Washington Township (part 3 of 6)

Cavut, JoHy. - He was born at Dillmon's Falls, Muskingum, county, Ohio, June 25, 1836. He came to Newark in 1854. He was married to Melvina Walker October 16, 1862; had two children, one of whom died in infancy. Joseph Benjamin 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 1877. He then engaged in teaming, which is his present occupation; has a comfortable little home on Seyenth street in Newark. He has a sister, Valsory Eastman, living in Hocking county; Clara A., in Hocking county; a brother Henry, living in Mlinots. His father died in the seventy-second year of his age. 7

CuAmMpeErs, Dr. W. B., surgeon-dentist, Clinton street, two doors from Locust. Dr. Chambers was born in Marshall county, western Virginia. He received his preparatory education in the district schools of Marshall and Ohio counties, after which he attended an academy at Alexandria, Washington county, Pennsylvania, and took a course at the Pennsylvania college, Philadelphia. In 1858 he commenced reading with Alexander Reed, M. D., physician and surgeon, also a practitioner of dental surgery, of West Virginia. In 1865 he came to Newark and entered upon the practice of the dental profession, to which he devoted his entire attention unti] 1872, when he returned to Philadelphia and completed his dental studies at the Pennsylvania college of dental surgery, from which he graduated in 1873. On his return he purchased a lot at his present location, on which he has erected a handsome brick residence, which he has furnished and fitted up with heating, gas and water fixtures of the most modern design and is unexcelled in the city. His office is also of brick, one story high and neat design, in which he has an elegant suite of rooms consisting of a reception room eighteen by twelve and a half feet, which is fitted up with good taste and has everything necessary for the comfort and entertainment of waiting patients, an operating room fourteen by ten feet which he has furnished with all the modern facilities and appliences fur the successful operation of his profession, by means of which the usual excruciating operations of dentistry are made comparatively pieasant; a private office and consulting room twelve by twelve feet, a laboratory eighteen by twelve feet which is furnished with everything necessary for the operating of mechanical dentistry, also a commodious room eighteen by ten feet for the chemical and metalurgical department. Dr. Chambers has spared no expense to secure everything adopted in the profession. In the operating department he uses only the safest and purest and most effective esthetics, and administers almost painless treatment. He was married March 31, 1870, to Miss Augusta Smucker, youngest daughter of Honorable Isaac Smucker of this city.

CHAMBERLAIN, Mrs. Mary A., was born in Philadelphia Pennsylvania, August 16, 1816. About the age of nine years she moved, with her father, to Cleveland, Ohio. Her father, Samuel Murdock, was a farmer by occupation, and died in Licking county, Iowa, at the age of ninety years. She was married to Mr. Austin Chamberlain, of Cleveland, Ohio, July 14, 1838, and was the mother of three children, all dead. Mr. Chamberlain, in early life, followed boating ; after moving to Newark, in 1838, he followed carpentering until he died in 1870, aged sixty-one years. Mrs. Chamberlain

Cnasr, Gro. W., photographer. Mr. Chase was born in Oswego, New York, March 15, 1839, and was educated at Nunda, New-York. Hecame 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 Newark 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, born November 3, 1846; Emma, born November 26, 1852. They are all married but Katy, who lives with her mother.

Ciark, 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 Alleghanies 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 1n 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 born in Granville township July r1, 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 aselect 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 Mew York Tribune and the National Era. The library of the family was rather limited, and confined chiefly to the style of books of which '"Baxter's Saints' Rest," 'Pilgrims' Prooress," "Hervey's Meditations among the Tombs," and 'Allein's Call to Unconverted Sinners" were fair representatives. This was a style of literature to which an ambitious youth and still less a full grown, young man could scarcely be expected to confine himself, and the subject of this sketch found his remedy in the free use of a tolerably extensive library owned by a neighbor and friend to whose generosity and kindness he was indebted for the opportunities it afforded of acquiring a wider range of information than were afforded by the home library, and it will probably be conceded by those who have made the acquaintance of the then young man of Hartford that he did not permit his opportunities to go unimproved. The desire for mental improvement and the acquisition of knowledge, thus early indulged and cherished, soon became a habit which he has not sought to change, but which has 'grown with his growth, and strengthened with his strength" with each passing year. Mr. Clark entered October 1, 1846, into a life partnership with Miss Mary E. Durant, then a young lady fresh from the green hills of Vermont, whose father had settled in Hartford township. After his marriage he engaged in mercantile pursuits as well as in farming, and served for some years as a justice of the peace, signalizing his official term more as a neighborhood pacificator than by endeavors to mutliply the cases on his docket. He was trained in the school of the early Abolitionists, and was always ready to advocate their peculiar views, and more than willing to assist in giving force and effect, and if possible, success to their measures. Until 1848 heacted with the Abolitionists politicially, then and until 1856 with the Freesoil party, and:in 1856 and ever since with the Republican party. With a taste for literature, and a natural bent for literary labor, he early fell into the habit of writing for the press; it was therefore the most natural thing in the world that he should drift into the editorial chair. Accordingly, in the 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 are familiar with the American, will admit. Mr. Clark was postmaster of Newark for eight years, serving from 1869 to 1877; he was also the chosen standard bearer in 1880, of the Republican party, by unanmous nomination, in the Thirteenth Congressional district of Ohio, and was supported by the full vote of his party. Mr. Clark is not only a writer of force and elegance, but also a public speaker of ability and power, and his contributions to the poetical literature of the day possess more than ordinary merit. And, most of all, it can be said of his literary productions, whether poetry or prose, and whether on political topics, temperance, or whatever subject, that their tendency is to edification, to instruction, to enlightment, to mental improvement, to moral elevation. And no less true is this of his elocutionary efforts or public speeches 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 It. Wayne, Indiana, then to Bloomington, Lllinois, then to Iowa City, then to Kansas, then to Arkansas, from here he went into 'Texas, hence to L'lorida, 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 Marysville, 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.

