Troy Township (part 4 of 10)

DR. OLIVER C. McCARTY was born in Lycoming county, Pennsylvania, December 29, 1816, and moved with his father, fob McCarty, to New Lisbon, Columbiana county, Ohio, when young, and resided there until 1826, when they settled in Dalton, Wayne county, Ohio. He began his medical studies in 1829 with Dr. Joseph Watson, of Massillon, Ohio, and continued there .until 1833, ar:(J then located at Albion, now Ashland county, Ohio, where he continued in practice until 1841, when he attended a full course or lec tures at the Ohio Medical college at Cincinnati, and graduated at the Hudson Medical college, Cleveland, in 1846. He continued in practice at Polk, Ohio, until 1863, at which time he was commissioned as assistant surgeon in the army, by Governor John Brough, and remained in the service until the close of the war. At the close of the war, he was examined and cc rimissioned for five years in the regular United States service as surgeon: but declined to remain, and returned to his former locality and again entered into active practice. He has, with the exception cf Iris absence in the a. my, practiced medicine over forty years in Jackson township, in this county. He is an attentive observer, a close student, and a successful physician. He possesses inventive talents of a h'.gh order, and has patented a number of inventions for the benefit of agriculturists. He has strong tastes for natural science, and has repeatedly delivered a course of lectures before the students of Vermillion institute, of Ilnyesville. He married Miss Eleanor I>. Pancoast, daughter of llezekinh Pancoast, of Wayne county, in 1836. His family consists of his wife, self anti five children, all of whom survive hut one son, 11. \\ , McCarty, who died in the army. The doctor is quite vigorous, and may survive many years.

Major R. P. Fulkerson

! 1807. In his youth he attended the country schools of | that State, and made fair progress in the elementary I branches. At the age of eighteen he was apprenticed to j learn the trade of a blacksmith. He also learned, at the I same time, the art of making augers. In 1S29 he nar- ! ried Miss Sarah Ann Wicoff, and in the spring of 1830, j removed to Ashland, Ohio. Upon his arrival he opened j a shop and commenced business. In addition to coun- I try work, such as shoeing horses, repairing and fitting I plows, he ironed many road wagons and carriages, and. j repaired guns. Being remarkably ingenious in working iron, he was able to turn his hand to many branches of | the art. When gas was first introduced into Ashland, he ! engaged in fitting and preparing burners, pipes and other ! fixtures, and his books contain drawings showing the I labyrinths concealing gas throughout most of the lead j ing buildings and private residences of Ashland. In i r86o he retired from the toil and worry of his trade and entered upon the horticultural business, for which he had strong tastes and many qualifications. He was fond of the study of botany, and his green house gave evidence of his fine taste in the floral kingdom. He also succeeded in introducing many fine varieties of fruit, flowering shrubs, and plants. He was industrious in his j researches into the habits of the honey-bee, and in fact,

! took a lively interest in everything that could contribute j to the prosperity and happiness of his race. He was exj tremcly fond of the sport of hunting, arid generally kept | a '''pointer" or "setter" of the best blood. Few of the j best hunters could excel him in shooting quail or pheas- : ants on the wing. He was particularly successful in en- - snaring, in the spring time, wild pigeons, and in taking I ducks. He was buoyant in spirit, and a great favorite j with his associates There were but few subjects that he could not illustrate and explain. In 1875, when the State Arch eological society was formed at Mansfield, he became a member, and about the same time he became I a member of the Pioneer and Historical society of Ash- I land county. He took a deep interest in the topics discussed in those organizations. His tastes were strongly i military, and in his younger years he was promoted from j a company officer to be major of a regiment. He is ! said to have been a good drill officer, and could he have i been educated at an institution such as West Point, j would have made an accomplished officer in the engineer department.

He was a strong friend of the school system of Ohio, and when the old academy was under the superintendcncy of the lamented I..orin Andrews, pave his time and attention to the encouragement of that institution. He was frequently a member of the \shlanJ council, and was acting as such at His decease. He was also a trustee of the cemetery ass< lation and aided it, preparing that beautiful site fir the dead.

Early in the winter he was attacked with pneumonia j and other complications, and gradually failed until he j died, May 2 t, 1 87 7. He was buried in the cemetery at j Ashland.

Hon. James E Chase

wars born in Stark county, Ohio, October 19, 1824. He was educated in the common schools of the neighborhood, and grew up a farmer. His ancestors were Scotch- English. His father, Seth Chase, was born in Massachusetts, and his mother, Syena Wood, in Vermont. ^ Bishop Chase, and Salmon P. Chase, of Ohio, were a j branch of the same family. Seth Chase removed, with his family, to Massillon, Ohio, in 1825, and remained one year, but finding his health greatly impaired by the malaria of that region, returned to Vermont, and in 1836 again came to Ohio and located in Massillon. Here he died in 18^2, aged fifty-eight years. His wife died in ! 1856, aged fiftv-six years. His family was composed of | James E., Emily V., wife of Jacob Colopy, Laura T., 1 single. James E. Chase became an active farmer, and j in 1857 was elected, by the Democracy, a member of ! the Ohio legislature, and ' as re-elected in 1859. In | 1861 he sold his farm and removed to Jackson township, i Ashland county. In 1869 he was again elected, by the j Democracy of Ashland county, to the Ohio legislature, j and was re-elected in rSyr. in 1873 was elected ! treasurer of Jackson township, and again in 1874. He has been regularly a delegate to State conventions for over twenty years. He married Mrs. Jane Baughman, | of Stark county. Their children are James B., Chian D., Sherwood M., Nelson IE, Mary 1., wife of Jacob Moor, ^ of Illinois, Ellen S., wife of David Wise, of Ashland county, and Samantha, single.

Robert Newell

a. native of Washington county, Pennsylvania, is believed to have located in the east part of Montgomery 1 township :n VS11. He had resided for two or three ! years on White Eyes plains, near the present site of | N ewcomerstown , in Tuscarawas county, Ohio. He is believed to have erected the first cabin in Montgomery township. It was situated on what has since been known as the Hugh McGuire farm, some five miles southeast of Ashland. In the fall of 1812, after the \ Ruffncr Zimmer-Copus tragedies on the Black fork, the cabins of Mr. Newell, Mu Cuppy, and Mr. Fry, further up a branch of the same stream, were burned be the Indians, while the families of the above-mentioned pioneers sought safety at the fort or Jerome '- place," now the village of Jerome vtlle. After peace had been do- 1 cured, Mr. Newell re-uccted a cnoin a no routine,, d to improve his farm, which lie finally sold to the late Hugh McGuire, and located one mile north of Oiive-sburgli, in Richland county, where he deceased in 1 84 S, at an advanced age. When Montgomery township was associated with Vermillion township for civil purposes, from 1814 to 1816, Mr. Newell, from Montgomery, and James Wallace, from Vermillion, were elected justices of the peace. Upon the Organization of Montgomery in 1816, Mr. Newell lost his office. He is represented as having been a clever, whole-souled pioneer, but in point of education quote illiterate. He could not write, and consequently kept no docket. There was but iittie litigation in those days, and it was the habit of Squire Newell to appoint a day and cite the plaintiff and defendant to appear before him. When the parties had assembled, he required them to state, under oath, the nature of their claims, and having partially heard both sides, required an equitable and peaceable adjustment of thC dispute. It is related, that on some occasions, money being exceedingly scarce, and whiskey being a "legal -tender," it was decided that a gallon of that . article should be provided by the winning party for the crowd, and the case be dismissed, with the injunction that in the future the litigants should be neighbors and friends. Mr. Newell was a very liberal officer. Ho rarely charged for his services. Constable Kline, who served under him, being a poor man, had to exact his fees.

Samuel, Zachariah, and Jesse. The daughters were two - Mrs. Jonathan Edy and Mrs Lloyd Edy, of Richland county. The sons all moved west, most of them to Iowa, where some of them yet reside. Like Robert Newell, their father, they were all large, rugged men, and preferred the rough and tumble of a new country. Like the Eattas, the Mackieys, the VrU., and hundreds of others of the early sett'ers, the;- wore formidable men at a military muster, a cabin raisin::, a political meeting or any other gathering where phvsicai force was brought into question. The days of the giants are no more ! The race of backwoodsmen has departed. Feebler men occupy their places.

Jacob H. Grubb

Jacob Grubb was born in Union county, Pennsylvania, October 18, rSoo. His ancestors were Franco ( U ru. an. In his youth he attended tin: s< hools of his neighborhood, and obtained a fait knowledge of the English branches. After arriving at the age of about sixteen years, he served an apprenticeship to learn the trade of cabinet-maker. After completing his trade, he married Miss Hannah Robison, daughter of David Robison, of Union county, Pennsylvania. In 1 S23 he removed, :dt his wife and infant daughter Man, now wife of David I. Itice, to Unionn wit, now Ashland, Ohio. At that time the village was quite sm.iik lie rented a sin all i.;g - .fi>tr of C'inistopher Mykrantz, situated in die iv.tr of what is now the town It ill, where he resided . nd worked at the cabinet-making business; he was the second cabinetmaker who settled in Uniontown, the late Alexander ; Miller being the first. After residing there some years, he removed to his late residence, on the north side of Main street, where he continued to work at his trade. He carried on business continuously for nearly fifty years, and retired from active labor some four or five years j since. Many of the pioneers yet possess bureaus made by him more than forty years ago. His work was of the most substantial character and finish, and was noted for . its durability.

