet A., deceased; Mary J., deceased; John W., Augustus, Manda

., deceased ; Sarah A., Mary C., deceased; Harvey . Those living are all married and living in this county. Mr. Stoneburner had three sons in the late war. Josiah enlisted in 1861, in Company A, Sixty-second Regiment, O. V. I., Captain Edwards. He participated in the following engagements: Winchester, Virginia; Port Republic, Harrison's Landing, Black Water, Morris Island, Fort Wagner, Petersburg, Virginia; Signal Hill, Deep Run, Chapman's, Virginia, and Darby, Virginia. John W. enlisted in 1864, in Company H, 'Thirtyfirst Regiment. N. H. was in Company H, One Hundred and Sixtieth Regiment. Mrs. Stoneburner's grandfather was in the Revolutionary War.

SroneBurner, N. H., farmer and potter; post office, Crooksville : born in Muskingum county, Ohio, in 1839. Came to Perry county in 1859. Son of Josiah and Sarah A. (Williams) Stoneburner. Mr. Stoneburner has been in the pottery business about twenty years. Married in 1860, to Miss Clarissa A. Brown, daughter of B. 5. Brown. They are the parents of three children, viz.: John F., Mary and Ada. Mr. Stoneburner enlisted in the war in 1864, Company H, One Hundred and Sixtieth Regiment. He participated in the following engagements: Winchester, Virginia, Martinsburgh and Old Town. Discharged at Zanesville. f arn

-Srorer, James L., M. D., Corning, Ohio; was born April 18, 1830, in Allegheny county, Pennsylvania. Son of Ezekiel and Sarah (Case) Storer. At the early age of two years, James L. Storer was

562 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. brought to Ohio by his parents, who settled and lived in Muskingum county, on a farm, where he was reared to the age of fifteen years, when he entered the Muskingum County College, situate at Concord, Muskingum county, Ohio; and in the fall of 1851, graduated at that institution. Immediately after graduating, he began teaching school, which he continued for a number of years, mainly in Kentucky and Ohio. In about two years after graduating, he received the degree of A. M. from his Alma Mater. In 1855 or 1856, he began the study of medicine, and in 1858, he began the practice of medicine, which he continued until the breaking out of the late war, when he was engaged in. the army until the close of the war, at which time he again took up the ractice of medicine in his former field of practice, at Millertown, se county, Ohio, where he bas continued up to this time. Dr. Storer was married June 8, 1854, to Miss Esther, daughter of George B. and Mary Jane (Frazier) Passmore, of Perry county, Ohio. They are the parents of three children, viz.: Edgar A., Jesse and Guy. All at home.

SrTRrouseE, S.F., boot and shoemaker, Junction City, Perry county, Ohio. Son of John and Leah (Minich) Strouse ; born in Berks county, Pennsylvania, September 27, 1850; left there when about eight or nine years of age, and went to Pickaway county, then went to Iowa; lived there five vears, then came back to Pickaway; went to his trade when about fourteen. Set up shop for himself in 1869, in Straitsville, this county; came to Junction City in the fall of 1872, where he now does business. Was married to Miss Rosa, daughter of William and Catharine (Darsham) Haine, in 1874. Are the parents of three children, viz.: Lola May, Alice L.G., Vernon F. Mr. Strouse's people are of German descent.

SULLIVAN, FRANK, wayon maker, Shawnee, Ohio; was born May 22, 1850, in Rushville, Fairfield county, Obio; son of John and Hester (Williams) Sullivan. Mr. Sullivan was raised a farmer, and has lived in the following places, viz.: McConnelsville, Morgan county, Ohio, one year; Amesville, Athens county, Ohio, in all and at different times, about ten years; eighteen months, while engaged on portable saw mill ; fourteen months in hotel business ; two years in dry goods business, and about five years in wagon making business, after he left his father's home; on a farm near Hartleysville, Putnam county, Ohio, one year; Nelsonville, short time; in Missouri short time, in hotel business; one winter in Ames township, Athens county, Ohio, where his father packed tobacco; thence to Buffalo, Putnam county, Ohio, two years, dhaee he learned his trade; after which he went to his father's -farm, living one year; and then, as above stated, in Amesville five years; in Maxville, two years at his trade, when he came to Shawnee, Ohio, one year ago, and has engaged at wagon making up to this time. Was married September 23, 1874, to va, daughter of James and Charlotte (Blackburn) Evener, of Athens County, Ohio. They are the parents of four children, viz.: Reason, deceased; Austin, deceased ; Sylvia, deceased ; and Blanche, the only one living.

Swartz, Georce W., grocer; post office, Thornville, Ohio; born 1828, in Reading township, Perry county, Ohio; ason of John Swartz, whose wife's maiden name was Susan Jordan, both natives of Rocking- ham SERN Virginia. One brother, John, lived in Jacksontown, Ohio. Another, David, resides in Wyandot county, Ohio; post office, Fowler's Station. A sister, now Mrs. Sarah, wife of John Shook, post office, Little Sandusky, Ohio, was first the wife of E. Bowers, of the One Hundred and Twenty-sixth O. V. I., Sixth Army Corps, who was lost in service. Father Swartz died in his sixty-third year, but Mother Swartz is still living, near the age of seventy, with her daughter, Mrs, Shook. George W. Swartz first married Matilda, daughter of William Clumb, in 1849. By this marriage he became the father of Margaret, 'wife of Jefferson Cover, of Thorn, and Sarah J., wife of John Clark, Junction met Ohio, a son of Allen Clark, near there; a third daughter is Miss Susan, at home. After the death of his first wife, he was married to Miss Josephine Highland, of Mercer county, Ohio, and by this marriage there is one son, Morris Swartz. About six years after his last marriage, he became blind, in the fall of 1867. Ilis service in the army had much to do with his misfortune. He was finally placed on the pension rolls, and in 1868, he, with only $2.20 in cash, began business in Thornport, as a grocer and retailer of liquors, and has provided himself with a neat home, and lives in comfort. His head is twenty-four inches; weight, two hundred and twenty pounds; and height, five feet nine inches in stockings. Heisa grandson of Phenus Swartz, a native of Germany, and inherits a conk shell that called to dinner prior to the Revolution. This grandfather served this country in the Revolution, and died near Wooster, Ohio, thirty-five or forty years since. His maternal grandfather, Adam Jordan, was also a fifer in the Revolutionary War, and drew pension ; his widow drew afterwards, and after her marriage to a second husband. An uncle, Silas Swartz, served in the Mexican War, from the State of Illinois. An uncle, Andrew Swartz, of Stark, Illinois, is still living. ;

SwEeEny, Joun, butcher, Shawnee, Ohio; was born July 22, 1841, in Monroe township ; son of Thomas and Bridget (McCabe) Sweeny, natives of Ireland. John was brought up on a farm, where he remained until twenty-two years of age. He traveled one year on the Muskingum 'River. In 1866 he engaged in merchandising in Monroe township, where he remained five years. Came to this place in 1873, and worked two years at the carpenter's trade, then engaged in his present business. Mr. Sweeny was married February 5, 1867, to Miss Mary, daughter of Bernard and Julia (Conway) O'Farrell. They are the parents of five children, viz.: Julia Anne, Bridget Catharine, Rose Lily, Mary Ellen and Theresa. Mr. Sweeny is doing a good business.

