Troy Township (part 3 of 10)

John Bryte

was born in Westmoreland count)', Pennsylvania, July 20, iSoc. Michael Style, his father, icmoved to [el ferson county, Ohio, in 1807. 'Hie family consist .b >! three boys, John, Nathaniel and David, and three lr. 1815, Michael llrytc died. John, after the decease of his father, returned to the Forks of the Youghio- | gheny, where he remained nearly four years, attending a | district school in the w inter, and laboring in the summer season. In 1819 he accompanied Mr. Nathaniel Bailey, a relative, to Clearcreek township, walking all the way from the " Yoh." On the route he passed through New Lisbon, Canton and Wooster, then new villages. Mr. Bailey had located in 1817, and Mr. Bryte, for a time, made the house of Mr. Bailey his home. When he entered the township the names of those who preceded him were : Nathaniel Bailey, Abraham Huffman,

Daniel Huffman, David and James Burns, Abraham Clayburg, Jacob Foil Iks, Richard Freeborn, John and Thomas Henney, Abel Bailey, John Bailey, Thomas Ford, Elias Ford, John McWilliams, John Aten, Robert McBcth, and possibly a few' others. At that period a great many Delaware Indians made annual visits in the spring arid fall of the year to make sugar and hunt deer, which were quite numerous along the Black and Vermillion rivers gnd the branches of Mohican. They often encamped ih different parts of the township, but were harmless and never interfered with their white neighbors. In these excursions the hunters were often accompanied by Thomas Lyons and Isaac George, two rather noted old Indians. Mr. Bryte frequently met the eccentric, but inoffensive, Johnny Appleseed, alias John Chapman, as he meandered over the country planting appleseeds and cultivating nurseries. Mr. Bryte was the second clerk of Clearcreek township, and held the office eleven years, the township having been organized in 1820. He was also trustee a number of times, and was a warm friend of the common school system at all times, being one of the earliest teachers in the township. He was a man of benevolent feelings, and in 1856 was appointed trustee of the Central Ohio lunatic asylum at Columbus, by Governors. P. Chase, and continued in that position until 1862. In 1820 he became an active member of the Baptist church, near Ashland, and in 1835, united with the Christian church, and lias been one of its speakers nearly forty years, and has adorned his profession by an upright life.

In 1824 he married Miss Elizabeth Ford, daughter of Thomas Ford, and in 1826 purchased a part of the farm - section twenty-six, on. which he deceased. On this land he found au ancient earthwork containing over three acres. B is now nearly obliterated from long cultivation with the plow.

In 1874, Mr. and Mrs. Bryte celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of their wedded life, having all their children and friends present. In August, 1874, he went to California with his son Michael, who for many wears- had been a resident, of that State. He returned in the fail, and until his decease loved to dwell upon what he $,iw and learned during his visit to the Pacific. He related the scenes and incidents of his journey in a manner so entertaining and earnest, that he never failed to de.-piv Interest all who heard him. At the organ b uion of the pioneer and historical society of Ashland county, 01 the tenth of September, 1875, Mr Bryte presi Jed as the fust temporary president, arid became an active membei of the association. During the summer his general health began to fail, and he was confined to his room for some time. He again rallied, and hopes were expressed that he might be spared many more years; but he was again seized by sickness. He died of pneumonia, on Saturday evening, February 17, and was buried ar Bryte's church,

! In his death Clearcreek lost a valuable citizen, and socii ety an influential and exemplary member. Mr. Bryte j was noted for his strong common sense, his integrity I and love of truth and fairness between man and man. i The pioneer society misses him very much, because he | possessed an extraordinary memory, and remembered the history of his township very clearly. The obituary committee of the society adopted the usual resolutions concerning his decease.

Hugh Burns

was born in Philadelphia. Pennsylvania, January 20, 1810, and emigrated with his parents to Milton township, Richland (now Ashland) county, Ohio, in 1820. and settled on what is now known as the Kelley farm. In the fall of the same year Andrew Burns, sr., father of Hugh, built a cabin on what is now known as the John Iluzlet farm, then owned by his brother, Barnabas Burns, and resided in it until 1S21, when he moved to a cabin near the present site of Yearmin's mill, in. 'dif'iii.

| township, where the family remained until 1823, and I then located on the Richard 'Voodhotisc farm in Mi! i ton In 1829 Mr. Burns, father of Hugh, pui chased i what is now known as the Burns' farm, near the school - | house of that, name in the west part of Milton tewn- | ship, where he resided until his death in 1857, at the | age of seventy-seven years. He was born in Donegal.

! Ireland, and was a devout Catholic. He. came to Philaj delphia in t8oi, and about 1812 located hi Lancaster ! county, Pennsylvania, in 1820 he removed to Ohio, j He had three sons, Hugh, Andrew, and Barnabas, and | two daughters, Margaret and Sarah. Mrs. Burns died ! in 1851, aged seventy-five years.

Hugh attended tin.- schools of the neighborhood, and : obtained a fail knowledge of die English brandies, and i at an early day commenced his career as a teacher.

; At the organization of Ashland county in 1846, he was I selected as county auditor, a position he held until iSsi. He made an efficient, industrious and conscientious officer, and was much respected for his integi ily and per- 1 sonal worth. At the expiration of his term of etfis e he opened a dry goods store in Ashland: but the enter- ; prise proved unfortunate, and he * died in business, losing pretty much all the capital lie had invested. He then recommenced die hie c4 a tanner, which scum ; most congenial to hi. nature. He purchased die west half of w hat is 1 n >w m tli Nid , , - K titan : - in, neat his old home i.a Milton to which he removed n 1 Sf > 7 I Hiring his residence in \si lanti he took an active in-

When a young tnan he became a member of the Baplist church of Windsot, and in 1S46 joined the Disciple church of Ashland, of which he remained a member until 1867, when he was transferred to the Clearcroek Disciple church, of which he is now an active member. Mr. 1 turns is regarded as an exemplary, high-toned and conscientious Christian.

When he arrived in Milton, in 1820, he recollects the following pioneers had preceded his father : Frederick Sulcer, James Kelley, James Andrews, Amos and Samuel Hilburn, Peter Lance, William Dickey, fames Crawford, John Kent, Robert Andrews, Robert Nelson, and a few others. The first mill he attended was Rey- | nold's near Windsor. In 1821 he attended Newman's I mill to obtain grists. The first preachers, Presbyterian, were Robert Lee and Mr. Matthews; and of the Metho- I disis, Mr. Haney and Mr. Hazard; and of the Baptists, Mr. Jones - say from 1820 to 1825.

Andrew Mason

was born in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, February 4, 1801. His father, Martin Mason, emigrated with his family to Columbiana county in 1804. In August, 1 S 1 4, in company with his brother Jacob, Jacob Crouse, Jacob Young, Martin Hester, Lot Tod. and Peter Biddinger, Martin Mason visited Orange township, then. in Richland < county, and put up six cabins, Jacob Mason was ac- | companied by his family, and boarded the above mentioned pioneers while engaged in erecting the cabins. In addition to his household goods, Jacob Mason brought a team and three cows. Upon the completion of their cabins, they returned to Columbiana county, and, in October, Martin Mason, - Jacob Young, Jacob Crouse, Joseph Bishop, and Peter Biddinger, in wagons, suitably covered, removed with their families, household go< ds j and their cattle, to their cabin homes in the forests of Orange and Montgomery townships. The little colony | was composed of thirty-one persons, including, women they encamped on what is now the Fame -1 Naylor farm. From thence they cut a path on the east side of the stream to the residence of John Cair, in Montgomery township; and thence in a northwest direction across die present farm of Andrew Mason, to Young's bridge, on the Orange road, where they struck the old Indian trail, which they followed to the present site of Leidigh's mill. For a short time Mr. Mason located on what is now known as the Shopbell farm, and, in 1815, at the site of | Lcidighs. I lie residences of Mesws. v rouse, Bishop, j Noting, and Biddinger, are well known.

At that period die new settlers were compelled to j traverse the forest pad's to Stilibs' mill, one mile east of 1 ' b ooster, to obtain a supply of ilour and meal, or use

; hominy blocks or hand-mills. During the winter of | 1814-15, which was remarkably severe, the new settle! s were nearly destitute of meat, and had to depend on the unerring rifle or friendly Indians for a supply of wild meat. Their cabins- were imperfect, having puncheon I floors, open, chimney places and clapboard doors. Their | bedsteads were made of poles fastened in the wails, and ; covered with clapboards, upon which their straw beds j rested. The wheat and corn used was purchased mostly ! at New Lisbon and carried on pack-horses to Stibbs', to be converted into floor and meal, and again packed to the ; settlement in Orange.

In the fall of 1815 Martin Mason commenced the I erection of a small grist-mill, which was completed in I March, t 8 j 6. It had niggerhead or bowlder stones, and | was quite an accommodation to the settlers. It was the second mill erected in this part of the county, Mr. Oram having completed a small mill one and one-half miles northeast of the present site of Ashland, a short time before, on the modern site of Ritter's mill.

Martin. Mason died August 14, 1.860, aged eighty-two years. He then resided in Richland county Hie farn- | ily consisted of John, Andrew, Margaret, Mary, Martin,

| and Anna. Andrew and Martin reside in Montgomery | township, and are farmers. A ndrew is a gentleman of good ! memory, and possesses a fair English education, having ut- 1 tended school in the log cabins of Orange township nearly J sixty years ago. He retains a vivid recollection of pioneer | life and its hardships, and we have drawn liberally from j his stores of experience in other chapters of these I sketches. As a farmer he has been successful, and posj sesses a fine homestead. -some two and one-half miles northeast of Ashland. He has served efficiently as a ! justice of the peace for Montgomery, and became a memj ber of the Ashland county pioneer society organized on | the tenth of September, 1875. He lias been au active | member of the Methodist Episcopal church for many years, and adorned his profession by an upright walk. The members of bis family mostly reside within Ashland j county. At this time (1879), Mi. Mason and his wife arc i in excellent health, and may survive to an advanced j age.* They entered the forests of this region and have I seen them leveled and the te untry dotted with thous- ] ands of happy homes.

