Wayne Township (part 4 of 22)

Bradfield married Miss Sarah A. Sapp, July 6, 1845. She was born in Union township, Knox county, November 6, 1824, and is the daughter of Levi and Marv Sapp. They settled in Brown township, and remained until 1850. He purchased and moved on a farm in Howard township, near the Catholic church, where they lived ten years, and in i860 he purchased and moved on the farm where they are now living, in Union township, near Danville. They have five sons and four daughters. He was a millwright by trade, and made that his principal vocation until he was about forty years of age, when he turned his attention to farming, and is at present farming and stock-raising, making fine sheep a specialty. He filled the office of county commissioner from i86i.to 1867. He held the office of justice of the peace from i860 to 1B66, and was internal revenue assessor from 1862 to 1869. He is a man that is well known in the county, and highly esteemed by all his acquaintances. After the death of his sister, Mrs. Barr, which occurred April 7, 1848, his mother made her home with him until she died, February 8, 1867, aged seventy-eight years.

BRADFIELD, CHARLES ROBERT, Liberty township, physician, Mt. Liberty post oflfice. He was born in Union township, May, 1846. His youth was spent on the farm and attending district school. He attended school at Hayesville and Danville. While on the farm he read anatomy during his leisure time. When about seventeen years of age he went to read medicine with Dr. L. W. Sapp, a Homeopathic physician of Cleveland, but changed his purpose and read with Drs. Sapp and Balmer of Danville, physicians of the regular school. He read with them three years and attended lectures in Cleveland, and finished his course at Detroit, Michigan, in 1870.

His first practice was with his preceptors at Danville, where he remained until 1872, when he came to Mt. Liberty. He soon secured a large practice and has been successful in retaining it. He is social in his manners and liberal in his views.

He was married to Miss Sarah Dunlap, daughter of Salathiel Dunlap, of Butler township, January, 1868. They have three children - Stella, born December 14, 1869, died July, 1871; Lizzie A., born May 3, 1871; Dale, born January 10, 1870.

BRADRICK, JOHN, Berlin township, farmer and carpenter, post office, P'redericktown, born in Belmont county in 1818, and was married in Richland county to Elizabeth Jane Beans, who was born in Loudoun county, Virginia, in 1822. They had five children, viz: Mortimer, born in 1849; Wilson, in 1851; Harrison, in 1854; Paul A. (deceased), in 1856; and Jonathan, jr. (dece.^-sed), in 1858. Mrs. Elizabeth J. Bradrickdied in 1874.

His second marriage was to Mariam Gibson (Tavenner), who was born in Loudoun county, Virginia, in 1836. Mr. Bradrick came to Richland county in 1833, and remained there till 1849, when he located in Berhn township, this county.

When a young man he learned the carpenter trade ; he built a barn on the farm of James Trayer in 1836, and in 1876 he built a barn on the same location for Isaac Leedy, and has worked at his trade in different localities.

Elizabeth was married to Daniel Fallen, now living in Perry township, Richland county. Catharine died in 1879. George died in 1852. Margaret was married to A. C. Huntsman, now of Richland county. Lorain is engaged in the study of medicine with Dr. Hall, of Fredericktown, and attending lectures at Chicago. Leroy is residing with his parents.

Richland county, Ohio ; born July 3, 1831. When about seven years old his father moved to Knox county and located about one mile west of Mt. Vernon. There he resided three years when he returned to Richland county and located three-fourths of a mile east of Shelby. After residing there three years he again moved, making a home in Crawford county. Mr. Branyan, senior, died July 5, 1845.

After the death of his father young Branyan returned to Richland count}- and resided there for some three years, and then went to Gambler and engaged m learning the blacksmith trade with Mr. F. Penhorwood, and served three years. At the e-xpiration of his apprenticeship he opened a shop for himself, and conducted it for two years. The four following years were spent in travelling and workmg as a journeyman in different places in Ohio and Indiana. After thus travelling he came to Mt. Vernon and for two years worked as a journeyman, after which he opened a shop for himself He does a business of about two thousand dollars per year, and makes horseshoeing a specialty, having a thorough knowledge of the theory of shoeing track and draft horses, and all other departments of shoeing. He does also all kinds of job work and repairing on short notice. All work first class and warranted. Mr. Branyan has represented his ward in the city council.

BREECE, EDSOXJ., Fredericktown, painter; was born in Fredericktown in 1829, and married in 1852 to Ruth Snow, who was born in Lake county in 1828. They have three children, viz: Elva I., born in 1853; Etta M., in 1855, and Ellsworth W., in 1866. Mr. Breece enlisted in company H, O. X. G,, during the late war and served out the time of his enlistment, receiving an honorable discharge. He is engaged in house and carriage painting, and is a skilful mechanic.

BREECE, ADAM, Pleasant township, farmer; son of Adam and Eliza Breece ; was born in Loudoun county, Virginia, May 29, 1832. He was brought to Coshocton county, Ohio, by his parents in 1836, where he was brought up on a farm, and has followed farming as his principal vocation. In 1855 became to Kno.x county and located in Harrison township, where he married Miss Elizabeth Biggs in 1859, bom in 1836 and daughter of Levi Biggs. They settled in the same township, and remained until 1869, when he purchased and moved on the farm in Pleasant township, where he is now- living. They have a family of seven children, four sons and three daughters.

BREXT, REV. JULIUS, deceased, former pastor of St. Vmcent De Paul's Catholic church, Mt. Vernon, and of St. Luke's, near Danville, Ohio, was born in the city of London, on the twentieth of February, 1827. He was the youngest of six children of Samuel and Anne Virtue Brent. His fatlier and grandfather were ship-builders, who at one time had a large interest in the London and Greenwich docks, and had during the "thirty years war " amassed a considerable fortune in building menof-war vessels for the British Government. After the close of the war by the treaty of Ghent the business of ship building declined, and little was done in that line except in remodelling war vessels into merchantmen. This the Brents refused to engage in as being out of the province of the business proper. Reverse of fortune caused Mr. Brent to turn his eyes to America in the hope of retrieving his losses, and in 1829 he settled with his family in Brooklvn, Long Island, Xew York. In 1835 the family immigrated to Knox county, locating in Brown township, on llie farm that the elder sons Edmund (Judge Crent of this city) and Edgar (the father of Samuel J. Brent, the present clerk of the court), had commenced clearing of the primiti\e forest the year before. Change of circumstances and of habit told severely upon Mr. Brent, and after a lingering illness he died in the autumn following his arrival. The eastern portion of Knox county was largelv settled by immigrants from Maryland, who brought with them the faith that their fathers had learned from the pious missionary fathers of Lord Baltimore's Catholic colony. The sincere and earnest lives of these good people attracted the attention of the "English folks, " I and when the good priests came to administer to the religious I needs of the " settlement " they sought them out, obtained Catholic books, made themselves acquainted with the doctrines of the church, and when Father John Lamy, now archbishop of I Santa Fe, Xew Mexico, was sent by the bishop of Cincinnati to take charge of St. Luke's mission, near Danville, the entire family, one member after the other, were received into the fold of the Catholic church.

Young Julius at once resolved to devote himself to the ministry, and his good mother, at no little sacrifice and effort, advised by Father Lamy, placed him at the age of thirteen, under the care of the learned and saintly Father Amick, then prefect and professor of St. Xavier's college at Cincinnati. From his mother and sisters he had obtained the rudiments of an education so that he at once entered upon the college course. His conduct here was in every respect unexceptionable. An assiduous student, an agreeable comrade; he won the love and respect of both professors and fellow-students, and at the end of each year few carried off more, if as many, of the college prizes. The venerable archbishop of Cincinnati, learning of his desire to enter the ministry of the priesthood, and pleased with the good account of his abilities and deportment that he had received from the Jesuit fathers at St. Xavier's, sent h"im to the seminary of St. Sulpice, Paris, to study theology. He made the arduous curriculum in four years, and at the age of twenty-four was ordained priest, June, 1851. On his return home he visited the family relatives in England, amving at Cincinnati, and reporting to the archbishop for duty in September of the same year. While at the archbishop's house, he learned the sad news of his brother Edgar's death from Asiatic cholera, the week previous. The archbishop gave him the choice of the mission at Chillicotlie or of returning to the scenes of his early boyhood in Knox county. He chose the latter, and when in later years better places in point of numbers and prominence were offered him, his invariable answer was that he preferred his first love. For over twenty-three years he was pastor of St. Vincent de Paul's at Mt. Vernon, and of St. Luke's near Danville, attending each place, week and week about, besides giving a monthly mission at St. Michael's chapel, among the German Catholics of Jefferson township, Knox county, and the south part of Ash- Lmd county. Xo weather, indisposition, pleasure or engagement, except the order of his ecclesiatical superior, prevented him from making these weekly trips. In all these years, but two who liad sent for him in their dying moments were reached by him too late to receive at his hands the last rites of the church. At Danville his saintly mother assisted by his sister Emma, presided over his household up to the time of her death in April, 1854. Emma continued his housekeeper till her death in April, 1873. At Mt. Vernon his sister Frances, "Aunt Fanny" as she is so well and lovingly known, not only among the relatives of the family and entire congregation, but to many outside, has continuously kept house for him. To the orphan children of his brother Edg.ir and of his sister Isabella (Mrs. Tardeville), he took the place of a father and his house or houses became, much of their time, their home. The old homestead in Brown township has been sold, and the proceeds invested in property in Covington, Kentucky, while Father Brent was in France. This was sold at an advance after he returned and became located in Knox county, and the proceeds again invested in real estate, near the church property at Danville. In improving and farming this land. Father Brent spent much of the leisure time not occupied in his clerical duties. At the same time it was earnest work with him and hard; it was not in his nature to do anything slightingly. " If anything is worth doing at all it is worth doing well " was a motto that he practiced as well as endeavored to impress upon the young men with whom he often labored.

