Union Township (part 3 of 7)

Courson, James S., was bom August 24, 1843, in Bowling Green township. His father, Alexander, and his grandparents, Isaac and Jane Courson, came from Pennsylvania. He was born and bred a farmer, but during the last seven or eight years, has followed stone masonry as a trade, j Until within a few months he has resided in his native township. His brothers and sisters living, are: Ananias, of this county; Cornelius, living in Memphis, Tennessee; Charles W., who resides in Missouri; Mary Ann, wife of John Abraham, of Oskaloosa, Iowa; Nancy, married to Harvey Dusthimer, of this township, and Martha J., the wife of Abram Eby, .living in Bowling Green township. Mr. Courson was married November 27, 1879, t0 Rachel Irwin, daughter of Hamilton and Catharine Irwin. Mr. and Mrs. Courson. are members of the Methodist church.

Baily, L. B., Concord, Hancock county, Iowa. His father, John B. Bailey, came from New York to Ohio in 1837, locating near Granville. He went to Wisconsin in 1861, and to Iowa in 1864, where he died in 1875. He was l^e °* four sons, one of whom, Rolla, was killed by lightning in 1876. Smith was a farmer on the Pacific coast. John B. and L. B. are farmers at Baileys Grove, Iowa. L. B. Bailey was bom near Granville. He left Ohio in 1868, w*as married in 1864 to Miss F. A. Ocian, of Wisconsin. They are the parents of two boys, Charles and Edwin B.

Case, Grove, was born in Connecticut January 20, 1800. He was brought to Licking county, Ohio, in 1807, by his parents, Major Grove and Cinderilla Case, who settled in Granville, where they deceased. He died in 1836 or *7, aged fiftysix years. His wife survived him until January, 1867, aged eighty-seven years. Major Case boil the well-known house in Granville, in which be kept hotel from 1810 until 1814 or '15. He served as major in the War of 1812; was at Fort Mei?J when besieged. He, in company with Silas WaJ cbell, erected the first grist-mill in Granville tovflj ihip. He was the father of four children - three ions, born in Connecticut, viz: Grove, Norton and Jarvis; one daughter, Lucinda, born in Granville. A.11 of the children are living, except Norton, who deceased in March, 1879. Mr. Case was -eared a farmer, and has followed farming and itock-ra isi ng, as his vocation. He married Laura Carpenter, of Delaware county, Ohio, May 15, 1821; born October 10, 1797 ; daughter of Nathan Carpenter, a soldier of the War of 1776. They settled on North street, Granville township, Licking rounty, Ohio, on the farm now occupied by his jrandson-in-law. He erected the residence, now n use, in which they lived for fifty-six years. In October, 1877, they moved on the farm where hey are now living, which he had purchased in [876. Their residence is a fine brick sturcture. They reared a family of three children : Lucius A.

narried Polly Rose, in 1844, daughter of Levi lose, and he deceased July 3, 1866; Laura J. died it the age of seventeen years; Lucy C. married ames Sennett, and died two years after her mariage.

Clouse, Rev. Noah. - The parentage of Mr. House was on the father's side, High Dutch, and >n the mother's side, English, who settled in Newingland in very early times. One of his grand, athers served seven years in the Revolutionary war, The place of their nativity was Washington county, 'ennsylvania, where they lived to an advanced age. The subject of this sketch, Mr. N. Clouse, was >orn in Washington county, Pennsylvania, on the irst of October, 1813. He received a moderate elect school educati#! while young - good for hose days. Having attained his majority, he noved to Ohio, and located in Tuscarawas county 1 the spring of 1835. On the twenty-third of )ctober, 1835, he was united in marriage to Miss lebecca Ashbrook, whose parents came of the Id English and Dutch nationalities, and settled on he borders of the States of Virginia and Pennsylania, where her parents were born. From thence hey removed to Washington county, Pennsylvania, rhere they were blessed with a family of two sons nd four daughters. Mrs. Rebecca Clouse nee tshbrook was born in Washington county, Pennsylania, July 4, 1806, and is still living, enjoying an ctive, old age. The religious life of Mr. Clouse egan at the time of his conversion at the age of >urteen years, and continued in a special call to le ministry of the Baptist denomination in the ear 1841, when he was licensed to preach by the )over Baptist church, and was subsequently rdained in the same church in the year 1843. )uring these calls to preach, the exercise of his find led him to seek the means of a better educaon for the duties involved. He studied as the means of qualification, the Latin, German and Greek languages, with other essential helps under private tutors. For several years he served Sugar Cr^k, Magnolia, New Jefferson and White-eyeplains churches. In the fall of 1847, he removed to Licking county, Ohio, under a call from the Newark Baptist church, with whom he labored about sixteen months. Following this pastoral he supplied, # and was the pastor of the following churches, viz: Alexandria, Union, Homer, Liberty, Johnstown, Fredonia and Welsh Hills, aggregating a period of ministerial labors equal to and over thirty-six years. The close of this record leaves him in possession of much vigor of life and good prospects of future usefulness in the ministerial function for many years to come.

Cheek, Adaline, daughter of William and Elizabeth Priest, was married October 20, 1836, to George Cheek. She was born August 15, 1812, in Culpepper county, Virginia. At a very early day she, with her parents, moved to Muskingum county, settling in Hopewell township, where she lived until 1875, when she removed to Licking county and settled in Hanover township. Mr. Cheek died September 1, 1854, leaving her with nine children - William Elsie, born July 3, 1838; Sarah Elizabeth, born December 11, 1839; George Andrew, born July 18, 1841; James Henry, born March 29, 1844; John Robert, born November 10, 1845; Thomas Jefferson, born September 14, 1847 ; Franklin Howard, born February 11, 1851; Perry Streeper, born November 25, 1852; Harvey Alien, born January 3, 1855. Of these, John Robert and Thomas J. are dead, having died while in the late war. William married Martha Skinner, November 15, i860. She died January 10, 1863, leaving Mr. Cheek with one child - Joseph, born October 27, 1861. Abput five years after Mrs. Cheek's death Mr. Cheek married his second wife - Elizabeth Loughman. By this marriage they are the parents of five children - William Henry, Jacob Franklin, John Robert, Sarah Adaline and Harvey Allen. John McFarland, of Muskingum county, married Sarah October 9, 1866. They have four children - Adaline, bom July 7, 1867; James Henry, born January 30, 1869; Amanda, born September 18, 1870; Perry Milton, born January 9, 1873. Amanda died February 25, 1871. Howard was married August 1, 1877, to Julia A. Drum. She died January, 1880, leaving him with one child - Cecil Celista. James Henry married Sarah A. Vansikle, August 8, 1878. They have one child - Mary Etta. Perry S. and Harvey Allen are not married. They are living in Hanover township.

Perry county, Ohio, in 1837. In 1859 he was married to Miss Cyntr.ia H. Hillier, of Muskingum county. They have had ten children - Edmund R., John W., Myvard B., Charles A., Anna E., Louie Bell, Frank P., Emma J., Ora and Samuel M. (deceased). His father and mother were bom in Virginia in 1810, and came to this State in 1834. His mother's maiden name was Rector. The subject of this sketch lives about a quarter«of a mile south of Hanover, on the Woodbridge farm.

Condit, Isaac, deceased, was born in Essex county, New Jersey, November, 1798. He was a carpenter by trade, and followed that business for a number of years. He then turned his attention to farming, which he made his principal vocation, after his settlement in this county. In 1822, he married Miss Jane R. Dobbin, of Essex county. New Jersey, born in 1802. They settled in Essex county, remained until 1835, when he, with wife and five children migrated to this county and located in Harrison township, on the farm now owned by their son, Joseph B. Condit, where they passed the remainder of their days. His companion died January 3, 1878. He died May 10, 1878. They reared a family of nine children: Mary,

George, Matthias, William D., Joseph B., SaYah, Frances, Pheba, and Theodore. Two of the above named children are deceased, Pheba and Theodore.

Condit, William D., son of the aforesaid Isaac Condit, was born in Essex county, New Jersey, February 7, 1831, and came with his parents to this county in 1835. He is a carpenter by trade, and followed that as his vocation a few years, when he turned his attention to farming, in which business he has since been engaged. December 28, 1854, he married Miss Martha Charles, daughter of Jesse and Nancy Charles. Miss Charles was born in Harrison township, this county, March 10, 1834. They moved on the farm in Harrison township, where they now reside, in April, 1856. They have a family of ten children, five sons and five daughters.

Castner, Edwin S., farmer and sheep breeder, born in Jefferson county Ohio, in 1844, came to this county in 1870. He was married in 1868, to Miss Mary J. Stone of the same county. She was born in 1850. They are the parents of three children, two are dead, and one, Earnest, living. Mr. Castner lived in this county from 1870 to 1874, when he removed to Knox county, where he resided six years. He again came to this county in the spring of 1880. He has been engaged in the breeding and shipping of registered merino sheep for the last five years; he has on hand sixty-fiv? thoroughbred sheep. Mr. Castner is a member of the board of directors of the Hartford Agricultural society.

Coleman, Joseph, hotel-keeper, born in Cosher ton county, Ohio, in 1825; removed to Knoi county while a child, and at the age of eighteen he came to this county, living at Johnstown two or three years, when he removed to Hartford, where he has since lived. He was married, in 1847, to Miss Sarah E. Williams, of this county ; she was born in 1826 in this county; she died in 1875. They were the parents of three children, one of whom, Charley, is living. He again married, in 1879, Miss Sarah A. Warner, of Essex Junction, Vermont She was born in 1842 in Paw Paw, Michigan. Mr. Coleman has held several pcs.1 tions of trust and profit, having been township treasurer ten or twelve years, and trustee two terms. He is at present a member of the town council and a member of the Hartford Agricultural society.

Cunningham, J. Ross, farmer, bom in Jefferson county, Ohio, June 16, 1835; married Emily M. Ross of the same county. Mrs. Ross was bom in 1839. Mr. Ross came to this county in 1870, pur- 1 chased a fine farm of two hundred acres in the northwest part of the township, and now has one of the finest farms in the township. He is essentially a self-made man, and is one of the substantial citizens of the county.

