Thorn Township (part 4 of 11)

Dun ap, JouNn, born June 28th, 1834, in Muskingum county, Ohio ; a working man, whose post office is Somerset, Ohio. His father, Adam Dunlap, a native of Virginia, died at Point Pleasant, Virginia, at the age of fifty-eight years, a member of Company C, Thirteenth Virginia Infantry. The mother of John Dunlap was Lydia Bozman, eldest daughter of Benjamin and Priscilla Bozman, whose maiden name was Brady, and whose sister is the wife of Benjamin Norris of New Lexington. The grandfather of John was Josiah Dunlap, whose wife was Sarah Cox. The ancestry is Scotch-Irish. John Dunlap enlisted in Company G, Fourth Regiment of West Virginia, afterward consolidated with the Second Veteran Virginia Infantry. He taught school in 1856, and'was married January 14th, 1858, to Miss Elmira, daughter of Thomas and Martha Davis, a native of Muskingum county, Ohio. Her parents went back to Virginia, when she was quite young. She has five sisters and two brothers. Mr. and Mrs. Dunlap have four children, all of whom are deceased. They have an adopted son, William Benton Dunlap, whom they took at the age of two years. He is now past sixteen. A former playmate of Mr. Dunlap, Mr. John Laughlin, whose wife and three children are deceased, finds a welcome and happy home with the friend of his childhood. John Dunlap, who has been in twenty-seven battles for the Union, owes his life to his wife's presence when sick in hospital ; where she also was taken sick, sent home on a free pass from Colonel Lightburn, after which she renewed her devotion to the Union cause by attendance on the sick. John Dunlap was taken prisoner by Mosby, and with twenty-one others drew lots to decide which of these were to die. He was an inmate of Libby prison, and had the good luck to capture the rebel guerrilla, Captain Mobly. This Mobly had seven men, who would dress in blue uniform, assume duty on our picket lines and fix themselves for all kinds of mischief. This Mobly was the son of a widow whose residence overlooked the valley before, aid sat at the foot of a mountain behind, Private John Dunlap was sent out to capture Mobly by strategy, a task to which he seems to have been fully equal, for he marched Mobly into camp at the point of the bayonet. The full particulars of this capture are extremely thrilling, and exempyify the daring and address of the soldier and his captive, but toolengthy for insertion here. He is always hospitable, and has a Virginia welcome to his visitors. His head is twenty-two and a fourth inches ; weight, one hundred and sixty-five to one hundred and ninety pounds ; height, five feet, eleven and one-half inches.

Dunn, Joun V., of the firm of Dunn & McTeague, druggists, Rendville, Ohio, was born May 14, 1855, in Pike tow nship, Perry county, Ohio; son of James and Elizabeth (Ward) Dunn, of Irish descent. John V. was brought up onthe farm and taught school five years. In the spring of 1880, began the drug business at Junction City, Ohio, and established the present firm in the spring of 1882.

Dunwoopy, JAcos, born 1818, in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania; post office. Thornville; occupation, for forty years, shoe and boot maker. Son of James Dunwoody, a native of Ireland, and who married a Miss Margaret Sponhauer, a native of Pennsylvania, and of German descent. Both parents died in Pennsylvania. He had three brothers - one Levi, still living; post office, Bareville, Pennsylvania; John, who died near Pleasantville in 1839, and one who died young. He had an only sister, who also died young. Father James died at the age of fifty-eight ye: ws, after being a widower several years. Both parents were Lutherns in belief. Had he voted in 1840, the year he came to Ohio, Jacob would then have cast his ballot for General Harrison, believing Van Buren to have been extravagant, as charged. In 1850 he was married to Miss Emsey, daughter of the late venerable Thomas Smith, a native of Virginia, and wie was one of the early settlers in Somerset, Ohio. But two of the seven children of this beige are now living, the others having died while yet in tender years. The surviving son is Thomas Dunwoody, for many years a clerk. in the drv goods house of Seth Johnson, Glenford, Ohiv, for several years, and now the clerk of Hopewell township, and the husband of Nelia Graves, daughter of B. F. Graves of Somerset, a Virginian by birth, and, like the father of her husband, a shoemaker by occupation. The surviving daughter is Miss Anna, who is mistress of the homestead since the death of her mother in 1860, since when her father has remained a widower, Carrying on a prosperous business in Thornville. Jacob Dunwoody has served his township as Justice of the Peace, Treasurer, etc., and no more faithful servant in these stations ever honored them by acceptance and service. He never used strong drink except in moderation, never used tobacco, and for some years "past drinks wine and cider of his own manufacture. While his weight is only one hundred and thirty pounds, his head measures twenty-three and five-cights inches around, and his heighth five feet eight inches. He is a member of no SAO and his views are liberal and conservative.

_ Durprier, GILBERT W. , formerly marshal of New Lexington, Ohio, was born August 16, 1854, i in Millville, Hocking county, Ohio ; son of Noah and Elizabeth (Williams) Dupler. Ilis father's ancestors were German, his mother's English. At the age of twelve he came to this place, and began the carpenter trade at the age of fifteen, and followed it three years. Then he took the mail contract on route No. 21,243, from this. place to Chancey, and held the place four years. He was elected to his present office April 5, 1880. Marshal Dupler was married April 16, 1878, to Miss Almeda M., daughter of Lyman and Elizabeth (Rambo) Richards. They are the parents of three children, viz. : Burt F. and Roy, F. (twins), born March 19, 1879, and now, December, 1881, their weights are equal; and Mort 12., born August 15, 1881. Marshal Dupler is a member of Company A, Seventeenth O. N.G., having enlisted in this company in March, 1878.

Duper, Tuomas, merchant, Pleasant township; post office, Moxahala; born in Athens county, August 14, 1846; son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Edwards) Dupler. His father was of Trish descent, and his mother of English; both were natives of Pennsylvania, and came to the State in 1835. THis father was a shoemaker, resided in this county, and died in Athens county. Thomas Dupler enlisted in 1863, in the One Hundred and Twenty-ninth O. V. 1., and remained in the service until the close of the war in 1865. [le was sergeant. After the close of the war, he farmed until 1872, when he went into the drug husiness at Moxahala. Ile is also proprietor of a dry goods store at Moxahala, and a wholesale liquor store at Rendville. Ile is postmaster at Moxahala. Te is married to Sarah Biddison of Athens county. They are the parents of four children, viz.: Clarence, Ilarley, bred and William.

Dusennury, J. W., editor, publisher and proprictor of the /ydependent, New Lexington, Ohio, was born June 22, 1858, in Llarrison township, Perry county, Ohio; son of A. J. and Sarah (Hitchcock) Dusenbury. At the close of the late civil war Mrs. Dusenbury, with her children then at-home, moved to New Lexington, where she has since resided, and where J. W. spent his boyhood days in attending school at the public school of this place, making such rapid strides in his studies that at the early age of sixteen years he eraduated with the first graduating class of this place. Soon after graduating he became a teacher, and with good success taught in several parts of the county, the last year of his teaching being in the grammar school department of his own village. In 1880 he was employed by a Chicago publishing house as general agent, and for them traveled over the States of West Virginia, Pennsylvania, New York, and Ohio, remaining with them until the fall of 1881, when he returned to New Lexington, and in partnership with Mr. A. F. Moore founded the newspaper known as the /udependent, which, by diligent and faithful effort upon their part, soon became one of the leading and most prosperous journals in the county, of which its widespread circulation is convincing evidence, - In 1882, A. F. Moore retiring from the newspaper business, Mr. Dusenbury became sole proprietor, which he successfully manages, in connection with his school teaching. A business so aptly managed, by one so young, certunly points to better things in the future, as well as being an evidence of _ prosperity at the present. Mr. Dusenbury is one of a family of four children, viz.: Josie, married aud living near Beverly, Washington county, Ohio ; Jemima, who resides with her husband, Mr. Columbus Pletcher, of Junction City, Ohio; and William J., who, having graduated at the head of his class in the New Lexington High School at the age of only fifteen years, is at present teaching. Mr. Dusenbury's great seediteratend Dusenbury, came to Perry county in 1802, and settled on Bear Run, in Bearfield township. His grandfather,

Benjamin Dusenbury, was also one of the oldest settlers, and here passed through the ordeal of a pioneer life, which is so well told elsewhere in this history. Mr. Dusenbury's father was among the first to take up arms in defense of his country in the time of the late Rebellion, having enlisted in 1861, and served over three years with the famous Thirtieth O. V.I., participating in all its battles, and at last laid down his life to fill a soldier's grave. His memory. is perpetuated with those of fallen comrades by the monument reared in New Lexington by the then surviving members of the regiment. Mr. Dusenbury's ancestors, upon his mother's side of the house, were of Ienglish.descent. His grandfather, Wesley Hitchcock, came, when a boy, from Maryland to Ohio with his father, who, on account of his anti-slavery principles, left that State and came to what was then the frontier, having freed all his slaves before starting, prefering to endure the hardships of the Western wilds to the wealth and affluence of a wrong-doing, slavedriving State. J. W. is at present residing with his mother in New Lexington.

Esert, J. M., post office, McLuney, hotel proprietor and liveryman. Born in Morgan county, Ohio, in 1842. Came to Perry county in 1880 ; married in September, 1866, to Miss Anna IE. Brown, daughter of William M. and Amanda (Pickroy) Brown. They are the parents of two children, viz.: Minnie E., and John D. Mr. Ebert enlisted in the war of the Rebellion in 1862, in Company I, trqth O. V. I., and was enaged in the following battles: Chickasaw Bluff, Arkansas Post, Black face Bridge, Champion Hill, Siege of Vicksburg, Fort Blakely, and Alexandria.