Mr. Grubb stood high among his fellow-townsmen in ! consequence of his integrity and moral worth. In 1823 i 'ne and his excellent lady assisted in the organization of i the first class of the Methodist Episcopal church of Ashland. The class long met at the residence of John ! Smith, which stood on the lot subsequently occupied by the residence of the late Christopher Mykrantz. His : membership in the Methodist Episcopal church of Ashland was, then fore, continuous for a period of fifty-four i years, during which he adorned his profession by an upright and exemplary Christian life. He passed through j all the inconveniences and hardships of pioneer Method- I ism; having for many years worshipped in a cabin, and in the great assemblies in the forest, known as camp- j meetings, and freely expressed the opinion that the plain- ! ness of primitive Methodist manners was greatly ccn.du cive to true , piety. Mr. Grubb and all the members of 1 his family possessed fine musical taste, and delighted to | join m the exercise of singing, as well as to take part in j instrumental music.

John, Frank, J»urr, and two deceased; and six daughters j - Mary, wife of D. J. Rice; Lorilla, wife of Samuel j Davis; Rosanna, wife of Henry McCormick, and three j deceased, and his aged wife, Hannah. He died January j 9, 1878, of paralysis, aged seventy-seven years, two j months, and twenty-one days.

Captain Ai, Anson Walker

He was born in Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, j Mr rch 4, 1804, and emigrated to Uniontown, now Ash- j land, Ohio, in 1822. Shortly after his arrival he ap- j prenticed to Robert Ralston, jr. , of Orange township, to ! learn the tm.de of a carpenter, and s-wved about four ' years. Upon the completion of his trade, in January, ! 1S27, he married Esther Robison, of Clearcreek township, and located in Ashland, where he has continued j ever since as a carpenter. In the earlier years of his ! pioneer life, he endured all the privations and hardships ' incident to the settlement of new countries. He re- 1 mined a. vivid recollection of the early settlers, and their : adventures, to the last. Very few of the early mechanics j attended more house raisings, log rollings, torn husk i mgs, and early military trainings, than. he. 1 com a native forest, he lived to see the site of Ashland develop into a prosperous and handsome county scat. Of tin first inhabitants of the tow n, he retained a Wry dun

In die palmy days of the old militia, he was elected captain of a company that more than forty years ago trained at Mansfield, and the prairie west of the town of Mifflin. When the war of the Rebellion broke out, though well advanced in years, he volunteered and was attached to the Eighty-second Ohio regiment, where he served until he was accidentally injured, by having the wheel of one of the baggage wagons run over his foot, which so disabled him that he asked his discharge.

Of late years, he quietly pursued his trade, and was noted for his industry and inoffensive habits. It was quite a treat to hear him relate the rough-and-tumble habits of the pioneers, their feats of strength and personal courage, and insist that we would never see their like again; for all countries have but one set of pioneers, and, when they, disappear, new men, and new manners, succeed them. The hardy men that prostrate forests, construct roads, build cabins and log barns, and add wealth to communities, soon seek other localities for a renewal of old excitements, or die early.

In politics Captain Walker had settled opinions and adhered faithfully to the party of his choice, though he never pressed his claims to official promotion. He had no affinity for the tricks of political office-seekers, and concurred in the idea that a man should evince as much integrity in office as in the private stations of life.

On the morning of his decease, May 7, 1878, he felt it to be his duty to engage, as usual, at his trade. He had just ascended to the roof of a one-story building, rear the shop of Mr. Fasig, between Second and Third streets, to make some change in the roof, when he was noticed to be somewhat confused in manner, and, by the time aid reached the roof, he had become unconscious. He was assisted to the ground, and carried home - only a short distance- --but never rallied. In about four hours from the attack (apoplexy), he died in great distress, aged seventy-four years, two months and four days.

His excellent lady yet retains a good deal of physical and mental vigor, though she is far advanced in life, and saw Ashland county when it was mostly forest.

James Doty

Mr. Doty was born near Wheeling, West Virginia, in 1802, and was of Scotch- Irish descent, his ancestors having settled in that region prior to the close of the American Rev dution. His father, Abraham Doty, experienced many of the terrois of Indian invasion during tin. border wars from 1 7S0 to 1795, Fort Ilenrv at Wheeling, beim a point for attack by the S/iacutrs and IVvcvuiiih.

Richland county, and settled about four miles from , L niontown, now Ashland, on an unimproved farm in the woods. There were at that time but few settlers in Miiton and Mifflin townships, and the pioneers had to ; endure many hardships. Here James and other members of the family grew up amid the wilds of the newcountry.

The war of iSi2 had ended propitiously, and emigrants began to flow into this region, and the woodman's axe could be heard in every direction, leveling the forests : in the preparation of log cabins, and in preparing fields for culture.

The institutions of the older settlements were rapidly J planted in these wilds. The log school house and hewed | log -church ere long w ere found wherever new settlements appeared. The minister followed the adventurers, and ! for a time, organized congregations, that met and worshipped in the cabins of the pioneers. About 1817, Abraham Doty assisted in the erection of "Old Hope- , well," one and a half miles west of Ashland, and was. ; soon elected and ordained an elder of the church. James, and other members of the Doty family, attended this church for several years, though residing nearly four j miles from it, in the south part of Milton township.

Abraham Doty gave his influence in the erection of I school-houses, for the spread of education, and intelii- i genre among the rising generation, and instructed his ! own children that intelligence, morality and integrity ; gave all men influence among their companions and ; neighbors; and society prospered in proportion to its j support of these maxims and ideas.

In 1834, James Doty, having grown to manhood j amid the wild forest scenes around him, and having ob- ' tained a fair knowledge of the English branches, con eluded to engage in preparing a future home for himself. He married Miss Sarah Croninger, daugh- j ter of Leonard Croninger, of Mifflin township, - and settled on an unimproved farm near the present j home of Joseph Charles. He improved his homestead, i and soon was elected to a number of minor towns! ip | offices by his neighbors. He also was elected justice of j the peace three successive terms. He often related an j amusing circumstance that occurred when 'ustice. At ' one time a young man and lady called at h'j cabin de- ! siring him to perform the marriage ceremony. He did so, | after which the young man stated that he had no money, but would see that the 'squire should he paid for his ser- ! vices. The 'squire said it was all right. Several months j after this occurrence the 'squire was greatly surprised to see the aforesaid party appear at his office with a fine puppy, declaring that he could not rest contented white he owed so sacred a debt as that held, by the 'squire, and begged him to accept the puppy in lieu of the money, and thereby -remove the debt. As the 'squire was a gen- 1 ero.us man, and good dogs were useful in expelling wild j animals, he accepted ihe puppy, and his friend departed in the best of spirits.

In r 84b, Ashland county was erected principally out 1 of territory belonging to Richland county. The first officers were nominated from all patties, by common consent, and elected and served for six months, or until their successors were elected and qualified. Mr. Doty was elected sheriff in the spring, and re-elected at the October election for two years. He was, therefore, the first sheriff of Ashland county. His deputies were Matthew Clugston and Isaac Stull. Mr. Gates became his successor. Fir. Doty made an accommodating and pleasant sheriff. He declined a nomination for h is second term, and retired to his farm, where he remained until 1S56, when he disposed of his home, and removed to Plymouth township, Richland county, since which time he has lived the agreeable life of a farmer. The personal appearance of Mr. Doty is well remembered by many. In disposition he was genial and kind. His weight was near two hundred and fifty pounds in his prime. In business, he was regarded as above reproach, and was much respected by all. In religious opinion be was a Presbyterian in sentiment and practice. He was one of the useful and solid pioneers, and will long be remembered by his old neighbors. Pie was the father of ten children, seven sons and three daughters, eight of whom (five sons and three daughters) survive him. The pioneers of Ashland county sincerely condole with his numerous relatives, in the loss of so valuable a friend and relative. He died near Plymouth, Richland county, Ohio, January 4, 1875, aged seventy-seven years.

John Charles

was born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, July : 5, 1S02. He was the youngest of a family of three children. His early educational opportunities were quite limited. At the age of twenty-four, he came over to Ohio, and settled in Mifflin township. He married in Lancaster. Mr. Charles was engaged for many years in farming. He owned the farm upon which Martin Ru finer had settled in 1812, consisting of one hundred and sixty acres, near the village of Mifflin. Tie exchanged this property, a few years since, for the Kauffman mill property on the Black fork, some three milts southwest of Mifflin. This is one of the best water-mills within the county, and is kept in constant motion. Fir. Charles has a large circle of friends, and has been repeatedly elected to township offices by the citizens of Mifflin. He has served as justice of the peace, and acquitted himself to the satisfaction of all. He was originally an old line Whig; but on the disbandment of that party after the campaign of 1852, he became an upholder of the prim pies of the Democratic party. He has passed through, all the scenes of the early pioneers, and retains a vivid recollection of the "rough and reedy" habits of the early settlers of the Black fork. He has aided scores of the settlers in the erection of cabins in rolling logs -attorn h'usku.gs, and other gatherings. He has assisted in opening arid improving most of the highways in tire north prut of the township. He is genial and agreeable to all. and a friend to the poor. He is the father of six children, four of whom sit i 1 survive, three residing in Mifflin township, and one daughter in Indiana. Mr.

John I Am Bright

was born in Frederic!: City, Maryland, January, ±778. : Tn 1802 he married Anna C. Smith, and in rSrr, re- [ moved to Harrison county, Ohio, and in the spring of ; 1812, located in Mifflin township, Richland, now Ashland county. In the fall of 1812, the cabin of Frederick j Zimmer, a neighbor, was attacked by the Indians, and the j son of Mr. Zimmer hastened to inform James Copus and Mr. Lamhright of their presence, and the desire of Martin RuiTner and the Zimmers for their assistance. Messrs, j Copus and Lambright hastened to the cabin, and arrived j in the earlier part of the night, finding all silent in and about the premises. They returned to their respective | cabins, took their families and fled to the block-house of ; Jacob Beam, on the Rocky fork. Here he remained three weeks, and fled to Lancaster, Fairfield county, Ohio. While there, Mr. Lambright was drafted, and served in the northwest, about four months. He and his family remained near Lancaster three years, and then returned to his deserted cabin on .ibe Black fork,* where he continued to reside until November 9, 1832, when he I deceased. Some members of his family yet reside in the 1 township. Mrs. Joseph Doty is a daughter.