Curry, George, farmer and breeder of thoroughbred sheep. He is a breetjlr and shipper of Spanish merino sheep, which ace registered in the Vermont and United States registeries. He has a fine flock of eighty head on hand at present

Carter, Frederick G, bom in Franklin county, September 30, 1830; his father, Havilah, settled | near Newark, on Jasper Sutton's place, about 181^ emigrating from Loudoun county, Virginia; two yean after he moved to Franklin county; his mother, Ma* hala Starkey, was a native of Hampshire county, Virginia. In 1847 his father's family came to St. Albans township, where he remained till the spring of 1880, when he removed to his present faro home His grandfather was a Quaker, and his father, though not a member of this society, possessed its virtues, and was noted for his scrupulous honesty in his dealings with men. Mr. Carter married Amanda, daughter of Martin and Lucy (John- I son) Brooks, June, 1863. Her parents were early settlers in this county; her father hailing fof J Maine, her mother from Vermont Frank B. *1 their only child. J

Cooper, Eli, farmer, New Way, was born September 7, 1830. August, 1847, came to Bennington township, this county. In the spring of 1877 he moved into this township, locating in the village of New Way, where he now lives. He married Elizabeth Fulk, March, 1858. They have two children: Sarah M., born November 29, 1859; Leroy, born October 27, 1861. He owns one hundred and twenty-five acres in one body, and thiity acres in another. He is a successful farmer.

Coffman, Reuben, was born July 6, 1824, in Page county, Virginia. He was the son of Peter and Rebecca Coffman. Peter came to this county in 1809; remained here till 1818; then returned to Virginia again, and was married to Rebecca Lanum, of Page county, Virginia. Returned to this county in 1828, and located in Newton township. He was the father of eight children - four living at present: Wesley, Reuben, Mary and Philip are married, and living in this county. Reuben, the subject of this sketch, was married March, 1846, to Susanna Bullock, of this county, the daughter of Samuel and Nancy Bullock. They have had seven children - six are living. Mary Jane was born January 1, 1847. She was married to John Grove, of this county, a farmer. Julia Ann was born March, 1848; died April, 1848. Lewis was born February 2, 1849; is single, and lives at home; is a farmer. William was born June, 1851; is single, and lives at home; is a farmer. P. A. was born February, 1853 ; is single, and, at present, is a l^r student in John D. Jones' office at Newark. Isaac was born August, 1855; is single, and lives at home; is a farmer. Rebecca V. was born November, 1857; married George Swartz, of this county, a farmer, and lives south of Jacksontown. Peter Coffman died January, 1867, aged sixty-eight years. He was a farmer and carpenter. Rebecca Coffman died June, 1873, ln Newton township. She was a member of the Old School Baptist church of Lost run. Reuben Coffman located in Licking township in 1853, on the farm where he now lives, having some five hundred and forty-five acres of land in Licking township, and ninety-two in Newark township. He is an extensive farmer and wool grower; is a very influential and highly respected man in Licking township. He is a natural mechanic, which is characteristic of the family.

Crompton, Francis, post office, Pataskala, was born in King's county, Ireland, January 14, 1821. In 1848 he emigrated to the United States and settled in Licking county. In 1876 he went west, settling in Putnam county, but remained only one year, returning to Licking, where he has since resided. Mr. Crompton has been twice married, his first wife being Miss Mary Wickliff, who lived but a .few years, he afterwards marrying Mrs. Roberts, the widow of Samuel Roberts, who died while in the army.

Conine, Richard, farmer, post office, Pataskala, was born in this county, October 28, 1852, a son of Richard and Hester Conine, the former of whom came from New Jersey with his parents and settled on the farm on which the subject of this sketch now lives. He was born near Newark. He remained at home until he was twenty-two years old, when he went to Fairfield county, and from thence to Franklin county; and in 1876 he came to this county and settled on his present farm. He was married in the winter of 1873 t° M. E. Valentine, of this county. His father, Richard Conine, was among the first that ever came in the county and took an active part in the settlement of the same.

Cada, Mowry, was born in 1802 ir. Rhode Island ; was the son of Sylvester and Sadie Cada. He was married in 1833 to Abigal Barber, of Vermont, who was born in 1815 in Vermont. They had four children. A. J. Cada was born in 1834, in Massachusetts, and with his parents came to this county in 1836; located in McKean township on the farm where he now lives. He was married September 25, i860, to Mary A. Conard, of this county, who was born November 19, 1840, in this county. The result of this marriage was three boys; Joel M., born June 15, 1861 ; Edwin J., born November 29, 1864; Charles G., born January 19, 1872. Phoebe C. Cada was born April 7, 1837; was married, in 1863, to Frederick Smith, of this county, who is a farmer and lives in McKean township. Sabra C. Cada was born January 30, 1845; was married November 8, 1874, to Andrew Morgan, of this county, a farmer. Mr. Morgan died and his widow is living in Indiana. They had one child, Mary F., born September 20, 1849; died January 20, 1851. Mr. Cada's grandfathers were both soldiers of the Revolutionary war; were under General Green.

Clark, Absalom, was bom December 10, 1819, in McKean township; was the son of Fleetwood and Sarah Clark, who came to this county in 1814, from Huntingdon county, Pennsylvania. The journey being made by wagon. They located in Newton township, and came to McKean in 1815, where they remained until death. They were the parents of eight boys and one girl. Absalom, John, William, and Jesse are yet living. Fleetwood

Clark died in 1851, aged sixty-one; Sarah, his wife, died in 1835, aged forty-five years. Absalom, the subject of this sketch, went to California in 1853, by way of the isthmus; was there about twenty months. He married Matilda Walker, of Delaware county, who was born in 1835. The result of this marriage was nine children. Those living are George W., Caroline L., Absalom, Mary, Sarah, Charles, Eunice, John B., and Emma. George was married to Christenia Stevens, of this county, in 1879, and lives in this township. Caroline was married to Samuel S. Fry, of Newark, and is now living in Westerville. The others are single and live at home. Mr. Clark has always had his home in McKean township, on the old homestead where his father first located, when the country was all woods. Mr. Clark has always been a well-to-do farmer, and is esteemed by all his acquaintances.

Clouse, Susan, farmer, postoffice, Johnstown, Ohio, was born in the extreme northern part of Fairfield county, October 18, 1828; is a daughter of William and Sarah Hendrickson. Mr. W. Hendrickson was born August 30, 1791, in New Jersey, and died August 30, 1859, in Monroe township, Licking county, Ohio. He married Sarah McClain, about 1820, and had eight children: John, born about 1821, and died when about two years of age; Catharine, bom April 13, 1823, and died August

20, 1855; William, born October 15, 1826, and served in the Mexican war about two years. When civil war was declared in the United States, he enlisted in an Illinois regiment, served out his time went home only to veteran. During one of the sieges was shot through the lungs, from the effects of which he is a constant sufferer at the present time. The next in order is the subject of this sketch, Susan. Elizabeth, born August 4, 1830; Elenor, born March 21, 1832 ; Jacob, born June

21, 1834. Mrs. Clouse came to this county with her parents about 1832, where they have remained. She married Jacob Clouse, December 8, 1849, and moved to where she now lives March, 1850. She had six children : Leuzerne, born September 29, 1850, died May 3, 1869 ; Ellen, bom August 7, 1852; John, born October 16, 1855; Amanda, born February 18, 1858, Lincoln, born February 25, 1861; Frederick, born August 6, 1864. Jacob Clouse was born April 13, 1828, within a quarter mile of where they now live, and where he died February 19, 1879. Mrs. Clouse says he never was further from home than Brownsville, Bowling Green township, this county, not to exceed thirty miles, and she has been to Gibsonville, Hocking county, Ohio, a distance not to exceed sixty miles, and made the trip on horseback, to attend the funeral of a relative ; that neither of them rode a mile in the cars. They began life with but a very few dollars, and by frugality and hard work have made for themselves a comfortable home.

Carroll, Charles, druggist and pharmaceutist, three doors south of American house, west * side of the public square. Mr. Carroll was bom in Cincinnati, April 11, 1852, and w'hen aboutone year old his parents came to Newrark. He received his education at Granville, Ohio, after which he engaged with W. P. Kirkpatrick, druggist at Utica, Ohio, as salesman, whom he served four years. He then went to Philadelphia and en tered the Pharmaceutical college, from which he received his diploma in the spring of 1875, ^ter which he entered the employ of French, Richards & Co., wholesale druggists and manufacturing chemists, with whom he remained about five years On May 1, 1880, he returned to Newark and bought out the firm of Seymour & Co., at the old Fullerton stand, which was established in 1844, three doors south of the American house, on the west side of the public square, where he occupies very pleasant and commodious rooms, eighteen by eighty, as salesroom with prescription case and laboratory, and a ware-room up-stairs eighteen by eighty, and cellar eighteen by forty, in which he carties a large first-class stock of pure drugs, chemicals, patent medicines, toilet articles, fancy goods, trusses, shoulder braces, supporters. Whitman's confectionery. Also special attention given to the compounding of physicians' prescriptions, and the wholesale and retail manufacture of pharmaceutical preparations® This is a special department, and a leading feature of the business and this is the only drug establishment in thec::v that employs a night clerk, and is under the imme- j diate direction of a graduate in pharmacy.

Caul, John. - He was born at Dillmon's Falls, Muskingum county, Ohio, June 25, 1836. He came to Newark in 1854. He was married tru Melvina Walker October 16, 1862; had two chi!-" dren, one of whom died in infancy. Joseph Ben jamin died in March, 1870, in the sixth year of his age. Mr. Caul moved with his father to the blast furnace, in Mary Ann township, in 1844. He worked some five years at this furnace. In 1854 he came to Newark, working at anything he could by the day until in the fall of 1861, when he went on the canal; remained in that business until 187;. He then engaged in teaming, which is his present occupation; has a comfortable little home on Seventh street in Newark. He has a sister, Vaborr Eastman, living in Hocking county; Clara A, m I Hocking county; a brother Henry, living in Illinois. His father died in the seventy- second yafj of h js age.