Swinenart, Perer, farmer, was born in 1810, in section nineteen, Hopewell township; has been Justice of the Peace twenty-one years, county commissioner six years; has held every office in his township except constable, and has been a resident of this township for seventytwo consecutive years. His great grandfather and mother, tradition affirms, crossed the ocean from Germany with a large family, and being able to pay only the fare of the younger and more helpless of their children, the older ones were hired to service In America to settle the bill. Whether John, the grandfather of Peter Swinehart, was among the last named, is not known, but that he lived in Northumberland county, Pennsylvania, and there reared a respectable family, among whom was his son John, the father of Peter, is certain. Leaving all his relatives in Pennsylvania, John Swinehart and his wife emigrated to Perry county in 1807. A few years after, John's father paid him a visit, perhaps in 1810, the year Peter was born, and returned the same ear to Pennsylvania, He must have carried back'yood news of his son John, for in 1814 two sisters of John, the wives of John Linn and Henry Coble, escorted hither by their mother, settled in Perry county. After she had visited her son John. and his wife, and kissed his children, born in the forest home, she bade good bye to her two daughters and fo her son John, mounted one of the horses that had pulled the wagon from Pennsylvania, and rode home. She was a small sized, sprightly woman, of fearless heart. At the same time, or at least the same year, there came Andrew Swinehart, son of him who crossed the ocean, uncle of John, and great uncle of John's son Peter. This ancient Andrew, who either came with his father over the sea, or was soon after born in Pennsylvania, settled as a carpenter and joiner in Somerset, where he died. This Andrew was the father of the late venerable Sante Swinehart. who died on his farm near Somerset, and as who died at the toll-gate east of Somerset, and of Daniel and eter Swinehart, who lived in Circleville, Ohio, and of George, the father of that Samuel who now resides in section thirty -two, Hopewell. When Peter was only a few years of age, his father, John Swinehart, moved from section nineteen to section nine, Hopew ell, and before iis cabin was chunked and daubed, and quilts were hung on the wall for protection, and while his wife expected soun to be confined in childbed, he was drafted into the army, reported at Franklinton, and failing to get leave of absence, crossed the Scioto. broke through the ice, and after a tedious anc perilous j journey through the woods, reached home, arranged for the comfort of his family . returned to military duty, was arraigned for desertion and_ bailed "by Jacob Anspach, afterwards the father-in-law of Peter, and served until honorably discharged. The brothers of Peter are Jacob, Little Sandusky, Ohio; Jonathan, Henderson county, Illinois; Samuel, deceased in Hopewell township ; Daniel, deceased in Fulton county, Indiana; George, Black Swamp, Sandusky county, Ohio ; Andrew, Bloomdale, Wood county, Ohio; and his sisters are Sally. deceased wife of George Anspach. Thorn township ; Elizabeth, deceased wife of Jacob Cooperider, Thorn township ; Katharine, deceased wife of Jerome Stalter, deceased ; and Juda, wife of Jacob Lawrence, post office, Upper Sandusky, Ohio. Peter Swinehart was married to Miss Sophia Anspach in 1834. She died in 1881, in the sixty-seventh year of ao life, and the foirke -seveuth of her marriage. Their children and post offices are Simon: P., Glenford, married to Elizabeth Shelley ; John, Arcola, Illinois, married to Susan Bowman ; George Henry, Linville, Ohio. married to Martha Orr: Elizabeth, wife of Lewis Cooperider, Glenford: Ann Sophia, wife of Emanuel Cooperider, Glenford ; Magdalena, wite of Oliv er Cooperider, Glenford ; Margaret, wife of George H. Bowe s, Gratiot. Ohio; Nancy C., wife of George Hupp, Brow nsville, Ohio; "Retake Emeline, wife of Joseph H. Orr, Glenford, and Melzena Alice Swinehart. Peter relates that an uncle, sometime about the year 1812, entered a half section of land, made the required down payment, and failing to meet the back payments, the land reverted to the government. Subsequently 'he certificates held for such lands were made receivable by act of Congress for their face value at any land office of the United States. In 1830 Peter applied one certificate to eighty acres of land ten miles.west of Fremont, at the Tiffin, Ohio, land office, for himself, and did the same for his father. Fourteen years later he sold his eighty for $300, and a year later half of it sold for $400, and now the whole eighty is estimated to be cheap at $4,000. Peter Swineheart weighs one hundred and seventy-five pounds, is about five feet ten inches in height, and his head measures twenty-three and one-half inchesin circumference. He has furnished an interesting assortment of facts relating to early days in Perry county, which appear in the general history of Hopewell township.

Swinc_r, L. B., dental surgeon, corner of Main street, New Lexington, Ohio. Dr. S. was born January 29, 1842, in Deavertown, Morgan county, Ohio, son of Nicholas J., and Mary M. (Leffler) Swingle. Dr. Swingle began the practice of his profession in the fall of 1867, in his native town. In May, 1873, he established his office in this place where he has built up a good practice. The Dr. was married June 21, 1881, to Miss Annie, daughter of Thomas and KEllen (Grimes)

Tayor, James, dealer in coal Jand, projector of railroads and in¢- ventor, and at present a resident of Columbus, Ohio; born in Perry ccunty in October, 1825, a son of Thomas Taylor, and a grandson ot Thomas Taylor, native. of county Down, Ireland. He was editor of sundry newspapers, and for three years editor-in-chief of the Ohio State Fournal, James Taylor would be a leaderin human thought and action in any community. As _a writer his style is vigorous, pungent and sententious. He was asked '* When did your father, Thomas Taylor come to America?'' '*He did not come at all," was the reply. 'How then did he get here?' ** He was brought," was the answer. ''Who brought him and when?" * He was impressed into the British service under General Gage to coerce the Colonies, and landed in Boston in 1774." '* 1 suppose he deserted the British service after that?" "No," replied Mr. Taylor, ''he did not; he just left. Ifow could a man desert an army he never joined? No, sir; he just left Boston, wandered into Western Massachusetts, and finally joined the

American army ; was appointed ensign and orderly to James Monroe, chief of Washington's staff; served with Monroe while in the army and otherwise to the close of the war ; then settled in Fauquier county, Virginia, on Monroe's farm, where his seven sons and five daughters were born." These seven sons were Nathaniel, William, 'Thomas, John, George, James, deceased young, and Joseph. The daughters were Katharine, Sarah, Mary, Elizabeth and Ellen. Of these seven sons, Thomas, Jr., was the father of James, and had alsu seven sons and five daughters. 'The names were Joshua O. Taylor, a Justice of the Peace in Newton township, Muskingum county, Ohio, fer thirty years ; Thomas Evan Taylor, died in Danville prison ; James ; J WN ces 5 in . Clayton township, Perry county ; 'George W., deceased, w ho was ustice of the Peace in both Harrison and Clayton townships ; 'Villiam A., Columbus, Ohio ; and Albert G., killed at Mission Ridge. "Che siS- ters of James and the daughters of Thomas Taylor were Amelia, wife of William Adams, Pike township; Elizabeth, deceased wife of L. D. Gardner; Sarah, wife of John B. De Long, of Harrison township; Mary, deceased at eighteen; and Katharine, wife of William A. Babbitt, New Lexington, Ohio. By careful and actual count more than a company of the Taylor family were in the army on the Union side, twenty-one of whom died or were killed in the War of the Rebellion. James Taylor was married to Miss Amanda Hatcher, of New Lexington, Ohio. Their children are Laura, wife of Judge Kelly, of Perry county; and Miss Stella, of New Lexington.

Taytor, J. C., furniture dealer, Junction City ; born near Bridgeport, Belmont county, January 21. 1840;son of Samuel A. and Hannah (Calaughan) Taylor. His mother's parents, James D. and Abagail, were from Ireland. His grandparents, John and Mary E. (Yost) Taylor, were early settlers of Belmont county, from Pennsylvania. Mr. Taylor's lot has been cast in many places; he has lived in seventeen States. At the age of two years, his father's family moved to Cincinnati, thence to Wheeling, West Virginia, Bridgeport and Grant county, Wisconsin, successively. At the age of seventeen years he began an extensive tour as a carpenter, walking from place to place through many States, and at twenty-one commenced mercantile life at Barnesville, O., as senior member of the dry goods firm of Taylor, Wilson & Co. Later he followed farming and other pursuits in that vicinity, and in August, 1873, removed to New Lexington, operating a meat and provision store until he lost it by a destructive fire, February 23, 1874. After a short stay in Zanesville, he came to Junction City, April 20, 1874. He was employed for several] years in the planing mill of Bringardner & Co. ; was then salesman in Brown's store, and carpenter until the spring of 1880, when he formed a partnership with H. A. Pletcher, and has since conducted a general furniture and undertaking business. He was married September 1, 1864, to Elizabeth J. Neptune, of Barnesville, daughter of William H. and Elenor (Barnes) Neptune, who emigrated to Belmont county from Loudon county, Virginia. They have had two children, Wilbur L., deceased ; and William Walter.

TraL, Lawson, Auditor's clerk, New Lexington, Ohio; born in April, 1817, in Bearfield township; son of Lloyd and Rachel (Moore) Teal. Young Teal was brought up on a farm, and began teaching when twenty-three years old, and taught ten or twelve years, and has been Auditor's see about fourteen years. Mr. Teal married Alice, daughter of Peter and Cynthia (Barnes) Vansickle, of Pike township. They are the parents of two children, Edward L., deceased; and Herman A. Mrs. Teal was first married to Stephen Bailey. They became the parents of three children, Orr, Joseph and Cynthia.

Tear, A. A.. Rendville Ohio; was born in Bearfield township, February 28, 1841; son of Edward and Nancy (IXoons) Teal. Mr. Teal was brought up on a farm. In 1861 he volunteered in Company D, Thirtieth Regiment, O. V. I., and served until the close of the war. He participated in the battles of second Bull Run, South Mountain, Antietam, Siege of Vicksburg, and was with Sherman on his march to the sea. Mr. Teal was tmarried in April, 1864, to Elizabeth A. Clayton. They are the parents of six children, namely: Edward L., Myrtle

May, Evanna Markie, Ada May, Harry Hooker, and Cora Bell. Edward L. died when eight years of age, in the State of Illinois. - His first residence after marriage was in Pike township, and in 1867 he moved to the State of Illinois, where he remained nine years, and in 1876 he returned with his family to Perry county, where he did business for several insurance companies ; also, sold fruit trees.