In 1874 the ordinary of the Columbus diocese determined to separate the Mt. Vernon and Danville charges and give each a pastor. Since then Father Brent has given this congregation his undivided attention. In 1863 he had a very severe attack of rheumatism, which he bore with the greatest resignation, but from the effects of which he never recovered. This fact, and the death of his sister Emma, doubtless had much to do with his selecting Mt. Vernon rather than the country congregation at Danville, for country life and its labors and pleasures were naturally dear to him. The land near St. Luke's was sold at a handsome advance and the proceeds invested in a farm near Mt. Vernon, as a provision for himself and sister in old age and the decrepitude, that he feared was overtaking him prematurely. For the last year or two before his death he was an intense sufferer, but never complained, and seldom spoke of his trouble; so much was this the case that his most intimate friends did not anticipate the danger he was in. By the advice of his physician he had resolved upon taking a trip for the benefit of his health, but the resolution was too late. Father Brent died at his late residence in Mt. Vernon, July 22, 1880.

BRENT, SAMUEL J., Mount Vernon, clerk of the court, was born in Brown township, Knox county, Ohio, September 25, 1S39. His father, Edgar Brent, moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, when Samuel was about twelve years of age. His father, dying, left him to be educated by his mother. Samuel attended St. Mary's of the Barrens, in Missouri, and at Bardstown, Kentucky. He graduated at St. Mary's college at Cincinnati, (Bishop Rosecrans, president), in the class of 1861. December 31, 1861, he enlisted in company B, Fiftieth Ohio volunteer infantry for three years. His regiment consohdated with the Si.xty-first, and he was then discharged from the Si.xtyfirst to take a commission as second lieutenant in the Fiftysecond Ohio volunteer infantry. He was detailed as a signal officer, and commissioned by the President, with the consent of the United States Senate. He remained with the corps until the general order of discharge, August 22, 1865. After his discharge from the signal corps, he completed his law studies and was admitted to the bar in June, 1866. In the fall of 1869 he was nominated and elected clerk of the courts, and again reelected in 1872. He remained out of office for three years, and was, in 1878, reelected for the third time, which office he still holds. He was married to Miss A'lary A. Zimmerman, daughter of the late F. J Zimmerman, of Mt. Vernon, September 27, 1864. By this union, four children, all daughters, were bom.

Mr. Brent's father was English by birth. His mother, whose maiden name was Magers, was a descendant of Lord Baltimore, of the Maryland colony.

BRENT, C. F., Mount Vernon; was born October 27, 1848, in Covington, Kentucky, but when about two years of age his parents came to Knox county, Ohio, and settled near Danville, where they remained until i860, when they moved several times in the next two years; came to Mt. Vernon in November, 1862, where they have since resided. In April, 1864, he engaged in the printing business, at which he worked until 1867, when he came back to Mt. Vernon; he then went to work "for Mr. Kendrick at cigar making, with whom he served until 1875, when he went to Columbus and worked until December 8, 1877, on the Catholic Columbian, when he returned to Mt. Vernon and opened up a cigar factory, wholesaling exclusively until May 1880, when he moved to a new place of business, and now is engaged in manufacturing and retailing cigars, tobacco and smokers articles.

BRICKER FAMILY, Liberty township. Ludwig Bricker, the grandfather of the original Brickers of Liberty township, was a soldier of the Revolution. He entered two thousand acres of land in what is now the northeast comer of Liberty township. He was a resident of Washington county, Pennsylvania, where he lived and died. Banning Norton, in his History of Knox county, says that Lewis Bricker came to Liberty township about 1810; but David Bricker says he came prior to that time, as Lewis Bricker, his brother, was born in this township in 1807. Ludwig or Lewis Bricker induced his son, Peter, and George Lewis, a relative of the family, to come out and settle the land he had entered. Accordingly they brought their families. They remaind one night, and by noon the next day they were on their way back to Pennsylvania. They saw many Indians, heard the wolves howling, and the owls hooting. They agreed with their wives to let the land go to the devil and they would return to Pennsylvania, as they thought no one would or could ever live in the Owl Creek country. He however induced some of his tribe to settle this land. He finally got Peter, George, Jacob, David, Solomon, Lewis, Catharine, Rachel, and Mrs. Lewis, to come here. From these have descended the Brickers of this county, mostly. David went to Morgan township. All the original Brickers remained in this township but David.

The Bricker family became quite numerous, and it is not our purpose to write or follow up the family of each, but give such an outUne of the family that it will be preserved to their descendants. Among these is David Bricker, grandson of Peter Bricker, and son of Peter Bricker, one of the first of the family who came to Ohio. He was born in 'Washington county, Pennsylvania, October 30, 1805. His parents came, April, 1806, to Ohio. David was raised as were pioneer children, with but few educational advantages; he, however, acquired sufficient to transact business. On the twelfth day of October 1830, he married Sarah Beam. They had nine children, five living - Malinda, Jacob, 'Wilson, Marshal, and Jerome. Lewis P. Bricker, one of this family, vvas born November 5, 1807, in what is now Liberty township. It is said ne was the first white child born in this township. December 6, 1832, he was married to Sarah 'White. She was born July 7, 1809. They had a family of eight children - Abigail, born November 24, 1833, married Nelson Bidwell ; Margaret E., born July 6, 1836, married Nicholas Dariing; Ann Rebecca, born April 19, 1839, married Mortimer Hayatt; Mary Sophia, born June 5, 1841, married William Gray; Sarah E., born March 24, 1844, married John Creamer; Viola M., born July 21, 1846, married L. B. Lewis; Peter, born December 28, 1848; Alexander, born November 29, 1852.

We might go on and follow up this family, tracing the different branches, but it will suffice to say that our work does not admit of so much space being occupied by one family. The Bricker family are good citizens, industrious and well-to-do people.

BRICKER, HIRAM, Morgan township. The name Bricker is of Dutch origin. Tradition says there were three brothers came from Europe, but at what date is not e.xactly known. They settled in Maryland. One of the branches of the family went to eastern Pennsylvania, where quite a numerous progeny sprang up; and subsequently a number of their descendants settled in Richland county, (jhio, near Shelby. Lewis, or Ludwig Bricker, the paternal grandfather of Hiram Bricker, moved from Maryland to western Pennsylvania shortly after the Revolutionary war, in which he was a soldier. He raised a large family.

Some time in the early part of 1800 he came to what is now Liberty township, Kno.-c county, and located two thousand acres of land, ind subsequently induced a number of his children to become settlers on it, although he never moved upon it.

David Bricker, father of Hiram, and son of Peter, was born in Pennsylvania in 1799. He married Indiana Cox, in 1818, who was born March 3, 1798, and is yet living. Soon after their marriage they came to Liberty township, but did not remain long. About 1821 they located and settled on the farm in Morgan township, which he cleared up, and became one of the well-to-do citizens of the community. He died September 14, 1878, in Utica, where he had resided some time prior to his decease. By his marriage they had si.x children, viz: Elizabeth, (deceased); she was the wife of Jesse Bell; Christopher and Emeline, (deceased); .Anna B., wife of Samuel Elliott; Hiram and Demas are living.

Hiram was raised on the farm, was educated at the commonschools, and has farmed and dealt in stock as his occupation. In April, 1853, he moved to Licking county, where he remained for twenty years. He was lieutenant of company A, One Hundred and Thirty -fifth regiment Ohio National guard, and subsequently was captain of the same. February 17, 1853, he married Melissa Bell, daughter of Isaac Bell, of Morgan township. They had a family of twelve children, viz: David A., Isaac, (deceased when about seven years old), Catharine, (wife of R. McWilliams), Anna B., Elizabeth, (wife of Hugh Harrison), Jennie, James P., Emeline, Cary F., Laura, Charley C, and Nellie M. Mr. Bricker is well informed upon general matters, is a good farmer, and one of the substantial men of Morgan township.

BRICKER, DEMAS, Hilliar township, retired farmer, was born in Morgan township, Kno.x county, March 7, 1828. His youth was spent on the farm, and he attended the district schools, and spend about two years at an academy at Martinsburgh, where he was a classmate of William Windom, Secretary of the Treasury, from Minnesota. Mr. Bricker taught school for several terms. His principal business, however, has been farming and the raising of stock. He gave up farming in 1875, and removed to his present home in Rich Hill. He is a man who is well informed; has a remarkably retentive memory; is a ready and interesting talker, and takes an interest in the questions of the day. He was married to Miss Cinderella Miller April 1, 1857. They have a family of two children bom June 13, 1844, was raised on a farm, and remained at home until he enlisted in company F, One Hundred and Twenty-first regiment, Ohio volunteer infantry. He participated in the engagements at Perryville, Duck river, and Franklin, I after which he was taken sick and was in the hospital for some time. He spent about eleven months at Indianapolis. He endeavored, with several others, to return to his regiment, but was retained. After his discharge he returned home, and has been engaged at farming and running a separator. Mr. Bricker is social and pleasant in his manners, and has the reputation of a good fellow. He married Miss Amanda Lewis, of Liberty township, November 29, 1866, and they have one child - Clara, born April 10, 1868.

BRICKER, WILLIAM M. Mr. Bricker was born in Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, December 12, 1844. When about nine years old his parents emigrated to Ohio and located in Wayne county, where he resided until January 26, 1880. His first business was in the dry goods and grocery line, under the firm name of Paul Bricker & Co. In this he remained two years, v/hen he sold out his interest and continued as a salesman in the same house for one year more. He then engaged in the hotel business, and became proprietor of the American house, in Shreve, Wayne county, in which he continued four ye.^rs. In January, 1880, he removed to Mt. Vernon, and became proprietor of the Philo House, in which he did a successful business for one vear, since which he has been engaged with a nursery, selling all kinds of fruit and ornamental trees.

BRICKER, DOUGLASS, Wayne township, farmer, post office, Fredericktown, born in Clinton township, Knox county, and was married in 1874 to Hannah Brachling, who was bom in Ireland. They have three children - Fannie, bom in 1875 Edward, born in 1876; and Olive, born in 1878. Mr. Bricker came to Wayne township in 1877, and is a farmer by occupation.

BRIGGLE, .ANDREW C, Bedin township, railroad employe, post office Fredericktown, born in Pennsylvania, March 22, 1845, and was married to Rebecca Furcell, who was bom in Columbia county, Pennsylvania, May ri, 1844. They had five children - Ella C, bom August 4, 1869; Ehua L., June 3, 1873; Jessie W., February 16, 1876; Lenora, October 3, 1878; and Thomas (deceased).