Chambers, Dr. W. B., surgeon-dentist, Clinton reet, two doors from Locust. Dr. Chambers was >rn in Marshall county, western Virginia. He ceived his preparatory education in the district hools of Marshall and Ohio counties, after which i attended an academy at Alexandria, Washingn county, Pennsylvania, and took a course at the ennsyl vania college, Philadelphia. In 1858 he >mmenced reading with Alexander Reed, M. D., lysician and surgeon, also a practitioner of dental irgery, of West Virginia. In 1865 he came to ewark and entered upon the practice of the den- 1 profession, to which he devoted his entire atten- 3n until 1872, when he returned to Philadelphia id completed his dental studies at the Pennsylinia college of dental surgery, from which he aduated in 1873. Un his return he purchased a >t at his present location, on which he has erected handsome brick residence, which he has furnish- I and fitted up with heating, gas and water fixtures f the most modern design and is unexcelled in the ty. His office is also of brick, one story high ad neat design, in which he has an elegant suite f rooms consisting of a reception room eighteen y twelve and a half feet, which is fitted up withaod taste and has everything necessary for the amfort and entertainment of waiting patients, an perating room fourteen by ten feet which he has lrnished with all the modern facilities and applinces f«#r the successful operation of his profession, y means of which the usual excruciating operaons of dentistry are made comparatively pleasant; private office and consulting room twelve by jvelve feet, a laboratory eighteen by twelve feet rhich is furnished with everything necessary for the perating of mechanical dentistry, also a commoious room eighteen by ten feet for the chemical nd metalurgical department. Dr. Chambers has pared no expense to secure everything adopted in he profession. In the operating department he ises only the safest and purest and most effective sthetics, and administers almost painless treatment. He was married March 31, 1870, to Miss Vugusta Smucker, youngest daughter of Honorable saac Smucker of this city.

Vbout the age of nine years she moved, with her ather, to Cleveland, Ohio. Her father, Samuel durdock, was a farmer by occupation, and died in icking county, Iowa, at the age of ninety years. >he was married to Mr. Austin Chamberlain, of Cleveland, Ohio, July 14, 1838, and was the mother >f three children, all dead. Mr. Chamberlain, in *arly life, followed boating ; after moving to Newark, n 1838, he followed carpentering until he died in 1870, aged sixty-one years. Mrs. Chamberlain

Chase, Geo. W., photographer. Mr. Chase was born in Oswego, New York, March 15, 1839, and was educated at Nunda, New-York. He came to Ohio in the fall of 1858, locating at Zanesville, where he took charge of the omnibus and stage lines 'which he remained in charge of until 1861, when he was the second man in Muskingum county to respond to the first call for troops. He enlisted in company H, First Ohio volunteer infantry, in which he served several months when he was put on recruiting service and the organizing of regiments and staff duty, during which he was promoted to first lieutenant and was honorably discharged as brevet captain, in 1863, in consequence of expiration of his term of service. He came to Newaik in 1864 and engaged in the photo art in which he has been engaged with good success ever since. He occupies a large and excellent suit of rooms in the Franklin block, consisting of parlor eighteen by eighteen ; two operating rooms sixteen by forty and seventeen by forty-five ; printing room, eleven by twenty ; toilet, six by twelve ; frame and moulding room, eight by sixteen, where all kinds of photos are produced in a high degree of perfection, also enlarging of photos, etc. He also keeps a large first class stock of albums, velvet goods, frames mouldings, etc., etc.

Cherry, Harriet, daughter of Jesse and Isa bella Taylor, was born April 4, 1812, in Frederick county, Virginia. When she was seventeen years old she removed, with her parents, to Lancaster, Ohio, where they remained two years. Then they removed to Fairfield county, Ohio, and lived there seven years, during which time she was married to James Cherry, of Fairfield. Two years after their marriage they removed to Indianapolis, Indiana, and remained there for thirty years. Mr. Cherry was a farmer, and followed this occupation during their stay in Indiana. In 1865 they returned to Fairfield county, and located in Millersport, Mr. Cherry engaging in the dry goods business until his death, February 7, 1873. The family remained in Millersport three years after the death of Mr. Cherry, when they removed to Pataskala for a short time, when they removed to Newark, where they have lived ever since. The family consists of five children - all girls - Belle, born May 1, 1837; Mary E., born June 12, 1840; Hattie, born April 30, 1842; Katy, bom November 3, 1846; Emma, born November 26, 1852. They are all married but Katy, who lives with her mother.

Clark, Mr. Anson. - The subject of this sketch was a native of Granville, Massachusetts, where he was born December 29, 1796, and came with his father's family to Granville (then in Fairfield county), Ohio, November 18, 1807, after a weary journey of forty-seven days, performed with oxteams, that being one of the methods of crossing the Aileghanies in "the days of the pioneers." Mr. Clark acted well his part as a pioneer, as a citizen of the Commonwealth, as a Christian. He was a friend of freedom, of emancipation, of human liberty. Mr. Clark was theoretically and practically an ardent, zealous, consistent advocate of temperance, all his life, having joined the first temperance society organized west of the mountains, more than fifty years ago, and was always faithful to the pledge then taken. His church membership dates back to 1828, and he ever afterwards to the close of his life, sustained honorable church relations. Mr. Clark was an upright, intelligent, industrious, honest man, and had endeared to him many sympathizing friends. He was distinguished for integrity of purpose, and for devotion to the interests of the poor, the oppressed, and especially to the down-trodden, the crushed slaves. His influence was always exerted in behalf of what he esteemed to be truth, justice, right and good morals. The aim of his life was to make his conduct harmonize with the golden rule. The venerable pioneer died July 19, 1877, and was gathered to his fathers at the ripe age of eighty years, six months and twenty-two days.

Clark, Hon. A. B. - Mr. A. B. Clark is the son of Anson Clark, and was bom in Granville township July n, 1825. He is essentially of New England origin, his father and mother both being born there, the former in Granville, Massachusetts, and the latter in Burlington, Vermont In 1835 his father removed to Hartford township, and there gradually opened up a farm aided by the subject of this sketch, until he reached maturity, meanwhile enjoying the benefits of such schools as then existed in the remote township of this county. To these limited advantages were superadded, during the closing years of his minority, the privileges of a select school in the village of Hartford. In the meantime he constantly received valuable moral instruction from his father, who impressed upon his mind the infinite importance of a life of purity, honor and virtue, and of faith in Christianity. His father was not unmindful of the importance of the current periodical literature of the times, and furnished his household weekly with the reading of the Oberlin Evangelist , the New York Tribune and the National Era. The library of the family was rather limited, and confined chiefly to the style of of which "Baxter's Saints' Rest," "Pilgrims gress," "Hervey's Meditations among the Tool and "Allein's Call to Unconverted Sinners** fair representatives. This was a style of literal to which an ambitious youth and still less a fl grown, young man could scarcely be expected confine himself, and the subject of this s\a.\ found his remedy in the free use of a tolerabka tensive library owned by a neighbor and fried* whose generosity and kindness he was indebted* the opportunities it afforded of acquiring a m range of information than were afforded by i home library, and it will probably be conceded if those who have made the acquaintance of the da young man of Hartford that he did not permab opportunities to go unimproved The desire t mental improvement and the acquisition of to* edge, thus early indulged and cherished, soon be came a habit which he has not sought to change, but which has "grown with his growth, in. strengthened with his strength" with each pass£ year. Mr. Clark entered October 1, 1846, into : life partnership with Miss Mary E Durant, then ; young lady fresh from the green hills of Verms: whose father had settled in Hartford townsb After his marriage he engaged in mercantile pa suits as well as in farming, and served for some years as a justice of the peace, signalizinghiso&al term more as a neighborhood pacificator than h\ endeavors to mutliply the cases on his docket K* was trained in , the school of the early Abolitiotii& and was always ready to advocate their peculiar views, and more than willing to assist in givk: force and effect, and if possible, success to tber measures. Until 1848 he acted with the Abolition ists politically, then and until 185(5 with the Freesoil party, and in 1856 and ever since with the Re publican party. With a taste for literature, anc 1 natural bent for literary labor, he early fell into the habit of writing for the press ; it was therefore tk most natural thing in the world that he shock: drift into the editorial chair. Accordingly, in & spring of 1868, he purchased an interest in the Newark American , and since that time, has done the principal editorial work on that paper; and that he is a writer of "pith and point," all who « familiar with the American , will admit Mr. Chit was postmaster of Newark for eight years, serving from 1 869 to 1 87 7 ; he was also the chosen standard bearer in 1880, of the Republican party, by ona* imous nomination, in the Thirteenth Cooper sional district of Ohio, and was supported by ti* full vote of his party. Mr. Clark is not oak * writer of force and elegance, but also a W& speaker of ability and power, and his caab&rt00 to the poetical literature of the day pom ®ok than ordinary merit. And, moat of *8, Me*® ^ aid of his literary productions, whether poetry or >rose, and whether on political topics, temperance, >r whatever subject, that their tendency is to ediication, to instruction, to enlightment, to mental tnprovement, to moral elevation. And no less rue is this of his elocutionary efforts or public and addresses.

Cockran, Thomas, son of Joseph and Susan Cockran, was born April 22, 1831, in Coshocton county. He left his home when but sixteen years of age and went to Mt. Vernon, Knox county, and there learned the plastering trade. He remained there about nine years, then removed to Delaware, Ohio, then to Ft. Wayne, Indiana, then to Bloomington, Illinois, then to Iowa City, then to Kansas, then to Arkansas, from here he went into Texas, hence to Florida, then back to Kansas City, and moved about from place to place fifteen years, and finally settled in Newark in 1875, where he has been living ever since In 1862 he volunteered in the service of his country's welfare in company I, One Hundred and Twenty-first Ohio volunteer infantry, under Colonel Reed, of Delaware. He received his discharge September 16, 1863. Mr. Cockran was married February 22, 1857, to Angeline Wilcox, of Marvsville, Union county. By this marriage they have seven children, six of whom are living. After Mr. Cockran left his home he did not return until he was forty years of age, and since that time he has been to see his folks only three times.

