Union Township (part 2 of 7)

Brown, with whom he lived until he was twentythree years of age, when his uncle died. Robert Brown, sr., was born March 4, 1808, in the southeastern part of the State, about 1833. He married Eliza Palmer, who was born about 1812, and died September 15, 1875, her husband following he" January 10, 1877, giving by will to the subject of this sketch fifty aces of land, and to two nieces twenty-five acres each, he dying without family. He was a Methodist in faith, and was lamented by the whole community. John V. Brown, father of the subject of this sketch, was born about 18 jo, and married Miss Dorcas Dutro, in April, 1846, There were four children given to them : Eliza P., born in 1847; Martha Alice, born November 1, 1851; Robert, born December 3, 1853; John V., bom June 6, 1857. John V. Brown, sr., died February 13, 1857, in Muskingum county. John V., jr., died April, 1848; Eliza died about 1849. Mrs. Brown married Daniel Swarts September 9, 1867. He died August 28, 1876. Mrs. Swarts now lives with her son, the subject of this sketch.

Boring, Mary M., was bom January 1, 1847, *n Franklin township. She was the daughter of Alva and Sarah (Franks) Swisher, whose parents were born in Licking county. Mary M. married William A. Boring, of this county. Result of this marriage, three children: Bertram A., Ora L., and Nettie ; all are at home with their mother. Mr. Boring died July 20, 1876, at the age of thirtyseven years; was a farmer, wool grower, and stock raiser; leaving his widow some one hundred and eighty acres of good land in Licking township. Mr. and Mrs. Boring w?ere members of the Lutheran church of Swamp run, over twenty-one years.

Beals, Enoch, post office, Summit. The son of Nathan and Elmira Beals, bom March 5, 1818, in Etna township. Nathan was born in Massachusetts, his wife in Vermont. They came to Ohio in 1815, and settled in Licking county. Enoch married Catharine Beem, at the age of twenty-two, and lived in Lima twenty-four years, then went to Indiana for one year, when he returned to Lima, where he has since resided.

Beem, G. W., post office, Summit Station, was born in 1820, November 17th, in Jersey township. Remained at home until the age of ttventy-one, then came to Lima and lived with John R. Beem one year. He married Margaret Myer, by whom he had five children, she dying June 25, 1854. July 1, 1855, he married Julia Myer, by whom he had one child; his second wife died June 30, 1857. March 18, 1858, he married Elizabeth Tharp, daughter of Isaac and Magdalena Tharp. G. W. is a descendent of Michael Beem, who was born in Alleghany county, Maryland, about the year 1751. He was of German extraction. At the age of twenty he married Elizabeth Green, daughter of Benjamin Green. He served in the Revolutionary war, with the rank of sergeant, and up to the time of his death had a dear recollection of both General Washington and Lafayette. He first settled at Hog run, and then went to Jersey township, where he lived until he died, at Michael Bem's, at the age of ninety- five years ten months and fourteen days.

Beem, R. D., post office, Summit, was born in Jersey township, in 1822, July 19th, the son of William and Catharine Beem. William Beem was born in Alleghany county, Maryland ; he came to Ohio about 1812, and settled in Jersey township, where he lived the remainder of his life; he died in 1857. R. D. Beem married Miss Chrisltva Myer, daughter of John and Fannie Myer, of Maryland. Mr. Myer came to Ohio about 1818.

Brock, S. C. D., post office, Summit Station, was born in Belmont county, in the year 1822, on March nth. He was the son of Jesse and Mary Brock, who were among the the earliest settlers of Belmont county, and were farmers by occupation. In 1868 he left Belmont county, coming directly to his present home. In 1841 he married Miss Catharine Doney, daughter of Isaac and Mary Doney. In early life Mr. Brock fitted himself for the practice of medicine, and had he chosen to follow the profession, was amply qualified to have made his mark in the same, but chose to give his exclusive attention to farming. His farm consists of some two hundred acres, with large house, barns, stables, etc. The Union church and a fine school-house are also located on this farm.

Barnes, Charles, jr., was born in Frederick county, Virginia, in April, 1797, and came with his father to Newark, in 1811. In 1814 the family removed to a farm in Mary Ann township, where Mr. Barnes died December 21, 1873, *n h*s seventyseventh year. His father, whose name was also Charles, made himself acquainted with this country while a soldier under Lord Dunmore, in the expedition against the Indians on the Scioto. He died in Mary Ann township in 1815, and was the first person buried in Mary Ann cemetery. Charles Barnes, jr., was a member of the Presbyterian church during the last twenty years of his life, and was an upright, honest citizen.

Virginia to this township in 181 1, and settled on the place where Mr. Barnes is now living. He is one of nine children - three boys and six girls, seven of whom are now living. He was married in 1861, to Virginia Jones. Her father was a native of Wales, but came to this county when a boy. Her mother was of German descent. They had five children - four boys and one girl: Charlie S., William -H. (dead), Mary C., Edward H., and Oren J. Mr. Barnes is living upon a farm of one hundred acres, which he owns, and which shows evidences of the industry and careful attention that are characteristic* of the man.

Bishop, Naomi, was born in 1823, in this county; was the daughter of Adam and Naoma Croan, who came to this county in 1802, locating in McKean township in 1809. Naomi Croan (now Bishop) was married in 1844 to D. W. Willard, of this county, who was born in 1813, in Massachusetts. They had three children. William D., born in 1845, was married to Mary J. Jourdon of this county, died in 1867, aged twenty-two years. They had one child - Ida May. George W. was born July 29, 1847. Mitchel was born in 1851; was married to Seville Smith, of this county July 22, 1880 who was born in i860, in McKean township. He is a farmer, and is now living on the old homestead north of Fredonia. Mr. Willard died in 1853. Mrs. Willard was married again in 1855 to John J. Bishop of this county, who was. born in 1802, in Washington county, New York. Results of this marriage, one child, Albion, who was born in 1867. He was married to Nealey Williams, of this county, and is now living in McKean township. Mr. Bishop died in 1879, aged seventy-seven years.

Bowers, Jacob, was born February 9, 1 794, in Green county, Pennsylvania; was married to Mar-, garet Bechinbaugh, of the same county who was born in 1797, and came to this county, in the autumn of 1826, locating in McKean township. They were the parents of thirteen children, ten living at present. Jacob bought three hundred acres of land when he came to the township, which was all in woods, he clearing it all up himself. Mrs. Bowers died October 27, 1878, aged eighty-two years. Jacob was in the battle on Lake Erie in the War of 1812. He died August 17, 1880, aged eighty-seven years. William Bowers was born October 12, 1831, in McKean township, on the old homestead, where he at present lives. He was married December 18,

1859, to Mary E. Warner, of this county, who was born January 10, 1840. Results of this marriage, three children, Lilly Arabcll, born November 10, died February 18, 1872, aged thirty-two jM William was married again August 13, 1874,1 Mary J. Furgeson, of this county, who wasba^ July 16, 1844. Results of this marriage two dLdren, Jacob W., born May 25, 1876, Mary L bom October 9, 1878.

Brooks, Diantha M., was born September! 1829, in Granville township; was the daughter-* Thomas B. and Permelia Blanchard, who carat:: this county in 1820, from Sutton, Massachuset* Thomas and Permelia Blanchard had seven cr. dren. Thomas died in 1868, aged seventy- 1 years. Permelia died October 10, 1865, agedsio three years. Diantha Brooks, the subject of ± sketch, was married to Martin Brooks, of i county, who was born March 21, 1830, in tb county. They had five children. Nancy P. a* born October 27, 1854; was married December:: 1872, to William Owens, a farmer, of this cor: and is now living in Granville township. Launl was born November 14, 1856; was married Octber 12, 1876, to John W. Fulton, a farmer, of county. Thomas M. was bom November :: 1858; was married to Hannah Lind, of this coat and is now living at home with his mother. Sa.v E. was born November 19, i860; was marr.r: October, 1878, to William Lake, a farmer, om county. Charles M. was born January 30, ifcy is single, and lives with his mother. Mr. Broow died in 1874, aged forty-four years.

Brooks, Francis M., was born October, 183?. in this county; was the son of Martin and Uk- Brooks, who came to this county in 1811, and/- cated in McKean township. They were the ents of four children. Francis M., the subject r: this sketch, was married in 1856, to Hannah 'L son, of this county. They had eight children" Lucy, Angel ine, Atta, Wilson, Nancy, Oscar, Jorc M. and Samuel, who are all at home. Mrs. Brook died May 20, 1877, aged thirty-six years. kT Brooks was married again in 1878, to Alice of this county. They have one child, Francis M Mr. Brooks was born in McKean township, and >2 always lived in it. He is a farmer, and is esteem^ by all his acquaintances.

Barnum, T. M., wagon-maker, post office,]^ town, was born in Johnstown, Licking cocr^ Ohio, February 2, 1840. Enlisted in the Fto* Iowa volunteer infantry in Marshalltown, 1° n June 8, 1861, and served four years and forty dap was discharged at Nashville, Tennessee, Aup^ 1865. Was married January 20, 1870, to Ik'1 Kasson, of Monroe township, Licking county, Oh* Has three children: Byron, born February 1871; Harry, born September 7, 1874;^

Bell, Stephan E., farmer, Johnstown, was born in Liberty township, November 29, 1838. Enlisted in company B, of the Seventy-sixth regiment Ohio volunteer infantry, October 9, 1861, and served three years. Was wounded at the battle of Arkansas Post, January 11, 1863, in the left shoulder by a piece of shell. Was mustered out at Rome, Georgia, October 9, 1864. Was married to Miss Lucinda Bush, of Monroe township, November 19, 1865, ky whom he has three children: Ulysses W., born February 24, 1868; Oscar C., born December 8, 1870; Ida I,., born December 6, 1875. Mr. Bell is a Republican in politics, and believes a soldier should vote as he shot.

