Thorn Township (part 2 of 11)

Bearp, Susan, Bearfield township, Portersville postoflice. er husband, who is now deceased, was born in Maryland, in 1798. .He emigrated to this State in 1828, and settled in Belmont county ; came to this county in 1846; located near Oakfield, and came 'to this township in 1854. In 1825, he married Susan Tillett, of Virginia. They are the parents of the following childrén, viz.: James E., John, Stephen, Annie, Charles, Samuel, Mary and Virginia. - - nt _ Beaver, Evizaseru, born May 1, 1813, in Shenandoah county, Virginia, and came, with her parents, to I'airfield county in the fall of 1819. They were met at Somerset by her father's brother, Christian Kagay, and her mother's brother, Frederick Siple. Her father, Rudolph Kagay, converted a loom-house, belonging to Christian Kagay, in Pleasant township, into a winter's quarters. He rented a farm next spring in Walnut township, and next vear, 1821, bought the 160 acres in the Hocking valley, three miles below Lancaster, since owned by Hon. Thomas Ewing. Here father Kagay died, in 1828. In 1830, Klizabeth was married to John Beaver, in Seneca county, Ohio, at the home of her sister, Barbara Seitz. In 1837, she came back to Fairfield county to live with her bachelor brother, Jacob Kagay, bringing then her three daughters, and leaving an only son, Noah, in Seneca county. At the death of her brother Jacob, in 1867, the Probate Court allowed her $2,000 for services rendered as housekeeper for her brother, covering a period of thirty years, and to Noah Beaver an allowance of $300, for services, was likewise allowed. With these funds, and some few hundred dollars received from her daughter, Hannah Grubb, then a widow also, she bought the home where she died, June, 1382, of hernia, or rather, more truthfully, from a slip of the surgeon's knife, who operated for the reduction of ihe hernia. She lived two weeks after this accident. She made her will, and died, as she had Tived, in the: Baptist belief and unclouded faith of life everlasting. Ter children are: Amy and Noah, unmarried; Lydia Ann, wife of Eaward Turner, and Hannah, widow of George Grubb, who lives with her two sons, Richard and William, and her sister Amy, and brother, Noah Beaver, at the home left them by mother Beaver, postoflice, Rushville, Ohio.

Beck, WiILu1AM G., Rendville, Ohio, was born in Jackson township, Perry county, Ohio, January 11th, 1848, son of George and Maria (Hillery ) Beck. William G. was brought up on a farm until' he was seventeen years of age, when he began teaching school, and taught until he was twenty-two. He then engaged in general merchandising at Middletown, Jackson township, where he continued to do business until

1878, when he accepted a position in the store of Martin Ewing & Co., New Straitsville, Ohio, and in 1880 was employed as clerk in store, by the Ohio Central Coal Co. In 1882, returned to New Straitsville, Ohio. Mr. Beck was married September rgth, 1869, to Miss Margaret Adcock of Jackson township. They are the parents of two children, namely, Charles E. and George W.

Brevi, Joseru, born in Ayershire, Scotland, on Christmas day, 1802. His first school was at home, where he advanced to reading the Latin and Greek Testament a little ; he was taken to Kilmarnoch, and then to Blackwater Military School. His father died when Joseph was twelve, and at fifteen he was at Chatham, and at sixteen, at Windsor. He got a cadet's commission on his scholarship, permitting him to join the Royal Staff Corps of Engineers under Lord Greenock, at the age of sixteen. Served in Spain; fell out with Greenock in 1821 ; was ordered under arrest, deserted with intention of aiding the Greeks, until he came to Canada, where Sir Howard Douglas, the Governor, discouraged his intention. He studied Spanish, and intended to go to South America to take part against Spain, but the Governor again controlled his purposes. At the age of twenty-two he weighed in Charleston, South Carolina, one hundred and ninety-six pounds. His height is five feet eight inches, and his head measures twenty-three and onehalf inches. He never saw a man that could throw a twenty-eight pound weight farther than he could. He is proud of his native land, and says: ''Scotland is the salt of the earth, the mother of Hume, Robinson, Buchanan, Basset, McCauley, Smollet, Beattie, Stewart, Black, Abbercombie and Arbuthnot, Combe and a hundred other men equally famous. She gave St. Patrick to Ireland, John Paul Jones to America, and Lord Cochran to scourge the Turks." ;

England was called to apologize for Cochran's conduct toward Turkey. The reply was, '' take him prisoner first." Now, at the age of eighty, Mr. Bell is in possession of all his faculties, rich in mental achievements beyond the common lot of men, a fact due to not wasting his life in gathering gold as most men have done, but in mastering the most abstruse problems, not only of mathematics but of political economy and theology. Judge Henry C. Whitman, now of Cincinnati, formerly Common Pleas Judge of Fairfield, Perry and Hocking, and noted for his judgment of men, declared to the writer that he never knew but one man who was.the superior or the equal of Joseph Bell in natural mental capacity, and never knew his equal in the richness and abundance of those mental stores which constitute the scholar, and which were so surprisingly gathered from every field of knowledge and ripened - for use in the garners of thought and memory. Mr. Bell was married to the daughter of a wealthy Virginian, now deceased. Though much opposed to the war of the Rebellion, he lost one son, Samuel, in battle for the Union; and another son, though but a boy when he enlisted, served in the Sixth Army Corps in all its splendid battles and achievements, without a day's sickness or scratch from the enemy. This son, John, now resides in Missouri. A daughter, Margaret Bell, after achieving distinction as a scholar and teacher, became the wife of a merchant in Loveland, Ohio. Miss Lizzie Bell, since the death of her mother, a few years ago, presides as the mistress of her father's home in Thorn- ville, and there her presence gilds the evening of his life, as the setting sun gilds the evening sky with promise of a glorious rising on the morrow.

Bennett, Ropert, retired farmer, New Lexington, Ohio, was born April 26th, 1821, in Gallia county, Ohio, son of Robert and Cecelia Bennett. They emigrated from Lancashire, England, in 1819, and located near Somerset, Perry county, about the year 1826. 'They remained in Reading township about six years, then in Clayton five years, and made their last remove to what is now Pleasant township, where they died. Mr. Bennett, the subject of this sketch, was married in 1848, to Miss Mary, daughter of Morris and Catharine (Collins) O'Conner. Mrs. Bennett was born in Pennsylvania, but came to Brush Creek township, Muskingum county, when but two years old. .She was brought up and remained there until her marriage. They became the parents of thirteen children, viz. : Catharine F., Cecilia A., married to Peter Forquer, Mary Loretta, Lafayette J., 'Thomas W., Frances E., Ellen C., Robert E., Vincent Leo, and four died in infancy ; all born in Pleasant township. Mr. and Mrs. Bennett have spent their lives, from infancy, in this part of the State: They grew up with the country, and have seen it change from the virgin forest, the home of the deer, wild turkey and bear, to the now broad fields of grain and pasture, where the domestic herds quietly feed. Mr. Bennett has given his attention to agriculture and husbandry. beginning in 1839 with fortynine acres in the woods, but now has five hundred and thirty acres, well improved and stocked. This he has obtained by honest industry and economy. :

Bennett, R. P., post office, Rehoboth - farmer and stock raiser, Clayton township. Born in Gallia county, Ohio, in 1824. Came to Perry county with his father in 1825. Son of Robert and Cecilia Bennett. The former died in 1842, the latter in 1855. Mr. Bennet was married in 1853, to Miss Flizabeth McDonald, daughter of John and Margaret McDonald. They had twelve children, viz.: Clara E. (deceased), John C., Albert J., Margaret E., Clara I. (deceased), George C., Elizabeth E., James C., Mary (deceased), Emma E., Mary, Richard. .

Bennetr, ALBerr R., Bearfield township, farmer, post office, Rendville, Ohio, was born October 30th, 1359, in Pleasant township, Perry county, Ohio, son of George and Anna (Carroll) Bennett, natives of England, who came to Americain 1819. 'They came to Perry county, Ohio, about the year 1822, and located in Beaffield township in 1863. The family consisted of eleven children, viz.: Thomas J., John Ris married to Catharine Monahan ; 'Margaret, married to Bernard Noon; Cecelia, married to Philip Rei; Mary Ellen, married to Jacob Weiner ; Philip P., married to Sarah E. Deaver; Albert R.; Josephine, married to Philip Noon; Caroline, twin sister to Josephene ; William A., and George C. George Bennett, the father, named above, was born in 1818, and died in January, 1867.

Bennett, Poitier P., farmer, Rendville, Ohio, was born March 21st, 1854, in Pike township, Perry county, Ohio. Son of George and Ann (Carroll) Bennett. He was brought up on a farm and followed agricultural pursuits, excepting two years, during which time he was em- ployed by W. P. Rend & Company ; also, merchandising under the firm name of Bennett & Noon. Mr. Bennett was married January 27, 1880, to Miss Sarah, daughter of Tillman Deaver, deceased, who formerly lived in Monroe township. They are the parents of one child, James P. Philip P. Bennet, the subject of this sketch, by adhearing strictly to fair dealing and temperate habits, has secured a comfortable home.

Berrs, Boston, Mayor of New Straitsville, and Justice of the Peace of Coal township, Perry county, Ohio. He was born January 12, 1837, in Jacobsport (now Plainfield), Coshocton county, Ohio. He is a son of William C. and,Hettie Betts, natives of Virginia. When sixteen years of age, he learned the blacksmith trade, which business he has followed ever since. In 1858 he was married to Miss Michel Baker, native of Tyler county, West Virginia. He enlisted in Co. C., g7th O. V.I1., in 1862, serving three years in the Rebellion, enduring many hardships, and undergoing dangers. His brother, Charles Betts, belonged to Co. F., 1st Ohio Cavalry. His great-grandfather died a soldier in the Continental army, under General Washington. His father and two brothers served in the war of 1812. Mr. Betts located in New Straitsville, in April, 1873, and with the assistance of a few others, he organized a congregetion of Disciples in September of the same year, which is now a prosperous society, supporting a church of their own.