Coffman, Joseph, retired, learned the brickmason trade when about twenty years of age, and has made that the principal occupation of his life. He was bom in Page county, Virginia, May 11, 1803, and came to Licking county in September, 1807. He says "the trip was made on horseback, and that he had to ride between two boys, and that he cried frequently during the route." After coming to the county, his father rented a farm and set him, in company with his brothers, td work. Mr. Coffinan was married, December 25, 1825, to Maggie Connell, who lived until 1872. They had twelve children. Mr. Coffman married his present wife, Dorcas S. Youse, July 1, 1875.

Coffman, David T., contractor and builder, was bom in Newark, Licking county, September 14, 1836; commenced to learn his trade with his father in 1851. His father, Joseph, came to Newark in 1807 ; is still living, and one of the pioneer settlers of this county. The subject of this sketch was married to Harriet A. Pease, December 19, 1858. They have eight children: Thomas P., bom October, 1859; William J., September 29, 1861; Elnora L., November 13, 1863; Harry J., June 25, 1866; Annie M., September 21, 1868 ; Charles R., May 4, 1871 ;

Mary S., August 25, 1873; Ella D., February 19, 1878. Mrs. Coffman's father was justice of the peace in McKean township, and was elected county treasurer, which office he held four years, and died at the age of fifty-two; her -mother is still living, and resides with Mr. Coffman. She was bom in 1819. Mr. Coffman remained in Newark, carrying on the business of building, until the spring of 1865, when he moved to Marshaltown, Marshall county, Iowa; remained there until spring of 1867, when he returned to Newark ; remained in Newark until the spring of 1872, and moved to Jefferson City, Missouri, remaining there until 1875, when he returned to Newark, where he now resides, on the corner of West Main and Pine streets, West Newark. He built the foundation for the Licking county court house.

Coffman, Thomas C., carpenter, was bom October 7, 1838, in Newark. His father, Michael Coffman, came to Licking county, with his parents, from Shenandoah county, Virginia, in 1809. He was bom in 1806. He remained in Newark, following the millwright and carpenter business, and was married to Sarah Raymer. There were five children, of whom three died. Hiram H. was born October 7, 1831, Thomas C., October 7, 1838. His wife died, and February 14, 1849, he married the second time, Sarah Strous, who was born October 30, 1806, and had one child, Abram, who was born April 17,1850, and died April, 1863. His mother is still living. The subject of this sketch at the age of thirteen went to Indiana, remained about a year, and returned to Newark; remained in Newark some time, and went to Indiana and learned his trade, came home and enlisted in the Third Ohio volunter infantry for three months. He was the third man that enlisted in company H. He was taken sick and sent to the hospital and mustered out of service at Columbus. He returned to Newark and re-enlisted in company G, Seventysixth Ohio volunteer infantry for three years; was mustered out after two years, came home, and soon after he went to Illinois. He was married to Susan M. Summers, July 27, 1863, and by this marriage had seven children. Genere F. was born June 17, 1864; Freddie E. was born March 14, 1867, died February 15, 1870; Wilbert H. was born February 26, 1871, died April 12, 1872; Ruby L. was born March 4, 1873, died in infancy; Jessie L was born June 20, 1874,; Arthur Z. G. F. was born September 11, 1877; George W., born February 22, 1880. Mr. Coffman remained in Dallas City, Illinois, until 1869, when he returned to Newark where he has since resided.

falo, New York, and afterwards moved to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, then to Zanesville, Ohio, at which place they are now living. His father, Henry C. F. Cook, was born in Germany, May 30, 1814. His mother, Hannah C. L., was born in Germany May 10, 1818. Mr. Cook, when about fourteen years of age, learned the cabinet-makers' trade, and has followed this ever since, and is now in the employ of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad company. In 1875 he came to Newark. He was married to Miss Ida Victora Sessor, daughter of the late Thomas F. Sessor, who was a soldier of the Seventy-sixth Ohio volunteer infantry, and died December 17, 1863, aged thirty-five years, from the effects of a soldier's life. His wife is yet living in Newark at the age of forty-six years. Mrs. Cook was bom in Newark, May 7, 1853. She has three brothers and one sister living in Newark.

Cooper, Mrs. Sarah, was born in Zanesville, Ohio, April 2, 1834. She is the daughter of Eliza Brown, now living in Zanesville. She was married to Daniel H. Cooper, November 19, 1857. He was born in Zanesville, July 23, 1833; by occupation he was a railroad engineer - this he learned when quite youug and followed up to the day of his death December 14, 1873; was killed by the explosion -of an engine at Columbus, Ohio. He was the father of four children: Harry C., born November 13, 1858; Fred, born December 29, i860; Nellie, bom April 20, 1867; Cora, born March 9, 1873. Mr. Cooper was a soldier in the late war, but on account of ill health was discharged after serving only one year. Mrs. Cooper is one of a family of four sisters and one brother, all living; her mother is also living in Zanesville, Ohio. Harry is time-keeper in the Baltimore & Ohio railroad office; Fred is learning the trade of machinist.

Conley, Richard, railroader, was bom in Newark, February 12, 1843. When eighteen years of age he enlisted in company E, Twelfth Ohio volunteer infantry, under Captain Legg, of Newark. He received his discharge July 18, 1864, after serving his term of enlistment - three years. After his discharge he served a term in the Ohio State prison as a guard. When his term expired at Columbus he returned to Newark and engaged in the railroad business. This occupation has consumed the greater part of his time ever since. He received severe injuries in 1869, occasioned by a colision of a train and engine. Mr. Conley was married July 7, 1868, to Margaret S. Horn, of Newark. They have three children: Mary, Christian M., and William M.

Conroy, James, engineer on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad at present, but has served in the same capacity on the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati & St Louis railroad, and has given entire satisfaction to both companies. He has been engaged as an engineer for twelve years. He was born in Brooklyn, New York, August 31, 1847, at 58 Sand street, and came to this county in 1869, settling in Newark, and has lived here since. He was married in 1872 to Margaret S. O'Hare. They have four children; three living and one dead ; two boys and two girls* He resides on Canal street

Couch, R. B., carpenter and joiner, was born in Linnville, April 15, 1847. He was the son of Eli Couch, of that place. His father died in 1849, in the fortieth year of his age, and his mother died in 1848 at the age of forty years. After his father's death he made his home with J. H. Hupp, with whom he lived until he was thirteen years of age; he then made his home with Jerry Grove, south of Newark. In 1876 he came to Newark. He was married to Ida B. Barber, October 23, 1878. She was born September 20, i860. They have one child, Jesse, born August 24, 1874. Mr. Couch worked on a farm until 1876; he then learned the carpenter trade and now takes contracts for build ing. He owns the steam saw mill on West Mill street.

Crane Brothers, No. 119, west side of public square, Newark, dealers in millinery, notions, and dress goods. This firm was established September 1, 1873, by F. A. and O. W. Crane, who have since been conducting the business with success. Their business room is eighteen feet wide by one hundred feet deep, which is stocked to repletion with a variety of attractions that in elegance defy the descriptive genius of the veriest fashion critic The notions and fancy goods department occupies about one-half of their extensive room, where is to be seen an array of goods simply immense. Hosiery, gloves, ties, sets, collars, cuffs, buttons, lace work, while black dress goods, black colored or fringed silks, fine kid gloves, zephyrs, and Germantown -wools seemed to be made a leading specialty. The other half is the millinery department, where are a large stock of hats, trimmed and untrimmed, neat, rich, elegant and beautiful. Bibbons of all kinds and colors. Delicately tinted tips, feathers, plumes, flowers, ornaments, and trimmings by the thousands of all kinds used in a millinery store. Miss F. Ball, a lady of wide experience and excellent taste has charge of the trimming department, conducted in a room thirty two by ten feet, where they employ from six to ten ladies. They also employ six efficient salesmen, who are always willing and ready to wait on and accommodate their many customers, while both members of the firm give the business their undivided attention.

Frederick. Maryland, August 127, 1837; went to Baltimore where he learned his trade. Was married to Margaret C. Creager, June 22, 1858. They lived in Baltimore until April 27, 1874, when they moved to Newark. By this marriage they had three children, Ida, bom May 17, 1859; Kate, January 18, 1861; James G., October 10, 1865. Since corning to Newark, Mr. Crum has followed railroading as locomotive engineer.

Curtis, General Samuel R. - Samuel R. Curtis lived in Licking county from 1807, the year of his birth, untili826, when he was admitted as a cadet to West Point military academy. He had been for some time a clerk in the office of the clerk of the court. In 1831, he graduated; was appointed a lieutenant, but resigned his position in the army in 1832, and studied law and practiced his profession for some time. He was chief engineer in the construction of the dams and public works of the Muskingum, from 183 ^ to 1840, and afterwards superintended public works in Iowa and Missouri, and served under General Taylor in the Mexican war as a regimental commander and also acted as military governor of a number of towns, in the valley of the Rio Grande. General Curtis was elected three times a member of Congress from Iowa ; but on the breaking out of the rebellion in 1861, he resigned his seat in Congress afld became a major general in the Union army, in which he served with credit and honor. General Curtis was also chosen a member of the Peace congress, and held other honorable positions. He died at Council Bluffs, Iowa, December 25, 1866 in the sixtieth year of his age.