Mrs. Elizabeth Mason

Mrs. Mason, who was a daughter of Valentine Heiff- 1 net was born in Huntingdon county, Pennsylvania, March 19, 1807. Having relatives in Orange township, then Richland, but now of Ashland county, she came,

1 Mrs. Barbara Rowland, had come to Orange some years prior to her trip, and not having good health, her ante v . ry h int --< mie in that 1 gion, tl n a tv] in ivelj 11 tin settled forest. I'he object w;n to aid her sister in recovering her health atui contentment, 1 lie new settle!''' ot I that day were compelled to endure many hardships and privations in order to prepare homes. Christian Rowland and lady finally became residents of Uniontown, now Ashland, where they died about 1832, and are well remembered by old citizens of Ashland. During her residence with Mrs. Rowland, Elizabeth became acquainted with .Andrew Mason, and in 1824 they were married, and she never returned to her native country to live. It is proper to note, as a pioneer reminiscence, that Mr. and Mrs. Mason were married by Rev. James Haney, who was the first Methodist preacher in this county, whose son, John Haney, was the proprietor of Haneytown, but now the village of Savannah, in Clearcreek township, in this county. Mr. and Mrs. Mason lived together as man and wife fifty-five years, three months and twenty-five days. She went through many hardships, having gone over the period since 1824 in which great changes have occurred in the wild regions of Richland, but now Ashland county. Cabins and forests were then found in all parts of the county. After a long struggle and enduring many hardships the first settlers succeeded in taming the wilds of the native woods, and now reside in comfortable homes, surrounded by desirable improvements, and the abundance furnished by rich lands, industry and genial climate to reward the industry, economy and frugal habits, for which the pioneers of this county are noted. Mrs.. Mason passed through all these scenes a cheerful, industrious Christian lady, and like her husband, long an exemplary member of the church of her choice. At a pioneer meeting on their premises, in 1879. in which many of their neighbors joined, Mrs. Mason prepared, in the ancient way, a lot of corn bread, which was regarded quite a treat. She seemed much interested in the exercises of the pioneers, and became a member of the county society at that time. The pioneers are passing rapidly to that bourne from whence no traveler returns. As the gray-haired patriarchs are called to bid adieu to earth, we trust they may be found fully prepared for that great change, and welcomed to that rest prepared in that better country foi all the good. Mrs. Mason was buried on Sunday, March 21st, in the Orange cemetery. Her remains were conducted to their last resting place by about seventy carriages which formed the procession, followed by relatives, neighbors and friends, making eight or nine hundred people present. The funeral discourse was preached by Rev. P. Roseberry from xi. Corinthian-. v, 1, assisted by Rev. A. Lyon, presiding elder of the Methodist church.

Mrs. Mason was the mother of thirteen children, six of whom preceded her to the better land. She had twenty-eight grandchildren, one of whom had passed over the river of death before her departure. She had four great-grandchildren. She had been a Christian and a motheily pioneer, and an affectionate wife for over half a century, and we trust has found the reward of every Christian and faithful wife.

One evening she asked the friends to sing "Horne of the Soul, ' and " I am so glad that Jesus loves me." She then broke out in joyous strains : " I am so glad that Jesus loves me." In a vision or dream she said she saw

Peter Thomas

I was born in Somerset county, Pennsylvania, July 9, 1798, His father, George Thomas, emigrated with his family, to Harrison county, in the spring of 1S07. In 1815 Peter Thomas, then sixteen years of age, traveled on I foot, accompanied by the family watch-dog, a large and | faithful mastiff, along a new path leading from Cadiz to ! the village of Wooster, and rested one night at Stibbs'

| mill. The next night he reached the cabin of John | Raver, near the present site of Rowsburgh. The foliorvj ing morning lie pursued his journey by paths until he | struck Beall's trail, at Jerome's place, and thence along | a blazed path partly opened, to beam's mill, three miles ! below Mansfield, on the Rocky fork of Mohican. Jacob Beam, the owner of the mill, was an uncle. He re- ! mained a few weeks, and returned. In 1817, his fath- J er's family came on and erected a cabin on the present site of Mifflin, believed to have been the first shingled house in the township 01 Milllin. \\ hen the tide o! emigration commenced, after the close of the war. the road from Mansfield to Wooster, iu- ,-ed through Peters burgh, as the village was then called, and it became the ; principal route to Ri< hlnnd and other western counties | for emigration. Mr. George Thomas, lather of Peter, kept the fi r$t hou.w of entertainment, which was well patronized for si a or eight years. In 1833, George Thomas and family located on a farm now owned by Josiah Thomas, in Change township. Peter Thomas purchased two hundred acres adjoining the homestead, in Montgomery township, and resided upon it until about 1S60, when he removed to a new residence, one ! and a half miles northeast of Ashland, where he de- ! ceased, February 26, 1876. He was conscious of the ] approaching termination of his life, and was in the act I of dictating a codicil to a will, when he became faint, j and expired in a few moments, from paralysis of the ' heart. He had been three times married, and left a I large and reputable family to mourn his loss. He had ! been a member to the Disciple church for a number of years, and adorned his profession by an upright and exemplary life. As a citizen, he was highly respected. He was a man of uncommon resolution and firmness when he had deliberately formed an opinion. He was high-toned and exact in all his transactions with men, and inflexibly opposed to every species of prevarication in morals, business and politics. He was never an officeseeker, but was always the advocate of a pure, economical and patriotic administration of the government.* He ' was a careful, frugal, and shrewd business man, and had acquired a handsome property. Few men have taken a deeper interest in the prosperity of the county, and none will be more lamented.

Daniel Carter, Jr

1 He emigrated, with his father's family, in March, 1S06, to Stark county, Ohio, where he resided until Februar) 12, 18x2, and then removed, by way of Jerome's Place, j now Jerome vilie, where they remained a few days at the j cabin of the late John Carr until Daniel Carter, sr,

Daniel Carter, sr, had entered at the land office in Canton three hundred and twenty acres of land in Montgomery, constituting the present lands of Peter Thomas, and what was recently known as the John Mason farm. The cabin was a frail affair. It resembled a camp house -was open at one end and made of ' poles and covered with clapboards. He moved into it in February, 1812. '1 he family began active work on a clearing for corn, and got along quietly, being occasionally visited by Indians, until after Hull's surrendei at Detroit, on the sixteenth of August. About this time several families quartered for a short time at the cabin of Robert Newell, in the lower part of Montgomery, recently known as the Hugh McGuire place. When General Harrison moved his army to the northwest, these j families, Frys, Tridrels, Cuppys and Carters, returned

: took his family to Harrison county, and remained for : some time at the cabin of a friend, Mr. William Rhodes, about four miles from New Philadelphia. In February, 18x3, he returned to his cabin and remained until the fifth of March, when he received news of the Colyer excitement near Tylertown, a son of John Carr bring- , ing him news of the appearance of Indians, when he : fled with his family to the block-house at Jerome's Place, and remained there until the spring of 18x4.

Daniel Carter, jr, retains a vivid recollection of the incidents of block-house life. His father, in the spring of 1S14, purchased at Canton the farm upon which David Carter now resides, and removed to it.

The settlers, for several years in Montgomery, were : very much scattered. The schools were indifferent, and | the youth of that era were deprived of educational op- | portunities, except in the primary branches. Mr. Carter says he never attended school over three months.

He grew up among the pioneers, attending cabin raisings, log rollings and other pioneer gatherings. He purchased one hundred and sixty acres of land on sec- [ tion sixteen, built a cabin and improved his farm. The farm had been entered by William Druram. In 1829 . he married Miss Elizabeth, daughter of Elias Slocum.

! His family consisted of two daughters - Amanda, wife | of William M. Patterson, of Cleveland, Ohio, and Anna A, wife of Hon. William I>. Allison, now a senator of

! the United States, from Iowa. Mr. Carter sold nis 1 farm in 1864, and now resides in Ashland. In 1830 he ! made a trip to California via. Panama, and remained about three and a half years, lie never sought polit- ! ical promotion, but in sentiment was a Whig until that : paiiy disbanded, when he became a Republican, and still adheres to the principles of that party.

Isaac Gates

Peter Gates was born in New Jersey, in 177S, of Gei man descent, and emigrated to Washington county, Pennsylvania, in 1 So 14 and married Sarah Spech in j 803. He removed to -Mifflin township, Richland county, in 1S30, and deceased in 1 S 6 x , aged eighty-three years. His family consisted of Martin, Jacob, [ohn, Isaac, Elizabeth, Eunice, Margaret, and Sarah. He was twice married, his second wife being Elizabeth, sister of Samuel Lewis, of Mifflin.

Isaac Gates, fourth, son of Peter, was born near Hills borough, Washington county, Pennsylvania, September 15, 1815. In 1830 lie accompanied his father's family to Richland county, Ohio. (Tore lie grew to manhood, attending the common schools of the neighborhood i 1 . the winter season, and labored on a farm in the summer.

stable of Mifflin township, and was re-elected five times j successively. In November, 1834, he married Susan j Newcomer, daughter of Christian Newcomer, who was j subsequently commissioner of Ashland county. Mr. j Gates moved to the village of Mifflin, where, in 1842, he I was elected justice of the peace, and twice re-elected, j In 1S4S he was elected sheriff, and re-elected in 1850. j In 1S52 he Was elected auditor, and re-elected in 1854. ; In 1S62 he was again elected auditor, and re-elected in j 1864. He now resides in Ashland. Since the expiration of his second term, as auditor he has followed the business of a public salesman or auctioneer. He has been j an active member of t lie Lutheran church since 1847, and, much of the time, a deacon or elder. His family consists of Sarah J., Halstead, Margaret, deceased, Fan- j nie Nelson, William H., Christian N., Reuben H., Arminda, Elizabeth, Frank and Martin L.