Biericc, Joun, collier, Shawnee, Ohio, was born May 15, 1828, in Cumberland county, England, son of John and Ann Bigrigg. Was raised iu his native county, and lived there, engaged in mining, until 1870, when he emigrated to America, landing in New York, and went to Sandy Creek, Pennsylvania, remaining three months mining, and was employed as a miner at Syracuse, New York, for about two years, when he came to Shawnee, Ohio, where he lived about eighteen months, and moved to Straitsville, Ohio, where he mined about three months, and from there he went to Conesville, Coshocton county, Ohio, _ staying about four months, and then worked three years in Beach Hollow and Miami coal mines, near Coshocton, Ohio, when he again returned to Shawnee, Ohio, and where he has remained up to this time, mining for Manley Coal Company about eighteen months, and the remainder of the time in Shawnee Valley mine. Was married Dec. 15, 1849, to Anna, daughter of Arthur and Elizabeth (Bonstead) Malkinson. 'They are the parents of ten children, viz.: Elizabeth, Jonathan, Arthur, Annie, Jane, John, jaa Hlenry (deceased), William (deceased), and one died in infancy. , Mr. Bigrigg became a member of the Baptist Church while in Coshocton, Ohio, but since coming to this place has joined the Primitive Methodist Church.

BinckLEy, Joun, Thornville, Ohio, furniture merchant and school teacher, was born in 1856, in Perry county. He is a son of John Binckley, and grandson of Jacob Binckley, now living in Thorn township, at the age of ninety-three years. He puts the date of the settlement of his father, John Binckley, and his brothers, the sons of John, Sr., viz.: William, John, Christian, and Daniel Binckley, in 1801. The sisters of these sons were: Polly, wife of Henry Beeker, who died in Allen county, Ohio; Betsy, wife of

Adan Anspach, who died in Perry county ; Katy, wife of Jacob Overmeyer - both died in New Reading, Perry county ; Millie, wife of Jacob Shrider, both living, P. O. Lafayette, Ohio; Peggy, wife of Jacob Custer - both died in Allen county, near Lafayette, Ohio; Franey, wife of George Shrider, Lafayette, Ohio; Louisa, died in infancy. The other twelve children all grew to mature life, were married, and some are still living; Sally, the youngest of eight daughters, became the wife of Barney Hammer, died near Sego, Perry county. John Binckley, Jr., one of the sons of John, Sr.. died in Allen county, Ohio ; William died in Tiffin, Ohio; Daniel died in Reading township ; Christian is living in Northern Ohio. These, with Jacob, above named, were the five sons of John, Sr. The great ancestor of all the Binckleys was Christian, Sr., who came to Ohio a widower, his wife having died near Hagerstown, Maryland. The sons of this Christian Bincklex", ae patriarch of the family, were John, the father of Jacob, with whom Christian made his home, section 31. Hopewell township. 'Then there were Adam Binckley and Henry Binckley, brothers: of John, Sr., aforesaid, the three sons of the patriarchs Christian Binckley. They all came to Perry in 1801. At the same time he bronght with him three daughters, to wit: Lizzie. wite ot Jacob Foy: Katharine. wife of Adam Spoon; and Sarah, wife of Henry Musser, near Millersport. For each af these three sons and three daughters. the old widower patriarch provided a home in this new land of promise. Christian lived till 1831. and died after his son John, in whose house he lived, now the Peter Shrider place. _ He was then in his ninety-seventh year. After the death of his father (John, Sr.), in 1804 or 1805, Jacob and his brother John bought the place - section 31, Hopewell, where this John also died. When twenty-one vears of age. Jacob married Martha Downour. This was 1810. This marriage produced twelve children, seven boys and five girls - John, William, Jacob, Barney, Daniel, David, and Levi (who died young). Mary. Sarah, Lizzie, Peggy and Louisa. In 1838 Jacob sold his farm and moved with his wite to the farm'where he lives with his daughter, Sarah Zartman, in Thorn township. His wife died in 1845. John Binckley, the furniture dealer' of Thornville. has made a high reputation as a teacher in the common schools. His mother's maiden name was Katharine Stevens, who died when John was a babe. When seven years of age he lost his father by death. Tle had eight brothers and three sisters. Seven of these brothers are still living. Te lived in the family of D. C. Shelly. of Hopewell, eight and one-half years. He taught fifteen'terms of school. He worked by the month for Nathan Plank and others. He attended school at Mount Perry, under the tutilage of Prof. White; also at Delaware College. In 1877 he became the husband of Miss Irene Orr, daughter of Albert Orr. Their children are Arthur and Walter, now two years of age. He bought a small farm in 1880, which he sold in 1882, and entered upon his present business, to which he brings, besides some capital. the same energy, urbanitv, and integrity, which, added to his capacity and judgment, warrants his success, and makes him a rival in the line of his choser business. Birkimer, Joun A., of the firm of Birkimer & Kishler. carriage and wagon manufacturers, New Lexington, Ohio. Mr. Birkimer was born April 3d, 1854, in Reading township, son of Edward and Louisa (Beckweth) Birkimer. John A. went to his trade at eighteen, establishing his business first at Somerset. He came to this place in 1877,. and formed a partnership with Samuel I. Morgan, and conducted business with him until the present firm was formed in the fall of 1881. This firm is doing a good, active business, both in new work and repairing. Mr. Birkimer was married, June 5th, 1878, to Miss Sarah, daughter of James and Mariah (Fowler) Davis. They are the parents of one child, Earle.

Biair, SELpoN W., tinner, New Lexington, Ohio, born June roth, 1844, in Pike township, son of Thomas W. and Anna (Davis) Blair. Seldon W. was brought up on a farm, where he remained until about twenty, when he went to his trade, and worked journeyman work 'in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Wheeling, West Virginia, Indianapolis, Indiana, and other cities. Came to this place in 1875. Mr. Blair was a member of Company F, t6oth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and served four months. Ile was married in April, 1869, to Miss Sarah, daughter of Sarah (Seals) Williams. She died early in the summer of 1882.

Biosser, Noan H., physician, Maxville, Ohio, was born in Monday Creek township, Perry county, Ohio, October 26th, 1847; son of Nicholas and Elizabeth (Hufford) Blosser. Spent his early days on a farm, and attended school during the winter, until about seventeen years of age, when he began teaching, and continued to teach for about eight years. In 1873 he obtained the position of express agent of the C. &

. V. division of the P. C. & St, L. Railway, at Junction City, Ohio, in which position he remained until 1879, when he resigned to accept the superintendency of the Junction City public schools. During the period in which he was acting as express agent and teacher, he was employing all his spare time in the study of medicine. And in the fall of 1880, he entered the Pulte Homceopathic Medical College at Cincinnati. In the spring of 1881, he located at Maxville, and began the practice of medicine, in which profession he is rapidly attaining eminence. Dr. Blosser was married, June 30th, 1870, to Miss Austirs O., daughter of Samuel S. and Mary (Black) Poling, of Monday Creek township, formerly of Fairfield county, Ohio; to whom were born two children, Franklin Elwood and Bertha Belle.

BLossEer, Sotomon L., dealer in hardware and tinware, Corning, Ohio, was born October 1, 1851, in Rush Creek township, Fairfield county, Ohio; son of Isaac and Margaret (Peble) Blosser. Solomon L. was brought up in a village, and established his present business here in July, 1880. Mr. Blosser was married, July 13, 1872, to Miss, Jennie, daughter of Jacob and Ellen Hinsman, of Marion township, Hocking county, Ohio. They are the parents of three children. viz. : Magdaline (deceased), Francis Milton, and Zettie Ellen.

Borges, CHARLES, farmer, Baird's Furnace, Ohio, was born September 21, 1850, in Muskingum county, Ohio; son of Isaac and Eliza (Knipe) Boies. Mr. Boies was brought up ona farm, and he has given his attention to farming and stock raising up to this date. Stock raising is made a specialty by him, and he deals largely in thoroughbred horses, hogs and sheep. He now owns three hundred and twenty acres of land, the best farm in the township, which is underlayed with both coal and iron ore. He was married, September 10, 1872, to Jennie E., daughter of Hiram and Martha (Strawn) Wilson. This union was blessed with three children, viz.: Isaac J., died at the age of Nineteen months, Wilbert Noble and John I.

Isaac Boies, father of Charles, was born November 27th, 1807, in Beaver county, Pennsylvania, and came to Muskingum county when a young man, where he was married to Eliza Knipe, March 8th, 1849, who was born in Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, November 29, 1818, and came to Ohio when a young woman. Seven years after their marriage they moved to the Hocking River and remained three years, from where they went to Muskingum county, Ohio, on the Chandlersville road, and lived two years and six months, and again to Monday Creek township, on the Heine farm, where they both departed this lite; Isaac dying August 26, 1873, and Eliza, his wife, August 31, 1880. They became the parents of four children, viz.: Charles, the subject of this sketch; James died at four years of age; Philip, and Margaret. Philip and Margaret now live on the homestead.- Mrs. Boies' parents, Hiram and Martha (Strawn) Wilson, were born in Pike township, this county. Mr. Wilson has departed this life, and Mrs. Wilson is now the wife of John Nixon of Pike township, this county.

Bors, Puitre, Monday Creek township, farmer, Winona, Ohio, was born October 7th 1854, in Falls township, Hocking county, Ohio, son of Isaac and Eliza (Knipe) Boies. Mr. Boies was raised a farmer, and has made agricultural pursuits, with stock raising, the business of his life, and with his sister occupies the homestead farm of three hundred and fifty-seven acres, part of which is underlaid with a vein of limestone nine feet thick, iron ore, and a vein of coal three feet thick.

Bouine, James H., farmer and school teacher. Mr. Boling also read medicine. Post office, Buckeye Cottage, Clayton township, Perry county, Ohio. Born in this county in 1847. Son of James and Jane Boling. Married in 1875, to Miss Wilson, daughter of Ezra and Elizabeth (Burgess). They are the parents of two children, viz.: Ralph W., Earl W. Mr. Boling enlisted in the late war in 1864, Company G.. Thirty-first O- V. I., Captain Stone, Army of the Cumberland. He - was in the battles of Recasa and Kenesaw Mountain. Mr. Boling has been engaged in teaching about thirteen years.

Bowers, J. H., post office Crooksville, farmer and stock raiser. Born in Muskingum county in 1813, came to Perry county in 1868. Son of Joseph and Mahala (Horton) Bowers. Married in 1840, to Miss Hannah Walters, daughter of John and Alice Walters. They are the parents of eight children, viz.: Louisa J., Lewis S., Anna M. (deceased), Manda, Armstead (deceased), Adelia, Maggie and H.C. One child is married and living in Muskingum county.