CorrMAN, JOsePH, retired, learned the brickmason trade when about twenty years of age, and has made that the principal occupation of his life. He was born 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, to work. Mr. Coffman was married, JJecember 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.

CorrMan, Davip T., contractor and builder, was born 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., born 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 109, 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 born in 1819. Mr. Coffman remafned 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.

CorrmMan, THOMAS C., carpenter, was born October 7, 1838, in Newark. His father, Michael Coffman, came to Licking county, with his parents, from Shenandoah county, Virginia, in 1809. He was born in 1806. He remained in Newark, fol lowing 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 renlisted 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 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 r1, 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 born 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; he 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, 1860; Nellie, born April 20, 1867; Cora, born March g, 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 aiso 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 born 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. 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.

railroad, and has given entire satisfaction to both companies. He has been engaged as an engincer 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.

Coucu, 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, 1860. 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 thirtytwo 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

Frederick. Maryland, August 27, 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, born May 17, 1859; Kate, January 18, 1861; James G., October ro, 1865. Since coming 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, until 1826, 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 1837 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 and 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 ot his age.

CUNNINGHAM, PATRICK, AND OTHERS. - Patrick Cunningham was a Scotch-Irishman, born in the Province of Ulster. When quite a young man he emigrated to Maryland, and espousing the cause of his adopted country he served in the Reyvolutionary 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 ofa 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 1811. 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 possesston 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 (zee 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 indebted 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 born in Newark October 28, 1803, in a cabin on ahill 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 term of grand mastership, was born 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.aman has worthily filled the highest grades of office, and filled 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 thehistory of the order for the years that they cover.

''Btother 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 Brother Cunningham, then a merchant in Newark, and, over an interval of several days, enjoyed the confidential chat of thé 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 Master, 1863, and Puissiant Grand Master of the Grand Council R. and S. M., Ohio, 1864-5-6; District Grand Lecturer Grand Lodge, 1864-77; Grand Orator of.Grand Lodge, 1874; Deputy Grand Master Grand Lodge ot Ohio, 1875 and 1876. Finally he arrived at the highest honors known to Free Masonry, viz.: Grand Master of Obio, in October, 1877, and re-elected in October, 1878. It is of record that his vote for the first term was seven-eighths, 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 recognving the legality of colored Masons in Ohio was settled adversely to the advocates of recognition.

Cunningham is equally known as Masonic authof-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,' r2mo. pp. 210. (The second part, 'Capitulai Masonry;' third part, 'Cryptic Masonry,' and fourth part, 'Templar Masonry,' are now in press. bes ,

"The writer hag 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. Asa handle of literary merit he received the grade of magister artium

'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 all 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 was 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 vears with the insidious disease that was sapping his life was greater than the heroism of battle-fields, and yet he bore his sufferings with 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 bereaved 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 Licking county in 1842, and located in Madisor township; he was married January 18, 1843; his first occupation was farming; he afterwards moved to Perry county and engaged in the woollen manufacturing business; moved back September 1, 1862, and died October 11, 1864. His wife was born in Madison township, March 15, 18ro. 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., born August, 11, 1871; John W., who died August 8, 1873, aged five months; George, who died February 2, 1877, aged four years; Mattie, who died January 21, 1877, aged eighteen months, and Lucy Perl, who was born November 11, 1878. Joseph Copley is a farmer; has taught school during the winter since 1864.

CotviLie, 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 cooking 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 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, born 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, born 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.

Cooksry, JAMEs O., farmer, post office, Cooksey, was born April 21, 1841, and was married to Miss 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 186i; 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 born 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 be has never been sick a day in his life.

Cu.uison, 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, in 1857;

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. ALBANS TOWNSHIP.

Ciemons, 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, where they engaged in shipping cattle; also purchased a farm of eighty acres. 'They remained in Iowa about three years, and then re- old Clemons homestead. They have five children: Bell Rose, born July 8, 1861; Frederick Levi, born March 23, 1865; Charles C., born June 28, 1869; Johnnie Leclaire, born April 2, 1871; Maud S., 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. WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP.

