Wayne Township (part 16 of 22)

PITKIN, REV. JOHN, Milford township, retired minister of the Presbyterian church, was bom in Rutland county, Vermont, May 12, 1794. His parents were natives of Connecticut, and belonged to the farmer class. They had a family of four children, all of whom are dead, but the subject of this notice, he being the youngest child. He remained at home until he was eighteen years of age, when he enlisted in the Thirtieth United States infantry. This was in 1812. The first rendezvous was at Burlington, Vermont, thence to Plattsburgh, where they went into winter quarters. The spring of 18 13 the command went to Lacole Mill, Canada, where they had an engagement with a British force. They guarded the ship-builders while constructing a fleet for Commodore McDonough. This fleet was used on Lake Champlain. He was discharged in June, 1813. He then worked at the hatting business for about two years, while in Vermont. He also taught school for several terms. About 1815 he came to Ohio, locating at Chillicothe, where he taught school for several months. He then attended an academy, working night and morning for his board. He attended school there for several years, working his way by teaching, principally. He then attended Jefferson college at Cannonsburgh, Pennsylvania, for a year and a half. Having the ministry in view he studied theology three years with Rev. Dr. Wilson, a Presbyterian minister. Upon the completion of his studies he went to Indiana, where he preached three months^ then returned to Waterford, Washington county, Ohio, where he preached about six years; then at Dresden six years; at Utica, Licking county, Ohio, one year, and at the Milford Presbyterian church as stated supply. He also preached some time in Delaware county, Ohio. He preached regularly until he was seven, ty-five years of age. He is a theologian of the old school, and is regarded as a man of ability. His preaching was acceptable, and through him many were added to the church. He is spending the remainder of his days on his farm. He was married to Miss Eliza W. Wilson in 1824, who was the daughter of Rev. Dr. Robert G. Wilson, his preceptor. She was born in South Carolina in 1801, and died in 1864. She was an exemplary woman, and a devoted wife and mother. They had a family of ten children, eight of whom are living^ohn G. and Ebenezer, died in the army; Elizabeth J. (married Mr. Camp); Robert W. ; Mary W. (married George L. Smith); Emily H.; Samuel J.; Sarah F. (married Samuel Hookway); Paul H., a minister of the Presbyterian churcli; and Theodore S.

PLUMMER, FRANKLIN W., Fredericktown, deceased, w.as born in Maryland in 1824; married in 1844 to Eliza Walter, who was born in 1824. They had the following family, viz. : Philip, born in 1846; Alfred, in 1848; Anna, in 1849; Mary, in 1852; Charles, in 1854; Thomas, in 1856; and Jessie, in 1859.

Mr, Plummer emignaed with his parents to Ohio in 1827, and located in Knox county. Mr. Plummer was engaged in buying and se'ling stock. He was one of the earliest settlers of this county, and also one of its best citizens.

Philip Plummer was a soldier of the late war, being a member of company B, Ninty-sixth Ohio volunteer infantry. He was afterward transferred to the Seventy-seventh Ohio volunteer infantry. He continued till the close of the war, and received an honorable discharge. He is now residing in Fredericktown engaged with the firm of S. S. Tuttle, manufacturers.

PONriNG, JOHN, county commissioner, is a citizen of Mt. Vernon. He was born in Somersetshire, England, June 21, 1826. He emigrated to America in the fall of 1847, and settled in Fredericktown, this county, and was engaged with the late James George for about three years, and then entered into the butchering business in Mt. Vernon, which he followed about one year, and then engaged in stock business, shipping to the eastern cities. He then engaged in the grocery business, which he successfully carried on for some years, when he sold out his busmess to Messrs. Armstrong it Tompkins, in 1877. In October, 1876, he was elected county commissioner, and served three years with great efficiency, and was again elected in 1879, which office he now holds.

Mr. Ponting was married to Miss Eliza Thompson, July, 1856. She died June 18, 1876. Mr. Ponting has been eminently successful in all that he has undertaken. He started in life without a dollar in the world.

The father of Francis, Samuel Popham, was born in England, and came to America as a British subject, during the Revolutionary war; he became attached to this country and settled in Maryland, and died there.

Samuel Popham married for his second wife Nancy Johnson, who was born in Richland county, in 1833. They lived together but a few years. Mr. Popham died June 8, 1880. He was a citizen of this county for many years, a good financier, became the owner of a number of farms, and gave to each of his children a good home.

POPHAM, ELIAS, farmer, post office, Fredericktown, was born in Baltimore county, Maryland, in 1805, and came to Harrison county, Ohio, with his parents at the age of three years, and to Knox county in 1820, and was married in 1826 to Elizabeth Durhin, who was born in this county in 1810. They had the following family: Curtis, born in 1828; Samuel, in 1830; James, in 1834; Sherman, in 1835; Francis, in 1S38; Euretta, in 1840; Christiana, in 1841; Corydon, in 1850; and Thomas, in 1852. Mrs. Elizabeth Popham died December 8, 1857; James died August 24, 1834; Euretta in 1840; and Christiana August 21, 1842.

Mr. Popham married for his second wife, in 1858, Julia E. Berry, who was born in Virginia in 1827. They had the following children: Louis B., born in i86i, and Ida May, born in 1863.

Mr. Popham settled in Pike township when he came to this county, and in 1840 he came to Morris township. He owns a good farm with all modern improvements.

POPHAM, COLUMBUS D., farmer, post office, Lytle City, Iowa county, Iowa. He was born in Pike township, Knox county, in 1841; he was married in 1866, to Margaret Patten, who was born in Tuscarawas county, in 1849. They have four children living: Quintila J., Florence O., Herbert C, and Hallie M. The deceased, Charles B. , died in Iowa, in 1878.

POPHAM, GFORGE F., farmer, post office. Democracy, bom in Pike township, this county, October 2, 1846, and was married March 23, 1875, to Mary A. Matheny, who was born October 10, 1845, in Monioe township, this county.

PORTER, J. H., Howard township, farmer, post office, Howard. He was born November 9, 1852, on what is now known as the Critchfield farm. His father was born in Brown township in 1831, and lived at different places in the county until his death, which occurred in i866. His mother was subsequently married to William Taswell, and lived in Mt. Vernon. Mr. Porter was married to Miss Lydia Smith April 21, 1878.

POTTER, M. D., S. B., Fredericktown; was born in Bloomfield township, Morrow county, Ohio, November 7, 1828. He was educated in the common schools till about twenty-one years of age, then he attended the Fredericktown acadamy, after which he attended the Norwalk college, Huron county, Ohio. To defray his expenses he engaged in teaching and working at different kinds of work. He commenced reading medicine with Dr. T. R. Potter about 1850, after which he graduated at the Jefferson Medical college at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1854. He then located in Fredericktown and engaged in the practice of medicine. He has since remained here, continuing the practice. The doctor has established a wide and extensive practice, has met with excellent success, and stands to-day at the head of the medical profession in this section of Ohio. He was one of the charter members of the Knox County Medical society, was elected three consecutive terms president of this society, also vice-president a number of terms.

The doctor then married Delia M. Burns May 8, 1872, who was born in Fredericktown, Knox county, Ohio. She was a widow of Dr. Alfred Burns, and daughter of Dr. A. W. Swetland, of Sparta, Ohio.

The doctor has been identified with the Baptist church, and still adheres strictly, and advocates those Christian doctrines. He has been connected with the Democratic party, has always voted that ticket, and promulgates its principles. He has had a number of students, and at present he has with him William M. Furgerson, son of Rev. W. M. Furgerson, of Fredericktown, and also Herbert S. Darling, son of William Darling, of this county.

PRATT, HENRY, Liberty township, retired farmer, was born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, December 17, 1802. He is the son of William and Elizabeth Pratt, nee Hooper, who came to Ohio in 1819 with a four horse team. They brought a family of six daughters and two sons, and settled in Clinton township, near the Ewalt settlement, where they had a tract of two hundred acres of land. He remained here until 1829, when he was drowned in Owl creek while on his return from Mt. Vernon. He was was on horse-back, and it is supposed was taken with a paralytic stroke and was unable to regain the shore. The horse which he rode upon finding the rider gone came home and neighed. The subject of this notice, Henry Pratt, rode the horse to the ford and dismounted leaving the horse unhitched. He (the horse) returned again to the farm, and again returned to the ford, seeming to understand that his master had met with some serious accident. Mrs. Pratt sur\'ived her husband until 1853. The children are all dead except Henry and Jane, the wife of D. C. Montgomery, esq., of Mt. Vernon.

The subject of this notice spent his youth on a farm and remained at home until he was twenty-six years of age. He worked at the carpenter trade and wagon making for some time. In 1829 he married Miss Penelope Buckingham, and in 183s moved to his present farm where he has resided ever since. They have had seven children, three of whom are living, viz: Sylvester, farmer; John, in Tama county, Iowa; and Eliza J., who married William C. Parker, of Liberty township. Mrs. Pratt died in March, 1878. Mr. Pratt has always been an industrious man, and has helped to improve the neighborhood in which he lives. He is social in his habits.

Sylvester Pratt, a son of Henry Pratt, was born in Liberty township in 1831, and has continued to reside there ever since. He is a good farmer and an excellent citizen. In 1852 he married Miss Cordelia Parrish. They had one child, John Franklin. In 1854 his wife died. His second wife was Mary E. Tarr. They had three children, only one living, viz: Sarah Isabelle.

PRICE, VEAZEY, was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, April 17, 1819. He was brought to Knox county, Ohio, by his parents, Samuel and Margaret Price, in 1826, who located in Pleasant township, where they remained until 1856. when he, (.Samuel Price), with wife and family, all except Veazey, emigrated to Iowa, where he deceased at the age of seventy-two years. His wife died aged eighty-two years. They reared a family of seven children: William, Thomas, Veazey, James, Samuel, Dorthus, and Sarah. Only three of the above named are now living: Sarah, Veazey, and Samuel. Veazey Price married Miss Eliza R. Veatch, in 1846, daughter of Peter Veatch, and settled in Mt. Vernon. By trade he is a joiner and pattern maker. He commenced working at his trade in 1837, and served three years as an apprentice with John Arentnie at the joiner trade, after serving his time as an apprentice, which ended in 1840, he remained one year with his old employer, and in 1841 he commenced work with Charles Cooper, making the wood work on carding machines and spinning jacks, and making patterns. He continued with Mr. Cooper as pattern maker until 1854, when he purchased and moved on a farm in Morgan township, same county, where they lived twelve years, and in 1866, he purchased and moved on the farm where he is nowliving, in Clinton township, two miles west of Mt. Vernon. Since leaving the employ of Mr. Cooper, and moving on a farm, he has made farming his vocation. They have three children - one soa and two daughters.