BowMan, JoEL, was born in 1827, and his occupation is, and has been, that of a successful miller and farmer. His post-office is Somerset. He is a son of Bernard Bowman, and grandson of George Bowman, who settled, in 1802, on the farm in Reading township, where his son Bernard died in 1863. Joel's mother was Mary Elizabeth (Poorman), and her father was Bernard Poorman. Both the Bowmans and Poormans are of German descent, and Lutheran in religion. In 1848

Joel Bowman became the husband of Miss Mary A. Binckley. daughter of the late venerable Samuel Binckley, of Reading township, Perry county. They have reared three sons 'and four daughters to manhood and womanhood, and buried five others prior to that period ot life. Joel purchased of his father the grist-mill and twenty-four acres of land in 1863. and paid for it from the earnings of the mill alone in less than two years' ime. Twelve years since, he built a saw-mill, and nine years since, attached to both grist and saw- mills a steam engine. so they can now be run by water or steam power. In 1873 he added eighty acres adjoining 'the mill property, and thus incitie of twenty years paid for a property estimated to be worth $16.000, besides inv estments in Wood county. Ohio, and rearing and educating his family most respectably. He has also paid over $1,200 in bail money. which is an improvement on his father's record, who paid nearly $6.500 of the same kind of cash and held the fort, but not without an effort that is creditable to his great energy and the resources of a well balanced mind and fruitful tields. Bernard. the father of Joel Bowman, stood high i in the esteem of his neighbors, and his history is full of instruction to those of his descendants. who have the power to imitate his sterling virtues while they resist the bonds held by bank collectors and refuse to become the victims of commercial bank indorsers in blank. Grandfather George Bowman generally landed where he started to go. In 1802, on his road to Perry county, they tried to bribe him with 'jot" gifts if he would stay in Zanesville and work at blacksmithing. It was no use; his mind was tixed. He was not a hunter by trade or habit, but on one occasion he brought in seven bear skins on his pony. On one occasion his horse fell and broke his ankle as to make him a cripple the balance of his life. Grandmother Bowman. whose maiden name was Susannah Rugh, sister of Peter and Solomon Rugh. late of Fairfield county. possessed the courage necessary for pioneer lite. On one occasion she loaded the rifle and shot a huge rattle snake that came too near the cabin in the woods. So late as the year 1319. when the first mill-dam was being built above the present site of Bowman's mill, a voung bear was caught and held by the hind legs, as it tried to scramble up the steep bank, until other workmen dispatched the beast with hand-spikes. About the same time, also, but more likely earlier in the date, the Indians took George Bowman's pony. He followed with one companion and recaptured the animal at Foresman's old mill site in Fairtield county. or near there.

Bowman, Joun W.. Monday Creek township, farmer. Maxville, Ohio, was born March 13, 1840, in Jackson township, this county ; son of John and Elizabeth (Strohl) Bowman; was brought up on a farm, and at the age of eighteen years he engaged as an apprentice and learned the shoemaker trade. which he followed in Bristol, Pike township, and in Jackson township, until 1870. when he went to farming. In the fall of 1879 he came to this township and located on his present farm. Mr. Bowman was married December 12. 1861, to Rachel M., daughter of Benjamin and Ann Maria (Strubble) Griggs. both Aatices of Sussex county, New Jersey. They were mfrried in that State and came to Perry county in the year 1820. and Benjamin Griggs ever after was a resident of Perry county until the date of his death, June gth,

1879. Ann Maria Strubble died April 7th, 1877. John Bowman, Sen., died several years ago, but his wife, mother of the subject of this sketch, is living with her son, Joseph D. Bowman, one of the principal boot and shoe merchants of New Lexington. Benjamin Griggs served as a drummer boy in the war of 1812, enlisting from his native State - New Jersey. To John W. and wife were born the following children: Edgar J., Madison B., Grant, William S., Isadora, Ann Maria, Maggie, Myrtle M., Delila Blanche, and George E. ; all living except Edgar J., the oldest, who died at the early age of three years. Mr. B. owns one hundred and sixty acres of the best mineral land in Monday Creek township, underlaid with eight-feet veins of coal, and a vein of red-grey iron ore, varying from ten to eighteen inches in thickness. The Griggses were all prominent members of the Second Baptist Church, »and Mrs. Bowman's brother, Elias, is at present a prominent minister in Mercer county. Mrs. Bowman connected herself with that church in early maidenhood. The Bowmans were all prominent members of the Lutheran Reform Church.

Boyp, WiLi1AM F., baggage master for B. & ORY Ro ppawnec: Ohio, was born November 1g, 1828, in County Antrim, Belfast, Jreland. Came to America August 3, 1847, and located at Newark, New Jersey. Mr. Boyd was married in January, 1852, to Miss Catharine, daughter of Michael and Mary Anne (Stephens) McDonald, of Newark, New Jersey. They became the parents of three children, viz.: Mary Anne, married to Owen McKenna, of Newark, Ohio ; Adelaide R., married to Frank W. Caffee, of Newark, Ohio; and McDonald, who also resides at Newark, Ohio. Mr. Boyd resided at Newark, New Jersey, seven years, working at carriage manufacturing. He came to Newark, Ohio, in 1854, and remained until 1868, working at his trade, carriage blacksmithing. He also lived at Coalport, Coshocton county, Ohio, four years. Came to Shawnee in 1872, and took his present position in 1874. He was one of the charter members of the Knights of Pythias, No. 117, Shawnee, Ohio, and has attended every meeting of the Lodge, excepting one, then he was absent attending Grand Lodge. Mrs. Boyd died March 4, 1861.

Braviey, Rev. Jerome B., Saltlick. Shawnee, Ohio, minister of the gospel in the Methodist Episcopal Church, was born April 5, 1846, in Bourbon county, Kentucky, the son of Washington and Nancy (McDowell) Bradley. Rev. Bradley was raised a farmer, and followed agricultural pursuits during the summer season, and school teaching in the winter season, until the vear 1870. In September of 1869 he was licensed by the Mount Olive Quarterly Conference to preach, and in the following spring of 1870 he entered the traveling connection of the Kentucky Annual Conference, preaching upon the circuits of Carrolton, two years; Meade, one year; Somerset, a half station, three years, where he went in March, and began a revival meeting in August, where they had made a brush arbor for the purpose. 'The work proved a decided success, and lasted during his pastorate stay, and resulted in the addition of three hundred good members to the church, and a revival of religion all over Pulaski county, Kentucky. Hand in hand goes religious feeling and religious work, by which he was enabled also during his pastoral work to build up on this circuit three newcbhurches. One was three miles from Somerset, on Pittman creek, and, to his honor, called Bradley Chapel; one some seven or eight miles from Somerset, on Buck creek, and christened Wesley Chapel; and a third one, a neat frame church, where the brush arbor stood, and called Mount Zion; this was near Science Hill, on the Cincinnati Southern R. R. The church in Somerset was repaired, also, and, upon the whole, the church property was increased from $2,500 on appraisement in 1872, to $4,500, appraised in 1875, notwithstanding the great decline in all kinds of property during this time. Next he was sent to Sardis and Murpheysville, Mason county, Kentacky, where he remained for two years, and had a revival meeting at Sardis, thirty-five members being the accessions. After his mission here he went next to Fallsboro circuit, Lewis county, Kentucky, where he had some six churches under his charge, and had good revival meetings at each church, resulting in the accession of fifty souls to the church during his labor of two years upon this work. During his labor at this place he was secretary of a camp meeting association of the Maysville district, that bought and dedicated to camp meeting services what is known as Ruggles camp meeting grounds. Now he is sent to Vanceburg, county-seat of Lewis county, Kentucky, where his charge was over a half station and three other appointments, laboring in this connection one year, during which he took charge of the camp meeting held at Ruggles camp meeting grounds. In 1880 he was transferred to the Ohio Conference, and stationed at Shawnee, Ohio, where he had charge of the M. E. Church two years. Upon entering this work he found thirty-five members, but during a revival meeting in 1881, the number was increased to one hundred and fifty full members, and thirty-five on probation. During this year they have also built an addition to the church that cost $735. At the first and only call for money for this purpose, $862.50 was subscribed, and the work was soon completed and paid for; in all, the church raised and paid, in 1881, about $2,300. They also have purchased a neat frame parsonage, that cost them $900, during 1881. This year of 1882 they increased the salary of Rev. Bradley trom $800 to $go00, and still move on with the work. During this winter they held another revival, which has resulted in thirty-seven accessions to the church. Rev. Bradley was married September 31, 1865, to Miss Barbara, daughter of J. B. and Matilda (Maston) Insko, of Bracken county, Kentucky, who died July 20, 1875, leaving him with three children, viz.: Lucy E., Joseph W., William W., all now living and at home. He was married a second time December 2, 1876, to Miss Lucy'Helen, daughter of Thomas and Serepta (Owens) Galbraith, of Bracken county, Kentucky. They are the parents of two children, Ethan G. and Morley.

BravsuaAw, Joun, born in Somerset, 1850, is a farmer, P. O. Glenford, Ohio. He is a son of Joseph Bradshaw, who, with his wife, Ellen Welch, were born in Ireland, and came to the United States in 1848. After a short tarry at Elyria, Ohio, they come to Somerset, Ohio, where Joseph died in 1866, in his fifty-seventh year. Mother Bradshaw still lives in Somerset, at the age of sixty-six years, She is the mother of Patrick, P. O. Somerset ; James, P. O. Dayton; and Miss Joanna, P. O. Somerset. Her son John was married November 4, 1874, to Miss

Ann Katharine, the only daughter of the venerable Adam Ice, a native of France, and now a resident of Hopewell, at whose house he boarded when working as a day laborer at a saw mill near by, when, becoming wel! acquainted, he became the husband of Miss Katharine. .In 1881 he moved to the farm in section 3, Hopewell, comprising one hundred and twenty acres. Their children are George, Murray and Mary Olive. Mr. Bradshaw's example is that of a steady, sober young man, not born to any fortune, but a strong physical constitution, attentive to his duty as a day laborer, winning his way to the contidence of the most respected society, and in after life maintaining his character for frugality and attention to business. James was out in the three months' service, Co. E, 17th Regiment; also, in the 31st Ohio, and served to the end of the war. Patrick was also in the 31st Ohio, and served till the close of the war. Both veteraned.

Brapsuaw, W. A., potter, P. O. Buckeye Cottage, Clayton township. Born in this county in 1853. He 'isvason or a AV: and Lucinda (Petit) Bradshaw, grandson of Robert and Mary Bradshaw, and of William and Elizabeth (Hoke) Petit. He was married in 1875 to Miss Edith P. Martin. They are the parents of three children, viz.: Clara L., Albert F., and one not named. Mr. Bradshaw's grandfather Bradshaw was in the war of 1812.