For a full description of the Ruffner, Zimmer, and Copus fights, and the part Mr. Lambright took, see articles on that subject in the historical part of this volume.

Jgsiah Thomas

was born in Somerset county, Pennsylvania, March 9, j 1804. His father, George Thomas, of Welsh descent, | removed to Harrison county, Ohio, and located neat Cadiz, in 1807. He was a tailor by trade, and followed | his business there until 1817, when he emigrated to the ! village of Petersburg!!, now Mifflin, Mifflin township, j Ashland county. He, George Thomas, remained there i several years engaged at his trade, and in keeping a hotel, the village being on the main line of travel from Canton, Wooster to Mansfield, and the west part- of the ; State. Jacob Bearn being a brother-in-law of Mr. I George Thomas, and an uncle to Josiah, his two older , brothers, Henry and Peter, had visin d Mr. Beam, to | sec the country prior to the removal of the family. In 1824 George Thomas, with his family, removed to 1 Orange township, and located upon the present home- J stead of josiah Thomas. Josiah attended the common 1 schools of the neighborhood, and adopted farming as i an occupation. In 1828 he married Miss Eliza Zimmerman. His family consists of seven children - George, Henry, Warren, Mary, Elizabeth, Freclove, and Harriet. George, Henry and Elizabeth are married. Mr. Thomas is a ijniet, industrious and exemplary farmer, lie ims nmer been an of her seeker ; yet, against his protests, the people of his township have elected him trustc* fifteen or sixteen times. When Ashland county was organized in 1846, Mr. Thomas was appointed commissioner for the short term, and elected in October, for three years, and served until 1S50. He has been a member of the Disciple church about twenty years. In 1879 *ie was elected president of the Historical and Pioneer society of Ashland county, which office he yet holds.

Hon. John Dougherty

HON. JOHN DOUGHERTY was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, October to, 1819. His father, Daniel Dougherty, was born in Ireland and emigrated to the United States in iSofi, and landed at Baltimore, and thence removed to Washington county, Pennsylvania. He emigrated with his family to Milton township, now Ashland county, in 1822, where he died. Mrs. Dougherty and her children removed to Vermillion .township in 1832. Here John gr-ew to manhood, attending the schools of the neighborhood. At an early age he took an active part in politics, and being a fluent speaker, he was regarded as the leader in his township. He voted with the Democracy. He rarely asked official promotion for himself. When the gold fever of 1850 spread over the land, he joined in search of the hidden treasure in California. His venture proved a success, and he returned in 1854. In 185S he again visited the Pacific slopes, and remained until 1863. He prospected in the mines of Idaho, Washington and British Columbia with success, and returned to his old home in Ashland county. In 1861, prior to his return, he was elected a member of the California legislature, and served one session, and resigned. Having visited nearly all the mines of the Pacific slopes, he is of opinion there is plenty of gold in the Black Hills, which fact is being concealed by the Indian ring and other speculators. In 1872 he again returned to California, in the hope of restoring his declining health, and remained eleven months, to no advantage. His malady is chronic rheumatism, with which he has been tortured for several years. He now resides near Jeromeville. He has been twice married. He is an exemplary member of the Catholic church. He is a high toned gentleman.* was born in Greensbmgh, Pennsylvania, August 24, 1822, and emigrated with his father's family, in 1S23, to Wayne county, and in iSe 4 to Vermillion township, now Ashland county. They located near Daniel Porter on Beall's trail. Mr. Isaac Paullin, si., had a description of the country from Mr. Porter, who passed up the trail in 1 S 1 2. Isaac Paullin was a shoemaker,' and the first practical workman in that part of the township. He was also the first gunsmith. His sons Z. T. and Daniel learned the shocmaking business of their father, ami continued to manufacture shoes. In 1835 Isaac Paullin

Josiah Thomas

' Josiah Thomas, the subject of this sketch, was born : in Somerset county, Pennsylvania, March 9, 1804. His ; parents, George and Mary Beam Thomas, were natives j of Pennsylvania. The ancestors of his father came i from Wales, and those of his mother from Germany. George and Mary Thomas, with their family, removed to Brooke county, Virginia, in about 1807, and remained 1 there about one year, when they came to Ohio and settled in Harrison county. Mr. Thomas was, by trade, a tailor, and followed that business until old age compelled ; him to relinquish it. From Harrison county the family j came to Mifflin township, in the present county of Ash- | land, about 1817, and after about seven years again re- j moved in 1824, this time to Orange township, where he purchased the farm now owned by his son, Josiah j Thomas. Hue he died at the age of eighty-two years. His widow survived him some five years, and died aged eighty-five years. They had a family of eleven children, ; of whom but two representatives now remain: Mrs.

Josiah Thomas worked on the farm of his father during his boyhood and youth, doing his part toward redeeming the wilderness, clearing, log-rolling, rail-splitting, building fence, and other hard manual labor, until his brothers and sisters, having left :he farm, died, < 1 married and made homes for themselves, when, by will, lie inherited the property, after paying certain sums to !

Mrs. Josiah Thomas

the other heirs. He was married September 2, rSgo, to Eliza Zimmerman, who was born in Union county, Pennsylvania, December 25, 1S09. Her father died when she was small, and she came to Ohio with other members of the family, when about twenty years of age. To them have been born ten children, two of whom died in early childhood: Sanford, at the age of three years, three months and seven days; Jefferson, aged one year, seven months and three days. Adeline died aged seventeen years and one month. . Those now living are: George, Henry C., Warren R., Mary, Elizabeth, Freelove, and Harriet, all of whom are now married except Warren and Harriet, who remain at home with their parents.

Mr. Thomas was one of the first commissioners of the present countv of Ashland, in which office he serv ed three years and six months, when he declined to further serve. He has also held the office of township trusteesome seventeen years. He has never been an officeseeker, but the people of his township, appreciating his worth, have continued him in office. Both himself and his wife are members of the Disciple church, with which they have been connected some thirty years, fl is first vote was cast for Andrew Jackson, and he has ever sir - c adhered to the principles of the Democratic party. He has a g >d home in the s< mthern part of Oral ship, compiising the old homestead of one h.mdud and sixty acres.

and family settled on the present site of the village of Mohicanville. Here he deceased. Z, '1'. Paullin is the only son remaining in Mohican township. He has accumulated a comfortable property, and has a pleasant family. We obtained many valuable reminiscences from him concerning the early settlement of Vermillion and Mohican townships.

Peter Huff

was born in Virginia, December 25, ryoS, and when a child accompanied his parents to Reaver county, Penn- j syivania, where he remained until 1S25, when he came | west and located in Lake township. He settled on the j west side of the Lake fork in the. forest, and soon erected j a cabin and began to improve his land. Those residing on the west side of the stream were George Marks, John j C. Young, John Emeu irk, Enoch Covert, Abraham Blue, j Jabez Smith, Emer Akins, and NafRnrf Dolby,. Mr. Huff has a fine property south of 'Mohicanville. He is quite vigorous and retains all his faculties. He has two sons, Samuel and William. The former resides in Mohicanville and carries cn a large woollen manufactory, and the j latter resides on the homestead. Mr. Huff stays with J his son.

Wesley Copus

was born in Green county, Pennsylvania, August 15, 1804, and immigrated, with his father's family, to Mifflin township, Richland, now Ashland county, in the spring of 1809. In reaching their wilderness home, they passed through the Indian village of Greentown, and followed a trail to the south part of what is now Mifflin township, and erected a camp cabin of poles about one mile northeast of what is now Charles' mi.ll, near a run subsequently named Zimmer's. They resided in this cabin about fifteen months. In the meantime, the family cleared a few acres-aud planted corn, it was frosted in July, and much injured. Mr. Copus had moved his family in a cart, with a good yoke of oxen; and also brought two or three milch cows, which fed, during the summer, on sedge grass and pea-vines. In the spring of 1S10, he commenced the erection of a more substantia! log cabin near a fine spring, about one mile south of his pole cabin, and removed to it during the summer of 1810. The old Greentown trail passed near the spring, and Mr. Copus was often visited by the Greentown Indians, during the spring and summers of 1S09 -jo-i 1 - 12. Thomas Armstrong, the chief, and his sons Silas and James, and Tom Lyons, Bill Dowdee, Jlillv Montour, Abram Williams, and others, frequently came to the cabin, and were quite friendly. James and Silas Armstrong, then boys, often came to the sugar camp and ran races md wrestled with the Copus boys. For over three years the intercourse continued in harmony, and not until after the disgraceful surrendtu of General Hull at Detroit, in August. (812, were any apprehensions of danger from the Greentown Indians felt. l'Yar» were then entertained that they might be corrupted through British influence, and attack the defenceless settlements along the branches of the Mohican.

As a means of safety the State authorities ordered the removal of the Jerome and Greentown Indians to Piqua,. after which, a number of Greentown Indians, who had, prior to that time, fled to Upper Sandusky, returned and assassinated the family of Frederick Zimmer and Margaret Ruffner, and, a few days afterward, attacked the cabin of James Copus, father of Wesley, and killed him, and several soldiers near the cabin. Wesley, then nine years old, with the balance of the family, was in the cabin during the assault, and saw his father fall and expire. He retained a vivid recollection of the terrific screams of the savages as they riddled the wails of the cabin with bullets.

After this tragedy, hi? mother and children returned to Guernsey county, where they remained until the fall of 1814, when they came back to the old cabin, where, some forty years afterward, Mrs. Copus deceased. At that time the family consisted of Henry, Nancy, Sarah, James, Wesley, Nelson, and Anna.