PRICE, SAMUEL, farmer, youngest son of Samuel Rice, deceased, was born in Knox county, Ohio, May 14, 1825. He married Miss Sarah A. Kerr in 1852, born in Knox county, Ohio, in 1828, daughter of Benjamin and Rose Kerr. They settled in same county, and remained two years. In 1854 they emigrated to Iowa, where they lived sixteen and a half years, and then returned to Knox county. In the spring of 1871 they purchased and moved on the property where they are now living, on the Newark road, a short distance from Mt. Vernon. He owns a farm in Pleasant township, and follows farming as his vocation.

PRICE, CALEB H., farmer, post office, Shalers Mills, was born in Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, in 1818. He came to Ohio in i860, and was married to Nancy Simmons, who was born in Jefferson township, Richland -county. They have two children; Abraham, born in 1871, and Aldie, in 1874. Mr. Pi ice has been engaged teaching school, and in the ministry in the German Baptist church.

PUGH, HENRY H., Pike township, tanner, post office Democracy, born in Newark, Licking county, August 19, 1841, and married December 31, 1868, to Josephine Wierick, who was born in Knox county, June 6, 1848. They have four children; Edward E., born March 24, 1870; Mary Jane, December 17, 1871; William H., October 13, 1873; and Charles M., April 30, 1876.

Mr. Pugh was a soldier in the late war, enlisted June 9, 1862, and was a member of company K, Eighty-second regiment, Ohio volunteer infantry. He was in the following engagements. Perryville, Kentucky; Stone River, Tennessee; Gallatin Landing, Tennessee; Hovey's Gap, Tennessee; two battles at Franklin, Tennessee; Chicamauga, Lookout Mountain, and Missionary Ridge, Tennessee; battle of Ringgold, Georgia; battle of Resacca, Kennesaw Mountain, Atlanta, Etowah Creek, Georgia; Jonesborough, Savannah, Georgia; Bentonville, North Carolina; and Waynesborough, North Carolina. He was engaged in the service until 1865, and received an honorable discharge. He learned the tanners trade in Wilmington, Ohio, and is now engaged in that business in Amity.

Mrs. Pughs father, John Weirick, was born in Zanesville, Muskingum county, Ohio, in 1810. When he was two years old he went with his paienis to Pennsylvania. He learned the tanner's trade in Harrisburgh, Pennsylvania, and was engnged in that business for forty-seven years. He was first married November 23, 1838, to Nancy Long, who was born in Dayton, Ohio, in 1838. They had three children: George B. S., bom

Mr. Weirick's second marriage was to Miss Eliza Steiner, who was bom in Newville, Ohio. They had four children: Amanda E., born in 1847; Josephine, in 1848; Harriet, in 1850; and Mary E, in 1853.

The family have married as follows: George B. and Lousetta .\nderson, in i860; James L. and Nancy Simkins, in 1868; Amanda E. and Melleville B. Rowley; Josephine A. and H. H. Pugh, in 1868; Harriet W. and Milton Lattie, in 1866; Sarah M. and Asaph Rowley, in 1861; Mary E. and B. ]. Porter, in 1873-

Mr. Weirick and two of his sons, George and James, have been married the second time, and are all living with their second wives. Mr. VV^eirick is proprietor of the Amity hotel, and has been engaged in the business since 1871, keeping a very respectable house. He and his wife have the ability to make their guests feel at home, and all who stop with them, find the .'^mity house a pleasant home for the traveller.

PUMPHREY, BASSILL WELLS, M. D., (decea.sed), was born August 22, 1812, in Brooke county, Virginia. His ancestors on his father's side came with Lord Baltimore. One settled in South Carolina, and the other in Maryland, of which latter family the subject of this sketch is a descendant. His grandfather, on his mother's side was a captain in the Revolutionary army, and was one of the men who organized the State of Ohio, and was a member of the first constitutional convention.

Until fourteen years young Pumphrey remained with his parents. He attended school at Athens, Ohio, and read medicine with Dr. Sellers, of Pittsburgh, and then went to the University of Maryland, and graduated in 1832. He commenced the practice of medicine in Mt. Pleasant, Ohio, in 1833, where he remained until 1842, when he removed to Mt. \'^ernon, where he continued to follow his profession till his death. He was appointed examining pension surgeon in 1842, and served ten years, and was reappointed and resigned his position. He died October 19, 1880, of apoplexy.

Dr. Pumphrey was married to Miss Maria J. Updegraff in 1832. She was the daughter of |ames Updegraff, one of the first settlers of Ohio. Three children were born to them, one son and two daughters. The son died when young. His daughters are both married. His oldest daughter married .Andrew Parrott, and lives near Mt. Vernon, and his other daughter married Brooklyn L. Terry, and resides in Columbus.

PUMPHREY, R. J., Hilliar township, real estate dealer, Centreburgh. - He is the fourth child of Fleming and Mary J. Pumphrey, was born in Harrison county, Ohio, June 23, 1846. His parents moved to Knox county in 1852, and settled on a farm where the subject of this notice spent his early days assisting his father on the farm and attending school during the winter months.

When about twenty years of age he went to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, for the purpose of attending commercial college, but upon receiving an appointment as clerk in the city hospital he relinquished his object, He remained in the clerkship for a year, and then returned to Ohio and opened a general store in Centreburgh. Hy his judicious management and strict adherence to business principles he attained an enviable reputation for integrity, and was successful in his business. He is a close observer and weighs any undertaking in which he might engage, viewing the possibilities and probabilities of success. This, coupled with a comprehensive knowledge of the world, makes him a safe counsellor in matters of business.

He was elected justice of the peace and served for three years with satisfaction to those who had business to transact before him. He is a member of the council and takes an active intive interest in the improvement of the town. He has had more to do with improving the village, perhaps, than any other individual. He is social in his manner, and is calculated to make fast friends. He is in the heyday of his life, young, striving and vigorous.

He is a leading citizen. He was married to Miss Mary E. Conard, of. Hartford, Licking county, Ohio, October, 1872 Their union has been blessed with two children.

PUMPHREY, JOSIAH M., is owner of the "Prairie farm,' one of the best in Clay. He was born in Belmont county, Ohio June 4, A. D. 1821. He removed to Licking county in 1848 and to Clay township Apiil, i, 1858; was married to Miss Celia A. Ross, February 24, 1849, who was born in Clay township in 1830. They have one child, Ross.

PUTNAM, NORMAN WILLIAMS, College township, was born in Windsor county, Vermont, October 17, 1800. All the Putnams, of New England, descended from John Putnam, who, with two brothers, came from Buckinghamshire, England, in 1634, and settled at Salem, or Danruse, Massachusetts. John Putnam had three sons, John, Nathaniel, and Thomas. General Israel Putnam's father was Joseph, son of Thomas. A great-grandson of General Israel Putnam (Douglas Putnam) now lives at Marietta, Ohio. Many others of his descendants are living there and in the neighborhood.

General Rufus Putnam's father was Elisha, son of Edward, son of Thomas. There are also a large number of the descendants of this branch of the Putnam family living in and about Marietta.

Daniel, the grandfather of N. W. Putnam, was born in Sutton, Massachusetts, the birthplace of General Rufus Putnam, about the year 1733. He married Ann, a daughter of Hon. Samuel Chase (the grandfather of Bishop Philander Chase), .moved from Sutton to New Hampshire with the Chase colony, in 1764, and settled upon the township of land given to Deacon Dudley Chase, on account of his being the first settler on Connecticut river north of Chariestown, New Hampshire, then known as Fort No. 4. He had three sons and several daughters.

The youngest son, Isaac, was the father of N. W. Putnarn. He came with his family to Gambier in 1833, and died in Gambier in 1849, aged seventy-nine years. His wife died in Gambier in 1837.

His youngest daughter, iVIary, married in 1835 Rev. S. A. Bronson, D. D., now of Mansfield, Ohio. She died in Gambier, in 1849, the ne.xt day after the death of her father, and were both buried in the same grave. His youngest son, Daniel, is still living near Potsdam, New York.

His son, N. W. Putnam, came to Ohio in 1S29, and was at once employed as clerk in the college store. He remained in that capacity until the store was given up, in 1834. In February. 1833, he was married to Maria, third daughter of Archibald Douglass. The result of this marriage was the birth of ten

The eldest son, Rufus, died in August, 1851, from the accidental discharge of a shotgun in the hands of a companion and relative. The charge destroyed the knee joint, requiring amputation. He would have entered the Freshman class in September, had his life been spared.

His second son, Douglass, when of age, went to Terre Haute, Indiana, in 1858. At the breaking out of the Rebellion he enlisted for three months in the Eleventh Zouaves, under General Lew Wallace, now governor of New Mexico. The regiment was ordered to West Virginia. At the expiration of the three months they returned to Indiana, and was reorganized. A new regiment of infantry, the Seventy-first Indiana volunteers, was being raised in the neighborhood of Terre Haute. Young Putnam joined the new regiment, and in a short time was made quartermaster. He held this position until near the close of the war, when he was promoted to a captaincy. In September, 1865, after the regiment was disbanded, he went to Kansas. For some years he has been employed in the United States railway mail service, and was head clerk in Superintendent, Col. Hunt's office, in St. Louis when his health failed, and in May, 1879, came home, and in June died at the family homestead in Gambier.

Mr. Putnam's third son, John Henry, was a graduate of Kenyon college class of 1864. There were fifty-five members entered the Freshman class in i860, and only fifteen graduated. At the breaking out of the vrar quite a number of the class, and many other students of the colle-jj?, with their esteemed president. Colonel Lorin Andrews, left the institution, and joined the Union army.