BreeEce, JAMES _E., farmer, Bearfield township, Rendville PQ. Born in this township in 1845, son of Jonathan and Sandusky A. (Trussell) Breece. In 1867 he married Almira W. Skinner, daughter of Amos and Margaret A. (Murray) Skinner, both natives of Virginia. They emigrated to this county and settled in this township in an early day. - Mr. and Mrs. James I. Breece are the parents of five children, viz.: Mary A., born April 26, 1868; Martha A., May 30, 1872 ; Deborah, November 16, 1876; Charles A., November 2, 1878; and John W., July 5, 1881.

Brewster, Jounson C., Monroe township, farmer, Corning, Ohio, was born July 14, 1848, in Muskingum county, Ohio; son of Stephen and Eliza (Brown) Brewster, and was brought up ona farm ; at eighteen engaged in the milling business, which he followed until 1880, when he engaged in agriculture. He came to Perry county in 1868, and to his present residence in 1878. Mr. Brewster was married March 18, 1875, to Miss Amy L., daughter of Joseph and Catharine (Smith) Rogers, of Monroe township. They are the parents of two children, viz.: Bertrit and Jona Leore.

Brown, J. J., P. O. Crooksville, farmer. * Born in Kent county, Delaware, in 1816; settled in this county in 1846; son of William and Susan (Black) Brown. Mr. Brown's father died in 1857, his mother in 1862. They were of English and Scotch descent. Mr. Brown has been twice married, first in 1839, to Miss Jane Dills, who died in 1854. This union was blessed with four children, viz.: Benjamin, Richard, Jane (deceased), William. Married again in 1854, to Mrs. Julia A. Triplet. Mrs. Triplet had three children, viz. : Margaret, Susan and Mary. Mr. Brown had two sons in the late war.

Brown, Davip W., was born in Fairfield county, 1817, November 22d; isa successful farmer; the oldest of the name now living ; brother of the late Judge William Brown and Robert Brown, old time officials of Perry county. His post office is Thornville. His grandfather was William Brown, who, with his wife, Sarah McMullen, then the mother of one daughter, Rosannah, afterwards wife of Robin Walker, emirrated from Ireland. The children of this marriage were: William, David and Robert, well remembered in Fairfield county ; Sally, Elizabeth and Margaret, all of whom came to Fairfield county, except Elizabeth, wife of John, and Sarah, wife of Abram Yost, who settled in Perry. William, the father of David W., Robert and Judge Brown, was married {n Pennsylvania, to Miss Sarah McTeer, whose father was a soldier, who fought with the butt of his gun inthe trenches at Bunker Hill, on the side of ''liberty or death.'' They were the parents of the sons named, and never had any other children. In 1835, the family came from Fairfield to Perry county, and settled in Thorn township. Father Brown survived his wife six or eight years, and died at the age of eighty-two, his wife in her sixty-ninth year. They were of the Associate Reform Church, since the United Presbyterian. William, after service as County Treasurer and Probate Judge, died near Somerset. Robert, after service as a teacher for many years, and County Auditor for a long time, died in the State of Missouri, whither he moved late in life. David W. is therefore sole surviver ; was married in 1835, to Miss Eliza Cherry, daughter of John Cherry of Fairfield. His children are, John C., husband of Miss Harriet, daughter of George Mechling of Thornville; Almonara, wife of John: Yost, son of William, post office, Linville, Ohio; Elizabeth, now the widow of the late Dr. Allen _ Whitmer; Azuba, wife of J. P. Eversole, grocer, freight agent and post master, North Berne, Fairfield county, Ohio; Robert at home, and David McGraw, in honor of a Kentuckian of this name, who nursed his father, David Brown, when sick with cholera, on board a steamer landed at Hannibal, Missouri, in 1849. Another son, Charles L.. husband of Miss Martha Franks, follows the trade of butchering in Thornville. David Brown lost his estimable wif in 1880, and is now a widower. The site of his farm of two hundred acres, is that of the first few settled in Thorn township, and the same selected by Joseph Cooper, whose name clings to a road laid out by him, and who drove a team and sled back to Pennsylvania for provisions, in winter, leaving his wife and children to hear the wolves lapping from the slop bucket outside the cabin door. Here the first water mill of this vicinity was erected, on a stream passing through the Brown homestead, the residence of which is of brick, on an eminence overlooking a vast extent of country, fringed by hills and vocalized by passing trains and lowing herds. It is a delightful landscape. Except the cloud cast upon the evening of his life by the death of his wife, the achievements of David Brown's career, shed lustre on the rewards of industry and the joys of rural life. Brown, GcorcEe W., born December 12th, 1834, in Muskingum county, Ohio. He is now proprietor of a livery stable, and is a horse buyer. He is a son of Dixon Brown, late of Somerset, who was a leading dry goods merchant, railroad director, member of the Methodist church, and citizen of large influence in society, and who had acquired a large share of wealth. which was ever held subject to his hospitality, his desire to advance the public good, and to assist his children and his friends. George's mother was Elizabeth Richard, a daughter of George and Ellen Richard, both of whom died in sight of Somerset, where their daughter also died. , George's only brother, is J. Murray Brown of Columbus. Ohio, and his only surviving sister is Mrs. Ella McCune of Newark, Ohio. George W. was a willful lad, who cut lodse trom parental moorings in Somerset, when only fourteen years of age, and landed in Wheeling. Virginia, without a dollar in his pocket, but soon applied to a Mr. Culberson for work in a tin shop, which he obtained ; but his father soon heard of him and bound himas an apprentice to Mr. Culberson, tor three years. George served his time and became a good workman, and was more inclined atterwards to stay in sight of the paternal roof. After the death of his parents, assisted by the triends and legal counsel, he rescued a handsome homestead from the wreck occasioned by his father's weakness on his sick bed, and the evil disposed who seemed to have his mind under their control. This was a great triumph for George, and leaves him in comfortable circumstances. His wife was Miss Emma Zane, daughter of Samuel Zane, and great-granddaughter of Colonel Ebenezer Zane, and of Elizabeth Bloomfield. The name of Zane is linked with the earliest history of Ohio, and with the heroism which-defended the border of civilization against the attacks of the savage. Her ancestors owned the sections where Zanesville, Lancaster and part of Chillicothe now stand, and were of the highly educated and polished movers in the progress of the past. Elizabeth Zane, fresh from school at Philadelphia, on her return to Wheeling, soon found that place, (1782), under siege from Indians. 'The fort was occupied by brave defenders, but the powder was nearly exhausted, and none nearer than Colonel Zane's house, forty rods distant. Elizabeth Zane insisted on going there and returning with supplies. She was told a mancould go and come quicker, and, therefore, with less danger ; but she replied, '*a woman would not be missed so much as a man ;" and after preparing herself for the greatest fleetness, she ran for the powder, and arriving at the house, a table cloth was tied by two corners around her neck, while she held the other two corners in her hand, and while her first trip was assailed only by the cry of 'squaw, squaw,"' her return was beset by whizzing bullets and savage yells, but she got back without a scratch, except holes through her clothing, and her memory grows green on the page of history. She died in Belmont county, Ohio, after two marriages - the first to Mr. McLaughlin, the Jast to Mr. Clark, near Martinsville.

Brown, A. M., physician, Pleasant township, post office, Moxahala, born in Pike township, August 17th, 1837. His parents are supposed to be of Irish descent. He went to Illinois with his parents when thirteen years old, remained there until he was twenty-one. He then learned the shoemaking trade, and worked at his trade in Perry county. In 1864 he began reading medicine with Dr. M. D. Huftord of Straitsville, remained in his office two years, and then practiced with him six months. He then went to Rendville and practiced there six ears, spending one winter in Indianapolis. Then practiced at Connersville, Lafayette county, nine months; at Gore, Hocking county, eight months; at Straitsville one year, and he then moved to Moxahala, where he still practices, and is also a member of the firm of Noe

Brumace, W. H., P. O. Roseville, Muskingum county. Born in Perry county in 1822; son of A. W. and Elizabeth Brumage (Pemberton); grandson of John and Rebecca (Lashley) Brumage. Married June 5, 1856, to Miss Elizabeth M. Guy, daughter of James and Elizabeth (Miller) Guy. They are the parents of two children, viz.: Samuel G. and Ida G.

Brunner, Poitier MELANCTHON, is a son of Jacob Brunner, and was born December 31, 1841. His mother's maiden name was Rebecca Souslin. His father came to Ohio from Pennsylvania, in 1818, a single man; passed through Somerset into Kentucky, and after several years time spent elsewhere as a journeyman shoemaker, returned to Somerset, engaged in shoemaking, and married his first wife, whose maiden name was Margaret Trout, whose children were named Norman L., Melvena, George, Clara, Louisa and Henry. He stood high in the Lutheran Church, and in the esteem of his fellow-citizens, flourished in his occupation, and at one time employed ten to fifteen hands in his shoe factory. He outlived both his wives, and all his children, except P. M., John, Norman, and Clara Robinson, at whose house he died April 28, 1881, aged eighty-five years and twelve days. Prior to this he resided with his son, P. M., at Glenford, for some years, and then returned to Cairo, Illinois, where his sun sank into the everlasting day of eternity. His son Henry saw service inthe 12th Illinois, 43d Ohio, 160th Ohio, and in the 114th Ohio Regiments; John in the 31st Ohio for three years; and P. M. in the goth, Co. H., was taken prisoner at Chickamauga, September 20, 1863, and remained such in Libby, Danville, Andersonville, Charleston and Florence, for fifteen months. Henry died without heirs, John is married without issue, and P: M. was married 1867 to Miss Margaret P., daughter of the venerable B. F. Graves, of Somerset. After a few years' experience in Somerset, P. M. established a shoe shop in Glenford, April, 1870, where he has succeeded in his vocation, acquired a pleasant home, and in 1879 was elected justice of the peaceover a first-class Democratic competitor, in a township largely Democratic, obtaining a handsome majority as the Republican nominee, a circumstance which is mentioned as indicative of the esteem in which an honest working mechanic is held by his fellow-citizens, after an acquaintance of nine vears. His children are Mary L., James E., Charles Graves, Bertie Florence, and Emma A. Brunner, each and all of whom may dwell with pride upon their achievements, if they happily attain the virtue, sobriety and' respectability of their kind and affectionate parents. j