Biedler, H. S., postmaster, Johnstown, was bom in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, July n, 1832. Settled in McKean township in 1858. Married August 8, 1855, to Sarah Pile, of Liberty township. Have had four children: Alice Cary, born October 29, 1856, died May 23, 1863; Clara Belle, born January 24, 1858 ; Elida May, December 5, 1859; Austin, January 18, 1861, died March 20, 1861. Mr. Biedler enlisted in company A, Third Ohio volunteer infantry, April 19, 1861, and served during the three months service. He again enlisted, October 9, 1861, in company C, Seventy-sixth Ohio volunteer infantry, and served in the capacity of corporal during the siege of Vicksburgh, and participated in all engagements that the Seventy-sixth regiment was in up to that time. He then was commissioned second lieutenant of company C, Fifty-first United States colored volunteer regiment, in which capacity he served nearly a year, and then was promoted to first lieutenant and transferred to company D., where he served until March r, 1866. Upon his return home he removed to Johnstown and engaged in mercantile business. Was appointed postmaster November 15, 1878, which position he still holds. From the time of his first enlistment until he returned home, was nine days short of five years he spent in the United States service. During the time he never was wounded, taken prisoner, nor received any bounty.

Blamer, John, deceased, farmer, Johnstown, was bom in Monroe township, April 1, 1829. He married Miss Catharine Oiler, July 4, 1851. She was bom in Delaware county, July 4, 1833. They had six children: Samuel Sherwood, born November 1, 1853; Alsephene, born June 8, 1856; Emma A., bom March 13, 1858; Hazel Oiler, born May 6, i860; Lucy Fredonia, born April 13, 1862, died September 22; 1862; Dora A., born October 20, 1864. John Blamer, the subject of this sketch, died February 16, 1866. He was one of thirteen children, and the only one who has passed from this sphere of action. He was a moral man, liked and missed by all who knew him.

Bottenfield, Linley, farmer, Johnstown, was bom October 25, 1846, near Lock, Knox county. In 1863 he came to Monroe township, worked on a farm, then attended three terms of school at Sunbury, and in the winter of 1868 he began teaching school. He married Emma Johnson, October 4, 1871. She was born June 30, 1852, in Monroe township. They have two children: Charles B., born May 26, 1874; Paul, born May 13, 1877. Joseph and Sarah Jane Bottenfield, parents of the subject of this sketch, were born in Pennsylvania. James Johnson, father of Mrs. Bottenfield, was born in Baltimore county, Maryland, December 1, 1805, and died January 30, 1859. His wife, Eliza Cole, was born in Pickaway county, October 24, 1810, and is still living. Politically, Mr. Bottenfield is a Democrat.

Butt, Mahala, farmer, post office, Johnstown, eldest daughter of George and Diadema Green, was born in Monroe township, September 15, 1807. Mrs. Butt is the first white child born in Monroe township, her father and mother being among the very earliest settlers in this section of the country. The family of which she is a member is a remaikable one in the history of the county, her father and mother having had seventeen children; fourteen of whom lived to be fathers and mothers. Mahala, the subject of this sketch, was married, May 25, 1826, to Basil Butt, of Monroe township, who was born in Berkeley county, Virginia, March 13, 1797, and as a result of their union had a family of eleven children, all living to have families except one. Leroy Hamilton, born May 2, 1827; Charlotte G., born October 17, 1828; Mariah Jane, born October 25, 1830, and died July 2, 1858; Reszen M., born September 15, 1832; Noah Fassett, born December 25, 1834; Caroline S., born December 12, 1835; Hazel Rignal, born January 25, 1840; Morgan Green, born January 19, 1842; Henry S. W., born November 1, 1844 ; Addis Porter, bom March 30, 1847, died April 16, 1849; Abi Adelia, born March 30, 1853. Mr. Butt died November 16, 1854, leaving Mrs. Butt with seven children, all of whom she brought up and lived to see settled in life, prosperous men and women. Mr. Butt was a soldier in the War of 1812, serving in a Captain Conn's company of Virginia militia, and, although Mr. Butt never drew a pension, Mrs. Butt applied under the law passed during the winter of 1878 for the relief of widows and surviving relatives of soldiers of the War of 1812, and w*as granted a pension, herself and one other being the only pensioners of said war in Monroe township.

Bader, Alies, coal dealer, No. 115, Fifth street, near the canal. Mr. Bader was born in Germany, June 7, 1830. He migrated to America in 1851, and located in Newark, this county, where he engaged as coal deliverer in the town, and continued as such until i860, when he commenced the coal business for himself, buying his coal at Coshocton, and boating it to this city and retailing it out over the town. He has been conducting the business with success over twenty years, and has gained for himself a large trade, causing him to handle on an average of about one hundred thousand bushels annually. In i860 he married Miss Annie Hines, of Somerset, Perry county, Ohio. They settled in Newark, where they are now residing. They are the parents of six sons and two daughters.

Bailey, Amos, was born in Belmont county, Ohio, August 9, 1837. He worked on a farm until he was thirty years of age. He was married to Fran cis King, July 1, 1858, who was born in Monroe county, April 10, 1840. They have had four children: Marion S., born March 17, 1859; Isadore, who died December 12, 1865, aged five years: Florence A., born December 22, 1862;

Mary Theisa, born February 15, 1865. In 1865 Mr. Bailey moved to Grundy county, Illinois, and remained there some six years, then moved to Will county, where he remained about eight years, then moved to Newark, where he now lives. He is now in the employ of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad company. During the war he was a member of the Ohio national guards.

Baker, M. Q., successor to Sears & Baker, dealers in dry goods, notions, hosiery, oil cloths, carpets. etc., No. 127 Third street, north we-t corner of Park. Mr. Baker was born near Danville, Knox county, Ohio, August 25, 1849. He received his education in the Danville schools. In 1867 he entered a dry goods store in Delaware, Ohio, as salesman, where he remained until November, 1869. He came to Newark and engaged in partnership with J. E. Sears, in the dry goods business, which business he has since been conducting successfully. The firm name was known as Sears & Baker, until in September, 1880, when Mr. Baker purchased his partner's interest, and has since been carrying on the business alone. He occupies two rooms, the lower one, which is eighteen by one hundred and thirty feet, is used as a salesroom, and is well filled with everything in his line of business. The upper room is eighteen by one hundred feet in size, and is used as the carpet department, where you can find everything in the carpet line from the cheapest hemp to the best Brussels. He also carries a full line of notions,

Ballou, Dr. L. T., deceased, was bom in Muskingum county, and died November 2, 1874, in Newark, aged fifty-three years. He lived in Newark during the last twenty years of his life, and had attained to a very large practice in his profession. As a physician he was industrious, attentive, and always rendered a liberal share of gratuitous service among the poor, which causes his memory to be cherished among that class. His benevolence in this direction seemed to know no bounds, except his endurance. He was also very patriotic, and gave largely of his time and means during the perilous years of the great rebellion. His death was regarded as a public calamity.

Bane, John F., was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, September 2, 1812. When be arrived at the age of fourteen years he commenced working at the tailor trade as an apprentice in Waynesburgh, Pennsylvania. After completing his trade, he traveled and worked at his trade as a journeyman about six years. In 1835 he canae to Ohio and located in Brownsville, this county, where he engaged at his trade as merchant tailor. In a few months after his settlement in Brownsville, he was united in marriage with Miss A. E. Brooke, eldest daughter of Dr. William L. Brooke, of Zanesville. This union resulted in six children, five of whom are now living, two sons and three daughters. He continued at his business as merchant tailor in Brownsville until in 1853, when he gave up his trade and engaged in the mercantile business, which he conducted about four years. He was appointed postmaster at Brownsville in 1845, and held the office about nine years. In 1852 he was elected justice of the peace, and served as such two and one-half years, and then resigned the office. In 1857 he moved to Newark, and in 1858 he again opened his merchant tailor rooms, which he has since been conducting. On March 15, 1878, he moved to his present location, No. 130 Third street, three doors south of First National bank. In May, 1879, his son, Frank T. Bane, a practical cutter, became his partner, and the firm name is now' known as J. F. Bane & Son, merchant tailors. They constantly keep on hand a good assortment of Beaver dam, Riverside, Harris & Globe cassimeres; as also English and French goods in the same texture - broadcloths, doeskins, hairlines, Meltons, Cheviots and plaids, with heavier grades in pilots, cheviots, Whitney's chinchillas, and substantial beavers. No garment is allowed to leave the., house without giving entire satisfaction. In trim- j ming suits they use the best material. By fair

Barber, James, carriage painter. He was born in London, England, December 25, i8i9;came with his father's family to Newark in 1840; was married August 27, 1844, to Sarah W. Williams, of Newark, daughter of Robert Williams, of Newark, who died in Cincinnati October 3, 1847, aged fifty- three years. Mrs. Williams died October 30, 1850, aged fifty-three years. Mr. and Mrs. Barber are the parents of ten children: Anna, died in infancy; Anna W. died aged nine years; Mary C., born December 7, 1846; Henrietta E., died May 14, 1877, aged thirty one years; Ellen E., died April 14, 1875, ag^*d two years; Frank A, died September 14, 1875, aged twentyone years; Chailes J., born March 20, 1856; Joseph born April 2, 1858; William H., born May 5, 1866. Mr. Barber for many years has followed ornamental painting, and for the past ten years has followed carriage painting. He has a comfortable home at No. 37 West Main street, Newark.

Barrick and O'Bannon, the popular merchant tailors, and dealers in gents' furnishing goods, 346 Lansing House block, Newark, Ohio. Mr. Barrick can safely be called the pioneer merchant tailor in this city, having commenced the business in Newark in 1847. He was born in Huntingdon county, Pennsylvania, November 22, 1813, He commenced at the tailoring trade in 1827; after completing his apprenticeship in 1830, he continued at the business as journeyman a few years. In 1834 he came to Newark, where he carried on a tailor shop until 1847, when he engaged in merchant tailoring, which he conducted until 1870. He then went to Philadelphia, where he carried on the business over two years. In 1872 he returned to Newark and again engaged in his former business, which he has since been conducting. He moved to his present location in the Lansing House block in 1876. His son-in-law, W. W. O'Bannon, became his partner in 1878, and the firm name has since been known as Barrick & O'Bannon. In the merchant tailoring department they carry a general variety of cloths, cassimeres, doe-skins, basket suitings, diagonals, English, French, German and American goods, all of the highest grades. In the gents' furnishing line they carry a large assortment of stylish scarfs, ties, gloves, half-hose, silk or cotton handkerchiefs, pins, cuff-bottons, and everything new, novel and fancy. The ready-made clothing department is well stocked, and lacks nothing for men, youth's or boy's fine suits or working clothes; everything in the line of readymade clothing.