Mr. Putnam has occupied his pi;f5ent residence for over twenty years. He has, in connection with his boarding house, been engaged in a small way in gardening and fruit culture - mostly for the purpose of supplying his table with fresh fruits and vegetables, and has enjoyed better health than ever before in his life. He has long since come to the conclusion that he was not cut out for a merchant. Bishop Chase used to say that he (Bishop Chase) was not much of a preacher that his forte was in begging. He claimed to be the prince of beggars. He said he got nothing for preaching in Gambier, and it was "poor preach and poor pay."

Mr. Putnam feels that his end is near, and when called to depart this life, he desires to be at peace with God, and in perfect charity with all the world.

RAND.A.LL, DANIEL, Middiebury township, farmer, post office, Fredericktown, born in Rensselaer county. New York, March 7, 1837, and was married in October, 1869, to Mary Allen, who was born in 1843 in Monroe county, Ohio. They have two sons - Edward, born November i, 1872, and John, September 11, 1874.

RANDALL, JOHN D., Fredericktown, deceased, was born in New York in 1838; married in 1866 to Alice McCaskey, who was born in Knox county, Ohio, in 1842. They have one daughter - Maggie J. Randall - who was bom in 1868.

and then moved to Illinois, remaining there about seven years. His health became impaired and he moved to Michigun for its improvement. While there he died in 1873. He was a soldier in the late war. He first enlisted for three months, and then reenlisted for three years.

R.WKIX, L. D., deceased, was born Novembers, 1804, in Fayette county, Pennsylvania; came to Ohio m 1815; located in Kno.x county in 1849; was married to Christena Linngston, who was born in Monongalia county, Virginia, July i, 1803. Thev had si-v children - James, Margaret, Eliza Ann, Malissa, Rebecca J., and Elizabeth.

RANSOM, R. B., farmer, Wayne township, post office, Mt. Vernon; born in 1838, and was married to Mary Chancey, who vas born in Berlin i~'-^-nship in 1S42. They have four children: Laura T., born in 1862; Edwin M., in 1864, Bertha M., in 1868; Pearl, in 1874; and Edith Grace, in 1877.

RANSOM, JOHN H., Mt. Vernon, of the firm of Penick & Ransom, leather manufacturers, was bom in this city on the nineteenth day of September, 1847. He was a pupil of our public schools. His first effort in a business way was with the late George B. Potwin, produce dealer, with whom he remained two years. He then engaged with S. L. Taylor, dry goods dealer, as salesman and bookkeeper, where he was retained five years. For three years he was engaged as salesman with firm of Swetland & Bryant. He then engaged in the grocery business which he carried on some nine months, when he sold out and engaged in the butchering business with Mr. Penick, under the name of Penick & Ransom. This business he conducted for five and a half years, when they purchased the tannery of G. E. Raymond in the fall of 1878, and still continues the manufacture of leather. This is one of the best establishments in central Ohio, and is much the largest m the county, and has a capacity of about six thousand pieces a year. The establishment has steampower for pumping, grinding and leaching bark, and lieating purposes. The building is eighty bv one hundred feet, and contains seventy vats, three finishing -00ms, shaving room, boiler and engine room, and office, with machinery enough to run a first class tanner>-. Their specialty is in harness, also upper leather, calf, kip, etc.

RAYMOND, RACHEL (BANNING), deceased. Mrs. Rachel B. Raymond, relict of the late Rev. EInathaa Raymond, was the third child of Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Banning, and was born in the town of Conneilsville, Pennsvlvania, on the twelfth of November, 1796. Her death occurred on Friday morning, July 23, 1880, at Mt. Vernon, making her at the time of her death nearly eighty-four years of age. In the year 1812 Miss Banning, with her parents, emigrated to Ohio and settled in this city, when it was a mere hamlet in the wilderness. Seven years later, or in 1819, Miss Banning was married to Mr. Elnathan Raymond, and the same year the newly married couple left this comparatively new country and returned east, locating in New York, only to remain a few years, however, for in 1834 they returned, where they resided the balance of their lives. From this union six children were bom, five of whom still survive, viz: Mrs; G. A. Jones, Mrs. G. K. Norton, Miss Mary Raymond, Mrs. James Blanchard, and George E. Raymond. Mrs. Raymond sun'ived her husband six years, he having died in this city August, 1874. Her last illness was the first serious indisposition that any of her surviving relatives remember, as she was in excellent health to within a week of her demise. Her children all reside in this city, with the exception of George E. Raymond, who was at once advised of her condition, and at the hour of her death all of her children living were present. Her last illness was general congestion, though her mental faculties were unimpaired to within a few minutes of death. She was able to talk with her sorrowing children and grandchildren gathered around her bedside. Five children, eleven grandchildren, and sixteen great-grandchildren moum the loss of a kind and loving parent.

Mrs. Raymond was always actively engaged and ever ready to lend a helping hand to anything that was of a benevolent character. Amongst the many organizations she was a member of and took a special interest in was The Soldiers Aid society, which was organized in 1861, at her residence. In 1863 the Union League society was organized, the object being to erect a monument to the memory of the Union soldiers at the close of the war. She was its first proposer and its permanent president, and one of its most active members, being one of the first to solicit funds for the erection of the monument, and it was e\er an object of great solicitude with her to see it erected during her lifetime, in which she was gratified. Great credit is due her for the zeal she manifested in that enterprise. Her family were its most liberal contributors. She was also a champion of temperance, and a most zealous worker in the cause.

REED, ELL\S, Pike township, farmer, post cftice, Nortli Liberty, was born in Brown township, this county, in 1847, and was married in 1871 to Anna C. O'Bryan, who was born in Pike township, this county, in 1851. They have two children- Debert, born June 26, 1872, and Maude, February 4, 1874.

RESSEL, L. D., Union township, farmer, post office, Rcssville, was born in Brown township, Knox county, .August 21, 1843. His father came to this county and settled on a farm which he cleared up himself. He died in his seventy-sixth year. L. D. ResseUseut to Columbus in 1867 and married Miss M. E Moor. In 1S72 he moved to Knox county, where he remained. He has been engaged in farming until the present time. He has bought and sold several farms, but finally has settled himself permanently on his present farm. He has two children- Maggie and Carrie.

REYNOLDS, DANIEL, Hilliar township, farmer, was born in Hardy county, Virginia, February 4, 181 1. He is the son of William and Rebecca Reynolds, iicc Harris. They were born in Virginia, and married there, where they remained until about 1815, when they came to Licking county, Ohio, where they remained until about 1820, when they removed to Knox county, settling in Hilliar township, where they both died.

He is one of the few pioneers who are now living in the township. He remembers when the township was almost an unbroken forest. He was married to Miss Mary Battomfield June 19, 1840. Thev had a family of five children, four of whom are living, viz; .Amanda, married to Stephen Rinehart;

RHINEHALT, DAVID, wagon maker, Middlebury township, post office, Fredericktown, born in District of Columbia, October 13, 1844, came to Richland county, in 1848, and to Knox county in 1872, where he has remained since his raairiage, in 1867, to Martha Warick, who was born in Richland county, February 2, 1849.

He is the owner of a stationary saw-mill, located on his place in this township with all of the modern improvements, and is doing custom-work to order. He is one of the active men of this township. David Rhinehalt was a soldier of the late war, having been a member of company D, One Hundred and Sixty-third regiment Ohio volunteer infantry, and was engaged in the service four months.

RICE, EPHRAIM, farmer. Brown township, post office, Danville, son of Isaac Rice, born in Bedford county, Pennsylvania, August 15, 1827, was brought to Knox county by his parents when a boy, in 1827, his father locating in Jeffer#n township, where he erected a good hewed log house, into which he moved his family. Here the subject of this sketch was reared and remained until February 3, 1857, when he married Mary M. Bowman, she being the widow of Martm Bowman, born July 5, 1835. After his marriage he purchased a farm of one hundred and twenty-five acres in Brown township, where he then moved and has since remained.

Mr. Rice has held the office of trustee for a number of years. By their marriage they have become the parents of seven children: Clinton M., born November 6, 1857; Tamsen J., March 13, i860; Emma F., September I, 1861; Hattie E., June 2, 1863; Solomon B., March 12, 1865; William B., January 28, 1867; J. I. C, November 21, 1869.

RICE, FREDERICK, Jefferson township, deceased, son of Isaac and Cordelia Rice; born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, December 19, 1821; was brought to Knox county by his parents when seven years of age, his father locating in Jefferson township, north of the village of Danville, where the subject of this sketch received his education. At the age of twentyone years he commenced teaching school, and taught five terms. On November 11, 1857, at the age of twenty-five years, he united in marriage with Miss Nancy J. Withron, daughter of James and Elizabeth Withron, born in Carroll county, October 6, 1826.

After his marriage he moved on a farm owned by Philip Baker, where he remained about five years; he then rented a farm owned by Marshal, and remained there until his father's death, which occurred about the year 1855 or 1856. He then purchased the farm formerly owned by his father, where he moved with his family, and remained until his death, which occurred March 20, 1875, aged fifty-three years. Mr. Rice filled the offices of trustee, clerk, and justice of the peace, in jefterson township. The marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Rice resulted in eight children, viz: James W., born December 26, 1846, died September 16, 1850; Isaac O., born July 28, 1851; ChanningF., December 10, 1854;

Nancy J. Rice, wife of Frederick Rice, died Septe^nber 17, 1879, aged fifty-three years. She had been a consistent member of the Wesleyan Methodist Episcopal church of Jefferson township.

RICE, NliLSON P., farmer, Clay township, born in Greene county, Pennsylvania, September 16, 1S32, and with his father, Thomas Rice, came to Knox county, Ohio, in 1835, locating first in Jackson township, but removing to Clay township about 1838.

He was married to Catharine Travel March 10, 1857. His wife was born December 19, 1836. Their children were Columbus Ohio, born December 29, 1857; Henry M., born October 7, 1859; William S., bom July 10, 1865; and an unnamed daughter which died in infancy.

Mrs. Rice died January 31, 1880. Mr. Rice was married the second time February 12, 1880, to Miss AUie Smith, who was bom in Licking county, Ohio, June 3, 1857. He is the o\vnef of two hundred and fifty acres of good farming land in the southem part of Clay township.