Epwarops, WILLIAM, collier, Shawnee, Ohio. Was born May 18, 1826, in Tredegar, Monmouthshire, Wales, son of John and Mary (Davis) Edwards. Mr. Edwards was raised a collier, and lived in ad Eh except one year he spent at Aberdare, Glanmorganshire, and followed his business in that country until 1862, when he came to America, landing in New York, from where he went to Broad Top, Pennsylvania, where he spent about five months, and was engaged in Kanawha, West Virginia, and Ironton, Ohio, about ten months, when he returned to his native home, where he remained about six years, and again emigrated to America, and returned to Broad Top, Pennsylvania, and to Trusco, Pennsylvania, where he remained about three months, and as follows: Mason City, W. Va., one year; Ironton, Ohio, about two years; and from whence he came to Shawnee, Ohio, where he has remained to this time, and is comfortably situated in his own dwelling, having lived here about eight years. Mr. Edwards has property in Wales, willed to him by his father, that in 1854 was valued at goo pounds. His father died iv 1856, but the property has not yet come into his possession. While in West Virginia, and just after the breaking out of the war he was arrested in going to Kanawha, W. Va., but was passed through and made his hazardous trip between the fire of two armies. Mr. Edwards was married October 10, 1848, to Catharine, daughter of David and Mary (Davis) Williams, of Carmarthenshire, Wales. They are the parents of six children, viz.: Mary, married to Benjamin M. Morgan; John, William, Catharine, married to I'van E. Evans; David, ani Lizzie A.

Epwarps, Davin W., collier, Shawnee, Ohio. Was born June 17, 1842, in Cardiganshire, South Wales, son of John and Jane (Rowlands) Edwards. When David W. was two years old be lost his father, and at nine years of age he lost his mother, at which time he went to live with his uncle, brother of his father, who attempted to compel Edwatd, when he was twelve years of age, to go to the shoemaker's trade, when he left his uncle and went to his grandfather, with whom he stayed one linlimmon Mountains for six months, after which he lived with a farmer by the name of Moganes, working one year, and hired with another farmer by the name of Owens and worked six months, and returned to his birthplace and lived with his sister, working in coal mines two years and six months; again hired to work on a farm for eighteen months with Morgan Davis, and went to the Delivy mines where he remained four months; then to Lancashire, England; St. Ellen mines a short time, and then to Brimbo mines, Denbigshire, North Wales, and returned to Delivy mines, staying a short time; he then began railroading in Murraysville, North Wales working about four months. Emigrated to America, landing in New York, September 12, 1863, and went direct to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, staying until July, 1864, at which time he enlisted in the Pennsylvania National Guard, one hundred days service, and served four months in Maryland and Pennsylvania. After receiving his discharge in November, 1864, he went to Johnstown, Pennsylvania, where he _ re-enlisted, but did not go into service because of the close of the war. In July, 1865, he returned to Pittsburgh, remaining until July, 1868, when he went to Irondale, Jefferson county, Ohio, and went to Canton, Stark county Ohio, then to Coshocton, Ohio, staying but a short time in each place, and from there went to Bristol, this county, working one year on tunnel; in April, 1871, came to Shawnee, Ohio, where he has made his home to this time excepting four months he was in Ilocking Valley as a mine boss. In February, 1882, he went to southwest Missouri, where he bought a farm, and returned in March of the same year. Mr. Idwards was married, December, 1865, to Maggie, daughter of David and Margaret (Jones) Davis. They are the parents of six living children, viz.: David J., Jennie Y., Horace G., Rebecca, William, and Annie.

Epwarps, Josrru, Rendville, Ohio, was born March 5, 1849, in Lancashire, England, son of Robert and Grace ([all) Edwards. Mr. Edwards was reared and lived in the place of his nativity until May 7th, 3870, when he came to America, taking shipping at Liverpool and landing at Quebec, from where he went to Leetonia, Columbiana county, Ohio, and remained until 1879, and on March 11th moved to Moxahala, whence he moved to Millertown on the 16th day of June in the same year; on the July following he came to Rendsville, Ohio, where he has remained up to this time, January, 1883. Mr. Edwards was married July 12, 1873, at Beaver Falls, Penns Ivania, to Miss FE rances, daughter of George and Alice (Moores) Chadwick, of Lancashire, England. While living-in England he was engaged at the age of nine upon an incline, catching his right arm between a train of ten loaded cars and a pulley, completely crushing it so that amputation was rendered necessary, which was performed in seventeen days afterward, a loss he has severely felt. In Leetonia he was employed in the Cherry Valley mines by Mr. Zachariah Tetlow, where he hitched cars at the bottom of a slope. Was employed in a mine while at Moxahala. During his stay at Millertown he peddled jewelry and notions, and upon coming to Rendville he opened his present business.

Evprer, Levi, was born 1825 in Perry county. Ile is a son of Robert Elder and Susannah (Haines), who came to Ohio in 1818. Robert died in 1867, in his eighty-first year, and Susannah followed him November 20, 1881, inher eighty-ninth year. Their children were Sarah Kelsey, Joel, Mary Middaugh, Levi, Asbury, Charlotte Durrh, Simeon and Cyrus, who was last heard from in Arkansas some seven years since. The children of Levi and his wife, who was Miss Amy R. Rutherford, are Artamesa, Samantha Ellen, and Eva May. Their two sons died of diptheria. His daughter Artamesa is married to Mr. George W. Zartman. Levi never had a law suit, never was a juryman, and was but twice called as a witness, and is opposed to capital punishment. The family is of Scotch-German descent, including Robert and his two brothers, William and John, who came with Robert to Ohio. The Elder family, now extensive, is generally distinguished for its thrift, its Protestant piety, its industry, and its success in business life. Levi has added to the one hundred and seventy-three ancestral acres, where he resides, one hundred and sixty acres in Jackson township, and pays nearly $100 of State taxes annually.

Evper, Aspury. born February 10, 1827, in Reading township. Farmer and grazer. April 13, 1848 was married to Charlotte Durrh. Bought the farm of two hundred and seven acres where he now resides in 1854, for the sum of $5,175. His children are Levi Ellis Elder, husband of Hannah, daughter of Thomas Middaugh; Jacob Elder, lusband of Martha, daughter of 'C. Henry, whose wife was Rachel lodge ; A. P. Elder, husband of Emma, daughter of Adam Householder ; Missouri, wife of David, son of Tobias Ream; Minnesota, Matilda, Lowa, Mary Eliza, Hannah Loucevia, Melzena, Callie Barbara, and John Durrh Porter Elder. Mr. Elder is a brother of Levi, of Reading township. His first tax receipt was as low down as $2 to $3. paid to General John Lidey. Since then they have run to $100 and over. He was in the one hundred days' service. His wife died April 7, 1880. His house is of brick, and is two-story, well finished and very comfortable. The inside finish of his dwelling cost $1,000, and no house in Perry county extends more freely a generous hospitality to its friends and visitors. He is of the Brethren church belief, opposed to secret societies ; a Republican in politics ; a peace maker in the neighborhood and church affairs; a true friend and a generous foe.

Exper, D. R., Shawnee, Ohio, proprietor of the American House, was born August 15, 1832, in Fairfield county, Ohio, and is the son of Jesse and Isabelle (Pugh) Elder. Mr. Elder was raised a farmer. At the age of sixteen years he went to Delaware, Ohio, and attended the Ohio Wesleyan University 'about one year, when the college was suspended on. account of the cholerain the fall of 1852, which obliged him to seek some other quarters, when he went to Sugar Grove, Fairfield county, Ohio, and engaged in school teaching up to 1862, after which he went into the mercantile business, keeping a line of general merchandise, and he was so successful in this line that in the vearof 1864 his business reached the sum of thirty-seven thousand dollars. Te continued in business in this place up to 1873. when he went to Logan, Hocking county, Ohio, where he was again engaged in mercantile business up to 1875. In April of 1877 he moved to Shawnee, Ohio, and entered the hotel business, where lve has remained up to. this present time. [From 1863 to 1873 he was post master at Sugar Grove ; was township clerk eight years, and mayor two years, at Sugar Grove, also. Mr. Elder was married March 25, 1855, to Martha, daughter of Euoch and Amanda (Powell) Van Dyke, of Sugar Grove. They are the parents of nine children, viz.: Eliza Ne. Suarles Cyrus, James Madison, Clara Isabelle, Edward Ellsworth, Rosa Ellen, David Rees, Joseph Ray and Franklin. Of these David Rees is deceased ; Eliza Jane is married to Arthur McGarey, of Floodwood, Athens county, Ohio. Mr. Elder's father was born in Frederick county, Maryland, and his mother in Westmoreland county, Virginia. [is grandfather came to Perry county, Ohio, in 1816, from the slave states, having liberated his slaves; but four of them would come with him, for whose good behavior he was obliged to give security upon entering into Ohio. He was a farmer, and settled in Somerset, Ohio.

aie a P., overseer at Fannie furnace, Shawnee, Ohio, was born May 6, 1845, in Seneca county, Ohio; son of Thomas and Ellen (McGoghin) Elder. Mr. Elder was raised to the age of eight or nine years upon a farm, when his father bought a grist mill near Thornville, where he moved, and lived from about 1854 to 1861. At this time he moved to near St. Joseph's Church, and built a grist mill, which he run until about 1868. In 1865, Joseph P., the subject of this sketch, went into business for himself, running an engine and sawing lumber, and also grinding. In 1868 he began farming, which he followed for about sixteen months, near Somerset, this county, and, changing farms, remained the next place about one year, when he moved to Shawnee, where he has remained up to this time, and has been engaged as follows: kept a boarding-house three years; at this time he moved into his own property, where he still lives, keeping boarding-house and mining at N. Y. mines about three months, where he was injured by the falling of a soapstone rock upon his foot. After his recovery he assisted in grading the foundation of the XX Iron Furnace, and until the furnace was completed, when he became top filler, working only about five or six weeks, when he was badly burned by a stip-slip in the furnace, which disabled him for about two months. After recovering he was again employed by the same company, and in all continued with them about eighteen months after the furnace started, and about two years altogether. At this time he was elected street commissioner, and served two years, when he again mined six or seven months, at N. Y. mine, after which he ran a saw mill and hauled water from the mine about six months ; drove team for Finley B. McGrew about two months, and then engaged with the Fannie Furnace Company as top filler, working three or four months, and at New York top filling about two months, when he returned to Fannie furnace as overseer of laboring hands, which position he still holds. He was married April 25, 1865, to Miss Mary, daughter of Patrick and Mary (McElroy) O'Brien. They are the parents of seven children, viz.: 'Thomas H., Sarai ., Mary Ellen, Emily B., Charles Pius, Martha Cecelia, and John Francis.