Wesley Conus continued to reside in the vicinity of the old homestead. For several years his health had been gradually failing. It had been apparent for some time that he could not survive a great while. Having been somewhat exposed to the inclemency of the weather, he was attacked with pneumonia, and expired February 14, 1876.

During his youth his educational advantages were limited, and his entire schooling, consisted of about three months; but, by observation, a retentive memory, and good judgment, he had acquired a fund of information, and was a very interesting conversationalist.

He was twice married. His first wife survived only si.x months. Py his second wife he had ten children, six of whom survive - John W., Madison, Eliza f., Sarah, Mary, and Nancy E., all of whom are married.

Mr. Copus was a member of the United Brethren church for thirty-nvc years. As a citizen, he was industrious, conscientious, and the opponent of all shams and vices. He was buried at the old cemetery near Charles' mill, where many of his kindred sleep. Mr. Copus being enrolled among" the pioneers, the obituary committee of the Pioneer and Historical society, of Ashland county, adopted the customary resolutions.

Frederick W. Coffin

scent, and the family trace their ancestry back to the invasion of the conqueror William, of Normandy. The Coffins settled in Worcester, Massachusetts, as early as 1642. At one time the Coffins were the proprietors of Nantui ket.

Mr. Coffin is nn excellent mechanic, and a gentleman of high integrity. He is the parent of twelve children, part of whom are deceased. In December, 1875, he held a family reunion ; those present were: the father, Frederick Wr. Coffin, aged sixty-seven; the mother, Mary Coffin, aged sixty-two; Mrs. L. J. Sprengle, Mrs. F. H. Smith, Mrs. M. Jennings, Mrs. E. L. McFrath, Thaddeus Coffin, Arthur W. Coffin, Eugene Coffin, Harry T. Coffin, and Edward Coffin. These, with relations by marriage, and offspring, numbered in all thirty-two souls. If the mother of Mrs. Mary Coffin, who resides in Troy, New York, aged eighty-six, had been present, there would have been five generations under the same roof.

Thomas Smith Sutherland

THOMAS SMITH SUTHERLAND was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, November 4, 1S16, and removed with his father's family to Richland (now Ashland,) county, in 1833. He became a farmer by occupation, and married Martha Sheets, daughter of the late Joseph Sheets, one of the pioneers of Montgomery township. Mr, Sutherland purchased from his father's estate part of the homestead one and a half miles south of Ashland, and more recently the balance of the home farm, from the heirs.

He was a man of industrious and economical habits, and noted for his integrity and strict honesty. Fie possessed an excellent judgment, and was honored by being selected to fill several township offices.

On the third day of May, 1S76, Mr. Sutherland was fatally injuied while: assisting in the removal of a neighbor. Being in advance of other teams, in a small wagon, j one of the teams became alarmed at a hog who jumped ! up by the road side, and commenced to run. Mr. Suth- ^ crland turned aside to permit the team to pass, but 'was j run into, breaking his wagon to splinters, and in passing j over him, the wheels ('rushed two or three ribs. He > survived until the fifth, and deceased. The melancholy j termination of his life produced a feeling of sadness i throughout the township. lie left a widow and one j daughter, the wife of Mr. Jameson. A large concourse I of friends and neighbors followed him to his final resting j place in the cemetery at Ashland.

Nathaniel Ii Vskell

lie emigrated to Ohio in 1817, and located in Cleveland. In July, iSiS, he removed to Wooster, Wayne j county, where he remained three years, and located in j Eoudonvillc, Richland, non Ashland, county. Soon I after his arrival, lie erected a carding nun him: and fulling mill, which for several years was a great neighborhood convenience. In April, 1823, he married Flettia A. Skinner, the daughter of a pioneer, who erected the first grist-mill in the vicinity of Roudonville. Mr. Haskell was a thrifty business man and accumulated property quite rapidly. He laid out an addition to Loudon v isle, and, by his business energy and strict integrity, contributed to the growth of the town. Lie was long engaged in the mercantile business, and possessed tact and energy in its management. He took a deep interest in the school system of Ohio, and was always liberal in forwarding the interests of education. He was, for many years, an active member of the Masonic fraternity, and noted for his genial disposition and love for that ancient order. In his later years - 1S68- - he became the principal stockholder and owner of the Haskell bank, of Loudonville, which was an institution of deposit and exchange, and was managed by him. In 1855 his excellent wife deceased. September 30, 1 S 7 1 , Mr. Haskell deceased, leaving his hank interest to a nephew, he having died childless. The institution was conducted by the nephew until 1875, when he deceased.

Daniel Beach

was born in Warren, Litchfield county, Connecticut, March 16, 1785. In 1805 he came on foot to Canfield, Mahoning county, Ohio, and worked one year, then returned and married Lorinda Sacked, January 1, 18x0. He purchased two hundred acres of wild land in what is now Summit county, Ohio, to which be removed in 18; 1, coming the entire route with a yoke of oxen and one horsg. In 1812 lie was drafted in the military service, and served near Lori Croghan six months. In 1S23 he disposed of hi' farm and accompanied Bradford Sturtevant in search of a new home to Ruggles township, Huron, now Ashland county, and purchased, of Jessup 8: Wakeman, of Connecticut, one mile square of land in section three, he taking the west and smallest part. He returned, and in July, 1S23, removed with his wife and five children-- Cyrus, Reuben, Cordelia, Harriet, and Daniel, to his new home in the forest, about one mile west of what is now known as the corners. The paths in the forest were narrow, and required quite an effort to get over by teams. He had two yoke of oxen to haul his goods. He encamped one night in Medina county, and one night at. Sullivan center. A man - Mr. John Soles - piloted him thence by way cf New London. He encamped one night on the route in what is now Troy, and again at New London, and was just one week in reaching his forest home. Their first supper was cooked al the fire of a deserted Indian camp on the premises The forest was dense, and it required years of unremitting toil to prepare the lands for culture. Mr. Beach was accompanied in his re moral by Fdeazer Sachet, a brotherin-law. lie built a pole cabin, ten b\ fifteen feet, in which he resided until he built a log cabin. By fall he had cleared live acres, which he put in wheal. Otl ei pioneeis began to select lands, and Mi. Beach's cabin was frequently visited. In the winter of 18.24 he hired hands, and cleared the timher from one hundred acres. In the spring he and Bradford Sturtevant returned to Tallmadge and purchased apple-trees for new orchards, : some of which yet hear fruit. Mr. Beach, by industry and economy, accumulated a handsome property. In 1854 he divided his homestead between his two sons, Wake-man and William, and removed to Kent county, Michigan. Mrs. Beach died on a visit to Reggies, at the residence of her son, Cyrus Beach, in November, 1856. i Mr. Beach subsequently married Mrs. Frances Peck, ! widow of Tyler Peck. Fie died at his residence in Rug- j gles in May, 1862. He was remarkable lor his habits of industry and enterprise. He was exact and careful in all ! his 'business transactions, and bis integrity was never | questioned. His children were Cyrus S., Reuben K., j Harriet L., married to Roliin Curtiss, Daniel, deceased, Wakeman J., and Cordelia M., married to Isaac Cowell. Most of tlie family reside within Ruggles township, and j are noted as farmers and stock growers. Wakeman Beach, born January n, 1825, is believed to have been tile first child born within the township. He resides on the old homestead west of the corners. I am indebted to him for the foregoing sketch.

Bradford Stu Rtf V Ant

BRADFORD STU RTF V ANT was born in Litchfield county, Connecticut, March. 16, 178 6. January 1, 1809, he married. Sarah Carter, and removed to Richfield, now Summit county, Ohio, in | June, 1816. Here he improved a small farm, which he I sold in 1823, and purchased, in company with Daniel Beach, one section in Ruggles township, then in Huron county. In August, 1823, he erected a cabin, and removed with his wife and children in September. He removed v ith ox teams, taking along twelve head of . cattle and twenty sheep. The following winter he re- j turned to Richfield and purchased a lot of stock hogs, | and drove them through the woods to Ruggles. July 4, j 1824, three of the four pioneer families of Ruggles cele- j brated independence at the cabin of Mr. Sturtevant, j They had a dinner, and in the evening, for fire-works, ! attempted to blast a white wood tree, but failed. In 1836 he removed to the village of Milan, Erie county, to give his children the educational advantages of the place. In 184 1 he returned to Ruggles, an I deceased in May, 187 t, aged about eighty-five years. He was a man | of fixed purposes, highly conscientious in his moral I ideas, and a most successful farmer. He engaged \ largely in raising fine stock, and by good management accumulated a handsome homestead. Like his New | England ancestors, he was a Puritan in his religious j opinions, and possessed the confidence and esteem of all his neighbors and acquaintances. His children were - (,'arleton IP; Marcia, married to B. Ashley, of Milan; Harriet, deceased; Sarah, married to Dr. Galpin, of Milan; Isaac: G., who resides on the homestead; Martin, married to Horace Taylor, a missionary to India; and William B. Martha was the first female child born in the township - May 17, 1825. Isaac G. Sturtevant, from whom we obtained the foregoing particulars, married Adelaide Carter. Carleton H. married Lydia Peck, and William B. married Anna Wolcott. He also states that the first school-house was built in 1824, half a mile west, of the residence of Bradford Sturtevant, and was taught by Miss Betsy Sacket. sister of Harvey Sacket The school was supported by subscription. The scholars were of the families of the Beaches, Sturtevants, and from Greenwich township, adjoining Ruggles. The first church organization was in 1827. It was Congregational, and Rev. E. T. Woodruff was the first minister. At that time the pioneers attended mill at Cold creek, in Erie county, some fort)- miles away. They reached the null on pack-horses, by winding paths through a dense forest, finding but few settlers on the way. Two or three; years after the arrival of Bradford Sturtevant, the little colony was increased by the arrival of Jacob Roorbach, Harvey Sacket, Justus Barnes, Taylor Peck, Solomon Weston. Aldrich Carver, Norman Carter, James Poag, Abraham Ferris, Albert Buell, George W. Curtiss, Reuben Fox, and others. Isaac G. Sturtevant is a model Firmer and stock-grower. He resides about half a mile west of the corners. Adorned by tasteful buildings, select fruit orchards, and good fences, his homestead furnishes proof that the lessons of economy, neatness, and business tact, enforced by the father, ate carefully followed and adhered to by the son. He is a genial and intelligent gentleman.