RICHARD, HELEN, Gambler, farmer, a native of Ireland, was born in the county of Cork, Febraary, 1811. In 1851 he emigrated to America and located near Milford, Clermont county, Ohio, and remained two years. In 1853 he came to Gambier, this county, and accepted the position of janitor at the college, which position he held and faithfully discharged his duty for twenty-one years, then in 1875, he turned his attention to farming, and has since made that his vocation. In 1854 he returned to Clermont county, where he married Miss Jane Parrott, December 3d, of same year, born in Clermont county in 1826. They settled in Gambier, where they now reside. They reared four children, viz: George, Stephen, John, and Richard.

RICHERT, JOHN, Brown township, farmer, son of George and Barbara Richert, was born in Stark county, Ohio, August 23, 1839. He was brought to Brown township, this county, by his parents in 1840. In 1859 he went to California by land, and returned by way of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans in 1864. In the spring of 1865 he again went to Cahfomia, and remained about a year, when he again returned to his old home in this county. While in the gold regions he followed mining as his vocation, and since then his time has been spent on a farm. At present he owns a farm about two miles west of Jelloway, in Brown township, on which he has erected buildings, which are among the best improvements in the township.

In February, 1867, he mairied Miss Sarah Oswalt, of Brown township, born in 1845, daughter of Frederick and Catharine Oswalt. They settled on the farm where they now reside. They have a family of children, both sons and daughters.

RICHERT, PETER F., Brown township, dealer in all kinds of boots and shoes, Jelloway. - Mr. Richert was born in Brown township, this county, April 2, 1850. He was brought up on a farm. When seventeen years old he commenced working at the shoemaker's trade, with his father, George Richert, being a shoemaker by trade. He would v/ork at the trade during the fall and winter months, and on the farm for his father during the summer months, until in September, 1874, he moved to Jeloway, where he engaged in the business on his own account.

dealing in all kinds of boots anJ shoes, both course and fine, also manufactures everything in his line of business on short notice. He generally employs from two to three hands to manufacture boots for his trade, all of which are warranted to give satisfaction. He is always ready and willing to wait on his customers. In August, 1874, he married Miss Catharine Reinhard, of Brown township, this county, daughter of George Reinhard. They settled in Jelloway, where they now reside. Their union resulted in two children, only one of whom is now living - Emanuel Theodore.

RIGBY, LUCI.'\N, Fredericktown, harness-maker was born in Licking county, Ohio, in 1831; came to Kno.x county with his parents in infancy. He was married in 1866, to Elizabeth Coulter, who was born in Alleghany county, Pennsylvania, in 1842. They have two children, viz.: Laura V., born May 30, 1868; Otho R., boni .\pril 14. 1870. Mr. Rigby learned harness making in Madison county, Ohio. He enlisted in the war September, 1861, and was a member of company A, Twentieth regiment, Ohio voluiiieer infantry. He was engaged in the service three years, and received an honorable discharge. After his return he opened a harness shop, and has continued here since. Mr. Rigby is a practical mechanic, a wide awake business man, and is one of the active and energetic men of Fredericktown.

RILEY, JOHN. Hilliar township, farmer, was born in Culpeper county, Virginia, May, 1811. His parents came to Ohio about 1824, settling near three miles west of Zanesville, on Fallen Timber run, where the elder Riley died. About two years after his wife, with her family of nine children - four sons and five daughters - came to Hilliar township. Here Mrs. Riley died at the advanced age of eighty-four years. The children are yet living, e.xcepl Elijah who died when young.

The subject cf this notice was married to Miss Susan B. Curtis, of Cambridge, Ohio, in September, 1837, and shortly after their marriage he purchased the tract of land now owned by the Evan heirs, being one of the first settlers on the Rathbone section. Here he constructed his rude cabin, and the young couple began life in the unbroken forest.

Mr. Riley worked with energy and a determination to succeed. Almost day and night the sound of his a.\e might be heard. He cleared this tract without assistance. He disposed of this farm and bought a farm farther west, which he traded for his present home. This, like his first farm, was covered with heavy timber. He cleared this farm and made for himself and family a pleasant home. He owned at one time quite a quantity of land, but as his children grew up he divided it. Mr. Riley, though comparatively small in stature, has done more la .or perhaps than any man of his age m the township. He has always been active and industrious, starting in life without the aid of a dollar. He was unfortunate in his first purchase. He paid two payments on his land, and had worked hard to earn the money for his third and last payment. His house took fire when he and the family were away and the dwelling, together with his money, was entirely consumed. Mr. Riley had but little advantages of education. He has the esteem of the community.

By their marriage they had twelve children: Francis M., wife of Harry Messmore; Judson F., Harrison county, Misouri, a farmer; Leicester T., farmer, Harrison county, Missouri; Mary Emaline, wife of Mahlon Rinehart, Kansas; Wil- Uam A., farmer in Hilliar township; Shelton M., farmer in

Emma E. (deceased), married J. W. Rinehart, and left a family of ten children; Loretta Belle, wife of Wesley Coe. Five of Mr. Riley's sons were in the army^-Judson F., Leceister P., William A., Shelton M., and Morgan T.

RILEY, NICHOLAS, SR. (deceased), was born in Maryland about the year 1778, and emigrated to Butler township, Kno.x county, about the year 1806, purchasing land of John Shrimplin. the owner of Shrimplin's mill, one of the first in Knox county. This land, lying on Owl creek, was very heavily timbered with walnut, sugar, and sycamore.

He was married to Hannah Shrimplin at Wellsburgh, Virginia, prior to his removal to Ohio. The children bom unto them were: William, born January 12, 1803; Harriet, September 22, 1804; Isaac, March 26, 1806; John, July 3, 1807; Eliza, September 23, 1809; Mary, February 4, 1812: Margaret, May

Mr. Riley was an industrious and honored citizen, and did much for the development and impiovement of that section of Butler township lying along Owl creek.

RILEY, GEORGE W., was born m Butler township, August 7, 1816. He is a son of Nicholas Riley, one of the very first settlers of Butler township. He is the owner of several hundred acres of good fat ming land, is an honored, industrious citizen and a life long Democrat.

RILEY, NICHOLAS, was bom December 24, 1829, in Butler township, and was m;irried to Elizabeth Mercer, January 26, 1854. Mrs. Riley was born January 11, 1853. They have had seven children, viz: Ransom, Martha Jane, Samuel M. C, George A., Carrie E., David M., who are all living - one dead not named. Mrs. Riley died November 21, 1875.

RINEHART, MRS. HARRIET, was born in Clinton township, April 21, 1814; she was the daughter of Samuel and Mary Nye, nee Bartlett, who were born in New York, and married there in 1808, and the same year Mr. Nye came to Ohio, leaving his wife in New York. He located at the town of Clinton, his wife coming the next year. He remained in Clinton for some years and then moved on the farm now owned by Charles Swan, about two miles and a half from Mt. Vernon. The farm at that time was entirely covered with forest, and of necessity Mr. Nye had to swing the axe for months and years to make for himself a home. They here reared a family of nine children, seven daughters and two sons, five of whom are yet living.

Mr. Nye was a soldier of the War of 1812, and was a leading citizen of the community. He died at the ripe age of eighty-five years. His wife survived him for some years, dying with her daughter, Mrs. Robert Thompson, of Mt. Vemon, while on a visit. Thus ends all that is mortal of two of Knox coun-

John Rinehart, deceased, was born in New Jersey, March 28, 1810. His parents moved from New Jersey about 1815, and settled a few miles west of Mt. Vernon. October 24, 1833, he was married to Miss Harriet Nye, and the following year they moved to a farm two miles northeast of Centreburgh, and now owned by George Rinehart, their son. The land was entirely covered with forest, but he cleared it, and becatne one of the most prosperous farmers in the community. He was for many years a consistent member of the Methodist church, and took an active and leading part in the erection of suitable buildings for church purposes. As early as 1S37 he was successful in having a place of worship erected in Centreburgh. When this church was no longer fit to occupy, he was instrumental in having the present church building erected. He was a leading and influential citizen, and his loss was felt when he died, January 15, 1880. They had a family of twelve children, six of whom are living. The living are William M., farmer, in Kansas; George, farmer, in Hiiliar township; Preston and John Wesley; Hattie, married to M. F. Hasson, resides in Centreburgh; and Eliza J., married to Marshal Doty, farmer, and resides in Morrow county.

RINEHART, GEORGE, Hiiliar township, farmer ; was born in Hiiliar township September 26, 1840. He is the fifth child of John and Harriet Rinehart. His youth was spent on his father's farm until he went to clerking in a store at Rich Hill, where he remained until he was about twenty years of age, when he returned home. He remained with his parents until he was married to Miss Alice P. Coe, daughter of Captain C. H. Coe, November, 1864. He shortly after moved to his father's old homestead, and a few years after he became owner of the farm by purchase, where he has since resided. He is a successful farmer. By their union they have three children.

Preston H. Rinehart was born in Hiiliar township October 22, 1842. He is a son of John and Harriet Rinehart. He was attending a select school in Centreburgh, and his parents not wishing him to leave school opposed his going to the army, but Preston could not confine himself to his studies, so he took leave of his friends and schoolmates and enlisted in company F, Si.xty-fifth Ohio volunteer infantry, November 14, 1861, and was with the army of the Cumberland. He participated in the battles of Shilo, Stone River, Chattanooga, Chickamauga, Knoxville, Franklin, Lookout Mountain, Resaca, Columbia, Spring Hill and Nashville, besides many skirmishes. He was wounded at Nashville in the right ankle, and was laid up for some time. He was discharged at Nashville. He was a brave and true soldier, never shirking his duty, or never asking for a furlough.

William M. Rinehart, who now lives in Kansas, was also in the army. He enlisted in company F, One Hundred and Twenty-first Ohio volunteer infantry, and served for three years, receiving an honorable discharge. Thus the Rinehart boys served their country faithfully.