TEATERS, JAMES, merchant, New Lexington, Ohio; was born May 5, 1833, in Donegal, Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania; son of Michael and Margaret (Henry) Teaters, of German ancestry. In about the year 1848 he went to Point Mills, West Virginia, where he followed milling. From this place he moved to Roney's Point, and subsequently to Tridelphia, where he was railroad agent, postmaster and merchant for four years. April 12, 1870, he came to this plice and established his present business. Mr. Teaters was married September 5, 1861, to Miss Mary J., daughter of Thomas and Eliza Humes. They are the parents of five children, viz.: William Elsworth, deceased ; George Alden, deceased; Lizzie May, Irank Stewart, and John Henry.

TeEDRowW, GEORGE, potter; post office, Crooksville; born in Muskingum county in 1840; came to Perry county in 1853; son of Moses and Mary (Dunifant) Tedrow. He was married, in 1875, to Miss Clara E. Rambo, daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth Rambo. They are the parents of four children, viz.: Blanche, Dora, Charles and Frank.

TEETER, THomAS B., Corning, Obio; was born near Linnville, Licking county, Ohio, September 17, 1841; son of Curtis and Mary (Essford) Teeter. When at the age of ten years, he went to work in the -woolen mills at Newark, Ohio, where he remained four years; then boated two years on the Ohio Canal, after which he dug coal until the r7th of April, 1861, when he enlisted in the Third Ohio three months service, and re-enlisted for three years, and was honorably discharged in the fall of 1864. He was engaged in the battles of Rich Mountain, Cheat Mountain, Green Brier, Perryville, Stone River, Chickamauga, Mission Ridge, and was captured near Cedar Bluftls, Georgia, and held as a risoner at Belle Island, until his exchange at City Point, Virginia. hen he came to Columbus, Ohio, he immediately joined in pursuit of John Morgan, in his raid through Ohio. After his capture, he went South and joined the army of the Cumberland, and marched with General Sherman as far as Kingston, Georgia. [Ile returned tc Perry county at the close of the war, and mined coal. - In 1865 he vent to Haydenville and worked there until the spring of 1871, when he came to Straitsville and mined one year. In December, 1872, he purcnased a lot on the corner of Clark and Railroad streets, in the above town, and engaged in the grocery business, and continued there until the spring of 1881, when he came to this place. Mr. 'Teeter was matried Jan 1ary 9g, 1866, to Miss Nancy A. Jiles, by Rev. Cady, near New Lex ngton, Ohio. They are the parents of six children, viz. : Ida, William J., Edward, Mary E., Samuel J. and Unis H.

TERREL, Jesse, farmer, Monday Creek township, Maxville, Ohio 2 was born January 23, 1812, in Harrison county, West Virginia ; son of Timothy and Elizabeth (Nixon) Terrel. Mr. Ferrel's early 1 fe was spent in hunting, and when game became scarce he went to farming, which he has followed to this time, and by industry and economy, has gained a handsome fortune. Mr. Terrel was married the first time, September 19, 1833, to Nancy, daughter of Ralph Webb. Mrs. Terrel died October 18, 1864. They became the parents of ten children, viz. : Benjamin G., deceased; Leroy S., deceased: Martha J., deceased ; William, Isaac H., Jerome, Mary Ida, deceased; Clara, deceased ; Samuel T. and Frank. He was married the second time, February 21, 1867, to Mariah, daughter of John and Mary (Long) Sykes. Mr. Terrel's grandfather. Matthew Terrel, came from England and settled in Virginia, and was Drum Major in the Revolutionary War. His son, Timothy, father of the subject of this sketch, was the sixth in number of thirteen children born unto him. Timothy came to Ohio in 18-5, in search of game, and located in Monday Creek township. Mrs. (Webb) Terel's father came to Falls township, Hocking county, Obio,in 1817.

Tuarp, Aptsua, miller, Hemlock, Ohio; was born November 25, 1855, in Perry county, Ohio; son of Alfred and Annie (Storrer) Tharp. Mr. Tharp was brought up asa miller, and has followed the business up to this time, except two years he farmed; and has been employed as stated below: Milling in Buffalo Shoals, Wayne county, West Virginia, about ten years with his father; at this place about five months, when he went to Pickaway county, Ohio, and farmed about six months ; returned to Hemlock, farmed one year, and again went to milling for Benjamin Sanders, which he continued about five months, when he, in partnership with Spencer S. Sanders, rented the mill and ran it for one

Tuarp, James M., grocer, Bristol, Pike township, Maholm post office, Ohio; was born December 10, 1857, in Bristol, this county ; son of James and Elizabeth (Lyons) Tharp. Mr. Tharp remained with his father until he was eighteen years of age, when he began teaching school and has taught in the following places: Monday Creek township, District No. 5, four months; Pike township, District No. 7, two months; Pike township, District No. 8, Bristol, four terms, three six months terms, and one four months term; near Somerset, one three months term, and between 'the terms he taught in Bristol. Mr. Tharp's father came from Pennsylvania to Ohio when a boy with his parents, whose father entered land two miles south of this place, and near Bowman Hill iron ore mine, and afterward owned two hundred acres of land now owned by Robert Benrett, and was one of the pioneers of the forest. His son, James, and the father of the subject of this sketch, once owned one hundred and twenty acres of land where Buckingham now stands and afterward owned fifty-three acres near this place, now owned by John McCabe. Upon selling this, he moved to Pickaway county, Ohio where he lived one year, and then into Fairfield county, living one year, when he moved back to this place, where he has since ved. In ihe spring of 1882, James M., Tharp, the subject of this sketch, bought a grocery, where he is now engaged in selling family groceries.

Tuomas, Srmron, farmer, Shawnee, Ohio; Was born July 2, 1842, in Saltlick township, this county; son of Joseph and Jane (Smith) Thomas. Mr. Thomas was raised a farmer, and made agricultural pursuits the business of his life until within the last eight years. Farmed in Perry county, Ohio, with the exception of two vears, when he farmed if Pickaway county, Ohio. Returned to this county in 1873, and engaged at Beard's Furnace until fall of 1876. when he came to Shawnee, and where he Ras remained up to this time. engaged at mining, except one year, when he assisted in building the New York Furnace. Mr. Thomas was married August 28, 1862, to Margaret M., daughter of John and Elizabeth (Worley) Wells. They are the parents of three children, viz.: Jessie M., Elizabeth Jane, and John A., deceased. Mr. Thomas is at this time a trustee of the M. I. Church of this place. Mr. Thomas enlisted in Company B. Seventeenth Regiment, O. V. [., March 12, 1861, the first company enrolled in this county for three months, and served four months; returned home and followed farming until January 12, 1864, when he re-enlisted in Company B, Tenth Regiment, O. V. C., for three years or during the war; served eighteen months, and was discharged in August, 1865, because of close of war. Was under fire nearly every day after going into the service, and saw the hardest battle at Atlanta, Georgia, where he had his horse shot from under him. Was on Sherman's March to the Sea.

Tuompson, GEorGE, was born in the county of Armagh, Ireland, August 20, 1811, and died at Corning, Ohio, May 10, 1882, aged seventy years, nine months and twenty days. The deceased came to America when only ten years old. Nearing the age of manhood, he became an -apprentice to learn the harness-making trade in New York City. June 6, 1834, he was married to Catharine Skinner. Six children were born to them; three of whom now survive, viz.: "Adam, married to Anne Cummiskey ; she is now deceased; John, married to Mary A. Slevin, and Timothy, married to Jennie A., daughter of Colonel James and Catharine (Cook) Dalzell. George Thompson, the subject of this sketch, lost by the Morgan Raid property to the value of eight hundred dollars ; also lost heavily in prospecting for oil in Perry county, Ohio. During his twenty-one years of service as Justice of the Peace, there was never one of his decisions reversed by the higher courts. In 1835 he came to Ohio, and entered eighty acres of land, and laid out the town of Thompsonville ; and, in order to get a post office, the place was named Chapel Hill. He donated an acre of ground on which the Catholic Church and pastor's residence now stands,.and afterward united with this church, continuing a faithful member until he departed this life. He was appointed postmaster under Pierce's administration, and his commission dated January 13, 1860, is signed by J. Holt, Postmaster-General. Having been elected Justice of the Peace for Monroe township, he was commissioned by Governor 5. P. Chase, and he was continued in office until his death.

Tinker, CuHArveEs H., Recorder of Perry county, Ohio, was born June 21, 1847, in Union township, Morgan county, Ohio; son of S. and Mary A. (Blackstone) Tinker. When Charles I. was two years old, his parents located ona farm in Monroe township, where he was brought up. He followed farming until 1875, when he engaged in merchandis- ing at Millertown, where he remained one year; then moved to Junction City, and continued his business there two years. Came to this place in 1879, and clerked two years in a dry goods store. He was elected to his present office in October, 1880. Mr. Tinker was married March 7, 1872, to Miss Hannah, daughter of Samuel Morgan, of Monroe township. They are the parents of four children, viz.: Frank Albert, Lydia Viola, Charles B. and William Leroy.