Benniugton county, Vermont, on the thirtieth day of January, 1815. He was educated at the Castleton college, located at Castleton, Vermont In 1834 he commenced the study of medicine, and graduated iit the Castleton Medical academy in 1837. He began the practice of medicine October, 1837, in Manchester, Vermont, a partner of Dr. Tuttle. In 1840 he came to Newark, where he married Miss Charlotte B. Williams, July 28, 1840, formerly of Manchester, Vermont; she came to Newark in 1830, with her father's family, Hazen Williams. Mr. and Mrs. Barrows returned to Manchester, where he continued in his profession until 1846, when they removed to Newark, where they have since been been living. Shortly after their settlement in this city, Mr. Barrows began the practice of medicine in Newark and vicinity, where he has been a practitioner in his profession for the past thirty-four years, in all making forty-two years of his life that he has given to the practice of medicine. They have two children, Clark D. and Annie G.

Baughman, Emanuel, bom in Virginia, April 8, 1814, came to Fairfield county, Ohio, in -.816, was married to Polly Soles when about twenty-two years of age, and lived in Fairfield county until the death of his wife. Mr. Baughman then came to Newark, Ohio, and there married his second wife, Mary Swank, of Knox county, Ohio, January 8, 1854. They have no children of their own, but have living with them an adopted daughter, Elizabeth.

Beach, T. A., photographer, west side park. Mr. Beach is a native of Thomastown, Georgia, wtfere he was born August 18, 1840. His father died when he was quite young and when he was about three years old his mother returned to Long Island, his native place, where he remained until 1857. He then came to Delaware, Ohio, and engaged in the Daguerrian art which he followed until photography came into use, after which he turned his attention to that departmeut of art and to which he has devoted his entire attention and labors until the present. In 1876, he came to this city, where he has since plied his profession with success and he now numbers amongst his patrons, the elite and most refined of this city and surrounding country. He occupies a large and elegant suite of rooms, consisting of a reception room 17x30, operating 20x30, and printing and work room on third floor ; in these rooms he has first class cameras and facilities for operating his profession. He produces photos of all sizes and of the latest and most tasty styles, also large photos and i>ortraits in crayon, india ink, water colors, rembrant photos and porcelain pictures. He is a thorough student of his profession and by his diligence has achieved a high degree of excellence in the different branches of the art. He was married April 3, 1865, to Miss Sarah Brewer, daughter of the late Charles Brewer, of Plymouth, Ohio.

Beard, James, was born near Jacktown July 22, 1827. During his youth and early manhood he followed farming. About fifteen years ago he joined the police force of Newark. In 1870, he moved to Dresden and took the management of the Central house of that place. He remained at this business five years, then went to Granville and kept a boarding house two years ; he then moved to Newark, where his family now resides. He is managing the Stump house at the Reservoir. He was married to Ann Etnier, February 30, 1852. She was born in Huntingdon county, Pennsylvania, November 1, 1830. They have four children, Frank, who died August 30, 1853, at the age of eleven months; Leota, born June 2, 1854, now the wife of Edmond Cowley, telegraph operater, Newark ; Delbert W. was born February 6, 1863 ; Cora B. November 28, 1865. Mrs.

Beard is the daughter of David Etnier, of Jacktown, who died April, 1840, at the age of forty years. Her mother died September 3, 1874, aged eighty eight years. Her brother Simeon now lives on their old home place, near Jacktown.

Bentley & Miller, druggists, Nos. 10 1, Third street and 404, Main street, corner of Main and Third. Mr. Bentley, senior, member of this firm, is formerly of Canton, where he was engaged in the drug business for twenty years. In 1877, he came to Newark and engaged in the business here in company with Miller, under the present firm name. Mr. E. Miller, junior, member of the firm, is a native of Newark and was born March 12, 1856, and was educated in the public schools of this city. His first business engagement was with Dr. Wing, druggist, as clerk, with whom he remained until 1877 when in company with Mr. Bentley they became his successors and have since conducted the business under the firm name of Bentley & Miller. They have an excellent location in the buiiding known as Patton's corner, where they occupy pleasant and commodious rooms twentytwo by sixty with cellar of the same size, in which they carry a large first-class stock of pure drugs, chemicals, patent medicines, toilet articles, fancy goods, dye stuffs, trusses, shoulderb races and supporters. Also are proprietors of the celebrated White Lily catarrh cure which has become exceedingly popular and has been introduced in the majority of the wholesale houses in the United States and has already a very extensive sale throughout the entire country.

Bollwine, Peter, was bom in Licking county, Ohio, January 16, 1824, He was brought up on a farm. In 1844 he commenced at the blacksmith trade and followed that as his vocation for a number of years. In i860 he engaged in the grocery business in Utica, this county. In 1865 he sold his grocery and moved on his farm, near Utica, and followed farming about two years; then in in 1867 he purchased and moved into the property on the corner of Second and Canal streets, New ark, where he has since been carrying on a restau rant and boarding house with success. June 25, 1846, he married Miss Marie Duffield, of this county - born in 1819. By this union he had sh children, four of whom are now living, two sons and two daughters. In May, 1864, he enlisted in company A, One Hundred and Thirty-fifth Ohio national guard. On the morning of the sixth of July he was taken prisoner near Maryland Heights.

Bierley, John, was bom in Newark, March 27, 1838. He was educated in the schools of this city. In 1854 he commenced as an apprentice to the tinner's trade with A. Zimmerman of Newark, with whom he remained about eighteen months. He then went to Columbus, where he completed his trade with Mr. E. Doddridge in December, 1858. During the years 1859-60 he traveled through some of the southern States, and worked at his trade in different cities, as journeman. In r86i he returned to Columbus. When the first call came for men from the government, he re sponded on the eighteento day of April, by enlisting in the Second Ohio volunteer infantry for a term of three months. At the expiration of his time of enlistment he was discharged from the service an 1 returned to Columbus. He again resumed his trade, which he' made his vocation until in 1864, when he re-enlisted in the One Hundred and Eightieth Ohio volunteer infantry and served until the close of the war. In 1867 he returned to hb native city and engaged in dealing in tinware, stoves and house furnishing goods, which he conducted several years. In 1876 he erected the building and commenced business in his present location, No 111, Fourth street, opposite cin hall, where he has since been conducting the business of dealing in cook and heating stoves, Japan and house-furnishing goods and table cutlery He manufactures everything in the line of tin. sheet iron, and copper ware, also makes spouting and tin roofing a specialty.

Bostwick, Nathan, was born November 2, 181 o. in Pike township, Bradford county, Pennsylvania: emigrated to Ohio with his parents in 1830, landing at Newark, and living the first winter in Mc- Kean township, this county. In the spring 06

the family moved into Milford township, nox county, and settled upon a farm. He was arried in 1840, to Adaline A. Beardslee; they id seven children, all boys, as follows: Julius C., eorge F., Henry C., William W., Burr W., Haron R., and John A., all living but Julius C., who ed of hemorrhage of the lungs, while in the my, at Shiloh, April 9, 1862. Nathan Bostwick mt into the army at the breaking out of the war * the Rebellion, in 1861, taking with him two of s boys, Julius C. and George F. The latter was ;sperately wounded at Atlanta, July 22, 1864, by cannister shot through the thigh, and with his ther, fell into the hands of the enemy, and was ken to Andersonville prison pen. He had before ;en a prisoner for a month, and had been exlanged at Vicksburgh, having been captured in a jht with Wheeler's cavalry, near Middleburgh, ennessee. He made his escape from Andersonlle in October, and hiding in swamps or bayous as pursued with bloodhounds, but finally secured skiff and paddling down the Ocomulgee river, ached the Federal gunboats in safety. This )ung man suffered terribly from his wounds and ison life, a complete history of which would akef an interesting volume. Nathan Bostwick ent into the army as recruiting officer October 18, $6 1, at Columbus, Ohio, with the rank of second sutenant; was attached to company G, which as sent, with three other companies of the same igiment, to Warsaw, Kentucky, in January, 1862, here they settled some trouble between the Uri- -n men and rebels of that place. Company G miained in Warsaw until in February, when they :turned to Cincinnati, and soon after joined the tpedition against Fort Donelson, and was in the st day's battle at that place. After the battle Dmpany Lieutenant Bostwick being then in Dmmand, escorted eleven hundred rebel prisoners > St. Louis, from which place, in company with a ortion of company C, of the same regiment, they >corted all the officers captured at Fort Donelm to Camp Chase, at Columbus. Lieutenant iostwick came home from this place, sick with rphoid fever, but his company went on to Boston ith the field and staff of that capture. Upon is recovery from his very severe illness, he rejoined is company at Bolivar, Tennessee, in June, 1862, nd in September took command of company C, wentieth regiment, with rank of first lieutenant. Ie continued in command of this company through le Vicksburgh campaign, the captain of company ! having resigned. He was commissioned first lieuinant May 9, 1862, and was with Grant during all ie operations of the army for the capture of 'icksburgh ; the first battle of that campaign in hich the regiment was engaged being at Thompm's Hill, fought immediately after the battle of