Cunningham, Patrick, and others. - Patrick Cunningham was a Scotch-Irishman, bom in the Province of Ulster. When quite a young man he emigrated to Maryland, artd espousing the cause of his adopted country he served in the Revolutionary war. A few years before his death, having met with reverses in fortune, he succeeded in obtaining a pension from the United States government He was an educated gentleman of the old school, very reticent in his disposition, particularly neat in his dress and person, and from his persistence in wearing gloves, knee breeches, and buckels, was considered very eccentric by his pioneer neighbors. 'He was married three times, and died about the year 1835, and was, at the time of his death, supposed to be over eighty years of age. His first wife was killed by the upsetting of a sleigh. By her he had but two children, viz.: William and Thomas Cunningham. From his second marriage there were four children, viz: John, sr., Joseph, Ann and Polly. After the death of his second wife he again married, from which marriage there were no children.

Cunningham, William, son of Patrick and father of John, jr., married Elizabeth Moore and with his family, consisting of his wife and one child (John, jr.), removed from Carlisle, Pennsylvania, to Newark in 18 11. He enlisted in Captain Spencer's rifle company and served in the War of 1812; was present at Hull's surrender, and subsequently re-enlisting, died in camp at Franklinton, Franklin county, Ohio, in March, 1814. A letter written by this pioneer soldier upon a drum- head, by the light of a camp-fire, at the time of the surrender, and yet in the possession of his son, John Cunningham (who is now eighty years of age), is a fine specimen of composition and penmanship.

Cunningham, John, sr., a son of Patrick by his second wife ( nee Isabel Rainey), married Mary Elliott, a niece of Captain Elliott, of pioneer fame. He served as sheriff and auditor of Licking county, and justice of the peace for many years. Subsequently his son, John R., served a term as auditor. His family, consisting of his wife, two sons and two daughters and himself, have been dead for many years. The other children of Patrick Cunningham having migrated west, but little is known as to their history.

Cunningham, John, jr., son of William and grandson of Patrick, was born at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, September 16, 1800, and came to Newark with his parents in 1811, both of whom dying in 1814, he was left an orphan at the age of fourteen. Among the pioneer teachers to whom he was indd)ted for his early education were the names of Everson Blackburn, Amos H. Caffee, Rev. Thomas D. Baird, Hosmer Curtis and others, whose names grace the annals of the pioneer history of Newark and of Licking county. Among those with whom he attended school were Henry B. Curtis, of Mt Vernon, and Enoch Wilson, of Newark. A few others, perhaps, of Rev. Thomas D. Baird's scholars still survive. He learned the trade of tanner and currier, was for many years deputy sheriff and deputy auditor, and subsequently worked at his trade until ill health compelled him to give it up. April 2, 1826, he married Ann, daughter of David and Martha Lewis, and granddaughter of Deacon Theophilus Rees, who was bom in Newark October 28, 1803, in a cabin on a hill upon the site of which the Park house now stands. Ill health compelling him to give up business since 1855, these pioneers have resided with their only son, W. M. For thirtynine years, the annual enumeration of youths has been made by Mr. John Cunningham, and from

[The following sketch is from the pen of Brother Rob Morris, who has intimately known the subject of these remarks for a quarter of a century].

"Brother Cunningham, now going through his second terra of grand mastership, was bom at Newark, Ohio, March 9, 1829, and is just completing his semi-centennial. Few of the craft have filled their fifty years of life in a more honorable and yet quiet and unobtrusive manner. Amongst masons, outside of his own jurisdiction he is best known as the writer of reports on foreign correspondence, a position which more than all others best develops the wisdom, strength, and beauty in the man. Many a man has worthily filled the highest grades of office, and fiHed them well, who could not write a readable report on foreign correspondence. Of those due to the fecund and facile pen of Brother Cunningham, we find the best were composed for the grand lodge, but those for the grand chapter, grand council, and grand commandery, are well worthy of perusal. Were all gathered into a volume they would make a resume of the history of the order for the years that they cover.

" Brother Cunningham was initiated into Masonry in 1850, in Newark Lodge, No. 97, Newark, Ohio, and received the second and third grades the same year. Those of the chapter and council followed four years later ; the orders of the commandery in 1855. The almost interminable series of the Scotch rite occupied his time at intervals from 1856 to May 19, 1865, when he received the honorary grade of sovereign grand inspector general.

"The writer, in 1856, was the guest of Brothei Cunningham, then a merchant in Newark, and, over an interval of several days, enjoyed the confidential chat of the young and studious brother, whose well filled library, and well filled mind and easy tongue, afforded all that could be desired of such an occasion. He predicted then (an easy task), the brilliant career which awaited Brother Cunningham, and he esteems it a special favor, twenty-three years later, to act as historian of his own (fulfilled) prophecy. Let us see it in a synopsis :

"Worshipful Master, of Newark Lodge, No. 7; High Priest of Warren Chapter, No. 6, Thrice Illustrious of Bigelow Council, No. 7 (all at Newark); Thrice Potent of Enoch Lodge of Perfection (Columbus); Deputy Puissiant Grand Muster, 1863, and Puissiant Grand Master of the Grand Council R. and S. M., Ohio, 1864-^-6; District Grand Lecturer Grand Lodge, 1864-77; Grand Orator of Grand Lodge, 1874; Deputy Grand Master Grand Lodge of Ohio, 1875 and 1876. J-'inally he arrived at the highest honors known to Free Masonry, viz.; Grand Master of Ohio, in October, 1877, and re-elected in October, 1878. It is of record that his vote for the first term was seven-eighihs, and for the second term, nine-tenths of the eight hundred votes of the delegation. His first annual address, October, 1878, is a masterpiece and model for documents of the perspicacious yet forcible, brief yet comprehensive. In 1876 he had appealed from the decision of the Grand Master upon a constitutional question, which appeal was sustained by the Grand Lodge, and thus the question of recognizing the legality of colored Masons in Ohio was settled adversely to the advocates of recognition.

But Brother Cunningham is equally known as Masonic author and' compiler. In 1865 he wrote a Funeral Book of Free Masonry, giving a complete set of forms for lodge, church, and cemetery service, and full instructions for Sorrow Lodges. This is the first work ever published upon that plan, and subsequent writers have borrowed from it so freely as almost to forfeit its identity, yet the evidences exist.

manual put forth in the Northern jurisdiction; 'Cross* Masonic Text Book;' 'Cross' Masonic Chart;' ' Cross' Templars' Chart;' all revised and published in 1865, with handsome and appropriate illustrations, and taken very extensively with the trade. In 1874 he gave forth 'Craft Masonry, or Part First of the Ancient York Rite,' i2mo. pp. 210. (The second part, 'Capitnlar Masonry;' third part, 'Cryptic Masonry,' and fourth part, 'Templar Masonry,' are now in press.

"The writer has seen in Newark, what is rarely exhibited in these degenerate days, three generations of Masons in the Cunningham family, viz., the aged father, the subject of this sketch and his son. May the three limbs long stand unbroken, and afterwards be indissolubly united in the Celestial lodge above.

' ' Our sketch would be imperfect were not some references made to the secular life of Brother Cunningham. The book trade has occupied the greater part of his life. This was followed by the insurance business, as agent, and in 1877 he received the appointment as statistician to the Ohio department of State, to which laborious charge he was reappointed in 1879. The volume of Ohio statistics issued for 1877, which has received commendatory remarks everywhere, was of his compilation. A similar volume for 1878 is in press. As a handled' literary merit he received the grade of magistcr art turn

"But my space is exhausted. Were a page of 'the Masonic newspaper * left for friendship, a eulogy would follow, both in prose and verse, that would demonstrate how much we aU love William M. Cunningham who know him."'

Sanford Cunningham, son of William M., died November 8, 1880, of consumption. He was an only child and much beloved. One of Newark's papers thus speaks of him :

"Few young men were more generally or more justly respected and beloved than was Sanford Cunningham, and the memory of his broken, and yet in a true sense, complete life, will cling around his early tomb with a sweet fragrance. He wts a young man of unusual energy, ability, and ambition, and had he been endowed with a physical constitution in proportion to his mentality, he would have accomplished that distinguished career in life, of which his energy and ability gave such abundant promise. The heroism with which he battled for years with the insidious disease that was sapping his life was greater than the heroism of battle-fields, and yet be bore his sufferings w th a patience and a resignation born of a calm, serene faith that never failed him. Chords of sympathy, deep and heartfelt, thrill unbidden for the beieaved parents, and yet, only the God of all consolation can comfort such sorrow."

Carson, Nancy. - Nancy Carson was long a well known citizen of Newark, where she died November 25, 1872, in the seventy-ninth year of her age. She was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, May 17, 1794, and came with her father's family to Licking county in 1816. She was a most excellent pioneer, well adapted to life on the frontiers; of rare industry, conscientiousness, and devotion to religious duties. Nancy Carson became a member of the Presbyterian church of Newark, November 13, 1816, during the ministry of Rev.

Dr. Thomas D. Baird, and continued her membership there until her death, a period of fifty-six years, and always, while health permitted, attended its ministrations.

Copley, Joseph. - He was born in Madison township, January 16, 1845; he is the son of John and Mary Copley. Mr. Copley was born December 25, 1798, in Yorkshire, England; he came to J Licking county in 1842, and located in Madia* | township; he was married January 18, 1843; ^is first occupation was fanning; he afterwards moved to Perry county and engaged in the woollen manufacturing business ; moved back September 1, 1862, and died October n, 1864. His wife was born in Madison township, March 15, 1810. She is living with her son in Union township; they are the parents of only one child, the subject of this sketch. He was married May 29, 1870, to Miss Viola Hancock, daughter of Nathan Hancock, Harrison township. She was born in Union township, March 8, 1851; they are the parents of Mary E., bom August. 11, 1871; John W., who died August 8, 1873, age* five months; George, who died February 2, 1877, aged four years; Mattie, who died January 21, 1877, agedveighteen months, and Lucy Perl, who was born November 11, 1878. Joseph Copley is a farmer; has taught school during the winter since 1864.