Joseph Harvuot

was born in Chester county, Pennsylvania, in 1792. In 1818 he married Lydia Bruce, and removed to Clear- i creek, Richland county, Ohio, in the sirring of 1S20, and located on section twenty-five, where he resided until his , decease in 1843. He was a member of the Disciple j church, and an elder. His family, at his decease, consisted of Isaac, Anne, Richard, Elizabeth, Lewis, Sarah, | Joseph, arid Mary, by his first wife, and William, by his second wife, having been twice married. The only j member of the family left in Clearcreek is Isaac. Isaac is a dealer in money, and is accumulating a fortune, i He is married, and resides in Savannah.

Lewis Oliver

In the early settlement of the south part of this county, j the pioneers were considerably embarrassed for a market j for their surplus grain and other farm products. The J ports on Lake Erie, Pittsburgh, and New Orleans were ! the principal markets. To reach the lake by teams, over the rough, new-cut roads, was toilsome and difficult, as veil as quite expensive; while wheat, flour, and corn commanded a low price. In consequence of the inferior ! markets on the lake, at Zanesville and Pittsburgh several enterprising pioneers had boats constructed, which were loaded and conveyed to New Orleans.

In the spring of 1823, Lewis Oliver and John Davis, of Green township, purchased of Nathan Dehaven, a flat-bottomed boat, which had been built at the mouth of Honey creek on the Black fork, by Mr. Dehaven, near the modern site of his saw-mill. The bout was 1 fifty-five feet long and fifteen feet wide, with rounded bows and a steering apparatus, and cabin. It was so covered as to protect its lading. This boat was con veyed up the Black fork to near the residence ot Mr. Oliver, whore it was partly loaded with whv.at. hour, pork, whiskey, and chickens.

slowly down the Black fork to Dehaven's, and the Loudonvillc mills, where a large amount of sawed cherry lumber and other articles were placed on board, to Ire conveyed to a southern market. The Black fork was a slow, tortuous stream, though the water was quite deep. Navigation was considerably impeded in consequence of the lodgment of driftwood in its winding course 10 the Walhonding. These difficulties were overcome by moving slowly and guarding the boat against accident.

- The crew of the boat consisted of Lewis Oliver and John Davis, proprietors, and Amos Harbaugh and 'Pirn othy Wilson, as hands. On the seventeenth, "all hands aboard," the boat was floated leisurely down the Black fork to its junction with the I .nice fork; then down the Walhonding to its junction with the Tuscarawas at the town of Coshocton; thence down the Muskingum to the city of Zanesville. There were on board, two skiffs, so that if the boat should be snagged, or otherwise injured by driftwood, the proprietors and hands could have means of escape. When the stream was sluggish and current slow, the boat was urged forward by settingpoles.

Upon their arrival at Zanesville, a formidable obstacle to their further advance was presented. The dam across the Muskingum at that place, was difficult to pass. It was seen at a glance, that it would require an experienced pilot to conduct the boat over it in safety. Ms Oliver went ashore to procure the services of a suitable guide. An individual representing the craft, presented himself and offered to conduct the boat safely over the dam. On being asked his price for the job, lie blandly informed Mr. Oliver it would be cheap at ten dollars. Mr. Oliver thought the charge rather extravagant. The valorous pilot feeling certain that he would ultimately get the job, declined . to take a cent less.

Here was a quandary. Mr. Oliver returned to the boat and reported the result of his mission. After some consultation, Mr. Davis concluded they could conduct the craft over the dam without the aid of a professional pilot. By this time a large crowd of spectators had assembled on the river bank to see the fun. The fall over the dam was about ten feet, and the current was very rapid. Some fifteen or twenty rods helc.w the dam. the Buckingham bridge, since the bridge of the national turnpike, supported by large stone piers, spanned the Muskingum river. If the boat moved straight forward, it would pitch upon its prow and be ci ushed or capsized: and if it escaped such a disaster, might strike a pier.

In this crisis Jersey wit and ingenuity triumphed. Mr. Oliver pinccd himself as steersman, at the .stern, while Mr. Davis and the hands, by united efforts, swung tht boat around so that it would pass obliquely over the dam. and strike and rise on the rolling current below, without stoving ;-! capsizing, i hey held its course stead until it readied the dam, when it shot over like an arrow, rose and floated on the current, and narrowly escaped the pier. At this achievement, the large nssembl.igx - 1 shore, gave a tremendous shout, and declared .1 " J c; sc > Yankee,' was equal to any emergency, and capable of any daring.

below Zanesville, where it was again compelled to encounter new dangers. They were less formidable, however, than the dam over which the boat had just passed. A point where the channel was deepest, was selected, and the little vessel cleared the falls in safety, and moved onward to Marietta, and entered the Ohio river. The hills and bluffs along its banks, covered with pine and other timber, rendered the voyage novel and interesting. The buds of the trees were just opening invegetation and flowers. Thus they glided toward the far south, where they were to find new and strange scenery.

j They passed Cincinnati, now the queen city of the | west. How great has been the growth of that beautiful i city since 1S23 ! Its markets were then easily glutted.

! Messrs. Oliver and Davis were compelled to go further south to dispose of their produce. Their little boat was shoved trom the wharf into the main current of the Ohio, where it moved rapidly toward the falls at Louisville. On their way they overtook a stranded emigrant boat which was unable to move, in consequence of the drift-wood. There were several families, with their goods on it, en route to southern Illinois and Iowa. Seeing the situation, the owners of the boat from the Black fork volunteed their aid to relieve the emigrants.

On arriving at the falls, the boat passed through with- . out accident, and the light-hearted owners pushed onward to the Mississippi, and down its dark-rolling current to New Orleans, the great southern market of that period. Here they found 0. ready market for their cherry lumber, at two dollars and twenty-five cents per hundred feet, and thirty seven and one-half cents per gallon for their whiskey - a better article than now sells for five dollars per gallon in the same city. Times change, men change, and prices necessarily fluctuate. Our country and its wealth are much more potent now than they were fiftytwo years ago, ajrd hence a greater value is attached to "fire-water." The pioneers are pretty generally of the opinion that the article manufactured fifty years ago was much purer and less harmful in its effects than modern "fire-water."

Finding no demand for their wheat, flour, and pork, they concluded to transfer those articles to a schooner and proceed to Richmond, Virginia, for a market. This transfer was made, and, as .soon as completed, the "whart rats" of New Orleans captured and concealed the boat. It was never seen again by its owners About the first of April they sailed for Richmond. Their voyage was a pleasant one. They coasted, around to the Chesapeake bay, and passed up the James river to Richmond. They arrived there about the seventeeth of April. The grand outline of the southern coast, with its attractive scenery, was constantly under iheir gaze, and was the subject of many remarks and much admiration. As they passed up the James river, the ancient homes of die colonists frequently hove in view and excited comment. Along the banks of that now classic stream, ! j nearly three hundred years beiorc, the colonists contended with the "fierce red man, ' for a home.

On reaching the market, they obtained one dollar and thirty cents per bushel for their wheat, and eight dollars per barrel for salt pork. These prices were such as would reward them fairly for their toil and perseverance. They felt amply compensated.

After spending a few days in Richmond, they prepared for returning to the wilds of the Black fork. They had separated from their hands at New Orleans. Their route, from Richmond, was through Goochland, Louisa, and Albemarle counties, and over the Blue Ridge mountains to Harrison burgh, in Rockingham county; thence across the Great North mountain, - to Moorefield, in Hardy county; thence to the Old Fort Redstone, in Pennsylvania; thence to Wheeling, 'West Virginia; thence, by Zanesville, Newark, and Mount Vernon, to j the Black fork, making a journey of about nine hundred j miles on foot. They met with no accident or incivility on their way, and arrived at home about the first of July.

Mr.- Oliver is now' about eighty-seven years of age, isquite active, and in the possession, of all his faculties. He looks younger than many men of sixty-five. He I informs me, that during the haying season of 1874 { he drove a team and rode on the mowing-machine J several days, and felt none the worse for it. Very few j men, at his age, would think of performing any labor, j He has always been noted for his integrity, industry, and uprightness, and says "he feels better to keep moving." Fie owns and resides upon the old homestead of his father, Allen Oliver, and has resided in the same locality sixty-four years.

James Loudon Priest

JAMES LOUDON PRIEST, from Crawford county, Pennsylvania, settled on the banks of the Lake fork, in what was then Wayne county, as early as 1810. At that period the Coshocton county line joined Wayne on the south and included the county of Holmes. At the erection of Holmes county, in 1824, the part of Lake township where Mr. Priest located became a part of Washington township, in Holmes county; and at the erection of Ashland county, in 1846, another slice, on the east side of the township, was annexed to Clinton township, Wayi e county, leaving Lake one of the smallest townships in Ashland county. Mr. j Priest, with his family, located in the spring of the year, | and by the aid of Thomas Jelloway, and several other j friendly Delaware Indians, put up a plain log cabin and I moved into it. His nearest neighbor was Alexander i Finley, who had located six miles further up the Lake J fork, at a -point now known as Tylertown, in 1S09. Mr.

! Priest was indebted to Mr. Finley for bis seed corn for I his first crop, and many other favors. His next neighbor was Nathan Odell, who arrived in the spring of iSii, and located in that part of Lake township which is now known as Clinton township, Wayne county.