Grand Gulf. He was also in the battle of Raymond and that of Jackson immediately following it; also the battle of Champion Hill, where he received a sun stroke, from which he yet suffers. The siege of Vicksburgh lasted forty-seven days, during which he was on duty almost incessantly, day and night, fighting and working in the trenches. After the surrender the Twentieth remained in camp until Sherman marched to Meridian Mississippi, in February, 1864. Lieutenant Bostwick was promoted to captain, January 30, 1864, and transferred to the command of his old company, G, accompanying Sherman to Meridian. After that campaign, the regiment re-enlisted as veterans, and Captain Bostwick came home on veteran furlough. The furlough having expired, the regiment rendezvoused at Cairo, Illinois, marching thence up the Tennessee river to Clifton, Tennessee, and over the Sand mountains, a distance of three hundred miles, joining Sherman at Ackworth, Georgia, shortly after engaging in the siege and battle of Kenesaw Mountain. Captain Bostwick was in the charge made by his division at this place. The next desperate battle in which he was engaged was that before Atlanta, July 22, 1864, where his division, under General Leggett, surrounded by Hood's forces was attacked in front and rear, and engaged in some of the hardest fighting of the war. Captain Bostwick says their division moved across their breastworks five times during the day, fighting first on one side, then on the other. He was wounded twice in this action - with a sliver from a ball in the left eye, and a piece of shell in the left knee - and fell into the hands of the enemy. The brigade lost about one-half of its number in this bloody battle, in which it was frequently engaged in a hand-to-hand conflict After his capture, Captain Bostwick was robbed of two hundred and thirty dollars in money, and most of his outer clothing, except his boots, which, being a fine, heavy pair, he refused to give up except with his life, and when a rebel captain approached for the purpose of taking them, he received such a kick in a vital part as sent him several feet distant, and nearly ended his life. Captain Bostwick expected to be riddled with rebel bullets for this act, as the guards were all around him, but, probably from admiration of his pluck, they did not molest him. The rebel officer, however, after regaining his breath and his feet, again approached him, with the intention, no doubt, of running him through with his sabre, but just before attempting the cowardly act, he discovered a small Masonic emblem attached to the captain's waistcoat. This stopped him, and turning to the guards he ordered them to take the belligerent captain away. There is no doubt but that this mystic sign of Masonry saved his life at that time. He was taken to the stockade at Macon, Georgia, and subsequently to Charleston, South Carolina, and placed in prison. He was again taken sick and remained for some time in the hospital, being treated by Dr. Todd, a rebel and brother of Mrs. Lincoln. From there he was taken to Columbia, South Carolina, October 6, 1864. Here he was outrageously treated, being sick with chills and fever and compelled to lie on the ground, without shelter or medical attention for three weeks, and came near dying, being reduced to a skeleton. He was then put into a tent hospital, and treated by a doctor named LaGrone, a Frenchman, from whom he received much attention. December 1, 1864, he made his escape in company with Captain McFadden, of the Fiftyseventh New York, and H. C. Payne, a sergeant of the Twentieth Illinois. They travelled twentyseven nights through the smoky mountains of North Carolina, travelling only in the dead of night, aided, fed and piloted on their way by the negroes, and reached our lines at Knoxville, Tennessee, December 27, 1864. Here he reported to General Carter, provost marshal at that place, who ordered clothing for the starved and ragged prisoners, forwarding them to Chattanooga, and from thence to Nashville. After being ordered to various places Captain Bostwick obtained a leave of absence and came home, remaining, however, only a short time, when he went by way of New York to join Sherman, then on the march to the sea. He was promoted major January 11, 1865, and joined Sherman and the Twentieth regiment at Goldsborough, North Carolina. After Lee's surrender he asked permission of his brigade commander, General R. K. Scott, afterward governor of South Carolina, to resign, believing the war over; and his health being poor he wished to return home. His resignation being accepted, he came to Washington, settled with the Government, and was there at the time of the assassination of President Lincoln, after which he came home to his farm in Knox county. He subsequently sold his farm and spent some time traveling in the west; living a short time near Fredericktown, Ohio, Charleston, Illinois, and Mount Vernon, Ohio. In April, 1873, he settled in Newark, engaging in the drug business, where he yet remains. This brief biography, merely touches upon the military life of this gallant soldier. The story of his capture, prison life, sufferings, and subsequent escape, would make a very readable volume of many pages, and would verify the fact that "truth is stranger than fiction." He tells of his continual but many times unsuccessful efforts to escape; of sickness, exposure, hunger, and the horrors of prison life; of his escape in a strange manner with two confederates; of their hiding in the swamps and mountains; of exposure and starvation; of being tracked by bloodhounds, who came suddenly upon them in a dark gorge in the mountains, compelling them to fight for their lives, which they did, and came off victorious; of capturing a rebel picket that was in their way, killing one man and taking two others prisoner; of continual hairbreadth e* capes, and incessant danger, and above all, of the faithfulness of the blacks, who never once betrayed them, but fed and guided them on their way at the peril of their own lives. People scarcely realize that they have in their midst living, walking heroes, before whose deeds of daring and suf fering the most intricate combinations of fiction pale and become commonplace.

Bower, Charles D., railroad employee. He was born in Wurttemburg, Germany, April 21. 1857; moved to Delaware, Ohio, in 1861, and came to Newark in 1870. He was married to Miss Emma Undernaher, of Newark, in 1875. They have two children: Lulu M., born March 17, 1876: Charles Frederic, February, 1878. Mrs. Bower is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Undernaher who now live in Newark. Mr. Bower was formerly engaged in the bakery business, and at times followed market gardening, but for past three years, has been in the employ of the Baltimore & Ohio rail road.

Brady, Corrington S., late auditor. - Mr. Brady, a native of Huntingdon county, Pennsyl Brady was born April 16, 1849; son Or. Gilbert vania, of Irish parents. He came to this county while a young man, and engaged in teaching school, after which he was engaged in the drug business and the manufacturing of oil, and subsequently engaged in farming, in which business he wag engaged at the time of his death. Dr. Brady was appointed clerk of the court in 1844, and served eight years, having been elected county recorder in 1842, and served two years. Corrington S. Brady was educated in the public schools of this city. In 1867 he entered as clerk the office of county auditor, and remained in the office in this capacity until 1875, when he was elected county auditor, and re-elected in 1877, serving two years the first, and three the second term. Mr. Brady was married February 22, 1872, to Miss Malissa Showman, daughter of Jacob Showman, of this city; three children: Mattie A., Minnie B. and James T.

Brooke, Samuel W., inventor and manufacturer J of a patent flour and meal chest, was born May 1 5. 1833, in Gratiot, Licking county; moved with his parents to Brownsville in this county; from there to Danville, Knox county; from there to Zanesville, Muskingum county. His father died ia J Danville in 1838. He came to Newark wheahM was sixteen years old, and learned cabinet-making with his oldest brother. Of his father's family there were eleven children - nine still living. His father was Dr. William L. Brooke. He was married to Maria Whitehead August 9, 1853, who was born _ December 6, 1834. Her parents were

-pioneers of this county. Her mother died at the age of eighty-one years. Her father died in the year 1868, when seventy years of age. They have seven children: Mattie E., born April 9, 1854; Edwin F., September 19, 1855; Sylvia L., September 13, 1857; Jessie B., February 21, i860; Samuel W., jr., November 23, 1862; Frank B., November 28, 1868, and Lizzie C., November 21, 1870. Edwin is married to Rosa Jennings; is a machinist, and is living in Newark. Sylvia is married to Albert Cunningham, formerly of Union county, a printer by trade, and is living in Newark. Jessie is married to William J. Francis; is living in Newark; a carpenter by trade. Mr. Brooke carried on the cabinet and undertaking business until recently. He invented the flour and meal chest, and is now engaged in its manufacture, and in selling territory. It is an article of great merit and utility. He enlisted in the late war in the fall of 1861, as drum major of the Seventy-sixth Ohio volunteer infantry, and was transferred to the regimental band ; served eleven months, and was mustered out of service by a governmental act, as he says, to abolish bands in the army; returned to Newark, and recruited a company for the six months' service, and served as first lieutenant company I, One Hundred and Twenty-ninth Ohio volunteer infantry ; at the expiration of his term of service he returned to Newark, and enlisted in company C, One Hundred and Thirty-fifth Ohio volunteer infantry one hundred days* men, and went out as second lieutenant

Brown, Alexander, retired farmer, Newark. He was born in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, March 25, 18 n. He came to Morgan county, Ohio, in 1843, and the next year moved to near Asbury, Perry county; here he taught vocal music about six years, and here was married to Mary McCracken, May 6, 1848. She was married in the same house in which she was born, April 19, 1824. About a month after their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Brown moved to Flint ridge in this county, where he bought a farm of thirty-four acres, on which they lived until the death of Mrs. Brown, July 4, 1877. After this sad event, Mr. Brown travelled through the east a few months; then returned, and attended Mr. Hammond's tabernacle meetings in Zanesville about a month. Mr. Brown has been an active member of the Associate Reformed church forty-seven years, and still, at his advanced age, is a regular and constant attendant upon all the church services. He is also an ardent advocate of temperance. He is passionately fond of music, and has used his talent to a good purpose. Mr. Brown has three children: John, Margaret Viola and Mary Elizabeth. John is a school-teacher, is married, and lives on Hint ridge; the two daughters also reside in the same locality.

Brown, S. M., was born in New Concord, Muskingum county, Ohio, June 2, 1854. He is the son of Alexander Brown of the same place, a carpenter, who died July 2, 1871, at the age of sixty years. His mother, Margaret, died August 25, 1863, aged forty-five years. The subject of this sketch, when a young man, learned the carpenter trade, at which he worked four years, when he was employed by the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co. from September 14, 1873, to March 16, 1877, when he returned to his former home and remained until October, 1878. He came to Newark September nth, and commenced work with H. & C. F. Blandy in the foundry business. He continued with them one year and four months. At the age of twenty-four years he became a member of the United Presbyterian church of New Concord, Ohio. In July, 1879, he took h*s letter from that church and joined the Second Presbyterian, of Newark. His home, at present, is with Mr. T. G. Speers, of Newark.