Exper, J. C., coal dealer, New Lexington, Ohio; born October 31, 1837, in Somerset, Perry county; son of James and Mary (Linch) Elder. The former was a native of Maryland, and was brought in 1814 to Reading township by his parents, who located within one mile of the present town of Somerset, and brought up a family of seven or eight children. J.C.'s mother was a daughter of John Linch, of Zanesville, a native of Ireland. J. C.'s grandfather Elder was one of the emigrants who came with Lord Baltimore, and settled in Maryland. The subject of this sketch was brought up in Clayton township, where his father was proprietor of a flour and saw till, and died at the age of eighty-two years, and by his request was buried at St. Joseph's, on a spot of ground cleared by his own hands many years before. J. C. was engaged in the coal business from 1859 to 1868, under the firm name of Elder & Sons. He established a furniture and undertaking business in this place in 1870, which he followed until 1881. Mr. Elder was married in 1862 to Miss Catharine, daughter of James and Margarer (Fealty) Meenan. They became the parents of six children, viz. :

Evpver, Danrex N., brick mason and contractor, New Lexington, Ohio; born May 2, 1845, in Tiffin, Seneca county, Ohio, son of Thomas and Ellen (McéGlaughlin) Elder. John Elder is a native of America ; Ellen McLaughlin, of Ireland. Daniel N. Elder began business for himself by running a portable saw mill, and followed it four years, when he went to his present trade. Mr. Elder was married Iebruary 3, 1879, to Miss Rosa, sister of John J. and James F. Conly, of New Lexington, Mr. Elder has been contractor and builder of some of the best buildings in Perry county, Ohio.

Emery, Dr. GLEN A., physician and surgeon, Rendville, Ohio ; was born December 18, 1850, in Limerick Square, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, son of Jacob and Mary (Razor) Emery. Dr. Emery's father moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he lived for nine years when he removed to Brookville, Pennsylvania. In the above places Dr. Emery was brought up and remained in the latter place until 1879. During his stay at that place he studied medicine with Drs- C. M. and W. F. Watson. Tle attended lectures at Columbus, Medical College of Ohio, and received a diploma of graduation inthe spring of 1879. After receiving his diploma he went to Crestline, Ohio, where he entered the practice of medicine and surgery, in copartnership with Dr. C. W. Jenner of that place, and remained there eighteen months, at the end of which time they dissolved partnership, and Dr. Emery came to this place one year and six months ago and began his present practice, in which he has been signally successful. In surgery he has performed some very difficult operations, viz.: 'Two of trepanning,one proving successful; six successful amputations, and quite a number of fractures have come under his successful treatment. As a young physician, Dr. Emery certainly has had a very large experience; and of such a nature has it been, as to test his ability in his chosen field of usefulness, and surely few have been so eminently successful. Dr. Emery was married June 16, 1869, to Olive B., daughter of the Hon. R. J. and Anna (Anderson) Nicholson, of Brookville, Pennsylvania. 'This union has been blessed by two children, viz. : Robert and Etta.

Essex, CaLvin, grocer, baker and undertaker, New Straitsville, Ohio ; was born August 5, 1848, in Noble county, Ohio. son of Nathan H. and Elizabeth J. (Morris) Essex. Mr. Essex was raised a farmer, and followed agricultural pursuits until he was twenty vears of age. At this date he began mining coal at what is known as Lick Run, doing the first work at the mine, of which Jno. G. Edwards was President ; remaining there until February of 1871, at which time he came to this place, where he has been employed as follows: Contracting with and moving the coal for the Straitsville Coal and Jron Company, furnishing teams until 1874, and also mining during this time. Closing his contract with the aforesaid company, he engaged with the Patterson Coal Mining Company, opening and starting that mine, which required his attention until May of 1877, at which time he opened a feed store in this place, and in the following fall he added to his business a grocery and bakery, and again in 1880 he added that of undertaking, .all of which he still continues up to this time. Mr. Essex served as councilman of this place from 1878 to 1880. Was married December 22, foun, to Miss Evaleen Stalter, born April 20, 1850, in Logan county, Ohio, daughter of Wm. and Jane (Rose) Stalter. They are the parents of three children, viz.: Zelda Llewella, Charles Summerbell and Mabel Elizabeth. ~

Essrncton, Georce, farmer, Rehoboth post office, Clayton township ; born in Perry county, Ohio, in 1837, son of William and Edith (McConnell) Essington. "The former died in 1874; the Jatter in 1866. They were natives of Pennsylvania, and came here about the year 1830. Mr. Essington was married in 1875, to Miss Durenda Frampton. Mr. Essington enlisted in the late war in 1861, in Company G, Thirty-fourth Regiment, Lyman J. Jackson, Captian ; engaged in the battles of Stone River, Corinth and Chickamauga.

Essincron, WiiiiAM, farmer, Rehoboth post oflice ; born in Perry county, Ohio, in 1838, son of William and Edith (McConnell) Essington. 'The former died in 1874; the latter in 1866. They were natives ot Pennsylvania. Mr. Essington was married in 1865 to Miss Acta Fowler, of New Lexington, Ohio. They are the parents of two children, viz.: William C. and Josie.

Everso.e, Joun, farmer, Mount Perry post oflice ; born in 1808, on Baldwin's Run, Fairfield county, Ohio, son of Peter, a native of Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, who emigrated to Ohioa few years prior to the birth of his son, John. Peter came to Hopewell township, Perry county when John was six years old, and settled on sections one and twelve, in 1814. John has therefore lived longer on one farm than any other citizen of Hopewell township, except, perhaps, John Fullerton. He found near his new home only the wild beasts, but further away were the families of Plank, Schofield, Nye, Reichley, averaging perhaps one cabin to a section of land. Peter Eversole left a Bible. to his son that is now one hundred and fifty years old. It is printed in German, and is nearly two feet long by one foot in width, and about eight inches in thickness. He died at the age of cighty-seven, his wife having preceded him to the land of rest at the age of sixty-nine years. They were German Baptists in belief. John was married at the age of twenty-four, to Miss Jane Spencer, a daughter of Thomas, who was a brother of William Spencer, Sr., and uncle of William, Jr., now the father of Henry Spencer, of Reading township. Thomas King, afterwards the first Representative of Perry county. was married to a sister of Thomas Spencer, and his wife, who reared a family of other people's children, chiefly because she was affectionate and benevolent, and partly because she had no children of her own, was the aunt of Mrs. Eversole. The children of Jobn Eversole, and. his wife Jane Spencer, were five living and two dead; Sarah Ellen at the age of fourteen,and George when an infant. 'Those living are Louisa, wife of William Williams, third, deceased, and now the wife of Mr. Van Fossen of Zanesville, Ohio ; John, husband of Emma Cochrell, merchant ; David, farmer, husband of Mary, daughter of Abraham Bowser; Peter, farmer, husband of Matilda, sister of Samuel Cochran; and Emma Jane, wife of Frank Johnson, farmer, son of Harvey ; all of whom have the post office address Mount Perry, Ohio. The mother of Mrs. Eversole was Margaret Spencer, who made herself useful as a mid-wife over twenty-five years, mounting her horse day or night, in storm or sunshine, asserting the right of her sex to that office, and died much regretted at the age of sixty-five. William Spencer, Sr., was a Universalist in belief, a faith that still lingers in the Spencer family. John Eversole and his wife are of the Christian Church. They are both readers of sacred books and patronize learning and the meaus of knowledge. : FEEDLER, FirpDNAN, manager of Upson Coal Company's store, Shawnee, Ohio; was born February 8, 1850, in Somerset, Ohio; son of Jacob and Elizabeth (Lentz) Feedler. When Firdnan was two years of age, his father moved to Cardington, Morrow county, Ohio, where he was brought up, and clerked in a dry goods store five years, for W. Shunk & Co.; and at Delaware, Ohio, clerked for Z. LL. White two years. He returned to Cardington, and entered into partnership with his twin brother in the grocery business, remaining two years, when he sold his interest and went to Richwood, and clerked for J. Cratty & Co., in dry goods store, about two years, when he moved with the same firm to Ashland, Ohio, where they remained about eight months and then moved to Shawnee. Mr. Feedler remained with this firm in all about three years, when he went in partnership with his brother, under the firm name of Feedler Brothers. They went into general merchandise business, which they continued about eighteen months, when the firm was dissolved, his brother going home and dying within about one month. Mr. Feedler then engaged as clerk for E. M. McGilen & Co., Cleveland, Ohio, where he remained two years and one month, and then returned to Shawnee, Ohio, April 1st, 1881, and took his present position. He was married November 28, 1876, to Aldia, daughter of Simeon F. Kern of Burbank, Wayne county, Ohio. They are the parents of two children, viz.: Geo. Rodney and Carrie Belle, deceased.

FERGUSON, Joun, of the firm of Ferguson & Noon, Attorneys at Law, New Lexington, Ohio; was born February 3, 1846, in Jackson son township; son of Terence and Bridget (Nangle) Ferguson. At the age of nineteen, young Ferguson began teaching school, and taught about six years. In 1868 he began reading law with Colonel Lyman J. Jackson of this place, and was admitted to practice in August, 1871. After practicing alone a short time, he formed a partnership with his preceptor, which continued until the fall of 1877. In 1878 the present firm was formed. Attorney Ferguson was married April 6th, 1875, to Miss Lizzie, daughter of David and Susan (Gordon) Hewitt, of Somerset, this county. They are the parents of three children: Zuleme, Charles and Genevieve.