They emigrated from Pennsylvania to Ohio when children, were married in Morrow county, and moved to Richland, remained there there till r87o, when they moved to Knox county, where they have since remained. Mr. Briggle is now engaged in working on the Baltimore & Ohio railroad. Louisa H. Purcell was born in Knox county, Ohio, November 26, 1856, and is nowresiding with her sister, Mrs. Briggle.

BRIGGS, ELISHA H., is a descendant in a direct hne from a Mr. Briggs, from Wales, who settled in this county shortly after the landing of the Pilgrims. His father was a native of Staunton, Massachusetts. Mr. E. H. Briggs was born June 13, 1803, in Worcester county, Massachusetts, where he resided and worked upon a farm until seventeen years of age, then he worked at the carpenter trade for two years, not liking which he commenced work in machine shops, at which he remained until he came to Ohio in 1834, located at Mt. Vernon and commenced work for C. & E. Cooper, in their pattern shops, with whom he remained until a few years since, when old age placed him upon the retired list, but even yet he does some work for the firm and feels more at home among the din of machinery than in the parlor. He was married January 6, 1851, to Miss Lydia B. Norton, daughter of Silas Norton, of Worcester county. Massachusetts, and has reared a family of si.x children, three sons and three daughters, all of whom are living except his two youngest sons. A. Judson enlisted in the Ninety-si.xth Ohio volunteer infantry, and died at Vicksburgh of fever. J. A. died of consumption in 1870.

BRODRICK, HARRISON, Berlin township, farmer, post office, Fredericktown, was born in Ohio, and married Martha J. Smith, who was born in this county in 1851. They have four children, viz: Cora May, born in 1875; Jesse Belle, in 1877; Nellie G., in 1879; and Lulu, in 1880.

BROKAW, JOHN A., Liberty township, retired shoemaker and farmer, Mt. Liberty, Ohio, was born in Somerset county, New Jersey, July 4, 1804. The Brokaw family are of French extraction. The grandfather of the subject of this sketch, Caleb Brokaw, had two brothers, Abram and Isaac, who married in New Jersey. Isaac had a family. Abram was twice married, but had no issue. There are quite a number of this family still residing in New Jersey, Caleb Brokaw married a lady of the same name, jane Brokaw. They had a family of three sons and two daughters. The sons names were Isaac, Abram, and Caleb; the daughters were Ann and RoHy.

Abram, the father of the subject of this sketch, was born in New Jersey in 1773. He married Mariah Stryker, a native of New Jersey, about 1791. She was born March 12, 1775. They had a family of fifteen children: Mariah, born August 8, 1792, married James Dehart, and raised a family; both are now dead; Jane, born June 8, 1794, died August 17, 1794; Peter, born August 6, 1795, deceased; Caleb, born December 11, 1797. He came to Ohio when a young man, and yet resides in North Liberty, this county. He has a family: Simon, born February 22, 1799, emigrated to Ohio, thence to Nebraska, where he died in 1880. He left a family: Abram, born March 24, 1801, married in New Jersey, emigrated to Ohio, and died in Morrow county in 1870. He left afamily: John A., born July 4, 1804; he is the subject of this sketch; Jane N., born October 5, 1806, married Gabriel Devaul, and died near Mt. Liberty, February 24, 188 r. He left a family: Cornelia and Elizabeth, born March 15, 1809. Cornelia married Henry Stillwell and resides in New Jersey; Elizabeth, deceased. She married George Maloney and died in Bethany, Virginia. A son, bom August 23, 1810, deceased September 2, 1810.

Isaac, born September 20, 1818; he resides at Centreburgh, Ohio; Henry, born February 10, 1816, resides at Centreburgh, Ohio; Peter, born March 31, 1818, died in Indiana; William C, born January 16, 1820, deceased April 21, 1821.

Caleb Brokaw, grandfather of this subject, and Isaac, his brother, v.ere soldiers of the Revolution, Caleb holding a lieutenant's commission. They both served during the war.

Abram Brokaw, father of the subject of this sketch, came to Ohio about 1822 or 1823, with his family and settled in Jefferson county, Ohio, where he died about 1826. His wife returned to New Jersey, where she hved and died.

John A. was raised on a farm. At about the age of seventeen he began to learn the shoemaker trade. He came to Ohio with his parents, remained about eighteen months, and returned to New Jersey; remained .'.bout a year and again came to Ohio, and remained until after the death of his father, when he returned with his mother to New Jersey, and married Caroline Bush, October 22, 1827. She was born June 20, 1809. They remained until the spring of 1831, came to Ohio and remained one year in Jefferson county, and then came to Morris township, this county; thence to Liberty township; thence to Bloomfield township; thence to Chester township (now Morrow county), where he remained until 1876, when he came to Mt. Liberty, where he has since resided. He followed farming and shoemaking, by which he gained a competence for his old age. Mr. and Mrs. Brokaw started poor in life. When they arrived in Knox county he had a horse and wagon, with a few household effects and three dollars twelve and one-half cents in cash. They had thirteen children, all of whom did well, thus showing that they were carefully and judicially trained:

Sarah, was born in 1829; married Henry Slack and died in 1852; Maria, born February 21, 1831; married Peter Spracklen in 1851, and deceased in 1855; Effa, born February 26, 1833, married George Barr in 1853, and resides in Shelby county, Iowa; Elizabeth, born November 22, 1834, married D. L. Brackenridge in 1855, and died in Tama county, Iowa, December 23, 1872; a daughter, born January 25, 1837; Phoebe A., born June 17, 1838, married Frank Lambert, May 10, 1859, resides in Jasper county, Iowa; Caroline, born January 27, 1842, married John Bird September 7, 1865, resides in Liberty township; Mary L., born February ir, 1843, married Smith Gearhart, of Milford township, June 10, 1865; Andrew J., born June 6, 1845, farmer in Jasper county, Iowa; William B., bom August 8, 1847, is a farmer near Richwood, Ohio; Abraham G., born February 4, 1850, farmer, Shelby county, Iowa; John B., born July 25, 1852, dealer in buggies; he is a good salesman, and a young man of good qualities; Marcus, bom July 8, 1855.

BROOKS, SYLVANUS P., Wayne township (deceased), was born in Tompkins county, New York, June 15, 1817, and was married to Amarilla Hewett. They had five children, viz: Phylena (deceased), Cyrenajane, Cyrus Hewett, John Wesley, and Sarah Amarilla. Mrs. Amari'la Brooks died April 8, 1867. He was married in 1841 to Mary Angeline Cocharan, who was born in Newark, Ohio. Their children are: Squire Sylvanus, bom April 5, i86r; William Emlus, September r4. 1866 ; Carrie, October 15, 1868; Waitie ; Orphy; Rosa, June 24, 1873; Streby Deso, November 28, 1875. Sj'lvanus P. died in Liberty township, April 15, 1879, aged sixty-one years and ten months.

BROWN, CAPTAIN RICHARD, Montgomery (deceased), was bom in Concord county, Maine in 1789, and descended from good parentage, his father being a captain in the Revolutionary war, who fought gallantly at the battle of Bunker Hill. He removed to Brooke county, Virginia, in 1802, and located in Mt. Vernon in the fall of 1811, where he resided up to the time of his death - a period of over fifty-eight years. He was therefore one of the early pioneers of Ohio, coming here shortly after the county of Knox was organized and the county seat established. In the warm contest between Mt. Vernon and Clinton for the location of the seat of justice, Mr. Brown took a decided stand in favor of the former, and was gratified to know that his efforts were crowned with success.

In the War of 1812 Captain Brown took an active and au honorable part. He received a lieutenant's commission from Colonel (afterwards General) Cass, authorizing him to raise a company of volunteers in this vicinity, which he proceeded to do without delay. He was afterwards promoted to a captaincy for meritorious conduct. He marched his men through the wilder, ness from Mt. \'ernon to Detroit, sometimes being compelled to cut bushes and small trees in order to accomplish the journey. His company had frequent sharp skirmishes with the British and redskins, although they had no general engagement, and at one time he was taken prisoner by the enemy.

For about forty years Mr. Brown was engaged in the mercantile business in Mt. Vernon, and during all that time he sustained the reputation of being an upright, honest, and honorable man. He was prompt and correct in all his dealings, and was kindhearted and benevolent to a fault.

He was married in 1814 to Miss Mary Hahn, ot this county, by whom he had ten children, eight of whom are still living. He died January 6, 1870, in the eighty-first year of his age, and in his death the community sustained a severe loss. He was al ways identified with and took a lively interest in every measure that was conducive to tlie growth and prosperity of the communitv in which he lived. He was a good citizen in every sense of the word, a kind neighbor and an affectionate husband and father. Mrs. Brown died February 28. 1867.

BROWN, THOMAS, Liberty township, deceased, was born in Montgomery county, Maryland, August 11, 1796, died July 16, 1877. This exemplary man spent his youth on a farm in Maryland, where he remained until 1832, when he came to Ohio, and in 1838, married Miss Jemima Harvey, a native of Frederick county, Maryland, born December 18, 1811, and came to Knox county in 1836. Mr. Brown spent his life farming. He was a member of the Methodist church for many years, and in his walk through life was always consistent with liis profession. He was much esteemed for his many Christian virtues, and was a leading citizen of the township. He was possessed of a fine farm. His wife still survives him, and resides on the old homestead. They had four children, two sons and two daughters.