Brunner, Danton O., attorney-at-law and Mayor of Somerset. His great-grandfather was Henry Brunner, who landed in Philadelphia in 1773, from Wurtemburg, Germany, at the age of twenty-two, a single man. His four sons were Henry, John, George, and Jacob, and his three daughters were Christena Enminger, Barbara Crout, and Susan, wife of Samuel Swineheart. Of these children, all remained in Pennsylvania, except George, Jacob and Susan, who came to Perry county in 1818 and 1819. Of these, George, the grandfather of Danton

O. Brunner, deceased September 1, 1877, at the age of ninety-two years ; and Jacob, the father of P.M. Brunner, April 28, 1881, at the age of eighty-five years; and Susan, the mother of Mrs. Hoyman, at the age cf seventy odd years. The children of George Brunrer, Sr., and his wife, whose maiden name was Ann Maria Weaver, are: George and Henry, Dayton, Ohio; Benjamin F.,: Newark, Ohio; Jacob, Greenwood, Colorado; Morgan, Hannibal, Missouri; and Caroline, wife of William Law, Bloomfield, lowa. Three others died young. David, the father of Danton O., was twice married. His first wife was Katharine Rhodes, whose surviving children are: Nora E., Jacob H., and Elmira R. Brunner. His second wife was Mary L. Clair, whose surviving children are: Danton O., Lena O. and Morgan T. Brunner. David was only four years old in 1818 when his father, George Brunner, Sr., settled in Somerset. He remembers the lot where J. C. C. Myers now lives, when in the forest; and chestnut rails, made from a tree that grew there, still exist, after fifty years oj use in the weather. The upper part of the brick house now owned by N. Dennison, was used asa a puppet show room, and was built in 1817. The first brick house in Somerset was built in 1813 or 1814, according to the best data. David Brunner has a book that has been in the family since 1772. He is also the legal heir to a set of pump tools, comprising five augers and an iron rod twelve feet long and one and onefourth inches in diameter, for making wooden pump stocks. While his great ancestor, Henry Brunner, resided in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, the British tax on tea was not the only tax the colonists hated, but the tax on iron was also regarded as oppressive, and the duty was avoided by smuggling. It, therefore, occurred to Henry to get enough iron for pump tools, which he did, and these tools are now in Somerset, well preserved, and faithful witnesses of British oppression, and the only defense an honest German could plead in 1774. It will also appear that the Brunner family is venerable in age, and its reputation for industry, sobriety, and thrift sheds honor on its genealogy. The success of Danton O. Brunner in his chosen profession has been so remarkable that he has not lost a single case since his admission to the bar, in 1877, up to the present time.

Brusu, Davip D., Probate Court Clerk, New Lexington, Ohio, was born in Sparta, Morrow county, Ohio, August 11, 1845, son of Charles T. and Cornelia (Acker) Brush of French ancestry. Charles T. Brush located in Thorn township, this county, in 1851. In 1862 he was elected Treasurer of Perry county,in the same year moving to New Lexington. He held the office of County Treasurer six years, ViZ-0 bien 1862 to 1864 and from 1866 to 1870. David D., the subject of this sketch, was brought up on the farm where he remained until eighteen years of age, when he began the painter's trade. He first came into his present position in 1867 and has served in all about nine years. From 1872 to 1876, he was engaged in the book and stationery trade. He is Secretary of the Perry , County Agricultural Society and member of the Board of Education of New Lexington. Mr. Brush was first married December 29, 1870, to Miss Annie M., daughter of Judge john H. and Anne C. (Poundstone) Kelly. They became the parents of three children, viz.:. Fatnie Edna, Myrtle Grace and John Iewing, de- ceased. Mrs. Brush died October 22, 1879. Mr. Brush was married the second time June g, 1881, to Bertha C., daughter of William and Margaret (Forquer) Biddison.

Brusu Epmonxp C., M. D., Corning, Ohio, was born October 22, 1852, in Zanesville, Ohio, son of Edmond and Alice S. (Cone) Brush. Dr. Brush was educated at the public schools and at the Marietta College, Ohio. He began the study of medicine in 1871, and was graduated at Sterling Medical College, at Columbus, Ohio. Atter his graduation he was appointed assistant Medical Surgeon for the Ohio Penitentiary and served three years. In 1879 he was appointed Demonstrator of Anatomy in Sterling Medical College and assistant physician of the Central Insane Asylum. The Dr. located in this place in 1881.

Bryan, C. F., of the firm of Johnson & Bryan, attorneys at law and notaries public, New Lexington, Ohio. Mr. Bryan was born September £7, 1848, in Granville, Licking county, Ohio, son of Dr. E. F. and Julia (Peck) Bryan, of Scotch Irish ancestors, but a native of New York State. C. F. was brought up and educated in his native village. When about twenty-one years of age he began teaching school and taught three vears. Began reading law. in the fall of 1873. and was admitted to the Bar in the spring of 1876 and began practice in Licking county, came to this place in March 1881 and formed the present firm. Mr. Bryan was married the first time to Miss Ada McLaughlin, who died in July, 1874. His second marriage was February 22, 1876, to Miss Ella, daughter of Lyman and Margaret (Cramer) Crabbe, of London, Ohio. They are the parents of one child, Grace W. Bryan.

BurGEss, JONATHAN., farmer, Madison township. postoffice, Mt. Perry. He was born June 24, 1848, in this township; is a son of Amos and Mary (Reddick) Burgess. He was raised on a farm, and still follows agricultural pursuits, now owning about one hundred and fifty acres of fertile land. He was married January 4, 1872, to Virginia McCarty, daughter of John and Catharine (Eversole) McCarty. 'They have two children: Edward G., and Daisy O.

Burcess, Levi J., attorney at law, Logan, Ohio. Among the first settlers cf Madison township, Perry county, (then belonging to Muskingum,) were Joseph and Richard Burgess, brothers, who emigrated from Maryland about the year 1810. Richard, after serving in the war of 1812, moved to Hocking county, Ohio, to the farm on which stands the village of New Gore, and the noted Gore Furnace. From him also a church took its name, and the '+ Burgess Meeting House "' was, for along time, a familiar name and place to hundreds of people in Perry and Hocking counties. Joseph continued to live in Madison township until 1856, when he died, leaving nine sons and one daughter, some of whom had found homes in the far west, and all of whom are yet living. l*our sons and the daughter continue to reside in Perry county, near their birth-place, where they have acquired comfortable homes, and are among the leading and influential people of that locality. A number of their children have long been known as being among the leading scholars and educators in Perry county, having aided largely in establishing and maintaining Madison Academy, at Mt. Perry. *Professor E. J. Burgess, one of the glescendants, is at present the President of Ashland College. "Perhaps the most prominent member of this old pioneer family of Perry county, is Hon. Levi J. Burgess, of logan, Hocking county, Ohio, a grandson of Joseph Burgess, and son of Jeremiah and Eliza (Evans) Burgess. He was born at Mt. Perry, Perry county, Ohio, September 4, 1848, and received his education\n Perr county, with the exception of a short time at Muskingum College, New Concord, Ohio. He began in 1870, the study of law with the Ion. William E. Finck, at Somerset, and was admitted to the bar in the fall of 1873. Before and during the time he was studying law, he was engaged in teaching, and was one of the leading voung teachers of Perry and Muskingum counties. In the spring of 1874, he located in New Lexington and began the practice of law, forming a partnership with Hon. L. J. Jackson. His rise was rapid, and in the fall of 1879 he was nominated by a overwhelming majority over all competitors tor the office of Prosecuting Attorney. Shortly afterwards Hon. John S. Friesner, of Logan, was nominated and elected to the oflice of Common Pleas Judge, and Col. Burgess declined the nomination of Prosecutor, and moved to Logan where he succeeded to the large and extensive practice of Judge Friesner. He is at present the attorney for the Columbus, Hocking Valley & Toledo Railway Company, and also for a number of the leading coal and iron companies in the Hocking Valley region. He was a prominent candidate before the Democratic State Convention of 1881, for the office of Attorney General and though not seeking it, came near receiving the nomination. He was, the same year, honored with the Chairmanship of the Congressional Convention of his district, and also of the Senatorial Convention, composed of the counties of Fairfield, Hocking and Athens, and although a resident of his county less than two years, was unanimously tendered the nomination for State Senator, which he declined to accept. As a lawyer, advocate and political speaker, Col. Burgess stands in the front rank of the young men of Ohio. Heis popular wherever known, and numbers among his acquaintances and friends, many of the leading men of the State and Nation. His successful course reflects honor upon himself, credit upon the family name and serves to make him a conspicuous figure among the prominent men of Perry county, who have achieved a reputation at home and abroad, and of whom the county may justly be proud. [le was married December 11th, 1870, to Rebecca A., daughter of Jacob and Mary (Fulton) Weller. They have three children, Lulu, Alma, and Levi J., Jr., living, and two, Annie and Fannie, deceased.

BurcGoon, Istpork, farmer, Jackson township ; post office, Junction City ; born April 5th, 1829, in Clayton township ; son of Levi and Ann (Lilly) Burgoon, who were among the first settlers of Perry county. Mr. Eiecbon was brought up on a farm, and has been following farming ever since. He moved to his present residence, in Jackson, in 1851. He married, in October, 1857, Miss Nancy Clark, daughter of Ilugh and Rose Stemi Clark. "They have seven children, viz.: Rose A., Hugh J., Patrick H., Margaret, Mary, James J., John I. Rose A., Mary and James J. are deceased. Mr. Burgoon has a farm of two hundred and sixty-five acres of choice land, aud deals largely in thoroughbred cattle. j : parents in 1815. John Burley, his father, died in this county in 1842. Hannah (Lazilere), his mother, also died in Perry county in 1844. Married in 1832, to Miss Rachel Iliff, daughter of John and Anna Iliff, who died in 1873. They had nine children, viz.: Jan, John, Rebecca, James, Hannah, Harriet, Nute, Thomas, (deceased), Mary E.

Buritey, W. N., merchant; post office, Crooksville ; born in Perry county in 1846; son of Lazilere and Rachel (Iliff) Burley ; married August 20th, 1872, to Miss Maggie McKeever, daughter of Samuel and Hannah McKeever. They are the parents of four children, viz.: John G., Samuel V., Zane W. and Wilson L. Mr. Burley enlisted three different times in the army; first, in 1863, in Company K, One Hundred and Twenty-ninth Regiment; second, in 1863, One Hundred and Sixtieth Regiment, Company HH; third and lastly, in 1864, in First Ohio Heavy Artillery. Was in several engagements during his time of service.