Wi Lli Am Green Lee

In the spring of ;8ii Mr. Greenlee visited James L. Priest, a former neighbor, from Crawford county, Pennsylvania. Mr. Greenlee came by the way 'of Harrison county to Zanesville, then a new village, and up the banks of the Muskingum, the White-woman and the Lake fork on horseback. He found but few settlers between Mr. Priest and Zanesville. He selected and located a farm adjoining Mr. Priest, and returned for his family by the route he came. In October, 1811, he and his family, consisting of his wife, six daughters, and one son, started for the forests of Ohio. He had two teams, one with two and the other with four horses. The wagons were covered with linen canvas, and contained such household goods and provisions as were deemed essential to the comfort of a new settler. The route was through the village of Canton to what is now Wooster, and thence to the Lake fork. The trail was so narrow that Mr. Greenlee was compelled to widen it at many points before his teams could pass. His family slept in the wagons most of the way, doing their cooking by the side of the trail, nights and mornings. The route was wild and romantic, and it required some eight or ten days to complete the journey. He erected a plain log cabin, by the aid of Mr. Priest and a few friendly Indians, and moved into it. He resided on this farm until 1814, and sold it to Calvin Hibbard, father of Edward Hibbard, one of the first commissioners of Ashland county. He then purchased where John Greenlee, his only son, now resides. 'When he landed in I.ake, there were but the families of J. I- Priest, Samuel Marvin. William Hendrickson, Elijah Bolling and John Hendrick, on, in what is now Washington township, Holmes county. The next settlement was that of the Odells, which contained the families of Joshua Oram, Thomas Oram, John Oram, and Mordecai Chilcote, near Odell's lake.

/ On the morning of the tenth of September, 1813, John Greenlee went in search of his father's horses, which had strayed in the direction of Odell's lake. About the middle of the day, a heavy, roaring sound was heard in the northwest, amid the forest. It resembled distant thunder, and he feared a tremendous tornado was approaching, What excited his surprise was, the sky was clear and cloudless, and the roaring seemed a phenomenon. In the afternoon he abandoned the search and returned home, convinced that a great storm was approaching* His parents and others had heard the same rumbling sound, and were unable to account for it. In a few days the little colony learned the particulars of the victory achieved by Commodore Perry over Commodore Barclay and the British fleet ; and this accounted for the mysterious rumbling of tire toth The sound of Perry's guns had been conveyed down the valleys, a distance of over seventy miles. It is related that the heavycannonading was heard at Cleveland, about the same distance. Mr. Greenlee is a man of intelligence and unquestioned veracity, and relates the incident with minuteness and patriotic pride.

Ebenezer Rice

| Gersharn was born in Sudbury, in June, 1703, and was the son of Ephraim and Hannah Livermore Rice. Ephraim was born in Sudbury, in April, 1665, and was the I son of Thomas and Mary Rice. Thomas was born in 16 rx, and was the son of Edmund and Tatnazine Rice, who came from Barkhamstead, England, in 1638-9, and settled in Sudbury, and lived and died there, on the beautiful old farm on the east side of Sudbury river, near the border of the extensive meadows through which that river flows in its course to the Merrirnac. The old farm is now in the possession of the Hon. John Whitmore ! Rice.

Ebenezer Rice married Martha, daughter of Barnabas Alary Clark Hammond, of New Salem, Massachusetts. She was born in September, 1776, and they were married May 5, 1796, and emigrated to Licking county, Ohio, from Essex county, New York, in the year 1S10. The following February they came to Richland county, and entered the farm upon which Alexander Rice now resides, in Green township. Mr. Rice and his family experienced all the privations and anxieties of pioneer life in their forest home. Lie cheerfully aided the new settlers in the erection of cabins, at log-rollings and other gatherings. For several years the pioneers were mutually dependent upon each other, and the social relations were largely cultivated. The forests were to be cut sway, farms to be opened, school-houses to be erected, and public highways to be constructed. Air. Rice took an active and leading part in ail these enterprises. He was particularly interested in the education of his children. He survived until rSai. His family, at his decease, consisted of eleven children- -four girls: Elizabeth, Martha. Harriet, and Abigail; and seven boys: Ebenezer. Alexander, Clark, Or.-. on, Reuben, Levi, and Samuel. Only four survive: Elizabeth, wife of the late John Coull ter; Martha, of Wisconsin; Alexander, of Green town- 1 ship, and Samuel, of Iowa. The widow of Ebenezer | Rice subsequently married Judge Thomas Coulter, and | died in September, 1835.

I Alexander Rice was born in Massachusetts, in August, j 1801, and emigrated with his parents to Green township, in 1810. He grew up amid the wild and beautiful seen- I ery of the hills and valleys flinging the Black fork of the Mohican, and a neighbor to the red men of the village | of Greentown. His educational advantages at that curly j day, were extremely limited. Being a young man ol ev j cellent sense, he acquired much information after reaching manhood. He is noted for Iris practical ideas, and j plainness of speech. He has resided about xi\tv-si\ years on the homestead, and been continuously engaged in cultivating the soil.

In 1826 lye married Miss Sarah Johnson, of Vermillion township. 'IT, oil children were IGo.elln, Rosinn, Orson, Reuben 1L, Isaac J., and Rosaline. Mrs. Rice died in 1S44. Miss Rose!!;-, is a lady of talent and

Mr. Rice is yet in the full possession of all his faculties, and is quite vigorous for a man of his age. He remembers very distinctly the early scenes in Green town- . ship -the excitement of cabin-raisings, log-rollings, cutting roads and constructing corduroy bridges over marshes and sloughs. He relates, with historic precision, the opening scenes of the war of 1812, the Indian j tragedies on the Black fork, the ejecting of block-houses, j and modes of life from 1812 to 1875. j When about nine years of age, his father, mother and i a number of neighbors, were invited by the Indians to I attend a feast at their village. He accompanied the invited ! guests to witness the performance. "There were between three and four hundred Indians present. The invited guests were permitted to enter the council house, a building, perhaps thirty feet wide, and nearly sixty feet long. In the center of the building was a mound of earth about three feet high and eight or ten feet in diameter. Forks were driven into it and poles placed upon them. Upon these a number of copper kettles were sus : pended. They contained bear's meat, venison and the like, which was being boiled for distribution among the Indians and invited guests. The white and Indian boys , remained outside the building." While gazing at the ! performance within, a young Indian came up behind j young Rice, seized him around the arms and body and j held him firmly. The alarm and amazement of young Rice were very great. He states that his first sensation on being unable to extricate himself, was that of despair, ile thought he could almost feel his scalp disappearing. By the intervention of a squaw he escaped the grasp of the young savage, to the relief of his fears. Although 1 this scene occurred sixty-four years ago he says he retains a most vivid recollection of his sensations on that occasion. Subsequently he became well acquainted with the Armstrong boys, young Pipe, a son of old Captain Pipe, Jonacake, Lyons, Dowdee and other Green- | town Indians.

Mr. Rice possesses a most extraordionary memory for dates, and the author of these pages is indebted to him for many valuable reminiscences of the early settlements I of Green township. Mr. Rice is yet (1SS0) residing on his homestead near Perrysville, aged nearly eighty years, and retains all his mental faculties and much physical vigor.

Melzer Tannthill, sr., was born in Frederick county, Maryland, My 12, 1716. He emigrated to what is now Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, and located near Pitts- | buigh in the year <777' during the Revolutionary war. lie married Miss Eleanor Bile, March 13, 179c. He emigrated to Jefferson county, Ohio, ir. 1805, and in September, iS t 1, removed to Green township, in what

; is now Ashland county, and located on section twenty- -j three, where he resided over fifty years. He was. one j of the first commissioners of Richland county in 1S13. i In 1812 he was assessor of Knox county, lie was subsequently a justice of the peace for Green township. During the exciting scenes of 1812, after the assassinations on the Black fork, he took a vigilant part in preparing to repel any future assaults by the savages. He deceased April 24, 1 S 5 1 . He was an exemplary and upright man, and had been a regular attendant upon the services of the Presbyterian church for many years. His family consisted of five sons and five daughters. Two sons and three daughters yet survive.

Charles Tannehill was born in Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, January 30, 3792. He emigrated with his father's family in iSir, and assisted in improving the homestead in Green township. During the border troubles of 1812, he served as a soldier in a company recruited in Knox county, Ohio, by Captain Greer, and ! oarticinatcd in all the dangers incident to border life, j In Tune, 1814, he married Miss Mary, daughter of Allen - Oliver, and located on section twenty-seven, where he i resided over fifty years. He died at the residence of 1 his son-in-law, Mr. Joseph Cathcart, in Portage county, Indiana, November 26, 1875, at the advanced age of eighty-four years. His remains were brought to Perrysville for interment, and now rest beside those of the wife of his youth, who had preceded him to the grave. He was a member of the Disciple church. His family consisted o: twelve children, nine sons and three daughters. Four sons and two daughters survived him. Mr. j Adamson Tannehill, the oldest son, resides in Flicks- I viile, Defiance county, Ohio. He was born July 1, 1S15, and is the oldest living native of Green township.

Melzer Tannehill, ir., second son of Melzer, sr., was born in Butler county, Pennsylvania, June 18, 1S01, and removed with his father's family to Jefferson county, Ohio, and thence to Green township in 1811, and assisted in improving the old homestead. He is now seventy-live years old, and quite rugged. He writes a fair I hand, and may survive many years. He is an influential farmer, and takes a lively interest in the improvement of the county. Ills recollections of the days of the pioneers are quite vivid. At the organization of the pioneer and historical society of Ashland county in 1S75, he communicated many interesting incidents, and became a member. He says the following pioneers were citizens of Green township at the arrival of his father's family in 1811: "George Pierce, John Davis, George and Abram Baughman, John Murphy, Joseph Jones, Sylvester Fisher, Ebenezer Rice, Solomon Hill, Josiah E. Hill, Moses Adsil, Thomas Coulter, Aller Oliver and Jeremiah Conine, and their families. In the fall of 1812, when the Indians became hostile, the settlers erected strong cabins and block-houses tor their protection. Some three or four families having friends at Clinton, Knox county, removed there for greater safety. I'heiv \s as no stampede, .is some state. All the ^ettlcrs, except the ones named, remained and occupied their own places o( deti m e.