RINEHART, WILLIAM, Morris township, farmer, post office, Mt. Vernon, born in Morris township, this county, July 10, 1819; and was married in 1844, to Elizabeth Willhit, who was born in Frederick county, Maryland, March 4, 1825. They had one daughter, Mary Ann, who was born in 1845. Mrs. Elizabeth Rinehart died August 8, 1846. Mr. Rinehart afterwards married Abigail A. Sherman, who was bom in Wayne

Mr. Rinehart is a man of some prominence; he has been elected to different offices in this township, and filled them with credit; he received the nomination for infirmary director in July, 1880.

His father, Christian Rinehart, was born in 1766, in Morris county. New Jersey, was married in 17.94, 'o Mary Douglass, who was born in New Jersey, in 1777. They had ten children - Phebe, Adam, Aaron D., Lewis, Ann, Margaret, John, Samuel, Mary, and William.

Mr. Rinehart emigrated to Knox county, Ohio, in 1816, and located on the farm where his son William now resides. They cleared and improved this farm and remained here until death. They were among the pioneers of the county, and reared a large and respectable family.

RINEHART, JOHN, farmer, post office, Fredericktown, was born in this township in 1828, and was married to Susan Alfred, who was born in Carroll county, Ohio, in 1832. They had nine children - Charles (deceased), George D., Martha B., Adam A., William B., Anna, Jesse, John L. (deceased), and Stanton M.

Mr. Rinehart was elected treasurer of this township in 1877, and reelected in 1880. He is an extensive landholder and is one of the leading farmers of Morris township.

RINEHART, DAVID, farmer, post office, Fredericktown. was born in Mortis township, Knox county, Ohio, in 1839, and was married in 1861 to Harriet Darling, who was born in Wayne township in 1839. They have the following children: Edith M.,. bom in 1862; Clement D., in 1864; Sarah J., in 1865; Adam D., in 1867; Edward R., in i863; and Ella R., in 1875.

Mr. Rinehart is fully identified with this township, having always resided here, and is one of its most active and enterprising men. He owns a well improved farm with excellent buildings.

His father. Adam Rinehart (deceased), was bom in Morris county. New Jersey. March i. 1799, and came to Morris township in 1816, and was married to Martha Bonar, who was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania. They had the following children: Sarah Ann, John, Maiy (deceased), George, Isabella, and David. Adam Rinehart died in Morris township in 1874. He was among its earliest settlers.

Mrs. Rinehart when a young woman, in company with two other ladies, went from this county to Washington county, Pennsylvania, on a visit, travelling the entire distance on horseback, going and returning.

RINGWALT, JOHN S., dry goods merchant, Mt. Vernon. This house was first opened May 10, 1873, under the name of Ringwalt & Jennings, and commenced in the Norton building, northeast corner of the public square, with a new stock of about twenty-five thousand dollars, where they did business four years. Then they moved into the Kirk building, formerly owned by Mr. A. Wolff, where they remained two years. In 1879 Mr. Ringwalt purchased the Sapp block, on west side

Main street, between the public square and Vine street, into wliich the firm moved their stoclc in the commodious and elegant room in said block. Their trade has so increased that they now carry a stock of about fifty thousand dollars.

January i, 1880, Mr. Ringwalt purchased the interest of Mr. Jennings, since which time he has been sole proprietor, and is now doing a business of about ninety thousand dollars per year. His stock is much the largest and most complete in the city, and consists of a full line ot black and colored silks and cashmeres, and dress goods of all kinds; also a full line of notions. Mr. Ringwalt keeps a force of six salesmen to wait upon the large number of customers who daily visit his store. His present stock is valued at thirty-five thousand dollars.

RISLEY, JACOB, deceased, of Clinton township, was bom in Hancock county, Maryland, in the year 1785. In August, 1815, he was married in Augusta county, Virgmia, to Miss Anna Fauber. This marriage took place on the twenty-third day of March. In September of the same year he emigrated to OWo, and located in Knox county. His father, in the year 1812, came to Ohio and purchased one thousand and fifty acres of land in Knox county. Jacob Risley owned the farm three miles from Mt. Vernon, now in possession of his son-in-law. Chambers Ash.

Mr. Risley had one son and two daughters. One daughter, Mrs. Chambers Ash, is living in Knox county, and the other is living in Morrow county. The son, Dr. John Risley, is living in Iowa. In the year 1050 Jacob Risley moved to Morrow county, Ohio, and died on the seventeenth day of March, 1854, aged sixty-nine years.

ROBERTS, MRS. ESTHER, Hilliar township, daughter of Henry and Rebecca Slater, of Greene county, Pennsylvnnia, was bom March i, 1804. When she was about five years old, her parents emigrated to Ohio, and settled about a mile and a quarter south of Mt. Vemon, and were among the early settlers of Knox county. They remained for a number of years in Clinton township, where they first settled, and then moved to Hilliar township, settling west of where the subject of this notice resides. They reside there for a number of years, and died in Morrow county December, 1830.

Either was married to David Roberts, and early in the spring of 1831 they moved on their farm in Hilliar township. The farm was entirely covered with forest, and of necessity Mr. Roberts had to clear the land, and of course, had all the experience of an early settler. There were born to them three sons and five daughters, six of whom reached maturity, and four of whom are still living, viz: Elizabeth, married to Levi Kyle; Phebe, married to Jacksou Kyle; William J,, of whom we will speak hereafter, and Ivy, married to Benjamin Laughery.

Mrs. Roberts enjoys good health, and has the use of her mental faculties to a great degree for one of her age. She still resides on the old homestead with lier son, William J. Roberts, who was born November 7, 1846, who lives now where he was born and raised, and never lived out of the township, except five years when he was in Hardin county, Ohio. He was married to Miss Sarah Lyon, of Morrow county, February 23, 1S69, and as a result of their union they had a family of six children - all sons, five of whom are living.

1357, aged about fifty years. He was born in Greene county, Pennsyhania, and when quite young, his parents moved to Morgan township, and it was here that Mr. Roberts was raised to manhood.

ROBERTS, CHRISTIAN S . Hilliar township, retired farmer, was born in Morgan township December, 1812. His parents came from Gieeiie county, Pennsylvania, in 1810 and settled on the farm now owned by John Roberts, brother of the subject of this notice. They became large land owners, having about twelve hundred acres. They were among the pioneers of Knox county, and by their honest toil helped to make Knox county what it really is, a beautiful land. They died on their favorite spot where they first settled, esteemed by all who knew them.

Mr. Roberts spent his young days on the farm. He remained at home until 1838, when he was married to Miss Elizabeth Braddick, of Knox county, and shortly after moved to Hilliar township where he has since resided, being engaged in farming until recently, when he retired and is now spending his days in his comfortable dwelling in Centreburgh. By his marriage there were three children, all of whom are dead.

ROBERTS, JOHN, Morgan township, farmer, born in Morgan township, December 31, 1818. He is the son of Abraham Roberts, of Mrginia, who married Elizabeth Sellers and came to Ohio, being pioneers of Morgan township. They both died on the farm on which they first settled. They had a family of ni.ie ch.ildren.

The subject of this sketch was born on the farm on which he now resides, having never lived off this farm. September 26, 1844, he was married to Miss Elizabeth Jones, daughter of Nelson Jones. They are the parents of twelve children. Those living are: Anna B., wife of Homer Burris, of Henry county, Missouri; Cordelia, wife of John Calvin, of Morgan township; Rogers P., David O., George Walter, Lizzie D., and Charley L. The deceased are Clarence, Nelson, Reed, Edwin, and an infant. Mr. Roberts is a good citizen and has the esteem of the community.

ROBERTS, EDWARD, Hilliar township, farmer, was born in Trumbull county, Ohio, October 21, 1829. Elizabeth Roberts was born in New York, November, 1814. Ezra Roberts was born in Trumbull county, Ohio, in 1837.

Daniel Roberto, father of the above children, was born near New Haven, Connecticut, in 1787, and emigrated to Broome county. New York, where, in 1812, he was married to Mary Green, who was born May 19, 1789. They remained in New York until about 1824, when they moved to Trumbull county, Ohio, where they remained until .-Vugust, 1837, when they came to Hilliar township, and about three years after moved to the farm on which three of their children yet reside.

They had a family of nine children, and so firr as is kiioun only the three named in this sketch are living. January 31, 1843, Mrs. Roberts died; her luisband followed her about seven years later.

The Messrs. Roberts aie guou farmers, and among the substantial and influential men of Hilliar. Their farm contains about two hundred and forty acres of good land, and well improved. They have several herds of thoroughbred cattle and a lot of fine thoroughbred sheep. They have the confidence and esteem of the public, are social and pleasant people, take great interest in the affairs of the country, and are good citizens.

ROBERTSON, JESSE PRATT, farmer. Liberty township, Mt. Liberty, Ohio, was born in Washington county. New York; June 15, 1832. His father, Hezekiah Robertson, was born in 1805, and married Eliza Pratt, of the same State, in December, 1836. They came to Knox county and settled on the farm on which Mr. Robertson now resides, where the father died in 1867. His wife still survives him. They had eleven children, nine are yet living, viz: Jesse P., the subject of this notice, is the oldest; Mary E., wife of W. R. Proper, of Liberty township; Sarah M., wife of Milton Bird, of Liberty township, Ruth E., wife of Warren Bedell; Phillip E. , farmer, Morrow county; Charles £., farmer. Morrow county; Frances A., wife of David Farr, of Liberty township; Caroline J., wife of Benjamin Thompson, who resides in Sullivan county, Missouri; and Kate. Two infants have died. Mr. Robertson was 1 eared on a farm and received a common school education. He enlisted in company A., Ninety-si.\th Ohio volunteer infantry in July, 1862, and participated in the battle of Arkansas Post, where he was slightly wounded in his right arm. He was discharged September 18, 1863, on account of physical disability, caused from sicknes. On his return home he engaged in farming. He married Miss Caroline A. McComb, November 3, 1854. She was born in Tompkins county, New York, 1832. Her father, Solomon McComb, emigrated to Ohio in 1847, and now is a resident of Mt. \^ernon, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Robertson are the parents of e,even children, all of whom are living - Edme, born February 22, 1S56; Charles, November 16, 1857; Caroline Adelia, born March 15, i860, wife of Edward Jackson; Phillip E., November 27, 1861; W. Delos, August 6, 1864; William K., July 20, 1867; Frank B., June 20, 1869; Linda J. M., May 6, 1872; Walter B., February 4, 1874; Grace O., July 26, 1876; and Fred., January 21, 1880. Mr. Robertson is an estimable citizen, and is highly esteemed for his uprightness of character.