Burns, GeorceE M., physician, Maxville, Ohio, was born in Butler county, Pennsylvania, January 21st, 1838; son of David and Elizabeth (McCaslin) Burns. Brought up on a farm and began teaching at the early age of sixteen years, and for four years continued to teach in Butler and Allegheny counties. He then went to McLean county, IIlinois, and taught one term, but not being contented, returned to Penn- _ sylvania, and continued teaching until the spring of 1862. In August, of the same year, he enlisted in the One Hundred and Thirty-fourth Regiment, Pennsylvania Infantry, and served in the Army of the Potomac until honorably discharged from service, June, 1863. In 1859 he began the study of medicine, aud studied at intervals, but -after retiring from the army, he gave his chosen profession his entire attention.

In November, 1863, he entered the Homeopathic College at Cleveland Ohio, and graduated from the same in February, 1865, and began the practice of medicine in Detroit, Michigan; but in a short time removed to Mitchell, Indiana, and thence to Vincennes, Indiana; and in October, 1866, Jocated in Maxville, Ohio, and remained for two years. He then returned to Pennsylvania and practiced in Allegheny City, Pennsylvania, until 1870, when he returned to Maxville, Ohio, where he has ever since resided. Dr. Burns was married August 6th, 1866, to Mary, daughter of Amos and Harriet (Harper) Mantonya, of Granville, Ohio. Dr. Burns has an extensive practice, and is considered one of the first physicians in this part of the State.

Burrevi, A. H. And Son, proprietors of Premium Marble Works, New Lexington, Ohio. A. H. Burrell was born September 18th, 1809, in Newport, Penobscot county, Maine; son of Nathaniel and Rachel

.(Springer) Burrell. Mr. Burrell with his parents emigrated to Ohio in the spring of 1838, and located in Athens county, where he was engaged on a farm, which occupation he followed until 1840, when he began teaching school, which he followed several years ; three years of which he taught in Athens. During the time he taught school, he studied medicine with Dr. Blackstone, and began its practice in the fall of 1846, in Nelsonville, Ohio. In the spring of 1847 he went to Amesville, Ohio,,where he practiced eighteen months and returned to Nelsonville, remaining until the spring of 1868, when he came to New Lexington, Ohio. In 1863 he retired from the practice of medicine on account of his eyesight failing him, and in 1868 he engaged in his present business. Dr. Burrell was married the first time, March 28, 1832, to Miss Almira, daughter of John and Maria (Shaw) Wilson, of Newport. They became the parents of two children, viz.: Wilson H. and John O. Mrs. Burrell died June 21, 1839. He was married the second time, November 22, 1842, to Isabella, daughter of Thomas and Mary Jane (Blatch) Claxton. They are the parents of four children, viz. : Maria L., married to H. H. Miles of Racine, Meigs county, Ohio ; Emma B., married to Josiah Wilson of Nelsonville, Ohio; Frank C. and Almond Rochester. whose sketch is also here given. Almond R. was born March 21, 1848, in Amestown, Athens county, Ohio; came to New Lexington in February of 1868, and opened in business in the south end of town, in one of the primitive log buildings on the corner of Main and Walnut streets, which is now occupied by a brick building. In September of the same year they bought and removed to their present place of business. Almond Rochester was married July rtth, 1881, to Miss Anna N., daughter of 5. S. and Deborah (Graham) Smith, of Washington county, Ohio. They are the parents of one child, viz.: Maine Burrell. January 5th, 1864, he enlisted in Company G. Eighteenth Regiment, O. V. V.1., and served until October 23d, 1865, when he was honorably discharged. Mr. Nathaniel Burrell, father of A. H., and grandfather of Almond R., was engaged in the Revolutionary war ; was at General Burgoyne's surrender, and helped to guard the Hessian prisoners at Albany. Died October 18th, 1842, in Athens, Ohio. .

Burton, NATHAN, Pleasant township, blacksmith at Oakfield, born in Muskingum county, July 20, 1817; son of Isaac and Mary (Fillbrooks) Burton. both natives of Maine, and came to Muskingum county in 1815. Worked with his father until seventeen years of age, and then learned his trade at Roseville, Muskingum county ; located in Oakfield in 1845, and went to Logan, Hocking county, in 1846, and blacksmithed there twenty years. He returned to Oakfield in 1881. In 1843 he married Nancy oe - her father was a nephew of Andrew and Adam Poe, who distinguished themselves fighting Indians in Virinia. They are the parents of the following named children: Sarah, fda, Bell, Benjamin, Clarence, Edgar.

Butier, Joun, family grocer, Main street, New Lexington, Ohio, was born July 10, 1862, 1n this place; son of attorney at law Reuben and Jane (Frantz) Butler. Mr. B. established his present business, November 15, 1880, in which he is very successful.

Butrs, Mecuacn, deceased, was born October 5th, 181g, in Muskingum county, Ohio, son of Overton and Sarah (Kirby) Butts. Mr. Butts was brought up on a farm, until he was sixteen years ot age, when he began the wagon makers' trade with Joshua Cites, with whom he remained about six months, and went to Mt. Sterling, Ohio, and engaged with Joshua O. Hook, serving in all about five years appenticeship, after which he was employed as follows: Springtield, Ohio, short time; Zanesville, Ohio; again with Joshua Cites; and then was mar- - ried to Phoebe, daughter of Absalom and Mary (Campbell) Burley of this county. They are the parents of nine children, viz.: Elizabeth, James L., Emery A., William H., Eliza Jane. John. Mary Ann, de- ceased ; Amanda, deceased, and Abi, deceased. After his marriage, he was employed as follows: At Mt. Sterling one year, with J. O. Cook; Perry county, near Roseville, farmed one year ; Morgan county, farming about two years; Perry county, cropping one season 3 Mt. Seviings with J. O. Hook, until 1862; Morgan county, farming two years; thence to Portersville, Perry county ; and in January, 1864, enlisted as a mechanic in the government service, from which he was discharged June 17, 1864, by reason of sunstroke ; and in the fall of 1864, he volunteered as a recruit from Malta township, Morgan county, Ohio, and remained in the service until the close of the war. Was on Sherman's March to the Sea, and was sent to Ltttle Rock, Arkansas. After receiving his discharge, returned home, and was engaged at his trade until seven years ago, in June, 1874, when he came to Shawnee, where he followed his trade and undertaking until September of 1881, at which time he went to Hemlock, Ohio, where he was engaged in furniture dealing and undertaking, until his death, October 5, 1882.

Burts, Emery A., furniture dealer, Shawnee, Ohio, was born December 18, 1840, in Mount Sterling, Muskingum county, Ohio; son of Mechach and Pheebe (Burley) Butts. Mr. Butts was raised in the towns of Mount Sterling and Portersville, Perry county, Ohio, to the age of fifteen years, when he employed to work on a farm with Daniel Sayer, and spent about four years farming; three years with Sayer, five months in Franklin county, Ohio, and four months near Wilmington, Clinton county, Ohio, and again in Franklin county, Ohio. He also worked some seven years upon a portable saw mill, in Morgan and Perry counties, Ohio. Upon leaving the farm the second time he was in Franklin county, he came to Shawnee, Ohio, and engaged in wagon making about four years, and then went into the present business of furniture and undertaking, with George Martzolff, in April of 1881. Mr. Butts was married September 2, 1876, to Margaret J., daughter of George and Catharine (Diller) Martzolff, of this township. 'They are the parents of two children, viz.: George C. and Alta Beldon.

Burrs, James L., furnaceman, Shawnee, Ohio, was born January 23, 1845, in Morgan county, Ohio; son of Mechach and Phoebe (Bur-- ley) Butts. Was brought up, to the age of seventeen, {n Mount Sterling, Muskingum county, Qhio, and moved back to Morgan county, Ohio, with his father, in 1862, where he enlisted, in August of that year, in Co. D, 30th Regiment O. V. I., for three years, or during the war, and served in the Army of the Potomac up to January, 1863. and the Western Army the balance of the time. Fought in the battles of South Mountain, Antietam, Second Bull Run, in Army of the Potomac ; in battles of Arkansas Post, Black River, Walnut Bluffs, and in the charge upon Vicksburg, charging Stockade Fort, at which place he was wounded in the hip and thigh, permanently injuring him, so that he is now unable to obtain a livelihood by his labor. After receiving his wound he came home November 27th, and stayed until next March, when he returned to his regiment, and remained to the close of the war. Was in Atlanta campaign and ''Sherman's March to the Sea."' After receiving an honorable discharge he came home and engaged in agricultural pursuits until 1874, when he employed as a miner at New Straitsville, Ohio, working one year, and then came to Shawnee, Ohio, continuing in the same business for about two years. Then employed at N. Y. furnace until the spring of 1881; engaging then with the Fannie furnace, where he has been, top filling, watching furnace, and attending hot blast, up to this time. Was married March 28, 1868, to Elizabeth, daughter of Francis and Margaret (Stoneburner) Hane, of Morgan county, Ohio. Their children are Scott Monroe, Della Isabelle, Nellie France, Mechach and Mettie.

Burrs, Witi1aAM H., blacksmith, Shawnee, Ohio, was born January 10, 1851, in Mount Sterling, Muskingum county, Ohio; son of Mechach and Phebe (Burley) Butts. Remained in his native town until 1861, when, with his father, he went to Morgan county, Ohio, and worked on a farm until he was eighteen years of age, when he went to his trade with Edward Addison, near Porterville, rei ee county, Ohio, and remained one year, when he went to Portersville, Perry county, Ohio, where he worked with his brother-in-law, Mr. Brock, with whom he completed his trade. During this time he worked three years at four dollars per month, after which he went to Deavertown,' Morgan county, Ohio, with his brother-in-law, where he remained for six months, when he came to Shawnee and worked for Finley B. McGrew three years, going from there to the Fanny furnace, and took his present position. Mr. Butts was married November 14, 1877, to Harriet Pettet, daughter of Thomas and Jane Pettet, of Perry county, near Porterville, Ohio. They are the parents of one child, viz.: Delmer Clyde, deceased.