Frercuson, Arruur B., shoemaker, Shawnee, Ohio; was born March 28th, 1846, in Scotland, county of Lanark, in Lanarkhall; son of John and Elizabeth (Browning) Ferguson. Mr. Ferguson was raised in his native town, where he lived to the age of twenty years, during which time he learned his trade with his father. and is the fifth generation of his family who has successfully followed that business. From the age of seventeen years, he worked at journey work, which he contined about two years, when he employed on the railroad as brakeman, and where he had his leg mashed, which left him a permanent cripple, having followed the railroad about one year at the time of the accident. After his recovery he again found employment at his trade for about two years, in the counties of Ayr, Renfrew and Lanark. At this time he emigrated to America, arriving at New York, January 21, 1867, and from thence he went 'to Maryland, Alleghany county, where he was employed at his trade and mining, for about two years, when he returned to the place of his nativity, remaining during the winter of 1868 and 1869, when he again returned to America, Janding in New York, April 23, 1869, and again went to Maryland, to IIlinois and Pennsylvania, remaining about six months in each of these States, when he spent another summer in Maryland, from whence he went to the Hocking valley of Ohio, and remained about six months, when he was married, January 24, 1872, to Amanda L., daughter of James and Martha (Zarlie) LeFollet, of Vinton county, Ohio, but lived in Athens county at the time of her marriage. They are the parents of three children, viz. : John LeFollet, Maud Agnes and Archibald Boyd, and one deceased, Arthur Morton. After his marriage he lived in the Hocking valley about five years, when he came to Shawnee, Ohio, where he has since lived, and engaged in mining until about four years ago, when he was obliged to quit mining on account of his health. Since then he has been weighmaster at the New York furnace. Mr. Ferguson was corporation clerk for two years, and for the past six years has been township clerk; and in the spring of 1882, was elected Mayor of this place. : F : Fink, Jor, A., farmer, Jackson township; post office, Junction City : son of Joseph and Magdalene (Dittoe) Fink; was born August 17, 1816, in this township ; has since lived in the county, and always led a farmer's life from boyhood. He was married in 1840, to Miss Margaret, daughter of Thomas and Margaret (Doran) Ryan. They are the parents of five children, viz.: Joseph, Sarah, Mary, William and Charles. His parents were of German descent. Mr. Fink's father came to Somerset in 1805. His grandfather, John Fink, assisted in laying out the town of Somerset. Finck, WititaMm E., lawyer, Somerset; was born in Somerset, in the year 1822. His father was Anthony Finck, and his mother's maiden name was Mary Spurk. His grandfather was John Finck, an early settler, if not the first, in Somerset. His wife was Cecelia Garaghty of Lancaster, Ohio. Their sons are, William E., Jr., and Michael G. Finck ; the latter a grocer and the former alawyer. Their daughters are Mary, now wife of F. A. Dittoe, merchant of Somerset, and Miss Martha. Mr. Finck is of French-German extraction. He studied law and was admitted to practice in Somerset when only twenty-one years of age. His first position was that of Clerk of the Perry County Common Pleas and Supreme Courts, under the old Constitution. In his twenty-eighth year he was the Whig candidate for Congress, in a district counting six hundred Democratic majority, and was defeated by only forty-six votes, by Hon. James M. Gaylord of McConnelsville. He was elected to the Senate of Ohio in 1851, and in 1852 was a delegate to the National Convention which nominated General Winfield Scott for the Presidency ; was an elector on the Scott ticket in Ohio; joined the Democratic party in 1854, when Know-Nothingism swept the Whig party out of being ; was elected to the Senate of Ohio in 1861, defeating the Hon. T. J. Maginnis of Zanesville in a hotly contested canvass ; was elected to Congress in 1862, defeating the Hon. C. A. Trimble of Chillicothe ; was re-elected to Congress in 1864, defeating the Hon. Job E. Stephenson of Chillicothe ; was again elected to Congress to fill the unexpired term of Hon. Hugh J. Jewett of Columbus. He has twice been a candidate upon the Democratic State, ticket, once for Attorney - General, and once for Supreme Judge. He has repeatedly refused a candidacy for Common Pleas Judge, preferring his law practice, which has secured for him a large amount of lands in Missouri and Iowa, a handsome property in and around Somerset, several farms in Perry, and though he cannot be engaged at the usual fee of young attorneys, his practice is still very remunerative and engages all his time. No man was ever more systematic in keeping his accounts, truer to the faith which he professes to believe, or more honest toward his fellow men. ; _ Finck, Jupce JAmes E., carpenter and builder; post office, Somerset. He was born in 1825; son of John, Jr., and grandson of John, Sr., who was the first of the Finck name in Perry county, and who cut much of the road for his wagon from Zanesville to Lancaster, and who a year later came back to where Somerset now stands, which town he laid out into lots and built a hotel where the public schools are now located, on the hill above the east railroad depot. Judge Finck's father was eighteen years of age when his grandfather, John, came to Ohio. His mother was Elizabeth Walker, a native of Maryland. She was born in the year 1800, and lived into her seventy-second year. Her children were Mary, deceased; Cecelia, wife of Edward Droege ;_ and Sarah, wife of William Blakeney ; Amanda, wife of Joseph Kircher; Miss Emily, and James E., all of whom have Somerset, Ohio, as their post office address; also William, carbuilder, Zanesville, Ohio;

Jacob, deceased, and Miles, engaged in mercantile life in Cincinnati. James was married in 1847, to Miss Catharine Foncannon, and on the same day his cousin, Hon. W. E. Fink was also married; neither knowing of the other's intention. Her father was an early settler ~of Ferry, where he died in his seventy-eighth year. Her brothers married and went West, so that at this writing she has neither sister nor brother living in Perry. § The children of this marriage are Ida, wife of Conrad Letsinger ; post office, Somerset ; Elva, wife of Mark Heffley, Omaha, Nebraska; Miss Blanchet, Endora and Alberta; Fabian, a carpenter of Terre Haute, Indiana; Hydalius, Urban and Edgar. Judge James E. Finck ranks in general'esteem as a first-class carpenter and_ builder. St. Joseph's, McLuney, South Fork and Holy Trinity Church edifices, stand as monuments of his skill; but the recent convent building at St. Joseph's crowns all with a taste, a beauty and elegance but seldom equaled, and rarely, if ever, excelled. He aided the building of St. Patrick's Church edifice, and is now engaged as the superintending carpenter and architect of Sacred Heart Convent, Somerset. He put up the spire of the Reform Church edifices in Thornville and Somerset, and it has not fallen to the lot of any man in Perry to build more churches, or finer ones. In the fall of 1872, he was made the Democratic nominee for Probate Judge by the popular vote against a field of candidates who ranked high in popular favor, such as Ilenry McLaughlin, his cousin, A. A. Fink, Peter King and Charles F. Brush, ex-Treasurer. He was afterwards twice elected, and served the customary two terms with credit to himself and the public. Since his retirement he has again devoted himself to his favorite occupation of carpentering. iis rural home nestles beautifully among the coal hills of lait ; and here his garden and fruit culture occupy his leisure hours. His head measures twenty-two and one-half inches; is also high and long ; his health is excellent and his disposition cheerful. Height, five feet eight inches. Weight, one hundred and seventy-five pounds.

Finck, Austin A., was born in 1829 in Somerset; son of Anthony and grandson of John Finck, the grand progenitor of this family in Perry county. The sons of this ancient pioneer were Jacob, Joseph, George, Anthony, John, Adam, and David Finck; the daughters were Mrs. Sarah Johnson, Mrs. Elizabeth McDonald, Mrs. Frances Hewett, and Mrs. Mary McGowen. Austin A. was educated in Perry county and drilled in the duties of a dry goods clerk. In May, 1854, he was married to Miss Caroline Lewis, of Rushville. Their children are William B. Finck, Miss Carrie and Miss Ellie Finck. Austin A. Finck runs far ahead of his ticket for clerk of his township, which office, as also that of village clerk, he is now filling, as for a long time since, to the satisfaction of the public. His great capacity as a dry goods clerk, ripened also by experience as a merchant on his own account, has secured for him a situation in the famous store-rooms of F. A. Dittoe, Esq., of Somerset. Here his urbanity, honesty and attentiveness to customers are winning a large trade for that celebrated establishment. The store-room was built by Mr. Mike Dittoe, an architect of thirty ears experience in New York City, which was presented to his brother, . A. Dittoe, and is equal to the best in Ohio in finish and adaptation

Fink, Davin, farmer: post office, Somerset, Ohio. He was born in 1830, and is a son of Joseph and grandson of John Finck, the great ancestor of all the Fincks in Reading township. and who is the father of Somerset, having settled where the Union school-house of that town now stands in 1804 or 1805. His house, which served fora tavern, was the first ever erected in the town, of which John Finck and one Miller became the original proprietors. He owned the famous ' Finck's Spring," now the property of his grandson, Hon. William: E. Finck. No Catholic name antedates that of John Finck and his wife, whose maiden name was Mary Sneeringer. This venerable pair, with their family, were themselves numerous and devoted enough to form the nucleus of the first Catholic church not only in Perry county but in the State of Ohio. David Fink's mother was, prior to her marriage, in 1815, Miss Magdalena Dittoe, daughter of Jacob, Sr.. and sister of Jacob, Jr., who deceased in Somerset in 1880. The brothers of David are Joel A., post office Junction City, Ohio; James J., post office New Lexington, Ohio; and his sisters are Sarah, wife of Thomas Largey, post office Altoona, Iowa; Elizabeth, wife of Daniel Riffle, Lancaster, Ohio. David Fink was first married in 1853 to Miss Bridget Dittoe, who died April 29th, 1856. His second marriage was to Miss Lizzie O'Brien, February, 1861, who is the mother of Emerantia, Imelda S., Margaret L., Oscar M., Mary Nora, Helen C., and Estella C. Fink. David obtained his farm by deed from his father, who died in 1870, at the age of seventy-nine years, his mother having died in 1863. This delightful homestead is in sight of St. Joseph's; contains the nearest coal vein to Somerset; is well adapted to fruit and small grain. Four hundred gallons of Iona and Concord wine, the vintage of 1881, testify its capacity for fruit growing. Like his ancestors, he is a devoted and sincere Catholic ; has also served in various official stations, by the favor of his fellow citizens, and is by no means among the hindmost in the march of progress.

FLANIGAN, JOHN, farmer and stock raiser, post office Rehoboth ; born in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, in 1820. From there he came to Wheeling, West Virginia, where he remained two years ; from there he came to Perry county about the year 1824; son of Edward and Cecelia (Katon) Flanigan. The former died in 1823, the latter in 1874. Married in 1844 to Miss Rachel Beaver, daughter of George ahd Elizabeth (Bridge) Beaver. They have three children, viz.: Katharine S., deceased, Mary E. and Thomas E.