ROBERTSON, AMASA PRATT, Liberty township, eclectic physician, Mt. Liberty post office, was born in Washington county. New York, January 5, 1843. His parents about a year after moved to Kno.x county; where the doctor spent his youth on a farm. In 1862 he enlisted in company F, One Hundred and Twenty-first Ohio volunteer infantry, and served until the close of the war. He was Third sergeant of his company and was subsequently commissioned sergeant major and as such he was discharged. He participated in the battles of Perryville, Kentucky; Franklin, Tennessee; Chickamauga, Lookout Mountain, Resaca, Kennesaw Mountain, .Atlanta, and with the army to Savannah, thence to Bentonville, North Carolina. This, of course, includes all the skirmishes, battles and marches of that memorable campaign, .^fter he returned home he attended school at Mt. Vernon and Columbus, Ohio, where he graduated in a commercial course. He taught school for several terms, and in 1869 began reading medicine with Dr. T. H. Vankirk, of Mt Liberty, Ohio, reading about three years. In 1S72 he entered the Eclectic Medical institute at Cincinnati, Ohio. He graduated and commenced practice in Mt. Liberty, where he has .succeeded in securing a good practice. He was married to Miss Mary Thompson in November, T873. They have one child, Olive, born December 29, 1878.

ROBERTSON, EZRA S., deceased, the father of Dr. Robertson, was born in Washington county, New York, September 26, 1809. His youth, until nineteen years of age, was spent on a farm. He then learned the trade of wagonmaking, working at it until 1843, when he immigrated to Ohio and located on a farm in Hilliar township. He sold this farm and removed to Liberty township where he purchased a farm and remained on it until 1864, when he moved to Mt. Liberty where he engaged at his trade. He died November, 1880! He was an exemplary man and had many friends. He married Sarah Pratt, of Mew York. They had nine children, seven yet living. His wife survives him.

ROBINSON, SOLOMON, deceased, a native of Maryland, was born in 1871; he married Miss Rebecca Workman in 1801 or 1802, a native of Maryland, born in 1873, d.nugluer of Isaac Workman. They settled in Maryland, remained a short time, then migrated to Harrison county, Ohio, where they lived until. 181 1, when they moved to Knox county, Ohio, and located in <Jnion township, on the farm now owned by Jacob Rose, near Danville. He erected a log cabin, which ser^'ed them as an abode for about ten years, when he built a hewed log house in which they lived for several years, when he erected a frame addition to his residence, which he used as a dwelling until 1866, when he moved to Clinton township, near Mt. Vernon, where he passed the remainder of his days. By his marriage to Miss Workman he had twelve children: Joseph, Barbara, William, Isaac, Sarah, Hugh, Matilda, Jacob, Margaret, Daniel, Basil, and Nancy, five of whom are living. His companion deceased March 14. 1835. He married lor his second \\ ife, Nancy Wells, nee Workman, in 1837, by v/hom he had one child, Louisa, deceased. He died Septembei 10, 1866. His wife survived him until 1878, aged ninety years. He was reared a farmer and followed farming as his vocation.

ROBINSON, WILLIAM, deceased, Union township, was born in Maryland in 1783, and married Miss Sarah Workman, of Maryland, in 1802. They settled m Maryland and remained the. e until 1811, v/hen they emigrated to Knox county, Ohio, and located in Union township, on land now occupied by J. C. Langford, where they passed the remainder of their days. His first improvement on his land was the erection of a log cabin, which served them as an abode until 1822, when he erected a hewed log dwelling, in which they lived the remainder of their days. They reared a family of ten children: John, Margaret, David, Maria, Barbara, Lucinda, Matilda, Julia A., Sarah, and Mary, all of whom are dead except Lucinda, Mary, Matilda, and Margaret. His wife died in 1829. He married for his second wife, Mrs. Margaret McKinzie, nff Logstone, in 183 r, by whom he had four children: Henry C, Lyman W., Royal D.. and Elizabeth. He served in the War of r8i2, and represented Knox county in the legislature one term. He also held the office of county commissioner several years. He followed farming as his vocation. His wife died in 1848; he survived her until 1863, aged eighty years.

ROBINSON, LYMAN W., farmer, post office. Gambler, son of William and Margaret Robinson, born in Union township, Knox county, September 12, 1835, by whom he was reared and educated. He was married October 28, 1858, to Deliah Dillin, daughter of Isaac and Eleanor Dillin, who was born in Harrison township, Knox county, March 8, i833_ After their marriage he remained one year with his father, farming on shares; he then moved to Harrison township, on the farm now owned by Joseph Ferenbaugh, where he remained one year, and then moved to Howard township on a farm owned by his father, where he farmed two years. During this time he purchased a farm of ninety-seven and a half acres in Harrison township, where he then moved and at present re- sides. They are the parents of three children - one died in infancy; and those living are Carrie M., born March i, 1862, and on November 25, 1880, she married Leander Hays, of Clay township, wher^ she at present resides; William D., born June 20, 1864, who lives at home.

ROBIXSOX, ISAAC F., Pike township, farmer, post office. Democracy, born in Union township in 1835, and was married in i860 to Elizabeth Kramer, who was born in Mercer county, Pennsylvania, in 1844. They have seven children - Lydia Jane, born in 1861; Mary E., in 1S63; William H., in 1865; Francis Emma, in 1867; George W., in 1869; Ella S., in 1871, and Effa May, in 1877.

Mr. Robinson purchased a farm in this township in 1855, and has displayed good taste in erecting his buildings; his houseespecially being a model one, uith all in modern style. His father, Isaac Robinson, deceased, was a native of Union township, and was man led to Rosannah Crouse, who was a native of Pennsylvania, and came to Ohio with her parents when a child. There are three surviving members of their family - William, who resides in Floyd, iowa; Mary (now Mrs. Morgan), who resides in Iowa, and Isaac F.

ROBINSON, JAMES RUSSEEL, physician, Mt. Vernon, was born in Holmes county, Ohio, on the seventeenth day of April, 1850. He attended such schools as the county then afforded. He went mainly to the schools of Mt. Vernon. He is of Scotch and Irish parentage, his father being Scotch, and his mother of Irish extraction. He read medicine with Dr. James Loar about two years, and two years with Dr. Newcomer, who resides in Connellsville, Pennsylvania. He then attended the L'niversity of Philadelphia, graduating in 1872, when about twenty-two years of age. He associated himself with his old preceptoi. Dr. Newcomer, and in the spring of 1873 he purchased the interest of his associate. In 1875 he took his brother, L. E. Robinson, into partnership, which continued until 1877, since which tiine he has been practising alone. He was appointed, in 1874, physician to the county infirmary, and township physician. In 1877 he was appointed examining surgeon for the United States Government. When he was quite young his parents moved to Knox county, where his youthful days were spent.

ROCK, JAMES, landlord of Rock hotel, Fredericktown, was born in Ireland in 1809, and came to America in 1821. He located in Whitehall, New York, and in 1844 came to Mt. Vernon. He was married in 1840 to Hannah Lloyd, who was born in Vermont. They had four children, viz: (jeorge E. ; John, deceased; Clark L. , deceased; and Mary E. , who was married to Frank Jacobs, and lives in Mt. \'ernon.

Mrs. Hannah Rock died in Richland county, August 19, i36i. Mr. Rock afterwards married Harriet Cornell, who was born in Virginia in 1829. They had the following children, viz: James, jr., born January 7, 1863, died an infant; George E. was a soldier in the late war, a member of the Third Ohio cavalry, and died during the service at Nashville, Tennessee; Clark L. was a member of the One Hundred and Twenty-eighth regiment, Ohio volunteer infantry, and died during the war at Vicksburgh. Mr. Rock located in this town in 1864. He is proprietor of the Rock hotel, keeps a good house, and is an accommodating landlord, and though advanced in years, is still able to attend to business.

ROGERS, JAMES, deceased, Wayne township, born in New York in 1805, married January i, 1828, to Sarah Douglass, who was born in this county, Clinton township, Februarv 9. 1809. They had the following children, viz: Samuel, born October 3, 182S; Hannah J., August 24, 1830; Mary, February 9, 1833; William, October 7, 1835; Timothy, October 30, 1837; Elizabeth, May 11, 1841; and Sarah, August 28, 1846.

Mr. Rogers died May 18, 1879. Mary died August 7, 1845. They resided in Fredericktown for twenty-five years. Mr. Rogers was engaged in buying, selling, and shipping horses to the east. He was an active and enterprising man, and had excellent business qualifications. He left his family in good circumstances. Mrs. Rogers is residing in Fredericktown with her daughter, Mrs. Foote.

ROGERS, EDWARD, meat market, Vine street, Mt. Vernon. Mr. Rogers was born in Weston, Warwickshire, England. February 22, 1829, where he resided until he was twentyeight years of age, during which time he was engaged in farming. In 1S54 he came to this country and located in Mt. Vernon, and engaged in the baking business in partnership with his brother James, working under the firm name of ]. & E. Rogers. This firm continued for two years, when Edward went to Gambier arid continued in the same business, meeting with good success during thirteen years. He then adopted the butchering business, in which he continued for four years. In 1874 Mr. Rogers came back to Mt. \''ernon, and engaged in butchering, which he still continues. He does the most extensive business in this line in the city. His sales amount to about two thousand dollars per month, or twenty-five thousand dollars per year. He keeps constantly on hand fresh meats of all kinds, and smoked salt pork. He slaughters about two hundred and twenty-five head of cattle, seventy-five calves, seventy-five sheep and lambs, and fifty hogs per annum.