Harvey Sacket

was born in Warren, Connecticut, December 24, 1791. He came to Tallmadge, Ohio, wi:h bis father in 1S11. In 1812 he was drafted, and served six months in the army of the northwest. In 1816 he returned to Connecticut and married Thalia Eldred, and located a Tallmadge until 1825, when he removed to Ruggles township, on lot eleven, section three. He removed with ox teams, and owing to sparseness of settlers, and the narrow tovest paths, was eight days on the way. Mr. Sacket died August 11, 1875. He was twice married. His family by bis firs' wife was: Dimnies, wife of Mr. Smith; Eras tus and Erasmus M.; Irena, wife of C. Curtiss. His first wife died in 1843, and -in 1844 he married Mrs. Mary Van Vranken, widow of Garrett Van Yranken. He had one son, Justus H. Sacket, oy his second wife. Justus resides on the homestead. Mr. Sacket was long a member of the Congregational church, and was an excellent citizen. He was the first justice of Ruggles. Most of the family reside in Ruggles township.

Aldrich Carver

was born in Tolland county, Cot ticut Ho cairn > - Huron county in 1S18. In iM- >k assisted in capturing some Indian murderers, who w» . at Norvyalk. In 1821 he returned to Cayuga county, New York, and married \n»y Knillin. In the fill of

1S22 he settled it'. Greenwich, Huron county, Ohio, and in the spring of 1S25 on lot ten and eighteen, section four, in Ruggies. Mr. Carver served as justice of the peace in Ruggies, and as commissioner and auditor of Ashland county. He was a shrewd politician, and a man of good native abilities. He died of cancer of the face j in 1870, aged about sixty five years. His family con- j sisted of Fanny, wife of Daniei Huffman; Phebe, wife of j Jacob Huffman, and John, who resides on the home- j stead. Mr. Carver was one of the petitioners for the or- ! ganization of the township in 1826. It was called Rug- j gles, after Judge Ahnon Ruggies, who surveyed the Fire J l ands. At the first election, held January 2, 1826, there j were twelve votes cast : Perry Durfee Harvey, Sacket, (

Jacob Roorback, D. Beach, and A. Carver, trustees; j Bradford Sturtevant and Harvey Sacket, overseers of j poor; J. Barnes and A. Ferris, fence viewers: Reuben j Fox and Perry Durfee, appraisers of property; N. Carter, I constable; J. Bates, supervisor, and Harvey Sacket, treasurer. There were thirteen offices and twelve voters.

At the April election, the voce was increased by the ! names of C. Sanders, A. Bates, T. Hendrix, D. J. Parker, and S. A. Nott. Harvey Sacket was chosen justice of the peace.

James Poag

removed into Ruggies from Clearcreek in 1827. He died April 9, 1854. He was twice married, and left by the two marriages some seven or eight children, part of whom reside in the township.

Norman Carter

was born in Warren, Connecticut, January 23, id: a, and came to Ruggies in 1S24, and located on lot twenty-six, section four. Tie labored some three years, part of the time for Daniel Beach, and returned to Connecticut in 1J27, and married Lavinu. Hopkins ; and in r8.-8 ieraoved to Ruggies, where he has since deceased. His family consisted of Huldah Adelaide, wife of J i,w G. Sturtevant, and Sarah I.avina. married to William Gantt. They ail reside in Ruggies.

Abraham Ferris

was born in Columbia county, New York, fune 16, 1788. He served in the war of 1812, and married Marinda Philips, and removed to Ruggies township in 1S24- Hc voyaged up the lake from Buffalo to Sandusky in a schooner, and after being delayed by a lake storm, reached Rug T.-s, by way of New London, ai d loeat d, on lot seventeen, section three, having erected a cabin. His family, at his decease, which took place August 13,

1850, consisted of Laura, l'hiletus, Samuel, Sarah, Lois, Erastus, Elias, je^se and Elmira. His wife died September 17, 1850. Several members of the family are now deceased.

Jacob Roorback

was born in Maryland, February 27, 1795, and his parents removed to Yates county, New York, where he was drafted and served in the war of 1812. He married Amy Sutherland in 1821, and in 1823 purchased four hundred acres of land in section two, in Ruggies, to which he removed in 1824. He died March 21, 1850. IPs wife deceased shortly afterward. He had but one child, Sarah, who married A. W. Purdy, of the same township.

James G Ringed

was born in Washington county, New York, May 26, 1814. Removed to Belleville, Richland county, Ohio, in company with his brother Thomas, in 1828. Resided there until (S30, then located in Berlin, Huron county, and in 1836 removed to Ruggies Corners, where his brother had settled a few months prior. He. married Sarah Taylor in 1S37. He is a cooper by trade, but now a farmer. He is an active Democratic partisan, j and takes an influential part in the unity. He was | deputy sheriff from 1852 to 1854. Thomas became jusj tice of the peace in 1836, and was defeated in 1839, po- | litical lines being closely drawn. He deceased, of consumption, in October, 1846. James at present resides at i the Corners. He has no children.

George W. Bowfrige

1 1 .8 1 8, and came with his father, Christian Bowerice. to ; Orange township, Richland (now Ashland) conn tv, in 1S20. He removed to Troy township in 1S45 lie married Eva Siober, daughter of Jacob Stober, of Clear i creek. Christian Bowerice, his fath-r, also settled i. Troy, and deceased September 3, 1806, aged seventythree years. Airs. Bowerice died m October, 1S69, aged seventy-two years. George W. is their only son. His family consists of si', boys and three girls. Air. Bovver J ice is .an intelligent, tanner, and may be regarded as one ! of the pioneers of Troy.

Roswell Weston

was born in Litchfield conn., , Connecticut, ju'v 28, 1811 He removed with his father, Salmon Wc 4.1-4 10 Bungles towns!-, ip, .Huron (now Ashlar. 1) county, in the spring 1 s ' A. His father died in 1864, nge 1 >ut s -. . years He left two sons, PhinOas and K. swell, the sub ject of this sketch. Roswell died May 21, 1873, u_-. h six', four years He resided two miles east of thee .1 ter. His l unify consisted of one daughter, Lucy, who married Milton N. Campbell, who resides at Ml. Pleasant, Iowa, and one son, Clarendon, who resides with ids mother on the homestead. Phineas Weston resides in Ruggles, two miles east of the center, adjoining the homestead of Roswell.

was born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, August 3, 1S03. He resided a short time, in his youth, in Maryland, where he attended school. In 1S15 his father's family removed to Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, where he served an apprenticeship of three years at the hatter's business. In 1828 he married Nancy Stem, and ! removed to Pittsburgh. In 1835 he came to Orange | township, Richland (now Ashland) county, and, in 1845, removed to Savannah., where he still resides. His wife died in 1843, and, in 1845, he married Mary Ann Freeborn, daughter of one of the pioneers of Clearcreek.

Mr. McCutchin has been in the mercantile business I for many years. He connected with the Methodist Epis- J copal church in 1818. He became a member of the Masonic fraternity in Pittsburgh - -Miller lodge, No. 165 - in 1830, and of Western Star lodge, of the Odd Fellows, No. 24, in 1S32. He has been notary public about seventeen years; mayor of Savannah four years; post- | master eleven years, and township treasurer six years. I He is the fathei of a large family, part of whom are mar- i lied, and part deceased.

Mr. McCutchin is a quiet and undemonstrative citi- j zen. In politics he acts with the Democratic party, | though not prescriptive in his opinions.

Charles S. Vanarnan

CHARLES S. VANARNAN was born in Columbia county, State of New York, April 5, 1814. He lost his parents in infancy, and is a selfeducated man. He became a professional teacher in J early life. He came to Clearcreek township as earlv as I 1838, where he taught school. In 1S39 he located in Ashland, where he taught several sessions. In 1844 he ! acts.d as deputy sheriff under Sheriff Kerr, of Richland county. After the erection of Ashland county, he served a number of years as constable for Montgomery township, and as superintendent of the county infirmary. He studied law with Gates & McCctnes, and was admitted in 1853. He married Eunice Cornel!, of Elyria, in 1S42. He removed to Trov in 1854, and became a farmer-lawyer. During the war of 1861-5, he served in Tennessee. Since his return he has been elected justice of the peace. He is now fanning one mile southeast of the center. He i the parent of three girls and two sons, one of whom fell in the late war. The other 1 members of his family are married. As the name denotes, Mr. Van \rnan is a descendant of the original Hollanders, of New York.

Nathaniel Clark

I was born in the State of New York, March 10. 1792. In 1799 his father removed to Seneca countv, New York. In 1812 he was drafted and served in the war. After peace he married Elizabeth Phelps, of the same county. In 1S32 he moved to Troy township and set- - tied amid the forests. He located north of the center,

where lie still resides on lot eighteen, upon an improved j farm of ninety-nine acres. His Dmity consists of but I two children, both of whom are married. His honorable wife is a sister of Mrs, Parker, of t he same township. At this time, 1876, he and his aged wife are in the enjoyment of good health. They are tnembeis of the Methodist Episcopal church.

Samuel Richards

SAMUEL RICHARDS was born in Jefferson county, Ohio, December 23, 1803 When a young man he located in Orange township, of this county, and removed to Troy in 1857. The township was at that time thinly settled. It was densely timbered, and the pioneers performed a prodigy of labor in removing the forest and preparing Fields for culture. His family consisted of six sons and six daughters. Four - two boys and two girls - are dead. The bake, are married and reside mostly within this county. His wife deceased in 1875. He resides at present with a son at Troy center. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church.