Elias Ford

was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, in 1799. ' He came with his father, Thomas Ford, from Jefferson county, Ohio, to Clearcreek township, in 1S19. His father had entered a quarter section of land in section twenty-two. They journeyed in a small, one-horse ; wagon, in which they brought the necessary provisions i for their absence, and a few tools to erect a cabin. From ; Wooster they passed along the path to the present site j of Rousburgh, thence along the old trail to the house i of Jacob Young, on the Mohican, northeast of Union- ; town; thence, to near Mason's mill, and then, along a I new cut road to section twenty-two, where they erected I a temporary shelter, somewhat in the form of a camp ! house, with open front, and covered with bark. Their bunk upon which they slept was suspended by bark 1 ropes from the roof and was about three feet from the ' ground. The fire place was immediately in front of this j open cabin and fire was kept burning during the night to ! frighten away the wolves, and keep off the mosquitoes. The wolves were uncommonly numerous and mischiev- i ous. Rattlesnakes, and other varieties of reptiles, were quite numerous. The bed being thus elevated secured the occupants from the reptiles. Mr. Ford was accom- j paniedby a large watch-dog, who slept at the open door- j way in front of the cabin, to alarm the occupants in case ! of intrusion or danger. Thomas and Eiias Ford were j well armed. Elias slept in the cabin while Ids father made his home at Thomas McConnell's, a son-in-law, in Orange township. At the time of the arrival of Mr. Ford and son, a large number of Delaware Indians were encamped in the neighborhood, engaged in making sugar and hunting. They were well aimed but quite j friendly. A strong attachment soon sprang up and con- j tinued until the close of the hunting season. At this date many Wyandois and Delazoares hunted annually along the Vermillion river and in the vicinity of the ^ Savannah lakes, and looked with suspicion upon the in- - Fusion of the white settlers. After a few weeks, Thomas j Ford returned to Jefferson county and removed with the j balance of his family to Clearcreek. Elias had been \ engaged in clearing and fencing a field for corn, and in j the absence of a team, carried rails on his shoulders to | place them in a fence.

The family of Thomas Ford, at their arrival in 1S19, ' consisted of four sons, Elias, Elijah, Thomas FI., and John; and four daughters, Elizabeth, Rebecca, Susan nah, and Belinda. In the meantime a larger and more j commodious cabin had been erected by the aid of the scattered settlers. Fdias, subsequently, September 9, j 1821, married Miss Elizabeth Parks, of Jefferson county, ' and located on the late Daniel Huffneer farm. At this I time there was neither a church nor school-house in tire ! township. The people assembled at the cabin of Thomas ; Ford, for public worship, for many years. In iS;o, I Ford's meeting house was erected; it was a fine structure ! for that period, and was occupied by the Methodists as i a place of worship. Thomas Ford died October 10 1S30; Ins funeral was preached by Rev. Lhncr \ ooum. 1 preparing his farm. For many years lie experienced all the privations of pioneer life, but by industry and frugality accumulated a handsome property. Having disposed of his old homestead, he purchased a new home in 1845, and subsequently, about '.865, sold it, and removed to Troy township, where he deceased in the fall of 1874, aged about seventy-five years. Mr. F'ord was a large man; would weigh about two hundred pounds. He had a fine head, and bore a striking resemblance to Daniel Webster. If he nau possessed the advantage of a thorough collegiate course of training, he would have left a proud record. As it was, he was a leading man in his township, as a fanner and a citizen. He was a man of high moral attainments, and took a leading part in favor of the public schools. Thomas H. F'ord, a younger brother, served in the Mexican war as a captain, and subsequently became lieutenant governor of Ohio. He was also a colonel in the war of 1861 - 5. "Fie is dead. The balance of the family are somewhat scattered.

Jacob Lucas

was born, in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, June 27, [805. He is of German descent. His father was from Hessia, and came over in the British army during the American Revolution. He served about three yews, and upon learning that the colonists were not really cannibals, as asserted by the British officers, deserted to the colonial side. At the close of the war he settled - in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, where he died in 1833, aged seventy-three years.

Jacob Lucas, his son, emigrated to Perry township, Wayne county, in 1832, with his family. He served a time at the trade of a tanner, in Mt. Pleasant, Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, in 1S21-3, and was among the fust of his craft in Perry township. He carried on business over forty years, and retired in 1S72. He is a leading member of the German Baptists or Dunkards. His family consists of four suits, John, Albert, Joseph, and Hiram, and four daughteis, Rebecca, Elizabeth, Mary, and Lydia -all married.

Jacob H1Ffner, Sr

was bom in Hessia, Germany, in 1752, and when about sixteen years of age emigrated with his father's family to the State of Maryland, and settled near the Pennsylvania line. In the fall of 1776 he volunteered to serve three years in the line of Maryland infantry in the American Revolution. He marched with the Maryland troops to Trenton and Princeton, and participated in the battles of December 27, 1776, and January 3, 1777. In the following August he was in the battle cf Bennington, and in September, the battle of Brandywine. He was at the surrender of. Burgoyne. in October 1777 Ho fought in tlie badle ot Monmouth, in June, 1778 From that period to the close of his enlistment, he marched, and cu'unlci marched with the away from point to point, partii ipating in many skirmishes and hard | fought battles. At the expiration of his enlistment he j returned to the residence of his father, where he re- j rnained nearly two yeais. The long continuance of the contest was rapidly decimating the colonies of their ablebodied men. It became necessary to force recruiting.

A new draft was ordered and Mr. Hifi'ner's name was drawn. Having seen hard service in the army, he was not inclined to renew his old toils, dangers and sufferings. His father aided him in procuring a substitute, by the payment of such sum as was demanded. At the close of the Revolution Mr. Hiffner removed to Huntingdon county, Pennsylvania, where he remained until the fall of 1817, when he removed to Orange township, Rich 'land county, Ohio. At the time of his removal his family consisted of six sons, Jacob, Frederick, Henry, John, David and Valentine, and four daughters, Elizabeth, Miiry, Martha and Catharine. Mr. Hiffner and his sons, several of whom were married and had families, were accompanied by Jacob Ridenour, a son in-law, and his family. The little colony was transported through the wilderness, along trails and recently opened paths, j by four four-horse teams, in covered wagons, in which the families slept at night, during their long trip, cooking by the side of the paths at the regular hours. They | crossed the Ohio river at Steubenville, and passed, ' thence, by narrow, muddy paths to New Philadelphia, : to Wooster, and the present site of Rowsburgb, thence | along the old Indian trail and emigrant path, to Jacob I Young's, in Orange, and thence through the forest by new cut paths to section fourteen, where they erected small cabins within a short distance of their present homes, and commenced to cut away the forests and prepare fields for culture. When Mr. Eliffner and h is suns j and son-in-law landed, they found the following settlers, ! who had preceded them one or two years: Rudy Brou- j derberry, Robert Yvasson, Martin Hester, Jacob Fast, Solomon Uric, Vachel Metcalf, Amos Norris, Jacob Young, Mordecai Chiicote, Philip Fluke, and John : Bishop, who subsequently married Elizabeth Hiffner*. | Mr. Hiffner lived to see his children all possess comfort- j able homes. He deceased November 23, 1848, aged ninety-six years and two months. He was buried on a I bluff of Mohican creek, in the family cemetery, where many of his kindred sleep. May his rest never be dts- ; turbed by American recreancy or a want of patriotic devotion to the institutions he helped inaugurate. The i only survivors of the large family are Catharine, wife of ; Joseph. Bishop and David, aged (1876) seventy-three J years. Jacob Hiffner, the oldest of the family, served j three months in the war of 1812 at Black Rock. He I died, aged about eighty years. Henry died, aged j seventy-two years. Valentine died, aged sixty-six years, i

- *.\ short time after the airixal ot Mr I '.inner, in the fall of s 8 1 7, j Thomas Lyons, and sixteen or seventeen L T.nvnie Indians, visited his cabin and had a long talk on the history of the /->,-/, /..'.//vr in I'emtsvlvstnia, and the noted land-marks ir, that state, as well as the beaut 'fill valleys of tin: Wyoming. Old T.an was very e vil and sit pt on a blanket in the cabin «,»< Mr. Until. -r. It was tile custom of the ! - x-i nrs for the following »i\ or seven ye.ns to hunt and make sugar along the streams in Orange ami Jackson township.

John Tilton

was born in Princeton, New Jersey, in 1760. lie entered the army of the American Revolution when he was sixteen years old, in 1776. Ele served in a regiment commanded by Colonel Klon. He was in the battles of Princeton, January 3, 1777; Germantown, October 4, 1777; Monmouth, June 28, 1778; Sander's Creek, August jG, 17S0; Jamestown, July 9, 1781; at the surrender of Lord Cornwallis, October in, 1781, and in a number of heavy skirmishes and retreats. He was in the service nearly five years, during which he experienced ail the privations and hardships incident to the Revolutionary war. At the expiration of his service he returned to New Jersey, and married.

In 1787 he removed to Washington county, Pennsylvania. His family, at that time, consisted of himself, his wife, and two children- - Elizabeth and Ira.

In August, 1812, he removed to Stark county, Ohio. In 1814 he removed to Wayne county, where he remained until May, 1831, when he located on section thirty-five, in Orange township, Ashland county. He. purchased the farm of Robert Crawford, upon which had been erected, by its owner, a noted horse-mil! of the pioneer period.

Mr. Tilton enlisted, for a tour of three months, in the brigade of Colonel Robert Crooks, in the war of 18.12 in the northwest, while residing in Stark county, and accompanied the Pennsylvania troops, under General Robert Crooks, from Pittsburgh to Jerome's place and Mansfield, late in the fall of 1812.