Colville, J. H., farmer, post office, Chatham. He was born August 8, 1830, near St. Louisville, Licking county. The following April his parents moved to Newark, where they lived till their death in May, 1848. His father, mother and brother died within a few days of each other, with a disease that was then known as erysipelas fever. The entire family was afflicted. It was considered contagious and very dangerous, and, at the time of his parents' death, none of the neighbors or friends would come to the house but one uncle. An aunt did the baking and codking for the family, and would take it as far as the door and leave it. His parents were buried, but the funeral service was not held until the following June. His father was one of nine children. His grandfather, father and two uncles served in the War of 1812; his grandfather was major, his father lieutenant, his uncle Samuel was captain, and his uncle James a lieutenant. The youngest uncle, at the age of sixty years, enlisted and served in the late civil war, from Oskaloosa, Iowa. His father was born in Shenandoah county, Virginia, in 1788, and came to Licking county in 1826. His uncle James was eightythree when he died. Samuel was eighty-eight, and his uncle John is past eighty, and is living in Iowa. The subject of this sketch is one of nine children, and is the only one at present living. At his father's death his oldest brother returned to the farm, having been absent, and the children remained together, and worked the place in common until one of his sisters' marriage, when he "and his brother-in-law took the place and worked it together. He remained there about three years, when the farm was sold, and the proceeds divided among the heirs. He married Sophia Bline August 24, 1854. He rented the old homestead of the party that purchased it, and lived there three years, when he moved to a farm near the "Goose Pond," lived there eight years, when he bought the farm near Chatham, where he now resides. Mr. and Mrs. Colville have nine children: William, born January 3, 1856; Jacob B., born April 26, 1858; Flora, bom July 18, 1859, married to Frank

B. Preston, January 30, 1879, and lives in Chatham; Jennie, born April 14, 1865; Mary Bell, born March 29, 1868; Rachel Ann, born January 8, 1871; Ella, bom September 17, 1875; J. H. Bastine, born April 16, 1876; Merlie, born February 14, 1879. Mr. Colville, besides his farming, makes a specialty of raising fine wool sheep. At present he has a fine flock of blooded Merino sheep.

C. J. Huffman, of Tuscarawas county, in 1867. They have had three children:- Laura Nellie, aged twelve; Lillian Leonia, ten; Sadie Vioria, nine. Mr. Cooksey lives near Denman's cross roads, and is a rising young farmer. He has been township clerk for several years, and the office never was in better hands. His father, John Cooksey, was born in Virginia in 1800, and is living in this township. His mother was also a native of Virginia. Cooksey post office was named in honor of his father in 1880.

Crawford, James M., farmer, post office, Perryton, was born in Coshocton county in 1840, and came to this county in 1866; was married to Miss Sarah E. Beckham, of this county, in 1861; they have had seven children : Ella J. (deceased); Ida

(deceased); Eva, fifteen; infant; Anna, twelve; Carl, ten; Stella, two. J. M.'s father was born in Ireland -in 1806 and died in 1850; his mother was bom in Virginia in 1807, and has lived in Coshocton county seventy-two years; his mother's maiden name was Rebecca J. McCann. J. M. Crawford was elected justice of the peace in 1867, and held the office twelve consecutive years; has been trustee, and has held other offices of trust in this township; owns three hundred and sixty-three acres of good land and one of the nicest houses in the township; he is the eldest of four living brothers, all over six feet in height, and he has never been sick a day in his life.

Cullison, Z. B., physician, was born in Coshocton county, Ohio, June 7, 1837. He has been practicing medicine in this county eighteen years, moving to Elizabethtown in 1863; he graduated at Jefferson Medical college, Cincinnati, m 1857; practiced a short time in Mansfield before the war, in which he took an active part, going out in company

E, Forty-third Ohio volunteer infantry. Since locating here he has given his entire attention to the practice of his profession, and has built up an extensive practice. He was married in 1862 to Miss Rebecca Ann Pigman, of Coshocton county; they have had nine children ; two deceased. He and his wife's parents came from Maryland, and are of English descent; their grandfathers were among the first Methodist preachers in Ohio, and he and his wife are children of Methodist preachers.

Clemons, Mrs. E. S., was born in Granville township June 12, 1837. She attended school at Granville about four or five years, and began teaching school when she was sixteen years of age. She was married to William H. Clemons January 15, 1857, by Rev. W. S. Burton, and emigrated to Washington, Washington county, Iowa, in March of same year, whA*e they engaged in shipping cattle; also purchased a farm of eighty acres. They remained in Iowa about three years, and then returned to Granville township and purchased the old Clemons homestead. They have five children: Bell Rose, bom July 8, 1861 ; Frederick Levi, born March 23, 1865; Charles C., born June 28, 1869; Johnnie Leclaire, bom April 2, 1871; MaudS., August 6, 1873. Levi and Sophronia Rose, parents of the subject of this sketch, were pioneers of Granville township. The former was a son of Levi and Polly Rose, who were among the first settlers of Granville, having moved there in 1805, and was one of the active, energetic families of the county. Levi Rose died in Granville, May 16, 1879. Mrs. E. S. Clemons is now living in Alexandria maintaining her family.

Cameron, George, merchant tailor, Utica. He was born in County Antrim, Ireland, in 1840, and came to America in 1854. He went to work in a* boot and shoe store at No. 174 on the Bowery, New York city ; remained there a short time, then went to Patterson, New Jersey, where he remained for a short time and then returned to the old country. After he came to America the second time he apprenticed himself to a merchant tailor in New York State, and served his time, and in 1863 went to Cleveland, Ohio. He worked there about a year, when trade slacked up and he went from there to Sandusky. Trade was better there, for the reason that the rebel officers imprisoned on Johnson's Island, when exchanged, had work done. He then went to Terre Haute, Indiana, and served a second apprenticeship, and on the fifteenth of April, 1865, he left there and went to Kansas City, Missouri After travelling about the country fora long time he came to Licking county, and cut for H. B. Green, of Granville, and then went to

Michigan. He returned to Licking county and | started business for himself in Utica. He was married to Mary Burns - a native of Ireland - of Genesee county, New York. Her parents came to this country when she was very small. She was born in 1 840. Since coming to Utica he purchased property on Mechanics street, where he resides, carrying on his business. He built an addition to tbe house he lives in, and has just completed a small brick house on the same street. He is ready at all times to cut or make a suit of clothes for alL

Campbell John R., farmer, post office, Utica. He was born March 9, 1815, in Washington township. His parents moved here in 1809, from Pennsylvania. They settled on the farm in the woods now owned by John Coad. There were of the family Julia, Joseph, Jane, John, Eliza, Mary, Sarah and Samantha, of whom four are living. He remained at home with his parents until their death. He then purchased, with his brother James, the homestead. His father died June 23, 1844,2nd his mother July 1, 1846. He was married to Louisa Hughes June 3, 1851. She was bom November 17, 1820, and is the daughter of Jonathan Hughes and granddaughter of Captain Elias Hughes. After their marriage they remained on this place until 1859, when he sold to John Coad and bought the farm they now live on. They have had three children. The first died in infancy. Romilla 0. was born April 20, 1854, and died May 24, 1855. George S. was born March 24, 1862, and lives at home.

Cannon, Jacob, .farmer, post office, Utica. He was born in Clay township, Knox county, in 1835. His parents were from Pennsylvania. His father died in 1859, fifty-five years old; his mother in 1878, at the age of sixty-seven. They lived in Knox county about twenty-five years. There were four boys and five girls of the family. Jacob remained at home until he was twenty-one years old and then went to Illinois ; returned to Ohio and was married to Melinda Painter, of Licking county, in 1855. She was born June 12, 1836. Theyhad eleven children, of whom are living, Amanda, Ellen, Mary, Roselia, James M., Ida May, Anzonia, Ethel and Grace.

Mr. Cannon enlisted in the Seventy-sixth regiment, company D, Ohio volunteer infantry, Captain Kibler, in November, 1861, and served three years. He was discharged a the expiration erf bis term ; was in the campaign of the Southwest under Grant and Sherman; took part in the battles at Fort Donelson, Shiloh, skirmished on the advance to Memphis, had three days' fight at Haynek Bluff, was in front of Vicksburg; part of tbe vmf was engaged at Port Gibson and the balance 0£ j tured Jackson. Rebel General Churchill fc&biV jfl to Vicksburg, and the Seventy-sixth attacked Arkansas Post in the rear, and was the first regiment that entered the fortificatioa This command was led by CoL William B. Woods, who took part in the battle at Lookout Mountain and Mission Ridge. His regiment was on the right. After this they fought at Ringgold. They were cut off at this fight and were placed in Joe Hooker's command. After this they went into winter quarters at Paint Rock, Alabama. At this time the entire command reenlisted and came home on a furlough in 1864. After coming home Mr. Cannon was taken sick, and on being sworn in was rejected on account of disease contracted in the war. He was sick three years, and has never been entirely well since. Mr. Cannon is at present an expert in shearing sheep, and during that season shears more than any one man in his neighborhood. He makes a specialty of doctoring sheep. He has invented an attachment to sheep shears which makes the work more rapid and easy, and prevents injuring the sheep.

Conard, Joseph (deceased), was born in Loudoun county, Virginia, and came to Licking valley in 1805. In 1808 he purchased a farm near the present village of Utica, where he lived and died, his death occurring February 14, 1873, at the ripe age of eighty-eight years.

Denty, John, farmer, born in Fairfax county, Virginia, in 1807, came to this county with his father in 1831. William Denty died in 1850, and his wife, Elizabeth, died in 1861. John Denty married, in 1825, Miss Maria Barber, of Anne Arundel county, Maryland. They were the parents of three children. Amanda, married to William Weiant, of this county, but now living in Kansas; Martha, married to David Weiant, brother of William. Martha died Marchs, 1880. John W. married Miss M. Moore, daughter of T. H. Moore, of this county. John W. and wife are the parents of four children, three living and one, Flora May, dead. Those living are George, born in 1864; Warren, born in 1866, and Lavina, bom in 1872. J. W. D£nty lives on the old homestead.