Henry Smith

HENRY SMITH was born in Pennsylvania in 1796, and located in Columbiana with his parents after the war of 1012. He moved thence to Clearcreek township, where he resided until 1846, when he purchased a farm and settled in Troy township. He cleared and improved a valuable homestead. He died in 1S65, aged about sixty-nine years. His family were : John, Adam, Samuel, Joseph, Elizabeth Biddinger, Susan Stentz, Maty \nn Beyuier, and Caroline Banach. The family are considerable scattered.

Thomas Dunlap

was born in the north of Ireland in 1772, and in infanev came with his father'-, family to Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, about the beginning of the war of the Revolution. Upon reaching manhood, he married Margaret Blair, and in the spring of 1809, removed to '1 a IImadge, Portage county, Ohio. He remained there uniii November, '83c, when he located in Ruggles township, Huron (now Ashland,) county. When he entered the township he found the following settlers, who had me ceded him some years: Daniel Beach, Bradford St a

Clark, James Poag, Enoch Taylor, Benjamin Green, Joshua Frost, Samuel Monroe, David Blair, John Hall. Samuel Monroe, David Blair, and Enoch Taylor were shoemakers, and Benjamin Green and Joshua Frost, blacksmiths

John Dunlap, oldest son of Thomas Dunlap, came on and worked for Daniel Beach, prior to the removal of the Dunlap family, and died at the cabin of Mr. Beach.

Thomas Dunlap died in 1S47, aged seventy-five years, and his wife in August, 1872, aged eighty-six. The family were: John, who died at the cabin of Mr. Beach, William, Thomas, Nancy, wife of W. McMeekin, Alexander. David, Samuel, Solomon, Amos, James, Joseph, and John F. . All are now dead except David, William, and James. David resides in Wood county, Ohio; William in Michigan; and James in Sullivan, Ashland count)', Ohio. He has been commissioner of Ashland county six years, and is at present conducting a hotel. He married Minerva Myers, daughter of Jacob Myers, of Clearcreek. He has four boys and four girls.

The Dunlap family was noted for tremendous physical power. All the sons, but two, were full six feet in height, and averaged about one hundred and eighty pounds in weight. As axe-men, log rollers, and pioneer delvers in the forest, it would be difficult to find another equally vigorous class of brothers. Like their Scotch-lrish ancestors, they were all frank and generous.

Samuel Robe Rts O N.

was horn in Washington county, Pennsylvania, May 20, 1797. His father, James Robertson, of Scotland, settled in that county about 1 794. Pie removed, with his family to Cross Creek township, Jefferson county, Ohio, in 1798, where he died. Samuel Robertson, grew to manhood in Jefferson county, and in 1817 visited Milton,' Montgomery, and Orange townships, in what is now Ashland county. The Burgetts and Montgomerys, of Milton township, were friends and acquaintances.- In 1S17 he worked most of the spring and summer for George Bulged, assisting him in clearing his lands, and in cutting and preparing timber for a new barn. He returned to Jefferson county and remained durinu the winter. The next spring he was accompanied by Alexander Morrow, a brother-in-law of the late Patrick Elliot, of Clearcreek. Their route was from Cadiz to .Coshocton, thence up the Walhonding, to and up Owl creek to Mt. Vernon, thence to Mansfield. For nearly twenty miles south of Mansfield he found only an occasional cabin, and from there to Burgetts an almost unbroken forest In the fall of 1S18 and spring of 1810, he and John Grimes assisted Isaac Charles in preparing a race and dam for a grist- and saw mill one and a half miles south of the present site of Olivesbmgh, on the Black fork. Wages were w ry low and money very scarce afthal pciiod. The pioneers were crowding into Montgomery and the surrounding townships. Cabin taisings and log rollings were the chief occupation of the i new settlers. A wonderful amount of energy and self- ! sacrifice were expended in assisting the incoming pioneers. The woodman's axe could be heard ringing in I every township. Mr. Robertson states that wild game ! at this period was very numerous, particularly deer and j turkey. The leading hunters were Solomon Erie, John j McConnell, James Clark, Christopher Mykrantz, and ! a Mr. Wheeler. In the spring of 1824, he resided in | what Is now Seneca county, and worked that summer for | Mr. Gibson, father of General William H. Gibson, and ! remembers the organization of the county, and the location of the seat of justice at Tiffin. There was an Indian reservation within the limits of the county and the ! Senecas', or more properly, Cayi/gas, were quite numerous, though generally friendly and harmless. He remained there about one year. When he entered the county, in 1824, he is of the opinion that there were only about a dozen or twenty white families in that region, among whom were the Gibsons, Welshes and H. j C. Brish, Indian agent. He reached the county by way ! of Beall's trail, New Haven and Fort Ball. In 1 S 4 3 he ; located in the north part of Wayne county, where he cleared a small farm which, in 1S37, he sold, and purchased lot one hundred, in Sullivan township, Lorain, now Ashland, county. It was densely covered with, tall timber. Fie cleared and resided upon this farm about eighteen years. He then purchased a new homestead in Orange township, known as the I.inard farm. Here his wife/with whom he had lived very happily for many years, deceased, lie afterward sold his farm, and now (1876) resides in Ashland. His family consisted of James.' who died in the hospital in United States service in 1863; John, who resides in; Michigan Margaret, wife j of Thomas Miller; Rebecca, wife of John Welsh; Mary,

| and Sarah Jane, wife of John Crawford. Mr. Robertson has passed through all the pioneer scenes of the county, and still possesses a good deal of physical vigor. His memory seems to Ire unimpaired, and he may surj vive many years. Mr. Robertson died about 1S7S, in | Orange township.

Patrick Elliott

| was horn in Donegal county, Ireland, in 178S, and emi- ! grated with his parents, and located in Washington county, Pennsylvania, in 1803. He grew up in that J county, and married Nancy Morrow, of Jefferson count v,

' Ohio, in 1S13, and removed to Clearcreek township, i Richland county, and located on the south west quarter of section twelve, in >the spring of 1817. He resided | on his farm until 1S2C when lie deceased. He was a member of the Episcopal church from his youth. At his ! death his family consisted of his wife, Sarah., Marc, Eli/, abeth, Hugh, Jane, George, and Moses, of whom onR Hugh and Moses survive. Mrs. Elio tt died in 1S47, aged about sixty years.

Mrs. Elliott is believed to have taught the first sub S' riplton school, in her own cabin, in Glean reck township, in 18 1 7, the parties sending scholars assisting Mr. Elliott was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, in 1757. j and in 1S10 removed from Reaver county to the Clear ; fork of the Mohican, now in Ashland county, and, m j February of the same year, located on the farm upon 1 I which his son, Lewis Oliver, now resides, on the Black 1 j fork, about one mile east of the present site of Perrys- j ville. His family consisted of three sons - John, Daniel, j and Lewis - and four daughters - Mrs. Mary Tannehill, | Mrs. Sarah Tannehill, Mrs. Elizabeth McMahan, and j Mrs. Margaret Quick. j

He forted in his double log cabin in 1812, during the j Indian excitement, and remained undisturbed until the j close of the war. The Greentown Indians, Thomas ! Lyons, Billy Dowdee, James Armstrong, Jonacake, and I others, often visited him after the war.

| Mr. Oliver died in 1823, aged about sixty-four years, j | His wife died in 1827, aged sixty-seven years. Mrs. j j Mary Tannehill, wife of Charles Tannehill, died in 1854, j | aged fifty nine years ; Sarah Tannehill, wife of Melzer ;

I Tannehill, jr. , still survives, aged about seventy-four j years ; Mrs. Elizabeth McMahan and Mrs. Margaret | Quick, died in 1872, aged, respectively, seventy-six and |

; seventy-one years. Daniel Oliver resides one mile north- - j : east of Loudonville, and is about eighty-four years of j \ age; John deceased on his homestead, three miles below I Perrys ville, in 1854, aged sixty-four years.

John Chapman had a nursery of fruit trees on tire i farm of John Oliver, from which sprang nearly all the ! early orchards of Green township, j Mr. Oliver was an agreeable conversationalist, and a j j steadfast friend. His family continue to reside on the j ! old homestead. We have given a sketch of Lewis Oliver j elsewhere.

George W. Curry Colonel George W. Urie

COLONEL GEORGE W. URIE was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, February 22. 1S06, and emigrated with his father's family to Orange township, Richland, now Ashland county, Ohio, in November, 1815. For many years he has been a citizen of Ashland. His tastes are strongly military. Under the old State organization, he was promoted through the various grades, from captain to colonel, of his regiment of independent rifles. When mounted on horseback, properly caparisoned, he was a fine looking officer, being tall and finely proportioned. With an unusually piercing black eye, he was every inch a soldier, in address and appearance. In the fall of 1 845 he was elected treasurer of Richland county, and upon the erection of Ashland county, in 1846, he resigned, and was elected the first treasurer of the new county, which office he held two terms. Being bitten by the gold fever in 1851, he spent one year in California, reaching that region byway of Panama. In 1853 he was elected a member of the State board of equalization from the district composed of Ashland and Richland counties. In 1857 he was appointed deputy United States marshal for the northern district of Ohio, and in 1S60 aided in taking the census. In 1863 he was elected recorder of Ashland county, and held the office until 1874. In the spring of 1874 he was elected mayor of Ashland, and held the office two years. Colonel Urie is a member of the Presbyterian church, and noted for his integrity and uprightness. He is a son of the late Solomon Urie, noticed elsewhere. The family of Colonel Urie consists of four daughters, Mrs. Mary I. Toiler, Mrs! Afice A. Peer, Mrs. Libido H. Anderson, and Mrs. Sadie A. Beer, and a son who died young. Mrs. Porter deceased in Septerabei, 1875.