Tracy, T. J., stone mason, Pike township; post office, New Lexington, Ohio; was born November 29, 1850, in Harrison township, this county; son of William and Elizabeth (Hitchcock) Tracy. _Mr. Tracy was raised in New Lexington, Ohio, and has been a resident of that place nearly all of his life. Was married December 7, 1871, to Emma, daughter of William and Lovenia (Patterson) Rambo, of Grangers' Mills, this county. They are the parents of four children, viz.: Lizzie, Guy, John and L venia, now living. Mr. Tracy has made stone masoning the business of his life up to this time, and has been a contractor for the last eight years, undertaking county contracts at New Lexington, for the bridges near Arnold's Mill over Rush Creek, one near C. & M. V. depot, Rush Creek, two over Fowler's Run, and one over Yager's Run. Out of New Lexington he put in stone work for one near XX Furnace, Shawnee, Ohio ; one near George Deftenbaugh's Honey Creek ; one on Main street in Corning; one near Beard's Shaft, same place, and now has a contract for one over Fowler's Run at New Lexington, Ohio. Mr. Tracy is fourth sergeant in Company A, Seventeenth O. N. G., and was in the skirmish at Corning during the miner's strike in the fall of 1880. :

Trout, WiLiiAM, farmer and stock grazer by occupation, post office Glenford, Ohio ; was born in Hopewell township ; he is ason of George Trout and Francis Cowen, who. were married in 1822. He and his brother, George H. Trout, occupy the ancient homestead in section three. The last named was married in 1863, to Miss Ann Maria Walser, and are the happy parents of four children, named Sarah Frances, John W., George Allen and Martha A. Trout; of these John W., now fourteen, exhibits excellent genius as a draftsman and penman. His uncle William has remained unmarried and has a large and comfortable room of his own in the family home, where he enjoys all the comforts of bachelor life, and where all welcome callers are treated to the hospitalities of a gentleman. William and George H. are the only surviving sons of George Trout. The surviving daughters are Susan, wife of Samuel Cooperider, and Margaret, wife of George Cooperider, post office of both, Brownsville, Ohio. The mother of this family died in 1852, and the father in 1860, in his sixty-second year. When twelve years of age he came with his grandfather, Judge 'Trout, to Somerset, Ohio. His brothers, the sons of Judge Trout, were Jacob, a soldier in the War of 1812, and went to Fort Wayne; John, who settled in Hancock county, Ohio, and laid out the village of Van Buren; Elizabeth, wife of Samuel Parkeson, who moved to Miami county, Ohio; Juliann Sophia, wife of Jacob Brunner, of Somerset; Margaret, wife of Rev. Andrew Hinkel, who with his wife died in Germantown, Montgomery county, Ohio,.and who, though both a Mason and Odd Fellow, was buried by the Lutheran Church; George, the father of William and

George H. Trout, who died in Hopewell township; Henry, who lived in Somerset and vicinity and died there ; Philip, who lived and died in Perry county, and Michael, the youngest, born in 1809, who resides in Germantown, and gee a practicing physician at the age of seventythree years. Judge George Trout, when yet aresident of Pennsylvania, was an irn keeper, as he was also after his removal to Somerset, Ohio. He was one of the first Associate Judges of Perry county, helped to lobby: the bill to organize the county and to establish the county seat at Somerset, donated the ground where the court house now stands, assisted in the entertainment of General Jackson at the hotel of Ben Katon in Somerset, was a Democrat in politics, and old time Lutheran in religion, and an honest man from principle. He died in 1829, in Somerset, universally lamented, in the sixty-seventh year of his life. His wife's maiden name was Margaret Zeigler, who survived her husband many years and died at the age of eighty-two. The relics of Judge Trout, in possession of his grandson, William Trout, in whose possession are also the records of the family, are a cane, the gift of a friend on his departure from Pennsylvania for Ohio; a pair of old time shoe buckles, worn by the Judge at the Jackson supper ; a profile likeness, said to be a good representation of the forehead, nose, mouth and chin of the Judge, black upon white paper, framed in a circular frame about four inches in diameter. The name Sophia came into the family from the Zeigler side, based upon a legend that Sophia, a sister of Mrs. 'Trout, in the haste and confusion of retreat from hostile Indians, somewhere in Carolina, was forgotten, and when her father returned to her rescue, he found her hiding Behind a door of the cabin, crouching with great fear - and mute as a mouse, and she was thus saved from the massacre that drenched the village near by in the blood of innocence. The Trout family fled from Alsace when it fell into the power of the French to avoid submission to the demands of intolerance upon its Lutheran citizens, preferring liberty in the wilds of far off America to home and country and kindred, and patrimony in France. An ancient mound, covering nearly an acre at its base, and rising to a height of perhaps twenty-five feet, is found on the 'Trout farm, section three, Hopewell, and alike mound is seen halfa mile southwest of the first named, in section nine. In size, regularity of shape, and beauty of contour, these mounds present an imposing aspect to the eye and the questions arise, were they created from natural forces, or by the hands of men? For twenty odd years the Trout brothers have devoted themselves to the rearing of the best breeds of sheep. 'They breed from none now that do not bear the test of U. S. sheep register, and they are consequently in the front ranks of sheep husbandry and they have added one hundred and fifty-seven acres to the original homestead range for their flocks in Licking and Perry. ; ;

Turner, Frank N., merchant, Rendville, Ohio ; was born September 30, 1852, in Port Carbon, Schuylkill county, Pennsylvania ; son of Jesse and Ruth T. (Foster) Turner. Mr. 'Turner was raised in the place of his nativity, which remained his home until 1880. Mr. 'Turner attended school at Blair Presbyterian Academy, Blairstown, New Jersey, from which he graduated ; after which, in June, 1873, he entered Lafayette College at Easton, Pennsylvania, from which he graduated in

1877. In the fall of 1877 he entered Princeton Theological Seminary. remaining until 1878, a &6 hich time his health failed him and he: was: obliged to leave off his studies, and return home where he remained until 1880, when he went to Kansas. from whence he came to Rendville. Ohio, in September of same year, and employed with the Sunday Creek Coal Company, remaining with them until April. 1881. He afterward bought out Charles Herring. of the firm of Carter & Herring, andupon May 1, 1881. he formed a co-partnership with Charles Carter the firm being Carter & Turner. which partnership continues up to this time, and has met with good success. Mr. Carter's father 'still resides upon the homestead in Pennsylvania.

Tusstxc, L. A., of the firm of Tussing & Donaldson, attorneys at law, and Mayor, New Lexington, Ohio; was born January 2, 1851, in Monday Creek township, Perry county, 'Ohio ; son of Rev. Samuel C. and Juliet (Marlow) Tussing. Mayor Tussing was educated in the public schools, and at Denison University, Granville, Ohio. Began teaching when about eighteen and taught six years: began reading | aw iu 1876, was admitted to the bar in 1877, and began practice in this place immediately after his admission. In June, 187 8 he for med a partnership with L. J. Burgess, firm name Burgess & Tasting which was dissolved September, 1880, when the present firm was formed. In April of the same year, Mr. Tussing was elected Mavor of New Lexington, Ohio.

UckeEr, JAcos, clerk in New York store, Shawnee, Ohio; was born September 1, 1851, in Hocking county. Ohio ; son of George 'and Theresa (Cabell) Ucker. Was raised a farmer and followed agricultural pursuits until he was twenty-two years of age, when he came to Shawnee in the fall of 1873, and was employed dumping coal one year, as weighmaster two years, since which he has been clerking in the store of the New York and Straitsville Coal and Iron Company, having been with them seven years, inall. Mr. Ucker was married July 2, 1873, to Rachel, daughter of Asbury and Edith (Turner) hae of Hocking county, Ohio. They are the parents of four children, viz.: Ella and Jacob Edward, living ; Charles and John, dead.