FriautT, GrorcE, was born in 1799; died in 1862. His father, Joseph, and his mother, were born, reared and imarried in one of the Rhinish provinces of France. Grandfather Joseph Flautt and his wife came to America and settled in Canawaga county, Maryland, where alli their children were born. These children were Deborah, Iiannah, Jacob, Joseph and George Flautt. All lived to be over eighty. Hannah married William Mooney, who became a justice of the peace, and member of the Legislature of Maryland. Jacob was twice married. Joseph was married and one of his sons was a devoted Catholic priest. They all lived and died in Maryland, except George, who was twice married. His first wife was Miss Mooney, the mother of six children - William, Patrick, James, John, Mary and Nancy Flautt. Of these, William taught school, read medicine, practiced his profession forty years, and died in Hocking county, Ohio; Patrick still lives in the same county, a justice of the peace, a chair maker and painter by trade; James also was a physician for thirty years, and died in Readsburg, Sauk county, Wisconsin; John came to Ohio in 1834; in 1836 went to Texas on horseback, served in the wars there, and in 1848 settled in Hocking county, where he married Miss Ellen White, daughter of Alexander White; was elected Sheriff of the county, served several months of his second term, when he met his death by accident of a runaway team. He was a Mason and an Odd Fellow. ~ Mary married Willam Burns, and moved to Richland county, Ohio ; Nancy's second husband is Isaac Koons. She lives in Maryland. Ifer deceased husband was John Harman, by whom she had two children. 'The second marriage of George Flautt was to Margaret Harbaugh. This marriage also occurred in Maryland, several years after. Uae death of his first wife. The children of this marriage are: Ambrose, a successful merchant of Amanda, Fairfield county, Ohio; Juliana, deceased, wife of Edward Kelly, a stone mason of Somerset, leaving two children ; Joseph, a cooper, a farmer, a clerk of the township, and assessor. Ile was also trustee of the township for some years. [is wife was Mary McDonald. They have had ten children, four daughters and six sons. 'Three of the daughters are married. The next son of George Flautt is Henry, a man of sterling judgment as a farmer. He married Catharine Sanderson, and they ome seven children. Sebastian is a cooper and farmer, and lives on the Flautt homestead, in Reading township. He married Ellen Mooter, and they have two children. "Jerome ilautt, like his father, learned the cooper trade and the gunsmithing trade. He was successively elected clerk of the town for some years. 'He writes an excellent hand, and takes much delight in rearing the best fruits and poultry. He spent nearly two years near Mobile, Alabama, experimenting in gardening early vegetables for the Northern markets. He married Sarah Freeman, and they have five children - Leta, Fanna, Kata, Ferdinand and Murray. George Flautt, the youngest son, is also a cooper, making the Flautt churn, invented by his father, and for many years past the leading churn. Ile has built three new houses, and for many years was clerk of the township. He married Cecelia Divit, and they have four children. Elizabeth is the wife of John Me- Donald, of Nelsonville, Ohio, a brick mason, and a soldier who served in the Union army with faithfulness to the end. They have six children. Margaret married L. P. Guisinger, a native of Perry, a teacher, a farmer, a plasterer, an agent, and a genius.in mechanics. 'They have seven children. His post oflice is Chalfants, Perry county.

FLowers, Tuos., farmer and stock raiser, post oflice New Lexington, Clayton township, Perry county ; born in Muskingum county in 1814; came to Perry county in 1820; son of Joseph and Elizabeth (Ambrose ) Flowers. The former died January 17, 1867, the latter in 1864. Mr. Flowers was married in 1837 to Miss Mary Daugherty. They are the parents of ten children, viz.: Elizabeth C., Rebecca S., Simon II.,

William, deceased, John J., Anna A., George, Andrew G., Emanuel F., Charles V., two of whom are married. Mr. Flowers had two sons in the late war, viz.: William and Simon. They enlisted in Company K, One Hundred and Twenty-sixth O. V. I., Captain Lampton. They were engaged in the battle of the Wilderness, where it is supposed William lost his life, as he was never heard of afterwards. Simon was wounded in that engagement. Simon was also engaged in the following additional battles, viz.: Martinsburg, Locust Grove, Mine Run, Siege of Charleston, Winchester, Cedar Creek, Fisher's Hill, Middletown. FLoweErs, JEFFERSON, mechanic, foreman in Bent Works of Bringardner & Company, Junction City, Ohio; son of Mathias and Mary (Elder) Flowers; was born December 5, 1845, in this county, and has since lived in the county. [lis boyhood days were spent on a farm until he was nineteen years of age. Tle then went to the carpenter trade, and worked at it till 1879, then went into the bent works. He was married in 1870 to Miss Mary, daughter of Joel A. and Margaret (Ryan) Fink. They are the parents of two children, viz.: Teresea C. and Maggie L. His parents are of German and Irish descent. ForQuER, WILLIAM, Pleasant township, Moxahala post office. He was born in Butler county, Peunsylvania, October 25, 1822; son of William and Rose (Dugan) Forquer, who were both natives of Ireland. They emigrated to this country in 1795; stayed in Philadelphia about three years, and then moved to Butler county, Pennsylvania. They came to Pike township in 1823, and both died on the ran he entered there. William Forquer married Catharine Donahoe, in 1845; she is a native of this township. After his marriage he moved to the farm: where he now resides. Her parents were born in Ireland, and both died in the United States. His children are George, who married Mary Bennett, and resides in this township; Peter, married Celia Bennett, and resides in this township; Mary A., married F. B. Bennett, resides in this township; Sarah, married John A. McDonagle, who is now elected Clerk of the Court of this county, and resides in New Lexington: Rose, married Thomas Bennett; she died in New Lexington; William is athome; Loretta deceased, and Loretta living. Foster, EMANUEL, born 1823, on the farm where he now resides. Post office, Thornville. His mother's maiden name was Maria Mechling. His father, Andrew Foster, died in his sixty-ninth year, in 1849, and Mother Foster in her sixty-ninth year in 1858. It is not certain when the Rev. William Foster, the father of Andrew, arrived with his family in Perry county, then Fairfield, but from a document signed by him in 1805, organizing Zion's church, which document is now in possession of the venerable George Daniels, it must have been prior to 1805. The wife of Rev. Foster was a Daniels, and thus the connection between the Fosters and the Daniels name in Thorn township. Grandfather Foster came to Thorn township, when the low flat lands were avoided and more rolling lands were in demand. He died in 1815, the first preacher of the Lutheran faith who settled in Perry county. The sons of Rev. William Foster were William, Daniel, Andrew, Henry, George, Christian, Samuel, Benjamin and John. The daughters were Magdalena, wife of John Walters; Mrs. John Fox, and Mrs. Jacob Mechling, of: Fairfield county. Mrs. Fox's only daughter, that ever lived in Perry or Fairfield counties, married Peter Custer, of Fairfield county, The mother of these nine sons and three daughters was Magdalena Daniels, who died in 1823, her husband, Rev. William Foster, having preceded her to the grave some eight years before. Of these twelve children, John is the only one who never married, and he is supposed to have lost his life on a trip to New Orleans. All got from their father one hundred and sixty acres of land, and the quarter section bought for John went to the other heirs. 'Thus it required no less than three sections or nineteen hundred and twenty acres to reach round to all the children. To return to Andrew, the father of Emanuel Foster. Of ten children only the following grew to mature age: Jacob, deceased, whose wife was Elizabeth Holt; Joseph, deceased, whose wife was Elizabeth Sult; Mary, deceased wife of James Clifton ; Elijah, of whom more hereafter: Mahala, wife of Peter W. Sprinkle, post office, Holden, Johnson county, Missouri, and Jgnanuel who was married to Susan Ie. Franks, daughter of Rezin I'refiks, late of Thorn township, a noted and very successtul stock dealer and farmer. The children of Emanuel Foster and his wife Susan, are Benton C. ; Maria Edith; William E.; Martha May, and Aaron Harlan, now eleven years of age. Mr. Foster has two farms in 'Thorn township and eighty acres in Van Wert county, Ohio, is a firm Democrat in politics, and Lutheran in religion, and enjoys the confidence of all for honesty and his moral worth.

Foster, Exvyau, born November 3q, 1820, son of Andrew and brother of Emanuel Foster. In 1849 Elijah was married to Miss Jane Turner, who after bearing him one son, Charles Foster, of Pickerington, Ohio, died in May, 1852. He then went to California, and after a protracted stay of fourteen years in the mountains of California, Oreon, Idaho, Utah and Montana, prospecting as a miner and undergoing all the hardships of camp and frontier life, in 1869 returned home and was married to a Miss Katharine Anderson, daughter of Thomas Anderson, an early settler of Fairfield county who shares with him the joys and comforts of their beautiful and fruitful home in the suburbs of Thornville. There are no children by this last marriage. Mr. Foster is a benevolent, kind and generous citizen, modest, and retiring for pleasure to the precincts of home, and seeking the abodes of the needy only to gratify his exalted benevolence and humanity. He has followed the elk waist deep in snow The Gallatin valley is the warmest he saw, and it has frost high up every month in the year,and snow in sight all the time. Up toward the sources of the streams named, the whole year round the snow line is insight. Mr. Foster is six feet one inch tall, weighs one hundred and sixty pounds, and when in California bis weight ran up toone hundred and ninety pounds. 'There isa volume of the most thrilling adventure, instructive tacts, and profitable experience in his fourteen years of mountain life as a miner, a gardener, a lumberman, and a hunter. : baal

Foster, JAMES, was born where he now lives in Thorn township, Perry county, in 1833, on section twenty, the homestead of his father, George Foster, and of his grandfather, Kev. William Foster, who died in 1815, and whose tomb is on the same farm. The maiden name of James Foster's mother was Christena Bean, and that of his grandmother was Magdalena Daniels. His brothers were Samuel, deceased, in Van Wert county, Ohio, who left two sons and three daughters ; Simon, the husband of Susan Fisher; and John, deceased, Jeaving one son and two daughters, all of Van Wert county, Ohio. [lis sisters were Mary. wife of Henry Cover; Elizabeth, wite of Charles Denman; and Saloma, wife of John Avery, all of Van Wert county, Ohio. These with James are four sons and three daughters. The father of this family, George Foster, died in 1858, in his sixty-ninth year, and the mother in 1857, in her sixty-third year. The year prior to the latter event James Foster was married to Miss Diana, daughter of Henry Boyer, Jr., and granddaughter of Henry Boyer, Sr. It will be observed that he was one of seven heirs to the homestead, and after the death of his father, the law distributed the estate. It was valued in 1860 at $5.530, each share being estimated at $790, at which price James became the purchaserof the home farm, comprising one hundred and sixty acres, more or less. [le not only paid for it, but has now erected a splendid dwelling house, and spacious barns, and the entire farm presents the marks of thrift and comfort. His children are six in number, five sons and one daughter, Leoh Katharine, the eldest, being the wife of Joseph Beck, post office, Thornville. The sons are all at home. Their names are Charles Allen, Henry Lee, William Edward, James Albert, and George Simon, now three years old. He and his wife are of the Lutheran faith. The first draft in 1862 took James Foster, and he paid ames Richey, of Somerset, $375 to go as his substitute. It is supposed his farm was first occupied by grandfather Foster in 1803, but other recollections put it anywhere between that and 1807. James weighs one hundred and sixty-five pounds, is five feet ten inches tall. His father was six feet one inch, and weighed two hundred pounds. He was no hunter, like Uncle Ben Foster. He related the fine appearance of Kentucky soldiers who passed through northward in the war of 1812. 'They were all six-footers. James was administrator of his father's estate, and executor of his father-in-law's ; owns two hundred acres of land, and is a living witness to the fact that farming pays, and that industry and economy win the prize.