John Chapman

[The oddest character in all our history was John Chapman, alia? Appleseed, who was discovered in Knox county as early as tSot. A. P. Norton'.]

John Chapman, sometimes called "Johnny Appleseed,'1 because of a penchant for planting apple seeds, and the cultivation of nurseries, was born in Massachusetts, as is believed, m the year 1770. Nothing is known of his ancestry, except that tin y were genuine Yankees, poor, enterprising, and restless. His name was not " Jonathan," as it is generally printed in pioneer sketches; but plain |ohn Chapman; hence, he is generally called, among the early settlers of this region, "Johnny Appleseed."*' It is remarkable he never communicated his

* This fact is gathered from a letter addressed to the Tort W.n nc S< by Hon. |. VV. Ibn. son. author ot a history of Allen county. Indiana, dated October 11, 1P71. He found "John Chapman" to be his true name, in looking over the papers of his estate, « liich v 1 et t ., 1 in the probate court of Alien county. For .u stance, t" no;, s u.-.v filed 1, gainst his estate, one dated at Franklin, suppo ed to be on the Great Miami fiver, in Ohio Febru ry, i3o.|, pnyabli to N'atl 1 » hup. nan. one var after date, for one hundred doll, 1 in .---*{.- - ot land;" the other, one hundred dollars, pny.il ie to some mu -n dr.n named Undde, of t lie commonwealth of Ma -uhn --t;-. when r'v ,- be. am - of .ig, , both of which were signed b. John * ha,..-. A belter evidence of his name was fonuo in t' e pu-c -..tses >>: land, wh '.

real history to his most intimate friends, and was equally - reticent concerning his youth and school days. We have ! only a glimmer of his early instruction, and even there, but j a single ray of light bursts through the clouds that hover j over and about his boyhood. All agree that he was a | good reader - eloquent at times - and that in conversa- ; tion, when discoursing upon fine fruit, and the spiritual j theories of his beloved Swedenborg, his dark eyes would flash with peculiar intelligence, while he discussed his j favorite topics. It was clear to all that his education ! had not been neglected, for he possessed a fair fund of j information upon many subjects not connected with his j fruit enterprises

.The time when, and the reason why, he bade adieu to j the sterile hills of New England, were never communicated to ony one, so far as we have been able to learn, j Whether the acceptance of" the life of a recluse sprang - from disappointment in a love affair, or was voluntary i and a matter of choice, will never be known. As early I as 1796 -7, he was seen in the autumns, for two or three < successive years, along the banks of the Potomac, in [ eastern Virginia, visiting the cider mills where the farmers j were pressing cider, picking the seeds from the pumice. j When he had collected a sufficient quantity of seeds for ' Iris purpose, they were carefully packed in linen or leather ! sacks, and carried on his shoulders or by an old horse j procured for that purpose, across the mountains, to the ! territories west of the Ohio river. He generally had ; with him an axe, a hatchet, and a Virginia lice, with j which he cleared and dug in loamy or rich soil, along ! the banks of a stream, a few rods of ground, around which he erected a brush fence, and then planted his j apple seeds. His first nurseries were planted, as near as j we can learn, along the Tuscarawas, the Muskingum, j the Licking, and Walhonding and its branches, Vernon i river, the Lake fork, and the Jerome and Black forks, j He probably passed up. the Licking two or three years ! before he ascended the Walhonding, which took place j about the year 1800. When the Butlers ascended Vcr- i non river to the present site- of Mt. Vernon in 1801, | they found the eccentric John Chapman at the cabin of the wild, rollicking pioneer, Andrew Craig. He planted j a number of nurseries along the banks of Lie Walhonding, and several along tire Vernon river as high up as Mt. Vernon. These nurseries were placed of eligible. : points in tire region of good farm land; and when the ! pioneers began to pour in, young fruit trees in abundance awaited their arrival.

It is not well ascertained when Johnny Chapman com- ! me need planting seeds within the present limits of Ash- i land county, but from the fact that most of the territorv lit: m.ule in Allnn county, as well as in A'l.wris and Jay counnes, IrnJi- I ana. 'Flu* nuatimi nts of title, u inch ha lu.M. wore in the name of John t.'.iajuimn. lie hn.ii a .sister in Adams at jay county, marriel to a man by th'1 name of I'.tonm, who was pro! ably tving at his death. This estate of johnny u as in lithintmn ahm. o n years. So ht. did not die a ; poor as m< -t | >pl< S'ispe .. ' 1 I along the Black fork belonged to Knox until 1813, we mchne to the opinion he may have passed up the Black fork as early as 1808-9, ^Qr he had a very fine nursery one and 0. half miles west of Mifflin as early as iS:i-J2, and had, in 1809, obtained a small piece of ground for a nursery from Alexander Finley, near the present site of Tylertown, in Mohican township. Here he was ready with his choice apple-trees as soon as the woodman's axe began to echo through the forest. Besides the nurseries at Finley's and west of Mifflin, lie planted one or. the farm subsequently owned by the late John Oliver, in Green township, and a fine one on the bottom, near the present site of Leidigh's mill in Orange township, and sundry smaller ones in the east and west parts of the county, along the small streams, where the early settlers procured trees for a trifle. Ever restless, Johnny kept moving from point to point. His nurseries were not neglected, for he frequently returned and pruned them so as to make the trees symmetrical. His nurseries were scattered along the streams for hundreds of miles, and he consumed many months during the year traveling from place to place. Sometimes he would be gone several months, and then suddenly appear among the pioneers, all tattered and bruised by the briars and brambles, ready to give them fresh news right from Heaven. His usual charge for young trees was a "fip-penny-bit" .apiece. As money was extremely scarce, Johnny was very accommodating; and if the pioneer could not pay the money he would sell in exchange for old clothing, and if he could not get such articles he would kindly close the contract, in a business way. by taking a n./to payable at some future period, and if he ever got his pay he was very much gratified, and if he never got it he seemed equally content and happy.

In the year 1 S 1 1 he extended his operations into Richland county, planting several nurseries there, and probably one or two within the present limits of Crawford county. During the war of 1S12-15, ire often visited Mansfield, Mt. Vernon, Clinton, and the settlements along the forks of the Mohican and the .Walhonding. When these sparsely settled regions were threatened Jv Indian invasion, he hastened from cabin to cabin noticing the pioneers of approaching danger, and conjured them to fiee for their lives to the block-houses and places of safety. He was well known among the Indian tribes; and from his harmless demeanor, was regarded as a "great medicine man;" and never incurred the hate and suspicion of the warriors. Thus, he was enabled to glide through the forests from settlement to settlement on errands of mercy, in entire safety. From Richland county, after the close of the war, he passed through Crawford to Upper Sandusky, and as early as 1825 into the present limits of Defiance county, and along the Maumee. In 1826 he visited John R. Janies, a leading lawyer at Url n 1 concerning a nursery that I10 had planted sometime piior to Hurt year, in Ch impugn county, and winch had pn-wd into the hands of a thud parly, owing to the neglect >iL'n> man from whom lie lud pet mission to plant it. t" ivvrvo the infi.Ti.st of Chapman. He doubtless had planted nurseries in 1 Vlav.are county prior to 1826. From 1S15 to 1S43, when he made his las', visit, he often -returned to Ashland county, at which times he usually passed down the Black fork, among the Copuses, the Irwins, the Coulters, the Tannehills, tire Rices, the Olivers, and the Priests. From thence, lie passed over to Finley's: then up the Jerome fork, among the settlers along that stream, until he reached Jacob Young, Patrick Murray, and the Fasts and Masons, at his nursery, near Leidigh's mill - rarely stopping in the villages - though occasionally he called in Mifflin, at the Thomas hotel - in Ashland, at Slocum's: and in Mansfield, at Wilers. When he did so, he always slept on the floor of the bar-room.

The precise period when he ascended the Maumee and entered the territory of Indiana is left in doubt. It is probable he had reached Fort Wayne as early as 1S26; for in 1830 he was seen on the Maumee seated in a section of a hollow tree, which he improvised for a boat, laden with apple-seeds, and which lie landed at Wayne's fori. Thus, as the pioneers infringed upon the location of his nurseries, he passed on, and continued to plant seeds in advance of the settlements, until death, that waits for no one, called the old man from his toil.

When interrogated on the subject of grafting, he would dilate on the evils of such a custom with as much earnestness as most surgeons would the operation of separating an arm or a limb from a human being, insisting that the true way to obtain good fruit was to let it grow upon ungrafted trees, because the native growth produced the finest fruit. How often he visited the cider mills in the east is not known; but the practice must have been kept up to a late period in his life, for he visited the pioneers of Green township as late as TS43, looking very much as lie did a quarter of a century before. The old man generally traveled alone, and rarely had lodgers at his primitive camp fires. We hear an occasional instance of parties, desiring to purchase trees, tarrying all night at his solitary hut.