Brown, Sarah Mrs., was born in Zanesville, June 25, 1834, daughter of James Graig, of that city. She was married to Robert Brown, October 2, 1855. By this marriage she had five children: Harry F., born July 4, 1856; Asa T., born March 25, 1858; Smith T., born December 13, i860; Charles H., born February 28, 1862; Anna E., born January 11, 1864. At an early day of Mr. Brown's life he learned the milling trade with his father, and later went with the Central Ohio railroad company as baggage-master, afterward as fireman on a locomotive, and later as an engineer. He followed railroading sixteen years. He was killed by an explosion of a locomotive November 2, 1869. Harry Brown is a baker by occupation, and now lives in Dennison, Ohio; Asa is a cigarmaker, and lives in Mansfield, Ohio; Smith is a dealer in stock at Zanesville, Ohio; Charles is clerking in the blind asylum in Columbus, Ohio ; Miss Anna is learning dressmaking with Miss Prompter, of Newark.

Brown, Mrs. Ella, was bom in Coshocton, Ohio, February 9, 1843; moved to Knox county with her parents, and remained there until she was fourteen years old. She was married to John Brown, and is the mother of one child, Joseph, born April 9. i860, who is now running on the Hocking Valley railroad Mrs. Brown is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Adam Shock, of Coshocton. Her father died when she was six years old; her mother is living in Newark in the Seventy-eighth year of her age. Mr. John Brown was a member of company C, Thirty-second regiment Ohio volunteer infantry, and was killed at Champion Hills.

Brown, Isaiah M., engineer on the Baltimore & Ohio railroad. He has served in this capacity about six years. He is the son of Henry and Caroline M. Brown, and was born January 19, 1850, in Perry county, Ohio. He lived there until he was twenty years of age, when he removed to Indiana, remaining there about three years, when he removed to Newark, where he has since resided. He was married to Anna Reams, of Columbus, October 10, 1878. She was born June 6, 1857, in Franklin county. Mr. Brown's mother, a widow, lives with him. His father died November 22, 1862, in Nashville, Tennessee. He was a soldier in the late war, in company A, Thirty-first Ohio volunteer infantry, from Perry county. Mr. Brown is the old oldest son of H. and Caroline Brown. He had but one brother, George W. He died in Kansas, November 30, 1879, at the age of twenty-seven, having been absent from home four years.

Brubaker, Mrs. Arabella, born in Licking township, January 6, 1818. She was the daughter of William C. Young, who came from Virginia to Licking county in the fall of 1817. The customary way of traveling in those days was on horse back, and in this way Mr. Young brought his wife and all that he had, making two trips lor that purpose. He located on the farm now owned by H. Ronan, purchasing fifty acres of land. By industry and economy he had increased his farm to one hundred acres, at the time of his death, which occurred April 12, 1838, at the age of forty-four years. His wife died in August, 1877, aged eighty-four. The subject of this sketch was married to Abram P. Brubaker, April 7, 1836. They have six children: Elizabeth E., born February, 1837; Dorothea, who died August 22, 1845, aged two years and ten months; Peter W., born March 20, 1846; Rebecca, born March 19, 1851, died August 23, 1877. Abram P. Brubaker was born in Page county, Virginia, August 5, 1811; moved to Licking county in the fall of 1829 with his mother, and located on the farm now owned by William Smith, on the Hebron road in Union township. He now lives in South Newark, where he has a very pleasant home, in addition to which he owns a farm of three hundred acres in Union township.

Browne, James M. - Mr. Browne's greatgrandfather, Peter Browne, owned a farm upon which a part of the city of Camden, New Jersey, is now located. He was a shipwright by trade, and latterly lived in Philadelphia. His grandfather, William Browne, was born in Philadelphia, September 10, 1734. The indenture of apprenticeship, dated May 1, 1748, by which he was bound to a shipwright for seven years, is still in the possession of Mr. Browne. During the Revolution he was a member of General Washington's staff, and served his country with distinctioa Liberty Browne, the father of the subject of this sketch, was born in Philadelphia about half past three o'clock in the afternoon of July 4, 1776; probably the first born free American citizen. He was a merchant and manufacturer of gold and silver-ware, and began business with money borrowed from the Franklin loan, a fund set apart by Benjamin Franklin to assist worthy and faithful apprentices in starting in business for themselves upon the completion of their apprenticeship He was paymaster in the War of 1812, was president of the council of Philadelphia for nine years, justice of the peace, and a political orator of note. The names of a few of the members of his household indicate a great change during the past century. His name was Liberty, Patience a nurse. Justice a ward, Comfort a servant, and Peace and | Plenty that of two dogs. Mr. Browne was born in Philadelphia November 5, 1809, the sixth of a family of ten children, and is a patternmaker by trade. He came from Philadelphia to Zanesville, Ohio, in 1839, and remained there seven years, then moved to Newark, where he has resided ever since, except two years spent in Louisiana For twenty-five years he was a member of the volunteer fire department of this city, and was chief engineer for fifteen years. He also served five years in the fire department of Zanesville. In 1859 he was city marshal, in 1869 70 member of the city council, and in 1878 was elected city weight master and market master which position he has retained since. He was married in 1833 to Harriet Bradley, of Philadelphia, and has six children living; Nesbitt Liberty, Mary Elizabeth, Franklin Henry, James Madison, jr., Albert B. and Lawrence H.

Brice, Dr. John J., was one of the early settles of Newark, and for many years was one of the best known citizens of our county and of central Ohio. , His father (William Brice) was a native of Maryland, who, however, removed to Aexandria, Virginia, where he was engaged in the milling business and in merchandizing at the time of his death, which occurred about the year 1786. He left a widow and five children, of which the subject of this sketch (born ini78i) was the youngest Some years after the death of William Brice, his widow, , with her five children, removed to western Pennsylvania, where her three daughters were married, and where she died in 1817. Her oldest son, Benjamin J. Brice removed to Harrison county, western Virginia, where he married Sarah, daughter of Colonel Benjamin Wilson, reared a large family, and closed an unusually long, active and useful life.

John J. Brice, by the judicious use of his patrimony, was enabled to acquire a good education, professional and otherwise. He studied medicine with Dr. Mowry of Pittsburgh, and it is said was a medical student, for a time in Uniontown, Pennsylvania. He also attended a course of medical lectures in Philadelphia, and was afterward associated in the practice of his profession with Dr. Mowry, his preceptor, who was a physician of much repute.

Dr. Brice, however, soon decided to make a permanent location in the west, and with that view, travelled in that direction as far as Lawrence burg, a small town on the banks of the Ohio river, below the mouth of the Big Miami, in the then Indiana territory. On his way back he travelled on horseback through Ohio, and took Newark in his route, where, tarrying for a short time, a great demand existed for his professional services, and he did not leave until the sickness which then prevailed both in town and country had, in a great measure, subsided. This was in the autumn of 1805 (although it is elsewhere stated on the authority of Dr. J. N. Wilson, that it was probably in 1803), and about the beginning of winter he returned to Harrison county, Virginia, where he, in January, 1806, consummated a previously existing matrimonial engagement with Anne, daughter of Colonel Benjamin Wilson, of said locality. He still intended to locate at Lawrenceburg, and came here shortly after his marriage, to close up his business, by collecting his accounts, and getting ready for the removal. But not being very successful in making collections, he, while thus engaged, was again drawn into practice, and it is quite likely that the longer he remained the less probable it became that he would ever become a citizen of Indiana territory. -

Thus the summer of 1806 wore away, also the autumn and a portion of the winter succeeding, when in February, 1807, he brought his wife to Newark, she having until this time remained at her father's, where, on the thirtieth of November, she had given birth to her only son, Benjamin W. Brice, now a resident of Baltimore. The first house, or rather cabin, they occupied stood on the west side of First street, between Main and Church. Dr. Brice practiced his profession in Newark for nearly half a century, and his methods and merits as a physician are presented much at length in liberal quotations from the essay of the late Dr. J. N. Wilson on the diseases and mode of treatment, in early times in Newark and the Licking valley. It may be well to say in addition, that he was a faithful, careful, judicious and successful practitioner - that in the vigor of life he possessed and exercised remarkable skill, care and judgment in his profession, backed by the accumulating and constantly increasing acquirements of a careful student, as well as rigid anaLysis and judicious deductions from all the notable cases coming under his treatment. His talents, attainments and skill were recognized in high quarters, professional and nonprofessional. Dr. Brice was an eminently practical man in the management of business matters, and it is not]surprising that one so energetic, industrious, and frugal, and of such sound judgment should have accumulated a large estate, so that at his death he was one of the wealthiest men in Licking county. During the last twenty years of his life he was a member of the Presbyterian church, and died in December, 1853, aged seventy-two years.

Brice, Mrs. Anne, wife of Dr. Brice, was a daughter of Colonel Benjamin Wilson, a gentleman of wealth and distinction of Harrison county, Virginia, and was born there January 17, 1786. She was married to Dr. John J. Brice in January, 1806, and became a resident of Newark, Ohio, in February, 1807. The beginning of her career here was specially marked by the cheerful resignation and almost heroic fortitude with which she embraced the new life in the west. Reared at her father's home in Virginia, in the midst of abundance, surrounded with every necessary comfort, including a superfluity of house and other servants, never subjected to cares or drudgery of any kind, she was transplanted from that comfortable home in midwinter, with an infant child in arms, a distance of one hundred and seventy miles, for the most part on horseback, through an almost utter wilderness country, to Newark, which was then but the mere beginning of a frontier village. Here she was domiciled in the crudest of log cabins, where the accustomed comforts to which she was used were an impossibility, the means to supply the commonest wants and necessities, not always available. She had to assume the duties and cares of housekeeping under all their embarrassments without the help of a single servant, and with little else to make her situation tolerable. Still, though sorely exercised and grieved in mind by the prospect before her, she never thought of yielding to discouragement, never indulged in repinings, but nerved herself to a cheerful acceptance of the situation, sustained by an unfaltering confidence that the ability, energy and industry of her young husband would command success, and that their many privations and hardships would be but short lived. That hope was not disappointed. Throughout her life she de- voted herself religiously to all her duties as wife, mother and friend, abounding always in sympathetic interest for her neighbors, and ever beneficently open-handed to help those about her who needed help. Mrs. Brice became a member of the Presbyterian church in 1833, and died in July, 1849, *n the sixty-fourth year of her age.