CAMERON, GEORGE, merchant tailor, Utica. He was born in County Antrim, Irelard, 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 ayear, 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 1840. Since coming to Utica he purchased property on Mechanics street, where he resides, carrying on his business. He built an addition to the 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. 'lhey 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, and his mother July 1, 1846. He was married to Louisa Hughes June 3, 1851. She was born 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 O. 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 ir 1878, at the age of sixty-seven. They lived ir Knox county about twenty-five years. There were four boys and five girls of the family. Jacob re mained at home until he was twenty-one years ol< and then went to Illinois; returned to Ohio anc was married to Melinda Painter, of Licking county in 1855. She was born June 12, 1836. 'They hac eleven children, of whom are living, Amanda, Ellen Mary, Roselia, James M., Ida May, Anzonia, Ethe and Grace.

Mr. Cannon enlisted in the Seventy-sixth regi ment, company D, Ohio volunteer infantry, Cap tain Kibler, in November, 1861, and served thre years. He was discharged a the expiration of hi term ; was in the campaign of the Southwest unde Grant and Sherman; took part in the battles a Fort Donelson, Shiloh, skirmished on the ac vance to Memphis, had three days' fight at Hayne Bluff, was in front of Vicksburg; part of the arm was engaged at Port Gibson and the balance cay tured Jackson. Rebel General Churchill fell bac to Vicksburg, and the Seventy-sixth attacked Arkansas Post in the rear, and was the first regiment that entered the fortification. 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 Jo@ Hooker's command. After this they went into winter quarters at Paint Rock, Ala- -bama. 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 doctoringsheep. 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 March 5, 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, born in 1872. J. W. Denty lives on the old homestead.

Douctass, 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 born 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.

pinhtaan wha bto 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 hé parents in 1836.

Dukr, SALATHIEL AtLEN, 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 mother's maiden name was Sarah Elizabeth Conard, whose father, Nathan Conard, was among the first settlers near Utica aboutthe 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 'Vhomas, who was then in the west forthe 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. Afterdisposing of the abandoned 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 in that section, being within the sound of Grant's cannon, at Vickskurgh, and was taught bya freed-woman. When the planting season ended, he gathered the negroes together in a fortthe troops having departed from Goodrich's Landing,

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 'cleared in the last ten years. In 1849, Mr. 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, in Virginia. They came to Homer in 1850. They have no children of their own, 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 an Newark, then a village of about two hundred inhahitants. 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, IsArAH. - 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, born September 1, 1792, and Mary Brown, born June 15, 1794, a Pennsylyanian by birth. Mrs. Dusthimer was born 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.

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Davis, Davip 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 born in Wales February 29, 1812, and migrated to this county with her parents in 1820. 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 better known in the neighborhood by tailor Davis than by 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 of four children: Hannah, Ariadna, William H. and Samuel A. All are yet living, married, and have families. His son, Samuel A., served about two

; DENNIS, JOHN, deceased, was born in Ireland in 1773. He served four years in the Tyrone County militia, and was discharged July, 1797. 'About 1809 he married Miss Eleanor Dennis, born in Ireland in 1786. They reared a family of eight children: Hugh, Francis, John, James, William, Ann, Eleanor and Margaret. In 1839 two of the sons, Francis and John, emigrated to America, and located in this county. Francis engaged in farming, which business he has since followed. John was a blacksmith by trade, and has made blacksmithing his principal vocation. In 1842: Mr. Dennis, with his wife and the remaining six children, emigrated to America, and located in St. Albans township in this county; remained about two years; then in 1844 they moved on the farm in the northwest corner of Harrison township, now owned by their son, Francis Dennis, where they passed the remainder of their days. He died January 2, 1851. His companion survived him until November 9, 1870. Two of the children are now deceased: Hugh and Ann. William left home in 1844 or '5,and has not been heard of since. The remaining five children - three sons and two daughters are now living on the home farm in Harrison township. HARTFORD TOWNSHIP.

Davipson, G. W., farmer, was born in 1849, in Knox county, and came to this county in 1851, with his father's family, where he has resided ever since. He was married to Miss E. Graham, of 'Licking county, in 1869. They are the parents of two children, aged respectively two and eight years. 'He has a fine farm of one hundred and forty-seven acres, and is an enterprising and highly respected young farmer

Durrey, Mrs. A. C. - She was born in Granville, Massachusetts, September 20, 1800. At the age of five years she came with her father's (Hiram Rose) family to Granville, Ohio. Her father's family was one of the first seven families that came to Granville. Three years after coming to Granville he purchased one hundred acres of land three miles west of Granville, where he resided until his death, some twenty-five years ago, in the eightyninth year of his age. Mrs. Durfey was married to A. C. Durfey July 15, 1819. She became the mother of two children, viz: Hiram L. and Adeline, 'now the wife of Julius Cornell. Mr. A C, Durfey was 'born in Midlebury, New York, July 13, 1796. He came to Hartford at the age of twenty-two years, walking 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 serying In war. Mr. Durfey was a man of influence in local affairs.