ROGERS, JAMES, manufacturer and dealer, Mt. Vernon, Ohio, was born in Weston, Warwickshire, England, March i, 1831, where he resided until twenty-three years old and during which time he followed farming, and learned the baking business. In 1853 he emigrated to this country and located in Mt. Vernon, where he has resided ever since. His first business engagement here was with the firm of |. George, in a bakery, in which he continued one year. He then established a business for himself, in which he continued with good success for sixteen years. He then moved out on his farm and devoted his attention to farming for two years, when he purchased a lot and built the Rogers' block, and engaged in the grocery business, in which he still continues. In 1875 he engaged in the hardware business, and in 187S he added the merchant tailoring business, and is proprietor of the Norton flouring-mills, and is also managing his farm and dairy. He has made four additions to the city known as the Rogers' Addition, Rogers' North Addition, Rogers' Eastern Addition, and Rogers' and Doyle's Addition. He was married January 21, 1855, to Miss Elizabeth Tighe, and they have had a family of seven children, only one of whom is living, William J., who is assisting his father in the hardware business. Mr. Rogers is a man of real energy and unusual business abilities; has done much to develop the business interests of this city, and is one of its most respected citizens.

ROGERS, GEORGE, Mt. Vernon, of the firm of C. and G. Cooper & Co., Mt. Vernon, was born in Licking county, Ohio, September 19, 1836. His parents came to Mt. Vernon when

From the age of fourteen to that of twenty he was connected with the Cooper establishment, and attended the city high school. He read law with Messrs. Cooper & Vance, and travelled for the firm of C. and J. Cooper & Co. He was admitted to the bar in 1861, but never practiced.

In April, 1861, he enlisted in the second company of volunteers raised in the city, and was elected and commissioned second lieutenant of company B, Fourth Ohio volunteer infantry. Colonel Lorin Andrews, called into service for three months. At the expiration of his term of service Lieutenant Rogers came home and raised a company of one hundred and fifty men for the Twentieth regiment Ohio volunteer infantry, and was commissioned captain of company B, in which position he served until January, 1863, when he resigned. Shortly after his resignation thf President appointed him lieutenant colonel of the Fourth regiment of the United States colored troops. He continued in command of the regiment until the close of the war. His regiment took part in the assault on Petersburgh. In June, 1864, he was detailed chief mustering and dispensing officer of the State of North Carolina, with headquarters at Newbern. He took an active part in breaking up the rebel rendezvous in that State. In the fall of 1S64 he rejoined his command at Hampton Roads, where they embarked in the Fort Fisher expedition, the colonel taking a part in that affair. For meritorious services in the field he was commissioned brevet colonel, and also brevet brigadier general.

After the Fort Fisher expedition Colonel Rogers returned home and purchased a one-third interest in the Kokosing iron works, in connection with Charles and John Cooper. The firm of Coopers & Rogers had charge of the Kokosing works for three years, their specialty being building mowers. In 1869 that firm was consolidated with the firm conducting the Mt. Vernon iron works.

ROOD, WILLIAIM HARRISON, Wayne township, farmer, post office, Fredericktown, born in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, October 18, 1816, came to Knox county August 9, 1817, with his parents, and was married May 3, 1837, to Anna Maria Bell, who was born in county of Westmeath, Ireland. They had the following children; Frank, born December 16, 1857; Cynthia Jane, October 12, i860; Clara, August 8, 1861; Mary E., Mays, 1866; and Benjamin Franklin, November 3, 1S70. Frank Rood died October 15, i860. Mr. Rood is one of the 'earliest settlers of Wayne township. His father, Noah Rood was bom in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, and married in Washington county, Pennsylvania, to Mary Minick, who was born in Pennsylvania. They had four sons and three daughters, viz.: Thomas, Phebe, Betsy, Samuel, Cyntha Ann, William, Harrison, and James Madison. Noah Rood died in Chester township. Morrow county, at the age of seventy-four years. Mrs. Mary Rood died in the same county at the age of ninety-five years. They were pioneers of this county.

ROSENTHALL, I. & D., clothiers, Woodward block, corner Main and Vine streets, Mt. Vernon. Mr. I. Rosenthail, managing partner of this firm, was bom in Richmond, Virginia, March 15, 1844. When nine years of age his parents removed to New York city, where they resided two years. From New York city the family removed to Pittsburgh. In the fall of i860 Mr. Rosenthail came to Ohio, where he made his first engagement with the firm of William Flemming & J. Fink, who located at Bellefontaine, Logan county. He afterwards entered the house of Stofal & Gates, with whom he continued one year, when he purchased the stock of the firm and conducted the business himself for five years. He went from Bellefontaine to Wooster and conducted the business for some five years. At the expiration of this time, he established a house of business at Akron, where he remained six years. From Akron he went to Altoona, Pennsylvania, and engaged in business with his brother - the firm being I. & D. Rosenthail. April i, 1878, he came to Mt. Vemon and established the present house, while his brother remains at Altoona, m charge of the house there. The firm here carries the largest stock of ready-made clothing of any similar establishment in the city. They also have a large and fine assortment of gentlemen's furnishing goods, hats, caps, etc.

ROSS, TIMOTHY, Milford township, farmer, was bom in Knox county December 25, 1820. His paternal grandfather, Timothy Ross, was a resident of New Jersey, and removed to western Pennsylvania at an early day.

Nathaniel Ross, a son of Timothy Ross, sr., was born in Greene county, Pennsylvania, February 19, 1794. He married Sallie Hair, of the same county, and in 1817 they came to Harrison township, Knox county, and settled in the woods.

Mr. Ross cleared up this farm, and remained on it until the death of his wife, when he went to live with his children. He is yet living, and for a man of his years, is physically strong and mentally bright. He was the father of eight children, viz: Polly, wife of Adam Crumrine, of Hancock, Ohio; Cynth'a, drowned while returning from school; John died young; Timothy, the subject of this notice; Rachel Ann, killed by the falling of a log from the spring house during a storm; Delilah, deceased, who was the wife of Robert Melick; Samuel, a resident of Harrison township; Benjamin died before reaching mature age.

The subject of this notice, Timothy Ross, remained with his parents until he was about twenty-three years of age. assisting his father on the farm. In April, 1844, he married Miss Esther Ann Crouse, who was born January 11, 1826. She is the daughter of George Crouse, who was born in Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, Februnry 5, 1799, where at sixteen years of age he learned blacksmithing. At eighteen he went to Augusta county, Virginia, and in the fall of 1820 he came to Mt. Vernon, and engaged in blacksmithing and farming. He married Lydia Melker, a native of Rockingham county, Virginia, in January, 1825. They had four children: Jacob, deceased; Henry M., of Indiana; Philip M., of Iowa, and Esther Ann, wife of T. Ross. His second wife was Catharine Bitner, a native of Pennsylvania. He is yet living at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Ross. Shortly after the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Ross they moved to Hancock county, Ohio, remained there about four years, and returned to Knox county, locating in Milford township, where they have since resided.

Mr. Ross is a leading citizen, and is highly esteemed for his many good qualities. He takes an active interest in the affairs of the tov/nship, and is a leading member of the Christian or Disciple church to which organization he has belonged for about twenty years. They had five children, viz: Sarah E., wife of Abraham Ewing; Dehlah; Mary, deceased, who was the wife of Bruce E. Jackson; Melvina, wife of C. B. Jackson; and Ida.

December ii, 1821. He removed with his father, William Ross, to Cl.iy township, Knox county, Ohio, in 1823, and remained there about four years, when he removed to Jackson township, wliere he resided until A. D. 1836, removing that year to Jefierson township, where his father died in 1841. Two months prior to his father's decease he left home to learn the stone-mason trade, to which he served an apprenticeship of three years, with James Blount, of Jackson township. During the time of his apprenticeship, in 1841, he went to school three months.

During the winter of 1843 he taught school in Brown township. He went from Brown to Jackson township to work at his trade, removed from Jackson to Butler township in 1854, where he has over smce resided.

He was married September 5, 1844, to Miss Elizabeth Eley, of Butler township, who was born January 2, 1824. They have had five children, vi2: Lemuel, born July 7, 1845; James, April 18, 1847; Benjamin and Jacob, twins, who were born July 15, 1850; Mary, December 16, 1855; X. W. Farmer, who was born July 22, 1861, resides with .Mr. Ross.

During the war of the Rebellion Lemuel and James enlisted in company G, One Hundred and Twenty-first Ohio volunteer infantry. Colonel H. B. Banning. Lemuel died April 2, 1864, and James April 4, 1864. Both died of measles near Rossville, Georgia. Their remains were brought home and buried in Dennis cemetery, Jackson township.

Mr. Ross has been a member of the Disciple church ever since he was twenty-one years of age, and elder in the church about thirty years. He was first a Democrat and afterwards became a Republican, and still continues in that political faith.

ROSS, JO.SEPH, Brown township, farmer, a son of Elisha and Dorcas Ross, was born in this county on the seventh day of April, 1842. He was reared on a farm and has followed farming as his vocation. In 1866 he married Miss Mary Workman, of this county, daughter of Solomon and Mary A. Workman. They settled on the farm in Brown township, one and a half miles south of Jelloway, where they are now living. Tiieir union resulted in three children - Franklin, Clinton, and David.

ROUSE, E. S. S., is a native of Rensselaer county, Xew York; born February 23, 1795. He was a member of Colonel Kerr's regiment in the War of 1812, in which he ser\'ed six months. In 1818 he came to Ohio and located in Muskingum county on a farm, where he !ive4 nine years, during which he was elected captain of a company in Colonel Springer's rifle regiment, of which he had command two and a half years. After lca\ ing his farm he went to Dresden and engaged in the commission business, in which he remained about one and a half years, after which he returned to Oneida county. New York. He was married March i, 1820, to Polly Mills, by whom he liad a family of six children, five of whom are living, and are married, viz. : Maria Sealts, Lydia C. Rowley, Erastus, .\ndrcw M., and John D., who enlisted in the Seventy-seventh Illinois regiment; was promoted to lieutenant, and afterward to captain; served about three years, after which he was appointed judge advocate of New Orleans. He came to Knox county and settled tn Miller township in 1833, and resided there until i3:;o, when he came to Mt. Vernon and engaged in the factory business, and has been in different kinds of business until he retired.

Mr. Rouse served the peonle of Miller township as justice of the pence for nine years, and ten years as township clerk. He was .mayor of the city of Mt. \'ernon one term. Mr. Rouse has always been an active business man, and in retiring from the field he has the satisfaction of knowing that he has done his part. He is now in his eighty-sixth year, and his wife is eightytwo. They are the oldest couple living in the city.