Fow ter, Davin C., farmer and tanner, New Lexington, Ohio, was born October: 18, 1822, upon the quarter section where he now lives. He isa son of Johnand Sarah (Brown) Fowler. Mr. Fowler was raised on a farm, and at the age of nineteen years went to the tanner's trade with John H. Stewart, of New Lexington, Ohio, remaining two years with him when he went to Baltimore city, Maryland, and finished his trade in fourteen months with William Jenkins & Sons, of No. 4 Water street. After learning his trade he returned to this place and opened a tanyard of his own, where he continued as a tanner until January, 1883 ; in all thirty-six years. Having sold out to John A. Armstrong, of Athens county, Ohio, he gave his entire attention to farming, and the running of a stationary steam saw-mill, which he has been running for the past thirteen years. During the above time he bought eightyfour acres of land, most of which is a part of his father's homestead, and has farmed more or.less for ten or twelve years past. In 1864 he went into the army as Captain of Co. F, One Hundred and Sixtieth Regiment, Ohio National Guards, and served four months, receiving an honorable discharge, and returned home in September. He also had four brothers in the service, viz.: Isaac, John W., Benjamin and William, two of whom were captains, John and Benjamin, serving in the Thirtieth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, three years" service, and were both wounded, partially disabling each of them for life. Benjamin veteranized, and was engaged in eleven battles, and was on Sherman's march to the sea. Isaac died while in the army. In all the five brothers served about twelve years in their country's defense, and their father was a soldier in the war of 1812. Mr. Fowler has, upon his father's side of the house, a great aunt, Ann Fowler, who is ninetysix years old, living in Maryland; and upen his mother's side of the house, a great uncle, Rev. Mathew Brown, of Wood county, Ohio, who is ninety-six years of age. Patriotism and longevity is seldom so marked as in the Fowler family, and their ancestors. Mary Fowler, the oldest sister of D. C. Fowler, saw her great grandmother, on her mother's side of the house, married at the age of eighty years toa man by the name of Goodin, aged eighty-one years, who atter their marriage kept house ten years, when they became so feeble that in after life they lived with their children,,she living to be ninety-six years old. Mr. Fowler's father, John Fowler, was born July 18, 1786, in Baltimore county, Maryland, came to Ohio in 1811, and was the first settler in Pike township. Mr. Brown became the father of twenty children by two marriages, all of whom he raised to manhood and womanhood. The oldest, Sarah Brown, was born July 17, 1796,in Hampshire county, Virginia, came to Ohio at an early day and was married to John Fowler, September 12, 1816. They becaine the parents of eleven children, viz.: Mary A., Susannah, Richard, David C.. Eliza, Isaac, John W., Mariah, Cyrus, Benjamin, and William H., of whom David C. is the subject of this sketch. Father Fowler died in March, 1874, at the age of eighty-seven years. Mother Fowler died in March, 1863, aged sixty-seven years. Mr. Fowler, the subject of this sketch, was married March 26, 1846, to Miss Cornelia S., daughter of Vincent and Ellen (Hogland) Smith, of Washington county, Ohio. 'They are the parents of five children, viz.: Acta C., now Essington, living in this county; James C., Superintendent of the New Lexington Union Schools at this time; Alice C., now Kennen, of Licking county, Ohio; one daughter who died in infancy ; and Lucellie, now Morgan, living in New Lexington, Ohio. Mrs. Fowler's parents came to Washington county, Ohio, from Connecticut at an early day. Mr. Fowler is now one of Perry county's oldest citizens, having been born and raised here; has enjoyed remarkably good health, and never saw a person shake with ague.

Fow.er, WiiviamM H., 'farmer, Pike township, New Lexington, Ohio ; was born February 3,,1837, in this township, son of John and Sarah (Brown) Fowler ; was raised a farmer, and has followed. agricultural pursuits to the present time, and made his home with his father up to the time of his death some eight years ago. Ile is the youngest member of the family of eleven children, and became the support of his father in his declining years. He now lives upon the first land entered by his father in 1811, and where his father died. At the time of his entry there was but little timber cut between here and the Ohio River, consequently he was obliged to clear out his farm of one hundred and sixty acres, by the assistance of his sons. _ Game of all kinds was plenty, and he traded four acres of land, a part of the present site of New Lexington, for a gun that was valued at $40. Mr. Fowler, the subject of this sketch, was married November 5, 1859, to Miss Harriet, daughter of William and Rachel (Skinner) Davis. They became the parents of two children, viz.: Albert and Cora. Mrs. Fowler departed this life in March, 1874. He was married the second time, Nov. 3, 1875, to Martha, daughter of John and Sarah (Strawn) Davis. They became the parents of one child, Wilbert Franklin. Mr. Fowler enlisted in Company G, One Hundred and Fourteenth Regiment, O. V. I., August, 1862, for three years, or during the war, and served just to the close of the war, and his term of enlistment, and was engaged in the following battles: Mobile, Alabama; Graham's Plantation; Chickasaw Bluffs, and Vicksburg. Held 'the office of Corporal, and also had four brothers in the army, three of whom were Captains, viz.: John, Benjamin and David, and his father served in the was of 1812.

OWLER, Pror. J. C., Superintendent of New Lexington public schools, born November 4, 1852, in this place; son of D. C. and Cornelia S. (Smith) Fowler. Young Fowler was educated in the public schools of his native town and by self culture he has become a thorough English scholar. At the age of seventeen, Professor Iowler began teaching, and has been constantly in the profession up to the present time. He took his present position in 1877.

Fox,' Georce, butcher, Corning, Olio, was born February 23, 1857, near Logan, Hocking county, Ohio, son of John G. and Catharine (Weiland) Fox. George was brought up on the farm where his father now lives. At the age of fourteen he went to the blacksmith trade and worked one year. Then he went to New Lexington, Ohio, and worked in a butcher-shop for his brother-in-law, Weiland, until 1876, when he went to Columbus and worked in a meat shop one season. He then traveled about one year, and worked in a number of places until he located at Logan, and carried on a butcher shop until March, 1881, when he came to his present place. Mr. Fox was married in March, 1880, to Margaret, daughter of Anthony and Catharine (Rectenwald) Steden. They are the parents of one child, Annie Catharine Fox.

Fox, Frank E., formerly of the firm of Huston & Fox, family groceries, New Lexington. Mr. Fox was born May 26,1861,in Logan, Hocking county, Ohio; son of John and Catherine Fox. Young Fox came to this place in 1872, and attended school four years, then entereda grocery store as clerk, where he remained until the present firm was formed, January 21, 1880. He has since sold his interest and now does business in Corning.

Francis, Erastus F., contractor, Shawnee, Ohio, was born February 16, 1830, in Licking county, Ohio, son of William and Lavina (Boilen) Francis. Mr. Francis was brought up on a farm and followed agricultural pursuits up to 1851, at which time he went as an apprentice to learn the distiller's trade, serving one year,and then followed the business about seven years in' Peru, Miami county, Indiana. Again he returned to agricultural pursuits, in Indiana, for three years, and for twelve years in Licking county, Ohio, upon his brother's farm, and two years upon the Shawnee Valley Coal Company's farm in this county. After this he engaged with the Straitsville Cannel Coal Company of New York, for five years, as long as it existed, and then employed with the Ohio Central Coal Company of Corning, and has remained with them up to this time as a contractor and otherwise. Mr. Francis was married June 1, 1856, to Mary, daughter of James and Elizabeth Davis, of Miami county, Indiana. They are the parents of two children, viz.: Charles and Walter. He was married a second time, December 6, 1869, to Mariah, daughter of Courtney and Margaret Debevoise. They are the parents of seven children, viz.: Three living, Milton, Annie and William, and four dead, Hester, infant, Lovina and Edward. +Mr. Francis was enlisted in Company E, One Hundred and Thirty-fifth Regiment, O. N. G., and served in the army of the Potomac four months, and was in an engagement at John Brown's school house. Was drafted while in the service and again, soon after returned into the service and remained until the war was over, and served five years in the State service.

RANKLIN, R. H., butcher, Junction City, Ohio, was born in Carroll county, Maryland, June 16, 1836;is a son of Nathan and Susan (Demit) Franklin; lived on the farm until 1865, then went to his present business in Centerville, Carroll county, Maryland; came to Junction City in 1873, following the same business. Was married in 1884, to Miss Ann M., daughter of Joshua and Martha (Porter) Barnes. They are the parents of four sons and one daughter, viz.: Nathan G., Augustus, Catharine, Joseph Ellsworth and Joshua Edward.

FREE, Joun W., attorney, New Lexington: son of Dr. John and Catharine Free, was born in York county, Pennsylvania, August 8, 1830. His mother's maiden name was Catharine Newman. She was of English descent, and nearly related to the Newmans who were the first settlers of Richland county, Ohio. Dr. Free,the father, was of German descent, and an Evangelical (AJbrecks) preacher, as well as a physician. When John W., was about one year old, the family moved to Mansfield, Ohio, and in 1841, to the neighborhood of McCutchenville, Wyandot county, in the same State. Here, for several years, he divided his time between attending school in the winter and working on the farm, and at the plastering trade in the summer. [le taught school for a number of terms, commencing when only sixteen years of age. Tle also attended two sessions at Heidleberg College, Tiffin, Ohio. In the year 1856, he came to New Lexington, Perry county, Ohio, and engaged in the mercantile business. He was engaged in Straitsville in the same business, when, August 1, 1861, he received an order from Governor Dennison to raise a company of three years troops. The men were raised in a very few days, and August 7th, he reported to Governor Dennison with one hundred and ten men, and was commissioned Captain of Company A, Thirty-first Regiment, O. V. 1. This was the first three years men enlisted in the county. February 28, 1862,, Captain John W. Free was promoted to Major of the regiment. He followed the fortunes of the regiment, and was engaged in most all the important battles of the Army of the Cumberland, to which department the regiment belonged. After being mustered out of the Military ser- vice, December 21, 1864, Major Free resumed mercantile pursuits at New Lexington, and also read law in the office of Butler & Jackson. During the winter of 1867-68, he attended a course of lectures at the Cincinnati Law College, and graduated there in the spring of 1868, since which time he has practiced his profession at New Lexington. Major Free is a Republican in politics, and has generally taken an active part in political affairs, but always declined office. Mr. Free was married April 1, 1858, to Miss Catharine Frantz, daughter of Solomon Frantz, of the neighborhood of New Lexington. His first wife died April 14, 1865, and he was again married, February 2, 1866, to Miss Martha Moore, daughter of Andrew Moore, then of Hocking county, now of Perry. His second wife died in 1873, and in 1876, he was married tors. Laura E. Watkins, of Washington, C, H., Ohio. He is the father of four children, two being dead.