BROWN, JONATHAN, (deceased) was born in New Jersey, May 22, 1800. His parents died when he was young and he was bound out to Abram Day, a farmer. In 1816 Mr. Day came to Ohio, as he could not hold young Brown out of New Jersey without bis consent, which, however, was obtained, and he came to Ohio with Mr. Day, and remained with him until he became of age, at which time he went to work for himself. The first work lie did was to make rails at twenty-five cents per hundred, to obtain money with which to buy clothes. He was married to Miss Mary Larason, daughter of Sylvester Larason, a pioneer of this county. She had fifty acres of land, and this was the beginning of Mr. Brown's future success. He afterwards purchased a farm in the northeast part of the township, which, by the aid of his sons, he cleared up. He died November 16, 1879; his wife died December 5, 1867, aged sixty-four years. They had a family of nine children, seven of whom are living, two died when young. The living are: Thomas R., in Morrow county; Joel F., in Morjpw county; James S. ; Ann Fliza, married to Samuel Clutter, in Morgan; Jonathan H., in Morgan township; .Mary J., wife of Leancer Buxton, of Fulton county, Ohio; Phoebe S., wife of Thomas Bodle, Clay township; and James S., was born September 7, 1831. He was reared on the farm, and has always contmued farming as his occupation. He was twice married. He married Catharine Chipp November 3, 1859. They had two children, viz: William, born December 12, i860; and James M., born October 9, 1867. His wife died in November, 1867. His second wife,

BROWN, REV. M. M. (deceased), Morris township, was born in Martinsburgh, this county, in 1817; educated at Jefferson college, Pennsylvania, and graduated to the Allegheny Theological seminary. He preached in Buffalo, Cumberland, and Chandlersville. He was married in 1844 to Eliza Ebersole, who was born in Wayne township in 1817. They had two sons, viz. : Theodore and Chalmers. Rev. Brown died February 16, 1853, in Cumberiand, Guernsey county, Ohio.

BROWN, MRS. JENNIE, M. D., is the the third daughter of Oilman Bryant, the first merchant in Mt. Vernon. She was bom May 18, 1819, and was married to Dr. Joseph Brown February 25, 185 1, who was a professor of the Eclectic Medical college of Cincinnati. She read medicine with her husband, attended lectures at Cincinnati, also at Syracuse, New York, where she graduated in 1854. She assisted her husband in his practice until her graduation, making female diseases a speciality. Shortly after she graduated her husband moved to Lyons, Iowa, where they erected a health institute, which they conducted with success for two years, when they sold out and went to Chicago, where they practiced for years, during which time her husband died (June 20, 1874). She was so unfortunate as to be burned out twice, which left her in limited ciicumstances. In April, 1873, she returned to Alt. Vernon and has been engaged in her profession since. She was the fourth lady graduate in medicine in the United States.

BROWN, WILLIAM B., jeweler. Main street, Mt. Vernon. Mr. Brown is a native of the city; he was born January 17, 1832, and received his education in the public schools of the place. At the age of eighteen he commenced learning the jewelry business with his father, who was the pioneer jeweler of the city, having opened his establistment in 1826, and carried it on up to the time of his death which occurred in 1854. Mr. ]. B. Brown (the father), filled the office of mayor for two terms, and had entered upon his third just previous to his death. Mr. Brown was one of the associate judges of this county for five years. This was in 1848. The constitution of 1850 abolished this office.

After the death of the Hon. Jacob B. Brown, his son, William B., took charge of the business, in which he still continues. He has faithfully followed in the footsteps of his father. He has served one term as mayoi of the city, and is now serving the first year of his second term.

Mr. J. B. Brown and his son, William B., have carried on successfully the jewelry business for fifty-four years, and for forty years in the same room. Mr. Brown's is a first class stock, consisting of watches, clocks, jewelry, etc.

BROWN, JOHX.A.THAN il.. Morgan township, farmer; was born December 19, 1034. He is the son of Johnathan and Mary (Larisoi* Brown, of whom mention is made in the biography of J. S. Brown of Morgan township. The subject of this sketch was reared on the farm on which he now resides and where he was born. He married Miss Sarah Bcbout November 16, i860. She was born April 15, 1836. They had two children, viz: Ada A., born October 10, i86r, and Miuy Iv. born May 15, 1866, died June 18, 1869.

BROWN, OHIO, Bcriin township, deceased, the son of Thomas D., sr., and Rachael Brown. He was bom in Berlin township April 18,1846. He enlisted in the late war December

9, 1861, as a member of company I, Twentieth regiment O. V. I. He was appointed sergeant of company I July 22, 1864. He was wounded by a shell from the enemy's works, from the effects of which he died the same day, December 13, 1864. By his death the Union lost a noble, fearless soldier, a true patriot, and his comrades a man whose virtues endeared him to all. His patient endurance of the fatigues and privations of the campaign, his modesty and his gentle nature won for him the respect and admiration of his brother soldiers. His remains were interred on southern soil near .Savannah, Georgia.

BROWN, WILLIAM, farmer, Hilliar township, was born in Clinton township, October 19, 1849. His father, Garrett Brown, was born in Maryland in the year 1800. He married Mary Holland, a native of West Virginia, about 1827, and subsequently moved to Knox county, livmg for a short time in Liberty township, when they moved to Clinton township, where Mr. Brown died in 1865. His wife now resides in Mt. Vernon. They had ten children, viz : James W. died while in the army; Ann E., wife of Caleb Burdett, a resident of Maryland; Resin H., deceased, left a fiimily in Mt. Vernon; Joanna V., wife of Robert G. White, of Mt. Vemon; a son died in infancy; Mary L. in Mt. Vernon; Amanda, wife of George W. Newell, farmer, Jasper county, Iowa; William M.; Hemy M., a resident of Des Moine, Iowa; Frank C, Des Moine, Iowa, carpenter.

The subject of this notice was raised on a farm in Clinton township, and has always followed farming. He was married to Miss Nancy J. Mills, September 12, 1876, who is the daughter of Henry and Mary J. Mills, nee Beckley, of Clinton township. They have three children, viz: Henry C, bom October 15, 1877; Ettie and Nettie, twins, born Febrttary 23, 1880.

BROWN, J>>R., Gambler, son of Joseph and Ann Brown, was born in Ireland September 24, 1849. He was brought to America by his parents in December, 1849, who located near Milford, Clermont county, Ohio, where they remained four years. In 1853 they moved to this county and located in Gambler, where they now reside.

Mr. Brown commenced work at shoemakingin 1870, with W. E. Wootton, of Gambler, remaining with him two years as an apprentice, then finished his trade in 1873 with Mr. A. Jacobs. In May of the same year he began business for himself, and has since been manufacturing all kinds of boots and shoes, gaiters, slippers, and in fact everything in his line. He keeps constantly on hand a good supply of his own manufacture of boots and shoes, and is always ready to fill all orders for work on short notice. All of his goods are warranted to give satisfaction.

BROWN, THOMAS D., farmer and stock raiser, Berlin township, post ofiice Shaler's Mills, was born in Berlin township, on the farm where he now resides, in 1850. He was married in 1872, to Lavina Grubb (daughter of Daniel H. Grubb), who was born in 1853, in Pike township. They have three children, viz: Pauline Delia (born in 1872), Irena Belle (born in 1874V and Bernice Maude (in 1880).

Mr. Brown resided in Independence in 1877 engaged in dealing in stock. He spent one year in the west, the remainder of his life was spent in Kno.x county. His residence was destroyed by fire in 1S79, and he lost all his goods and provisions.

BROWN, ANDREW, Wayne township (deceased), born in Scotland in April, 1811, came to Kno.x county December 29, 1854, and was married in 1843 to Catharine Dexter, who was born in 1821. They had the following children : John Brown (born June 17, 1844), Elizabeth (born in 1845), William (born August 27, 1847), Robert (born June 17, 1849), Andrew, jr. (born February 22, 1852), James (bom April 2, 1854), Thomas (born May 31, 1856), Sarah (born July 5, i860), and Kittie (born April 25, 1862). .Andrew Brown died February 9, 1876; Elizabeth died October 16, 1846; Andrew, jr., died September 17, 1858; John Brown was married to Amanda A. Heskett in 1874, they reside in Vernon county, Missouri; William married in September, 1871, Elizabeth ET. Cornman, they reside in Mt. Gilead, Ohio; Robert was married, in ^.874, to Julia Steinmetz, they reside in Fredericktown, Ohio; James married, September 28, 1876, Ella M. Bruce, they reside on the old homestead; Sarah E. married, in 1879, to Harvey Hui.ter, they live in Fredericktown; Thomas resides in Vernon county, Missouri; Kittie resides at the old home.

John Brown was a soldier in the late war, in the One Hundred and Forty-second Ohio volunteer infantry, served his term of enlistment and received an honorable discharge.

BRUBAKER, LUTHER M., Berlin township, carpenter, post office, Shaler's Mills, was born in Hanover township, Ashland county, Ohio, in 1853; learned the trade of carpenter with his father; works at his trade in this county, and is a first-class mechanic. He has fillad the offices of constable, clerk, and trustee, and is an enterprising and industrious man.

BRYAN, WILLIAM, Liberty township, farmer, was born in the County Farmaugh, Ireland, in 1822. His father was a farmer and store-keeper, and William assisted him on the farm and in the store until 1848, when he emigrated to America, coming to Mt. Vernon, thence to Pike township, where he subsequently bought a farm and remained until 1855, when he came to Liberty township and purchased his present farm, and where he has remained ever since. In 1850 he married Miss Jane Dudley, of Pike township. They had nine children, eight of whom are living.

Mr. Bryan began life poor, but by his industry he has acquired sufficient of this world's goods to make him independent in life. He is a good farmer. He brought many recommendations of a high order from his native county, being from lawyers, ministers, and business men, thus showing that he stood well in the community where he lived. This reputation he still maintains. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. His parents, Thomas and Ann Bryan, came to the United States in 1850, bringing four daughters with them. The parents died in Philadelphia, and the remainder of the family still reside there.