ROWE, LEWIS, Wayne township, farmer, post office, Fredericktown; born in New York April 9, 1812, and was married January 17, 1839, to Mary Campbell, who was bom in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, November 28, 1S15, They have the following children: Sarah, born October 30, 1843; Lyman, August 21; 1846; Amanda, July 15, 1848.

ROWLAND, J.AMES F., Milford township, oneof the leading farmers of Milford township, was born in Richland county (now Ashland county), Ohio, April 11, 1824; is the son of Simon Rowland, a native of Pennsylvania, who came to Ohio at an early day and settled in Green township, Richland countv, where he married Sarah Hill about 1817, who was a native of Vermont. They had eight children, five of whom are living, the subject of this notice being the eldest. Jane, married to John Ohler; Cyrus A.; Alletha, married Joel Ward, and Joseph. The deceased were Eliza, Thomas, and Mary, the last of whom was married to Levi Browlyier. The parents died in Green township, Richland county, now Ashland county.

The subject of this notice was reared on the farm his father entered, and continued to live on it until i860, when he moved to Knox county liaving sold tlie old honiestead. In 1848 he married Sarah Ohler. They had ten children, viz: Simon, Calvin J., William L., Frank, Shannon, Jane (deceased), Alice (married to William Rizor), Ida (deceased), Lizzie, and Ella. Mr. Rowland is a leading member ol the Baptist ciiurch and a man of influence. He is township trustee.

ROWLEY, SAMUEL, was born May 11, 1787, in Rutland county, Vermont, and emigrated to Ohio in 1813, stopping one year in Muskingum county. He came to Knox county in 1814 and located in Miller township, where he resided until 1824, when he came to Mt. \'ernon and remained until 1832, when he went to Licking countv and remained two years, after which he came iiack to Mt. \'ernon, where he resided until tlie day of his death, November 20, 1851.

He was mairied to Miss E. Ward .November 3, 1808. She is still living at the advanced age of ninety-one years. She was born April 7, 1790. Tliey reared a family of six children, four of whom are living.

ROWLEY, HORACE, harness and saddle manufacturer, corner Main and Front streets, Mt. \'ernon. Mr. Rowley was born in Pittsford, Rutland county, Vermont, on the fourth day of September, 1809. When he was about three years of age h's parents emigrated to Ohio and settled in Miller township, this county, where they resided about ten years, and then came to Mt. Vernon. After he came here he went into the saddle and harness trade, and served his time with William Mefford & John Gregg. He then entered into business for himself in this city.

and carried on his sliop for thirteen years. He then went to Indiana and worl<ed awhile in New Albany, and then at Germantown. He then returned to Ohio and located in Marysville, UnioB county, and carried on his business there for about one year. His next location was at Mt. Liberty, this county. He remained in business there for five years, In 1849 he returned to Mt. Vernon and engaged in the harness business and has continued in it ever since.

Mr. Rowley is the pioneer saddle and harness manufacturer of this city. He has always conducted the business himself, doing all his work, and has the satistaction of making his trade a success, and giving the people good, honest work, which he is still prepared to do.

ROWLEY, MRS. ELIZABETH, deceased. - The deceased was born in Connecticut on the seventh of .A.pril, 1790, and was, at her death, in the ninety -first year of her age. She came with her husband to Ohio fn 1814, first settling in Muskingum county. From thence the family removed to Knox county, locating in Miller township, and subsequently in the year 1824, they settled in Mt. Vernon. Since her husband's death, in 1851, she has made her home with her son Jerome. She reared a family of six children, four of whom are still living, viz; Horace Rowley, Jerome Rowley, Mrs. Semanthe Winne, and Mrs. E. C. Vore, all of whom were at her bedside when she died.

She was a member of the Baptist church for sixty-five years, and was a good Christian woman, respected and honored by all who enjoyed the pleasure of her acquaintance.

ROWLEY, JEROME, Mt. Vernon, is a native of Knox county, born in Miller township June 23, 1816, and received such an education as he could get at the public schools of that day. He followed farming until they came to Mt. Vernon, when he assisted his father m the hotel, duting which he married Miss Maria Watkins, a daughter of Francis Waikins, who came from Washmgton county, Pennsylvania, and settled in Mt. Vernon in 1812. Shortly after his marriage he went to Ciark county, lUmois, where he engaged in farming, milling, nierchandizmg, and the stock business. He remained there until 1847, when he returned to Mt. Vernon, where he engaged in farming, and kept a country hotel about five miles from the city on the Columbus road, in Liberty township, where he remained until 1864, when he was burned out, and returned to Mt. Vernon, where he has lived ever since. He has been engaged in the flour trade for several years, but has retired from busmess.

He has reared a family of five children, four of whom are living - two sons and two daughters - all of whom are married and live in Knox county.

ROWLEY, SHANNON F., Milford township, fanner and justice of the peace, Milfordton post office, was born in Mt. Vernon, January 24, 1839, and is the son of Jerome and Mariah Rowley, nee Wilkins.

The subject of this sketch spent his youth from his ninth year on a farm, and has always followed farming as his occupation. He was elected justice of the peace m 1878. Mr. Rowley is pleasant and social in his manners, and is a good citizen.

He married Miss Cynthia A. Smith, September 9, 1862, who was born February 20, 1844; she is the daughter of Preserve and Amelia Smith, ncc Knowles, natives of Litchfield county, Connecticut, who came to Milford township in 1831. They were highly respected citizens, and died at their home, known as the Five Corners. They had ten children: Henry A.,

George L., William D., L. F., Fannie M. (deceased), who was married to Luther Hyatt; Charles G., Emeline C, wife of John Milligan, of Brandon, Ohio; Sarah V., wife of Ira D. Hunt; Benjamin C, Cynthia A., wife of S. F. Rowley; and Oscar E.

Mr. and Mrs. Rowley are the parents of three interesting children: Killian W., born December 17, 1869; Frank S. , June 30, 1871; Jerome, December 31, 1874.

ROWLEY, H. YOUNG, proprietor of Rowley house, South Main street, Mt. Vernon, was born in this city December 26, 1848, and was educated in our excellent common schools. He first engaged in business with his father who conducted a grocery and feed store. In 1869 he became interested in the brewery business with James Miller, under the firm of Miller & Rowley. For two years the firm continued, when he bought his partner's business, and for three years more run the brewery successfully. In 1874 Mr. Rowley took charge of the Rowley house, and has continued proprietor to the present. The house is pleasantly located, and at this time is doing a large business. The house contains in all four-four rooms - thirty transient, and eleven sample rooms. On the first floor, one dining hall, office and bar, and ladies' and gentlemen's parlors, etc. Mr. Rowley has represented his ward in the city council.

ROWLEY, ISAACHER, was born in Steuben county. New York, April 12, 1815, and came to Ohio in 1837, located in Fredericktown, and was married January, 1838, to Ruth Corbin, who was born in this county in 181 1. They had four children: Artemas C, Mellville, Theodore (deceased), and an infant (deceased). Mrs. Ruth Rowley died September 2, 1848.

Mr. Rowley subsequently married Sarah A. Tremley. They had three children: Eva C. (deceased), an infant (deceased), and Anna R., who married George W. Mozier. They reside in Mt. Gilead, Morrow county. Mrs. Sarah Rowley died May 6, 1877.

Mr. Rowley has resided in Fredericktown and vicinity for forty-four years, and was engaged in farming the most of the time. He studied law and is engaged in a home practice; he is also a notary public, and has been justice of tne peace in Berlin township. He is a prominent member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and has been a representative in thiee sessions in the grand lodge of the State of Ohio. He was a delegate to the State convention, and voted for Salmon P. Chase for governor at the organization of the Republican party, and has since been identified with this party.

He was appointed postmaster of Fredericktown in February, 1874, during General Grant's administration. He was formerly a member of the Methodist Episcopal church for twenty-five years, was an oflficial member and did much to advance the interest of the church.

ROWLEY, O. P., farmer, College township, son of Hiram and Betsy Rowley, was born in Miller township, this county, February i, 1821. Hiram Rowley, father of the subject of this sketch, was born in Vermont in 1794. He married Miss Betsy Wheeler, of Vermont, about 1817, who was bom in 1793. They emigrated to Ohio and located in Miller township, this county, in about 1819, where they passed the remainder of their days. Mrs. Rowley died in 1876; he survived her until 1878. They reared a family of three children - Ellen, Olney P., and John R. The first named is dead. -

1843. They settled in Monroe township, remained several years, then moved to College township where they are now residing. Their union resulted in four children, viz: John R., Hiram, Olney G., and Noah S. John R. ser\ed three years in the late war, enlisting in 1862, and serving until the close of the war.

ROWLEY, WILLIAM, salesman, Fredericktown, was born in New York in 1832, emigrated to Michigan and remained for four years, then removed to Illinois, stayed there four years, then in 1840 came to Knox county, Ohio, and in 1852 went to California, remained there about fourteen years, and after returning to Ohio was married in 1876, to Miss E. F. Roberts daughter of Richard Roberts, who was born in Knox county, Ohio, in 1842. Mr. Rowley is engaged with the firn^. of S. S. Tuttle & Co. , in the saw-mill and lumber yard.

ROWLEY, WILLIAM H., Berlin township, farmer, post office, Fredericktown, was born on the farm where he now resides, in 1839. He was married in 1864, to Catharine Lloyd, who was born in Morrow county, Ohio, in 1845. They have .'our children: Jennie, born in 1866; Frank, in 1867; J. T. Rowley, in 1869; Sadie, in 1876.

Mr. Rowley was a soldier in the late war, a member of company G, One Hundred and Twenty-first regiment, Ohio volunteer infantry, and was engaged in the service for twenty-two months. He was wounded at the battle of Chickainauga in 1863, and was left on the battle-field. He fell into the hands of the rebels, and was held a prisoner nine days, and then paroled. He was honorably discharged. He was also engaged in the battle of Perryville. He has an Indian relic different from any inserted in the History of Richland County. He also has the bullet which was taken out of his limb, which wounded him during the service.