Brice, General Benjamin W. - General Brice was bom in Harrison county, Virginia, November 30, 1806; and is the son of Dr. John J. Brice and Mrs. Anne Brice, who brought him to Newark in February, 1807. He attended the common schools of Newark, also the classical school taught by Rev. Thomas D. Baird, where he had for his associate pupils, Dr. J. N. Wilson, %John Cunningham, Elijah Stadden, James R. Stanbery and others. He and the last named were also fellow-students at Bishop Chase's school at Worthington, Ohio, as well as that of Philander Chase, jr., at Zanesville. Both entered the Ohio university, at Athens, Ohio, where the subject of this sketch was a sophomore, when, July 1, 1825, he was appointed a cadet at the United States military school at West Point, and where he was graduated July 1, 1829, and promoted in the army brevet second lieutenant Third infantry. Cadet Brice, as appears from "Cullom's Biographical Register of the officers and graduates of the United States military academy," (to which we are indebted for the military history of General Brice), served on frontier duty at Jefferson barracks in 1829-30, at Fort Armstrong, upper Mississippi, 1830-31, and on an expedition against the Sac and Fox Indians in 1831 - this being the first Black Hawk campaign under General Gaines. He resigned in 1832 and engaged in merchandizing in Newark. He served as brigade major of Ohio militia from 1835 t0 1&391 was admitted to the bar in 1845, and elected associate judge of the common pleas court of Licking county in the same year, serving two years; at the begining of the Mexican war in 1846 he was appointed adjutant general. On the third of March, 1847, General Brice was re-appointed in the United States army major of staff paymaster, and placed on duty in pay department at Cincinnati the same year; and in service in the Mexican war at Carmago in 1847, and at Monterey, Saltillo and Brazos Island in 1848, also at Fort Brown, Texas, in 1848-49; disbanded March 4, 1849, by limititation of law. General Brice was re-appointed in the United States army with rank of major staff paymaster February 9, 1852, and served in the pay department in the southern district of New Mexico, with headquarters at Fort Fillmore, New Mexico, from 1852 to 1854. During 1854, '55 '56 his headquarters were at New Orleans, Louisiana, and from 1856 to 1859 at Fort Bliss (El Paso), in the southern district of

New Mexico. He was also on special duty a portion of 1859 in Florida. From 1859 to 1861 he served in the district of "Kansas and the territories," his headquarters being Fort Leavenworth. General Brice remained in the service during the first year of the great Rebellion, serving as chief of the pay district of Kansas and the territories, and in 1862 was transferred to the district of Pennsylvania, embracing New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland and West Virginia, with headquarters at Baltimore, Maryland, where he served as chief until 1864. On the fourth of October, 1864, he was placed at the head of the pay department of the army at Washington city, District Columbia remaining in that position until Januaiy 1, 1872, when he was retired from active service at his own request, under the law of July, 1 7, 1862, having passed the age of sixty-two years. General Brice was promoted paymaster-general, with rank of colonel, November 29, 1864; brevetted brigadier general United States army, December 2, 1864; also brigadier general staff paymaster general July 28, 1866. General B. W. Brice was brevetted March 13, 1865, major general of United States army for "faithful, meritorious and distinguished services in the pay department during the Rebellion." General B. W. Brice has entered his seventy-fifth year, and with his accomplished and kindly remembered wife, is living leisurely in dignified retirement ( otium cum dignitatc ), in Baltimore, Maryland, not forgetting, however, to make occasional visits to Newark, Ohio, which he now regards, and has ever regarded, as his home, and where he is always certain of a cordial greeting by his many old-time congenial friends, and to which his urbanity, geniality, intelligence and fine conversational powers justly entitle him.

Bonar, Frederick A., cigar maker, was bom in Newark February 9, 1851, learning the cigarmaking trade with Fred Burrel He learned telegraphing at Newark and was employed by the Baltimore & Ohio company, at Lexington, Richland county ; taught school at Johnstown, Licking county, in 1872, and in 1873, taught school in Liberty township, Mercer county, Ohio. He returned to Newark and started the cigar making business for himself in 1876. He was married to Osena Monroe, May 24, 1877, who was bom November 1, i860 ; his father is one of the 1 old settlers of Licking county, coming to this j county in 1825, and is now seventy-three years ; old. He has forty acres of land inside the corporation of South Newark. The subject of this sketch carries on his business and is living on his. father's place.

ingham (an early pioneer settler in Newark, and once a leading merchant), and was bom in Newark in 1816, and died at his residence, in Zanesville, March 29, 1876, at the age of 60 years. He was a well educated gentleman and entered the Presbyterian ministry in early life, and remained iti it until his death. Dr. Buckingham was a man of amiable temper and disposition, of many admirable qualities of head and heart, of vigorous intellectual powers, of a logical mind, of excellent pulpit talents, and always manifested a kind, catholic spirit. Many friends deplored his death.

Buckingham, Jerome, attorney, office southeast comer of Public square, Newark. Mr. Buckingham was born in Wyoming county, Pennsylvania, on the tenth day of June, 1820. He received a common school education, and in the year 1837 he entered Kenyon college, at Gambier, Knox county, Ohio, remaining two years. Then in 1839 he went to Hudson, Ohio, where he graduated in the Westerir Reserve college, in 1841. In the fall of the same year he engaged in the study of law in Zanesville, Ohio, under the instructions of Goddard & Converse, with whom he remained about two years. In 1843, went to Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he attended the Harvard law school one year. In 1844, he applied to the supreme court, at Cleveland, and was admitted to the bar. In the fall of the same year he came to Newark, where he has since been engaged in the practice of law. At this writing there are but three members of the Licking county bar who have been longer in the profession than Mr. Buckingham. In 1869, he was appointed by Governor Hayes, as judge of the common please courts of Licking county. In this capacity he served one year. He has had the honor of being president of the First National bank of Newark since its establishment, in 1865.

Buehler, Tinnel, grocery and provision dealer, and manufacturer of carriages, wagons, etc. He was born at Norristown, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, September 1 1, 1833. At the age of fifteen he went to Bucks county, Pennsylvania, to learn the blacksmith trade. After learning his trade he left Pennsylvania and came to Ohio. He visited Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, and generally without any means. Finally, he landed in Newark, in 1854, penniless. He went to work for a man by the name of Tom Owens. He worked a short time for Mr. 'Owens and left. He was away one summer, and in the fall returned and formed a partnership with Mr. Owens in the blacksmith business. He has remained in Newark ever since, carrying on the carriage and wagon making business with the exception of two years, when he left his family and went to California. He was married to Sarah Britton, September 17, 1856. They have three children: Johanna, born February 15, 1858; William, June 7, 1859, and Franklin, July 19, 1861. On the 28th of October, 1873, while out hunting, he was deprived of the use of his right hand by the accidental discharge of his gun. After suffering for more than a year, unable to do anything at his trade, through the kindness of Mr. William Davis, was employed as night watchman at the rolling mill He held that position six months, and then started in the grocery and provision business on the comer of West Main and Union streets, in West Newark, where he is still engaged.

Burner, Jacob V. - No. 425 West Main street, Newark, wholesale and retail dealer in general hardware. Mr. Burner was born in 1838, in Newark, and is a son of Henry Burner, deceased. He received his education in the Newark schools. In 1865 he engaged in the dry goods and general merchandise business in Newark, and continued in the business until 1875; he then sold his stock of goods and retired. In November, 1877, he purchased the entire stock of hardware owned by the Wrells Hardware company, and became their successor, and has since been conducting it successfully. In 1878 he removed to his present location, where he occupies for sales and general business, a room twenty-five feet wide by one hundred and one feet deep, including basement and room overhead of some size, which are used as depositories; also a room just back of the main building, used for depositing steel and iron bars, doors, sash, etc. His rooms are all well stocked with everything in the line of general hardware, such as nails, iron, steel, carriage goods, window-glass, sash, doors, oils, paints, varnishes, mechanics' tools, Fairbanks' scales, Weir's cultivators, Lancaster double shovel plows, shovels, hoes, forks, and all kinds of steel goods, also barbed fence wire, guns, pistols, and a general line of tripple plated and table cutlery-ware. He has, as employes in his store, five competent young men as salesmen, also one traveling salesman, who sells goods in seven different counties in the State.

Burrell, Fred, sr., cigar manufacturer, Birkey's block, West Main street, Newark, Ohio. Mr. Burrell was born in Broome county, New York, in 1824. At the age of twelve years he engaged in a cigar factory, worked one year at stripping, then commenced at the trade and remained three years as an apprentice. He continued at his trade as journeyman about eighteen years. He traveled over and worked in nearly every State in the Union. In 1858 he established a cigar factory' in Mt. Vernon, Knox county, Ohio, which he conducted successfully about eight years. In 1866 he came to Newark, where he has since been carrying on the business of manufacturing all kinds of cigars except stogies. He moved to his present location on West Main street, in 1874, where he occupies a room forty by twenty feet on the second floor in the Birkey block. His goods are all manufactured from the best material, such as the Connecticut, Havana, and Yara tobacco. He employs eight efficient workmen, manufactures about four hundred thousand cigars yearly, and pays the government from two hundred to three hundred dollars per month as revenue tax.

Buxton, Earl, was born at Brandon, Rutland county, Vermont, February 7, 1806. He came from Vermont and located in Johnstown in 1832. He was married to Mary Ann Shoemaker, daughter of Christopher Shoemaker, of Johnstown. She was born in that place in 1820. They have two children: Murvin, now living at Homer;

Roswitha, now the wife of S. G. I^arimore, of New ark. Mrs. Buxton died in 1865. Mr. Buxton followed farming until he was about eighteen years of age; he then commenced travelling as a niusi-. cian, continuing, twenty years. He has travelled through the west and has lived in Missouri and Arkansas. Some twenty years ago he located permanently in this county.