DrCRow, 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 born November 30, 1830, in Sunbury township, Delaware county. They have five children, as follows: Warren, born February 17, 1841; Herbert, born December 2, 1846; Emma, born October 9, 1848; Rosa, born April 19, 1852; Hattie J., born October 23, 1861. 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, June 30, 1874, and practices medicine at' Galion, 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 bora 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, Davip, carpenter and farmer, was born May 27, 1797, in 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., born 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, born December 2, 1840; William Benton, born February 21, 1843; Joseph Wesley was born October 4, 1845 and died October 9, 1855; Lewis Cass was born 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 1p.

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.

Dutt, Josera. - 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 sti!l 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, born June 3, 1831; Joannah, born August 1, 1833; Uriah, born November 15, 1835; Nancy, born June 17, 1838; John, born March 23, 1841; Elias, 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 bis 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 onc who has passed his "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 hven a resident of this township since 1838.

DAvVISSON, CATHARINE, Jacktown post office, was born lebruary 4, 1816, in Muskingum county. She was the daughter of William and Mtizabeth Bisant; her parents were of Shenandoah county, Virginia, and came to Muskinguin county in 1802. William Bisant located on the site of Zanesville. there being but few cabins at that piace. 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 he 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 @welve 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 farm 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 born 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. Irank 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 isa 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 stauion. 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 De Moss, who came to this county in an early day. James was married to Lucinda Beatty, of this county. 'They had three children, two are deceased; William Perry is single and lives with his father. Mrs. DeMoss died in 1853. Mr. DeMoss was married again to Leah George, of this county, December 11, 1855; results of this marriage, six children: George W., Mary Amelia, Sevila E., Rachel A., Nancy R., and Sarah C. Three are married and three are single and living at home. Mrs. Leah DeMoss is the daughter of Thomas and Mary Ann George. Thomas came to this county in 1821, when thirteen years of age, making the journey on foot with his parents and nine. other in her others; all came on foot, only having two horses to carry their baggage. They located on the Licking river, where they all lived and died. This party was known as the Morgan colony. Stephen George

Dickerson, THOMAs, was born in Bowling Green township May 25, 1808; son of John and Elizabeth Dickerson, who came to Licking county in 1805. . Thomas farmed till he was eighteen years old, then worked at stone cutting about forty-five years; was married to Nancy Piels, of this county; results of this marriage, seven children: John, William, Daniel, Eliza Jane, James and Rozella. ohn is single and lives at Newark ; William marfied Frances Tippet, of Illinois, and is a stockdealer; Daniel married liza Emery, of Bowling Green township, and is a farmer; Eliza Jane was married to Logan Osburn, of Licking county, and died March 1, 1876; James is single and a farmer; Rozella died August, 1870. Mrs. Dickerson died Noveiwber 13, 1835. Mr. Dickerson was captain of the Jackson riflemen for seven years; lived in Bowling Green sixty-two years; was marfied a second time to Anna Vanhorn, of Licking county, October 9, 1859. John Dickerson was in the War of 1812, under Genera! Beall, and came to Licking county when there were but few huts in Zanesville. Mr. Dickerson has been a devoted member of the Methodist Episcopal church for Over fifty-three years, and assisted in building the Flint Ridge, Brownville and Linnville churches.

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_ Davipson, WiLLIAM, farmer, was born in Muskingum county, February 8, 1817; moved to Hanever, Licking county, when one year old; he is the son of Richard Davidson, deceased; he was married to Priscilla Vail, of Meigs county, Ohio, She is the oldest of the family of Mr. Vail; they are the parents of four children living: William T., Patience E., Andrew O., Eliza C., living; Thankful M. died September 15, 1861; Sarah M. died February 18, 1872. Mrs. Davidson was born July 17, 1818. Master J. W. Con was born February 5, 1872; he is the grandson of Mr. Davidson, and has been living with him ever since he was five days old.

DupGEon, WILLIAM, merchant and farmer, was born in Knox county, Ohio, February 18, 1822. From the age of fifteen he labored on a farm until his marriage December 18, 1845; married Sarah A. Allbaugh, daughter of Peter and Sarah J. Allbaugh. She was born September 22, 1822. In 1847 he moved to Madison township in this county, where he continued farming, occasionally working at the carpenter trade. In 1863 he opened a small store at Wilkins' corners, where he did business two years, then purchasing a piece of land near, be erected a large dwelling house and store- room. He is doing a paying business; has been elected assessor seven terms. Their children are: Franklin B., born October 6, 1856; Laura J., born August 27, 1859; Ora M., born January 24, 1863; and John W., born 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, Harret 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 isa 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.