He possessed great bodily vigor, which he retained to an advanced age. He was inflexible in his purposes, and retained a clear intellect until the time of his death. He expired, after a brief illness, at his farm in Orange township, August 12, 1S49, aged nearly ninety years. He was accompanied to his final rest, in the cemetery at Orange, by volunteer military companies under the command of the late Colonel Alexander Miller,. Major R. B. Fulkerson, and Captain John S. Fulton, and hundreds of his old neighbors.

Mr. Tilton was regarded as an upright and valuable citizen. His services in the war of Independence, and of 1812, with Great Britain, won for him the esteem of all his patriotic neighbors.

Mrs. Tilton preceded him to the grave about four months, at the ag'e of eighty-four years. The family consisted of Elizabeth, Ira, Sarah, Amy, Phobe, Deborah, Aaron, and James A. Of these, only two survive - Mrs. Phebe Camybell, aged eighty-five, and Janies Albert, aged sixty-five. The latter resides on the old homestead, and is remarkable foi his extraordinary physical force and mental determination. Flo is a successful farmer and business man.

was horn in Bucks county, Pennsylvania, Jami.uv 14, 1774 His lather had emigrated from Behind two or three years before the commencement of the American

Revolution. He removed, after the close of the war, into Huntingdon county, and subsequently into Bedford county near the iron works. Here William remained until manhood, and married. In August, 1821, he emigrated, with his family, to Richland county, Ohio, landing at Mansfield. He brought with him one five-horse, one four-horse, and one two-horse team.. The large team was loaded principally with axes, grubbing hoes, wedges, corn hoes and other necessary tool , and one set of blacksmith tools, which were disposed of to the pioneers at a fair profit. His route was by Pittsburgh, then along Cook's and Beall's trails to Wooster, and thence through Jerorneville, Hayes' cross roads, Petersburg!!, and to Mansfield along the old State road. In the fall of 1821, he purchased four quarter sections of land adjoining what is now the Carey farm in Green township. He improved this property, passing through all the struggles of pioneer life, and resided on it until March 7, 18 . i, when he deceased. This homestead, in point of soil and location, was one of the finest in the county. Mr. Taylor was twice married. His family consisted of eight sons - William, Thomas, Levi, James, Alexander, David, John and Andrew, and one daughter, Sarah, wife of Thomas McGuire, of Green. John has been repeatedly elected justice of the peace, has served two terms in the Ohio legislature, and was elected probate judge in 1875.

Andrew Newman

was born in Rockingham county, Virginia, in 1778. He was of German descent, the original name being Neumann. He emigrated to Richland, then Fairfield county, in 1806, and settled on the Rocky fork of Mohican, in Miftliri township, about three and a half miles below the present site of Mansfield. FI ere he was joined by Jacob Beam and other pioneers. When the war of 1812 was declared, and the border settlers menaced by the Indians on the Black fork and Jerome fork, Mr. Nowman assisted in the erection of a block-home, known as '' Beam's," to which the settlers fled for safety. At the time of the removal of the Green and Jerometown Indians, Mr. Newman was engaged in building a saw-mill on the Rocky fork. In this work he was added by William and Richard Roberts, of Knox county. The night the Zimmers and Ruffner were slain by the Indians, Mr. Newman fancied that the savages were in the vicinity of his cabin, for the reason that his big dog kept up such a disturbance. The hands got their guns in readiness, expecting to be attacked momentarily. Newman labored under unusual excitement, and in attempting to load his gun spilled the powder. Mr. Newman called to his aid Mr. Shearer ; exclaiming. " py sure T vill spill all my po-.vter. Shearer, you loads mine gun." The guns were loaded, and the score axes plated in reach, to repel the savages if they attempted to enter the cabin. There was no more sleep that night. The next morning

| and reported that Ruffner and the Zimmer family had i been killed. Upon examination about the forebay of I the mill-race, which had just been raised, several mocj cast n tracks were discovered, and the evidence was clear | that the Indians had meditated an attack there, hut \ feared the Newman party were too strong. There were | but four men at. Newman's- --himself, Air, Shearer, and j the two Roberts brothers. Within an hour after hearj ing of tho massacre, Newman got up his team and fled J to the block-house at Mansfield. The Roberts brothj ers, with a few soldiers from Captain Martin's company,

I which was stationed at Beam's block-house, rode over I and examined the scene at Zimmers, and helped bury j the victims of Indian vengeance. Mr. Newman re- ; marned in Mifflin township until the fall of 1825. when he purchased of Samuel McBride the farm upon which j "he afterwards erected a grist-mill, being the property | more recently known as the Joseph Boyd mill, in the I northeast part of Vermillion township. After disposing | of the mill property he purchased a farm near the south ! line of the township, where he deceased January 20,

' tS6i, aged eighty-three years. The surviving members | of his .family were William and James H. Newman, i neither of whom reside in this county. James removed I in the spring of 1S76 to the vicinity of Hillsboro, Ohio.

Jacob Shop Bell

j was born in Berks county, Pennsylvania, September 20, 1 788. His father, Daniel Shopbeil, was a Revolutionary soldiei and served in the army about seven years. He : was in the battles of White Plains, Bmndywine, Bunker Hill, and other struggles. He died in 1806. in Nortni ampton county, Pennsylvania. His grandfather, Eberhard Shopbeil, was a soldier in the war between France and Germany, in which the French acquired the tori i Lory of Alsace and Loraine. He lost a brother by the guillotine, and many relatives in the war, and came to America and settled in Berks county, Penns) Ivania, where he ' died at the age of one hundred and four years. The people of that county were largely German, ar.d the schools were entirely in that language. Jacob Shopbeil w:w. e h' rated m the German dialect, and although he speaks the English tongue, reads only the German language. He emigrated from Northampton county, Pennsylvania, to Orange township, Richland, now Ashland county, Ohio, in 1832. He located near what is now Leidigh's mill. He served three months in the war of i8t ?, at Black Rock, near the lake, shoie, under Colonel Irwin and Captain Jos- ph Dean. He was in no regulhc battle of small arms. He is now the oldest soldier of tins region. He has always been a farmer, temperate, industrious and economical, and :< yet remarkably vigorous for a m.m ot his age. He has :>ecu twice married, and is the father of seventeen children, eleven gibs and five boys. There were six r.liudivn by Ins fust wife, and eleven by the second. His sons . Andrew, ol Michi

| He obtained a liberal education, and upon reaching manhood became a successful teacher. He was principal of the Loudonville academy for some years. He read medicine in the office of Dr. E. 15. Fuller, attended lectures I at Starling medical college, Columbus, Ohio, at Buffalo ! university, at the medical department of Havard college,

' and college of physicians and surgeons. He opened an office in Loudonville, in 1853, and has been in successful practice to the present, 1876. Since his graduation he has become a member cf the Ashland county medical society, and also of the Ohio State medical society. He is also corresponding member of the gynaecological society of Boston, and a member of the American medical association, lie takes a deep interest in literal y pursuits, and when a teacher, was regarded as one of the best mathematicians in the county. He has been three times married, twice to daughters of Dr. E. B. Fuller. He is of Scotch-Irish descent, and possesses all the enthusiasm of both races. Possessed of a strong will, he is resolute in the prosecution of whatever he deems right. If health permits, he has the attainments to achieve a fine reputation in the medical profession. He j would acquit himself ably in any of the medical colleges I of this State. He is a fluent conversationalist, a ready j speaker, and a clear thinker.

Dr. Ephraim B. Fuller

DR. EPHRAIM B. FULLER was born in Madison county, New York, July 8, 1799. Me read medicine in the office of Dr. Parkis, of Tioga county, Pennsylvania, and commenced practice in 1823. He married Sarah Culver, of Elkland, Pennsylvania, in March, 1822. He practiced in Potter county, Pennsylvania until the spring of 1832, when he located in Toudonviile, Richland (now Ashland,) county, Ohio.

Dr. Fuller was not a. regularly educated physician, j having read in a private office, and according to the j statutes of New York, was examined and admitted to i practice medicine and surgery under a certificate issued by the county censors. lie was a man of marked in- : dustry, and possessed an iron will, which associated with a powerful physical organization, a love of his profession, and close attention to medical authorities enabled him to accomplish a great deal in the line of his calling. Me had a most extensive practice, and was unusually successful in the treatment of the diseases of his localitv. Me practiced continuously over thirty-six years, sometimes under circumstances the most adverse, and in the lace of a well arranged competition, always sustaining hirnsclf honorably in his profession. Me should rank among the very best of tiro profession in the county, j Me died at Loudonville, December 23, 1867. Jle left a family.

Dr. Amos B. Fuller is a son, and Dr. A. J. Scott, a son-in-law. The son is said to possess many of the ; peculiarities of the father, and will probably succeed to j a fair share of his practice.