Bland, Silas, farmer, post office, Perrvton, was born in Ohio, near Zanesville, in 1798; came to this county in 1844; was married to Miss Ida Cooksey, who was born in 1807. They have had one child, Joel Hamline, bom in 1845. Hamline was married, in 1867, to Miss Marietta Spencer; they had three children: Celestia, Hattie, and Silas Herbert. Silas Bland owns eight hundred acres of land in this township, and is one of its most respected citizens. He was born in a tent on the banks of the Muskingum river, his father not having a house finished at the time of his birth.

Brown, William S., farmer, post office, Perryton, was born in Virginia in 1814, and came to this county in 1834; he was married to Miss Minerva Lemmert in 1837. The result of this marriage was three children. In 1863 his wife died, and, in 1865, he was married to Miss Ellen Thumwood, who was born in London, England, in 1831. One child was the result of this union: Greeley H. Brown. Mr. Brown owns about four hundred and twelve acres of land, one hundred and fifty-four acres of which is located in Licking county; the balance in Muskingum county. His father was born in Scotland, and came to the United States many years ago. Mr. William S. Brown is one of this township's prominent rhen, attends to his own business, and has plenty of friends among his neighbors.

1801. About 1831 he located in Liberty township, this county, where he remained about fortysix years on the same farm. He married Eliza Ramey, February 12, 1831. To them were given eight children, viz.: Louisa, Pencie R., Emeline,

Caroline, and two who died in infancy, Maria M. and I^ewis. The father died September 19, 1879; Louisa, December 22, 1841, and Emeline, January 1 9, 1 864. Lewis W. enlisted in company B, Seventy-sixth Ohio volunteer infantry, February 27, 1864, and participated in the following engagements : Resaca, Dallas, and Kenesaw Mountain.

In front of Atlanta, July 22, 1864, and near Atlanta again on the twenty-eighth of July, at Jonesborough, Ship's Gap, and from thence with Sherman to the sea ; constituted the city guard at Savannah, and was in several skirmishes, viz.: Columbia and Bentonville. He received his discharge at Louisville, Kentucky, July 15, 1865. He returned home and married Mary E. Severn in 1866. They had four children, viz.: Joseph WM

Johnny, Sylvester and Olden. Johnny died in infancy. John Barbour, the subject of this sketch, was a faithful member of the Freewill Baptist church at Concord. He was one of those peaceable, quiet men we meet but once in a li'etirae. His demise was regretted by the entire community. Miss Pencie Barbour and sister are engaged extensively in dress making, and their reputation is second to none in the county.

Battie, Elisha, blacksmith, wagon and carriage manufacturer, was born March 16, 1835, ir. Baltimore county. His parents, Elisha and Jemima Battie, with their four eldest sons, emigrated to Ohio about September, 1835, locating near Hebron. Elisha, sr., was born January 31, 1798, and died May 31, 1866; Jemima, his wife, was bom February 5, 1805, in sight of Bunker Hill monument Her maiden name was Jemima Stansberry. At eighteen years of age the subject of this sketch began his present trade, at which he has continued nearly all of his time. He was employed by the Government during the' fall and winter of 1862 and spring of 1863, building boats at Bridgeport, Alabama. He worked at his trade in Cedar county, Iowa, Berlin, Wisconsin, and Fort Scott, Kansas. He married Hellen Gregory, November 15, 1866, who was born December iS, 1846, in Monroe township, near Johnstown. Her parents, Madison and Sarah Gregdty, were born, the former in Maryland, the latter in Virginia. They emigrated to Licking county in an early day, locating near Utica. The subject of this sketch began life without any help, and, by hard work and strict economy, has won himself a good j home. They have four children: Pearl. Cora, I Mark E. and Broom. I

Bowman, Samuel, merchant, was bom June 4, 843, in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, where he revived his education. He is well fitted for his ailing. His beginning was that of a clerk for lenry Hamilton, of Baltimore, Maryland, in which apacity he continued about seven years, changing >calities from time to time. October, 1879, he egan with a small stock of groceries, and ha$ dded a full line of dry goods and sells about nine r ten thousand dollars worth of goods yearly, 'he citizens of Alexandria may well be proud of lr. Bowman as a merchant He is sociable, hosi table, and ranks among the enterprising merhants of Licking county. He married Martha i. Jordan, December 17, 1874. They have two hildren : Maud, born January 12, 1876, and Cora, orn July 10, 1877.

Butler, Charles, farmer, was born July 16, 804, in Blanford, then Hampshire county, Massachusetts. His parents emigrated to Granville Deember, 1805. He spent his early life in Granule township, where he received his education at he district schools. He is one of the active, energetic pioneers of this county, and took an active >art in introducing the common school system, -le married Philota D. Pratt, of Berkshire county, Massachusetts, April 25, 1829. They had six rhildren: Martha M., born January 26, 1830; Elias 0., bom May 22, 1834; Caroline A., born December 17, 1841; Sarah J., born July 4, 1842; William H., bom November 19, 1846; Corwin C., born July 26, 1850, all of whom are living and have children. Mr. Butler is a man who is respected by the entire immunity, and is still an active old gentleman.

Buxton, Mrs. C. A., widow, was born August 13, 1834, in the Shenandoah valley, Virginia. November 2, 1859, she married David Buxton, who was born October 6, 1799, in Brandon, Rutland county, Vermont. They have one son, Rufus, born July 21, 1864. Mr. Buxton died July 12, 1879. He was a man °f reserved opinions, and a consistent member of the Congregational church. He emigrated to Johnstown, Licking county, about 1834, and about one year later came to Alexandria, where he remained until his death.

Beaumont, William, superintendent of the infirmary, post office, Union station. He was born in St. Albans township June 6, 1831, and followed farming as a business until he was twenty-five years old; he then engaged in the mercantile business in the village of Alexandria, Ohio, continuing for the period of thirteen years. He received the appointment of superintendent of the infirmary February 1, 1880, and at once entered upon the duties of his office with the energy and devotion to business which has heretofote characterized him. Mr. Beaumont was a prominent man in his township, filling offices of importance for many years. He has been master of the St. Albans lodge, No. 491, Free and Accepted Masons, for six years. He is a very pleasant and agreeable gentleman, well calculated for the important place which he fills. He was married to Miss Laura Webb October 16, 1856, two children being the result of this union.

Burch, Homer C., merchant, post office, Hebron, was born in Muskingum county, July 12, 1842; came to Hebron in 1859, and in September of that year,' engaged in the milling business, which he followed until the tenth of August, 1861, when he enlisted in company H, Thirty-first Ohio volunteer infantry ; he re-enlisted in 1863, and served until the close of the war, the last year being detailed orderly on General Beard's staff; General Beard commanded Third division, Fourteenth army corps; Mr. Burch was wounded at the battle of Resaca, Georgia, and captured at Ringgold, Georgia, but was parolled in a short time; he was married on the tenth of July, 1861, to Miss Kate Smith, a native of this county ; they have had six children: Delbert C., fourteen; Harry, twelve; Willie (deceased); Winnie Gertrude, eigl t; Georgie H., six, and Maude, four. In 1878 company K, Seventeenth Ohio national guard, was organized in Hebron, and Mr. Burch was elected captain by acclamation, his commission bearing date December 7, 1878; his company was named Atherton guards when organized, in honor of Gibson Atherton, who represented #the thirteenth Congressional district in Congress. The company has the reputation of being the finest in the regiment, having won the badge at their first encampment in August, 1879, at Camp Hoagland, Zanesville, Ohio. Mr. Burch deals extensively in groceries and everything pertaining to a first class village store.

Burch, H. D., grocer, post office; Hebron, was born in Muskingum county in 1846; he was married in 1869, to Miss Candace Ruick, and they had four children: Otto E., Frank C., Rosa L., and Bertie T. He enlisted in 1862, and served three years, going out in company A, Tenth Ohio volunteer cavalry, as private; was promoted to bugler; had his horse captured on two different occasions; has been postmaster here since 1870; is first lieutenant of the Atherton guards; he has been engaged in his present business since 1869, and has made it a success by honorable dealing ; he and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church, he having been identified with that denomination for the past twelve years.

Bell, William, sr., Utica Ohio. - He was born in Green county, Pennsylvania, June 9, 1809, and came to Knox county with his father in 1816, and located on the farm joining the one on which he now lives. He married Nancy R. Hanger, November 11, 1830, daughter of Jacob Hanger, of Knox county. She was born January 29, 1813. They went to housekeeping in the house now owned by Robert McFarland, where they lived some three years, then moved to the vicinity of Martinsburgh, lived there one year, then moved to Licking county, where he has been living forty-five years. He now owns fifty acres of land, where he has lived for thirteen years; also forty-eight acres adjoining, in Knox county. They have eight children - Amanda, Hiram, Phidelia, Irene, Mary E., Catharine H., Alvira and David G. Amanda was married to George Hughes, and died September 8, 1865, leaving four children. Hiram is now living in Knox county, Ohio. Phidelia was married to Peter Crumrine, and died December 5, i860. Irene now lives in Utica, and is the wife of John McFadden. Mary E. lives in Utica, and is a widow. Catharine is now living in Wisconsin, and is wife of Felix Bennett. Alvira lives in Utica, and is the wife of C. C. Hughes. David G., is now teaching school in Knox county. His home is in DeKalb county, Indiana, where his wife and one child are living. The subject of this sketch is one of the early settlers, and remembers the Indian squaw being shot and her thigh broken by John McClane. She was taken to Mr. Bell's father's and cared for. Mc- Clane was sent to the penitentiary for twenty years. The squaw, after remaining at this place two days, was carried by Indians to Mt Vernon on a hammock made of bark. She died from the effects of this wound some two weeks after going to Mt. Vernon. McClane, after serving ten years of his time died in the penitentiary. Cortland McPeek, husband of Mary E. Bell, was a soldier in the late war for three years.