Duwn, James W., farmer, was born June, 1832, in Muskingum county; came to this county in 1843 with his parents and located in Fallsbury township. He was married in 1861, to Mary Eshelman, of this county, who. was born in 1830. They had one child, David, born in April, 1862. Mr. Dunn was drafted to gotothe army. He was in comdany A, Seventy-sixth Ohio regiment; was in General Sherman's division, and was in the battles of Arkansas Post, Grand Gulf, Vicksburgh and a few others; returned home in 1863. He received a wound in his hand at the battle of Vicksburgh. Mrs. Dunn died August 26, 1879, aged fifty years. John Dunn lived to the age of seventy-five years, Richard to the age of ninety-four years. John Dunn had eight sons in the late war. Five went from this county, one from Kansas, one from Missouri, and one from Arkansas.

dise, Johnstown, was born in Columbia, Herkimer county, New York, August 6, 1841. He, with his parents, Ira and Viansa Derthick, emigrated to Ohio in 1852, locating in Berkshire township, Delaware county, about 1855. Mr. Derthick, sr., engaged in general merchandising at Galena, Delalaware county. In 1860 he formed a partnership with his two youngest sons, Clinton and John. In the fall of 1865 they disposed of their stock at Galena, and the following spring entered into business at Sunbury, Delaware county. Mr. Derthick and son, Clinton, disposed of their interest in the stock in the sprang of 1869, and the following fall Clinton came to Johnstown and engaged in _business with Mr. Alpheus Reed, purchasing a_ half interest. At the death of Mr. Reed, in 1874, Mr. Derthick purchased the remainder, of the stock, and at the present writing is doing a fine business. He married Emily E. Dyer November 27, 1866. She was born December 27, 1847, in Berkshire township, Delaware county. They have two children, Guy Joy, born October 28, 1872; Aubrey Viansa, born December 6, 1874. Ira Derthick, jr., father of the subject of this. sketch, was born December 7, 1814, in Columbia, Herkimer county, New York, and died August 14, 1880, at Galena, Delaware county, Ohio. Mrs. Derthick, sr., was born March 13, 1813, in Herkimer county, New York, and is still living at Galena, Ohio.

Dann_Er, M. F., grocer, 145 North Third street, born October 23, 1850, in Fairfield county. He was educated in the common and select schools of his native county. In 1866 he entered as clerk of S. D. Leonard's dry goods store, where he remained eighteen months, after which he engaged in the book business six months, after and then conducted the grocery business in Basel in company with D. H. Stover, which continued but a short time, after which he became sole proprietor and continued as such until 1875, when he came to this city, engaged with McCarthy & Co. as. first clerk and remained with them until 1877, when he purchased the grocery store of J. J. Holmes, and has since conducted the business in his present room, twenty-four by ninety feet, which is well stocked with staple and fancy groceries, confec. tions, canned goods, produce, tobacco, etc.

DARLINTON, RerES. - Mr. Darlinton was a native of Frederick county, Virginia, but in early life his father's family located in Newark, Ohio. Before reaching manhood he held the position of a clerk in the office of the late Amos H. Caffee, esq., the then clerk of our courts. Subsequeutly he engaged in merchandise in company with the late Carey A. Darlinton. he returned to Newark, and was for some time fathers." Mr. Darlinton was a gentleman of excellent intellect, a vigorous, original thinker, of extensive information, and a man of undoubted integrity of character. He thought and investigated

DarRLINGTON, CAREY A. - Mr. Darlington came to Newark in 1823, and for ten or twelve years followed merchandising. He married a daughter of Judge Holmes, and soon thereafter purchased a prairie farm on the Sandusky plains and engaged in farming and stock raising. Being troubled with bronchial difficulty, he removed to Shakopee, Minnesota, for his health. He subsequently and for similar reasons became a citizen of Montana territory, where he bad his home at the time of his decease. He died at the residence of his daughter, Mrs. Kate Copeland, in Marion, Ohio, April 3, 1874. He was the son of Joseph Darlington, was born in 1788, and had therefore attained the ripe age of seventy-six years. His father settled in southern Ohio in territorial times, and took a leading part as a legislator in the government of the Northwest Territory, being a representative in the first territorial legislature in 1799. He was also a member of the convention that formed the first constitution of Ohio in 1802, and remained in public life about fifty years. C. A. Darlington was an intelligent, genial kind hearted gentleman, and a man of pure, unimpeachable character.

He commenced working as a bricklayer and stone mason in 1843 and has since made that business his vocation. In 1845 he was united in marriage to Margaret Wells, of Zanesville, who was born in June; 1824.