Burr, SAMUEL W., mine boss N. Y. Straitsville Coal and Iron Co., Shawnee, Ohio, was born October 26, 1842, in New Philadelphia, Tuscarawas county, Ohio; son of Samuel and Emma (McCune) Butt, Samuel W. was brought up on a farm until ten- years of age. His father died when Samuel W. was five years of age. In 1852 the widow, with her family, moved to Nelsonville, Athens county, Ohio. Mr. Butt came to this place in 1872, and in a few weeks assumed his present duties. August 7, 1861, Mr. Butt enlisted in Co. D, O. V.L, and served to the close of the war. During his service he was Order] Sergeant, and was commissioned First Lieutenant of Company i, same regiment. He also served as Mayor of Nelsonville, Ohio. Lieut. Butt was married to Miss Ruth J., daughter of Robert and Lydia (Orme) Kinney, formerly of Athens county, Ohio. 'They are the parents of three children, viz.: J~mma M., George C. and William J.

ear 1849, in Somerset, Ohio. His father, Isaiah Caine, was born in the same township, and had three brothers, John, Lewis and James. His grandfather, John Caine, feceased at Zaleski, Ohio, at the advanced age of eighty years. His mother's maiden name was Campbell, a sister of Samuel C. Campbell, of Effingham, Illinois, deceased in 1880, leaving Alexander C., Samuel, John Ei-Frank and Wallace, and an only sister, Cora. John L. is united in marriage to Miss Emma Law, and resides in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, and Samuel to Sophia Exner, and resides in Somerset. The other brothers and sister are. single. A brother, Henry B., was wounded at Mission Ridge, and died at Nashville, in January, 1863. Alexander C., at the age of twelve years, went with Captain L. Jackson, of the 31st

Regiment, O. V. I., and afterwards went with his uncle, Samuel C. Campbell, who was sutler of the goth Regiment. After six months service there he returned home, and entered the union school of his native town. He afterward entered the drug store of F. Moeller, in Somerset, where he remained three years. He then clerked for H. C. Filler, dry goods merchant, of Somerset, and from here he went to Indianapolis, Indiana, where he served as clerk for the firm of William Glenn & Co. From there he went to Pekin, Illinois, where he served as clerk in a hotel, and after one year's service, went to Butler, Bates county, Missouri, and took the management of the store of W. T. Smith & Co., where he remained four years. From there he went to Kansas City, Missouri, and became commercial traveler for J. M. Shelly & Co., in which capacity he served eighteen months. He then returned to Ohio in 1874, and clerked for Thomas Drake, dry goods, Somerset; afterwards for Benjamin Whitmer, grocer, and from here he went to Shawnee, Ohio, where he took charge of the mercantile business of William Shields & Co., afterward J. C. Hamilton & Co., making all purchases, and carrying a business amounting to as high as

150,000 a year, and jn this capacity the business flourished for over five years. He is now connected as commercial traveler for the wholesale house of Miller & Hustons, Columbus, Ohio. [lis political career was marked with eminent success as a manager of campaigns. He was chairman of the Republican convention which first nominated John H. Kelly for Probate Judge, and Henry Martin for Sheriff, both successful in a county which had been giving six hundred Democratic majorities. He was a delegate to the state convention that first nominated Charles Foster for Governor. He was the only Blaine delegate to the state convention from the Twelfth Congressional District, against a bitter and powerful opposition. He nominated W. T. Shriver, first and last, for Treasurer of the county, and H. C. Greiner, the last time he was elected, in 1881, for Representative. All these acts exhibited his_keen sagacity asa Republican leader, the majority of the opposing party sinking as his tactics advanced to the front.

ALDWELL, J. W., blacksmith, Shawnee, Ohio, was born Sept. 10, 1856, in Perry township, Licking county, Ohio; son of Thomas and Margaret (Legg) Caldwell. Was raised in Brownsville, his native county, and leatned the blacksmith trade with his father. In 1875 he began business for himself, working for two years for E. P. Evans, of Elizabethtown, Licking county, Ohio; two years for Rufus Swinehart, at Newark, Ohio, when he returned to Brownsville and formed a copartnership with his father, which continued one year, at which time he came to Shawnee, March, 1881, and was engaged six months with J. D. Davis, after which he went into partnership with Finley B. McGrew, of this place, where he is engaged at his trade at this time, and where they enjoy a good business. __

CaLL, Enwarp, collier, New Straitsville. He was born in Philadelphia, January 5th, 1849; is a son of Edward and Mary (Sweeney) Call, natives of Donegal county, Ireland, and who came to Philadelphia iv 1844. They resided there ten years, and then moved to Perry county, Ohio, where Mr. Call died May 27th, 1878, and where Mrs. Call is yet living. June 16, 1873, Edward, Jr., was married to Dora, daughter of

Thomas and Emily Sherraden, natives of Ohio, but who now reside in Illinois. Mr. and Mrs. Call have three children, twin boys, born in Illinois, August 3, 1874, and a third child born October 9, 1875, in the same State. 7

Cannon, Won. A., Clayton township, postoflice,Rehobeth. Farmer and stock raiser. Born in Delaware, in 1811. Settled in Perry county, Ohio, in 1817. Sonof Isaac and Katharine (Lyons) Cannon, They both died about the year 1845. 'The subject of this sketch was married in 1832, to Miss Mary A. Scofield, daughter of John and Jane (Moore) Scofield. They have eleven children, viz.: Harriet O. (deceased), Kktharine, Isaac J., Jasper, (deceased), Wm. Hs > Lucey, David, Mary J., James, Wesley, Matilda. All married.

Carney, Micuaei, Jackson township, farmer, New 'Lexington postoffice. Born June 30, 1841, in Reading township, this county. Son of John and Rose (Kating) Carney, who came to this country from Ireland in 1818, and settled in Reading township, Perry cbuniy, Ohio. Mr. Carney was brought up on a farm, and still continued until he enlisted in the Sixty-first O. V. V. I., Company 'G, under Captain Gruarty. He first went to Virginia, and there served under McClellan in the army of the Potomac, and also under Mead, and Hooker, when he was transferred to Tennessee,under Sherman,and served the remainder of his time under him. In the battle of Lookout Mountain, he was wounded in the foot and laid in the hospital until the close of the war, when he was discharged. He was married June 12, 1869, to Miss Susan Wommaker,daughter of Ose and Christina (Stroble) Wommaker. They have seven children, viz.: Francis D., Albert, Mary M., Joseph, Catherine, Daniel, Rose A.

Carroti, H., lumber merchant, McLuney postoflice. Born in 1842. Settled in this county in 1878. Son of M. A. and Anna (King) Carroll. Grand-son of George and Hannah Carroll. Married in 1875 to Miss Nancy Cooper, daughter of Wesley and Cynthia Cooper. They have three children, viz.: Bertha, Carrie and Millie. Mr. Carroll volunteered in the late war in 1862, Company H, Captain Beachley, Twenty-sixth Regiment, Indiana Infantry. Participated in the following engagements: Springfield, Missouri, Vicksburg, Morganza Bay, Mobile, Alabama.

Carter, CHARLES, Pleasant township, Moxahala postoflice, farmer. Born in Hampshire, England, April, 1821; emigrated to this country when fifteen years of age. He served an apprenticeship at carpentering in Putnam ; tlewed the trade but a few years 4nd then began farming in this township, and he has resided here ever since. April 16, 1840 he married Rachel Sharp, of this township. They are the parents of the following named children : Mary, born August 20, 1846 ; Margaret, born March 30, 1848; George, born August 20, 1846; James, born December 29, 1849; Charles, born November 10, 1851; William, born January 2, 1854; Thomas, January 10, 1856. Mrs. Carter died in 1859. In 1861 he married Mary A. Berry. Their children are Jerome, born March 21, 1863; Martha E., born February 18, 1869, died September 18, 1873; Culley M., born June 6, 1870. Two of the daughters reside in the west.

Virginia, and when yet an infant his parents arrived in Clayton township, Perry county, Ohio. After a brief residence here, they lived in Kentucky nine years, and returned to Perry county, Ohio. _ Abraham engaged in business as a saddler and harness maker, which he pursued very successfully for ten years, at Adelphia, Ross county, Ohio. Irom this forth for thirty-seven years he preached as an intinerant in the Methodist Episcopal connection. His ministry was attended with great success, and at least three thousand members were added to the church under his pastorship. During three years of his pastorate, one of which was 1850, he added at the rate of eee hundred members per year. Sincerity and earnestness, combined with a purity of character which was maintained through life without a stain, added to his perseverance and fortitude, were the elements of his ministeral success. At the age of twenty-four, he was united in marriage to Miss Lucinda Will. This estimable lady departed this life in 1852. The children by this marriage are George W. of Creston Iowa, a merchant who landed there with $40, in 1855, and is now estimated at $40,000 ; Jesse, now of Harlan, lowa, a physician, who went from Ohio in 1865. Both these sons were in service of the war department during the late Rebellion. The only daughter living is Clara Tway, now of London, Ohio. Mr. Cartlich was always a small eater, and the proverbial ''yellow-leg ged chicken,'' set apart for the preacher, could not tempt him from his code of prudence. As for tobacco and spirits, he never used either, and has managed to arrive now to a ripe old age of seventy-five years, in good health, without them. His father, Jesse Cartlich, though chronically feeble, by observance of the same temperate habits, lived to the age of eighty-three years, and died in Minnesota, about the year 1860. The second and present wife of Rev. Abraham Cartlich, was Miss Jane Van Gundy, of Ross county, whom he married in 1854. Her father was Rev. John Van Gundy, who labored as a minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church for thirty years, and after removal from Ross county, Ohio, where he possessed large landed estates, died in Atchison county, Missouri. He settled in Ohio in 1806, and served in the War of 1812. Her grand-father was also named John Van Gundy. Her mother's name was Margaret Search, whose father was Thomas Search. Margaret died on one of her husband's farms near Chillicothe, in 1833, when Jane was in her seventh year. Uer brothers, all of whom are prosperous, are Jonas, St. Josephs, Missouri; and James, John, William and Samuel, near Milton, Atchison county, Missouri. Tradition, which seems well founded, ascribed to the ancestry of this Van Gundy family close official relations to the Crown of Prussia, and a rupture of these relations which sent it to Pennsylvania, and thence to Ohio. The sisters of Mrs. Cartlich are Sarah Scarlet, who, when only seventeen, was successfully courted by a widower with three children, and she has never regretted her youthful resolution. The other sister is Rachel Williams, and both have the same postoffice address, as the brothers already named. Jane Cartlich is remarkable for her business like methods, economy, hospitality and kindness to the poor. Though the daughter of a Methodist minister, and for twenty-six years the wife of a Methodist minister, she preserves a commendable liberality and charity for others. She refers to the preservation of an aunt given up to die and yet living to rear a useful family, while her mother was taken from life in sound health, by cholera, in the same house and at the same time of her aunt's illness, as a remarkable dispensation of Providence. The same fact applies to her step-daughter, Mrs, Tway, who, when yet a child, seemed affected beyond possibility of .recovery, and yet she grew to womanhood, and is now the mother of five children. Mrs..Cartlich, though in easy circumstances, labors as if she derived comfort, health and pleasure from exercise. Her husband, too, has a fine income, which secures ease and comfort, and they live alone, with no household dependents.