Carver, Randolph, farmer, Bennington township, was born in 1852, in this county. His father, J. W. Carver, was born in New Hampshire county, New Jersey, in 1805. He came to this county in 1812 with his father. He was married in 1827 to Miss Mary Livingston, daughter of Peter Livingston, of this county. She was born in 1805. Mr. Carver died in August, 1879. Mrs. Carver died in October, 1879. They were the parents of thirteen children, eight of whom are living. The subject of this sketch was married in 1874 to Miss Eliza Moore, daughter of V. R. Moore, of this county. She was born in 1855.

Cooperider, George, Bowling Green township John Cooperider emigrated to Licking county from Fayette county, Pennsylvania, in 1815. He had twelve children: John, Andrew, Emanuel, Peter, David, William, Jacob, Philip, George, Lewis, Abraham and Anna Margaret, settled in Licking Perry and Fairfield counties. His son, Emanuel, preceded his arrival here by one year, having previously married Elizabeth Shelly, of Lancaster county, Pennsylvania. Six children resulted from this union, three of whom died in early life. The remaining three, Anna Margaret, wife of George Bixler, John, and George, the subject of this sketch, reside in this township. George was bom February 25, 1818, in this township, is a farmer by occupation, and has always lived here. He married Margaret Trout, of Perry county, April 10, 1845. They are the j>arents of ten children: Sarah E. (died); Emanuel W., living in Perry county; Joel, a physician in Petersburg, Mahoning county, Ohio; George, a Lutheran minister in Baltimore, Maryland ; Martha, Martin L., John H., Charles, Noah and Herman.

Conard, Joseph, farmer and stock-dealer, was born in 1819, in this county. His father, Nathan | Conard, was bom June 5, 1779, in Loudoun county, Virginia. He was married in 1800 to Miss Hannah Butcher, of Hampshire county, Virginia. She was born January 7, 1779, in Hampshire county. They came to Fairfield county, now Knox county, in 1805. They came to what is now Licking county in 1807. He died September 20, 1854. She died January 28, 1871. They were the parents of ten children: John, bom June 28, 1801, died August 28, 1861; Jonah, bom January 1, 1804, died April 20, 1866; Sarah, bom December 24, 1805, died September 20, 1877; Mahlon, bom February 28, 1808; Amos, bom April 20, 1810; Elizabeth, born February 16, 1812; Anna, born July 18, 1814; Nathan, bom July 21, 1817. died July 6, 1880; Joseph, born August 7, 1819; Cyrus M., born February 18, 1823.

Conard, C. M., farmer and stock-dealer, Bor* lington township, was born in 1823, in this town* ship. His father's name is Nathan Conard C, M. Conard was married in 1846 to Miss Phceifc I>ong. She was born in 1826, in this county. Sbd died April 4, 1859. They were the parents a three children. He again married, in i860, Mis$ Sarah Kinsey, of Knox county. She was bom ri Coshocton county in 1830. They are the parent! of nine children.

the Revolutionary war was in progress; became wife of Nathan Conard, and settled in Licking inty in 1806, while it was yet a part of Fairfield inty, and died January 28, 1871, at the great of ninety-two years. Mrs. Conard knew from what it was to live in the wilderness, L to endure the toils and, to soipe extent at least, privations incident to life on the frontiers. She > highly esteemed as a wife and mother, and as 5 of the oldest and best of the pioneers of 'king.

Colville, James W., was born in Shenandoah inty, Virginia, April 30, 1795. He was a solx in the War of 1812, and came to this county 1826; was married to Leah Baker in 1827, and >n thereafter settled on the farm in Eden townp, where he lived fifty-one years, and where he :d after a protracted illness, November 7, 1878, his eighty-fourth year. He was a son of Major dville, who, in the valley of Virginia, had atned some distinction by his military and civil -vices, and by his integrity and intelligence as a igistrate and legislator. Rev. Peter Schmucker, 10 was also from Virginia, was the officiating irgyman on the occasion of Mr. Colville's marige, July 26, 1827. Mr. Colville was an acting stice of the peace of Eden township upwards of enty years, and was highly esteemed by his ighbors, and by all who had the pleasure of his quaintance, which was not by any means a limrd number. He was a man of considerable inrmation, a patriotic man, a useful, industrious tizen, an accommodating neighbor, an upright, st magistrate, a kind husband, an affectionate ther, an honest man, a warm-hearted friend.

Conine, Jacob F. esq. - The death of the subct of this sketch took place at his residence in tna township June 6, 1880, at the age of seventy- :ven years. Squire Conine was born in Morris mnty, New Jersey, July 10, 1803, came to this >unty in 1840, served a year as a soldier in the lexican war, doing duty as a member of Captain ohn R. Duncan's company of rangers on the Rio xande line. He was a gentleman of extensive iformation, conscientious, patriotic, intelligent, and Iways exerted a favorable moral influence. Squire lonine had acquired a good degree of scholarship, nd had written some acceptable historical papers )r the Pioneer society.

Colville, James, esq., son of James W. Colille, esq., was bom in Eden township, Licking ounty, Ohio, June 29, 1836. He intermarried nth Eleanor, youngest daughter of the late Jordan Hall, esq., November 8, 1866. He now lives in Fallsbury township, where he has lived thirteen years, having served as justice of the peace for six years. Squire Colville has devoted himself industriously and successfully to agricultural pursuits and stock raising; he has also been engaged, more or less, for sixteen years at school teaching, and filling positions in his township involving more or less responsibility. His ancestors, paternal and maternal, were immigrants to Licking county from the Shenandoah valley, in Virginia, where his grandfather, Major John Colville, was a prominent man for many years, being a representative in the Virginia legislature, and occupied other positions of prominence. His relatives of old were also active in the Revolutionary war. He is a grandson of Aaron Baker, one of the veteran pioneers of Licking, who moved to this county from Rockingham county, Virginia, in 1803, and settled two miles north of Newark. His mother, Leah Baker, was then only three years old, and is still living in this county, at the age of eighty years. She was one of the hardy, vigorous race of pioneer women who courageously encountered the toils, hardships and privations incident to life on the frontiers, and who is now, after a life of great activity, energy and industry, calmly and resignedly near its close. franklin township.

Cooper, James. - Mr. Cooper, the son of Henry and Elizabeth Cooper, was born in Marshall county, West Virginia, January 15, 1820. His parents were farmers, and James adopted this as his avocation, following it in his native place until 1868, when he came to this county, living six years near Brownville, then removing to this township, where he has since resided. He was elected justice of the peace for Franklin township in April, 1879, and is a member of the orders of Odd Fellows and Masons. Mr. Cooper has been twice married. His first wife was Drusilla Linville, of Washington county, Pennsylvania, whom he married April 20, 1848, and by whom he had five children. Of these only Elizabeth V., and Mary B. survive. His wife died December 31, 1859. His second marriage was with Jane Buchanan, of Marshall county, Virginia, solemnized May 15, i860. Of his eight children by this marriage, five are living: Flotilla Ann, Ella Jane, Carrie Spencer, John Henry, and James Buchanan.

Connel, John. - Mr. Connel was born in Madison township, April 2, 1830. When he was six or seven years old his parents moved to Newark. He there learned the carpenter trade and worked at it in Newark until 1878, when he purchased the farm upon which he now resides, and removed to the country. Mr. Connel was married to Mary E. Goodwin, of Newark, January 10,

Coulter, Preston F. - Mr. Coulter was bom in Franklin township, October 21, 1827. His father, John Coulter, was a native of Washington county, Pennsylvania, where he was born, December 19, 1796, and when only one or two years old his parents moved to Butler county, Ohio, and afterwards, in 1810, to Licking county. His mother, Matilda Pumphrey, was a Virginian by birth. He was married May 30, 1851, to Lydia E. Dodd, of Belmont county, Ohio, who is one year and seven days his junior. His children are, Horace M., born July 3, 1852 ; Eva M., born July 13, 1 854 ; Mary A., born May 1, 1857; John C., born March 18, 1859, and died February 28, 1862; Lorin, born September 8, 1861; May, born October 14, 1863; Rollin, born May 30, 1866; Edwin Stanton, born June 9, 1868; Frank H., born March 20, 1870, and Howard E., born August 29, 1875. Since his marriage Mr. Coulter has resided in Madison, Bowling Green and Frankiin townships successively. His occupation is farming and stock raising, also makes a specialty of raising and selling fine sheep.

Coulter, W. C., son of John Coulter, one of the early settlers of this county, was born in this township March 13, 1832. His early life was active and varied. He taught school at seventeen and the next year attended school at the Ohio Wesleyan university, Delaware, Ohio. He was then employed about eighteen months in building telegraph roads in this State and in Indiana. He next went west with a flock of sheep and remained there two years when he returned to Licking county. He remained here five or six years and then spent two years along the Ohio river in Scioto county, Ohio. In i860 he returned to this township and has remained here since. In 1855 he married Catharine Irwin, of this township. He has two children, Lenora and Ella M. Mr. Coulter is an extensive sheep grower, and has imported a valuable stock of sheep from Vermont into this county.

Cummins, Mrs. Sarah A., was born December 8, 1821, in Guernsey county. She married John Cummins November 28, 1841, who was born in Rockingham, Virginia, August 30, 1814, and was the son of Thomas Cummins and Mary Bowers. Mr. Cummins was a farmer and a member of the United Brethren church. He died September 4, 1858. Mrs. Cummins' parents are from Cumberland valley, Pennsylvania. Her father, William McVicker, was born April 5, 1778; her mother, Sarah A. Lisney, was born March 18, 1786; her brothers and sisters are Jonathan C., born April

11, 1802; James, born August 21, 1803; William, | born March 3, 1806; Alexander, born December 25, 1809; Aaron, born August 11, 1812; Achor, bom December 2, 1813; Samuel F., bom Aprils 1816; Rebecca, bom February 21, 1819; JohnC, born February 13, 1824; Stephen, born March 4, 1827 ; Mary, born May 3, 1829. Her children are Mary Jane, wife of Harrison Moore, of Kansas; Sarah T. (deceased); Lora H., wife of William Griffith, of Lima township ; John, William T. (deceased), David, Martha Ann (deceased), Sylvester, and Rena May. Mrs. Cummins is a member of the Presbyterian church.