BRYANT, OILMAN, Mt. Vemon, deceased, was born in Peacham Vermont, July 27, 1784. and died in Mt. Vernon, Ohio, June 10, 1859. The history of Knox county would be incomplete without a record of the good and extensive influence yielded by this pioneer in its early settlement and prosperity. He was also a remarkably early pioneer in the settlement of the State, having emigrated with his father. Lieutenant David Bryant, in 1797, to the Northwest Territory. He was engaged in boating on Lake Erie until 1799, and visited the sight of the large and populous city of Cleveland when containing but two or three inhabitants. His father purchased and cleared five acres of ground at two dollars and fifty cents per acre and made a corn field on a spot which is now in the heart of the city. It is believed that Lieutenant Bryant never parted with the title of this land. Years afterwards the papers were lost which would have proved his claim, and at that early day its value was so little the claim was lost sight of and fell into other hands. This ground at the present day, now covered with magnificent buildings, is worth millions. He was also engaged with his father in getting out grind-stones near Newburgh, and they made the first pair of millstones used in Northern Ohio, which are to-day kept as relics in the Cleveland park. In 1799 Mr. Bryant left the Lake region and made journey to Marietta, by way of Erie, French creek and the Alleghany river, in a canoe or fJat-boat. Marietta was settled by many of the old Revolutionary officers and soldiers. In December, 1799, news came of the death of General Washington, when a solemn procession took place composed of his old companions in arms. Mr. Bryant was a witness of that impressive scene, and listened to the funeral oration pronounced by Return J. Meigs. While in that region, Mr. Bryant assisted in making the brick used in the construction of the celebrated mansion on Blennerhassets' Island, around which Wirt has thrown the charm of enchantment by his eloquence. In 1800 Mr. Bryant returned to Cleveland and spent five years along the lake between that point, Detroit and the river Raisin, from whence he went to Lanesville in a canoe by the Cuyahoga river, hauling his canoe across the portage from Akron to the Tuscarawas, by o.xen, and arrived at Lanesville in April, 1805. Here he was taken with the ambition of becoming a merchant; and upon the recommendation of James Loveridge, concluded to settle in Mt. Vernon. He accordingly procured a scanty outfit and with a cargo of goods, consisting principally of whiskey and salt set sail in a canoe up the Muskingum and its branches. He navigated Owl creek and landed in Mt. Vernon March 4, 1807. In these days of railroads it would seem a novel mode of transportation to go by river from Lanesville to Mt. Vernon, but at that time when the wild forests were almost impenetrable except through narrow bridle paths, and the streams presented a larger volume of water than at the present time, it may, after all, have been the best route of travel, and this enterprising first merchant of Mt. Vernon took advantage of the spring freshet and successfully steered his vessel into the new and inviting haven.

He found but three families within the boundaries of this embryo city. The village of Clinton was then of more importance; and it is surmised that Mr. Loveridge was anxious that the young merchant would add to its population, but Clinton was not situated on a navigable stream. Mr. Bryant, having been somewhat of a sailor, could not be induced to go so far from as good a harbor as Mt. Vernon presented. However, his foresight must have been almost prophetic, as the sequel proved. He lived to see his chosen settlement grow to the dimensions of a city, and Clinton go to decay.

No citizen contributed more to the early growth and prosperity of Mt. Vernon than did Oilman Bryant. It was not expected that a dozen families of whites in and about the settlement would contribute much to his traffic. The settlers' wants were few, and with the exception of whiskey and salt the forest and smal' patches of corn ground provided them with the necessaries of life - luxuries they knew not nor desired - but the Indians came in great numbers from long distances with their furs, pelts, cranberries, ginseng, and maple sugar, and returned with the wares of the merchant.

The Indians had their peculiarities in their mode of trading which Mr. Bryant respected and adhered to. They came in bands of ten to fifty, their numbers greater in proportion to the distance travelled. They would encamp for several days on the bank of the Kokosing, and when they had disposed of their produce and provided their wants departed in peace to their hunting grounds. A number would file into Mr. Bryant's little log store - as many as the benches would seat - and one at a time commence trading, the others wailing their turn. As soon as one article was purchased it was paid for before another was offered. If the price did not suit, the Indian passed it by and did not parley for a better bargain. When the cranberries were measured - which were carried in bark baskets - the Indian's squaw received in her hand a berry lor every measure until all was done. The maple sugar was also measured in bnrk baskets, and Mr. Bryant returned cornmeal, measure for measure, to the entire satisfaction of his customer. The furs and pelts were valued by the standard of a buckskin, which represented the dollar. Mr. Bryant's customers were mostly of the tribes of Wyandots, Shawnees, and Delawares, and he soon became familiar with their different languages. His success, however, may be more attributed to the knowledge he obtained of their peculiarities, which he so thoroughly respected, together with his honestyand fairness which attracted towards him a large traffic from great distances. Mr. Bryant commanded the respect and love of a large portion of the tribes and chiefs who then occupied the northwestern part of the State. Knox county was remarkably free at that time from the outrages perpetrated in other parts of the State by the savages, and the peaceful demeanor of these red men towards the early settlers may be attributed in a large measure to Mr. Bryant's influence. His kindness and honesty warded oft, many times, any hostile intention that may have lingered in the breasts of the natural enemies of the whites.

As time passed and the flood of emigration rapidly filled up the new county, the Indians grew less in numbers. Mr. Bryant then bent his whole energy towards the development of the county, and finding an outlet for its products. At his death a writer of his biography says of him:

" His history shows him to be a man of great coolness and fortitude. The scenes of his latter days bring those truly great characteristics out in striking and impressive lustre. Few fully realize how large and extensive was Mr. Bryant's influence upon the prosperity which marked the early settlement of Knox county. He was the first, and longm aintained the position of the prominent merchant in the county. His unaffected simplicity of manners, his frankness and urbanity made him a common centre for counsel and advice, to the most humble as well as to the most exalted; and to his sound judgment may be attributed, to a considerable degree, the sober, steady and substantial cast v.'hich so clearly marked the character and operations of that noble race of men, the pioneer settlers of Knox county.

Mr. Bryant never initiated any novel or wild speculations to dissipate and destroy the energy and labor of our people. His influence always went to promote the practical and useful pursuits of life. Industry and economy were the great virtues he ever practiced and strove to foster and encourage. Three great and unestimable virtues flourished in strength and beauty among that remarkable people, to whom he for a long time sustained the relation of coworker, friend and adviser.

He also, for a long time, aided the people in securing a market for the surplus produce of the county. In this he was distinguished for most valuable pecularities. His efforts seemed ever to be to keep the market steady, not to speculate by either inflating or depressing it, but to secure to the people the best market they could have, after paying to him a reasonable reward, by way of profit, for his agency in the matter.

The value of such a man can hardly be fully estimated in any producing community, much less can it be in a community such as that in which he had chosen his lot. Many a gray-headed veteran in those arduous but interesting scenes of our past history have alluded to these excellencies of Mr. Bryant's life with feelings of undisguised emotion.

He was not what, in this flashy age, is called a brilliant man. Yet he was possessed of qualities of mind and heart which much more justly and deservedly gave him distinction. Plain good sense, and sound judgment, unbending integrity, and sincere kindness, traits now too lightly esteemed, constitute the sole foundation on which his e.^cellent character rests. Few men ever carried on so large and promiscuous a business as he did with so few differences with his fellow-men, and still fewer without more litigation. If the legal profession esteem him, as in truth they do, it is for something better than creating business for them. Such was his reputation for integrity and veracity that those well acquainted with him, never thought of caviling at his word.

Such was his universal kindness, too, that he seems to have been regarded as a kind of common ancestor to the early settlers. This is strikingly manifest from the large number of v.hildren throughout the county, by worthy and grateful parents, honored with his name. His own family and friends, however, know best and most highly appreciate this crowning virtue of his character.

His religious views, though somewhat peculiar, he never obtruded upon others, but quietly acted out the sterling virtues which he considered the great and good Creator of man required of him as a condition of his bemg. And it must be confessed by those who knew him well, that in the ordering of his moral conduct Mr. Bryant set an example worthy the imitation of all, and one from which most Christians might find suggestions for their own improvement.

In his political views he was also conciliatory; while he adhered very decidedly to one party he was never known to proscribe a man for mere difference of opinion on these matters. In early life he belonged to what was known as the Democratic party. In 1828, when the contest arose between President Adams and General Jackson, he espoused the side of Mr. Adams. To the party then organized he adhered, in the main, till his death.

Oilman Bryant was the first postmaster of Mt. Vernon, and the first recorder of deeds in the county of Knox. He built the first frame and brick dwelling house in Mt. Vernon, the former on Main street, and the latter on the corner of Vine and Gay streets, which last is still standing, and at present occupied by Mr. Byers as a residence.

Mr. Bryant continued in business in Mt. Vernon until about the year 1850, and accumulated a large estate. He was the owner of two flouring and saw-mills, one located on Centre run just east of Mt. Vernon, and the other on Dry creek, where he also owned the farm now occupied by the county infirmary. He moved his family to the latter place in 1819, and returned to Mt. Vernon in 1822. He established a large tobacco warehouse in the rear of his building on Main street, where he packed and shipped large quantities of leaf tobacco - a considerable product of Knox county at that day. He shipped principally to the Baltimore market, the only mode of transportation then being by wagons. He ovv'ned at one time considerable of the property on and near Main street, which has since become very valuable, among which may be mentioned the corner of Main and Vine streets, now occupied by the First National bank and post office, running back to Gay street. He also owned and built upon the lot upon which now stands the Curtis house, also the hill in the rear and the ground east of Gay street to the alley; also the hill which was cut down and now occupied by the Kremlin block; also owned property on the west side of Main below Vine street. He built the large market house on the southwest corner of the square for a ground lease of forty years which was granted by the town.

Later in life he owned a farm two miles east of Mt. Vernon on the old Gambler road. The large brick residence he built on the hill, now standing in the rear of the Curtis house, was the finest mansion at that time in the county. Here Mr. Bryant, for many years, extended the most generous hospitality to friends at home and abroad which his wealth enabled him to do in a manner quite beyond the means of the average pioneer. It became quite a resort for New York merchants and the students and professors of Kenyon college, many of whom have become distinguished in later days.

Mrs. Bryant was of an old Virginia family, and dispensed the hospitalities of her house with a dignity and courteousness of manner characteristic of southern people.

On the second day of March, 1809, Mr. Bryant married Elizabeth Thrift, who was a daughter of the Rev. WiUiam Thrift, of Fairfax, Virginia, the first minister of the Gospel who settled in Knox county. Mrs. Bryant was born November 18, 1792, in Leesburgh, Virginia, and came to Mt. Veinon with, her father in 1807. She died at Sparta, December 17, 1865.

Twelve children were born to this worthy couple, three died in infancy and nine were reared to manhood and womanhood. Seven of the number are living at this day. Their descendants number ninety, of which sixty-eight are living, but scattered in four States. The following is their family record:

Mary Oilman, born June 24, 1814, married James Warner Miller, and had ten children and twenty-nine grandchildren. They now reside in Newark.