VANSYCLE, STEPHEN A., son of Peter A. and Cynthia (Barns) Vansycle, daughter of Rev. Isaac Barns, and grandson of Andrew, who died in New Jersey at the age of ninety. Stephen's father arrived in Ohio and settled on the farm where he died in 1876, at the age of ninetythree. He spent over $800 for the monuments ar fencing of his burial ground, and that of his venerable consort. He reared eleven children to the estate of married life. Among these are Almira, wife of George Pherson, ex-treasurer of the county ; Alice, wife of Law son Teal, Deputy Auditor, and Stephen A., the subject of this sketch, who was mar - tied to Eliza Saffel, deceased, February 24, 1880. Their children are umes Reuben. Isaac Alfred, Mary Jane Swinehart. Lydia Katherine srookhart, now a widow residing with her only child at the home of her sather ; John Thomas, William, Calvin, Ellen Brehm, Elizabeth Poland, Perry Elmer and Frank, the youngest son. Stephen began life a renter, in a few years bought ferty acres near Bristol, and paid $100 on the contract, having time to pay the other $300. He alleges this was the hardest money he ever earned, but he got through and kept on buying until he had one hundred and sixty acres in a body. - He also is of the opinion that the first $1,000 any man carns,is far the most difficult to acquire. He can read-tolerably, but his learning was chiefly acquired in Jeweling the forest and threshing wheat with a flail. He sold out the farm he earned by hard knocks and economy, and bought one hundred and sixty acres in Reading township, prospered there, bought the Cassel farm, and then next to it the beautiful home of the late Judge William M. Brown, in sight of Somerset, where he now lives in comfort, 'and but for the loss of his cherished wife, also in happiness. His first tax receipt was $1.08; Jast year he paid over: $180, and worked twelve days to pay his road tax. His children generally inherit the thrift of their ancestors and have nearly all grown to the estate of womanhood and manhood. He is of German Baptist extraction, never held, or was a candidate for any office, except school director, his church being noncombative and non-oftice holding. He has avoided lawsuits, and except the last sickness of his wife, $100 would pay all his bills for the doctors or medicine, though he has reared a large family.

Ventnc, Georce H., carpenter and contractor, Rendville, Ohio; was born July 24, 1850, in Logan, Hocking county, Ohio; son of Henry and Mary A. (Gregory) Vening. George H. was brought up on a farm near New Lexington, and learned his trade with his father ; came to his present residence in November, 1879. Mr. Vening was married November 4, 1878, to Miss Sophia, daughter of William Newton and Susanna (Dixon) Irwin. They are the parents of two children, viz. : Ethel May and Mary Edna. Mr. Vening has had good success, being one of the best mechanics of the county.

WAGNER, JouN, was born June 3, 1823, in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania ; son of George Wagner and Catharine Ritz ; post office Rushville, Ohio. The family is of German descent on both sides. Father Wagner came to Ohio in 1831, bought the farm on which he died, in 1850, and in the days prior to railroads, kept a regular drove stand and hotel. The sons, who came with him from Pennsylvania, were Simon Peter and George Washington, and the daughter was Mary Elizabeth, wife of Samuel Westall, who died in Lawrence county, Illinois. "Those born afterwards were Susan Catharine, wife of Joel Petty ; Henry M., who married Miss Leach; Jacob R., who married Mary Haines; Anna ane, wife of Moses Petty ; Matilda, deceased, former wife of Daniel Berket, all of whom reside in Lawrence county, Illinois. April 18, 1844, John Wagner was married to Anr Stoltz, who is the mother of eight sons and three daughters now living. These are: George W. married to Jane, daughter of Lewis Combs, post office Rushville : Sie mon Peter, married to Elizabeth, daughter of John Neely ; Henry M., married to Jessie, daughter of Lucretia Baker, a widow near Linnville, Licking county, Ohio: Samuel S., married to Belle, daughter of William Rutherford, post office Rushville, Ohio; Mary Ka. wife of Wesley, son of Samuel Thomas ; Margaret Ann, wile of Asa, son ot. David Dennison, post oflice Rushville, Ohio, and Matilda Jane. wife of Lewis A. Gillespie. post office Hancock, Perry county, Ohio. The children vet single and at home are: John R., 7 haddeus, David Grant and Sherman. The religious connection 1s of the Brethren Church. The home of John Wagner, two miles east of Rushville, ranks among the foremost in the county both in size and value, and is the fruit of that persevering adherance to one occupation, characteristic of the Wagner name.

Waker, Rowianp, son of John Walker ; born 1798, in Great Dolby, Leicestershire, England, and grandson of Rowland Skivington Walker. In the childhood of John Walker, his father paid for teaching him to read and write,twelve cents per week, at the same school where the poor were admitted free. The town built the school house. Newspapers cost six-pence, or twelve cents. John served four years as apprentice to a butcher, getting his board, while his father clothed him and paid ten pound ($50) for his tuition. Saturday was the day fixed for beef sales and no other day, in Nottingham, was a sale of beef permitted by retail. As late as 1840 he sold beef, best cuts at fourteen cents per pound, and steak, free from bone, sixteen cents per pound. His maternal grandfather, Mawley, gave him twenty guineas to begin butchering on his own account, and he said he made money at it, or he could not, in 1843, have brought his wife and all the children to the United States. In 1821, he married Sarah Dixon, who came with her husband and six children to Jefferson county, Pennsylvania. Their children were Sarah Ford, who died in Pennsylvania; Rowland, George, Mary, Mrs. Ann Bailey and John, who all came to Perry Co. with their parents in 1864, and settled in Pike township, on a farm one mile from the N.S. & S. R. R., where his wife died in 1877. This farm was sold at $100 per acre, or $16,000, a price due to mineral deposits. After this he bought east of Somerset, and in sight of it, a large tract which he divided between Mrs. Bailey, a daughter, widowed by the loss of her husband in the army, who brought with her from Jefferson county, Pennsylvania, five children; and Rowland, a son who had gone to Illinois, but is now here, and with whom his father is spending the evening of his life, and who has drawn a pencil portrait, both of his father and mother, which do credit to an art taught him in the common schools of England. It was the expressed desire of Mother Walker to have 'the following lines, slightly altered in expression, engraved upon her tomb: :

WALKER, JonN, Jr., farmer, Pike township, New Lexington, Ohio ; was born September 23, 1836, jn Nottinghamshire, New Bedford. England, and son of John and Sarah (Dixon) Walker. Mr. Walker was raised a farmer and followed agricultural pursuits in the summer season and the lumber trade in the winter season for about thirteen years. From the time he was twenty-one years of age until he was twenty-five years of age, he made the handsome sum of $1,700, during the winter season alone with his team. Hewas united in matrimony with Hannah M., daughter of John and Catharine (Vansickle) Grimes. They have no'heirs. Mr. Watker came to the United States with his father in May of 1843, who settled in Jeflerson county, Pennsylvania, where he lived until 1864, when he came to Perry county, Ohio. John Walker, the subject of this sketch, came to Perry county in 1862, and owns two hundred and forty acres of land in Bearfield township, and also fourteen acres in New Lexington, where he now lives an acceptable citizen.

Waker, WILLiAM H., was born September 3, 1841, in the town of Somerset, Ohio. He is the eldest of the sons of Joseph Walker, a native of Maryland, who came to Somerset, in company with his family, in the year 1820, and who, in the year 1836, became the husband of Catharine Miller, daughter of George Miller, the weaver. 'The father of Joseph Walker was William, a blacksmith, and his mother's maiden name was Mary Walters, sister of Jacob Walters, who carried on shoemaking in Somerset. Moved to Zanesville where he died and where his wife still survives him. The grandfather of this Jacob was also William Walters, a maker of leather breeches, who was murdered for his money by aman who confessed the deed on the gallows, and that he got only six cents in cash. The father of this murdered man was a Revolutionary soldier, and lived to the age of one hundred and fourteen ears. He was a native of Holland. In August, 1862, William Llenry Walker, subject of this sketch, was united in marriage with Miss Maria Russell and the same day departed with Company II, Ninetieth O. V. I. forthe war. They .have five sons and two daughters living. As stated in the sketch of W. H. Russell, he began business under the name of Walker & Russell in 1866, and his success in his chosen occupation exceeds the average of business men, who start on far greater capital, and is due to that care, attention, industry, sobriety and perseverance which have distinguished both the partners.

WALLACE, WILLIAM, miner, Shawnee, Ohio, was born May, 1846, in Edinburgh, Scotland. Son of George and Jane (Wallace) Wallace. Was raised in Edinburgh and learned the trade of lamp maker, and was also a miner some eight years in Lanarkshire, Scotland: Mr. Wallace was married September 10, 1869, to Isabel, daughter of William and Margaret (Graham) Keay, of Edinburgh, Scotland. They are the parents of five children, viz.: George, Margaret, Jane, William and Alfred. Mr. Wallace came to America in August of 1872, leaving his family in Scotland, but in 1873 he sent for them and they arrived in this place on May 14, of the same year. - Ie has made mining his business since coming to this country, and is now inside bank boss in the New York and Straitsville Coal and Iron Company's Mines, a position he has held for one year past.