Dr. Joseph E. Cliff

a native of London, England, an energetic and spirited j physician,' well calculated to make himself known and ; felt in the community, settled in Loudonville in 1825. He studied medicine with Dr. Daniel McPhail, of Wooster, 1821-2 a Scotchman, and leading physician of | Waynec ounty, for several years, in At that period Dr.

| McPhail frequently visited Clearcreek, Montgomery, l Vermillion, and Mohican townships, accompanied by ; Dr. C i i lT, who sometimes repeated the visits. He r<_- i mained about two years at Loudonville, and returned to : Wooster, and shortly afterwards departed for the gold : mines in Brazil, South America. He landed in the midst ! of a revolution, and proceeding to the mines, remained j several years, and became possessed of considerable I wealth. In the meantime, his wife, a daughter of Dr. j McPhail, supposing him dead, married Robert W. Smith, j South America and found his wife in the possession of ! another! Accepting the condition of things as philosophically as possible, he proceeded to provide liberally [ for his son, who afterwards read medicine, and now j enjoys a wide reputation as Dr. D. B. Cliff, of Franklin,

' Tennessee. After this the old doctor returned to I.onj don, England, where he died some years since. This is | highly romantic, but nevertheless true. It is obtained ! from the lips of his venerable wife, who still survives,

Money was very scarce, and the surplus products of | the countay, in 1825, .had no market. High spirited and j ambitious, the doctor hoped to better his fortunes in I other countries. Me was wholly deprived of the means I of corresponding with his family, and the sequel shows ; that, while he accomplished the object of his adventure, he lost an amiable and accomplished wife.

i On a pleasant evening in the fall of 1820, a young man of fair countenance, dark eyes, black hair, very ' erect and plainly habited, seated in a one-horse wagon,

: with a wooden box foi a trunk, drove to the front of 1 what was then known as the "Sheets' tavern," located on 1 the lot now occupied by Jacob Weisenstinc. in Unionj town, now Ashland, and asked permission to lodge for the night. It was granted, and the young man was soon seated for supper, while his jaded horse was careful A , stabled and fed by the landlord, Mr. Joseph Sheets, who was also the principal tailor and mcrclvnt of the village, i The new guest appeared to he a quiet, self-possessed, in j telligcni young gentleman, and Mrs. Sheets soon had him engaged in a lively conversation. Supper being over, the routine of finding out the birth-place, the financial resources, the destination, and the personal peculiarities of the stranger, was gone into in a systematic manner.

During this ordeal it was learned that the stranger was a native of Beikshire county, Massachusetts, was born about the year 1794, had attended a neighborhood school until he was of age, and then, like a true son of New England, had come west to seek his fortune, his parents being unable to extend further aid. It further transpired that he had gone to Troy, New York, about the year 1816, where he earnestly engaged in the vocation of teaching school, in the meantime studying medicine under a leading practitioner of that place, where, at the conclusion of his studies, he had been licensed to practice, and located, for a short time, at a place called Red Post, in the vicinity of Troy: but, finally, preferred to go further west, and that, with one hundred dollars in money, and his horse and wagon, lie had reached U11- iontown in the hopes of finding a new home.

Mr. and Mrs. Sheets gave it as their opinion that a physician might soon obtain a lively practice in this region, as there was no doctor nearer than Mansfield (Di. Miller), which was about sixteen miles away. The young gentleman whom they addressed was Dr. Joel Luther, Berkshire, of Massachusetts.

The new doctor retired to bed feeling much encouraged over the idea of having found a good location and a pleasant home. About daylight the next morning the occupants of the Sheets house were aroused by loud knocking at the front door. Mr. Sheets hastily opened it and asked what was wanting. The man, who resided some three miles in the country, inquired if there was not a doctor in town, stating that a member of his family was very sick. Mr. Sheets replied that a young doctor had arrived the night before, was in the house, and had about concluded to locate in the village. Dr. 1 uther was urged to accompany the pioneer to his cabin. He was but too happy to do so. He was soon ready, mounted his horse and threaded his way along paths through the forest to the presence of his new patient. This was the first case of the first doctor; and having been successfully treated, the new physician soon obtained an extensive practice. The prevailing diseases of those days were autumnal fevers, bilious, bilious remittent, and the process of treatment was generally such as kills the modern bullock -copious blood-letting. Strong men required vigorous treatment, and they got it without stint. The lancet, was an indispensable instrument; and when a physician could not be had, many private persons proffered their services as plebotomists, and human blood was abstracted freely. Times change, and men change. The sanguinary theory is now almost a dream.

The doctor erected an office a short distance above the present location of the McNulty house, where he continued to do business until about the year 1831, when he retired from the practice, owing to failing health, and soon alter opened a dry goods establishment in whi< h fawns engaged until his decease in 1834 As a physician he had an extended and successful practice, and drew

[ around him a large circle of friends. As a business man 1 lie was shrewd and exact and careful in all his dealings, j and accumulated a fine property, tie was genial and | pleasant among his patients and friends, and not averse { to a good practical joke.

j In 1824 he was married to Miss Elizabeth, daughter 1 of Christopher Mykrantz, who died April 19, 18S0, aged | seventy-two years, two months and twelve days, born in | Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania. At his death he | left one daughter who married Dr. J. F. Sampsell, and is I now deceased.

Diploma Of Dr. Joel Luther

I Joel Luther was examined by the censors of Rensseliaer medical society j in the various branches of medical science, and received their approha- 1 tion. Now, know ye, therefore, that by virtue of the powers in me j vested, I do hereby authorize and license the sain Joel Luther to pracj tice physics and surgery, in die State of New 'fork. In testimony ! whereof, t have set my hand to these presents, and caused the sea! of f -the society to be hereunto affixed.

Dr. Joseph Hildreth

! arrived in Ashland, and obtained employment at the dis- ! tillery of Slocum and Palmer. He was dreadfully afj flicted with obliquity of vision, a disease known as s(rai bismus. One eye seemed to be so much affected as to be useless for all purposes, and the other, so distorted as to make it very difficult for him to read. His singular | appearance attracted a good deal of attention, and ma ny j unfeeling witticisms were perpetrated at his expense.

| It was noticed, however, that he possessed quite a store of information, and could converse fluently when so dis- I posed, lie very soon encaged the attention and symi pathy of Dr. Joel Luther, whose esteem he finally won.

The doctor discovered, on further acquaintance, that the | young man possessed a most retentive memory, and had talents of an unusual order. Thus he had been richly endowed with intellect to atone for all Ins physical in firm ides, as in the case of /Esop and thousands of others. At the request of Dr. Luther, Mr. Hildreth commenced a course ot medical studies, and made rapid progress. He continued in the office, ns a student, some three years. At that period the laws of Ohio required all students, at the completion of their studies, before entering upon practice, to procure a license to do so. I here being no medical school, the young doctor had to thread his way along rough roads and paths to the legislature, with a view of submitting to an examination by a special committee to be appointed by that body. On his arrival, he attrai ted a good deal of attention. The committee was appointed, and the time and place for examination designated. From the singular appearance of the applicant, it was believed that the committee would make a sort of frolic of the affair - have a good deal of fun and let the young man depart in disgust. The chairman of the committee, being a sort of doctor, turned out to be not so learned on anatomy as Horner, W'istor or Wilson. He had proceeded but a brief time in the examination, when the young doctor picked him up on the origin, insertion, and location of the sarforius. 'The next blunder was, in assigning the position of the liver and stomach in relation to the diaphragm. The young doctor triumphed. The principles of the theory and practice of medicine were hastily disposed of, and compatibles and incompatibles entered upon. By way of crowding the youngdoctor into a tight place, the chairman wished to know the result of a mixture of alkaline salts, water, and animal oil, in given proportions. After revolving the matter a moment, the young doctor said: "Gentlemen, I have studied with a view of practicing medicine, and not to follow the occupation of making soap." The laugh was on the wrong side again. The committee had caught a " Tartar," and was bound to bring in a favorable report, which was done; and the doctor returned fully authorized to practice his profession. He continued in practice, in Ashland, with fair success, some five or six years, and removed to Bellvillq, Richland county, where he resided many years. He subsequently studied law and located in Mansfield, where he deceased about two years since.

The doctor achieved a fine reputation as a leading member of the Masonic fraternity. He was, perhaps, one of the brightest Masons in the State, and many years ago was appointed by the Grand lodge a member of a committee to revise the work, a duty which he discharged with fidelity and rare ability.

As a physician, he understood clearly the principles of his profession, and, as a lawyer, he is said to have been well versed, but, owing to his infirmities of vision, he was unable to make such a display of his talents as would win public patronage.

He was the second physician in Ashland, and a man of note. He is an illustration of what can be accomplished by industry and untiring perseverance, notwithstanding the embarrassments of physical ir nmities.

DR. Wil l, TAM N. DEMING, from Medina county, Ohio, is believed to have been the third physician of Ashland. He arrived about the winter of 1826. He continued in an active practice until 1837, when he located in the village of Orange, where his brother, Charles, was engaged in the mercantile business. He resided in Orange about two years, when he became a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, during a revival, and prepared to enter the ministry. He attended conference, and was assigned to .1 circuit. Upon returning home he was taken mddenlv very sick, and died, after a brief illness. The doctor is represented as having been an excellent physician, and a man of arrived about the year 1829, and continued in practice ! until 1833, when he removed to Canton, Illinois. He is represented as a gentleman of good social bearing and fair medical attainments. His Christian name is not remembered.

Dr. Willard Slocum

! He was a man of strong points, and soon made an irn j pression, financially and professionally. He had c-onsid- | erable reputation, and is said to have been a bold opera- : tor. He closed his practice, and emigrated to Michi- : gan, in the spring of 1846, where he deceased, after a | residence of some two or three years. He was a relative of the late Elias Slocum.

Dr. Gustavus O Ester Lem

I was examined in the spring of 1830, and received his diploma. In the spring of 1S30 he was appointed as- ! sistant surgeon in the army of Wurtcmberg, and remained in said position until the fall of 1S33. In the I spring of 1834 he took passage for America, and in July arrived at Mansfield, Richland county, where he re- | mained until about the first of October, and then located j in Ashland, where lie has been in practice nearly tc rty- ! one years. In size, the doctor is below the medium, bis \ height being about five feet seven inches, and his weight 1 about one hundred and twenty pounds. He is quite ac- 1 tivc, and in the full possession of all his faculties. He j is very courteous and kind in his bearing towards the ! members of his profession. In the languages he is, perhaps, the best scholar of the medical profession of this ; region. He has had a good German practice for many years, and has met with excellent success. As a sur- 1 geon, he has had a good reputation, and in his prime was the best operator in the country. Of late years, from failing vision and nervousness, he has performed fewer operations The doctor is a fine specimen o* the old school German gentleman; and still adheres to many | of the customs of the fatherland. As a citizen, he is law-abiding, quiet, and exemplary. As a business 1 man, his integrity has never been disputed. Among the members of his profession he is much respected. He was among the first to aid in the formation of a I medical society in this county, that courtesy, fraternity | and professional zea! might be disseminated among his ; brethren.