Trey settled in Zanesville, where he worked at his trade about fifteen years, except a few months during the year 1853, when he came to Newark and built the Robins residence and the Pataskala block. In 1858 he moved to Newark, where he has since been carrying on the business of contracting and building. He has contracted for and built some of the best buildings in Newark, besides doing a great amount of work in the way of build-

The following are a few of the principal buildngs erected by him and the date of erection: The Lansing house, in 1858 ; the Park house, in 1859; in 1859-60 he built the coal oil works at Warsaw, Coshocton county, which took him about two years © complete. In 1853 he built the round house and railroad shops at Bellaire, Ohio. In 1874-5 built the railroad shops at Newark, which took him about two years to complete. In 1876 he did the. stone and brick work for the depot at Chicago Junction. His last large job of work was the erecion of the Pan Handle depot at Newark, which he has just completed. He has made for himself an extensive reputation as a first-class mechanic. By his union with Miss Wells he is the father of seven children, five of whom are now living, viz.: Sarah, Albert, Edward, Charles and Eva. He is the grandfather of thirteen children.

DAUGHERTY, EDWARD, son of Charles and Margaret Daugherty, was born in Muskingum county, Ohio, April 29, 1852. He was brought to Newark by his parents in 1858. H> learned the bricklaying trade with his father when a boy, which he followed until 1870, when he commenced as an apprentice at the tinner trade with John Tucker & Co., of Newark, with whom he remained one year. He then worked a year at his trade asa_ bricklayer. In 1872 he became a partner of Mr. Tucker's in the tin and stove business, and remained as such about five years. In 1877 he again returned to his old trade as a bricklayer, and continued at it about two years. In January, 1880, he, in company with Edward Dodd, established the stove and tin store at 129 South 'Third street, Newark, Ohio, known as Daugherty & Dodd, dealers in tinware, cook and heating stoves, house furnishing goods, brittannia and tripple plated ware, etc. In cooking stoves they make "The Maud S." a specialty. In the way of manufacturing, they execute everything, from tin, copper, zinc and sheet iron, and give special attention to gas and steam fittings, also tin and slate roofing. They do more tin and slate roofing than any other firm in the county. They are known and Considered by the public as first class mechanics.

Davipson, CoLoNEL Rogert, was one of the early pioneers of Licking county, and a prominent business man of Newark for forty years or more. He was a native of Adams county, Pennsylvania, where he was born in March, 1777. In 1780 his father removed to Washington county, in the same State, and located near the Ohio river. He was educated at Marietta, Ohio. In 1809 Robert Davidson married, but his wife died in a few months. The next year he settled in Newark, where he established himself in business. In the early summer of 1812 he volunteered for one year ins Captain John Spencer's company of riflemen, and was elected first lieutenant. 'This company was attached to the 'Third Ohio regiment, commanded by Colonel Lewis Cass, and was included in the surrender of General Hull at Detroit. Lieutenant Davidson saw some hard service, and endured severe illness before the expiration of his year's service, being on the sick list at Fort McArthur many weeks. Just before the termination of his enlistment he marched to the relief of Fort Meigs. In 1816 Colonel Davidson intermarried with Eliza Mathiot, of Connellsville, Pennsylvania, with whom he lived until his death, in 1858, in the eighty-first year of his age, she and a number of children surviving him. He was a patriotic, public-spirited, useful, enterprising man, a good citizen, and exemplary as a husband and father, and as a member of the Episcopal church. Few of our pioneers were more intelligent, or had pursued a more thorough course of reading.

Davipson, Mrs. ExvizA Matuior. - The subject of this sketch was a native of Maryland, born near Ellicott's mills in that State, about the beginning of the year 1791. Her father was descended from an old Huguenot family, and her mother was a Quakeress. During her childhood her father removed to Connellsville, Fayette county, Pennsylvania, where, in May, 1816, she was married to Colonel Robert Davidson, of Newark, Ohio, to which place she at once removed. Mrs. Davidson was an intelligent and estimable lady, and a model pioneer woman, who was largely influential in -giving to the society of the then village of Newark an improved and more elevated tone. She was one of the original members of 'Trinity Episcopal church, organized in 1826, and was the last survivor of that little band. She always maintained a consistent, Christian character, and impressed herself favorably upon those who came within range of her influence. Mrs: Davidson died in Dayton, Ohio, at the residence of one of her daughters, April 27, 1874, in the eighty-fourth year of her age.

Davies, J. R., attorney, east side Lansing house, was born February 15, 1845, in Granville, son of David A. Davies, a native of Wales, and came to America in 1840. J. R. Davies was raised in his native village and received an elementary education in its public schools, and was graduated at Denison university in 1869, and in 1871 received the degree of LL. B. in the law department of Michigan university, and was admitted to practice in the same year, and has continued his profession to the present time. Attorney Davies was married to Miss Clara Crabbe, of Bucyrus, Ohio, They have had four children - Charles D, deceased, Elizabeth Rose,

Davipson, SAMUEL, barber, was born in Newport, Indiana, in March, 1854. At the age of twelve years he learned the barber trade in Hillsborough, Illinois, with his brother-in-law, E. Outland. He stayed there some two years, then went to Lichfield. He stayed at this place only a short period of time, then went to Alton, stayed there with his brother about five months, afterwards went to Terre Haute, and from this place to Cambridge, Indiana; then to Piqua, Ohio, and from there to Troy. In 1876 he went on a steamboat on the Ohio river from Cincinnati to Wheeling, remained about one year; after this went back to his own trade - barber. He moved to Newark, Ohio, April 14, 1880. He 1s master of his trade. - When the war broke out he was living with his father, Rev. William Davidson, of the Methodist Episcopal church. On account of Union principles his father was taken prisoner and kept five months. He died after the war closed from above effects. The subject of this sketch was driven from home on the same account.