Fucus, N., butcher, New Straitsville. He was born October 25; 1828, in Venningen Rheinbegern, Germany ; is ason of Jacob and Mary (Valinger) Fuchs, natives of the same place. He came to America in 1853, and settled in Cincinnati, where he followed the trade of a barber. Ten vears after, he returned to Germany and married Clementine Englert. Mr. Fuchs remained in Germany several years, keeping hotel. Two sons, Charles and Euguene, were born there. In 1868 he returned to America, and located in Lancaster, Fairfield county, where he remained until 1872, keeping a grocery. Here his son, Frank, was born. Mr. Fuchs next moved to New Straitsville, where he kept a general assortment of goods, three or four years, since which time he has been carrying on a good business as a butcher. Four children were born here, viz.: Christ, August, Lee and Anna.

FuLLertron, WILLIAM, merchant and postmaster, Mount Perry. He was born June 9, 1845, in Hopewell township, this county ; is a son of John and Matilda (Crawford) Fullerton. He was brought up ona farm, where he resided until 1878, when he came to Mount Perry and established his present business. He carries a general stock of dry goods, groceries, and such articles as are needed in stores in small towns, and has an excellent trade. He was married March 13, 1877, to Amanda, daughter of Henry and Sarah Jones. They have two children, Martin P., and Annie May.

FunpersureG, Noau, farmer, post oflice, Somerset ; born 1827; 1s a son of Jacob Funderburg and his wife, who wase Priscella Henthorn, grandson of Noah Funderburg, who, with his wife, emigrated from Germany to Frederick county, Maryland, where Jacob was born in 1785, and who, with father, mother, one brother, and six sisters, came to Perry county, ina six-horse and one-horse wagon. He bought a half section of land near Somerset, and soon found half of it was only a tax title, and the other half no better. He must thus have lost nearly $1,500, and he gathered up his effects, and with money still left, bought one hundred and sixty acres in section three, Thorn township, where he lived and died a few vears afterwards. His widow died at the house of one of her daughters, in Jackson township, some years later, at the age of ninety. Jacob hecame the owner of the Thorn township farm, on which he lived to the date of. his death, in 1878, and in his eighty-fifth year. Noah is of English-Welsh extraction on the maternal side, and thus his mother tongue is English. October, 1851, he was married to Miss Phebe Skinner, daughter of William, who came to Perry county in 1808, and whose first wife and her infant were drowned in Kent's Run while returning on horseback from Zanesville. Her maiden name was Sarah Jones, and her only surviving child became the second wife of Judge George Kishler, of Perry. Mr. and Mrs. Funderburg own and reside where she was born, and in the same brick house erected by her father, about 1820, and which preserves all its fine appearance, without any sign of decay, after sixty odd years of exposure. This farm, with additions, now comprises one hundred and seventy-five acres. Like all good farmers, his land grows better and not poorer. Le prefers wheat to wool-growing, and has, for five years averaged $125 per acre from a vineyard lot. Elis first tax was fifty-four cents, and has since risen to as many dollars, The care of her afllicted mother, the second wife of her father, William Skinner, who was, prior to her marriage, Miss Mary Oatley, fell upon Mrs. Fundenburg, and to this task, of some years duration, was added the care, also, of her husband's uncle. 'Sammy " Funderburg, who suffered from his seventh year a mental disease, caused by scarlétina, so that he was placed under guardianship, which office was kindly and faithfully performed by Mr. and Mrs. Funderburg, who, like her ancestors, is an O. 5. Baptist, and like them also, distinguished for her kindness and hospitality. 'Their children are: Mary E., George C., Laura C., Minerva B., William T., Jacob R., Rachel C., John H., and Noah E.

GALLAGHER, Pe rer, mine boss, Sheldon, Ohio. Was born Iebruary 15, 1845, in Athens county, Ohio, son of Peter and Bridget (l*arrie) Gallagher. Was raised on a farm, and followed agricultural pursuits until: 1861, at which time he enlisted in Company A, Sixty-third Regiment, O. V. I., under Captain Nathan Picket, for three years, or durthe war, and was engayved in the capture of Island Number 'Ten, bombardment of ~Fort Pillow, and under hot fire at New Madrid, serving eleven months, when he was discharged by reason of disability, caused by measles, whooping-cough and cold. Atter receiving his discharge he was unable, for two years, to engage in any kind of business; at this time he again engaged in farming, which he continued for about two ears, since which he has been engaged as follows: Grading on Hocking Valley Railroad, taking charge of a squad of men for three or four months ; laying track about six months ; took charge of gravel train two months; foreman of laying iron three months; then took charge of railroad switch for the Straitsville Great Vein Coal and Iron Company for one year, at whicé time he gave up that position on account of the many miners' strikes, and mined for two years, when he went into rocery and provision store, continuing until the panic of 1872 and 1873, which obliged him to close up business, having largely credited customers; again engaged in mining tor about one year, when he was elected Marshal of New Straitsville, serving three years, during which time he also was constable. Resigning his oflice at this me, he accepted the position of guard at Ohio Penitentiary, remaining about two years. Returning at this time, and engaged with the Consolidated Coal and Coke Company, which had charge of the Great Vein oal and Iron Company's mine, at track laying, mining, and check weighman. for one year. He was then appointed to his present position, mine boss. He was married November to, 1874, to Miss Rosa McClain, born May 18, 1850, in Monday Creek township, this connty, daughter of Alexander and Mary (Hoy) McClain, 'They are the parents of four children, viz.: James F., Charles L., Sarah T., and Maggie.

GALLAGHER, M. J., proprietor American House, Somerset. Born September 28, 1858, in Reading township. His father, Charles E., was born in 1836, in St. Johns, New, Brunswick. He came to this county in 1842. He was married November, 1857, to Miss Mary Dumoit, of Hocking county. She was born in 183;. They were the parents of eight children, six of whom are living. M. J. is the eldest. He and his sister came into the hotel November 22, 1880. In December the old people came to live with their children in the hotel. The father of the subject of this sketch died January 29, 1881. The hotel is-still being run by M. J. Gallagher. Wis grandfather, Francis Gallagher, died March 25, 1881.

Garry, JAcos, postmaster, Maxville, Ohio. Was born in Reading township, Perry county, Ohio, November 11, 1835; son of Charles and Mary (Hontz) Garry. Brought up on a farm, and at the age of eighteen was apprenticed to the trade of shoemaker. Came to Maxville, Ohio, in 1862, where he has ever since resided. Enlisted May, 1864 in Company F, One Hundred and Sixtieth Regiment, O. N. G., and was honorably discharged from the same in September of the same year. Was appointed postmaster April 23, 1879, which position he has ever since filled with credit. Mr. Garry was married December, 1852, to Malinda, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Strohl) Bowman, to whom were born six children: Caramay, Ida Elizabeth, Amanda C., William E., Harvey F., Elmer E., the two oldest of whom have passed to the '* bright beyond." Mr. Garry is one of the substantial citizens of Maxville, and can ever be found busy at the bench, plying his trade, in that village.

Gipson, MAtTueEw, track layer, New Straitsville Ohio. Was born January 7, 1849, in Northumberland, England ; son of Mathew and Isabelle (Mason) Gibson. Was raisedin a mining region, and began work about a mine at the age of nine years, and has given his attention to that business up to_the present time. Emigrated to America in 1856, with his father, who, landing in New York, went to Mason City, Virginia, where he still lives, and has been engaged in mining. Mathew remained with his father until he was nineteen years of age, and was employed at Mason City about ten years, three months of which was for himself. Since that time he has been employed at the following places : Galva, Illinois, two months; again at Mason City about two years ; Coalton, Kentucky, about eight months; returned to Mason City, and in September of 1871 went to Nelsonville, Athens county, Ohio, remaining only about two weeks; Lick Run about nineteen months. During his stay here he was married. May 1g, 1872, to Miss Mary Ann Parker, who was born September 7, 1853, in Peach Orchard, on Big Sandy river near Catlettsburgh, Boyd county, daughter of Michael and Adortha (Natress) Parker. They are the parents of three children, viz. : John William, Ellen and Margaret. After his marriage he moved to Shawnee, Ohio, where he lived about five years, when he moved to

Knightsville, Indiana, remaining about six months, and returned to Shawnee, from where he moved in six months afterward, September, 1879, to this place, where he has remained up to this time and become a permanent citizen, owning his present place of abode, and upon which he has erected a neat cottage dwelling. Mr. Gibson is at this "time a member of the Town Council. While living in Shawnee he held the office of Township Trustee for one term, and served as Street Commissioner also in that place. He is now Past Grand of the Kincaid Lodge of Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of Shawnee, Ohio.

_ Gooprive, Henry, deceased; was born July 8, 1808, in Switzerland, and died December 1, 1867. Mr. Goodlive was raised a farmer, and followed that business during his life. He was married October 8, 1830, to Elizabeth, daughter of Jacob and Catharine Good, who was born in January, 1812. They became the parents of twelve children, viz.: Martha, Catharine, Mary A., Jacob, George, Sarah A., Abraham, Elizabeth, Julia A., deceased, Matilda, Amanda and David L. In 1839 Mr. Goodlive came to Monday Creek township, which he afterward made his home up to the time of his death, and where his family still reside, upon a farm of eighty acres.