Watt, IsrAEL, farmer and stock raiser, post oflice McLuney. Born in this county in 1825. Son of Joseph and Mary (Hitchcock) Watt. Grandson of Robert Watt. Grandson of fsaac and Susan (Fuller) Hitchcock. Married in 1848 to Miss Rebecca Mitt, daughter of Thomas and Saloma (Reed) Iliff. They are the parents of five children, viz.: John I., Mary S., Thomas, deceased; J. W. and L. D. Mr. Watt's father was a captain in the War of 1812. i ) county, Maryland, in 1809. Settled in Perry county in 1837. Son of Charles Watt, who died in 1833, in Muskingum county. Flizabeth (Longley), his mother, died in 1825. Mr. Watt is a grandson of Richard and Elizabeth Watt, and also grandson of Benjamin and Elizabeth Longley. They are of German and English descent. Mr. Watt's srandfather was married in 1830 to Miss Eliza A. Barnett, daughter of oe and Mary (Owens) Barnett. They are the parents of eight children, viz: Austin G., deceased; Elizabeth, Charles, John W., William H., John J., deceased ; Jonathan, deceased ; and George W., deceased. 'Those living are all married. Mr. Watt had three sons in the late war. George W. enlisted in 1861 in Company D, Thirty-first Regiment, Captain William Free, Army of the Cumberland. He was engaged in the following battles, viz.: Iloover's Gap, Chickamauga, Mission Ridge and Resaca. Austin G. enlisted in 1861, Company II, Sixty-second Regiment, and William H. in Company D, Thirty-first Regiment.

WEATHERBURN, THoMAS, mine boss, New Straitsville, Ohio, was born April 27, 1846, in Saghill, county of Northumberland, England. Son of Thomas and Ann (Robson) Weatherburn. Mr. Weatherburn was brought up as a miner in his native county, where he lived until he emigrated to America, setting sail from Liverpool June 1, and landing in New York June 17, 1870, from where he went directly to Cambridge, Guernsey county, Ohio, and was engaged in mining for two years. From Cambridge he came to this place, February 20, 1873, and has been engaged as follows: Laying track for one year in what was then called the Old Troy mine, now known as the Thomas Coal Company mine; laying track one year in what was then the Patterson Coal Company mine, now W. P. Rend & Company's mine; after which he took his present position of mine superintendent for W. P. Rend & Company. Mr. Weatherburn was married Auust 14, 1869, to Miss Mary Ann Wilson, born January 2, 1848, in Best Cramlington, Northamberland, England, daughter of Robertand Mary (Farrer) Wilson. They are the parents of five children, viz.: Ann, born July 2, 1870, and died August 17, 1872. Mary Hannah, born February 5, 1873. Robert William, born August 28, 1875. Joseph, born August 7, 1878, and Evelyn, born April 19, 1881. Mr. Weatherburn's father was born March 14, 1819, in England, where he still lives. His mother was born June 20, 1822, and is still living. Mrs. Weatherburn's father was born May 14, 1823, in England, and is now livingin this place, where he has resided for the. past ten years. Her mother was born May 8, 1823, in England, and died February Ie, 1873, in Cambridge, Guernsey county, Ohio. ;

WEAVER, GEORGE Capneine partner of the Corning Weekly Times. Was born in Wheeling, West Virginia, November t5, 1835, son of John W. and Julia A. (Sayler) Weaver. Mr. Weaver resided in Virginia and Cumberland, Maryland, until he was seventeen years of age, when he came to Columbus, Ohio, in the fall of 1852, and commenced learning the printing business in the office of the Of7o Statesman, then owned and edited by Samuel Medary. Owing tora strike in 'the oflice, he was offered a better position in the Okzo Stale Fournal office, which he accepted and where he finished a four years apprenticeship, at which time he joined the Printer 's Typographical Union No. 5. In 1856 he went to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he worked at his trade as a journeyman printer. In 1857 and 1858 he attended school at Wasl hington College, W ashington, P ennsylvania, but the panic of that year so affected his father's financial condition that he was obliged to Teave school before graduating, and returned to Columbus in i838. In 1860 he again went to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he was licensed as a local preacher in the Methodist Episcopal Church, which license has been renewed from year to year until the present time. May 23, 1861, he was united in marriage to Miss Mary E., daughter of George and Rebecca Getz. They are the parents of four children, viz.: EL: arry G.. Mary E.., John W alter, and his first born, Charles W esley, who departed ia life in September of 1863. Mr. Weaver came to Perry county, Ohio, July 8, 1881, as agent of the Perry county Auxiliary of the merican Bible Society, and afer hi: wing spent se veral months i in Monroe and Harrison townships, the work having been suspended in October, he returned to Columbus. December to, 1881. he Lam ene work on the Corning 7éwes, and formed A co-parinership with James H. Sopher, including a half interest January 1, 1581, which interest he still holds.

Weaver, Jacos C., Shawnee, Ohio, was born July 15, 1845, in Deavertown, Morgan county » Ohio; son of John VP. and Catharine (Lenhart) Weaver. Mr. Weaver's father is a merchant, and he was raised in Eagle Port, Morgan county, Ohio. until he Was thirteen years of age, when his father moved to Blue ikock. Sluskingum county, Ohio, and remained about eight years, where Jaceb ©. was married, August 19, 1865, to Matilda, dauchter of Hiram "and Matild; \( Larrison) Lucas. Thev became the parents of four children, Jiving, viz.: Tarlon C., Tillie K., Eva J. and Elcie D.: and one deceased; Annie C. After his marri: we he moved to Ga and trom there Lo Roseville, Ohio, where he lived about two years, engaged atmining, and returned to Blue Rock, where he remained five vears at Jarming and then came to Shawnee. Ohio, where he has lived np to this time. Since coming to this place his first wife died September 26, 1677. Mr. Weaver was married again December 18, 1879, to Elcedana, daughter of Anthony and Delilah (Rusk) Townsend, of Perry county, Olio. "VPhey are the parents of one child, Mary S.

George and Catharine (Shrader) Weiland. Joseph was brouglhtup on a farm, where he remained until twenty-one years mi oaeew? VV hen about fifteen he began working at the cooper's trade, which he followed during the winters and farmed during the summers until he enlisted in C: >mpany D, Seventeenth O. V. I., in September, 186r, and was dischi rged in July, 1865. He served in the army of the Cumberland and was with General Sherman in his ''March to the Sea.'?) On his return he engaged in his present business at Nelsonville, Ohio, where he remained two yearg and then came to this place in April, 1869. Mr. ~Veiland was married January 11, 1868, to Miss Mary, daughter of James and Catharine (Hoodlet) Edington, of Nelsonville, Ohio. ' They are the parents of four children, viz.: Clara Ida, George J., John E. and

WELLs, Davin, postmaster, Rendville, Ohio, was born April 3, 1840, in Leeds, Yorkshire, England; son of William and [Elizabeth (Fryers) Wells. David went into the mines of [england at the age of twelve years, and worked until 1866, when he came to America, and locatedin Bradford county, Pennsylvania, where he remained about fifteen months. Thence he went to Clinton county, Pennsylvania. Came to Columbiana county, Ohio, in 1868, where he remained until 1876 when he came to Perry county, Ohio, and located at Moxahala and followed his accustomed occupation, mining. He came to Rendville in March, 1880, and was appointed postmaster January 30, 1882. Mr. Wells was married first, January 11, 1862, to Sarah Jane. daughter of John and Anne (Frith) Dyson. They became the parents of four children, viz.: Anne Elizabeth, married to John Smith; Mary Anne, married to Martin Davidson; Susanna and Caroline. Mrs. Wells died in September, 1873. Mr. Wells was married the second time, March 22, 1875, to Mrs. Margaret, daughter of Robert and Mary (Parrot) Bardsley. They are the parents of two children, viz.: William and Robert. Mrs. Wells was married first to John Sykes, by whom she had one child, Mary Anne.

WELLS, JOSIAH, superintendent S. C. Mining Company; post office, New Straitsville. He is ason of Matthew and Jane Wells, of the county of Cornwall, England. He was born in Charleston, St. Austile, January 8, 1842, and when a boy removed with his parents_ about twenty miles east, to Pencilva, near Siskead. His parents had seven children, four of whom died in infancy. The others, the subject of this sketch, and two sisters, are yet living. One sister, Elizabeth, isin Bunly, Lancashire, England; the other, Grace, is in Adelaide, South Australia. Josiah went to work as a miner at the age of fourteen. February 15, 1861, his father died, aged fifty-one years, and three years after, he came to America, leaving his mother in England. He first went to Lake Superior, Michigan, and in the latter part of 1866 he came to Nelsonville, Ohio. Three years after, he was married to Cornelia Galentine, and in 1870 he came to New Straitsville, when there were only three or four houses erected there. In March, 1875, he cast his first vote, and at the same time was elected township and corporation clerk. He filled the former office five years. In 1874 his mother died, at the age of seventy-three years. In November, 1880, Mr. Wells took charge of the Straitsville Central Mining Company's mine as superintendent, which position he still holds) Mr. and Mrs. Wells have had nine children, two of whom are dead. Four boys and three girls now constitute their family.