Charles Orandison, born March 22, 1826, married, first, Elizabeth D. Smith; second, Louisa Harrison, and had six children and two grandchildren. He resides in Rock Island, Illinois.

Of the many'descendants of Oilman Bryant, there only remain living now in Mt. Vernon, Mrs. Dr. Brown and son Charles, William Dudley Browning, Mrs. Emma Sperry (with one child), Bessie and Lawrence, children of Elizabeth (Browning) Taylor,

The following is a record of the paternal and maternal ancestors of Oilman Bryant. His father, Lieutenant David Bryant, was born in Haverhill, Massachusetts, about the year 1755, and is supposed to be a descendant in the fifth generation of Stephen Bryant, of the Plymouth colony, who lived about the year 1620-90. David was a cousin of William Cullen Bryant, the poet. The mother of Gilmai) Bryant was Mary Oilman, daughter of Colonel Jeremiah Oilman, who commanded a regiment of the Xew Hampshire line during the Revolution. Lieutenant David Bryant served in his father-in-law's regiment!

"In May, 1638, Edward Oilman, with his wife, three sons, two daughters and three servants, came from Norfolk county, England, in the ship called the Delight, of Ipswich, and settled in Hingham, Massachusetts. Moses, the third son of Edward Oilman, lived in New Market, Xew Hampshire, and had six sons - Captain Jeremiah, born in 1660, had Thomas, Andrew, Joseph and others. The last two sons were captured by the Indians, in 1709, and taken to Canada. .-Vt a war dance, Joseph was burnt. Andrew was sold to the French, and imprisoned, but obtained favor of the governor and was permitted to work for wages ijntil he earned a sum sufficient to pui chase his freedom. He returned to his old home, married, and had one son, Jeremiah, and three daughters. Jeremiah was born about the year 1721. When the Revolutionary w-ar broke out he was commissioned a colonel and commanded a regiment in the New Hampshire line. His daughter, Mary Oilman, married Lieutenant David Bryant, who ser\'ed in his father-in-law's regiment during the war. Lieutenant Bryant was the father of the subject of this sketch.

The genealogical successions of the seven generations in this line, therefore, stand as follows: First, Edward Oilman, born in Norfolk, England, about 1600; second, Moses Oilman, born in Norfolk, England, about 1630; third, Jeremiah Oilman, born in New Market, New Hampshire, 1660; fourth, Andrew Gilman, born in New Market, New Hampshire, 1690; fifth, Jeremiah Oilman (second), born in New Market, New Hampshire, 1720; si.xth, Mary Oilman, bom in Vermont, about 1760; seventh. Oilman Bryant, born in Vermont, 1784.

Mr. and Mrs. Oilman Bryant lived to celebrate their golden wedding, which proved to be a rare and interesting occasion. It was celebrated in Mt. Vernon, at the residence of theii sonin-law, Mr. James W. Miller, March 2, 1859. The following, as taken from the published account of the affair at that time, will be interesting to their descendants and friends;

"The occasion was the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the marriage of our old, well known, and esteemed fellowcitizen. Oilman Bryant, and his respected lady, as it ws(s also the thirtieth anniversary of the marriage of their eldest daughter, Mrs. Oeorge Browning, the oldest native of this city now living within the county. The highly interesting and affecting ceremonies were heralded to the guests by the tollowing card : Married; March 2, 1809, OiLM.\N Bryant, Elizabeth Thrift.

The party was composed almost e.xclusively of relatives, numbering some seventy peisons, and embracing five generations, viz; The remarkable mother of Mrs. Bryant, Mrs. Coleman, a spirited old lady of eighty-seven years; the bride, Mrs. O. Browning; Mrs. S. L. Taylor, daughter of Mrs. Browning, and the four children of Mrs. Taylor, Emma, Fannie, Oeorgie, and Eddie.

-At a giving signal the company repaired to the dining-room to partake of the wedding supper, which was rich, rare, and abundant. L'pon several cakes were beautifully iced names, devices, and dates, and on the bride's cake a pair of delicate little doves in the act of billing. The company being seated the Rev. Charles Hartley, of Utica, chaplain of the occasion, arose and pronounced a beautiful and appropriate blessing.

After feasting upon the good things, all returned to the parlors, where the parties directly participating were grouped in a semi-circle as follows: The bride and groom in the centre, Mr. and Mrs. Browning and Mrs. Coleman on the right, Mr. and Mrs. Taylor and their daughter Emma on their left; thus presenting in the eldest born of each family an unbroken chain of five generations, the eldest and youngest occupying the extremes of the figure. Thus placed, and with the guests standing around them, the Rev. Mr. Hartley presented himself to the centre of the group and invoked the blessing of heaven upon all present in a very impressive prayer, after which, in a most eloquent and feeling manner, delivered an appropriate address. The address closed, Mr. Hartley advanced to Mr. and Mrs. Bryant and requested them to join hands, when the marriage ceremoney was re-enacted in a most solemn and beautiful manner, the parties renewed their pledges of love made fifty years ago, and the gallant groom placed upon the finger of his bride the golden ring as an emblem of the unending duration of his affection. Then followed the congratulations and a general kissing of the happy pair, in which ancient custom the whole company participated with a zest that smacked loudly of the olden time.

Hannah Moffett, the great-great-grandmother, was born in Leeshurgh, Virginia, February 27, 1772, four years ^before the signing of the Declaration of Independence, and at the time of the golden wedding it was ascertained by an enumeration that her lineal descendants reached the extraordinary number of one hundred and sixty, of whom only twenty-nine had deceased, and of these but four adults.

Quite a host of other relatives, husbands and wives, children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren, were present, including five generations in another line of descent through Mrs. J. W. Miller, her son, J. B. Miller, and his little daughter, Jennie May.

Mr. Bryant did not long survive the golden wedding. There seemed to have settled upon his heretofore jovial disposition an air of sadness. To the solicitous enquiry of family and friends he expressed the strange belief that the event just celebrated had some connection with the close of his earthly career. The frailities of age reminded him of an inability for further usefulness, and on the tenth day of June, the same year, he passed away, greatly lamented by all who knew him.

BRYANT, SAMUEL, was born in Morris county. New Jersey, October 15, 1799. His father, James Bryant, moved "with his family to Washington county, Pennsylvania, in 1800, and remained there until 1804, when he came to Ohio and located in Wayne township, this county, bringing only a part of his family with him, but the same fall he returned and brought the younger members of his family. Mr. N. JVI. Young, Mr. Bryant's brother-in-law, came with him. At that time the country was very thinly settled. They located on a farm in the west part of Wayne, where they attacked the forest and cleared up a home on which they lived four years. They then purchased a farm near Fredericktown where they began anew. Mr. Bryant went to the district schools and received an education such as that day afforded. His time was mostly spent in converting the forest into a harvest field. When about twenty years old he taught school some, and practiced surveying for a number of years. He resided on the home farm until 1866, when he came to Mt. Vernon where he still resides. He was married Apiil 4, 1822, to Miss Sarah, daughter of Samuel Potter, by whom he had a fiimily of three children, Ellen B. Headley, now dead; Cassander E., a physician and surgeon of Mt. Vernon, and Orlando, a farmer, two and one-half miles east of Mt. Vernon. Mr. Bryant is now in his eighty-first y;ar, and is one of the oldest, if not the oldest, settlers in the county.

BRADDOCK, JOHN SELLERS, dealer in land warrants and real estate, Mt. Vernon, Ohio, The name of Braddock (Saxon Broad-Oak) at once suggests a chapter in colonial history insenarably connected with that of the country, and to trace the history of that family, connecting the past with the present, is the object of this sketch.

Major General Edward Braddock was born in England about 1650, ser^'ed with distinction under George H, and won for himself the name of an "honest, brave old gentleman." He died at Bath, June 15, 1725, and left one son, then about thirty years of age.

Edward Braddock, jr., was born in England about 1695. C)n the eleventh day of October, 1710, he entered the army with the rank of ensign in the grenadier company of the Cold Stream guards, "the flower of the British army. " Promotion followed rapidly, until, on the twenty-ninth of March, 1754, he was made major general, and in the September following was appointed to the command of all the troops to be sent against the French in America. On the twenty-first of December he sailed for Hampton Roads, in Virginia, where he arrived February 20, 1755. Kis military career in America, and especially his unfortunate defeat at Braddock's Field, July 9, 1755, and his tragic death four days later, are too well known to require repetition here.

His cousins, John and Raphael Braddock came to America about the same time, located in Baltimore county, Maryland, served in the Revolution, and, after the close of the war, or in 1789, they moved to Washington county, Pennsylvania. Raphael Braddock liad four sons - Frank, David, Cyrus and Harvey. David was born in Baltimore county, Maryland, and moved to Vv'ashington county, Pennsylvania, where he died in 1814. Joshua Braddock, son of David and grandson of Frank, was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, March 19, 1781, married Susanna Sellers (born October 15, 17S3) in 1807, by whom he had ten children - Elizabeth, Sarah, Margaret, David, Susanna, Joshua, Mary, Arena, Anna, and Robert M. Braddock. He moved to Knox county, Ohio, in 1814, and located temporarily in. Morgan township, on the Jacob Sellers farm, where he remained until i3i6, when he entered si.\ hundred and forty acres of Government land on Schenck's creek in Morris township. He was one of the early settlers in that section of country.

of sport and enjoyed hunting, having killed during his residence in Morris township fifty-four bears, and deer in numbers. He died January 9, 1837.

David, the fourth child and oldest son of Joshua and Susannah Sellers Braddock, was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, November 8, 1813; and Catharine Headington was born in Baltimore county, Maryland, March 6, 1817, and they were married on the twenty-fourth day of March, 1836. David Braddock and Catharine H. Braddock had twelve children, six sons and six daughters. Joshua C. and David W. reside in Sacramento, California; J. Thomas, Rebecca H., Eliza A,, Arena E., and Ruth A. reside near Charleston, Illinois. Two sons and two daughters died in infancy.