Douglass, John, farmer, born in 1822, in Morris county, New Jersey, came to this county in 1842. He was married, in 1846, to Miss Louisa A. Green, daughter of Robert A. Green, of this county. She was bom in 1830, in this county. They are the parents of ten children, nine of whom are living; one, Albert B., is dead. He died March 7, 1871. Mr. Douglass has a fine farm in this township besides a fine town property in Utica.

to Iowa in 1854; lived in Iowa farming and working at his trade six years; went to Colorado for a year and came back to this county in 1861, has worked at his trade since coming back. In 1845 he married Miss Matilda Scribner, of this county. Miss Scribner was born in 1829; she came to this county with her parents in 1836.

Duke, Salathiel Allen, of Baxter, Drew county, Arkansas, was born in Bennington township, near Homer, Licking county, January 14, 1828. His parents were natives of Virginia; David Duke, his father, being a child of six years when his father, John Duke, moved from near Wheeling, Virginia, and settled near Zanesville, Ohio. This was about 1802. His mothers maiden name was Sarah Elizabeth Conard, whose father, Nathan Conard, was among the first settlers near Utica about the same time. This county was then inhabited by Indians; schools were almost unknown, and consequently the parents of Mr. S. A. Duke received but little education but endeavored to make up the loss by educating their children, and were always foremost in all educational (interests in their neighborhood. In religion, his father was Calvinistic, his mother Quaker, but both became Methodists. In politics his father belonged to the Democratic party, and always went with his party. * The son, however, was independent, thought for himself, and dates his opposition to the Democratic party from the repeal of the Missouri compromise. When the war broke out, Mr. Duke went to Helena, Arkansas, under authority of General Curtis, to organize a regiment of colored troops. A delay occurring, by reason of a change of department commanders, Mr. Duke was employed in finding homes in St. Louis for the thousands of contrabands that were then entering that city from the South. For this work he neither asked nor received any compensation. In the spring of 1863 he went to Helena, and there, under the direction of General Prentice, began the organization of a colored regiment. His work here was, however, interrupted, and he accompanied Adjutant General Lorenzo Thomas, who was then in the west for the purpose of looking after the interests of the colored people, down the Mississipi river; a plan having been devised for placing the contrabands upon abandoned plantations. Mr. Duke probably inaugurated the first successful efforts in this direction ; and was placed in charge of what was known as the " Out-post Plantation," two miles in rear of Goodrich's Landing, Louisiana. Prior to taking charge of this plantation, it was through his instrumentality that four hundred bales of cotton were taken out of the clutches of thieves and delivered to the Government. After disposing of the abandoned cotton on his plantation, Mr. Duke, after paying all expenses out of the proceeds, was enabled to turn over to the Government sixty thousand dollars, which would have been lost or stolen but for his occupation of the plantation. He also started the first colored school m that section, being within the sound of Grant's cannon, at Vicksburgh, and was taught by a freed-woman. When the planting season ended, he gathered the negroes together in a fort the troops having departed from Goodrich's Landing, where a defence could be made in case of attack. Into this fort were collected during the winter some five thousand contrabands with all their possessions, to await, in the shelter of the fort, another planting season. The small-pox broke out among them, and Mr. Duke caused the erection of a hospital for the patients, near the gate of the fort, which fact probably prevented a rebel attack. In the fall of 1865, Mr. Duke settled in Arkansas, and still continues a resident of that State. In 1868, he was elected a member of the house, and in 1872 a member of the senate of Arkansas, on the Republican ticket. It was at this time that the well known trouble occurred between Baxter, the legally elected Republican governor, and Brooks, who contested his seat. A speck of war appeared in Arkansas, but Grant put his heavy hand on the contending parties, and the war was over. The Republican party was, however, "deposed and retired from power. Since that time, Mr. Duke has devoted his energies to building up his neighborhood and bettering his condition. He now owns about three thousand acres of land, five hundred acres of which is under cultivation, and all but sixty acres of this has been cleaned in the last ten years. In 1849, Duke married Ruth E. Barnes, daughter of George Barnes and granddaughter of Charles Barnes, a pioneer of the county who emigrated from Frederick county, Virginia, in 1811, having rendered military service under Lord Dunmore. Her mother was the daughter of another pioneer family named Bacon.

Dailey, William, hotel keeper, born in Warren county, New Jersey, in 1825, came to Urbana, Ohio, in 1835; he was married in 1852 to Miss Sarah A. Brinnon, of Urbana, Ohio. She was born in 1823, *n Virginia. They came to Homer in 1850. They have no children of their ow n, but have an adopted daughter, who is married to Mr. William Green, who is now a student in the medical college in Columbus. Mr. Dailey enjoys all the custom of Homer, being a man who is courteous to travellers and sets a good table.

Davis, Sarah. - Mrs. Davis was a daughter of Captain Elias Hughes, Licking's pioneer settler of 1798, and was one of his twelve children who then composed his family. She was born in western

Virginia in 1790, and died in Burlington township December 12, 1869, in the eightieth year of her age. Sarah Hughes married Samuel Davis in 1808, and for some time after that event lived in Newark, then a village of about two hundred inhabitants. Mrs. Davis was pre-eminently one of the pioneer women of Licking county, having lived within its limits seventy-one years. She had been for forty years a member of the Christian church.

Dusthimer, Isaiah. - Mr. Dusthimer has been a life-long practical farmer, and is the descendant of one of the early settlers of this county. His grandfather and family came here from Loudoun county, Virginia, when his father, Anthony, was a small boy, and built his log cabin in the midst of an unbroken growth of timber. His father united in marriage with Rebecca Hoskinson, and Isaiah was their first child, born October 29, 1818. He was married March 16, 1848, to Mary Brady, the daughter of Levi Brady, bom September 1, 1792, and Mary Brown, born June 15, 1794, a Pennsvf vanian by birth. Mrs. Dusthimer wras bom March 18, 1825. Their children are: Elizabeth Jane, wife of Bourbon Coe, of Hopewell township; James M., John W., and Harvey E. Rebecca Ellen, twin sister to Harvey, died in infancy.

Davis, David E., tailor, was born in Wales June 6, 1815. He is a tailor by trade, and has made tailoring his principal vocation through life. In 1831 he emigrated to America, and located in New York, where he worked at his trade about three years. In 1834 he commenced travelling and working at his trade as journeyman, in different towns, for one year. In 1835 he came to Ohio, and lived in Newark about eight months. In the spring of 1836, he came to Granville township, and located in the Welsh Hills settlement, in the northeast corner of the township. October 22, 1836, he married Miss Isabella, daughter of Deacon William Williams. Miss Williams was bom in Wales February 29, 1812, and migrated to this county with her parents in 1S20. Mr. and Mrs. Davis settled in Granville township, where he engaged in carrying on a tailor shop, which business he has since been conducting, and is belter known in the neighborhood by tailor Davis than bv his right name. In 1847 he purchased and moved on the farm in the northeastern part of Granville township, where he now resides, and has since that time been carrying on the business of farming in connection with his trade. His companion deceased January 22, 1877. They reared a family four children : Hannah, Ariadna, William H. and Samuel A. All are yet living, married, and hm 1 families. His son, Samuel A., served about t*|

Dennis, John, deceased, was born in Ireland 1773. He served four years in the Tyrone militia, and was discharged July, 1797. >out 1809 he married Miss Eleanor Dennis, rn in Ireland in 1786. They reared a family of ' ht children: Hugh, Francis, John, James, illiara, Ann, Eleanor and Margaret In 1839 o of the sons, Francis and John, emigrated to nerica, and located in this county. Francis eng*d in farming, which business he has since folded. John was a blacksmith by trade, and has ide blacksmithing his principal vocation. In -42 Mr. Dennis, with his wife and the remaining : children, emigrated to America, and located in . Albans township in this county; remained two years; then in 1844 they moved on the rm in the northwest corner of Harrison township, >w owned by their son, Francis Dennis, where ey passed the remainder of their days. He died jiuary 2, 1851. His companion survived him itil November 9, 1870. Two of the children are >w deceased : Hugh and Ann. William left home 1844 or % and has not been heard of since, he remaining five children - three sons and two lughters are now living on the home farm in larrison township.

Davidson, G. W., farmer, was born in 1849, in nox county, and came to this county in 1851, ith his father's family, where he has resided ever nee. He was married to Miss E. Graham, of icking county, in 1869. They are the parents of vo children, aged respectively two and eight years, le has a fine farm of one hundred and forty-seven eres, and is an enterprising and highly respected oung farmer

Durfey, Mrs. A C. - She was born in Granville, lassachusetts, September 20, 1800. At the age f five years she came with her father's (Hiram lose) family to Granville, Ohio. Her father's famy was one of the first seven families that came to iranville. Three years after coming to Granville ie purchased one hundred acres of land three niles west of Granville, where he resided until his leath, some twenty-five years ago, in the eightylinth year of his age. Mrs. Darfey was married o A. C. Durfey July 15, 1819. She became the of two children, viz: Hiram L. and Adeline, low the wife of Julius Cornell. Mr. A C. Durfey was >orn in Midlebury, New York, July 13, 1796. He :ame to Hartford at the age of twenty-two years, valking all the way. In his early days he taught school, and later followed farming. He was a soldier in the War of 1812. His widow draws a pension of eight dollars per month because of his serving in the war. Mr. Durfey was a man of influence in local affairs.

DeCrow, Samuel G., farmer and stock grower, New Way, was born in Lincolnville, Waldo county, Maine, April 13, 1816. He emigrated to Ohio October, 1834. He married Sarah E. Woodworth August 22, 1839; she was bom November 30, 1*830, in Sunbury township, Delaware county. They have five children, as follows: Warren, born February 17, 1841; Herbert, bom December 2, 1846; Emma, born October 9, 1848; Rosa, born April 19, 1852; Hattie J., born October 23, 186 r. Warren married Hattie C. Stone, December 7, 1865, and lives in Quincy, Illinois; his business is that of a dentist. Herbert married Lucy A. Holmes, Tune 30, 1874, and practices medicine at Gabon, Crawford county, Ohio. John DeCrow, father of Samuel, was born in Marshfield, Massachusetts, August 7, 1773, emigrated to Ohio Octobyr, 1836, he died October 30, 1847. His wife, Katy K. Park, was born April 28, 1782, and died May 18, 1856. Nathan Woodworth, father of Mrs. DeCrow, was born September 6, 1770, and emigrated to Ohio about 1818, and died March 12, 1848. His wife, Cynthia Culver, was born in Connecticut, September 30, 1780, and died July 6, 1862.