It is a matter of surprise io many how he survived so long, while roaming through the forests, without defensive weapons, illy cloth. ed and halt famished for healthful food during the inclement seasons of the year. He always refrained from taking the life of animals - never, if possible, even disturbing their lairs or haunt?. So, he never procured sustenance in that way. His food was generally meagre, and consisted of berries, nuts, vegetables, and a little corn-bread or mush made from meal given him in exchange for trees, or as a matter of charity. He carried with him a few cooking utensils - a tin pan, which served the double purpose of a hat and a mush pot, when he had no other head-gear. lie would rarely eat at a table with families - and never until he felt sure there would be enough left to satisfy the hunger of the children, always manifesting a great affection for young people, especially little girls, for whom he always had some little keep-sake, consisting of a piece of ribbon or calico. This peculiarity throws a faint explanation over his monomania for the life of a hermit. The shadow of some bright little lady of New England still oiling to the heart of this strange man.

| he erected a pole hut, over which he placed a bark roof after the manner of the Indians. He then gathered leaves and made a very comfortable bed upon which he i slept, while the wolves and other wild animals gave him ! a sort of rude welcome to their precincts by assembling in the vicinity of his slumbers and giving Mm nightly serenades. He often slept on the ground in the midst I of the forest near a small fire, erected to cook his scanty ! meal and protect him from freezing, if the weather was ; cold. At other times he reposed upon the leaves beside i a log, with his pan and other traps by his side, and seemed | to be the object of special interest and regard of both wild i animals and savages, for he always escaped injury from ; both. In his tenderness for every sentient creature he | was a greater humanitarian - or if you please, "anirnab tarian," than even the famous Bergh, of New York city;

' for it. is related that more than once he suffered the chill night air and winds of autumn rather than singe the ; wings of the mosquito by his camp-fire. In this re- 1 spect the affection he possessed foi the brute creation i seems to have been fully reciprocated, for the fiercest : animals and Johnny Chapman seemed to have had a I truce. He avoided them and they avoided him.

His dress was a marvel of scraps and tatters. It con- | sisted, invariably, of cast off, badly worn garments, given ' him by the pioneers in exchange for young apple-trees.

! he protected himself against the wintry blasts. Upon | his head he generally wore a crownless hat, much dinged and limbered with rough usage, which he often ran his I hand through and carried on his arm. Sometimes be turn* d his tin pan over his crownlcss hat, in the top of I which rested a testament and a well-worn volume of i Swedenborg, which he declared was an infallible protection against snakes, wild animals, Indians, and all other | evils. At other times he wore a pasteboard hat, with an ! enormous rim, which he conceived protected his face from the scorching rays of the sun.

His feet were generally covered, in the winter season, with old shoes, or one shoe and a boot: sometimes one ; foot was bare, undergoing, in most rigorous weather, a sort of penance for some imaginary violation of Johnny's j religious whims. At other times, he wrapped his feet in 1 old rags or bark, and tied on a sort ot wooden sandal,

| which protected the bottoms of bis feet against: thorns and rough stones. Sometimes he was seen slowly advanci ing through the snow, with one foot entirely naked,

I breaking the crust with the other, on which he wore an j old boot or brogan, which he had picked up at some cabin. Being asked why he favored one foot more than the other, he replied that the one with th«_ boot on had j once been bitten by a rattlesnake, and had su fie red more than the other, and deserved to be favored.

While clothed in such habiliments he presented a I most ludicrous appearance, and it was haiu to repress a smile on meeting him : yet such was the ivgaul of the nioneers for this strange old man that even fine children - of the cabins greeted him respectful!) when he entered and craved the piivilege of lying upon the floor a short time to give them fresh news, right from Hea\en. "Almost the first thing he would do when he entered a house, was to lie down on the floor, with his knapsack for a pillow, and his head toward the light of a door or window, when he would carefully take out his old worn hooks, the exponents of the beautiful religion that Johnny so zealously lived out. We can hear him read just now, as he did that summer day, when we were busy quilting up-stairs, and he lay near the door, his voice rising and thrilling, strong and loud, as the roar of the waves and winds, then soft and soothing as the balmy airs that stirred and quivered the morning glory leaves about his gray head." *

His charitable impulses were such, that when be met a poor emigrant going west, shoeless and penniless, he would part with his last shoe and penny to help the stranger and his family on their way. Rude and uncouth as to appearance, he was not without sensibility and modesty; and often excused himself .rom entering the cabins of the settlers, "because his clothing was not fit." In conversation, he was attentive, polite and chaste in all kinds of company. He was a small man, rather bony { and sinewy, about five feet nine inches high, with dark i eyes, thin beard, and dark hair, which he .generally wore long. Sometimes he could be induced to clip his beard, which rather improved his appearance, for his face was more round than bony, and was rather pleasant in expression, when he engaged in conversation.

His religious sentiments were as remarkable as his othei traits. He was a devout and ardent disciple of the great Sweedish seer, Emanuel Swedenborg; and always carried portions of his works. Whenever an opportunity presented, he entered upon the discussion of the peculiar doctrines of Swedenborg, upon which he expatiated with gieat warmth and eloquence. Sometimes he carried a volume of Swedenborg beneath his waistband, from which he distributed fragments whenever he could get a reader, until a volume had disappeared. His ideas upon marriage were as eccentric as upon othei topics. He excused himself from entering that state on the ground that he had a vision, in which two angelic ladies visited him to encourage his single blessedness, by the assurance that if he hel l out in tins world, he would secure two wives in the world to cornel While relating this circumstance, a wag took the liberty of interrogating Johnny as to the occupation of people in the other world. Johnny 'seemed to think people would recognize the maniage state there, and pursue much the same occupations they did here. The wag said : but still consoled himself on the idea of having two wives in the spiritual land of Swedenborg. His theological tenets taught him it was wrong to deprive any creature of life; and he carried this doctrine so far as to refuse even to kill a rattlesnake, after it had bitten him. His kindness to horses was such, that when he found an old or worn down animal turned out to die, by pioneers; he would always conduct it where it could get food, or hire same one to feed it. From some intimations dropped by him at Mansfield, and other points, it is believed that he was regularly ordained by the disciples of Swedenborg, and sent west as a missionary. Some ex- ! pressions of his when Rev. Adam Paine, a sort of .Lorenzo Dow, was once preaching on the public square in Mansfield, confirm this impression. In winding up an eccentric discourse on the sin of 'pride, Paine called out: "Where now is your barefooted pilgrim on his way to Heaven?" Johnny, holding up his bare pedals, exclaimed : "Here he is." A repetition of all the anecdotes concerning this strange wanderer would fill a volume. He was just as happy in the solitudes of the forest, communing with tire author of ail, as he lay gazing at the stars, where he could almost see the Angels, as in the midst of his nurseries or among the pioneers.

How, and where did he die? Ele died at the house of William Worth, in St. Joseph township, Allen county, Indiana, March n, t Sq 5. Some days prior to his decease, information was conveyed to Johnny, who was some fifteen miles distant from Mr. Worth's, near where he had a nursety, that some cattle had broken into it; and he immediately started. "When he arrived he was very much fatigued, having exhausted his strength in the journey, which being performed without intermissi n, and on foot, was too great a task for the poot old man. He "laid down that night never to rise again: for he was attacked with pneumonia, which baffled medical skill, and in a few days he passed into the spirit land. Mr. Flutter, a neighbor of Mr. Worth, who laid out the ; body of Johnny, states, he had on when he died, next j to his body, a coarse coffee-sack, with a hole cut in the I centre, through which he passed his head. He had on ! the waists of four pairs of pants. These were cut off at j the forks, ripped up at the sides, and the front thrown ! away, saving the waist-band attached to the hinder part.

I These hinder parts were buttoned around him, lapping ! like shingles, so as to cover the whole lower part of his J body; and over all these were drawn a pair of what was once pantaloons. In this garb he died as he had lived*.

He was buried in David Archer's graveyard, two and j one half miles north of IT. Wayne, near the foot of a i natural mound, and a stone set up to mark the place where he sleeps. He remained a firm believer in the I doctrines of Swedenborg. His calm and resigned man- 1 tier attracted the attention of his physician, who enj qttired about his religious tends, asserting that he never j saw a patient so resigned!. Johnny Uiiapman was a

.rood man. He possessed many virtues. He was horn ; ' cst - upright, and harmless. He seems to have been specially fitted by Providence to prepare the wilderness j for the reception of emigration and c ivilization.

The lovers of choice fruit in Ohio and Indiana owe | him a monument to be erected over bis remains, as a token of their high regard for the cheerful sacrifices he j made, to contribute to the comfort and happiness of j those seeking homes in the western wilds.

Thomas Sprott

was burn in Newville, Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, Marcli 4, 1766. Pits parents were of Irish birth, front county Downc, in Ireland, and emigrated to America in the year .1764. When Thomas Sprott was a small bov his parents moved to the region now know n as Allegheny county, and settled on the L-a As of the oughiogeny river, where they remained a short time. Owing to the sparseness of the settlers and the hazards of Indian invasion, they deemed it best to change their location.

I he father of Thomas selected a new home, twelve milts west of Pittsburgh, and four south of the Ohio river, which at that point runs nearly west. Here he erected a strong leg cabin after the manner of the pioneers, and commenced to prepare a farm for culture. The M'vandot and Delaware Indians made frequent incursions among the border settlers, capturing the children of the pioneers, killing and scalping whole families, and c . vcying away horses and other propertv. These expeditions were so fit Tjiiently repeat- d that the Hot err. men t deemed it best to establish forts within i... ia i tory. Accordingly, ( Jencral McIntosh was ordered to construe l a fort near the junction of the Heaver with tin Ohio mer, in the spring of 177S. It was built of strong stockades, furnished with bastions, and mounted one sixpound cannon. The fort was called McIntosh, after the i general. A strong garrison was placed within the fort to j protect the settlements. The ferocity of the northwest- : err, Indians continuing, and many incursions being made j by them into the border settlements, General McIntosh was ordered to conduct an expedition, consisting of one i thousand men, to Upper Sandusky to punish the warriors. Prior to setting out, he erected Fort Laurens, on the Tuscarawas, and proceeded on his expedition, the result of which is narrated in the history of the times.

The pioneers of the border were generally rough, rugged and fearless men. They taught their sons the art of j border defence, and it was not unusual to find boys at j the age of twelve or fifteen years fine woodsmen and un- j erring marksmen. The sons of Mr. Sprott, like the Wetzels, the Shepards, the Zanes, and others, were early taught the use of the rifle, that they might aid in repel- ; ling the savage red-skins in their attempts at capturing or murdering the settlers. At the age of seventeen Thomas j Sprott was sufficiently skilful to become an effective j scout and spy, and was induced by Brady to enter the j service.*