John S., the sixth child and second son is the only member of David Braddock's family residing in Ohio. He was born at the old homestead in Morris township. Knox county, Ohio, December 13, 1844, and received a common school and practical education. He was sent by his father, at the age of nineteen, to Illinois, where he farmed two years. Upon attaining his majority he returned to Knox county, Ohio, and engaged in teaching school during the winters of 1866-7-8-9 and 1870, and travelling the summer months, hunting up, purchasing and selling land warrants. In July, 1870, he went to Nebraska and entered three thousand five hundred acres of land, and in October of the same year located in Mt. Vernon, and engaged in the purchase and sale of real estate, together with the land warrant and scrip business; where, by industry, integrity and promptness he has built up a successful and prosperous business. On the fourth of March, 1869, he married Miss Maggie Burson, daughter of Edward Burson, esq., of Morris township, Knox county, Ohio, who was born January 16, 1851, in Parke county, Indiana.

John S. and Maggie B. Braddock have six children: Orrinda Kate, born September 19, 1870; Edward Burson, born December 3, 1872; Walter David, born March 6, 1875; Maggie May, born May 8, 1877; John Sellers, bom June 17, 1879; Alice Anna, born February 23, 1881.

BRYANT, WILLIAM, Wayne township, deceased ; born in New Jersey in 1795, came to Ohio in 1810, and was married to Elizabeth Norton. They had three children, Anna, born in 1819, James in 1821, and William m 1830. Mrs. Elizabeth Bryant died.

Mr. Bryant afterwards married Maria McGinis, who was born in 1810. They had three children, David, born in 1832; Jacob, born in 1837, and Rebecca, in 1839. .\nna Bryant is dead ; William died in 1877.

Mr. Bryant located in this county at an early day, when the county was mostly in timber and the howl of the wolf, panther and wild-cat could be heard in the forests. He assisted in clearing up the county and building up society and establishing churches. Jacob Bryant v/as in the hie war, a member of the Twentieth O. V. I., remained in the service three years and received an honorable discharge.

BRYANT DAVID, farmer, post office Lucerne. He was bom in Knox county in 1832 ; married to Abigail Struble in 1858. They had three children, Naomi Maud, William, and Sanmel. Mrs. Abigail Bryant died in 1875. Mr. David Bryant subsequently married Abigail Foote, who was born in Knox county in 1847. Mr. Bryant is a farmer by occupation.

on a farm, attending school in the winter at the country schools, and at the schools at Fredencktown. When about twenty-one years of age he commenced reading medicine with Dr. Lewis Dyer, of Frederick town, and with Dr. T. R. Potter, his uncle, of the same place. He attended two courses of lectures at Jefferson Medical college, Philadelphia, graduating in the spring of 1850, and began practice the same year in Fredericktown, with his preceptor. Dr. Potter. He rem.ained there one year and then came to Mt. Vernon. He practiced with Dr. W. F. Mc- Clelland about five years, and with Dr. J. N. Burr for some four years, being in partnership with them. In the spring of 1S68, on account of failing health, and in order to get out of practice, he went to Europe, and travelled extensively, remaining there during the summer. He has given up practice.

June 2, 1857, he married Miss Caroline L. Scott, daughter of the late A. G. Scott, of Gambler, Ohio. They have two children, both daughters, and at home. His parents are both living.

BRYANT, GEORGE M., proprietor livery, feed, and sale stables, South Main street, adjoining the Philo house, Mt. Vernon, was born in Windsor county, Vermont, June 12, 1825. Up to the year 1853 he followed farming and contracting on railroads. In 1853 he came to Ohio and engaged in railroading in Cincinnati and neighborhood, which he followed eighteen months. He then came to Mt. Vernon and went into building and contracting. This business he continued in up to 1875. His next venture was the establishment of a livery and feed store, in which he is still engaged. His stock in trade is valued at two thousand dollars, consisting of twelve horses and fourteen vehicles, among which may be found single and double carriages, barouches, phaetons, and all in good order ready for instant use. }fis establishment affords first class accommodations for the tr.ivelling public.

BUCKMASTER, CORBIX W., Liberty township, was born in Charlestown, Jefferson county, Virginia, .April 24, 1798. His father died about a year after, and his niotiirr, who married ag;nn. died about si.x years after. He was then taken by his grandfather, with whom he remained until the sixteenth year of his age, when he went to learn the trade of halter with his uncle, with whom he remained about two years. In 18 16 he came to Zancsvillc, Ohio, and n'mained three yen is, being then twenty-one years of ago. He tlien travelled ns a journeyman in Kentucky, thence to .St. Lo\iis. In the spring of 1821 he wont to NcwOrlfjns, tonk passage Ihenre to Haltiinioe, and tlnntc to his old home in Virginia, where he mariied Miss Catharine Davis, November 28, 1822. Slic. was a native of Reading, Pennsylvania, born July 29, 1803. He remained in Virginia until 1827, when he came to ZanesvilJe, where he follov.ed his trade for a number of years. He held the olficc of constable for seven years and justice of the peace for twelve years. While justice of the peace he filled nine civil dockets and one State docket. He was considered by all a man of sourid judgment. They had a family of nine children, three of whom are living - William, in Nebraska; Henrietta, wife of J. P. Wintermule; and Catharine, wife of Hiram Fisher.

BUCKWALTER, JOSHl.'A, farmer, Ijcrlin township; post office Fredericktown; was burn in Lancatitr county, Pennsylvania, in 1823, and caivie to Wayne county, Ohio, with liis parents at the age of ti:n years. He was married to Rachel Nelson, who was born in Ohio. They had five children: Jehiel, Benjamin, Ann (deceased), Mahala, and J. C. Mrs. Rachel Buckwalter died in Knox county, Ohio, in 1864.

Mr. Buckwalter's second marriage was to Rachel Buckholder, who was born in Knox county in 1834. They have four children - Herman, William B. (deceased), Rachel, and Philip. Mr. Buckwalter located in Berlin township in 1856, is engaged in fanning, and is one of the leading men of the township.

BULYER, ANDREW, carpenter, Pike township; post office North Liberty; born in Pike township, Knox county, in 1832, and was married in 1854 to Martha Grice, who was bom in Wurtemberg, Germany, in 1830. They have two children, Samantha and Byron, both living with their parents. Mr. Bulyer learned the carpenter trade in this county, and has been working at it in different parts of the county.

BULYER, D.AVID, farmer, Middlebury township; post office Fredericktown; was born in Pike township February 4, 1836; married in 1864, to Amanda Reep, who was born March 2, 1846. They have two children - Henry Wairy, born January 7, 1865, and Lucy, born January i, 1866. Mr. Bulyer is engaged in farming in Middlebuty township. He has lived in this township for nine years, and is one of its active and energetic citizens.

BUNN, GEORGE W., Mt. Vernon; was born inMt. Vernon on the seventh of July, 1839, and attended R. R. Sloan's academy, where he received a good English education. When but eleven years old he commenced to learn the painter trade, working during the summer and going to school during the winter. In this way he served nine years at the trade, after which he engaged in business for himself, in which he has continued ever since, and in which he has lieen highly successful. His business, like his trade, has been ascending the ladder round by round until it has become quite extensive. He emjiloys from twelve to twenty hands per year. He was married to Miss R. M. Crandi-11, daughter of Kussel Crandell, of this city, and had a family of four clnldren, three of whom are living.

BURGER, LEVI S., farmer, Pike township, post otfice North Libctty, born in Bedford county, Pennsylvania, in 1833, and was married, in j'^8, to Catharine Wohlford, who was born in Wayne rounly, Uliii:), in 1837. They had eleven children : Allison P. (bora in 1850), George W. (in i860), James L. (in iff.]), Pn.-iilii \. (in 1804), Joiin E. (in 18^5), Catharine L. (in 18O7), Jacob A. (,.n 18^.9), Joseph H. (in 1871K ^^'illialn A. (in 1873), Eiiwavvl I- . (in 1876), and Lomorie Blanche (in 1878). The dcccaseii mcniiAis of the family are George W., Joseph H., and John E.

Mr. and Mrs. Burger are worthy members of the German Baptist church. His father, Jacob Burger, was born in Bedford county, Pennsylvania, in 1796, and was married to Susannah Rush, who wa.'; b"in in Center county, j'ennsylvania, in 1793. They had ten children: Rebecca, Elizabeth, Mary, Susan (deceased), Catharine (deceased), Levi S., Hannah, Joseph, Abiaham, and Maria (deceased). Mrs. Susannah Burger departed this life in 1848, Jatrb Burger in 1880.

Mr. Burger emigrated to Knox county in 1S35, and locale d in this; township on the same farm wliere hir son Levi now resides. He was a very industrious man, and by his indiLStry, tcononiy, ;in(i [ii i.'e\er.incc, he succeeded m clearing and impioving one ci the most beautiful farms of iliis township.

He was a deacon of tlie German Baptist church, of which he was a member for many years, and remained firm in his religious faith until his death.

BURGESS. MRS. LYDIA GRIFFITH, Milford township, was born in Frederick county, Maryland, May 31, 1798. Her parents, Jesse and Ruth Plummer, nee Griffith, were natives of Maryland, and of English extraction. Mr. Plummer was a Quaker in religion, and his wife a member of the Episcopal church.

They remained in Maryland until about 1825, when they came to Ohio, and settled in Morris township, where Mr. Plummer purchased a farm, and where they lived and died, being highly respected citizens. They had a family of ten children, three of whom, only, are yet living.

The subject of this sketch was married to William P. Burgess, a native of Maryland, in 18 r6. They remained in Maryland until about 1825. Mr. Burgess was engaged in the drug business, and settled in Mt. Vernon, where he opened a dry goods store, and was successful, and became possessed of considerable property in Mt. Vernon and other part.s of the county. He died in 1845. They had a family of ten children, viz: Oliver, a minister in the Methodist church; Louisa, married to W. T. Bristow; John, a Methodist minister; Lafayette, deceased; Jane P., deceased; Lydia J., deceased; Sarah W., married William Reinick, a Methodist minister, now deceased; William T., postmaster, Fairfield, Iowa; Ella and Leonidas.