WELLS, FRANK C., contractor, brick and stone mason, Corning, Ohio ; was born November 28, 1849, in Newark, Licking county, Ohio, son of David A. and Anne (Cunningham) Wells. From his family the town of Wellsburg, West Virginia, derived its name. The Cunninghams are from the Eastern States, of English ancestry. Frank C. was brought up at Hebron, Licking county ; went to his trade at twenty-one and has followed jit to the present time. He came to Corning, daughter of Thomas Owen, a native of Wales. They are the parents of five children, viz.: Mary L., David T., died when about seven years old; Leota B., Orville C., deceased and Nellie C., deceased. Mr. Wells united with the Methodist Episcopal Church when about fifteen and is at present an efficient officer in the church and Sunday school. Mrs. Wells has been a faithful member of the Baptist Church since she was about sixteen years of age.

West, J. L., merchant and liveryman, New Straitsville, Ohio; was born May 2, 1856, in Perry county, Ohio; son of John T. and Sarah (Little) West. Mr. West was raised a farmer and followed agricultural pursuits until 1874, when he came to this place with his parents and attended school about one year, after which he worked at Plummer Hill coal mine for about two months. THe then took charge of and superintended a grocery store about one year for his father, at this time purchasing the store himself, continuing about six months, and added to his business that of general merchandise, which he continues to this time. In November, 1881, he bought his brother's livery stable, and in April, 1882, bought the livery stable of J. Watkins, who had been in the business since the town began its existence. April 28, 1882, he bought the livery of Thomas Raybould, and thus controls entirely the livery business of New Straitsville; and runs a semi-daily hack and mail line to Shawnee and return. March 27, 1879, he purchased a house and lot from Thomas Fuliner for $1,000; May 12, 1882, he also purchased a house and lot from Jane Skinner, for the sum ot $1,000, and owns a lot at Sand Run. Was married January 10, 1881, to Charlotte Harper, born September 11, i861, in Nelsonville, Athens county, Ohio, daughter of Benjamin I. and Mary (Spencer) Tarper. They became the parents of one child, viz.: John Clarence, who was born December 3, 1881, and died May 23, 1882. _Mr. West's parents were born in Ireland and emigrated to America in 1837, and settled in Perry county, Ohio, where his father entered land and cleared the place to set his house. He entered eighty acres of land and added to it by purchase until he owned three hundred and twenty acres, one hundred and sixty acres of which he sold during the coal excitement in this vicinity for $25,000, yet owning the remaining one hundred and sixty acres, which is among the finest coal lands. Ile also owns one hundred and twenty acres of land in Hocking county, Ohio, and invested $12,000 in houses and lots in this village. Mrs. Wes:'s father came to Ohio from Virginia at an early day and married Mary Spencer, of Nelsonville, Athens county, Ohio, and engaged in the business of coal operating, which he followed up to the time of his death, in 1875, in his sixty-first year. Her mother died in 1866 in her thirty-ninth year. In Longstreth's addition to Nelsonville, Ohio, Mrs. West owns twenty town lots at this time.

WESsTALL, Joun W., was born in Reading township, in November, 1832, and, excepting his two sons, Samuel and Frank, is the only one of this name left in the county, save his half brother, residing on the homestead, three miles west of Somerset. [fis great-ancestor, George Westall, was born in London, England, and after a 42 days' voyage, full of peril, landed in Rockingham county, Virginia, in time to serve in the Continental army as a drummer. - He had three sons -

James, who died in Cumberland county, Illinois; Ambrose, w ho was a cripple from an accident in infancy, and Gilderoy, whose children by his first wife, Katharine Lidey, sister of Gen. John Lidey, were Samuel, Joseph F., Eliza. Daniel A., John W., Rachel, Mary, Sarah, and George W., all of whom, except Rachel ie Mary, Bolted in Lawrence county, Ill., these having settled in Whitney county, Ind. John W. Westall was married eed in 1855 to Susannah. daughter of Jacob Petty, Jeaving at her death Samu el M., H. Franklin, and Susannah Katharine, an infant only two weeks ol at the death of her mother in 1861. In April, 1865, he moved to Somerset and started in the grocery trade, which he wound up in 1876, after the death of his second wife, who was a Miss Berkheimer. - His father, Gilderoy, came to Ohio in 1821, when 21 years of age, and was noted AP his skilJ] as a wrestler, a sport not only peculiar to the Virginians, but much practiced in the early part of the present century in Ohio. - His second marriage was to Katharine Montgomery, daughter of Rev. Joshua Montgomery, by whom he became the father of four sons and three daughters, who with their mother reside upon the old homestead.

Wuitrmore, Perer, son of Peter, Sr., was born in Belmont county, Ohio, May 16th, 1801, and when yet an infant came with his parents to Perry county in 1802, and in the following year moved on the farm where he lived 78 consecutive years, to the date of his death in 1881. This period of consecutive residence at one place was not exceeded at the date of his death by any resident of Ohio known to him or the writer in 1879, when the facts and dates of this sketch were obtained directly from Peter Whitmore himself, whose memory was found clear and distinct, the intellectual faculties in full play and the naturally mirthful temperament radiant with pleasing humor. He had seven brothers, all of whom preceded him to the grave. He had then but one sister living, a Mrs. Zellinger, in Piqua, Ohio. His mother's name was Mary Magdalena Overmeyer, an aunt to the venerable Peter Overmeyer. Peter Whitmore picked up chestnuts from the ground where the old Court House in Somerset now stands, met bears in his path through the woods at night when a boy 12 years old, and on one occasion scared away this grizzly denizen of the forest by clapping his shoes together. The bears were hard on pigs, but the worst wild beast and the most uniformly hated was the catamount, or wild cat. He went to German school to one Hartman, and to English school to James Johnson, who taught on subscription, about the year 1812. He never attended a free school. The first mill was Shellenbarger's, below Lancaster. His brother John nearly froze on one trip there, and would have frozen but for the kindly offices of Mrs Binckley, the mother of Geor geen. Peter Whitmore was the sev font child and the third son. He bought 140 acres of the home farm long after his first marriage and prior to his father's death by buving out the interests of his brothers and sisters

He added 44 acres to 'this purchase and erected a fine brick house in 1840. His barn is also a superb structure, and his vines and orchard, the best in quality and care of selections. In the last few years of his life his passions for good fruit led him to buy and plant liberally. | He found for some years past that sheep paid better, than wheat, but he had not tried the fertilizers now in general use. He w as reared a Lutheran ; ; did not believe in close communion or consubstantiation, and, therefore, with three brothers left that church and joinedthe M. E. Church, to which, as also his present wife, he continued to adhere. In 1824 he voted for Clay, in 1828 for Jackson and other Democratic nominees for President and for Pierce in 1852, for Fremont in 1856 and Republican candidates since. '* My father's tax reached $5.50, and we all thought it prodigious. I now pay $65, and we still think it is too much. First saw Zanesville in 1814, when I was twelve years of age. It looked to me then like a big city. Salt was $4.50 per bushel in 1807, so a Jarge company was organized to visit the Kanawha salt works, in Virginia. It consisted of axmen, huntsmen, pilots with compass in hand, horses, pack-saddles, oats bags, camping attachments, etc., etc. They cut a trail from here to Logan and from there they found one already blazed. The Whitmore ancestry came to this country 150 years ago from Switzerland. My father, Peter Whitmore, Sr., was born in 1760. Ile was a soldier in the Revolution tor three years, and came to Belmont county. Ohio, several years prior to his arrival in Perry, 1803." Peter Whitmore was first married to Miss Lizzie Darsham, a_ sister of the late Jacob Darsham, of this county, in the year fe 2a} Their children were Isaac, who married Catharine Stoltz (a daughter of Henry) and died on the home farm leaving two daughters. Dr: Allen, married Lovena Turner, daughter of Joseph Turner, of Rushville, and they had_ three sons and iwo daughters living. Atter the death of this first wife, Dr. Whitmore was married to a daughter of David Brown, and has resided in Thornville for near 30 years, as a practitioner of medicine. The last marriage produced no children. Hannah, the only daughter, wife of John Wise, Newark, Ohio. - Benjamin, a grocer of Somerset for near 25 years, whose first wife was a Miss Thomas, daughter of David Thomas, now of Rushville, to whom one dauehter, Laura, was born. The second marriage was to Miss Mary Kishler, to whom two daughters and one son were born. He is very prosperous and successful in business. Michael, died when four years old. Adam, married a daughter of Jacob Bugh, and resides in Milton Station, Coles county, Illinois, and a farmer by occupation. David, who was not heard from for 23 or 24 years. He is now in Washington Territory. Thomas, was married to a daughter of Mr. Andrew Baker, of, this county, and a sister of ex-sheriff Martin's wife. He is in the hardware trade at Topeka, Kansas. _ He has five children, and wasin 55 battles of the Rebellion where his comrades fell. Frank, was in the late war from first to last, and went to Arizona, where he was killed by a mine explosion. - William, was married to a Miss Baltzer, in Miami county, Ohio. He resides in Topeka, Kansas, ° where he is chief clerk in the post office, at a salary of $85 per month. He also saw service in the late war, 9 John, was married to a daughter of Ellison Martin, and resides on the home farm. This marriage produced two beautiful twin daughters, now over twelve years of age, since which one more daughter was born. - Ile was also in the war and the only one of six brothers who was wounded. Randolph was married in Topeka, Kansas, where he is in service as a freight agent. He was also in the war. The second marriage of Peter Whitmore was to Miss

Mary Davis. The children by this marriage ware George, who died in his fourth year; Daniel, now married to a Miss Dorris, and devoted to agricultural pursuits, and Miss Mary, who with her mother, reside in the ancestral home, hallowed by athousand recollections of the Jeet the beautiful homestead of Peter Whitmore, Sr., and Peter, Jr., whose names and memory it embalms and commemorates.