CassEL, SAMUEL, born November 10, 1814, in Reading township ; served apprenticeship of four years in Newark at the tinning and coppersmith trade, in 1824-5 lived in Lancaster, Ohio, where he saw General Andrew Jackson; in 1835 formed a partnership with John Beckwith, as tinner and coppersmith, continuing in this ten years. July 1, 1841 he was united in marriage to Susan A. Maines, daughter of the late venerable Frederick Maines, of Somerset; moved to the family homestead in 1846; bought out the other heirs; had it-all paid for but-two hundred and fifty dollars. He had property at this time in Somerset worth four hundred and fifty dollars. Henry K. Cassell, a brother, then residing on the same farm, finding that cropping in partnership was not remunerative, proposed that Samuel, being able to borrow, should get four hundred and sixty dollais for him and let him go to California, the gold fever then first beginning to rage. This was done. Henry K. returned in about two years, unable to repay the borrowed money, and Samuel paid out over thirteen hundred dollars before that debt was finally discharged. So much for generosity, debt making, and the California fever. Samuel's grandfather Cassell came from Holland, where he had an aunt, Ann Cassell, and while residing in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, he received a_ letter from said Ann, saying she had made her will and he, the grandfather aforesaid, was about doing so when he took sick and died. Subsequent efforts, through Christian L. Griener of Somerset, a Baltimore merchant, and a Kentucky lawyer, were made to recover the large estate said to have been willed to Samuel Cassell's grandtather by his aunt Ann as stated, but up to this time without avail. Samuel's father, John, came from Middletown, Pennsylvania, to'what is now Perry county, in 1808. The other sons of John, living, are William of Lancaster, and Henry King Cassell, near Mt. Vernon. Christian, Abram and Reuben died after marriage, leaving heirs ; the sisters are Elizabeth Pitcher, afterwards France, Tsabel Beckwith, Catharine Ann Brock, now of Columbus, Ohio. He has living four sons, John, Edward, William and George, and three daughters, Almeda, single ; Sarah, married to George Berkheimer ; and Kate, single, and one granddaughter, Nettie. - Samuel Cassell, being the seventh son, when only four years old, had acall from a man who spent a small farm in trying to be cured of king's evil, or scrofula. The lad retreated under the bed for safety, but was coaxed out by the gift of a penknife. The suffering patient placed the lad's hand on the soré neck, came a second and a third time, and twenty years after, told a brother of the young doctor, that he was cured by the rubbing thus obtained from the seventh son of his mother, Mrs. John Cassell. From that day to this, Samuel Cassell, of 'Somerset, has been called on by hundreds of patients and has been called away to visit others many miles from home, and his success has been unquestioned, but he refers this success, not to his being the seventh son, or to any magic art, but to the influence of electricity, now advancing to the front as a curative agent. He says he never failed on neuralgia; treats rheumatism, goiter, tumors and other diseases, and never failed on those nervous diseases akin to St. Vitus' dance. Mr. Cassell does not seek practice as a doctor, but is ever ready to lend his aid when called upon. He attends a large garden, and, in 1880, from the twentieth part of an acre, he raised eighty bushels of ripe tomatoes.

CHARLES, Owen D., mine boss, New Straitsville, Ohio, was born April.2,-1846, in Llenlly, Carmarthanshire, Wales, son of David and Margaret (Morgan) Charies. Was raised a miner, and in Wales was employed ii.a mine owned by his father, and known as the Furnace mines. His father also was superintendent of mines for Sims, Williams, Neville & Co., and employed one thousand hands at this ene mine. Mr. Charles emigrated to America, landing August 6, 1867, in New York, from where he went to Indiana and engaged in mining at that place for one year, and since has been employed at the following places: Pennsylvania, one year, mining; Missouri, six months; Indiana, one yrar, and then took a trip to Pomeroy, Ohio, Rockwood, Tennessee, through the States of Georgia and Alabama, returning via Memphis, Tennessee, to Illinois, and thence to this place, landing about 1871, and engaging with the Walga Lancaster Coal Co., mining two months, when he went to Shawnee, and opened the Shields mine, making three openings, which required him six months to complete. He again returned to this place, and has been employed as follows: Mine boss at Plummer Hill, one year; opened the Central mine, requiring him eight months, at the expiration of which time he employed with the then Troy mine, now the Thomas Coal Co., where he mined one year, and then opened the new mouth by contract, finishing the work April 4, 1881, at which time he was employed as mine boss at this place, which position he now holds, and there is now three hundred and twelve hands employed at this mine. Mr. Charles was married November 13, 1872, to Miss Blanche Loyd, who was born August 27, 1854, in Myrthatydvil, Wales, daughter of David and Mary (Jones) Loyd, and lived in this place at the time of her marriage. They are the parents of five children, viz.: Mary, who died at seven years of apes David, died in infancy; David now living; Owen Artie and

CHENOWETH, JouNn, Pike township, New Lexington, Ohio, farmer ; was born October 11, I80g, in Hampshire county, Virginia; son of Elias and aeape (Carlon) Chenoweth. Mr. Chenoweth came to this county with his father in 1814, and has been a resident of it since that time, with the exception of eighteen months that he lived in Franklin county, Ohio. He was raised a farmer, and has followed agricultural pursuits up to the+ime of this writing. His first postoffice was at Somerset, this county, although he lived in Clayton township. In those times they went to Zanesville to mill, and afterward the horse mill was introduced for grinding their breadstuff. Mr. Chenoweth was married May 22, 1834, to Marjory, daughter of Joseph and Mary (McBride) Gates, of Hampshire county, Virginia, who came to Perry 'county, Ohio, with her father, in 1824, of which she has been a resident up to the present time. They are the parents of twelve chtldren, viz.: Julia A., Mary E., Nancy, Sarah J., Mahalah, Rachel, Harriet, Margaret M., Angeline, William, John and Thomas, of whom three are deceased, viz.: John, Sarah J., and Margaret M.

CuRISTMAN, DANIEL, farmer, Pike township, New Lexington, Ohio, was born July 14, 1832, in Bucks county, Pennsylvania; son of Daniel and Hannah (Sullivan) Christman. Was raised a farmer, and has followed agriculture up to the present time. Mr. Christman came to Ohio with his parents in 1836, who settled in Belmont county, where they lived eleven years, when they moved to Harrison county and lived three or four years, and again moving, went to Morgan county, where they bought forty acres of land, where his father lived up to the time of his death, in April of 1857. Within one year after his death, Mrs. Christman and her son Jacob both died of typhoid fever; a daughter Hannah died in 1857. Mr. Christman, the subject of this sketch, lived with his father up to the time of his death, and took charge of the farm at that instance. In 1862 he buried his sister, Mary G., and in the spring of 1881 also buried his youngest sister, Isabelle, and the youngest of his father's family. After the estate was disposed of by an administrator, he lived with a man by the name of Lynn, remaining with him until 1861, when he enlisted in Co. H, 17th Regiment, O. V.I., for three months, and served four months; was discharged by reason of expiration of term of enlistment; returning home, and in the fall of 1861 re-enlisted in Co. E, 78th Regiment, O. V. I., for three years, or during the war, serving nearly three years; was again, discharged, by reason of veteranizing for three years, serving during the siege at Vicksburg, Tennessee, and until the close of the war in 1865, when he was discharged the third time from the service. During his service he was upon detached duty the most of the time, serving upon reconnoitering expeditions, and was one of the number who ran the blockade at Vicksburg to Warranton Grand Gulf, on the night of the 21st of April, 1863, with transports. After receiving his last discharge, he returned home and spent the year from the winter of 1866 to the winter of 1867, in Fayette Sou Illinois. Returning to Ohio he lived in Morgan county until the fall of 1873, when he moved to this county, where he has since lived, two years near Rendville, and two years near Sulphur Springs, and then came to the farm he now lives on, and where he owns forty acres of land. Was married July 30, 1868, to Miss Maggie J. Patterson, born May 5, 1840, daughter of Clark and Rebecca J (McCurdy) Patterson, of Deerfield township, Morgan county, Ohio. They are the parents of five children, viz.: Daniel C., Charles W. T., Julia E., Jennie E. and Robert Worley. a

Cuurcn, Davin, born September 28th, 1832, in Somerset, Ohio, is a prosperous farmer ; postoffice, Somerset. His father was the late David Church, who came to Somerset in :818, a blacksmith-by trade, with only fifty cents in his purse. He was a native of Chenango county, New York, born near the town of Oxford. He had a brother, Bradford, near Lee

Center, Illinois, and a sister - Ficha McNeil - who died in New York. His half brothers were John, William and Sylvester. He was married at the age of twenty-four to Miss Mary Mohler, daughter of Solomon, who died on the farm near the east toll-gate, near Somerset. Depending solely on his strong arm and anvil, David Church, Sr., became a man of wealth in his neighborhood, and helped all his children to good homes. The sons are John and David, farmers, postoflice, Somerset ; Sylvester, postoffice Salem, O.; and Thomas, postoflice Pleasantville, O. The daughters who survived infancy are Mary, wife of Thomas Watson, Philadelphia, Pa.; Emily, wife of William Love, a very noted farmer near Somerset; Sarah, wife of James Derolph, near Pleasantville ; and Martha, wife of Eli Rousculp, near Somerset. He died in 1868 in his seventy-first year. His widow still lives in her eighty-second year. The successful example of David Church, Sr., to poor but industrious and virtuous young men is worthy of record. He was a Whig in politics, a Methodist in religion, and a thrifty, urbane man in social life. David, Jr., was married in 1859 to Miss Elizabeth Rutter, and settled on the fertile aud beautiful farm where he now lives in the enjoyment of thrifty agricultural and social life. His is a home of hospitable welcome to its friends. There are two children only - Ira L. and Miss Bertha S., who not only has learned the art of cookery from her mother, but the art of music and entertainment of friends. Mrs. Church is of the German Baptist belief, but David is not a member of any sect. His farm comprises one hundred and eleven acres, and its quality vindicates the judgment of the Church name in selecting lands.. Ninety-five dollars per acre has been indignantly refused for it, and now since new buildings are erected - well, it is not for sale.