BURGOON, DAVID J. .farmer, Milford township, was born in Licking county March 21, 1832; his father, David, and his mother, Rachel, nee Coe, were born in Frederick county, Maryland, and were reared and married there, and aboiit 1824 came to Ohio and settled in Licking county, where he lived in various places until about 1836, when he moved to Morgan township, Knox county, and in 1845 purchased a fifty acre tract of land, slightly improved, in Milford township, and the same spring moved on it, where they lived and died. Mr. Burgoon died August, 1856, aged about seventy-four; his wife survived until 1863. They had four children who grew up, viz.: Darius (deceased), Catharine (married to Calvin Milburn), Ann E. (deceased), and David J., the subject of this notice, who was raised on a farm, and had the same means of schooling as the boys of his day. He has always followed farming. He was a member of company B, One Hundred and Forty-second Ohio National guard. Mr. Burgoon was married to Miss May J. Speilman, daughter of William Speilman, in 1859; they had six children, three of whom are living - two died in infancy, Emma I., died when two years old. The living are: Sarah E. (married James E. Beech), Clyde E., and Ann E. Mr. Burgoon is a good citizen, a successful farmer, and has the esteem of the community.

BURKE, THOMAS, farmer, Middlebury township, post office. Levering; born in Waterford May 13, 1846, and was n-.arried August 14, 1870, to Lizzie W. Martin, who was born in this township; they have two children, viz.: Hannah M., born March 7, 1871; Furney F., July 30, 1873. Mrs. Burke died October 25, 187S, in this township.

BURKHOLDER, JOHN, Hilliar township, patentee of the celebrated Acme wheat steamer, Centreburgh, Ohio, was born in Rockingham county, Virginia, December 15, 1815. His parents were born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, and went to Virginia, where they remained until 1833, when they came to Ohio and settled near Martinsburgh, Knox county, where they remained until about 1858, being engaged in farming and the manufacturing of lumber.

The subject of this notice removed to Rich Hill, Hilliar township, about 1857. When he first started out he worked for some time at cabinet making, but subsequently engaged in the saw-mill business for a number of years, and also in the milling business. From his knowledge of the milling business, he conceived the idea of making a more perfect wheat steamer thr.n was ever before used; so after many months of study he produced his Acme steamer, on which he received a patent, January 20, 1878. It is acknowledged by all millers who have used it to be the most perfect and complete separator of the wheat and condensed steam extant. The great advantage of the Acme is that it toughens the bran, thereby admitting a perfect separation and producing a much finer grade of flour thftn could be otherwise produced. The steamer is now being used in some of the best mills of the country, and to the entire satisfaction of the parties using them. Mr. Burkholder has also in course of construction a scourer and separator, which is intended to make wheat in a perfect condition for the manufacturing of flour. He was married to Miss Elizabeth Dudgeon, of Harrison township. They had a family of five children, three of whom are living.

BURKHOLDER, WILLIAM, farmer, Middlebury township, post office Fredericktown, born in this county in July, 1831, and was married in 1858, to Samantha Murphy, who was born in this county in 1836. They have the following family, Frances E., born in 1862; George in 1870; Anna in 1874, and Ethel in 1876. His father, Jacob Burkholder, was born in Pennsylvania, came to Ohio in 1842, and reared a family of six children, Sarah, Henry, Elizabeth, Catharine, George and Mary. Jacob Burkholder died in 1853; Mrs. Elizabeth Burkholder died in 1864.

BURR, JONATHAN N., M. D., Mt. Vernon, was born in Fairfield county, Connecticut, November 15, 1800. Dr. Burr's family are of English extraction. His ancestor was Jehu Burr, who came to America with Winthrop's fleet in 1630, and settfed in Roxbury, Massachusetts. They belong to the Puritan branch. Ozias Burr, the father of the subject of this sketch, was twice married. His first wife was a Miss Lois Jennings, and his second wife was Miss Elizabeth A. Couch. One child was the issue of the first marriage - a daughter - who married Mr. Charles Sherwood, and resides near Bridgeport, Connecticut. By the second wife eight children were born in Connecticut and one in Ohio, making in all ten children by the two marriages.

Dr. Burr is the second son by the second marriage. His parents immigrated to Ohio in 1818, and settled in Franklin county, near Worthington. They brought with them a family of eight children. Seven of the ten children are living - six sons and one daughter. Young Burr taught school his first winter in Ohio, and the following spring began reading medicine with Dr. Daniel Upson, of Worthington, with whom he studied one year. In 1820 he went to Columbus and entered the office of Dr. Samuel Parsons, with whom he read medicine until the fall of 1822, when he went to Transylvania Medical college, Lexington, Kentucky, and attended the winter's course of lectures.

fession with him until the spring of 1825, when he came to Mt. Vernon, May 6th, nearly fifty-six years ago. Dr. Burr is the oldest physician in the city. He soon had an extensive practice, and retains it up to the present time. When he located in Mt. Vernon he found only two physicians in practice here, one of whom shortly after left the place, leaving the field to Di. Burr and his one competitor. The faculty of Sterling Medical college at an early day conferred the honorary degree of M. D. on Dr. Burr.

May 6; 1830, Dr. Burr was united in marriage with Miss Eliza Ann Thomas, daughter of the Hon. Richard S. Thomas. Miss Thomas was born in Lebanon, Ohio, March 11, 1809. Her father moved to Missouri in i8ri, where he died about 1826. Miss Thomas came to Mt. Vernon in 1828, and resided with her uncle, the late Hon. Jesse B. Thomas. As a result of their union three children were born - two daughters and one son. Frances Elizabeth died in infancy; Jesse Thomas Burr was bom August 22, 1841, and Jessie Rebecca Burr, May 16, 1863. Jessie married Francis C. Crawford, of Terre Haute, where she now resides. The son, Thomas, commenced reading law, but when the late Colonel Vance's regiment entered the field in 1862, he went with it in the capacity of a non-commissioned officer, and served with credit until mustered out of service, in consequence of sickness contracted while the army was before Vicksburgh.

Dr. Burr was one of the members that established St. Paul's Protestant Episcopal church at Mt. Vernon, and has been an active member and officer thereof for more than fifty years. He has been a trustee of the Theological seminary and Kenyon college, located at Gambier, Ohio. He also has been for more than fifty years an active member of the Masonic fraternity. He served as master of Mount Zion Lodge No. 9 many years; has filled the office of high priest of Clinton Chapter No. 26; has been commander of Clinton commandery i:iany years, was deputy grand master of the Grand lodge of Ohio; deputy grand high priest of the Grand chapter; aided and assisted in the formation of the Grand commandery of Ohio, and was its first captain general. The doctor has often attended the meetings of the Grand Masonic bodies, and has been elected to posts of honor therein, such as deputy grand master of the Grand lodge, and deputy high priest of tlie Grand chapter.

BURSON, EDWARD, farmer, Morris township, post office, Fredericktown, was born in Jefferson county in 1824; he was married in 1848 to Patience A. McBurney, who was born in Belmont county in 1823; they had five children; Isabella, Margaret, Rachel, May, and Elizabeth. Margaret married John S. Braddock, and resides in Mt. Vernon; Rachel married Joseph B. Martin, and resides south of Mt. Vernon; May married James Wynkoop, and resides south of Mt. Vernon; Elizabeth married Frank Lafever, and resides on the Columbus road, south of Mt. Vernon. Mrs. Patience Burson died June 16, i860, in Noble county, Ohio. Mr. Burson was subsequently married to Lydia A. Armstrong, who was born in Guernsey county, Ohio. Mr. Burson went to Guernsey county in 1826, remained until 1848, then mo\ed to Park county, Indiana, remained there four years, then returned to Noble county, Ohio, remained there until 1866, when he came to Morris township. He has been engaged in farming and dealing in stock. He was elected justice of the peace in Morris township April 10, 1869; he served the term and was reelected April 12, 1878. He is one of the leading men of the township.

BUTLER, GEORGE W., son of Benjamin Butler, who was one of the noted pioneers of Knox county, was born in Butler township September 16, 1823; he was married to Lydia Lydick March 4, 1845; they had six children, viz.: Frances Ellen, William R., Benjamin B., Franklin Pierce, George Elmer Ellsworth, and Ida May; all dead but William R.

BUTLER S. J., Union township, farmer, post office, Danville. He was born in Union township August 12, 1821. His father, Benjamin, came from Virginia to Mt. Vernon in 1801. He was the first white man 10 use the axe to clear the ground where stands the city of Mt. Vernon. He built the first cabin, and in a few years he enlarged it, giving it the name Travellers' Inn. He continued this business for a long time and was keeping this house at the time of the location of the county seat. B. Butler was previously appointed by the people of Mt. Vernon, to go in advance of the commissioners to Clinton. After they had visited Mt. Vernon they started for Clinton. When they arrived there the people rushed out of the tavern, stores and other places, and commenced drinking, fighting and committing all sorts of depredations. The commissioners seeing this, would not dismount and so they started for the spot where Fredericktown now stands. Previous arrangements being made the same sort of drunkenness and fighting took place here as did at Clinton. But the commissioners dismounted here to look around and investigate the location. Here Mr. Butler wished to leave them, but they would not submit to this. He remained with them, but they insisted on going home with him to Mt. \>rnon, for they said they were pleased with his hospitality. This they did and remained that night. The papers were made out and Mt. Vernon was chosen the county seat.

Mr. Butler's father had thirteen children, viz: Elizabeth, Benjamin, Reason, Hiram, Joseph (who was the first white child born at Mt. Vernon), Matilda, Hulda, Palla, Mariah, Laben, Hattie, Squire (the subject of this sketch) and George. Squire was married September 9, 1848, to Mary Jane Workman' and settled east of Millwood where they remained a long time. They then moved to Ashland and lived there four years and then moved to Danville. His wife died March 10, 1870, and left two children. His daughter is Mrs. J. R. Pain. The other one is in Delaware county. Mr. Butler remains on the old farm alone.

BUTLER, WILLI.AM K., Union township, farmer, post office, Millwood; born July 2, 1847, in Union township, lived here with his parents four years, and then went to Millwood and remained uritil his fifteenth year. He was married January 14, 1869, to Miss Martha K. Walker. They have two children: Lydia C, born May 16, 1870, and Mary W., February 18, 1873. The farm where he now resides is known as the old homestead of B. Butler, his grandfather, who died in his ninety-fifth year.