Wuirmore, Rev. SAMUEL, minister in the United Brethren Church ; born November 8, 1821, in Richland township, Fairfield county. He is a son of George Whitmore, and a nephew of Peter Whitmore, Jr., now deceased. His grandmother was an Overmeyer, a sister of Peter Overmeyer, Sr. His mother was Sarah Miller, a native of Pennsylvania. In 1842, Samuel Whitmore was married to Miss Susannah, daughter of George Bowman, the first of this name in Perry county, and who had a brother, Daniel, the father of Michael Bowman, now of Somerset. The wife of George Bowman, Susannah Rugh, was a sister of Solomon, Peter and Michael Rugh, of Vairtield county. Samuel had five brothers - Andrew, Solomon, Peter , Isaiah and George , and one sister, now Mrs. iWalnaiees of 'Phorn, formerly Mrs. Jonathan Palmer of Richland township. His mother was married to a second husband, Mr. John Brown, of Richland; and by this marriage he has two half-sisters, one a Mrs. Isabella Yaney, the other a Mrs. Sarah Ann Miller. He and his goodly wife have but two daughters, a Mrs. Isaac Mechling and a Mrs. Daniel Needy, both of Somerset. Rev. Mr. Whitmore has served his church in the capacity of Presiding Elder, a dignity which he supported with satisfaction to his district and Superior officers. On the maternal side, he traces his ancestry to that of John George Obermeyer, who was born in Baden n, in 1727, and in testimony of whose honest service and praiseworthy conduct, especially in his knowledge of Evangelical Lutheran religion, the Rev. John Christian Ebersoie, pastor of Blachenloch, most cheerfully certifies." in 1751. After sailing four weeks on the Rhine, landing at Amsterdam on June 20, he set sail for England, and on the 22d set sail for America. These facts are preserved in German manuscript, kindly translated by Rev. M. Walter, of the Lutheran Church, now residing in Somerset.

Wauirr, Rev. JAMEs, is a native of Muskingum conttnt Ohio, and was born January 17, 1832. Ie is one of sixteen children - eight sons and eight daughters, who all grew to womanhood and manhood. Ilis father, John W.. . White, was a native of Pennsylvania, of Scotch-Irish descent, and came to Ohio in 1802 or '03. His 'entire fainily are Presbyterian, except one brother. Of the sixteen children, six brothers and _ six sisters are still living in 1882; all are married, and all have homes of their own. Father White was a farmer, and died at the age of seventy ce in Muskingum county. Jlis wife, the mother of Rev. James White, yet living, : at the age of eighty-one years, and it was on occasion of illness in 1882, that caused a visit from James, all the way from New York, to smooth the pillow of her affliction. Growing better in a few weeks, he returned to his home, grateful for the restoration of his aged parent. Those who know Rev. James White best, need not be told of that command which enjoins upon us all to " Honor our parents, that our days may be long in the land." The maiden name of this aged mother was Hannah Guthrie. The mother of her husband was a Ham-

HISTORY OF PERRY COUNTY. 583 ilton, and a relative of the great Alexander Hamilton, of whora Daniel Webster said while speaking of him as the finance minister of Washington: '* The rod of his genius smote the rock of our dried up resources, and forth came floods of revenue." The history of Rey. James White begins with his education at Muskingum College, New Concord, Ohio, where he also served two years as Professor of Mathematics. Ile was licensed to preach in April, 1861; was Chaplain of the One Hundred and Sixty-ninth Ohio National Guards: served as pastor of Jonathan Creek U.P. Church for eighteen vears, near where he founded the Madison Academy, of which he served as President during the last ten years of his pastorate. This academy still flourishes, and, itis believed, will stand as an enduring monument to his memory. In 1879, Rev. White received a call from the Charles Street U. P. Church, of New York City. This church has not less than five hundred ana twenty members, and they pay a salary of $2,500, furnish a study, well lighted and warmed, and other emoluments, making the station one of the first in rank and dignity ; and no man conld fill it more gracelully or ably. He celebrated his silver wedding September 21, 1882. Tis estimable

Rev. William Wallace, of Cambridge, Ohio. The children of Rev. White by this marriage are, the wife of Mr. Edward Ream, a prosperous and highly esteemed hardware merchant of Somerset, Ohio, and her brother, John P. White, now of New York.

WuitE, Hamirtron, liquor dealer, New Straitsville; was born in 1842, in Scotland; is a son of Hamilton and Margaret White. In 1504 he came to America, stopping a short time in Pennsylvania. From there

~he went to Illinois, and in Chicago enlisted in the Ninth Illinois Cavalry. He was mustered out of the service in Selma, Alabama, and returned to Illinois. In 1872, hecame to New Straitsville, and was married to Ann McBride, daughter of John and Ann McBride, natives of

WictTon, J. H., farmer and stock raiser ; post office, Roseville, Muskingum county. he father of the subject of this sketch, was born in Muskingum county in 1817. Was married in 1842. to Miss Sarah Horner. They had nine children, of whom J. H. is one. Their names were: J. H., Elizabeth, Ellen, Mary J., Margaret A., deceased ; Alice C., Mattie M., J. C., W. W., deceased; one married. The father died in 1873.

James, Sr., who was an Engiish soldier ; and in consequence of severe wound in one of the battles of the Revolution, never again returned to his native country, but remained in Virginia, where he married a Highland Scotch wife, who became the mother of an only child, James Wilkins, Jr. This James was by tradition entitled to an estate in Hi giand, which was lost by the slackness of the laws then in force, and the infancy of the only heir in America, which heir perhaps was entuely unknown, on the false supposition that James, Sr., had died withor t heirs. The father of John Wilkins was a soldier in the War of 1812; the husband of Hannah Roberts, whom he married about the beginnin,s of the present century; a superintendent of a large Virginia plantation, at a good salary for many years; the owner of a few slaves there, at the death of one of whom, John cried hitterly as having lost a kind nurse. In 1830 the Wilkins family came to Perry county. and a few years Jater to Muskingum county, where James, the father, died. at the age eighty-five vears He was a man of remarkable physical endurance and in his cightieth year, could plow, sow and reap. ee Wilkins survived her husband only afew years. Her children were Nancy, the wife of Joseph, and the mother of Nathan Plank. who wae the death of her husband became the wife ot Joseph Snyder, and died as such in Hopewell township; Charles and Mary, of Lawrence county. Ohio: William, White Cottage, Ohio; Joseph, Lytlesburg. Ohio: Vheodore. Lima, Olnot Rev. Llewellyn, of the New 'Light belief: and two children, deceased, in Muskingum county. In 1839, Johu Wilkins was married to Mary, daughter of John Bowser. He soon settled where he now lives, section thirteen, Tlopewell, and where some ot the soil on his farm tee been under ae ation for sixty consecutive vears, and the

Jast crop of corn measured over one hundred bushels to Peng dots that thus supports its fertility by alluvial deposit, and by its natural strength.

Their children are eight in number, all living, except Mary. deceased wife of Samuel Bowman, Arcola, Illinois ; Leroy, farmer, post office same; James, John J. Eliza, wife of Samuel Bowman, and Abraham, post iGices Mount Perry, Gris: Ann Maria. wite of Daniel Siberds, and Emanuel, post office, North Manchester, Indiana. These sons and" 'daughters are all comfortably situated, and some of them growing wealthy. Five of the sons weigh 1,160 pounds, the lightest of whom is nearly 200. The mother was a large, handsomely sized woman; thefather has weighed 180 pounds ; lead twenty-two and one-fourth inches: health good, habits temperate, but not abstemious from stimulants. After the death of his wife in 1879, Mr. Wilkins was married to Mrs. Delilah Stine, in 1881, whose maiden name was Dollings; of Scotch and English parentage, and whose father was a native of Virginia, and whose mother was a native of Kentucky. By her first husband, John Creighton Stine, she had two sons. both married ; one a teacher And the other a potter by occupation. She alleges that her grandfather, Slover, was a Tory in the Revolution. and that her father fought on the American side, in 1812. At this second marriage, she and her children were welcomed to the Wilkins home by all of Mr. Wilkins' sons and daughters, who reside in the vicinity.