Tor a period of nearly thirty years the doctor has j been an active member of the Masonic order, and has j been almost continuously the treasurer of the lodge. This speaks well for h's fidelity and masonic bearing : among his associates. Among the members of the | lodge, as among the medical fraternity, he has been ; noted' for his genial and unselfish disposition. He has i always a kind word for the encouragement of the : younger members of his profession. He is now the ! - Nestor of his profession in this county. Learned, cour- i teens, and proud of his profession, he hails every advancement in medical science as the harbinger of good to the race.

Dr. Bela 13. Clark

was born in New Milford, Connecticut, October i, 1796. j He studied medicine in the same place, and attended lectures under Drs. Hosac, Francis and Mott, in New York city in 1817. He came to Medina, Ohio, in 1S18, j and was married to Sophia P. Searls, October 2 S, 1820. j He practiced medicine in Medina county twenty-four i years, and removed to the city of Columbus in 1842, i where he practiced three years. During his residence in ' that city he became acquainted with several gentlemen 1 from Ashland, who were laboring for the passage of an -act for the erection of the new county of Ashland, and ! became identified with the measure. Upon the passage ; of that act, he removed to Ashland and entered upon i his profession. He continued to practice medicine ! about fourteen years. When the enterprise of con- j strucling the Atlantic K Great Western railway origin- ; ated, Dr. Clark entered heartily into the project, and I aided until it was nearly graded. He was among the ; first directors. Soon after Iris arrival in Ashland he was ' appointed one of the associate judges of the court of i common pleas, and served until the adoption of the ! constitution of 1851. During his medDal practice he received a diploma from the fellows of toe Connecticut medical society in 1817 ; also one from tire nineteenth j medical district of Ohio, at Cleveland, May 25, 1824 ; and a license from the court of the third judicial circuit of Ohio, November 30, 181S, and another from the ! medical society of the eighth medical district of Ohio, November 5, 1810; and in 1841, Willoughby Medical college conferred an honorary degree of medicine, with diploma, upon him.

The doctor died from apoplexy, August 20, 185c, ' aged about sixty-three years. He had been an ac- I tive member and ruling elder in the Presbyterian : church for a number of years. He was an accomplished physician, a zealous advocate of education, and always active for, the public weal. His family consists of his wife, who still survives; Dr. W. R. Clark, of Dos Moines, Iowa, a successful physician: Elizabeth, wife of born in Wakeman, Huron county, Ohio, August 3, 1819; studied medicine and attended one course of lectures at Willoughby in 1839 40, and practiced in Allen county, Indiana, and in Wisconsin, for some time; removed to Ashland in 1850; was assistant surgeon in the late war in 1862-3 >n the field hospitals. He attended a second course of lectures at the university of Buffalo, New York, in 1861-2, and graduated. He is a member of the Ohio State Medical society, and has been pension surgeon since December, 1862. lie is now in practice.

Dr. 33'. R. S. Clark

born November 26, 1821, in Medina, Ohio; attended school at Kenyon college; studied medicine with his father; attended lectures at Willoughby and Cleveland, where he graduated. He practiced in Lorain county and Ashland ; removed to Bucyrus and practiced until the war, and was appointed surgeon, and subsequently removed to Des Moines, Iowa.

Dr. Harrison Armstrong

DR. HARRISON ARMSTRONG was born near Wellsville, Columbiana county, Ohio, November 25, 1809. He was of Scotch -Irish descent, his grandfather having emigrated from the north of Ireland, and served as a soldier in the American Revolution. He removed with his father's family to Canaan township, Wayne county in. the year 1S15. Here he attended the common schools of the neighborhood, and grew to manhood. He studied medicine under the instruction of the late Dr. L. F. Day, of Wooster, >n 1828, and attended. lectures in Cincinnati, at the Ohio Medical college, in the years 1830-1, and graduated. He practiced medicine in 1831 in company with Dr. Irvine, of Millersburgh, Holmes county, and in the spring of 1832 located in the village of Hayesvilic, in Ashland county, being the first regular physician who resided in that place. lie soon won public confidence, and for a period of twenty years had a large and lucrative practice in Vermillion, Mohican, Green, and Mifflin townships. In 1853 he retired from practice, and devoted his time partly to the mercantile business, but chiefly to agriculture.

He owned a valuable farm in the vicinity cf Havcsville, to which he removed, and brought to a high state of culture. He tool, great pride in rhe pursuits of agriculture, and was surrounded by all the comforts of a scientific farmer He married in Huycsville, in 1837, Miss Margaret Cox daughter of the late Rev. J hn Cn\, ot ManslioUl, one of the pioneers <>i \ <. rmiliion township. His family consisted of nine childo n six sons and lime danghters 'I u\> of his sons ore dead.

I)R. DAVID ARMSTRONG graduated in Jefferson Medical college, Philadelphia, in 1S50, and was a physician of much promise. He deceased in 1852, much lamented by his friends and the profession. The late Doctor Armstrong was a large, finely developed gentleman, ruddy, and of imposing . appearance. He possessed many of the characteristics of his ancestry, both in sense, wit and humor, and enjoyed a tittle fun and a hearty laugh. As a physician land business man he stood deservedly high among his ! fellows, and was noted for frankness and directness in all this dealings with men. In politics, he was an old line | Whig, and more recently a member of the Republican j party.

| For one or two years prior to his last illness he had ; been in feeble health. His last sickness was the result 1 of heart disease. For three or four months prior to his decease, he was constantly distressed by the growing malady, ali of which he bore with exemplary fortitude and patience. His sufferings were brought to a close on the morning of December 14, 1876, and his remains were deposited in the cemetery at Hayesville.

Dr. Jacob W. Kinnaman

DR. JACOB W. KINNAMAN was born in Ellsworth, Trumbull county, Ohio, October j 1 8, 1815. He spent his youth in that locality, and com- I menced the study of medicine when eighteen years of ! aim, and attended lectures at Jefferson Medical college, j in Philadelphia, in the winter of 1S33. He commenced j practice in Ellsworth, and remained there some years, j In 1836 he married Miss Harriet Carson, a cousin of j the celebrated Kit ('arson, the explorer. In 1847 he graduated in Cleveland Medical college, and removed with his family to Ashland. He opened an office, and continued to practice until 1849, when he caught the gold fever, and went to California, his family remaining in Ashland. He returned in 185:, and again engaged in the practice of medicine.. In 1854 he again went to California, intending to remain several years, leaving his practice in the hands of his brother, Dr. Lawrence Kinnam.m; but, a little more than a year after his arrival in California, learning the dangeious Hines* of his brother, lie returned to attend him, but arrived a short time after his decease. Pie again engaged in practice, and continued until his last illness. In 1871, leaving his practice in the care of his son, Dr. R. C. Kinnaman, he went to California to recruit his failing health, ancl remained one summer, failing to receive any direct relief. He returned, and remained feeble, until July 18, 1874, when he deceased, at the residence of his son-in law, Mr'. Henry Gaiter, at Lancaster, Ohio. His remains were brought back and interred in the cemetery of Ashland.

Dr. Kinnaman was reticent, but frank ami honorable j in I. is profession. He was a member of the Ohio Stale Medical society, and also a member of the Academy of"

He became president of the county medical society upon ! its organization, in 1S64, and was a member of the Ohio I State Medical association.

During his arduous services in the war, he greatly impaired his constitution, and gradually became more feeble, until his lungs became involved, and drained his | vitality. He died June 12, 1867, of pulmonary con- I sumption. The County Medical society and the Masonic I fraternity, of which he was a member, paid him their j last honors in accompanying him to his final resting place 1 in the cemetery at Ashland. PI is wife resides in Iowa.

Dr. Samuel Glass

] was born in Wayne county, Ohio, April 14, iStS. In early life lie possessed no advantages of education beyond j the distiict schools. The first eighteen years of his life were occupied in clearing the forests and in farm labor, j Wages were low, and it took a long time to accumulate j sufficient money to enter upon a course of study. He | grew up in habits of industry and frugality, and these 1 habits became a part of his maturer years. His lust I effort was at school teaching. In 1840. he commenced i the study of medicine with Dr. Harrison Armstrong, ot Hayesville, in this count), and in 1 S42 attended medical lectures at Cincinnati. In 1843, he opened an office in A 1 i i'll I i'i, of this county, where lit remained lluce years. In April, 1845, lie married Miss Amanda A. Armentrout, of Hayesville, and opened an office in that place. In the winter of 18.17 K he attended a second course of lectures at Jefferson Medical college, Philadelphia, where he graduated. Shortly after his return, Dr. H. Armstrong retired from practice, and his son, I)r. David Armstrong, and Dr. S. Glass entered into partnership. This continued until the decease of Dr. Armstrong, which occur! cd in 1852. Dr. Glass continued in practice, a part of the time with Dr. Yocum, until he was elected State senator in 1861-2. He again resumed practice and continued until 1865, when he removed to Ashland, and formed a partnership with Dr. D. S. Sampseli in iS66; with whom he continued until his last illness. In the meantime he became a member of the Ohio Stain Medical association, and president of the Medical society ot Ashland county. He died of congestion of the brain, February 26, 1873. Dr. Glass was a large, welldeveloped man, full six feet high, and would weigh about two hundred pounds. He had a large brain, a strong will, and tremendous endurance. He performed , an uncommon amount of labor, in his practice, which was always quite extended. He accumulated a handsome fortune, and was esteemed a very thorough and successful physician. He was childless. His widow resides in Ashland.