Duke, David, carpenter and farmer, was born May 27, 1797,^1 Brooke county, Virginia, where he remained until he was about six years of age. His parents, John and Catharine Duke, emigrated to Ohio in 1803, locating on the Tuscarawas river, about ten miles above Coshocton ; they remained there only one year, when they came to Licking county, where he has resided ever since 1804. He married Martha Larue, January 18, 1821, and had three children. The only living child by the first marriage, Harvey L., was born May 27, 1823. Martha Duke died April 20, 1825. David married, for his second wife, Sarah Conard, March 1, 1827; she was born in Knox county, Ohio, December 24, 1805, and died September 20, 1877. They had nine children, eight of whom are living: Salathiel A., bom January 14, 1828; John Crawford, born May 3, 1830; Nathan W., born December 11, 1832; Jonah Boman, born August 15, 1835.; David Milton, born May 28, 1838; Sarah Elizabeth, bom December 2, 1840; William Benton, born February 21, 1843; Joseph Wesley was born October 4, 1845 and died October 9, 1855; Lewis Cass was t>orn May 18, 1848. He is the only child remaining at home with his aged father. The subject of this sketch says there were but fifteen voters in

Licking county when he first came, and he can mention the names of most of them. He also says that he could speak the Indian tongue as fluently as he now speaks the English. John Duke, father of David, now of Liberty township, was first justice of the peace of Granville township.

Dull, Joseph. - Mr. Dull was born February 9, 1804, in Somerset county, Pennsylvania ; was the son of John and Hannah Dull. March 29, 1827, he gave his hand in marriage to Miss Elizabeth Dumbauld, who has since blessed his fireside with nine children, and who still shares with him the trials and joys of life. Mrs. Dull was born October 30, 1807, and is also a native of Pennsylvania. Eight of their children are still living, and seven of them married, having homes of their own, and prosperous. Below we give children's names: Phebe, born January 7, 1829; Christena, bom June 3, 1831; Joannah, born August 1, 1833; Uriah, born November 15, 1835; Nancy, born June 17, 1838; John, born March 23, 1841; Elias, N born October 10, 1843. Charlotte and Lufenia' Jane, the last, having died August 18, 1856, being about^eight years of age. Mr. Dull has held from time to time some of the higher positions of trust in his township. Is Republican in politics, and during the late war was a staunch supporter of the Union cause. For his known fidelity was appointed "enrolling officer" for his own and Bennington townships. Met threatening opposition, but braved all fearlessly, performing faithfully his duties, and to the satisfaction of higher authorities. He is yet vigorous for one who has passed 4is "three score and ten." He still guards, with unabated vigilance, private and public interests. In comforts and pleasures to himself and family, he enjoys the profits from the accumulations of toil. He enjoys the love of his family, and the high regard of a large circle of friends. He has been a resident of this township since 1838.

Davisson, Catharine, Jacktown post office, was born February 4, 1816, in Muskingum county. She was the daughter of William and Elizabeth Bisant; her parents were of Shenandoah county, Virginia, and came to Muskingum county in 1802. William Bisant located on the site of Zanesville, there being but few cabins at that place. He was the first man that planted apple trees in that county. He afterwards took up land four miles from Zanesville and cleared it up and improved it. When he first came to Muskingum county he had but fifty cents, and when he died he was supposed to be worth about one hundred thousand dollars. At one time they were the only family that had a coffee mill in the neighborhood. It was used by the neighbors in turns. William Bisant was the father of twebe children; five are yet living. William died at the age of seventy-one. Mrs. Bisant died at the age of ninety-five years; they both died on the him where they first located, in Muskingum county. Catharine Davisson, the subject of this sketch, was married June 15, 1834, to Dr. Walter W. Davisson, of Muskingum county. Results of this marriage, five children: Louisa was born August 12, 1835, was married to John Cherry, of Fairfield county; they had eight children. Eunice was bora August 11, 1836, was married to William Workman, of Muskingum county; they had six children. William Franklin was born April 3, 1838, was married to Hellen R. Linn, of this county; they have seven girls. Frank is station agent for the Baltimore & Ohio railroad at the National Pike, west of Jacksontown, he also is a grain dealer in company with Oliver Davis; he is a very energetic, obliging business man and is very highly esteemed by all his acquaintances. Elizabeth was born June 16, 1841; she was married to Oliver Davis, of this county, who is in company with Frank Davisson at Pike station, Mrs. Catharine Davisson's grandfather was killed in the battle of Brandywine. Her grandfather on her mother's side was a Hessian but deserted his countrymen. He came over to the Continental army, and after the war followed butchering. Mrs. Davisson is now living with | her only son, Frank, and is in her sixty-fifth year, is a very intelligent old lady and has the highest | respect of her acquaintances. She has been a devoted member of the Methodist Episcopal church for over twenty-two years.

DeMoss, James, was born in Licking county May 2, 1825, being the son of Job and Elizabeth DeMoss, who came to this county in an early day James was married to Lucinda Beatty, of the I county. They had three children, two are deceased; William Perry is single and lives with his father. Mrs. DeMoss died in 1853. Mr. DeMo* was married again to Leah George, of this count® December 11, 1855; results of this marriage, si children: George W., Mary Amelia, Sevila EJ Rachel A., Nancy R., and Sarah C Three am married and three are single and living at honrtl Mrs. Leah DeMoss is the daughter of Thomas aoi Mary Ann George. Thomas came to this count! in 1821, when thirteen years of age, making dm journey on foot with his parents and nine otb! children, the mother carrying the youngest chi! in her arms. They started from Roddngh*! county, Virginia, in company with twenty-oJ others; all came on foot, only having two homll carry their baggage. They located on the LidM river, where they all lived and died. This pH was known as the Morgan colony. Stephen GeH

>ickerson, Thomas, was bom in Bowling Green nship May 25, 1808; son of Jolfn and Eliza- \ Dickerson, who came to Licking county in 5. Thomas farmed till he was eighteen year's then worked at stone cutting about forty-five rs ; was married to Nancy Piels, of this county; ilts of this marriage, seven children: John, liam, Daniel, Eliza Jane, James and Rozella. n is single and lives at Newark ; William mar- L Frances Tippet, of Illinois, and is a stockier; Daniel married Eliza Emery, of Bowling :en township, and is a farmer; Eliza Jane was rried to Logan Osburn, of Licking county, and d March 1, 1876; James is single and a farmer; zella died August, 1870. Mrs. Dickerson died vember 13, 1835. Mr. Dickerson was cap- 1 of the Jackson riflemen for seven years; :d in Bowling Green sixty-two years; was mari a second time to Anna Vanhorn, of Licking mty, October 9, 1859. John Dickerson was in War of 1812, under General Beall, and came Licking county when there were but few huts Zanesville. Mr. Dickerson has been a devoted mber of the Methodist Episcopal church for ^r fifty-three years, and assisted in building the nt Ridge, Brown ville and Linnville churches.

Davidson, William, farmer, was born in Musk- ;um county, February 8, 1817; moved to Hansr, Licking county, when one year old ; he is i son of Richard Davidson, deceased ; he was irried to Priscilla Vail, of Meigs county, Ohio, e is the oldest of the family of Mr. Vail; they 5 the parents of four children living: William , Patience E., Andrew O., Eliza C., living; lankful M. died September 15, 1861; Sarah M. jd February 18, 1872. Mrs. Davidson was rn July 17, 1818. Master J. W. Con was m February 5, 1872; he is the grandson of r. Davidson, and has been living with him ever ice he was five days old.

Dudgeon, William, merchant and farmer, was >rn in Knox county, Ohio, February 18, 1822. om the age of fifteen he labored on a farm until s marriage December 18, 1845; married Sarah . Allbaugh, daughter of Peter and Sarah J. llbaugh. She was bom September 22, 1822. 1 1847 he moved to Madison township in this >unty, where he continued farming, occasionally orking at the carpenter trade. In 1863 he opened small store at Wilkins* comers, where he did isiness two years, then purchasing a piece of land ear, he erected a large dwelling house and storeroom. He is doing a paying business; has been elected assessor seven terms. Their children are: Franklin B., bom October 6, 1856; Laura J., born August 27, 1859; Ora M., born January 24, 1863; and John W., bom December 7, 1864.

Devenney, John P., a farmer and stock raiser, was born March 11, 1808, in Orange county, Virginia. He was the son of Cornelius and Elizabeth Devenney, who came to this county in 1831, and located in McKean township. Their family consisted of five children - Mary, David, Eliza, Harriet and John P. Two are deceased - Mary and David. Cornelius Devenny died in 1850, aged eighty-two years. Elizabeth, his wife, died in 1852, aged eighty-two years. John P. was married March 20, 1834, to D. B. Sheldon, of this county, who was born August 27, 1809, in Hampshire county, Massachusetts. They had four children. Warren C., born August 19, 1837, in McKean township, was married February 14, 1867, to Carrie Little, of this county; is a farmer, and lives in McKean township. Emma E., born May 13, 1841, was married June, 1864, to John Robinson, of Harrison county, a hardware merchant at that time, and is now living in Granville township, and is a farmer. Helen was born September 23, 1843; is single, and lives at home. Samuel S., born January 23, 1846, also lives at home and is a farmer. John P. Devenney located on the farm where he now lives in 1842, and has lived there ever since. He is a dealer in, and breeder of, fine blooded stock, including fine wool sheep, having some of the finest blooded stock in the countv. He has voted the Republican ticket since the repeal of the Missouri compromise. They are a well-to-do family, and are highly esteemed by all who know them.