GooptivE, Apam, Monday Creek township, farmer, Maxville, Ohio ; was born August 3, 1841, in this township; son of Abraham and Christina (Bear) Goodlive. Mr. Goodlive was raised on a farm, and has followed farming pursuits up to this time, except time spent in the military service. In October of 1861, he enlisted in Company C, Sixty-second Regiment, O. V. I., and participated in all the engagements of the Army of the Potomac. He retired from active service in July, 1862, and returned home. He was married December 24, 1865, to Miss Martha Nunemaker, born April 1, 1840, daughter of Peter and Catharine ([lammer) Nunemaker, of Hocking county, Ohio, to whom were born four children, viz.: Charley, William H., Thomas H. and John S., all of whom are living.

Gorvon, JosEPHus, post office Rehoboth, farmer and stock raiser ; born in Perry county in 1835; son of Samuel and Dorothy (Wells) Gordon, who emigrated here from Greene county, Pennsylvania, about the year 1834. They are of German and Irish parentage. The subject of this sketch was married in 1859 to Miss Harriet J. Kelly, daughter of James and Elizabeth (Shaw) Kelly. XThey are the parents of ten children, viz.: John E., Samuel C., George en Mary E., Emma W., Maggie K., Joe M., Paul, Earl, James, deceased. a

Gornon, P. A., M. D., physician and surgeon, Junction City, Ohio, was born March 7, 1853, in Perry county; son of Basil and Margaret (Keeman) Gordon. His boyhood days were spent on a farm until the age of nineteen years; then taught school and attended normal school until twenty-five years of age, after which he took a course al the Ohio Medical College, Cincinnati. Mr. Gordon located in Junction City in the spring of 1880, and at present writing has established a good ichael and Rebecca (Beckwith) Forquer. This union has been blessed with one child, viz.: Earl Augustine, born January 26, 1881, Mr. Gordon is employed by the B. & O. Relief Association, for medical and surgical assistance.

GorMLEy, Joun E., book-keeper, New Straitsville, Ohio, was born April g, 1850, in St. John's, New Brunswick ; son of Patrick and Mararet (Denny) Gormley. While living at home his father moved to diy Massachusetts, in 1852, where they lived until John I. was fifteen years of age, when they moved to Columbus, Ohio, where Jobn E. lived twelve years and engaged in business at the early age of sixteen years, with Miller, Green & Joyce, with whom he remained nine years, first a chore boy and assistant clerk, after which he was appointed entry clerk, book-keeper and cashier successively. He was next employed as book-keeper for the New York & Ohio Coal Company, with whom he remained one year, when he came to this place and took his present position. Mr. Gormley was married March 2, 1875, to Miss Belle M. Cushman, daughter of George W. and Belinda (Mitchell) Cushman. They are the parents of three children, viz.: Harry, Blanche and Grace. Mr. Gormley's father, Patrick Gormley, was born in 1816, in County Tyrone, Ireland, and emigrated to America in 1837, settling at St. John's, New Brunswick, where his family was born as above mentioned. But after living in Columbus for some length of time, he returned to Boston, Massachusetts, where he now lives. His mother, Margaret Denny, was born and raised in Londonderry, Ireland; was married in 1837, and died in Columbus, Ohio, February, 1870, where she is buried.

GouLpINnG, JABEz, miner, New Straitsville. He was born in Gurndiffath, near Pontypool, Monmouthshire, in 1837; is a son of Samuel and Mary Goulding, natives of Gloucestershire, who settled in Gurndiffath early in life, and raised nine children, six sons and three daughters. Mr. Goulding married Ruth Randall, July 27, 1866, and the same year moved to Glamorganshire, South Wales, where he was employed by the Greenhill, Church & Pentre Company to open a new mine called the Church mines, on the number three vein. He was employed by this company till 1869. In March, 1869, he started for America, arriving in New York, March 28th. He was first employed in the Potomac mines, on George Creek, Maryland. After four months work here he came to Jackson county, Ohio, where he located and sent for his family in South Wales. They arrived in this country in 1872, and after residing in Jackson county for eight years they moved to New Straitsville, where he engaged in the mining business, and success has attended him.

Grancer, Georce A., proprietor of the Merchant and Custom Mill, New Lexington, Ohio, was born January 25, 1842, in Suffield, Hartford county, Connecticut; son of Aratus K. and Cordelia M. (Hathaway) Granger. George A. was brought up on the farm, where' he remained until he was twenty-one years of age, when he engaged in his present business. He came to this place in 1863; he erected his present mill building in 1879. Mr. Granger was married June 16, 1868, to Miss Josephine E., daughter of Abner M. and Margaret C. (Chapalier) White. They are the parents of one child - Joan, deceased. Mr. Granger's mill grinds about one hundred and fifty bushels of wheat per day the entire year. f

IISTORY OF PERRY COUNTY, 417 and Maria (Hitch) Grant. Mr. Grant was raised a farmer, and has followed agricultural pursuits to the present time. Was brought to Ohio by his father in 1828, who first settled in Muskingum county, where he remained until 1835, when he came to Perry tounty, and settled upon the farm of one hundred and twenty acres, where Mr. Grant now resides. It was bought from Alvah Buckingham, who entered it. When he came, he had to build his cabin and clear the land, it being an entire wilderness. Here he lived until his death in September, 1861. By will of the father, John A. became owner of the farm by paying the stipulated sum of $900. John A. has added one hundred and twenty acres to his farm, and erected a fine frame dwelling. After the death of his father, John A. took care of his mother until her death in 1875. Mr. Grant served as Justice of the Peace.of this township for eight years, and resigned one year before the closing of his last term. Was township clerk one year, and land appraiser in 1880. Mr. Grant was married October 13, 1853, to Margaret M., daughter of Robert and Margaret (McClelland) Adams of Clayton township, this county. "They became the parents of two children, viz.: Robert I'., married, and lives in Nebraska; and Samuel R. Mrs. Grant died December 2ist, 1858. Mr. Grant was married the second time, January 10, 1861, to Jemima, daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth (Watlin) Rockhold of Marri son township, Perry county, Ohio. They are the parents of six living children, viz.: Iva, Joshua T., Maria E., Earl C., Roscoe Conklin, and Mandie M., and one, deceased, Joseph Madison, died March 2d, 1875, aged eleven years and six months, with inflammation of brain and lungs. This was an exemplary boy, who was fond of the words of God, and became familiar with many passages ; he was a regular church and Sunday 'school attendant ; said he was going to Jesus, and prayed for his parents, brothers and sisters. His interest in the welfare of others was more than ordinary, even remarkable; his knowledge and manners would have adorned one of riper years, and will ever be a pleasant remembrance'to his friends. Mr. Grant enlisted February 7, 1864, in Company A, Thirty-first O. V. I., for three years, or during the war, and served to the close of the war. Was engaged in the battles of Resaca, Buzzard Roost, Peachtree Creek, where he became disabled. Was sent to Louisville, Kentucky, where he was recruited and discharged, on his way to rejoin his regiment.

Griccs, SAMUEL, born in New Jersey, November tgth, (7943 was a son of Daniel Griggs, and brother of Jobn, Christopher and Joacum, the first and last named having died in Pennsylvania, while Christopher, when last heard from, was in Iowa. Samuel sent a substitute into the war of 1812, and in 1833, came in a two-horse wagon with his wife, who was Debby Fields, and their two children, John and Elizabeth, to Somerset, where they rested until they purchased the Henry Bowan farm, a few miles west of Somerset, now known as the Miles Dittoe farm, which he sold in Jess than three years ; and after visiting Indiana, Illinois, Missouri and Kentucky, in search of another home, and tinding no place that suited him, purchased the farm where he afterwards lived until his death, and where his only son, John Griggs, now resides, in the south-west corner of Reading township. Debby Fields, the wife

Griccs, Joun, was born 1819, in Lycoming county, Pennsylvania, and was therefore only fourteen years old when he came to Ohio, and seventeen when he began life where he now resides. He was united in marriage to Miss Mary Lechrone, in March, 1843. Their children are Katharine E., wife of John Kerr, deceased, and who ended her widowhood by marriage to Joseph Newton Eyman. William Griggs was married to Miss Josephena D. Eyman, daughter of Bryan Eyman, Esq., and departed this life in 1881, leaving his wife, one son, and three daughters. Henry W. Griggs was married to Miss Ida Phillips, daughter of Mr. Reuben Phillips, and resides in Walnut township, Fairfield "county ; post office, Millersport. Watson Griggs was marrisd to Mima M. Neely, daughter of John Neely, and resides on the home farm. The family is Scotch on the Griggs side, and English on the Fields side of its ancestry. Here lives John Griggs, independent as a sovereign, his gentle wife and aged mother comprising the household - that aged mother whose memory yet sparkles with gems of recollection, and whose dark eye flashes with thought. Her son John has added to his possessions the celebrated Lydey Rock farm, just one mile up the Wagner valley, from the Newark, S. & S. R. R., which contains a strong magnesian, chalybeate spring, three feet of iron ore, and a landscape wild and picturesque.

Grimes, F. M., farmer, Pleasant township; post office, Moxahala ; he was born April 7, 1844; son of David and Nancy (Hollingshead) Grimes, both natives of this State. His grandparents were natives of Pennsylvania. Mr. F. M. Grimes was born on the farm on.which he now resides, and his farm contains two hundred and twelve acres. He married Miss M. E. Buxton February 6, 1873; she was of Monroe township. They became the parents of three children, viz.; Burt, born Dec. 12, 1873; John, September 16, 1877; Grace, June 21, 1879.

Grimes, H. C., dentist. Somerset; he was born in 1828 in Somerset. His father and mother were both born in Wurtemburg, Germany. The subject of this sketch went West in 1850, and came back in 1853, being inside that time one year in Dakota. He went into the army, Thirty-first O. V. I., in 1861; he enlisted as Lieutenant, and was promoted to a Captaincy. He resigned in 1863. He remained at home six months on account of sickness. He enlisted as Captain in the spring of 1864, and came back in fall of 1864. The last time he was under General Thomas. Mr. Grimes was elected to the State Legislature in 1879. He is the author of the famous '' Hawk Bill." He learned his profession since the war. He was married to Miss Mary P. Rankin of Brownsville, Licking county, Ohio. She was born in Muskingum county, Ohio. They are the parents of three children, two of whom are living: Caddie, Willie, (dead) ; John D.

Happen, SAMUEL, proprietor planing mill, New Lexington, Ohio. Mr. Hadden was born February 14, 1842, in Union township, Muskinpum county, Ohio; son of Samuel M. and Ann (Lorimer) Hadden.