Daviss, THomaAs J., was born February 2, 1838, in Wales. He is a blacksmith by trade, commencing at the business as an apprentice in 1855, and served as such until 1861, when he began working at the business as journeyman. In 1862 he emigrated to America and located in Venango county, Pennsylvania, where he continued his trade about four years. Then, after working in different localities, he came to Newark in 1868 and engaged as blacksmith in the rolling mills (he being a stockholder in the establishment), where he remained during the time the mills were in operation. In 1874, he erected his present carriage, wagon and blacksmith shops in Flory's second addition to Newark, at West Main street, near the Raccoon creek bridge, where he manufactures all kinds of buggies, carriages, spring and farm wagons, and also gives special attention to repairing of all kinds and horse-shoeing ; all work warranted to give satisfaction.

Davis, THomas, grocer, No. 417, West Main street. Mr. Davis was born in Baltimore, Maryland, March to, 1850, and received his education in the public schools of that city. In 1863 he enlisted in company G, Fifth Maryland volunteer infantry, but was shortly afterward transferred to Battery B, First United States artillery, Captain Elder's command, in which he served until the close of the war. After his return home he engaged in the manufacture and wholesale and retail sale of cigars, in which business he continued until the memorable flood of 1867, when he shared the fate of many others, that of losing all he had. In 1872 he came to Newark and entered the employ of W. R. Tubbs, proprietor of the Tubbs' house, with whom he remained until 1876. And in 1878 he established his present business, in which he occupies pleasant _ and commodious rooms in Birkey's block, where he carries a large stock of staple and- fancy groceries, confectioneries, fruits, oysters, in season; also deals in all kinds of country produce, ete.

Davis, Exit, born May 7, 1847, on the A® lantic- ocean during the emigration of his parents to America. His parents remained in America but a short time, when they returned to England. Mr. Davis, after travelling about for the greater part of his life, settled in Newark, where he has been engaged in the Baltimore & Ohio railroad shops. Mr. Davis was married to Celena Bent, of Birmingham, England, June, 1867. Mrs. Bent was born April 25, 1847. 'hey have two children, Emile, born March 4, 1873; Ada, born September 3, 1877.

Dean, Levi, fireman on Baltimore & Ohio railroad. He was born in Perry county, Ohio, August 29, 1836. At an early day of his life he learned to run a stationary engine and followed this business seventeen years. He was marricd to Catharine Hooper, of Perry county. They have seven children: Mary, born March 19, 1864 (died October 17, 1865); Clara Melissa, born February 3, 1870; Lucy Melville, September 27, 1873; Mathias Nathaniel, born September 21, 1878. Mrs. Dean was born July 4, 1843., She is the daughter of Mrs. Mary Hooper, who now lives with her. She is sixty-five years old. Mr. Dean died July 16, 1863, at the age of sixty-seven. Her father, William Hooper, was a member of company A, Thirty-frst Ohio volunteer infantry. He die d October 27, 1873. Mr. Dean's father, Levi Dean, was an early settler of Perry county; he died in 1877 at the age of eighty years.

Derrick, Mrs. MAGDALINE, was born in Etzling, France, November 24, 1839. She came with her father, John Gorius, to Newark; lived here five years; then moved to Kenton, Hardin county, Ohio, where they remained ten years; then returned to Newark. Since that time she has lived five years in Columbus. She was married to George Derrick, of Columbus, May 12, 1863, and is the mother of two children: George J., born February 15, 1864; Mary Theresa, September 9, 1865. For many years Mr. Derrick followed clerking, and the grocery business, and was a partner with Mr, Rodenfels; afterwards he was a member of the firm of Engelke & Derrick, dealers in vinegar, No. 214 South Fifth street, Columbus, Ohio. He died February 13, 1866. Shortly after his death Mrs, Derrick started a dressmaking establishment in

Newark, which business she yet follows. George J. is attending St. Vincent's scholasticate in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania. Miss Mary is atending the Sisters' school in Newark.

Dew, ELIas, railroad engineer - He was born in Jefferson county, Ohio, August 11, 1825; learned cabinet-making when thirteen years of age; he worked at this five years at twenty-five dollars per year; he then went to the trade of millwright; his last job was to build the mill at Quaker City, Guernsey county. January, 1855, he went to work in shop for Central Ohio railroad company in Bellaire; he worked until April 22, 1855; he then went to firing on yard engine "Reliance;" in August he was transferred to Cambridge, this being the first engine owned by Central Ohio railroad company - named Pataskala No. 7; three days afterwards he took charge of this engine as engineer at sixty-five dollars per month; nine months afterwards, was transferred to engine George Clark, and run her as a helping engine at Bellair, and afterwards run a local freight; then transferred to engine Columbus to run passenger train during the fall of 1860; he then quit the company, and went to North Carolina in January, 1861, and engaged with the North Carolina Central, running the Norris engine ona work train four months; then went to running freight, and after the battle of Fair Oaks he was transferred to engine Cyclops on a passenger train. He quit the company in February, 1862, and went to Florida to work on the Fernando railroad on engine Elachway; quit this compary September, 1862; then went on ocean steamer Mayflower for the purpose of running blockade to Cuba in July, 1863; started for Cuba; on the way, was captured by the United States supply steamer Union; he was taken to Key West; a few days after arrival, was paroled and went to New Orleans; then to Cairo, and to Wheeling, and arrived at home March 1o, 1863, and went back to Central Ohio railroad company on same engine he left three years previous; a short time afterwards, was transferred to Flying Cloud, the last locomotive built by Blandy. Shortly after this, he was transferred to the Robert Garret, a passenger engine; six months after, was transferred to David Lee, now on Chicago division Baltimore & Ohio; February, 1866, was promoted to supervisor of engines; some five years afterwards, was relieved and put on engine 513; in five months was promoted to supervisor as before on Chicago division; the next April, came to Newark ; put on No. 514; run this some time; then quit the company for some two months; returned and took 539. This he run during the centennial year between Chicago Junction and Newark, doubling the road every night in the week from April to January; in this time his engine made forty-nine thousand nine hundred and eighty miles. February 10, 1879, he went to engine No. 182; run this until April 6, 1880; it was then put in shop for repairs, since which time he has been running No. 200. He was married June 1, 1849, to Elis J. Hunter, of Wheeling. They had seven children. She died December 10, 1869. He was again married June 24, 1873, to Mrs, Asa Beckwith.

Dopp, SAMUEL, proprietor of the excelsior grocery, Birkey's block, 423 West Main street. Mr. Dodd was born in Muskingum county, October 4, 1840. He received his education in the public schools of Zanesville. When about seventeen years old he engaged to learn the carpenter trade at which he only served an apprenticeship, and after which he engaged in dealing in country produce which he followed until the fall of 1862, and in 1863 he enlisted in company F, Thirty-second Ohio volunteer infantry, in which he served until the close of the war. After his return home he resumed the produce business, in which he continued one year. In 1867 he took a course in book-keeping at the commercial college at Zanesville, Ohio, and in the fall of 1867 he engaged with the firm of W. & S. Stevens, as shipping and bill clerk in which he remained untii August 1, 1870. He then came to Newark and engaged in the grocery and produce business, which he conducted until April 1, 1878. On January 1, 1879, he engaged in the grocery business, and he occuples commodious and pleasant rooms, twenty-two by ninety feet, with cellar of the same dimensions, in which he carries a large first-class stock of staple and fancy groceries, confectionery, stoneware, wood and willow ware, sugar-cured and smoked hams, pickled pork, all kinds of canned goods, flour, salt, and fish. He makes a specialty of fine teas and coffees, of which he roasts his own coffees, and has the only roaster in the county, and he keeps constantly on hand fresh roasted coffees of all the best grades; also keeps all the latest and best brands of tobaccos and cigars.

Dopson, Exiza E., Mrs., was born in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, near Brownsville, January 12, 1825. She moved with her father (Abraham Wintermute) to Licking county, and located near Elizabethtown on a farm now owned by Mr. H. Bland. At the age of thirty years she was married to John Dodson, born near Culpeper Court House, Virginia. His first occupation was farming. Hecame to Licking county in 1840, locating east of Newark, on a farm, and lived there some ten years, then went to McClain county, Illinois, there lived seven years. During the time he lived in Licking county and Illinois he followed preaching for the Christian church, He was a man of many friends. He is the father of F. B. Dodson, born July 11, 1857, who is now in the hardware house of Mr. Burner, of Newark. Mr. Dodson died-February 10, 1873, in the seventysixth year of his age. His wife moved back to Newark in April, 1873, since which time she has been living in East Newark.

Downs, GEORGE, was born March 30, 1820, in Cincinnati. His father died when George was but six months old, leaving a widow vnd four children. When Mr. Downs was three years old, he was bound out toa Mr. Baker, of Butler county, remaining with him and assisting in the general farm work until he was seventeen years of age, when he removed to southern Indiana, remaining about two years, when he returned to the place of his birth, and after a short time came to Licking county. About the beginning of the Mexican war, Mr. Downs volunteered under the command of G. W. Morgan, Second Ohio volunteer infantry. Mr. Downs served the general as first waiter for some time, after which he was discharged June, 1847. After the war closed Mr. Downs went to Illinois for a short time, then to Cincinnati, then to Dayton, remaining there about three years, and after moving about for three years more he returned to Licking county, August 15, 1854. He was married February 26, 1857, to Mary Coffman, of Newark.